Link and Zelda walked down the hallway, heading for Zelda's room.
Link couldn't be any happier.
Zelda couldn't feel any guiltier.
The Hylian princess was drowning in guilt for lossing her precious Nayru, given to her by her hero, now it was lost.
She sighted and decided to tell him. "Hey, Link..."
"Hm?"
"Do you remember that white plushie cat you gave me when I arrived here?"
"Yeah" he said smiling as he placed his arms behind his head.
"Well... I... I lost her! I can't find her anywhere! I even had Ike help me but I don't find her!" she said almost bursting into tears.
Link looked surprised at the princess and then a soft and loving smile grew on his face.
"Zelda... You still have it?"
"H-Have what?"
"Nayru, you still have her?"
"Y-Yes! Of course!"
"Zelda..." he felt like hugging her and kissing her face, but of course that was out of question.
"It's ok, if you don't find it I'll buy you another one, but I'm sure you'll find it, I'll help you even..." he said softly placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Y-You mean... You're not angry?" she asked surprised looking up at him.
"How could I be angry? I'm even happier to know that you treasured so much something I gave you."
Finally they were infront of Zelda's room. Link turned to his princess and to her surprise (and his) he wraped his arms around her unconciously.
"Goodnight, Princess..." He whispered in her ear, his breath tingling in her skin, and he walked off to his own room.
Zelda stood there and tried hard to hide her blush back. She sighted contently and almos skipped off into her room a very soft smile tugging on her lips.
"Hello, Ike." she said smiling to her roomate as she went into their small kitchen and took a glass of water.
Ike was sitting on the small living room, looking amused at Zelda who was now refilling her glass.
"Um, yah... hello, princess... Oh, by the way, I found your cat, it was under your bookshelf, but it was full of dust so I asked Peach if she could wash it" Ike said holding up said plushie.
Zelda ghasped and ran to where the mercenary was, looking at Nayru in disbelief, the white plushie was now as good as new, her once kind of pearly white fur coat was now pure white as when Link had given it to her.
"Thank you!" she squealed in delight as she hugged the mercenary.
As soon as she noticed what she was doing she froze and pulled away.
An uncomfortable feeling settled inside the Hyrulean Princess... Why did Ike did all this for her? Could it be... that he... liked her?...
"Ike, why?did-"
Ike chuckled softly and patted Zelda on the head.
"You remind me very much of my little sister." he answered simply.
"Oh..." she sighted in relief, "And where is she now?"
Ike's face went through a complete transformation, his relaxed smile turned into a straight line and his soft eyes hardened in a frown.
"Good night, princess." he said as he stood up and walked into his room without even turning to look at Zelda.
Zelda looked at Nayru patting her head.
She stood up and walked into her room giving one last sad glance at Ike's room.
Next morning, during breakfast, Peach, Zelda and Jigglypuff introduced, or more like reintroduced human Pikachu.
She, hated being the center of attention, so as soon as she could, she took her breakfast trait, ignoring as best as she could the murmurs around her and sat on her usual place besides Samus.
Marth would normally sit on her other side, but he seemed to be in a very important discussion with Link and Ike.
She sighted as she played with her breakfast.
Samus turned to her friend, surprised and not knowing what to say.
"Was it... because of him?" she asked Pikachu.
"Don't even remind me, I feel like the biggest idiot to walk this planet..." the blond muttered finally pushing away her plate.
"Why, what happened, little one? Why so down?" Peach said with a sweet smile as she, Zelda and Jigglypuff sat with Samus and Pikachu.
Pikachu simply melted even further into her chair.
"May I tell them?" Zelda asked Pikachu, who simply nodded and placed her forhead on the table.
Zelda explained the situation, Pikachu not being able to return to her normal form now and Marth's comentary.
"Oh, my, that's so rude and unlike Prince Marth. I'm sure, he didn't mean to hurt you, Pikachu..." Princess Peach tried comforting the sulking blond.
"I know what we can do to cheer her up..." Jigglypuff said with an evil smile.
"My, are you thinking the same thing I am thinking, Jiggly?" Peach said joining Jigglypuff with an evil smile of her own.
"We are going shopping!!" both said with gigantic big smiles.
"NOOOOOO!!" Pikachu's desperate cry echoed in the dining room.
In her desperation, she took a hold of Samus' leg.
"Hey! What the-"
"If they are taking me, you're coming with me!"
"You evil rat! I liked you better when you were smalleeeeer!!" Samus' voice drifted away as she and Pikachu were dragged away by Peach and Jigglypuff.
A very smiling Zelda walked right behind the two arguing blonds.
"Whine all you want, but you're not getting out of this one!" Jigglypuff said grinning.
Marth looked from Link to Ike.
"Well?"
Link sighed, during the breakfast, Marth had told them what had happened the night before with Pikachu.
"Well, there are bad news and good news...and ugly news..." Link started saying carefully.
"Bad news: You are more distracted than Kirby on a cake store, good news: she likes you" Ike said bluntly.
"Are those good news?" Ness asked, apparently he and Lucas had joined the conversation.
"But, why did she get so angry?" Lucas asked doubtfully.
"Look at this her way, Pikachu just gave up everything she was to be with the man she loves and she deflected her in the worse possible manner." Ike said shrugging.
"You do lack of a term known as delicacy, right?" Link asked rising an eyebrow at Ike.
Marth's face was looking down, his hair covering up his eyes.
"Oops... sorry, pal... I'm a motherless mercenary" Ike said patting Marth on the back.
"Don't worry about it..." Marth said simply waving his hand carelessly trying to force a smile into his face.
"So what should I do?" he asked.
"Now the ugly news, is that we can't help you with that, you'll need to find out how you feel about her, first." Link said shrugging.
"How... I feel?..."
"It's... how do I put it?... PINK! FUCKING BURN-MY-EYES PINK!!" Pikachu whined as she tried getting away from the blouse that Jigglypuff had in her hands.
"Oh, you're such a meanie!!" Jigglypuff replied back with a pout as she placed the blouse back on the rack.
"Well, I think this will look gorgeous on Samus!" Peach said rising a long blue dress much like her own, with ribbons and laces, and everything.
"Agh! Keep it away from me!" Samus said walking away from the princess.
"Ohh, come on, Samus! It's just a dress!" the princess insisted.
"But it'll burn my skin off."
"Oh, I bet Snake will love it!"
"Well, then make him use it!"
Pikachu sweatdroped as she looked at Samus runing away from Peach around the store.
"Well then, how about this?" Jigglypuff asked picking up another blouse, a baby blue with pink ribbons everywhere.
"...HELL NO!!"
Pikachu was exhausted, to say the least.
Her limbs were not answering her properly, and her hands ached from the heavy bags full of clothing.
"Human bodies get tired so easily!" she complained as she almost crawled into the Mansions' main entrance.
"And either of us is completely human, I pity anyone who falls on their grasps..." Samus muttered as she placed the bags on the floor to take out her key to open the door.
But, before she could even touch it, it slammed open and Marth ran out.
"Pikachu! Are you ok?!" he asked worriedly as he embraced her.
"Wha-What?..." Pikachu muttered as she blushed from head to toes.
Link also came out, followed by a straight faced Snake.
"All right, what is going on here?" Samus asked looking around confused.
"Oh, my, did something happened while we were gone?" Princess Peach asked as she got down from the car.
"It appears someone came into Pikachu's room, messed all up... and..." Link started saying but he couldn't continue.
"And?!" Pikachu's face went pale, even with Marth hugging her.
Her mind went into chaos, 'Just the day I left it behind... no... it can't be...'
"They stole your pokeball..." Marth muttered in her ear.
Princess Peach sweatdropped, "Oh, my you had me all worried, silly! It was-"
"It's not so easy, Peach..."Jigglypuff whispered, "Whoever holds Pikachu's pokeball... well, that person becomes her trainer."
"... I'm afraid I still don't understand..."
"It means, whatever they tell me to do, I have to do..."Pikachu said pale with fear.
