Sooooooo I was really debating to split the previous chapter up to this and well I did. And look I posted this right after I posted the other one (well a day after) just to get on the good side of you guys since I've been failing with my stories : ( I do apologize and this chapter is better than the last, but soon it will get much better :) ON with the chapter

Chapter 7: The First Date

The week goes by and it was now Friday morning.

"So Zelda, why are you so happy today?" Malon asks with a curious smile.

"What? I'm not that happy, I'm just a little nervous," she looks at her friends who are giving her questioning looks, "nervous about a test I have to take 2nd period; that's in 5 minutes." She looks away slightly red.

"I don't know." Elice says as she examines Zelda, "it looks to me like Zelda has a date?"

"What?!" Ruto and Malon share the same shock.

"No I don't…" Zelda mumbles innocently.

"Oh yeah, it's written all over her face; so Zelda who are you dressed up for?"

"How 'bout I tell you Monday?" Zelda suggests.

All of her friends fold their arms, "Zelda!"

"What? I'm not telling you guys anything till Monday." She begins to walk away.

"Oh fine, but you better not leave any details out; it's been so long since you've been on a date Zelda." Elice said.

"I know..." Zelda mumbled.

In 2nd period as Link and Roy were on the same team they were sitting out.

"You have a date with Zelda? That's awesome; I knew one day you two would get together. I remember when we were all friends you two seemed inseparable!" Roy said.

Link smiled at the thought, "Yeah, if I wasn't such a screw up, we probably would have already had this date…but I guess its ok, at least she said yes. Hey, make sure you don't mention about this date, k?"

"Got it! The secret date, it almost feels like I'm on a mission…. That's so cool!"

"Roy, you are such a weirdo." Link shakes his head and smiles.

"Sorry, some things will never change. Marth is still the mystery, serious weirdo and Ike still has a big head so you don't need much catching up." He gives another big grin.

"So, how did you ask Elice out?" Link asked calmly.

Roy blushes, "What? I never asked her out!"

"Really? Why not? It's obvious you like her; I noticed that in jr high, I guess I was wrong." He shrugs.

"No…. besides Marth is very protective of his sister… he would never let me date her." Roy gloomily stated.

"Yeah, that's the sad truth, but don't give up on her man… anyways, I still need some dating advice."

"Well, girls are weird if that helps… Um, I don't know man; I don't really have much experience with girls… all I can say is be yourself?" Roy suggested.

"I guess that's the best advice I'll get." He sighs, "Thanks anyways…"

"Alright you sissies, get out their and play!" Mr. Redd yelled at Roy and Link.

"Uh, right." Roy mumbles.

"We would be playing if you didn't drag us out." Link mumbled but loud enough for Mr. Redd to hear.

"You want to repeat that again, Mr. Foster?" Mr. Redd threatened.

"No sir, we just really enjoy football and would like to play now." Link faked a smile.

"That's what I thought, now go!" he screamed.

Link and Roy glance at each other and ran on the field to play some football.

Once PE was over and periods flew by it was now 6th hour and they had to meet in the computer lab one last time.

Link sat at his spot and turned his computer on. He noticed Zelda was still not in the room, 'I guess I beat her here; well, while I'm waiting might as well look for more ideas for our date… Which I am really nervous about…"

Minutes pass, the bell rings, and Zelda finally arrives, noticing Link searching for some restaurants on the computer.

She smiles and takes a seat next to him, "So, where are we eating tonight?"

He jumps, closes the page, and turns to face her, "Uh, it's a surprise." He grins, "Um, so should we finish up?"

"Let's see, we got the dress, the tuxedo, the location, the honeymoon, the guest list, and the invite cards. What should they throw as we walk down the isle after we get married; do you want rice, confetti, or bubbles?" Zelda asks.

"Hmmm," he scratches his chin, "well, confetti is fun… but I always had a soft spot for bubbles."

"Bubbles are quite nice."

"What about bubbles and confetti?"

"Sounds great!" she agreed, "We should also make sure we have someone who is willing to clean up."

"Maybe we should invite Mrs. Hesker and make her clean up." He teased.

"I heard that Link!" Mrs. Hesker gave him a look but smiled and shook her head.

"Sorry…" he turns his attention back to Zelda, "Guess we should figure the cost for a limo, eh?"

"Yes, good thinking."

Both do a search for the cheapest cost and compare. "Ok, while I was looking for the limo price I remembered we need a location for our reception; considering our honeymoon is in Disney World, what if we had our reception in Disney World. One seems really cool the Ballroom/Banquet. Here, take a look."

She looks at Link computer screen, "Wow, it looks beautiful. That would be perfect." She writes down the price of everything. "Weddings are sure expensive."

Link chuckles, "Only when you dream of a big fancy wedding."

"I highly doubt it, even a cheap one would be expensive."
"Yeah, probably."

"So, have you decided on the best man and that stuff yet?" Zelda asks.

"Uh, yeah I guess…." Link mumbles.

"Well?"

"Um, I guess Roy will be my best man, I don't know." He shrugs, "I told you it didn't matter."

"Alright, I guess we can discuss the food for the reception." Zelda suggests.

"Oh, let's have steak."

"What's with men and steak?" she giggles.

Link shrugs, "I meant for a private dinner." He smirks as Zelda rolls her eyes.

"Back to the subject, let's figure this out while we have a computer." She commands.

"Yes mam."

They spend most of the class period looking up different varieties of food and comparing prices with each other. They had 10 minutes of class left and decided to use that to figure the wedding cake price and decorations. The bell rings and they finish up.

"Well, that was fun." They both get up, "I can't believe we still have so much left to do." Link stated.

"I know, by the end of next month we'll be wed." she giggles.

Link smiles, "Can't wait."

The rest of the day flew by and there by the front door stood a nervous Link. He leans his head against the wall and closes his eyes, deep in thought. 'If this date goes well, I can finally have a normal life again… maybe even a girlfriend.' He smiles at the thought as he open his eyes and looks up to see Zelda saying goodbye to her friends. 'Now that I think about it,' he slowly loses his smile, 'I think her friends are not too fond of me…' He regains his smile as Zelda walks over towards him, "Hi." She greets nervously.

'This is new; is Zelda nervous?' "Hey." he responds.

"So, what's on the agenda?" Zelda asks shyly.

"Well, um, if you're hungry we could uh, you know, eat at this place…" he scratches the back of his head, "I mean, I have a place picked, I just… uh…" he sighs as Zelda giggles, "Are you hungry?" Link finally spit out.

"I am actually; lunch wasn't that great today." She slightly frowns.

"Well, lucky for you I know a great place where we can eat. I hope you like Cocos Diner."

"Oh, I believe I ate there once; it's a great place."

"Well, let's not keep our belly's growling, let's go." Link noticed Zelda carrying her book bag, "Um, here let me take your bag."

"Huh? Oh! Thank you." She smiles as she hands him her bag. He throws it over his shoulder and they begin to walk to the restaurant.

"You can put your sketchbook in my bag, if you like." Zelda suggested.

"Oh thanks." He puts his book in her bag and changed the subject, "So, I thought after we eat we could go to the movies then after that it's a surprise. If you want to do something else we can."

"Oh no, movies is good; I'm quite curious about this surprise though." She said with curiosity.

"Well, if I told you it wouldn't be a surprise, now would it?" he smirked.

"I suppose…" she looks at her feet and smiles, "I remember the days you would walk me home from school, do you remember?"

He smiles fondly at the memories, "Of course," he pauses, "remember that day it was raining—"

"And you pushed me in that puddle? How could I forget?!" she interrupted her voice raised but still had a playful tone.

He laughs, "I'm sorry Zel, but I really do mean it when I say it was an accident."

She smiles, "I'm sure." She stated still not believing him.

"Well, I know this," he slightly shoves her, "isn't an accident." He grins.

"Hey!" she chuckles as she shoved him back, "Jerk!" she teased.

They stop by Zelda's house to drop off her bag, so she wouldn't have to carry it everywhere. Once they were done they began walking towards the restaurant again. They laughed as they continued to tease each other and out of the blue Link said, "I'm sorry Zel…truly I am..." he looks at his feet as he stops walking.

She stops as well and turns to look at him a little taken aback, "What for?"

He looks up with guilt in his eyes, "For everything…" he brought his attention back to his shoes finding them suddenly interesting.

"Oh…" was all she could say realizing what he meant. She then thought of something to make the situation less tense and awkward, "Link," she whispers softly, "I may not understand why this is happening and why you suddenly changed, but… I'm happy you did…" he looks at her again and they were both slightly blushing, "I'm sure you had good reasons… but… I really missed you…" he gasped as he saw a tear roll down her cheek. She chuckles as she brushes the tear away with her arm, "Sorry, not sure what's gotten over me."

Link took her hand and stared straight into her eyes as she stared back; the thought of kissing her was screaming in Link's mind, but he pushed that thought aside and pulled her into a hug, "Don't cry, everything will be different now… no more 'jerk Link', ok?"

She laughs in his chest, closes her eyes, and smiles deep in thought, 'Never thought I would be enjoying a hug from Link… how strange… hmmm…'

They stood like that for moments and broke apart, "Great…" Link mumbles sounding a bit frustrated.

Zelda tilt her head and raises an eyebrow, "What?" she asks.

He gives her a sad smile, "I wasn't suppose to make you cry…" he looks away and looses his smile looking frustrated as he mumbles, "Especially not on a date…"

She blinks a couple times and laughs, "Link its ok, really. Let's have some fun, shall we?"

He looks back and grins, "Good." He takes her arm and drags her to the restaurant as they laugh the whole way. He opens the door for her when they arrive. "The door ma' dam." He gestures for her.

"Why thank you sir." She politely says but couldn't resist giggling.

The lady up front greeted them and led them to their seats, which was a booth table near a window facing the streets. "Here are the menus for you to look over." They take their seats across from each other as the lady hands them the menus, "And your server will be with you shortly." With that she left them to look over the menus.

As they did so, Link kept glancing at his watch, 'Debating if I should turn my watch off or not—'

Zelda notices and ask, "Is there somewhere you have to be?"

Snapping out of his thoughts he looks at her confused, "Huh?"

"You keep looking at your watch; I wasn't sure if you had somewhere to be or not."

"What?" he looks at his watch then back at her realizing what she meant, "Oh no, I uh, just don't want to keep you out too late, that's all." He chuckles and scratches the back of his neck."So, uh, how's it going?"

Zelda raises an eyebrow, still confused, "Good?"

Link chuckles, "I meant for the past 10 years…"

She smiles sadly, "With you annoying me, it's been pretty difficult… That reminds me, why did you annoy me but completely ignore Roy, Marth, and Ike? That's always been on my mind."

Link blushes and looks away as he whispers, "That's a long story…"

"I think we have time." Zelda stated.

Link fell silent for a few moments, "…Well—"

"Hello, my name is Laura and I will be your server this evening. Can I start you with something to drink?" The server interrupted with a smile, of course not realizing she had interrupted.

Zelda smiles at Link before she looks at the server and spoke, "I'll have some water."

"Same here…" Link mumbles not turning his attention to the waitress.

"Alright, I'll get your drinks." She leaves.

Link was looking anywhere but at Zelda, "So, uh anyways…"

She looks at him thinking, 'I guess he's not ready to tell me…' "What kind of stuff do you draw?" she changes the subject.

Link finally locks eyes with her then shrugs, "Anything."

"Well that's very specific." She holds back a laugh.

"Heh, well, you know me." Link stated.

"I'm not sure about that one."

"That's true… So tell me, Zelda was it?" she giggles, "What do you do for a living?"

"Really Link?"

"You're right," he smiles to himself, "so I heard a rumor about you and Shadow Fighter?"

"Is that the best topic you can come up with when you're on a date?" Zelda asks.

"So this is a date!" Link exclaimed.

Zelda couldn't help but roll her eyes, "I'm starting to regret it."

"Hey!" Link almost sounded offended.

"What? You brought up Shadow Fighter, am I detecting some jealousy Link?" she teased.

"What? No!" 'Especially not with myself…' "Can't I be curious?"

"No, you may not."

"Nah, you're right… I shouldn't have brought that up, I'm sorry." Link looks at the menu with a frown.

"It's alright," she too looks at the menu, "you can't help but to be jealous."

Link smirks, "Sure, that's it."

A few minutes pass and the waitress brings back their drinks, "Here are your drinks," she place each glass in front of them, "Do you need a few more minutes?"

"No, I'm ready." Link says as he looks up at Zelda, "Are you?"

"Yes." She smiles as Link gestures for her to order first, "I'll have the chicken Caesar salad with Ranch dressing with a side of fries please." She hands the menu back to the waitress, Laura.

"And for you sir?" Laura looks at Link with a slight blush.

"Um, I'll have fried chicken with green beans and fried apples." He too hands the menu back to Laura.

"Alright, I'll take these and get your food for you." She then leaves, leaving Zelda and Link to talk some more.

"So, do you work?" Zelda broke the silence.

Link looks up at her, "Yeah."

"Where?"

"Meh, just some factory here in town." He looks away.

"Really? That must be tiring for you… how do you do it?" she asked amazed.

"It's nothing really, by now I'm use to it." He grins.

"Why don't you work where teens usually work, like fast food or a grocery store?"

He shrugs "Don't get paid enough…"

"What do you need the money for, if you don't mind me asking, that is…"

He pauses feeling uncomfortable, "I, uh, I live by myself." He mumbled so quietly that Zelda wasn't sure she heard him correctly.

"What?! But I thought you were living with Rusl and his wife Uhl?" Zelda had of look of concern and sympathy.

"Meh," he looks away, "I don't feel like talking about it…sorry."

Zelda put her hand over her mouth, "Link, I'm sorry. That was very rude of me."

He looks back at her with a small smile, "Hey, it's ok; let's just have fun today, k?"

She laughs glad for the topic change, "Alright, what movie are we going to see?"

"Any movie you want."

"Are you going to spoil me today Link?"

"Meh, maybe a little." He chuckles as did Zelda. "So, let's talk about you blondie, what—"

"Don't. You. Dare." She told him slowly, but all he did was laugh.

"What? Would you rather I call you pufferfish?"

She crosses her arms and glares at him as she sat back in her chair, "Jerk…" she mumbles.

He laughs, "I'm joking!"

She smiles, "Alright, but honestly Link I would rather talk about you."

"I think I will continue to be a mystery, if you don't mind."

"If you want," she sighs, "how about I just talk about all the things you have missed. Like how Roy, Marth, and Ike secretly miss you."

Link raises an eyebrow, "Really?"

"Yeah, they sometimes even forget why you guys aren't friends anymore… but they remember…"

Link looks away, "I guess I should probably talk with them again, huh?"

"Whatever you want Link; now how about I tell you the time I was prank by Ike and Roy."

Link grins and listens to the story carefully. As they were waiting for their food, she tells him another story of how she got them back; Link couldn't help but laugh every so often. Their food arrives and it was Link's turn to tell Zelda a few things about him as they ate; only thing he could think of was the reason why he draws.

"Yeah, my parents inspired me to draw ever since I was 3 ish? It was mainly my mom who wanted me to draw; never understood why she wanted me to draw so bad, but she did." He shrugs, "Guess I'll never know…"

"Do you remember the first thing you drew?"

"Yeah, a triangle… but other than that I drew a cat… I guess I'm weird… I still have that picture…"

"You're not weird; that's actually normal to keep stuff like that."

"Yeah… it also reminds me of the memory I had with my parents… I don't have that many sadly…"

She smiles sadly, "I can relate… I don't remember much about my mother …but I know she was very lovely…"
"Yeah… so anyways, how's your food?" Link asks, changing the subject.

"It's pretty good; thanks for taking me here." She smiles, "How is yours?"

"Oh, mine is pretty good too."

They spent the next few minutes finishing up eating and talking about random things. "That was good." She starts fidgeting through her purse for her wallet.

Link held his hand up and shakes his head, "Don't worry about the money, I got this."

"Are you sure?" she asks.

"Yes." He smiles to reassure her. The waitress leaves the bill on the table and they leave her a $3 tip. They pay at front and leave for the movie. "Well, at least we can walk this food off, huh?"

She laughs, "Yes, sooooo whatcha wanna talk about?"

"You." He blushes and looks away, "I mean, uh—we can talk about…trees?"

She slightly blushes and smiles, "Do you always flirt with girls this way?"

He looks back at her with a grin but also still blushing, "I don't know what you're talking about?"

She slightly shoves him, "Sure, play innocent again."

"It works everytime." He shoves her back.

She gasps and shoves him a bit harder. He laughs and still only slightly shoves her and runs for it, "Hey!" she exclaimed as she ran after him laughing.

"Got to run faster than—" he looks back, "Woah." He looks forward again with a smile running a bit faster.

"Don't you remember Link," she catches up to him and tackles him to the ground while laughing, "I always out run you."

She backs away as Link sat up across her still slightly laughing, "I'll keep that in mind." He looks up to see he was face to face with her. His smile decreased as his face turned beat red and with that he quickly backs away, "Uh, sorry…"

Her face too was beat red, "its ok…" she mumbles. He gets up on his feet and then helps her up, "Thank you…" she whispers.

He smiles at her, "Well, we're closer to the theater anyways."

She looks up to find the theater only a block away. "What are we waiting for then?"

He shrugs as they walk towards the theater making jokes on their way there. Once they arrive, Zelda picked out the movie which, to Link's surprise, was an action movie he's been waiting to see. Not questioning it, he bought the tickets, popcorn and drinks.

"Link, I think I should pay for something at least…" Zelda insisted.

"Zel, it's ok; I got it." He smiles to reassure.

"Fine…" she crosses her arms.

2 ½ hours went by, and it was now 8 o'clock as they exit the theater.

"That movie was awesome!" Link exclaimed.

"I couldn't agree more! My favorite part was when they tricked him into a trap." Zelda said.

"Oh yeah." He laughs, "alright not to change the subject, but I do still have a surprise for you. I hope another hour isn't too much." Link stated.

"Aw yes, Link's little secret. Can you at least give me a hint?" Zelda asked curious.

Link thought about this for a moment as he leads her to their last destination. "Well, I guess I can say our parents took us here a lot when we were young."

"Well that narrows it down." She sarcastically comments, rolling her eyes.

He shrugs, "You asked for a hint, and I gave it to you."

"True…so, how far do we have to walk?"

"It's actually up ahead." He points in front of them at a sign that read 'Cool Town'.

"We're going to Cool Town?" She asked with a hint of excitement.

He laughs, "Well, since it's getting late I wanted to at least take you mini golfing. If you want, we can come back next time to do everything."

She smiles widely, "I'd love that; come on, let's hurry!" she takes his hand and drags him as they were both laughing.

"Are we going to do both courses?" Zelda asks as they stood in front of the ticket booth.

"We should probably do 1 to see how long it will take." Link stated.

"Sounds good." She smiles still excited.

He chuckles and buys the tickets. "Here you go m'lady." He hands her the pink golf club.

"What's wrong Link? Don't want the pink one?" she grins waving it in front of him.

He smirks, "Fine." He switches her with his blue golf club and took the pink one, "Only a real man would mini golf with a pink club."

She laughs, "Keep telling yourself that when I beat you."

"Oh, you're on!"

They play on the Castle course, and since no one else was playing, they would replay different holes. Around this time it was dark but there were little lights around each course. They were now on hole #16 which was a very long one, where you had to shoot down a long path as it curves slightly and get it around the two hills and into the hole which was on a small hill. Zelda got a hole in one and jumped up and down.

"Eek! I can't believe I did it!"

Link's mouth was still open wide and loses it as it was now his turn, "I can do it too…" he mumbles as he was just about to hit his golf ball.

Zelda giggles as he was in deep concentration; he hits the ball (probably too hard) as it goes over the hole and down the hill. Link sighs in frustration, "You got lucky…"

He goes over to his golf ball and hits it but again it goes over the hill and misses the hole again. He repeats this 7 times and after the 4th time Zelda was doing nothing but laugh at the situation. Once he missed again Link grabs his golf ball and drops it in the hole.

"There my ball is in the hole now!" Link shouted not realizing what he said.

Zelda busted up laughing and was holding her sides, "Link," she was saying while laughing, "Are you having trouble putting the ball in the hole?" she began to laugh hysterically again.

Link blushes and raises an eyebrow, "Since when did you have such naughty thoughts Zel?" he slightly smiles, still embarrassed though.

She slowly stops her laughing, "Haha, since I grew up, silly."

"Yeah yeah," he picks his golf ball out of the hole, "Let's get with the last two holes…" he grumbles something unintelligent as Zelda laughs again.

Once they were done playing it was getting late and Link had to take Zelda home. Once they arrived at her house they said their goodbyes.

"I had a great time Link, thank you for taking me out." Zelda blushed a little looking at her feet.

Link blushes too, feeling flustered with Zelda's shyness, "Um, no problem. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." He smiles

"I guess I should go; call me when you get home k?" Zelda smiles.

"Alright; I'll see you Monday then." He was about to leave until Zelda called out to him.

"Wait!" he looks back at her and blushes as she leans in to kiss him on the cheek. "Thank you again." She turns around, blushing, and heads inside her house.

He grins widely as he began to walk down the street, but he quickly lost it when his watch gave a small beep. He sighs as he sees it's the new enemy. He quickly changes into Shadow Fighter and heads to the purple dot on his watch. He looks around and doesn't see him anywhere. "Come out!"

"Touchy touchy." Zant appears before him, "hello Shadow Fighter."

"You! Tell me your name!" Shadow Fighter got in defense mode.

"Alright, my name is Zant; I work for the great Lord Ganondorf and I have come to take something of yours."

"Ha, go ahead and try. You gonna make me fight another one of your monsters? Bring it!" He got his sword out.

Zant smiles widely and hold his hand by his chest, index pointing up, and he uses his magic to create a red and black crystal. "Not today; today you will meet pain!" he disappears and reappears right in front of him as he forces the crystal through his chest. Shadow Fighter drops his sword and screams in pain as Zant still had his wicked smile. He pulls the crystal out slowly and snickers as the crystal was now bright red, "Thanks for the present Shadow Fighter; I hope you pass all of my tests that I will give you." With that he disappears with laughter echoing through the air.

Shadow Fighter drops to his knees, quickly taking his mask off, holding his chest, as he was breathing heavily. 'What the hell did he do to me?! And what did he mean about tests?' he slowly gets up, 'ok deep breaths.' He took some deep breaths and shook his head. 'There… all good…' he changed into his regular clothes, in a building near by, and began walking back home, 'What should I do? I feel so dizzy, I'm not even sure I can make it home…' he starts losing vision, 'I can't just faint in the middle of the street, I have my Shadow Fighter stuff with me…' he drops his bags then he falls face first to the ground, unconscious.

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I know I'm mean, but I really love cliffhangers and hopefully the next chapter won't be so long of a wait. Anyways, so since I'm a hopeless romantic, that's why I didn't have Link and Zelda kiss; you never want to kiss on a first date =P Like I said I'm a hopeless romantic. I do apologize, if I lived on my own I would probably have more done but it's cool though sooooo I hope to get at least 5 reviews. That would be great :3 lolz

Next Chapter will be Zant's Secret Plan (bwahahahahahaha)