This idea just came to me after reading a ton of 'modern zellinks'. At least I'm getting my braces off today! So please just read and review.

Disclaimer: don't own Zelda, Macy's, iPod's, Arby's, Mountain Dew, or McDonald's.

Rated T for some language, some suggestive themes, and violence.

That Year

Chapter 1

The First Day

"Wake up, big brother!"

"Just 3 more minutes, Aryll." With that, I turned back over in my sleeping bag, my dirty blonde hair pooling up into a mess below my head.

"But you'll be late for school, Link! Or do you now just not care anymore?" She silently walks up to me and lodges her foot in my side.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" my blue eyes opened instantly from the attack. "Don't do that. You may remind me of that one night." Flashbacks of the night they were mugged in their sleep stamped through my head, and her's also.

"You need to get up! Dark has been irritating me for 15 minutes to just wake you up."

"Bastard." I slowly pull myself from under my bag I was sleeping in. Around me was the alleyway behind Macy's and The Palace, the biggest shopping center in Hyrule. Mr. Abgabe owned it after Mr. Harkinian sold it to him, and almost every other shopping, eating or entertainment facility in the country. Macy's was an American company that had been doing poorly in this country. Dark silently walked up to us.

"Hey, bro! Are we gonna wear some of those shoplifted clothes?" In his hands were $125 jeans we had grabbed from the big clothing store in The Palace the other day. We probably had snatched up to $10,000 worth of clothing from that particular store. Even with the tightening of their security, they'd never catch us. I went over and grabbed a blue t-shirt and a pair of jeans from Dark. I threw them on (Aryll turned away, giggling), and then grabbed some person's dead cell phone and a dead iPod.

I threw my backpack onto my back and left the alley, squinting at the light momentarily before turning towards Hyrule Market High School, directly placed in the center of the city's business district. The area was notorious for pickpockets and prostitutes. At the call of my name, I spun to see Dark was sprinting after me.

"Hey bro, wait up!" I couldn't help but laugh as my twin raced to catch up with him.

"Why? I find this funnier. Will Aryll be home right after school?" I had been trying to figure out what she'd been up to for the past couple of weeks.

"Naw. She said she'd be at her friend's house, Midna." Dark finally slowed down to a walking pace. "Apparently, our little sister as made friends with the younger daughter of Mr. Harkinian, the 'owner' of The Palace."

"The senator? Why didn't I know?" Ok. Secrets were just outlawed in this family.

"Dunno. Maybe she'd be scared of what you would think. Or what she found once."

"What did she find?"

"Our family's old heirloom, the Master Sword." That bastard.

"Ok. Well, let's stop by Arby's before we get to school." I quickened my pace so we could get to Arby's and school without being late.

"Why do we never go to McDonald's?" Dark asked himself as he sped up to pursue me.

5 minutes later we reached school with a roast beef and a 42 oz. Mountain Dew each.

"Come on, let's go find Kafei and Shiek. Those morons should be doing something stupid." We turned left from the main foyer and ran into our 'genius' friends, messing around with some freshmen. The two turned to see us heading their way.

"So how are our favorite hobos doing?" Dark quickly mouths 'not this' to me and rolls his eyes. "Steal anything for 'Uncle Shiek'?" Dark gave him a quick shake off the head and the bird. After a couple minutes of discussing our classes, the bell rang, causing many of the younger students to sulk off to their first class of the day. "See ya guys some time later." With that, the two took off for their classes. Dark left for the basement, while I journeyed to the second floor for English. I slid in through the door and rolled my eyes at the 'sight'.

A/N: Hopefully some of you readers are decent people and will review my story. And about the fast food joints, they are both within a 5-block radius of my high school.

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