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Zelda sat at one of the many tables in the Smashers cafeteria. She sat tall and straight as she put her fork in her mouth. Link and Roy were off practicing together while Samus and Peach were eating together at a different table. They usually ate together; but today Zelda sat alone. The battles had ended for the day so most of the smashers were eating or resting. Link and Roy, were really the only ones that practiced regularly only taking meals when they decided to take a break, Marth joined them occasionally but today he had disappeared to rest in his room.
The Princess turned her head and looked over in the direction of Peach and Samus, both were sitting there chatting away, Peach giggled after Samus said something that Zelda couldn't hear. She was debating on going over to sit with them or to stay, after all they were the ones that had ignored her. Deciding to go see what was going on she got up and grabbed her tray before walking over to Peach and Samus "hello, Samus and Peach," she said with a smile, "mind if I sit here?" she asked.
The girls looked at each other "sorry Princess but that seat is reserved" Samus said quickly sticking a piece of meat in her mouth.
"Reserved? Reserved for who?" Zelda asked looking over at Peach. Zelda waited for an answer wondering why they denied her request.
"For a friend" Peach said.
"So Princess Zelda, if you will excuse us Peach and I were in the middle of a conversation" Samus said after swallowing her food.
Zelda stood there, "aren't I your friend?" she asked.
"Princess Zelda, if you want to sit here then alright" Samus said looking at the blond.
"Thank-you," Zelda said placing her tray down beside Samus and pulling out the chair. As soon as she sat down both Samus and Peach stood up, grabbed their trays and walked to a different table. "Wait" Zelda said but the two ignored her and sat down leaving Zelda alone once again. Zelda looked down at her half-eaten food, she had suddenly lost her appitte. The Princess began to shake a bit and got up, grabbed her tray and walked over to the trash can, scraping the food off she placed the tray on top of the can and quickly left the cafeteria. Samus and Peach watching her as she left.
Zelda ran to her room making sure to regain her composure if she sensed anyone nearby, reaching the door she held her hand out and in front of a small panel. The door opened and the Princess walked inside, sitting on the bed. Why had Samus and Peach done that to her? Just yesterday the three had been joking about how Young Link had spilled some of his Lon Lon milk on his tunic after his battle. Now they were ignoring her and almost mad at her. Had she done something to upset them? What could make them feel so angry towards her. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around herself, she ordered herself not to cry. She would speak to Link after he and Roy were done, Links room was just down the hall from her own, perhaps he had any idea of what was wrong.
Link knocked Roys sword out of his hand "Link wins," Fox said. He had been watching and judging the battles between the two smashers.
Roy reached over and grabbed his sword after Link placed his own back in the sheath, "that was a cheap shot" Roy said.
"Don't be such a sore loser" Link said jokingly as Roy stood up giving him a slight shove. "By the way, it's getting late I think we should get something to eat before they close the cafeteria."
"Sounds like a plan," Roy said and the three headed back inside the Smashers Residence and towards the cafeteria. Which had begun to empty out. Each grabbing a tray filled with meat, mashed potatoes, and a few things they didn't know they walked over towards the desert table grabbing some chocolate pudding. Fox separated from the two swordsmen and headed over to where Captain Falcon sat. "Hey there's Peach and Samus" Roy said spotting the two girls finishing up their meal. "Hey girls" the red head greeted as he and Link sat down.
"Hey" Samus said greeting them.
"Hello" Peach said pushing her empty plate away, Samus doing the same. "We were actually getting ready to leave," she said as the two began to eat.
Roy looked up at Peach "come on and stay with us. We need a few friendly faces" he joked. "Speaking of which, where's our other pretty princess?" Roy asked looking around.
"You mean Zelda, she decided to eat and head up to her room. Said she was tired" Samus said to them, "most likely went to sleep."
Link and Roy looked at them before shrugging and digging back to their meal "so what were you girls chatting about?" Link asked.
"Oh just a few things" Samus said, "the upcoming tournament has a lot of people excited, you should've seen Nana and Popo earlier."
Peach nodded her head "it really is exciting though" she said placing her hands together, "I wonder who my first opponent is going to be" she looked over at Mario and smiled.
"It's hard to tell if you like that Italian plumber or just want to smash him," Roy said. "Anyway, Master Hand said he would have the preliminary line up tomorrow," he slowly turned his fork side to side, juice dripping off some of the meat, "two days after we begin that battle and after that we train for another week before" he stuck the meat forcefully into his mouth for a wordless emphasis for the official smashing to begin.
The group laughed, "all this talk about the tournament is getting me excited to train more" Link said receiving a nod of approval from Roy. "Tomorrow then?"
"Tomorrow" Roy agreed. The boys joked around while they ate and eventually the girls dismissed themselves from the two.
Samus and Peach left the cafeteria "so wanna play a game of pool before we go to bed?" Samus asked heading towards the game room. Peach nodded in agreement, "so who do you want to be put up against first Samus?" Peach asked.
They turned down entering a different hallway before entering the game room "not really sure, it'd be nice to go against Ness and get his little ass out of the competition first thing, what about you?" Samus asked.
"Mario" Peach said without any thought, the two walked over to the pool table and grabbed some sticks, Peach put some chalk on hers while Samus set up the balls. "Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I don't appreciate him saving me from Bowser but even so. He never really seems to take me seriously during battle or sometimes even just around the mansion" she said. "He beat me last year in the tournament so that didn't really help," she placed a hand to her chin, "even so I was voted as the 'Most Beautiful' among the fans. I suppose it can't be helped."
"I'll bet you would have fallen under 'ditzy' as well if that had been one of the categories" Samus said with a tease as Peach looked away. Samus laughed, "come to think of it wouldn't it be funny to watch Roy and Link go against each other first?" the blond bounty hunter laughed at the thought, "oh just imagine the loser." Samus placed the white ball on the opposite end before chalking up her stick "you can break."
"Of course" Peach said with a smile before leaning down, aiming, and breaking the balls apart.
Zelda walked around her room, she was still slightly haunted by earliers fiasco with Samus and Peach. Every time she heard the sound of footsteps she would open her door to see if it was Link but she was always wrong. The Princess let out a sigh and walked over to her door, it slid open, and she stepped out. "Maybe they had just been in a bad mood," she muttered to herself walking across the hallway and two doors down. She knocked on the door "Samus, are you there?" she called, "I'd like to speak with you."
Zelda waited patiently before she felt a tug on her dress, she looked down and spotted Nana and Popo standing together as they always were. "Can I help you?" she asked kneeling down.
"Samus isn't in her room Princess Zelda" Nana said.
"Do you know where she is?" Zelda asked.
"Game Room" Popo said simply before rushing off, Nana following behind him as they headed towards their room at the very end of the hall.
"Alright, to the game room then" Zelda said and left her resident hall heading towards the stairs to up to the game room. She took hold of the railing and slowly walked up to the third floor where the game room was. She could hear yells and make out words like 'cheated,' 'got you,' and 'try' until she got closer and the words became sentences. Zelda stopped just outside the doorway and took in a deep breath to calm her nerves before she entered and looked around spotting Samus and Peach at the pool table. "Samus, Peach" she said walking over making the two look up.
"Princess," Samus said in a nearly dead tone allowing Zelda to know that she acknowledged her presence as she kneeled down and shooting a ball in.
"So who's winning?" Zelda asked trying to create small talk and ease her way into her question.
"Samus," Peach said, "I think she's using one of her space toys to win, I mean I've only gotten a few chances. What do you think Zelda?" Peach asked.
Samus looked up at Peach and loudly cleared her throat, "I am not cheating and don't tell me you came in here all the way just to ask us that."
Zelda blinked when Peach suddenly seemed to change her expression towards her, Zelda realized her plan wouldn't work "I wanted to apologize for earlier. I don't know what I did to make you both angry at me, however please tell me and I'll do what I can to fix it or if I said something I take it back" she looked at them.
Samus leaned against her stick and Peach looked at Zelda "you don't even know what you did and you want to take it back?" Peach asked standing tall, "tell me Princess Zelda how do you expect to take something back if you don't know exactly what it is?"
"I was asking as well that you would tell me so I'd know" Zelda said. "After all friends shouldn't fight and if I did anything to disrupt our friendship."
Zelda was cut off "friends? You honestly think us to be friends Princess Zelda?" Samus asked in a swift movement lifting and pointing the pool stick at the girls direction. "For someone that is supposed to be so legendary for her brains you sure seem to be a stupid girl. We aren't friends. Not anymore" Samus watched Zelda take a step back.
"I only meant" Zelda began to feel goosebumps, Samus's eyes were threatening, almost dangerous like. "It wasn't that" she took another step back her body unintentionally began to shake.
Peach brought up a gloved hand and pushed Samus stick down "Zelda I will say this only once to you and I hope that you understand me clearly. Samus and I have denounced our friendship with you, and if you ever ask to 'sit with us' or 'play with us' again our reaction won't be so mild."
"Speak for yourself" Samus said before leaning down and forcing two balls in.
Zelda looked over at Peach, she wasn't acting like herself. Even so, the tension in the room was all aimed at her and before she knew it Zelda had run out of the room and back towards her resident hall.
"You lost your wit for a moment Peach" Samus said watching Zelda run away. She frowned a bit noticing the tears that had formed when Zelda had turned and ran.
Peach had also noticed "do you think we were to hard on her, I mean I think we went a little far. Zelda was beginning to cry" Peach said watching the girl disappear from the room. "She never cries, atleast not that I've seen."
"Even so, maybe we were but…I suppose we have to be more careful, we want to pull out her strength. However, if we push to much, we could break her" Samus said her voice giving off a slight hint of worry. "However, I think that last warning you gave her will have her keep her distance for awhile. The only one that we really have trouble with now would be Link." Samus kneeled down and shot another ball into the right corner pocket.
"Do you really think this is the right way Samus?" Peach asked placing her stick against the wall. The Mushroom Kingdom Princess and raised her hands in defeat knowing there was no way she could win.
"I'm not sure" Samus replied, "I really am not sure."
Link and Roy scraped their bowls trying to get the last of the pudding before they had to resort to their tongues. They had been able to get seconds before they closed for the night, "so what should we do next?" Roy asked placing his bowl down on his tray.
"I think I'm going to hit it for the night, I want to be nice and fresh for the set-up tomorrow and our next practice match" Link said.
"Ah come on Link, let's get going and do something" Roy said.
"Tomorrow, I'm bushed" Link replied and got up, taking his tray to the trashcan, and began to leave the cafeteria. "Night" he called lifting a hand up as he walked.
"Fun killer" Roy called back only to hear a laugh as a response.
Link wandered down the halls taking the long way towards his residence hall. He felt something rush past him and he was pushed aside, he heard a small 'ump' and saw a body fall to the floor. He looked over and saw it was Zelda. "Princess?" he asked surprised to see her in tears. "I thought you were asleep, no wait I mean what's wrong?" he asked.
Zelda looked at Link and grabbed onto him, she held him tightly and Link looked around before he slowly led her back to her room. Zelda held up her hand and the door opened. The two Hylians sat down on her bed and Zelda cried in his arms. Link held her tightly, she had always been strong what could have made her break into tears like this? "I'm sorry," she whispered through tears and gasps for breath, "that's all I could say and I didn't even…know what I was apologizing for" she cried. "Then, all I got in return was a yell and a threat" she cried holding onto him tightly.
"A threat, Zelda who threatened you?" Link asked.
"The only two who I thought were my friends" Zelda said and looked at Link, he looked back at her. Zelda felt a sudden jolt inside of her, as if lightning had struck her insides and she fell unconscious into Links arms.
He held her closely watching the tears continue to fall from her closed eyes, he placed her down on her bed and covered her up with blankets. Brushing a strand of hair aside from her face he wiped away a few of her tears and left the room. His eyes seemingly ice cold.
The doors slid shut behind him and he walked down the hall towards his own room; placing his hand up in front of the panel it opened and he walked inside. Sitting on his bed he brought his hand up to his chin, who had Zelda been talking about when she had said her friends. Link then looked up in realization, he gritted his teeth and his ice cold eyes seemed to harden slightly, only two people had been so close to Zelda other than himself. Samus and Peach.