《This story takes place after The Heroes of Hyrule!!》 It has been a year since Link and Zelda have restored Hyrule Castle and the morale of their people. The plains are bountiful with flora and fauna, the evils of the world have been erased, and Zelda has risen from the ashes of her past to become the Queen of Hyrule. Link, however, is locked in a battle between being the knight that Zelda needs or letting his guard down and allowing himself to fall deeper in love with her. If she even feels the same way...and if she did, how would Hyrule feel about the young ruler averting her attention to focus on her own interests before her kingdom's? "Finally, she swallowed and looked into the blue of his eyes. And all he could see were the stars shining young and bright in her own..."

On a person's pendant is the first name of their soulmate, the name of the person their soul is bonded to. When young figure skating prodigy Zelda and young ice hockey prodigy Link received their names at the same time and it happened to be the other, they weren't pleased and they were determined to keep it a secret and keep away from eachother. However, being in many of the same classes, having the same birthday and having extremely bad luck, the two just couldn't do so. Now there is a pair figure skating competition, and it just so happens that Zelda is chosen to partner with the captain of Hyrule's ice hockey team to represent Hyrule. All characters are owned by Nintendo.

[ link + f!reader oneshots - requests open ] perhaps he could make her happy. *** " a desert flower can live and grow where nothing else can. It can survive bad times with no water. It flowers again when it has water. "

Link is known to be a man of few words. In this case, it is completely true. He has been mute since he was very little, no one knows why. As you can probably expect, other people his age are rather vocal, especially about him not being so. Zelda sees through it. She takes a look further to see who is behind all of the silence, but it doesn't work out how she expected it to. She doesn't only find a friend. --First place in the modern AU section of the Zelda Warty Awards 2018-- (All characters are owned by Nintendo)