Dis: I don't own any Zelda stuff.

This is during Twilight Princess.

Three

Ch 2-Arrival

Two days after Ganondorf was killed and the twilight mirror's destruction, Link, Zelda, Midna and everyone else shifted back mostly into their normal lives. No one knew what was going on with Midna, but Zelda was sure she was going about her duties as princess of her realm.

The green clad hylian had even switched back into his Ordon outfit with the single sleeve and was back to helping with the ranch. Also, when he had time, playing games with the village's kids. He didn't have the master sword now, since there wasn't a big threat anymore, so it was put back in the stone it came from. Because it was so normal again, his yawns spoke to how boring he considered it.

"Link, I know it's not as exciting as beating those green things on the pigs, but you promised to play with us now." Talo spoke at the same instant he swung the well detailed wooden sword at the scarecrow next to Link's tree home.

The sword swinging boy didn't hear the sigh that the other three kids heard when the hero thought about it. "I know, but...what can I say, I got to fight monsters. Big ones." He was staring at the clouds, or maybe through them.

"Yeah, you were so cool chasing those green guys on Epona." Beth nearly squealed, as per her old character, before her slight crush on Colin. Now that she was crushing on someone who was actually her age, she was much shyer about it. Colin was too.

He smiled and Colin decided to take his turn attacking the scarecrow. The boy was actually getting good. He glanced up at his house, at least he still had all the items from those dungeons. "The days just seem boring now."

Beth snuck to his side and hunched her head forward with a grin. "You do know that Ilia still watches you, don't you?"

The older boy's face reddened with that thought and some embarrassment. "I...uh, forgot actually." All the kids except the baby, Malo, started laughing at Link's expense.

In Hyrule's castle...

The princess sat at a throne in a large room that at least wasn't full of shadow beasts this time, but the fact that the one other throne was empty still made her uneasy.

Her feelings were made stronger by the castle steward's approach. He was an already thin old man with long eyebrows and deep-set eyes. His voice almost quivered with his age. "Your highness, you have the ability to rise to queen now, why do you not take that?"

Her eyes shifted from the thinning old man to the empty chair at her side for a moment. "I do not believe it would be good for the people for too much change to pass so quickly."

Zelda paused before finding the will to say the next part. "And I am not fully comfortable in that my father's seat is now empty."

The old man's gray eyebrows seemed to hang out in a vaguely questioning, yet understanding, expression. His hunched back lurched forward a step. "Thoughtful desicion, your highness, and if I may..."

She nodded in signal to continue, and he bowed his head. "Thank you. I would tell the people about Zant and Ganondorf to reassure them of you being trustworthy and on top of things."

"Good advice, I'll take it into consideration." The princess spoke and signaled that he could go. She didn't mean to seem so bluntly spoken, her thoughts were just too much at points. Her eyes drifted to the carpeted floor when she fell into her thoughts.

It was only a few seconds when she realized only her, Link, and Midna knew Zant and Ganondorf's names, but the steward was gone.

In an unknown outer realm...

The red-haired goddess stood outside the house belonging to her and the two sisters. The outside was nothing more than black skies with stars so far away that whole galaxies were visible as whirlpools of color. The ground she and the house stood on had bright violet grass and the trees were generally violet-leafed with silver bark, though they could change any of it when they felt like it.

The spot Din now stood at was a hole in the ground that opened up into rainbows. Sometimes the rainbows would shape into images of places, and the three would use the pool as a gateway to these places. It was how they traveled to different planets quickly.

"Din, you can't go there. You'll unbalance things again."

She didn't turn this time, knowing who spoke and beginning to get annoyed with the tone. "Not even trying to hide that I apparently made a mistake, are you?" Instead of feeling frustrated this time, a thin smile appeared on her.

Nayru was a few feet away from her, staring at Din who stared at the portal. "What do you expect? Farore isn't one for conflict, and I am the one to keep order, so of course it's me talking to you now."

"Then I'm surprised you didn't notice I've already unbalanced things." She turned her red eyes against her, then fell through the hole. Nayru didn't physically try to stop her, knowing she would leave, but she felt sad all the same.

The beginning of the portal was energy, all light. Then, through the blast of light and force, the red goddess fell through the portal's gateway back into the cold of space, with a world under her. It was the planet that Hyrule sat on. Not needing to breathe, she let that thing Nayru invented, gravity, begin to pull her down. Eventually, heat and resistance erupted against her when she hit the atmosphere. For her, though, the heat was nice.

Not even the air and heat bothered her nor hindered her vision, and she continued falling as the warmth left and the clouds constantly hit her. Her height quickly shrank and Din spun herself onto her back, staring up at the sky as it got farther away. The clouds also seemed farther and farther away until, abruptly, she stopped. It was the ground that stopped her, but she fell into it like a meteor. Destruction attacked her ears and dust blasted into the air.

Smiling, she decided to take a nap in the ground she created for a while.

In Ordon...

Everyone in the village had heard something explode into the sky and crash down somewhere in the fields around the castle's town. It was something so strange that everyone thought they felt a small amount of heat wash over them. Link volunteered first and got any weapons together he thought he'd need, before riding away on Epona. The kids wanted to follow, but he didn't give them the chance.

Rushing past the trees and dragging her hooves through the grass, the white maned horse flew out from the woods and into the southern field where the crash was heard. Epona already saw the source, but it took her rider an extra few seconds to notice it. He made the horse stop at the dust cloud.

Link slowly dismounted and unsheathed his plain old sword when his second foot left the stirrup. Once he had sword and shield ready, he stalked over to the collapsed part and now saw large chunks of earth pushed upward at the edges of the hole. He swung his shield around in front of him to fan the dust away.

A shape stood up in front of him and reflexes forced him to raise the blade, though he did lower it once he saw the shape looked human enough. It wasn't until it turned to him that Link raised the blade again, in reaction to the glowing red eyes and a white mark floating over them.

There was a swing of its arm, but the dust didn't clear. Instead, it settled back to the ground completely, revealing the red haired woman. She now had golden skin. He also noticed that she looked quite strong without taking away from her unnatural beauty that made her appear as royalty, or more. And her eyes that were previously glowing were that of dark rubies. Then he noticed the white mark on her forehead, a triangle.

Her flawless face shifted into a low frown that darkened his world, and she finally opened her mouth. "You're the one chosen by the green, aren't you?"

Link didn't know it, but he stepped back from the woman who seemed to be looking down on him. In fact, he forgot for a moment that she asked him a question. "I have the triforce belonging to the green goddess, if that's what you mean." His eyes thinned dangerously from worry. "Who are you?"

"Interesting." She lifted a sandalled foot from the rubble in a step toward him, "I sometimes forget you smaller beings can look so handsome. It's too bad you belong to my sister."

"Sister?" When it hit him, his expression vanished in sheer surprise and a little fear. He even stepped back four more steps and nearly dropped his sword shaking. "I...you, I'm sorry. I know who you are."

She was a little surprised to see him turn his eyes away. "Respectful, are we? Then tell me, why did you kill my chosen?!"

The ground shook and a shocked gasp escaped him. Everything stilled in the next second. "What do you mean? He was evil and hurting too many people, so me and Zelda had to-"

"Zelda." The voice of the boy quieted when the goddess began. "That's the name of the other chosen." She gave him a threatening look and stepped off to the side. "Zelda and Link, picked by Nayru and Farore."

He lifted his eyes while she wasn't looking, trying not to focus so much on her beauty. Din turned her head casually back to the elven boy. "They speak of balance, but continuously give you and your princess advice through light spirits and sages. I've never spoken to Ganondorf, maybe that's why."

While he was listening, she wasn't actually speaking to him that time, just sounding out her thoughts. He took the courage to speak up. "He's dead though. He was evil."

"Dead? Well that's just another condition." Without warning, she walked up to him and wrapped an arm around the back of his neck to pull his face close. He almost couldn't handle being that close to a woman that flawless. "You will see me again."

Through his reddened face, he caught sight of a smile before she let go. Her feet rose off of the grass and she left the field through the air, like a living arrow, leaving Link with one thought in mind. He had to tell the princess.

In the desert...

After flying some distance and taking just a little pride in how she made the land, Din grinded her feet into the ground and came to a halt in the mirror chamber of the arbiter's grounds. There was something she knew was there, just under the black slab. After the mirror was destroyed and the slab made useless, it dropped back into the sand, burying who she knew had been hidden there.

She walked up to the slab and put a hand on it. "Hello, chosen."

End