Whoops, I couldn't resist and did another 50-sentence set... This one's strictly a sketch of Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask and beyond, in chronological order.

Rating: K+ for a little suggestiveness.
Notes:
Sheik is entirely Zelda in disguise here. I feel like I shouldn't have to disclaim that!


A. Spring - when lives and hearts and hopes are green (once upon a dream)

#15 - Touch
She feels the brush of destiny before she even turns around, a flicker of should-recognition across the sun-filled courtyard: Is it you?

#11 - Name
"Strange," a tilt of her head like a curious bird, "it sounds somehow... familiar..."

#40 - Innocence
"I'm sure the two of us can defeat him, don't you think?"

#25 - Devotion
"Messenger of the Royal Family," the Great Fairy had called him, and he might have corrected her if he hadn't been beaming a little on the inside at the thought.

#01 - Comfort
Ganondorf's looming presence at court still racks her with chills, but she gathers up courage from her newfound dream-champion and meets his venom glare with defiance - We are going to stop you.

#05 - Potatoes *
"You play that song too much, you clod," Navi huffs and disappears into the tree branches overhead, leaving him puzzled to what she has to be so miffed about.

#10 - Ears
Gerudos tend to forget the sharpness of Hylian hearing, so no one notices a loitering princess picking up snippets of muffled scheming, ominous instructions, triumphant laughter - Oh Link, please hurry.

#34 - Lightning/Thunder
He's seen all this before - black clouds choking the sky, white horse erupting through the drawbridge gate, pleading blue eyes catching his for an eternal split-second - but if this is the scene from his dreams, then that means—

#45 - Hell
"Please Impa, we have to go back, I gave him the Ocarina and he'll be killed if we don't help him Impa please—"

#24 - Taste
At the most inappropriate time - Spiritual Stones spread over the altar, two notes of sacred song already echoing off the stone wall - came the most irreverent realization: This ocarina's been in her mouth.

#33 - Fear
She is safe at the moment, but "safe" means little when she has left behind everything precious to the mercy of the enemy, when all her shoddy hopes lie in one desperate message he might never hear, when a sudden presence fills her mind and her hand glows with light what is happening?

#13 - Death
The mocking voice shakes his fading awareness while he's helpless to move even a muscle in defiance, and his last thought before whiteness drowns his senses is I've failed her—

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B. Summer - when embers embolden and emblaze (fire-forged)

#21 - Life
The blue glow flickers and fades, casting into the broken world a newborn hero, a bewildered youth, the hopes of all the land - she takes a deep breath and steps into the light.

#28 - Sickness
He has many things to learn about this new body, some obstacles to overcome and some advantages to master, but there is one aspect he doesn't quite understand and can't quite ignore, especially when it conjures visions of her

#27 - Blood
The first time she spies rust-red stains through the green tunic, she nearly abandons the whole charade just to fly to his aid - but this, too, was the toll demanded of a Hero, so she pays another price for him instead and slips the potion into his saddlepack under the embrace of night.

#12 - Sensual
One night, it is not cornsilk hair and clear-sky eyes that visit his dream but the voice of a slippery shadow, hushed and thick beneath a veil of bunched linen that slides slowly, tentatively down, dry and coarse like desert sand between his fingers... he wakes more confused than ever.

#22 - Jealousy
The Sheikah warrior remains perfectly and enigmatically stoic as he escorts the Zora princess to safety, but inside she howls in what she is not sure is laughter or outrage, Fiancée?

#06 - Rain
A drip of water on the bridge of his nose startles him back into consciousness, and he is surprised to see Sheik has not (for once) abandoned him in the opportune moment.

#19 - Wind
At the Spirit Temple he grows bold, too bold, and she smiles behind her mask with both regret and relief that it would be their last such meeting as her magic whips up blinding sand between them.

#32 - Confusion
Somehow his shadow guide and his bright princess are one and the same, and it's only the first of many things he barely understands as her nervous words flutter past his ears, but Lost Woods be damned, at least he knows there is one thing that finally makes sense.

#16 - Weakness
Her guard crumbles as he reaches for her, at last, at last—a booming voice crashes between them with dark roaring laughter, and her world disappears behind merciless crystal.

#18 - Speed
"You have to rest first," cries Navi uselessly, but a force far more agonizing than weariness compels him up the endless crimson-carpet steps, and that heavy door looms ever closer ahead—

#50 - Supernova
Sacred blade and blazing magic strike together as one, and it is everything—it is enough—it is over.

#43 - Sky
He's not sure where they are or why, but the only thing that matters in this strange, empty realm is his Princess standing beautiful and fragile before him, closer than ever yet more unreachable than ever.

#08 - Happiness
Because it's what he deserves,
the mantra fills the hollow void of her heart, and it's enough to keep her spell steady and her tears at bay until the light has faded completely away.

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C. Fall - when the clock strikes twelve (will you be gone?)

#31 - Home
The forest is still there, and the village is still there, just as he left them, but his world is now so much bigger and his heart dwells somewhere beyond a child's treehouse walls.

#39 - Smile
"I have to find Navi," he mumbles into his lap, and she offers him only blithe encouragement and an ocarina, tucking away wistful words and wishes for herself alone.

#20 - Freedom
No more Hyrule, no more Navi, no more thoughts of her - he tries to tell himself it's for the better, but he has never been a very good liar.

#42 - Clouds
The moon is lost tonight, and though it's commonplace weather for this time of year, she can't help but search the sky again and again, her heart inexplicably tight at her throat.

#38 - Gift
They are out of time and out of hope, for he has no weapons, no powers, no body even to throw against the immense weight of the falling sky, but then his marionette fingers fall across rounded porcelain, and a memory blossoms—

#17 - Tears
The Princess no longer ruins her dresses climbing trees and fighting mock-battles - her handmaidens breathe a sigh of relief - but to her, it is every bit a mourning.

#47 - Moon
Perhaps Termina is really the other face of Hyrule, for everywhere he turns, a stranger wears a face he once knew - but there is one face he never finds, no matter where he travels.

#09 - Telephone
She whispers a secret into the Gossip Stone, casts a prayer upon the web of rumors that the words spread far enough to reach wherever he may roam.

#26 - Forever
Hasty though his goodbye had been, he never meant for it to be permanent - and as another same-new day dawns for the again-first time, he plays to himself a tune that echoes meaninglessly in this foreign never-land, and tries to ignore the first twinge of despair.

#29 - Melody
The sound of her lullaby tugs her out of a dream, lonely and cold against the barely-rising sun - it had yearned, and called, and she had no way to respond.

#03 - Soft
"Why," sighs Tatl, "are we spending this much time trying to help some guy who ran away from his girlfriend just 'cause he got turned into a kid?"

#48 - Waves
Wishing on fairy fountains was a childish fancy she had long outgrown, but now she drops a handful of Rupees into the glowing pool and bares her heart once more upon the widening ripples - Guide well his path, bring him home safe.

#30 - Star
The constellations were unrecognizable in Termina, and he had developed a habit of not looking up very often - but one (new) night on the open, aimless road, he glimpses the Great Triangle bright in the sky for the first time in (three days? weeks? years?) a long time, and hope flares - at last.

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D. Winter - when we find warmth in one another (don't let go)

#35 - Bonds
Her Triforce senses the return of its mate before she does, but even then she dares not believe it until he stands at the entrance to her courtyard, taller and tousled but still bright and bold, and every bit as ready to receive her falling into his arms.

#02 - Kiss
"I missed you," she breathes, and tells him a flurry of things that set his heart soaring, but he has no such skill for words—only blind daring—and so tells her the same in a wordless, reckless way.

#04 - Pain
Time and fate and duty can all whisk away a Hero again in an instant, she is wise enough to know this - but for this furtive moment, she coaxes a promise from his lips and it's enough to believe in.

#37 - Technology
She is endlessly fascinated with the pictograph box, but he snaps only one more picture for his own keeping.

#49 - Hair
She's just the tiniest bit disappointed to find that it does not, in fact, fill up the entire length of his hat.

#44 - Heaven
"Well, I've been to the Sacred Realm," he says, not to her nestled beside him but up at the blue-not-white-gold sky, "and I think it's nicer here."

#23 - Hands
Beneath a cocoon of night, unpunctuated by firelight or poelight or stray roaming stars, only the soft glows of matching Triforce marks betray the exploratory trails over faces, and laces, and skin.

#46 - Sun
She has no good explanation to Impa for how a princess got sunburned there.

#07 - Chocolate
Darunia sends a "delicacy" for the banquet that largely resembles a hewed mass of lava rock - he is the only one brave enough to try it; she is the only one shrewd enough to talk him into it.

#14 - Sex
"Nabooru says the Gerudo have a claim on you," she looks up from the letter, one eyebrow laughingly quirked at his indignant sputtering, "...or at least, a part of you."

#36 - Market
He can't afford it just yet - the ring, yes; the combined setting of sapphire and emerald, no - but he sets his jaw and scrutinizes the back alleys for the last few golden Skulltulas - someday soon, he will.

#41 - Completion
There's no telling how history will remember the bearers of the Triforce - as ageless legends, or as nameless players; but she is content, here and now - gazing out across her kingdom, his hand warm over hers - to leave the weaving of tales to time's whimsy.

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* #05: Bit of a stretch - the style of ocarina used in the Zelda games is called a sweet potato. I'm just too much a sucker for wordplay to not run with it...