I was getting ready for a ten stock battle at Hyrule Temple with my partner, Roy, against Pikachu and Pichu. They look pretty harmless, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. Roy and I are new to this Super Smash Brothers' Melee thing, although, we're still pretty strong and we already knew our way around the place.
"Marth! Come on! We don't want to be late!" Roy called from outside our dormitory. "If we're late, we might be disqualified!" He knocked on the door impatiently.
"I'm coming!" I yelled back.
"Well, you better hurry up! Our battle starts in five minutes!" I can hear his footsteps fading as he walked down the hallway.
'I guess this is it.' I put on my cape. My tiara was always on my head no matter what I did. When I first met Roy, he thought it would be fun to superglue it onto my head. Now I can't get it off and I don't want to cut my hair, although it is getting pretty long. Oh well. I ran out the door to a teleportation pad that Master Hand taught all of the smashers about. We had to press on a button of the picture where we wanted to teleport to. I pressed the button of the Hyrule Temple picture and stepped on the pad. 'Luckily, nothing is at stake here.'
Hyrule Temple"Finally! I thought you weren't going to make it in time!" Roy scolded me.
"Do you think I would turn down a battle?" I questioned him. He shook his head.
"Of course you wouldn't turn down a battle! You wouldn't want me to fight all by my self anyway! Would you?"
"Maybe..." I grinned when he stared at me. "Well, our battle is about to start. I suppose we get ready." I went into my battle stance and he did the same. The announcer soon started to countdown.
"3... 2... 1... GO!" Roy and I waited until Pikachu and Pichu charged at us. Once they got close enough, we used our smash attacks, making them fly a short distance away. I decided to attack in midair while Roy wanted to wait until Pichu came back for an attack.
I just kept on attacking Pikachu without letting him have a chance to attack. We both landed on the ground safely at the right end of the temple while Pichu and Roy were on the other side. Pikachu charged at me again without me noticing, looking to see how Roy was doing, until I felt myself once again in air with a little bit of pain in my legs. Now, Pikachu had an advantage over me with his electrical attack.
He used thunder when I was above him which burned a little of my skin which wasn't covered in armor and I winced. He continued this and I had already damaged up in the seventies. Roy had already killed Pichu once by getting him close to the edge and using his powerful Flare Blade at half power. I felt my body paining more and more.
I knew I was going to die soon so I threw my bodyweight to one side to get away from the thunder attacks Pikachu had placed on me. I landed on my feet but quickly fell to one knee in pain. Roy was racing towards us as he finished Pichu off with a smash attack. He only had forty-nine damage while I had one hundred and twenty-three.
Pikachu had only seventy-five damage. Pikachu saw Roy coming so he tried to kill me with his smash attack since I was at the very edge. He was able to manage it as Roy charged and swept Pikachu into the air. When Pikachu fell towards his direction, he also killed him with a smash attack.
I returned on the revival pad that Master Hand said to bring back the life of someone who died if they still had one or more lives. I rushed over to Roy who was waiting for Pikachu to be revived. "Sorry I was so lousy," I apologized to him.
"It's okay. I think you just had bad luck. Besides, not to be mean or anything..." He whispered in my ear, "Pikachu is stronger than Pichu." I nodded. I didn't want to insult Pichu, but it was true.
"Thanks." I looked just in time to see Pikachu using his thunder shock attack. "Roy, jump!" We both jumped on top of something like a rock that the thunder shock couldn't reach us on unless Pikachu jumped.
He soon ran under us and tried using his thunder again. "Look out!" I cried as we split up to dodge the thunder attack. We both charged at Pikachu from both sides and swung our swords at him, making him hurl into the air right in front of both of us. We both made an attempt to smash attack him and did, but Roy's Sword of Seals was stronger than my Falchion, making Pikachu fly over me and right to the edge.
We both grinned at each other as we stood next to Pikachu and did our smash attacks at the same time, which killed him by going to far off into the edge. "Game!" We were instantly teleported onto the teleportation pads at base. I felt like passing out when we got there, but I just fell on my hand and knees in exhaustion.
"Marth, are you okay!?" Roy rushed to my side immediately. "Do you need any help!?"
"Ah... I'm fine Roy. I'll be all right." I tried standing up but my legs were too wobbly and I fell back down.
"No, you need help." He helped me put an arm around his neck for support and helped me stand up. I was able to lean on him so I wouldn't fall again. We slowly walked to our room.
Other smashers congratulated us for winning and except for Link who offered to help me get to Roy's and my room. He was part of the smashers from the very start and a swordsman. "Marth. I saw that you had a very shocking experience with Pikachu." He grinned.
Roy and I laughed at the joke. "Well, I guess I had." He helped my other arm around his neck to give me more support. "Thanks, you two."
"No problem!" Link exclaimed. I winced. His face was right near my ear so his voice was loud and it gave me a headache. "Sorry about that," he apologized when he noticed me wince.
"It's okay. It's not your fault." We made it to our destination. They gently sat me on my bed across from Roy's.
"Marth, it's good for you to rest now so you better do it!" Roy commanded.
"Roy is right," Link agreed. "You should get your rest.
"Don't you think that's what I'm going to do?" I asked.
"Uh... of course but... um..." Roy was lost for words. Link sweat dropped and I chuckled.
"Well, if you two don't mind, I think I'll be getting some sleep... now..." I quickly passed out on my bed and they left me there to sleep.