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The following contains characters and references from the Kid Icarus: Uprising videogame. Such characters and scene references may confuse readers who have not yet played or have beaten the game.

This story is a fan made sequel to Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo3DS. Personally I think this would be a good sequel if Nintendo really wants to continue the series. Any way, due to the brilliant writing of many fan fiction authors, I have decided to discontinue my original Doctor Who story and switch gears to writing this series. My Doctor who series wasn't really doing that great, the crossovers I had in mind didn't really mix that well with the original story line. Plus, it kind of got put on the back burner, since I'm also writing my own manga as well, so it only got as far as the prologue and Chapter 1, which I have to say were not by best works of writing. Other than that, this would constitute as my first time writing an actual Fan Fiction! So, please do tell me how I did. I could use the constructive criticism now and then.

I have done some serious research of the character's personalities, pairings (as brought out by fan fiction and research/playing the game), and setting. Just to warn you guys I will be adding some new villains and heroes into the mix (I hope you don't mind). This story is also set up like the game play flow of KI: U, so yes there will be commentaries and boss fights. However, the story won't be entirely written in that fashion.

Ok, I think I have done enough talking, now time to get on with the story.

KID ICARUS: AFTERMATH

~CHAPTER 1~

Kidnapped

It has been 1 year since, the angel Pit destroyed Hades the lord of the underworld. Since then earth and sky world have been peaceful, even Viridi and the Forces of Nature have been at peace. There has been no war between the humans on earth, no retaliation by the remaining underworld forces now under the leadership of Thanatos (for now at least). Dark Pit has now become a commander for the Forces of Nature, by his newly found and ever growing relationship with Phosphora the lighting female warrior for the Force of Nature. Arlon the serene has been busy building a fleet for the Forces of Nature so that they can have better and faster deployment of their troops, at Viridi's command of course, and Arlon is also now the head of security at Viridi's temple. Palutena has restored Sky world to its former beauty and has had groups centurions repair the damage left behind when she was taken over by the Chaos Kin. And Pit well, he is till god old pit, or at least he seems that way. It would appear to be that the stage is set for a long Era of peace; however some thing about today seems to be a little off.

At Palutena's temple every body is getting ready for the celebration of one year of peace. "Ok, good there should be just fine. You centurions go and get some more tables and chairs" Ordered Palutena as she sets up the table clothes for one of the main tables. It is some what of early morning, or at least it is to Pit it is, he walks out of the main hall of the temple Bagel in hand. Despite the fact that he is in his usual white toga, he looks pretty groggy.

"Morning, Pit did you sleep ok?" chimes Palutena.

"Somewhat." Pit says as he walks over to where Palutena is and sits on one of the chairs. "I kept having these weird dreams."

"Weird dreams? What do mean by that?"

"It's really not a big deal, there just confusing that's all"

"Is there anyone your dreams are about in particular?"

"Yes, well sort of, not really. It's really not a big deal." Answers pit with a shaky voice trying to make it sound normal as best he can. It's definitely not working. The angel's code of conduct states that an angel shouldn't lie to anyone; they should try speaking the truth even to their enemies that is if it won't count as treachery to their master. At this point pit just hopes that Palutena doesn't see him turn red at the thought of the person in his dream.

"That's not very convincing. Come on Pit tell me."

"Why do you want to know?"

"You're kind of like a little brother to me; I care about your welfare. If there is something going on I need to know, or else I can't help you."

"Did you have to put so much emphasis on the 'little'? As I said it's nothing real big I don't really need you're help."

"Ok then, you leave me with no other choice" Palutena sighs "I guess I'm just going to have to read your mind."

"What! I thought you said that you can't do that!"

"Well that was then and this is now." Palutena closes her eyes and places her index fingers on the sides of her head and begins to hum.

"Ok, ok, I'll tell you. Just please don't read my mind there some stuff I want to keep secret." Says Pit in a scared and worried voice.

"You promise?"

"Yes, just please stop!"

Palutena lifts her fingers off her head, opens her eyes, and then smirks. "Ha, got you!"

"What? Oh you got be kidding me."

"You promised now tell me who this person in your dreams is. Are they some one special to you or some thing?"

"Well, yeah…kind of. It's Viridi."

"Viridi?" Palutena is surprised but not by very much. Actually she would be more surprised if the one he was dreaming about turned out to be herself. After pondering for a little bit she smiles "very interesting, that you would dream about her."

"Why?" pit the notices a tall man in a black coat with purple laser like lines and a large mustache sit at the table with a cup of tea clamped between his index finger and his thumb which are dressed whit eloquent white gloves.

"Good morning young master Pit." It was Arlon the serene. Pit nearly jumped out of his seat at the sight of him. The last time he saw him was abroad the lunar sanctum, which proved to be even more confusing than Pandora's labyrinth of deceit.

"Arlon came by earlier he's been helping out with the preparations for the peace celebration. And he also has some what of a favor to ask of you." Palutena says acknowledging Arlon.

"A favor?" pit isn't to sure about this. Even though the Forces of nature are now friends he still isn't to sure if he can trust Arlon, heck he nearly blew him away with the lunar sanctum's main gun. Still Arlon was only acting upon Viridi's orders, which at that time were to get rid of Pit. Since the destruction of Hades, Viridi has been a little nicer to Pit. He may not have to worry about Arlon no more as an enemy, hopefully. "What is it that you want to ask me Arlon?"

"Actually, this request is from mistress Viridi. She wishes to speak with you in person at her temple. For what reason, I am uncertain." As Arlon speaks Palutena glances at Pit with a smirk of irony, the person in his dream wishes to speak with him.

"Well, isn't that ironic. We were just talking about a dream that pit had about Viridi."

"Not everyone needs know that!" Pit says "In order that this conversation may no longer continue, Palutena can you please give me a gate to the sky near Viridi's temple and the power of flight so that I may get there."

"You're such a kill joy aren't you Pit? Fine I'll grant your request. Finish up your breakfast and you can go." Pit dashes off and leaves both Arlon and Palutena alone.

"Interesting, is it not milady?" Says Arlon as he sips his tea.

"What is?" asks Palutena.

"Young master Pit seems to be acting in a similar way that mistress Viridi has been lately. She as well has had dreams about someone, but she has yet to tell us who."

"We could just be over thinking it; the dreams may not mean what we are thinking it does."

"Open minded as always, milady. However, I think that is a little too open-minded. You see, I am usually the chief of security at mistress Viridi's temple. And from what I have seen by means of the security systems recordings, I have reason to think that these dreams do in fact mean what we think it does."

"Just to make sure were on the same page what do you think it means?"

"I believe it means that mistress Viridi may have more feelings toward young master Pit then what she lets on."

"Spot on. That's exactly what I thought."

"Her actions during the war with the Aurum, the whole chaos Kin incident, and the war with the Underworld, would suggest just so."

"Pit is always telling me about that, and specifically how nice Viridi was to him. How she helped him through those hard times. During the battle with the Aurum I had guessed that Viridi had a soft spot for pit, she didn't deny it but she did try to make it seem as if she wasn't helping pit in any way. Pit even admitted that he didn't think that Viridi wasn't all that bad to him."

"If our thoughts prove to be truth, then this could possibly lead to an alliance with the Forces of Nature and your army."

"Yes that would be pretty nice wouldn't it? We'll just have wait and see what happens." Palutena knows that this will most likely be the out come. She seems to be happy for Pit, If Pit truly likes Viridi and if Viridi does in fact likewise towards him, they may have a lasting and loving relationship. Palutena believes that such a relation would be beneficial for Pit since he doesn't necessarily have many friends.

At Viridi' temple things are all a buzz. Viridi has her Forces of Nature working overtime trying to get the temple cleaned up and nice when Pit arrives. All the while Viridi her self has been, seemly going through mood swings from happy to worried to happy to worried, very unusual behavior for her. These moods however, do not go unnoticed by her lower ranked commanders, such as Phosphora and the newly added member to the forces of nature: Dark Pit.

"Looks like things are as lively as ever." Dark Pit says to Phosphora in a bit of an annoyed tone, not to unusual for him. Both he and Phosphora have been left in charge of the security of the temple while Arlon is away. "You think Viridi may have a few screws loose or something?" asks Dark Pit as they walk down the hall to Viridi's room. The hall is decorated with vines and tree trunks are lined along the walls, roses have been placed along the vines and branches curl and weave up the walls.

"I not to sure about why she is doing this whole excessive clean up, but I think I may have a hunch." Phosphora said. She then stops in the middle of the hallway so that Viridi won't be able to hear her from her room. She gets up close to Dark Pit's ear and then speaks with a smirk: "I think she might be doing this for Pit."

"Right…" Dark Pit says rolling his eyes; obviously he said that in a sarcastic manner. "I think you spent a little too much time reading Fan Fictions."

"Hey it is very possible. Remember two days ago when you made a joke about how Pit might need a girlfriend."

"That was best joke in book, if I do say so myself." Dark pit grins at the memory.

"Yep I would agree, but you know what made it even funnier? It was the fact that Viridi's face went red when you said that."

"Huh? She did? I must have been blinded by my tears of laughter, but that still doesn't convince me though. I'll believe it when I see It." before Phosphora can tell him any more of her suspicions, a Blader flies up to them and reports that there is a possible intruder headed for the temple. "Keep the soldiers on stand by, return to the gate I'll be there shortly to assess the situation." The Blader flies off back to its original post.

"Well look at you all sophisticated and giving orders." Smirks Phosphora.

"This so called intruder could just be Pit. I'm going to go check and see, just to make sure that Cragalanche doesn't accidentally kill the guy." Dark Pit runs off toward the temple Gate, leaving Phosphora there in the hallway. Phosphora walks toward Viridi's room which was were she was heading to in the first place; Viridi had called her in for something she just didn't know what for, yet. When she opens the door she sees Viridi pacing back and forth in a bath robe decorated with vines on the fringes. Phosphora closes the door behind her so as to give Viridi some privacy from everyone else.

"You called for me Viridi?" Phosphora said. Viridi jumped at the sound of her voice she may have not heard the door opening and closing, but she definitely heard her voice, she must have been trying to tune out any unnecessary noise to focus on, well whatever she was focused.

"Darn it Phosphora! Don't scare me like that you nearly gave me a heart attack!" Viridi says angrily as she puts her hand over her chest to keep her hear rate steady.

"Sorry didn't mean to scare you. Anyway you called for me?"

"Yes, um… I kind of need some help with something." Viridi walks over to her bed side, her room is pretty big for someone as small as her, the ceiling reaches to about 20 feet and the floor space is about 30 feet by 50 feet. It is decorated similarly to the hallway outside. 4 small trees decorated the four corners of the room. Her bed measures about 8 feet long and 7 feet wide, it is big when contrast to her size. The comforter is a burgundy color and the pillows are red with vines lacing the fabric together. There is a couch next to a big glass window with green curtains and on the opposite side of the room there is a desk with all the usual writing utensils and rulers and things. From what Phosphora can tell, the place has been recently cleaned and the bed sheets have been washed. The place some what has the faint aroma of roses; 'Yep this is Viridi's room alright' thought Phosphora. Viridi holds up in her left hand her usual dress and in the other a similar one but with a different color scheme. Each of them have been decorated with flowers, her usual one with violet colored flowers and the other which has a dark greenish purple color scheme with deep dark red flowers (surprisingly not roses). "I don't now which one to choose." Viridi says with a tad bit of shyness "I have never had this problem before can you help me?" Phosphora puts her hand over her mouth trying hard not to laugh but a snicker comes out anyway. "This isn't funny Phosphora this is serious!"

"You're right it is serious, sorry I just couldn't help myself." Phosphora said, once she calmed down enough to speak how ever she was till laughing inside. She thought it was hilarious that Viridi would ask her after what she had just discussed with Dark Pit. "Sure I'll help, but first may I ask why you're so concerned about your appearance all the sudden? It's not like you usually care about such things. Is there a reason why you want every thing to be all nice and perfect?"

"Well…n-not exactly." Viridi responded in a shaky voice. "It is NOT like I'm trying to impress someone or any thing."

"Come on Viridi." Phosphora egged on. 'Wow she's a terrible liar' thought Phosphora.

"Why do you need to know what I'm trying to do anyway?"

"It can make all the difference in your appearance. Can't help you decide if I don't know what trying to go for." Phosphora gives a wink.

"Fine if you really need to know." Viridi looks up at one of Arlon's security cameras that he had installed into Viridi's room. Then she waves Phosphora over in front of her changing room, which is a fold out wooden shield that keeps her from being seen by Arlon's camera's while she changing, a privacy regulation of which was set up by Arlon himself. Viridi goes behind the shield and then speaks to Phosphora form behind the shield. "This is out of recording range for Arlon's cameras so please keep this a secret."

"Okay, my lips are sealed."

"They better be, because if you tell anyone else with out my consent, you'll be very sorry you got that." Viridi says in the stern voice that is worthy of a supreme commander of the forces of nature. This is the Viridi everyone else knew, the one that would drop a reset bomb on your head if you double crossed her, or at least she made herself seem that way.

"Okay, okay, no need to be all angry faced. Don't you worry I won't even tell Pitoo."

"Okay then, this may be a bit of news to you but, during the Aurum attack I saw that Pit needed some help while he was sent to destroy the aurum hive. So I ended up sending in a couple of my own troops to help out Pit, and after that I started doing it more and more as time went on. Palutena said that I had a soft spot for Pit. I tried hard to make it seem like I didn't, I tried to get myself thinking about other things like how to deal with the humans and how to keep up our guard and what the underworld troops could be planning. However, I kept having these 'feelings' come up when ever I think of Pit and … and me."

"Uh huh" Phosphora said trying to keep up with the details. She wore a smirk as she did so.

"Recently I have been having dreams about him. At first I didn't know why. So I made a chart graphing all the instances that these feelings have come up and also when I have had my dreams. I tired looking in the library to see if there was any natural explanation for what was happening, but I didn't find any."

"And are these feelings and dreams good or bad?"

"They…they are good." Viridi fell silent. In response Phosphora gave an inquiring look up at the ceiling trying to piece together what Viridi was saying with out letting her assumptions get in the way even though they were both in the same direction. Viridi continued saying "When I realized that I kind of like the dreams, I knew it must had something to do with emotions. So that's when I broadened my search. And I found out why this was happening."

"So what's the verdict?"

"I think I have a crush on Pit!" Viridi takes a deep breath; it feels good to her that she can finally tell some one that. Phosphora grins with satisfaction: 'Ha! In your face Pitoo! I was right!' thought Phosphora. Finally after about a few seconds Viridi steps out from behind the shield, her face in a little red and her hands are a little shaky. She is surprised though that Phosphora is not in shock. All that Phosphora does is mile and walks over to the bed and picks up Viridi's usual out fit decorated with violet flowers then walks back over to Viridi.

She looks at Viridi and hands her the dress and says this "If want to make your feelings known to him, be yourself… your true self." Before Phosphora walks out of the room Viridi turns to her.

"Thank you, Phosphora."

"Good luck milady, you'll need it." then Phosphora leaves the room.

Pit is ready to go and heads for the gate that Palutena had opened for him. The gate opens and the bright light from the bright day light fills the out side. Then he is the sky Lady Palutena controlling his Flight path just like she always has. "Based on the location that Arlon has provided you should be there just before the power of flight runs out." Says Palutena.

"How come we couldn't just open a gate right to the temple?" Pit asks

"Impossible, the temple is protected by a barrier that keeps people form teleporting in or out. This protects the temple form being invaded. So, opening a gate would not work if it is with in that barrier." Said Arlon.

"That's pretty smart." Pit chimes.

"Guess you'll just have to sit back and enjoy the ride, Pi…" Palutena stops "um, Pit?"

"Yes, lady Palutena?"

"Why did you bring a blade with you?"

Pit looks down at his Right hand noticing the First blade that he had in his grasp. "Oops, sorry, I guess it's just a force of habit." Pit shrugged

"You do realize that we are at peace right now right?"

"Hey what can I say? I got to be ready for any situation; it's in the angle's handbook."

"Oh brother, please behave yourself Pit." Palutena says with a hint of worry in her voice.

"Oh come on have I ever let you down before?"

"Well…" Palutena begins to say.

"Don't answer that." Pit says with a frown. Pit continues flying, but while he's doing so he can't shake thought of Viridi out of his mind, for some odd reason it comforts him to think about her. And for some reason he has this feeling that he just can't wait to see her again.

Dark Pit has arrived at the gate with Phosphora and is now in a state of shock. Cragalanche is confronted by the intruder, it is definitely not Pit. A tall man with pale blue hair spiked up, wears a red cloak that comes up to his face covering it from the nose down almost like a scarf. His sword is drawn; it is a katana with a black hit and deep red blade must be made of some sort of ruby or red gem. The man raises his sword and in one swift strike slices Cragalanche into two, and then Cragalanche is separated into many more pieces of rock.

"If you value your lives hand over Miss Viridi immediately" the cloaked man says, looking up at Dark Pit.

Dark pit's eyes go wide for a minute. 'This guy is obviously an enemy…a very dangerous enemy. We can't allow him to get near Viridi' thinks Dark Pit. "Phosphora, Go and alert the guards now! All soldiers on red alert! We must not let him come any were near mistress Viridi!" Dark Pit quickly says. Then he turns to the man in red and says "Sorry pal but, visiting hours for evil guys in red cloaks is over, so I'll have to ask you to leave or else you'll have to pay the consequences."

"You choose to fight me." The man in red sighs and then lifts his sword up to the sky "Your choice, is unwise." The sword glows red then shoots out a red star which then there is as shatter. The barrier, the barrier that has protected the temple of Viridi form invasion has now been broken. Dark Pit now in shock looks up at the shattered barrier.

"Impossible." Dark Pit whispers.

Columns of red and black lighting fill the area around the man in red. When they are lifted they reveal small troops about the size of Viridi or Pit (not saying their small or anything). They are mostly clad in red, their arms are like blades, and they stand on their hind legs. Their heads are black and are formed like the blade of a sickle with a red insignia in the middle; they don't have much of a face at all. The man in red point the end of his blade at the temple "Our mission is simply to capture Viridi, destroy any that get in your way. Level this place if you need to. However, keep in mind that our main goal is to capture Viridi alive…" the man stares at Dark Pit "Go". All of the troops rush of in a flash to several places cutting and shooting down the forces of nature in their way.

Dark Pit gives the order "All troops destroy the intruders! Do not let them anywhere near mistress Viridi!" Dark Pit draws out his sliver bow ready to fight against the man in red.

The man in red now readies himself to fight Dark Pit. "This should be fun." Says the man in a calm and ominous tone.

"You're coming up on the temple Pit." Sounds Palutena's voice.

"How much farther?" Pit asks

"You'll probably be there in about, 3,2,1… now" as Palutena says that Pit passes through a cloud and then is in the bright sky every thing is open and clear, every thing is fine that is until Pit looks up at the temple. There is smoke rising from the courtyards, in the back ground are the sounds of fighting, explosions, shooting of lasers; it has turned into a field of war. "Oh no" Palutena says in a worried tone to Pit.

"What happened here?" pit asks, he himself is in shock, during the Chaos Kin incident pit had been to the temple, it was very beautiful. But, now it is being destroyed.

"How did those ruffians get past the barrier? It is impenetrable to 99% of attacks." Arlon scowled.

"What would the 1% include?" questioned Pit.

"I'm afraid that information is on a need to know basis." Says Arlon

"Forget about that, look!" Palutena says as she gestures pit into a low flight over the Temple so that he can see the attackers.

"What the heck are those?" Pit exclaims seeing the red and black creatures attacking the Temple.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling that they are not friendly." Just then one of the red and black sickle troops fired a shot nearly hitting Pit at the wing. Palutena was able to get pit out of there just in time.

"Whoa! Not friendly, definitely NOT friendly!"

"Sorry Pit, I had to get a scan of that monster. Those things are called Scythers according to my celestial super scanner."

"You really have one of those? I thought you just made that up." Pit said in surprise. Pit now is right over the area of the gate it is pretty beat up slash marks of stray melee and shot attacks give the ground black dashes and dots on the ground. "Whoa looks like they really did a number on this place."

"Oh no, look its Pitoo." Palutena exclaims as she looks at Pitoo's fallen body.

"We have to help him."

"Agreed, prepare for landing Pit!" Palutena flies pit down to the ground. Pit lands safely on the ground. Pit rushes over to Dark Pit's body now surrounded by Scythers. Pit draws out his First blade and fires a dash shot at the group of three enemies. The shot hits the middle Scyther then it explodes in a red flame, the other two look at their comrade then look to the attacker, and begin to fire shots in Pit's direction. Pit swiftly dodges the attacks and fires a shot at the Scyther on the left, it hits its mark, then a shot to the one on the right, and just like the rest it hits its mark.

Dark Pit lifts his eyes toward the commotion and finds Pit running toward him. "Pitoo, are you okay?!" yells Pit while running toward Dark Pit's body.

Dark Pit has a surge of rage go through his entire body at the very utterance of his nickname by Pit. This cause him to jump up to his feet, looks like fire is blazing from his eyes (anime over expression moment). "Pit…I…thought I…told you…DO NOT CALL ME PITOO!" once he says this he then feels a surge of pain in his body. The pain is coming from the wounds that he had gotten in his short but brutal battle with the man in red.

"I'll take that as a no." said Pit. 'That would explain why he isn't taking care of any of the enemies around here' Pit thought to himself. Dark Pit's arm grasps then collar of Pit's toga. Dark pit looks up at Pit with determined eyes.

"Pit, you have to get to Viridi as soon as possible their trying to kidnap her." Dark Pit is now gritting his teeth obviously mad. "Their leader has gone into the Temple. Phosphora tried to stop him, but she was defeated as quickly as I was. I take care of the guys out here and sure Phosphora is okay. You only need to do one thing."

"What is that?" Pit asked shakily.

"Take down the Leader." Says Dark Pit as he lets go of Pit's collar. "For your sake do not let him hurt Viridi!"

"What do you mean by-" Pit starts then is cut off by Dark Pit.

"Just go!" growls Dark Pit. Pit then is of running swiftly up the stairs to the temple. In no time Pit reaches the lobby, which is the room where he could head out on missions from. Then he heard a scream, a scream he had not heard since The Chaos Vortex: Viridi's scream of terror. Pit rushes off in the direction that heard the scream. This was all happening to fast, almost at an impossible pace: in all but five minutes the leader had taken out Cragalanche, who pit doesn't see any where so he assumes he's been defeated, Phosphora, and Dark Pit. And now he has Viridi, Pit feels the fury running through his veins at the very thought of Viridi in the clutches of an enemy, perhaps a little too much fury than that he would have if a friend or if Palutena was captured. Pits pace quickens as he bursts through the door to the main hall, a large circular room surrounded by trees and flowers that now look more menacing than beautiful. "Viridi, where are you?!" Pit cries out.

"Over here" Viridi cries out. She tires to wave him over to where she is, but has difficulty doing it since she is tied up with a flat black rope that hugs her mid section down to her knees. For a second Pit is caught by how beautiful she looks, her hair shines with the light even though there is very little of it in the room at this point, her face obliviously ahs a little hint of make up on it, she had put a bit of blush on her cheeks and had put some lip gloss on and had elongated her eyelashes, pit thought she looked nice, but still didn't understand why she would be a dolled up at a time like this. Then he realize he was starring and then felt blood rush to his cheeks (yep Pit does get embarrassed easily). As he did Viridi asked "what are you…" then Viridi realized that what he was doing then, her cheeks began doing the same thing. "Come on, Pit quit gawking and get her out of there, before that leader guy shows up!" Palutena said breaking up Pit's stare. "What? Oh yeah sorry about that, must have spaced out."

"Right, sure Pit" Palutena says sarcastically, realizing that he was making up excuses his long stare at Viridi. "Let's just hope that the leader doesn't show up." Pit rushes over to Viridi when all the sudden a red barrier is set up in front of Viridi and several others blocking the exits. "What the…" Pit exclaims seeing the barrier.

"Pit, Look out! behind you!" Viridi exclaimed before a column of black and red lighting appears from behind Pit.

"Whoa!" pit jumps back before he can get hit by the beam. The beam dies down and reveals the man in red that Dark Pit had been fighting earlier, surprisingly though he doesn't appear to have a single scratch on his body what so ever. "I take it that you are here to stop me." The claim sinister voice speaks form the man in red.

"Who are you and what do you want with Viridi?" Pit says in a defensive stance with his first blade drawn.

"You shall know me as: The Dark Minister, one of the four main generals for the Dark Corps army. As far as want I want with Viridi that I am not at liberty to discuss."

"Well, Dark Minister, personally what you want with her doesn't matter, you've hurt my friends and are trying to kidnap Viridi, that's good enough reason for me to Defeat you."

"Ah, so you're the one know as Pit that young Miss Viridi has been talking about."

"What?"

"I heard that you took down Hades, very impressive."

"Thank you, I guess"

"Let's make a deal shall we? You seem to be a good match against me. If you win this fight, I'll leave and you can have Miss Viridi. However…" Dark Minister pulls out his sword ready for battle. Pit can some how feel the intense energy surrounding him, almost like feeling the water around you in a swimming pool or a hot spring, only a lot more pressure. "If you loose… I shall take Miss Viridi captive…" Silence falls upon the main hall for a few seconds. Then Dark Minster raises his sword and points it at Pit… "Do we have a deal?"

Pit grits his teeth, and clenches his blade in hi right hand. "Deal"

BOSS FIGHT: THE DARK MINISTER (1)

Dark Minister Dashes toward Pit with ferocious speed in a some what of a pinwheel attack with his sword, Pit is able to dodge the attack allowing him to get a good shot at Dark minister. He fires a forward dash shot but right before it hits Dark minister he teleports away in a quick dash to the side. Pit fires to fire a side dash shot, but Dark minister avoids that one to and swiftly counters with a melee combo on Pit which sends Pit flying back into the wall. Pit gets up, and barely hit the red beam that Dark minister shot from his word. "Have to hand it to dark Minister he's pretty fast." Says Palutena as the fight happens before her "all seeing eyes".

"Pit what ever happens, just don't die okay?" Viridi says from behind the barrier. Dark Minister teleports to the middle of the room collecting energy, Pit now has a chance to get in a couple of shots before, he charges up. "Seriously Pit if you die I will kill you!" Viridi yells from behind the barrier.

"How does that make any sense?" Pit answers back. He fires a dash shot to The Dark Minister and it does a little bit of damage to him. "It would appear to be that your attacks aren't doing much damage to him." says Arlon.

"Thank you, captain obvious!" Pit says as he dodges another spinning pin wheel attack by the dark minister and lands a few melee combos as a counter attack. "Your friend's comments are really starting to annoy me." Dark Minister says as he gets back up form the attack.

"Hey, be glad Hades isn't here then you would really be annoyed. He would be all like 'looks like you two are having fun' or something like that."

"Your very imitation of him is annoying enough." Dark Minister then charges up his attack which causes each of his wings to send out a "blade wave" (almost like a tensho form bleach or in Kid Icarus terms, the charge shot of the "hew draw club"). Dark Minister's attacks get even more ferocious now that his sword is charged up. "Pit, Don't let him get a melee combo on you! If he hits you with one of those you'll be toast!" warns Palutena.

"Toast, Where?!" Pit says excitedly

"How can you be thinking of food in a time like this?" Viridi asks angrily.

"Hey, an angel needs to keep up with his metabolism you know?" Pit says as he attempts dodging the melee attacks that are being thrown at him, not really do a good job though. Pit is getting tired fast. "This isn't good" then he is hit by a combo move by Dark Minister throwing him back into a wall with a big THUD! Pit tries to get up on his feet but he is in a lot of Pain.

"Come on Pit I know you can do it just keep going!" Palutena urges on.

"I can't move, I think his sword might have paralyzed me"

"Guess you're not that strong after all." The dark minister says slowly walking towards pit his sword in hand. "I even went easy one you and yet still turned out to be weak in the end."

"Pit…" Viridi starts to shakily say, hoping that what she says will help motivate him to keep fighting. "I…" Come on Viridi, it isn't that hard just say it Viridi thought to her self. "I…" but, is now a good time to say such things, maybe I should just… as soon as she thinks this Dark Minster is already at Pit ready to strike him. Tears now roll down her face; this is a rare if not very unusual sight to see as afar as Viridi is concerned, she usually doesn't get this emotional about someone getting hurt.

"It's time to end this." Says the Dark Minister says lifts his sword up in a diagonal angle from his shoulder, the same way he had when he faced off against Cragalanche.

"Pit…Don't die! I love you!" Viridi shouts over her cries and with tears streaming down her face.

Dark Minister looks at Viridi then to Pit. "So, that's why she has so much faith in you." He lets out a sigh and looks up at the ceiling a puts his sword down to his side into its scabbard. "This complicates things a little more doesn't it?" Pits eyes are wide from the shock of what Viridi had said, now it all makes sense, why she helped him out so many times, why she wanted to talk with him, why she had dressed up so nice, she loved Pit! "It would be cruel to kill you in front of her… but it would also be cruel to take her in fort of your very eyes." Dark Minister shoots a red and black lighting blot through his palm at Pit which makes him crumple to the ground in even more pain and agony. At this Viridi shrieks and at seeing the action take place. "I'll not kill you, but as for kidnapping Viridi, I'm afraid I have no choice in the matter." The red barrier lift and Pit can hear Viridi's crying a little more vividly now. Dark Minster snaps his fingers and a red star is fired at Viridi and it causes her to go unconscious. "Viridi!" cries Pit.

"She'll be fine, for now at least." Dark Minister Walks over to Viridi's body and slings her cross his right shoulder, he must be pretty strong to do that. "Before I leave, I want you to know that this is nothing Personal, I'm simply carrying out my orders as instructed to me by my master. If you can find the Dark Corps stronghold near the town of Wadosia, then you may be able to rescue Miss Viridi. That is if you can survive the stronghold's defenses. At that I take my leave."

"Wait! We had a deal we need to finish our fight!" Pit says as he winces trying to get up, but with no success.

Dark Minister opens a black and Red colored portal and steps into it before the portal closes behind him he looks a t Pit and says "Yes, and you lost." Then the portal closes shut and the Dark Minister, Viridi, and the Red and black Monsters were gone. Leaving Pit alone in the dim lit main hall the last thing he would remember about that day was his crying out to Viridi. Tears running down his face and ever echoing thought of what Viridi had said, a three word sentence that has been know to have the power to move mountains, bring back lost heroes, and lift ones heart… "I love you!" Then the blackness came.

Viridi has been captured by The Dark Minister! And is now in the hands of the mysterious Dark Corps! Who Are the Dark Corps? Can Pit save Viridi form them? And how will this new knowledge about Viridi change Pit's life? Found out in the next chapter of Kid Icarus: Aftermath!

Author's notes: Yes I know this chapter was really long, but I had to make sure that I got in very good descriptive details! The next one may be a little shorter. And guess who's going to appear in the next chapter? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it your great, great, great, great grandmother's roommate? No! It's MAGNUS! Wait a sec what is GAOL doing there? Oh well, guess you'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out. That's all for now, until next time, bye! (Don't forget to tell me how I did okay? Oh and if you have any questions regarding the series and the characters please posts those here too, I'll address these questions in a special Q and A bonus chapter, so stay tuned folks!)