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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.

See Chapter One for additional author's notes and information.

Fiction By Sherri

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What The Future May Hold

Chapter Two -- Slightly Larger Problems

"Great," Zelda replied.

"So, um... when we were supposed to uh.... conceive?" Link asked nervously.

Link had never been what you would call well-educated in that particular area of science. Things of that nature always made him uncomfortable. And he most certainly felt out of place discussing them with Zelda, although she was his wife. Certainly she would know. The holder of the Triforce of Wisdom wouldn't go into such consideration without proper knowledge, would she?

"I knew that you probably wouldn't want to immediately jump into anything like this as soon as I first began to talk about. I figured you would want some time to decide if you were ready. You probably already know that I have been considering having this talk with you soon."

"I knew it would be coming at some point," Link agreed, smiling. "You love children, and you always talk about having one of your own."

"So I arranged it to where my cycle would time perfectly with... "

"... yeah," Link finished for her. He found himself blushing profusely. It was really no big deal. But matters such as these always found a way to make him slightly uneasy.

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The next morning, everything was going as usual. Everyone was cluttered in the cafeteria, waiting in line for their breakfast.

"I hate lines," Bowser roared, getting severly impatient.

"Too bad, it's something you have to deal with," Samus said, standing right behind him. "But please, don't barbecue everyone in front of you. They're probably just as hungry as you -- nevermind."

"You know Bowser could eat this entire buffet without taking a breath!" Ganondorf interjected. "He's got to be the biggest pig I've ever seen!"

"Here we go with the pig jokes again," Link said under his breath, waiting for someone to comment on the obvious.

"If I'm not mistaken, you were a pretty big pig at one point, too -- "

Yup, I was right, Link thought. Link carried his tray outside and found Zelda already waiting for him.

"I hate having to be here this early," he said, placing his tray down and taking a seat.

"Yeah, I know. I'm still not awake. Good thing they serve breakfast here. I would have been too tired to fix anything."

Link laughed, and kissed Zelda on the cheek. "It's fine, sweetie. The cooks here are pretty good."

"Roy, I'm telling you, one more time and I'll -- "

Link and Zelda turned around to see Roy standing in the middle of the cafeteria with a goofy grin on his face. Marth was standing off to the side, his face reddening.

"This is something someone would pull in high school!" Marth growled at him. "Or something Young Link would have done, to be more appropriate!"

Ganondorf came through the line at that time, followed by Bowser. Ganondorf erupted into laughter once he saw the sight in front of him.

"I didn't mean to do it," Roy said, standing in Marth's solid white uniform. "I fell in the wrong closet... "

"You don't just 'fall' into a closet an come out wearing my clothes! And to make things worse, you had to come in here and mock me while doing it!!" Marth yelled.

"Gosh, calm down, we're the same size!" Roy grinned innocently... then began to run as Marth chased him out.

"Um... okay.... " the younger Link said, placing his tray next to his older version. "That was pointless."

"No, it wasn't, really. I think Roy's drunk... again," Zelda said, worriedly. "I never would have suspected Roy to have those kinds of problems, not at his age. Or at all, for him."

"How do you know?" Link asked, trying not to sound as if he were accusing anyone.

"Just the way he acts. And you remember that night he suggested 'I've Never'. You normally play with drinks, don't you?"

"You can actually substitute the alchohol for something else, or just play with points instead of alcohol ingestion."

"True," the teenage Link butted in, "but normally it's not seen as 'fun' if you don't do it that way."

"Maybe you should talk with Roy?" Zelda offered. "He'll listen to you. You're best friends."

"All I can think about is what Kairi would think if indeed Roy has been -- "

"Don't worry about that right now," Zelda inturrupted. "Go talk to him and find out later if it's true. He's eighteen years old. He shouldn't even have possession of that stuff yet. I bet he'll tell you."

Link sighed deeply. "Yeah, maybe. But I don't think he'd want to admit something like that."

"He's gonna end up getting hurt," Zelda argued back. "Or hurting someone else. Please keep a close watch on Roy, for me, okay?"

Link sat in thought for a moment. "But how would coming out in Marth's clothes and acting silly be actions suspicious of drinking?"

"Link, think about they ways that Roy has been acting these past few days. Remember when he got up one morning and complained about a terrible headache after he had been out all night, supposedly with Kairi."

"Okay, I'll speak with him. I just hope I don't sound too accusing." Link finished the rest of his breakfast, then made his way to find Roy.

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"Come in!" Roy shouted over the booming music of a CD player.

The door opened slowly and in came Link -- covering his ears. "Could you please turn that down! I have sensitive ears!"

The music then snapped off. "Sorry about that. I keep forgetting, you Hylians have much better hearing than we do."

"On to more serious matter, Roy." Link pulled out a chair from a computer desk and sat down. "I need complete honesty from you, or this isn't going to get us anywhere."

Roy looked at Link suddenly, confused. "... alright... "

"I'm going to go about this as casually as I can. But again, be honest. Do you drink?"

Roy almost choked. "What?!"

"I don't mean to sound so suspicious, but you've been acting strange."

"Everyone acts strange, especialy around here... "

Link just glared at Roy, and he settled down. "Sorry," Roy appologized. "You wanted complete honesty."

Roy got up and walked to the window, opening it for air. "It's not a problem, is it?"

"It is when all your friends are beginning to notice," Link said sternly. "And when you could be doing damage to yourself. About that time last week when you complained of a horrific headache. You weren't really with Kairi, were you?"

"Yes, I was with Kairi. I just had a bad -- " Roy stopped his sentence once he saw Link's disbelieving stare. "The truth is that I was with Kairi, please believe me on that. But afterward, I stopped by a bar with Marth."

"WITH MARTH?!" Link shouted, hurting his throat. "So Marth was with you?! At a bar?!"

"Shh!" Roy tried quieting Link down. "Yes, with Marth, at a bar. He didn't drink. He came purposely to drive me back home."

"But you're eighteen! How did they even let you have it? Didn't they check?"

"Nope. They never do. That's why I went." Roy hung his head. "Bad, aren't I?"

"Just tell me when it started," Link said, more gently. "Maybe I can help you with it."

Roy sat back down on his bed. "Just a few weeks ago, Kairi and I got into a fight. I asked Marth for help, and he said that alcohol always numbs the pain. He offered me a drink, so I took it, wanting to do anything to get rid of the aching feeling in my heart. Kairi and I aren't official, you know that, but after getting into a fight with her, I thought I had lost her. So I took Marth's offer."

"So Marth knows about this?" Link asked, trying to supress his anger.

"Marth knows everything about me."

Link stood up and threw his arms in the air in defeat. "So he knew why you were acting so crazy this morning?"

"No. He only thinks that I've drank that one time. Unlike you, he hasn't peiced the puzzle together to find that I have drank more than once."

"Almost to the point of habbit?"

"Yeah," Roy confessed. "Can you help me?"

Link couldn't refuse Roy's pleading eyes. "You're my best friend, Roy. Why didn't you trust me with this?"

"Because I knew that you would disapprove! Damn it, you're always doing the right things!" Roy once again hung his head. "Why can't I?"

"Because, for one, I'm older than you. But I also have the peice of the Triforce that I keep. It keeps me in line, since it's a sacred object."

"Lucky you... " Roy said, fading his words. Then, loudly, "So what can you do to help?"

"Whatever I have to, Roy." Link patted Roy on the back and left the room.

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The other Link sat with Fox inside the main lobby, watchig TV. "Nothing interesting is on, is there?" he said in a monotone.

"Absolutely nothing, unless you want to watch amoebas float around for a little while on the Discovery Channel." Fox replied. He had his head on his chin, staring blankly at the changing channels.

"You guys look like Zombies," Mewtwo commented. "Can't you find anything better to do than stare at a blank screen?"

"... nope... " Fox replied in a robotic tone. The teenage Link just laughed and put his head down on the arm of the chair he was sitting in.

"I'm surrounded by idiots," Mewtwo finally said before taking his seat across the room.

"We're idiots?" Fox said, laughing. "We've had a little too much chocolate, don't you agree?"

"Link hates it when I eat that stuff, he knows what it does to me." Young Link grinned evily.

The two's wild giggling was finally put to a halt when a red-headed girl walked up to Fox.

"Where's Roy?" she asked sweetly.

Fox turned around to see the girl standing directly behind him.

"Sorry if I startled you," she continued. "My name is Kairi. I'm looking for Roy."

"Roy is in his room, I believe, Miss," Fox replied. "With Link."

"Oh, alright. He asked me to meet him here, so I did. I was hoping he would already be down... I'm kinda shy... "

"That's quite alright. I'll go get him." Fox left his seat in a flash and ran upstairs.

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"ROY! That girlfriend of yours finally decided to come visit you!" Fox yelled, opening Roy's bedroom door.

In front of him, he saw Roy lying on the floor, Link kneeling over him.

Fox walked over slowly to Link and Roy, afraid of what he might see. He took a deep breath as he neared the two swordsmen. He felt himself begin to tremble.

"Wha... is... Roy?" Fox asked aloud, kneeling beside Link.

Link only looked at Fox. Fox noticed that Link's hand was placed over Roy's stamach.

"Remove your hand," Fox ordered.

Link only kept glaring at Fox, ignoring his request. His eyes were icy, as if they were telling Fox to leave for his own good.

"I SAID MOVE IT!"

Link finally gave in and removed his hand from Roy. The Hylian flipped his hand over to reveal to Fox a shiny bloodstain directly in the center of his palm.

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Author's Notes -- End of Chapter um.... two? [It feels so weird saying that again!] Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks to the reviews so far! And I really appreciate those that did look over the two stories that I mentioned in my important author's notes.

By the way, I'm almost afraid of the rating on this story going up because of the turn that this chapter has taken. I *really* don't want to move it up to "R". I really don't. So I'll do my best to keep it PG-13.

Wow, writing a sequel is making me quite nervous! One reviewer told me that I had a lot to live up to -- and that's what's scaring me! Is that I won't be able to do it. But coming up with storylines should be easier now that I've set it to a few years in the future. =) There will probably be some co-author's to this one [Katie will be coming back more than likely], and together we'll figure out a way to make this story interesting and better than the other one!! ^_^

Please review and tell me what you think!