Zelda's POV
Black. All I can see is black. I'm stuck, something on all sides of me, and I can't move a muscle. Whatever thing I was in shifted, and I felt it trying to escape. I used the little power I had left to keep it here, to keep it from escaping.
It made a noise like a mix between a roar and a gurgle as I moaned in an attempt to keep it here. Then suddenly I felt a shooting pain in my side, it felt like I was being stabbed. I screamed, as the feeling moved to my entire body. Then it popped, and I fell to the ground. Out of the bubble that was preventing me from moving, I fell. I hit the ground hard, looked up, and there it was.
The giant creature was covered in malice, and looked like a mix between a spider and a praying mantis. Just like Ganon had always looked.
It raised its sword, and brought it down on me.
I woke up screaming, and in a cold sweat.
Link was the first to calm me down. "Shhhhh. It's okay princess. I'm here."
Dang it. Why'd he have to be so caring and kind all the time?
"Li-Link?" I asked.
"Yeah princess," he said. "It's me."
"I thought I told you to call me Zelda?" I said in an attempt to lighten the mood.
He smiled a small smile as he looked down at me. "Yeah, I guess you did."
We were staying the night at the Woodland Stable, which meant we were close to Zora's Domain. Link had spent a lot of time there during his journey, so he probably knew everyone. I thought he was looking forward to the trip.
Once I calmed down, Link stood up to go back to his bad. "No wait," I said, reaching out to grab his wrist. "Stay." I was blushing heavily, but he couldn't see that in the dark
He nodded. "Okay, Zelda."
And we fell back asleep like that, two people in a one person bed. I didn't have anymore nightmares that night.
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Link's POV
We woke up, and got on the road immediately. We got a couple odd looks from the people that were also staying in the stable that night, but we ignored them.
I had broken my protocol, but I didn't care anymore. Who was going to yell at me, the king?
I wasn't looking forward to going back to Zora's Domain, but whatever Zelda wanted to do, I would do. Everyone in that town knew that Mipha loved me, knew that she planned to marry me. And they hated me for it. Because I loved, and still do love, the princess that sent her to her death.
I know Zelda blames herself. I know she thinks it's her fault. But I don't. I blame Ganon, who's the real cause of this whole mess.
Every night, more memories come back to me in my dreams. For example, I remembered how sleeping with the princess you swore to protect, is against the protocol I trained to follow my whole life.
I was already awake when Zelda started screaming, awake from one of my own night terrors.
I was thinking about all this when I looked up and saw him. A man, hunched over and crying on the side of the road to Zora's Domain. Oh no, I thought, a Yiga foot soldier.
I steered Zelda away from him, hoping she wouldn't see him. She was so kind, I knew she'd want to talk to him. I had been just like her once.
"What's wrong with that man?" She said, rather loudly.
"Just keep walking Zelda." I said. "Just keep waking."
"Why? Let's go see what's wrong."
"No, Zelda. Trust me on this one." I shot her a serious look, and she looked confused but nodded.
We kept walking, and we made it past the foot soldier. I thought we would be fine, and that we had got let off easily, but then I heard a voice.
"Thought you could get away that easily, did you?" Yes, I though, Yes I did.
The Yiga foot soldier transformed into its uniform in a poof of smoke, and I immediately drew the Master Sword and stepped in front of Zelda.
These things were pretty easy to beat, so I figured it would be an easy fight.
Boy was I wrong.
It saw me stepping in front of the princess, and realized who it was. I charged for it at the same time it disappeared in a poof of smoke, and reappeared right in front of the princess.
It raised its vicious sickle, I stepped in front of it, and stabbed it with the Master Sword.
It disappeared in the same poof of smoke they always do.
But this time, it had gotten me. I collapsed on the ground, and the last thing I saw before I passed out was the beautiful face of Princess Zelda.
Zelda's POV
As soon as Link hit the ground, I was on the ground with him, kneeling by his side.
"Link!" I shouted. "Link! Are you okay?"
He responded with a moan.
"Link! Link, please!" Tears we're starting to run down my face. There was a deep gash on his stomach, and it was bleeding a lot.
I grabbed his wrist, and checked for a pulse. It was there, beating steadily.
Then it stopped.
"Li.-Link?" I asked in a shaky voice. "Link? Link! Wake up!"
I felt his pulse again, and there still wasn't anything.
The tears were running steadily down my face now. I buried my face into his chest and cried, hoping desperately that I would feel a heartbeat.
"Link," I said, lifting my face from his chest. "Link wake up. You-you have to wake up. You have to wake up because I-I love you Link. I love you." My voice choked on the last words, and for some reason, I thought that me saying that would wake him up. Would make him come back.
Then I heard an oh-so-familiar voice, one that I hadn't heard in over one hundred years.
"Mipha's Grace is ready."
Link's eyes shot open, and he sat up abruptly.
"It was my pleasure." Said the voice of my old friend.
Link gasped as he clutched his stomach where the wound had been, as it started to heal.
"Link!" I exclaimed, and through my arms around him. "I, I thought I had lost you."
He wrapped his arms around me, and said "You'll never really loose me, Zelda."
Then I couldn't take it anymore. I removed my arms from his shoulders, and planted my lips on his.
Link's POV
"I love you, Link." Said Zelda, after kissing me straight on the lips. "I've loved you for a hundred years."
I looked at her, shocked this could even be happening. She was blushing, but otherwise her face was completely serious.
Time to break protocol agian.
I kissed her, and she seemed shocked before she started kissing back.
"I love you too, princess."
