1.1 Tomorrow Never Dies
2 By: MirriNight666 ^.~
3 CHAPTER FIVE
A/N: O.O;;;;;;;; *looks at the last chapter's Author's Note* ……… I'm always going to edit what I say from now on…………Anyway, hope ya like this chapter! ^.^ Btw, some thinking is in I and /I because I'm testing tosee if the italicized-thingie works.
4 As It Stands:
5 FIRST ROUND
6 DK: Out
7 Bowser: Winner of First Match
Mario: Winner of Second Match
Pichu: Out
Roy: Winner of Third Match
Luigi: Out
Zelda: Winner of Fourth Match
Peach: Out
Pikachu: Out
Kirby: Winner of Fifth Match
Link: Out
Marth: Winner of Sixth Match
Young Link: Out
Jigglypuff: Winner of Seventh Match
Dr. Mario: Out
Ness: Winner of Eigth Match
9th: Ganondorf vs Samus
10th: Captain Falcon vs Fox
11th: Falco vs Yoshi
"GO SAMUS!" Zelda shrieked at the TV as the screen zoomed in on her and Ganondorf, before they were to be teleported. Before that, though, they were having an interview with Samus.
"So, Samus," said Mr. Miyamoto, "before you fight, would you like to take off your helmet and have some fresh air?"
Samus's reply was extremely cold and stiff. "No."
"Would you like to tell the crowd how you feel right now then, in your suit?"
Samus's head turned towards Mr. Miyamoto. Zelda imagined that she was giving him her most hateful glare. "Absolutely fine."
"But…isn't it a bit stuffy in there?"
"I said NO," Samus stated, grabbing the microphone. She said into it, "This suit is built with a cooler inside, and it also helps me to contain the strength I have and how to use it correctly. I don't want to take off my helmet, ithank you very much.i" Samus shoved the mike back at Mr. Miyamoto and walked resolutely to her teleporter.
Ganondorf grinned evilly at Samus. "Prepare to die, pathetic girl," he said forcefully. Samus said nothing, staring straight at him. They were transported.
Zelda felt her anger flare up, and realized she was on her feet and yelling at the TV, "JUST BECAUSE SHE'S A IGIRL/I MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO WIN, HUH?!? I CAN'T WAIT FOR HER TO KICK YOUR ASS, GANONDORF! JUST WATCH, GODDAMNIT!"
Zelda blinked and gulped. She hadn't expected to blow up like that. She grinned embarrassedly around at Mario, Ness, Jigglypuff, Marth, Roy, and Bowser as they all stared at her.
After a short moment of silence, Roy burst into slightly mock applause and Marth grinned.
"EXCELLENT speech, Princess, and I am with you aaaaaaaall the way," Roy said, smiling anime-style. Zelda flushed a dark red as Mario and Bowser laughed. She felt Roy was mocking her.
Roy and Marth must have thought that too. "He's not making fun of you," Marth said quickly.
Zelda peered at them both, studying them. Then she turned her attention back to the TV.
Zelda and Ganondorf had been transported to Brinstar (the place where the lava rises).
"THREE…TWO…ONE…GO!" shouted Mr. Miyamoto.
Ganondorf lunged at Samus, making his little roar-yell. Samus "turned into a ball" and dodged his kick. Ganondorf punched at her with his purpleish-glow...thingie (sorry ^^;; ) and it hit Samus in the face of her helmet. She went flying back, but regained her feet on the ground of the level.
Ganondorf jumped down at her, and Samus did her up-roll attack. (I'm sorry that I don't know the names of their attacks…) She hit Ganondorf, then, while he was flying through the air, she pulled out her flamethrower and burned his cape to a crisp, not to mention frying his hair.
Ganondorf sneered. He shouted something at Samus, but the camera didn't pick it up. What he said seemed to have affected Samus though, because she ran at him and started punching and kicking him wildly.
"She's not paying too much attention anymore," Marth remarked. Zelda glanced at him, then back at the TV.
Ganondorf had just smacked Samus hard. Purple clouds of smoke—or power?—was clearing away and Samus had flown to the other side of the ring. She rolled off the edge but grabbed on, and pulled herself up in time to meet another of Ganondorf's punches. She went flying to the left…more…more…
Zelda squeaked. Nobody else said anything.
Samus was jumping though, once, twice, her third jump (up B). She looked like she'd never make it, though; she was miles away from the edge.
Ganondorf did his show-off move. II HATE HIM!/I Zelda screamed in her mind, clenching her fists so hard her nails dug into her palms painfully.
"She's too far away…" muttered Roy. Roy and Marth were both staring intensely at the screen. "Yeah," Marth agreed quietly.
ICome on, Samus…i Zelda thought worriedly, crossing her fingers.
Samus would not have made it, but the lava zoomed up and hit her. She went flying upwards, but she managed to jump and grab on to the ledge. Ganondorf's face was contorted in fury.
Samus ran at Ganondorf and fried him, and then kicked him in the air. After that she did her Up B move, and then fell to the ground and charged up her gun. When Ganondorf fell back to earth she hit him with the fully charged laser. Ganondorf went flying and was immediately knocked out.
"YAY!" Zelda squeaked as Samus did her show-off move to the camera, and then was teleported back. Roy and Marth cheered too, and so did Ness and Bowser.
When Samus came back, she smiled at Zelda through her helmet. "I won!" she squealed. Zelda said, "Congratulations! I'm so happy that you did!"
"I just hope Captain Falcon loses…" Samus grimaced, but nobody saw this. Roy laughed.
"That was a good fight," he said cheerfully. Samus looked at him, but nobody saw if she smiled or not. She took the empty space on the couch between Mario and Zelda. (Somehow they made room because Bowser sat on a wooden chair next to Mario, who was seated at the end of the couch.) Samus seemed to know that Zelda and Mario didn't want to be seated near eachother.
The next match was about to begin, between Captain Falcon and Fox.
"Die, Falcon!" screamed Samus and Zelda.
"This could be a close match," Marth muttered. "They're both good."
"I don't exactly wanna be fighting Fox later, though," Roy commented, scratching his head and frowning.
"Why? Do you have an abnormal fear of foxes?" Samus drawled.
Marth and Zelda chuckled a bit, but Roy frowned at Samus.
"How'd you guess?!?" Marth answered for Roy, laughing.
Roy flushed. "I do not…" he mumbled. He glared, though not too heatedly, at Samus. Zelda was slightly surprised at Roy. She thought he wouldn't mind much if Samus acted like that, like other people did to him.
Captain Falcon and Fox were just being transported to the place where the cars constantly move (Big Blue place….wutever). Samus groaned.
"Captain Falcon's got the upper hand here!" she wailed, flinging her arms out to the TV in protest. "It's not fair!"
The match began. Fox ran at Falcon with lightning-quick speed, but, after all, C. Falcon Iis/I the fastest character on the game, and he dodged Fox's attack in time. Then C. Falcon kicked down at Fox and hit him in the back of the head. Fox jumped forward and balanced on one foot over the edge of a car, trying to regain his balance. He caught his balance just as C. Falcon threw a PokeBall at him, and Fox reflected it back at him. It hit Falcon in the forehead and he fell back, and the Pokemon jumped out. Fortunately, for Fox and the two girls, it was a Goldeen.
Fox ran over to Captain Falcon's sprawled body and kicked him up in the air. Then he did his flame-jump (Up B) and Falcon burst into flames. Then Fox jumped up to kick Falcon, but he dodged. Then Falcon did his Falcon Kick onto Fox and Fox slammed into the ground.
Samus and Zelda groaned. Bowser did his funky laugh. The humans arched their eyebrows at Bowser. Bowser shrugged. The match continued.
Falcon jumped down next to Fox on the next car. When Fox stood up, he met Falcon's fist in a Falcon Punch. Fox went flying but managed to not get knocked out of the scene.
The car Falcon was on disappeared, and he jumped onto one of those floating pieces of cement and saved himself. The cars the fighters were on were going in a loop-the-loop, and they looked dizzy. (I've always wondered about that, why don't they fall off when they go loop-the-loop?!?) Falcon attacked Fox while Fox was distracted, and Fox went falling (there was no longer a road beneath them)…and fell.
Captain Falcon was announced the winner. Zelda felt horrified. Samus screeched, "NOOO!"
Roy had suddenly become quiet upon Samus coming in. Zelda didn't know why. He wasn't being the goofy, happy Roy they all knew and loved. He threw a glance at Samus, and then at Captain Falcon as he entered and beamed at Samus.
"Hey babe!" he exclaimed. Samus sighed exasperatedly.
"I…need the restroom," Samus said, standing up and walking to the ladies' room. Captain Falcon looked disappointed, then took Samus' vacated seat, leaning a bit against Zelda.
Marth scooted over against Roy for Zelda to have some breathing space. Zelda gratefully scooted closer to Marth.
He smells so good, Zelda thought, unable to resist, well, sniffing the air around him. Like…like my dad's cologne and a type of spice…
Marth was looking at Zelda curiously. "Umm…"
Zelda realized she must look odd, sniffing the air near him. She went brick red. "Eh heh, just…umm…" She trailed off and glanced at the TV quickly.
Marth grinned at her. "The cologne?"
Zelda's face went even redder.
"Lots of people tell me about it."
Zelda grinned, feeling foolish, and experienced a twang of jealousy. Other girls liked his cologne…Other girls liked him… IJealousy?!? What's WRONG with me?/I
The next match was about to start. Falco and Yoshi took their places after being transported to Yoshi's place.
"Yoshi doesn't have a chance," Roy and Samus said at the same time (Samus had come back and was sitting in a wooden chair next to Roy).
They were right. The fight lasted only a few moments and Falco was declared the winner.
(A/N: I'm sorry to Yoshi fans…I like him a lot, but you have to admit, he's just not that good unless you rock at him! And Falco's pretty good too. I'm also sorry that the fight lasted for one sentence.)
Mr. Miyamoto announced that that was the end of Round One. Tomorrow Round Two would commence at ten o'clock am. Then he went into the room where the winning fighters had all gathered, Falco included.
"Now you get to wander around the city and return to your hotel rooms," Mr. Miyamoto told the fighters. "It's about (he checked his watch) five o'clock, so you may as well grab a bite to eat at this buffet and then you can go to your hotel rooms for the day. Tomorrow we will give you the schedules for the next matches of Round Two. I'll give you the details tomorrow, so, everyone, be here at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to warm up and get your schedule ready." Mr. Miyamoto nodded his head at them all, and then ran off to one of the other workers who was complaining about a problem with cameras.
The fighters all eventually stood up and either went to the bar or went back to their hotel rooms. Zelda, Marth, Roy, and Samus got their food at the buffet and sat down together, Captain Falcon hovering by Samus the whole time.
Zelda felt awkward without Link around, more like…vulnerable, somehow. She enjoyed everyone's company, but it wasn't the same without Link nearby.
After they ate, they walked to the darkening arena and the huge stadium. The last rays of the orange sun were filtering in through the right side from where they stood, and the stadium was mostly shadowed. The four talked about various stuff and about Roy and Marth's … place. Zelda found out some interesting 'details' about the two Fire Emblem boys, such as Marth slept with a teddy bear and Roy snored extremely loudly—which neither of them admitted about themselves, of course. Then they all rode the tram-bus thing back to their hotel rooms.
When they got there, Samus moved into Peach's empty place because the hotel had to shorten down the fighters on hotel rooms because "they were extremely busy".
Later that night, Samus and Zelda were in their PJs or big T-shirts. Samus had her helmet off and they were both watching Rush Hour 2. Zelda couldn't help glancing out the window and thinking of Link, despite the fact that he had been sort of a jerk lately. He was still ILink./I
A loud knock around the middle of the movie made the two blondes jump. Samus grabbed her helmet and jammed it on, despite how odd she looked with a red-and-green helmet on the head of a body wearing a big T-shirt saying "I Love NYC". Zelda went to get the door.
A hotel clerk was there, and said, "A letter for Miz Zelda…"
Zelda took the letter graciously and said, "Thanks you," before closing the door hurriedly. She frowned at Samus but told her it was alright; it wasn't Captain Falcon. Samus removed her helmet and continued watching the movie while Zelda opened the letter.
It read:
I"Dear Zelda (wink face):
Hiya Princess! It's me, Link! I'm at a hospital right now, feeling like a piece of shit! I really miss you. That jerk Marth's gonna get it from me when I get back. Knowing the level we were on, I landed really hard. Doctors were surprised I survived … Guess that's another lucky thing about being the Hero of Time. Well, I'm writing to let you know that I can't use a telephone or write this myself because my hands are broken. It's kind of pathetic. Also, they won't let me use the phone. I don't know why. I'm dictating this right now to some guy, I think he cut out lots of the bad word I used about Marth. By the way, I'll be watching from TV and cheering you on! It sucks that that bastard beat me, though. I'm happy for you and hope you win! (smiley face)
Well, luv ya, sweetie—
Link (XXX) /I
Zelda frowned irritably. On the whole, she was extremely happy to hear from Link. He wrote with his usual humorous feeling, and she loved that he'd sent the message so soon. But she was annoyed that he was angry at Marth, and for putting the last three letters on the letter. He seemed to be obsessed with sex lately. She didn't know why. And, though he had a right to be at least annoyed with Marth for winning, he didn't have to hate him that much. He was just fighting to win, after all. Wasn't that what everyone was doing? Zelda wondered if Link would've gotten angry if Ishe/I had beaten him. IWho knows, though?/I she thought, frowning and placing the letter on her bedside table.
II wish Link wasn't so angry at Marth…/I Zelda thought, frowning, then jumped. He was Link. He wasn't used to winning. And Zelda was surprised at herself that she'd defend Marth so violently.
Zelda got under the covers, her thoughts drifting to Marth. IHe's got such a nice smile,/I she thought, picturing his blue head and his eyes dancing as he looked at her, smiling. IAnd he's so nice…/I
Zelda caught herself. IStop thinking about him!/I she told herself sternly. But she couldn't help picturing Marth as she slowly drifted off to dreams, smiling.
A/N: Sorry about rushing the Yoshi and Falco fight, but I wanted to post this quickly!! I'm not quite sure what'll happen next between Zelda-Link- Marth…oh, blah . Well, expect the next chapter…umm…sometime within the year!! ^_^;;; I re-uploaded this chapter cuz THE DURN ITALICIZING-THINGIES DON'T WORK!! O_O ARGH! Ah well.
~Mirri Night/Lauren! ^.~
2 By: MirriNight666 ^.~
3 CHAPTER FIVE
A/N: O.O;;;;;;;; *looks at the last chapter's Author's Note* ……… I'm always going to edit what I say from now on…………Anyway, hope ya like this chapter! ^.^ Btw, some thinking is in I and /I because I'm testing tosee if the italicized-thingie works.
4 As It Stands:
5 FIRST ROUND
6 DK: Out
7 Bowser: Winner of First Match
Mario: Winner of Second Match
Pichu: Out
Roy: Winner of Third Match
Luigi: Out
Zelda: Winner of Fourth Match
Peach: Out
Pikachu: Out
Kirby: Winner of Fifth Match
Link: Out
Marth: Winner of Sixth Match
Young Link: Out
Jigglypuff: Winner of Seventh Match
Dr. Mario: Out
Ness: Winner of Eigth Match
9th: Ganondorf vs Samus
10th: Captain Falcon vs Fox
11th: Falco vs Yoshi
"GO SAMUS!" Zelda shrieked at the TV as the screen zoomed in on her and Ganondorf, before they were to be teleported. Before that, though, they were having an interview with Samus.
"So, Samus," said Mr. Miyamoto, "before you fight, would you like to take off your helmet and have some fresh air?"
Samus's reply was extremely cold and stiff. "No."
"Would you like to tell the crowd how you feel right now then, in your suit?"
Samus's head turned towards Mr. Miyamoto. Zelda imagined that she was giving him her most hateful glare. "Absolutely fine."
"But…isn't it a bit stuffy in there?"
"I said NO," Samus stated, grabbing the microphone. She said into it, "This suit is built with a cooler inside, and it also helps me to contain the strength I have and how to use it correctly. I don't want to take off my helmet, ithank you very much.i" Samus shoved the mike back at Mr. Miyamoto and walked resolutely to her teleporter.
Ganondorf grinned evilly at Samus. "Prepare to die, pathetic girl," he said forcefully. Samus said nothing, staring straight at him. They were transported.
Zelda felt her anger flare up, and realized she was on her feet and yelling at the TV, "JUST BECAUSE SHE'S A IGIRL/I MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO WIN, HUH?!? I CAN'T WAIT FOR HER TO KICK YOUR ASS, GANONDORF! JUST WATCH, GODDAMNIT!"
Zelda blinked and gulped. She hadn't expected to blow up like that. She grinned embarrassedly around at Mario, Ness, Jigglypuff, Marth, Roy, and Bowser as they all stared at her.
After a short moment of silence, Roy burst into slightly mock applause and Marth grinned.
"EXCELLENT speech, Princess, and I am with you aaaaaaaall the way," Roy said, smiling anime-style. Zelda flushed a dark red as Mario and Bowser laughed. She felt Roy was mocking her.
Roy and Marth must have thought that too. "He's not making fun of you," Marth said quickly.
Zelda peered at them both, studying them. Then she turned her attention back to the TV.
Zelda and Ganondorf had been transported to Brinstar (the place where the lava rises).
"THREE…TWO…ONE…GO!" shouted Mr. Miyamoto.
Ganondorf lunged at Samus, making his little roar-yell. Samus "turned into a ball" and dodged his kick. Ganondorf punched at her with his purpleish-glow...thingie (sorry ^^;; ) and it hit Samus in the face of her helmet. She went flying back, but regained her feet on the ground of the level.
Ganondorf jumped down at her, and Samus did her up-roll attack. (I'm sorry that I don't know the names of their attacks…) She hit Ganondorf, then, while he was flying through the air, she pulled out her flamethrower and burned his cape to a crisp, not to mention frying his hair.
Ganondorf sneered. He shouted something at Samus, but the camera didn't pick it up. What he said seemed to have affected Samus though, because she ran at him and started punching and kicking him wildly.
"She's not paying too much attention anymore," Marth remarked. Zelda glanced at him, then back at the TV.
Ganondorf had just smacked Samus hard. Purple clouds of smoke—or power?—was clearing away and Samus had flown to the other side of the ring. She rolled off the edge but grabbed on, and pulled herself up in time to meet another of Ganondorf's punches. She went flying to the left…more…more…
Zelda squeaked. Nobody else said anything.
Samus was jumping though, once, twice, her third jump (up B). She looked like she'd never make it, though; she was miles away from the edge.
Ganondorf did his show-off move. II HATE HIM!/I Zelda screamed in her mind, clenching her fists so hard her nails dug into her palms painfully.
"She's too far away…" muttered Roy. Roy and Marth were both staring intensely at the screen. "Yeah," Marth agreed quietly.
ICome on, Samus…i Zelda thought worriedly, crossing her fingers.
Samus would not have made it, but the lava zoomed up and hit her. She went flying upwards, but she managed to jump and grab on to the ledge. Ganondorf's face was contorted in fury.
Samus ran at Ganondorf and fried him, and then kicked him in the air. After that she did her Up B move, and then fell to the ground and charged up her gun. When Ganondorf fell back to earth she hit him with the fully charged laser. Ganondorf went flying and was immediately knocked out.
"YAY!" Zelda squeaked as Samus did her show-off move to the camera, and then was teleported back. Roy and Marth cheered too, and so did Ness and Bowser.
When Samus came back, she smiled at Zelda through her helmet. "I won!" she squealed. Zelda said, "Congratulations! I'm so happy that you did!"
"I just hope Captain Falcon loses…" Samus grimaced, but nobody saw this. Roy laughed.
"That was a good fight," he said cheerfully. Samus looked at him, but nobody saw if she smiled or not. She took the empty space on the couch between Mario and Zelda. (Somehow they made room because Bowser sat on a wooden chair next to Mario, who was seated at the end of the couch.) Samus seemed to know that Zelda and Mario didn't want to be seated near eachother.
The next match was about to begin, between Captain Falcon and Fox.
"Die, Falcon!" screamed Samus and Zelda.
"This could be a close match," Marth muttered. "They're both good."
"I don't exactly wanna be fighting Fox later, though," Roy commented, scratching his head and frowning.
"Why? Do you have an abnormal fear of foxes?" Samus drawled.
Marth and Zelda chuckled a bit, but Roy frowned at Samus.
"How'd you guess?!?" Marth answered for Roy, laughing.
Roy flushed. "I do not…" he mumbled. He glared, though not too heatedly, at Samus. Zelda was slightly surprised at Roy. She thought he wouldn't mind much if Samus acted like that, like other people did to him.
Captain Falcon and Fox were just being transported to the place where the cars constantly move (Big Blue place….wutever). Samus groaned.
"Captain Falcon's got the upper hand here!" she wailed, flinging her arms out to the TV in protest. "It's not fair!"
The match began. Fox ran at Falcon with lightning-quick speed, but, after all, C. Falcon Iis/I the fastest character on the game, and he dodged Fox's attack in time. Then C. Falcon kicked down at Fox and hit him in the back of the head. Fox jumped forward and balanced on one foot over the edge of a car, trying to regain his balance. He caught his balance just as C. Falcon threw a PokeBall at him, and Fox reflected it back at him. It hit Falcon in the forehead and he fell back, and the Pokemon jumped out. Fortunately, for Fox and the two girls, it was a Goldeen.
Fox ran over to Captain Falcon's sprawled body and kicked him up in the air. Then he did his flame-jump (Up B) and Falcon burst into flames. Then Fox jumped up to kick Falcon, but he dodged. Then Falcon did his Falcon Kick onto Fox and Fox slammed into the ground.
Samus and Zelda groaned. Bowser did his funky laugh. The humans arched their eyebrows at Bowser. Bowser shrugged. The match continued.
Falcon jumped down next to Fox on the next car. When Fox stood up, he met Falcon's fist in a Falcon Punch. Fox went flying but managed to not get knocked out of the scene.
The car Falcon was on disappeared, and he jumped onto one of those floating pieces of cement and saved himself. The cars the fighters were on were going in a loop-the-loop, and they looked dizzy. (I've always wondered about that, why don't they fall off when they go loop-the-loop?!?) Falcon attacked Fox while Fox was distracted, and Fox went falling (there was no longer a road beneath them)…and fell.
Captain Falcon was announced the winner. Zelda felt horrified. Samus screeched, "NOOO!"
Roy had suddenly become quiet upon Samus coming in. Zelda didn't know why. He wasn't being the goofy, happy Roy they all knew and loved. He threw a glance at Samus, and then at Captain Falcon as he entered and beamed at Samus.
"Hey babe!" he exclaimed. Samus sighed exasperatedly.
"I…need the restroom," Samus said, standing up and walking to the ladies' room. Captain Falcon looked disappointed, then took Samus' vacated seat, leaning a bit against Zelda.
Marth scooted over against Roy for Zelda to have some breathing space. Zelda gratefully scooted closer to Marth.
He smells so good, Zelda thought, unable to resist, well, sniffing the air around him. Like…like my dad's cologne and a type of spice…
Marth was looking at Zelda curiously. "Umm…"
Zelda realized she must look odd, sniffing the air near him. She went brick red. "Eh heh, just…umm…" She trailed off and glanced at the TV quickly.
Marth grinned at her. "The cologne?"
Zelda's face went even redder.
"Lots of people tell me about it."
Zelda grinned, feeling foolish, and experienced a twang of jealousy. Other girls liked his cologne…Other girls liked him… IJealousy?!? What's WRONG with me?/I
The next match was about to start. Falco and Yoshi took their places after being transported to Yoshi's place.
"Yoshi doesn't have a chance," Roy and Samus said at the same time (Samus had come back and was sitting in a wooden chair next to Roy).
They were right. The fight lasted only a few moments and Falco was declared the winner.
(A/N: I'm sorry to Yoshi fans…I like him a lot, but you have to admit, he's just not that good unless you rock at him! And Falco's pretty good too. I'm also sorry that the fight lasted for one sentence.)
Mr. Miyamoto announced that that was the end of Round One. Tomorrow Round Two would commence at ten o'clock am. Then he went into the room where the winning fighters had all gathered, Falco included.
"Now you get to wander around the city and return to your hotel rooms," Mr. Miyamoto told the fighters. "It's about (he checked his watch) five o'clock, so you may as well grab a bite to eat at this buffet and then you can go to your hotel rooms for the day. Tomorrow we will give you the schedules for the next matches of Round Two. I'll give you the details tomorrow, so, everyone, be here at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to warm up and get your schedule ready." Mr. Miyamoto nodded his head at them all, and then ran off to one of the other workers who was complaining about a problem with cameras.
The fighters all eventually stood up and either went to the bar or went back to their hotel rooms. Zelda, Marth, Roy, and Samus got their food at the buffet and sat down together, Captain Falcon hovering by Samus the whole time.
Zelda felt awkward without Link around, more like…vulnerable, somehow. She enjoyed everyone's company, but it wasn't the same without Link nearby.
After they ate, they walked to the darkening arena and the huge stadium. The last rays of the orange sun were filtering in through the right side from where they stood, and the stadium was mostly shadowed. The four talked about various stuff and about Roy and Marth's … place. Zelda found out some interesting 'details' about the two Fire Emblem boys, such as Marth slept with a teddy bear and Roy snored extremely loudly—which neither of them admitted about themselves, of course. Then they all rode the tram-bus thing back to their hotel rooms.
When they got there, Samus moved into Peach's empty place because the hotel had to shorten down the fighters on hotel rooms because "they were extremely busy".
Later that night, Samus and Zelda were in their PJs or big T-shirts. Samus had her helmet off and they were both watching Rush Hour 2. Zelda couldn't help glancing out the window and thinking of Link, despite the fact that he had been sort of a jerk lately. He was still ILink./I
A loud knock around the middle of the movie made the two blondes jump. Samus grabbed her helmet and jammed it on, despite how odd she looked with a red-and-green helmet on the head of a body wearing a big T-shirt saying "I Love NYC". Zelda went to get the door.
A hotel clerk was there, and said, "A letter for Miz Zelda…"
Zelda took the letter graciously and said, "Thanks you," before closing the door hurriedly. She frowned at Samus but told her it was alright; it wasn't Captain Falcon. Samus removed her helmet and continued watching the movie while Zelda opened the letter.
It read:
I"Dear Zelda (wink face):
Hiya Princess! It's me, Link! I'm at a hospital right now, feeling like a piece of shit! I really miss you. That jerk Marth's gonna get it from me when I get back. Knowing the level we were on, I landed really hard. Doctors were surprised I survived … Guess that's another lucky thing about being the Hero of Time. Well, I'm writing to let you know that I can't use a telephone or write this myself because my hands are broken. It's kind of pathetic. Also, they won't let me use the phone. I don't know why. I'm dictating this right now to some guy, I think he cut out lots of the bad word I used about Marth. By the way, I'll be watching from TV and cheering you on! It sucks that that bastard beat me, though. I'm happy for you and hope you win! (smiley face)
Well, luv ya, sweetie—
Link (XXX) /I
Zelda frowned irritably. On the whole, she was extremely happy to hear from Link. He wrote with his usual humorous feeling, and she loved that he'd sent the message so soon. But she was annoyed that he was angry at Marth, and for putting the last three letters on the letter. He seemed to be obsessed with sex lately. She didn't know why. And, though he had a right to be at least annoyed with Marth for winning, he didn't have to hate him that much. He was just fighting to win, after all. Wasn't that what everyone was doing? Zelda wondered if Link would've gotten angry if Ishe/I had beaten him. IWho knows, though?/I she thought, frowning and placing the letter on her bedside table.
II wish Link wasn't so angry at Marth…/I Zelda thought, frowning, then jumped. He was Link. He wasn't used to winning. And Zelda was surprised at herself that she'd defend Marth so violently.
Zelda got under the covers, her thoughts drifting to Marth. IHe's got such a nice smile,/I she thought, picturing his blue head and his eyes dancing as he looked at her, smiling. IAnd he's so nice…/I
Zelda caught herself. IStop thinking about him!/I she told herself sternly. But she couldn't help picturing Marth as she slowly drifted off to dreams, smiling.
A/N: Sorry about rushing the Yoshi and Falco fight, but I wanted to post this quickly!! I'm not quite sure what'll happen next between Zelda-Link- Marth…oh, blah . Well, expect the next chapter…umm…sometime within the year!! ^_^;;; I re-uploaded this chapter cuz THE DURN ITALICIZING-THINGIES DON'T WORK!! O_O ARGH! Ah well.
~Mirri Night/Lauren! ^.~