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As soon as their feet touched the ground in front of the tech lab, the door burst open and a worried Hyrule poked his head out. “Is he okay? Wait, where is he?”
Warrior rested his head on Hyrule’s and watched Twilight grab wind’s arm as he wobbled. “He’s alright, and he’ll be along in a minute. Can we come in, guys?” he raised an eyebrow to the two as they finally realised they were blocking the doorway, letting the two in.
“Hey you guys, how’d it go? Where’s wild?” Sky stood up as they entered, and all eyes were on them.
“It went well! Wild’ll be along in a minute. He invited the prince back with us, and because he’s royalty he had to let someone know where he was going, so Wild stayed to bring him back after.” Wind hopped up to sit on Purah’s stool, as she wasn’t in the room.
“How did the conversation go, though? Was he upset?” Time asked, his worry lines having faded significantly, but still there.
“He was very calm, actually, and having the Prince there to back us up did help a lot. He seemed equally upset about it, but actually knew how to convey it to him in a way that made him understand. It was impressive.” Twilight went and sat on the floor next to Time’s chair, and unfastened the pelt around his neck.
“I’m not surprised. Those two have been close for a couple years now, and he probably knows Wild the best out of anyone. Even Zelda gets stuck sometimes, struggling to keep up with the new him,” Purah entered from the back door and kicked Wind off her stool, “But more importantly, how was the warping? Was it fast? Any side effects?”
“I mean, made me feel a bit woozy, to be honest,” Wind said, leaning against the table since he now didn’t have a seat. “I think it was pretty instant, though. Twi?”
“Yeah, that’s about it. ‘Cept it kinda tingled, right? And I couldn't feel my limbs,”
“Ah, that’s pretty standard, don’t worry,”
“Wild!” Hyrule shot up, and rounded the table to go to the door. Legend got there first, though, and punched him in the shoulder.
“You scared us for a second there, asshole,”
“I know, i’m sorry for this whole thing. Before i properly get into apologies, though, there’s a guy you gotta meet,” Wild stepped into the room, allowing everyone to see Sidon leaning over to look through the door.
“Hello, friends of Link, and Purah, good to see you again!” He smiled wide, and lifted a hand in greeting wave.
“Oh no! You’re not coming in, last time you managed to short circuit all of my electricity! They’ll just have to come to you,” Purah huffed and crossed her arms.
“My sincerest apologies again, for that, however it is of no fault of my own that your ceiling is so low!”
Wild snickered. “Yeah, Purah,” He said, motioning for everyone to come outside. “Guess we have to follow grumpy gut’s orders,”
Everyone outside, Wild began introducing everyone. Twilight smiled to himself.
“Okay, so you already know Twilight and Wind, there's Warriors and Legend,” he pointed to the two men, who paused their not so subtle elbow fight to grin and say ‘nice to meet ya’s “Four, Hyrule, Sky, and Time,” they threw up hands and smiled, apart from the latter who simply inclined his head.
“So many new people! And such peculiar names, they’re quite fantastic! It is so good to meet more friends of Link, or should I call you ‘Wild’?”
Wild didn’t react the way the others thought he would, and when he gave a simple, “Yeah, either’s fine,” and an easy smile, many came to the conclusion that he must have already told him.
“Right, i have to go have a go at Purah for a second for letting you guys test run her slates, i’ll be back in a second,” He ducked back inside, thinking he was probably going to regret leaving them alone.
He caught Warriors asking “So, what embarrassing stories do you have of Wild?” before he closed the door. Ah, yes, there’s the regret.
When he came back out over half an hour later, frustrated at both Purah’s lack of remorse and the inept way he handled the situation, he was greeted with the sight of everyone circling Sidon, said man in the middle of animatedly telling a story. “And i find him, washed up on the riverbank in his underclothes, saying that he tried shield surfing down the mountain, and it had undoubtedly gone horribly wrong, judging by the grazes he had all over him. And when I asked why he had no clothes on, he said he had accidentally set them on fire!”
The whole group burst out laughing, to the point where Warriors had tears in his eyes. Time chuckled and commented “Yep, that’s our Wild.”
Wild huffed and sat down next to Sidon, but he had a smile on his face. “Out of all the stories you could have told them, why did you have to choose that one?”
Sidon just laughed, but Legend smirked in a way that set off alarm bells in Wild’s head. “Oh, he’s told a few now. None flattering, trust me.”
“Great,”
They continued on like that for a while, Wild quickly getting revenge on Sidon with embarrassing stories of his own. Legend delighted in telling a story about when Warriors ripped his scarf and cried about it for an hour, to which Warriors did nothing but say “I suffer for fashion,” - however, when Legend pushed his luck and started to tell a different story, he didn’t get to really even start before Warriors tackled him and slapped a hand over his mouth, which devolved into the two wresting with petty squabbling thrown in. Sky had a surprising amount of blackmail on them and an evil glint in his eye, to which Four eerily mirrored. Time had a large, shit eating grin on his face when he told of his memories of training Twilight as the Hero’s shade (a time period none of them, including Time, could quite make sense of. Perhaps it was to happen later, but he already had the memories of it? None of them knew).
When the sun finally started to set, Sidon had to return to the domain. “It was so good to meet you, my friends! Feel free to come up to the domain whenever, you will always be welcome!”
There was a chorus of goodbyes as Wild warped them away. When they arrived back in the domain, Sidon clasped both of Wild’s hands and said in a soft voice, “It was wonderful spending the day with you, my friend. I hope to see you again soon. Make sure to stop by next time you’re in this Hyrule,”
Wild smiled. “I will.”
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When they got back to Wild’s house, they all pulled out their bedrolls and laid them out, Wild pushing his table to the under stair space.
After the sun had properly set, Wild had cooked a meal and they all sat around in the warm light of the fire and the weak overhead lights. After a lull in the conversation, Wild braced himself.
“I’m sorry for the way I acted yesterday, it was pretty bad of me,”
The silence stretched for a second longer, before Legend spoke up, “You were being a bit of a bonehead,”
Wild huffed with a smile. “Yeah well, Sidon talked some sense into me and I promised him I'd try to be less reckless with this kind of thing. Just because i have the ability to do it, doesn't mean I should have to. Twilight and Wind as my witnesses,”
Wind hummed and took a swig from his water skin. Warriors leaned over Four’s lap to wrap his arms around Wild from the side, “Sky, our baby’s all grown up!” and fake sobbed.
“Hey i thought i was the parent of this group!” Time said indignantly.
“You wish, old man. Try grandpa.” Warriors laughed as he relinquished Wild.
“All i do for this family, and you’re still so ungrateful,” he muttered, and Twilight elbowed him in the ribs with a laugh.
Wild had a grin on his face as he listened to the bickering. And if there was still an edge to everyone's eyes, well, they were there to support each other through it. All’s well that ends well, he supposed.