Hello everyone, I'mNoOneSpecial is back. Did you guys already think I'd stopped writing or that I forgot about this story? No chance.
Sorry this took so damn long; I had planned on posting another chapter before Christmas but it just didn't happen. I got a couple of new games and… well… whenever I get the tiniest bit of free time I just play. One was The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (so I guess you can't blame me for that); awesome game, though there were a couple of things that bothered me a bit.
Spoiler Alert!
One: Why can't you have a real duel with the hero shade? Just to show him: Hey, you taught me well, I'm good now, I can and will save Hyrule, pass on to the afterlife, I'll continue our duty as Hyrule's hero and savior, you can leave it to me.
I also wish he'd actually fight you, and not just act as a training dummy; eg. He'd fight like an enemy that can only be defeated with whatever hidden skill he's currently teaching you; get it wrong and you get a taste of his steel.
Two: Why is there no reward for catching the Legendary Hylian Loach for Hena? And all the other kind of fish to fill her aquarium?
Lastly, why the heck do the Ordon goats on Fado's farm attack Link when he in wolf-form, when all the chickens and cats (and some cats are damn tiny in comparison to Wolf Link) in all of Hyrule have no problem with the big, fierce, grey wolf?
On a side-note: Am I mistaken or does Yeto the yeti wear a saddle on top his head?)
Spoilers end
Enough said, here's the next chapter. It's kinda short though…
The fair Zelda led the young king and the stern Impa out of the farm, away from any ears that might listen in, into the orchards, with its fruiting trees and humming bees. A few farmhelpers were still at work, as were a couple of beekeepers, but still, the fair Zelda and the two guests had all the privacy one could ask for.
While she led the young king and the stern Impa, the prudent Zelda carefully thought how to best tell the young king of her decision.
"Fair Zelda?"
The fair maiden started, as though startled out of a light doze. She blinked and turned to face the young king.
"Yes, your highness?"
The young king looked at her, somewhat worried, somewhat confused, "We have been walking for quite a bit now, yet you have not spoken a single word."
The fair Zelda sighed.
"Forgive me, your highness," she apologized to the young king, "I was lost in my thoughts."
The young king nodded but said nothing.
After another moment of though he asked, "Are you still troubled by my proposal?"
"Y-yes… yes, somewhat, I am, your highness…" answered the fair Zelda somewhat hesitantly.
When he heard this, the young king looked a bit down.
"Need you more time to think it over?"
The fair Zelda shook her head.
"No, your highness, I had more than enough time to discuss it and to think it over."
That seemed to lift the young king's spirits.
"So… you have come to a decision?"
The fair Zelda once, meaningfully, nodded her head.
"Yes, your highness, I have."
"And…?" asked the young king while he checked his anticipation, "Will you come to the castle with me? Will you be my fiancée?"
The fair Zelda took a deep breath.
"Your highness, I… I…"
The young king looked at her expectantly.
"…yes?"
The fair Zelda tried again, "I… I talked it over with my dear father… and with Master Talon too, and I…"
"…yes…?"
"I…"
The young king continued to eye her expectantly.
"I… I'd be… honored… to be… your fiancée…"
The smile the young king wore was humble and modest. His eyes though were a different story.
"Does this mean… that you are willing to partake in this… mad… scheme of mine?"
"I-I… am…" nearly whispered the fair Zelda.
Though his smile was still reserved, the young king's eyes shone.
He gently took the fair Zelda's hand into his.
"Then it shall be my honor, and pleasure, to call myself your fiancé…"
And with that he placed a soft kiss upon the fair Zelda's hand, which caused her cheeks to blush and her heart to flutter.
The next moment the young king released her hand and straightened himself.
"Are you ready to leave, fair Zelda? Will you ride with me when I depart for the castle?"
Once again, the fair Zelda was startled out of her daze. This time, not lost in thought but lost in emotion.
"What? Oh no, your highness, I am afraid I cannot," hurried the fair Zelda to speak.
The young king frowned.
"Why not, fair Zelda?"
The fair maiden was quick to explain.
"These weeks to come, there will be much work to be done here on this farm, and I promised that I would still be here to help. Once… I have finished my farmly duties here…" said the fair Zelda with melancholy in her voice, "…I will be ready to depart."
"…I see…" replied the young king, "Well… have you any idea when you will be ready to leave? Do you already know when I should send the carriage to pick you up?"
The fair Zelda thought it over carefully.
At last she said, "By the end of this month, your highness. By then I will have done all my farmly duties and will be prepared to stay in your castle…"
"Very well," said the young king, "I will send my carriage to fetch you, on the last day of this month, and it will arrive here at noontime. Would that suit you fine, fair Zelda?"
"That would be wonderful, your highness," answered the fair Zelda.
"Then so it shall be…" said the young king, "Think you that your good friends, the other fair farmmaidens, have finished preparing that delightful meal I begged them to?"
"Huh?"
"I asked your fair friends if they could fix a hearty meal for me and my men," reminded the young king the fair Zelda, "Think you that they have already done so?"
"Oh! I am not quite sure, your highness," answered the fair Zelda, "But then, we have been walking and speaking for quite bit… Would you like to head back to the farmhouse now, your highness?"
"Yes… I think so," answered the young king, "But let us take another path back to the farm house. I do want to see more of these farmlands…"
The fair Zelda bowed dutifully.
"As you wish, your highness," she said and walked to lead the way.
Behind her, the young king walked at a leisurely pace, enjoying the walk and enjoying the surroundings.
Behind him, just a few steps behind, walked his adviser and shadow, the stern Impa.
Before them, the lost, fair Zelda worried and feared more than she had when the young king first had told her of his plan and his intention to have her as his fiancée…
For she had not intended to accept the young king's proposal…
She had decided that she would not go with him…
Well… you happy with this chapter? I'll be honest, I'm not; I honestly think I screwed up here; as I did with the last two or three chapters.
If you'd like to know why I made this illogical move; well, there's a long explanation below. Feel free to skip though.
What happened was this…
In the original tale, right after the clever farmmaid solved the king's riddle (you know, the riddle our wise, fair Zelda had to solve back in "The silver dagger and its sheath" to get her father the old Daphnes back) the king wanted to marry the farmmaid. Just like that, out of the blue, without warning, without any indication…
That didn't sit right with me. After all, he's the king, she's just a poor farmer's daughter, they barely know each other…
Granted, our farmmaid is pretty darn smart, and she managed to solve his riddle, but if intelligence was all you needed to get yourself a great spouse, then why the hell am I single (and have always been) and not in a relationship with someone like Tyra Banks or Angelina Jolie? (I've got an IQ above 100 and I'm writing this story so I guess I'm allowed to say that I'm not totally stupid!)
What also didn't sit right with me was that in the original tale, the clever farmmaid right then and there agreed to marry the king. Again, just like that, out of the blue, without any warning, without any indication. Right then and there, just after having solved the riddle she agreed to marry the guy who sent her father into the dungeons!
Didn't sound like something our wise, fair Zelda would do, if you ask me.
So, I tried to iron out things out again…
After the riddle, both king and farmmaid went their separate ways, back to their own lives, seeing that the only thing that brought them together was just a misunderstanding over a jeweled silver dagger; and there was nothing going on serious going on between them.
So IF(! ...?) they get together here in my story then it will be in a more natural, normal manner!
Which is, why before our young king went back to our wise, fair Zelda, I first had to invent a valid reason for him to do so; Hyrule is rebuild, you're the only royal left, it's time for you to marry!
But the reason he went to her is not because he wants her (…yet…?) but because Link's not that much of a romantic guy, and thus doesn't know who else to approach.
C'mon, let's be honest here: Love and romance does NOT play a major part in The Legend of Zelda! Nor is it a significant part of Zelda's and Link's canon personalities. At least, it didn't in the LOZ games I played…
I know what I'm saying; I HAVE played games wherein love plays a big role in the story, or in the personality of a character and his growth. And the LOZ games, or at least the ones I've played had practically nothing of that. Heck even Ruto, who was supposed to be head over heels in love with Link but her duty as the Zora Princess and the Sage of Water before them.
Back to my story:
Since our fair Zelda is not of common birth here, thanks to my role-reversal, I decided that she'd have to prove herself first before she can marry our young king. After all; that's how it is/was with real royalty as well; best example I can think of… not too long ago the queen of England didn't want to pass on the crown to her eldest son because she thought he wasn't right for the title. Something about him not being kingly enough if I remember correctly.
Well, I tried to iron everything out and make everything work but then I ended up at a problem; due to my ironing out and logic the fair Zelda didn't want to go with the young king anymore; and in doing so I kinda shot myself; 'cuz now I had some serious problems with proceeding with the story!
If the fair Zelda wouldn't want our young king, why would she go with him?
In the end I couldn't come up with a real solution to the problem I had created so I simply made the fair Zelda do something… for lack of better word, stupid.
Against all logic, despite everything she had planned, for some reason she just did the total opposite.
It's a terrible solution, I know, but I didn't come up with another way to get them together… and besides, it DOES happen often enough in real life that despite everything you have planned and prepared, you end up doing something totally different.
I took up teaching because I thought it'd be okay, seeing that the happiest memories I got of my high school life was when two of my classmates approached me and asked me to tutor them and we three become good friends.
But then when I was a student teacher and I actually got to teach a real class… the first and most important thing I learned is that I don't want to be a teacher. But working in tutorials didn't work out, so now I have to suffer in a classroom full of children so bad, you'd wish their parents had used contraceptives!
To my dear I-hate-cliffhangers-readers…
Sorry, but there's absolutely no better way to ensure that you guys will come back to read my story until the very end… and It's kinda fun to tease your readers!
Man, it feels like ages since I last posted this…
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