Sorry it took so long to write this chapter, I had to study for exams and then I got called on a trip, but from now I'll try to upload every day, like promised.

Zelda looked taken aback. Then said:

"So do I!"

"So... we must bring him with us!"t

"We can't"

"But..."

"But what?!" Yelled the princess losing her pacience with Prince Sidon"I Love him! I want to take him with us as much as you do! But for his health we bust leave him here to heal!"

"He'll be sent back to battle as soon as he's healed!" Awnsered Sidon "He'll die. I can't have his death on my conscience! I love him..."

Zelda looked away from Sidon, in tears now as well. She decided not to speak to him. The silence made their escape from the Castle extremely awkward.

"Both of us have feeling for Link" Zelda thought to herself "but surely, he would pick me! Sidon is a Zora, the enemy, and he's male! Link just can't pick him... can he?"

They reached the bottom floor of Hyrule Castle and saw a small door.

"Is this a way out?" Asked Sidon, breaking the deafening silence that had dominated their escape for the past half-hour

"Yes,It leads to a tunnel. It comes out in Castle town, in the tailor's shop."

"Is it guarded?"

"Yes. There are knights at the back of the tailor's shop to stop people from getting into the tunnel, but that won't stop them from keeping people from getting out of it."

"I still have the broadsword... we can take them on. Let's go."

The walked along the tunnel for what seemed like hours, but wasn't more than half of one. The tunnel was twisty and confusing. No one could have had any idea which way was North, South, East or West.

At one point, after a sharp turn, the tunnel came to an end. Above the two was a wooden trapdoor. Sidon signed to Zelda to stay quiet. He burst open the trapdoor and pounced outside.

He had expected some massive highly armoured soldier, armed to the teeth. He found two preteens. Armed with bokoblin bats and only had regular clothes on. One of them fainted, the other one stared screaming: "Zora!!! There's an invasion! ZORA!!!"

"These children will alert some proper soldiers; we will surely be captured! We must get out of the Town Walls!"

"How can we do that? There's only one gateway"

"Actually, there's a small door to the South"

They ran towards it as soon as possible. They eventually heared soldiers shouting:

"They must be somewhere. The Zora must die!"

Sidon started to feel scared. He didn't show it of course, he couldn't risk his reputation being ruined. He realised that the Hylians weren't going to listen to his story, or take pity on him. The Princess was scared too. She would be taken away and accused of treason. She might be executed for that. They came to a small wooden door at the side of the Wall. It was very small: about one meter squared.

"I will have to crawl through, it's too tight for me to bend over."

They went in and made sure to close it behind them. Zelda went first because she knew the area more.

Sidon crawled through but scratched himself on a sharp rock on the floor. He screamed in pain and looked down at his thigh. It was bleeding.

"What happened?" Asked Zelda, not being able to see what had gone on.

"I hurt myself, I'm bleeding!"

"Oh no! We must get out of here quickly!"

They tried to go as fast as possible, but Sidon held them up quite a bit: he was crawling on an injured leg! It took them about ten minutes to get out of the relatively short passage, but that time seemed to triple. Time always seems to go either very fast or very slow when you're in danger.

They finally reached the end of the passage. There was a wooden door, similar to the entrance. They opened it cautiously, trying to spot any guards or monsters lurking around.

"The cost is clear!" Half whispered Zelda.

Sidon crawled out of the hole, then collapsed on the ground.

"Let me see your cut. I can heal it" said the Princess.

Sidon showed her the deep cut on his outer thigh. It was still bleeding, badly. The Princess put both her hands on the wound, causing the Zora great pain. Then she uttered a few words in the ancient sheika language and pushed hard on the bleeding cut. Suddenly a wave of heat and light was emitted. Zelda could feel the open wound closing underneath her skin. In no more than a minute, all that was left was a scar. Sidon then looked up at the Princess and Smiled.

"Thank you Princess Zelda." He said very formally. Zelda nodded in response. She then turned round and walked towards the mountains behind Hyrule Castle.

I hope you enjoyed that chapter. The next one will be up tomorrow, hopefully.

30/05/18