Love We Keep

A Marth x Zelda Fan Fiction

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Legend Of Zelda, Fire Emblem, or any other Nintendo Series

Chapter 2

Marth and Ike entered the lunch hall filled with smashers who just finished watching the brawl. They usually picked the table furthest away from everyone but someone may occasionally sit next to them, usually asking one of them a favor. Marth preferred it this way but Ike was just itching to talk to other people, but decided it would be best to stay with his comrade. Ike sighed as Marth slowly began take a bite of his salad.

"So, any plans for today?" Ike curiously asked Marth.

"Nothing really, same old.." Marth responded with boredom in his voice.

"Cheer up, at least you have a brawl today." Ike said.

"I do? When did this happen?" Marth said with sudden alert in his eyes.

"They announced it today, right before noon." Ike said wondering why Marth didn't know.

"Finally something to break the boredom." Marth said as he cracked his neck.

"That's the spirit" Ike said as he patted his friend on the back and went to talk go talk to Captain Falcon about his victory.

Marth tried ask when it was before Ike turned his back and engaged in a conversation. He got up from his seat and headed towards the training room. The swordsman figured he can use a warm up for the brawl whenever it may be. Marth stared at the sandbag as he took several slashes in a offensive stance. He then changed to a technical stance as he made several stabs in different areas of the sandbag, followed by a more elegant series of blows from every side of the sandbag. Ike always told him it looked like he was dancing alone when he did his elegant slashes but Marth didn't mind since they were extremely effective. The prince flipped the sandbag up and did a flurry of slashes in mid air before spiking it back down on the ground. Little did he know that the Princess of Hyrule was watching from the outside of the room, watching at how he can change the way he fights so suddenly. It intrigued her that he can do swift, quick slashes "Dancing" around the opponent then follow it up by brutal strikes and a finishing spike.

Zelda emerged from the door and stood right next to the panting Marth.

"Hello" whispered Zelda.

Marth jumped at the sound and fell backwards, surprised. Immediately sensing that she was royalty, he bowed down before her.

"Greetings princess, I am Prince Marth, of Altea."

Zelda giggled to herself and said

"It's okay Marth, you don't have to be so formal with me. I'm Princess Zelda of Hyrule. You can just call me Zelda though"

"How may I be of service to you ....Zelda?" Marth stuttered trying not to use the title.

Zelda laughed again and responded.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to train together before our brawl."

Marth stood there confused. "We are brawling... today?"

"Yeah, didn't you hear the announcement this morning?" Zelda asked.

Marth cursed the fact that the announcements are always in the morning.

"Heh, guess I must have forgotten" Marth said feeling slightly more casual with the princess.

"Cmon, lets start!" Zelda said as she took a few steps back and got into a stance.

Marth just stared at her awkwardly. Was he really supposed to fight a royal princess? Zelda started rushing towards Marth with her hands glowing.

"Don't worry Marth, while we are in this room, we can't actually get hurt, remember?" Zelda said as she readied up her magic

Marth knew that, but it still didn't feel right to strike a princess. Getting passed his morals, he dodged an incoming Din's Fire. He figured there was no other way to please the Hylian and readied his blade.

"That's more like it!" Zelda taunted.

He took several steps towards the princess as he readied his blade in a offensive stance. Zelda, seeing what was coming, used Nayru's Love to throw him off guard. He stumbled a few steps back a bit and was followed by a magical blow to the chest. He was sent a few feet back,and then readied his stance again. Zelda tried to approach Marth in a hesitant manner so she can learn his moves for the match a few hours from now. Marth lowered his body closer to the ground and made a quick sprint. Zelda not expecting such hasty movement tried to counter it with Din's fire again. Marth slid behind her and whispered "Gotcha" into her ears. Marth froze, holding his blade close to her back. They both stood for around 5 seconds before Marth put his Falchion back into his sheath.

"Good practice Marth, it was fun. Especially that last part, I didn't see it coming." Zelda said to Marth Breathing Heavily.

"Yeah, it was fun. Your magic really packs a punch." Marth said rubbing his stomach.

"You wanna go relax in the lounge before our match? I could use a break." Marth asked Zelda.

"Sure, I'd love to, Prince Marth" Zelda said teasingly.

"Then allow me to escort you, Princess Zelda" Marth said with the royal tone in his voice.

Together, they walked down the hall and exchanged casual everyday questions just trying to get to know each other. They took a seat on the same couch as Zelda sat closely to Marth. Marth tried to look away to hide the fact that his face was blushing like crazy. Zelda seemed to notice it too and blushed slightly herself. They propped their feet up on the table and relaxed awaiting their match to come.

How was that? I tried spending a bit more time on this one since the first one was kind of short. Hopefully this one improved on detail and the characters. This is still my first day writing fan fiction so please tell me any improvements I can use to help the story. Thanks ^^; Please Rate and Review as well, your comments are always appreciated :3

Told you I was going to have it done by tonight xD (11:55 PM)