Chapter Two – The Aleta Royal family
5 Years Later
It has been five years since King Daphnes of Hyrule had a baby girl, lost his wife and took in a young boy. With the help of Impa, Daphnes has raised the two children and they are really good friends, one is always with the other, if Zelda had lessons Link was there with her either reading a book or having his own lessons from Daphnes or a knight on the art of sword fights and war, if Link is practicing with a sword, Zelda is there shouting encouragement and secretly watching Link's every move so she could learn how to fight with a sword.
Both Link and Zelda had changed a lot over the last five years, Link was a very energetic child and was always moving, his hair was a blonde mess with his Hylian years just sticking out behind his bangs, he was always seen wearing a green tunic and more often than not with a floppy green hat and sword which was strapped to his back.
Zelda was very beautiful at five years of age, with long flowing blonde hair that reached her waist and the face of a Goddess as some of the maids had started to say, she stood at a couple of inches taller than Link and had the knowledge of a twelve year old.
Both Daphnes and Impa had not changed over the five years that had passed, though Daphnes had started to show signs of old age through his body language.
At this moment Zelda was away with her friend Malon Lon Lon who was the daughter of the ranch owner Talon, the Lon Lon's had gone to Termina to sort out a trade route to the milk bar in Clock Town and to see their cousins in Romani Ranch, Zelda had been invited to go so she could have a quick holiday with Malon.
Link on the other hand was standing in Hyrule Castle's main courtyard with King Daphnes, Impa and the Hyrulian Army ready to greet the Royal family from Aleta, he was dressed in his best green tunic with a floppy green hat on top of his head. Link also had his the Goddess Sword and Kokiri shield, the sword was a replica of the sword and the shield was a gift to Link from the Kokiri's of Kokiri Forest.
"My Lord, the Aleta Royal carriage approaches," said the Captain of the Royal Guard.
"Thank you, Impa, Link, are you ready?" The King asked two of the people he trusted the most, whilst at the same time he wonderd why they were coming, he had only received a message that morning that the Aleta Royal Family were coming and would be at the castle by the end of the day.
"When you are Your Majesty." Impa said whilst Link simply nodded his head.
"King Ike is a very old friend of mine Link, he has a son about your age and his wife would always spend all of her stay with…" He trailed off, Impa and Link both knew that he was about to say his wife's name, it was still a sore subject around the King.
At this point, a group of horses pulling a golden carriage could be seen climbing the hill to the palace in the distance, at this sight the Captain of the Royal Guard yelled, "Present Arms!" At these words all of the soldiers in the Hyrule Army that were present stood to attention and all held their spears outwards for the arrival of the King of Aleta. As the Royal Aleta carriage approached King Daphnes had many thoughts running through his mind, "Why are they here?" was the most common thought present in his mind, but the thing that worried the good King of Hyrule the most was "What did they Want?"
The Golden carriage stopped just a few meters away from where Daphnes, Link and Impa. The driver hopped down from the driver's seat before opening the Gleaming Carriage door to reveal not only the King of Aleta, King Ike, but his wife Queen Mirabelle and their young son who was Link's age, Prince Marth.
"Ike, it's good to see you again!" Daphnes roared, walking over as the Aleta Royal family got out of the carriage, once the rest of his family were out of the carriage, the King of Aleta strode forward and hugged the King of Hyrule, the two Kings had been soldiers that fought in the same war against a neighbouring country who had tried to seize Hyrule and Aleta for himself, they were the Heroes of that war and the Monarchs of their respective Kingdom's allowed their daughters to marry their respective husbands.
"It's good to see you old too friend," Ike replied releasing each other from the hug, "It is good to be back in Hyrule."
"Mirabelle, it has been far too long." Daphnes greeted here before kissing here hand as any Noble man would when meeting a woman of here status.
"Indeed it has King Daphnes." The Queen of Aleta replied, King Ike then brought their son over to present him to the King of Hyrule. "Daphnes, I do not believe you have met my son Prince Marth, Marth, this is my good friend King Daphnes, and he is the one who along with me won the war nearly 10 years ago."
"Well Prince Marth it's is very nice to meet you." Daphnes said Marth replied likewise and then started to talk to the King and Queen of Aleta, Marth then looked over at Link and the two 5 year olds stared each other down, Marth had neat blue hair, blue robes and his sword at his side.
"Father, may I go over to the prince of Hyrule." Marth said the two Kings were surprised at this remark.
"A prince Daphnes?" Ike questioned, "Why did I not hear that you and Amelia had a son?"
"Because I only have one child, Link is under my care because his father saved my late wife's life and mine before my daughter was born, he was very ill and asked as a reward for his deeds that I raised his son as he was dying." Daphnes said.
"Oh I see, yes you may go to Link." Ike said with clear sorrow in his voice, he moved forward and embraced Daphnes and he kept saying how sorry he was as though his words could make things better. Queen Mirabelle was starting to cry because she and Amelia had been best friends since they had been children.
Releasing King Daphnes and going to embrace his wife, Ike said, "We are here because we wanted to see you as Amelia had passed away 5 years ago and we wanted to comfort you because you would have done the same for us." The King of Hyrule thanked his friend and then was surprised that Ike had come up with an idea so quickly "Daphnes, I just had an idea."
"Well what is it" Daphnes said already thinking that he knew what it was.
"Why doesn't Marth become Zel"
"I SAID GIVE ME THE SWORD!" The three people of royalty, Impa, the whole of the Kings Noblemen that had gaverred and his knights. Looked over to where the shout had come from and were all surprised to see that Marth was shouting at Link who was hiding the sword behind his back to make sure that the Prince of Aleta did not get the sword.
"WHAT IN THE SACRED REALM IS GOING ON HERE?!" The two kings yelled together, the two five year olds looked over to their respective kings to see them advancing on them with fury in their eyes.
"Marth," Ike said, "What is the meaning of this!" The king of Aleta asked his son.
"I just wanted his sword, he is not of noble birth or royal birth so he is just a commoner," The prince of Aleta answered, "I do not see why a he should have the sword when it would be better off with me."
"This sword has been presented to Link because of his father's actions when he saved my family's life." Daphnes lied keeping the real reason a secret, even though he would have had Link receive a sword as a gift for saving his family's life. "There is no one better to wield this sword than Link and this is the end of it. If your father was not my best friend I would have you escorted out of the castle and have you not to return until you have learnt some manners."
"Do not worry my friend," Ike said, "I will see to it personally." Looking at his son with embarrassment, anger and shame due to the actions and words that Prince Marth had shown, it was appalling.
All this time Link had been watching the two kings and realising that the two of them were the same in a manner of speaking, they both cared about their country's the same way, they both loved their families and they had the same scars from war due to their experiences. King Daphnes was like the father Link never had.
"Link go with Impa and make sure that our guests quarters are ready please." Daphnes said.
"Of course my King," Link said bowing to Daphnes and then turning to King Ike bowed to him and said, "It was a pleasure meeting you King Ike." Then he ran off to Impa and then they went inside.
"Marth, go to your mother now, we will talk about your behaviour later." Ike said to his son with a tone that clearly said that the young prince was in trouble. Once Marth was with his mother, Ike resumed the conversation about his idea. "As I was saying, my idea is, even though you may not like the sound of it anymore, is that my son Marth should become Princess Zelda's consort." As Ike said this, he already knew his friends answer.
"I am sorry old friend, but after his actions just now I must decline, it pains me to say it but I want the best for my daughter, and your son is clearly not the best after that little scene he just pulled."
"I expected as much," Ike replied, "I am truly sorry for my son's actions, we were never like that when we were his age, but we cannot control our children, only guide them."
"That is true, now come, let me show you to your quarters, even though you should know where they are it is only polite of me to do so." With these words the four members of royalty left outside the castle walked inside with Prince Marth cursing Link under his breath so no one could hear.