Running to meet with Midna, Link left the town hall. Reaching the crowd he spotted Midna near the front of her people with her honor guard surrounding her. Pushing his way through his people and getting them to move aside Link made his way to Midna. However when he was nearly upon her he stopped, noticing something. Midna had three one year old children with her... One with Wolf ears, a second with a wolf tail and the third looking like a 'normal' Hylian/Twili crossbreed child. That is to say, not normal at all.
The children all had magical runes on different parts of their bodies. They had different skin and hair colors. The first child has the Twili silver-blue skin with a gold hair color. The second has the Hylian pale white skin with orange hair. The Final child has a light grey skin with a tan undertone, and has royal purple colored hair. Seeing the children and how they looked, Link realized they could only be his and Midna's children. After coming to this realization Link felt like he was punched in the gut.... he was a father now. A father of not just one child, or even two children.... but he was a father of triplets.
'well crap... I wonder if there is any chance I can still run back to my quarters, grab my things and run off into the wilderness?' Link thought panicking at the idea of him raising three children at the same time. 'Maybe they won't find me if I am fast enough?'
"Link!" Midna called out with a smile, having caught sight of Link gaping at her in shock through the crowd. "It's so good to see you again!"
'Crap, too late... oh well time to face the music.' Link though realizing the smile on Midna's face was anything but happy. "Indeed Midna it's great to see you too!" Link replied with a smile of his own, futilely hoping that by not addressing the children they would disappear.
"Really? I thought you were about to run away a moment ago?" Midna replied her smile.. no GRIN, turning slightly vicious. "What is the matter Link? Are you suddenly scared of me? Or is it the children I am holding you are afraid of? Here I thought you would be glad to see the small burdens you left me with after we met last."
"Oh I AM! It's just... why did you never tell me I'm a father now?" Link asked with a nervous smile. "I mean, you specifically stated that you were using magic to stop that from happening. I would have thought you would tell me if it didn't work and you had become pregnant with my children?"
"I wanted to keep it as a surprise, though I had thought you would be happy to see us." Midna stated with a pout.
"Midna... I am happy to see you I was just shocked to know I am a father now." Link replied sighing before frowning in determination. "I missed you quite a bit, and if you need proof of how happy I am to see you well..."
Link walked right up to Midna before taking the child she held in her arms and holding it in one of his. He then wrapped his free arm around Midna pulling her in before giving her a deep kiss. The surrounding Hylian, Ordonians and Twili gasped slightly in shock at how forward Link was being. Link continued the kiss for a good few minutes constantly deepening it after Midna began to kiss him back wrapping her arms around Link's head. Finally Link released Midna from the kiss before staring into her eyes intensely keeping Midna speechless as she pants slightly to catch her breath.
"That Midna, is how much I missed you." Link said before grinning and then turning around and walking away while holding his child closely and playing with them. "Now follow me to the keep, we can catch up further back there, and you can tell me the names of my children. Rusl, Bo see to the needs of the rest of the Twili people while Midna and I discuss what has been done to accommodate our deal."
Timeskip
As they through the keep to the meeting room Midna told Link all about his children and the fact that Twili typically don't name children until they are 2 years old. Plus she wanted Link to help her name his children as well so that was something they needed to do at some point soon. Their discussion lasted until they reached the meeting room whereupon Midna's guards took up positions on both sides of the door in semi-relaxed postures.
"Now then Midna," Link began after they all sat down with Midna's guards standing by the door. "The place that has been selected that best fits your people is a weeks journey to the southeast, and from what we can tell contains plenty of resources already with many more likely yet to be found. However it is admittedly a desert, so it is not the 'perfect' spot for your people to settle. However it is the best my own people were able to find in the time we had."
"That is fine." Midna stated, far more relaxed now that Link has obviously accepted his children and intend to take care of them and her. "So long as we have the ability to be self-sufficient to a degree and we have a guarantee of food from you then that should be fine."
"Good to know, and of course we intend to send food, however I should warn you that in the current system set up the resources are government owned and the workers receive pay directly from it. Your people will be expected to follow the same system. However there will be a provincial governor selected from among your people to rule that province in our name." Link said, informing Midna of some of the expectations that would be set upon her people.
"That should be fine. Especially with how you are allowing my people self-governance in return." Midna replied with a smile before frowning slightly in worry. "However I hope you realize that they won't be able to do much until we have our own town set up among other things?"
"That brings me to the final thing I wanted to inform you about." Link mischievously smiled as he continued. "There is already a small town with foundations laid for expansion set up in the style of your people. This is thanks in large part to my administrative advisor Malo, along with the aid and advice of the mages you lent me. On top of that we have already set up the iron mine in the area for the use of your people, though we took a fair bit of metal from it and used most of it to set up the town."
"Wha... How!?!" Midna shouted in shock. "How did your people manage to construct a town in our construction style with only a few mages doing so???"
"Malo is without question a genius despite his extremely young age Midna. You should know that given you were with me a you watched him set up his Malo mart chain during our adventures together." Link offered eyes twinkling in mirth at getting Midna to break her composure so well. "He actually managed to figure out how to use more mundane methods with only minor magical aid to build towns in a near exact copy of your building style. You will likely have to apply the magical reinforcement your people normally do to their building, however otherwise the town is a near exact copy of your construction style compared to what I remember and the word of the Twilight mages."
"That is great news." Midna said, eyes still wide in surprise and disbelief as she sat back in her chair. "So my people will not have to sleep in tents then."
"Ah. not quite." Link replied wincing slightly. "A large portion of your people should fit withing the homes already built, and once the homes are built up from the extra foundations almost all of your people should have a home of their own. However until then a decent number of your people will still need tents and you will likely need to set up some minor villages and the like for the remaining people to live in."
"That is still great news, Link." Midna said smiling slightly as she relaxed in her chair at his words. "Then it would be best if my people were off to help finish the construction as soon as possible then. After all the sooner it is done, the sooner my people will no longer be homeless."
"Actually, speaking of that." Link stated holding up a finger. "If you would like to wait an extra day or so, my people will be celebrating our victory over the Moblins tomorrow. I know all of us would be greatly honored by your peoples presence given our victory only happened thanks in large part of the mages you had sent to aid us. Meeting each other and celebrating such a victory over our enemies thanks to our alliance should help to bring our people much further together than they otherwise would be."
"Alright that is fine. I am sure my people would be fine waiting until after such a celebration to move on to our new homes." Midna agreed. "Plus such a thing would serve to help raise our moral and show we are more than welcomed by your people combined with the the town being built as it is."
"Indeed, in the meantime however, I would like to get acquainted with our children and begin planning out our marriage." Link said. "I would like to hold it near the end of this year once the new Grand Temple to Din is completed. Such a temple would be the perfect place for us to get married in I believe."
They continued discussing their plans for the wedding as they got up and made their way off to make sure the Twili were settling in nicely.
Vote:
[] Write in names for the white skinned boy
[] Write in names for the silver-blue skinned girl
[] Write in names for the grey skinned girl
Interlude part 1 ends here
there you guys go, part one of the interlude. the Celebration and meeting din will be next update, I have decided that the marriage will be a forced action next turn in the diplomacy section.
so ya you have three kids, two daughters and a son. Congratulations! also remember, this is how many kids you had when Midna was trying to AVOID having kids... so ummm your rating on your virility? its fking ridiculously high.
also holy crap... thats about 1000 words MORE than I thought I wrote
EDIT: Thank you
@Void Stalker for getting me to split the interlude into two updates! otherwise I would just pumped out a 4k word update in another few days lol
Oh also there is no Moratorium for this vote, no need for it given its a pretty basic vote with little possible discussion. Also since the kids have been mentioned here, no more need for spoilers discussing them now.
