The day had been wonderful. Not a cloud in the sky, the slight breeze; that day in the early spring season could not have been better for him. He had his beautiful fiancé walking beside him and his future child resting inside her. She had needed this walk, too, because she had been bedridden with a cold for a while.

After walking for a while around the fresh, new garden, his fiancé suddenly stopped with her hand to her swollen stomach. Her smile changed to a panicked look. He looked to her with concern.

"What is it?"

She didn't respond immediately. Then she whispered, "Go get Impa."

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Please, get her now!"

Without wasting a breath, he ran out of the gardens and around the castle where they lived. His search for Impa, her caretaker, was quick. Once he spotted her typical Sheikah wear and alerted her to the situation, they hurried back to the gardens where his fiancé was sitting, whimpering in pain.

Impa rushed to her. "My princess, what is it?"

"It…it hurts. It hurts badly."

The Sheikah frowned. "Where does it hurt?"

The princess put her hand towards her lower stomach. "Is it…time?"

"I don't know." Impa helped her up. "But, just to be safe, let's get you laid down."

Once she had been laid down in her quarters, Impa immediately shooed him out. "I know you want to be with her, but in case it is time, you do not need to be in here."

He frowned. "I thought she wasn't due for another month."

"This happens sometimes with expecting mothers. Either way, this could be because she had been sick recently. For all we know, it could just be a false alarm."

He nodded with a sigh.

"Also, please let her father know about the situation." Impa shut the door. He stood there for a minute before doing what she asked.

"What do you mean, she might be giving birth?!"

He flinched at the king's shouting. "I'm just telling you what I was told."

The old king sighed with a slight disappointed tone to it. Even though he had approved the marriage of the two, even giving them his blessing, he wasn't exactly thrilled that his daughter had become pregnant before the actual marriage.

"Wait in your quarters, boy. I will go to her and see what is going on. After that, I will come get you and tell you the situation."

"But-"

"-No buts. Do as you're told."

After a while, he couldn't take it anymore. It seemed the king was never going to come. He walked out of his room and headed down the hall to hers. What he heard quickly worried him. His fiancé was screaming and he could hear Impa's voice giving her words of encouragement.

"I thought I told you to stay in your quarters." The king's voice startled him.

"I-I'm sorry, sir, but I couldn't. I just want to be there for her."

"I know you do, but the only thing we can do right now is wait. Impa is in there with her, along with a servant. She will be fine. As I said before, I will come get you. Now, go back." His stern face meant business.

He frowned and reluctantly did as he was told. He hated to just leave her alone, but he did not want to disobey the king.

After what had seemed like hours, there was a knock on his door. He rushed to it, thinking immediately it was the king coming to get him.

But it wasn't.

Instead, it was Impa, holding a bundle of blankets. He looked at it and saw a baby's head peeking out of the bundle.

"What? Why-"

"You need to leave," she said gravely. "Leave and take her to Kakariko Village."

"I'm confused."

A tear fell from her eye. "The princess…she didn't make it through the birth. The child here barely made it herself. If not taken to Kakariko immediately and shown to a woman named Impaz, she could die. Also, it would be best for the two of you to remain there and not return."

"But-"

Impa handed him the baby. "Go!" She dashed away.

Even though the sudden news filled him with distraught, again, he did as he was told and rushed out of the castles and to the stables, where his horse was. He then noticed the storm outside. It was pouring down rain with the occasional flash of lightning. The wind lashed around him fiercely as he mounted his horse and rode off through the now dark field.

As they sped towards the distant Kakariko Village, he held his daughter close, so the rain and the wind wouldn't get to her.

'How ironic,' he suddenly thought. 'I'm having to do the same exact thing my own mother did for me. Except this time, it's not the parent that's on the death bed.'

Once in Kakariko Village, he climbed off of his horse and called around for help. People peeked out of their houses and gave him curious glances. A tall and slightly balding man came up to him.

"What is it?" The man asked.

"I-I'm looking for someone named Impaz. I was sent…" He quickly decided to not mention that he was from the castle. "I was told that she would help my-my daughter."

The man nodded. "There's a woman here with that name. I'll take you to her."

They hurried through the village to a house near a set of stairs. The man knocked on the door and a very short woman with light brown hair opened the door. Her crimson colored eyes immediately gave away the fact that she was a Sheikah.

"Ollie? What is it? And why are you out in this weather?"

"This man here was looking for you. He was told that you can help his daughter."

She looked at the soaking wet father holding the baby. "Well, don't just stand out there! Come in!"

He walked into the house. The man who led him here did not come in. The house was nice and cozy on the inside, but he didn't spend his time thinking about that.

"Let me see her," Impaz said quietly, and he reluctantly handed the baby over. She took her and laid her out on a nearby chair.

"So, who told you to find me?" She asked.

With hesitation, he answered, "Impa."

"That's what I thought. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here right now."

"What do you mean?"

"I am a healer and have expertise in things not even the castle doctors understand. Though, Impa and the residents here in Kakariko are the only ones who really know about it. Before you ask, I don't work at the castle because I hate how they run things there." She eyeballed him. "Enough about me. I need to get to work here." She turned her attention back to the baby. "I have a suspicion, but answer this first. Was she crying when she was born?"

He shrugged. "I don't know."

"I see." She sighed. "It's so stupid how they won't allow the fathers to be with their wives during childbirth. Speaking of wives, where is her mother?"

He didn't respond. Instead, he looked to the ground. She took his silence for an answer.

"I am terribly sorry. Forget I asked."

He sighed. "No, you should-"

"Sh." She hushed him and had her ear to the baby's chest. "She's breathing and she has a heartbeat, but something is weird about it. Her breaths are not…how do I put it…regular. Was she born ahead of time?"

He nodded.

"Then it makes sense. Her lungs might not be completely developed. What I can do from here is just aid her breathing process, but that's it. It will take a while for her breathing to become normal. Though, because of this, she might have asthma."

"What is asthma?"

"It's basically where a person has difficulty breathing because their lungs sometimes just…don't work. When that happens, they have what's called an asthma attack. I can only hope she doesn't get it, though, because most people don't survive those."

Her telling him that did not make him feel any better about the situation.

"Anyway, what are your plans for after she gets better?"

He sighed. "I don't have any."

"You're not going back to the castle?"

He shook his head. "I…I can't."

"Can't?"

"When Impa told me to come here, she told me to not return."

Impaz frowned. "I'm missing out on something important here, aren't I? That's unlike her to just kick someone out the castle. What did you do?"

He avoided her gaze. He didn't even know what he did, but a thought ran through his mind.

"It's my fault she's dead…" He muttered.

"What? Who died?"

After a moment of silence, he whispered, "Zelda."

Impaz's eye's widened. "Well, I figured you were from the castle, but I didn't think…I wasn't even aware the princess was married."

"We weren't."

"…Oh. I understand. And you can't go back? Do you know why?"

He shook his head. "But, either way, it's my fault. I did that to her."

She walked over to him. "Now, you listen to me, young man. Don't you ever blame yourself for what happened today."

"How can I not? After all, if it weren't for me, she wouldn't be dead."

"Again, do not blame yourself! If it was her time to go, then it was her time to go. Maybe it was the childbirth that was the marker of that time. And since you have nowhere to go, you're going to stay here, and while you are under this roof, you will not blame yourself. Do you understand me?"

He was shocked by the sudden outburst of the small woman. "I-I understand."

"Now, young man, since you are staying here, I believe I don't know your name or who you are."

He sighed. "My name is Link, and I am…well, was, a personal knight to Princess Zelda."

"A personal knight, you say? You look a bit young to be a knight. How old are you?"

He thought about it for a moment. Since he didn't know either of his parents and grew up in a forest, he never did learn his exact birthday. "Around nineteen," he guessed.

"Huh." She shrugged. "Well, Link, I am Impaz, as you already know, and I was once a Sheikah healer. I am still that, in a way, but no longer part of the tribe. What about your daughter? Have you named her yet?"

He shook his head.

"Have you thought of names?"

He shrugged.

She just shook her head and walked back to the baby, who had not made a noise yet. She seemed to be sleeping if anything. Impaz picked her up and handed her back to her father.

"Lucky for you, I have a couple of spare bedrooms that you can stay in. One is down the hall there and on the right. Keep an eye on her, and if you feel anything is wrong, come get me. My bedroom is across from yours."

The night had gone well for the baby, but Link did not get any sleep. He stayed up all night, worried for his daughter's life. Impaz knocked on his door in the morning and noticed his tiredness, then told him to get some sleep, taking the baby off the bed.

"Did she cry at all?"

He shook his head.

"That's strange. Well, I went and bought some milk and borrowed a few bottles from a neighbor. They have a daughter who's a year old, so they could spare them."

Suddenly, they heard the typical coos of a baby. The tiny girl had finally started to make some noises, though it wasn't crying. Her eyes were open as well, and they were the most beautiful color of blue.

"Look, Link. She's opened her eyes."

He looked at her and smiled. "They're the same color as her mother's." Then he suddenly frowned. "Just like…her mother's."

"They're the same color as sapphires."

"Sapphire…" The name rolled off his tongue easily. "I like that. Sapphire. That's her name."

"It is a beautiful name. How about a middle one as well?"

He thought for a moment. "Well, we had thought of a girl's name if the child ended up as a girl, and it was Amelia."

"Then Sapphire Amelia." She looked up at him. "I wouldn't bother with the last name, though I'm sure you already know what it is. Around here, people don't bother with last names. That's more of a Castle Town and royal family thing."

"Sapphire Amelia…" He smiled again. "Sapphire Amelia."

It seemed like the girl wouldn't stop growing up to him. Though it took him a while to finally start getting out and about, he tried to be as interactive with her as possible. She easily made friends with the other two children of the village that were the closest to her age. One was Bethany, the red-headed daughter of the family Impaz had borrowed the bottles from. Another was Rico, who was the oldest of the three, being three and a half years older than Sapphire. Both children had parents who were merchants, so they often traveled to Castle Town, leaving Sapphire alone some days. Those days, he would take her out to the field and she would play with the butterflies and in the river near the village. One time, she had asked about "the huge house a ways down the river", in which she had meant the castle.

"That's where the king lives," he had answered, and just left it at that. Sometimes, she would ask to go to Castle Town with her friends, but he would always say no. He once thought that the king would see her there and want to take her away from him, and that one thought had set his mind on not letting her go there.

Because he had a picture of him and his late fiancé that had been tucked into a pocket of the outfit he had worn when he first arrived, just looking at it and his daughter brought back memories of his beloved. She had the same color hair, same color eyes, and had a very similar personality. She had his face, though, and an interest in fighting. She had once asked for sword lessons, but he refused until she was older, due to the worry of her having asthma. She was also left handed, like him, and loved the sense of adventure. There was no doubt that she was his daughter.

But, at the same time, she was also daughter of Zelda.

She had once asked about her mother, but he just shook his head and said it was a story for another time. It was too tough of a subject to talk about for him. However, when asked about his past, he told her everything, excluding the time he was in the castle. She loved hearing stories of his adventuring days.

One day, however, she decided to make up a game based on his adventures with her friends, even though they had no clue where she had gotten the idea, when she was around eight. She started playing a little too hard and suddenly just collapsed and had difficulty breathing. Rico had run to get Link and Impaz for help, and as it turned out, Sapphire had an asthma attack. Though she ended up fine afterwards, she wasn't allowed to overwork or completely tire herself out. Because of that, she went behind his back with her friends and trained herself to have better air support so she would be able to breathe better. He was furious when he first found out, terrified that she could have had another attack, but he realized how much good it did for her, and then started to teach her the art of the sword. He even started asking Rico's and Bethany's parents to bring back some metal from Castle Town so he could make swords in the abandoned barn across from their house.

Life became really good for them. He sometimes wondered what it would have been like if they had stayed in the castle, but he was happy here in the country village. However, he couldn't shake the feeling of foreboding lately. Sapphire was now fifteen, and would be turning sixteen in a couple of days. Though he was excited for her birthday, he felt that something was going to happen, and that it was going to happen very soon.