The weather began to deteriorate as they walked the rest of the way to Hateno Village.

Rain pattered against the path and wind tugged at the trees. Link noticed Zelda lightly shivering, and without looking at her, he unclasped his cloak and outstretched his hand to the Princess, offering the warm fabric to her. He knew it most likely broke many protocols as a knight but knew that it would also be breaking protocol to let her freeze. After all it was his fault she no longer had her own cloak.

She looked up at his hand, and took the cloak, thanked him quietly, and put it on, pulling up the hood, seeing him now soaked. She felt guilty, but then she reasoned with herself, saying how it was what he deserved, after making her tear hers.

It was a rather uneventful walk; it took them over half an hour to reach the entrance, but they wanted to give the horse a bit of a rest.

As soon as they reached the normally lively village, the rain began to worsen, pouring so violently that each raindrop that hit them stung. At least I have cover, thought Zelda, looking at the Hero whose hair was sticking to the side of his face, his once golden blonde hair now a dark brown, the blue band almost out of its ponytail.

They picked up the pace, running directly towards the nearest building which just so happened to be the clothes shop.

Link pulled open the heavy wooden door, closing it behind the Princess. Wiping some of the rain from his face, he walked over to the lady at the counter. "Hello, my name is Nophei, can I help you?"

"Could I please have two of everything here apart from the armour?" He asked politely. The lady's eyes widened slightly before returning to their natural state. Nophei reached to the shelf where she pulled out eight boxes. She took out their contents and handed it to him. "That will be...700 rupees please."

He visibly winced, before shoving his hand into his pocket, pulling out two golden rupees and one silver.

Zelda knew that it would be a lot for Link, and shook her head and paid herself.

"What are you-"

"In case you've forgotten who you're travelling with, I'm the Princess of Hyrule and have more rupees than I know what to do with." Zelda whispered.

"But-"

He cut himself off when he saw the piercing look she sent to him. He retracted his hand and placed the rupees back into his pocket, and picked up the clothing and carried it out. Zelda scanned them with the Sheikah Slate, making them dematerialise.

They entered the Ton Pu Inn, and walked over to the man in the corner, who was doing what looked like paperwork.

"Do you have anywhere we could change out of our wet clothes?"

He took in their drenched appearances with wide eyes and nodded his head, leading them to a set of rooms, bowing his head. Zelda used her slate to make the new, dry clothes appear again, and they each took a set before walking into their separate changing rooms.

Link walked out of the room, tightening the clasp of one of his gloves, as Zelda walked out, tying her damp hair into a low bun.

Mutually they decided that the new clothing was far more comfortable to what the shops in Castle Town had to offer.

They carried on walking through the village, heading up a winding path that led to the Ancient Tech Lab.

Link made a quiet noise of discomfort, Zelda heard it and stared at him whilst he yanked the tie out of his hair, making it fall onto his shoulders. He brushed the hair out of his eyes and decided to leave it how it was.

Zelda had never seen him with his hair down, and thought it looked quite cute. NO, no that's definitely not what I meant, he is a selfish, arrogant man who has no apparent respect or common decency, she mentally argued with herself. His hair isn't even authorized, how is he even a knight?

She was so lost in her own head that she didn't even notice that they were already there. Link opened the door and stood, waiting for her to enter, before walking in himself.

Paper littered the floor they stood on, the bookshelf overflowing with huge stacks of texts in front of it, and various work benches around the lab were covered in mysterious stains and substances, screws and various other mechanical parts. A loud "Ah, snap!" sounded from across the room, where she saw Purah, pulling her goggles off as the ancient technology researcher hopped away from a cloud of black smoke. Alarmed, the pair hurried over to her, but she seemed alright.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. Just used the wrong formula." Purah looked up and saw the two standing next to her, eyebrows raised. "Princess Zelda! How wonderful it is to see you again. And Linky! How are you? And I love the new style!" she hugged him tightly before letting go.

"What brings you two here?"

"We're travelling around Hyrule to visit all the other Kingdoms, and also to explore."

"Well, If I could recommend a place, I would say go and visit Tabantha Village, I heard it has a spectacular view of the castle." She suggested.

"Tabantha Village... I don't believe I've been there before."

"Well Linky here has."

"Well, I'm sure it will be a pleasant experience. I'm sorry we can't stay longer, we need to get to Lurelin. Hopefully we'll see each other soon"

"Byeeee!"

They walked back down the winding path, and towards the exit, to collect their horses, but Link stopped them, and started to head to the left, up a slope, and onto a secret path in between some buildings. It led to a bridge, leading towards a quaint little cottage. a tree that looked as though it had recently been planted occupied the space next to it, and a shallow pond resided behind it.

"Link, why have you brought me here?" She was confused.

He opened the front door, and walked in, slowly following him in. Inside were various weapons hanging up on the walls, with a small table decorated with flowers on it. The stairs lead to a bed, desk, and a table with several pictures framed on it. A few of landscapes that she recognized across Hyrule, the photo that was taken of them and the champions, a photo of him, Mipha and Sidon, and then a photo of two vaguely familiar people, though she didn't quite remember who.

"This...this is your house?" I thought he lived in a castle town...

He nodded, opened a chest which was concealed by the staircase, and pulled out a bow.

She looked around at the weapons increased on the wall.

A Royal Guard's bow, A savage Lynel Bow and shield, The Hylian shield, a Royal shield, an eightfold longblade, and a royal claymore.

She wondered where he got all of these.

The Royal Guard weapons. Made by the Sheikah, using ancient technology that they had recently discovered. The Lynel weapons. The set he had were only used by silver-haired Lynels, it was said that there were only a couple across Hyrule, and that they were extremely powerful. She couldn't imagine where he had acquired them. The Hylian Shield, it was passed down through the royal family, and also the legendary hero. It had been given to him not long after he pulled out the legendary sword. the Eightfold blade, passed through the Sheikah tribe, rarely seen. Very few were ever made. How in the name of Hylia did Link possess these?

He grabbed an apple from the bowl of fruit on the table, walked out of the house, and gave it to their horses as they walked back down to the horses.

"I thought you lived in Castle Town?" Zelda questioned.

"Only on duty,'' he shrugged.

The rain had ceased, and they carried on with their adventure, heading back up to ride down to Hateno Beach.