Battling Hearts {Zelda X Ike}

The Surprise

"Please hurry..." Rosalina says as she brings Zelda into the ambulance car. The mushrooms nod and drive off with Ike and Zelda in the back.

''What happened?'' the mushroom asks, dabbing Zelda's wound with a cotton pad. She winces and closes her eyes for a moment.

"Mew accidentally cast her possession spell on Ike and..." She looks to Ike who is still unconscious. "He turned on me."
The mushroom nods and continues dabbing.

''We have arrived, please sit in the wheel chair at your left.''
Zelda moves to the wheelchair and is pushed out by the mushroom. Soon, she dazes off from exhaustion.

"Zelda...Zelda..." she hears a voice in her head. A bright light flashes in front of her, more blinding than any other light. "Zelda." Her eyes snap open.

"What's wrong!" she sits up and hits her head.

"Zelda it's me!" Ike says, holding his head, smiling like a crazy person.

"Your head is like a rock." He laughs.
She glares at him and throws her arms around his neck, squeezing him too tight to breathe.

"You idiot!" she pouts.

"I'm sorry Zelda...for hurting you and just for turning on you!" he puts his arms around her waist.
A tear trickles from Zelda's glittering blue eyes.

"You couldn't control it, I know you wanted to stop." She sobs softly.
They hug quietly for what seems like an eternity until a mushroom doctor walks in.

''You are free to leave now. Please take more precaution during future battles.'' It walks out of the room with a clipboard.

"Zelda..." Ike says, letting her go.

"What is it?"

He kneels on the ground in front of her. "Oh, Ike..." she whispers in shock as he takes a small velvet box out of his pocket.

"Zelda...will you marry me?" He opens the box revealing a mass of diamonds each carved into tiny spheres and placed strategically so one can see their own reflection in the ring. The band is made of pure gold churned with swirls of silver. Ike looks up at her, waiting for an answer.

"Ike, I-I don't know what to say." Zelda covers her mouth with her hand. He slowly reaches to hold her other hand when the mushroom doctor appears again.

''LEAVE'' It shoos Ike and Zelda away with its stout hand. They stand and start walking outside. *Is she not ready?* Ike thinks to himself. He looks down at the ring and closes the box. As he walks, Zelda lags behind, thinking... ~What should I do...It was so sudden.~ Suddenly she feels something tap her hand. She turns and sees Mew holding a piece of paper.

"Mew, what are you doing here?" she kneels. Mew thrusts the paper to her and runs away. Zelda knits her eyebrow and stands to read the paper:

Princess Zelda,
I came to visit you but when I got to your room, I saw Lord Ike proposing so I watched. Forgive me... but I think you should accept. Lord Ike is very kind and humble. I see that he cares for you very much. This is only what I think though.

Zelda stares at the paper for a moment. Her eyes start stinging and tears stream down her cheeks once again. She crumples the paper in her hand and runs down the hall to find Ike. She sees him outside, looking up at the night sky, solemnly. She bursts out the doors and attacks him with a hug.

"Yes, I will!" she squeezes him.

"Zelda," Startled, he watches her sob into his shirt, but he smiles and holds her as if she'll disappear if he didn't...