Lucina stared out the window of the bus.
Big cities became small towns, small towns became a forest.
She wore normal human attire, not her usual blue armor, and her blue hair was tied into a ponytail.
Her light blue sweatshirt and jeans were comfortable enough to sleep in, which is what had happened many times during the trip.
The woman sitting next to her also seemed to be coming for her first tournament.
She wore a blue dress, her blonde hair was down, and she seemed to be holding some sort of pillow in a star shape.
She seemed to be in her early 20's.
Behind the two, returning and new Smashers chatted.
Lucina could briefly see a jackal-like creature snoozing in the seat across from hers, but then a teenager with dirty-blonde hair sat down next to it, blocking her view.
Finally, the bus stopped in front of a mansion.
Lucina gawked up at it.
It was even grander than Marth had told her.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that same dirty-blonde boy now carrying the jackal creature damsel-in-distress style.
The jackal creature was mostly blue, with some black and yellow in places.
It was still fast asleep.
A brown haired angel wearing a golden laurel crown stood to her left.
"Hi! I'm Pit!" he greeted, but quietly enough that it didn't wake the creature.
"Lucina." she said, extending her hand for a handshake.
Pit smiled and took it.
"Well...if we're still doing intoductions...then my name is Rosalina." the woman that had been sitting next to her said shyly.
The pillow she had been holding turned out to not be a pillow- instead, it seemed to be a star creature.
"This is a Luma." Rosalina said, noticing Lucina and Pit's befuddled expressions.
"I've been in this tournament before, so I know mostly everyone." Pit informed as the group entered the mansion.
"That's Meta Knight-" Pit pointed to a blue puffball wearing a mask and cape-"That's Link, over there, holding Lucario-" Pit pointed to the teenage boy from earlier. "The blue jackal thing...is that Lucario?" asked Lucina. "Yeah, he didn't get hardly any sleep on the way here." Pit explained.
"And that's-" "MARTH!" Lucina shouted, forgetting about the sleeping Pokemon.
"Lucina!" The two warriors met each other in a hug.
The two of them were just like brother and sister!
But..."Huh? What's going on?" Lucario said sleepily.
"Link...why are you holding me?" he asked.
"Well, you were sleeping and I didn't want to wake you." Link answered.
"Whatever...I'm too tired to care." said Lucario as he promptly fell back asleep.
"Smashers!" announced Master Hand, re-waking up poor Lucario.
"Sorry, Lucario. Anyway, I came to announce all the new Smashers, and officially begin the new tournament!"
"What about rooming?!" shouted a brown-haired teen girl from the back.
"Just walk down the halls to find your name and another name on the door!" Master Hand informed.
Lucina walked down the hall until she saw her name, next someone called Samus.
She entered the room and noticed that whoever Samus was had already been here, but they had left.
A bag was placed on the bottom bunk, so Lucina took the top.
The room did have quite a bit of room to move around in, but based on what Marth told her, the real fun was outside.
Lucina looked out the window and saw a beautiful garden, a weird onion-thing with...were those carrots? walking around it, a really neat pool, and woods.
She left the room to go explore, but the second she stepped out of her room, she heard a cry.