Welcome to my Linkverse! This Universe, where each story takes place between Official Zelda Titles, is called Unchained. Inspired by @minas-linkverse, @linkeduniverse, and @linked-maze
Hero of a Thousand Stories (Lynk, 32) takes place between the Oracle games and A Link Between Worlds. He's a librarian who overheard begging families request help of the Royal Militia and knew he had to do something to help.
Hero of Dragons (Link, 20) takes place after Spirit Tracks. Dragons is just a farmhabd helping his grandma, as she tells him stories about the Dragons of Old Hyrule. He quests to bring Dragons to New Hyrule for his grandmother.
Hero of the Dreaming Worlds (Ravio, 19) takes place after Twilight Princess and alongside Hero of the Waking World. Ravio uses the Lorulian Triforce to save Lorule, but nothing goes according to plan. He needs the help of a hero.
Hero of the Waking World (Link, 19) takes place after Twilight Princess and alongside Hero of the Dreaming Worlds. Link is a young solider who sneaks onto missions he's not supposed, along with attending the escort squad for people who could potentially pull the Master Sword.
Hero of the Moon (Nik, 12) takes place after Wind Waker. Together with his twin brother, they must save the Sun and the Moon from being stolen by malicious sorcerers.
Hero of the Sun (Lynn, 12) takes place after Wind Waker. Together with his twin brother, they must save the Sun and the Moon from being stolen by malicious sorcerers.
Hero of the Future (Link, 22) takes place after Four Swords and before Ocarina of Time. The Crown Prince of Hyrule investigates his mother's murder with the help of his little sister, Zelda. His prophetic dreams help a little.
Hero of the Dead (Link(?), 17) takes place after Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. Link can see ghosts, it's nothing new to him. However, when more and more ghosts come to him with help about their murder, he wants to investigate. He hopes it's just a coincidence that all the ghosts are named Link too.
He doesn't really know his own name. Some people call him "Blondie", some "Weirdo", his childhood friend who doesn't have any parents used to call him "Link" after stories she heard as a young child. He doesn't care much for names, but if he had to give one, he'd use Link. He grew up in a small house outside of a local village, Ruto Town. There aren't a lot of people there, mostly just old people who would check on him from time to time while he just sat in his empty house.
One day, when he is about 14, he travels out to Death Mountain, finds a really nice hammer, and proceeds to keep it on his as he's chased back home by monsters. In his frantic swinging, he knocks a stone off of one of the bokoblins following him back. It's smooth, glows blue under the light of the moon, and has a string running through it. He thinks, maybe he can get some money if he pawns it off somewhere.
The first one scares the shit out of him. He's cutting up some veggies he'd managed to grow in salvaged soil and some mother fucker speaks in his ear "Is that a carrot?"
He shoves that knife right through him. Through him. It's a teal outline of a human with blood trickling from its chest. A ghost. What the fuck.
"You can see me?" Of course Link can see him, he's right fucking there what the hell. The ghost introduces himself as Link and hey same name, cool. But the ghost won't stop bothering him, which, not cool. He goes around his house, just doing his cooking, and the ghost wants his help to find his killer which, uh, no shot. He's not risking his ass to find a murderer. And then more ghosts show up, then even more and more and- and they're all named Link. He knew that was a common name in Hyrule but Holy Hylia what the fuck. Eventually, he decides *fuck it. If this is how I go, this is how I go.*
He and his gaggle of ghosts that follow him on this journey, Link 5, 12, and 22 specifically, go through different cities and towns looking for any information on if there's been a lot of people named Link missing. He does occasionally pivot to temples and such in order to grab some magic items to protect himself depending on what the ghosts think he'll need to protect himself and a mirror shield is definitely one of them.
Eventually he gets a few leads of last known whereabouts in the same place. He finds a sorcerer trying to revive a beast called Ganon using the blood of the hero and Link eventually realizes that he's the Hero at this point. Mmm fuck. He introduces himself as Seyléme and she doesn't buy it for a fucking second. He eventually beats her and starts crying because that's the scariest thing he's done his entire life what the fuck.
He heads home. Sells some of the more useless magic items to vendors for food money. Then sleeps for about a week after downing a Good Health Potion.
Hero of the Dreaming Worlds, Ravio and Hero of The Waking World, Link.
Mirrored counterparts from Lorule and Hyrule respectively. The game would take place a majority of the time in Lorule, following Dreamer/Ravio. It would follow Ravio as he beings to learn of all the corruption festering within Lorule, and how its also affecting his Princess Hilda, who he's sworn to guard as her personal knight. He, in an act of desperation, uses his magic to brute force his way into the Spirit Realm where he uses the Lorulian Triforce to ask for the Goddesses help. This... *doesn't go as he had planned*. The Goddesses take everyone from Lorule and basically trap them all within three different Dream Realms. So now he's all alone. In Lorule. And the only other thing around is Ganon and his malice infecting the world. He hears the voice of another Goddess in his head, Lolia (Lorule's Hylia ofc) and she tells him to make his way to the Sword Of Dreams, draw it, and she'll... *summon someone to help*. It takes him a while to get there because of all the monsters jacked up on rage who won't actually *die* and all the Lorulian technology just keep trying to *Kill Him*, ***Lolia I could use some fucking help here***. He gets to the sword placed in a pedestal in the middle of a garden and he wastes *no* time in pulling it out. At the same time, this bright ass light appears and another person falls right on top of him, oh shit it's Awake/Link!!! They take a bit to introduce themselves and Ravio apologizes for a good solid ten minutes before he realizes Link has the Hylian Divine Blade, the Master Sword! Link can actually fucking kill things and purge Ganons malice from everything and Ravio can just breathe for a few minutes. Together, they get to Ganon, and Ravio in a fit of his own spite and rage, uses the Sword of Dreams to subject Ganon to waking nightmares for everything he's done to Lorule. As the guy writes on the ground, Link is just.. "Ravi? Do you need a hug? A glass of milk? A kissie on the top of the head?"
They have a good hug, Link reassures Ravio that everything will be fine after Ganon is gone again. Together, they raise the Master Sword, and if it burns Ravio's hand a little bit he doesn't mention it, as they strike the blade between the Gerudo's shoulder blades.
After Link dissappears back to Hyrule in a shower of golden light, Ravio is alone in the final battle room, covered in his own blood and Ganons and Links. He's not really used to this whole "fighting a great evil" thing so he just kinda walks home(hah, home. His room in the castle.) and promptly passes the fuck out on his bed. It isn't until a few hours after he wakes up that he realizes that the world is still so quiet and *fuck everyone's still trapped in the fucking dream worlds.* ***Are you fucking kidding me.***
So Ravio has to find a way to get into where the Goddesses has trapped the rest of the lolians and it really does take him a little longer than it should to think of their temples with worship springs in them. He breaks his way through because there isn't anyone around who can keep him out and he makes his way through the first temple to find the spring of the Goddess of Wisdom. And as he places his sword in the pedestal in the spring, something glows on the back of his hand. Oh wow, has that been there this entire time? Maybe. He's got the Triforce of Wisdom!
Now, he has to venture inside of the Dream Worlds.
Inside the Dream Worlds, he has to fight off monsters called Nightmares and convince the Goddesses to let the Lorulians go back to their homes in the real world, no matter how amazing the Dream Worlds are and no matter how carefree everyone can be. They need to back to their own lives in the real world. The Goddesses are all like "Wait a second, you *wanted* this. You *wished* for this. Why are you trying to take it back now." He has to admit he couldn't save everyone when Ganon was around and he was too much of a coward to do much else than beg for divine intervention. He gathers pieces of the Triforce back every time he returns to Lorule from one of their dream worlds. In the Spirit Realm, as he reverts everything back to normal as the Triforce reforms, he can distantly see, if he looks down through the glassy floor, another golden Triforce. He returns sometimes to the Spirit world after he realizes this is the only connection he'll ever have to Link. He never sees him again. Ravio goes back to normal life as personal knight and newly appointed advisor to her grace Princess Hilda. The other Royals and Lords don't like him because he keeps undermining their schemes to exploit more money or land from her highness. He's attacked and sedated one day one of the more temperamental lords, Ghyrheim who *sews his mouth shut*. Hilda cuts the strings herself the next day because neither of them trust the castle doctors yet, which ends up leaving scars all around his mouth. He takes to wearing a mask around in public after that.
[And now, from the top]
Link/Awake is the sole Heir to a small fortune and the lordship title from his parents, who died a few years ago. The Haten manor not to far from the beach was his once he reached the age to claim it. Princess Zelda is holding the keys hostage to keep him in the castle because they've been roming the castle together since they were toddlers. He gets the same tutors as Zelda and they eat at the same dining table with the King. Link does sneak around the castle with Zelda sometimes while they were young children, watching the knights and practicing sparring in her quarters with hidden legs of one of her old dressers. It wasn't until he was 15, sneaking into the royal guard caravans that he found himself somewhere outside of castle town. They were escorting someone with dirty blonde hair in lose tunics to somewhere in the middle of deep forests. It isn't until they get to the Master Sword's pedestal that he realizes that the dirty blonde man is probably also named Link and they're here to see if he's the Hero of the era. The man tries to pull the sword, to no avail, and all the guards sign and turn back around and the man in heartbroken. Link watches as they all turn to leave and, very slowly, he drifts into the treeline until everyone else is gone. If he's wrong, he doesn't want anyone else to see this.
He pulls the sword, and in a blinding light, he's somewhere else. He's holding the Master Sword, he's wearing royal guard armor on top of his lounge wear, and there's an extremely haggard looking kid with dark purple hair, bags under his eyes, cuts and bruises and he's *bleeding*, but he's looking at Link in relief. Then Link realizes he's holding the Master Sword, *Then he realizes he has no idea where he is.* He plays 21 questions with this Ravio guy who's very literally the same age as him (same birthday, who knew?) And he finds out that this entire world is empty because of *Ganon*. Holy shit he never thought he'd see the guy in person because all the stories of his are *fucking terrifying*, but here he goes, he guesses.
He follows Ravio, who is *fucking amazing* with that sword which looks so cool, btw. They watch eachothers backs, and Link's pulls up the most fake bravado and courage he can because Ravio looks like he's going to shatter if one more thing goes wrong right now and Link definitely just wants to help him. Most of the minor monsters they have to face are quickly dispatched by Ravio who sends them into waking nightmares with his blade and Link quickly learns how to purge corruption with the Master Sword which is kinda cool.
They face Ganon.
Link almost throws up.
Ravio is outsmarting the scariest monster in the universe and Link barely gets some swipes in before Ganon falls to his own nightmares from a seething Ravio. And wow, the guy is going through a lot right now, and given the moment to breathe, Link makes Ravio look him in the eyes as they breathe. Just for a bit. Link hurts, he was thrown across the room a while ago, he's pretty sure he's got a few broken ribs, but Ravio needs grounding. They look down to Ganon. Link offers the Master Sword to Ravio, because the guy could really use it and kill him for all he's done to Lorule, but Ravio just curls his hand around both the handle and Link's hand and together they seal Ganon's soul back into the blade. Link doesn't have long and he can feel his body getting lighter but he rushed forwards to hug Ravio anyways.
When he gets home, most of his armor is gone, he's bloody and bleeding, and there are tears on his shoulder.
He makes it back to the castle after wondering in the forest for a while, the Master Sword hanging from his back, and he's barely two steps inside the castle walls when he's tackled by Zelda who looks likes she's been pulling her hair out for weeks.
He gets patched up and nothing really happens for a while. He's officially recognized by Hyrule Castle as the Knight who Seals The Darkness and he doesn't really want to mention how he's already killed Ganon because *Lorule feels like such a dream*, so everyone's nerves are on high end waiting for an attack by anyone. Any evil sorcerer or person from another dimension, or someone with a grudge against the Kingdom or Royal Family, but nothing really happens for weeks. Link gets formal training and life moves on. He does visit the spirit realm sometimes, and just below his feet he can see another Triforce, but no reflection kof himself. He thinks Ravio would be down there if he was real.
It isn't until a year later that shit starts getting real again.
Link gets attacked by his own fucking shadow, which, what the absolute fuck. It leaves his room in the castle a mess and all the guards on high alert. Link is hesitant to fight his own Shadow because *one* that shouldn't be happening in the first place, and *two* his shadow looks.. well, familiar. Which makes sense because he's sees that face in the mirror every morning... but it's also. It just. Well, it could just be that he misses the guy but his own fucking Shadow reminds him of Ravio. He wonders how he's doing. (He's clawing at thick cords laced through his skin).
He keeps fighting the Shadow and sometimes the shadows of the other guards or random civilians and it really feels like the world is out to get him for a while there. He meets his Shadow who's planning on merging this world with another and it isn't until the guy starts fucking explaining things that Link realizes the guy is trying to combine this world with Lorule is order to retrieve Ganons corpse and also something called a Demon Blade. It hurts because Ravio was *real*, Lorule *exists*, and he can't fucking go see him because this Shadow is trying to get Things on Ravios end. And while they're fighting, Link does realize that the Shadow really is *his* Shadow because it screams "*Don't you want to see him again?*" in his distraction, his sword arm is loped off. He grabs the Master Sword with his right and seals his shadow away.
Princess Zelda finds him in the Temple of Time, the Master Sword placed in the pedestal still covered in blood and something black, and Link only half conscious, crying, and missing a fucking arm.
He learns how to use his right hand to fight, how to write, how to button his shirt with only one hand. It takes a while but he's not helpless. He practices writing again by writing letters to someone he will never see ever again.
Lynk starts off as a young apprentice in the Royal Catle’s Library to an elderly librarian who’s getting too old to keep up with the work. He’s 16, getting an opportunity to learn to write without any tutors since he’s always been a quick study, and he’s doing fine. During the apprenticeship, he learns to become a stenographer for the royal court, writing down all the reports given to the Royal Family from soldiers to farmhands on the edge of the kingdom. After hearing distressing reports of strange monsters on the edge of the kingdom, he tells the librarian he’ll be out for a few weeks, takes a sword and a horse, and goes to investigate on what’s going on. It’s just a few monsters, which he has more than a little trouble dispatching, and heads back to the castle to where he’s supposed to be, but not before catching sight of someone, some hylian, running from the scene. He assumes that it’s just someone who got caught in the attack, but if that was true, then wouldn’t they call for help? Or something? He ignores it and heads back to the castle. This occurs several more times before he eventually catches wind of something called The Cult Of Gannon, and sweet Hilia he’s going to lose his mind.
Every few weeks Lynk goes out on another expedition to get rid of another monster camp that pops up, kills another subsection of the Cult of Gannon that apparently wants The Hero dead or whatever, and attempting to bring back a long dead ancient pig beast or something. He doesn’t really care, he just wants his home to be somewhere safe to be. Lynk ends up in some funny places and begins racking up his own collection of magic items and the like. He’s got whole travel journals filled to the brim with all of his excursions.
After a few years of this, the Librarian dies and he has to take over the library full time which puts a major halt on all the Cult of Gannon progress he’s been making. Lynk takes most of his investigations to the Royal Guard and they’re shocked on how much it all is. He leaves all of it with them for a few months and hopes they can get some progress made on it, or even whip out the cult altogether.
The Princess herself comes down to chew him out on not beginning all this information to the Guard in the first place, as a matter of security for the entire kingdom. He says the Guard had all the information he had, but they didn’t act on it, they didn’t do anything with it. Maybe they’d have the same information he has now, that he just gave them, if they looked into it sooner. But hey, that’s just his idea. After a while the guards start coming back battered with no new information, or they don’t come back at all. It eventually turns into a case of the utmost importance to the royal family with how many soldiers they’re losing to the Cult and how many more monster camps are spawning out of the woodworks.
As a preemptive measure, because he’s sure he knows what's coming next, he hires an apprentice who looks at him with stars in his eyes for the entire time they work together. Lynk doesn’t really know what that’s about, but whatever he doesn’t really have the time to figure out what the fuck is going on with this kid. Soon enough, The Princess Zelleda herself comes down with a small battalion to recruit him into the Royal Guard as a Knight with the highest regard because they need his help with his own case.
Hilia above, fine, sure, whatever.
He dumps everything on the new kid and takes up the mantle as Head of the Royal Guard. He needs to manage all these fuckers. He ends up finding the location of where the Cult is trying to resurrect the Demon King, Gannon and brings down a battalion on their ass. They’ve almost done it when a mage or sorcerer or something actually knicks his chin, and even with the smallest drip of his blood, and the Princess’ beside him who is a hundred times more inexperienced than he is, the few remaining members of the cult, who barely look Hylian, manage to revive the Demon King. Zelleda takes one of his bows, and using her on hereditary magic, makes Light arrows and they both keep striking at the revived beast until it’s dead.
It takes fucking forever, but they manage it with the help of the last of the guard and one of Lynks magic swords he got a couple years ago that he only took because it was in the middle of the forest and looked pretty cool, okay. They go back to the castle. They’re victorious.
"Hero of the Future" but he's relatively near the top of the timeline, I'm talking around Minish Cap and Four Swords, and he's one of the sons of the Royal Family and has prophetic dreams. He was the first born, but because he wasn't a girl, the King and Queen didn't care much for him, blantly ignored him at points, and focused more on their next child who would be the savior to the kingdom. Whatever. There's not even anything to be scared about.
Then, when he's 12 or so, he sees a beast in his dreams. It terrifies him, the beasts red eyes are seared into his brain. He wakes up screaming and no one comes for him. There's a strange phenomena which begins accuring while he's awake, tired, and scared. He sees people walking around like normal with shattered femurs or blood trickling down their faces. But everyone else is walking around like normal, so he doesn't think it's anything too important. He never brings it up.
Eventually, when he's 14, he wakes up and his mother, the queen of course, has blood trickling down her neck. He doesn't know what this means, but he's scared. He brings his little sister, Zelda, into the secret passageway between their rooms and they continue to pretend everything is fine even if they can hear the castle being ransacked in the walls. After a few hours, everything quiets down, he takes Zel down with him to the royal quarters where their mom lay in bed with her throat sliced open.
He realizes his— visions or whatever they are make him see something before it happens, like injuries or events or– well, he doesn't want to think of the beast seared behind his eyes. Their dad finds them crying over her corpse while a squad of knights tail him for his protection. Nothing happens. They get sent to bed with a higher guard detail. Link's dreams get worse. Zelda tries her weird glowy-hands thing she does sometimes, but it doesn't stop the constant nightmares. Dreams. Prophecies. Whatever.
He starts developing, under Zelda's concern, he launches a full tilt investigation on who killed his mother. He runs away from the castle in the dead of night to the knowledge of none besides his little sister. He goes on an adventure, asking around from place to place if anyone has heard any rumors about a plot for the throne or a coup in the military. He asks around with drawings of the blade left behind which was used to slice the throat of his mother.
He gets information from town to town eventually leading him to an old tale in a Sheikah library about a Hero with a Sword which seals away corruption and he goes "Does moral corruption work? Let's try." And he gets the sword without much fanfare because, as cool as it looks, he doesn't need it for much other than a conspiracy kill or something.
Eventually he ends up fighting a group of corrupt Lords who want to kidnap Zelda and become king by forcing her with their sons. Link isn't having any of that shit. He straight up kills the Lords sneak-style by forcing his prophetic visions throughout the castle and killing them when they're alone or in a state of vulnerability. Link himself, as Prince, calls for council a few hours after his murder spree with the Master Sword, and tells the sons of the Lords that they can make better decisions then their fathers and mothers who would try to do such a thing.
They can make Hyrule a better place. Link and Zelda's dad is kinda pissed but no one has any evidence that Link was the one who killed every lord so *shrug*. That night, he gets visions of a man and a beast, smiling, grinning from ear-to-ear.
The 10-11 year old twins named Lynn and Nik live in New Hyrule together in a small bustling Kakariko Village with a few Shiekah refugees who are quickly forming the village in a small valley. One day, old lady Impa goes missing, and as her pseudo grandchildren, they go out into the forests to try and find her and get lost on they way, instead finding a temple dedicated to The Rising Sun. Impa is there and they bring her back, stumbling and dirty back to her little cottage as Town Elder. The Shiekah Doctor sends them out to the new-forming Castle Town to find a seller for a potion of health for her.
They both go, and while buying the potion, a slick asshole-type guy stumbles upon them while asking around about a creepy temple in the woods and offering a cash reward if he's lead to it. Lynn and Nik are running low on money since the big move, so they decide "what not" and tell him they know where the place is. Even if it isn't, they can just grab the money and book it the second that guy leaves his guard down and they get the money anyways. Win win.
They get to Kakariko, Lynn and Nik split up; Lynn to take the health potion to Impa and Nik to take the traveler to the temple.
While Lynn is with Impa, she tells him of the dangers surrounding that place, the ancient magics no one has seen the like of in centuries. Spacial Magic shouldn't be fucked with, only the Scholars of old would even dare study the stars and whatever magic they bring. Most old scholars of Spacial Magic get stuck as Poes after death, which is what grabbed her earlier. "For now," she says, "stay in the village, and don't mess with that temple." And that's when he remembers Nik is currently messing with that temple and politely extricates himself before booking it to the forest.
Meanwhile, Nik leads this smarmy asshole to the temple and the guy knocks him the fuck out! The hell! He doesn't pass out, he just kinda pretends to because the guys aim is shit but it still hurts. After a few seconds after the guy leaves, he tries to go in, but then he hears his brother behind him and slows his roll for a second. They discuss and and up deciding to stop whatever the guy is doing because he didn't even pay them what the hell. They ever and keep having to redo the puzzles because they reset every time you close a door, but the other guy must have missed something because they find a magic item! They find they guy in the boss room and have to fight him, but they don't win, they don't even stop the guy, because apparently the fucker knows Spacial Magic and fucks with a golden trinket that looks like the sun, smiles, says "Thanks boys" and hightails it out of there. They go back outside.
The sun is gone.
Oh, okay sure fine. Fine. They can deal with that. The magic item is basically a torch that glows when it detects shadows. They go back inside the temple and search for any clues on where the guy has gone and discover the Moon Temple in the West, near the desert. So of course they just leave the village to take a week long trip to the desert. They stop by the Castle to try and talk to Princess Zelda about the situation and the guards don't even let them pass the drawbridge. All the information they get is that she is "Communicating with the Divine in hopes of a solution." They scream "We literally know what's happening let us speak to her." The guards ask for a name and they just say "Link." That's both of their names together, after all, might as well be their team name.
They get shuffled to see the Princess and they try to give her all the information they have by essentially talking over eachother and she just fucking laughs at them for a minute straight when they catch their breath. She's just never had siblings and thinks it's really funny.
They ask her for her help in reaching the desert and she says the most she can do is offer them safe passage in form of horses to the Moon Temple, wherever that may end up being.
They get there too late, and the Guy whose name is Belheim apparently, has plans to rob the entire world of both the Sun and the Moon, and with both celestial bodies out of they way, his family can use the then-more-powerful Spacial Magic to take over the new and budding Hyrule castle with.
They don't make it in time to save the Moon Trinket either.
They end up having to find the three pieces of the Triforce in order to bring back the Sun and Moon and purging Belheim's Spacial Magic from the entirety of Hyrule. In which, they have to be at tei different temples at once, so they split the Triforce. Lynn gets Wisdom and half of Courage, while Nik gets Power and the other half of courage. At each of their individual temples, Lynn at Sun and Nik at Moon, they use the Triforce to bring back the Sun and Moon. The Sun and Moon trinkets melt from gold to ash in Belheim's hands, and the day is saved.
He starts young, maybe 9, as his grandma tells him old stories of the mighty Dragons that once ruled the skies of Hyrule. He does years and years of any remaining research left on the dragons of Hyrule and spends about five years trying to figure out how to return them to Hyrule Kingdom. He never gets the Master Sword, it isn't necessary. He learns from five different research locations that Dragons are created when a Sage ingests something called a Secret Stone or, more commonly, a Sage Medallion.
At first, he needs to find the Medallions, and after he's collected about three of them (Water, Fire, Lightning), he then goes onto find three Sages; the Sage of Water, a Zora named Neiahrue, the Sage of Fire, a Goron named Dehnrohl, and the Sage of Lightning, a Gerudo named Fjroar. With each of their individual help, they retrieve the Sage Medallions from their respective temples. He has to decide on whether to tell the Sage that he wants them to become a Dragon, which was the whole point, or if he wants to force them to eat it, however he can, which would be cruel. He asks Zelda what he should do and she tells him that Dragons aren't necessary to Hyrule, they don't need them to return and everyone would probably be safer if they didn't. Dejected, he just has three medallions on him now which, cool but.
He takes each individual Medallion back to the three individual Sages and explains to them his former plans and decisions. He gives them the Sage Medallion/Secret Stone and tells them that they can either ingest it and become a Dragon, or they can keep it with them at all times to protect, or they can return them from the temples of which they came from. Their decision.
He leaves for a bit, retreating back into his house with his grandma for a few weeks, helping her with her gardening. One afternoon, the three Sages show back up at his house with a picnic basket. They offer a picnic in the garden while Link is still covered in dirt from transplanting flowers. He cleans up and brings the Sages over to the table in the garden while his grandma goes back inside for afternoon tea. He and the Sages have pleasant conversation until they tell him why they're there. About the Medallions. About their future. They've already set everything up with their families and village elders, he doesn't have to worry. Though, if he can visit, they'd be grateful. He's confused, concerned. Why would they, they don't have to do this–
Fjroar takes hers first, she's brave. She takes a big ol bite out of her pastry and starts shaking. Shocks of wind blows around her, ripping his grandmother's garden apart. Quickly after, Denrohl takes his and Neiahrue eats hers. All three of them are shaking and glowing with collums of light and he's looking between all three of them frantically, trying to do anything he can to stop this because it's his fault–
Their eyes change first, before the lights grow to intense where he can't see his own hands. They're bulbous, vibrant different colors, then everything is white.
Before he knows it, he's on his ass, starring up into the sky as three glowing beasts conquer the sky. They're beautiful.
