A/N: Someone asked why they were still afraid of the Kankers. They grew seven years older physically, not mentally. Also, sorry for not updating anything. Been deprived of inspiration.

The group waited inside the shop while Lee went to find the others, leaving the Eds, mostly Ed and Edd, to be stared at lovingly by May and Marie. Both Eds were now hiding behind a not-so-little Eddy, who was glaring at both girls while Link and Navi just watched in confusion.

"They don't look like the Eds described them." Link whispered to Navi, who was resting on Link's shoulder.

"You mean about being icky, mushy, yucky, or scary?" Navi whispered back.

"All." Link answered before looking back at the group, watching as May and Marie seemed to be a little closer towards the Eds. "They look rather nice."

"You do know we can hear you, right?" Marie said while shifting her visible eye towards Link, making the man cough and look away. "Thanks for the compliment, but I've already got a boyfriend." she finished while looking back at Edd, who continued to shake in fear. All of them jumped when the door was quickly opened, with Lee leading two others inside.

"Well, here they are." said Lee as she moved aside so that the Eds could see the new arrivals. One man, and one woman. The woman was thin with blonde hair, bright red lips, and blue eyes. Her hair was short and kept under a red bandana, a simple white dress reaching down to her ankles. The man had red hair that stuck out from under a familiar red hat. He wore a green shirt and long blue overalls with a large pocket in front, which was where he was resting his hands, a white bandage on his right forearm. The two of them looked at the Eds in shock before the woman began to tear up.

"No way..." the woman said in a quiet voice. "It really is them!"

"Been wondering where you dorks were hiding." said the man with a smirk.

"Nazz?!" Edd gaped in shock.

"Shovel Chin?!" Eddy asked with wide eyes before Nazz ran up to the three and hugged them, causing a blush to cross Edd's and Eddy's faces.

"I can't believe it! You three are alive!" she squeeled in joy, tears now running down her face. Link and Navi just watched from the sidelines as Nazz cried before she and Kevin began bombarding them with questions of 'Where this?' and 'How that?' and so on.

"Alright, alright! Stop crowding them!" barked Lee as she split both sides apart. "We'll get some answers, right?" she finished while looking at the Eds and Link.

"Right." said all four men.

"Hey, wait a minute. Who's the guy in the dress?" Kevin asked.

"It's. A. Tunic!" Link growled before taking a deep breath to calm down. "My name is Link. And this is Navi." he finished as Navi fluttered before him.

"Is that a fairy?" Kevin asked in confusion.

"Move it along already!" Marie snapped before pointing to everyone. "Link, Ed, Dreamboat, Eddy, Navi, May, Lee, Kevin, Nazz, and Marie!" she finished, her finger landing on herself. "Now we're all introduced!"

"Well, yes." Edd said before giving off a weak cough and regaining himself. "Is this everyone?"

"Everyone that's still here after seven years." Lee answered. "Now start talkin'. Where have you guys been?"

"Saving Hyrule!" Ed answered with a grin. Nazz raised an eyebrow while Kevin chuckled.

"You dorks are gonna save Hyrule? Yeah right!" he laughed.

"But, how exactly did you guys get to Hyrule in the first place?" Nazz asked the million rupee question.

"Well," Edd began. "It all started with a hunt for a giant owl."

-Skip-

"And then we met with the Great Deku Tree!" Ed yelled dramatically with his arms held up to emphasize the height of the tree.

"He was a rather large tree." Edd nodded.

"So what happened next?" May asked.

-Skip-

"And then Lumpy here grabbed us all under his pits and jumped for the web, dragging us all deeper into the Great Deku Tree." Eddy groaned.

"If not for the water at the bottom, we'd probably have died on impact." Link added.

"Did you ever find what the Great Deku Tree asked you to do?" Lee asked.

-Skip-

"I love spiders, but even I have a limit when it comes to one as large as Gohma!" Edd explained.

"That thing was nasty! Crawling around in the dark!" Eddy added.

"And shooting out little babies to fight!" Ed finished.

"How'd you beat it?" Marie asked, now starting to get interest in the story.

"Ed yanked her off the wall when she tried to run away, leaving her open for Link here to finish her off!" said Eddy while patting Link's back.

"Sadly, the damage was done." Edd added with a sad voice.

"The Great Deku Tree...didn't survive." Navi finished, her wings sagging. The others all looked on in pity as they finished saying how the Great Deku Tree gave them the Kokiri's Emerald before passing on, leaving them to continue on their journey.

"That's so sad!" May sniffled as she wiped a tear from her eyes.

"Totally." Nazz added, tears pricking her eyes.

"You're getting emotional over a tree?" Kevin asked.

"HE WAS THE GREAT DEKU TREE, YOU BIG CHINNED BONEHEAD!" Navi yelled while flying right in Kevin's face.

"Easy Navi." Link said, hoping to calm her down before they continued.

-Skip-

"After traversing Hyrule Field, we finally made it to the Bazaar." said Edd.

"There were lots of people and shops there!" Ed laughed. "Like the Happy Mask Shop!"

"Which reminds me," Link interrupted before pulling out the Skull Mask. "We never did find anyone to buy this."

"I wonder if that gentleman is still waiting for his money." Edd mumbled to himself.

"Keep going!" Lee barked. "What happened next?"

"Well, we went to meet Princess Zelda, but we hit a few snags along the way." Edd continued.

-Skip-

"So you guys met Princess Zelda? What was she like?" Kevin asked.

"Yeah. What was she like?" Lee asked with a narrowed eye at the Eds.

"She is the Princess of Destiny!" Ed proclaimed with a smile.

"What Ed is trying to say is that she was nice, well-mannered, and knew of the dangers that Ganondorf would one day bring." Edd explained.

"Don't we know it?" Marie said as she stared at the ground. "He's a monster."

"You sound like you've met him." Link said.

"Later." Lee said with a raised hand. "So after meeting Zelda, what happened next?"

-Skip again-

"So there we were, facing an active volcano that rained fiery death all around us! But was I scared? Nope! I single-handedly got us through molten lava, angry dinosaurs, and-"

"As fascinating as your version is Eddy, why not tell them what really transpired?" Edd asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Rrr. Fine!" Eddy groaned.

"Tell them how we became brothers with Darunia!" Ed yelled excitedly.

"That doesn't happen 'til near the end of our adventure up on Death Mountain." Navi told him.

"As we were saying, our next stop was deep within the heart of Death Mountain." Edd continued.

-Skip once more-

"That place was a maze full of exploding beasts!" Eddy exclaimed while Ed began to snarl and make noises in an attempt to mimic the beasts. "Could stab any of them without them blowing up in your face."

"I concur. They were amazing creatures, despite how deadly they are." Edd added.

"Those Lizalfos weren't nice either. Trying to stab and slash at us!" said Ed.

"How'd you get through?" Nazz asked.

"I ran through a lot of walls!" Ed told them, earning a chuckle from the other group.

"When don't you run through walls?" Eddy asked.

-Skip to my lou-

"And then King Dodongo released his breath, spewing a massive fireball right at us!" Link explained, having decided to speak up.

"And yet, here you four still are." said the owner of the store, who had come in after eating his lunch.

"Thanks to the Shield you sold us." Edd smiled.

"And the one we found inside Dodongo's Cavern." Navi added.

"But that didn't stop the dinosaur from trying to run us over!" Ed added before curling up into a ball and began rolling on the floor. "It nearly flattened us like pancakes! Yum."

"What happened next? What happened next?!" May asked while hopping in place.

"Let's just say that it doesn't like the taste of explosives." Link told them with a smirk. "Didn't finish it off though."

"And then it launched another fireball at us." Edd continued.

-Skip-

The Kankers were laughing after they were told how Ed forced King Dodongo's mouth shut, causing the next fireball to exit out of it's ass.

"I bet that hurt!" Lee laughed.

"The tears it cried proved correct." Edd said before they explained that Link's quick thinking with the bombs caused King Dodongo to be blown off his rolling path and into the pool of lava, which ended the massive creature's life.

"And then we were warped outside somehow." said Eddy.

"Yeah! Darunia then invited us to a feast to celebrate!" Ed yelled with a grin.

"And that was when Darunia proclaimed the four of us his sworn brothers and gave to us the Goron's Ruby." Edd finished.

"Do you believe any of this?" Kevin whispered to Nazz.

"A little. Real or not, it's an awesome story." she answered.

"Whatever." Kevin chuckled before looking at the Eds. "So what happened next dorks?"

-Skip-

"So not only were you trying to get these Spirit stone things, you're also looking around for Great Fairies and Golden spiders?" Lee summed up.

"Precisely. That family can't break it's curse unless we destroy them all." Edd explained.

"And the Great Fairies give us magic powers!" Ed grinned.

"I bet when they see me like this, they'll-"

"Don't you DARE continue!" Navi snapped, seeing the wicked grin on his face and having a good idea to what he was thinking.

"Really Eddy. How can you think of vulgar thoughts when the rest of the world is in danger?" Edd asked.

"Besides, why go for a fairy when you got me right in front of ya?" Lee asked with a grin as posed for Eddy, causing the scamming Ed to blush before turning away with a huff, causing Lee to snicker.

"What powers did you get?" Nazz asked, hoping to change the subject.

"Ed can fly!" Ed laughed as he began waving his arms, causing a strong gust of wind to blow everything in the shop around him. The others all began to yell at him to stop when the various weapons nearly made swish cheese out of them while Ed floated in place.

"You're cleaning this up!" barked the owner as he pointed his meaty finger at Ed and his group.

-One clean up later-

"As we were saying, the Great Fairies have been bestowing powers upon us." Edd told them.

"Yeah! Eddy here can make fireballs!" Ed grinned, which was mimicked by Eddy as he held a moderate sized ball of flame in his hand. Some of them group stared in awe as Eddy made two more appear and began juggling all three fireballs.

"Is that it? Juggling?" Kevin asked in disinterest, causing Eddy to growl and burst into flames.

"Eddy! Calm down before you burn the shop down!" Edd yelled. Eddy slowly calmed down until the flames went out.

"How did you two do that anyway?" Link asked. "Not that long ago, you two didn't have much control of your powers."

"It may be due to their new physical statures that they now have better control." Edd hypothesized.

"Do you have a power like that Oven Mitt?" Marie asked Edd.

"I'm afraid not." Edd answered while backing away, seeing Marie inch closer to him.

"So what happened next?" May asked.

-Skip-

"So after we found the glass bottle holding the letter, we immediately told King Zora about what had happened to his daughter." Edd explained.

"Oh yeah...her." Eddy groaned.

"What? Not your type?" Kevin laughed.

"She's like Sarah with gills." Eddy replied. "I hated her! I still hate her!"

"She wouldn't have been that rude if you didn't keep insulting her." Navi said.

"So, how'd you get her out of the whale?" Lee asked.

"We got eaten!" Ed told them, earning a round of confused stares from the others.

-Skiprope-

"So she broke her ankle and forced you to carry her?" Marie asked carefully, her visible eye narrowing at Edd.

"Techinally, she only sprained her ankle. And yes, she asked me to carry her." he explained.

"And she nagged at us!" Eddy growled.

"She nagged at you since you two were at each others throats." Navi corrected.

"And then, while looking for what was once lost for Princess Ruto, we met a lot of creepy belly monsters and floating bubble wrap!" Ed explained, his mind twisting up the adventure a little.

"What'd he say?" Nazz asked.

"He's a little correct." said Edd. "Still, we did venture on before finding our next weapon."

"A rangadang!" Ed yelled.

"A boomerang, you idiot!" Eddy snapped.

"What good is a boomerang gonna do in a fight?" Marie asked.

-Skip-

"So these tentacle things were taken out by Double D here with a boomerang?" Lee asked.

"All but the last." Edd corrected. "I was knocked silly before Ed ripped it from the ceiling and began to thrash it on the ground."

"Big Ed could thrash anything he wants!" May grinned.

"So, did you guys get her the stone?" Kevin asked.

"We ran into a few more monsters on the way, but yes." Edd explained before groaning. "And I rather we not run into them ever again."

"Why?" Marie asked.

-Skip a beat-

"YOU WERE BEING EATEN BY AN OCTOPUS?!" Lee roared with laughter, along with practically everyone in the room.

"It was not a pleasant experience whatsoever!" Edd snapped in anger, his skin crawling at the thought of being covered in drool all over again.

"Just be glad Ed killed it so you could get your hat back." Eddy snickered.

"So...so...what happened to the princess?" May asked after calming down from her laughing fit.

-Skip to next chapter (kidding)-

"So after you saved her and Lord Jabu-Jabu, she said she'd give the Zora's Sapphire to you if Double D married her?" Nazz asked as Marie choked Edd, who was being pulled away by his friends while the other two Kankers tried to pry their jealous sister from his throat.

"That's basically it." Navi explained while Kevin rolled on the floor in laughter at the situation. "She promised her mother to only give it to her husband, which will be Double D since she proposed. Though they didn't realize it until I blurted it out to them."

"Aww. That's so sweet." Nazz smiled. Who could blame Ruto? Edd was a nice guy to everyone. "But, wasn't she a little young to be getting married?"

"Yeah, but I think she's old enough now." Navi replied as Marie got loud with her insults and threats to both Edd and Ruto.

-Skip-

"So you noticed smoke coming from over the castle wall while heading back to see Zelda?" Marie asked, her temper in check.

"...that's correct..." Edd wheezed through his sore throat.

"We tried to get inside, but the drawbridge was up." Navi continued.

"Then it lowered for Zelda and Impa to escape from Ganondorf." Link added, a dark look on his face at the reminder of Ganondorf.

"He hit us with a spell and scattered us like bugs! And he wasn't nice!" said Ed.

"I remember that day." said the owner of the shop. They all looked to him as he sighed. "The town was set ablaze. The citizens were either dead or injured, and madness reigned."

"That's horrible!" Nazz gasped, her hands covering her mouth in shock.

"So...what'd you do when you got in?" Kevin finally asked, not wanting to think about dead bodies.

-Skip-

"And after we were sent back to the Temple of Time, we met Shiek." Link explained. "He told us that we could get proper gear from Kakariko Village and sent us here. And that's where our story is right now." All of them looked to the four as they thought of all that they said.

"So now you have to travel to five temples, kill evil monsters, and gather sages?" Lee asked.

"That's correct." Edd answered. "And with their help, we can banish all the evil and restore the peace to Hyrule."

"Sounds like you have a lot on your plates." said Lee.

"Now it's your turn." said Navi as she floated towards the others. "How did all of you end up here?" The others all looked at each other again, their eyes holding worry, fear, and pain.

"It...begins after we tried finding you guys." Nazz began, a solemn look in her eyes.

A/N: To be continued. Sorry, but my brain hurts.