"Are you kidding!? No way, we are going to do guys versus girls!' Beth proclaimed.

"Very well, that's what we'll do!" Sera, Beth's mother said. She had managed to get in on the tail end of the fish fry which turned out to be delicious and Hanch, her husband as well as Beth's father had joined them as well. Talo had also decided to join this game of horseshoes. So it would be Rusl, Link, Colin, Talo and Hanch against Zelda, Uli, and Beth…it was a little lopsided in numbers but the girls were confident.

"Zelda, is it true that Link is wearing a 4000 rupee outfit for the wedding?" Rusl asked her. Zelda laughed.

"It didn't cost that much." Zelda smiled and picked up a stack of horseshoes.

"Don't let her snow you Rusl, it did cost 4000 rupees but it's worth every one." Link told him. Zelda threw her first horseshoe.

"Oh my god, I hit the cucco!" Zelda was laughing as she watched the cucco squawk and run off. "I did not mean to do that."

"You all are going to lose. We are so going to win." Link said as Zelda didn't do very well with her first round of horseshoes. It was kind of surprising. Zelda was more coordinated than that. Uli didn't do much better and Beth did the best. It didn't take long for the guys to get through their horseshoe throwing. Naturally they did much better.

"Zelda, have you ever milked a goat?" Hanch asked her.

"No, I haven't." Zelda said.

"Today is your lucky day, you can milk one after we are done." Hanch told her.

"Oooh, this is going to be so good." Link said laughing. " I can't wait to see that."

"How many rounds are we playing?" Beth asked.

"Let's go with best 3 out of 5. That was just practice let's do this for real now." Rusl said.

"Alright, we have to do better. I promise I'll be more coordinated." Zelda said taking her turn first.

"Oh! Good one Zelda!" Beth said seeing how close her horseshoe came to the stake.

"Well, we can't let Link win. He gets to win everything!" Zelda said laughing.

"That won't be easy with Rusl and Talo over there, they are so good at horseshoes." Sera said. "As for my husband…he's so uncoordinated that he can barely catch a ball." And Sera was right Hanch sent a horseshoe flying in the complete wrong direction.

"Hanch, what are you doing!?" Rusl begged of him laughing at Hanch's actions.

"I'm sorry! Athleticism was never my thing." Hanch said defending himself. While the game progressed Mayor Bo was overseeing the roasting of the hog. It would be delicious to eat the hog later, with its Smokey taste and meticulous tiding to. The mayor looked up at the sky.

"I do hope the rain holds out today. It can rain all night but not today, not on our festival and the dear princess is with us again." The mayor said to a fellow village woman. She stared in Zelda's direction.

"Mayor, do you think we're all meant to have that? Happiness I mean. She and Link get to have the wedding of their wildest dreams and live in Hyrule forever." She sighed. "And he's so crazy about her. What do you think? Do you think we all get to have that?" The mayor looked sadly at the ground.

"I wish I could tell you yes…but I'm not a man of false hopes. I believe that what Link has with that woman is something you are very, very fortunate to find. I think some of us are destined to never find someone to complete us, Rayna. Have you met the princess?" the honest mayor asked her.

"No, I haven't…but I wish I could be her." Rayna said a little dreamily and a bit sad.

"You should talk to her during the feast tonight. She's very approachable. I'm sure she would be glad to meet you." The mayor told her. Rayna smiled briefly.

"Maybe she can tell me what her secret is. I can't imagine what it would be like to be royalty. To have your every request met at the bat of an eye, to be able to live the surreal life. And yet…she plays horseshoes, mayor. I always expected a princess to be stuck up and dainty…but she's not. Maybe someday I'll be as happy as she is." Rayna said still staring in Zelda's direction. It was hard for girls like Rayna, seeing Link, Ordon's once most sought after bachelor, being unavailable. It only reminded them of the fact that he was getting married…and they weren't. The game was proceeding nicely even though the guys were beating the girls. And they weren't winning by a landslide. Once they had completed the game of horseshoes it was time for Zelda to milk a goat.

"Come on Zelda, there are goats running around everywhere today, I know one of them is a female ready to be milked." Hanch told her.

"I'm going to get a bowl from Uli." Link told Hanch as Hanch searched for a goat for Zelda to milk. In the house with Uli, Colin and Talo talked excitedly to Rusl about their game.

"Oh Link, she's just delightful! Zelda I mean. I love her Link. I'm so happy for you." Uli told Link a bit captivated by his bride to be. He smiled at her.

"I knew you'd like her. Now she's going to milk a goat. Can I have a bowl?" Link asked of Uli.

"Certainly." Uli said handing over a bowl. Link hurried outside with the bowl and Hanch had located a goat for Zelda.

"Have you ever milked a cow?" Hanch asked her.

"No, I haven't." Zelda said sitting on the stool Hanch had given her.

"Alright, I want you to watch me." Hanch said making certain Zelda watched his movements. Link stood over them and waited for Zelda to try this. Of course, Link had done this at least a hundred times before. Zelda smiled at Hanch and carefully grabbed the goat. She did what she thought Hanch showed her…but nothing happened. Hanch laughed.

"Try again, remember one side at a time." Hanch said. Link was smiling all over but Zelda couldn't see. Once again, Zelda tried to milk the goat but nothing happened.

"Hanch, I don't think I'm doing it right." Zelda said laughing.

"Pull toward you." Hanch told her. Zelda shook her head. She pulled toward her resulting in her own laughter and her screaming. She had milked the goat alright, all over her. She had a face full of milk. Hanch and Link were laughing so hard at her that they didn't see just what a mess she had made. She wiped goat milk from her eyes and the goat just cooed and walked off.

"Okay, I may have missed the bowl, but I'm going to get a towel from Rusl or Uli or whoever is in the house!" Zelda said hurrying off toward the house. She wasn't really sure if Hanch or Link heard her.

"That was great, I had a feeling that would happen. But she tried." Link said.

"Well, at least she tried and she did finally do it…just not in the bowl. Oh gosh, so Link tell me something…how did you ever propose to her? How on earth do you propose to a Princess?"

"Oh it's easy. You wait until her father says it's okay to marry his daughter." Link said. Hanch laughed at him.

"Actually, that was the easy part and proposing to her was easy because really we were just waiting for her father to cave in. The hard part was talking the zoras out of one of their diamonds. They are so protective of their diamonds but when I told them it was for Zelda they immediately gave one to me." Link explained to him walking toward the house.

"I couldn't help but notice that thing. How big is it?" Hanch asked.

"Just under two carats." Hanch's eyes grew wide.

"You make sure Sera doesn't see that thing! You are making us all look bad." Hanch said laughing. Link smiled.

"You know what's funny about that. I know that a ring is important to a lot of women but Zelda honestly, she would have rather had a kitten. It would have been like, will you marry me here's a kitten. Her eyes would have watered from her allergies and she would have been thrilled. But there was no way I was going to be 'that loser that's marrying Zelda and gave her a cat instead of a diamond'." Hanch laughed.

"Hey, you know what the weather has held out today. And the hog is close to being ready. It's hard to believe evening is already upon us." Hanch said. Link could feel his heart sink. Hanch was right; the evening was creeping into the land which meant Link's time with Zelda was getting shorter.