O_O omg, I am so sorry for the late update. It's like they say: 'Shit Happens'. I don't have much time, though, so I'll just respond to The Drone and then post the three chapters for this week. So, in response: yes, the fourth wall broke, no, the mansion will not be the shadow dungeon, no, Aryll won't tell anyone, Wind Waker is my third favorite, my first was A Link to the Past, my favorite is Skyward Sword (second fav is Majora's Mask), and I see the three Links all looking exactly the same and in whatever art style was used in the last game that I picked up... yeah, I know, that's a lot. Anyway, on to the chapters!
Chapter 16: Thoughts
After all three of us had recovered from the whole incident with Aryll, future Link decided to try changing the mood by telling us what Zelda had told him. I listened intently; wanting to know there we were going next. However, an abandoned mansion was probably the last place that I had been expecting for us to have to go. Future Link then sat in front of his 'computer' and within a few minutes, he had some sort of list of instructions on how to get to the mansion in front of him. Knight Link immediately asked him how he got that, but future Link just told us that it was complicated.
Figuring that it probably was, we left future Link to all of the planning in regards to actually going there. In the meantime, I thought about Aryll and if she would be alright. When she had left, she seemed really out of it and almost like she had wanted to tell her parents behind our backs, but future Link had assured us that that wouldn't happen, so I tried not to worry about it all that much. Frankly, I was still reeling from when she had put my on the spot, thinking that I was actually future Link. Back when the three of us were together in my dimension, we all found out that it was rather easy for people to mistake one of us for another, so I was able to react at least somewhat quickly.
However, the further that I got with the lie, the scarier that it got.. I was trying very hard to get to telling her to leave (I hated giving orders, but I hadn't seen any other way out of it), but she had discovered knight Link before I could have gotten there. Thankfully, future Link had awesome timing, so it all turned out fine. Afterward, when she had said that she had wanted to help, I found that future Link had been correct all along about how his family would have reacted. It was a good thing that he was able to talk Aryll out of it, though. Neither knight Link nor I wanted her to get hurt, either.
All in all, when knight Link told me that I had done a god job with her, I was in disbelief. However, he also told me that he was impressed with how well I had worked underneath the pressure of improvisation. At this, I looked at him and all that I did was smile in thanks for the praise. Soon after, though, future Link violently snapped us back to reality by claiming that he suddenly had everything figured out as he pressed some sort of button that was on a small, black box beside his 'computer'.
Both knight Link and i gave him looks of confusion, but he just continued on by feeding the black box (that was obviously some sort of machine) some paper. It was then that he finally looked at us and explained with some laughter in his voice that it was called a 'printer'. There was some silence between us as the very loud machine worked, then it spit out some paper that looked like it had writing on it. I then looked at the writing and discovered that it was the directions to the place that we were supposed to go to. Future Link then laughed and tried to explain to us what a 'printer' was.
While all of this happened, though, I couldn't help thinking about how lucky future Link was in being born in this dimension. However, one of us had to have been born into mine, so I felt as though it was alright. Eventually, I brought the subject up with the other Links and the three of us began creating some really insane theories as to what exactly would have lead up to the drastic differences that we had then. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to make sense, especially when given the Master Sword to think about. Although, all three of us decided to simply chock it up to there not being enough source material. This continued on for a few days before it was finally time for us to leave.