"Your grace, I very strongly advise against your going out right now! Without Link, the field is just a warzone of monsters!" The Captain of the guard pleaded with Zelda for the twelfth time as she pulled on her riding gloves and saw to it that her horse was properly saddled.

"Now honestly Braloon, I will be fine. I went out riding in Hyrule Field before Link and I am quite content to do so now. Besides, I am not going unarmed, that would be ridiculous." The princess patted the sheath of her sword for emphasis.

"Yes, but your highness, Link's disappearance was without a doubt out of the ordinary." Captain Braloon pressed. Well, she couldn't deny that.

Exactly four days ago during an assembly in which Zelda addressed the subjects of Castle Town on matters regarding city safety and wellbeing, and the recent revision of the castle guard, Link had vanished. Literally vanished into thin air. One minute the green-clad hero had been standing at her side, silent as ever and then the next, poof, he was gone. And absolutely everyone saw. They were in the midst of a public affairs disaster. How was Zelda supposed to convince her people that the world was safe now that Zant and Ganon were gone if her main trump card regarding public safety literally disappeared in front of thousands of people? Naturally her first instinct had been to contact Midna, to make sure that the Twilight Queen hadn't pulled some sort of prank and teleported Link just during the crux of Zeldas speech. It only figured that Midna knew nothing. Zelda's instincts had been wrong. And that meant that Link's disappearance was likely caused by less than savory figures.

But who? That's what Zelda couldn't wrap her mind around. Trading relations with the other kingdoms were good. Ganon was gone. Zant was gone. There was simply no one left to whisk him away like that. No one. Which is why she was going on what had once been a routine ride. She needed to clear her mind, needed to think. Once she had a point of reference, she could see to seeking out and collecting Link. But first she had to have an idea of where he was.

"Your majesty, please," Captain Braloon begged again, hands held together for emphasis, "Reconsider!"

"I'm sorry Braloon but I really must go out on this ride." Zelda said firmly, hopping side-saddle onto the back of her great white stallion. "Now if you'll excuse me, this is the only window of freedom I have before I have to go back to doing paperwork," And with that she rode out of the stables and towards the field.

Honestly, she could really hate those people sometimes. They were always trying to get her to do things their way. Well, that's not how things worked in her kingdom. She was the princess and therefore she was in charge, and goddesses above if she wanted to go ride in the monster infested field then by golly she was going to ride.

She very quickly regretted that sentiment. Stupid white horse. Moblins must have seen her from ages away. The little green things soon had her surrounded; pulling at her dress, grabbing at her horse, getting stomped on. The little demons! She cursed quietly as one tore the hem of her dress. Well then, time to get mean. She drew her sword only to have it promptly knocked out of her hand by a moblin with surprisingly good aim. Great. She'd have to resort to magic. Which, while she was pretty good at it, was usually better for long distance maneuvers. It tended to either blow up in your face or spook your stupid half-wit white horse. As if sensing her thoughts, the horse bucked sending her flying into a crumpled mess on the ground. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Now where was her sword? Oh, there it is. She spotted it lying on the other side of the horse, too far away to reach. What the dumb animal didn't have the decency to at least buck her toward her weapon?

Moblins fell upon her in a wave of clubs and found weapons. She managed to blast off a few of them with balls of pink magic, but it was no good. There were far too many of them. Oh goddesses, if she did get out of this one she was going to get an earful from her advisors. She prepared herself for the worst, that was after all, the way princesses did things. Only the worst never came.

"Hyyahhh!" A shout came from somewhere behind the mass of moblins and a wide variety of squeals and shouts told her that it came armed. Could it be? She blasted the moblins that were causing the most vision problems and saw for herself. And… it wasn't. What she was looking at was a very battered and torn up looking swordsman with a ridiculously long golden sword, dark blue hair and a cape. A cape. And here she thought only Ganon was so fashion backwards as to wear a cape. Who the heck was this guy?

"Look out!" He shouted bashing down about five moblins at once with his crazy sword. It couldn't really be gold. That would be silly. Gold would get banged up in an instant. It must be some other material. Maybe it was magic? When he threw it in a truly unlikely manner and it miraculously returned to his hand she decided that yes, it must be magic.

"Are you ok?" The swordsman asked as the last of the moblins dissolved into nothing. He was breathing heavy, and his strange blue coat was torn through and stained with blood.

"Am I alright? On the contrast I believe it is you who needs the medical attention," Zelda said, shocked and amazed that he was even still standing, let alone smashing through entire swarms of moblins.

The swordsman looked over himself, apparently only just now realizing that he had large gaping holes in his person.

"What the..?" He said dumbfounded.

"Those wounds weren't inflicted by the moblins were they?" Zelda asked carefully, reaching towards him.

"I- I don't know…?" He began to sway and before Zelda knew it, had landed in a bloody, messy heap, right on top of her.

"Well, wonderful." She exclaimed using all of her limited body strength to push the great muscular lug of a man off of her. "What am I going to do with you?"

An idea struck her then. A completely crazy one. Here she needed a hero who could take out moblins and reassure the people. And what should happen? One literally fell into her lap. He certainly was no Link, but he could probably help her find the lost hero. And if anything help keep her trade lines open with the Zora. Take that Braloon, the ride was well worth it. She had gone on this ride to find a solution to the missing Link problem, and apparently she had found one. She just had to hope her instincts were right.

Authors Note:

And so it begins!

This is my new 'big' project now that I've finished Chaos Personified.

It's basically Nintendo Sword Boys: THE CROSSOVER EVENT (in stunning printed-worD)

Stay tuned for all your favorites; Link, Pit, Ike, Marth and Chrom :D

oh and Zelda.

Lots more Zelda.