Once everything was packed up, and we had started up the mountain, it was already about 11 o'clock, and no one wanted to sleep on the mountain path; so we set off on a quick pace, to make up for lost time. The path was only wide enough for us to walk two at a time; so I walked beside Vio, Link beside Blue, Aria and Shadow up front, and Red bringing up the rear. We walked well into the day without stopping, until we finally made it to a larger outcropping, and stopped for the day. I plopped down on the ground and lay back on the ground. I was tired from the constant speed walking, and the whole 'no lunch break' thing didn't help either. We didn't bother cooking anything, as everyone was too tired to make the effort, so we had our lunch food then. Soon we had all the blankets set up, and we were all instantly asleep... except me. So I stayed up on watch (even though it was Red's turn.) I sat there for a while, admiring the cloud patterns just visible in the sky. Then I thought I saw something move in the clouds; I looked closer, there is definitely something there... I waited to see if it was going to go away, but it suddenly started flying right for us!

"Wake up! Some bird thing is coming!" Everyone was instantly awake and armed... except Aria, she was still asleep. As the bird thing got closer, Link lowered his weapon,

"It's just Quill. I wonder what he's doing out here..."

I had no idea who or what Quill was, but if Link knew them, I knew I could trust them. Then the bird-thing was upon us, and landed in between Aria and Red. Aria finally woke up.

"WHAT the heck... oh... Wait what?" Quill turned to me,

"I understand you are princess Zelda?" I nodded. Quill had a beak, and wings, but he was still human... This must be a Rito.

"Well, I have been sent to inform you that Vaati has escaped."

I was surprised, and yet... "Well do you know how he escaped?"

Quill thought for a second, "Yes, I believe he was broken out, but there was no sign that anyone got in. I also have this letter for you. It was left in Vaati's cage, addressed to you." He handed me a letter. It was a basic envelope, with the word 'Zelda' written on the front. "I'll be off then." Quill jumped of the side of the cliff and flew away. I cautiously opened up the letter.

Zelda,

As you know. i have freeed Vaati, and he has now joyned me. and i also ran in to one of your litle freinds on the way back. She told me that you are comeing and kindley gave me a map of the path you will be useing. Yes Vica is a good companin and i have made sure to put few obsticles before you reach my casle, on death mountain. i should hope you make it so; i can defeet you and your "protector" in person

Ganondorf

I stared at the letter in disgust. "Oh, my god; this guy can't spell to save his life! And don't get me started on his grammar... He used a semicolon to try and look smart, but it's in the wrong place! Man is he stupid."

Link took the letter from me and read it. "I agree, he is stupid, but this is still bad. I'll get out the spare map and re-route."

Link reached for his bag to get the map out, and Shadow grabbed the letter from his hand.

"Wow, I thought he'd be smarter than this, what a joke!" He laughed and passed it on to Aria. Aria read it, and started laughing to,

"His spelling of defeat is hilarious!" Everyone else got their turn to read Ganondorf's fail letter, and soon everyone was laughing. Seriously, who could blame them; he spelt freed with three E's.

In the morning, we woke up early, ate our breakfast and set of once more on the winding mountain trail. After another few hours of trudging up the mountain side, the path ended. I mean literally, it was like someone broke it off. Aria stepped over to the edge, and looked down.

"The path goes on, it's just a few feet down, we might be able to jump down" I walked over to see what she meant, but I didn't have time as all of a sudden, a Darknut appeared in a puff of purple smoke. I turned to face it, but it was too late; its blade caught my right leg and sliced it open. I felt the bone break to; all I could then do was sit there, try to stop the bleeding in my leg, and hope I didn't die. The thing let out an evil laugh, and aimed his sword, but was interrupted by an arrow hitting the back of its helmet. It whipped around and Aria drew her sword and sliced the straps holing on the Darknuts armour. The armour hit the ground with a clang and before it could react, an arrow stabbed through his heart. It fell over backwards; I did my best to move out of the way but it didn't matter; it wasn't falling in my direction, but Arias! It fell, knocking her off the edge; Shadow screamed and jumped forwards, but it was too late. Then there was a soft thud and I glanced over the edge, and saw Aria, laying on a path a few feet down. Shadow jumped down beside her and helped her up.

"Told you there was a path."

I lay back and closed my eyes, concentrating on not crying from the pain. Then Vio was at my side with half a purple potion in his hand. I took it and choked down the foul tasting liquid, and my leg closed up, and most of the pain went away; it was still broken, but it would only take a week to heal completely. I sat up, and looked at my now blood stained pants. Next river, I'm washing off. I twisted around, and looked over the edge to Aria, and noticed a switch, I might not have to jump... Aria noticed it to, and stepped on it. Stairs appeared leading down to the path; I tried to stand, but my leg wouldn't take my weight yet do I fell back down in pain. Vio then helped me up, and I leant heavily on him. I tested my leg on the ground; it would take a little weight, but not enough for me to walk alone. I put my arm around Vio's shoulders, and looked to everyone else,

"Let's be off then."

I hobbled along with Vio and the rest followed. Soon we came upon a Goron harvesting rocks. (For those who don't know, the Gorons are a race of people who eat rocks, and have rocks growing on their back, and look like giant rocks, they can also ball up and roll around, as their short legs can't go very fast.) When the Goron saw us, he left his work and stood up.

"Oh travelers! You must be wanting to visit the town! Come, I will take you!" He turned and started walking along the path. We followed him to what seemed to be just a cave, but as he led us in, we saw that there were many caves throughout the cave; as well as a tent in the middle of the clearing. The Goron turned to us,

"Our leader is in that cave there, you should talk with him before anything else." And with that he left us in the cave to finish his work. We made our way to the cave that the Goron mentioned, and stepped inside. We were greeted by a huge Goron with a huge rock beard. He looked us funny, then spoke in a deep menacing voice,

"So Link, you have returned... with clones..."

Link seemed nervous, "Yeah, we only need to buy some things at the shop, then we'll be going."

The big Goron smiled, "Not this time... one of you must wrestle a Goron and win if you wish to do that."

Link seemed to have no words left. I mean have you seen those guys! They're huge, and rocky, like a moving boulder!

Red stepped forwards. "I'll do it, and quickly to."

The big Goron laughed, "You seem quite confident for someone your size... Well, who am I to judge a clone of Link, let us be off the wrestling circle."

The wrestling circle was just that, a circle drawn on the ground. The big Goron pushed Red into the ring, and called in one of the Gorons standing by.

"First one to get the other out of the ring wins, and let's makes this a clean fight... GO!" The Goron charged Red, and he met him full on. You could see that Red was straining to hold his ground against the Goron; but it wasn't working, he was sliding towards the edge of the ring. Just as he was about to be pushed out, he stopped sliding, and smiled.

"Now my turn." He grasped the Gorons wrists and swung him out of the circle, and into a wall. Everyone, even the Gorons cheered for his victory. The head Goron stepped forwards, and the cave was silent again.

"I declare him the winner, and he and his friends can stay as long as they please," he slapped Red on the back, nearly toppling him over, "You fought well scrawny boy, didn't expect that." He retreated to his cave, and Red made his way back to us, and he received high fives from everyone. While Blue, Red, and Link went to get supplies from the store, I sat down to rest with Vio.

"What other obstacles do you think Ganondorf has in mind for us?" I asked, as I massaged my tired left leg.

"I'm not sure, probably assassins, geographical problems, you know, basic." I chuckled,

"I just hope nothing like this happens again, breaking a bone is a lot more painful than one might think."

Red exited the tent with Blue and Link, holding something in his hand. He walked up to me and held it out for me to take. It was a weird fruit thing.

"They didn't have any potions, but apparently this heals a little bit." I took the fruit and examined it; it looked to be a red pear, but it smelled different, sweeter, it was only as big as my hand. I took a bite, and I felt a weird tingle in my leg. As I ate the rest of the fruit, my leg kept tingling. When I had finished, I could feel that my leg was better, but when I attempted to stand, I found that I could... but only just, I still couldn't walk.

"Well that worked well...ish; let's be off then, we still have a few hours till sunset." I led the way out of the caves, leaning on Vio, and started down the path. I was extra careful with my right leg, so I didn't re-break it.

"You doing alright so far Zel?"

"Yeah, my leg is getting tired from this rocky terrain though" I slowed a bit as we came to a huge pile of rocks.

"Ugh, this mountain is never-ending..." I then carefully started climbing the rock wall, and with me karate training, had no trouble getting to the top without using my right leg, which was useful. When I got to the top, with Vio right behind me; I saw, to my relief that it did not go back down, but rather led back to a path. This path was a lot wider than the other, like three times as wide, It was getting dark, so I sat down in the middle of the path, and took out the blankets.

"I say we settle here." No one objected so I got out the rest of the blankets, and everyone set them up along the now wide path. After eating dinner, I sat up in my sleeping bag and watched the sun set, with Vio at my side. As the others fell asleep, I stayed up with Vio on his watch, and soon we were bathed in starlight. I could tell he was uneasy, like he didn't know what to say at this point, so we just sat there, watching the stars. As I stared out in the distance, I was dimly aware that he was staring at me, and for some reason, I didn't care. I wanted to stay up with him all night, but I grew tired; so I curled up under my covers, with only half my face peeking out. I closed my eyes, and drifted to sleep.