The Hyrule Tournament

By anime animal

Disclaimer: If you know the characters in this, then they're Nintendo's, if you don't know some of the characters in this then they're mine.

A.N. This is what comes of watching too much DragonballZ - a tournament with l'il Link as the underdog battling it out to get respect (think Trunks and Goten here). And just to make things a little more interesting, we're going to have a little surprise discovery happening... got you curious yet? Mwah ha ha!

Prologue.

Hyrule was buzzing, the whole of Kakariko and the Market Town were talking about the upcoming tournament.

"What's goin' on Zel?" A very confused Link asked his friend. "The whole kingdom's gone mad!"

Zelda giggled and readjusted her headdress, smoothing her skirts as she settled down next to him on the log he was sitting on.

"It's the Hyrule Tournament, silly. Everybody goes crazy before it happens." She smiled and continued. "Everyone from all over the kingdom comes to the castle for two days in which a massive tournament is held. The main tournament is to find the best warrior in the kingdom. The have to compete in an archery competition and amount a certain number of points before they can take part in the one on one sword fight on the final day. The winner is crowned top knight and earns the right to sit next to my father on his right hand side at a glorious banquet celebrating the end of the tournament."

"But that's your place..."

"I know, but I give it up for the night and sit two places along on the left."

"Why two places?"

Link scratched his head, confused on Hylian etiquette. Zelda sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Because the winner of the junior tournament sits on his left."

"The juniour tournament?"

Zelda nodded.

"Yeah. Hey, why don't you enter that? You could so easily win and then everyone would know that you really are the Hero of Time!" Zelda said enthusiastically.

Ever since their return from the future and their defeat of Ganondorf, nobody believed that the pair held Triforces, neither did they believe that a small, ten year old child could be the Hero of Time. After a while, Link had stopped trying to convince them, fed up with being laughed at.

A devilish grin spread across his angelic face.

"Yeah, I could couldn't I? That would be so cool!"

Zelda smiled and nodded.

"It would be. Not only would you show everyone, it would mean that you could sit next to me and that I wouldn't have to be groped by pimply adolescents!"

Link looked at her in surprise.

"They do that?"

Zelda blushed.

"Well no, not really. Well, at least they haven't yet, because the guy who's won for the last few years is a really nice person."

"How many time's has he won it?" Link asked, interested at once at the sound of competition.

"He first entered when he was twelve, he got knocked out in the quarter finals, but he won it when he was thirteen and has for the last two years."

"So he's fifteen?"

Zelda giggled.

"Bravo, you can count."

"Hey, I resent that!" Link pouted, folding his arms across his chest. "I may not know as much as you, but I do know that much."

"I know you do, I'm only teasing." She said, smiling prettily at him. "But you really should enter, you could leave 'em all standing. And some of the adults too."

"You have that much faith in me?" Link asked, wide eyed.

Zelda nodded.

"Sure I do, you are the Hero of Time after all, it would be rude if I didn't."

"Alright then, I'll enter, and I'll beat this fifteen year old's ass!"

Zelda knew full well that Link would try his hardest to win, and would make this tournament one to remember.

Part 1 coming soon if you want it!

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