The Origin of a Champion

Chapter 5- How to Put a Princess to Sleep

The first two days of the week went by mostly uneventful. They were relatively the same. They both consisted of Zarya helping and tending to the Queen and her daughter Zelda, then coming home to find Link and hear about his day. Then she would give him his school lessons for the day which mainly consisted of reading, writing, history, and his daily piano lesson.

She was also attempting to teach him the Shiekan language because he kept asking her too. He wanted to be able to talk to "Aunt Akilah and Uncle Cato" and his two best friends, Purah and Impa in Sheikah. Akilah and Cato being the genius researchers they were, had taught their two young daughters to be bilingual. The whole family could speak both Hylian and Sheikah perfectly. The parents could speak every race's language in Hyrule very well, and were planning on teaching them to Impa and Purah eventually among many other things.

Now obviously Cato and Akilah were not his real aunt and uncle, that was just what he called them because he saw them so much due to their close bonds with his parents. Alvar and Zarya knew Sheikah very well, but they knew no additional languages other than that and Hylian. So sometimes when Link and his parents went to visit them at their house in Kakariko they would all start to speak Sheikah for fun and practice and Link always felt a bit left out. So Zarya agreed to teach Link. He wanted to impress them and understand them better when the Sheikah family temporarily 'switched languages'.

Alvar's days on the other hand were the same as they usually were. Since King Rhoam was not traveling outside the castle until the weekend to Zora's Domain, he did not have to accompany him anywhere. So instead he devoted his time to continue to train the soldiers of the Hylian Army. Everyone at the castle was very on edge due to all the rumors and talk of the eventual awakening of Calamity Ganon, and the constant threat of the Yiga Clan always brewing trouble. The numbers of monsters prowling around Hyrule were steadily growing as well. Sometimes Alvar, alongside other generals and captains, would take their soldiers and wipe out large gatherings of the monsters to help keep Hyrule as peaceful and safe as possible.

Alvar did not train the entire army by himself. The whole Hylian Army was much too big for one man to handle. He was assisted by many other captains and trainers, but he was the main overseer. The Hylian force was split into many different platoons, companies, patrols, and units. There were also many different ranks a Hylian soldier could carry; Alvar being of the highest rank, a Royal Guard, was mostly training and practicing with the other Royal Guards.

On Wednesday though, the King and Queen had a late night council, which ran way later than Zelda's bedtime. Queen Zara always insisted on putting her daughter - who she loved so much - to bed every night. She insisted on it, instead of some servant simply taking little Zelda to her bedroom. But due to the council, she regrettably could not, so she assigned the task to Zarya. Of all her servants and maids, she trusted Zarya the most. Zarya was also around Zara and Zelda most of their day so Zelda would hopefully be the most comfortable around her.

Zarya knew she would be home later due to it but that was fine with her. Wednesday went by fairly quickly and before anyone knew it, it was twenty minutes before the late night council. Zarya was standing in the corner of Zelda's room, being intently stared at by Zelda. She did not approve of being put to sleep by anyone other than her mother, no matter how well she knew them, and Zarya knew she would have to get creative to make things work.

"Good Night Zelda! It's only one night in a long while, you understand right?" the queen asked sweetly.

"Oh of course. Good night Mom," Zelda replied, but her suspicious gaze did not move from 'Miss Zarya' as she called her.

As Zara walked past Zarya and out of the room, she whispered. "Good luck, and thank you," quietly and out of earshot from Zelda. Zarya simply smiled and bowed slightly.