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Disclaimer -- I do not own Super Smash Bros. Melee. The characters and such are property of Nintendo. (*Although, I do wish I owned Link! He's my fav!*) All of these writings are pure fiction and came from my imagination! (*Um.. what little imagination I have, that is!*) I am also sorry if any part of my story resembles anything else that has already been done or any other idea. This is my first posted SSBM Fic.

Please read top of first chapter for more Authot's Notes and information.

Fiction By Hylian Swordsman's Pretty Princess [Sherrilynn] And Yoshikachu/Little Dude's Little Lady [Katie]
[Hylian Swordsman is Link and Little Dude is Young Link. Yoshikachu is a combination of Yoshi and Pikachu]

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Super Smash Bros. Melee : A High School Drama Fic

Chapter Eleven -- A Plan Revealed

Dear Journal,

Peach here. Just another Saturday night. I had to do a team battle with Mario tonight. Together, we won! It was awesome fighting side-by-side with him. My feelings have become more confused than ever. Most of me is screaming, "Be with Mario! Be with Mario!" But Marth is still in the picture, since we had an awesome time at Homecoming together for the first half of the night... until he started to hang by himself an aweful lot. There were also some odd looks at Roy... looks I'd never seen before. But I guess that's none of my business, maybe they found out something that I haven't.

Oh, and guess what! I guess you could say "I got over Link." He's with Zelda now. Of course, like always, it still stings to see them together, because Zellie was my best friend; you're full of memories Zelda and I shared together! It hurts to not have her as a friend anymore. But I'm too afraid to speak to her! I'm afraid she'll just turn her nose and walk away, Link on her arm. But it's alright; Link wasn't the type for me anyway. I think he was a little too sensitive for my type anyway. But still, so sweet. I wish him and Zelda the best of luck. Now only if I could gain the courage to say that to their faces... I would be alright.

I can't talk to Daisy about Mario and Marth. But... oh, what ever am I supposed to do? The man of my dreams, or... well, they're both the men of my dreams. Marth is handsome, Mario is sweet... alone, they're missing some qualities, but together, they're my dream! If only....

No, Peach! Neither one would fall for that! But no one is perfect. I guess I'll just date both of them, like one week, take Mario out, then the next, Marth. And then I'll make my decision. I guess that's fair. *smiles*

I must go. It's really late. I guess I SHOULD give Daisy a call. Write more tomorrow. Bye!

Peachie

Peach closed her journal and returned it to her nightstand. She layed on her bed in thought before reaching the phone to call Daisy. She hoped Daisy was still awake. Talking about Marth and Mario weren't going to do her any good, but that wasn't the reason she was calling her best friend. It was for advice on Zelda.

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Zelda stood watching Impa carefully. She blinked several times, wondering if what she had just heard was actual reality or what she was expecting Impa to say. Either way, she didn't like it one bit; just the thought of being banned from seeing Link made her heart sick.

"That's right, Zelda." Impa stood more confidently. "You're not seeing Link anymore."

"For how long, Impa?" Zelda's eyes grew wider, awaiting a response.

"I thought I had made myself clear, young princess. Never again will you see him!"

Zelda quickly snapped from her "afraid" mode to downright angry. "I'll be 18 in a few months! Then, you most certainly will not tell me not to see Link!"

Zelda clenched her fists and grit her teeth. She was very angry; and in love. Nothing in the universe was going to stop her from seeing Link. NOTHING.

"No, Zelda, the rules are different for princesses. You must remain under my care until you are married."

"BUT HOW CAN I BE MARRIED IF I CAN'T SEE MY FIANCEE?" Zelda yelled. "IMPA! This isn't FAIR!"

"But you must be punished!"

"But Impa, we didn't go all the way! My goodness, do you think that's all I want from him?! Or him from me?!" Zelda's sobs were beginning to muffle her voice. "I won't let you do this! NO! I WON'T!" Zelda stood there for a few moments, trying her best to keep her anger subsided. "You're being unreasonable! You can trust me!!"

Impa groaned. "Not this again! This isn't going to get you out of trouble this time!"

"You're making it sound like I'm spoiled! I'm everything but spoiled! I have you watching me twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week! You always want to know every detail of my sad, boring life! You wanna know WHY I have a sad, boring life?! Because I can't do anything unsupervised! Nothing! I am a princess, so I have to watch myself carefully! Every day, I make sure that I am proper and I don't do anything to discgrace the Royal Family! For once, I do something in private, something no one else has a right to knowor ever know! And now, as I made the biggest mistake by even telling you, I am suffering the consequences of giving in to the old habbit of telling you everything! For once I would like to keep some parts of my life a SECRET!"

Impa was speechless. She had never heard Zelda speak in that manner to her, nor with that tone of voice. Impa tried to hide her hurt feelings from Zelda.

"Zelda, I just don't want to let your mother down. Your father is busy with political affairs; that's what I'm for. To take care of you. King Harkinian loves you very much, and I know it's hard not seeing your father. So I do everything I can to make sure that what you do will make him proud. Please understand."

"And please," Zelda said, lowering her voice, "understand something for me. Understand that I love Link. Very much. Please, Impa, anything but expelling me from seeing Link!"

Impa wanting so badly to give in to her instincts -- to let Zelda have her way and continue letting her see Link. Things had been different around the castle since Zelda was a teenager; but Zelda was right, she was almost 18. Even though the rules were different, Zelda would be a woman free to make most of her own choices. The Sage sighed and looked at the ground.

"Zelda... I... I don't want to do this. But... " Impa paused for a moment. "Alright. I understand you are in love with Link. I don't want to hurt you, but I don't want to dissapoint King Harkinian, who is counting on me to make sure his daughter turns out alright." After another short pause, "Okay, this is what I'll do. Link can come over here, but you can't go over to his home. There will be no going upstairs, no seeing you off to your bedroom at night. Link is an honorable young man, but like every other teenage boy I know, he also has those things called 'hormones'. To keep those under control, you two must stay in the main quarters of the castle. If you go into Hyrule Field, I must be able to see you from the castle drawbrigde. This will only go on for about a month or so, then we'll see what happens after that. Agree with me?"

Zelda relaxed her fists, which were now throbbing from the pressure. "Alright, Impa," Zelda answered softly. "I agree. And I do unserstand the position you are in with Father. I'm so sorry for yelling at you, I deserve to be punished. Forgive me."

"Of course I forgive you, Princess. What kind of person would I be if I didn't?" Impa hugged Zelda. "Now please, get to bed as your father ordered. And make sure Link knows of his special circumstances tomorrow. Oh, and Monday when you go to school, we shall have invitations ready for a party for you to hand out."

"But Impa, wait.... what good is announcing an engagement when Link and I can't even be alone together?"

"Zelda, you're not getting off the hook any more than you already have. I know it seems a little awkward, but the public doesn't have to know, does it?"

"I guess they don't," Zelda admitted. "But -- I still feel bad. But I did want to make love with Link. I can't erase that feeling, nor will I pretend it never happened. Make sure to tell my father about the restrictions placed upon me. And I hope he still approves of Link... "

"Don't worry, he will. You can count on that, Zelda. Destiny is destiny, and nothing can affect it. A wedding will happen sooner or later. It's beginning to look a lot like later than sooner, but enjoy your unmarried life while you can, okay? You're only young once."

Zelda smiled and hugged Impa again. "Thank you for being so merciful. Please forgive me if I seemed to be a spoiled brat during our argument."

"No need for an apology. You're in love with the boy, and anything or anyone that tries to get in your way is automatically going to feel your wrath." Impa chuckled and winked at Zelda before heading upstairs.

Once Impa was out of sight, she ran quickly back into the main quarters of the castle. She looked over her shoulder once more before opening the huge door in front of her. Zelda quietly slipped through the cracked door and began making her way past the guards.

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"Nana, tell Popo to stop hitting me!" Ness whined. Young Link just laughed as Popo continued to hit him harder with a notebook.

"Nope. What makes you think he's gonna listen to me anyway?" Nana giggled as Ness made another crunched face.

"Ha ha! Stop making fun of him then, and he'll shut up!" Young Link grabbed Popo's wrist, stopping him from abusing Ness any more.

"Anyways, Ness. I got something to tell ya," Young Link whispered in Ness's ear. "It's about big me. And Zellie."

"I don't think I even want to know -- DON'T HIT ME, NANA!"

Nana laughed as she took her turn, hitting Ness with Popo's notebook.

"What did you do to her, Ness?" Popo asked. "You made fun of me. Why is she hitting you?"

"Because I can," Nana replied for Ness. "Okay, I'll stop now. You're head's swelling!"

Everyone laughed. "Don't worry, I'll get some ice. How could a notebook do that much damage, anyway?" Young Link got up from the table and ran to the ice machine.

"Because they're Popo and Nana, and hitting things is their specialty," Ness muttered, grabbing his head.

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"Thanks for coming by and telling me about that the other night," Link said, putting his arm around Zelda. "I deserved to be punished, you didn't. I was mostly me."

"Whatever! It takes two to make love, Link, have you forgotten?" Zelda put her arm around him also. "I decided that the news couldn't wait, and I would rather speak to you in person. I just wanted to see your face... "

"I know. One last time before we're going to be under strict supervision." Link brushed Zelda's hair back his his hand. "It's alright. It was a wonderful night, despite all the awful things that went on. So, do you have the invitations?"

"Yes, I do, as a matter of fact. They're right in my backpack." Zelda reached for her bag and unzipped a tiny compartment. She pulled out several white envelopes and handed them to Link.

"Wow. These are really pretty. And you did this all in one day?" Link said as he flipped through them, looking at names. They had talked on the phone the day before and decided on invites.

"Yeah, I didn't know we could do so much planning and stuff like that in just one day." Zelda leaned over on his shoulder. "And I'm so happy that I'm not wearing my gloves! I can show off this gorgeous ring!"

"Another thing -- how did you get past the drawbridge?"

Zelda laughed. "Link! I'm the princess! I told the guard it was urgent, and he let it down for me. He'll probably inform Impa that I was out, but she probably expected it from me."

"Speaking of planning -- we're gonna have a ton of planning for a wedding!" Link smiled as the thought struck him.

"I know! I've already starting looking at gowns! I figured it was never too early for that!" Zelda closed her eyes and positioned her head lightly on his shoulder. She then shot up. "Hand me that planner over there, will you, please?"

"Sure thing, sweetie." Link reached over and handed her his organizer. The night before, they had started writing ideas for their party down in his notebook.

Zelda smiled as she unzipped the planner. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw something fall from the middle pages.

Looking in her lap, she picked up a small piece of plastic. A look of horror swept her face.

"What the hell is this?"

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"Okay, now what is it?" Ness asked once himself and Young Link were alone. "You told me this was about Link and Zelda. I hope this doesn't dig too deep, you know I have an awfully big mouth and I get excited easily, and that's when I squeal... "

Young Link laughed. "Yeah, I noticed that. But listen. Zelda came over early yesterday morning! I'm talking EARLY! Try 1:00 AM!"

"No way!" Ness said, interested. "What the heck for?!"

"Her and Link... " he began, "her and Link walked off to his bedroom together. You already know how I walked in on them in Zelda's bedroom... but inside of Link's! MAN!"

"So did you see anything?!"

"I learned my lesson from not knocking first," Young Link reminded him. "But anyways, on with the story. It was awfully quiet in there for quite a while, somewhere around half an hour. I just heard voices, but they were talking. Then it got really quiet. I mean pin-drop quiet! I at first thought they were sleeping, but I snuck in Link's room this morning, thinking that maybe I would find proof, but I didn't. So, when Link dropped his bag out here before getting something to drink, I went digging in that little zipper notebook thingy that Link keeps... organizer or whatever. The same one that Link and Zelda were writing down ideas and stuff for the engagement party... "

"... and ?!?!"

"I found it."

Ness looked at him, confused. "Found what, dude? You have got to be the most confusing storyteller on the face of the planet!"

"What I was looking for. I first planned to go into that particular notebook to see if he had written anything down, but I found something MUCH better."

Ness rolled his eyes. "Come on Young Link! Cut the suspense!"

Young Link grinned mischieviously. "A condom wrapper, my friend. Trojan. Right inside that little planner they share."

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Roy and Marth looked over at Link and Zelda, now talking rather loudly across the courtyard.

"It appears that it worked," Marth whispered to Roy. "She found it."

"How on Earth did you ever think of putting it there?" Roy asked curiously.

"It just struck me. Link writes everything down in there. He was sure to find it sooner or later. But what luck... ZELDA found it!"

"I don't think we could have asked for a better turn of events," Roy said, smiling. "I still can't believe we went with that plan out of all the other eighty seven million we could have schemed up."

"But we're too simple minded for complex things, Roy!" Marth laughed. "Wasn't the original plan for Link to find it?"

"And freak out, making him think he got drunk and did it with some girl... "

"NO! That wasn't it! It was for Link to find it and confuse him. That way, he would show it to Zelda, and she would get all upset and everything, accusing him of cheating... "

"But that was only the reaction we hoped for. There was no telling how Zelda could have reacted. There's hundreds of ways she could have taken it! For goodness sakes, Link may not even have shown it to her at all, you know? He may have just discarded it and forgot it! But look at the outcome! OH YEAH!"

"Don't celebrate yet," Marth said, seriously. "It may not work, but from the way things are looking, you never quite know... "

"Risks are involved in everything, and we just took one, just to see what would happen. And it couldn't have worked out better."

"We sound really evil... but I hope it works."

Marth and Roy looked up almost simultaneously at the sound of Link screaming as Zelda ran, covering her face with her hands.

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Author's Notes -- Um... *crickets chirp* Um... oh yeah! End of Chapter 11! I got this one up quicker than usual. I just started work on it, and then suddenly, I got hit with something... *looks up* really HARD apparently, and wrote this chapter! I really hope that this was an okay chapter... Some of the things that happened... I know there's like some *SLIM* possibilities of them happenening, such as how Zelda found that nice little condom wrapper and um... when Marth and Roy got the time to put it there. *crickets chirp* I was beginning to think I was stuck on this story until I thought of this. I'm not sure exaclty how to explain this chapter. I know it was weird how things happened, but I hope it wasn't bad... or ... *crick -- ah, never mind, lol!* something. After reading back over it, I confused myself, and started to erase it and start over. But I decided against deleting it and decided to post it, just to see what would happen.

Thanks to all the previous reviewers! I guess I think so negitively because I'm shy, and... even though I know it's a bad thing... I have a low self-confidence. I've always been told that I was crazy for being so shy and things like that, but I guess it's something I just can't help. Friends tell me I'm harder on myself than I need to be. Forgive me for me negative attitude. It's become habbit; but in the same respect, being overly self-confident can be even more dangerous. But thank you to everyone who has encouraged me! It means a lot! I hope this chapter didn't disappoint you, because I'm not even sure what to think of it. More to come soon if I get good reviews. :)

Another quick note -- sorry for all the previous typos, etc. I usually reread these several times, but a lot of the time, I still miss a few errors.

Please review and tell me what you think. It's greatly appreciated!! ^_^