Fight of the Champions

Epilogue - Link

Another day, another ceremony. It had only been 2 months since the last one, and yet it felt like a year ago. So much had happened, so much that Link and Zelda had missed.

Of course, that was the reason for all this. Between the ceremony and the feast that preceded it, they were celebrating everything that had been accomplished.

Link sat on the second floor of the Sanctum, watching the preparations happen. He heard heels and looked over to see his Zelda dressed as beautifully as ever, another royal blue dress, along with Zariah beside her. Zariah... just how much had she'd been forced to experience? She'd been at the heart of the fight from day one, and he personally couldn't be prouder of her. She was dressed in a long dress today, but he could see her boots underneath, and he was fairly certain that she had her sword hanging from her hip. He was still confused where she'd gotten such a razor sharp sword, she had it during the fight, and wielded it admirably.

"I thought I'd find you up here," Zelda smiled, coming over and sitting down next to him, "Avoiding people as always,"

He nodded, watching the door to the sanctum as four figures made their way in, Aadil, Jira, Miko, and Darmar.

"They're here!" Zariah said, jumping to her feet and already racing away to greet them. Zelda watched after her looking a little shocked, but quickly shook herself out of it.

"Well, shall we go greet our heroes then?" Zelda asked, Link nodded.

They both made their way down. Out of all four of them — the heroes who defeated Bahuma and brought peace back to Hyrule — Link couldn't imagine a single person who had risked and sacrificed more than Aadil. The Gerudo Chief wore white and gold robes today, with a long black coat over them, a black and gold ring sat on his finger. He was still getting used to the sight of Aadil's solid gold eyes, he'd mentioned that he'd gone blind when he'd lost control of the Triforce's power, and apparently had to constantly be using it to see again. Link was completely amazed at everything he had accomplished. Almost every single encounter he had with him, he was sent back twenty years to the days when his mother was alive and well. Saiota was still one of the greatest women Link had ever met, and he knew she'd be overjoyed to know how great her son had become.

Beside him stood Jira, who he had originally believed to be a Hylian woman, but rather turned out to be the last of the Sheikah, her stark white hair was pulled out of her face, her scarlet eyes scoured the room for any sign of attack, she was obviously uncomfortable in the center of attention. She wore the same thing she'd worn during the battle, navy shirt and pants, tall dark boots, a long jacket with a hood, a white scarf that concealed her neck completely, and chestplate with the Sheikah eye. Seeing her brought back so many memories of his youth, running around Kakariko Village, before it all burned.

Standing next to Aadil, their fingers interwoven was the Zora Prince, Miko, dressed in elaborate silver jewelry and rich cloths. Over his back, instead of trident like Link had seen him fight with, was a skeletal guitar. He and Aadil looked happy together, he seemed like such a happy and carefree guy, to imagine that he was so close to losing his life not too long ago. He walked with an obvious limp, and there was a long bloody cut stretching over his ankle, bandaged tightly, but still bringing him pain.

The last member of their group was one of the biggest Goron Link had ever seen named Darmar. He looked almost paralyzed with awkwardness as he looked around him, the poor guy must not enjoy being at the center of attention much either. He hadn't heard much from Darmar, and he hadn't seen him fight in the battle, he was stuck to the side, prevented from helping. Despite that, Zariah and the others were adamant that he deserved just as much as the others.

Looking at them, it was clear that they were missing someone. Corvus, the Rito archer they'd brought along with them, the one who betrayed them. After the battle, Aadil had explained everything that had happened to him and Zelda, and Zelda made sure that she was locked up. She currently was sitting in the Castle's dungeons, doomed to be there for another decade. As soon as Jira had heard about it, she'd rushed to Zelda, pleading with her to let her go, that she did nothing wrong. A part of Link agreed with her, based off of what he had seen, the girl had obviously been manipulated by Bahuma, and she'd been the one who had killed him, stopping him once and for all. Even Zariah felt bad about the sentence. But he knew Zelda would never celebrate the achievements of a traitor and a criminal.