Hyrule Warriors-Two Thrones

Chapter.3

After hearing enough of the young girl's banging and calling from behind the door, Link finally decided to get out of bed, get dressed and meet the girl who waited for him.

"Geez, you bedhead, you slept forever!" It was obvious with Linkle's life from caring for cucco's that she wakes up early, and Link normally did too...but yesterday had exhausted him mentally and physically.

"Linkle, why don't you go bother the other Knight's?" Like asked, still feeling groggy.

"I did! I woke everyone up already" Of course she did. This was Linkle after all and although her high energy drove some of the knights crazy, her good spirit always kept morale high.

"Look, meet me at the stables. I need to head over to the armory for a new sword and shield"

"Okey dokey!" Not bothering with any questions, she grinned happily and quickly headed off to the stables. Link sighed but he couldn't help but smile at the girl's cheery energy.
Making his way towards the armory didn't take long, however...something had happened. His shield felt normal as usual...but when he picked up the sword, it felt lighter than he remembered, and the blade didn't seem as sharp.

"I Made it just for you in fine quality. How do you like it?" The Smith asked with a bright smile on his face, hoping he impressed the hero with his craftsmanship.

"What? Really...?"

"Yes...Uh, is something wrong?"

"What? Uh, n-no! It's great, thank you" Link smiled before taking his leave, making his way towards the stables...but the quality of the sword still bothered him...but why? This sword would feel incredible to any other person, right?

Once Link finally reached the stables, he smiled at the startled sounding Linkle as Epona's sudden excitement caught her off guard.

"Hey Epona, I missed you too" He smiled, stroking the horse's muzzle lovingly.

"You're finally here! Now we can do our morning practices" Linkle said, bursting with energy. Link sighed but he agreed to the idea since it would be good practice with his new sword. Riding Epona into the open fields for practice, Linkle began telling Link about her morning. She talked about her breakfast, how she woke the guards and so on. Link however tuned her out while he focused more on his own thoughts. Luckily the ride didn't take too long and the two could finally start practicing.

"Alright, let's start!" Linkle leaped off from the horse's back and onto the grassy lands with a flip. Link on the other hand pet Epona's main gently before hopping off and landing beside Linkle.

"Alright, let's get this over with" Both heroes drew their weapons but for this particular practice, Linkle would be using safe and harmless arrows to shoot at Link, while he would use his sword to deflect and slice any incoming arrows that Linkle would shoot.

Both quickly began and even though Link was focused on the girl's arrows...he couldn't help but feel the low-quality feeling he got from the sword again. Linkle was impressed as always by his skills and his sword looked amazing.

-THE ROYAL  CHAMBERS-

While the two heroes practiced, Zelda was busy getting ready for a special dinner party. This dinner party was prepared as a celebration for the 5 different kingdoms. Ruto of the Zora's, Darunia of the Goron's, Midna of the Twili, Zelda of the Hylian's, and Ganondorf of the Gerudo's. All five leaders were to attend the dinner party, bringing their own foods to share their cultures many different dishes...although no one really looked forward to the Rocks that Darunia would bring.

"Ma'lady, Shall I be going with you?" The Sheikah woman asked.

"No Impa, I need you to stay behind and watch the kingdom for me" Zelda replied as she applied a think coat of lipgloss.

"But-....Very well ma'lady, I won't let you down" As much she wanted to protest against her Queen's orders, she knew staying behind was the best thing to do.

"Thank you Impa, I know I can always count on you" She smiled warmly at the older woman. Impa was flushed a bit, touched by the queen's compliment as she smiled back in return.

"Alright, time to go" And with that, Impa walked Zelda to her ride to see her off...and like that, Zelda was gone...but despite being worried for Zelda, Impa was truly proud of her.

When Zelda finally arrived to the party location, she was greeted by the party hostess queen Midna of the Twili with a large wolf beside her that shared the heroes kind blue eyes.

"Welcome Zelda, now please take a seat, just not my seat of course," The Twili woman said, with her usual Midna attitude that Zelda simply giggled at. But before Zelda could sit, she greeted Ruto, Darunia, and Ganon next...but something about the Gerudo king's expression made her somewhat nervous, and what made it worse was that she felt like he knew it made her nervous and was relishing in it.

"Alright, bring out the food!" Midna ordered with a snap of her fingers and all the rulers servants came running, setting the large table with stones in the shape of a roast, elegant sushi of high Zora cooking quality, exotic and very spice based foods from the desert, fresh bread from the golden wheat of Hyrule, and the strange looking fruit of the Twili.

All the rulers talked, joked, and even made a few business deals with each other all while enjoying the different foods...however, something about the wolf that stuck by Midna's side was very...familiar but not. And when she asked about it, Midna would just say he was her faithful helper but something about the way she would scratch and pet him told her other why's.

"So your highness, how is that Sheikah woman?" The Gerudo king asked, swirling a cup of wine in his hand.

"Just fine. Thank you for asking my Lord" Zelda replied with a smile and held back mentioning Impa's constant worrying.

"Good to hear but what about YOU, your highness?" This time he asked with a grin, setting his cup down.

"I am well your lordship. And what about yourself?" Zelda decided to ask, feeling slightly concerned with Ganon's possible motives.

"Very well your highness, although my servent Ghirahim has been going off on trips and it's greatly been upsetting Zant" As he explained, he ended up laughing towards the end of his words and even began to explain more about Zant and Ghirahim's petty dislike for one another. Through the king's stories, Zelda couldn't help but laugh and smile, unaware of just how low she let her guard down, losing herself in the conversation with Ganon, completely enjoying herself...and oddly enough, she came to the realization that the king actually had a nice voice to listen to, making it easy to tune out the other rulers.

But like all parties, everyone eventually said their goodbyes and went back home to their worried servants.