Chapter 2: Arrival(Finally)
Night was casually enjoying its time in the trillions of tiny spotlights known as stars, but then dawn came along and ruined everything not only for night, but for nights followers, who called themselves 'night owls'. Really, the remotely useful thing dawn brought to the table was a brand new day. But maybe not for night owls though...
And as the heinous green and yellow bus trundled along a smooth concrete road, its temporary inhabitants became more and more awake as they were jostled around. And when the blonde-haired princess more commonly known as Peach cracked open her big blue eyes, she saw ahead of her the one thing that made her squeal.
"OMG WE'RE ALMOST THERE!' she screamed, loud enough to wake the dead.
Hunt howled in annoyance at being so rudely woken up. Beebs stroked his fur, which calmed him down some.
"Get your feet off of my seat, dude!" Sonic, who was still annoyed about the fried chicken, yelled at Shulk.
"Yes..."
"No..."
Still at it, are they? Zelda thought. She thought that the plumbers argument was stupid, while failing to realise that whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza was actually one of the most important questions in the whole universe. She tickled Pikachu who was sitting on her lap, behind his ears and sighed.
Almost there, almost...the-
POP!
"Hahaha, I can't believe you just sat on it!" Ike exclaimed.
Marth had stood up to stretch his legs, and plopped his ass down on a bag of chips. Lucina's bag of chips.
"Ooohhh man, Lucina's gonna be pissed!"
"Not helping, Ike."
"Mmmmnn,"
Pit didn't know what he was snuggling into, just that whatever it was, it was warm and soft. He didn't want to get up for the day, but he knew Palutena would yell at him if he didn't. He opened his eyes to find that what he had been cuddling all night was in fact Pittoo's shoulder. Not that Pittoo seemed to mind. He was asleep. His bangs hung over his eyes and he was snoring gently. Awwwww! Pit thought, he's so cute when he's asleep!
The uglier-than-Wario bus coasted down the streets of Crescent Moon until they came upon the Smash Mansion, huge and gleaming white and surrounded by trees and grassy fields. Close enough to the city to walk, but far enough away for privacy.
Black iron wrought gates opened up to a long gravel driveway nearly three times the size of the bus currently navigating it. Finally, the bus pulled up to the gates and everyone dashed out the doors. In fact, some people were a little too eager and tried to exit through the windows. Stormy was one of those people.
She hoisted her two brand-new overnight bags over her shoulders as she entered the mansion. It reeked of feet and lavender. It smelled...homely. Comforting.
As soon as the smashers set foot into the mansion Master Hand was there, greeting them and assigning them to their rooms. He spied Stormy making her way through the crowd of Miis and smashers.
"Ah, hello there Stormy! Ready for this?"
Stormy just nodded.
Master Hand looked at her. "You're not homesick already, are you?"
Stormy seemed shocked at that. "Ha! Of course I'm not! The very thought of it is weird!" she responded quickly.
"Anyway, here's the key to your room. The third floor, fifth door on the left."
"Okay," Stormy said as she took the key from the outstretched glove. She trotted up the stairs, wishing that the elevator wasn't as packed as it was. She was actually quite glad to be here. It sure beats smelling sweaty Lasat fur and having to hide her ghetto blaster all the time. It sure beats life on that confounded planet, with its two suns and shit-tons of sand. It sure beats having stupid religions crammed down her throat...
Her thoughts were interrupted by a white-clad angel bumping into her.
"Whoops. Sorry!"
She turned. "Hey..have we met before?"
The angel stopped. "Um no, I don't think so...?"
"Really? Cause it feels like we have. What's your name?"
"Uh, Pit."
"Oh, I'm Stormy, by the way. Also I'm sure we've seen each other before, I just don't know where."
"Well, I don't think I've ever seen you before today. And if we have, I don't remember you. Sorry."
Stormy just shrugged, and the two went their separate ways. Pit found the room he would be sharing with Little Mac, Marth and Sonic.
Long story short, when Lucina found out that she would have to be sleeping in bunk beds in a surprisingly cramped space with the goddess, bounty hunter, and...that girl who hung out the back window on the bus, she was pretty disappointed, to put it lightly.
Luigi was scared of the dark angel who would be sleeping in the bunk above his. He creeped him out! Those red eyes sure were scary! Luckily he was with the tactician twins, Robin and Beebs. Plus a cute duck and dog that Beebs was allowed to bring into the room with her, and sleep on her bed.
The last thing anyone heard was a humongous fart that shook the entire mansion, thus concluding the first night of the fourth official Smash Tournament.