Hyrulequestria

Ch.48

“So now there’s a portal between here and the Great Deku Tree.” I finished reporting to the Princesses, once more a fairy in my leafy bikini.

“The Skull Kid has access to your forest...I feel sorry for the caribou soldiers probing Ponyville.” Zelda said with a look of disbelief. “Even more if that Fae gets the fairies to follow him.”

“Wait, Mother, I thought there were no Fae left.” Celestia gestured towards me, and I was feeling rather freaked out suddenly. I may be a Great Fairy, but a Fae? Something akin to that Irish/Celtic Bullshit exists in this world?!

“Well, the Skull Kid became a Fae through incredible suffering at the hands of Majora. Sound familiar?” Zelda rhetorically asked as she looked at me.

“Oh~.” Luna and Celestia chorused. “This does not bode well,” Luna added on.

“Indeed. But thankfully Skull Kid is the only remaining Fae. At least Skull Kid is mostly harmless compared to most of the Fae of old.” Zelda solemnly nodded. “Now then, so Link at least came to Equestria. With a pregnant mother as well. Did you get a description of them from The Great Deku-?”

There was suddenly an explosion of glitter, literal glitter, and Eris popped up in the middle of the throne room, looking positively radiant in her tiny plant-clothed fairy body. “I am just so ecstatic! A Fae who enjoys mischief! Thank you for connecting his home here Robin!”

“Please tell me the Everfree at least isn’t filled with buffalo doing ballet.” Celestia bemoaned as she rubbed her snout.

“No~?” Eris mewled. “But~ we don’t have caribou playing house in Ponyville.”

“While wearing shoulder-high jockstraps?” Celestia asked rhetorically.

“Antler high!” Eris gushed in excitement, before turning to me and smooching my cheek. “Oh, and please, convince AJ to let her hot stud of a brother come see me more. I am just. Absolutely. Full of life right now!”

“Y-you’re pregnant?” I weakly asked, and she cackled.

“Not like before! You are too! Our tree bodies are growing seeds in our canopies like crazy! At least they’re just magic seeds and not sentient ones.” Eris happily declared, which may be in part because helping our fairy children get situated and laying ground rules for them was such a hassle the first time around.

“You’re making Magic Seeds?” Zelda said with a smile. “Like Deku Nuts?”

“Wait~ So the Deku seeds are from miss Deku getting cum in her knothole?” Eris chuckled as pulled one Deku Nut out. “Skull Kid gave me this one.”

“No. Unlike here, The Great Deku Tree was untainted and just grew them naturally. However, thanks to fraternizing with you, I doubt she won’t find out about that now.” Zelda leered disapprovingly at me, but I leered back...no wait, Farore leered back. I’m okay with this. “Anyway, did the Great Deku Tree give you descriptions of Link and his mother?”

“Um...I may have forgotten that one. I can pop back and ask, then be back as fast as it takes me to go between here and the garden.” I offered, only for Zelda to wave the suggestion away.

“No, that isn’t as pressing an issue as what was brought to my attention upon waking this morning. Lulu?” Zelda looked to her daughter, who became gravely serious.

“A Dark presence in the Far North has suddenly appeared. One that We hoped to never feel again, as the caribou suddenly find themselves besieged by wild Windigoes and violent snowstorms the likes of which haven’t been seen on this continent for over 1000 years.” Luna gripped the armrests of her throne so hard I could hear the ebony wood creaking. “The horrible Night Terrors the caribou and yaks up north are feeling are haunting, and We cannot handle so many horrific mind-scarring dreams by mineself.”

“Great~. Well, is there anything I can do? Or is this gonna be another wait-and-see like with the Gerudo?” I asked in frustration. Seriously, all these things are mounting up and we can’t do anything? Geez, this really is a Zelda universe! We’re gonna have to wait for Link to save us.

“Unfortunately, it will have to wait. We do not have nearly enough resources to tackle such a deadly foe.” Zelda grimly stated, then sighed out of her nose. “We also have yet another issue.”

“What~?” I whined, slumping over.

“The Dread Dragon, Volvagia, has been resurrected once more.” At Zelda’s input, I sobbed. Where is Link~?! I don’t want to deal with all this bullshit~!

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“Argh~, am I link? Or is Link out there? Why am I doing his job?!” I whined as I floated down a random road in the city as my fairy form right now, having asked to have time to myself for a bit. We literally have doom coming and Vaati is even panicking, recalling all her armies into defensive positions.

“I feel like Navi from The Real Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time!” I wailed at feeling so helpless and at the end being relied on and sighed as I hovered up to a birdhouse and sat on the perch with a sigh. A robin poked his head out of his home and chirped at me. “No, no. I’m fine. Just having a bad time.” More chirps. “Well, you’re right, it could be worse…” He whistled and sang, then nuzzled me and went back into his home. “Thanks...holy crap robins are insightful.”

“Huh?” Navi queried as she paused in passing by.

“Oh, nothing Navi. Say, where are the fairies anyway? I remember waking up to a bunch of lights floating over me when I first came to this world, then I saw them kinda not-here on the regular after that. But aside from you and my newborn fairies, I’ve never seen fairies actually here and in person, besides Tatl who at least tried to talk to me.” I must’ve really come out of the blue because the blue busty chimeric fairy blinked and looked bemused.

“Um...well, we’re around. Always. We’ve kinda taken up a lot of the work of the Minish with them becoming either nearly-useless breezies or corrupt and sex-obsessed caribou. So if a weird magic miracle seems to happen, it’s likely a bunch of us floating around in the veil and making it work.” Navi shrugged, sending her basketball-scale sized boobs bouncing. At least she was wearing plant clothes like me.

“Huh...good to know. Y’know, you were the Hero’s guide once, in another realm.” I again seemed to blow her mind with an out-of-the-blue statement, as she recoiled.

“Uh...cool? I’m good being Princess Zelda’s aide.” Navi then looked around. “I was just passing by. Is there anything else you want to drop on me?”

“Hmm~, do you know an entity named Midna?” I asked, figuring since I had a fairy actually in front of me and willing to talk that I’d get a bit more trivia filled out.

“You mean the Goddess of Twilight?” Oh? She got promoted? “Yeah, she rules the Twilight Realm, kinda like how Lorelia rules Lorule.”

“Good to hear. She deserves it.” I smiled wistfully, then sighed. “You can go if you don’t want to hang out with a mopey eccentric like me.”

“Hey, you’re not that bad. Kinda dropping all sorts of topic bombs, but you’re okay. I just want to go to that new tavern and get absolutely sloshed bathing in that cow’s cream.” Wait, bathe in it Navi? Are you an alcoholic? Do I need to get you help?

“Really? Huh, so why were the fairies floating around me when I first showed up?” I asked as I followed her to the Tavern, which, as I expected, now had a cow-headed sign on the front with caribou antlers that declared it the Milk Bar.

“You really don’t have a sense of Order in how to ask questions do you?” I felt stung at that comment. I’m quite Orderly! Or...shit. Eris isn’t very Chaotic anymore, Harmonia seems more eager to throw things out of Balance...a-are we being corrupted by our Matrons? The sensation of concern from Farore helped confirm it, as well as the annoyance from my Plunder Core, which was, perhaps, the most Orderly part of me.

“Sorry, weird stuff for the last week.” I sighed. “So, would you know why I had fairies around me when I first arrived?”

“Well, you’re not of this realm. Likely the fairies in the area had to converge and even materialize for such a heavy breach in the veil. I wouldn’t know directly since I’ve been Zelda’s companion since her curse broke and I’d been leading her here to safety.” Navi said as we flew into the tavern, which was nearly empty this early in the day, Talon’s nipples were even sealed with those milk canister pasties of hers as she relaxed at her new bar.

“Oh,” I replied, before blinking when I spotted Tara with an older blue caribou in a casual shorts and tank top outfit that clashed with Tara’s signature lab coat and blouse with trousers.

“Dad, when did you start drinking?” Tara chuckled to the cow. “I still can’t believe you just walked out of CUMS and came straight to the Forest? Why?”

“Eh, while I was tenured as the premier astrologist, I didn’t have my family, and I heard the Resistance was here, with a certain escaped ‘traitor’. At first, I was hopelessly lost, but then some nice fairies guided me here.” The blue cow explained. “Also, I heard they actually have good alcohol here. Canterlot’s stores suck since the occupation. All the caribou drink is beer and lager. Bah. None of them know a good liquor.”

“You still didn’t answer my question about the drinking. Or about mom and Shiny.” Tara sadly pointed out as I floated closer, leaving Navi to beg and plead Talon to ‘unlock those glorious tits’ ahead of time. To which I agree, those tits are too glorious to withhold, but they’re not mine so Talon can lock them up if she wants.

“That’s because I don’t know. As for drinking, I started once I wasn’t a slave and could drown my sorrows.” The cow knocked back her bottle of beer, which considering the time of day, was rather quite early for drinking. At least Talon doesn’t let any heavier stuff out until later.

“You didn’t find them?” Tara asked sadly.

“I heard a rumor.” The cow sighed with a look of morose resignation. “A light grey unicorn mother with a white unicorn son were seen several years ago fleeing from the Cervine Forest Kingdom towards Equestria. How they survived such a long-distance teleport, especially with your mother pregnant, we may never know. The soldiers that followed were unable to once they neared the Smoky Mountains.”

“Have you gone to the Smoky Mountains?” I asked, causing the two to jump and the blue cow to sputter out her beer. “Sorry, but I’m curious. Last I heard, the person I was looking for was fleeing east from the CFK with a pregnant mother some time ago.”

“Of course not. It’s out of the way, on the north edge of the peninsula that nearly separates the North and South Luna Seas and nearly connects the continents save the strait between the seas. Even on the voyages here and back, the King never got close to those mountains, but I could still see them. Nothing remarkable besides how humid the sea near them was and how foggy they were.” Tara answered, and I hummed in consideration.

“I’ll have to check it out then. This may just be another wild goose chase, but with all the dangers of the world coming back at once, I need to be sure.” I then turned around as I hovered off the table, and ended up face-first into the cleavage of an incredibly busty cow.

“Oh! Sorry! I was just coming over to see if they needed anything.” I pulled myself out of the creamy, pillowy, sloshing heaven, and looked up at the pretty face of Malon, Talon’s only daughter from before their conversion into caribou. She was four feet shorter than Talon’s lofty 10-foot height, but her breasts were easily the size of beach balls, and visibly swollen with her milk. They strained her pretty but simple work dress with a skirt to her ankles. She clearly took after her Fama in terms of milk production, especially since she never had children.

“It’s okay Malon. I wasn’t looking where I was going.” I cheerfully responded. She was just so likable! But she gave off a distinct ‘friend’ aura that removed her lewd body from play.

“Okay, do you want anything? Food? Drink?” Malon casually shook her breasts, emphasizing the loud sloshing and shaking they had to them. She must be backed-up, poor girl.

“Not right now, sorry. You have a good day Malon.” I hugged her cheek and she giggled before I took off. I need to arrange an outing to the Smoky Mountains.

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Wow, this place really is remote. Lulu hasn’t even been here, despite it being between the two bodies of water with her name attached to them. I had to settle for being teleported to the edge of Los Pegasus and then flew northwest from there as my pegasus form once out of direct sight of the city, which was half on the ground, and half in the sky. As in, half the city had been made of clouds, jutting off a sheer cliff over the ocean.

Shame I couldn’t have stayed a bit, but anyway, the smoky mountains were a bit of a misnomer. They should’ve been called the Foggy Mountains because of the smoke-like mist and fog that clung to the region. It wasn’t until I got closer, and realized that the fog and mist was caused by boiling hot springs in the mountains. Guess they called them Smoky because of how hot and humid the place was. Was this the former Death Mountain or something?

I heard a beeping and a red light started tracking me. I blinked in confusion before looking over to see a glowing statue, with spider legs, and a large blue eye that started turning red. It was mostly hidden in the misty pine forest beneath me. It took me a moment to recognize it, go wide-eyed and dive to avoid a laser that nearly hit me.

I dodged more lasers before getting out of range of the ancient machine, panting in fear of my life. I looked around and noticed a lot more all around, but they looked to just be scanning for bigger targets. They were mostly on hills and cliffs, likely to keep an eye out for intruders. Like me.

“Is this a technological group? How futuristic are they? Caribou have standard guns! These guys have lasers?” I asked myself while looking around for a flight path that won’t turn me into barbeque pegasus. I hissed, not really seeing one, but if these Guardians were like from what I remember of Breath of the Wild, then even though they are scary accurate if I keep moving in a zig-zag, they shouldn’t be able to land a hit on me.

I looked towards the tallest mountain and figured that if I was going to figure out what was up with this place, it’d be easier from up there, where I could see more of the place, even if it’s heavily hidden in fog, steam, and mist. I began to measure my breathing. I had to get psyched up. It isn’t every day you willingly go through a real-life Bullet Hell.

With a mighty flap of my rust-red wings, I took off. Instantly, red target painters were locked onto me. I sharply and harshly dove side to side, and surely, the instant the lasers fired, they missed by a mile. Not to say this wasn’t intense, the air all around me was filled with a hail of laser blasts firing off into the sky, some even hitting the sides of the mountains.

I was soaking wet by the time I made it to the summit of the tallest mountain, panting and wiping away the sweat, steam, and condensation that clung to me so heavily. There were no more Guardians close enough to target me up here, so I plopped my thicc ass down on the wet stone, which was a balmy sensation through my bodysuit, and I sighed. I then gasped and gagged as a terrifyingly strong hand grabbed my throat from behind and a blade was pressed behind my ear.

“Don’t. Move.” Ordered my raspy-voiced clearly male captor, and I immediately went completely still, even stopping my breathing. “Who sent you?”

“N-nobody. I’m here looking for someone.” I answered, flinching as the blade’s tip gently pressed into the soft, weak tissue at the base of my right ear.

“Who are you looking for?” The male demanded as he pressed into my back, his lithe, toned chest painfully compressing my wing joints on my shoulder blades

“Link-.” Before I could continue, I was struck in the temple and blacked out

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I’m starting to think me waking up somewhere else or in an awkward situation is pretty cliche by now. I groaned as I rolled onto my side, realizing idly that I was stripped naked, laying on a bed of animal skin stuffed with something plush. I cradled my head with a hiss, feeling where I’d been struck with a whimper. I haven’t been hurt like that before. Ever. All the times I got hit before I had something protecting me like the armor Luna made me. Why didn’t I put it on?

I curled up on myself, barely registering the sensations of concern from Farore and my Core. “You really have no way with mares Zikh. You didn’t have to hit the poor dear that hard.” Came a raspy old woman’s voice, and I uncurled enough to look towards her. I noticed that I was in a cell, the bars made of wood and carved with runes, so they were definitely better than any standard metal bars.

“She said the name of the Fated Hero. I wasn’t taking chances.” Replied the gruff raspy male voice from before, which I curled back up at the sound of. Keep him away. I don’t want to be hurt more…

“Begone boy. You’ve done enough damage.” Huffed the old woman, and after the thuds of hoofsteps faded away and were punctuated by a closing door, she sighed. “Dear, you can be at ease. The thug has left.”

“H-he’s gone?” I whimpered, uncurling from myself and propping myself up to look towards the woman, seeing through the bars a shockingly diminutive and wrinkled old grey mare with silver hair braided back. Despite her clearly advanced age, her golden eyes with sharp predatory slits were as clear and focused as a mare one-fifth of her age. Those same eyes softened more when she looked upon me and became sad when she looked into my eyes...or rather, my brow.

“So. It has begun. The world is plummeting into darkness already. He has not even had his training finished.” The old mare sighed, and adjusted the black, leathery bat wings on her back, the action ruffling her white kosode. “You have my sincere apologies, Guide of Farore. I am the Elder of this place; Impa. I welcome you to Kakariko Village.”