Who We Are; Zelink, Modern (The Legend Of Zelda)

Epilogue: Journal

Three years later;

Journal of Zelda Harkinian Hero

Three years, two months, one week and two days ago... I met a boy named Link.

A lot has happened in three years.

First and foremost, Hyrule learned that everything it had always believed was a big fat lie. The country I was once a princess of actually gained a true democracy for the first time in over three centuries, or so the stories say. Couldn't trust anything in Hyrule's history anymore... so much had been rewritten it made me sick. I had to be the one to convince my parents to give up their behind the scenes power. They weren't very happy with that... it took awhile because my parents weren't exactly eager to give it up, but they did in the end. I'm not a princess anymore, not that the title gave me any happiness.

My parents never ever said I did a good job vanquishing a freaking demon king. Oh well. I wasn't looking for recognition from them. I had made friends along the way that were more important than my own parents were to me. It's not as depressing as it sounds... actually... it was pretty nice.

The Zora and the Gorons opened trade routes with the people of Hyrule. Things were shaky at first... but after a year it was booming quite nicely. Rare minerals and precious gems came from the Gorons, while the Zora imported a lot of things, including exotic pets. Those were certainly interesting at first. Haha, I still remember the time Groose tried to show off his new Parellalae and it escaped the tank and... yeah that was a fun time.

The Gerudo helped in the battle against the monsters, and once the darkness was destroyed, the Gerudo that I hadn't managed to convince turned against the monsters. The army of evil was defeated once and for all... At least until the next time the Triforce of power shows up. But it's likely to not be in our lifetime.

The men and women of the tribe are loving discovering things of modern tech. It's really quite funny to watch them stare at a video like it's the most amazing magic they've ever seen.

In these three years the Shadow Folk are still nowhere to be found... I'm not even sure they're anywhere near Hyrule... My bet would be no, but hey, I've been wrong before.

The Sheikah settled back into their lives, and Kalil became one of my closest friends. She and Saif got married last year, it was a very fun party.

Amal traveled to the city and started to go to school. He was always one to dream about things like that.

Aamina died a few months ago. At first I was really, really sad. But then I just trusted in the words that she gave me. She said she'd lived long enough. She'd seen the world she'd tried to save be saved by the chosen ones. It was quite the shock for me when Kalil told me what she meant by that.

Aamina had been the hero who first sealed the darkness in the desert after Hyrule had betrayed them. Why she never told us that... I don't know... But it certainly explained why everyone respected her so much.

That final battle returned to me over and over in memories and dreams. It kept coming to me, it wouldn't leave me alone. I don't know where the bow came from but I knew that was the only reason we won. That entire final battle felt like another one of the nightmares... Except this time we won.

Link was pretty shaken up after it all. It was like he'd been hoping forever that he could just be free. To have a normal life, same as I had hoped when I was stuck in the mansion... Though his case was far worse than mine. And when the darkness was gone... It was like he just couldn't believe it.

The visions that Ganon had showed the both of us were haunting Link in his dreams. I did all that I could to pull him out of there, but I had nightmares too. I still do sometimes. About everything.

He was scared that I would look at him differently after what I had scene. But how could I? It was all in the past and it wasn't his fault. That part did not define who he was; and I loved him for who he had become.

We were settling down, planning a new home for ourselves... And that's when I told him that I loved him. I did it with my mind too, because that boy had no self confidence for weeks after the final battle. It was that day that Link twirled me around in the air, almost crying, and repeated I love you, I love you, over and over with his mind.

Ahhh...that's a nice memory... Well, it wasn't long after that before he asked if I would marry him. We had only known each other for a little over two months when we defeated a demon king together... but that is the sort of thing that makes dating a little irrelevant. We both knew that it would work... and we were right.

We were so right.

We settled down in the Land of the Lakes, but we didn't live with the Sheikah, not exactly. We lived near them, but the ground was more our forte. We had no reason to hide anymore; not with the darkness gone and Maldus rotting away in prison with every single person under his corrupt rule.

I personally would have liked to shoot them all, especially Maldus, but... ethics. Every democracy has them.

Anyways, Link should be almost home from visiting Kadir... I stayed home because I had some pretty bad morning sickness. He said that he would stay with me, but I told him to go ahead and go, he wouldn't be gone long anyways. Plus I wanted to write this all down.

There will come a day when I will no longer be around to tell my story... And when that time comes... in case one day I won't be around to tell the story to my children or grandchildren... I'm writing the whole story, starting today.

So... if you're reading this, whoever you may be... this is the story of Link and I. A story of what we did in order to save Hyrule and the lands surrounding it. How good won over evil, as it always should. 

This is the story of who we are.