Clx : Hello everyone ! First Fanfic ! Yay !
Amx : Well duh, it's the only one there ya dobe.
Clx : Shut it. . . Anyway, this is a story about what I think would have happened after the war in Twilight Princess.
Amx : They don't need to know that, they'll figure it out by theirselves. Tell them something important like the couples, the plot, and the disclaimer obviously.
Clx : I was getting there ! Ahem . . . So, the couple in this was originaly Link / Midna, then it turned out to be another Link / insert name here (did you honestly think I'd tell you who?), so I guess I'll ust wing it.
Amx : You would not believe how many times she started the first chapter over and OVER!
Clx : (they don't need to know that) So, um, for the plot, Link falls into depresion not long after Midna leaves, destroying the Mirror, and when he turns 22 . . . Ah! I can't tell them anything or I'll blurt it all out!
Amx : sighs
Clx : Hehe, but I can put what the point of it is in five words : return to the Twilight Realm.
Amx : Forgetting something?
Clx : Huh? Oh yeah, some of the characters in previous Zelda games will make important appearances, such as my fav character : Sheik.
Amx :Disclaimers?
Clx : I know ! I don't own Zelda or any of the other characters except for Cassil and maybe afew others that will appear throught the story . . . if I ever finish it.

Link looked out his bedroom window, watching the sunrise in the horizon. Not much made him happy these days, but this was one of the few moments that did. The war was over, peace was restored, but what was he to do now? Even though Princess Zelda offered him gold, land and even the opportunity to marry her, he nobly refused. It was already bad enough that he as given the title Hero, being called the King of Hyrule was even worse in his book. So he returned home to his normal lifestyle as a farm boy, the life he had before all that Hero of Time stuff was thrown at him so suddenly. Zelda respected his choice, although they both knew that she would have preferred if he had said yes.

Lately, when his mind started wandering into his past, the first thing that usually popped up was Midna and the sad expression she wore when she left, never to see him again. Since then, he had been dreaming about her, dreaming about sleeping with her that is, which he thought was normal because he was almost at the age of getting married. Not that long ago — it was actually months ago but time did not matter to him anymore —, the dreams were longer and occurred more often than they used to. One night, when he woke up because of the emotional pain the dream caused, he thought he saw her sitting in front of the fireplace. He rushed down and searched for her, but he could not find her and burst into tears.

He sighed in a depressing way and rolled out of bed. Not realizing how close the edge was, he fell over the edge and smashed his nose on the cold wooden floor.

"Great," he mumbled to himself, "Just bloody great."

After cleaning up the red mess that he left on the floor, he tended to his probably broken nose. It was not broken, but he sure as hell was awake now. Then he heard her, Epona making a fuss outside, growing impatient. When he got outside the first thing he saw was his red mare jumping over the gate to come and welcome him. He patted her on the nose, then mounted her, spinning her around towards the forest where he had to do his morning patrols. Everything seemed normal, not that it would not considering that all the monsters that had anything to do with Ganondorf vanished into thin air, never to be seen again, hopefully. Although, he did run into a few thieves that were trying to steal some lantern oil from Coro's poor pet myna bird, Trill. They were not much of a challenge though, a few slashes here, a few stabs there and they were gone.

Then he was off to the ranch, to help out his good friend Fado with the goats. As soon as he finished, he immediately directed himself towards the Ordon Spring, bringing Epona with him for a nice refreshing swim. The fairies were still flying here and there, occasionally coming to land on his shoulder and whisper a gentle melody in his ears that only the Goddesses could decipher, and started singing subconciously, almost in a whisper.

"You take the breath right out of me. You left a hole where my heart should be. You've got to fight just to make it through, 'cause I will be the death of you…"

He took his mare's saddle and bridles off her and took his shirt off.

"This will be all over soon. Pour salt into the open wound. Is it over yet? Let me in…"

He dove into the small deep end of the spring and let the falls massage his tense back.

"So sacrifice yourself and let me have what's left. I know that I can find the fire in your eyes. I'm going all the way, stay with me please…"

"You have a nice voice you know."

He jumped, swallowing water in the process. Ilia tapped on his back just hard enough to make him spit out the enchanted liquid, containing her laughter. After taking a few deep breaths, he glared at her.

"Never, ever startle me like that again," he said with a comforting smile, although she could hear the faint menacing tone in his voice.

The mayor's daughter started laughing so hard that she was almost crying. He jumped towards her and plunged under the water bringing the young woman with him. She fought as hard as she could to escape the arms she was imprisoned in, although she did not want him to let go. Surfacing the water, Link let his prisoner go and returned under the falls. Ilia followed him.

"Now I understand why you come here after work. This feels so good and refreshing."

He turned towards her to find her eyes closed and with water up to her chin. The Hero noticed that in the last years or so that his long-time friend had gotten curvier from top to bottom, especially her hips. Her hair now reached a little lower than the middle of her back, her bangs were just above her eyebrows and with the sun, and it had turned almost the same color as his own. The only thing that he started to find troublesome was that she had started to flirt with him, which he found a little awkward considering he only wanted to be friends, but as usual, he did not say anything, not wanting to hurt his fragile friend's feelings.

"Who were you thinking of when you were singing earlier?" she asked as she looked him in the eye. He blushed and stared at his toes as if they were the most interesting thing her had ever seen. She waited patiently, knowing that he did not like talking about matters of the heart. He sighed.

"Someone who I'll probably never see again," he said in a miserable tone.

"You know, you should consider being the royal singer," she said with a mischievous smile, changing the subject.

Link looked back up at her with a dark look Ilia had never seen before, it was pretty close to when when he thought Midna died at Ganondorf's hands. His rage made him red and he exploded.

"Why the hell would I want to be the castle's clown if I didn't accept the Princess's offer to marry her!" with that, he walked away swearing in a deep whisper and forget to bring Epona on the way.

"Link, wait!" she cried, but he did not turn around. "What did I say?"

Link climbed up the ladder to his house and slammed the door behind him. He had no clue why he reacted so badly at Ilia's comment. Maybe it was because of all the extra work he had been doing because at the ranch, yes, that had to be it.

"Link, are you in there?"

Great, now what… he thought to himself.

"Link, open up its Colin."

The Hylian took his time making his way to the door, he started opening it slowly and he suddenly felt something hard hit his head, twice and he fell over.

"Link! Op–"

The young boy looked inside of the house.

"Uh, Link? Where are you?" he asked quielty, "And why did the door open, isn't his house fairly new?"

He looked around once more.

"His boots are outside so he must be home."

Rusl's son took a step inside and stumbled over something strangely soft, yet quite hard.

"Ahh!"

Colin under his breath, then suddenly realised that he did ot hit the floor. Realizing what, or rather who he was towering over, he blushed. Link was lying face down and unconscious on the floor.

"L-Link?!"

When the young adult finally woke, he was in his bed and according to the stars in the now pitch black sky, it had been several hours since Colin knocked him out. He sat up and fell right back down because of the throbbing of his head. Since he could not get up, he turned his head to find Colin sleeping with his head on his arms on his bed.

"Don't you think your parents would be worried if they knew you weren't in your bed right now?" he managed to mumble.

"I'm not as young as I used to be Link," Colin said in the middle of a yawn, "I have to start learning how to be independent and all that maturing stuff."

Colin had grown a lot, he was maybe a foot or so shorter than Link but he still wasn't nearly as muscular as he was at that age. Link doubted it would take him much longer though.

"Fine, you can stay a while," he declared as he finally sat up and looked at his young friend, he could see that he was trying to contain his joy of being able to stay at his idol's house. He smiled.

"Don't forget that tomorrow you have to come to the ranch to help me with the milking to repay me for training you."

He heard a loud snore. Colin had fallen back asleep.

Link chuckled but immediately stopped due to footsteps in the basement. He slowly got out of bed, making sure not to wake Colin. His first attempt to walk failed, causing incredible pain to his head and making him dizzy. Then suddenly, Epona started making whinning outside. What the hell's going on? A cold wind blew around the whole house, making it seem as if it was the first week of winter. Damn thieves, come back for more have ya? Now, where's my sword?

He stepped over Colin and reached for his sword and slowly inched his way towards the door as he pulled it out of it's scabbard. He took a deep breath and slowly opened the door. It was barely even moved and a dark cloud made its way threw at the speed of lightning throwing Link to the floor, once again. This' not my day. He stood back up ignoring a new pain in his lower back. After many swings towards the darkness, he realized that he was wasting his time.

So he charged towards his weapon room, but he never made it that far. He collapsed to the ground as if he had turned into a rag doll. Using the remaining energy he had, he turned onto his back to see the face of what had attacked him but his vision became blurry and all he was able to see was glowing orange hair.

Only a few minutes later and Link woke up. Remembering what he saw before everything went black, he sat up as fast as his body would let him and ended up nose to nose with someone who looked strangely familiar. He took a closer look and saw that he had expensive looking clothes, he was probably related to royalty.

"Who... Who are you?" he stammered.

"What? Ya mean mum didn't tell ya?" the boy said with a low voice.

"Wh-What do you mean your mom did not tell me? I don't even know who you are!"

"Damn, this' gonna be harder to explain than I thought... Thanks a lot mum..." the boy sighed.

"What do you mean? Explain what? Damn it who are you!"

The boy sighed again, as if he was getting impatient with the Hylian.

"Look, as you have probably already noticed, I am the prince of the Twilight kingdom, Prince Cassil of Twilight to be more precise."

"But that means you're Midna's son, right?" Link felt a piece of his heart being ripped out when he found out that his beloved had a son and was most likely married.

"You're such a moron. Ya know that?"

Link snapped out of his daydreaming to find out that the Cassil had his hand on his face, shaking his head.

"And why am I a moron?"

"Idiot, I can't believe that ya haven't noticed yet... Look at my eyes, don't they look familiar?"

Link leaned forward to look at Cassil's eyes and was shocked. Wait a second... Those are my eyes! The prince sighed once more.

"Did it finally click in? Link... Mum isn't married, I'm your son."

Link could not believe his ears. How could this be possible? She never came to see me, that's understandable since she destroyed the Mirror. How could I… How could she become…

"Hey, Link."

I mean, the only time I ever saw her after that was in my dreams… How could I not remember having s-

"Dad!" Cassil shouted, getting very impatient with his father, and Link noticed that he had a bit of a disgusted look on his face.

"Have ya ever thought of the possibility that maybe your dreams weren't dreams?"

"Maybe but… Hey! How come you know about my dreams? I never mentioned anything about –"

"I can read minds. I know how inconvenient, you can't keep your thoughts safe with me around…"

Link was completely ignoring his son while he was babbling on and on about his mind reading powers. His heart was invaded by the hope that he thought he had lost forever: the hope of seeing Midna once more. He realized that there must be another way to travel between the worlds and he had his son in the flesh to prove it. At least he thought he was in the flesh. He reached towards Cassil.

"I mean now I know how to control my powers and everything but before – Ow!" Cassil rubbed his arm as he felt a bruise coming along, "What d'ya pinch me for?" he said in an angry-ish voice. Link chuckled.

"Heh, sorry 'bout that. Had to make sure you were real, that's all."

"Well, next time, let me do the pinching," he mumbled.

The Hylian smiled at his son who did so back. Even though he had just confirmed that Cassil was there, he still had a hard time believing that he was having a conversation with his son… his son!

Meanwhile, Ilia was laying in bed wide awake, still trying to figure out what she had said to offend Link so badly that he gave her such a cold look. After that episode, she had to bring Epona back since her best friend had charged off so fast. She could sense that Epona was worried about her master. As she thought about it repeatedly in her head, she could only come up with one solution: apologizing.

The young woman got up as quiet as the old floor would let her not to wake up her father, put on her boots and stepped into the outdoors. When she reached Link's house, which was much further and bigger that the previous one, she had a hard time finding what to apologize for. She sighed.

"Come on girl, you can do this. What's the worst thing that can happen?"

"He could hate your guts for the rest of eternity."

Ilia turned so quickly to find the source of the voice that she felt her neck crack and she found a smiling Colin.

"Hey Colin, what're you doing out here?"

"I was just gonna ask you the same question, but to tell you the truth, I have no idea why I'm out here. I was sleeping beside Link and the next thing I knew, I'm sitting beside Epona on a huge mount of hay."

"Why were you sleeping beside Link…?" she asked with a mischievous smile on her face.

"What do you… OH!" Colin face was flooded by bright pink, which Ilia seemed to notice. "I-I like Link but not in that way… I mean, I would never… How could you think

–"

Ilia burst into laughter.

"Colin, I was just kidding," she wiped a tear away.

"Oh… Heh… Never mind then!"

He forced an awkward chuckle and felt his face get even redder.

"So, what do you have to apologize for?" he asked, quickly changing the subject.

"You know Colin, it's as much of a mystery to me as to ending up sleeping in hay. I'm actually starting to feel worried about him. He's been so jumpy and…" she inhaled deeply, "I truly think that he's, well… depressed to say the least, but I don't know about what."

Colin thought about her last words for a second. He had noticed that Link did not look nearly as cheerful as he used to be also. Considering how well he knew him, it had to be something that troubled him greatly to make him depressed.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sure he's just over working too much."

Ilia nodded and Colin turned around to go home.

"Oh, and Ilia," he said as he looked at her one last time, "Don't go thinking that it's your fault. 'Night."

He waved and then she watched him disappear into the darkness. She sighed and prepared herself to knock on the door, thinking of the best way to say sorry.

"So, how'd you get here? The mirror was destroyed years ago and I've searched every square inch of Hyrule and some areas of other lands."

"Huh? Oh, well of course you didn't find anything 'cause you didn't know what to look for."

Link fell silent. Now that he thought about it, Cassil was right. Is there even another mirror?

"Ya would have looked forever 'cause there are only two mirrors, including the one that was destroyed, and the other's location is a mystery to everybody, even it's creator."

"Who's the creator? Maybe we can ask him something that might be useful."

"There's no point there, I've already asked Mum many times. She said that she couldn't find it no matter what."

"But how can she lose something so big?"

He asks a lot of questions… "Well, from what the guards have told me, when she left the Twilight Realm years ago to find you, the beast that would save the kingdom, she brought it with her just in case she could not find all of the shards and while she was teleporting through our worlds, something attacked her and she dropped it. When I asked her where she thought it was, she told me that she swore that it fell into a temple, but when she went back, she never saw it again."

"Okay, but that still doesn't explain how you got here."

"Us Twili can travel in time and space whenever we want thanks to our blood."

"Y-Your… What?"

Cassil laughed at the puzzled look on his father's face. That look reminded him of himself. We're more alike than I thought we would be, he thought.

"My blood," he continued, "The iron in our blood cells makes our bodies able to move through worlds without damaging our organs and such, but I'm not sure how it works completely. All I know is that you won't be able to unless you use a portal, like the Mirror."

"But the only other Mirror we know about has vanished."

"There ren't only Mirrors ya know, there are other things like this."

Cassil reached for his neck, grabbed what seemed to be a pendant and held it out so that Link could get a better look at it. It was made of the purest of white golds, so pure that it was almost as white as snow. Though it either had a pearly or silvery glow depending on the angle he looked at it. The front of it was inlaid with many different sizes of sapphires and one big emerald in the middle.

"Look at the sapphires closer."

Link did as his son told him and noticed that if he stared long enough at one of them, that it seemed as though he was gazing up at a starry sky.

"Mum did some magical thing on 'em so that when ya looked at 'em long enough, ya can see the whole Universe."

Link looked up at his son with curiosity-filled eyes.

"Don't ask me how she did it though 'cause she made this before I was born and –"

"Wait a sec," he interrupted, "Midna made this?"

"Yep, she sure did. Took her a whole week to finish it. She wanted it to be perfect and told me that she started making it barely a couple hours after the Mirror was destroyed."

"Huh, is that so…"

What he admired the most about the pendant was the details, it was, as Midna hoped it would be, perfect.

"Take me to the Twilight Realm." he commanded.

"Wait, wh-what? I… I can't do that, no. Sorry, no can do," the prince said as he shook his head violently.

"Why not? Did you honestly think that after all you've just told me that I wouldn't want to go her?!"

"Look dad," for some reason, Cassil suddenly looked frightened of his father, "I can't, not right now anyway 'cause of three reasons. For one, I've been here so long that it will a big enough of a pain going back by myself. Also, if a human wishes to travel through he worlds he or she needs a Key and a Teleporter."

"And why do we need two things?" he said still furious.

"Well, just the Teleporter, such as Mirrors and such won't activate on their own, you also need a Key, or in other words an Amulet."

Link processed all this new information then remembered the many times he had traveled through time and space with Midna… without an amulet. Cassil grinned then said,

"Heh, thought ya might notice that. Mum had her hair pin thing."

"I didn't even… Oh, right, you have mind reading powers… Forgot about that. What about it?"

"You know how I told you earlier that humans had to have a sacred object or place and an amulet to activate the portal? Well, mum never liked wearing jewelry around her neck, something to do with…" Cassil froze, he couldn't say it. It was too painful to even mention HIS name.

"Cassil, are you all right?" Link leaned towards his son and grabbed him by the shoulder , bringing him out of his horrible memories.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine." he stuttered.

"So, what is the third reason?" Link said in a softer voice.

"Well," he pause, as though it pained him to say the rest, "This is only recent, and also the reason why I came to you. We're at war."

Clx : So? How was it?
Amx : Please give her some reviews before she starts pouting, please.
Clx : Pouting isn't my thing.
Amx : Right, and torturing other people isn't mine.
Clx : Shut it . . . Speaking of reviews, if you just want to flame me, take a hik and get a life.
Amx : There's nothing to flame about yet.
Clx : People always find something to flame about.
Amx : Too true.