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Chapter 39 - The hunt for Link

Romani came outside with the laundry and Mikau and Darmani to help her. Just as she knelt by the pond outside their home, Darmani yelled.
"Mom, that owl statue!"
She turned around with a hidden Kokiri sword drawn. The statue had its wings still spread but the head was turned.
"Whoo-hoo, no need for violence, or at least not now. The evil forces are on their way, I suggest you leave with your children to a safe place."
"You're Kaepora, the sage that helped Link against Ganondorf."
"Yes, from the time there were still indeed seven sages. It is best not to warn our enemy so I came through this statue to talk to you. Link is in great danger, and so are you. You must run immediately."
Romani nodded and called for her children.
"Kids? We're leaving, run inside and take everything that is essential, we're going on a little vacation."
The owl statue retook its former form and remained silent. Quickly Romani had taken all major weaponry and left with her children to Kokiri forest.
"Romani, what a nice surprise to bring the children now." Saria laughed as she approached, but her smile froze as she saw Romani's face.
"Not now, hide the children somewhere in the Lost Woods. I'll come back for them later."
"You're not coming with us?" Malon asked.
"There's still something Romani must do in the house, I will return right after," She assured her daughter, "if I don't,..." her voice hesitated for a moment, "... then I'm dead, but Romani swears on all that's holy, I will live, for my husband and my children."
"If you don't come back, we'll go look for you." Darmani said.
Romani smiled and hugged her children.
"Stay here and don't leave the Lost Woods until Romani or Link comes and gets you, okay?"
She turned around and ran away, not stopping or looking, knowing that if she did one of both, she would stay.

Stupid, how could she forget the Fairy sword? Since Link started to use the Goron's sword, she used the sword and now she had forgotten it. Quickly she reached the house and she grabbed the sword from above the fireplace. Just as she left the house, ten horses came riding. She reached behind the door and grabbed a Hylian shield (one of the many that lied there). The horses stopped in front of the house and Romani could see they were all sheikah.
"What do you want?" she shouted.
"Link!" the first one said as he dismounted, "where is he?"
"He's gone to the castle."
The sheikah laughed.
"So that means you're here all alone then?"
This wasn't well, Romani thought, something was very wrong. The sheikah motioned to the others who advanced on her.
"I must warn you, if you come closer, Romani will kill you."
"You think I'm scared from some mentally disturbed bitch who speaks of herself in the third person?" the closest sheikah laughed.
Just as his friends laughed, Romani flew forward and decapitated him with a single blow. She spun and cut the second one in two.
"Fuck!" the third one shouted and he was able to draw his sword before he died.
The other seven now kept their distance and got their weapons out. Quickly they circled her and she tried to be aware of all of their movements. She was able to dodge most of their attacks and only few of them scratched her clothes. A hit from her however was always a hit but she wasn't able to kill them as easily anymore. It was clear that these were the best of the sheikah Zelda had. Each of them tried an attack and she knew it was just to test her. Only one hadn't attacked yet, so she figured he was the most dangerous one. Suddenly they started to attack in pairs and soon even with three. Romani decided to take matters back into her own hands and as one attacked she parried his move and grabbed the second to throw him at the third attacker. This went easy with Links wedding gift to her, the powerbracelet he had found in Holodrum. Romani jumped the other way and slashed the arm off of one of the sheikah. She lashed out to their leader but he jumped out of the way. She turned her attention back to her latest victim who had dropped his sword and grabbed the stump that was once his leftarm.
"With one arm you still could have fought me, but now you're no threat anymore," Romani smiled and thrust her sword forward, "and no never again."
A burning pain at her back made her fall but quickly she recovered and turned around. Their leader stood before her with a large sword and a dagger in the other hand.
"Fucking coward, attacking from behind. Where's your fucking honour?"
"We sheikah operate from the shadows, and especially me?" he said, and she felt that underneath his mask he grinned.
One of the others threw a Deku nut and for a moment she was blinded. Out of reflex and instinct she was able to fence off the first blows but there were too many and soon she felt the cold steel of their blades. A hard kick made her fly back a few meters. When she got up, she had her vision back and saw she was bleeding from numerous wounds all over her body.
"Why don't you come and kill me already?" she shouted, she was sick of playing games.
"We tried, we honestly did," the leader said, "but you move very fast. It seems you're quite a challenge."
Romani grunted and attacked. Her speed caught the closest sheikah of guard and she slit his throat with the tip of the Fairy sword. She jumped up and landed behind the second sheikah. Without turning she placed the sword along her side, with the handle forward. She quickly pushed it backwards and the blade drove itself deep in the body of the sheikah. In a fluent movement she pulled it out and caught the blow of the third sheikah. She rammed her shield in his face and he fell lifeless to the ground as she retracted the shield from his brains. The last sheikah fell back and circled her again.
"Seven down, three to go." She grinned.
She lifted her sword and jumped forward to one of the sheikah. Unfortunately another one was faster and kicked Romani in the ribs. Just as she hit the ground the third one came from behind her and hit her with the handle of his sword in the neck. She fell down and didn't move anymore. He looked in the direction of Hyrule castle and cursed.
"Fuck, they are already on their way!" he turned to the two other sheikah, "quickly, throw the bodies in the house and torch the place!"
He looked down and kneeled next to Romani's body.
"But first there is something we have to do here." He smiled as he took up her wrist.

The sheikah stopped in front of the blazing house.
"What? What is this?" Madakar shouted.
"I have no idea, general," one of the sheikah said, "maybe it hid some secrets Link didn't want us to find."
"Oh, shut up," another said, "it's probably the monsters that Link has fought that took vengeance or something."
"What monsters?" Madakar asked.
"The past few years Link fought monsters all through Hyrule, just like we couldn't handle it. Maybe some of them have attacked his house."
"And don't forget the great evil," another one shouted.
"Great evil?"
"Oh yeah, he kept on raving about a great evil that threatened Hyrule, like he didn't know we have never been more prosperous. Hyrule is in a true golden age and he kept spoiling everything with stupid tails about the great evil, which of course, no one has ever seen. He thought all those monsters had something to do with it, but monsters have always roamed Hyrule."
"That is true," Madakar replied, "but still... Let's return and tell this news to Zelda."
"What about the house, General?"
"Let it burn." Madakar decided and turned his horse to return to his queen, while thinking of the words of the sheikah. Why was it he didn't like Link?

AN: And now, specially for chapter 40, the war that raged in Hyrule over twenty-five years ago! (No, sorry, just like the marriage it's just coincidence but still...) Link is trapped in the past and joins the ranks of the army of Hyrule (yeah right, he goes and takes matters in his own hands, just like he has done his whole life).