A/N Hello everyone! This is quite a long chapter, so enjoy! Remember, the Link from Twilight Princess, is the same Link who attended Melee and is going to attend Brawl. Forgive me! Anyways, I have no idea why this story is rated T, becos it is actually quite immature and random….:D
Thanks to: Juni: MY FIRST REVIEWER! I was gonna do that, but then he wouldn't have experienced Twilight Princess :S But thanks so much for the suggestion :)
Disclaimer: I absolutely do not own anything here, cuz like I said I'm poor :) Yup, not Illia, not Ordon, not ANYTHING. ANNNYTHIIINGGGG.
ONWARDS!
Ordon Village
Link couldn't help but sigh sadly as he stared out the window of his tree house. Well, after defeating the Twilight and saving all of the kingdom of Hyrule, Link was sure he had had enough adventure in his life to last an eternity, but after a few weeks back at Ordon Village his mind had changed dramatically. The usually exuberant Hero of Time was now just a farmhand once more; even though he did occasionally go back to Castle Town to visit the Princess.
It was at times like this that Link thought to his past, though he regretted it grandly. Nintendo had made it clear that the competitors were never to think of each other again, try to make contact, or even attempt to remember each other's names. After the announcement had gone out that the competitors were to leave Melee immediately, Marth had practically leaped at the men clad in suits, and it had taken the full force of Link, Captain Falcon and Roy to subdue him. Link grinned at the memory. Marth. Captain Falcon. Roy. The names came to his tongue easily, even after the years they had spent apart.
Suddenly... "Link! What are you smiling about?" With a yelp that sounded an awful lot like Pit's earlier mishap, Link dropped from the window and lay in a heap by someone's feet.
Rubbing his head, Link quickly got up and groaned. Why did I build the tree house so high? Well it's not exactly that high, but still. That hurt. Curse you tree house. Yes, Link, the Hero of Time had just cursed an inanimate object.
"Link? Are you ok?" came the voice again, and he looked to see a girl about his age smiling at him. "M'fine...Hey Illia." He responded, mirroring her smile. "Daddy wants to see you." The girl, Illia, said grabbing Link's hand and pulling him forward. Link blushed a deep shade of red, and stared at their hands. Nope, Link was definitely not a lady's man. Back at Melee, the boys had noticed his reluctance to merely hold Zelda's hand during a tournament, and that had resulted in a week's worth of teasing and a crash course on women, by His Highness of Altea, Prince Marth Lowell. Now that didn't exactly turn out too well, as Marth had looked embarrassingly like a girl back then, and Link found it extremely hard to concentrate when his supposedly male teacher looked scarily like a woman. Link let out a chuckle as he was dragged across a bridge and towards the Mayor's house. Illia pouted, and turned around.
"Liink! Why won't you tell me what's so funny?" she demanded, frowning at the boys' unknown pleasure. Link wiped the grin from his face and looked innocently at her.
"It's nothing, I promise. I was just thinking about the past, that's all. So, what did your father want to see me about?" Link asked, hoping to divert her attention. It seemed to work, as Illia soon beamed and shoved him into her house. "I don't know, but I think it's about you and me! You know marri-" Links eyes widened as he shut the door before she could finish the sentence. Sure, Illia was a great friend and an amazing person when it came to the welfare of animals, but when she started talking about Link and herself, well let's just say things become a teensy bit awkward for yours truly. Sighing and running a hand over his face, Link turned to face the moustachioed face of the Mayor.
"Link, my boy! I have great news for you!" the Mayor started to say only to be caught off guard as Link paled and looked like he was about to faint. "Son! Are you alright? Link?"
"..No...Marriage...Farore help me..." Link managed to choke out before he made a running leap towards the door. Suddenly he was pulled back, by strength too grand for the humble Mayor of Ordon.
"Master Hand!" Link yelled, as he turned so quick he got whiplash. Indeed, the giant white hand, or glove as Pit liked to call it, was floating in the middle of the Mayor's quite cramped living room. "I see you remember me, Link, Hero of Hyrule" Master Hand responded, chuckling darkly. Link took a few cautious steps away from it.
"What are you doing here?" Link asked suspiciously after he established a safe distance between himself and the Hand.
"I, Master Hand, unbeatable boss of-"
"I've heard all this before Hand." Link stated rolling his eyes and taking a seat beside the grinning Mayor. With a huff (if giant floating hands could huff) Master Hand continued.
"As I was saying, I Master Hand, am here to inform you that you, Link of Hyrule, have been selected to rejoin the Super Smash Bros franchise in our new tournament Brawl."
"What?! You mean I can see everyone again? Marth, Roy, the Pokémon? Everyone?" Link practically shouted with glee. "Nintendo told you to forget about them..." Master Hand said suspiciously, while Link chuckled nervously and pulled at the hem of his tunic.
"And, Mr. Master Hand here is donating some strange technology called "television" to every home in Ordon so we can see you fight! Isn't that great?" the Mayor exclaimed, practically bouncing with glee. A dreamy look came over Link's eyes as he recalled the term "television". Television was a very beautiful invention, you see that the Melee competitors enjoyed playing with during the first few days they arrived at the Melee Arena. Fox, Falco and the more modern competitors had known what it was, but the more medieval competitors had no idea what the strange contraption had been. That resulted in a very angry Roy bashing it with his sword within the first week of Melee. But that's another story that Link didn't really want to relive at the moment...
Instead, Link gave a great whoop of happiness and proceeded to run out of the cottage, only to be half choked to death by Master Hand again, as he stopped him.
"Will you stop that?" Link muttered, rubbing his throat, but Master Hand quickly shushed him. "But, before you leave you must travel to Castle Town, or whatever you people call that place, and inform Princess Zelda that she is also one of the contestants. Then only will you be able to teleport to our new arena." With that, Master Hand gave a quick spin and a deep evil laugh and disappeared, leaving the Mayor and Link staring at its previous place. With a shrug the Mayor got up and proceeded toward the door.
"Well Link, I believe you must travel to Castle Town! Have a good journey!" and with that, Link was ushered outside, while the Mayor quickly shut the door and gave a huge bellow that sounded almost like "TELEVISION!"
Smiling like a fool, Link ran towards the tree house to gather his things and his horse, Epona, before he left to Castle Town. But, of course Illia had to interrupt his beeline towards the house by screaming, "LINK! ARE WE GETTING MARRIED?" in a voice that was clearly not meant for sunset.
"Um. No?" Link said, trying to find a way to brush Illia off, without seeming like a complete arse. "You don't seem too upset. What's going on?" Illia asked, crossing her arms and blocking any way of Link's escape. With an over exaggerated sigh, Link began to explain.
"Well, you see there's this tournament I've been invited to attend and now I have to go get Princess Zelda so we can go there together so bye!" Link stated in one breath before considering taking a jumping leap over Illia's head if she didn't move soon. "Princess Zelda? Tournament? What, Link I don't-" Illia started to say, but Link, being the impatient person he was, took his chances on the running leap and with a quick "Bye!" he leapt over Illia's heads and ran into his tree house. As quick as a flash Link grabbed all his precious things, including the Master Sword, the shield of Hyrule, and of course his signature green tunic. Stuffing everything quite unceremoniously into a duffel bag, Link ran outside, and hopped onto Epona.
"Let's go girl! We've been cooped up here for way too long!" And with a quick whoop and a wave to everyone who was watching him leave, including a very annoyed looking Illia, Link rode off into the sunset. And yes. It did look extremely cheesy.
Hyrule Fields: Half way to Castle Town
Link laughed loudly as he urged Epona to go faster. Back to the arena. He was going back! The grass whipped around near Epona's hooves, as they practically flew through Hyrule Fields, past Lon Lon Ranch, past the random animals that littered the green fields. Really, Hyrule had some weird animals and Link noticed them all as he flew through Hyrule Fields. He was so preoccupied at staring at a particularly weird animal that was running in pace with them, that he didn't notice that someone else had taken a seat on Epona as well.
"Hello Link." A voice whispered in his ear, causing Link to scream again. "Really Link? Two girly screams in one day"? Link scolded himself, before grabbing the hilt of his sword, preparing for the worst. But, instead of a blood thirsty animal or a roar of a beast, he heard laughter. Light, bubbly laughter that he recognized almost immediately. Turning around, Link was faced with bright red eyes. The rest of the mystery person's face was masked, and a singular golden braid could be seen protruding from the back of the masked person's face.
"So I see Sheik got a makeover." Link said, smirking and stopping Epona. "You're correct. Nice scream by the way, very manly." The masked person, Sheik, said, giggles still protruding from her masked mouth. Link glared at her, as Sheik closed her eyes and was replaced by none other than the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda. She smiled at Link, as she hopped off of Epona.
"So, what are you doing out here, Princess?" Link asked, tying Epona up by a nearby post. "What, when I'm Sheik you don't use mannerism, but now that I'm Zelda again I'm suddenly royalty?" Zelda scoffed, smoothing out her long dress. Link smiled sheepishly as Zelda proceeded to answer his question. "I've been here waiting for you! I know about the contest. Triforce of Wisdom remember?" Zelda said, waving her Triforced hand near Link's face. "Yea, yea I get it." Link said smiling at her completely un-Princess like gesture. "Aren't you excited though? Being able to see everyone again?"
"Of course!" Zelda said with a tinkling laugh. "You also seemed very excited when you leaped over some innocent girl's head." Zelda added with a wink. "She wasn't that innocent..." Link muttered before facing Zelda once again.
"So, are we leaving?" Link asked hopefully, his eyes shining brightly like a kid before Christmas. "But first, can you teleport Epona back to Ordon for me?" Link approached Epona, ruffled her mane, and whispered goodbye to her smiling softly. With a wave of Zelda's hands, Epona disappeared.
"Let's go?" Zelda asked, holding out her hand for Link to take. Eyes widening, Link grabbed his duffel bag, and hesitantly took Zelda's outstretched hand.
Stupid Marth and his stupid crash course...
And then they disappeared.
A/N And Zelda/Sheik has appeared! I thought of doing them separately cause I ship Ike and Sheik together, but I guess Ike will just have to be forever alone...IM SORRY IKE! So, tell me you guys' favorite ships! I'll try to include them into the story if I can :) Review if you please!