The marketplace within the castle walls was full of hylians, gorons and zoras, a few humans were also in the mix. It was near chaos, sales everywhere. Everyone was buying up useless junk because it cost them very little rupees. It was a pickpocket's dream, which made it a guard's nightmare. Link was on guard duty, patrolling the marketplace with another guard. It was a sunny and hot day, so the chainmail armor and the helmet covering his head felt more than a little uncomfortable. The spear that was bigger than him was also a little inconvenient to be carrying around a crowded place. As they walked past people in the crowd, something caught his and the other guard's attention.

"GATHER AROUND!" bellowed a loud voice.

The words came from a large goron who had gathered quite the crowed around his stall, much to the dismay of the other merchants. "UVANK AND MYSELF PRESENT THE FINEST TONICS AND POTIONS YOU'LL EVER FIND!" The goron shouted, loud enough to drowned out the sound of an explosion.

"WE HAVE SPRING WATER, FRESH FROM OUR VERY OWN MOUNTAINS! TWENTY RUPEES!" The goron announced as customers quickly began buying from a larger goron who Link guessed was Uvank.

When the crowed settled down, the goron had another announcement to make. "GROW YOUR LIMBS BACK! REKINDLE YOUR LOVE LIFE! OR GET RID OF THAT NASTY THING YOU CAUGHT FROM THAT ZORA YOU SLEPT WITH LAST NIGHT FOR ONLY ONE HUNDRED RUPEES!" The goron shouted loudly, making the guard next to Link put his hands to the sides of his helmet, where his ears would've been.

"Bloody hell! This massive burke is doing my ears in," the angry 30 year old hylian guard told Link.

Link looked around the marketplace before turning to the guard next to him. "Those zoras don't look too pleased with what he said," he replied with a concerned look on his face.

"Not too pleased? They look pissed! Just like the other merchants! And my bloody ears!" the guard exclaimed.

Link just chuckled as he looked over to the merchant, who made a new announcement. "ROPE! BOMBS! OIL! WE'VE GOT ALL YOUR ADVENTURING AND BDSM NEEDS COVERED!" the goron announced, which made the people around him gasp at the last part of his sentence.

Suddenly the other guard pushed passed the crowd with Link. "Come on, let's shut this idiot up before my head explodes with his voice," he angrily said as he quickly found himself face to face with the goron that was speaking.

Link was the first one to say something. "Sir, you can't say that kind of stuff around here. There are kids nearby," he told him.

The goron then looked over to Uvank who made a couple of hand signals before turning to the two hylian guards in front of him and shouting the words, "I'M SORRY! I DID NOT REALIZE!"

The guard next to Link grew more and more annoyed as he shouted back, "Damn it! We're right in front of you! You don't need to shout! I will not be surprised if my bleedin' ears become waterfalls of blood by the time we're through today!" the annoyed guard yelled at him.

The goron looked back over to Uvank who then gave a few more hand signals before looking back at the guard and saying, "I'm deaf!"

The response was quieter than the goron's usual booming voice, but that didn't stop the guard from staying angry. "Well I don't need to be deafened from listening to all this rubbish! If you're going to be this loud, just set off some damn bombs why don't you?.. Actually, forget I said that. Just... don't speak of any strange sex thing while children are running around," the guard said to the Goron before turning around and moving through the crowd with link at his side.

"ALRIGHT!" The goron's voice boomed, making the guard cringe.

"I swear, that goron's voice should be used for torture! I know I couldn't stand that!" the guard said to Link.

"I don't think he's that bad. Sure his voice is loud but that's the only bad thing about him," Link replied.

"You're probably just feeling bad for him because the big git is deaf," the guard responded as he moved down to the quieter side of the marketplace.

"Don't you?" Link asked with a grin.

"That's his punishment for being a loudmouth, it's his family that I feel sorry for. Imagine having that lumbering idiot around to stay at your house, I bet his parents used rocks for earplugs when they were pretending to listen to him as a kid." The guard grew more annoyed just thinking about being around that goron.

"Calm down Dylan, we can't even hear him from over here," Link stated with a smile, which quickly disappeared.

"AND NOW WE MOVE ON TO OUR SELECTION OF JELLIES!" the goron shouted over all of the noise in the marketplace.

"Oh, that is bloody it! I'm getting out of here before I have to listen to anymore of his spoken diarrhea! Bloody gobshite," Dylan the guard mumbled as he walked off down a street to get away from the goron. Link quickly followed him, not knowing where Dylan was heading.

They both patrolled the streets for hours, coming back to the marketplace when everything was quieter. The sky was turning a reddish orangey color as the sun began to set. There was only a few stalls left open, one selling red, green, blue and yellow herbs as well as one selling various masks. Link and Dylan rested their backs against a wall, and relaxed knowing their work was almost done for the day. Dylan looked over to Link and said, "I can't wait to get back home, I'd get drunk tonight but...got a special thing tonight."

Link looked back at Dylan with a smile. "Something to do with your wife?" He guessed.

"Yep, I plan on taking her away to my hometown I grew up in. It's near the mountain," Dylan told him.

"I think I remember going there when I was younger," Link replied.

"Really? Never told me that. Anyway, you're twenty now... What's up with you?" Dylan questioned him.

"What?" Link responded with a confused look on his face.

"You've could have had so many drunken girls on your nob by now, why aren't you getting with someone? Are you waiting for marriage?" Dylan asked him with genuine curiosity.

"I... I'm just not attracted to them," Link replied as he looked up to the sky.

Dylan just looked at him for a few seconds, before a look of realization spread across his face. "Oooooh, I see! Well, don't worry about it. My cousin prefers the guys too. Guess I shoulda known, you know, with your earring and all," Dylan said with a smile.

Link had a sudden shocked look on his face before saying "I-I didn't mean that! I just meant I'm just waiting for the right woman," he clarified.

"Oh, err, right!... Well... what kind of woman are you looking for?" Dylan replied, trying to avoid the topic of his cousin.

"I don't know... Someone different, cute type I guess," Link told him.

"Cute type eh? Well, might wanna get your ass out of here then, all the cute types here are taken by the rich old geezers," Dylan said.

Link looked up to the sky before saying, "I think our shift is over, we should check with the captain."

"Yeah, probably right," Dylan said as he started walking out of the market with Link.

After a few seconds of walking, Link just had to ask something. "What did you mean before? With your earring and all?" he asked, not knowing it'd be the topic of their conversation for what remained of the day.

After an hour, Link found himself in his place. His place was basically just two rooms, the walls were almost crumbling away and the floorboards were creaky and old, but it wasn't that bad. He had a wardrobe next to his bed, a chest at the foot of his bed which he used to keep some of his more valuable stuff in, and a single bedside table to the left of the bed which held a candelabra. Behind the bed was a window which gave him a perfect view of the darkening sky, part of the reason he got such a good view was that he was on the sixth floor of the building he lived in. In the other room, there wasn't much. It was where he washed himself and where his toilet was. Link sighed as he sat on his bed and began taking his armor off before getting dressed into a dark green shirt, which had the sleeves ripped off. He also put on some light brown trousers before grabbing his chainmail boots and putting them back on. He then grabbed his keys and closed the door behind him.

Hours passed, the sky couldn't get any darker. Link was now in the marketplace, sitting on a bench. There was no one around, it was so quiet. The only sound came from water in the nearby fountain. He spent a lot of time just looking up into the sky, admiring the moon and the stars. Link didn't know why, but he felt relaxed whenever it was night. However, he did feel slightly sad too at that moment just between day and night. A lot of people were afraid of the dark, but he wasn't. He felt safer and happier during the night than he did during the day, he didn't know why this was, but he didn't care. Link always took time to admire the night sky whenever he could, and whenever he did, he always felt happy. He thought of things as he looked up to the sky, like moving out of the castle walls and quitting as a guard. He thought of becoming an adventurer, he heard they lived well and could afford whatever they wanted. He thought and wished for many things, but eventually, he grew tired and left his spot to head back home.

It wasn't long before he found himself in his room and taking off his boots. He quickly flopped onto his bed and got under the sheets, closing his blue eyes and forcing himself to get some sleep.

Author's note: Okay, so I actually wrote this years ago with the intent to then make it into a longer story. I think the time has come to at least show this off to everyone else and actually start working on it again! This is my first Legend of Zelda story, so it might not be perfect. Also because it is old, I had to correct a load of stuff because I am a dyslexic duck. XD I wanna thank BigBossSonic and Zarfy for editing this, and also big thank you to ArkainSpawn who suggested the name! If you don't get the name yet, you will in later chapters! Anyway, thank you all for reading, and hope you all enjoyed it!

2019 edit: Fixed some grammar and wording, should be easier on the eyes now. :) Gonna go through a few more chapters and fix them up too, shouldn't take too long. Happy reading!