Chapter 110 is finally here! Sorry if this one took a while to come out, I had a situation involving work. This will mostly be a sort of 'relief' chapter after all the chaos and drama that has been going on and I wanted to make sure it came out right. Enjoy!
"Hey everyone! I see King Link and Lady Nabooru! He brought her back!"
A lookout girl called out to the gate guards of Gerudo Town as she spotted Link and Nabooru going down the path of the canyon towards them, along with Reirousa, two of their spies, and three former-rebel Gerudo. They had managed to elude the Ebony Sisterhood and escape the Gerudo Fortress area.
As Link and Nabooru approached the gates, the doors burst open from the inside and the two were immediately treated to the sight of almost the entire population of the town..
"Heh, looks like the welcome party's already arrived." Nabooru smirked.
"Yeah, glad to see the girls already took back the town!" Link grinned.
The crowd all moved off to the left and right to allow the group to walk into town, cheering out and waving in celebration of having their king and head lady back safe and sound.
"We missed you King Link!" "Welcome back Lady Nabooru!" "Great work General Reirousa!"
"Uh, thanks..." Reirousa muttered with a small wave.
"Gee, I was going to tell King Link to take it off, but it looks like he already did! Whooo!" squealed out one Gerudo with sparkling eyes at the sight of Link without a tunic on. He saw multiple girls all staring at him with pink hearts in place of their eyes.
"Now I know what a piece of fresh meat feels like around hungry Wolfos." Link said sweatdropping.
"Then we're going to have to get you a new outfit before these girls have a feast!" Nabooru chuckled.
"Yaaaaaayy! Link and Lady Nabooru are baaaaack!" squealed out a familiar high-pitched voice from the air.
"Uh oh." Link looked up into the sky just in time to see a scrawny winged girl divebombing right at him. He was about to run, but Aviel collided her head right into Link's own forehead, and they both went falling backwards to the ground in a daze.
"Geeeeh..." Aviel groaned with spiraling eyes as she laid on top of Link.
"Hey, be careful Aviel! Don't give him a concussion right after he gets back!" Kesuta called out, descending down from the sky on her broom along with Korume. They both ran right up to Link, helping him up to his feet and hugging him tightly, "Welcome back Link, Lady Nabooru!"
"We missed you so much, my love..." Korume whispered, burying her face in Link's shoulder.
"Glad to be back girls." Link said as he hugged the twins and patted Aviel's head, "And congrats on beating the rebels, I knew you could do it!"
"Hee hee, yeah! We did didn't we?" Aviel smiled blissfully as she was patted on the head.
It wasn't long after that Nemisa, Saria, Togau, Sarami, Ruto and the others all arrived to see them, and there was hugs and congratulations all around. Darunia naturally ran right up and gave Link one of his bone-crushing Goron hugs, but was quickly yanked away by Nemisa and Ruto before they both pulled Link into an almost equally bone-crushing group hug.
"Link-darling, we're so glad to have you back to normal!" Ruto squealed out.
"Grrrr... we were so worried about you, you... moron!" Nemisa shouted, bashing her fists against Link in a fit as she hugged him.
"Good to be back girls, you did great work." Link grinned, giving both Ruto and Nemisa a kiss.
"Ooooh Link! Look at you, you have so many injuries!" Sarami spoke in a panic, seeing the cuts and burns all over his body.
"Ah, it's nothing Sarami." Link said, only to cringe a bit as Ruto squeezed at him, "O-Okay, maybe it does still hurt a little..."
"I thought so. I'm going to have to get you treated as soon as possible and... and..." Sarami paused, feeling at the biceps on his arm, "...a-and I'm going to have to give you a more intense 'examination' when you've fully recovered..." she spoke with a deep, lustful tone as she made sure her breast brushed against his arm.
"Hey, we called him first!" Ruto protested, tugging at Link's other arm.
"I'm just glad you're all okay!" Saria said hugging Link around the waist, "And I'm so glad to have the real you back Link!"
"Same here Saria." Link said, leaning over and giving her a gentle kiss on the lips.
"Hey Link, ya stuck ta yer promise and got Nabooru back!" laughed out Togau, running up and giving Link a hard slap on his rear, making him jolt up straight from his kiss with Saria in surprise, "That's my lover-boy!"
"Ugh, easy on the rear end there Togau..." Link groaned.
Halei meanwhile came running right up and hugged Nabooru tightly, her Bunny Hood's ears tickled against Nabooru's neck before she looked up at the Gerudo leader with tears in her eyes staining her glasses.
"Lady Nabooru, I'm so glad you're back with uuuus!" Halei cried out, bruying her face in Nabooru's abs.
"Me too Halei." Nabooru smiled warmly, patting her head.
Meanwhile Zopem, Vekai, Skuld and his fairy friends, Impa, Sir Knave and Sir Lackey kept their distance, and watched happily as the family of Link were all united together again.
"He really pulled it off..." Lackey smirked lightly from the back.
"Liiiiink! Time to get uuuuup!"
"Can't wake up Aviel, too busy sleeping..."
"Come on! Lady Nabooru said she has to talk to us!" Aviel protested with her cheeks puffed out in a pout, "Now wake up already, sleepy-head!"
It had been one day since Link and his friend's victory over the rebels. They had all been through difficult battles, but after being treated by Sarami's nurses it only took a short while for everyone to rest and recover. Thankfully Ruto, Darunia, Vekai, Impa and her guards had all agreed to stay for a while longer so they could finish up the alliance meeting.
"But the bed's so soft right now..." Link sighed out, he turned to Aviel and flashed a pearly white smile, "Don't you wanna join me...?"
"Um..."
Aviel knew she was supposed to bring Link to the dining room, but she found herself staring down at her husband-to-be laying on the soft bed of pillows and the dreamy smile he was giving her. The bird girl paused for a moment, before she lunged forward and plopped down lightly on the bed.
"Heeeeee... this is nice." Aviel said hugging him tightly, pressing her breasts against him as she gave him a kiss on the lips, "Even before we became lovers I've always enjoyed being here with you."
"Yeah, we could lay here all day long..." Link whispered back, enjoying the softness of Aviel's lips and her chest mounds, just about to fall asleep again...
But suddenly the two were yanked upward and left hanging in the air by their shorts. It was the work of Darunia and Nemisa, holding Link and Aviel up respectively.
"I had a feeling this was going to happen." Nemisa said crossly at Aviel, "Come on already, we have a lot to do today!"
"Awww..." Aviel pouted.
"I didn't think you were going to get Darunia to help." Link groaned in defeat.
"Bwahaha, sorry about this Brother!" Darunia laughed out as he carried Link away over his shoulder.
"Thank you everyone for showing up this morning!" Nabooru said to everyone, she turned to Link and smirked, "Especially you sleepy-head."
"Mornin' everyone..." Link yawned out.
Nabooru, Link, Aviel, Nemisa, Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Vekai, Impa and her guards were all sat down in the dining room that morning. Some servants came in and put down plates of breakfast foods for them to eat during the discussion. One servant put a large flat rock before Darunia that was covered in light brown mud.
"Ah, nothing like a fine sedimentary rock with extra syrup to start the day!" Darunia said merrily, and started gobbling away at it.
"Now that we've reclaimed the town and everyone's recovered, we can get back to the alliance meeting." Nabooru said, she turned to Ruto, Darunia, Vekai and Impa, "I apologize for the delay everyone. I know we've already put you through enough as it is."
"Ohohoho, think nothing of it Lady Nabooru!" Ruto said waving her hand dismissively, "After all you and your people have done for us over the past years, it's the least we can do."
"Indeed." Impa glanced over at Sir Lackey who just nodded, "We'll stay as long as needed to finish our meeting plans."
Nabooru nodded, "Well then, for now we have a few more matters to discuss. Thanks to everyone's efforts, we've not only taken back the town, but rescued a great number of our people from the Ebony Sisterhood as well! Most have already surrendered and are getting rehabilitation treatment, but there's a significant number of them who refused to defect from the rebellion, so they're currently in prison for the time being. I'm currently working on what to do about them, but I'm sure they'll come through someday."
"That's good to hear. According to the rebels we saved from the arena there's been a lot of doubt within the Sisterhood about their leader. Maybe taking back the town was enough to cox them over to our side." Link said, "I hope someday they can reform and walk alongside the rest of our people."
"Indeed." Nabooru said, "My time at Gerudo Fortress fighting their war beasts also gave me a chance to observe the way they're being trained and treated. Hopefully what I've learned will give us an edge against them when we take on the rebellion once and for all."
"So the leader of this rebellion, you said they're one of Ganondorf's wives?" Impa asked.
"That's right, her true name is Imono Dragmire. She was the first of Ganondorf's wives as well as the commander of his army, she's the one that led the war against Hyrule nine years ago."
"I recall the king was approached with a message from her, saying to release Ganondorf or to prepare for war. Naturally the king went with the latter." Impa said, she took a glance at Lackey who seemed to be grimacing a little, though his eyes were obscured by his helmet.
"As much as I hated that war happening, having Ganondorf free would had been way worse." Link sighed sadly, "I know that for a fact..."
"So what about that fiend who drugged Link in order to unleash the Fierce Deity within him?" Ruto asked, "Did you ever find that dreadful man?"
"Unfortunately no." Nabooru shook her head, "He was a slippery one and escaped without a trace. Since he seems to be a master of disguise I've been forced to step up security and have everyone going in and out of town checked to see if he might have taken on another appearance..."
Nabooru reached down and clutched at a book she had hidden in a bag strapped to her waist, the same book of strange writing she discovered in the room where Link had witnessed the fake murder of Esolu.
'Though I intend to learn a little more about this Order of Reyahm group soon enough...' she thought to herself, taking a slight glance at one particular person in the room.
"Before we break for the day though, Link has something he wants to announce." Nabooru then spoke.
"Um, so two things actually." Link said, "For one, I have a speech to give to everyone in town, I think it would be important to assure them and boost their morale after everything they went through with the rebels."
"Sounds good, and what else?" Ruto spoke, just before she took a fried Octorok and gulped it down.
Link cleared his throat, "When I took on Commander Imono, she showed off some incredible power. I didn't stand a chance against her, we only escaped because a certain someone helped us..." he set down the remains of his sword.
"Woah, wasn't that the sword you got from-" Darunia asked, but stopped himself in realization.
"Yeah Darunia." Link nodded sadly, "I underestimated what Imono was capable of and she destroyed my blade..." he looked down at the weapon, and the others could read the guilt on his face, "There's... something else I need to tell you and everyone tonight... something I've been meaning to say for a long time now, but could never work up the nerve to."
Ruto swallowed the last of the Octorok she had been eating, and took a glance to Darunia who nodded to her. Impa meanwhile squeezed her folded arms, looking over at Sir Lackey who stood in silence. Saria had an uneasy feeling in that moment, while Aviel and Nemisa both sat in confusion about just what it could be.
"...it's fine Link, we appreciate that." Nabooru spoke out and nodded, "We'll make sure everyone's here when you're ready to talk."
As everyone else finished their meals and left to prepare for Link's speech, the young king and Nabooru remained in the dining room, as Link stared down at what was left of his sword in silence.
"You alright there Link?" Nabooru asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm sure I'll be fine." Link nodded, "You okay after what happened at the arena?"
"Honestly the biggest thing was finding who Mother Eclipsis was." Nabooru sighed, "When I saw her name on the list of those who had fallen in the war, I never would have thought Commander Imono survived. It explains almost everything..."
"You said you were her Grand Colonel in the army before you defected, right? How well do you know her?" Link asked.
"...let's just say I once had a great admiration of her..." Nabooru said distantly, "Emphasis on 'had'. She was once a great and beloved Gerudo solider. No matter how bleak things were, she never gave up in her goals... The problem was when her goals started to fall into line with Ganondorf and his whims."
"Is was that bad?" Link asked.
"After she was chosen to be his first wife, her love and devotion to Ganondorf is so great she'd sacrifice anything and anyone to try to make him happy." Naboru grimaced, "He could kick her down a flight of stairs and she'd just see it as endurance training."
"Yikes." Link gasped, "And now she's going to go to war and try to free him from prison using that Soulbinder... I can't even begin to wonder why someone could love a monster like him."
"Excuse me, King Link!" spoke up a nurse walking into the dining room, "It's okay to see her now!"
Link and Nabooru looked to each other silently, before nodding and following after the nurse.
The two arrived in a medicinal room of the palace, where they saw some of Sarami's nurses tending to Link's child-bearer, the mute Esolu. Her eyes were closed, and was laying back on her bed with her pregnant stomach sticking upwards. The nurses all noticed their king and head lady come in and bowed their heads at them,
"King Link, Lady Nabooru, an honor to see you!"
"None of that bowing stuff, please." Link clarified, he hurried over to the girl, "How is she doing?"
"Both Esolu and her child are stable, but she's still unconscious." sighed a nurse, "And she shows no signs of giving birth yet."
"We've been using a feeding tube to help provide her and the baby with nutrients, but Dr. Sarami is still worried about how long she can go without delivering the baby."
Link looked down at Esolu and placed a hand on her belly, she didn't stir, but her breathing was steady. He felt some kicking from within. As relieved as Link was about Esolu and their child being alive after all, he was still worried for their well-being.
"What's that thing she's holding?" Nabooru asked, noticing a little bulb-shaped metal object in Esolu's hand.
"She's been holding it since we brought her in." a nurse said, "She had it in her pocket when Queen Ruto and the others found her in the canyon. We tried taking it, but it seemed to make her upset despite being asleep, so we just let her hold onto it."
Link recalled something Ruto told him about before at Kokiri Forest. She mentioned Esolu had come out to the canyon area to find Link, and when they brought her over to where he was fighting Nabooru, she had managed to shout out to him.
The young king thought deeply to himself about what happened that night. As angry as he was at the time and blind to everything around him, he could faintly hear the voices of his future wives all calling out to him. He wanted desperately to hear them,though the voice of the Fierce Deity was doing everything it could to try and block them out.
As he was fighting off his attackers though, he swore he had heard one unfamiliar voice call out to him, a beautiful, almost harmonious sound that pierced through his clouded mind and helped drive away much of the rage he was feeling.
"... … … iiiiiiinnnnNNNNNKKKKKKK!"
Somehow despite her being a mute, Esolu was able to force out something to say. He had never heard her voice before, but it was enough to get through to him. Tears started to form in Link's eyes as he brought his hand to Esolu's cheek, and leaned down to give her a gentle kiss on the lips.
"Esolu, thank you..." Link whispered.
Nabooru placed a hand on Link's shoulder, "It's okay Link, I'm sure she'll awaken soon enough."
"Um, King Link?" spoke up a nurse, "Sorry to interrupt you, but the other girls have asked to meet with you in their quarters when you're ready."
Link's frown turned slightly upwards at hearing that, and he nodded to the nurse.
Nabooru patted him reassuringly on the back, "Go ahead and go Link, I know you've been wanting to see them for a while now." she said with a grin and a wink.
The young king chuckled as he headed out the door, but took a moment to stop and look at Esolu once more before he left.
"Please Esolu, wake up soon..."
"Oh, King Link!" exclaimed an excited voice as Link came into the child-bearers' living quarters. There were about a dozen child-bearers all greeting him, including Ragome and Leivuri. The two of them were holding their children, while the other ten were all still carrying theirs in their wombs.
"Hey girls, good to see you again!" Link said with a gentle wave, prompting the girls to all squeal out and wave back to him. The ones still in their first trimester got themselves up with little effort and ran over to greet Link with relived hugs and kisses. Leivuri had also gotten up to join them, embracing Link and pressing her large breasts against him.
"My king!" Leivuri said, "We were so worried when we heard what happened to you!"
"Sorry about the worry." Link spoke softly as he hugged Leivuri back, "I'm glad you girls are okay after what happened with the rebels."
"Yes, we're all happy to have you back King Link." Leivuri said, hugging him tighter.
Link then felt a strange wet sensation on his chest, and he looked down to see the child-bearer was leaking a bit from her breasts. Leivuri's eyes turned as wide as dinner plates at the realization.
"Heh... little backed-up at the moment, are we Leivuri?" Link sported a small grin as he lifted up one of her massive breasts in his palm. Some men might have found the traits of a pregnant woman like this disgusting or weird, but Link's time being around them all made him find a certain allure to it.
"Kyyaaaaa! Stop it King Link! I-It's really embarrassing!"
Naturally Leivuri's face flushed bright red from Link playing with her breasts that she squealed out and buried her face into his chest, only to immediately pull right back when she realized it was more embarrassing to have her face so close to his broad pecs and abs.
"Yo King Link! Bout time you showed up!" spoke out Ragome, who was holding her twins Safael and Irala in her arms. Don't ask her who was who though, she could never remember.
Despite the wide toothy smile Ragome was sporting though, Link saw she had some bandaged injuries all over her body, he went over to her and looked over her wounds, "Ragome, I heard what happened to you with the rebels, are you doing okay now?!"
"Oooh... actually now that you mention it I'm still feeling kinda sore..." Ragome groaned out a bit, "Maybe if you gave me a shoulder massage I'd feel better...?"
"Of course!" Link nodded, quickly running behind her and started giving her shoulders a good rubdown. Ragome moaned out in pleasure from his busy hands.
"I could use a yummy strawberry cake too!" Ragome spoke up.
"Right!" Link said, dashing off to the food table and getting multiple slices for her.
"And a foot rub!" Ragome said with her mouth half full of cake.
"Of course!" Link got don on his knees and started rubbing down her feet.
"And I could go for a few hours of hot steamy sex!" Ragome then shouted out enthusiastically.
"Very well!" Link said, quickly standing up and yanking off his clothes. Most of the girls in the room squealed out in enjoyment from the sight of his nude body.
"Eeeekk! Ragome, don't play with Link's empathy for you like that!" Leivuri exclaimed, covering her eyes with a pillow.
"Shii-shi-shi, sorry. Couldn't help myself!" snickered Ragome. She saw Link had a mortified expression on his face, pulling his clothes back on after quickly realizing she was just teasing him, "Don't worry about me Link, those rebels thought we'd all just be a bunch of delicate little flowers, but I wouldn't let those bastards hurt the girls!"
Link sighed out and knelled back down to Ragome, giving her a gentle kiss on the lips, making the other girls all squeal out again. He broke the kiss and left Ragome laying back with a dazed look in her eyes.
"You did more then I ever could have asked from you Ragome, thank you." he said with a warm smile, "If you're in the mood to be pampered by me for real then just let me know."
"Shiiishiiiishiiii..." Ragome's face was a deep red at the feeling of the kiss lingering on her lips, as steam was rising up from her head.
"Still, I was wondering why the rebels left you all unharmed." Link said, "I was scared they'd put you in prison... or worse."
"Well that's the strange thing." one child-bearer said, "That Ebony Mother woman put some 'Elite Rebel' lady in a black dress in charge of things here before she left."
"The rebel leader even ordered to have us all killed for the crime of carrying your children... but for some reason that woman never tried to do it. She just told us to all stay in here. She even ensured we received regular meals and treatment." Leivuri said.
"Weird, Nemisa told me about her." Link pondered, "She said her name was 'MAGIS-01', and that she was a Gerudo made into an automation like the Beamos Walkers we dealt with at Meokuro's factory... To think they were actually planning to do something like that to other rebels... it's barbaric."
"But I still wonder why this 'MAGIS' would defy her leader's orders like that...?" Leivuri asked, she offered Link an opportunity to hold Tulisi, which he happily accepted.
"Not sure..." Link spoke as he held his daughter closely, "One things for sure though, we're going to put a stop to all of it, for our future," he looked down at Tulisi, "...and theirs as well."
"Thanks everyone for coming here, I know I've been asking a lot of you all these past few days." Link spoke out in the dining room of Gerudo Palace.
He had just given his speech to the people a short while ago, apologizing for everything that had happened under his watch. He hadn't told them anything about the incident in the canyon, and the soldiers had sworn to secrecy so as not to worry the townsfolk. He did make sure to praise and thank everyone for their work in taking back Gerudo Town, and remind them of when he'd leave for Hyrule Castle to fulfill his goal.
Now sitting around the table was his Gerudo friends and family; Nabooru, Aviel, Nemisa, Saria and her companion fairy Faete, Togau, Dr. Sarami and her ChuChu pet Chupil, Reirousa, the mystic twins Kesuta and Korume, and of course Halei was sitting by Nabooru's side.
Also among them was Queen Ruto and her bodyguard Zopem, the goron chieftain Darunia, the kokiri assistant Vekai, along with Skuld the skull kid and his fairy friends Tatl and Tael, in addition to Impa and her own guards Sir Knave and Sir Lackey.
"No sweat Link, we know what you gotta tell us tonight is important!" Togau nodded.
"Yes, go on Link, I've been waiting to hear this for a while now." Nabooru spoke.
"This has been a long time coming for me, and it's a long story. I hope you're all ready for this." Link said.
"Yes, I'm ready to hear it myself Link." spoke up a new voice, as everyone turned to see Ashe of the Hylian Knights walk calmly into the room.
"Huh? Hey, it's Sister Ashe!" exclaimed Togau, "What in tarnation you doin' out here?"
"Yaaay! Ashe is back!" Aviel chirped happily, running over and hugging her with her bird wings, "We all missed yooooou!"
"I'm glad to see you again too Aviel." Ashe spoke with a small smile as she hugged Aviel, "I would have gotten here sooner after what happened in the canyon, but I was given some bad directions and ended up at Goron City by mistake."
'Somehow I have a feeling it wasn't the directions that made her end up there.' Nemisa thought with a sweatdrop going down her head as she recalled how easily Ashe could get lost.
"W-Woah, it's the lady knight from Captain Andreas' army!" Knave gasped out, "You said before you fought her back at the canyon, didn't you Lackey?"
"Yes, I'm quite glad you're okay, Lady Ashe." Lackey nodded.
"As well as you Sir Lackey." Ashe bowed her head, "I... apologize for my actions before, I didn't realize you were putting on an act to try and help Link."
"It's alright, I'm rather impressed with your swordplay!" Sir Lackey smiled, "Looks like the rumors about you making a lot of headway in the army are true!"
"Ashe...!" Link spoke, suddenly remembering from their conversation how he had fought her back in the canyon, "I didn't hurt you or anything did I?!"
"I'm quite fine Link, thank you." Ashe nodded, walking over to the table and sitting down herself, "I came out here to make sure that you and Esolu were okay, but now that I've walked in on your conversation I'd like to hear this story of yours. I want to understand what happened to you back there as well."
"... …alright." Link nodded. He took a deep breath and started,
"After experiencing the power of Commander Imono as she is now, I realize I need something to fight against it, and coincidentally, that very power lays within the hands of the Royal Family. But there are few problems with it that I need to work around, and I think it's important that you all understand why it is..."
There was a moment of pause as Impa and Sir Lackey both looked to each other with uncertainty.
"Go on Link." Nabooru said.
Link continued, "What I'm about to say might sound crazy, and I don't have anyway to prove it all happened, but there's a reason for it. I'd like to tell you all is the story of the journey I went on... to avenge the Great Deku Tree and stop Ganondorf from taking over Hyrule. As well as my connection to him, Princess Zelda and the Triforce,"
"And it all started one morning when I was woken up by a small fairy..."
That ends the chapter, next week Link will finally tell his friends and family the story of his adventure to defeat Ganondorf, but are they prepared for what truths he's about to say? We'll soon see...
And no, don't worry, this isn't going to be a point-for-point retelling of the story to Ocarina of Time or anything, I assume most people already know the plot at this point. This is going to be a heavily condensed summary, but I will be focusing on details that are important to this story. All I can say is this moment has been a long time coming...
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