The Sound of Seagulls
Greetings! I present the final installment to myself proclaimed trilogy. If you have not already read The Taste of Peached or The Scent of Honeysuckle you may want to check those out before reading this one, but it's your choice. Rated M for a reason!! Hope you enjoy the final installment.
I do not own The legend of Zelda or anything related to it.
It had truly been one of the biggest days in Hyrule's history. The central market place had been covered in swags of gold and filled with honeysuckle and calla lilies. In fact, the palace and the town surrounding it had never looked more perfect. Link and Zelda were making their way down the hall exhausted for the most part. They had just left their reception and after talking to 219 guests anyone would be exhausted. Of course, Impa had alternated today between bawling her eyes out and laughing happily. It was a good thing she had Farbis to constantly hand her a tissue.
"Wow…we have a lot of thank you notes to write next week. So many stamps….poor mailman…and we were friends too." Link said as he and Zelda made their way toward her room.
"We're the lucky ones. We're going to write thank you notes. There are people in the kitchen washing dishes Link…they will certainly be in there until noon tomorrow." Zelda told him laughing.
"Ooooh…you're right….should we help them or something?" Link wondered.
"Normally, I would say yes…but I'm reeeeally selfish right now." Zelda said opening her door.
"Oh my god…." Link said mortified by the sight in Zelda's room. He had clearly told Rusl to leave all of his things in the boxes…well….nothing was in the boxes. Instead, Zelda's room looked like a small tornado had passed through it sometime before the ceremony and during the reception. There was stuff everywhere…you could barely walk to the bathroom without tripping over something. "I'm going to have to kill Rusl…I told him…leave it in the boxes! That's not in the boxes! And look! He brought furniture from my house! I told him not to bring any of that stuff! Oooh, this is awful." Zelda felt Link's head clunk into her. She sighed.
"You know, I don't think Rusl did this….well maybe the furniture part but I think whoever helped Rusl unpacked the boxes took the liberty of taking all your stuff out of them.
"Look at that stack of books, I didn't want those! Those books are so stupid!" Link said slamming his head on Zelda's shoulder.
"Don't worry about that, you can just give them to Shad when we come back, he'll love them." Zelda said. Link wrapped his arms around her waist which was a challenge considering Zelda's breath taking ivory gown consumed the whole doorway.
"Speaking of Shad…did you see the look on his face when he hugged you today? He was obviously way too horny; that has to be why his hands were shaking. I mean your shoulders are bare and everything. If I were Shad and I had loved you forever I would have been shaking too." Link told her referring to the fact that Zelda's gown was strapless.
"Link…you nearly fainted today when daddy started down the aisle with me." Zelda said laughing and reminding him that that was way more dramatic than Shad's shaking hands.
"I know! I just wasn't expecting you to literally look like a princess. A bride has never before and never will look the way you did today. I mean look at you! This has to be the most beautiful gown in the world! It's a good thing Rusl caught me…I would have wrinkled this shirt and I would most likely have a concussion right now." Link said. Link was right the bodice of Zelda's gown was beautiful with its golden brocade adorning it and the golden embroidery that lined the edge of the ball style gown. As for Link, he had never before in his life looked more handsome in black and gold. The two of them reluctantly entered Zelda's disaster of a room. Zelda pulled up the layers and layers of tulle that adorned her so she could step over all the stuff in the floor and sit on the edge of her bed. Link joined her noticing his clothes everywhere behind him.
"Link…do you realize that it's 2:15 in the morning and we have absolutely nothing packed for our trip to the coast that we're supposed to leave for in less than twelve hours?" Zelda said putting her head on Link's shoulder.
"Zelda…we don't even know where our suitcase is in the midst of all this. How, how, how are we going to get all this cleaned up tonight?" Link wondered. He hated messes like this, everything was so unorganized and thrown everywhere. Link put his arm around her waist.
"I wasn't tired until I sat down here. Now I'm feeling all relaxed and completely overwhelmed by everything in here." Zelda said smiling.
"And I'm still completely wired from our unbelievable wedding. It was…it was really incredible." Link said.
"You'll be asleep the minute your head hits the pillow….that is if we can ever find it. But for now, we have to pack Link we just have to. Even though that is the last thing I want to do." Zelda said.
"As my wife you are exactly right. I want to change first though and since all my clothes are conveniently located behind me that shouldn't be a problem." Link said. Just as Link began to search the pile behind him there was a faint knock at the door. "Come in." Link called to whoever it was. It was none other than Impa, still clad in her dress. She had spent the entire day alternating between sobbing uncontrollably and smiling to the point her cheeks were sore. It was a good thing she would be soon retiring to her room with Farbis so she could deal with the days events by unloading on him.
"Hi, I'm sorry to bother you. I just….oh my... this place is a mess." Impa said looking around the room. Link smiled at her.
"Yeah….we've….got a bit of a problem here and we can't find out suitcase either." Impa watched as Link kissed Zelda on the head. It was the first time she had ever seen him kiss her aside from earlier that day on the alter.
"You mean you're not packed!? You're leaving in…well not long from now and you have nothing packed?" Impa sounded surprised.
"We're trying to Impa, I was about to ask Link to untie me back here. We want to change first." Zelda said. Impa seemed a bit shocked at the fact that Link may dare put his hands on her little girl and loosen that beautiful bodice. But then she remembered….he was her husband….her husband! The roles had completely changed.
"Yeah, I can untie you let me just…" Link stopped mid sentence as he looked at the elaborate crisscrossing of the ribbon that laced her up. "Oh my god…it's like a fortress back here Zelda…I don't' even know where to start. I couldn't get you out of this if you were on fire." Link said laughing at her. Impa was delighted mainly because she was the one that got to free Zelda from her bodice. But as she moved over the piles of stuff she realized something…Link had shed everything from waist up and was digging through his own clothes to find something to change into and he wasn't leaving the room for Impa to begin to untie Zelda…that's right they were married. Impa kept forgetting that little part.
"Stand up honey." Impa instructed Zelda. Zelda turned around as Impa began to loosen the first crossings of the ribbon at the bottom of the bodice.
"Impa, I think we have more of a problem here than Link's stuff just being all over the place. It all won't fit in here." Zelda said.
"You're kicking me out aren't you? I'm going to have to live in the crawl space outside." Link said jokingly.
"I'm not going to be one of those wives who says to their husband 'oh keep all your crap in boxes in the dirty spare room down the hall'. You know? I've known wives like that!" Zelda said.
"You know Zelda, you two could have the master bedroom toward the courtyard. It needs new windows, a fresh coat of paint and the floors are a bit scratched up in there because no one has used it in so long but it's nothing that couldn't' be ready by the time the two of you return to the coast." Impa said still unlacing Zelda.
"Really!? The master!? We could have the master bedroom? The one with the double doors and the bathroom with the tub and….the patio off the back!?" Zelda said getting excited over the fact that there was a solution to this problem.
"There's no reason you couldn't, honey. I'll tell your father and tomorrow after you two leave we will begin moving everything there." Impa said.
"There we go Zelda, problem solved. Now we'll just sleep in my clothes tonight and hope we don't break a leg if either of us gets up in the middle of the night." Link said finally finding the pants he wanted after searching that stupid pile all over. Impa laughed.
"Stay in the study tonight. There's only a daybed in there and it smells like old books but it will do for tonight. Take the pillows off this bed and the blanket if you can find it and stay there tonight." Impa said.
"We could open the windows…it would smell less…bookish." Zelda said. Link had managed to find their suit case and he began just throwing stuff in it.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa you don't want to take that do you?" Zelda said looking at Link's haphazard packing style.
"At this point Zelda, my method is throw it in and zip it up. If we get to the coast and we don't have something then we don't have it and we'll have to get it there." Link said looking at the poorly packed items.
"I love you…but you just threw a cashmere sweater in there…it's an average of 88 degrees on the coast." Zelda said as she felt her bodice come loose from her.
"Craaaaap! I'm going to have to think about this!" Link said discouraged. Impa, still protecting Zelda's modesty had kept her now free bodice close to her bare back.
"Alright, it's loose now what do you want to put on?" Zelda looked around and wondered if she had left anything on the floor from that morning. But then, she caught sight of it…in the middle of Link's pile of clothes.
"See that light blue robe? I'll take that…it'll be just fine." Zelda said as Impa reached for it and wrapped it around Zelda's shoulders. It somehow looked much less innocent when worn with a new wedding band.