*10 years later*
"Link did you speak with Auru?" Zelda called to her husband from the closet of their room.
"Yes, he's meeting us downstairs after he talks with Kirk about the settlement arrangements." Link responses as he closed the lid to his luggage.
"Oh that's right he's going to need a signature for that, I completely forgot." She said returning and dumping a few outfits on the couch.
"I thought you might, so I brought the papers with me when I came from the meeting." Link smiled handing her the small stack of papers.
"You are a lifesaver thank you!" She said taking them and planting a quick kiss on his cheek before rushing over to the night table to find a pen.
"Do you want these added to the luggage?" Link asked gesturing to the clothes on the couch.
"Yeah but not the gray one - I'm going to wear that." She responded without looking up from the papers.
Link nodded and set it aside, then set to folding the rest. There was a light knock on the door.
"Come in." They called at the same time.
An attendant named Jiro stepped in then was quickly brushed passed by two blond children.
"Your Majesties." He said bowing. "I came to see if you need any assistance with taking luggage down to the carriage."
"Um those two bags are ready to go, we should be able to handle these three." Link responded taking a look around the room. "Zev and Liana's things are already taken care of?" He asked glancing at the twins who were currently on the bed curiously looking over Zelda's shoulder.
"Yes your majesty, their luggage is downstairs being loaded as we speak." Jiro replied.
"Wonderful - if you could take those bags we should be down shortly." Link said .
The attendant nodded but didn't move.
"Is there something else?" Link asked.
"I'm simply concerned your majesty, are you positive you don't want a few soldiers to accompany you?" He inquired
"Jiro we've been over this - we don't need protection." Zelda called from the desk.
"It would only be a couple." He objected weakly.
"Trained warrior, Triforce of wisdom." She said pointing to herself. "Hero of Twilight, defender of Hyrule, Triforce of courage." She continued pointing towards Link. "Accompanied by Auru, a former general I think we'll be ok." She said.
"But thank you for your concern." Link added with a grin.
"Of course your majesties." Jiro bowed and quickly took the luggage with him downstairs.
Zev giggled. "Jiro is funny." He said
"Super serious though." Liana added.
"I'm sure he means well." Zelda sighed as she collected the papers together.
"Do you want us to take that to Kirk?" Liana asked pointing to the papers.
Zelda raised an eyebrow. "You know where he is?"
"Yup we saw him on the way here." Zev nodded.
"Ok be really careful with them." She said handing the stack to them.
"We will." Zev said as they ran out the door.
"Alright I'm going to get changed then I think we should be ready to go." Zelda said getting up.
"Sounds good." Link replied.
—
Liana and Zev went down to the stables after delivering the settlement paper to Kirk. Zev was the first to spot Auru who was standing talking to one of the servants.
"Grandpa Auru!" He called getting his attention. "Are you ready to go?"
Auru grinned and ruffled his hair. "I've been ready for hours! Hopefully your parents will be ready soon or Ashei might have her baby before we get there." Auru teased.
"I hope not! I want to see!" Liana said
"I don't." Zev said sticking out his tongue.
Auru laughed. "Well either way it looks like your mom and dad finally decided to get their butts in gear." He said gesturing to the entrance.
Link chuckled. "I don't remember traveling being this complicated before."
"Well it's always easier when there's only one person." Auru admitted.
"Everything go ok with delivering the papers?" Zelda asked.
"Yep Kirk said he would send a letter if anything else came up but it should be fine." Zev recited
"Glad to hear it - so shall we be on our way?"
—
"Looks like they've arrived." Ceil mumbled as he watched the villagers crowd to the main road to welcome the royal family.
"Took them long enough." Aria said as she looked out the window as well.
"Well they are royalty. They might have been a little busy." Hugh put in as he walked past.
"And that's supposed to be an excuse?" Ashei grinned looking over from her seat.
"Can we go see them?" Aria asked, her dark brown hair falling over her face as she spun around.
"Yeah sure. Just remember what we talked about - try not to tease Zev and Liana too much." Hugh warned.
"Ugh you're no fun." Aria whined but was smiling. "Come on uncle Ceil- the whole village will be there if we don't get going."
Zelda seemed to be in her element, greeting and chatting with all the excited villagers. Though they had all met many times they always got great enjoyment in fussing over them. Link made the effort to be friendly but still wasn't as comfortable being the center of attention. Zev and Liana took after their father in this way and were very happy when Aria burst through and started to drag them towards their house.
"Come on!" She insisted as she pulled on the twins arms. "Mom and dad said you'll be bunking with me this time."
Ceil let them be and decided to save Link instead.
"You have a good trip?" He asked as he grabbed some of their luggage and began making a path through the crowd for them.
"A bit slow going but still good." Link answered, grateful to be talking with just one person. "How are Hugh and Ashei?"
"Same as usual." Ceil shrugged. "You'll be in your usual house while the kids are with Aria." He said gesturing to the quaint guest house a few doors down from Ashei and Hugh's house. "And Auru you're going to be bunking with Shad, Ren and Levi when they arrive if that's ok." He called to the older man.
"Fine by me." Auru responded.
"Have Shylock and Zera arrived?" Zelda asked carefully removing a flower crown from her head that had been given to her.
"No, but Thane send a message that he was traveling with both them and Shad and Ren. They should be here in the next couple of days." Ceil responded.
They dropped off the luggage and went to Hugh and Ashei's house. Liana and Zev we're sitting either side of Krem whispering in his ears.
"No! Really?!" Krem said in excited shock. "Tell me more!"
Liana giggles and whispered more. Zev has his hands covering his mouth to stop from laughing. "Oh don't forget about what happened after!" He added excited.
Liana nodded and continued whispering.
"Oh my gosh they're never going to stop at this rate!" Aria groaned.
"Well as for me I'm just happy Krem is sitting still for a while." Ashei replied rolling her eyes. "I still don't see why he couldn't have stayed with Thane."
"Yeah you try convincing him of that." Ceil laughed.
"Ashei how are you feeling?" Zelda asked coming to her side.
"I feel 9 months pregnant." She replied. "Still can't compete with you - I don't know how you managed to have twins."
"Be grateful you're not like Zera, I can't imagine having triplets." Zelda shook her head.
"Oh and little monsters they are too." Ashei groaned. "I'm almost happy they aren't going to be here for another couple days."
"Maybe they've gotten better?" Zelda said hopefully.
"Zelda they're five and their dad is Shylock I wouldn't hold out too much hope." Ashei chuckled
"Well we'll just have to keep close to Zera at least they behave around her." Zelda sighed with a smile.
Ashei nodded.
"Dinner is ready!" Hugh called from the kitchen.
—-
Three days later Hugh and Link were sitting talking when the door to the house slammed open and a very haggard Shylock collapsed on the ground with three little girls on top of him laughing loudly. Zera followed and simply stepped over the pile of them to drop some luggage off.
"Hey guys." Hugh said giving a small wave.
Zera nodded a greeting and Shylock lifted his head to look up at them.
"Help." He whimpered.
"Still a drama queen I see." Link chuckled.
Shylock let his face fall back to the floor but lifted a finger. "Drama king." Came the muffled correction.
Link laughed. "Aiko, Satomi, Zentra," he called to get the triplets attention. They all perked and turned to him with wide grins. "Zev and Liana are playing outside with Aria do you want to go see them?"
This was met by excited cheers and them trampling their father to follow Link out the back door.
Shylock let out a low groan. Another Gerudo popped her head in the doorway and saw Shylock laying on the ground.
"Do you need help your highness?" She asked peering down at him.
"He's fine Ren." Zera responded, she had made herself comfortable in one of the chairs in the living room.
"You guys have no respect for me." Shylock complained.
Hugh laughed. "It's kinda hard to when you're laying face first on the ground." He said before offering a hand and lifting the king up. "So do I dare ask how the trip went?"
"Not if you value your life." Thane growled as he stomped past them towards Ceil's room. His hair was a crazy mishmash of braids and flowers and he had more than one cut on this face.
"Ren, honey could you give me a hand with this?" Shad grunted as he tried to pull a trunk in the house.
"Oh sorry! I forgot!" She said and hurried over picking up the trunk with ease.
Shad smiled gratefully and readjusted his glasses. He looked back outside.
"Do you need help Levi?" He called.
"No I'm ok thank you." Levi replied as he struggled to carry his small bag. His neatly combed blond hair was slightly mused from the effort but he smiled proudly when he managed to make it into the house.
"Hello Mr. Hugh!" He said bowing. "Thank you for letting us stay at your home."
"Still a perfect gentleman I see." Ashei said coming into the room with Zelda following behind her.
"Ah! Mrs. Ashei! Thank you! And congratulations on your new baby!" He said quickly bowing to her as well.
Ashei came over and ruffled his hair. "You're way too cute." She said. "Maybe we should adopt like Shad and Ren." She winked at Hugh.
"Sounds like a plan. But let's focus on this one first." Hugh said good-naturedly pointing to her stomach.
Auru appeared in the doorway a few seconds later. "I thought so. Only you guys could make so much noise." He grinned.
"Grampa Auru!" Levi cried running to him.
Auru lifted him up. "Look at you! You're getting big! How old are you now?"
"I'm 4 and 2 months!" Levi replied
"Already?! Wow you're going to be a full-grown adult next time I see you!" Auru praised
Ceil came in from the back door his head down looking at a letter "Hey Hugh, the mailman ca-" he looked up and blinked. "Oh people are here."
They all waved and said hi.
He waved back and continued "Sorry to interrupt but Kaori sent some stuff for you two." Ceil said handing the letter to Hugh.
"Oh that's nice of him." Hugh said taking the letter.
"Yeah there's more than just a letter," Ceil smirked. "Come on in guys." He called and all the kids, minus Levi, traipsed in carrying little gifts or flowers.
The parents all made a point of marveling over the gifts or how cute the kids looked.
"Kaori said he's sorry he couldn't be there in person but he hoped these gifts would be useful to us." Hugh read from the letter holding it so Ashei could read it as well.
"He's always been so generous." Zelda smiled.
Link and Krem came into the house as well.
"So..." Ashei said calming drawing the attention. "I don't mean to blame you guys but I think having this much activity has contributed."
They looked at her confused.
"My water just broke." She explained with a wry smile.
"Welp that's my cue." Shylock said turning on his heels and heading out the door.
"Alright people who will be helpful stay. The rest of you - out." Hugh said taking charge and ushering the majority of the group out of the house after Shylock.
"Krem go get Thane from our room and bring him to Auru's house. Aria you're with me." Ceil said
"Girls follow your father make sure he doesn't pass out." Zera instructed as she helped Ashei upstairs.
"Zev, Liana come with me this way it's too crowded over there." Link said motioning to the back door.
"Aww dad can't I help?" Liana asked.
Link looked over at Zelda who was collecting towels.
"She can stay if she wants" She said
Zev stuck out his tongue. "Bleh I'm not. Come on Levi!" He said walking past this father outside.
"Wait for me Zev!" Levi called following him.
So as everything turned out, Hugh, Zelda, Liana, Ren, and Zera stayed to help Ashei while the rest went to the other guest houses to wait out the rest of the afternoon and much of the evening.
Finally after most of the kids had fallen asleep waiting Hugh came out to the houses.
"It's a boy." He announced looking very tired but was smiling ear to ear.
"Is he cute? Who does he look like?" Aria asked as she ran up to give him a hug.
Hugh chuckled. "You can decide that for yourself in a couple of minutes." He said hugging her back.
"Perhaps it would be best if we went in in groups so as not to overwhelm Ashei." Auru suggested.
"That would be good, she's pretty tired but we want you all to meet him." Hugh responded with a nod. "Maybe if Aria, you and Ceil come first?"
The three agreed and followed him back to the house. Zelda was downstairs folding blankets. Liana has passed out on the couch next to her clearly exhausted from the excitement.
"Zera is still with her, Ren went to get something to eat." Zelda told them.
"Thanks." Hugh nodded gratefully.
Aria cautiously pushed the door open to her parent's room. Ashei was propped up with a bunch of pillows with her eyes closed. She opened them and smiled tiredly.
"Hi mom." Aria said going over to the bedside.
"Hey." She murmured.
"Have you decided on a name?" Ceil asked Hugh quietly.
Hugh looked at Auru and Aria who were cooing at the baby.
"We were thinking of calling him Auru actually." He said
Auru looked up surprised. He glanced between Ashei and Hugh who were both smiling at him.
"If that's ok with you of course." Ashei said.
Auru was speechless for a moment just looking at them and then back to the baby in his arms.
"I would be honored." He said finally, his eyes watery.
"I like it!" Aria said adding her bit.
Ceil smirked. "Me too." He agreed.
Auru shook his head happily and looked down again. "Welcome to the family little Auru." He said.