I have decided to have Yoda do the disclaimers. Why? Because I can!

Yoda: Own Super Smash Brothers, Slywolf does not.

Thanks, you muppet.

Yoda: No muppet am I.

Right. Heh. You look like a little green bunny. Hippity-hoppity.

Yoda: Haiyah!

Ow! Stop whacking me with your cane.

Yoda: Okay. Lightsaber I will use now.

On second thought, I like the cane. Ouch. Stop pummeling me! It's really painful!

Yoda: Enjoy pummeling you, I do.

Bad rabbit! Ouch! Owies! Not _ there. Ungh.

Yoda: Gone to sleep, Slywolf has. Enjoy the story, you will.

It is a dark time for the rebellion. Imperial force…

Yoda: Wrong story. Insert new reel, I will.

Why do I always get injured? Ow.

Yoda: Haiyah!

X_X

Roi could feel herself being shaken awake. When she opened her eyes, Link waved at her. She jumped back. "Link! What are you doing in my room?" She hastily pulled the blanket up to her neck. "Enjoying the view, were you?"

"Oh, good goddesses, no. You're pretty and all that, but your ears are too round for my tastes. Besides, you're Marth's girl. Enjoy last night?" Link winced and rubbed his bandaged ear.

"Oh, Link. You're hurt!"

"I've had worse. Anyway, it's time for your training to commence. Did you enjoy last night?"

"Yes, actually. It was pleasant."

"Are you sure all you did was kiss? Marth came back into the room as a zombie. He certainly enjoyed himself. It was almost a pity I had to break his nose." He winced again. "Anyway, just throw on some clothes."

Roi tossed off the blanket. "Link, can you leave while I'm getting dressed?"

"I don't know why. I just saw all you had to offer." Link smirked. "You really shouldn't sleep naked. Especially in such a crowded building."

Roi flushed, and slapped Link. "Pervert."

"Everyone seems to be hitting me lately." Link backed out of the room.

Alone at last, Roi looked at her wardrobe. She pulled out a sports bra and a pair of panties and pulled them on. "Should I bother to put on anything else? Training might require mobility."

Zelda was pushed into the room by unseen hands. "Roi, Link says that you won't be needing your sword today. And I would put on some more clothes, if I was you." Zelda turned and spoke to someone outside. "And Marth said that he recommends that you do exactly as Link says." She turned and left.

"Why wouldn't I need my sword?" She asked the air. Turning to her wardrobe, she pulled out a short red skirt and a tight blue blouse. "These will do." She put them on and went outside. She smiled at the open-mouthed Marth and Link. "Hello, boys."

"Um… very nice clothes, human. They look a bit… confining, though. Don't you have combat wear?" Link kept his eyes focused on her face.

"Ignowe him, Woi. You look gowgeouth." Marth, on the other hand, wasn't even trying to not stare. "In fose cloves, efewy thingle man in the Thmasherth will be unable to harm you." His nose was heavily bandaged. She stared at that, and at Link's left ear, also heavily bandaged.

"What happened to you two?" She asked.

"These two morons had a bit of a… falling out last night. It's amazing how they can be friends. The number of times they've injured each other…" Zelda shook her head. "The only thing they can't agree on is whose fault it is."

"Oh, Marth." Roi kissed him soundly. Marth smiled triumphantly and turned to Link, who grudgingly put a couple of coins in Marth's hand.

"Roi, we really should get going." Link stood up and grabbed her tightly. "Now, just hold on…" The room shifted and blurred into darkness. Then another room took shape around them. It was a huge room. In the distance, 16 glass tubes snaked down from the ceiling in clusters of four. Around the two people, statues of Hylians holding weapons stared down. There were other creatures here too. Strange fish-men jabbed spears into the air. Things that looked like nothing more than walking rocks stood in martial poses. Several statues seemed to be of round-eared women slicing scimitars at nothing. In the corners, what looked to be humanoid birds stood holding small daggers. Scattered haphazardly amongst the larger statues were sculptures of what looked like little children holding sticks and plant things holding seeds. There were other statues, too numerous to count. More bird things, holding small pendants. Bipedal pigs thrusting spears at invisible targets. Dog-men wearing armor and carrying swords almost as large as them. Link must have noticed her staring. "Roi, this is the Temple of Life. The most sacred place in my homeland. These are the intelligent races of my world. I would show you around, but we are here for a greater purpose." He led her to the glass tube clusters. At the top of each one was a different symbol. The cluster on the far left had a stone face glaring at them all. The one on the middle left had the face of one of the fish things staring at them. The one on the middle right had a round eared woman's face gazing into nothingness. And the one on the far right had a Hylian face. "From left to right, these are the Gorons, the Zora, the… Gerudo raiders, and the Hylians. These are the dominant races of my homeworld."

Roi stared, puzzled. "Link, why are you showing me this?" He smiled and went to a lever, pulling it. A collection of stones skidded down the tubes of the Goron cluster. Rubies on the left, sapphires in the middle and emeralds on the left. The fourth tube remained empty.

"The red represents power. The blue shows wisdom. The green is courage. Now, which do the Gorons have in abundance?" She stared. There were hardly any in the green column. The blue column barely reached halfway. But the red went all the way to the top.

"Power. The Goron race has power in abundance."

"Indeed. Strong, and as wise as the hills, but they have no courage. If they wished, they could do anything. Yet… they lack the ability to take risks. They have too much to lose, they believe. They do not understand that it is not what they have to lose, it is what they stand to gain." Link pulled another lever. Rubies, emeralds and sapphires slid down the Zora columns. This time, the sapphires rose to the top, the emeralds reached halfway, and the rubies packed at the bottom. "The Zora, on the other hand, are as wise as the oceans. They have the courage to do what needs to be done, and the skill to do it. But, they lack power. They are at the mercy of the other races and the elements." He pulled the third lever. In the Gerudo one, the emeralds overflowed, scattering around. The rubies reached the three quarter mark, but no sapphires came down. Link's smile had disappeared. "Now, you tell me what this says about the Gerudo."

Roi concentrated. "They have large amounts of courage, and a reasonable amount of power, but no wisdom."

"Correct. The Gerudo have no wisdom because they are soulless. They truly have nothing to lose in death. When they die, they fade into oblivion. Their power comes from the fact that they will do anything to live forever. Centuries ago, they bargained with a demonic power who drained their souls, but made them great mages and warriors. Yet, for all that, they have very little strength. So little, in fact, that a Hylian child who knows what he's doing could defeat them. And without wisdom, courage is just a way to get yourself killed in interesting ways." He pulled the fourth lever. A cascade of stones fell into the Hylian cluster. All 3 columns climbed halfway up. "Now we come to the masters. My people. What does this say about us?"

"You are all in balance. You have courage, but not foolhardiness. Your wisdom is adequate for what you need. You have power, but not so much as the Gorons or Gerudo."

"And yet, despite the fact that we are an average, some might say middling, race, we run the planet. Why is that? What do we have that they don't?"

"You can pit your strengths against their weaknesses?"

"No. We have this." He pulled a fifth lever. A cascade of amethysts fell into the four empty tubes. "We have purpose."

"Purpose? I don't understand." The amethysts reached the top in the Hylian cluster, the ¼ mark in the Gerudo cluster, they packed at the bottom in the Goron cluster, and they reached halfway in the Zora cluster.

"It is purpose that unites us. Purpose that defines us. Purpose that creates us. We are purpose. Every single Hylian in the planet has one goal. The ultimate betterment of the race as a whole. Those that don't have such a purpose leave the community. Indeed, are forced to leave the community. The paths may differ, the goal may superficially differ, but they all have one thing in common. The race will be better off with the goal, whatever it is, reached. In our thousands of years of history, there has never once been a war between the Hylian nations. Occasionally, someone becomes blinded by his own thoughts, and embarks on a cause which will hurt the race. But he or she believes still that the race will be better off with his or her goals reached."

"The greater good above all else?" Roi asked sarcastically. "You sound like a bunch of ants. Don't you have any independent motives?"

"Of course. But all independent motives will be satisfied if the race is better. And that is what you must have. As a woman warrior especially. You have lost a great deal of strength. You must develop a purpose, and the skill and courage to reach that purpose. That is what will lead you to victory." Link recited a catechism. "There is no rock so hard that water can't erode it. No water so wet that trees can't absorb it. No tree so strong that an axe can't chop it down. And no axe so sharp that a rock can not dull its blade."

"I see. But then… what am I to do?"

"I will take you back to the Smash HQ. Then, you will think on a purpose. Next time we meet, I want to hear it. That is all for now." The room blurred, and he and Roi reappeared in Zelda's chambers. Link bowed and left.

"Did you learn anything from him?" Zelda asked. "I hope so. You were gone for 4 hours."

"Four hours? That's impossible! How? We were in the Temple of Life for only 40 minutes, tops. And as to what I learned… I don't know what I learned. If I learned anything, it's that a human can't reasonably expect to learn everything about Hylians even if they spend their entire lives at it." Roi gazed at a clock. It had been 4 hours.

"Then you have learned a valuable lesson already. Now, let's go get lunch. Marth and Link told me earlier that they would pay." As Roi followed Zelda to the café, she thought on what Link had told her.

Sorry about the deepness. Wrong story for it. But next training lesson, there is funniness. Now Roi is going to the Smash Café for the first time since she became a girl. And… in a couple of chapter, she will be getting a letter from an important person. Do you have anything to add, you muppet?

Yoda: Let me out of this headlock, you will.

I don't think so.

Yoda: Let me out of this headlock, you will.

Let you out of the headlock, I will.

Yoda: Bring me a cookie, you will.

Have a cookie.

Yoda: Jedi Mind powers I love.