Disclaimer: I don't own it. .
Author's Notes: Alright, it has been forever since I began this story, but recently my friend started playing Twilight Princess and I remembered how much I wanted Link to see Midna again. And so, I am determined to bring them together through this story... and maybe some other pairings as well . ... and some crazy adventure involving two awesome Heroes of Hyrule.
"Okay," said Zelda. "Time-traveling is a very difficult process, and has to be very precise. So listen up!"
We were in Zelda's bedroom chamber, me, Zelda, and my look-a-like friend. We were all sitting on her rather large four-poster bed. Her room smelled of some sweet fragrance due to the incense she was burning, and the cool night air was coming in from the balcony.
Zelda had told Link and I to go gather everything we wanted to take with us. We each brought our swords and other various weapons we hoped we wouldn't need. Zelda was the only one to bring food, some cloaks, and some disguises.
"The disguises are so that anyone we don't want to recognize us won't, " she said while handing me and Link a pair of fake beards.
"But what about you," I asked. "We can't just put a fake beard on you?"
Zelda smiled, "Can't you?"
I watched as she pulled out a scrunchy and two hair pins. She went to work on her hair, twisting it this way and that, until it was shorter than either mine or Link's hair. All of her hair, except a few choice bangs, were wound up into a tight little bun on the back of her head.
"I'm impressed," I said as she proceeded to wrap her head in linen cloths, leaving only her eye and bangs exposed. She closed her momentarily, and when she re-opened it, it was no longer blue, but a fearsome red.
"I'll be going as shiek," Zelda said, and she spun around slowly, transforming the rest of her clothes into a skin-tight blue spandex which revealed a very petite, skinny man-like body.
"How did you do that?" I asked.
"Link⦠darling, "Zelda cooed, "I'm princess freakin' Zelda, I've got magic out the wazoo." Zelda snapped her fingers and a few sparks erupted from her fingertips. "Plus," she said while winking at the other Link, "I've had a lot of practice."
"Well, " I said, "this 'wazoo' you speak of currently resembles a 12-year-old boy's ass. I mean seriously, where did your breast go?" I reached out to feel Zelda's chest but she slapped my hand away.
"Link! Honestly! I'm still a lady regardless of my appearance and I would appreciate it if you treated me like one," scolded Zelda.
Zelda brought out a blue box from under her bed. I watched her rummage through it for a bit until she pulled out five kunai, some darts, and a small harp.
"I'm so glad I kept this all these years."
Confused, I asked Zelda, "What is all this stuff? Who's Shiek?"
To my surprise, the other Link answered, "Shiek," he began, "was Zelda's alias during my quest seven years ago. She would don this disguise to slip away from Ganon and go help me. She had me fooled until the very end."
I stared at Zelda, could all that be true? It was so odd knowing these two had an adventure that no one else remembers.
"Okay, whatever," I said, accepting what they told me to be true, "You're going as this 'Shiek' fellow and Link and I are going to be a pair of bearded twins?"
"Yes, and we'll wear these cloaks so no one will see us to begin with, just keep the hoods up and avoid eye contact with everyone."
"Remind me why we're being so secretive again?"
"Because, ordinarily we'd just reset time, but we're sending ourselves back through time. There will be two of us, and we can't interfere with anything other than stopping Midna. We're going back in time in my room because it is the only place that I can be sure no one will be when we suddenly reappear in the past."
"So why didn't we just go to the Arbiter's Grounds to do this? So we could reappear right where we need to be?"
"Honestly Link, traveling through a desert? At this hour? No, we'll travel there once we go back in time."
I was annoyed with Zelda a bit, sacrificing convenience for the sake of luxury. We could easily do this all in one go if we just took a night's ride through the desert.
Women.
