Navi stayed quiet as Link infiltrated the Castle. Her breath caught when he entered in through the moat. She remembered doing this a very long time ago with another youth in green. Then again waterways were usually the weakest point in any Castle it was more than likely just a coincidence. Hyrule Castle itself was not the same one that Navi had once seen. It had been demolished and rebuilt a half-dozen times since her days. The architecture was similar though and Navi noted with disgust the guards were just as incompetent. Link slipped by them more than easily.

Navi found it mildly sad how boring there infiltration of the Castle was. Eventually however Link came to the Princess Zelda's quarters. He entered them quickly to find the Princess on the otherside as though she had been waiting. Zelda was at first alarmed at how Link had entered the Castle but seeing the Triforce of Courage glowing on his hand calmed her.

The sight of her brought back horrible memories for Navi, of a Princess not much older than this Zelda. [i]She was angry, beyond angry and it was Navi's fault. "Strike her name and her deeds from the record and legends of the Hero. If she need be there refer to her only as 'a friend' or 'the fairy'. Navi of the Kokiri Forest, I banish you from this place. You are no longer welcome in Castle Town. If anyone should see you here they have every right to kill you on sight." The Princess waved her hand. "Go before I change my mind and have you executed."[/i]

Navi gulped but this Princess Zelda had not that rage on her face. Indeed her attention was not focused on Navi at all but only on Link. [i]As it always has been,[/i] Navi thought with some amount of contempt. Zelda showed Link a glorious view of the Castle Town Square were some sort of event appeared to be taking place, Navi could make out no more than a large crowd but it was what she felt that worried her the most. She could feel three... no four, three sources of black magic emanating from the square. The distance made it difficult to divine exactly where they came from or exactly how many there were but the fairy could tell something very dark was going down.

Link and Zelda agreed that they should take a closer look. Zelda volunteered a secret passage that ran beneath the Castle for there exit. It was deep and old and indeed may well have dated back to one of the previous Castles built on this spot. It was far older than the passages above.

When they arrived at the Square a strange sight met there eyes but even stranger was all that Navi could feel. She slipped off Link's shoulder and fell to the ground transforming back to human shape just as she touched the paving stones. For several seconds she could not find the strength to stand under the weight of the dark powers in the square. 

The greatest of them all belonged to a dark skinned man that towered above the crowd. The power that he gave off was not evil exactly but it felt tainted. Navi had felt the same presence ages ago, in the great Black Tower during the Hero of Time's final battle the dark wind that had prevented Navi from assisting her Hero had felt the same as this, it was the Triforce of Power which could mean only one thing about the man's identity. The King of Evil was returned.

The next was that of a man that stood in the middle of the crowd his appeared the duplicate of the Hero standing behind Navi but she knew what he truly was. He too she had met ages past, deep in the Water Temple below Lake Hylia he had been part of the corrupting force that nested there. Shadow Link, Darkness' Champion just as much as Link was Light's. He was reborn to match the current Hero but his power had not changed. They were stronger now though, with age his magic seemed to have intensified.

Then there was the elegant Lady that stood at the center of the ground. Her power was not so dark as that Shadow Link possessed but it was black magic, magic of the darkest night right before the dawn comes, the magic of Twilight. Navi had never met this particular figure before but the fairy had lived through the age of Twilight. Hidden with the other fairy deep within the Cave of Ordeals were the Great Fairy dwelt. None had been pleased to see Navi but as much as they despised her they would not doom her to death in the Twilight for fairies cannot survive in that world. From the legends Navi guessed this to be a decedent of the Twilight Princess, Midna. Only the royal family of that realm would have artifacts to allow the Twili to avoid melting into the shadows that light cast.

The accumulation of these figures and the magic they gave off was not a good sign. It weight so heavily on Navi that as she made to stand she retched onto the cobblestone of the street before getting shakily to her feet. "My Princess, this is not a safe place to stand. I would advise you to get as far from here as you can, this may escalate to violence and given who is here in this square the Hero may not emerge victorious. It may be best that the Triforce of Wisdom was elsewhere should a battle break out."