The Great Battle of the Hero

Ch. 2

By: Cutegirlmayra (I'm so pumped right now! Lol, I'm making so many different stories, and it's so much fun to give these ideas life and have so many people comment and discuss with me about the story! Please continue to support! For I shall not let you down! -hopefully- xp)

"Great hero…" Zelda walked up to Link, as he about faced and looked at her with a smiling face. "I'm afraid I must warn you. The dangers that await you are perilous indeed, but remember, these people need you…. I… need you." Zelda performed her part with expert delivery. Putting stress on the major lines and even looking down, even though she's a princess, and then placing her hands together and in front of her. As if she was trying to hide how she felt, she moved her hands over her mouth and looked back to the Link, "I bid thee a safe journey, may your endeavors bring prosperity and joy to this land that we both cherish.. So deeply…" she looked as if she was about to cry as she closed her eyes.

Link couldn't take it anymore, he knew he was suppose to play the hero, but Zelda's acting really nailed him in his noble heart. He quickly took her hands in his, putting his shield and sword behind him as the people still cheered in the background. She opened her eyes in surprise, and blushed. Link gave her a hopeful look in his eyes, and then nodded with a happy grin, as if telling her it was all going to be alright.

"Oh Hero…" Zelda smiled, "I shall await your return, we shall throw a great feast and festival in your honor! But please… make it back safely."

The two smiled at each other, and for a moment, they seemed lost in their fantasy….

"Link, me boy? Where the devils is that child?"

The two quickly snapped there heads toward the door of the princess's room. The whole world had disappeared in a blink of an eye, as both Link and Zelda were still holding the others hands. "…Oh..!" the two immediately let go.

"The…the story isn't done yet! You can't go!" Zelda's eyes began to tear up for real as she leaned closer toward him. Her being looked as if she was pleading for another's life to be spared…

Link looked at her with sorrow filled eyes, he didn't want to leave either, the adventure had only begun! But he knew that if his commanding Knight sees him now, he would never be allowed to guard the princess again. He looked to the door and back at her with a regretful expression, then he dashed out the door.

"…L-li…link…LINNNNK!" The princess rushed to the door, and it nearly killed Link to close it. The princess wasn't allowed out of her room at certain times during the day and night, and he literally bit back tears thinking of how awful and lonely it must be for her to endure that kind of torture. To be trapped in a small room with only her toys and imagination to amuse her… he wouldn't leave her for long. He told himself he vowed to be the perfect play mate. If it meant having to disobey orders….then so be it.

The feeling in his chest swelled, he didn't know what ancient feeling had possessed him, but he felt he had to protect and care about her. What on earth was this..? Could he be smitten by a girl he has only just met? What spell was this that had been cast on him? He was always a kind boy, but to disobey orders…

"Link! Link! Please, Link! Don't leave me here alone! It's getting dark.. And.. And.. Please.."

Link heard and felt the banging on the door, and he wanted to open it so badly. He literally had to pinch his arm not to open the locked door….!

Zelda slid down the door frame, tears straining her face. "..I've.. I've never known a knight to be so kind to me… to go against orders to make me happy… please.. If I can't see you now… will I see you tomorrow? At least then… I'll know this isn't the end… and that the kingdom can still have a champion.."

"Link! Blasted, why aren't you answering me?! Don't make me come over there…"

Before Link could even respond, his commanding Knight-sempai was rounding the corner.

Zelda, not hearing a word back from Link, rolled her self up into a ball. Nestling her eyes on her knees and hiding her face in the space between her body and legs, she looked outside her window at the darkening sky. She clenched her hands around her and pulled her arms to her, making her legs move tightly against her forehead. "…What kind of hero are you..?"

"….." Link looked behind him at the door, his heart breaking as the Knight came into view.

"Link! Why, in all of Hyrule, aren't you listening to me today? Eh? Your shifts up. You'll be back here after you rested up and done your chores. Oh! And training starts early for ya now, I almost forgot to say that. Well, move aside, it's my turn till the other recruit gets here." He gently moved Link with his hand away from the door, and stood in front of it. The feeling of abandoning his post and leaving it with another man made Link glare slightly at the ground. His eyes in shadows as he moved one foot forward, then another. Convincing himself it was right to go and leave till the next day, he walked on. Silently hoping Zelda had heard the Knight's words, that he would come back, he gave one last glance of compassion back to the door.

"…What's with that kid anyway..?" The knight wondered as Zelda kicked some wooden army men down and climbed into bed, thrusting the covers over herself and squishing her head into her pillow.

-…The next day…-

Link ran to his post, after doing all the laborious chores and training of his normal routine, and almost slammed into Zelda's door.

"My, my. Sonny, calm down. I don't think any demons are coming after the princess today, haha! But… I probably shouldn't joke about that. Just stay diligent. It's nice to see a young man taking his duty seriously.." the knight patted Link on the head as Link gave an awkward smile and nodded his head profusely. He waited till the knight was out of sight and quickly cracked the door open.

The sunlight gently caressed the room… the long, purple tinted drapes flowed in the wind, looking as if they danced as they tried to gently stroke the sleeping princess. Her toy chest was still open, the pieces remained in there spots despite a few solders out of place like something had moved them forcefully.

Link, taking a careful step in the room, surveyed the area and then looked to the rising and falling stomached of Zelda sleeping soundly in her bed.

'…I shouldn't awaken her… I should wait at my post and listen to see if she arises soon.' were his thoughts as he tried to take a step outside the door when…

"ehmm…"

Zelda rolled in her sleep, moving to where Link could see her beautiful sleeping face. In complete innocence and curiosity, Link slowly moved to the side of the bed, and studied the face of the this darling girl he had just met a day ago. She had heavenly beauty, and it looked like she was having a dream of some kind…

"…ehm.. No…The army's defenses has been breached.."

She moved in her sleep again, this time upward toward her princess canopy that dangled above the bed. Link moved a little up over her body, still curious about what she was dreaming about.

"Ehmm…"

Her eyes twitched, Link felt a need to move just slightly closer.

"…hmm..?"

Zelda slowly blinked her eyes, and looked up with little to no expression besides her recent sleepiness.

"….."

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Eh? AHH!"

Zelda screamed at seeing Link's face, and shoved him clear off the bed. He was shocked at first, not really understanding why she would attack him like that, and fell to the ground head first. His eyes rolled in pain as he weakly climbed the side of the bed and shook his head of the pain.

"W-what are you doing in here..?! Don't you know it's rude and improper to gaze at a woman who is sleeping?" she huffed and puffed after scolding Link. Her breath had been lost when she screamed, and the shock of seeing a face right when she woke up had scared her clean out of her wits. "W-well? What do you have to say for yourself?" she blushed madly, but tried to act like she was mature enough to deal with this situation. Which obviously, she wasn't very good at.

Link opened his mouth to say how sorry he was, but closed it. He wasn't good at talking in the first place, but he looked down in embarrassment. He had no idea girls didn't like to looked at while they sleep…

"…You don't talk much… do you?" Zelda asked, seeming to calm down as she moved a little closer to the front of the bed, where she had knocked him over.

"….eh-hm.." Was the only sound Link could give in resonance.

"….You know what they say about people who don't talk much..?"

Link shook his head slowly.

"…hehe, they make great listeners." she smiled, seeing no ill intent in Link's eyes. "Have you… returned to play again? But I thought-"

Link quickly placed a finger over Zelda's lips after hearing the first sentence. He shook his head again and smiled. He looked around, and saw the hero's doll and quickly ran over and retrieved it. Holding it up, he tried to convey his feelings of wanting to play again.

"….Link…" Zelda looked at him fondly and couldn't help but make an even bigger smile on her face. "Okay! Let's have the hero travel to the evil wizard's lair! The dreaded, Cloud Castle!" she pointed to a pillow with ripple like designs on it. On the pillow, stood the puppet that was the wizard, a fake pig nose on his face and his hat missing.

The rest of the time, Link followed Zelda's instructions on moving the hero over 'mountains', the bed; 'rivers', a blue ribbon; 'forests', through a pot of flowers; and finally, to where the army had gathered for the last battle against the minions of the wizard and the wizard himself.

"Alright hero, this is it. But how will you scale the sky to the evil Wizard's Cloud Castle?" Zelda was manipulating the army in attacking little figurines of trolls and such. Link nodded and looked around, there had to be something. He noticed a bird plushie and suddenly had an idea…

The battle waged long and hard, the rough demons fought proudly for there master, as the solders fought for there land and queen. The mighty hero graced the scene, holding his sword and shield, he summoned the powers of the goddess, which blessed him with a magnificent mount.

"Hero! Look out!" The princess called from far across the land, reaching her hand out to point to the darkened crimson sky.

A terrifying but beautiful phoenix rose from the sky's shifting clouds, and zoomed at great speeds toward the hero. Her wings like fire, and her talons and beak shining like the setting sun, cried out a battle call and dashed toward the Cloud Castle. However, the wizard had foreseen this blessing and summoned forth with his dark powers a dragon, which he mounted and flew off to face the hero.

"You think you can defeat me?!" the Wizard shouted in an demented voice that thundered through the skies.

"HYEH!" Link kicked his phoenix's side to make it charge, which it reeled back and like a beam of fire dashed toward the dark dragon.

"Oh!" The young princess covered her mouth, for the dragon had let a dark beam of shadow power escape from it's evil core. The phoenix roared in pain, and began to fall to the ground. "Hero!" she quickly ran up the stairs of her large tower upon the castle, and threw her arms up into the air, "Goddess! Here my cry! Give me the power to assist my hero! Give me the power to pierce the dark dragon with light!"

From the skies, a bow departed, into the hands of the young princess. She pulled back the bow and behold, an arrow of light did stream from the space in between.

She let lose the arrow, and it striked the dragon down, plummeting to the ground. The hero slowly awoken from on top the phoenix, seeing it was slowly awakening from it's straight ward fall. it shook it's head and roared in vengeance.

From the earth, the dragon burst free from the rock that had fallen with it from the mountains that crumbled with it's fall. The phoenix seemed to spread it's wing, gathering the sacred powers of light and love from the people, as they all watched with terrified but hopeful eyes to the battle a foot.

The hero raised his sword, the phoenix screeched, flowing it's body into the sword. In mid air, the sky split from where are hero stood, a pillar of light flying around his body.

"W-what?! Impossible! Snort!" The pig faced wizard beheld the millions of strikes the hero dealt, flying with golden light wings and tore through the dragon's being. It faded like paper being ripped and dispersed into the shadows that it was. The wizard marveled at the power, but before he could even plead for his life and send any a word of his final seconds, the hero stabbed his being threw.

Thus, the battle was fought and won. The kingdom rejoiced, and the hero was deemed with his just rewards.

Link sighed, placing his doll down and wiping his brow.

"Hang on!" Zelda suddenly grabbed her princess doll and set the wizard's down. "It's not over yet! Keep going for a just a bit longer!"

"Eh?!"

However, unannounced to our hero, the princess had used up all her power to pray for the goddess's aid. In return for there assistance, she had fallen into a deep sleep…

Zelda quickly jumped onto her bed and threw the covers over her, holding her doll on her and beneath her hands, she closed her eyes as if she was under a spell.

"….eh..? Eh..EH?!" Link didn't know what to do now! His princess needed him, but oh, what to do! What to do!?

He looked around, and then peeked back at Zelda for help. She didn't move. He faced palmed and pouted. Letting his hand fall down his face, he walked over to her. Remembering some fairy tales, he blushed and leaned slightly in toward her.

"Psst, Link! There's a potion on the counter." Zelda said through closed eyes. "It's made of Lillies, fairy tears, and milk." Link immediately moved away, embarrassed at his folly and glad Zelda had not seen how close he was to her face…

He looked to the counter and saw that her maid had brought her some breakfast earlier. He noticed the glass of milk and sighed in relief, 'I should of known… a potion. It was my second guess…' he teased as he thought to himself. He took the glass and gave it to her. She drank it, and suddenly opened her eyes,

"My hero..! Wait! Where's your hero?"

Link jolted in spot and then dashed to pick up his doll. He smiled and held it up.

"Oh, Link… here ya go. A hero's just rewards~"

she clinked her wooden doll against the hero's face. Link blushed and shook his head to rid it quickly of the red, not wanting Zelda to see his reaction.

"That was so much fun, Link!" Zelda got up and started dancing around, "I've never had this much fun in my life! The phoenix was a nice touch by the way. I wouldn't have been able to think of that! Hehe!" she giggled and held out her hand to him, "Come on! I said we'd have a festival If you won, and you've won!" he smiled and took her hand.

Though he was awkward at formal dances, he finally started getting the hang of it and danced around with her for the remaining hour he had left with her. Then, he had to say goodbye and close the door. They embraced, and Zelda gave him the hero's doll.

"Link… please take this, as a sign of our friendship!" she happily handed it over.

At first, Link waved his arms in front of him, shaking his head. He didn't want to take such a precious piece of her story away from her, but she insisted saying, "After all! How will you play the hero if he's not with you?" she slyly said with a cheeky grin. "Now hurry, your Sempai should be back soon!" she rushed him out the door. "Bye, Link!~" she hugged him one last time from behind, and then shut her door.

Link blushed madly, but realized how inappropriate that was and pulled his hat down to try and hide his face. However, still blushing at how he was praised for his quick thinking in the heat of battle…

"….Boy, what have you done..?"

Link pulled his hat back, and looked around. To the side of him was his Commanding Knight, looking shocked and bewildered at him.

"You… you deliberately disobeyed orders!"

Link was horrified, it was only the second day at his new post! Would he never be allowed to see Zelda again?!

"Wait! Sir! Please!" Zelda burst from her room, swinging the door open and running in front of the knight. "Please, he's my only friend!"

"I'm sorry, your highness. But your father has given us strict rules to follow, and I nor Link, can disobey those orders. I now give an order myself, that Link is stationed in garden duty! You will help the maids out in the kitchen and prune the garden! Do you hear me solider?!" the Knight walked passed Zelda, not even daring to lay a hand on her, and grabbed Link by the tuff of his shirt's shoulder. "Come on, boy! The general will hear about this!"

"Wait! It's not fair! It's not fair!" Zelda ran after them, but something suddenly appeared at lightening speeds in front of her.

"I'm sorry, princess…"

"Impa! Impa, why?! Impa!"

"I'm truly sorry.."

Impa held her back, and Zelda cried her eyes out as she tried to move herself to follow after Link. Finally, she just wept in Impa's embrace, as Impa carried her back to her room.

(Ohh~ the plots almost here! Lol xD anyway, there is more. Maybe a few more chapters. MAYBE. Anyway, hope you liked it! ^^)