Ike settled next to her, arm around her protectively. What an annoying day...but he supposed there was some benefit to it all, at least Sona would be with him in whatever...capacity that meant.
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Hyrule settled into a steady, if uneasy sense of peace. Kakariko slowly saw a minor influx of villagers returning, but under the promise that they couldn't say what would happen one way or another. Ike was more used to the kind of long scale campaign that this was turning into, and he secretly savored the pace to finally relax and help Sona adjust to her new life. Things with Zelda seemed...better, surprisingly. He felt like he had taken a weight of his shoulders, and Impa wasn't glaring at him as much. No doubt she knew, or they talked...either way, he was glad to have that resolved in some manner or another. Kakariko was turning into a minor outpost, because the occasional assault of Bublins kept them on their toes.
People began to get weary, and tired...Ike didn't blame them, but there was nothing else they could do. People were proclaiming that Link was dead, that everything was lost...and that the Goddess in the dark would save them all, and the Demon King would protect them. Desperate, dangerous fools...but it simply added to the day to day tasks. But still, it could be felt...a Goddess such as Medusa, it would feel like pinpricks of pleasure, of arrogance. People believed in her out of raw fear.
Ganondorf arrived with an amused little smirk to her castle above Death Mountain. Nobody was allowed in or out, but all was well...since they had decided to change gears. Hyrule was contained, so...why not send Pit somewhere else for the time being? He and his Phantom would do an excellent job with Medusa's demons in establishing a stranglehold elsewhere. But that wasn't what he was smirking about. Oh no, the Goddess of Darkness was naked on her throne, her belly fat and swollen, her breasts heavy with milk. He had wondered who was playing who...yet, the alliance was as genuine as it could be, now.
"We have crossed the sea to other lands, my dear," he said, moving up the steps to admire her maternal figure. After all, the Hero of Time would currently be indisposed, despite his recent victory at the Water Temple. It took more time than they had, and because of it...it allowed Ganondorf to maintain a stranglehold on Hyrule and branch outward.