A/N: Chapter Six now up! Hope you guys like it. Remember to leave a review.

SunshineMuncher: I'm glad you liked it

Itansha: Oh, I don't hate Marth. In fact, I have big things planned for him! IDK why us LoZ fanfic writers use him so much, though.

SxDsX: Sorry, I haven't played any of the final fantasy games. But I will youtube those characters to see what you're talking about!

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Chapter Six: The Lost Princess

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The first thing I noticed about the Goddess statue once I entered was that it was a lot larger looking on the inside. Next thing I noticed were two large signs placed near the door leading to the stairwell.

The first one had "Restricted Area" written on it in large red letters.

The second said, "The spirit maiden will guide us in our time of need."

"It looks like these people worship her," I said to myself as I opened the door and began to climb the flight of stairs.

It took me a while to get anywhere, since the statue was so tall. The whole time, I was just silently hoping Marth would stay unconscious.

Eventually, I found another door, which lead to a circular room with hundreds of unraveled scrolls pinned up against the wall. I approached a couple, just to see what they were, and saw that most were ancient symbols, drawn in strange patterns.

"Fi, do you recognize any of this?" I asked, pulling one sheet of paper of the wall and holding it up for her to see.

Fi jumped from my sword and began to examine the paper. After she felt that she had thoroughly looked it over, Fi reported, "I have no records of any such symbols in my database."

"Really?" I was a bit surprised. That was the first time that Fi didn't have an answer for something. Then again, I guessed that it was to much to ask for someone to know everything.

I threw the scroll aside and kept moving, looking for the path leading up to the top. After a bit of searching, I found a pulley platform that could hopefully take me up to the top. I stepped on it, pulled the lever, and the platform lurched upward, almost knocking me off my feet.

"This place has some interesting devices, I'll give it that," I mumbled under my breath as the platform moved upwards.

After a couple minutes, it stopped at an opening in the wall. As soon as I stepped through, the pulley platform fell back down, trapping me in the upper part of the statue.

"Well, I better have a look around."

In front of me was a window that was covered by a pair of curtains and a lever. I assumed that the lever would open the door to my right, but I was a bit curious about what was behind the curtains, so I pulled them aside.

My jaw almost dropped when I saw what was on the other side. On the other side of the window was undoubtedly, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. It was she, the princess.

Her golden blonde hair was tied into two braids, and a small ponytail at the end, just as it was in the picture. Her womanly curves were not too big, but a perfect size for someone of her class. Her indigo colored eyes were even more gorgeous in person. I watched, mesmerized as she went about her daily business.

Zelda was holding a small picture, looking at it with a smile on her face. She then turned to the window and looked at it, squinting in an adorable fashion and adjusting her hair the slightest bit. I cringed when she looked at the window, almost sure she was going to catch me spying on her, but she never did.

I got up closer to the window, wondering if maybe it was fogged up, but it seemed perfectly clear. Then it hit me. "This is a one way mirror, isn't it?" I murmured quietly, so that she would not hear me through the glass.

Zelda finished adjusting her hair and began to dance around with the picture again. As she spun, I caught a glimpse of what was on it. There was a perfect image of the famous Waterfall of Wishing; probably taken with one of those 'cameras' I had seen earlier at the carnival.

I watched as she hugged the picture close, and then ran out of the room, leaving it desolate. Quickly, I pulled the lever, in hopes that I would catch up to her. The door slid open and I ran through, following a wooden catwalk up to the next viewing station.

Just like the first, it had a window, concealed by a pair of red curtains, and a lever for the door. The sign above the window said that this was the art room. I opened the curtains, sure enough, I saw Zelda, standing in front of an incredible painting of the Waterfall of Wishing.

She held the picture up, comparing it to the painting, and then placed it down on a table next to her. Her blissful expression changed to one of determination as she turned to the painting and took a deep breath.

Suddenly, her body began to glow brightly, much to my surprise. I stepped back instinctively, watching her nervously. As she began to glow brighter, I felt the now familiar pain in my hand. I held up my right hand and saw that my mark was glowing again, somehow reacting to her magic.

Then, one of the most terrifying displays if power I had ever seen happened. Zelda held out her arms and a circular portal opened, its mere presence causing all the art supplies around her to whirl around uncontrollably. Then, a clear image of the Wishing Waterfall appeared in the portal.

"Great Hylia!" I shouted, almost a bit too loudly, stumbling backwards as fast as I could. She knew magic, extremely powerful magic.

I watched in amazement as Zelda opened her eyes and saw what she had done. She began jumping up and down in celebration, when suddenly, a dangerous river Zora burst from the water and charged towards her. Zelda screamed out in horror and quickly closed the portal, causing her to stumble backwards and fall on her rear. She sighed in disappointment as she got up, dusted herself off, and left the room.

Taking my time, I got back on my feet and told myself shakily, "Alright Link, just ignore it. This has nothing to do with the job at hand."

I pulled the lever and moved on to the next viewing station. The third station took a bit longer to get to, which, hopefully, meant it was the last. I was not too inclined to wait around and see how long it would take for all of Skyloft to realize that I was still alive.

Just like before I pulled aside the curtains, but this time, I got a view of her whole room. For something that was to be her prison, it was pretty massive. The walls were lined with bookshelves, each novel meticulously organized. Maps of Hyrule covered every desk, each with little drawings on them. It didn't take me long to figure out that each of these were hand made by Zelda. Parts of the wall were painted as well, murals of stories she must have read.

"Wow, this girl has more talents then I can count," was all I could say as I stared at her room.

As I was about to pull the lever, a beautiful sound reached my ears. I searched around for the source and saw Zelda standing on an elevated part of the room looking out a large bay window. She was playing a golden harp as she looked outside longingly, and singing as well.

"Oh youth," she sang in a silky, soothing voice that made me melt inside, "guided by the servant of the goddess, unite earth and sky, and bring light to the land. En daʃeʋu nobe̞ ʃo̞ndʊ, tʏe ʃʊtʊ keuænu sale̞ En daʃeʋu nobe̞ dʊʃʊ, tʏe ʃʊtʊ nobe̞ dezu dotʃe…"

As she continued to sing, I realized that those were the lyrics to the holy Ballad of the Goddess. Zelda sung each note perfectly, as if she was born to. But when she looked out the window, she seemed to feel a certain longing that I could relate to.

It was a feeling of longing that I felt every time I looked out the window when I was imprisoned in Arbiter's ground. This girl was just as trapped as I was.

"Just hold on your highness," I assured her, even though Zelda couldn't hear me, as I pulled the lever.

The door slid open and I ran through, now even more determined to liberate this girl from her cage just as I had been liberated from mine.

When I opened the door, a gust of wind burst through, taking me by surprise. I looked out and realized the next part of the path was on the OUTSIDE of the statue. Taking a deep breath, I stepped outside, getting a death grip on the railing as I did.

"Okay, you can do this Link," I breathed, slowly making my way up the statue from the outside.

The wind blew against me as I walked up the frighteningly smooth path. A couple times, I even almost felt myself slip. It was a generally terrifying experience.

When I finally reached the entrance back into the statue, I was breathing heavily and sweating rivers. As quickly as I could, I threw open the door and jumped inside, slamming it behind me.

I leaned against the door and took a couple breaths, panting, "That… was… terrible…"

It took me a bit to finally regain my wits and keep moving. I moved to the door in front of me and pulled the lever beside it. The door opened up to a strange room with three rusty looking chains attached to the floor, which looked like it was made of solid gold.

Not even thinking twice, I stepped on. When I was completely inside the room, I sighed in relief. At least the worst part was over.

Suddenly, I felt the floor creak and shake under me. I looked down one more time and suddenly realized that I wasn't standing on any floor.

"Fi," I asked, my voice a bit shaky, "This is the chandelier, isn't it?"

"There is a 99% chance that this is in fact a chandelier."

Before I could shout an obscenity, the first chain broke with a loud CLINK! The second was soon to go, and then the whole thing collapsed from under me.

"AAAGGGHHHHH!" I screamed as I tumbled down to the floor with the chandelier. Before I hit the wreckage on the ground, though, I managed to grab the railing of the elevated part of the room.

I looked down at the destroyed chandelier before me and let out another sigh of relief. "Well thank Hylia I grabbed on to this thing."

When I began to pull myself up and peeked over the railing, I saw Zelda clutching her harp tightly and looking at me with sheer terror in her deep blue eyes.

Damn it Link, I thought to myself, say something!

I smiled sheepishly and said, "Oh, hello!"

Zelda screamed loudly and hit me over the head with her harp, causing me to lose my grip and fall to the floor with an UMPH! I looked up and saw her grab a heavy book and throw it at me. The Skyloft Dictionary hit me on the side of my face before I could put my hands in front of it.

She ran down the stairs as I began to sat up and grabbed another book, throwing it at me. This time I was ready, though, and knocked it to the side.

"Stop throwing things at me!" I yelled as she threw yet another book.

Zelda continued to throw entire volumes at me, some of them being pretty heavy books. She moved closer with each book she threw, and in no time, she was standing over me; holding her harp up, ready to strike.

"Who are you?" she asked, her voice audibly quaking with fear

"My name is Link Forester, and I'm not going to hurt you," I assured her, trying to calm the princess down. She watched me suspiciously, still keeping her harp at the ready, as I stood up slowly.

"I'm a friend," I told her in a calm voice, reaching out to put a hand on her shoulder, "I'm here to get you out."

Zelda reacted to my touch, trying to swing her harp into my cranium again, but I caught her arm before she had a chance. She struggled helplessly, trying to whack me over the head with the instrument. When Zelda finally ran out of breath, she realized it was useless and put the harp down, catching her breath.

Her next move surprised me. She reached out and put her hand on my cheek, ever so gently and asked me in her beautiful, soothing voice, "Are you real?"

I smiled back to her and answered, "I am real enough."

She opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by a strange jingle coming from behind us. I turned around and saw a golden version of the statue that had gotten me here, playing a strange tune.

When I turned back to Zelda, I saw her eyes were wide with terror. She suddenly turned me around and began to push me towards a small corner. "He's coming," she told me nervously, "You-you have to go!"

"Why?" I laughed, not realizing the horrifying thing that the statue was signaling.

"Believe me, you don't want to be here when he gets he-"

A loud bird like noise cut her off. Zelda looked up at the hole the broken chandelier had left open and called, "J-just a minute, I'm getting dressed!"

"Let's get you out of here," I said to her, watching as she frantically looked for a place I could hide.

She responded in almost a laughing tone, "Believe me, there's no way out, I've tried."

I suddenly realized what she needed. I fished through my pouch and pulled out the strange key Tatl and Tael had given me before I had reached Skyloft and held it out to her. "What about this?"

"What, what is-" She gasped when she saw the key and snatched it out of my hand, "Where did you get this?"

I was about to respond, when an even louder bird cry filled the room. Zelda motioned for me to follow her as she ran up to a large door with an oversized lock on it. She took the key and stuck it in, then turned it, bringing out a CLINK from the door. "It's our way out!"

As soon as the door opened, I heard whatever was outside screech angrily at the top of its lungs. The ground suddenly began to shake as more angry screeches sounded.

"Follow me!" Zelda yelled as we slipped through the door and made our escape.

I did not want to meet the thing making those noises, so I followed her, sprinting as fast as my feet could carry me.

As we followed the wooden walkway, the statue began to shake more violently, parts of it crumbling around us.

"Keep running!" Zelda yelled to me

She didn't need to tell me twice.

As we ran through the statue, we passed by the observations stations. Zelda noticed the one-way mirrors as we went by and gasped, "They've been watching me this whole time?"

The gentlemanly thing to do would have been to comfort her, but I figured escaping was first on our list of priorities. Another huge jolt shook the statue, knocking both of us to our feet. We got up as quickly as we could and kept on sprinting, as wooden beams holding up other parts of the walkway crumbled away.

"What the hell is that thing?" I shouted to her

"It's his job to keep me here," she answered, not looking back at me once.

Suddenly, the whole statue lurched to the side, knocking me over again, and almost causing me to slide off the walkway. As I hung on for dear life, I saw something tear through the side of the statue as if it were paper.

"Goddesses!" I screamed, scrambling back to my feet as the statue balanced out again. As quickly as I could, I caught up to Zelda, who had actually stopped running to wait for me in another one of the observation rooms.

"Call up the platform!" I yelled as I ran inside the room, catching my breath

Zelda gave me a confused look, so I took matters into my own hands and yanked the lever to bring up the pulley platform.

As we waited for the platform to come up, Zelda turned towards the room's one-way mirror and asked me, "Why were they watching me? What do they want from me?"

"I don't know," I answered truthfully, "But what I do know is that you're getting out of here!"

Just as the platform was about to reach us, a huge pair of claws busted through the shaft, causing Zelda to scream loudly and me to almost drop my sword. The creature that was chasing us then moved its head in front of the hole it made as it screeched angrily.

My heart almost stopped when I saw the monster's face. It was the head of a giant bird, the same one I had seen on the posters earlier, the Helmaroc King. The monster was much more terrifying then the poster had portrayed it though, especially when trying to ram its way to you.

Zelda and I cowered at the back of the room as the Helmaroc King slammed its head against the hole, trying to bust through and kill me. Luckily for us, the wall was holding up against the bird's attacks. Finally, the Helmaroc King realized that its efforts were futile, and moved on to try a different approach.

When it pulled its head away, a flight of stairs were revealed. I grabbed Zelda by the hand and shouted, "Let's go, before it comes back!"

We jumped across the gap and began sprinting up the stairs, panting heavily and scared half to death. That monster seemed practically unstoppable!

"We have to keep moving," Zelda yelled as we sprinted upwards, "It's going to tear this whole place apart! Look!" She pointed over to a large door that was right in front of us, "We can go through here!"

"Move aside!" I told her, running over to he large iron door. With a large heave, I pushed it open, gritting my teeth as I gave it all my strength. Once it was open enough for both of us to get through, Zelda shouted, "Come on!"

I followed her out the door and onto another outer walkway. "Just go up!" I told her, figuring that the bottom part of the statue was probably completely destroyed by now. Zelda nodded obediently and ran up the path with me, all the way up to the top of the statue.

Once we reached the top, the bird slammed into the statue as hard as it could, knocking it over and causing both of us to slide right off the top.

"NOOOOO!" I yelled as I saw my one chance for freedom fall of with me. Zelda screamed as the two of us tumbled through the air towards the ground. I reached out my hand to her and shouted, "GRAB MY HAND!"

Zelda managed to extend far enough to take my hand pulling herself closer to me. With my free hand, I whistled as loud as I could for my loftwing.

As fast as lightning, at crimson streak caught us on its back and took off.

The red loftwing dove and weaved through floating houses and towers as we held on for dear life. I could hear the Helmaroc King's angry screech as it flew through the sky, knocking over buildings and desperately trying to stop us. Hundreds of structures crumbled in front of us as my loftwing desperately tried to avoid all the falling debris. In one, final attempt, the Helmaroc King grabbed a chunk of a defense tower and threw it at the red loftwing.

"Look out!" I warned as a volley of stone came flying towards my bird. Despite its best efforts, the crimson loftwing got clipped by a large chunk of stone, causing it to lose control and throw both of us off.

I tried to grab Zelda by the hand as we fell, but she slipped away before I could get a good grip.

"ZELDA!" I yelled as the falling ruins separated us.

I then heard a loud screech and felt a powerful grip snatch me up. I saw that the Helmaroc King had me in its claws. The giant bird reared back its beak, readying to tear my head off, when a large rock hit it on the head.

It cried out in pain and dropped me, flying away from the crumbling section of Skyloft.

I looked down as I fell downward, saying my prayers as I did. But when I expected the feeling of hard pavement, I felt myself slam into a body of water and sink to the bottom. It didn't matter, though. I was too tired to swim up.

As my vision began to fade, I could only think about how I had failed Malon, Colin, and worst of all, Aryll. Now my poor sister really would be the last of my family.

A/N: Duh Duh DUUUUUUUUH! I hope you all enjoyed the big chase scene, I know it was one of my favorite parts in infinite! I thought the Helmaroc king might make a good songbird, since he spent pretty much all of windwaker nabbing girls and keeping them locked up in a tower. Seemed like a good fit! Please, leave a review, or if you really liked it, a favorite!