• An Old Friend. A New Love?
    Marth and Zelda walked into the town that surrounded the palace silently. While in the shadows of the walls around the town lurked an unknown figure. The figure stepped out and quickly grabbed Zelda and ran off.

    "Princess!" Marth exclaimed as he ran off towards the two. The person turned around and fired a plasma bomb at Marth that came from the Plasma gun in his arm then hurled back around dragging Zelda along.

    "Who are you? What do you want?" Zelda asked frantically. The person just turned their head to face Zelda then turned their head back around and then turned into an ally with Marth behind them. Zelda finally saw the person clearly now whoever it is was wearing an orange power suit with a green eye hole to see out of but no one could see into it and a dark green Plasma gun on his arm. Zelda and the unknown person come to a halt at the end of the ally, the person was looking around fanatically trying to find a way to escape besides going back out the way they came in.

    Marth came to a part in the village where the paths split into three different ways.

    "Which way did they go?" he asked himself aloud as he looked at all the paths.

    "Prince Marth!" shouted a familiar voice from behind him. Marth turned around to see Mizuki, Ike, and Roy running towards to him. When they got close enough to him Mizuki asked him.

    "Where's Princess Zelda?" Marth looked away from them and back to the paths.

    "Down one of these paths." Marth replied.

    "Well these path's all lead to the same place and its a dead end." said Mizuki as she began to run down one of the paths, Marth, Ike, andRoy fallowed her. They began to catch up with her, then they began to pass her. Roy ran up behind Mizuki and picked her up.

    "Wouldn't want you to fall behind." he said as Marth, Roy, and Ike began to speed up. Mizuki wrapped her arms around him and blushed slightly.

    "Oh ya Marth you might want this back." Ike said as he handed his sword back to Marth. Marth took it and tied it around his waist.

    A few minutes passed and Marth, Ike, Roy caring Mizuki found Zelda and the person. The stranger still held onto Zelda's wrist tightly. Zelda was trying to get away from him and she turned around and saw Marth and the other running towards them and she smiled and stopped struggling. The stranger felt her stop struggling and he turned around to see that Marth, Ike, Roy, and Mizuki coming towards them. The stranger got in front of Zelda and pointed his plasma gun at them ready to fire when they were close enough. Marth saw the stranger ready to fire another plasma bomb at him.

    "Be ready to doge any thing who ever that is has a powerful weapon on his arm." Marth warned the others as they got closer to them.

    The stranger fired a plasma bomb at them they jumped out of the way and then Ike started to run towards Zelda and the stranger. He unsheathed his sword and swung it at the stranger but the stranger dodged it dragging Zelda with him. Marth attacked the stranger from behind but he also missed the stranger turned around and punched Marth and then kicked Ike. Roy put Mizuki down and unsheathed his sword and charged at the stranger along with Marth who charged from behind but Marth missed and Roy was still in the middle of his swing when he cut Marth on the arm slightly but neither one them noticed it. Zelda was still being drug on the ground behind the stranger. Ike tried again but missed barely and Marth saw that the stranger had lost his balance. So Marth charged at the stranger while he was off balance and landed a direct hit on the back of his helmet and forced the stranger to release Zelda from his grasp. When Zelda was released she got up and hit him with a light bomb right in the front of his helmet and knocked the helmet off and the stranger unconscious and into the wall behind him. When they got close enough to see the stranger's face they realized that the the stranger was not a man but a women. They grabbed the helmet and put it back on her and Ike slung her over his shoulder and he carried the person who tried to capture Zelda back to the palace and he placed her in the dungeon cell closest to the entrance where Ike sat waiting for her to awake.

    Mizuki and Roy were in the kitchen getting tea for everyone. Marth and Zelda were sitting at the front of the palace in silence. Zelda looked over at Marth and saw blood dripping down his hand.

    "Marth your bleeding." she said as she grabbed his hand and began to pull up his sleeve slowly and carefully so she wouldn't hurt him. Marth jumped slightly when she said that, Marth looked at his arm that she was talking about.

    "What do you know I am bleeding." he said as he laughed slightly at himself for not noticing it . Zelda reached the wound she was thankful that it wasn't deep.

    "Come with me we'll go to the infirmary and put some ointment and wrap it up." Zelda said as as she stood up pulling him up with her.

    "I'm fine, Princess, I mean look its not that deep." he said as he flung his wounded arm in the air and winced at the pain it caused him.

    "What ever hit you tore some of the muscle so it should hurt flinging it around like that." she said as she grabbed his hand and lead him to the infirmary. When they got there Zelda released Marth's hand and had him sit in one of the chairs as she walked over to one of the cupboards and reached for the bandages on the top shelf but couldn't reach. Marth got up from where he was sitting and walked over to Zelda and reached up and grabbed the bandages and ointment for her and handed them to her. "Thank you." Zelda said as she blushed. She had Marth sit back down in the chair and she put the ointment on the cloth then she began to wrap it around Marth's arm.

    "What are you trying to do burn my arm off or something!" Marth exclaimed as he pulled his arm away from her.

    "Marth I wouldn't try to hurt you now give me your arm." Zelda said as she reached for his arm but Marth pulled it further out of her reach.

    "No." said Marth.

    "Come on Marth stop acting like a baby." Zelda said as she tried to get his arm again but he pulled it of her reach again. Zelda kept on reaching for Marth's arm but Marth kept on pulling it out of her reach.

    They were standing up now Zelda jumping for Marth's arm but trying not to hit his wound at the same time but she couldn't reach.

    "Marth stop being so stub-" Zelda said as she tripped and fell on Marth and they both fell on the floor with a dull thud."Hey Prince Marth, Princess Zelda you in here the tea's do-" said Roy as he walked in on Marth and Zelda. Zelda was laying on top of Marth their faces were inches from each others. A devilish look sprang onto his face.

    "Did you find them Roy?" Mizuki asked from the hallway.

    "Ya I found them." he replied with a devilish look on his face. Zelda jumped off Marth she was blushing hard now Marth jolted up he was blushing slightly now, "Marth I knew you liked Princess Zelda but I didn't know this much." Roy said as he looked from Marth to Zelda then back to Marth.

    "Shut up Roy." Marth said as he closed his eyes and looked away from him and towards Zelda. Marth opened one eye slightly but just enough to see Zelda.

    "I-I-I-I-It's not what you think Roy! really!" Zelda said then she looked at Marth out of the corner of her eye.

    "Really cause it sure looked like some thing happened." Roy taunted them mainly Marth though. Marth shot a look at Roy and Roy saw it but still taunted them. Mizuki walked to the room and handed Marth and Zelda their tea then looked at Roy as if asking him what happened. Then Mizuki and Roy left Zelda and Marth in the infirmary alone with their tea. Zelda sat there drinking her tea not looking or saying a word to Marth. Marth sat there drinking his tea also but he kept his eyes on Zelda the whole time and she felt his eyes on her.

    Ike was in the dungeon still watching the female waiting for her to wake up. Roy and Mizuki came down there to give Ike his tea.

    "So is she awake yet Ike?" Roy asked him as he handed him his tea. Ike shock his head.

    "She's still out." Ike replied as he took the tea from him.

    "Maybe I should go and check and see if she was wounded badly." Mizuki said as she walked over to the cell door and opened it, she walked over to her and checked over her but saw no wounds. As Mizuki began to walk back out the girl began to wake up, she groaned and opened her eyes slowly and began to look around. Mizuki just got out of the cell when she heard her, Mizuki turned and looked at her. Roy pulled Mizuki back and closed the door so Mizuki wouldn't get attacked. Ike walked over to the door, "What's your name?" he asked her. The female looked up at him,

    "Aran, Samus Aran and yours?" she said to him as she glared at him.

    "Kuran. Ike Kuran." he said, "What is your business here?" Ike asked Samus. Samus didn't reply she looked over at where Roy and Mizuki were. Ike looked over at them.

    "Roy, Mizuki head on up stairs I'll be up in a little bit." he said to them then looked back at Samus. Roy and Mizuki headed back up slowly just in case Ike would need some help. When they where out the door.

    "My business was to come see Princess Zelda, she's a childhood friend and I haven't seen her in years." Samus said to him.

    "Alright then if your a childhood friend then why did you attack us?" Ike asked her.

    "Well Hyrulians and Alteas didn't ge along while I lived here but I guess times have changed." she replied to Ike, "Any more questions?" Samus asked him. Ike shook his head no.

    "May I see Zelda then?" Samus asked him. Ike thought about it for a while then said.

    "Not untill you remove all your weapons." Samus looked at him, "If it gets me to see Zelda fine." she said as she began to take her power suit off and put it in a bag then she put all her weapons in the bag she put her power suit in then handed it to Ike. Ike took the bag then he opened the door and began to walk up the stairs.

    Zelda finished her tea and then she looked at Marth's wound hoping it wasn't infected. Marth saw that she was looking at his wound.

    "Here." he sighed as he held out his arm for Zelda to bandage.

    "I can't go home with a damaged arm without some one thinking a Hyrulian attacked me." Zelda took his arm gently then she grabbed the cloth again and began to wrap it around the wound. Marth didn't feel the sting he wasn't even looking at his wound he was just looking at Zelda. Zelda got done wrapping his arm up and she got up, grabbed the ointment and bandages, and put them back in the cupboard. Marth stood up and walked over to a window and examined Zelda's handy work on his wound then recalled their accident from a few minutes ago and he blushed slightly from Zelda being ontop of him. Zelda walked over to Marth and said.

    "Are they too tight? I can loosen them for you if you'd like." Zelda asked him as she examined the bandages . Marth looked at her.

    "Its fine Princess really." he said with a smile.

    "Why do you always call me Princess?" Zelda asked him with a laugh and looked up at him.

    "Well you are the Princess of Hyrule. Does it bother you?" Marth said back to her still smiling.

    "No not really. I just wish someone would call me Zelda or Zel instead of 'Princess' or 'Princess Zelda' or 'My Lady'." she said as she looked out the window and watched the sunset.

    "Hey Marth do you thing we'll find Impa?" she asked as tears came to her eyes but did not fall.

    "I'm sure we'll find her Zelda." Marth said as he looked out the window with Zelda. Zelda looked up at Marth when he called her Zelda and smiled at him then she embrased him in a hug when he told her that they would find Impa. Marth was caught off guard for a moment but then he hugged her back. Zelda blushed slightly then released him from her hug.

    "Sorry I don't know what came over me." she said as she looked up at him then out at the sunset then back to Marth.

    "It's fine Zel really." Marth said as he smiled at her. "You know some thing Zelda." Marth said as he leaned against the wall next to the window and closed one eye and in the other looking at Zelda still smiling.

    "What?" Zelda replied curiously to him she was also smiling still.

    "Everyone in my hometown told me that I would never accomplish or gain anything by coming here to Hyrule because Link, this guy that works in our palace, told us that he had met you before. He told us that you were stubborn and selfish." Marth told her. When Marth said Link the smile on Zelda's face faded and one of her eyes twitched then in a worried tone Zelda asked.

    "You don't believe him do you?" as she looked up at him with a worried expression.

    "I didn't believe him at all, and still don't." he said laughing slightly at Zelda's expression when he said Link, "And now that I've met you in person I can't believe he said all those things about you. But just out of curiousity, why did he say things like that about you." he asked her.

    Zelda sighed, "It's because he was caught trying to resurrect Gannondorf after we broke up. And to keep my people safe I had to banish him from Hyrule."

    Marth nodded, "So he's trying to make you look bad in Altea because he was banished for trying to resurrect the man that captured you, killed your father, and sent Hyrule into a dark age?" he asked making sure he had everything right. Zelda nodded and put her head on her hand.

    Marth and Zelda looked at each other for a moment then looked away. Marth then looked back at Zelda and grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer to him. When Zelda was closer to him Marth put his hands on both of her cheeks and he leaned in on her but then he stopped a few inches from her waiting for her to make a move. Zelda put both of her hands on his chest and closed her eyes and began to lean into him until the door to the infirmary opened and Marth and Zelda jumped apart.

    "Are we interrupting something?" Ike asked as he and Samus stood the entrance in shock. Zelda was blushing hard now and was looking at the ground and Marth was also blushing but not as hard as Zelda and he was looking out the window. Zelda walked out of the room in a hurry without saying a word to any of them. Marth watched Zelda leave then gave Ike an 'I don't like you right now' look then walked out of the room in the oppisite direction of Zelda.

    "Ya I think we came at the wrong time Ike." Samus said to him. Ike nodded in agreement then he looked at Samus.

    "You go talk to Princess Zelda and I'll go talk to Prince Marth. " Ike said as he began to walk in the direction of which Marth went and Samus went in the direction of Zelda.