Disclaimer: I do not own anything canon in the world of Legend of Zelda, its a trademark of Nintendo. Various OC characters are mine though.
PROLOGUE:
Years began to pass since the twilight hero and princess had won against the dark forces of Zant, the false king of the Twili people beyond the dark mirror. Midna, the last known ruler of the twilight realm sealed off her world from ours by breaking the only known doorway to their world.
Queen Mother Zelda, was reading an old passage from an updated history book. She put the volume down and picked up her morning refreshment.
Her heir King Sulien was now ruler and had a small family of his own. Queen Seralia hailed from the neighbouring land of Holodrum and they had two sons. Prince Rhett who is next in line for the throne and his younger brother Prince Everen.
Zelda knew that princesses of the royal family were named Zelda but it seemed that one was born in every dark age, she was the last Zelda to fight off the evil that was the reincarnation of Ganon but then began to wonder if another princess was soon to be born…
The Queen was expecting a third child in the spring and mothers who had visited her suspected that this time it would be a princess… if so then that meant that a disaster was coming as well.
Ganon was murdered by Link during their time so it must be another evil incarnate.
Legends and Lore would help her solve this mystery as written history wasn't always accurate depending on who was telling the tale.
In Orden Village, a girl was born to a small family with only a small farm. There was a small tuff of auburn blonde hair and she had the brightest blue mother and father took a little closer look and wondered.
Link had settled down after the Twilight war and became a pumpkin farmer like the rest of the village of Ordon. He didn't want monsters to come to disturb anyone after his adventures so he made his home in Faron woods, not too far from the village but close enough to defend if the need came up. Link and his wife from the city had 2 sons and a daughter and their eldest son Heath was married and about to have his first child.
He was summoned not long afterwards to welcome his new granddaughter and was amazed at the close resemblance she had to him… she had inherited more of his features than his own children…
"Pa, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind if we named her after you?" Health asked.
Link had no qualms but he did wonder if he should visit a certain Queen, to ask if history was repeating...
It was decided that she would be named Linkle.
Auberon was the name chosen for the newborn prince of Hyrule once spring arrived.
Many of the people were disappointed that no princess was born but the Queen mother was relieved. For when the next tragedy was supposed to come to pass it would probably be her next reincarnation and distant descendant.
What they didn't know was that yes evil incarnate wasn't due this generation but that didn't mean that a Hyrulean royal and courageous peasant weren't going to go on some kind of adventure in the future.
~*~ 15 years later~*~
Linkle was weeding a pumpkin patch her family grew and maintained. She had grown up to be one of the next farmers in her family. Ideally, her mother wanted her to meet a nice man and become a wife but she hardly knew anyone and there was farming to be done, marriage would have to wait a bit longer.
She was a bit of a tomboy and didn't wear many dresses often like other women in the forest.
Her grandpa Link had even let her have one of his old tunics from what he called his adventuring days. The green hat shaped like a cap was her favorite part of the assemble.
"Linkle?" her mother called.
"Yes mama?" she answered as her mother drew nearer
"I need you to go on a bit of a trip for me? We need some supplies for the winter and the only place to get them is Castle town… do you mind going for a few days and gathering what I put on this list?" she inquired.
"Of course not, it's been a while since I went anywhere." Linkle smiled feeling like the break would be good. Adventuring was in her family genes she supposed.
The next day she was getting the last of the supplies she would need for the short trip and loaded up her horse-drawn wagon.
Link felt it was time and waddled out of the house and walked over to his granddaughter as she was preparing to leave for the city.
"Linkle, I want to have this bow," he told her as he held it and an arrow sachet.
"Grandpa, those are…" she gasped in surprise.
"Hyrule is in a time of peace but you can't be too careful with small monsters and bandits… especially at night. Your dad taught you to shoot correctly?" he asked with a smirk
She scoffed at him, all of his descendants were given basic combat lessons, whether it be sword or bow.
She thanked him and told him she would take care of it.
Being a prince of the royal family of Hyrule was not easy, Auberon was lounging on his balcony. He skipped breakfast for once as he was avoiding his mother.
Hyrule would be in the hands of his older brothers as they trained daily to be king and "back up heir". His role was to marry into another family and create an alliance with another country and he was not happy about the constant reminders of all the suitors he was being scheduled to meet in the coming months. At this rate, his mother lined up girls he might be getting married within two years…
Speaking of his mother… the Queen was rushing angrily across the gardens below his window and heading in his direction… Auberon got up and rushed out of his room and headed for one of the only places he could think of that she wouldn't check right away and that was with his grandmother Zelda, infamously known as the twilight princess.
Zelda was getting beyond her years and as things looked like peace would continue she let herself relax more, she wouldn't be around for much longer and perhaps she would only reincarnate into her future great-great-granddaughter. She was currently reading a history volume about her great-great-grandmother, Princess Zelda, the princess who avoided disaster and imprisoned Ganon to transfer to the twilight realm, in which he came back to her time. There was obviously some sort of story missing though. The Hero of Time Link, appeared one day with a warning of what would come to pass if the door of time was interfered with and his proof was the mark of the triforce of courage. He also claimed to have just come from that doomed future and that they had sealed Ganon away already before he came back to his own time…
The library door burst open suddenly and Prince Auberon stumbled inside looking hastily behind him.
"Your mother is looking for you" Zelda stated plainly.
Auberon looked sheepish before bowing to her and crossing the landing to a bookcase in the corner.
Moments later, the door knocked and a guard announced the current Queen of Hyrule.
Seralia curtsied to her mother in law.
"My lady, have you seen Auberon?" she asked clearly seething.
Zelda shook her head and returned to reading her book.
Seralia pursed her lips but turned away and strolled out, guards following after her.
"It's safe to come out now, but know that I will not save you a second time today" Zelda called out into the rest of the room.
"Honorable Grandmother, you have my thanks" Auberon eased into a seat near her while looking like he had been running for a while now.
"You missed breakfast with everyone this morning, I'm sure you're aware that your mother is livid. She had planned a meeting with a diplomat to arrange a marriage meeting with one of their princesses and you were nowhere to be found which looks bad on the whole family, you are a Hyrulean prince, please start acting like one" Zelda lectured while she held his attention.
"I don't want to marry yet… I'm only 15 and I know that my responsibility to the crown is making future alliances but what about what I want?" he asked her somberly.
"We don't make choices based on what we want. This is your destiny and while you may not be another Zelda, bless the goddesses, because I didn't have such a good time, ruling the country by myself and then getting invaded by the twilight realm. Everyone assumes that it must be quite adventurous and glorifying to be one of the mystical princesses of destiny every few centuries but it's not. There was no guarantee that the hero would succeed and save Hyrule." Zelda answered.
Auberon never envied her for what she went through and she was right, the hero of destiny most of the time won against evil but he was sure there must have been times where he failed, not that history recorded those stories…
"May I ask what you are reading?" he said while looking at her book.
"The lore of the Imprisoning War and the Hero of Time"
They spend the rest of the afternoon swapping theories about time travel and the consequences of how things may have been changed when the princess of old sent a boy to the future.