A/N: Me again with another chapter! This is my longest chapter so far on this fic! So, as always, I would love reviews. And I don't own Legend of Zelda.

Green's POV

After finding the blood, we immediately go back home to equip ourselves properly. Then we start for the castle. Red offered to carry Blue's sword in case we found him. I doubt we will. I was only trying to comfort Red when I told him that Blue might be okay. Red probably wouldn't be able to go on if there wasn't any chance that Blue was okay. It's a good thing that we decided to build our house close to Hyrule Castle, otherwise it would take much longer than 10 minutes to get there.

"Are we there yet?" Shadow asks.

"What do you think?" Vio responds. "Oh wait, you don't think."

"Hey!"

Finally, the castle comes into view. We are allowed in without question because we're knights. We climb up the stairs to where Zelda's room is. The guards on that level appear to be in a panic.

"What's going on here?" Vio asks.

"Princess Zelda has been kidnapped!" one of the guards tells us, I think his name is Katsuo. "And her kidnapper left a note."

"Let us see the note," I request. Katsuo handed me a little card with a note written on it.

'I have taken Princess Zelda to

my palace of winds. Oh yeah,

it's in the sky and the

annoying blue hero is there too.'

"We haven't been able to figure out who took her," Katsuo explains.

"Well, that's easy," Shadow exclaims. "First off, I know that's Vaati's handwriting. And secondly, tower of winds? That's obviously Vaati because he's a wind sorcerer."

"But didn't Vaati die?" Red asks quietly.

"Yeah, we all watched him die," I say.

"And you all watched me die, yet here I am, not dead," Shadow counters. "Vaati probably just manipulated your minds to make you think that he was dead. Without the Dark Mirror, our power doesn't regenerate, but we can use what we have left. He most likely used that power to create an image of himself for you to defeat."

"Or the author really needed a convenient excuse for Vaati being alive and that was all she could think of," I counter.

"Shush Green, they're not supposed to know that!" Vio says.

"Well, excuuuuuuse me, princess," I respond. "Anyway, where were we?"

"Right, so we need to go to Vaati's palace of winds... in the sky. How are we going to do that?" Vio asks.

"Why don't we ask the maidens? They got us up all those stairs last time!" Red suggests, his optimistic attitude returning after he learned that Blue is okay for now.

"That might work..." Vio says.

"Let's go then!" Red exclaims.

"You'll bring Princess Zelda back safely?" Katsuo asks worriedly.

"Of course we will!"

After Red said that, we all left the castle in search of the maidens. The first place we look is the Four Sword shrine. I'm thankful that the maidens are there because I don't feel like going around everywhere looking for them.

"Blue Maiden," Red calls as she is the first he sees.

"Yes, what is it? And where's Blue?" she asks.

"Well, that's what we're here for. Both Blue and Zelda have been kidnapped by Vaati. He left a note that said they're in his palace of winds and it's in the sky. We came to ask if you could help us get there," I explain.

"Sure, I'll go get the other maidens," the Blue Maiden says. Then she walks off to find the other maidens.

When she returns, all the other maidens are with her. "We're not sure how close to the palace of winds we can get you, but we'll try as best we can," the Yellow Maiden explains.

"That's fine. We're just happy for the help," Vio responds.

"Okay, let's start," the Blue Maiden says and all the other maidens join hands. I'm not really sure what they are doing as I don't know much about magic. Suddenly, everything gets really bright. I close my eyes, but it's still too bright. Then, just as suddenly as the light came, it was gone.

When I open my eyes, I see that we're not in the Four Sword shrine. It looks like I'm on a floating island in the sky. The edge is only a few feet away from me. I look around to find the other three and I can't see them anywhere. "Guys? Where are you?" I call.

"Down here," Shadow says. "Would you mind helping us?"

I walk over to the edge and see that Vio is holding on to the edge of the island. Shadow is holding on to him and Red is on the bottom of their chain.

"Don't just stand there staring, Green. Help us up," Shadow says.

"Uh, okay. Red, do you think you can climb up Shadow and Vio so I can help you up?" I ask.

"I'll try," Red says. He's shaking pretty bad, but starts pulling himself up little by little.

"Okay, now grab my hand," I tell him when he is close enough. I pull him up onto the island.

"Now you, Shadow," I instruct.

He has less to climb, but it still takes him as long as Red.

"Hurry up, Shadow," Vio complains.

"Hey, I'm trying. It's not easy when the sun still hurts," he snaps back.

I reach down and grab his outstretched hand. Then I pull him up. He goes and stands by Red so he's out of the way.

"Green, I'm slipping!" Vio panics. I instantly turn to him. Vio never panics. He's holding onto the ledge with just the fingertips of one hand.

"I've got you," I say to him calmly. "Grab onto my hand with your free one."

He follows my instructions and I pull him up carefully.

"Thanks," he says.

We go and join Red and Shadow. "Where do you think the palace of winds is?" I ask them.

"Why don't we follow the direction the wind is going in and see where it takes us?" Vio suggests.

"Okay, that would be... that way!" Red says and heads toward the middle of the island.