The Hyrulian Valhalla Saga
By Queenie Z
Alas, Poor Twilight
Twilight laughed heartily. "Really?" he asked incredulously between chuckles, "There were bedtime stories written about him?"
Wind nodded. "Uh-huh! In my era, everybody knew the story of the Hero of Time." He glanced over at Time, amused at how suddenly uncomfortable he had gotten. "Grandma used to tell it to Sis and I when we were kids. Of course, everybody had their own version, and none of them were very accurate."
"Well," muttered Time, who had turned the slightest bit red at the mention of his fame, "it's not like I was around to correct them or anything. Legends always get distorted over time."
"Yeah, it's really weird." The Hero of Winds leaned back on his hands. "In some versions, the Hero's a little kid, and in others he's a full-grown man. And sometimes people would just make up stuff that never actually happened, like that he fought sea serpents and yetis and things like that."
"Funny," said Twilight, still grinning about the whole thing, "I thought I was the one who fought a sea serpent."
Time side-eyed his pupil. "Aren't you the one who had an entire stage play written about him, Twilight?"
"Ah." Now it was Twilight's turn to become flustered. "W-Well, yeah, but — "
"Oh, you mean Light and Shadow, right?" said a friendly voice from behind them. "That's a classic!"
Wind tilted his head curiously at the new arrival. "Duo, how would you know about it? It didn't even exist in your history."
Duo simply smiled. "I read the manuscript here," he explained. "I always liked plays and musicals. It really is a great work of theater, if a bit inaccurate." He sat down with the others. "I always liked the scene where the Hero and the Twilight Princess have to say goodbye."
Twilight groaned, pulling his hat over his ears as Duo began quoting some choice lines.
"Does the moon lie with the sun? Can the frigid snow of winter mingle with the blistering winds of summer? Surely, they cannot; not without one destroying the other. And so while light and shadow may be two sides of the same coin, they can never mix." He raised his hand dramatically as he recited the rest. "But know this, my Hero; though we may be worlds apart, though the vastness of time and space may separate us, I will always, always love —"
"That's not how it happened!"
All eyes turned to Twilight, whose head was now half-buried in his hat as he blushed the brightest shade of red any of them had ever seen. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Duo spoke up again.
"I-I'm sorry," he said sheepishly, "was I embarrassing you, Twilight?"
"What do you think?" he snapped back, readjusting his hat and standing up. "S-Stupid playwrights… they can't even get a single thing right! Always making up things that never happened…" he continued to grumble to himself as he stormed off, leaving the others to simply watch him awkwardly. Then, after another short silence, Wind began to snicker.
"Man," he said to the remaining two Links, "I've gotta read that play sometime."