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"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after." – William Shakespeare.

Chapter 4 – Phenomena

Zelda quickly entered in the Spanish room, where her teacher, Ms. Brown would be teaching. She glanced around to see the teacher, when she finally spotted a petite, young woman who was gathering things up at her organized desk. She studied her quickly to see that she had very large brown eyes, and brown hair tied up into a pony tail. Zelda quickly looked around to see if she was the last in the classroom, but to her surprise, she was one of the few that were present. She still nervously looked around to see make sure that she wasn't in the wrong classroom, when the teacher herself came over to her.

"Hello, are you looking for something?" the teacher asked in a friendly voice.

"Eh… Erm, is this Ms. Brown's Spanish class?" Zelda immediately asked, fearing she had gotten the wrong classroom.

"Yes, this is Ms. Brown's class. What do you need help with?" Ms. Brown asked nicely.

"Erm, I'm Zelda Harkinian. I am not late, am I?"

"Oh, Zelda! It's nice to finally meet you. Hold on a minute; let me check you off on attendance. No, you are not late. You are actually quite early. I'm glad that you were able to get here. First day at school is quite tough, isn't it?" Ms. Brown said, looking down at her notepad. Zelda nodded her head.

"Why don't you take a seat next to Annette, over there," Ms. Brown instructed, as she motioned her hand to the right half of the room.

"Erm, alright. Thank you, Ms. Brown."

Zelda look around to where Ms. Brown gestured her hand to find the girl that Ms. Brown said to be an Asian girl with black hair and brown eyes. Her skin was lighter than that Mariam girl's skin, though it was darker than Zelda's own skin. She had unique facial features that distinguished her from a lot of other students. Well, in reality, all students had unique facial features that distinguished them from everyone else. This Annette girl had layered black hair, as the parting of the hair was separated at the left side of her head. She did look quite well reserved and quiet for the most part, as Zelda hoped she wouldn't be so nasty, and could actually talk unlike Peach.

"Erm… Hello. My name is Zelda," Zelda told the girl, as she took a seat next to the girl's left.

"Oh, nice to meet you, Zelda. My name is Annette," said the black haired girl.

Zelda tried her best to smile at the girl, as she smiled back at her. In her mind, Zelda felt reassured. Perhaps, this high school wasn't going to be so bad after all… At least her table partner wouldn't be so nasty towards her unlike Megan, Rachael, or possibly Caitlin. Though, her happiness was only short lived when the class was soon to be filled with loud, annoying jocks who were only taking Spanish because it was required. At the horrible sight of the jocks, Annette's face turned a little bit cold to see the idiotic people. But she remained nice towards Zelda, when asked a question about what Ms. Brown was talking about. Ms. Brown went over the necessary things that all teachers go over on their first day of school. The necessary agreement forms that all students must fill out on their own with their parents to take this class. She also handed out a form that demanded that they would pay for their own textbooks and workbooks. After the brief introduction to the class, the class was dismissed.

It was still surprising to see how much her day was passing in such a short period of time. The time was only 11 o'clock AM, and Zelda only had one other class to go to before she had lunch. The class she had to attend to next was… French. How glorious. Two language classes in a row, though it didn't seem to be THAT horrible. Her teacher was Mrs. Kevorkian as her French teacher. As she entered the classroom, which was to the left of Ms. Brown's Spanish class, she found herself acquainted with another petite figure that was only a tad bit shorter than Ms. Brown. She had a serious, yet compassionate face towards Zelda, and the Princess knew that so far, she would enjoy getting along with her teachers.

As Mrs. Kevorkian instructed her to go and find a seat. She noticed that Peach Toadstool was in her class as well. At the sight of a familiar face, Zelda's heart lifted now knowing that she was not alone unlike in her Spanish class. She immediately took a seat right next to Peach. As Peach only looked up at Zelda nervously as she quickly flashed her a smile that lasted less than a second. Zelda tried to smile with reassurance and comfort. After Samus had said those words to hear after gym class was over, she wished to help Peach as well. She wanted to return the kindness and the disappearance of worries by spreading those feelings to Peach. Though, Zelda was famous for those kind of smiles, it didn't produce any effect on Peach for the first day of school. Peach could only turn away from her, and face the head of the classroom with such depression. When Zelda glanced around the room to see if something was causing the depression for Peach, she saw the targets.

Right across the left side of the room that Peach and Zelda was Megan Anderson and Caitlin Russell. At the sight of those two girls, Zelda flinched a bit. Due to that nasty rumor that Megan was probably sending around about her, Zelda knew that these girls were up to no good. Despite however they may act around her, she knew that the information that Samus had provided her was correct. The two were both gossiping about something useless and nothing particularly interesting for the Princess of Hyrule. As Peach's eyes slowly, but self consciously shifted to the right at their direction, the two presidents of the MRL Fan Club they both sent looks of deceit and cunningness. As soon as Peach had seen their reaction, her eyes quickly focused back in front of her at her hands. French class droned on, with Mrs. Kevorkian explaining the strict rules she would have for the class and all of her expectation. Zelda listened, as she followed along with the sheet of paper that Mrs. Kevorkian had given her. Only after forty five minutes later, the bell rang. Students quickly gathered up their belongings, as Mrs. Kevorkian said "au revoir" to them when they exited the classroom. What did Zelda have now? Oh yes, it was disgustingly, sweet… lunch time!

Everyone in the school had the same time for lunch. That meant all of the seniors were near the far left corner of the room, all the juniors were in the far right corner of the room, all the sophomores were in the close right part of the room, and the freshmen were in the close left part of the room. For people who didn't care about sitting in places determined by their grade they either just sat near the left or right part of the wall, or in the center of the room. Unfortunately though, the smack dab middle of the room was reserved for the ever so popular boys of the school! Meaning, that the lunch tables in the middle of the cafeteria were reserved for Marth, Roy, and Link! Aka the boys whom most of the girls in the school worshiped.

As Zelda entered the lunch room by herself, she nervously looked around, wondering where to sit. Samus and Peach was the only people who seemed nice enough to interact with her, and if Zelda dared to say so, she would say that they were friends. Though, for now, she decided to get the idea of food out of the way by purchasing some lunch food. When she glanced down to her purse, she noticed a strange currency her father had provided for her. The money was made out of paper, with different colors for each paper including purple, blue, and red. She ignored this fact, until when she came up to buy food. As she looked from all the dishes that the lunch room provided, none of them seemed to be familiar. In fact, they all seemed to be disgusting and sickening. The only thing that Zelda could do was create her own salad from the salad bar. She hastily paid at cashier, when she found herself not knowing where to sit again.

She wouldn't dare to go up to a random table and ask politely if she could be seated next to them. She didn't have enough guts to do so. She knew that Samus wouldn't have a trouble at all, for asking anyone from anything. But Zelda was still too shy compared to Samus. She still nervously looked around when someone called her name. As she spun around from behind her, she was relieved to see that Samus had been shouting out her name in the lunch room, near the left part of the all at the cafeteria. When Zelda had faced her, Samus had smiled at her for finally recognizing her. The Princess also noticed that the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom was also seated next to her, nibbling at her sandwich she had brought from home. The cafeteria was buzzing with so much noise, that Zelda had probably not heard Samus' cries earlier. She happily made her way towards the table where Samus and Peach were seated.

"Hey! So, long day so far, eh? Anyways, what was up with that? I kept on calling your name, but you didn't seem to hear me!" Samus said, as Zelda properly seated herself next to Peach. The Princess looked around to see that Peach was only nibbling at her white, bread sandwich with her brown, paper lunch bag close by. Samus was sitting across from her on the other side of the table, with nothing but a bottle of water for her lunch.

"Eh heh… Thanks, but I guess I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings. And I guess it has been a long day. I just got out of French with Peach," Zelda said, as she stabbed her fork into her salad.

"Oh yeah? How was it? And wise decision there, Princess. You should note to never eat any of the school's lunches except for the salads. The salads are always fresh, but everything is… icky. Last year, a freshman dared another freshman to eat chicken on the menu from the school, and only taking one BITE out of the chicken, he had to be sent to the nurse's office right away. He was so sick that he wasn't able to go to school for a month," Samus told her. Zelda's eyes widened in amazement, as she finished chewing the lettuce of the salad.

"Are you serious? What could he do for one whole month without attending school?" Zelda asked Samus. Samus shrugged her shoulders, as she took a sip of her bottled water.

"I have no idea… I think he probably just stayed in bed for that whole month. Anyways, how were the classes that you had after gym? Were any of the people there nice?" Samus said.

"Erm… Well, I had Spanish after gym class. I have Ms. Brown as my Spanish teacher. I guess the people there were alright. Most of them were really loud, but I am not sure. I am seated next to this girl named… Annette, I think… She seems nice, but I can't be too sure of that," Zelda explained as she took another bite out of her salad.

"Oh yeah… Annette is normally pleasant. She's definitely not popular like Megan, Caitlin, or Rachael. But she is nice. She's friends with that crazy, lesbo freak named Mariam. She was the one who commented on my boobies today. So who else is in your Spanish class?" Samus asked, as Zelda listed off a bunch of random people that even you would have a hard time remembering who was who. After Zelda had finished listing the people off, Samus could only gape at her for the amount of people in her class.

"Oh my God… You can't be serious. You have… a lot of jerks and ditzs in your class," Samus could only state. Zelda nodded her head in agreement.

"Anyways, could I see your schedule? I know that I read it earlier today, but I wanna copy it down so I know what you have and I don't have to ask you," Samus said, as she took another sip from her bottled water.

"Sure thing," Zelda replied as she rummaged through her backpack. She finally found her schedule, which was… neatly still paper looking. Samus began to furiously scribble down Zelda's schedule which looked like this:

1. English

2. Gym/Physical Education

3. Spanish

4. French.

-Lunch Period-

5. Study

6. Geometry

7. Biology

8. World Geography

"So this means, I have Study, Geometry, and Biology with you, eh?" Samus asked, as she didn't look up from copying Zelda's schedule down.

"Yes, I guess so," Zelda replied as she continued to eat out of her salad.

"Well, Peach has Study and Biology the same time we do, so that means all three of us are together in that class," Samus said.

The bounty hunter had finally finished fully copying down every subject on her white lined paper, as she took another sip of bottled water. She sighed heavily, when she noticed two specific girls strutting over near their table. She cocked an eyebrow towards them, knowing the presidents of the MRL Fan Club, were up to no good. Caitlin Russell and Rachael Livingston were coming over their table. What they were demanding remained a mystery to both Samus and Peach. As soon as Peach saw those two girls coming over, she immediately bolted out of her chair and left to go the bathroom. Samus and Zelda only watched her abruptly leave the cafeteria, only astounded to see Peach leave out on them like that. Samus knew though, that Peach was afraid of these girls. She didn't know why, but Peach just was.

Even though Samus contained a lot of physical strength, she knew that she was no match against Rachael Livingston and Caitlin Russell alone. This was a hideous trap for both Samus and Zelda. They were being cornered by the two most popular girls in school. Rachael's eyes glowered at Samus as she saw the look the bounty hunter was giving her. The bounty hunter was trying to give her a fearless, fierce look, though Rachael knew that there was at least some form of fear in her. Everyone feared the presidents of the MRL Fan Club, and one of the reasons why a lot of girls were in the club, was because they feared Caitlin Russell, Megan Anderson, and Rachael Livingston all at once. The two predators had found their prey as the quickly stood in front of Zelda Harkinian.

"Hi! I don't think we've introduced ourselves properly. My name is Rachael Livingston and that's Caitlin Russell," the woman obsessed with Roy said to them, as she motioned her hand next to Caitlin.

She sweetly, yet cosmetically smiled at the Hylian female. As the Princess of Hyrule glance to see Caitlin's expression, she saw that her face was filled with the same fakeness as Rachael. Zelda obviously had no idea what to say to the other girl, given off her impression, though she could only nod her head as if she understood what she was saying.

"Anyways, one of my best friends named Megan… she's like over there in the center of the room, near the table with Roy, Marth, and Link, is wondering if you want to come and sit with us. I mean, alright, like… If you want to do well in this school, you have to be there when people give you is lending hand, you know? Anyways, since you are new here and all, we just want to help you out and stuff. I mean, no offense, but you don't want yourself hanging out with the WRONG SORT of people, right?" Rachael asked.

She put a lot of emphasis on "wrong sort" as her eyes were shifted towards Samus at the time. Samus only glared back at Rachael for trying to ignore her presence, as Rachael just rapidly chewed her gum in her mouth. At that remark, however, Zelda's anger only boiled a tad bit. Even though she had met Samus only a couple hours ago, she could tell that Samus was someone you could trust. By her protective behavior and rigid, yet comforting words, there was compassion and loyalty to her friend unlike any other. It was shown in her eyes. Zelda could only stare up at Rachael and Caitlin for a moment, as she finally figured out how to answer Rachael's question.

"If you were going to mean no offense towards my decision of the people I choose to be acquainted with so far, you wouldn't have even mentioned it. In fact, you wouldn't even have come here to waste your time here to tell me this sort of advice. I am an independent Hylian, and I know what's best for me. Perhaps, you could do the same and mind your own business?" Zelda coldly inquired to Rachael.

At the statements that Zelda had declared to Rachael, Samus could only smirk at her. The bounty hunter felt a sudden jolt of pride for the Princess of Hyrule, and knew that they were meant to be friends. Both of the blondes were even more pleased to see Rachael Livingston's offended and taken back face when she heard the witty comment that the heir of Hyrule made. Caitlin also scowled at Zelda for making that sort of comment towards her friend, as she took Rachael's left arm and started to leave. However, before the two could leave, Rachael made another comment to make sure that Zelda would get this fact straight.

"Listen, we are only trying to save you from yourself and us. If you want to hang out with some poor, low lives like that little bitch like Aran. You're going to be dead from the both of us. But if you side with us, there will be no harm done. It's best to have less mental and emotional pain than physical…" Rachael said, as both of the presidents of the MRL Fan Club left the two alone.

As Zelda sighed stressfully from the encounter with the two, she heard someone close by congratulating her by clapping her hands. She looked up to see Samus' smiling face across the lunch table from her. The fearless blonde was smiling with such pride, as Zelda smiled back at her. The two both looked at each other for a moment, with no words to be said about the Princess' telling off of Rachael Livingston and Caitlin Russell. What the two didn't notice was, that another blonde princess, who had cowardly run away from the scene, had saw what had happened. And what else they didn't know was that this princess was slightly inspired by both the bounty hunter's and the princess of Hyrule's boldness and courage. Though, she was known for her abnormally shy ways, the princess was only slightly inspired. She did wish she could be as brave and make some kind of wise crack remark to the girls, but she doubted herself more than anyone. The Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom only sighed and walked back to the lunch table once the coast was clear.

Thank you all once again for the encouragement and support. It's very highly appreciated!

Love,

-BKP