Portrait.

AN – Just so you know the reason these chapters are going slow, is cause I have to establish what I believe link to be like....he never spoke in the games as you know. Also to show the relationship that has developed between him and Zelda after OOT. Remember in this story, she did not send time back seven years.

At the top of the stairs there was a small landing where the stairs forked in two directions. On the wall of the landing there was a painting. It was a painting of Zelda and Link. They were sitting at an angle Link at the back with his arm around Zelda, both where smiling.

Zelda wore a velvet blue dress perfect in its simplicity. This was in sharp contrast to Link. He was dressed in a silver tunic embroidered in gold, with silk white under garments; you could say it was a ceremonial form of his usual dress. He wore no hat though, but a silver crest on his forehead and his hair hanging back with two strands dropping at the front.

The two youngsters stopped to look at the painting. Link still holding Zeldas arm spoke.

"I remember that day well." His voice showed his pleasant nature. "It was the day you gave me that tunic. The Tunic Of Time. I remember it exactly. You came to me and said Link I have a gift for you. The warrior of Time should have his own tunic. After all you have in your possession the tunics of the goddesses. and I just looked at you and smiled." Link felt his heart warm at the thought.

"Yes I remember also. I made that tunic by hand, encasing in it the power of the sages, the power to manipulate time. I handed it to you and asked you to try it on. You came back a few minutes later and took my breath away. You looked like a true hero, and a proud young man too." Zelda tugged his arm. "come on." She turned letting go off him and running up the left set of stairs.

"She always does that." Link said to Navi. The little fairy seemed to lose its glow and flew in to a pouch on Links side. "Tired I guess Navi." With that he followed Zelda. She ran along the first floor past many doors and arch ways. Link ran after her knowing what she had planned.

"Catch me Link. Then I will tell you of my dream." She laughed and turned into a room. Link sped up and followed her. He turned into the same room, it was a room leading into her art galleries it was a long room with several door into it all on the same side.

He looked down the room to his right and saw her running he sprang of in pursuit, laughing to himself as he ran. He was gaining on her fast, he was by far a faster runner than her. He spoke as he ran.

"Why do you persist in doing this, you know I will catch you." He joked.

Suddenly she turned to her left, out back out into the hall. Link followed only to see that she was nowhere in sight. Link smiled and looked around. The walls where lined with paintings and there where chandeliers hanging periodically along the gap between the two sides of the first floor.

"Zelda that's cheating. No magic allowed ok." He said still looking around for her.

She walked out of a room on the other side and laughed. "ok" she said. She turned and made for the stairway. On this floor it was on the opposite side as the one they came up. She was closer to it than link and he knew this.

Link made of towards the stairs to but Zelda was already on her way up them. With out thinking he turned and leaped over the edge of the balcony grabing hold of one of the chandlers and pulling himself up.

He looked to see what side of the fork Zelda had taken. The right. Making her on the floor above where he stood just a few seconds ago. Link jumping in the air pulled out his Long Shot and fired it at the railing. He aimed slightly high and pulled down so it would wrap round and not ruin the wood.

He was pulled up and hoped over the balcony letting go if his long shot just in time to grab Zelda as she ran past. He caught her and picked her up spinning round with her. The two of them laughed madly, the sound could not have been any more natural.

He put her down and kissed her cheek. "Caught you, now you have to keep your side of the bargain." Zelda smiled once more and took his arm. "ok" She replied "this way" She pulled him along the hall towards the open air balcony, the one above the main gate. The place with the best view of Hyrule.

The place he fell in love.