Chapter 8 -Captive Wedding

The koopa wizard saying the King had plans for him didn’t make Link feel too good about his situation. He did his best to struggle, but his strength was feeble compared to what it once was and all he achieved was causing the cage to sway more than it already was. “Mmm no hmm!” he raised his voice, still unable to make his words clear as he tried to say “I’m not her.”

“Yes, yes your highness, but I’m afraid your wishes are secondary to our own.” Kamek said having no clue what the bound royalty was saying other than she was clearly still full of fight. Waving his wand in the direction of the cage. “It is useless to struggle, now it is time to face my magic!” With that a beam of light encompassed the entire cage as it moved closer to the ledge of the bricks, the cage door swinging open with a creek of metal on metal.

Link felt himself be lifted off the ground and held vertical by an unseen **** as he floated out of the cage. A moment later the ropes that held him started to unwind and feeling the group ropes leave his skin Link not just a surge of relief but like he finally had another chance to escape. No longer did he have to play the part of the damsel in distress waiting for Mario to come save him, but soon as he moved his now cramped but free legs the only thing, he was able to achieve was flailing about in the air as the unseen **** still held him in place. “NNnnnn!” He wanted to yell out no, while the binding rope had left him the gag had remained.

“Tihhh” Kamek rolled his eyes, surprised Princess Toadstool would even bother with the struggle, they had done this dance before. A twist of his want and a small exertion of his will and the ropes wrapped about around the young woman so that they wrapped around her upper arms and wrapped her torso just below her bosom, while her hands were brought forward in front of her to be tied at the wrist, moving down to do the same around her ankles and moving up under her dress at the thighs. “Better, but you need the right look for your time with the King of the Koopas.”

‘What is wrong with my outfit!’ The thought and the annoyance he felt made Link feel a wave a shame. It wasn’t something he would ever think, but it still had come to mind. The ropes weren’t exactly comfortable, and that didn’t change at all as the dress changed in color to white, the bodice changing to an off the shoulder sweetheart neckline. He could feel the bra change along with it to have no shoulder straps, even the pantie he wore… possession being nine tenths of the making them his panties changing to a different fabric that covered even less and wedge between his ass cheeks.

Moreese the green shelled guard felt his jaw fall open as he watched the pretty, but tricky Princess’s outfit change. The pink number exchanged for a slightly sexier wedding gown, a vail hanging down from her crown and her cloth gag changing to a red ball in her mouth with a black leather strap. “Oh! Is King Bowser going to marry her?”

Link’s eyes shot open as he yelled into the ball gag, his protests even less clear than they were with the cloth gag as he looked over to his shelled warden. Shaking his head rapidly when his voice couldn’t be used to express his very adamant opinion on what was to come.

“Yes, yes, the merging of the kingdoms will bring stability and prosperity and in time we will once more have the happy sound of children about the castles. Kamek could see their captive struggle but paid her no mind as he started to walk away in the direction of the boss' doors to bring the pretty thing up to the airship that was floating above.

Link strained his arms and legs as he tried in vain to free himself, shaking and wiggling did nothing other than making his body more lethargic from what he considered a pitiful effort. Hanging limply in the air, held up by the ropes that bound him that invisible **** now just held the rope he found himself floating into the bowels of the wood airship and standing at the end of the room was the Koopa King, standing at two inches of ten feet and wearing a white suit with matching top hat.

“Muhahaha!” Bowser's body shook from his laugh. “So, we meet again Princess.” The man’s eyes roamed over the young woman’s body, it that much more enticing when she started to struggle in her binds after seeing him. “You are looking mighty fetching, such a beautiful Princess. Worry not, I will be a good husband and King to you my love.” Something seemed off about her, but Bowser thought it was just his nerves. Mario was busy and that meant no one would interrupt and no one could blame a groom for being nervous on his wedding day.

“Nnnn! Hhhp!” Link’s chest heaved as he took **** breaths, the animated rope holding him aloft as moved closer at the wizard’s will. He had seen Bowser countless times, they had fought so often that when the man raised his clawed hand it made Link flinch feeling ****, unable to do anything about the clawed attack.

Using one hand to pull Princess Peach up to almost eye level, Bowser used his other to cup her pretty chin so he could look into her eyes. Still, something wasn’t right, and with his cruelty he didn’t consider forcing her to marry him while tied up to be wrong. Still holding her like this and the look of fear and contempt in her eyes made him give his capture a toothy smile, showing his pointed teeth.

‘No, you idiot! I’m not Peach!’ Link thought, knowing there was nothing he could say at the moment as the little wizard moved up to a small dais behind them to start the farce of a wedding.

“Hmhemem” Kamek cleared his throat, feeling excited at the nuptials and the golden age the pair's union would bring. “Dearly beloved, we gather here today.” He paused, holding up his want to his mouth and starting once more, this time using his magic to amplify his voice. “We are gathered here today to rejoice as the union between the Mushroom Kingdom’s Princess Peach and the Koopa Kingdom’s King Bowser as the two confess their unending love for one another. If anyone can show just cause for why they should not be together speak now or forever hold your tongue so it isn’t removed.”

“NNNNNN!” Link screamed as loud as he could with his mouth full and muffled by the rubber ball that was jammed in, very much saying “NOOO!” with the offer to not continue this insanity.

“Heheh.” Bowser chuckled. “She is just a little excited, now Kamek let’s move on.” Annoyed that his minion even dared to ask that question. It was the kind of thing that gave fate the chance to throw a wrench… or a plumber in to mess with his schemes.

Nodding the blue robed koopa continued. “They join together to face common challenges and share their joy with one another.” Turning slightly to look at the bound bride he continued. “Princess Peach Toadstool, do you take King Bowser as your wedded husband, to to have and to hold from this day forward, to be a mother to his children, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, to love him and to obey for the rest of your lives?” As the wizard, acting as a priest, spoke into his wand, magic in different shapes floated out of his magic rod to float around the two in front of them, wanting to back up their vows with magical enforcement. Princess Peach was willful, and his master had a temper and the last thing he wanted to happen is for this union to be undone because of those traits one day in the future.

None of that sounded like something Link wanted to be a part of, so he shook his head rapidly while yelling once more into the gag. He feared that it didn’t matter, none of this was a true marriage, but that didn’t feel like it mattered either.

Forgetting himself Kamek sighed internally as he heard the muffled reply and seeing Bowser roll his hand in a move along motion. “She has to say yes for the magic to work sire.”

Bowser himself let out a sigh, unlike his minion his easy for anyone to see. “Love is magic, I get it.” The spiked shelled man said not understanding the spell that Kamek was weaving. Leaning in close he ran his clawed fingers to his bride's cheek, trying to be as gentle as he could. “We are going to be married today, all you need to do is agree my beautiful bride. Once we are done our kingdom’s will be joined and peace will spread. If you don’t agree then just think of how many of your own will perish in a war. Kingdom’s give away Princesses all the time to avoid war.”

The threat wasn’t subtle and thanks to the profile that ran through him Link could picture the faces of at least some of the Mushroom Kingdom’s residents. It worried him that he could remember people here clearer than some of the people from his own realm, but that was a worry for his future self. ‘I can’t give in! But…’ The face of his… Peach’s sister, Daisy ran through his mind and her father the King of the Mushroom Kingdom. Closing his eyes tight he ignored the inconsistency. It was like the profile inside of him was trying to overwrite his own code, it wasn’t successful at least not yet.

When the ball gag was unbuckled from his head Link immediately felt relief in his jaw and as much as he wanted to help the people of Peach’s kingdom, he was a warrior… a tied up and feminized warrior but the stupid profile couldn’t change him… Link wouldn’t let it. “I’m not going to marry you; I’m not Princess Peach you dumb lizard! I’m Link! I’m the hero of the wild, not a Princess!”

Stepping back from the bound person in front of him, Bowser removed his top hat and worked his jaw. He had felt something was off and now that they said who they were he could easily see it… mostly see it. Peach was not an elf with pointed ears, her hair was a brighter blonde. Part of him knew this was Princess Peach, but another allowed him to see through it. The elf boy normally wore a green tunic, had a sword and shield. “Link?”

“Hahaha, good try Princess, but your lies are not fooling anyone.” Kamek still couldn’t see the difference, he never had experience outside of his world and while the knowledge from Brawl always faded, Bowser had been there recent enough that he retained some of the knowledge.

“Stop Kamek!” Bowser bellowed.

The roar caused the much shorter man to stop the two spells he was maintaining, one for the wedding and one to amplify his own voice. “Sorry my King.” He said not understanding.

“Explain.” Bowser spoke in a deep tense voice in the direction of his captive.

The voice the spike shelled man spoke in was not a friendly one, but still Link found immense relief that he believed him. Speaking in a rapid fire, hardly any spaces between words has Link spoke he tried to tell the pair what happened with himself, Peach, Kirby and what Dr Mario said could help and how he ended up here and how he thought Peach was in his world.

Holding up one of his large hands to stop the elf from talking, Bowser felt a headache coming on. Never had he heard the elf speak so much or so quickly. “Kamek, does that make any sense to you?”

It absolutely made no sense to the magic wielding koopa, he had heard his King talk of going to other lands or words before. He always thought it more like going to the Star Kingdom. “Yes, of course my liege.” He said he didn't want to look like a fool. Part of his job was to be the wise adviser, a fixer of problems. So he did the best he could, waving his wand causing colored shapes to float out of his road and hover around the person that he swore was Princess Peach. What surprised him was that it looked like there was a sickness within her. A corruption that shouldn’t be harmful at all, just her profile, but it was like it was slotted into her incorrectly and the profile was trying to make it fit.

“I think I found the problem, sire.”

Bowser rolling his large eyes before glaring at his minion. “Then fix it.”

Nodding his head like he was a bobble head the master of magic in the Koopa Kingdom waved his road around and a moment later the ropes around the captive fell to the ground as their clothes vanished. Leaving behind a naked male elf and a floating pink light next to him. Leaving Kamek completely shocked at the truth. Not only was this person not Princess Peach, but they weren’t even female. “Huh…

Link paid no mind to the clothes vanishing or the ropes falling away, he was consumed with the oddest feeling. It was as if something ice cold was reaching into him to pull something out, the thing the magic grabbed was warm and welcoming, it wanted to stay with him, it’s will wanted him to be like it and Link was thrilled to have it ripped from his body. The magical ritual left the hylian fell to his knees, just barely keeping himself from collapsing fully to the floor. Breathing heavily he sat up looking at his own hand, feeling exhausted, but also so much more like himself.

Getting to his feet Link could see his muscle mass returned but also losing the height he had apparently borrowed from Peach’s profile, leaving him back to being five foot two. “My mind is clear…” foggy memories to be clearer, though not complete, leaving the pointed ear man wondering how much of the damage the profile did to him was permanent. He wanted to believe it wasn’t as the extra knowledge he had gained had also left him. “Ahhh… I’m naked.” The shock of the cool room brought Link back to the present and made him aware that he wasn’t just exhausted, it felt like he was missing a big part of himself.

Trying to will his inventory to open he found nothing there, it was as if he had less now than when he woke up in that cave after his century long slumber. “Hey ahh… magic man. Could you…” Link waved at his naked form.

Kamek glanced at his King who looked very much done with the situation. “You can be gone from the King’s presence and I highly recommend you go back to wherever it was you came from. Right now, you have no profile and that means on the realms next reset you will not just be gone from here but will no longer exist like a corrupt save.

“Not good.” Link gulped.