Chapter 4: The Royal Crypt
The sun started to set, and rain began to fall. The sound of thunder began to draw nearer towards the entrance of Castle Town, and a team of eleven horses emerged galloping towards Kakariko village. The horses dashed up the ramp that led toward kakariko and hurried along as fast as they could. They didn't stop at the entrance of Kakariko, they just kept moving along, when they finally made it to the graveyard, the rain started slowing down. Link dismounted and the others getting the okay, dismounted as well. Link ran into the graveyard only to find dampe' the gravedigger lying face down in the dirt with a shovel lying next to him.
Albin ran up to him and picked his head up to make sure he was still alive, and exhaled with relief. Even though he had many scars on his face, Albin was certain he'd make it through.
Link walked throughout the graveyard to see what they were after.
"The Royal Crypt!" Link exclaimed as he ran up to the back of the graveyard while the ten knights followed him. Link looked into the crypt and heard only silence. "I'll go down there to see what they are doing."
"Wait, are you sure that's a good idea to go by yourself?" Albin asked him.
"I'll be fine, I know how to deal with thousands of rebels at once." Link said in a reassuring voice.
Link hesitated for a moment, then jumped down into the crypt out of sight to the guards. What he saw in there was most unexpected. There were bodies of rebels scattered around the room, and a faint moan coming from the next room. Link looked around to see if there was any movement. After checking, he climbed up out of the crypt. Albin and the other knights were eagerly waiting for his return as he came out.
"They're all dead, my guess is that it was the power of the crypt." Link told the eager knights. "Only members of the Royal family are supposed to have access to this tomb, and if someone were to break in, they would be struck down"
"I should keep that in mind" one of the knights blaintly stated.
"What's your name?" Link asked him
"Keld's the name, I'm one of the more trained knights, I was lucky to be trained before the Academy burned down."
Link chuckled "Well, we need to head on back, looks like the rain is letting up, but the sun isn't getting any higher."
The men set out back to their horses. Once they were on, Link looked over at his house, and could see one last light go out inside. He smiled. Then they were off. They rode very slowly at this point, it was as if they were not in a hurry at all.
When they finally reached Castle Town, Keld spoke up. "No way." "We forgot to make a request to keep the gates open tonight, now they won't be open until morning."
"Come on, there is a good place to camp out, next to Lon Lon Ranch." Link told them.
They dismounted their horses and walked them over to the ranch. They walked the horses into the ranch as Albin went to go talk to the owner of the Ranch. Once they got signaled they dropped the horses off for the night.
Link led them to a stone wall that would give them shelter for the night. "Here we are." Link told them. "Start setting up the places that you want to sleep, and we need three people on guard at all times." It was confusion for the first part of the task, but later they had it all sorted out and Link started a fire for them.
"So, how do you know the Queen, Link?" Albin asked him.
"I guess it will be alright to fill all of you in on the details." all of the men moved closer to hear what he had to say. "About 10 years ago, I was trained in the Academy, much like Keld over there, but I was the top swordsman of the academy, but I was flawless at everything else as well, I could shoot an arrow from a bow and hit a target with ease, but there was also another person that was flawless in this sense. Hyral, or as she's known today, Zelda. Zelda specialized in archery and I specialized in Swordsmanship, but we were both the top at everything else as well." he continued on, "Eventually, we both received the gold award, and she was recognized by the King, and got married to him. Fortunately for me, I found someone else as well, and to this day, I am happy with both of our decisions."
"You found your wife, what is her name?" One of the knights asked him.
"It's a little long, but her name is Navilious Ashrouda Veruda Incarnell." Link replied.
"Wait a minute," Keld interrupted, "I thought you went through the best training that anyone could ever get, not just at the academy."
"I did, but you wouldn't want to hear about that, would you." All of the knights nodded in agreement. "Okay, I'll start with my training in the Zora training ground."