The Hands Of Time | A Breath of The Wild Fanfiction

The Warrior

It had been about a day since Zelda had left, whilst Link spent the last several hours camping out on the couch, recovering his strength and stopping every once in a while, to stare at the contraption that solemnly laid on the floor in front of him.

He counted every hour that passed by that they weren't together. It felt like counting years.

Early in the morning of the second day, Paya walked in holding a small vile of the medicine he'd been required to take three times a day.

It was a somewhat nasty herbal concoction, definitely nowhere near as tasty as Daruk's.

Paya seemed guilty as she knelt down in front of the couch.

"Sorry to have to make you do this again," The young sheikah chuckled, taking out a spoon from her pocket.

"But actually, let me check something first..." her voice trailed off and she pressed her hand to Link's forehead.

"Wow! Your fever's gone down; I suppose Dorian's remedies really work..." she said, putting away the medicine bottle with another chuckle. "I don't think you'll be needing it."

"Thanks for the thoughtfulness anyways, Paya," Link said, sitting up on the couch.

The shekiah shook her head. "Really, Master Link, you have no need to thank me," she explained, "I guess I ought to leave you be for now; rest up!"

And with that, she turned to walk out of the room; but before she could, Link grabbed hold of her wrist and stopped her.

"Sorry," he began, "this is going to sound odd but can you just leave the medicine here?"

Paya raised a white eyebrow.

"How come?" She asked incredulously.

"Oh- uh, you never know if I might flare up again. Just in case," he explained with an awkward smile.

Thankfully for the knight, Paya didn't question him any further. She shrugged, and gently left the bottle of medicine on the nearby side table.

"Alright Link, if you say so," she replied, a hint of skepticism in her voice.

Link waited until she'd finally left the room to get off the couch.

He retrieved his satchel from underneath his makeshift bed and stashed the medicine inside it, along with a scarf Impa had left him.

Some other things he'd packed included water and other first aid supplies.

He then got up and placed a handwritten note for his sheikah companions to find on the side table in the medicine's place.

"How convenient I've been situated in the living room," Link thought to himself, walking over to the door Paya had left out of.

Twisting a key he'd found sitting atop the doorframe, he locked the entrance.

"I shouldn't risk letting them in on my plan," he said to himself as he walked over to the contraption on the ground.

"Chances are she'll go after Urbosa next, so that leaves...him..."

Link pressed a few more buttons, trying his hardest to remember the order Purah had pressed in earlier.

Finally, after a while of trying to figure the keypad out, the machine finally lit up; Link quickly kneeled in front of it.

"I-I wish to go to Rito Village...over a hundred years in the past."

Hoping his request wasn't too vague, he held his breath as the machine processed and bathed him in golden light.