Link didn't believe that he had ever seen Zelda blush more in his
life. Having just rescued him from a mob of girls, she collapsed onto her
desk chair, a coy look on her face.
"Your welcome," Zelda stated after a long silence.
Grinning, Link walked over to her desk and sat on top of it. "Thanks. . .wait a minute, what am I thanking you for?"
Zelda shrugged. "Saving you from your fan club, I guess. Or maybe I just wanted to see if you'd. . .um. . .never mind."
"What?" Link asked, leaning foward a bit.
Shaking her head slowly, Zelda backed her chair away from him. She couldn't meet his eyes. "Link, I thought a long time ago that we were. . .you know, over. You know we could never really become a pair."
Though hurt by her words, Link didn't show it. He snorted a small chuckle. "You know Princess, the only other time I remember ever kissing you was when your father was announcing his engagment to Queen Crawford of. . .wherever it was. . .and I went up to your room to get you to go and. . ."
"Yes, I remember," Zelda sighed, giving Link a small, exasperated smile. "Oh, how I used to wish that I wasn't a princess, just for your sake."
Interested, Link pulled up another chair next to her. "What do you mean by that, Zel? Are you--are you saying that you--"
"A long time ago," Zelda interrupted. "I used to see you practicing with your sword in the court yard, and I would grasp every move you made with my mind, never wanting to let it go. And I remember the first time I ever saw you, when you came to Death Mountain and saved me from Gannondorf. . ." As tears became visible on Zelda's cheeks, small sobs became equally audible.
Link was floored. His mind raced with thoughts as he clung onto the princess's every word, as if waiting desperately for something. . .then of course, he had to think of what exactly he was expecting. A confession of some sort, or what?
"I-I thought that it was j-just a teen infatuation," Zelda continued, trying to hold back tears. "I never thought you loved me at all! And then that night my father was to announce his engagement, a-and you came up to my room and--" She was interrupted by an unusually loud sob, followed by a rather loud sneeze.
"Here," Link offered pulling a handkerchief out of his pocket (always be prepared, you know). Zelda gratefully took it.
"But after that night," Zelda went on. "You never brought it up again. I tried to tell you, honestly, I did--you just didn't get my hints! It was every day implied, but never actually confirmed or told of! I started feeling so uncomfortable with myself around you, trying to be perfectly. . .well, perfect! It wasn't soon until I finally gave up and recognized that it was all in vain. After all you, h-had Malon to--"
"Hold on a second," Link interposed. "Malon and I have never had a 'relationship.' We are just FRIENDS." He emphasized the last word, then paused. "Oh Zelda, why didn't you just say something?"
"I was afraid," Zelda sniffed. "Afraid to fall in love with you! I knew that if I really truly ever did, I'd never be able to let go! My father would never even DREAM, let alone consider letting me have a suitor that was a peas. . .well, one that wasn't royalty. And I was so afraid that you wouldn't understand, or that you didn't care for me at all. That's my biggest flaw, Link. I'm such a coward of the truth, but no one knows it!"
Exasperated, Link instinctivley reached out a hand to Zelda and she grasped it, still sobbing uncontrollably.
"From then on, I lied to myself! I denied that I had ever loved you, so when ever you joked about it, or even brought it up, I just couldn't bring myself to. . ."
The rest of Zelda's words became incomprehensible as her sobs became louder than her voice. Feeling terrible, Link put his arms around Zelda, just as she threw her arms around his neck, crying into his shoulder.
"Zelda. . ." Link was having trouble finding words for the situation.
The last of her tears drying up, Zelda put a finger to Link's mouth, silencing him. "Link, as of now I am still slightly confused about our. . .feelings. . .for each other. You just kissed me under that mistletoe, but you also let Sprout kiss you."
"Oh, Zelda! C'mon! She just--"
"But," Zelda interrupted. "In spite of everything, I'd like you to grant me this one request." Saying this, Zelda got into a position where she was sitting on Link's lap, her arms still clasped around his neck. Smiling mischievously, Zelda leaned towards him, meeting his soft lips with her own.
Link's response to this was pure shock. After that whole speech he'd just been lectured with, he had expected Zelda to hate him--surely not start kissing him. He wondered if. . . . .his thoughts were drowned out by the sudden realization that Zelda, the only woman in the world he'd ever wanted, was kissing him. SHE was putting the moves on HIM. Surely that meant something.
Zelda scolded herself for thinking what a good kisser Link was. She felt like running out the doors and telling all those students about it-- even though they'd probably kill her for it. But she didn't care. She finally felt her dreams becoming a reality.
Moving her hands to the small of Link's back and his upper neck, Zelda thought only of him. Nothing else mattered to her anymore-- Gannondorf could walk in at this moment, steal the Triforce, and she wouldn't even blink.
The mirth of the moment was suddenly broken by a loud, piercing scream. The two elves jumped apart immediately, causing the chair they'd been sitting on to break. Blushing as she got off of Link, Zelda helped him up, and the two of them ran out of the door.
"Gannondorf!" they shouted in terror.
Clenching his fists, the Gerudo king turned to face them. Zelda and Link could both see a Hufflepuff first-year, who had fainted behind Gannondorf. In his hand, he held the Triforce. Gannondorf grinned at Zelda's horror.
"I managed to grab a hold of these," he said casually, as several students and teachers approached the hallway.
Burning with anger, Link took a step closer. "You had to have gone into Zelda's room to get the Triforce! You should've made your presence known, you coward!"
"What? And interrupt that beautiful love scene?" Gannondorf chuckled. "I wouldn't DREAM of it!"
"Give it back!" Zelda shouted, reddening from anger and annoyance with herself. "The Triforce belongs to me! Hand it over, Gannondorf!"
"Hmmmm. . .let me think. . .no."
By now, several of the teachers, too terrified to speak, were walking silently behind Gannondorf, their wands raised.
"Don't waste your spells, my friends," Gannondorf suddenly said, turning around. "You humans cannot harm me with the most lethal of your spells. NO one can, I'm afraid. You'll just have to deal with my presence here until I finish gloating."
McGonagall stared at Dumbledore. "What do we do, Albus?! And who is this man? Surely he isn't. . .You-Know-Who?"
"You mean Voldemort?!" Gannondorf yelled, laughing heartily. "No, my dear woman, he is but a good friend of mine. He's even taught me a few tricks, I might add. Given me some advice on how to torture and dispose of people." He looked around. "Where's the boy named. . .Harry Potter?"
The crowd of students looked around, completely silent. Then, a scrawny black-haired boy stepped in front of them all. "Here I am."
Gannondorf looked down at Harry and grinned devilishly. "I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Potter. Voldemort doesn't care much for you, does he?"
"No. He doesn't."
"He is the greatest of all wizards ever born, and yet you have defeated him on so many different. . .occasions, is that correct?"
"Yes."
"And why, may I ask, does he contain this hatred for you especially?"
"He tried to kill me. Right after he killed my parents."
"He killed your parents, did he?" Gannondorf roared, laughing. "Did you hear that, Zelda? Voldemort and I must have more common than I thought. You see boy, I have no mercy either. Your. . ." He supressed a laugh. ". . .teacher, here, had the exhilirating experience of watching her parents be tortured than killed."
"STUPEFY!!" Professor Snape suddenly shouted. The red sparks shot out of his wand and hit Gannondorf, but had no effect.
"You poor fool!" the evil man laughed. "Have you no ears? Did I not earlier mention the fact that you cannot hurt me with your spells?!"
"Perhaps humans can't," Zelda snarled. "But elves can!" She leapt on top of Gannondorf's back, clenching her arms around his neck. She suddenly started to glow, and electric sparks flew out of her body and onto Gannondorf.
Howling in pain, Gannondorf tried vainly to grab Zelda and wrench her off of him. Running backwards, he headed for the nearest wall.
At the last minute, Zelda flipped over Gannondorf's head and in front of him. This, of course, caused him to crash into the wall full-speed.
"You think you're quite a show, don't you, Princess?" Gannondorf wheezed, inching closer to her. "Let's see how well you respond to real pain now." He whipped out a wand, and pointed in menancingly at Zelda. "CRUCIO!"
It felt as if spears were being stuck into Zelda's body over and over again. But now that she was older, she was not; at any cost; going to let Gannondorf have the satisfaction of hearing her scream. He'd had that sensation three years ago.
Angered that no one else was helping him, Link fell to the floor and crept towards Gannondorf's back. The Gerudo, whose concentration was focused on making Zelda scream, paid him no attention. Suddenly, Link reached up with a dagger, and sliced Gannondorf's hand--the one which loosely held the Triforce. The objects of magic fell to the ground, and Link collected them quickly.
Gannondorf whirled around, taking the curse off of Zelda. "Give me the Triforce, boy!" he snarled. "They're mine!"
"They belong to the Princess!" Link insisted, taking a step back. "Get away from this school, Gannondorf!"
"Or what?!" he asked, walking towards the school. "You'll expel me?!" He put one hand around Zelda's neck and the other around her legs. He mercilessly threw her to the wall, where she crashed into a suit of armor.
Link ran over to Zelda, petrified. Blood seeped out from her shoulders and neck. She blinked, and coughed. Suddenly, the princess was enclosed by a pink crystal. Link flew backwards. "No, not again!"
"I'm afraid so!" Gannondorf laughed. "Until you decide to hand over the Triforce, our dear little Princess will be spending some time back in my castle!"
In a state of shock, Link stared helplessly as Zelda and Gannondorf both disappeared.
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"Your welcome," Zelda stated after a long silence.
Grinning, Link walked over to her desk and sat on top of it. "Thanks. . .wait a minute, what am I thanking you for?"
Zelda shrugged. "Saving you from your fan club, I guess. Or maybe I just wanted to see if you'd. . .um. . .never mind."
"What?" Link asked, leaning foward a bit.
Shaking her head slowly, Zelda backed her chair away from him. She couldn't meet his eyes. "Link, I thought a long time ago that we were. . .you know, over. You know we could never really become a pair."
Though hurt by her words, Link didn't show it. He snorted a small chuckle. "You know Princess, the only other time I remember ever kissing you was when your father was announcing his engagment to Queen Crawford of. . .wherever it was. . .and I went up to your room to get you to go and. . ."
"Yes, I remember," Zelda sighed, giving Link a small, exasperated smile. "Oh, how I used to wish that I wasn't a princess, just for your sake."
Interested, Link pulled up another chair next to her. "What do you mean by that, Zel? Are you--are you saying that you--"
"A long time ago," Zelda interrupted. "I used to see you practicing with your sword in the court yard, and I would grasp every move you made with my mind, never wanting to let it go. And I remember the first time I ever saw you, when you came to Death Mountain and saved me from Gannondorf. . ." As tears became visible on Zelda's cheeks, small sobs became equally audible.
Link was floored. His mind raced with thoughts as he clung onto the princess's every word, as if waiting desperately for something. . .then of course, he had to think of what exactly he was expecting. A confession of some sort, or what?
"I-I thought that it was j-just a teen infatuation," Zelda continued, trying to hold back tears. "I never thought you loved me at all! And then that night my father was to announce his engagement, a-and you came up to my room and--" She was interrupted by an unusually loud sob, followed by a rather loud sneeze.
"Here," Link offered pulling a handkerchief out of his pocket (always be prepared, you know). Zelda gratefully took it.
"But after that night," Zelda went on. "You never brought it up again. I tried to tell you, honestly, I did--you just didn't get my hints! It was every day implied, but never actually confirmed or told of! I started feeling so uncomfortable with myself around you, trying to be perfectly. . .well, perfect! It wasn't soon until I finally gave up and recognized that it was all in vain. After all you, h-had Malon to--"
"Hold on a second," Link interposed. "Malon and I have never had a 'relationship.' We are just FRIENDS." He emphasized the last word, then paused. "Oh Zelda, why didn't you just say something?"
"I was afraid," Zelda sniffed. "Afraid to fall in love with you! I knew that if I really truly ever did, I'd never be able to let go! My father would never even DREAM, let alone consider letting me have a suitor that was a peas. . .well, one that wasn't royalty. And I was so afraid that you wouldn't understand, or that you didn't care for me at all. That's my biggest flaw, Link. I'm such a coward of the truth, but no one knows it!"
Exasperated, Link instinctivley reached out a hand to Zelda and she grasped it, still sobbing uncontrollably.
"From then on, I lied to myself! I denied that I had ever loved you, so when ever you joked about it, or even brought it up, I just couldn't bring myself to. . ."
The rest of Zelda's words became incomprehensible as her sobs became louder than her voice. Feeling terrible, Link put his arms around Zelda, just as she threw her arms around his neck, crying into his shoulder.
"Zelda. . ." Link was having trouble finding words for the situation.
The last of her tears drying up, Zelda put a finger to Link's mouth, silencing him. "Link, as of now I am still slightly confused about our. . .feelings. . .for each other. You just kissed me under that mistletoe, but you also let Sprout kiss you."
"Oh, Zelda! C'mon! She just--"
"But," Zelda interrupted. "In spite of everything, I'd like you to grant me this one request." Saying this, Zelda got into a position where she was sitting on Link's lap, her arms still clasped around his neck. Smiling mischievously, Zelda leaned towards him, meeting his soft lips with her own.
Link's response to this was pure shock. After that whole speech he'd just been lectured with, he had expected Zelda to hate him--surely not start kissing him. He wondered if. . . . .his thoughts were drowned out by the sudden realization that Zelda, the only woman in the world he'd ever wanted, was kissing him. SHE was putting the moves on HIM. Surely that meant something.
Zelda scolded herself for thinking what a good kisser Link was. She felt like running out the doors and telling all those students about it-- even though they'd probably kill her for it. But she didn't care. She finally felt her dreams becoming a reality.
Moving her hands to the small of Link's back and his upper neck, Zelda thought only of him. Nothing else mattered to her anymore-- Gannondorf could walk in at this moment, steal the Triforce, and she wouldn't even blink.
The mirth of the moment was suddenly broken by a loud, piercing scream. The two elves jumped apart immediately, causing the chair they'd been sitting on to break. Blushing as she got off of Link, Zelda helped him up, and the two of them ran out of the door.
"Gannondorf!" they shouted in terror.
Clenching his fists, the Gerudo king turned to face them. Zelda and Link could both see a Hufflepuff first-year, who had fainted behind Gannondorf. In his hand, he held the Triforce. Gannondorf grinned at Zelda's horror.
"I managed to grab a hold of these," he said casually, as several students and teachers approached the hallway.
Burning with anger, Link took a step closer. "You had to have gone into Zelda's room to get the Triforce! You should've made your presence known, you coward!"
"What? And interrupt that beautiful love scene?" Gannondorf chuckled. "I wouldn't DREAM of it!"
"Give it back!" Zelda shouted, reddening from anger and annoyance with herself. "The Triforce belongs to me! Hand it over, Gannondorf!"
"Hmmmm. . .let me think. . .no."
By now, several of the teachers, too terrified to speak, were walking silently behind Gannondorf, their wands raised.
"Don't waste your spells, my friends," Gannondorf suddenly said, turning around. "You humans cannot harm me with the most lethal of your spells. NO one can, I'm afraid. You'll just have to deal with my presence here until I finish gloating."
McGonagall stared at Dumbledore. "What do we do, Albus?! And who is this man? Surely he isn't. . .You-Know-Who?"
"You mean Voldemort?!" Gannondorf yelled, laughing heartily. "No, my dear woman, he is but a good friend of mine. He's even taught me a few tricks, I might add. Given me some advice on how to torture and dispose of people." He looked around. "Where's the boy named. . .Harry Potter?"
The crowd of students looked around, completely silent. Then, a scrawny black-haired boy stepped in front of them all. "Here I am."
Gannondorf looked down at Harry and grinned devilishly. "I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Potter. Voldemort doesn't care much for you, does he?"
"No. He doesn't."
"He is the greatest of all wizards ever born, and yet you have defeated him on so many different. . .occasions, is that correct?"
"Yes."
"And why, may I ask, does he contain this hatred for you especially?"
"He tried to kill me. Right after he killed my parents."
"He killed your parents, did he?" Gannondorf roared, laughing. "Did you hear that, Zelda? Voldemort and I must have more common than I thought. You see boy, I have no mercy either. Your. . ." He supressed a laugh. ". . .teacher, here, had the exhilirating experience of watching her parents be tortured than killed."
"STUPEFY!!" Professor Snape suddenly shouted. The red sparks shot out of his wand and hit Gannondorf, but had no effect.
"You poor fool!" the evil man laughed. "Have you no ears? Did I not earlier mention the fact that you cannot hurt me with your spells?!"
"Perhaps humans can't," Zelda snarled. "But elves can!" She leapt on top of Gannondorf's back, clenching her arms around his neck. She suddenly started to glow, and electric sparks flew out of her body and onto Gannondorf.
Howling in pain, Gannondorf tried vainly to grab Zelda and wrench her off of him. Running backwards, he headed for the nearest wall.
At the last minute, Zelda flipped over Gannondorf's head and in front of him. This, of course, caused him to crash into the wall full-speed.
"You think you're quite a show, don't you, Princess?" Gannondorf wheezed, inching closer to her. "Let's see how well you respond to real pain now." He whipped out a wand, and pointed in menancingly at Zelda. "CRUCIO!"
It felt as if spears were being stuck into Zelda's body over and over again. But now that she was older, she was not; at any cost; going to let Gannondorf have the satisfaction of hearing her scream. He'd had that sensation three years ago.
Angered that no one else was helping him, Link fell to the floor and crept towards Gannondorf's back. The Gerudo, whose concentration was focused on making Zelda scream, paid him no attention. Suddenly, Link reached up with a dagger, and sliced Gannondorf's hand--the one which loosely held the Triforce. The objects of magic fell to the ground, and Link collected them quickly.
Gannondorf whirled around, taking the curse off of Zelda. "Give me the Triforce, boy!" he snarled. "They're mine!"
"They belong to the Princess!" Link insisted, taking a step back. "Get away from this school, Gannondorf!"
"Or what?!" he asked, walking towards the school. "You'll expel me?!" He put one hand around Zelda's neck and the other around her legs. He mercilessly threw her to the wall, where she crashed into a suit of armor.
Link ran over to Zelda, petrified. Blood seeped out from her shoulders and neck. She blinked, and coughed. Suddenly, the princess was enclosed by a pink crystal. Link flew backwards. "No, not again!"
"I'm afraid so!" Gannondorf laughed. "Until you decide to hand over the Triforce, our dear little Princess will be spending some time back in my castle!"
In a state of shock, Link stared helplessly as Zelda and Gannondorf both disappeared.
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