It took no longer than a second for the guests to start freaking out. They were all running towards the door, in a desperate race for their freedom and safety. Both groups of heroes were more concerned for their others and their leaders.

The Links were the first to assemble in a group and start helping some of the guests get to freedom as the Knils tried to find Eluryh's Prince and Hyrule's Princess. Luckily, they found them just as the Links were finishing helping guests to safety and the twelve figures decided to keep themselves safe in the high tower were the throne room was.

The Knils were in front of the royals and the Links behind as they escorted them up to the throne room, as quick as possible. Unfortunately, they had just reached the door to the tower when a couple of Spear Moblins turned up and began to attack.

This was a bad idea (thankfully, Moblins aren't the smartest enemies out there) as Blue and Sky decided to stay down at the bottom of the tower and fend off the enemies.

When Red wished Blue good luck, Blue turned around and grinned cockily, "Luck? I don't need that; I've got enough skill to keep myself alive forever." Sky rolled her eyes before dragging Blue into a fight with the two Spear Moblins and their reinforcements that had shown up.

Vio held the door open for all of the others as they ran up the stairs. Before going up himself, he turned to the blue wearing pair and their large battle, "Don't try and handle everything, you moronic hot-head…" With that, he shut the door and ran to catch up with the group. He passed Green and Leaf, who told him that positions had been sorted out for everyone to stand and that he happened to be at the top with Violet.

At the top, Violet was talking to the royals, "It's fine. We are here to keep you safe right now. If we go down then –"

"Don't say that!" Zelda cut off Violet's sentence, "Not all of you can fall down under the forces!" Violet said nothing, she just looked at Adlez – who was looking concerned, but nodded to the purple heroine as a notice to close the door on them.

The girl sighed, "Right…well, I'll seal the door then." That she did. She placed a rather large lock on the door and turned to face the stairs, which Vio just happened to be stepping out of, "Nice of you to join us."

Vio shot her a dirty look, but didn't retaliate. They stood in silence, watching the stairs and listening out for any kind of disturbance below. The pair didn't have to wait long; in about a minute of standing in silence, the sound of the door below slamming against of the brick wall reverberated up to them. Violet glanced over at Vio and saw a look of worry on his face.

Sword clashes and sounds of Wizzrobes teleporting below became clearer. Both became on edge, about to snap if they heard any noise of pain from a companion.

Someone yelled out in pain. Vio snapped and ran down, sword drawn. Normally, he wasn't one for a hasty decision, but he that didn't stop him doing it from time to time. There was no way anyone was going down during this battle.

Violet – however – stood her ground and didn't move from her spot, but she did draw her sword. This preparation was a partial saver. It allowed her to react quick enough to the sound of a Wizzrobe teleporting behind her, but didn't allow her to react before she was knocked out from behind by the Wind Mage himself.

Vaati brought several accomplices in his teleportation; Moblins and Stalfos mainly. One Moblin was given the task of inspecting the girl to see if she was truly out. This Moblin was one with a supposed brilliant memory and he remembered the girl from her little traitor act from the previous invasion of Vaati.

The Wind Mage wasn't a very forgiving person and so allowed the Moblin that had identified Violet to leave a mark on her that would not let her forget what she had done. Picking up his spear, the tip carved into her face vertically and the Wind Mage turned to see what had been done.

He smiled, "Just using your spear is not enough…It must be a permanent reminder." Using his magic, Vaati placed a spell onto the carving that healed up the cuts, but left a permanent scaring over them. Happy with his work, he turned and used more magic on the large lock. It clicked open and the forces that Vaati had brought with him rushed into the Throne Room.

Later, Violet awoke up in the Hyrule Castle Infirmary. Feeling dazed, she decided to look around the room and found that she wasn't alone. The Links were all there, tending to their own injuries and the staff of the Infirmary were tending to the rest of the Knils. One of the nurses looked over at her and smiled warmly.

"So, you're awake?" She walked over to her and checked her pulse and the like, "You have been knocked out for a while. Lucky that Blue went to check for you." The nurse pointed at Blue, who was standing at the door.

The nurse cleared her as being healthy enough to get up and out of bed, so Violet went to speak to the others. She went to see Rose first.

The red clad girl was being seen to by a nurse and Red, but both of the red Four Sword wielders sustained minor injuries as the others helped them fight the enemies. Rose caught sight of Violet and sat up quickly, practically grinning, "Vi! You're awake…but what's under the bandage?"

Violet looked confused and touched the left side of her face. She found it was covered in a bandage, a very large on at that. "Rose, I don't honestly know. I didn't realise I had this…"

"So, you didn't realise you couldn't see out of your left eye?"

Violet paused. She'd never told anyone that she was fully blind in her left eye, but now was a better chance than any, "No, I didn't. I've been blind in that eye for some time now." Rose gasped, "Well, I'm off to see the others." She said a short goodbye before setting off to Leaf and Dusk's beds, as they lay next to each other.

Leaf and Green's wounds were rather nasty and were centred around the torso, while both Shadow and Dusk maintained slightly better but were around the upper body. Shadow had a particularly bad one just under his eye. As Violet drew near, Leaf smiled gently and Dusk sort of saluted.

"How are you two fairing?" Violet asked, standing at the foot of the bed so that the nurses and doctors could move around and check on all the patients.

Dusk spoke first, "Oh, yes. We are doing very, very well as you can see!" She gestured to all the blood soaked bandages in the bins at the sides of the bed.

Violet ignored the sarcasm from her dark counterpart and turned to Leaf.

"Well, it's okay. Just…"Leaf paused, trying to phrase what she wanted to say in a way that wouldn't seem catastrophic to Violet, "Both the prince and princess were captured by Vaati and taken away. His forces were too strong…"

"I guessed as much…" The purple clad girl looked around, "Where's Sky?"

Leaf and Dusk looked at each other and their male counterparts across the way of them, nervously. "Well…she had quite severe injuries…"started Leaf.

"And so they have her in some kind of special ward." Dusk completed the sentence.

Violet looked devastated. Sky, the toughest and cockiest of their group, was down and out of commission. Violet swallowed, "That's unfortunate…"She stood and walked back to her bed. It was now that she took the time to look down at the boys' side and saw what their injuries were like.

Blue seemed virtually unharmed, while Green looked as though he had a deep gash in his right arm. Turning to look straight across from her, she saw that – even when he made a hasty decision – Vio was quite unharmed as well, only a few cuts and bruises here and there.

'We have to go and rescue the Prince and Princess as soon as possible, but with some of these injuries, it looks like that idea is not going to happen for quite a while.' She thought and then her thoughts turned to Sky, 'and hearing about Sky makes me feel uneasy. If she can be put down so easily, what about the rest of us? We'll have to discuss this later.'

"Miss Violet?" a soft voice snapped her back into reality, "You can take your bandage off now, if you would like. You don't seem to have any problem with it, except quite a bit of scarring."

Red and Rose bounded up to Violet's bed and all the others seemed interested in Violet's face wound – except Blue, who turned away and looked slightly queasy. Violet trailed her fingers around the bandage fabric, found the end and began to unravel it. Once completely loose, it slipped off.

The room became deathly silent. No one dare speak. They just stared at Violet with wide eyes and a couple of them had hands over their mouths.

"What's wrong?" Violet was curious as to the reaction her unravelling gained.

"Vi…" Rose whispered with tears in her eyes, "Have a look at your face…" Red held out a mirror, which Violet took and brought it up to eye level (albeit hesitantly). She gasped at her face and time seemed to stop.

Deep scars on her face spelled out the name Vaati horizontally down the left side of her face. Violet dropped the mirror and it smashed. No one cared for the mess at this point, they were all too entranced by the graffiti on her face.

A few minutes after the shock had worn off, Violet was more determined than ever to get Vaati and to kill him, not just banish him. She was voicing her opinions to the others when Sky walked into the room and everyone got distracted by her appearance.

"Hey, what happened while I was in the- WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?" Sky yelled at the top of her voice when she saw Violet's scarring.

"Thanks Sky, nice to see you too." Violet's voice was dripping in sarcasm.

Sky just stuck her tongue out at her counterpart and they all began to tell stories of the battle from the night before. After sharing their tales, a pact was made between the Links and the Knils that they would all go and rescue their leaders as soon as their injuries were fully healed.

Thus began the legend of the Two Four Swords…