"Watch out!" Zelda shouted, wrapping her arms and squeezing painfully around Link's waist. Link wrapped the reigns around his wrists, straining to keep Caviar in line. The three bokoblins in front of them gurgled in painful harmony as they waved their clubs at Caviar. The poor horse was in a panic. They had just gotten onto the road to East Gate when the three monsters in the road stopped Caviar out of sheer fear.
Link gritted his teeth and stirred Caviar with his heels, pulling the reins and forcing the horse to turn around and run the way they had come. The monsters didn't try to chase them, thankfully.
"How're we going to get to East Gate if Caviar won't ride through the monsters?" Zelda asked once Caviar had stopped galloping.
Patting Caviar's neck comfortingly, Link sat up and looked over his shoulder at Zelda. "We'll just have to keep trying."
Zelda nodded and wrapped her arms around Link again. "Try not to buck us off again, okay Caviar?" She said, chuckling nervously. Link patted Caviar again, who nickered in response.
Their second attempt at getting past the bokoblins was worse then the first. Once the bokoblins came into view again, they roared and stood, waving their clubs with renewed vigor. Another bokoblin had joined them, now making the group the frightful foursome instead of the fearsome threesome. Caviar whinnied and began rearing, whacking the closest bokoblin straight into its disgusting snout. The monster flew back at least five feet, knocking into one of its companions.
"Yes Caviar!" Zelda exclaimed. Link quickly got control of Caviar once again, and they galloped away from the two remaining monsters.
Apparently, Caviar was not going to stop again. They ran into at least three more monster camps, but Caviar galloped straight through them, stepping on some of them in the process. Soon, they broke out of the road with the gate looming in front of them. The snowy peak of Mount Lanayru seemed almost like a painting behind the gate, framed by white fluffy clouds and the misty gray sky.
Zelda slid off of Caviar, looking up at the gate in wonder. Link whispered some calming words to Caviar before sliding off as well, looking around at their surroundings. Something about this place was oddly familiar... especially Mount Lanayru.
"This is the place, isn't it." Zelda said quietly, almost reverently.
Link stepped up beside her, nodding in agreement.
Zelda grabbed the Sheikah Slate from her waist, pulling up the picture and holding it in front of the gate and the mountain. The pictures matched almost perfectly. "Yep. We're here."
"I don't feel anything." Link remarked.
"But it's familiar." Zelda pointed out. She suddenly gasped, her eyes wide. "W-wait..." She mumbled, holding her head in one hand.
"Zelda?" Link hesitantly put a hand on her shoulder. He looked over at the gate again when something clicked inside his head, and he was lost in a memory.
Link tried not to show his despair, but it was kind of hard not to. If Zelda couldn't awaken her supposed sealing power on Mount Lanayru at the Spring of Wisdom, the last of the springs, then what else could they do? At the moment, it seemed as if all of their travels was simply for nothing.
Zelda walked beside him, the white of her ceremonial dress making her look as if she were glowing in the sun. Her golden hair was still slightly damp from standing in the spring, and her face was cold and pale from trekking up and down the frigid slopes of Mount Lanayru.
The other champions stood a ways down the road, watching Link and Zelda with masked faces, trying not to show their hope and anticipation. Once Link and Zelda reached them, Daruk was the first to break his mask.
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Hyrule's Light
Fanfiction-discontinued- When Link and Zelda both awoke in the Shrine of Resurrection, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. In fact, they didn't know anything at all. Now, as they clumsily trudge through a strange yet familiar land, a dark...
