CHAPTER II:

"PEACH!! WE NEED TO GO SHOPPING!!!"
"For what?"
"BATHING SUITS!!!"
Zelda was totally hyper about the pool party and needed to go shopping for bathing suits. She had never learned to swim, so she just would tan, but she needed a bathing suit anyway, she assumed.
"OH YEAH!!!"
Peach hadn't learned how to swim either.
"WEEE!! THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!!!" Zelda squealed as they hopped into Peach's pink buggy and drove off to a store called Bulls-Eye.
"HOLD ON, Peach. What are we doing here when I can just design the bathing suits and can get Malon to sew them for me?"
"I dunno..."
They left Bulls-Eye and headed to Lon-Lon Ranch.

MEANWHILE...

"LINK!!!!!!!!"
"AAH!! What?!"
"Okay, I know this is weird, BUT I NEED YOUR HELP!!!"
"WHAT THE HECK?! That's freaky...Okay, why?"
"Well, um..." Ganondorf hesitated to tell the reason.
"WELL?!" Link yelled.
"I NEED TO GO SHOPPING!!!"
Link fell out of his chair. "WHAT?!?!? BUAHAHAHA!!!!"
"SHUT UP! YOU DO TOO!"
"I do?"
"You may now kiss the bride."
"Uh..."
"Oh, I mean, for a bathing suit for Peach's party!"
"So why do you need my help to go shopping?"
"Okay, you PROMISE not to tell?"
"Yeah."
"No, I can't trust you," he said dramatically, looking away.
"Yes you can!"
"No I can't."
"I'll let you have the triiiiiiiiiiiifoooooorce!!!" Link bribed.
"Really? OKAY!!!" Ganondorf said. Sucker...Link thought to himself.
"Okay, I need your help because I kind of like someone..."
"It isn't Zelda, is it?"
"NO! EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWWWW!!!!" he exclaimed, waving his hands in the air. He almost curled up in a ball and died.
"Okay.." Link gave him an odd look.
"It's Peach..."
"PEACH!?!?! BUAHAHAHA!!!"
"SHUT UP! Hey, she's sweeeeeet!"
"Oh, Nayru help me..."
"So will you help me?"
"I guess."
"THANK YOU!!!"
Then they went to Floor-Mart.
MEANWHILE AGAIN...
"WHEE!!!" Roy was spinning in his chair.

MEANWHILE...

"Okay, should I do a one-piece, or a two-piece, or a bikini, or a halter top suit?" Zelda asked Peach, sitting in a chair in Malon's house. Malon was working with the horses outside. Zelda had a piece of paper and a pencil to sketch the bathing suits.
"GO NUDE!!!" someone yelled. Zelda looked down to her side. She blinked, and paused, seeing the short someone who yelled that.
"Kirby, what are you doing here?" she asked.
"Oh, nothing..." Kirby said, as he floated off.
"Anyway, which one should I wear?" Zelda asked Peach.
"I'm doing a bikini!"
"Might as well..."
Zelda sketched two bikinis with their own differences to them.
"What color should I do?"
"SEE-THROUGH!!!" another someone yelled. Peach looked down to her side. She blinked, and paused, seeing the short someone who said that.
"Young Link, what are you doing here?"
"Nothing..." he said, as he rolled off.
"Ookay...Well, what color?"
"I think pink is good for you..I'm doing lilac."
"Okay, I'll do pink!"
Zelda colored in the bathing suits.
"What do you think Link will be wearing?" Zelda asked, thinking.
"A SPEEDO!!!" another someone yelled. She looked down, blinked, yahdi yahdi yahda.
"Jigglypuff, what are you doing here?"
"Absolutely nothing..." she said as she waddled off.
"Well I hear that Ganondorf's gonna be a lifeguard..." Peach said. "What size should I wear?"
"EXTRA SMALL!!!" yet another someone yelled. Peach punched Ness.
"That saved us a lot of time."
"Yep."
MEANWHILE...
"WHEEEE!!!!!!" Roy was spinning in his chair again.
MEANWHILE...
"Should I wear swim trunks or a Speedo?"
"SPEEDO!!!" someone yelled. Ganondorf saw Nana standing beside him. Nana walked away.
"Okay..."
"Ganon, I'd recommend that if you are trying to impress a girl, then wear a Speedo," Link said, and nudged Ganondorf.
"OKAY!"
"I'm sticking with my swim trunks...And Trunks is sticking with his swim links!! HAHAHA!!!" Ganondorf gave him a weird look. "Never mind..."
Then Ganondorf bought a black Speedo with red racing stripes down the sides. Link just bought a pair of green swim trunks.
Zelda designed a lilac colored bikini, and designed Peach a pink one, which Peach wanted to be kind of revealing. Then Zelda gave the designs to Malon, who sewed them. Tahdah.
"Do you want to come?" Peach asked Malon.
"Um, okay! Can you design a bathing suit for me, Zelda?"
"Sure!"
"Okay, I want it to be sort of a beige color, and a one piece."

3 DAYS LATER...

Everyone had traveled to Peach's castle for the pool party. Everyone she invited had been able to come. Link and Zelda were sitting by the edge of the pool, holding hands.
"Why can't you come in?" Link asked her.
"I already told you, I don't know how to swim!"
"Oh yeah. Sorry."
"You're lucky. You know how."
"I can always teach you!"
"No thanks."
Zelda blushed at Link's offer. Link, however, was pretty disappointed.
"You know, you could always just go into the shallow end of the pool."
"True."
"You wanna go over there and chill in the water, it's too hot to just be sitting on the edge."
"Okay, I suppose that'll be fun."
Link and Zelda walked over to the steps at the shallow end of the pool. Link jumped in without hesitation.
"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!"
Link landed on his knees at the bottom of the pool. Luckily, they were just scraped a little bit.
"OH MY FARORE! SOMEONE'S HURT!" Ganondorf sprung from his post and hurled himself into the water and swam over to Link. Link stared at Ganondorf with a puzzled look on his face.
"Uhhh...."
"Link, buddy, are you okay?"
"Number one: dude, I'm not your 'buddy'. Number two: I'm JUST fine. Number three:...."
Link whispered into Ganondorf's ear. "Did anyone see your Speedo yet?"
"Uhhh..."
"Did Peach?"
"Uhh....I'm not too sure, but I don't think so."
Link sighed.
"Well, I don't think anyone did because nobody's fainted yet."
"You mean I really look that good!?"
"Uhhh....no."
"Oh..."
Ganondorf sighed and got out of the pool. He walked over to Marth who was sitting on a beach chair reading his book...again.
"Hello Marth," he said. Marth looked up, and practically jumped out from the chair. Marth flew up a couple of feet, well, more like 5, towards the right, and landed on Peach who was also sitting in a beach chair. But THIS time, she was eyeing Ganondorf ^.~. She squealed, and removed the book that had fallen out of Marth's hands onto Marth's face. She gave him an angry look, and Marth gave an innocent smile. Peach shoved him off, and Marth fell into the pool. He surfaced, shook the water from his hair, and began to stare at Link and Zelda in jealousy. He quickly snapped out of it.

"Can I have my book back?" Marth asked Peach. Peach threw it at him obliviously as she brought her vision back to Ganondorf. Marth just said hi back to Ganondorf, and walked away to get a towel. On the way, he noticed Malon lying in a beach chair, reading the same book that he had. Marth stopped in his tracks right after he walked past her, and walked backwards, and looked at the cover of the book, then looking at her, interested.
Hmm... he thought to himself. She's...really...HOT....This might work... Marth smirked, before getting a towel. He dried himself off, and non-purposefully caught Malon's eye. She looked at the book that was in his hand. Marth thought. Come on, there has to be SOME way to impress her... Then Marth got an idea, remembering the diving classes he took when he was 12. He smiled, and jogged over to Link.

"Link, can I ask you for a favor?"

"Sure, what?"

"I'm going to go up on the diving board."

"What, are you trying to impress someone or something?"

"Yeah."

"Oooh... Who?"

Marth pointed to Malon.

"Malon?! Sorry, she's never going to like you."

Marth glared at him.

"But we can always give it a shot, right? What do I need to do?"

"When I'm up there..." Marth whispered something in Link's ear. "You yell, 'Marth! What are you doing?!' once I get up there. Then try to see if Malon is watching, and if she is, tell Zelda to yell, 'Marth?!'. And if she isn't looking, tell Peach to yell it. Okay?" he asked. Link thought this was a very weird plan, but sighed and agreed anyway.

"Okay, good luck buddy. You'll need it," he said. Marth thanked him, and walked over to the diving board. He climbed the ladder, and reached the top of it. He walked to the edge of the diving board, and turned around so he was facing the ladder.

"Marth! What are you doing?!" Link yelled up to him. This caught Malon's attention, and she looked up to the diving board. It was a great scene, the sun was blazing right behind Marth, so he was only a silhouette, but IT LOOKED REALLY COOL!!! Anyway, Malon was still looking at Marth who was still standing on the diving board. This was Link's cue.

"Zelda, I dare you to yell, 'Marth?!', okay?"

"That seems easy. Okay then. Marth?!" she yelled up to him. Marth thought, smirking. Here's my chance.

Marth did a backwards dive off the diving board, then a back-flip in the air following another back-flip, and then returned to his normal back dive position, and fell swiftly into the water. Everyone cheered at Marth's dive. Malon smiled, and thought. THAT LOOKED AWESOME!!! ESPECIALLY HOW HE WAS JUST A SILHOUETTE WITH THE SUN IN THE BACKGROUND!!! ...But who the heck is he?

Marth got out of the pool and got his towel, and he was no longer a silhouette. Malon was still eyeing Marth, and finally saw his face. Marth looked back at Link, who gave him a thumbs up. Marth then felt thirsty, so he went inside of Peach's Castle and into the kitchen to get a drink. Malon followed.

"Um, excuse me?" Malon said. Marth stopped his drink-pouring, and looked at her. "Hi, I'm Malon. I saw your dive...It was awesome."

"Oh, thanks! I'm Marth."

"Where did you learn to dive like that?"

"I took diving lessons for a couple of years...Oh yeah, I noticed the book you were reading."

"What about it?"

"I've got the same one."

"Whoa, what a coincidence! Do you like CIA stuff too?"

"Yeah."

"Are you a friend of Peach's?"

"Sort of."

Malon thought. What does he mean by "sort of"? Is he, like, her boyfriend or something?

"What do you mean by, 'sort of'? Is she like your girlfriend or something?"

"No, no, I meant that I don't know her that well."
"Well that's a relief."
"What?"
"Uh, nothing!!!" Malon sweatdropped. "I meant, uh...If you were, she's eyeing Ganondorf...heh...So that'd be kinda like...cheating?"
Marth blinked. "Uh...Okay... How did you get here? I don't recognize you from around the center anywhere."

"Oh, I'm the one who made Zelda and Peach's bathing suits. They invited me."

"Oh. I see you did a good job on those."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh no, I didn't mean it like that, heh, heh...Sorry...Well, nice meeting you, Malon."

"Nice meeting you, too."

They stood there and looked at each other. Marth thought. A lot like Zelda...So beautiful...So elegant... SO FREAKIN' HOT!! MOTHER OF ALTEA, HOLD ME BACK!!! At the same time, Malon was thinking, A lot like Link... So strong...So swift...SO FREAKIN' HOT!!! THREE GODDESSES, HOLD ME BACK!!!

Unfortunately, or fortunately, either one, they weren't held back.

Peach was still eyeing Ganondorf who was over on the other side of the pool now, keeping watch. Oooo...He's lookin' so fine! She thought, noticing his wet, large muscles. She worked her eyes up to his nose, which had sunblock on it like a lifeguard usually does (he had to use a whole bottle). That just completes it! she thought. She finally noticed that Ganondorf was watching the whole time, and she blushed. Ganondorf walked over back to his post, a grin on his face, chuckling to himself. Ganondorf glanced at Peach and winked. She blushed, and giggled. Ganondorf then turned his head to Link and gave him a thumbs up, and Link thumbed up back.

Outside of the back of Peach's castle and the pool, Young Link was spying on the party.
"Oh, this is SO unfair!!!" Young Link whined.
"I know!" Ness cried from behind. Young Link sighed. Was he EVER going to get rid of that kid? Ness joined his spying. The two boys snuck around peeking through the fence around Peach's pool.
"I don't see WHY we weren't allowed to come. Nothing's happening that we've never done or seen before," Young Link whined.
"Um, I think there is..." Ness had stopped dead in his tracks at a hole in the fence.
"What?" Young Link asked.
"It's...It's...OH JUST LOOK FOR YOURSELF!!!" Ness moved out of the way so Young Link could look through the hole.
"WHOA!! THAT'S JUST NASTY AND JUST PLAIN WRONG!!!"
Young Link and Ness almost puked. They had just seen Ganondorf in his Speedo. They turned away in disgust until Ganondorf was not visible anymore. Young Link looked through the hole and spied again. Kirby and Jigglypuff were floating around the water, holding hands, and talking about the baby they had seen on Roy's computer screen a week ago.
"I wonder if we ever WILL have a baby as cute as that one was," Jigglypuff daydreamed.
"Oh, we will my sweetest darling, we will," Kirby daydreamed as well. They both got out of the pool. They walked away from all the commotion of the party into a separate room.
"Ooooooooooooooooooo!" Young Link teased.
"WHAT WHAT WHAT?!" Ness asked.
"Didn't you just see Jigglypuff and Kirby? I think something might happen," Young Link winked as he said this.
"Eeew! Dude, you're gross!" Ness whined.
"Heh. I know," Young Link bragged.
Suddenly, Roy burst into the party (invited, of course).
"HEY EVERYBODY!!! ROY'S IN THE HOUSE!!! Or...THE BACKYARD!!!"
Everyone just sat there, not noticing his entrance. Then Roy heard crickets chirping. Link was putting sun tan lotion on Zelda's back. Zelda giggled at the coldness and liquidity (is that a word?)of the suntan lotion to be flirty with Link. Roy slanted his eyebrows in jealousy. Maybe she DOESN'T like just blonde hair...
Roy had to think of something else. He climbed the ladder up to the diving board...
"COWABUNGA!!!" he yelled as he jumped into the pool. Everyone stared in awe as he fell fast into the water, and a big wave of water came splashing onto everyone.
"HEY! NO SPLASHING!!!" Ganondorf yelled, standing up. Before, he was sitting on Marth's unoccupied beach chair, next to Peach. He was obviously flirting with her.
"AAAH!! I GOT WET!!!" Peach screamed dramatically, sitting up from her chair also. She was obviously trying to get Ganondorf's attention back to her.
"I'll dry you off," he said, quickly handing her a towel to dry herself off with.
Roy had surfaced, and everyone noticed that his hair went from blonde, to green. Everyone except Zelda burst out laughing.
"I'm glad I didn't change my hair from red to blonde..." Ganondorf said, chuckling, nudging Peach. She giggled, and began to flirt with Ganondorf again. Roy got out of the pool, and left in embarrassment.
"Roy! Wait!" Zelda said, starting to follow after him, but Link stopped her.
"Come on, Zelda, he'll get over it," he said. Zelda thought that Link was right, and looked sadly back at Roy, who was walking away out of the pool area. She enjoyed the rest of the pool party. But she didn't hesitate to leave Peach's castle when it was over, and she found Roy sitting on a bench outside of the castle.
"Roy?" she asked, trying to assure that he was all right. Roy answered by looking up at her in embarrassment.
"Roy, don't mind them, they're just jerks," she said. Roy thought if she meant Link, too.
"I guess..." Roy said.
"Do you want me to help you fix your hair when we get home?" she asked politely, smiling at him. Roy smiled back.
"Sure," he replied, "Thanks."
Zelda took his hand, and helped him up from the bench. Roy was feeling some kind of connection. They walked each other home, and everyone else left the pool party also. Except for four...
Peach walked inside her house, up the many flights of stairs, and to the outside of the guest rooms.
"Um, Kirby, Jigglypuff, it's time to leave!" Peach said, banging on the door to the room.
"Ookay, we'll get out now..." Kirby said in a daze. They both came out slowly, giant grins on their faces, and wide eyes. They walked out, embarrassed, and ran as soon as they turned the corner. Peach sighed, and walked over to the next door, and banged on it.
"OUT NOW!!!" she yelled.
"Oh, come on, 15 more minutes!!!" Marth yelled from inside the room. Malon was laughing, and saying, "It jumped! It jumped!" for some weird reason. Peach thought, I don't know WHAT the heck they are doing in there, and I don't WANT to know because I think I have an idea..."It jumped?" EW!
Peach sighed, and yelled again.
"FIVE MINUTES!!!"
"TEN!!!" Marth yelled, Malon still laughing.
"Okay, you can have only TEN more minutes. BUT THEN YOU LEAVE MY CASTLE!!! GO...DO...YEAH, IN YOUR OWN HOMES!!!!"
"Who says we're...Uh...Yeah?!" Marth asked.
"AREN'T YOU?!"
"NO!" Malon yelled. Peach opened the door, and found Malon and Marth sitting at a table doing Origami.
"Want a crane, Peach?" Marth asked, holding a paper crane in his hand out to her. Malon had made a jumping frog, and making it jump. She was obviously enjoying herself. Peach sighed, and closed the door.