First off I have to thank everyone so far for the reviews and reception, and for the mild popularity the stories have been getting. And yeah Ultimateccc, it won't be the last we heard of Princess Ruto. I had been refraining from bringing in characters like Ruto or Malon for fear that I would accidentally turn it into a harem, or that people would think it would go that way and be turned off. And yeah, I've been working on my writing. I can't wait to get back into the storywriting, but it's been so long, so I better reread what I did.
Link and Zelda ran through the corridors to where the explosion was from. It wasn't too hard to find it, with screams and shouts in the same direction. They found themselves in the midst of a battle.
Tektites were crawling through a hole blasted in the wall while Lizalfos leapt through windows. The few Hyrule guards in the area stood shoulder to shoulder, parrying the best they could. Impa was there too, locked in combat with an iron knuckle. blood was pooling on the floor, making it slippery and rubble piled at the sides
Link wasted no time jumping into the fray. He had put on his sword when he recieved the orb, in case Ruto had bugged it to summon a monster. Zelda began to heal the injured soldiers.
Impa was pressing the knuckle back against the wall with her broadsword. Her assaillant did everything it could to fight back, trying to grab Impa's weapon, knocking over pillars, and even throwing some very surprised Tektites at Her.
At the side, a Link mannaged to behead a Lizalfos. At the same time, annother Lizalfos came in screaming "NOOOOOOOOOO!" It started to cry mournfully over the body of it's comrade while both sides stopped fighting and stared. One of the Tektites tried to step forward, but the Iron knuckle stopped it and patted it on the head affectionately.
"Have you no heart?" The Lizard pointed a finger at Link. "Didn't you see she was pregnant?" Link looked thoroughly taken aback, like a punished child. Never before had a monster accused HIM of being cruel. "I bet you don't even know what love is!" The lizalfoss went on.
"Now that's not true!" Link had to play for time until more soldiers arrived. "I love, uh-her!" He pointed at Princess Zelda. "And what's more, is that she loves me."
"Liar!" The Lizalfos lunged at Link, and soon the battle was in full swing. Link decided to only focus on the attacks from the Lizalfos ganging up on him. He danced around them, going onto their side so that they got in each other's way, allowing for him to dispatch them one by one. Impa waited impatiently- The iron knuckle was trying to fix it's jaw, and had asked for them to pause the fight.
The whole time, Zelda was trying to get close to Link. She couldn't decide whether she wanted to hit him or hug him, even if she knew he was playing for time. It was quite awkward trying to use her attack magic without destroying the whole wing of the castle, but she mannaged to keep her power in check.
Her dress was ripped by an attack from a Tektite, slashing with an appendage. Zelda drew a dagger to attack, but the monster knocked her over and brought it's foreceps to bear against where she lay. Zelda had to roll away to dodge, then kicking herself into the air. She decided threw her dagger at it and hit it in the eye. The Tektite survived but went wild, desperately trying to dislodge the dagger. Zelda decided to put it out of it's pain and morphed her arm into a blade, slicing it in half.
A horn blew, and the monsters began to retreat, leaping out of the destroyed wall and fleeing northeast. Several hyrule guards were dead, with others wounded. Link was fine though, which was all that mattered to Zelda at the moment. She would care for her subjects later.
Her parents came running in despite their age. "Zelda honey, what happened?" Her father had even pulled out a sword from the armory, though he held it awkrawdly with the flat part outward. That wasn't to say that attacking the king would be easy for a monster, but that was because of the group of sorcerors and soldiers on guard.
As usual, Her grace was left to explain the situation. As she told her parents what happened, she looked around for Link or Impa, but neither of them seemed to be around. The coroner and engineers came, and boarded up the wall as a temporarily replacement. Oficials kept talking to Zelda, kept asking her to fill out forms for new materials and quotes to adress the public. Eventually her parents realised how demmanding they were being on Zelda and allowed her to leave while they talked with aristocrats.
Link walked away from the site of the battle, unaware of Impa following him. He turned down a corridor, walked up some stairs, passed through hallways, heck, he didn't even know where he was heading. Eventually he just sat down on a bench. It was at this point Impa sat beside him, though he barely registered her.
"That was very brave of you to say something like that." Said Impa. Link continued to stare at the various suits of armor on display. They were reportedly very old, but the restoration of Hyrule castle had somehow brought them back to how they were before.
"I shouldn't have said that." He replied. "I don't think I can look her in the eye."
Impa leaned in closer to whisper into Link's ear. "I know you weren't just stalling for time, Link. You really meant those words." She pushed a small box into his hands. "This is for when you work up the courage to tell her." Link opened it up, and found a beautiful wedding ring, a sparkling diamond laced with gold.
The two heard footsteps and Link hid his ring in case it was Zelda. Turning around the corner was a young guard, looking flustered.
"Lady Impa! The young Gerudo's prison cell is empty!"