Morning came and the only one it was a struggle for was Celtic. Though Autum helped motivate him to get up quicker. As for Navi she still wasn't feeling close to her normal self. But she played it off that she was ok.
The group walked out of the compound. There was a large fence with different horses inside. There were a couple of farm hands helping out keeping watch of the horses. Ganondorf walked up to the gate opening it. He looked back at everyone and shook his head. He had his bags hosted over his shoulder and his large sword on his back.
"Alright mount up, pick whichever horse you want," Ganondorf spoke up as he walked up to a large white horse. Hooking up his bag and sword to the horse so he would be comfortable on the horse. He pulled himself up onto it and looked back to the group.
Link smiled, finally a bit of home. Walking up to Navi he took her bag from her. "I'll keep it with me." He nodded as he ran off to get a horse. He was a bit excited, it was nice to have some wildlife around.
Walking up to a horse brushing its mane with his hand. He looked to Navi who walked up to him. "You think I can ride with you," she spoke up with her ears low. "I-I" Link put his hand on her shoulder. "It's fine you need the rest."
"Come on let's get you up." Link spoke up. Navi smirked as she grabbed its saddle pulling herself up. "Hah didn't need help." She looked at him. She winced as she heard one of the horses snort. She looked over to Autum who clearly was out of her realm of comfort. She covered her mouth trying not to laugh at the situation.
Link looked at Navi and then to Autum who was trying to approach another horse and it just walked away from her. "You think they never rode a horse?" He looked up to Navi. "I don't think they have." Navi giggled. Autum seemed to always be steps ahead and knowing what to do but here she seemed clueless.
"Having issues?" Ganondorf smirked at Autum. Autum looked up at him giving him a dirty look. "Asswhole" she muttered under her breath. She was sure he was getting a kick out of this. She looked over at Celtic who was getting plenty of kisses from the horse he had approached. She frowned, even that idiot was doing better than her.
Autum let out a sigh of defeat, she only read about horse creatures. Never saw one in person what more, she wasn't much of an animal person at all. She went to walk up to another horse, but it just trotted away from her.
"You need help?" Link spoke as he walked up to her. He watched her sigh and was clearly defeated. "Tell me what I have to do." Autum looked to him and then to Celtic who was on his horse. Though it was walking in circles and he was having some issues still. She looked to Ganondorf who had his horse trot over to help Celtic.
"First you need to relax. They can sense that you aren't comfortable around them." Link spoke up as he took her hand. He guided her slowly up to another horse. He slowly put his hand on the side of the horse's neck. He gave the horse a nice pat. "Here do this."
Autum bit her lip and slowly moved her hand onto the horse. It snorted and looked at her. Clearly not impressed. Autum moved her hand. "I don't know if this is going to work." "You have to be able to trust the horse. They are a living creature and can sense how you are feeling." He tried to explain to her.
"I don't like animals…" Autum admitted. Link looked at her and then to the horse. It was clear why they didn't like her, they knew she didn't like them. "You don't have to like them, you just have to respect them. If you do that they will take you where you need to go." Link looked at her.
Letting out a sigh of frustration, Autum looked at him. "Maybe I could just ride with the idiot" Autum spoke up trying, it was clear she wasn't making progress with this. She also was not very comfortable with these horses.
Link shook his head. "Navi still is very light and having a horse carry two people is a lot of strain on it. It means we will have to take more breaks and the horse will have to rest longer. Making the trip much longer than we originally planned." He explained to her.
Link looked to Ganondorf who rode up next to them. He climbed down from his horse. He looked to Link. "Go get on your horse." He spoke up. "I'll get her riding," he explained as he looked to Autum.
"Come here." Ganondorf nodded to Autum. When she walked up next to him he grabbed her wrist. Autum glared at him when he touched her. She went to jerk away, but he put her hand on the side of the horse. "Rhiannon, this is Autum. Let her ride you, even if she isn't the most graceful." The horse nickered at them as it looked back at them.
Autum frowned as the horse made the nicker sound. It was different from what all the horses made, she had no clue of its meaning. She looked to Ganondorf, "She said you can ride her." He spoke up as he moved some. He pointed to the horn of the saddle. "Grab that and put your foot into the stirrup here." He pointed to the stirrup as he explained.
The horse was much taller than the others, which made it a bit hard for her to reach the horn. She looked at the saddle and put her foot in the stirrup and tried to reach the horn. She winced as Ganondorf gave her a needed push to help her up on the horse. She waddled some as she grabbed tight onto the horn of the saddle not to fall. It was clear she was not comfortable at all with this.
Ganondorf watched her. This woman stood up to him without even a bit of fear, yet here she looked to be flustered, just from a horse. He held up the reins to her. "You don't have to guide her, she will follow. So all you have to do is make sure you don't fall off." Autum slowly took the reins and she held on.
He bent down and picked up her bag that she had set down when she was trying to wrangle a horse. He strapped it onto the back of the saddle for her. "Thanks…" Autum spoke up not looking at him. She felt a bit outclassed on this one.
Looking to Celtic who rode up next to her. "You look like crap." He smiled at Autum. "Shut up." She snipped and winced as her horse moved as she grabbed onto the horn. "How the hell you know how to ride one of these?"
Celtic chuckled. "You know I have a life, it might not have been a horse, but a creature like it. Also, animals tend to like me. Don't worry you will get the hang of it, might start liking animals too." He smirked.
"Doubt it." She glared at him and her horse snorted and shook its head. "I don't think your horse is going to like you either." Celtic laughed at her. Autum growled at him, she was clearly out of her comfort zone.
"Head out," Ganondorf spoke up as he rode past them on a black horse. "Lend forward a little and don't be so tense will help," Celtic explained to her. "It's also going to be bumpy so you need to focus mostly on using the reins to hold you, then that part." He said pointing to the horn of the saddle. He looked at Navi and Link who clearly were waiting for the two.
There was a loud whistle from Ganondorf and Autum's horse took off. Autum let out a small whine as she held on tight to the reigns. She rather just be walking, even if it took more time than riding this animal.
The others followed after, they had a lot of ground to cover before nightfall.
Hours passed and they slowed their pacing for the horses. Autum clearly frazzled from the ride. As much as she wanted to ask when they were going to stop, she didn't want them to see her weak. She also didn't want them to slow down their pace, it seemed they were making good time.
Celtic moved his horse up to hers. "How have you been holding up?" He looked at her. She looked at him, she clearly looked to be on edge. "Ok.." she spoke up. She looked to Link and Navi who were in front of them. Navi was behind Link and had passed out holding him.
"You want a break?" Celtic asked. Autum shook her head. Celtic frowned and had trotted his horse up to Ganondorf. "When will we be taking a break?" Ganondorf looked at Celtic. "We have about an hour of daylight still. So after that I would say. Why? Do we need to stop?" He glanced back at Link who clearly was fine as for Autum it was clear she wasn't doing well.
"There is a place up ahead we can set up camp." Ganondorf spoke up. "Let the others know." He looked at him. Celtic nodded and slowed his horse down to be next to Link. "We are going to be setting up camp." Link nodded and looked back at Autum. "How is she doing?"
"I don't think very well, but she won't admit it." Celtic chuckled. "She has never rode an animal before. So I think she is pretty much stressed out. Which is kind of funny. You know you don't see her much like that."
Link shook his head and chuckled. "Yeah, I forgot that you guys might not know what horses are or even know how to ride." Celtic looked at him. "I didn't know what a horse was, I assumed it was an animal. I have also rode other animals before. So I had a bit of a heads up on it, versus Autum. She isn't very fond of animals either. I'm going to hang back and tell her we will be stopping for the night soon."
Link nodded and watched him head back. Autum didn't look too happy about it. He smiled and looked ahead. They were coming up to an old farm, it looked like it hadn't been used over the years. At least they would have shelter and would be out of site.
Ganondorf got off his horse walking it into the barn. He stroked the horse's face and looked to the group as they started to come in. Walking up to Autum's horse he grabbed the reins. "Do you need help getting down?" he asked her.
Autum didn't say anything, and she slowly moved off the horse. She landed on the ground and looked at the horse. "Thanks for not tossing me off." The horse looked at her and nickered at her. She shook her head walking out of the barn.
Ganondorf walked the horse over and started to take off the horse's saddle. He glanced to Celtic who clearly liked animals more than his counterpart. He patted the horse and went to go finish his horse.
Navi yawned as she stood next to Link. She watched him finish up hanging the saddle. She smiled and walked up to the horse. "Thank you." she nodded and the horse nodded back to her. She giggled a little and looked to Link who was carrying their bags. "I can get mine."
Link shook his head. "It's fine." He winced as a bag hit the ground in front of him then to Ganondorf. "She forgot this," Link nodded, picking it up. He glanced to Celtic who was walking out with his bag. Looking at the horse, he had taken off the saddle and everything. It seemed it might be something else Celtic was good at.
Autum was in the house trying to stretch her lower back. She looked at Celtic who walked in. She watched him drop his bag against the wall. "Damit I left my bag on the horse." "Don't worry about it, Link has it." Celtic spoke up as he sat down on one of the chairs in the room.
"My back is killing me." Autum spoke up as she sat down on the chair as she looked at him. "Means your riding wrong." Autum frowned at him, not happy with his answer. She looked to the door as the others came in.
Link looked around the small room, it seemed to be the kitchen and the living room. Meaning there was probably one bedroom in this house. He looked to Celtic's bag walking up, setting down the other bags next to it. "Do you guys mind if Navi takes the bed?"
"No, I don't need the bed!" Navi whined. "I can sleep on the floor." She looked at Link, not liking the idea of taking possibly the only bed in the place.
"Take it." Autum spoke up. "You are clearly still having issues with the anti-magic barriers. We rather you rest well for the night. The rest of us will be fine." Autum explained as she got up going to her bag. She started to dig through it pulling out a water bottle. She tossed it at Celtic who caught it. She pulled out another one.
Navi sighed and she looked at Ganondorf who dropped his bags next to another wall and sat down on the ground. She looked back at Link who clearly was avoiding Ganondorf even eye contact with him.
Celtic looked between the group. He could see the tension between his wife and Ganondorf and then Link still looked terrified of the man. He knew these emotions would not aid in the mission ahead. He sighed, usually in the elites it was Kiko who dealt with this issue. He got to his feet and prepared himself.
"Alright you three." Celtic spoke up. "You need to deal with whatever shit you have between each of you." He looked at Autum. "You need to just stop being a bitch." Looking to Link. "You need to figure out whatever issue you have with Ganondorf. And you." He looked to Ganondorf. "You need to get whatever issue you have with Autum out of the way." He walked up to his bag grabbing it. "Come on Navi let's go check out the bedroom and give them some space."
Link stared at Celtic and came up and grabbed Navi's bag and headed into the small bedroom. He watched Navi follow him, his ears went low. He glanced at Ganondorf and then to the ground. Great, it seemed they could tell he was avoiding Ganondorf.
Autum chuckled as they closed the door. She put her feet up on the table as she looked over to Ganondorf. "He's right, we need to get out whatever shit on the table before we do go on this mission. I'm going to put this out there, it's clear you don't trust me or Celtic since we are outsiders. We aren't here for the triforce or to buy Hyrule from these bastards. So you guys can have whatever stupid thing you want to wish on the triforce when we get it back. Only reason we are here is because blondie over there is our friend. He wants to save Hyrule, so we are here to help." Autum got to her feet. "So if you get your ass in trouble one of us will bail you out. I doubt Link will forgive us if we didn't, neither would your queen." She looked at him.
Ganondorf looked at her. She seemed truthful in her words, but still she was an outsider. He looked to Link, they were friends of his. He did return, what more he had the triforce and these people had done nothing to take it. He sighed and nodded to her. He slowly got to his feet. "Though, next time you talk to Zelda that way I will slug you." He spoke up as he walked up to the table next to her sitting down.
Autum smirked. "I would expect nothing else." She knew the culture was different, but she didn't care too much to learn it. Her brother would be giving her lecture for days about how rude she had been to the queen. "I'm going to go out and to get some fresh air, let you two sort out things." She glanced at Link as she walked past him. She was sure it was those memories that haunted him. He had dealt well with them over the years, but it seemed this was something he couldn't conquer as fast.
Link watched her leave, he was alone with him. He gulped, he was nervous, he knew what Zelda said, but still the feelings that crawled under his skin. He glanced away from Ganondorf, not even sure what to say to him. He rubbed his arm, it was a nervous habit he had.
"Sit, you can ask whatever you want. It's clear our past lives are not the same as they are today." Ganondorf spoke as he gestured to the chair. He watched Link sit down and look at the table. He let out a sigh, it was clear the kid didn't know what to ask.
"When I was born, a seer, said I was the reincarnation of evil. The Gerudo instead of casting me out, or who knows. They took me to the king for his advice. The king did not want to kill a child who had not a chance to live their life and try to make their own choices. Though worried from the seers' words, he had me sent to a witch. The witch sealed away the evil in my heart, so they say. So that lust for power and so on doesn't thrive in me like it did in those old lives. I just tried to survive having two older sisters that kicked my ass." He chuckled as he hoped explaining his childhood might break this fear this kid had with him.
Link listened to him and looked at him. He glanced away trying to take it all in. "Do you think if that seal broke you would change?" He looked at Ganondorf. Ganondorf leaned back thinking about what he proposed. "I pray to the goddesses it would not. I would not want to hurt Zelda, and I fear that would be more pain that she could take." He shook his head at the thought of it. "I also like to think instead of a seal on me, I just was strong enough to make the choices not to, also had a good family who raised me." He spoke up.
Link smiled weakly at him. It was odd sitting at a table with him. All he knew from his memories was this man was evil. He would toss Hyrule into termoul, and it would be to the hero to stop him. Yet here he seemed, well mannered as well as in love with Zelda.
"I know trust is earned, but I will do my best to earn it from you. As for the triforce, we just can't lose it. It's our only hope to help restore Hyrule. So, sorry if it feels I doubt your skills." Ganondorf explained to him. "I just can't let this slip through our hands."
"I understand. Sorry, for how I've been acting." Link looked at the table. "I just have a lot of memories of the past and it's hard sometimes to separate that from now." He looked up at Ganondorf.
Ganondorf held out his hand. "Then let's make peace and work together to save Hyrule." Link nodded, shaking his hand. "Sounds like a plan." Link smiled at him, he would work through his feelings and make this work.
Celtic dropped the bags in the room. It was a small room with one bed. "Close your mouth." He spoke up as he pulled up the mattress hitting it to get off some of the dust.
Navi closed the door. She looked at him and covered her mouth. She wasn't sure what to say to him about his little rant to the group. Her ears were low, she hated the feeling that she was still exhausted. She leaned against the wall watching Celtic and not to get in his way.
Celtic glanced at her and walked up to his bag. He bent down pulling out a blanket. He laid it on top of the bed. He sat down on the bed looking at her. "Sorry, they need to deal with whatever issues they have before we do this."
Navi nodded as she walked up and sat down next to him. She looked to the ground. "I feel so useless." She looked at her hands. "I'm so exhausted, I thought the seals should help." She looked at him. "I mean I'm not getting worse, but it doesn't feel like I'm getting better either." She complained to him. She looked at him as he laid back.
"To be honest, you're lucky you're up and about. You were closer to death, than what we would like to admit." Celtic closed his eyes. "Eznik would be bitching up a storm saying you should have been left back with Zelda and resting. Which is true, but I believe Autum's choice of keeping you close it's more fear if these people got hold of you." he explained.
Navi stared at him. She was close to death? She looked away from him, did Link know? Maybe he was just more happy that she recovered. She let out a small sigh, that was the reason why they both wanted her to take the bed. She laid back looking up at the ceiling. She closed her eyes trying to rest, hoping maybe a good night's rest might help her recover some of her energy.
The group got back together discussing what the plan was when they got there. The big thing was the plan had to change based on what they see in person. As most of the intel was months old.
They all knew that they needed rest, but they took it in shifts. Link would take the first shift, but Navi stayed up with him through it. Though nothing seemed to happen through the night which was grateful to make sure they were all rested for tomorrow's trip.
Link rolled over, he had taken the floor. He looked up at the ceiling and sat up yawning. He looked over at the bed, no sign of Navi. He frowned, she should have been resting more. "Link!" A voice cried out from under her blanket.
Link winced and he pulled the blanket off the bed. He stared at her, she was small again. His ears went low. "It lost its charge! I know Autum didn't want me to turn back! She is going to be mad and I can't turn back. We don't have any way to charge the device! I'm going to stand out as faeries are rare now! What's going to happen with the plan I was supposed to stay and keep watch! And.. and"
"Navi, calm down." Link sighed as he pushed himself up using the bed. He sat down next to her. "The big thing are you feeling ok? That is what Autum was worried about. The plan can change ok."
Navi looked up at him and then to herself. "To be honest, I feel better than how I have been." She looked up at him and smiled. She looked at him as he pointed at her.
"No trying to teleport ok. We need you to keep your strength ok." Link warned her. He smiled at her. "But I am happy to see you doing better." He held his hand to her and she flew up and landed on it.
Navi looked to the bed where her clothes were, they didn't shrink in size. She looked up at him. "You think we can do this, save Hyrule?" She was still uncertain about all of this. She knew that they had some advantages, but still. They were ill prepared, they were expected to be able to go back and get supplies from Autum's house.
Letting out a small sigh looking at her. He didn't like thinking too hard about what all they truly had to do. He nodded. "Yeah I do. It's not going to be easy, though. It's also going to be hard seeing Hyrule how it is now and how the people have been treated." He trailed off.
Navi nodded, her attention went to the door as it opened. She smiled weakly seeing Celtic. "You two awake?" Celtic spoke up looking at them. "The two of them want to head out." It was clear by his expression he would rather be sleeping still.
Navi flew up to Celtic and giggled. "Did you stay up late playing your vid game?" Celtic frowned, "if only, Autum won't give me back my phone…." he muttered.
Link moved the blanket on the bed and grabbed Navi's phone."Celtic, catch." He tossed Navi's phone to him. "She kinda can't use it right now, so if you can play your game on it you can. I'm sure Navi won't mind."
Celtic chuckled as he looked at the phone he caught. Looking at Navi who was small again. "Thanks." He smiled at her. "Er.." he paused looking at her. "Wait, why are you small again? I thought Autum didn't want you to risk the size shift."
Navi tapped her fingers together as she fluttered in front of him. "I kinda forgot to charge it before we came here. I thought we were going to be heading back to the house, so I could swap batteries. So um, it ran out of juice." She smiled at him.
Celtic shook his head. "Well, it at least seems you are doing ok. That all that matters" he pointed at her. "Also thanks again for letting me use your phone." He looked at Link who had packed the blanket and Navi's clothes. "Make sure you two eat something before we head out." Celtic suggested as he headed out of the room.
Navi looked to Link who picked up their bags. She felt the bag wishing she could carry hers. She wouldn't lie, she felt more useful being full size. She followed him out of the room knowing they had a full day of travel.
Autum let out a small sigh, she couldn't believe she was doing this. Was she really that pissy that Celtic was better at riding a horse than herself? Looking at the white horse she had rode yesterday. Slowly she walked up to the horse.
The horse studied Autum clearly wanting to see what her motive was. The horse moved some as Autum reached out to pet her. Stopping, it was clear the horse didn't want her to touch her. "Great…" She looked to the barn doors, no one still.
"Link said if I talked with you.. You might like me a bit more… I don't think that is really how this works.." Autum looked back at the horse, it clearly wasn't impressed with her. "Let's be honest, you can't understand me… and I can't understand you…. " Autum held her head, not believing she was doing this.
The horse let out a blow as it looked away from her. Autum groaned, she felt stupid. "That's about how I feel right now…" She spoke up, responding to the sound the horse had made. She had no clue how to even go about it. Link's tips didn't seem to make much sense to her.
"Sounded like a solid attempt." Ganondrof spoke as he walked into the bar. He had been listening to Autum outside. Autum looked away from him and crossed her arms. Great, she was hoping to do this without anyone seeing her.
Ganondrof held out a carrot to Autum. "Give this to her." Autum looked at him and then to the carrot. She shook her head. "You go for it.." Autum spoke as she walked past him. Her patience with the horse was done, also she really didn't want someone seeing her trying to barter with a horse.
Watching Autum leave he chuckled as he held the carrot to his horse. "Try to be nice to her." He spoke up as he petted her. He knew it was going to be a long day of travel and they were getting ready to head out.
Autum walked out of the barn and looked at the group. She knew she couldn't make up a lie; she was sure that Ganondrof would call her out. "Are you ready?" She questioned the group to keep them from asking.
Celtic walked up holding her bag to her. "I assume Ganondrof is already getting the horses ready?" Autum took it nodding as she looked back at the barn. Looking at Celtic as he put his hand on her shoulder guiding her to the barn. "I'll show you how to sit so you don't mess up your back today." He spoke up.
Autum sighed as she held her bag. She really didn't want instructions from him, but he had to help her stretch her back this morning. She would just have to drop her stubbornness and let him help her. "Fine fine.." she muttered.
The group would get their horses ready to ride and take off for the day. Hours passed and the sun was overhead. Some clouds could be seen but it looked like clear skies for now.
"Link." Link looked back hearing his voice. He looked at Autum who had gotten a little more relaxed riding on the horse. She nodded for him to come back. Link looked to Navi who was on his shoulder.
"Slow down.." Link spoke softly to his horse, slowing up his speed to catch up with Autum. He looked at her, nothing seemed to be wrong.
"How do I control the speed on this?" Autum looked at him. She looked to Celtic who was ahead of her playing on Navi's phone. She didn't like the fact that he was better at this than her. Also it seemed her chat with the horse at least made the ride a bit more smooth. Also Celtic and Link walking her through how she should sit helped as well. She looked at Link who chuckled a little.
"It's easy, a lot of it is talking and simple body movements." Link explained to her. He knew why she wanted to learn, she was very competitive when it comes to things. Especially if Celtic was better than her. There were plenty of nights of them playing a vid game and her failing horribly but refused to quit. Even him and Navi were better at the games than her, which did make it sometimes worse.
Autum looked at the horse and nodded a little. "To get her to go faster." Link pointed down to his stirrups. "You will tap lightly on her sides and tell her yip." Link explained to her. "So like this." He trotted ahead of Autum and then slowed back down.
Watching him closely she looked at the horse as she held the reins tight. She slowly tapped the sides of the horse. "Yip" she spoke up and the horse nickered at her. Growled and kicked the horse a little harder. "Yip." She winced and fell forward some as her horse stopped. She luckily didn't fall off.
Link bit his lip and tried not to laugh at her. It was clear that the horse was just putting up with her. The horse might not even listen to Autum, so this could be fruitless. He looked to Navi who flew up to the horse.
Navi put her hands on her hip. "Come on now, she is at least trying to be nice. I know she is a bitch but please listen to her." She pleaded with the horse hoping it might take pity on the woman.
The horse snorted at Navi. Navi frowned and looked at Autum who was frazzled. "Please…" She then flew up to Autum who clearly wasn't happy. "Don't kick her so hard." She didn't want to say that the horse just hated her, though she was sure Autum knew that.
Autum sighed, she looked to Celtic and Ganondorf who had some distance on them, from her horse stopping it. She looked at the horse and sighed and tried again. "Yip." She spoke up and the horse didn't budge. "Come on.." Autum snapped at the horse.
Link guided his horse up to her and grabbed onto the reins. "Come on." he clicked his tongue and started to guide Autum's horse after the others. He glanced at Autum who clearly didn't look too happy. "It takes time." Link looked to Autum as he let go of the horse's reins as it walked next to his horse.
Letting out a sigh Autum shook her head. "Pretty sure the horse just hates me." Navi flew up and sat on the horses' head looking at Autum. "Well, you have to at least trust her. I mean look you are clearly still not comfortable around her. She can sense that, so when you get over that she will start listening to you." She lectured Autum.
Frowning at Navi, but nodded in agreement. "Yeah…" "Why don't you like Animals?" Navi piped up looking at Autum. Autum sighed as she looked at the group ahead who had noticed they had lost the two and stopped.
Autum glanced at Navi debating if she wanted to say why or not. She shook her head. "Just never been fond of animals growing up." She spoke up, not wanting to go into any more detail.
"What did you do?" Celtic spoke up as he directed his horse to her as they came up to them. "What do you mean what did I do?" Autum snapped at him. Navi frowned at the two rattle at each other. "She just wanted to learn how to ride a horse that's all. It was easier to stop and show her." Navi flew up to Celtic. "So go back to your game." She smiled at him. She didn't want the two to start a fight, it was awkward whenever they did.
Celtic glanced at the group and nodded. He looked to Ganondorf who had rode up listening to them. "If we are done with your little learning lesson, we need to keep moving." He spoke up and headed off.
"Thanks…" Autum spoke quietly to Navi. She glanced at Link who headed after the others. She let out a sigh as her horse trotted after him. It seemed she wasn't going to be figuring out how to improve her skills for riding any time soon.
The group rode on through the day and took a couple breaks just for the horses. As night started to approach the skies started to darken. It seemed storms were going to be rolling in for the night.
Navi hid under Link's hat as the rain started to come down lightly. Link looked to Celtic who slowed his horse next to Link. He held a raincoat to him. "What about you?" Link asked him. "I won't get sick from the rain. I have slept out in the rain more than once. Plus it will keep you dry." Celtic explained to him.
Link nodded and put the raincoat on and put the hood over his head. He looked to Ganondorf who had his own raincoat. Link sighed it seemed that he and Navi didn't pack well. He looked back at Autum who had a coat on.
Ganondorf looked back at the group. "A little bit farther there is a cave we can camp at for the night!" he yelled out to the group. Making a clicking sound his horse sped up. The others followed suit.
The group found shelter in a cave. They brought the horses in to keep them out of the rain. Ganondorf started a fire for the group. He sighed as he leaned up against a wall. He pulled out a locket that Zelda had given him. He put his finger on it moving it across the engraving.
"That's a pretty locket," Navi spoke up as she hovered in front of him. "A gift from Zelda?" Navi asked him. She never had a chance to really chit-chat with him. Since they had to stop early for the day she could talk to him some. He was a bit left out of the group as well since everyone else knew each other well.
Ganondorf looked up at her and then to the locket. "Yeah, it was her mother's. She gave it to me as a promise." He smiled weakly and looked at her. "So, you and Link an item?" he asked her since she wanted to make small talk.
Navi went red and she looked to Link. "um… er.." She looked down, tapping her fingers together. "I think?" She looked at Ganondorf as he chuckled. "What!? I mean grrr.." She was flustered that he was laughing at her.
"Sorry, it's nice to see someone who gets embarrassed about the small things. It's nice to see you and your friend is happy." Ganondorf spoke as he looked to the others. "Over the years everything has been nothing more than survival. So, a nice change of view."
Navi looked at him and then to the others. Celtic was rigging out his shirt as he was looking to Autum and Link. Link was petting one of the horses trying to explain to Autum more about horses to help her in her travels. She smiled some, she was grateful for her friends she had. She looked back at him. "Hopefully we can start changing the view for all of Hyrule!" Navi announced.
Ganondorf nodded, it was good to see she was full of confidence, he wasn't sure of all of this. Part of him felt he was just running into a trap, these people seemed too good to be true. But if the teen really did have the triforce of courage he needed to protect it.
Navi smiled at him. "Keep your chin up! Autum and Celtic they are... Um" She looked at the two of them. Didn't want to say Autum was an assassin… and before that her and Celtic were Elites. "Good mercenaries who have done a lot of missions." She looked back at him. "They have a lot of training for infiltration." She spoke up hoping to explain a bit more who they were to him.
Her and Celtic talked a lot over the last couple years. He explained some of the missions that he and the other Elites would do. "Link and Autum they do a lot of training to keep their skills. So we have a good shot at this." Navi explained as she landed in front of Ganondorf.
Listening to the small faerie as she explained the group. He closed his eyes and sighed. "I do hope you're right. Hyrule is bleeding and its people suffering, it needs to be saved." He spoke quietly.
Navi looked down, it was clear he was running low on hope. She looked to her friends. They could save Hyrule. She knew they could. They had been through so much, this would be just one more thing they could do.
"You should go to them, get some rest. We need to make up some of our lost time from the rain." Ganondrof looked at her. "Go on, I don't need to be entertained."
Navi smiled weakly at him. "If you ever need to talk through any of this, I'm open ears." She offered him. Jumping up she flew over to Link. She looked at Autum who was sitting against the wall looking at her phone. Celtic was on the ground next to her with his head on her leg. He was playing his game.
"You okay, Navi?" Link looked at her as he sat down next to their bags. Navi nodded as she landed on his lap. "Yeah…" She looked over to Ganondorf and then yawned some. "We taking first shift again?" She asked him. "I believe so." He looked to Autum.
Autum nodded as she dropped her phone onto Celtic and started to mess with her bag. "Autum…" Celtic whined as he looked up at her. "Come on.." he muttered as he looked back at his phone. He sighed sitting up as he looked at her. He winced as she shoved his bag at him.
"You need sleep not playing your game. You can play while we travel.." Autum snipped as she moved and laid on her bag closing her eyes.
The group headed to bed taking their shifts. Knowing tomorrow they would have to act. It was going to be a long night.