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Congrats! Good job making it to 350 and I hope you'll get more attention in the near future. For the zelink prompts, maybe BotW zelink in the castle gardens. Again, congratulations.

Hi @zeldalinkohmy! Thank you so much! Very kind of you :)

So I've gone with children!zelink and this is their first time meeting in the castle gardens. Kindly beta read by @zeldaelmo :) AO3 link:

A surprise encounter

Zelda tugged the stupid pink ribbons out of her hair. They were too tight and she wanted her hair to fly! Fly in the wind like the Sheikah, all secretive and shadowy like Impa taught her. Maybe the Sheikah tied their hair back, actually. Oh well, it didn’t matter, she was going to be a hair-flying Sheikah warrior –

Bang!

Zelda tumbled to the floor, falling on top of a green blur. Some Sheikah warrior she was.

She heaved herself up using her palms and then stared at said green blur which had tackled her.

A pair of startled blue eyes with wispy blonde hair, half of which was tucked inside a strange cone green hat, and blue hoops – did boys wear earrings?!

Wait – she was missing the obvious!

“Who are you? How did you get here? What do you want? What’s your name? How come you're in the castle gardens? How old are you?”

The boy blinked, before a blush crept across his face. Did he… not know how to speak? Was she –

Zelda looked down. Ah. She was still lying on top of him. Maybe she was squishing him. Or maybe boys got shy about that kind of thing. She wouldn’t know, all her friends were girls.

She pulled herself up fully, and held out a hand to him. “My name is Zelda. Sorry. I like to ask a lot of questions.”

He nodded, still blushing, as he held her hand. “My name is Link.”

Huh. “Like the Hero?”

“Maybe? I don’t know. I um. I’m sorry I forgot your other questions.”

She shrugged. “It doesn’t matter, want to play? I’m being a Sheikah warrior at the minute.”

His eyes lit up. “Oh!” He opened his pouch and pulled out a plastic frog. “You know they say one of the Sheikah’s powers is to launch frog missiles?”

Zelda’s eyes were huge. “Really?”

“Yeah! I visited Kakariko village once, with my dad. They had these stone frog statues everywhere. You give them all an apple, and then –” He stuttered, and the blush started up again.

“What happens?”

“Well – dad didn’t believe what I said.”

“Adults are stupid sometimes. My father doesn’t believe most of what I say either.”

Link’s eyebrows raised sky high, his mouth an open gaping hole. “Did you just call your dad stupid?”

Zelda cast a quick glance around. “Don’t go telling anyone!”

He burst out laughing. “I won’t. See, this is what happened, a little brown…” He made some motions with his hands, gesturing the size, “blob? With a face made of a leaf? Appeared. It talked too! It said I had found it.”

Zelda leaned closer. “And then?”

“And then it smiled and hung around. Until someone moved the apples and it disappeared again.”

“We must investigate Link! This could be a new species! We have statues in our castle gardens. Maybe… Maybe it’s not only frogs?”

Link nodded, and she realised she had never let go of his hand. Well, it proved useful now, as she tugged him across to the Zen Zone of the garden, where Hylia’s statues were placed.

“But Zelda we need apples!”

She stopped. “Oh, you’re right. Wait, let’s go this way first then.” They hurried into the orchard instead, and suddenly, a worker came into view. Sheikah warrior mode activate!

She pulled Link behind the vines, and he stumbled, opening his mouth to question her but she slapped her hand on top. With the other, she motioned to the man, whispering, “Link, we need to sneak past him to reach the apples on the far left. Any ideas?”

He looked around, before settling on a row of terracotta pots lined up against the wall. He leaned closer to her ear and it tickled! She had to stop herself laughing! “We can use those!”

“Yes but how? We can’t just smash –” He was nodding violently. “Really? But won’t he see?”

“Zelda, on my signal, we each run and grab a pot. This orchard is in rows. So what we’ll do is we each pick a different row to hide in. We smash the pot on a count of ten, and then we leg it to the apples, whilst he’s distracted.”

“Okay! Let’s do this!”

They watched and waited, for the worker to disappear, before scrambling towards the pots and splitting to go into a different aisle.

One, two, three… Ten!

Zelda smashed her pot, running under the foliage as fast as she could, grabbing her hair into a fist so it wouldn’t get tangled. Link was right beside her, and he climbed the tree, throwing apples she caught in the folds of her skirt. A ruckus kicked up in the centre of the orchard, and Zelda made hurrying motions to Link.

Soon enough, they had ten, and Link quickly descended. Zelda directed him to a secret door, covered in green that led to them making a speedy escape.

They burst out laughing as they re-entered the Zen Zone, safe from the screams and questions echoing from behind them.

“That was so much fun! It’s so relieving to smash pots, Link!”

He nodded. “Right? I always break pots.”

“Where do you get them?”

He rubbed a hand on the back of his neck. “Uh, let’s just say a lot of places. Zelda, I can help carry some apples now if you want.”

Changing the topic! Oooh! She smirked, giving him half the apples. “Can we go to one of your ‘places’ next time we meet Link?”

He choked, blushing bright red. “O-okay Zelda.”

“Silly bean! You’re so easy to tease.”

He flushed brighter red, and fiddled with the end of his cap.

They rounded the stone cobbled pathways, and the large hedges for walls slowly curled down, the decorative flowers subsided. The semi-maze was replaced with an open air valley, featuring flowing water pathways and giant lilies.

A series of waterfalls provided the backdrop for Hylia’s statue, featuring a tall woman with a smile etched onto her face.

“Here She is Link. Do you know about Hylia?”

“This is Hylia?”

Zelda frowned. “Why? Do you know of another Hylia?”

“Um. I… Well, we aren’t very religious but…” He struggled, “I just– I assumed she’d be… prettier?”

Zelda burst out laughing. “She’s meant to be wise and all knowing!”

“She’s also a Goddess!”

“And what? Goddesses are meant to be pretty?”

He side-eyed her. “Yes? Have you never seen the plays about The Golden Goddesses? They’re like… sparkling. And if they made Hylia I assume she’d look nicer than this… stone… version.”

“Ohhh I get what you mean now. I don’t think this is a real life representation, Link. I assume she was more majestic than this.”

“That’s the word! Ma-jes-tic.”

“Just for your future reference Link, majestic does not equate to pretty.”

He slumped his hands onto his face. “Words aren’t my thing, Zelda.”

She ruffled his hat. “It’s okay, we’re friends now so I can help.”

He smiled, nodding. “Let’s try it Zelda!” He cried, before grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the statue.

“Shall we both put one in? Is it in the bowl at her feet?”

Link nodded again, and they tentatively placed two apples inside.

A wooden whimchime rang out, “YAHAHA! You found me!”

Zelda squeaked, “It’s real!”

Link clapped his hands. “It worked!”

They fell to their knees to investigate the weird brown apparition further. The little creature was so cute! Its face flipped between Link and Zelda. “Hero! Princess! Hello!”

Zelda blinked. “You can talk to us?”

“Wait– Princess? Hero?”

“One at a time! Or I’ll get confused!” It did a little dance, the twig in its hand holding a red berry shook with enthusiasm.

Zelda swallowed. She suddenly realised she’d never told Link who she was. But still! He had rubbed off her Hero comment hadn’t he? “What is your name?”

“I am Zafa! A Korok! You can have this seed, pretty Princess!”

Oof. She was going to get caught at this rate! “Thank you. If I may ask, what is a Korok?”

“We are wood creatures! The Deku tree is our creator. We live in the Korok Forest!” Zafa replied, in a sing song voice.

Link chipped in. “So how come you’re here? And in Kakariko?”

“We’re everywhere! It’s called seed dispersal Hero!”

Link frowned. “But don’t you miss home?”

Zafa sunk a little, his twig dipping to the floor. “Yes. But Hero and Princess together makes me happy! It’s nice to have visitors.”

Zelda’s heart hurt for this little creature, and she offered him another apple. “Do you like apples? Or should I bring a different fruit?”

“Apples are Zafa’s favourite! Thank you! I will go now, bye!”

“Wait–” But Zafa had already disappeared, in a rush of sparkles.

They blinked before shrugging at each other. Zelda crossed her legs in front of Hylia, and offered an apple to Link, who also repositioned himself more comfortably. “That was so cool! I wonder why Zafa left.”

“Maybe he needs rest in between apparitions?”

“It’s strange that he’s never showed up before. We always put food by Hylia…”

“Could it be that he'll only appear with apples?”

Zelda’s eyes widened. “Oh you are definitely right. We’ve never offered apples. It’s always really fancy things.”

Link nodded sagely, and bit into his apple.

“Hey, Link, we should continue this investigation, but I’ll have classes soon. Are you staying in the castle or…?”

He shook his head. “My dad’s a Knight. So I follow him around, and today he was in the castle. But… I think we’ll be going to Zora’s Domain tomorrow.”

“And then you’ll come back?”

He hesitated, hand absently rubbing his neck. “I– I don’t know. I’ll try but…”

Oh… tears pricked at Zelda’s eyes and she wasn’t even sure why. Well, maybe she did know. It was rare to have friends and the one she’d managed to make, was already leaving. “I’ll bunk then. We’ve got to make the most of today, eh, Hero?”

“Are you Princess Zelda?” She spluttered on her apple and he knocked hard on her back. “Are you okay?!”

“I’m fine, yes. And… yes. I am.”

She eyed him closely, but all he did was nod. “You’re super smart and really cool so it makes total sense.” Wait, he didn’t describe her looks? That was – “Hey does that mean I’m famous?”

She frowned, derailed from her thoughts. “Why?”

“I know the most famous person in the country!”

“But that doesn't make you famous!”

“Does too!”

“Does not!”

Their laughter echoed out in Hylia’s courtyard, and the rest of the day flew by in a series of antics and games and all around good fun.

Surely but steadily, the sun dipped closer to the horizon, and they knew the day was about to end.

Zelda was covered in mud, leaves and blotches of dirt across her dress, Link in a similar state, his hat long lost and his hair a mess in the flying wind.

As they neared the entrance to the gardens he stopped, and pressed a half-rumpled tulip into her hand. “I’m sorry I don’t have anything better but this was the prettiest one of them all.” It was half blue and white, a marble effect she hadn’t seen before. “It– it reminded me of you when I saw it.”

She hugged the tulip close to her, those tears from earlier threatening to come out. “You’ll come back Link?”

He nodded vigorously, his face blotchy and red. “I’ll miss you.”

She hugged him tight, and his arms squeezed back, his face buried in her hair. “I’ll miss you too.”

“Link? Link are you still in the gardens? Son, we have to leave!”

She wasn’t ready to let him go, but that voice was coming closer and she had to escape before then.

“I’ll see you soon Zelda.”

She nodded, before haphazardly pressing a kiss to his cheek, just to watch him blossom red. “Goodbye Hero.” Oh, she’d miss him, the little green-wearing boy who she’d become such fast friends with. She turned, running to the castle entrance, and not looking back. He’d come back, he promised and she equally promised to never forget the friend she made in the gardens, and vowed to research flower preservation to keep his tulip in bloom until he returned.

For their friendship wouldn’t end on this day.

There was more to come, of that she was certain.

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