The Love of Two Wolves

~Prologue~

With the sickening sound of metal through flesh, Link drove the Master Sword into Ganondorf's stomach. A small, and barely audible groan escaped from Ganon's lips before he collapsed, his eyes rolling back into his head and deeply tanned skin growing pale.

With a gasp, the Gerudo King died, his eyes still open and the Sage's Sword tumbling from his hand, landing on the grass with a soft thud.

With a sigh, Link picked up his bloodied sword and sheathed it with a quiet 'shik'. Hyrule would finally be at peace, at least for a time. It was over.

Out of respect, even after what this despicable man had done to Hyrule and the Twilight Realm, Link leaned down and gently shut his eyes.

Even the King of Evil himself must sleep, and not die a cursed death.

"Link…" Slowly, the young Hero looked up at the face of a woman with long brown hair and blue eyes. "I'm sorry for what you had to go through… and I must thank you for everything. Hyrule may finally be at peace."

"No thanks needed, Princess." Link said, standing up and trying in vain to wipe dirt off of his face.

With a start, he remembered something.

Was it something? No - it was someone. His friend, ally, and incredibly sarcastic impish princess that had helped him in more ways than one. She was dead.

"Midna…" he mumbled, shaking his head and putting it into his hands. "Midna… no!" Zelda realized what he was saying and gasped.

"Link, I'm sorry…" she put a gloved hand on his shoulder, but he didn't feel it. He felt nothing now, memories of that day flashing through his head. With a gasp, he fell to his knees and clutched his aching head. Midna…

"Link! You need to get out of here!" she shouted over Ganon's thunderous roars. He was transforming back into his usual Gerudo self, and he was obviously in pain, but sometimes, that could make a person more powerful.

"Midna, we can't leave you here!" He'd shouted. Midna opened a portal below Link and Zelda.

"I'm sorry Link…" she said. Turning to Ganondorf, the summoned as much power as she could muster.

"Mid-" And then everything was gone, replaced by Hyrule field. I could see Hyrule castle in the distance. "NO!"

The castle exploded with a crash, rubble flying to even where they stood, miles away. Link dropped to his knees, and Zelda bowed her head, a tear streaking her face.

The only thing that pulled Link out of his mourning, was a loud laugh from behind. He turned, and gasped. Midna failed, and Ganondorf was holding his prize.

Midna's headpiece…

"How do you feel now, Hero?" Ganondorf asked with a grin.

"You monster!" Zelda shouted. "How could you?" The Gerudo didn't reply, but crushed the headpiece and dropped it onto the grass at Link's feet.

"Now Link… It's your turn!"

"Link!" Zelda shouted, shaking him by the shoulders.

"Huh? What?" He asked, snapping out of the memory and trying to focus.

"Link! Look!" The Princess pointed to a small hill across the field. The green-clad hero turned dazedly in that direction.

The four light spirits; Ordona, Faron, Eldin, and Lanayru; could be seen as glowing orbs againsed the dusk sky. A small black dot was barely visible through the green grass.

"What…?" Zelda began to ask, but Link was already running ahead. "Well that was rude!" Zelda muttered to herself, mostly to keep herself from crying than anything.

Link was almost to the hill, breathing hard and gasping for every breath, when a sudden light made him pause to shield his eyes.

When the light died away, Link dared to look. On the hill, standing tall and proud, was Midna. No longer an imp, Link realized just how beautiful she was.

He was a bit intimidated, however, by the fact that she had to be at least a foot taller than him, but even that wouldn't do her justice.

Midna looked at him and smiled kindly. "Am I so beautiful you have no words left, Link?" He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. His throat was too tight.

He blushed instead. Midna giggled and walked up to him. He looked up at her, craning his neck back.

"You're tall…" he managed. Looking down at her Hero, she couldn't help but laugh.

He was just so short! Even compared to everyone else in Hyrule.

Without warning, he hugged her. She knelt a bit and returned it.

"Midna?" Zelda asked from nearby, hiking up her skirts so she could run. "You're alive!" she cried. Midna thought for a moment.

"Let me see… hair, skin, pulse, me talking… yup! I'm alive." She released her grip on Link, who blushed and looked at the ground. Zelda gazed at the Twilian with awe.

"You're so tall!" she said.

"So I've been told." Midna replied. Then she frowned and bit her lip, looking at Link sadly. "Link…" He looked up smiling, but it instantly disappeared when he saw the look on her face. "You do realize that… well, I have to go back to my own realm. I-… I can't stay here…" Link looked at her with shock, maybe even betrayal, but managed to keep himself from crying out.

"What? But Midna…"

"I'm sorry Link. I have a kingdom to rule, and you…" She stopped for a moment. Could he survive in the Twilight Realm for more than a few days? She didn't know, but for some reason… she didn't think it was right. "I'm sorry…" She snapped her fingers, and they were suddenly in the Mirror Chamber, in the far eastern side of The Gerudo Desert. The sun was setting, and it turned the sand various shades of pink, but for such an occasion, it seemed as though the Goddesses were trying to make things seem more grim.

"Midna…" Link started.

"Link, please don't make this harder than it has to be. You are needed here, and I need to fix my realm." Midna choked on her next words. "I-… I love you." She turned to the Mirror, a tear streaking her face before glowing green and floating in front of her face. Link watched sadly, but he knew she was right. "Link… never forget that there's another world bound to this one."

She thrust her hand out, putting her palm on the glowing tear and pushing it towards the Mirror of Twilight. It cracked on contact.

"Midna!" Link cried as he jerked forward, grabbing her hand before she could take a step towards the mirror. She smiled sadly and looked into his bright blue eyes. She would miss those eyes… his light brown hair and stupid green hat. His long Hylian ears and kind personality.

All of it would be gone from her life.

"Link, I…" What could she say? Her eyes filled with tears when the Mirror of Twilight cracked further. "See you later." Then she ripped her hand from his and disappeared.

"Midna!" Link wailed. He fell to his knees and began sobbing. Zelda, unsure of what she could do to comfort the young Hero, simply stood there.

A full day they sat there, no food or water. Few words were spoken. Link was too shaken for average conversation.

He was sick…

Lovesick.

The worst illness a person can possibly have, and few recover from it.

About midday the next day, Link stood and looked out over the dessert, eyes swollen and fatigue obvious in his movements. Zelda watched him before joining him.

"It's not what she wanted, you know." Zelda said. Link closed his eyes. "She didn't want to leave." Link waited a moment before responding for the first time.

"I know why she did it, but… Zelda, it doesn't hurt any less." Zelda looked at him sympathetically.

"I know Link… I know…" Her gaze turned from the desert to his face, which was covered in silent tears again. "She knew the consequences, but she wouldn't have wanted to see you like this. She would have wanted you to move on. It's only been a day, but the sooner you realize that you can't mourn forever, the sooner you'll know that…" He looked at her and she instantly stopped talking.

"I know. Like my dad always said before he died during the Great War two years after I was born. 'Keep moving forward. You can never forget the past, but learning to forgive is the first step to lifelong happiness.' "

"You remember that?" He nodded.

"It's one of the few memories my mom didn't take just before she passed away in front of the gate to Ordona's Spring." Zelda smiled.

"Wow…"

"Yeah…" He grinned slightly and looked at the sky. "Sorry goddesses, but it seems you like taking important things from me. My childhood, my parents, my… friend now as well." Zelda looked at him a moment.

"Forgive…" She whispered. He sighed and turned away to look at the remains of what used to be the Mirror of Twilight.

"I forgive you Midna…"

With that, the pair walked to the stairway that led down to the desert. Time to go home.Chapter 1

The Light Realm

Midna looked out over her realm from the balcony and sighed, her sunset eyes taking in the view with a serene calm. The perpetual cloud of dusk morphed constantly, creating eerie shadows that danced over everything. At first glance, you wouldn't be able to tell that there had even been anything wrong in the first place, like the war had never happened. Pieces of the Twilight Realm were coming into view again, connecting to the palace grounds and recreating the kingdom in its former image.

As the Princess watched, she couldn't help but think of the Light Realm; of a certain Hylian boy by the name of Link. She missed him so much it would ache, and she often wondered if he'd felt the same way about her, at least before she left nearly six months before.

"Link, I… See you later." she'd said. The look on his face just before she'd disappeared altogether was heartbreaking, and at first, she'd thought what she was doing was right. Now she wasn't so sure, in the cold grip of near depression and lack of sleep, she wondered if she even should have left him in the first place.

Those blue eyes, his light brown hair and gentle smile…

And even the stupid green hat. She missed all of them, and she may never get to see them again. Stupid, stupid, stupid! She thought to herself.

There came a soft knocking on her bedroom door, and a high pitched female voice followed. "Princess?" Midna sighed and turned.

"Come in," she called, masking any pain or sadness on her face with the stoic look of a ruler. She'd gotten good at it since the mirror shattered.

The door opened, revealing another scantly clad Twili with violet hair and eyes to match. She was slightly shorter than Midna, but there was about a two year age difference between the two.

"Oh," Midna said, her expression softening. "Greetings, Loma." The two had been friends for as long as they could remember, despite the age difference, and Midna couldn't help but drop her royal act whenever she was around.

"Good evening, Princess," she replied, shutting the ebon door behind her. "How are you faring?"

"Fine…" the Princess replied. She walked through the open glass door that led into her room. "And you?"

"I'm doing great, actually. I uh-… I think I've found something you may be interested in." Her violet eyes sparkled as she gazed at Midna happily. Midna smiled and offered her friend a seat on a nearby couch. When they were settled, Midna looked curiously at her friend.

"Well, by all means, show it to me." Loma reached into a pocket located on the inside of her cloak and pulled something almost tan colored out of it. It wasn't very big, whatever it was, but it was covered in Twilian designs and looked wickedly sharp.

"Well, I was on the hunt for a gift for you, as you've seemed a bit distressed lately, and I fell flat on my face in the middle of the castle courtyard." Midna giggled and smiled. She just couldn't help it. "Stop laughing! Anyways, I'd just assumed it was my cloak getting in the way. Apparently, I was mistaken, and as I continued walking something almost florescent caught my eye." She held the object up, gripping it between two blue fingers. "I almost looks like the shard of a broken mirror, but with all the designs on it, it's hard to tell." Midna didn't say anything for a moment, her eyes darting from her friend to the shard. "Uh, you okay?" She asked.

Midna slowly reached for the shard with a trembling hand. Hope was rising inside her.

'Could it really be?' she thought. She didn't dare get her hopes up too much, but she couldn't contain some of her excitement.

Midna touched it, and Loma released her grip, dropping it into the Princess' outstretched hand. Midna gasped and tears welled up in her sunset eyes. Her free hand went straight to her mouth.

It was a shard from the Mirror of Twilight.

"Loma…" she managed. Her friend wrapped her arm around the Princess, trying her best to consol her. Midna looked straight into Loma's violet eyes and smiled. "I-I don't know what to say. I-…" Midna's voice cracked.

"Midna, don't cry." Loma said firmly in an almost silly manner. The Twilight Princess took a deep, shuddering breath.

"I can't thank you enough. This… this is the best thing you could have gotten for me." Loma smiled.

"I'm glad you like it Princess, but what exactly is it? It obviously means a lot to you. That is if you don't mind my asking."

"I fear if I talk about it now, I may start bawling." Midna said playfully, wiping a tear from her face. Loma laughed. "It just reminds me of a friend." She stood up and hugged Loma.

"Well then I'm glad I tripped." she said with a smile. With that she left, leaving Midna alone in her chambers.

She walked over to her bed and sat on the royal blue covers, placing the mirror shard in front of her. She looked at her reflection for a moment, her orange hair tied over her chest and her silver circlet glittering near her nose. She smiled sadly and let a tear streak her face, landing on the bed, and then another and another.

This small piece of glass was the closest thing she had to Link besides her memories. Well, that and a scar on the back of her hand he'd given her when he bit her, but being turned painfully into a wolf and dragged into a strange dungeon didn't exactly help with meeting a strange looking Imp with unknown intentions that taunted and teased him. He was scared, to say in the least. "I miss you," she whispered.

Without even realizing it, a single tear landed on the glass surface of the shard. It emitted a bright silver glow that moved the Twilight in the room. The Princess jumped up and pressed her back againsed a nearby wall, startled. The light slowly faded, and Midna stood there waiting for her heart rate to cease racing. She closed her eyes.

Once her shock had waned, the Twilian slowly padded back to her bed. She leaned over the shard and gazed into the eternal depths of its reflection.

Her own reflection disappeared. When she looked hard enough, she saw him; Link. The Princess smiled. He was lying, asleep, on top of the covers on his bed, obviously still in his clothes from the day before. The room was dark, so she figured it must be sometime during the night.

'He looks so peaceful,' she thought. She also noticed something different about him. 'He's gotten taller!'

Without thinking, and most likely without control of her actions, she reached down and touched the smooth surface of the shard, picking it up for a closer look.

The room warped around her, her vision suddenly black. Silver tendrils shot from the Mirror shard and wrapped themselves around her body, concealing her form until she was covered in light. A sense of vertigo hit, and she dropped the shard on what used to be her bed. There was a blinding flash of light that cut through her darkened sight.

"Oof!" she yelped when she landed on something hard and… sandy? She'd landed in the middle of the Mirror Chamber. It was the middle of the night, the moon barely a sliver of silver amongst the millions of stars that danced in the sky. The Mirror Shard had broken in half, split unevenly down the middle. One was next to her face and the other was still in the Twilight Realm.

Slowly, the Princess sat up and rubbed her head, fighting off nausea and slight dizziness. Once she was sure that both feelings had passed, she resumed rising until she was standing. She proceeded to brush sand from her cloak and look around.

Surprisingly, it looked at though the Mirror Chamber was refurbished, the columns gleaming red and the walls rebuilt with intricate patterns of the goddesses and ancient prophesies that had yet to come true. Midna gazed at the paintings for a time before realization dawned on her for the first time.

'Wait a minute! I'm in the Light Realm!' She chided herself momentarily before smiling with a too-wide grin.

"Welcome, Twilight Princess," a wispy voice broke through he thoughts. Midna jumped and turned from the wall. In front of every column in the chamber was a sage, excusing one that belonged to Princess Zelda. "Your' grief has brought you here through the last shard of the mirror of Twilight." Midna was too stunned to speak, at a loss for words for what must be the first time in her life. "Was it your wish to return to the Light Realm, Midna?" She walked to the center of the chamber and looked around uneasily.

I pondered the thought for a moment, gazing at the ghost-like figures that surrounded me. Each of those faceless beings seemed to bore into her, daring her to tell them that it wasn't her wish. With a sigh, she brushed a stray strand of hair from her face. "Yes, though I did not say it aloud I believe we all know it was in my heart all along." She replied, turning her gaze to the floor. The head Sage's ghostly form flickered with amusement.

"Would you want to stay here with Link and leave the Twilight to your brother, Prince Elrick?" The question startled the Princess.

Midna had to admit that she would do anything to see that stupid beast again. She would gladly give up her throne, but she wouldn't dare admit that to anyone except maybe to Link himself.

Well, she had.

Midna crossed her arms and opened her mouth to begin a long detailed tirade, when the sudden feeling that the Sages emitted told her that no amount of snide or sarcastic comments would waver what each of them already knew to be fact.

"Yes," she grumbled, agitation and defeat apparent in her voice.

"Alright then." The Sages voiced in unison. The sun began to rise in the distance, turning the desert sands orange and the pillars in the chamber creating red light that bounced off everything and creating the illusion that Midna's azure skin was a shade of purple.

The head sage bowed his head. "There is something we neglected to mention." Midna looked at him skeptically. "There is a curse involved with a Twili living in the World of Light." The Twilian narrowed her eyes. "When Zant overtook the throne, the curse lost its effect. You will become a wolf with the passing of the day, and a Twili when the moon rules the sky."

"Wha-?" Midna never got to finish her sentence. She began to glow, shrouded in a blanket of blinding light. Her spine shortened and her face lengthened, morphing into a snout. Black and orange fur replaced her skin, slick for running. She sprouted a tail that was covered in red Twilian designs and symbols, and her ringlet became something resembling a collar.

The Twilian Princess gazed at herself with awe. Turning back to the Sages she growled, rage taking over her entire being.

"Why didn't you tell me this before?" She barked angrily, not caring if the Sages could understand her. Apparently they could because most of them looked guilty.

"It had evaded us, and for that we apologize. But you love Link, yes? Well do you think this… transformation would make him think differently about you if her loved you too?" Midna growled. She knew he was right. "He knows what it's like to be a wolf, does he not?"

"You're right, I suppose." Midna said.

"Well, I suggest you find him. His currently resides in Ordon Village deep within the Ordona Province. Please Princess, be safe." With that, the Sages disappeared in a flash of mist, leaving a still ticked Twili standing alone amidst the dim light of the desert dawn.

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Whee! An update already? Yay!

First off, I know the epilogue is different than what actually happened, particularly with Midna's dialogue in the Mirror Chamber… more or less. But it's a fan fic, so what are ya' gonna do? I dunno when the next update will be.