(Author's notes) Hi guys this is my first story and I hope you like it! Oh and things written in italics (like this) are flashbacks of previous things that have happened and things Link and Zelda have said.

Our Love Is Strong

Chapter 1, the first time I saw you

It was early in the morning in Hyrule where the lovely Princess Zelda woke up to start her daily routine, but today was a very special day in fact. Zelda finally gets to meet The Hero of Time, yes Link was returning to Hyrule from saving Clock town from the strange imp who had stolen the Majora's Mask from the Happy Mask Salesman. The strange imp took the mask without thinking before doing and he paid the price because that mask was way too powerful and it had overtaken the body of the imp using him as what you could call a puppet. Link had destroyed the Majora's Wrath and had decided to return home after his first adventure after defeating Ganondorf when he threatened to take over Hyrule and the legendary, sacred Triforce. Zelda did not want to return Link back in time to the way everything was supposed to be but she had to, and with that she did, setting Link to depart on a new quest, one with some odd battles in store for him. Link got lucky with that quest as he came close to being squashed by a giant, ugly moon, luckily he retrieved the Ocarina of Time from the imp and played the song of time to return to his first day in Clock town, he then saw the poor salesman that had been robbed and as the salesman had said he would return Link to his normal state if he had retrieved his ocarina. Link was turned into a little deku scrub kid by the imp who had also stolen Epona, his horse.

"It's nearly time for you to see him, isn't it princess," Impa asked the eager princess. Zelda replied, "Well of course! He has to be here soon!" "Well I know how eager you are but if you wait he just might not come at the time you thought, and you know what they say, when you're not having fun time slows down, but when you have fun the time goes by in no time! So what I'm saying, is you should start off your normal day and try not to think about Link coming and he might come back a little quicker than you think," Impa told her. "Oh I know but… fine," Zelda did not want to leave her spot, she really missed Link as it had been 7 years since Link departed and she had recently received a letter from him stating that this day he would return. Zelda was fed up with all the princes that had been coming and going asking for her hand in marriage but Zelda turned them all down and said, "There's only one man that is truly worth asking for my hand in marriage," Zelda had said to all of them. Zelda was hoping that Link would ask her to marry him and she thought today would be the day, or even tonight, but she did not know. Impa finally broke the silence, "Anyway the king was expecting us to be down shortly for breakfast."

Zelda was then dressed and ready to start the day as she walked down with Impa to the dining room where breakfast had only been freshly laid. "Good morning father," Zelda said slightly shakily. Her father replied with a good morning and asked her a question, "He's coming home today isn't he?" All Zelda could do was nod in clouds of thoughts. Soon Zelda had finished and asked to be excused. Her father allowed her to because it gave King Gaepora and Impa some time to talk about matters of Hyrule. Zelda walked down into the main courtyard where Link had asked her to be. It was the same place they had met when Link had started to get serious about collecting the Spiritual Stones and awaken all of the Sages and stop Ganondorf from destroying Hyrule and the Triforce. Zelda brought the letter down with her as she felt a strange feeling inside of her and she needed to reread the letter a few more times to understand a few things.

Dear Zelda,

I am writing to let you know I will be coming home. Tomorrow around midday meet me in the main courtyard where we first met. I need to speak to you urgently about something. I know how excited you would be feeling about me returning, but I know you and you would also be feeling scared in a way. Do not worry about me as I can assure you I had a lot of rest before I started riding home. So please do not worry too much.

Yours,

Link

Zelda did not worry after reading it the third time through, she did not worry about Link anymore. She knew he was okay and not to worry so she waited and waited until it was nearly midday. Net minute she heard the clock strike twelve and next thing she saw was Link coming through the door into the courtyard. Zelda knew that when Link wanted to come at a specific time he would. Zelda was so excited she could barely say his name, "Link! I should have known you always come on time!" As Zelda said that she jumped up and hugged him. Then the king and Impa came down to greet Link as they heard from the guards he was back. "Ah I see you finally decided to come home! Later you should tell me all about it and I'm sure Zelda and Impa would love to hear what you did when you were away," King Gaepora said. Link replied, "Well of course I'm going to tell all about what happened!" "Well Impa and I better go sort out all these maps of Hyrule! They've been sitting there since you left as I needed them in search of a spot that Ganondorf could not reach," The king said. So Impa and Gaepora were off to the mapping room to do a hard day of sorting. When the coast was clear, Link and Zelda sat down. Link was trying to picture in his head what to say to Zelda. Nervously Zelda said, "What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" "Well I wanted to ask you a serious question," Link replied. "I wanted to ask if… if you knew how umm, I wanted to know exactly how King Gaepora would react if asked for your hand in marriage," Link stuttered a few times as he said that. Zelda was speechless, "Well I don't know how he would react but he knows that it's nearly time for me to settle down and marry someone, but umm I think he wouldn't mind who it was unless they were willing to go out of their way to treat me with respect and love me for who I am." Link nodded knowing that he could treat Zelda with respect and love her for who she was very easily. So he asked Zelda his next question, "Well… Zelda, I wanted to ask you another question as well." "What," Zelda was thinking in her head exactly what this next question could be. "Well Zelda, as the Hero of Time and your best friend, I was wondering if I could have your hand in marriage," He asked. Zelda was very shocked at what he had just asked. "You, what! Well as my reply to what you just asked, of course I will marry you," Zelda had already had her answer as he was asking her.

(Author notes) And there's the end of chapter one! Hope you liked it and please review! I was only going to have 1000 words each chapter but I think that changed, a lot!

Thanks for reading,

Luvlinkxzelda!