Attack on Titan/Zelda crossover - To Hyrule and Back Again

Chapter Eighteen: Ocarina

Link's Point of View

Let's do this.

I hop onto Epona and tie my bags to the saddle as everybody else readies themselves. Mikasa leaves and comes back fifteen minutes later and tells us, "The guards have been taken care of. We're ready."

And so we ride towards District Utopia until the entrance is meters away from us. Mikasa jumps off her horse and scans the entrance, and then signals to us that it's all clear, and we enter, riding past the river that goes through the entrance and into the district. There's a neighborhood out in the distance, surrounded by fields of grass, and there's a dirt road leading from our position to the neighborhood.

This is it, I think. This is where it ends. This is the "final boss" room.

We ride on the dirt path in a tight-knit group, past the rushing lake and past the farmland off to the side. Once we reach the neighborhood, we're greeted by an overarching gate; I quickly realize it isn't just a neighborhood - it's a village. It's busy, just like Zingi was, and gives off a somber feeling, but not too somber. Armin looks back at us on his horse, and we make eye contact.

"I'm going to set up camp in this place, and if you have something important to tell me then you can find me here."

"You're not going to help fight?" asks Jean.

"You know - I-I can't! I'm... I'm not brave enough. I'll still be of use, though. Tonight, if the fight has not started, come back here so we can think of a plan. It'll be our base for the time being."

He climbs off of his horse and walks through the black, overarching gate, and into the village. He eventually enters some kind of building and walks back out a few moments later and approaches the group.

"I found a place to stay. Sasha, let's switch horses so I can take Alex inside," he tells Sasha. Alex is on Sasha's horse, still passed out, but alive. He's missing an arm, but other than that he's fine. The two switch horses and Armin rides into the village before we split into two groups: Me and Jean, and Mikasa, Connie, and Sasha. Mikasa's group rides into the village and Jean & I go around it.

Travelling left of the village, I notice that it stretches for a while, sort-of in a linear fashion. We travel through a plantation, a large one at that; out in the distance, to the left of me and Jean is a farmhouse, and even further left is a barn. After riding a bit we see a tall house, and when we go around it we see a street extending from said house into a brick tunnel, which makes its way underground. I look at Jean, who's also studying it.

"Shall we take a look?" I ask.

"Sure."

We slow our horses down and jump off. I fix my gaze to the house; it's made out of red brick, like the tunnel, is three stories with multiple windows, and seems kinda out of place. Surrounding it are fields, but not farmland. I then turn my head to the tunnel. The concrete street, or path, I should say, leads into the brick tunnel, which eventually extends downwards and underground. I walk over to it and look inside. It's pitch black.

"I don't think there would be anything here," I say.

"Yeah..."

We continue searching. Riding through the fields of tall grass, with neighborhoods and such out in the distance in all directions. Just when I'm getting a bit bored Jean asks me something.

"Did you really beat Annie all on your own?"

"Yep."

"Well... How? You're..."