Zelda sat quietly in her room. The room itself was a candy pink, pink walls, pink bedspread and pink carpet. The curtains were a milky white hanging over the great bay window. Zelda was sitting at the end of her king sized bed waiting for the guests to arrive. Her father had arranged for his friend the Duke of one of Hyrule's neighbouring countries Calia to come to a great feast. Duke Norando was bringing his son Phillip to visit. Zelda took a glance at her old wooden clock, it read half eleven, they were expected to arrive in five minutes. Suddenly there was a knockat the door. Impa walked in.

"Zelda the guests have arrived."

Zelda slowly got off the bed and followed Impa along the large passageway and onto the grand blue staircase.

The two entered the great dining room. Chandeliers hung from the high ceiling lighting the pale blue walls. A long white clothed table was set up in the centre of the room. Many plates were laid upon the table from deku scrub meat to the very rare lizalfos pasties. Tall red chairs had been lined up around the table ready for the feast. The feast was actually the party that Ruto had suggested a while back. Zelda had just remembered it and had thought it would be good to hold it that lunch time. The matches weren't due to start until the late afternoon so they had plenty of time. All of the sages were invited and of course Link and a few others like Malon and Talon.

The first to arrive was Ruto and her father who she was dragging on a cart. Ruto gasped and wheezed as she pulled the cart into the entrance hall. Two guards ran up to greet them offering to pull the cart. Ruto accepted their offer and skipped up to the light brown doors that led to the dining room. As Ruto entered the hall she was met with hellos from the King and Zelda. One of the guards showed Ruto to her seat and wheeled King Zora to the space next to her. King Zora and King Harkinian immediately began a conversation about the lack of good fish in the waters. Ruto and Zelda sat in an awkward silence. Zelda hoped someone, anyone would come through the doors. Ruto just sat staring at her plate thinking about how boring this was.

In Hyrule market there weren't that many crowds since the matches didn't begin for a good few hours. Link took this time to show Saria around the market properly. Saria had been allowed out of the forest before but she very rarely wanted to, only for sage meetings and the party at the Temple of Time. Saria's eyes wandered around the market stopping to read different shop signs. She then spotted the Bombchu Bowling Alley. It looked very interesting with the bright multicoloured lights flashing above the door.

"Link what exactly is Bombchu Bowling?"

Link followed her gaze and remembered all the time he had been in that shop and had failed to win the prize. When he had won it was usually more bombchus or bombs that he didn't really want.

"That's when people throw a bombchu along the floor and try to make it dodge the objects in its pathto get it in the hole."

Saria made her way to the door and pushed it open Link closely followed.

Inside strange circus music was playing out of a tall pink jukebox. Saria was amazed by the shining pink walls and sparkling words all around the room. At the counter a thin blue haired woman of about twenty was sleeping on the counter.

The two approached the counter. The woman became aware of some customers and quickly sat up.

"Why hello there children would you like to play?"

Link pulled out some rupees handing them to the woman. A small flash of light that made Saria jump brought up the prize which was a teacake. The woman looked stunned then annoyed.

"Damn this machine it is always mixing up the prizes with my lunch. Hang on."

The woman dived under the counter and yelled at the thing that was controlling the prizes. The 'thing' sounded an awful lot like a monkey. Saria gave Link a weird look Link just shrugged not knowing what to say.

The woman reappeared behind the counter.

"Right, now that has been cleared up!" She yelled looking downwards, little squeaks could be heard from where she was looking. "Now the real prize should appear."

A shining gold rupee appeared where the teacake had been. The woman reached under the counter and pulled out a small bag of bombchus. She handed Link the bagthen fell back to sleep not even bothering to explain the rules.

Link put his hand in the bag carefullytaking out one of the bombchus.

It wriggled in his hand and began to flash. Link threw it in the direction of the flashing hole. It just missed the spike sliding along the floor and blasted the hole.

Link turned around to let Saria have a go. He saw her keeping her distance by the jukebox. Link put down the bag and went over to her.

"What's the matter Sar?"

"Um those things look really dangerous."

Link understood how she felt. The first time he had come here the bombchus had scared him though he didn't like to admit it.

"Don't worry, if you throw them in the right way they won't touch you." Link said reassuringly. He took her hand and pulled her over to the bag. He picked out another bomchu and handed it to Saria. The bomb began to sizzle. Link told her to just aim it past the spike and the baby chicken. Saria threw it down the lane, it span past the spike but smashed into the chicken causing a puff of smoke to blast through the air.

Six throws later they had reached the last hole. Link took his bombchu and hurled it down the lane. It missed the spike, the baby chicken and the big chicken. It looked like a winner until it turned and climbed up the wall exploding half way. Link dug out the last bombchuhanding it to Saria.

"Link maybe you should take the last shot."

"No that's ok I want you to take it." He insisted.

Saria lined the bomb up with the hole watching the movements of the moving objects. She let the bomb slide out of her hand and spin along the ground. It narrowly missed the spike, it whizzed past both the chickens and neatly blasted into the hole. A loud bell rang through the shop waking up the sleeping woman.

"Oh well done here is your prize." She took the prize out of the blue light and handed it to the pair. "Please tell your friends about us and come again." She waved as the two left the shop.

Back in the castle most of the guests had now arrived. Nabooru and two of her Gerudo friends were there, Darunia and some Gorons, Rauru fresh from watching his soaps and Malon and Talon who had brought a crate full of fresh Lon Lon milk.

Zelda kept wondering when Phillip and his father would arrive.

"Father they are late." She looked towards her father.

Just then the doors swung open and in walked the Duke Norando and Phillip. The Duke was a short chubby man with a bushy red beard and bushy hair to match. He wore a dark green cloak with golden buttons down the front. Phillip was the opposite of his father, he was quite tall with brown hair that was a similar style to Link's. He had deep brown eyes that sparkled under the lights of the chandeliers. He wore the same as his father but the buttons were red and not gold. The boy was about twelve years old.. The guards led them to their seats next to Zelda and King Harkinian. Zelda put on her prettiest smile which Phillip seemed to notice and smiled back.

Outside the castle Link and Saria hadn't realised how late they were. The two dashed through the giant black gates, up the path and into the entrance hall. The king was about to start the feast when two flushed looking people burst through the doors.

"Ah and here is the Hero of Time and the forest sage." The King explained to the Duke. The Duke smiled as the two hurried to their seats.

"As I was saying today we are gathered here to celebrate yet another victory over the King of Evil who was blasted away by his own rotten plans. Anyway enough of my talking, let the feast begin!" the King sat back down and began to converse with the Duke and King Zora.

In the middle of the table Ruto was eyeing all of the food. She summoned a guard to come to her.

"Could you tell me what that is?" Ruto pointed to a dark yellow meat. The guard said it was roasted Like Like. Ruto then pointed to most of the food on the table. Nabooru who was opposite her thought it was strange that she was a princess that had only ever eaten fish. Finally Ruto selected some mushy brown stuff. She hadn't asked what it was because the guard had hurried off before she could ask. Ruto picked up a spoon and dipped it in the mush, she brought the spoon to her lips and slowly put it in her mouth. Her face turned from white to green to purple as she tasted the mush in her mouth. Suddenly she spat it all out right at Nabooru's face. Nabooru was furious she grabbed Ruto's head and dunked it right into the brown mush. Two guards swiftly separated the two and took them outside to cool down. Ruto was fuming when the guard told her that the mush was mashed redead.

The Duke was quite entertained by all of this.

"Harkinian you do have a weird bunch of sages if I do say so myself, they are very entertaining." The Duke chuckled.

The King went red part from embarrassment part from anger. So far one sage and the Hero of Time had arrived late and then two more sages had a food fight. This was turning into a disaster.

King Zora was eating everything he could reach. Unfortunately he couldn't reach some baked octorock so he stretched as far as his stubby arm would go but he leaned so far forward that the cart beneath him rolled backwards causing the Zora to fall belly first crashing to the floor. The whole room shock which made Impa spill her drink of fresh berry juice all over her clothes. Impa stormed out of the hall in a rage to get some clean clothes.

At the far end of the table Rauru was boring Link, Saria, Malon and Talon to death with stories of his soaps. Malon was more interested in Link who she was one side of. She clung to his arm and whispered.

"Let's get out of here and go somewhere quiet."

Link pulled his arm away from Makon and put his arm around Saria.

"Sorry Malon I'm already taken."

Malon burst into floods of tears, Link was shocked at her reaction. She shoved her chair out and threw it over storming out of the hall whacking the guards that tried to stop her.

The King was so angry he hit his head against the table several times. He looked over to his daughter and noticed that her and Phillip seemed to be getting on very well, at least one thing was going right.

Darunia and his Gorons couldn't eat anything but rocks so the guards had to run out to the garden and dig up some with their bare hands because one of them had lost the key to the tool shed.

The guards brought a plate of rocks in for the Gorons. They took one look at the rocks and complained about how small they were. By this time the guard was getting very annoyed, he threw the plate at the wall and stormed through the doors as the plate made a mighty smashing sound sending pieces of china and rock flying all over the place.

Rauru who was eating a piece of bread didn't notice a piece of china slip into it un till…

"OW BLOODY DIN MY MOUTH IS BLEEDING!"

He screamed also running out of the hall to find some tissues.

Talon as usual had gotten tired and fallen asleep letting his head fall straight into a deku scrub pie.

As if things couldn't get any worse Zelda stood up and slapped Phillip hard in the face.

"I will not come under the table with you, you dirty pervert!"

Zelda ran out of the doors screaming for the guards to get out of her way.

The duke stood up and glared at the King.

"How dare you let your daughter talk to my boy like that!"

"She seemed to have a good reason!" The King shouted back.

The two men and Phillip chased each other angrily out of the room leaving a sleeping Talon, Link and Saria left at the table.

"Good pie." Link smiled.

Saria looked back at him.

"It is isn't it?" They burst out laughing as they got up to leave for the matches that began in an hour. As Link passed Talon he picked up an empty fruit basket and placed it on his head leaving him to his dreams.

Out in front of the castle the men were rolling on the grass trying to strangle each other yelling rude insults every few seconds.

In the courtyard Zelda was grabbing the roses and ripping them out of the ground to throw them in the moat.

In the castle bathroom Malon was balling her eyes out as she kicked the wall in her anger.

In another bathroom Rauru had stuffed a load of tissues in his bleeding mouth and was moaning with pain as he searched for a TV to catch up on his soaps.

Ruto and Nabooru were yelling at each other on the castle roof. The guards had let them get on with it and they had somehow got to the roof. The two had grabbed and slapped each other many times. Ruto grasped onto Nabooru's top and was trying to throw her down but Nabooru swung Ruto over her shoulder. The swing was a bit too strong and Ruto flew off the roof and landed on top of Zelda in the courtyard.

Darunia and the Gorons had left with Nabooru's friends and the guards were heading to the market pub.

Impa had calmed down and was heading to the front of the castle. As soon as she saw the fight she broke it up yelling about how childish this all was. The Duke and Phillip got into their carriage and left without a nice word.

Half an hour later everyone had calmed down and were making their way to the battle hall, it was time for the end of the first lot of battles until after the island challenge. Link was ready for a tough match.


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