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Twi

Ugh. Why does time travel HAVE to feel like a hangover? At least it goes away faster... Better see what we're in for this time.

I opened my eyes only to allow a ray of sunlight directly into them. I quickly shielded my eyes and sat up.

I was in bed. A proper, real, comfortable bed.

"Well, that's a new one," I said to myself. I appeared to be in a small room. There was an open book on a desk nearby, as well as a carving of a strange bird. A bookshelf and a wardrobe took up most of the space. Still, the room was cozy and inviting.

A strange noise floated in through the window next to me. I looked over and saw a massive red bird sticking its head through the window.

"WHAT?!" I yelled, quickly jumping out of the bed and drawing my sword. Or trying to, anyway. It wasn't on my back. Looking around, I saw that someone had placed it and my shield at the foot of the bed. I quickly grabbed both, drew the Master Sword, and pointed it at the bird. It seemed to be some really colorful, huge form of kargaroc. Thankfully, it wasn't as big as that crazy bird that followed Wind into my home dimension.

While I was occupied with the weird giant bird, the door of the room opened behind me.

"Hey, you're awake li'l buddy - Hey, what're you doing?! You could hurt someone! Or Kar!"

I glanced over my shoulder to see who was talking to me. A well-built guy with horrendously-styled red hair stood behind me in an attacking stance. On reflex, I quickly pulled him into the room, shoved him against the wall with my shield and brought my sword to his throat.

I leaned towards the guy, who looked considerably more fearful now. "Listen carefully. First, you will tell me where I am. Second, you will tell me where my friends are and if they're okay. Third, you will tell me why a monster is in my window. Begin." I wasn't going to take any chances after the whole getting captured incident.

The guy held his hand up in surrender. "Uh hey, man, chill out, will ya? Geez, you're even jumpier than the other one. At least the kids were chill with this."

I scowled at the guy, but pulled my sword a bit further away from his neck. "Other one? Kids?"

"Y-Yeah," the guy uttered as sweat rolled down his forehead, "Guy about your age, a bit taller than you, said to call him Time. Weird name if you ask me, but of course nobody has. Then there's a couple of kids, Wind and World. Link brought you all up from the surface to make sure you were okay."

I thought this over. It sounded legitimate. Plus it would explain who had been talking to us when we first warped in.

"Look, we may have started out on the wrong foot, but I'm really sorry and stuff and we're cool right so could you let me go please don't kill me man I didn't mean to freak you out or anything plea-he-he-ease I'm too handsome to die!"

"Hm?" I lifted my eyebrow as I tuned back in to what the guy was saying. He looked like he was about to pee himself. Abruptly, I noticed my face felt kind of tense. I guess I'd continued scowling at the guy and appearing to threaten him without realizing it.

I released the guy. "Sorry, forgot I was still holding you against the wall." The guy seemed pretty nervous still, so I smiled at him, sheathed my blade and held out my now-empty hand. "Guess we really did start on the wrong foot. Sorry, I've had a rough time of it lately. I'm Twi."

The guy suddenly brightened up and gave me a huge smile. He took my hand and nearly shook my arm off. "Hey, it's cool man. I'm Groose, the discoverer of Grooseland, inventor of the Groosinator, and mighty protector of the Temple of Hylia! Although I'm on vacation at the moment. It's good to come home every once in a while, right?"

"Yeah, of course," I replied once I'd reclaimed my hand. I glanced at the window to see the giant bird still there. "So, uh, what's up with the bird?"

"Oh yeah, forgot you didn't know about all this stuff," Groose said. Suddenly he struck a ridiculous pose. "Well, you've come to the right man to teach you everything and anything about Skyloft! That over there's Link's Loftwing, Karakurenai." Groose was now suddenly invading my personal space. "We call him Kar for short."

I moved away as quickly as I could. "Umm... could you not do that? I've been having to deal with this creeper for a while, so I'm not that good with invasions of personal space."

Abruptly, Groose got serious. "So it's true? That demon's really not dead?"

I lifted both of my eyebrows. "How do you know about Ghirahim?"

Groose rubbed the back of his neck. "That's something you should talk about with Link and Zelda. They know a lot more about it than I do. Of course, not everyone knows about that creep. Yep, it's pretty much just me and Zelda. And Link, I guess."

"O...kay then," I replied. After an awkward silence, I decided to change the subject. "So... Where are the others, then?"

Groose went back to his normal, odd self. "They're at the plaza with Link. Come on, I'll take you there."

Groose led me out of the building, which was rather large for a house (especially given the small size of the room I woke up in). On the way, he informed me that it was the Skyloft Knight Academy, where knights were trained to protect Skyloft.

"What kind of enemies are you fighting?" I asked.

Groose gave me a confused look.

"Well, you said the knights are protecting this place. From what?"

"Uhhh... well...," Groose replied, "Well, really the knights are there just in case. Mostly they catch people who fall off the island or stop newbies who try to fly at night."

"Wait, hang on," I interjected as we crossed a courtyard, "how do you fall off an island?"

Groose gave me another confused look. "Do you live under a rock? Oh! Wait, I forgot you didn't know." He stopped next to a staircase. "Try taking a look at what's under the stairs."

I did.

"What."

There was no ground. Just clouds. I was on a floating island. An island. That floats. On air. Which was next to another floating island. Which were held together. Only. By. Staircases.

WHAT.

"You okay, man?" Groose asked.

My brain couldn't handle what I was looking at. WHAT?

"O...kay... time to come away from the edge," Groose said. He grabbed my arm and got me down the stairs and onto the main island. He looked at me carefully. "You cool, man?"

"Yeah... I think..." I replied.

Groose once again brightened up. "Okay then, let's get over to the plaza! Your pals should be waiting!"

"Okay," I replied as I followed behind. Part of my brain was still shouting WHAAAAAAT?!, but I tried to ignore that part and just focus on what was in front of me.

We were approaching the plaza. On the far side, I could see a group of green-clad people. One of them turned and saw us.

"TWI!" Wind yelled as he ran over and tackled me. "You're finally up! What took you so long?"

"C...Can't... breathe!" I managed to wheeze out.

"Whoops! Sorry!" Wind apologized as he rapidly got off me. I stayed lying down, trying to catch my breath.

"How many times have I said you shouldn't tackle people?" World asked Wind.

Wind just ignored him.

"Well, don't you look lovely this morning," Time drawled as his face appeared upside-down above me.

"I'm peachy. Just help me up already," I retorted.

Time obliged and got me back on my feet, chuckling a little.

"Hi," a new voice said.

I looked up to see this era's Hero. He was about the same age as Time and myself and seemed to be one of those people who are always smiling.

"Hi," I replied, "I'm Twi. Nice to meet you."

The new guy smiled. "Likewise. The others have filled me in on the name situation, so you can call me Sky."

I grunted a little. "Good choice. It fits you."

Sky smiled even brighter. "Thanks! So, are you feeling okay? You all passed out right after you appeared in Faron Woods."

"We're fine. It always happens." I paused for a second. "Faron Woods, huh?"

Sky nodded. "Yeah. That's what a friend of mine said it was called, anyway. What about it?"

I smiled a little. "Nothing. That's just what it's called in my time as well."

"Cool!" Sky exclaimed. "So," he said as he addressed the group, "I know you all have questions, but we need to talk to Zelda about a lot of them. You guys ready to go down?"

"Down?" asked World. "To where?"

Sky smiled again. "To the surface of course."

"Yeah!" Wind exclaimed. After thinking about it a bit, he asked, "How are we going to do that?"

Sky gave his brightest smile yet. "By jumping,"

...WHAT.