Hello all.
C'tan lord here. With this being my first attempt on fanfiction, criticisms are very welcome. Please read and rate.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story, but may add in characters of my own. Doubtful, as I would prefer to stick mainly to the normal Brawl characters.
Story will be centered around lucario at the Smash Mansion. The strange happenings foreshadowed by the title won't really come to pass till later in the story. By the way, does anyone happen to know stuff about the mansion? Like, is it a specific layout? Everyone seems to have conflicting stories, so I wasn't so sure. One last thing, Lucario will only speak aloud if using the Pokémon language. When talking with others, his voice will be telepathic, and will be italicized, so it will "look like this."
Lucario slowly raised one paw from the ground, moving slowly and deliberately. Balancing on one paw was a common meditative stance for him, though he didn't often do it on the side of the large pool in the backyard as he was today. The exercise helped to build strength, but also his focus. Trying to balance on one paw when focusing on using aura vision to detect what's around him wasn't easy, but his efforts paid off in battle.
He slowly lowered his foot, then raised the other. After holding that stance for a while, he leaned forward after allowing his foot to drop lazily to the ground, then slowly rose up on his forepaws. As he reached the peak of his assent, he shifted his weight to his right arm before carefully extending his left arm to the side. His arm shook slightly back and forth, trembling under his weight. He growled in annoyance at his own apparent weakness, and was secretly glad no one was in the pool to see him.
He had almost finished that stage of the exercise when a soccer ball hurtled out of nowhere and slammed painfully into his side. His focus momentarily lost, his arm buckled and he fell into the pool with a loud splash. As he surfaced, he saw Toon Link running over. "Hi Luc!" the boy said breathlessly. "I didn't know you were swimming." Lucario rolled his eyes. Only Toon Link wouldn't have noticed the splash. "Have you seen a soccer ball? Ness, Lucas and I were playing and, oh, there it is!" the boy said brightly. "Thanks!" He called, running off to rejoin his game, leaving Lucario to clamber out of the pool.
Lucario glanced at his right arm. It looked natural, but it throbbed painfully near his shoulder after he collapsed on it. Wincing as he stood up, as his side hurt where the ball hit it, he made his way to the mansion to find a towel.
Upon reaching the mansion, he raised his arm to grasp the door handle. With a cry of pain, he dropped his arm back down, then raised his left hand to the door and pushed it open. He entered gingerly, cradling his right arm with his left, hoping he wouldn't get water everywhere. "Poyo" came a voice from the side. He glanced over to see Kirby sitting on a stool. Kirby rose to his feet, and then started to pantomime something, but Lucario wasn't sure what. With Kirby having such short arms, it was often hard to tell. "what are you trying to say?" Lucario's telepathic voice drifted to Kirby's mind. Using his aura to read Kirby's mind, he quickly understood that the pink ball was asking why he was wet and holding his arm. "it's nothing, I… I fell in the pool, is all" Kirby nodded, then proceeded to curiously watch the sapphire-furred Pokémon as he walked across the room, towards the open doorway on the other side.
"Ahh!" The involuntary cry left Lucario's mouth as he awoke. He was lying on his bed, his fur covered body sweat slicked. His arm throbbed at least twice as painfully as it had before, and, looking down, he saw that the arm had swelled much larger than it should be. And it hurt. A lot. Perhaps he should talk to Dr. Mario, though he didn't have much faith in him. How could a plumber put on a stethoscope and become a professional doctor? Didn't make much sense to him, but perhaps it could happen. Maybe. Regardless, he couldn't get Mario up now, as, glancing out the window, he estimated it was about one in the night. A quick aura scan reveled that only Gannondorf was still up, but that was fairly regular. He was always reading some tome on dark magic, or practicing warlock punches, or something. Once he even woke half the mansion accidently dropping a potion, which exploded, engulfing much of the surrounding area in a thick black smoke with evil looking tendrils of purple streaked through it. Everyone who were exposed to it were instantly coated in sores and blisters, which were cured the next day by another potion that Zelda forced Gannondorf to procure.
Lucario closed, his eyes, and tried to sleep, but the throbbing of his arm made that impossible. He lay in bed for what felt like hours, but still sleep refused to come.
"You look awful, Luc." Lucario was seated at a small table with Fox, Falco and Wolf. He enjoyed their company the most, seeing as they were all similar to him. Well, not really. They weren't Pokémon, but at least they were furred and had tails. "What happened?" continued Fox.
Lucario sighed. "Injured my arm and couldn't sleep" he stated, allowing the thought to drift to the other pilots, not just Fox. "I was thinking about seeing Dr. Mario… Mentioning him, have you seen him? I haven't even been able to detect his aura." Falco, shook his head, indicating he had no idea. The other pilots imitated Falco's movement.
"That is odd" stated Wolf, his voice slightly guttural. "Your right, I haven't seen Mario at all since breakfast yesterday. Maybe you should seek out Samus. She is quite good at healing, probably studied it under that Chozo race or whatever they were called"
Lucario nodded, then rose to his feet to search for Samus. Wondering aimlessly around, he eventually found her with Pikachu. The two had become, unsurprisingly, good friends during the Subspace incident, where Pikachu saved Samus' life and vice versa. Lucario was slightly glad to see Pikachu, he could actually speak to him, not just telepathically. "Hey Lucario" said Samus. She was currently wearing her power suit, but her helmet lay off to one side. "How's it going?" Lucario blinked. Samus always spoke to him more formally, so this was new. Ignoring it, He proceeded to tell her about his arm. Samus didn't even have to look. "Torn muscle" She said flatly. "That won't make your match against Gannondorf today easy"
"What? I have a match? Today? How could I forget that?" Lucario sprinted away, wincing as he ran. He slid to a stop in front of a large board. The board listed all the challenges that day. Link had a multi-man brawl, his younger self had a boss battle challenge, and after those, Lucario had a 1v1 3 stock brawl with Gannondorf. Lucario Considered backing out, but he hated doing that, even though his right arm was painful beyond use, and he almost couldn't even run from the jolting his arm recieved.
A sudden thudding noise from behind him caused him to spin around, to see Gannondorf striding towards him. The King of Evil glanced at the board, nodded at Lucario, and then strode away, probably to find his book. Lucario gingerly ran back to Samus. "Your right. I do have a match today. Any possible way to fix my arm?" Lucario waited patiently while she thought of an answer. "Unfortunately, no. There is nothing you can do to fix that except wait it out, sorry." Lucario thanked her for her help, then left the room, searching for something to take his mind off his arm.
"Gerrrraahhhhh!"
The scream ripped it's self from Gannondorf's throat as he executed a powerful Warlock Punch, slamming Lucario painfully in the chest, and sending him flying from the stage. Lucario couldn't stop his momentum in time, and fell from the stage. With a flash of light, he was suddenly back, but now above the stage, floating on the recovery platform. He lingered there a moment to clear the bright spots from his eyes, then jumped back down to continue the fight.
He wasn't doing so well. Gannondorf still had three lives, and he was on his last. Gannondorf was frowning at him, slightly disappointed that the brawl was ending so fast, but he had expected it, after seeing Lucario's arm. Lucario slowly moved forward, then tried kicking his opponent. Gannondorf, displaying surprising agility, jumped over the blow before smashing both of his feet into Lucario's head in a downwards kick. When he landed, he leap forward, one foot extended, coated heavily in dark energy of some kind. Lucario sidestepped, wincing as he did so, then began charging an Aura Sphere.
Gannondorf landed, then turned around to see Lucario holding a very large sphere of pure energy. If that touched him, it would hurt. He saw Lucario's hands move forward, so he rolled on the ground, the Aura Sphere cackling viciously as it passed above him. As he straightened up, he smashed an elbow backwards, catching Lucario in the face and ending the brawl as lucario fell off the screen – again.
