Disclaimer -- I do not own Super Smash Bros. Melee. The characters and such are property of Nintendo. 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.

Author's Notes -- I hope you enjoy my stories! Remember, please be gentle if you review! It takes a lot of courage to post something that you have done and share it with total strangers. Everyone works hard on their stories, and I believe they should all be respected, because they had the courage to try. Please keep that in mind. Thank you!


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Warning: Story contains shounen-ai and yaoi references and actions. Please make note of this before reading. If you are sensitive to writings of this nature, then please, do not proceed. There will also be your classic guy/girl couplings as well, such as Peach/Mario and Link/Zelda . Also rated for sexual content and laguage.

Possible Couples: Link and Zelda, Peach and Mario, Zelda and Marth, Zelda and Roy
Possible Yaoi Couples: Marth and Roy, Link and Roy, Marth and Link

Written in Link's Point of View. If point of view changes to another specific character, I will make a special note of it. ^_^ Sometimes, in order to fill out the story, the point of view will change to third person. But it's usually obvious when that ocurrs.

Fiction By Sherrilynn


Who I Am And What I Used To Be: Link's Story
Chapter Six: Obvious Changes To The Broken Heart

~* Roy's Point of View *~

I adjusted my coat colar as I walked briskly down the hallway. I shivered; not from the cold, but from the truth of what I might see when I looked Zelda face-to-face.

I just knew she had to be devastated. She and Link had been through everything together. But that was the thinking only if their relationship really had ended. Right now, Marth and I were only under the assumption that things didn't go quite as originally planned. That much was painfully obvious. But we were still yet to know the truth.

I then looked up; I must have gotten there just in time. Samus and Peach were just exiting their dorm as I stepped up to knock.

The two girls exchanged glances once their eyes met mine. I felt those shivers again. Peach's eyes were not those of a girl that looked as though she wanted to have a conversation with a certain boy named Roy. I swallowed the growing lump in my throat and tried to calm the butterflies in my stomach. What had I done? Peach's glare continued to penatrate me, until Samus finally broke the ever so awkward and unwanted silence.

"What brings you here?" Samus demanded, standing in front of me, blocking my path. "As far as we're concerned, you shouldn't show your face around us right about now. It's not too smart."

"I want to see Zelda," was my honest reply. "Please let me speak with her. She and I need to have a heart-to-heart."

"And why should we?" the Princess standing next to Samus asked coldly. "She's in no condition to talk. After all, this whole damn night was your idea. If it weren't for you -- "

"No it wasn't," I interrupted, shaking my head lightly, hoping they would believe me. "Zel approached me about going to take Marth to a movie tonight so she could have some alone time with Link. Neither one of us knew what was going to happen. And that's why I'm here. Because I just know that whatever happened tonight was much less than pleasant."

"Well, you're right about that much," Peach added. "Link broke it off with Zelda tonight. And do you know what his excuse was?"

So Marth and I were right in our thinking. I gave her a questioning look before she answered her own question, revealing Link's motive.

"He is developing feelings for Marth! Marth, Roy! He could have said anything else, but he chose one of the most painful statements to end their relationship! Girls don't wanna hear that their man is leaving them for someone else! Especially a someone else like, oh... a man!"

Something unspeakable surged through my entire body with those words. I had just gotten back from a romantic evening with Marth -- and evening that was yet to be finished -- and Link claims to have feelings for the Prince that I want nothing more than to spend my time with? The very thought made me angry at Link. So angry, that I wanted to see Zelda even more and get someting done about the whole mess that the darn elf had caused. He had already broken Zelda -- damn him if he tried doing the same thing to me!

"Let me through, please," I begged them. "I understand how she feels, because... I... I'm falling in love with Marth. And the last thing I want is for Link to be in the way. He will not screw up my chance for happiness!"

Peach and Samus once again exchanged glances. This time, they both smiled at one another, nodding.

"Then maybe you can help Zelda get Link back."

I returned their smiles, a small plan beginning to form in my mind. "I came here with the intentions of doing just that."

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~* Link's Point of View *~

I hated doing dishes, but at least it was something to keep myself occupied. I was thinking about Zelda and how she was feeling. Just like I knew I would be. I love Zelda, and that's why I had to end it; just to prove to her that I did honestly do. I prayed to every Goddess I knew that these "feelings" for Marth were nothing but a mixture of fear and anxiety, since I was still in the stages of rediscovering myself after all I've been through.

"I hope you don't plan on staying up all night," Marth asked from behind, startling me.

"Why not? I took and extra-late nap, and my heart is too exhausted to sleep." That didn't sound like it made any sense, but it was the best way I could put it. Nothing made sense anymore.

Marth walked over to the sink and began to rinse what I had washed. "So tell me, Link. We're friends. How was your evening?"

"Not well," I answered, not able to look at him. "Zelda and I... we... "

"You don't have to say it," Marth replied. And that was much to my relief. "I assume she didn't take it well."

"I've never seen her cry so much in my whole life," I replied, reliving the events and the harsh words over again, the tears on her cheeks, the heartbreak in her voice, the way I felt whenever she closed the door behind her, leaving me there alone, wishing I had never accepted the invitation, never come back to this place... wishing I'd never met Marth.

"What was your reason? I thought you two were doing well?" Marth just had to ask that dreaded question. How could I possibly tell him it was because of... him?

"I don't feel like discussing this," I replied hotly, throwing the last plate into the sink for Marth to rinse off. "Isn't it obvious that I've been fighting so many emotions? Like that kiss with you, for instance?"

At that moment, I knew I had to let it all go. No sense in breaking Zelda's heart and not taking action to mend things up as quickly as I could. No matter how embarrassing, I had to tell him. I would make him listen and understand me, no matter what it took.

"I broke up with Zelda because I might -- just might -- be developing feelings for someone else!"

"Whoa, calm down," Marth said, placing his hands protectively in front of his chest. "It was just a question."

I tried to control my breathing. Through clenched teeth, I told him everthing.

"Just a question? I kissed you. Do you have selective memory, so that you could forget it happened and it not phase you? Or are you just playing dumb so you don't hurt Roy? I kissed you, damn it!"

Marth walked over to me then and placed his hands on my shoulders. "No, Link. I didn't forget. I couldn't."

"Then why, everyday, do you act as though nothing happened? How can you just jump to Roy and forget I exsist?"

"I can answer that one easily, Link," Marth began. "You had Zelda. I wanted you two to stay together and be a happy couple, and me not interfere. So in order to keep you two from falling apart, I had to pretend it was nothing. And also, the circumstances of our kiss. You just jumped on me. It was unexpected. Pleasantly unexpected, but you lead me to think it was meant to be nothing, that I was only an experiment for you. We've already discussed this, and it much detail might I add. So why did you break up with Zelda?"

"I've already told you, but most of all, I didn't want her to be burdened with my troubles. But second, it was because I had to know," I said, tears forming in my eyes. "That this between us was all fake. And that there was nothing between us, ever. And that there never will be."

"Link, how am I supposed to prove what you're asking?"

I swallowed my pride and asked the unthinkable. I felt weak and desperate as the words just spilled from inside me.

"Kiss me, Marth. Now."

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~* Zelda's Point of View *~

When Roy came in, it was almost as if I were expecting him. Because I was. I had woken up several times after crying myself to sleep, dreaming of nothing but Link and the memories we shared. I knew that once Marth and Roy got home, that Link would probably tell them what happened, play by play. So once I had woken up for about the third time, I stayed awake, not even trying to drift back to sleep. Since Roy and I had planned this evening together, I figured that maybe he would want to come speak to me himself.

"I'm terribly sorry, Zelda," Roy said, sighing heavily. "I'm just as upset as you are. Peach told me Link's selfish reasons."

"I can't believe it. I just... this is unreasonable. How could he love me so much and then think that his feelings are being directed towards another man? Especially after all we've been through together?"

"All I know is that we have to do something," Roy replied, making me look up at him. His eyes were focused intently on the ground. "I want Marth. And you want Link. There just has to be something one of us, or both of us, can do to get back what we lost."

"How do you go about doing that?"

"We use the classic jealous tactic, Zelda."

I rolled my eyes, wanting to pretend I didn't hear that. "Make them... jealous?"

"If Link really loves you, and to make him realize that, you need to find yourself another man to be seen with. He won't be able to bear it, and will come running back to you."

I narrowed my eyes, seeing perfectly what he was hinting at. "So we team up? So in return, you can make Marth notice you?"

"Exactly. I'm glad we're on the same page."

"What's first on the list? Because if we do it right away, it will be too detectable. Everyone will immediately know what we're trying to do."

"You're right," Roy said, placing a hand under his chin. "How about we say something to the extent of, 'I was so desperate in this situation that I had to confide in someone. And one thing lead to another... and now... ' Come on, Zel, it happens all the time."

"I don't know, Roy," I replied. I didn't know about Link at that moment, but I honestly loved him. I didn't feel like ripping him to shreads by putting myself with Roy. Even if it was to test his love, I just couldn't do that. To think... what would that make me look like?

"I have to decline that offer. I can't do that to him. No matter how desperately I want him back."

"Then what do we do?" he asked, almost helplessly. "Zelda, I hate to say this, but I would have to murder Link with my bear hands if he brainwashed Marth into being with him. Please think this through!"

"I understand how you feel, and we will do something, just not that, alright? We can't be too harsh with this, or it will come off as selfish. And that's what we're accusing Link of being, right? It's too obvious and too painful for the other person. You say you're falling in love with Marth, correct? Then how could you put him through that, even with the intentions of coming back to him? Besides, no one said that he's going to fall for Link just because Link might like him." Wow. I don't know about Roy, but that helped me feel better.

"You are right about that one, but it's the best and only way I can think of."

"How about this?" I asked, smiling. "Just tell Marth how you feel."

"He should already know that!" Roy shouted, throwing his hands in the air. "We were about ready to 'go all the way' when I heard Link in the kitched washing the stupid dishes!" He calmed down, then. "I remembered you and felt as though I needed to see you."

"Then you should have came afterwards," I replied, shaking my head. "That leaves Marth with the impression that what you two were doing wasn't as important. That's your own fault, not mine, Marth's, or Link's. When you left, however, it also left Marth alone with Link."

Those statmenst opened his eyes. I didn't even realize that Link and Marth were alone until the words just seem to have come. To be honest, it hurt me, too. Instead of me Link was with, he was probably sharing all of his problems with Marth... instead of me...

"Let's go there together, okay? Let's talk to them both. I guess I should have thought of that in the first place. Sometimes, however, when someone gets desperate and lonely, they can't think straight. We can go now and get his over with and hopefully make this a happy ending."

"I think that's going to be the only safe way to go about getting the right outcome," I replied, satisfied. "Let's go."

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~* Link's Point of View *~

Marth took a couple of steps back, confused. "But Link... "

"Just do it!" I yelled. "If I don't feel anything in this kiss, I will move on from it and never ask you about it again, okay?"

"How will you know the difference between love and lust once it happens?"

And he was right. How was I supposed to know? If the kiss felt good, I could confuse it for feelings that weren't really there. But... still. I would just know. I told him this.

"Very well, Link," Marth replied, finally giving in. "I'll do it. But one other thing. Roy and I have something. I don't think you and I, even if you do feel anything, would go anywhere anyway. Because of what Roy and I feel for each other and share. Before Roy left here, we were... "

"I don't want to hear it," I growled in as low of a voice as I could muster. "Just kiss me, damn it, and prove to me that my feelings are fake! Trust me, it will do us both a favor."

"As you wish. If you think it will end your confusion, then so be it."

Marth took those few steps toward me again, and I felt my heart jump at the very thought of him. But this is what I wanted, so I had to take it.

Before his lips made contact with mine, the door creaked open and in stepped Zelda and Roy.

I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be a blessing or a curse.

"Zelda," I said quickly, pulling away from Marth. I was both happy to see her and mad that she had interfered. "What -- "

"Roy and I need to speak with both of you," Zelda replied, tucking some hair behind her ear. "We want to know what's really going on."

"Yeah," Roy replied. "It was obvious something was fixing to happen just before we came in! Tell me, Marth. Is it really me you think about, or are you still caught up in Link from the first time you two kissed?"

"Roy! Link asked me to do it, just so he would know! Because his heart is with Zelda! So in order to be completely hers, he wanted all traces of anything between he and I to vanish!"

I locked eyes with Zelda, not sure what to expect from her. This had gone way out of hand. This point in my life needed to end as quickly as it had started. But when I looked at her, once again, I saw tears forming in her soft blue eyes.

"But why does he have to kiss you for you to know that, Link? Isn't it in your heart that you love me?" Zelda still looked into my eyes, piercing my soul with her words.

"Yes," I replied without giving it a second thought.

I was the biggest fool on the face of the planet that has ever been known. One day, I was scared to death to lose Zelda, and the next, I was acting like I had this wild crush on Marth. It appeared that Marth was taken, however. So his statements were correct; nothing would happen anyway, because of what he feels for Roy.

"So that's it?" Roy asked, walking towards the couch. "What happens now?"

"What happens next is Link and Zelda patch things up and finish their night," Marth said, winking at the two of us. "So Roy and I can finish ours."

Well duh, I wanted to shout. It's always about you, isn't it, Marth? Just to think that I let one night of playful flirting and one simple kiss make me think that I was starting to fall for Marth! Enough of that thinking, though. That's what got us all into this mess.

Now everything finally stared making sense. Marth wasn't my type anyway. He and I -- we're completely different people. We know next to nothing about one another. He's just simply what he called himself; my experiment, and nothing more. I felt greedy and more self-centered than anyone else walking the Earth for it, but after loads of self-discovery, maybe I went too far. Now, all I could pray is that Zelda would forgive me for unessisarily making her go through that pain.

I can't really say that I've been anything other than selfish for what seems like ages. In reality, it had only been a few weeks -- or months? -- that this had actually been going on.

It was time for it to stop. Right here and now, everything had to become right again, just like it was before we all assembled here for the tournaments, which had taken a backseat to everything personal. Not just for Marth, Roy, Zelda, and me, but for every other Smasher as well. It seemed this place only brought pain and suffering to anyone who entered.

"Zelda," I said, dropping to one knee in front of her, taking her hand. "Please forgive me and take me back as yours... your one and only. I promise to you, Zelda, that this will never happen again. My confusion is over. In the heat of the moment, I thought that lust was a true thing. But that's all that it ever will be with Marth and anyone else for that matter. You're where I belong. Please, Zel. I'm yours. Just take me."

Zelda also dropped to her knees so that she was looking me in the eyes. "If you'll take me. Link, we've had our share of problems with Marth. On the first night, I saw it in your eyes when I spent so much time with him. I know how true your feelings were. It was foolish of me to test you like that. Sometimes things need to happen like this though. It's Destiny's way of telling us that we really belong together, and we shouldn't question fate. Of course, Link. I'll take you back."

I embraced her then, feeling her up against me. We stayed that way for quite a while before finally standing.

"When you said, 'Take me... ' Zelda began, looking deeply into my eyes and speaking with the most sincere of voices, "did you mean... "

"Make love to me," I demanded, sweeping her off her feet, holding her in my arms. "I want nothing more right now."

And that was that. Zelda and I left then, leaving Marth and Roy alone, hopefully able to fix their own problems. At that point, I couldn't have cared less if they did or not.

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Author's Notes: End of Chapter Six! I also want to apologize for the last chapter being entirely in bold. I didn't realize it until I went to go the the disclaimer since I had to restart the writing process because of the new computer. ^_^ And it's odd, because this is also my first experience with Windows XP.

NEED I REMIND YOU that this story is yaoi/shounen-ai! (*Most of you are probably tired of hearing that.*) BUT Please no flames for such content because you have been warned! If you leave a flame, at least be brave enough to tell me who you are, and before you use personal insults, at least know what you're saying before you say it.

Thanks for the positive reviews and to the ones mature enough to have had complaints but went about it kindly. Sensless and immature flames don't make authors get rid of stories, they make them write more! ^_^

It appears that this is the end of the story. Not sure yet... it could end here, but if I think of something, I will write more to it. It seems like an ending, but overall, there's still some things that could happen! What it all comes down to is if I can actually write more without seeming redundant. This story *and most of the chapters* have had a lot of the same things, and a story like that isn't very much fun to write, nevertheless to read. It could be just me. ^_^ But all in all, thanks for reading.

~* Sherrilynn *~