Thanks for reviewing the last chapter. Ah my fans are so kind to me *sigh* yep, yep, yep. I might bring Lucy in later on; I'm undecided at the moment. Reader influence question I think. Enjoy the next chapter!



I stood staring for a moment, trying to grasp a thought to spit out. I looked at them, seemed like a perfect couple, blonde hair, blue eyes. Perfect. Zelda even looked better with age.

I always thought it would happen and it was meant to be but it was still a shock. A numbing shock, but even so, I felt a little twinge of jealousy. How did she get a guy like that to like her? The guys at school never looked at me twice.

"...Married?" I managed to get out

"Yeah" Link grinned "About eight years now, great huh?"

"Sure" I forced a smile "Great"

"You're here to save Hyrule again, eh?" Impa eyed me sceptically "At least you look a little more well built than last time"

I blushed and self-consciously put my hands up protectively. To my amazement and embarrassment they all burst out laughing.

"She means muscularly! As in fighting strength and so on!" Zelda got out through her giggles

I blushed even harder and tried to laugh it off "Oh right, yeah, heh"

Zelda ran forward and grabbed my arm to lead me into the castle "Come on, we have a lot of history to teach you, we can get you changed too and find you some weapons and provisions and so on..."

I got dragged off listening to the continuous babble and thought about what I'd just heard.

Married? Lucy had even had a crush on him at one point. And I...well that didn't matter. But how did that idiot get himself a wife? And three kids! It was more than I could handle at that moment.

I was brought back to the moment when Zelda said "You'll be setting off on horseback tomorrow morning"

And I stupidly replied "Where?"

"Termina of course! Didn't I just explain what you were going to do?"

I blinked and said "Of course you did, how silly of me"

And once more I was lead away again, trying to remember this time what I was supposed to remember her explaining to me.

* * *

So I was given a sword, bow and arrows, a set of clothes, maps, compass, dagger, and a bunch of other stuff they thought 'might come in handy'. All the time while they were pulling me around to various parts of the castle, showing me places where they ate, slept, bathed etc. and telling me the history of Hyrule that I'd missed.

It seemed that when Lucy and myself returned home, Kestrel had gone back to the Zoras and married as well. He'd married a lovely young Zora whose name couldn't be pronounced either. I've nicknamed this girl Fiona for know, as I have no idea what she is like. This is just for reference though. So he's off living the high life in Zora's domain, he visits every now and then, but mostly they correspond through letters.

Link himself went on to clear Hyrule and the other domains of Skulltulas and other pesky creatures such as Pea Hats for two or three years. He and Zelda had been getting close as he got into the inner circle of the royal families associates. Being Hero of Time of course the King had been more than happy to arrange a betrothal on their part. A year later they were married and had children on the way, Link and Zelda were to receive the throne for the next reign and stuff.

They'd managed to set up god relations with all races after the war and were the most sought after social guests in Hyrule for all occasions. Hyrule was happy and safe. I got the feeling of the most popular kids in a school and that sort of thing, how perfect they were and they deserved to be king and queen of the school etc.

It was weird how everything had changed while I'd barely changed at all.

I ended up in a large guest suite looking at all my equipment spread out on the floor around two hours later. Or at least it felt like that to me.

I sat in amongst the objects and began to sort things out into piles. I think this is my obsession; every Christmas and birthday I categorize the gifts I've received into piles and stuff. Like stationary, clothes, make up. And so I began here as well: weapons, clothes, boots, amour wear, bags, potions, and the stuff I'd brought with me.

I'd been told that we'd set out at sunrise tomorrow on two horses. Not like that uncomfortable journey with three to one Epona. After that we'd head to the lost woods on the same route Link had taken years before. We were in Termina; we would do what we set out to do.

No one had told me what we had set out to do though.

I had a sneaking suspicion that they were purposely not telling me what we were going there to do.

I put that thought away for now, something to develop on perhaps. I began thinking about Link and Zelda and how cute they looked together. Too bad he was leaving her with the kids for an adventure. I'd hate someone doing that to me. But it wasn't as if Zelda was a housewife or something.

I heard a knock at the door.

"Come in"

I looked to see who it was and saw a little face pop round the side of the door. Link and Zelda's oldest, Tate shuffled in nervously and looked at me expectantly. Link and Zelda's kids were 4, 6 and 7. The youngest was Adin, the middle one was Loe and here was the eldest giving me an evil stare.

He really was a clone of Link; the only difference was the size and a slight twinge of red in his blonde hair.

"Are you taking my daddy away?" he asked defiantly

I looked at him straight and replied, "Why would you think that?"

"Because he's packing"

"He's never gone away before?"

"No"

I smiled, seemed that Link was the family man after all. Never leaving his kids. Cute. I guess I'd wonder why he was packing too if he'd always been there.

"He's coming back" I said

"When?"

I didn't know, but I couldn't say that to a kid "Soon"

"You're weird" he stated, and left

I grinned, what did I expect from a little boy? I obviously did look weird to him and his brothers. So I went back to packing.

* * *

"...When you reach the cross over portal remember to hold onto each other otherwise you might end up separated" Zelda reminded us

We were standing on the castle drawbridge at dawn. The air was chilly but we dressed up enough so that we wouldn't be able to feel the cold apart from the breezes on our cheeks. The boys weren't up; they'd had a late good-bye party with their father last night. Only Zelda had come to see us off on our horses.

"See you soon then" said Link, pulling Zelda in for a hug

"You come back, you hear me?" Zelda punched him gently "You have reasons to come back now, your sons, me, the kingdom. And make sure you look after your travelling partner too"

"Yeah" He kissed her on the forehead, then pushing her away to mount Epona "Take care"

"You too" Zelda turned to me and said quietly "Don't let him do anything stupid"

I winked "Not with me around"

I turned to the horse. I stopped. I didn't remember how to get on. I needed to avoid the packs on the back and make it into the saddle while holding the reins...

"Need a hand up?" Zelda asked politely

I blushed "Um...if you wouldn't mind"

"Sure"

She helped me up and waited till I was settled to then hand me the reins.

"Good luck guys" she said smiling, did I detect her eyes filling up?

"See you soon" I replied

"Bye" Link called, starting off "I'll bring you a present or something!"

He clicked to his horse and sped up, me following at a slow trot. I didn't quite feel horse settled yet, so I just did what I could, leaving Zelda and the castle behind over a hill.




Ah we're off once more. But no one has said what they're doing!!! It's so weird!! Well, tune in for the next chapter soon!