Link walked into his history class and saw that there was a new seating chart. Link looked at the chart to see where he sat when he saw the name of the student sitting next to him. It was the object of his affection, the student council president, the councilman's daughter, Zelda. Link kept an outward composure, while inside his heart was doing back flips on his stomach. He took his seat and sat there. He really wasn't friends with anyone in the class, so he kept to himself, only looking at the board when need be and looking in his book the rest of the time. The bell rang and the teacher walked in. He was a large man, with tan skin and light tan hair. He had a large build with a tattoo of what looked like a dinosaur footprint on his shoulder. He looked old so, it was understandable that he was the history teacher, but if he heard you say that you'd have detention faster than you can say the word.
"Class, as you can tell, we have a new seating chart, which means one more thing, time for a new project. Now, for partners. . ." the teacher went on. Link was more concerned with the girl sitting next to him. she was beautiful with that long golden hair flowing down her back. ". . . Marth and Ralis,-"
"Thanks Professor Darunia!" the boys answered in unison.
"I'm gonna regret putting them together. And finally Link and Zelda." Link's head shot up from his desk to look at the teacher. "Now for what your projects will be on. . ." Prof. Darunia continued on once again. Link sat there with a static face, while his mind was in a state of total happiness.
"I get to work with...Zelda? This is wonderful! I get to spend time with her without anyone freaking about it!" Link thought. He looked up to hear the teachers last words.
"Marth and Ralis, you shall work on the history of the ancient kingdom of Altea, And Link and Zelda, you two shall do your report on the history of the ancient kingdom of Hyrule. Now, as a token to you all for the last test scores, you will have the entire period to work on the report, that is once we gather our things and head to the library." Prof. Darunia walked to the door with his briefcase and motioned for the class to follow. Link gathered his things and followed. He once again wasn't paying attention and bumped into the same girl he bumped into at the beginning of the day. "Oh, I'm so sorry. I can't believe I did that again, and to the same person no less! I'm terribly sorry!" Link picked up the girls books and handed them to her. Zelda let out a small giggle.
"Its alright. I think the way your babbling is kinda cute." she let out another giggle, "At least your kind enough to pick up my books for me when we bump into each other. Thank you." she smiled at him.
"She thinks I'm babbling, but she thinks its cute, so that's a start in the right direction!" Link shouted in his head. They began to make their way to the library,Link was looking around the hall, when he saw a boy in a tight, blue, long-sleeved shirt and dark blue jeans. He had blond hair that covered one of his crimson eyes. He also wore a white scarf that covered the bottom half of his face. His eye met Link's and Link felt a slight chill. The boy then turned away from Link and he saw a long ponytail. Link looked away and continued. "Who the hell was that? And what was with his outfit, its spring and hes in long-sleeves? Weird." Link said, holding open the door for Zelda, and following her in.
"Link, I'm going to see if there are any books on Hyrule, and you can write down anything you already know, okay?" Zelda asked, looking at the boy. Link nodded. Zelda smiled and walked off. Link took out a notebook. Really the only thing he knew about Hyrule is that one of its kings was King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, and that most, if not all the princesses were named Zelda. "Zelda? Wait? Could that mean...?"Link thought. Zelda returned with a large reference book.
"Well, the librarian said this was the best book they had on the subject." she placed the book on the table in front of Link.
"Quite a large book." Link said, looking the book over.
"Its all there, Hyrule's history and culture. I hope we can get through it all." Zelda said, opening the book. "Why don't you get a computer and see if you can find anything online."
"Sure, I'll do that." Link smiled at her, she returned it. He walked off in the direction of the computers. He was almost there when someone grabbed him and pulled him into the aisle of books. When Link got a look at his captor, he saw it was the same guy from the hall earlier. Link pulled his arm free. "You again, what the hell do you want?"
"Nothing more than a simple talk. So your my sister's new partner?" the blond asked Link.
"Sister? Zelda's your sister? Didn't know."
"Well now you do. My name is Sheik. I-"
"Sheik? As in third best student at this school?" Link asked.
"Yes THAT Sheik. Now, as I was saying. I am her older brother, which means I'll do anything to protect her. So if you make her sad in any way, you and I will have a problem. I'm still skeptical of her boyfriend, so you better behave. Understood?" by now Sheik had Link pinned to the bookcase. Link nodded. "Good. Now I have to get back to class, I'll be in enough trouble as is. Just remember, I'm watching you." Sheik released Link and walked past Zelda, waving to her along the way, and vanished behind the library's doors.
"Creepy freak. Why would I hurt her? I've barely spoken to her. And I still don't understand his get-up. Long sleeves and a scarf in spring, what is up with that, seriously?!"Link returned to his course to the computer when he was once again interrupted by someone, and this person he didn't particularily care for.
"Hello Link. I see you've been partnered with my girl."
"Get out of the way Marth, I'm not in the mood. Her brother is annoying enough." Link tried to push Marth out of the way, but he didn't budge.
"You mean Sheik? He can be a bit of an annoyance can't he. Anyway, like I was saying, you try anything funny and-"
"We'll have a problem? Listen I don't have time for you, I need to get to a computer." Link pushed past the other boy and made it to a computer, when a familiar hand smacked next to him. "What now Marth?"
"I won't start anything right now, but come the track meet today, you'll be in trouble. I'll prove to you I'm the better one."
"Two problems Marthy-boy. One, I've always been faster than you, and two, I'm not going to be at the track meet, I have to work today." Link continued his search for anything to help with his project.
"Then you just spared yourself major embarrassment." Marth gave a small snicker, and walked back to his silver haired friend, Ralis.
"Damn that guy is annoying. Now these little run-ins have put me back at least ten minutes. annoying little bastards. First off, I'm not gonna upset her, at least I hope I won't. And Marth, Marth's just unbearably annoying." Link thought as he continued the search. He was sure anything online could be found in the books, but he looked it up anyway. He found a site dedicated to Hyrule history. He didn't really read it, but he printed it out for the report all the same. He returned to th table Zelda was at and placed the small stack of papers on the table. "That's everything I could find. I'm sure it's all in the book, but just being sure." Link sat back down and looked at the papers then at the book Zelda was reading. That's pretty much how the rest of the period went, Link would read parts of the pages, and then secretively look at Zelda. He was looking at the blond beauty when the bell rang, time for lunch. Link was walking down the hall when a familiar head of flaming hair walked next to him.
"So how was History?" Roy asked.
"You knew we were getting project partners and you didn't tell me because?" Link asked looking down at the boy.
"I don't know." Roy said, shrugging. Roy and Link got in line and bought lunch and looked for their silver haired friend. She was at their normal spot, sitting at the table closest to the door
"Hey guys." Ruto greeted. Roy was about to sit when Ruto stopped him. "Not there!" Roy looked at her. "We have someone else sitting there." Ruto made a motion with her head, signaling behind him. Roy turned to see the same girl from earlier, Elice. Roy just stared and blushed.
"Way to keep cool Roy." Link pulled Roy out of Elice's way. Elice smiled. "Roy? Rooooyyyyy? Wake up!!" Link smacked the back of Roy's head.
"Huh?! Wha-?!" was Roy's muttered response. "Sorry, spaced out."
"No kidding." Ruto ate some lettuce from her salad. "Anyway, Elice, are you still coming with us tonight?" Ruto asked, turning to the girl. Elice looked at her with a noodle hanging out of her mouth. Elice slurped the noodle and nodded. "So, Link, what time is the band getting there?" Link stared at her.
"Ruto, I can't let anyone in before the band finishes sound check, its against the rules. Besides, I don't even know when they're getting there." Link drank some water. He wiped the drop from the corner of his mouth. Ruto had begun to babble at him, when he saw someone looking at him from an open area not far away; it was Sheik. Sheik motioned his head, signaling Link to come over. Link stood up and asked "Will you excuse me?" before walking off in the direction of the senior. "So what's up?" Link asked when he met up with the boy.
"What? A friend can't ask another friend to come sit with him?" Sheik said non-chalantly, making his way through a small group of people.
"Well I guess not, if they were friends." Link squeezed in between two people.
"You're saying we aren't friends?"
"No, just, we just met, so, its just kinda odd. And the way we met was really weird too." Sheik sat down at a table and he told Link to sit next to him. Link oblidged.
"Link, you already know my sisiter, Zelda, and her,...boyfriend," he said the last word like it was a sin to do so, "Marth. And this is one of my friends, Ike." Link followed Sheik's arm to a man who looked at least a couple years older than them. Sheik must have known what he was thinking because the next thing heard was, "It's okay, he's 18, he just looks threatening." Link looked at Ike again, and Ike smiled. Link returned it. Zelda looked at Link.
"Hello again, you just keep popping up everywhere don't you?" Zelda also smiled at him. Link once again returned it. Marth glared at Link, then he took Zelda's chin between his thumb and forfinger.
"Oh Zelda." Marth pulled her face closer and kissed her lips gently, then pulled away from a blushing Zelda. Link's fists clenched beneath the table. "You're so cute when you blush." he kissed her again. Link was ready to snap. He needed to leave.
"Excuse me, I think Ruto needs to bug me for some homework. Nice meeting you all." Link stood and left. He started feeling angrier and angrier. To do that to her in public, to publically make her feel awkward, that was just rude. Link's fists clenched tighter, turning his knuckles white. He sat back down intruding on a conversation.
"So its settled, Roy will be your date to the Twilight Cafe." Ruto said closing her eyes and smirking. Roy glared at Ruto.
"Ruto you little fish bitch what are you doing?" Roy mumbled to Ruto, making sure no one heard.
"Apparently being your guts dumbshit, and don't call me a fish bitch." Ruto went to step on Roy's foot, when she missed and slammed on Link's
"OWWW! What the hell Ruto?!" Link shouted.
"Sorry! I was aiming for Roy!" Ruto quickly answered and quickly picked up her tray and left.
"Fish bitch." Link mumbled to himself, massaging his sore foot. Roy began to speak to Elice.
"So, what class do ou have next Elice?" Roy rubbed the back of his head nervously, and blushed.
"Um,..." Elice looked at her schedule, "English, with Ambi, why?" Roy looked happy.
"'Cause we all have her too, yay!" Roy threw his arms around Elice. Roy quickly recoiled and blushed, remembering who it was he was hugging. He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. Elice's cheeks turned a slight pink; apparently, only Link noticed. "Well, I guess we should get going then." Roy picked up his tray. He went to pick up Elise's when he stopped, "May I?" he asked as politely as he could. She nodded, and her tray was wisked away along with Link's.
Link looked at the clock, "Damn, 12:30 already? I need to get a better sense of time." Link thought. He quickly grabbed his bottle of water off his tray before Roy made off with it. Link offered to show Elice to class.
"What about Roy? Shouldn't we wait?" Elice asked, looking in the general direction he went.
"He knows where to go, besides, he needs some time to relax." Link laughed a little to himself. Elice looked puzzled. "Just come on." Link said with a smile. He gently pulled her hand and lead her down an odd winding hall in the school.
"Who the hell designed his place?" Elice questioned, looking at the many curving, white walls.
"A teenager obsessed with the female form." Link said, half jokingly.
"They hired a teenager to do this?!" Elice asked, surprised.
"There was a contest. The student who made the best design, was allowed to design the new wing. So, someone won, and they were allowed to design the wing, with slight changes to their original design. It was finished this summer. It was promised that the student who designed it would be allowed to have at least one class of his to be here, with up to two others. And since its completion, its become one of the most popular locations of the school. Its earned itself the nickname 'the snake" for its shape and its varying colors." Link looked at the walls and that the color had changed, what was once white, was now a pale blue. He looked ahead and saw a pale red. "So, like I said, winner got his design put into the school."
"So, whos the one who won? They must have a wonderful artistic eye." Elice said in wonder, looking at the wonderful hallway of curves and color Link sheepishly raised his hand. "You?! You didn't strike me as the artistic type. Wonderful ob." se smiled at him. The same red blur that had passed them before shot down the hall and met them.
"Hey guys!" Roy shouted, panting. "Thanks for waiting you blond prick!" Roy shouted in mock-anger. Link flicked his nose.
"Enough boy. We need to get going." Link opened the door and walked in, the other two following after. Ruto sat in hedesk, which was, for some very unknown reason, placed right noext to Link's as well as Roy's.
"Wonder how she managed to do this." Link thought. They took their seats as the bell wrangand the class began.