Zelda's Room

Sheik had left Link in his room as he went and talked to Zelda.

"Is he awake yet?" A concerned Princess asked.

"No, not when I last saw him. You know he's not going to talk to either one of us now, for a very long time."

"Oh, he'll get over it. He always does. By the way, your mother wants to see you..." Zelda didn't get to finish, as there was a knock at the door. "Come in." Impa walked in caring a measuring tape.

"Mother..." Sheik nodded.

"Sheik. Now I know the plan, but we're still not sure how were going to pull this one off. And I need to measure you." Impa held up the tape. Sheik's eyes widen, at measure, but he didn't say anything about that.

"What's the matter?" He asked instead.

"Well for one, you're a boy, and that makes for some..." Impa paused. "Complications." Sheik frowned. "Like your voice is lower than a girl's, you can see you Adams apple, and you'll have a.." She cleared her throat with embarrassment. "A bulge with no breasts." Zelda giggled. "And the type of dresses that are poplar now, it would show through. So we will have to something about that, now won't we?" She looked at her wide-eyed, open-mouthed son.

"Now I do have a fix for the Adam's apple, high necked dresses, and I've enchanted some candy, breath mints actually, to make your voice sound higher, but we can just make a looser dress for, down there, and a corset uniquely made for Link and you." There was silence as the two women looked at Sheik.

"I want you to know, Sheik that that look is priceless. Now hold still." And he was measured. When Impa was done, she told him to go get Link to have him measured.

"Why do I always have to go get Link when he's mad? I'm half-afraid to even be in the same castle as him, when he's mad." He stopped at Link's room. "Oh look, here I am." He knocked. "Can I come in?" No answer. "I'll just walk in then." And so he did. Link was lying on his side, with a snarl; he rolled over when he saw Sheik.

"Are you mad at me?" Link turned and glared. Sheik told himself that was a stupid question. "So now you're never going to talk to me again?" Link turned toward him yet again, took his thumb and pushed his nose in with it. "How am I supposed know what's wrong? Were in these together, you don't see me freaking out, do you?" Sheik's hands went to his hips as he calmed his voice. "Link, were best friends, whatever happens, we are in this together, through bad and the good." Link turned over.

"That, dear Sheik... "Link cocked an eyebrow. "Had to be the corniest speech you've ever said." The two friends looked at each other before bursting out into laughter.

"Yeah, I guess that was pretty bad." Sheik wiped the tears from his eyes. Link set up.

"Even yet, you're right. We are in this together."

"Speaking of being together, Impa needs to measure you for your dress."

"Eh?"

Impa's room

"I can not believe I am doing this." Link was standing on the desk, with his arms out to his sides while Impa was pining the cloth to make the dress, as there was a knock at the door. "If you open that door, I swear I will make your insides your outsides, your entrails your extrails, nasty things, I will do really bad things to you." And Sheik opened the door to reveal Zelda with about half of her giggling handmaidens. "That's it!" A beat red Link jumped down and started to chase a laughing Sheik. Impa caught Link by the waist.

"What ever you do to my son, can wait till you're out of my room because I don't want to clean up what ever mess you make if you do carry out those threats. Now stand still" She put him back on the desk and started to sew again on the Water Blue fabric that was to be made into Link's dress. "I'll get some Green fabric later." Zelda walked over to Link and took his hand.

"Link, I think I know that you're embarrassed, but I thank you." She leaned in and kissed Link on the cheek. She took a package from her pocket and put it in Link's hand. "Put one of these in your mouth." Link did so and his voice became higher, like a woman's.

"Wow, these things are amazing." Link smiled.

"And I'm done." Imp put her needle in the sewing box. "If you want to see how you look, go stand in the mirror room next door." Link carefully opened the door, making sure no one was around and quickly ran to the mirror room. When he shut the door and turned around, he almost fainted. A young man that had seen bloodied swords was no longer there, but a young woman who seemed to not fit in because she was too tall and strong to be considered grace was in its place.

"So what do you think?" Sheik was now in his dress, a deep red-purple.

"I really don't know what to think anymore."

"I don't blame you. Zelda just told me something else. Do you know what?"

"Of course not! No one ever tells me anything around here! It's amazing I learned about the birds and the bees from your mom." Link gave a good-natured laugh. Sheik smiled.

"There is something else she wants returned. A picture was stolen years ago the belonged to her mother. She has a good suspicion that it's there."

"And what does this picture look like?"

"Actually it's a painting and it's of three Hylian men massagers and two human soldiers."

"I guess we'll look en we get there, right?" Sheik nodded and Link jumped on him.

"What was that for?" Sheik asked as Link was sitting on Sheik's stomach, with his knees on Sheik's arms.

"I still have to keep my promise to kill you, remember?" Link smiled.