Hey, what do you know? I've finally decided to update! Now go on before I change my mind. Wait, that doesn't make much sense. Eh, never mind me. Just read it.
"I'm walking on sunshine. Whoa! Oh I'm walking on sunshine," Link sang loudly and slightly of key as he rinsed the last bit of conditioner out of his hair. He closed his eyes and continued to sing, oblivious to a neighbor that was yelling at him to shut up. Only when he felt he was completely done washing himself and had turned off the shower did he heed the neighbor's wishes.
Link wrapped a towel around himself and shook his head so water shot out and drenched most of the hotel bathroom. He sighed contentedly ignoring the splatters on the mirror. It was time for the best part of the day, the thing that made him get out of bed each morning, truly a man's greatest pleasure:
EYE BROW PLUCKING!
With that done, it was time for the other thing that made him get up each morning. He reached for a hair dryer as well as three different brushes recommended by his stylist. Grinning a very excited smile, he was about to turn on the hair dryer when he was stopped by the nagging voice of a girlfriend.
"Link, you've been in the bathroom for over half an hour," Zelda yelled as she opened the door and popped her head in.
Link was surprised. "When did you get here?" he asked.
Zelda rolled her eyes. "I've been here before you took your shower. You just didn't hear me because you were singing too loudly." Then she added, "Don't you even think about drying your hair. It'll be another hour before I get to even take a shower!"
Link sighed and looked at her very seriously. "Zelda, have you ever heard of Michelangelo?"
"Uh…yeah," she answered slowly, slightly taken aback by this unusual question. "What does that have anything to do with-"
"One of his most famous is called 'The Statue of David.' The sculpture made Michelangelo the most famous artist of the time. Today people still gaze in awe at the marvelous beauty of the piece." Zelda gave a blank look suggested she wanted very much to just get to the point. Link pointed to himself and said "Michelangelo." He held up the brush and hairdryer and said "Hammer and chisel." Finally, after he set down his tools he ran his fingers through his hair and said with his eyes closed and a face lost in the glory of it all, "Statue of David."
Zelda just shut the door as Link smiled triumphantly.
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Sheik. Her name would be Sheik. It was simple and elegant. Sheik. She is Sheik.
The girl who called herself Sheik sat quietly on a park bench watching squirrels run by and occasionally attack the pigeons. She had found Sega Park a few days before, but this was her first chance to actually visit it. It was a fine park, lush with trees and grass and fountains that resembled strange hedge hogs and a few Nintendo related items along with several signs that read 'do not feed the wildlife'.
She sighed contentedly; it had been a long time since she was this relaxed. Dressed as her normal self, Zelda found it hard to visit public places without being mauled by a crowd wanting her to pose for a picture or shake hands or kiss babies, (well actually not the last part). But as Sheik, no one cared. She would never be bothered again, as long as no one found out her new identity. In her mind, Zelda gave a prayer to the Deku Tree for the wondrous gift he had given her. There was only one problem with her alter ego: she had to find somewhere to hide her normal body. And not to mention it was a very odd sensation of being Sheik and stepping into Zelda.
The serenity was interrupted as she was suddenly joined on her bench. She turned and saw a round pink ball. Zelda screamed. The ball had a face. The two large blue eyes looked at her and blinked. A smile appeared on his face and red feet popped out.
"Wh-who are you?" she asked a little frightened at the mysterious pink blob.
Suddenly, an upbeat little tune played and the ball began to sing while doing a little dance. "First you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes. Add a great big smile and presto: it's KIRBY!" Kirby landed his last flip then smiled broadly.
"Uh…would you quit smiling like that, it's really starting to creep me out," Zelda told Kirby.
Kirby didn't stop, he just said in a slightly unnerving voice, "Hiiiii."
"I'm just going to go…." She got up from the bench and slinked away quietly. She turned away and started walking at a decent pace for several meters, then stopped and looked behind her. There was that creepy little ball again still smiling at her. He waved and rocked back and forth gently. Disturbing, Zelda thought to herself
She tried to ignore him and kept running, but Kirby could roll surprisingly much faster than she could run. Also, being a round pink ball, he could jump exceptionally high which meant that after he got tired of rolling, he was able to simply jump up onto the ninja girl's shoulders. Now Zelda was getting irritated. She swatted at him and shook her shoulders. She cried out in frustration as he slipped and grabbed on the first thing he saw: a pointy elf ear slightly sticking out of Sheik's hood.
Most of the guests at Hudson Park had witnessed few peculiar incidents, and a woman wrapped in cloth with a pink blob latched onto her ear ranked pretty high. People watched (at a safe distance) as she swiveled about shouting at the ball to let go. Finally, she stopped, gave him a good karate chop and he plummeted to the ground.
Zelda looked down at Kirby with narrowed. "Anything else you want to do to embarrass me?" She crossed her arms. "And I thought being princess of Hyrule got you a lot of attention," she muttered to herself. Immediately she regretted saying that.
"A princess!" Kirby shouted with an impressed smile.
"Shut up!" Zelda hissed. "I don't want anyone to know I'm Princess Zelda!"
"Why would you not want anyone to know that you're Princess Zelda?" Kirby asked in his loud obnoxious voice. People turned now to look at her and whispered to each other if that really was Zelda.
"Will you be quiet if I give you some candy?" Zelda proposed.
Kirby, obviously intrigued by this offer, nodded with a wide grin. Zelda dug into her pocket, found a couple pieces of candy, as well as a paper clip and traces of pocket lint which she held out in her hand. Kirby snatched everything the princess held in her hand and stuffed it into his mouth, paperclip and all. "You know, eating the wrapper was neither necessary nor wise…"
Kirby's eyes glinted with a sudden new energy, and Zelda realized that feeding Kirby candy had not been the smartest thing in the world. Kirby bounced and screamed and shouted and embarrassed Zelda beyond reason. Park residents, who had gradually been closing in to see if Zelda was who the pink ball claimed she was, suddenly retreated back to their picnic blankets and benches.
"CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!" Kirby cried. "Princess Zelda!" he repeated in a sing-song voice, followed by phrases yelled so fast, it sounded like (and possibly was) gibberish.
Zelda clamped a hand over Kirby's very active pie-hole and ran with him in her arms until she was safe from anyone who might hear him. "I'm going to let go of your mouth if you promise not to say a word."
Kirby nodded.
"Do you swear?"
Kirby nodded.
"Cross you heart, hope to die?"
Kirby nodded.
"Not a peep?"
Kirby nodded.
"Promise?"
Kirby nodded.
"No joking?"
Kirby nodded. She released her hand from his mouth.
"Princess Zelda!" he shouted as he bounced around wildly.
Zelda let out a defeated sigh and smack her forehead. "You are a real pain in the ass, you know that?"
Kirby halted. "Oooooh," he said resembling a small schoolboy, "You made a swear."
"Well personally I think in the situation it was well deserved."
But Kirby didn't seem to have heard her. He looked suddenly dazed and tired. Apparently his sugar rush was over. He stumbled a few paces then collapsed onto Zelda's lap fast asleep.
"Mental note," Zelda said to herself, "don't feed the wildlife."
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It was late afternoon by the time Zelda trudged into the hotel lobby. She noticed Link had found a map and discovered which floor the lobby was on and was now yelling at an employee standing behind a podium.
"There was only one chocolate in my room, and it was white chocolate," Link informed the employee while brining a fist down on the podium. "I tried it and it was horrible!" he said flinging the box with the rest of the chocolate at the employee.
The tired man in a maroon colored uniform looked down at the box then back at Link. "Sir, this is soap. And I don't work in customer service. I'm the valet."
"I don't care if you're the Queen of England! I demand milk chocolate!" It was then that Link noticed Zelda. He greeted her and dropped the conversation he was previously having as though it didn't happen. "Where were you?" he asked Zelda.
"Err, just taking a walk in the park." She didn't mention that she had to drag Kirby back to the park then find the tree where she had hidden her normal body. "So what were you doing today?" Zelda asked trying to change the subject.
"I locked my keys in my car," he answered crossing his arms and looking away embarrassed.
"Did you get them out?"
"Yeah." He still looked sheepish.
"There's more to this then you're telling isn't there," Zelda inquired eying him incredulously.
"A little." There was a pause. "Look, it involved a panda, a hospital dress and a tricycle. That's all I'm going to say, I really don't want to get into it."
"Were you by any chance riding that tricycle?"
Another pause before Link replied, "I don't have to answer that question."
"Don't tell me. It's funnier just imagining it." She smiled then laughed. Link crossed his arms indignantly for a moment, then smiled a bit. "I guess it was sort of funny." He let out a small chuckle. Zelda raised an eyebrow. "Sort of funny?"
"Alright, it is pretty hilarious thinking about it now," Link said. He joined Zelda in her fit of laughter. When their laughter faded, they looked at each other and smiled. "Zelda…" Link began as he took her hand tenderly. "I've missed spending time with you."
Zelda looked back into his eyes, surprised at first to the caring tone in his voice. "Yeah, we have been sort of…distant lately." She let him take her other hand in his. Afternoon sunlight was filling the room through the glass doors of the lobby, and Link was bathed in its light giving his hair an extra bit of glow, though it could have been the effects of the elixir. "We could do something tonight. You know, together?"
"We could stay right here together and I would be happy." Zelda felt her cheeks flush. That was pretty much the most romantic thing Link had said to her in a long time, and she fell for every word of it. She rested her head gently against his chest and listened to the rapid beat of his heart as he wrapped his arms around her. Aw…
"Ahem." Zelda and Link jumped apart at their sudden intrusion. A lanky bellboy held a letter in each hand. He handed one to Link and the other to Zelda and they saw it was from the coliseum. "I guess we both have battles tomorrow," Zelda observed quietly. "Wonder who we're fighting."
Each opened their letter and read it silently. There was a moment's pause, and then they both looked up at each other with surprised expressions. Simultaneously, they took another look at their letters and shouted "You!"
A/N: If anyone doesn't understand the whole sheik/Zelda thing in this story (and I totally don't blame you if you don't, I never really explained it) then just tell me in a review and I'll try and clear it up. Oh, and I did get Wild World for X-mas. It rocks.