Author's Note: This story is going to be another LinkXRoy, but it's going to pretty nasty. It's going to have gore in it as well as major angst. Oh, and I warn you, while I cannot say out loud what will happen, some really horrible things will happen. Anyway, this is...
Roy's Descent Into Madness
Chapter 1: The First Day
It was a normal day at the Smash Mansion. Two new fighters had joined the party recently and were getting well acquainted with the residents. Lucas, a friend of Ness from Earth, and Sonic the Hedgehog from his own world of Mobius were these new fighters. Everybody was gathered at the breakfest hall... well, mostly everybody. At their usual table, the three swordsman known as Marth, Roy, and Ike were worried. A certain friend of theirs was missing, one who, at every point, be it breakfest, lunch, or dinner, would sit there with them, whether to eat or talk. Link was absent for his first day ever in the cafeteria and was missing the chance of welcoming two new people to the Brawl, as it had become known.
Silence hung around the table. Neither Marth, nor Roy, knew what to say. Ike dared not speak. The first time he saw Link and Roy, he had hated them for what they were for his own reasons, but he had seen, somewhere in the point of his stay, that his reasons were unjust, and he grew to let it go. It led to little conversations between Ike and the three, but, before birds could sing a harmoneous song known to the world as Hallelujah, Ike and the three swordsmen became friends. He was afraid he might say the wrong thing and betray that newlymade friendship. That was the last thing he wished.
But the silence did not last. Roy, with a tone of worry in his voice, being that he was so much more then Link's friend, spoke at last. "I'm going to go check up on him. I'll be right back."
With those words hanging in the air, the young red-haired prince stood up and walked out of the cafeteria. Striding down the hall, his mind began to descend into a state of worry for his beloved Hylian partner. Link meant more to him then any material goods in the world. As he made his way, he accidentally crashed into Captain Falcon, sending him to the ground. Even the cocky racer could not stay evil and it was later revealed that it was not even his fault anyway. The real reason behind Captain Falcon's evil ways before was because it was really Blood Falcon in his place. After all, Blood Falcon was merely Captain Falcon's clone. All he had had to do was carry on the cockiness until he could make it worse. When they found out the truth, Blood Falcon was exiled, but Captain Falcon still appologized, though he did none of those things. He became quick friends with the other futuristic brawlers. Samus took quite a liking to him now that she knew the real him. Fox and Falco were just glad he was not messing with Link and Roy.
"Sorry," Roy said.
"It's alright. Going to check up on Link?" Captain Falcon asked.
"How'd you know?" Roy asked.
"Well, I wanted to ask him something, so I decided to hang around outside his door. He never came out, so I just let it go and started coming down for breakfest."
Roy's worst fears were set into motion. What had plagued Link to locking himself inside his room? "Thanks for the information," Roy said to Captain Falcon, then the two continued on their way. Roy, once he was in the passageway holding the elevators, shakilly pressed the up button. Within minutes, one of the doors slid open and Roy stepped inside. He pressed the button for floor 2 and the door slid closed again. Gravity pushed on him as the elevator traveled up, but he made no motion to move with it. It pulled him back up when the elevator stopped moving and, when the door slid open once more, Roy quickly stepped out and began jogging down the hallway towards Link's room instead of the usual walk.
Reaching the room, he stared at the door. It looked so familiar to Roy, but yet it also felt unfamiliar and forbidding, a feeling that sent chills of fear down Roy's spine. It was the same brown oaken door with the same gold name plate that spelled out Link the same way it had done for years, but there was a feeling that seemed to scare Roy. Still, he knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
"Who is it?" a voice groaned from inside.
"It's me... Roy," Roy said.
There was a shuffling from inside the room. A few minutes later, the door opened, and Roy let out a silent gasp as he saw Link. The Hylian hero, usually so healthy and full of energy, now looked ill and fatigued. His eyes were watered, as if he had been crying, and his nose was running. Link tried to smile at Roy, but it was faint and Roy could've sworn it was never there at all. Then the smile was replaced with a pained expression and a yelp as the Hylian hero dropped to one knee.
"Link! What's wrong?!" Roy asked.
"Cramp... It's minor, but startling still... It's been happening ever since three in the morning," Link said.
"Three in the... Are you ok? I'll take care of you Link," Roy said.
"I'll be fine Roy, please... don't worry too much about me," Link said. His voice was gruff and hoarse, a sign of a sore throat. Roy shook his head in defiance.
"I'm not going to leave you in your time of need. Now come on... I'll help you back to bed," Roy said, then picked Link up and carried him into the room. It was a familiar sight to Roy. Painted green walls with a weapons rack, pictures of Link and some of his friends and family, as well as Roy, of course, and dressers to hold all of his clothes and accessories. The bed was king sized and laid against the backwall. The wooden frame seemed to be made from Oak, but what kind of Oak it was, Roy could not identify. He laid Link in the bed and then placed his head softly on the Hylian's forehead.
"You're hot... Very hot... In both ways of course," Roy said, getting a little chuckle out of the Hylian hero. He grabbed a thermommeter and then held it out to Link, who put it in his mouth. A few minutes later, Roy took it out and read the temperature. His face fell when he saw the results. "One-hundred fifteen degrees... Link, you're even running a fever. You're serious ill, we should see Dr. Mario."
"I'll be fine. It could possibly be the flu or something," Link said.
"Whatever it is, I doubt it's the flu. Perhaps Dr. Mario will be able to help," Roy persisted.
Link continued to resist, but eventually gave in. He found himself being carried to the infimiry, also known as Dr. Mario's room, and when they reached said infirmiry, they were not surprised to see that Dr. Mario had returned from his breakfest and was awaiting people to check up on.
"Dr. Mario, sir," Roy said and the past form of Mario looked up at Roy.
"Roy. What's-a going on?" he asked.
"I need you to look at Link. He's awfully ill," Roy said.
"Lay him in-a the bed," Dr. Mario merely said and Roy complied. He checked over Link and asked him what was wrong. With these answers, Dr. Mario walked over to the computer and began typing something in. Then he looked at Roy. "The symptoms include a fever of one-hundred fifteen degrees, a sore throat, wattery eyes, running nose, and minor cramps that appear randomly in every part of the body... I've never seen something like this before, but I think Link will be ok. With a few days rest, he should survive," Dr. Mario said.
"Thank you, sir," Roy said, then walked out of the infirmiry. His mind was at ease and he was ready to go back to his friends in high spirits, thinking that Link would be ok.
At the day's end, however, as Dr. Mario came to check up upon Link, the Hylian hero had already passed out. He gave a concerning glance before heading off to bed. More work would need to be done in order to see what was wrong.
End Chapter.
How do you like it? The sickness was introduced to me by my friend, Tasha-chan. I don't know if she created it or not, but it's the sickness Link has. You'll see more of it soon. Read and comment.
