It was nine o'clock in the morning, the sun shining brightly above the hills of Ordon Link's hawk dwelt about. Three women in the mayor's daughter's house were having goat milk and bread with butter, while looking at a black haired warrior sleeping on the floor, who was producing a terribly loud snore.
"Wow, she must get tired really easily…" Ilia said.
"Yeah, well, yelling on a daily basis for half an hour each time can be quite tiring, honey." Telma replied.
"By the way, your highness, I ran into Link when I went to the food shack for butter. He told me he needed to speak with you." Ilia said while looking in Zelda's direction.
"Excellent, I also need to speak with him about an urgent matter. Is he at his home right now, or has he headed for work?"
"He's in Faron Woods with my father, Rusl and the boys, hunting."
"Very well, I shall go meet them then. I do have a horse, but I don't think that going into the forest in a dress is a good idea. Do you mind if I borrow a pair of trousers of yours?" The princess asked while looking at the direction of a closet.
"Of course not."
Zelda, after a quarter of an hour, managed to convince her friends that it would be better to go alone, and was riding in Ordon Woods. While passing by Ordona's spring, she felt a curious presence. She stopped her horse, and went into the spring. Everything looked normal. The usual small rainbow had both its ends in the spring's water and the rocks and waterfall had a peculiar, serene glow to them, as always. Zelda stayed there, unaware she was staring at the usual spot Ordona would appear, even though she had never encountered him there, and after a few minutes got back on her horse and continued to move. A black hole with dark, red lines suddenly appeared on the sky. A Twilight Portal. Black squares came out of it, creating the shape of a young man with blood red eyes. Next to him was a blonde girl, looking at him with a loving look.
"My love, what of our dear princess?" The young man asked.
"His prediction was correct. Those three blabber-mouthed whores talked to her. She is planning to go meet the Zora Goddess, along with him."
"How very unfortunate. Maybe if those idiotic creatures had remained silent, their colleague would now have a tiny potential of surviving.
"How is your work going? Have you found the location of… It?"
"I am afraid that I still do not have enough pointers. If you keep a close eye on those two, as well as their moronic friends, potentially you'll hear something to help my attempts of finding it. Either wise, it is inevitable that they'll find it before we do. I'm terribly sorry, but I need to leave now." The young man said, while nodding towards the open Twilight Portal, and turning into black squares, and being sucked into the portal.
"Goodbye, my love." The young woman whispered, while looking at the portal disappearing.
Zelda managed to arrive to South Faron Woods after a few minutes, and started looking for the three men and children. After about fifteen minutes she ran into them a few meters from the gate to Hyrule Field, with a dead deer next to them tied to a very thin log.
"Lads!" Zelda shouted to the men and teenagers.
"Dude, she's a babe without that crown!" Talo whispered to Colin, causing Malo to roll his eyes in a mocking way.
"Talo, that's very degrading! "Colin replied.
"Sorry, Colin, I forgot you like Beth."
"I-um…" Colin tried to retort.
"Don't be stupid, Talo, Colin doesn't like Beth! "Malo suddenly said.
"Thank you, Malo! "The other male answered.
"He's obviously gay!" The thirteen- year old added, which made Talo burst into laughter and Colin cut a leg off of the deer and throw it at them.
"Your majesty! What are you doing out here?" Bo inquired.
"I once again need to talk with Link, in private."
"Ohhhh, in private! The princess's feeling a bit naughty!" Talo whispered to the boys.
"Have you ever heard that insulting the royal family can get you executed? Or if you're lucky, you could spend the rest of your life in the Hyrule Castle prison." Zelda stated quite amused. "Of course, you won't actually be lucky. There are rats, and lunatics, and pedophile rapists."
Talo stared at the princess terrified, making Colin laugh and throw a deer leg at him once again.
"Link, could you join me for a walk in the field?" Zelda questioned.
"Of course, your highness." Link replied in an extremely polite manner, which surprised Zelda, causing her to believe that the male was mocking her.
After the two chosen ones left the small group of men, and walked to the center of the field, they headed towards a large pine tree, seeking refuge from the hot sunshine under the shadow of its breezy leaves.
"Listen, before you say anything, I would just like to apologize for my awful manners yesterday. It's just that, lately, my mood's been going downhill, since it's almost the anniversary of… You know." The Ordonian explained himself, while attempting to hide a tear forming on his eyelid, ineffectively.
"I understand, even though I considered putting you in a jail cell with a pedophile rapist, just for laughs." Zelda replied with a faint smile, causing Link to laugh for the first time in quite some time. "Anyhow, this is not what I meant to talk to you about. It was something far more important. Last night, during my stay at your friend's Ilia's house, I had a quite interesting dream-no, more like a vision."
"Oh, really?" Link questioned in a tone that revealed his interest.
Zelda took his response as a sign to go on, and narrated her entire vision to him. Link heard every little bit of it with extreme attention, trying to understand the meaning of what the three women told her every time she paused to take a breath.
"I… I don't get any of this. I mean, what the hell was Zant doing in your dream? Midna killed him! Who were those three women? What did they mean with… pretty much anything they said?" The blonde man bombed the Hylian woman with questions.
"Please, do not try to rush to assumptions, Link, my friend. I have to admit, at first, I assumed that it was simply a dream, but ever since my childhood years, I have had quite a few prophetic dreams, the power blessed upon me by the Goddesses is most likely the cause."
"I've never heard of that before. Did you see any visions during my adventure?"
"Why, yes. Unfortunately, I was unable to talk to you about them since I was trapped in a tower, and our only opportunities of conversation were with you in your beast form. Never mind, we're forgetting our topic here. I also wanted to inform you that I had formed a theory of who the women in my dream where. I beli-"
"Hey, Link! We're going back! Move it or lose it!" Malo shouted.
"Fuck." Link whispered angrily. "IN A MINUTE! I'm sorry, Zelda, can we talk tonight, back at the village?"
"Of course, do not forget it." The princess replied, while Link was walking away from her, to the direction of Faron Woods.
"I suppose I should be heading back, as well, I need to talk to Shad." Zelda thought. The group of men, as well as Zelda, headed back to Ordon, arriving just in time for lunch.
The Hylian was pleasantly surprised that the sight of what lunch was like at the quiet rural village. Ten stilted tables had been set up next to each other, forming a round table of huge proportions. She felt content by the fact that what she was about to experience was exactly what she wished for as a little girl: A big table, with home-made food, a large family chatting and laughing, and then a walk by the river, in the countryside…
"Shut it, Zelda, you start sounding as if you were mentally challenged." The Hylian scolded herself.
"Your majesty, come sit here with us!"
Zelda turned around to see to whom that loud voice belonged to, and spotted six adult women and one teenage girl waving at her. More accurately, Ashei, Telma, Ilia, the woman who had greeted them upon their arrival to the village, and three more people she was not at all familiar with. She took a seat between Ashei and Telma, feeling secure for the first time after their arrival, and tried to find a topic for conversation, not wanting to seem unapproachable to the women of the village, but had her racing thoughts interrupted by the voice of one of the three adults whose names she was unaware of, the most young looking one.
"So, your majesty, would you like to tell us the reason of your visit? With all due respect, it was kind of… shocking to suddenly see the Princess of Hyrule in our humble village!"
"Well, you see, my dear…?" Zelda replied in a tone that seemed like she was asking the woman's name.
"Uli."
"Of course. You see, my dear Uli, we simply wanted to visit Ordon for the first time, since we hadn't seen Link in quiet some time."
"Didn't you already say that you needed to "talk to Link about an extremely urgent matter?" The teenage girl sitting next to Uli asked, mocking her slight accent, and causing Ilia to look at Zelda with a remarkably suspicious look on her face.
"No. No she didn't. She never did. You heard wrong. You ate too much goat cheese." Ashei nervously said, attempting to hide the truth from the meddlesome girl. "Shouldn't you drink some more beer?"
"I'm seventeen, I don't drink." The teenager replied.
"Even better, you'll get drunk more easily!" Ashei said, and slammed her glass of beer next to the girl, making a small crack on the oak table.
"Honey, she must really wanna help Link to give her beer to someone who isn't even gonna drink it." Telma whispered to Zelda's elfish ear, causing her to let out giggle, exceptionally girly for her tastes.
"…Anyway" Uli tried to continue their chit-chat and forget about the awkward moment. "If you feel uncomfortable, you're not compelled to tell us. After all, if we force you, we'll end up in Hyrule Castle Prison!" She retorted lightheartedly and laughed.
"Yeah, right, whatever. We had a big breakfast, so if you'll excuse us…" Ashei replied with an angry look, pulling Telma and Zelda from the wrist and leaving rapidly, with Louise walking behind them, and two more pets following her.
"Stop following me." Louise quickly turned around and told off the two animals.
"Why? Why just want to get to know you! We can only talk to squirrels, frogs, cuckoos, goats and horses 'round these parts! We'd like to meet a big city cat!" One of them, a thin cat, answered.
" 'Kay, I'll give you a try. What's your name?" Louise angrily questioned.
"Link."
"Link? Oh, shit, honey, how'd you manage to transform into an animal again? This time, into a feline? I'm sick and tired of helping you!"
"What? What are you talking about? I was born a cat!"
"Don't mess 'round with me, honey I-" The chubbier cat started saying, but froze when she saw Link sitting at one of the tables. "-I gotta go."
In the meanwhile, the three women were quickly walking, actually, being dragged by Ashei, towards Ordon Ranch.
"Honestly? Zelda, how did you manage to fuck up like that? Now those hill-billy bitches will be on our case! For someone who possesses the Triforce of Wisdom, you fucked up big time!" Ashei yelled at Zelda.
"I know, I know, I'm awfully sorry, but they were pressuring me, and I-Wait a minute, what did you tell me I possess?"
"The Triforce of Wis-" Ashei begun to say, but suddenly stopped her sentence halfway. "The Triforce of Wisdom."
"What the hell is that, honey?" Telma curiously asked.
"I-I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know? Then why did you say it?"
"I just said it. Even though I've never heard of it, it somehow just… came to me." Ashei answered, causing the Hylian princess's angry look to change, only to become one of wonder.
"I understand what you mean. The same thing happened to me, when I told you the name Hylia. I was certain that it was not referring to the lake, but I was unaware of what it truly meant… But, to be honest, I do have a slight theory about my dream." Zelda answered.
"What is it? Your theory?" Telma inquired.
"There you are! I was looking for you all over after you disappeared from the table!"
The three women turned around to see who was asking for them, seeing Link swiftly walking towards them.
"Link, can you please beat it? Zel was about to tell us something important." Ashei aggressively exclaimed.
"Actually, Ashei, he doesn't have to leave. I have already attempted telling him what I was about to tell you. So, this is quite an opportunity for all of you to learn my theory." the porcelain skinned princess retorted while putting her hand in front of Ashei, as if she was stopping her from walking.
"C'mon, honey, don't keep us waiting! Tell us!" Telma replied in a hurried tone.
"Very well. I am quite certain that the three women in my dream…"
"Yes?" the three other people said in perfect harmony.
"I believe they were the Golden Goddesses."
