Hey guys! I'm so excited to start this story. But just know I DO NOT own any of the characters or Super Smash Bros. Both belong to Nintendo. Enjoy :)
Chapter 1:First Day of School
"Hurry up Marth! We're gonna be late!" I heard my sister yell as I was putting on my shoes. Or rather I say stepsister, but I 'll get to that later.
"Hold up Lucina, give me three seconds!" I yelled back in response as I grabbed my backpack and ran downstairs, Today was the first day of school (yes, school starts in October for us), and of course, Lucina, my annoying stepsibling dressed in a navy blue dress with navy blue boots and a gold headband, didn't want to be late. Me, Marth, midnight blue hair, cerulean eyes, and all that stuff, was dressed in a powder blue T-shirt and jeans with my navy blue high-tops and navy blue jacket, didn't really care. "Hurry up and let's go Marth." Lucina growled as she started walking out the door. So I grabbed a quick granola bar and walked out the door with Lucina.
Finally, we arrived at school. "Oh Lucina. I want to introduce you to my friends." I said as I searched around for my friends, who I easily found, thanks to Roy.
"Only if you meet mine." she said as we kept walking, motioning her friends to follow.
"Hey guys!" I called out as me and Lucina walked towards them. "I want you to meet someone. This is...Ow!" I cried as I just remembered I hadn't tied my shoes and tripped over my shoelace.
"Hey Marth. You okay?" Ike, a sixteen year old boy (and the oldest of all my friends) with indigo spiky hair, and cobalt eyes, asked as he extended his hand to help me up.
"What? Yeah, I'm fine." I mumbled as I brushed the dirt of my jeans and shirt. "Guys. This is my stepsister, Lucina. Lucina, this is Ike, Pit, Link, and Roy." I said as I pointed out each of my friends. "So this is your twin sister?" Roy asked as he walked up to Lucina and shook her hand.
"Roy! You know she not my twin sister, and you know I was adopted during the summer." I said as I playfully hit Roy. "So Lucina, who are your friends?" Link asked as he looked up and saw four other people.
"Right. Guys, this is my stepbrother Marth." she said as she shoved me in right in front of her friends, even though she knows I'm painfully shy in front of other people, making me blush and look down as I waved hello, then stood next to Ike. "And this is Ike, Link, and Pit, my brother's friends." she stated as she pointed my friends out. "And these guys are Inigo, my cousin Owain, my boyfriend Reflet, and his twin sister Robin" Lucina finished as she walked up to Reflet.
"Your what?" I asked shocked and a little confused..
"My boyfriend. You don't have one?" she asked as my whole face turned red of embarrassment.
"No he's too..." Roy started trying to think of a nice word.
"Shy you could say." Link laughed as he put his arm around my shoulder. Then the bell rang, saying that we could go in and get ready for the first day. "Hey Ike." I started as we went to out lockers. "What's your first class? Mine is...history." I said as I looked up at Ike.
"Great, so is mine. With Ms. Tiki I'm guessing." he asked as I nodded my head.
"Hey, so is mine!" Link, Pit, and Roy said at the same time.
"Great. The whole groups together." Ike said as he squeezed all four of us between his arms, which wasn't a problem considering the fact he was a tall as some of the twelfth graders, and we're only in tenth grade.
"Then let's hurry up and go." Pit said as we grabbed our stuff and walked to Ms. Tiki's history class.
"Good morning class. Let's begin right away. For our first unit, we're doing us and our family. So first, we're do where we're from." she said as my face fell. "So your partner will be who you're sitting next to." Well, I was glad my partner was Ike. "Now begin." she said as papers were handed out. "Okay Marth. The first question is where are you from?" Ike started as he wrote something down. "Marth come on, you have to write something." Ike said as he looked me straight in the eyes.
"Easy for you to say." I mumbled back and put my head inside my arms, which were folded on the table.
"What do you mean?"
"At least you know where you're from. I don't know a thing about my past."
"But I only know is that I'm from Crimea."
"That's still more than me."
"Well let's see the questions that we can answer." he said with a reassuring smile. So by the time we finished, Ike answered three of the ten questions and I hadn't answered any questions. "Alright class, who wants to go first?" Ms. Tiki asked as Link and Zelda raised their hands. "Yes, Link and Zelda."
"Um well, both of us are from Hyrule which is on the...northeast side of the world." Link started as he looked at Zelda.
"And the Princess of Hyrule, if she's still there, which I assume she is, is Princess Lana* Also, something interesting about Hyrule is actually a prophesy. They say a hero clad in green will save Hyrule if it were ever to fall into destruction." Zelda finished, letting Link have the last one
"Lastly, you can tell when people are from Hyrule because they tend to have sensitive ears." he said as he pulled back his dirty blond hair from in front of his ears to show that they were somewhat pointed.
"Interesting fact." Ms. Tiki finished as we clapped. "Okay, who wants to go next?" she asked as she pointed to another group. When she had gotten to all the groups except one, that's when I lost it. The one group was me and Ike, at least Ike had some information to go off of. My page was blank! "Alright Ike, Marth, it's your turn." she said as she looked me straight in the eyes. But luckily, Ike went first.
"I don't know that much, since I was adopted. But I know I'm from Crimea, located east of here, next to...Pherae and...Altea. And for something interesting...well, okay. This is actually a legend that was shared with Altea as well. They say, one day over a war with Altea and Crimea fighting together, the prince and his best knight, just...disappeared. No one knows what happened to them, and I don't know much about Altea so... that's all I got." Ike finished, sitting down with a sigh of relief.
"Thank you Ike. Marth, now it's your turn. Where are you from?" Ms. Tiki asked, me cowering to answer. Besides the fact I don't really have an answer, I'm still painfully shy.
"Well...um...I...I don't know." I replied softly, hearing a few snickers from my classmates. "I know I was adopted, and that's it."
"You don't know anything?" Ms. Tiki asked, shocked by my answer.
"No ma'am." I replied softly, my hair covering my eyes as I sat down. Then the whole class burst out laughing (except for Ike, Link, Pit, Roy, and Zelda) as the bell rang, and we silently walked out the door.
"What's your next class Marth?" Ike asked awkwardly as we had been walking in silence.
"PE." I replied softly as we had reached the gym, Pit and Roy parting from us to go to science.
Yes, my next class was PE, but nothing really happened, so I moved on. "Okay Ike, what's next?" I asked as I looked at my schedule and smiled from ear to ear. My next class was Japanese 2, which was one of my two favorite classes.
"Japanese 2." Ike finally answered snapping me out of my thoughts. "With Mr..." he stopped in his sentence, making me look at my schedule and hold back my laughter.
"What's so funny?" Roy asked as he looked at his schedule and blushed. "Haha. Very funny you two." Roy said as we walked into classroom and sat down, me waving at Mr. Eliwood, Roy's father.
"Okay, I'll start right away. My name is Mr. Eliwood and welcome to Japanese 2. If you were in this class last year, I'd like to hear your introductions. I'd like to start with you Marth." he said as I nodded my head and took a deep breath. "Followed by Roy, Lucina, Pit, Reflet, Inigo, Owain, then Robin."
"Okay. Watashinonamaeha watashi ga fifteendesu, Marusu aru, to watashi no jijitsu wa, kono Ni~Tsu no watashinōkiniiri no kurasudesu." I finished, knowing it was a long intro, but Mr. Eliwood was okay with it, after all, he did say I was one of his best students. Then my other friends went.
Roy: "Kon'nichiwa. Watashi wa Roi-kun... Mr. Eliwood wa watashinochichidearimasu." he said, with a smile from Mr. Eliwood, yet a blush got to him.
Lucina: "Nē, watashi wa fifteendakedo, Rukina, to watashi wa natsu no ma ni watashi no otōto to shite Marusu o saiyō shimashita."
"Rukina!" I cried, blushing slightly by her final comment. "What gives?"
"Sorry Marusu, I needed a fact. Now let Pit go." she concluded as Pit went.
Pit: "Kon'nichiwa, watashinonamaeha Pitto, watashi wa fifteenda, to watashi wa six-sai no toki, watashi wa saiyō sa remashita."
Reflet*: "Nē, watashi wa,Reflet watashi wa sixteenda, to watashi no futago no stsier wa Robin."
Inigo: "Kon'nichiwa, watashi wa Azūru to watashi wa fifteendesu. And I know I don' have a fact, but oh well."
Owain: "Nē, watashi no namae no Owain wa, watashi wa fifteen-dashi, Rukina no watashi no itoko."
Robin: "Kon'nichiwa, watashi wa, Robin watashi wa sixteenda, to Reflet no watashi no futago no kyōdai" she said, ending the introductions.
"Very good. I can tell some of you have been practicing." Mr. Eliwood stated as we sat down. "So, before we being, and forgive my former students but I'll need you to answer this again, why do you want to take this class?" he asked as a couple hands shot up, mine included. "Yes, Marth."
"Well, I want to take this class because I've always saw Japanese as an interesting language."
"But you speak fluent Japanese." he said with a smile, trying to get me to go deeper into my statement. Mr. Eliwood is probably knows more about me than anyone else in world, so he knows about my hidden past and all that.
"Well, I think Japanese was the language of where I'm from. That might be the reason I'm so fluent."
"But same with Lucina, Robin, Reflet, Inigo, Owain, Roy, and me, but you seem more fluent than some of us." he finished as a look of bewilderment crossed my face. I didn't know what to say next.
"Alright Mr. Eliwood, you got me this time." I said sitting back in my chair.
"Very well. And that's what our first unit is on...Learning areas that have strong Japanese influences. There's lots of place that have Japanese influences, but I'm only going to talk about three of the places. These the place, Altea, Crimea, and Pherae, make up the tri-sector." he said as he pulled down a map. "Now only three of these place actually spoke Japanese. Can anyone name them?" he asked as a few hands slowly went up, only one hand shooting up. "Yes, Roy?"
"Altea and Pherae." he said with a huge smile on his face.
"That's right, but what about the third place?" he asked as Ike raised his hand. "Yes, you um... Forgive me but please tell me your name."
"Ike sir. And anyway, isn't the place Crimea?" he asked as Mr. Eliwood smiled.
"Yes. But do you know of its origin?"
"No sir."
"Very well. Crimea was the only place who didn't speak Japanese in that region." he said as Reflet raised his hand.
"So...is that why there was the war of Crimea, Altea, and...um...I don't remember."
"That's okay, but yes, that's very true. And that brings us to this. Marth, Roy, hand out the papers." he said as we stood up and looked at the paper. Then when we were all finished, we looked at the paper as he continued talking. "This is a little paragraph about Crimea, Altea, and the war. Marth, would you please read it out loud."
"The war was in its highest peak. The two allies, Altea and Crimea, once joined by the prince from Altea and a knight from Crimea, seemed victorious, until...news spread that they had both disappeared. Because of this, once allies started turning on each other, creating the biggest war ever seen in history." I finished reading, my eyes wide as saucers. This was one of the best stories I had ever read. I had to get the full book.
"So, what does this tell you Marth." Mr. Eliwood asked me, snapping me out of my daydream.
"Um, it tells me each place, kingdom I'd say, had something that was special to them, and since they were united for such a long time, they assumed they each took the other kingdoms most prized possession, the prince of Altea and his best knight, from Crimea."
"That's a good answer, and I couldn't agree more. When each kingdom found out their best man was missing, they had another war against each other, friends against friends. Some people refer to it as the war of Japanese and English." Then the bell rang, cueing the end of Japanese 2. "Alright class, think on that story and we'll discuss more tomorrow." he said as we left the room, getting ready for our next class
I'm going to skip to the end of the day now. I had pretty much my core (Math, Science, Social Studies, and ILA) class, which were pretty boring. So I'll move on to my second favorite class, art, once more with Mr. Eliwood, who stopped teaching Japanese 3rd period (my period) and taught art for the rest of the day. "Good afternoon class. If you already had me, you know my name is Mr. Eliwood, and welcome to Advanced Art. So today, I want you to draw either friends or family." he said as we got paper, pencils, and colored pencils and began drawing.
After a couple minutes, I had decided to do friends. So I started to draw Ike, Roy, Pit, Link, and me. And about halfway through, when I was done with Pit and Roy and I was starting to draw Ike, Roy looked over at my drawing. "How do you draw so well? Your picture look so lifelike." he said as I looked at his painting.
"Yours looks amazing Roy." I said as I smiled at his painting. He had decided to do family, so he was drawing Mr. Eliwood, his mom, and himself. And it was true, he was way above an adverege drawer, but he still claimed he wasn't as good as me.
"There's no way I'm as good as you though." Roy commented as he took another good look at my picture before we both continued drawing and talking.
"But you have your own kind of special way to draw." I said as I looked for an indigo colored pencil in the stack
"And I guess your do too." Roy finished unaware that Mr. Eliwood was behind us
"That's a very true fact Roy." he said, causing Roy to jump a little before blushing. "No two people draw the same. So stop comparing yourself to Marth. You still draw wonderfully." he finished as me and Roy nodded and continued drawing.
Later on, Mr. Eliwood had told us to stop drawing and present our picture, of course my least favorite part of any class. So, all the other students went leaving me and Roy. "Roy, would you and Marth go up and present?" Mr. Eliwood asked as we walked up to the front of the room. I looked around and noticed some whispering, most likely from why were we both walking up instead of one at a time, which was because I get shy when I'm performing and I don't see my friends in the audience. So sometimes, I'll have Roy or Ike or Link come up and I'll whisper in their ear and they'll say it out loud.
"So, this is my painting." Roy started as he held up his painting, some of the students facial expression changing. "First off is me, Roy. So this is actually a replica of my family picture when I was first starting middle school. So that's me in the middle, and on my left is mom, and on the right is my dad, Mr. Eliwood, and this is my family." Roy concluded as the class clapped, which sadly, meant it was my turn. So I started with a wave and whispered something in Roy's ear.
"Okay, he starts with 'Hi, I'm Marth and I drew a picture of me and my friends'" he said as I held up my picture, the whole class growing a new expression. Then I whispered something else in his ear.
"Okay, 'These are my best friends, Ike, Link, Pit, and Roy' or me" he finished, me smiling and silently laughing at the last comment.
"'And this picture shows the day we first met. It was...7th grade, we were in PE and we needed groups, so we were all in a group and we became the amazing five.'" he finished for me as the class clapped.
"Thank you, Marth, Roy. The bell will ring any minute, so please start cleaning, and moments after, the bell rang, signaling the end of the day. We were allowed to bring our backpacks for our last class, so that meant most of the students left, leaving me and Roy. "I'm going to look for Ike." Roy said as he walked out the door and down the hallway. Then I walked up to Mr. Eliwood, who was at his desk looking at the drawings.
"Mr. Eliwood?" I asked causing him to look up from his papers.
"Yes Marth, what is it?"
"That small story segment we read in Japanese 2, was that from a book?"
"Indeed it was, why are you asking?"
"I wanted to know what the book was called. It seems really interesting."
"Okay, the book is called, The Famous War of History: A Book About the Crimean and Altean War" he said as he looked back up at me, with me returning with a nod as I walked out the classroom and in the library.
I had gone to the library and gotten the book, but little did I know, the secrets in store for me and my friends. All caused by a few little books.
Yeah, I finished the first chapter of The Forgotten Past. I can already tell that this might go through November even though it's a Halloweenish story. But I don't think you guys would mind.
Side Note: I was so busy with this I forgot to finish The Promise, so I'll get on that soon.
Also, anytime there's a character with same name but different gender, namely Morgan and Robin from Awakening, the male character will always get the Japanese name.
Lastly, I am quite aware that Lana (from Hyrule Warriors) is not the Princess of Hyrule. Well I don't want to do any royalty going to a high school, so for now, pretend she is.
Japanese Translations (Rough):
Marth: "I'm Marth, I'm fifteen, and I got adopted over the summer."
Roy: "Hello. I'm Roy, I'm fifteen and...Mr. Eliwood's my father."
Lucina: "Hey, I'm Lucina, I'm fifteen, and Marth is my older brother that I adopted."
Pit: "Hi, I'm Pit, I'm fifteen, and I was adopted and moved to Smashville when I was six."
Reflet: "Hey, I'm Reflet, I'm sixteen, and my Robin's my twin sister."
Inigo: "Hello. I'm Inigo, I'm fifteen...(The rest is English)
Owain: "Hey, my name is Owain, I'm fifteen, and Lucina's my cousin."
Robin: "Hi! I'm Robin, I'm sixteen, and Reflet's my twin brother."
Story Question:
What do you think is in the book?