"Where are we?" Pipit, still holding tightly onto Link, seemed less scared here than on the volcano. Link interpreted this as good, because everyone would live in these woods soon enough.
"Deep Faron Woods, the structure behind us is Skyview Temple, the first place I encountered Ghirahim. The main part of the woods is a little ways away, but not too far. We could head there for the night, or we could go inside the temple; your choice."
"Well I really need to get off this ankle, so let's go inside. You said there's a spring in there didn't you?"
"Yeah, we'll go there." And so they headed down the spooky-staircase and into the temple. No more monsters were around anymore, except a lone keese or two, as Link had killed them all multiple times. He was satisfied with the water dragon's job of clearing the woods and that meant that people could use the temple for whatever reason they pleased. Looking at the large rooms and structures, Link realized that this would be excellent training grounds for the Knight Academy, there were things to climb, places to swim, they could set up some training dummies for sword practice; the possibilities were practically endless. They finally got to the round room where Link had first encountered Girahim, and chills went up Link's spine. That creep, well, creeped him out and Link couldn't help but feel like the creep could jump out at anytime. Link quickly took Pipit on through to the spring, where they camped out on the clean stone.
"It certainly is peaceful out here," Pipit, who was leaning against the stone wall, was now looking out above the stairs to the calm and pristine spring, "So do you have any idea of how Zelda got out of here so fast?"
"She never told me how she traveled so fast from here to Eldin Volcano, I mean after that Impa_ after that she was being escorted, but I don't know. I wish I knew because then I could just hop on up to the volcano when I wanted instead of going up to the sky, and back down again."
"You three said that Impa was a servant to the goddess; do you think there are any others like her? I mean there's no way she only had one servant, and there's no way Im_ this lady was the only magical person down here."
"I suppose you could be right; I only explored a few regions, and I'm sure there is much still to be unseen, and I'm sure we would find others there, but until then, I'm going to say that Impa was one of a kind." He looked at Pipit, this time not sexually, but logically; he was having a real conversation with Pipit about the land of the surface, which impressed Link to no end, as Pipit had only seen an exploding volcano and a creepy temple. However, as he stared into Pipit's eyes, he could feel the mood change between them and he knew what they were both now thinking. Link took his hand and put it on Pipit's thigh and he leaned in for another kiss, but before their lips met, the hairs on the back of Link's neck began standing up; they were not alone.
He hastily stood up grabbing his bow and readying an arrow, pointing it out towards the edge of the spring, "Who's there? Come out and show yourself." Link was expecting to see a big monster of some kind to walk out of the shadows, but to his surprise a young girl garbed in royal blue came out and walked right up to him. She had bleach blonde hair, piercing blue eyes and tanned skin. She was tall and slim like Impa was, but she was a little shorter. There was a green sash around her left arm with an emblem, but it was too dark to make out. "Who are you?" Link lowered the bow slightly, and relaxed his shoulders.
"I am a servant to the skies, which is where you appeared from. So I will now ask you, who are you?"
"I am Link, hero of the Goddess Hylia, who also happens to be my best friend. My turn; what's your name?"
"I am Ilysa, and if we're done interrogating each other on our backgrounds I would like to ask if the goddess has succeeded in destroying Demise? Or, if you are the Hero, did you succeed?" Surprised that Ilysa knew so much, he thought that maybe she knew Impa somehow, which would mean he could trust her.
"Demise was vanquished from this land, and is fading from existence as we speak. Hylia is safe in the sky while she recovers, and the people who were sent to the sky on the outcropping of land a long time ago are soon going to return to the surface."
"They're what?!" Ilysa seemed scared about this fact and he was going to repeat himself, but Pipit beat him to it.
"The people of the sky are returning to the land."
"You can't; do you know what will happen if you all come down here?" Link and Pipit both remained silent for a while, until she spoke again. "If every single member of Skyloft comes down to the surface, then Hylia's spell that took the island up there will have no more use, and the island will come crashing down on our heads."