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It was done…
The calamity was vanquished and to never be seen again…
Link and Zelda looked up to the roof of the old Hyrule castle and just caught the glimpse of green flames blowing away in the wind.
Link smiled up at the bright blue sky, tears starting to fall down his face but he still kept his smile. He unsheathed his sword and held its blade up to the sky, its godly, divine blue glow shined with a luminous aura from the sun. It was the most honorable action for a fallen worrier in Hyrule custom.
Zelda gently placed her hand over Link’s that was holding the sword's grip, sharing the action of honoring their fallen champions, and all who had passed to the calamity.
“Find your way… your spirts are free…” Zelda said before lowering her hand and looking back at Link. The hero lowered his sword and sheathed it, looking at the princess.
“We have done it. The calamity, it will never bother anyone ever again.” Zelda said taking one more look at the castle. Link nodded smiling.
Just possibly a month ago by now he woke up in the shrine of resurrection and headed out to the great plateau, and meet the king’s spirit, found out his purpose as Zelda’s knight, and left the raised mass of land to complete his journey. His mission.
And now, here he was.
A month later, with the princess next to him and they were standing in front of Hyrule fields with the wind blowing in their hair.
But Link could tell from Zelda’s body language and his own pain in his bones that they were exhausted and wanted to get some sleep, that and night was coming soon with a promised chill.
Link tapped Zelda’s shoulder and started signing, “We should head to Hateno village. I brought a house there that we could get some rest in.”
Zelda looked at Link and then to the main mass of the field they were standing in. She smiled and nodded her head. “At least it will be a safe place so we can start to rebuild some of the kingdom,” she said agreeing to come with her appointed knight.
Link whistled for his horse and the white mare came running. He helped Zelda up and then proceeded to jump up himself. They set a course for the small village and galloped through the star-filled night, an aurora light show gracing the people on the land not long before entering the village.
Zelda watched in awe of the fiery lights dancing across the sky, Link himself even taking a break from watching the path to watch the colored glow seemingly guide their way home.
They trotted into the village and everyone who dwelled there was already inside for the night, that made getting to Link’s house a lot easier.
They came to a slow walk crossing the bridge before Link’s house. They stopped in front of the main door and Link helped Zelda down. He signed for her to head in before him so he could put the horse away.
Once he did that he walked in and watched Zelda’s reaction to his home. Her first gaze setted on the champion’s weapons mounted on Link’s wall.
Mipha’s trident sat on the closes corner of the wall and next to it was Daruk’s bolder breaker, then on the other wall opposite Mipha’s weapon was Revali’s great eagle bow, then finale last was Urbosa’s scimitar of the seven next to Daruk’s weapon and her daybreaker hung under the railing to Link’s loft.
Zelda watched as the weapons hung on Link’s wall like trophies (she was honestly surprised Daruk’s weapon could even stay there).
She looked over her shoulder to Link who was right behind her. “You kept them?” she asked. Link nodded. “Why?”
Link brought up his hands to start signing again, “I didn’t feel right to use them…” Link hesitated before continuing, “Like… they belonged to someone else… that I didn’t have a right to use them, it wasn’t my place.” Link halted again before continuing “plus I didn’t want them to break and I wanted to keep a form of respect for them, you know?” he asked.
Zelda smiled and looked back at the weapons and gave a heavy sigh “I wish they could be here with us now…” Zelda said hugging her arms. Link came up behind her and placed his hand on her shoulder giving her a gentle pat of reassurance. She wasn’t alone in this after all.
Zelda exhaled quickly and looked over to Link’s kitchen table, “so do you often have dinner plans?” Zelda asked. Link though returned the question with a shocked face, as though he had forgotten something. Link made a jester with his hand as to say ‘one moment!’ and then proceeded to walk out of the house and run down to the nearby woods to quickly hunt something. He normally didn’t have guests over so he wasn’t really that prepared.
He quickly paraglided down the small steep and landed in a small clearing of trees before running off into the woods to look for something like a wild boar.
He kept on running until he came into a bigger clearing hopeing to find at least maybe a duck he could shoot down. It wasn’t until he tripped and fell flat on his chest that he noticed an odd pattern clipped into the grass he was standing in. At first, he thought it was a korok hiding somewhere until he walked into the middle of the pattern when he noticed it was a sort of pentagram, and he knew well that korok never dealt in pentagrams, it would normally be in a rune of sorts or even just a plain circle of rocks.
He walked out of the circle so continue looking. Maybe it was some of the teens here trying something from a book.
But the moment he took a few steps away from the circle he felt light-headed, he definitely didn’t want to pass out in the middle of the forest were maybe a Moblin could finish him off for Ganon.
Hopeing Zelda wouldn’t mind if they went hungry tonight Link started walking back to his house.
But something felt odd.
His skin felt itchy and his muscles hurt like fire and he felt dizzy. He could barely tell from the night sky to his fading vision and he felt his clothes slide across his skin telling him that they were being stretched.
By the time he walked up to the front door he didn’t even notice he ducked down a little to get through the doorway.
He could barely see Zelda as his vision became grey and his hearing muffled. She made an awkward face at him then when he noticed the floor was coming closer to him he fell asleep and listened out for Zelda’s voice.
“LINK!”