Chapter Two: A bit more…
We manage to get away from Little Mac and stop for air. Right now it's just me and Shulk since Dark Pit and Villager went into opposite directions only to wind up followed once more, we were lucky to escape. We look at one another, then we randomly start to laugh; in the middle of that both of our stomach start to growl, I slightly blush from embarrassment and clear my throat.
"We should go look for the dinning room, I bet everyone's there already!" He starts to walk, I follow next to him.
"Do you even know where the dinning room is?" He shakes his head and chuckles.
"Nope, not a clue; I thought it might be fun just to walk around together." I look, bewildered at his sudden comment, it wasn't uncommon for someone to say something like that to me but… With him it just feels different almost like it's never happened to me before, I regain myself then nod.
"That does sound like fun, well at least we'll know a couple of the other places are." He nods and looks around. We pass a very large pair of doors one of which say 'Classic challenge' and the other saying 'All-stars' I try and remember exactly what that meant.
"Oh I heard about this, some of the people who were here last time said that All Star wasn't too much of a challenge, maybe we should try it!" I look at him.
"But weren't you the one who wanted to go see if everyone was at dinner?" He shrugs.
"I'm sure when we finish they'll still be there and the food, but how about we go eat the come back here and try it out!" I sigh slightly then nod.
"Ok, but if we want to try it, we'll probably have to finish our dinner pretty early since they said fights are mandatory if chosen in the mornings" He chuckles then starts running backward.
"Well common then let's go find the dinner room!" He takes off, I smile then run after him.
We get to the dinning room and we see over half of everyone in there, Lucina is talking to some of the other females, it makes me smile seeing her outside of her comfort zone. She sees me and waves over to me, the other females, know as Zelda and Samus, notice me as well, I turn to face Shulk.
"Oh, is she your friend?" I nod.
"Yes she's from my world." He nods then pats my back.
"Ok I'll just meet you at the All-star door then." Before I can anything else he runs off, I stare then face Lucina as her and her new found friends stop in front of me.
"Robin, it's amazing here, I'm really glad we were invited here… but still it's a little sad to think that father couldn't be here with us..." I smile then pat her shoulder.
"If he could see you fight fully I'm sure he wouldn't know what to do with all that strength!" She smiles.
"Thank you Robin, oh and I'm sure you already know their names but this is Samus and Zelda…" She hides her mouth and whispers in my ear.
"Zelda's a princess by the way" I chuckle slightly then look at them both.
"It's nice to meet the both of you" They nod.
"So your Robin right?" I nod at Zelda's question.
"That's great to have another fighter from your world, Marth and Ike haven't left each other's side ever since they got here" Samus chuckles.
"Can you blame them, it's been over four years since they've last seen one another and could just be together like this" There conversation slightly confuses me.
"I'm sure being the close friends that they are-" They look at me.
"I'm sorry 'Close friends'?" I nod as does Lucina.
"Yes, a rare chance took us and we were able to fight against The Hero- uh, against Marth and he explain how close of a friend he made here!"(1) They look at us then stifle, Zelda speaks.
"Oh Marth must be shy about it… well they are close friends, but there also lovers!" My eyes go wide and I wind up dropping my book.
"W-what did you say!?" Lucina just stands there stunned.
"Yeah, when Ike joined they were super close friends, one thing let to another and they became lovers for the rest of the time here!" She finishes, my mouth just stays open. I shake my head then pick up my book.
"So you mean to tell me that you people have actually formed relationships here?" They nod and look around the room.
"Yeah, like Zero suit and Snake, last time, Ness and Lucas; others like Zelda, Link, Peach and Mario here… it's still complicated" Zelda's face flushes.
"Oh really well what about the fighter Little Mac, you two seem to have a thing going on." She puts her hands on her hips.
"You think me getting punched in my side is a love confession?" She scoffs.
"I never said love confession" She sighs then turns back to me.
"Well anyways, yeah lots of us are in relationships with other people, they didn't necessarily have to be from the same world or the same time either just something that bonded them together!" I chuckle awkwardly then look at Lucina, she's gained her color back.
"Well this was nice but I think I'm going to look for something to eat." They smile at me and nod.
"Well talk to us again sometime!" I nod then turn my back to them and look at the rather large table, with foods of all kinds. Most of them I don't recognize, but I just pick out whatever looks good, I put that on to a plate then look around the room. Above some doors I see the same symbols in the large hallway with all the doors inside of it, I see my symbol then decided to check it out. Inside I regret my decision immediately, Marth and Ike sitting close to one another, they look up from eating and at me. I smile then take a seat a small distance away from them, Marth put's down his fork and smiles at me.
"It's nice to see you again Robin!" I smile and nod.
"Same to you Marth..." Ike finishes the rest of his meat and puts the bone down. "So, do you like it here so far?" I nod quickly.
"Yes, I've already made a couple of acquaintances." Marth smiles.
"That guy you were with, his name was Shulk right?" I nod.
"Yes, he's a very good sport and he fights with honor." He nods.
"Well it's good too see both you and Lucina getting along with everyone here… since you have the liberty of being with fellow comrades right from the start" I sallow my food then look at Marth.
"What do you mean by that?" Ike sits up and answers for him.
"The year before I was invited here, Marth here was all alone, and not being able speaking a single sent of English he was sort of voided out. But gladly enough everyone here is kind and gentle enough to befriend him, they even taught him out to speak English!" (2) Marth chuckles slightly.
"Well it was foolish of me to not learn simple phrases before I came here" Marth chuckles, Ike smiles then looks back at me.
"Well you are very noble like indeed and I think you will be a fine opponent!" They both smile and nod. They go back in their original position, Ike holding on to Marth's waist. I, being uncomfortable in that state, hoped for something, ANYTHING to happen to get me out of there, and just like that my prayers were answered. Shulk peaks his head inside of our door, we all turn to face him I stand up when I see his mop of blonde hair.
"Um sorry for barging in, but um Robin I think we should go try out All-star, if your finished and everything?" I nod, I pick up my place, scrap the rest of it into my mouth and quickly chew it. I sallow hard then face them again.
"It was really nice to talk to you two, I hope to do this again sometime!" They nod understanding my garbed nonsense.
"Same to you, oh and good luck on All-star!" I nod at Marth's encouragement then go out and close the door behind me. The Dinning hall was still filled with people, we simply go past them and leave the hall and go back into the Classis/ All-star's corridor. On the walk there I decided to thank Shulk for him barging in like that, he looks to me confused.
"What for?" I close my eyes and regain my breath, having eaten that food like that really hurt my chest and throat.
"Well it's just that the two you saw in there, Marth and Ike, there apparently dating…" Shulk chuckles wholeheartedly.
"What you never been in love before?" I feel my face slightly heating up, thanks to his comment; I shake my head.
"Oh I have very much been in love before, it's just at one point I had to let it go to pursue my actual passion, not like I didn't care for the person it's just I didn't want them in my mess, since I honestly did love them" I trail on, Shulk listens intently, I decided to ask him the same.
"What about you, has anyone ever stolen your passion filled Manado heart?" He chuckles then nods.
"Yeah actually, her name is Fiora, she's really nice and she cooks for me too!" I smile at his enthusiasm for his apparent lover.
"So did she come and see you off?" I looks down sheepish.
"Yeah she did…" I notice his voice slightly dying of it's hope.
"You say it like something happened...?" He nods and chuckles dryly.
"Yeah she actually told me something interesting…" He pauses "She told me that I should probably forget about her while I'm here, she thinks that something might change the way I feel about her so she said just to focus on fighting…" I lower my head, knowing that I probably shouldn't have asked that, I take a breath then pat his shoulder.
"Well there must have been an ulterior motive to why she said that, she must have been worried or something of the sort" He looks up at me.
"Maybe she was, I mean it does make since, I mean her older brother and me and Riki are all going to be here, maybe she was stressed and wanted to relive me of it!" I smile and nod.
"There you go, getting back that same old you again!" He chuckles then his feet begin to glow a light green, I groan slightly as I can already see where this is going.
"Common!" He starts running at an extremely fast rate, I sigh then tuck my book under my arm and try to catch up with him.
We get back to the door, I stop and put my hand on the wall and catch my breath while Shulk just chuckles and gives my back a small slap, "Get up, it wasn't even that far" I stand up and glare at him.
"For you maybe; but ignoring that, we should go inside" He smiles and nods, he opens the door as I walk inside behind him, the door shuts behind us as a light forest surrounds us, we look down and see that were stand on a balance beam of sorts.
"This doesn't seem to difficult" Shulk says to himself, when suddenly a long colored line with numbers stringing from 0 to 9, a voice slightly speaks up.
"Choose your level!" We look at one another then shrug, I go over and touch the small circle with our faces on it and move it across the line. The balance beam moves up, as I go higher in numbers.
"Oh so it's gets harder depending on the level" Shulk says like he just figured it out, I nod.
"Then I'd think we'd try the last level" Which reads at 'Nothing harder!' "Odd name for the end of a level but whatever" He chuckles.
"Yeah, then come on then go to it!" I nod then move it past all the other numbers, as we get higher the other side increases with the cold coins amount on it, So the higher the level the more money we earn, seems fair enough… once at the last number I see why it's called nothing harder! A Purple looking entity with large claws and a sharp looking smile stares down at us, while money surrounds our backside, it oddly reminded me of something but I can't put my finger on what it is…(3) Shulk, for some reason, chuckles and bounces slightly.
"Common let's try it, were both strong plus we have each other's backs right!?" I look at him then smile and nod.
"Right, well let's try it…" Another switch comes up saying 'START', I press it then a black vortex surrounds us placing us down in the middle of an arena, within the arena are trophy's of every fighter in the game. I look around slightly confused.
"But how are they all here when I just saw them eating dinner?" Shulk shrugs then he slightly gasps.
"Oh they must be just clones that Master hand and Crazy hand created, it said in the booklet" I turn to him.
"You actually read the booklet?" He shrugs slightly.
"Only a couple of parts" I chuckle then look around once more.
"Well then where too?" He scratches his head then points to an extremely large group of fighters.
"There!" I shake my head then push him in the opposite direction and we start to forces different forces against one another as Shulk just keeps walking (4).
"What. Is. Wrong. With. You!" He says with every stride he takes.
"Maybe we should lower the numbers a bit, this is our first time after all!" I yell, he sighs then stops moving.
"Fine then how about that group then?" I follow his finger and see about four or three people and smile to him.
"Better, let's go!" We run in the direction then we are immediately thrown into a place of slight interest, a slight hill with grass as green as ever and small animals with large eyes and color fur sit in the back. Already I'm hit with something, I stand up then pick it up, it's a Ray gun, I look up I mist have been hit with a Capsule… I sigh then start to use the gun to push back the opponents, Shulk being the natural attacker he is pushed them out further. My gun runs out and I toss it away then start to charge up my Thoron, once it's fully charged I run over to the edge where Shulk waits and when they try to get back in I shoot it out effectively sending at least one of them to their death's. Shulk goes out and slashes another one out then stabs downward another hanging on the edge. We win and were sent out and back into the arena, the ones we killed and a few other sending out as well, we look to one another then chuckle.
"You should use that magic book more often!" I chuckle.
"Like I told you after a certain time I can't use it for a while." He chuckles.
"Yeah, yeah I know that…" He looks around then points once more. "Let's go on to the other fight!" He drags me on to a very large fight, despite my protest stating otherwise. We go through that level and then another presents it's self, we get through that with difficultly, we make it through the next fight there were thrown into a 'Fighting Mii team' Battle. They were easy enough to kill but most of them were just laughable by what they were doing, it actually made it hard to kill them. We finish that then another black and purple vortex surrounds us and we hear the laughter of Master and Crazy hand. They go a funny looking hand gesture then float over to their justified sides, I look to Shulk then speak.
"OK so you'll take Master hand?" He nods.
"And you take Crazy hand!" I nod then run over to Crazy hand and slash upward, out of no where I'm hit from my backside almost off the stage. I recover then take a breath and then attack him more, whenever he goes up to the center of the stage I use my Acrfire and burn him in place. Quickly Crazy hand is defeated and we go over to one another.
"We did it!" We cheer but it soon stops when we see blackness surrounding us turns into a giant of some form, with no face and just a light that is colored light blue middle for something recognizable.
"Looks like we celebrated to soon..." Shulk takes out his blade and holds it out.
"Well better late the never huh?" I chuckle then start to attack the beast entity. We manage to doge the first few attacks but it soon began to attack with an unorthodox fighting style, we lose at least one of our lives due to the damage ratio and were both left with one. It screamed pushing both me and Shulk off the stage, I recovered and grabbed the edge of the stage then got up when I heard Shulk screaming from falling off the stage, I grunt. That was his last life too… now what? I know I'm going to die very quickly but why not go out with a bang. I continuously attack it, I mange to destroy it. I slightly pant with my breathe slightly knocked from me when another form takes it's place, it looks like a dog, I roll my eyes knowing what's coming next. Without any warning I'm chomped on and sent flying across the air only to lose. I groan and stand up then look at Shulk who's sitting on the balance beam once more.
"When you lost that went down a little" I dust off my pants then notice something.
"Shulk are you fighting like you should?" He stands up and thinks for a second.
"What do you mean?" I sigh slightly.
"I mean the way you fell of the stage is not like you, even if do fall I'd normally at least see you make an attempt to get back in!" He chuckles slightly.
"You got all that from those few fights with me?" I nod.
"What is the problem?" He shrugs, I sigh then close my book and look at him "Is it Firoa?" He slightly gasps, I smile at my reasoning then touch his shoulder.
"You need to focus. Right now think, do you really believe that she'd want to see you like this?" He shakes his head slowly.
"I know she wouldn't, but I can't get what she said what she said out of my head…" I sigh then think. Without my brain processing what I was doing I hug him, he stands there and doesn't do much else, I speak.
"Don't let worries mess with you, it'll only bring worse later" He chuckles slightly.
"You really want to win don't you?" I shake my head then remove myself from him.
"No it's not that, I just can't help but think if you hold on to something that may or may not be good it just ruins you..." He looks at me then smile brightly while giving me a thumbs up.
"Your right, thanks Robin!" I smile then nod, he takes out his blade then presses start once more. "Then let's go and win this!" I smile then chuckle.
"Right!"
We fail about two more consecutive times before we finally manage to beat the entire thing at the level 7.5, Shulk did fight like normal after I gave him that small speech, but I couldn't help think why I did that in the first place. Was it just me being a good friend, or something a but more… I shake that option and just stuck with that I was being a good friend. When we finished, we agreed to try All-stars after we were rested, so with that we went our separate way into out dorms, or should I say rooms. I managed to find my next to Dark Pit's room, since he was fighting with Pit, and another room that was locked and had rope around it, the sign on the front was a symbol of a duck flying on it (5), I wonder who that could be? I shrug it off then open my door. To my surprise I see almost all the female fighters in the room, they look to me when I close the door. Lucina smiles when she sees me then notice my discomfort, she get's up and walks over to me.
"They have these set up by gender; you, Ike and Marth share a room" I nod then smile at all the females, they giggle slightly then go back to talking leaving me into our, while walking over I think about something I could possibly since I remembered how Marth would tell us how his 'Friend' would surprises him with late night visits. I can only imagine how that went down… I take a breath then open the door, gladly enough they weren't doing anything, just sitting in a chair together and talking. They stop their conversation and look to me then smile, but they don't move.
"So how did your Classic mode go?" Marth asks, I go over to of the bed that's not occupied with swords and I place my book down on the stand next to it.
"It was difficult, the level 9.0 is near to impossible to beat if you have a plan" He smiles.
"Well that saves us a lot of trouble of losing to figure that out" I chuckle at Ike, then nod.
"Well actually we would have had a better chance at beating it the first time if not for Shulk's worries" They both face me.
"What do you mean by that?" Ike asks me in a slightly serious tone, I shrug.
"I don't know all the details but apparently a female that he had fallen in love with told him that he should forget about her while he's here, but I completely understand a couple of reason's why she could have told him that… but apparently Shulk didn't see it until I spoke to him on the matter" They nod.
"At least you managed to help him in a time of concern, that shows real concern for your friends!" Marth's comment causes blood to rush to my face, I look down.
"Well I wasn't forcing myself to do that, it just sort of happened..." He chuckles once more.
"No need to explain yourself, Robin we understand" I nod then look around the room.
"Well it's getting late I'm going to see if I can get any sleep tonight" They smile.
"Well goodnight then" Ike says, I nod then remove my overcoat and my boots then pull the covers back; right when I'm about to get in the bed Marth calls my name out, I turn to him.
"I'm saying this for a feature time, but apparently some people who are dedicated to this whole thing made up something called 'Shipping'…" He pauses I decided to add in.
"Does that mean we sail somewhere?" I chuckles at my words.
"Sadly no, to put it into simpler terms it just means that if they find you, as they called it, perfect with said other person they'll create art for it, writing, and all sorts of other things for it, were only telling you this because we've been put in some rather awkward 'Ships'." I regret asking this.
"What were they?' Marth looks down and blushes slightly.
"Well for me I know, Link, Pit, Ike, Peach, Snake, he's someone who isn't here anymore, and I think Meta Knight… I think there's more but I can't seem to remember them" I nod.
"I won't say mine since most of them are just the same people he's with, but it's not like it does anything it's just that it can sometimes cause chaos, like with Zero suit and Snake, they didn't like it so they went into a full on weapons war..." Marth continues.
"It destroyed most of the building, but soon after they starting to just accept it and they now love one another!" I chuckle knowing how special that word can actually be, but I'm glad they told me about this.
"Thank you two for the information" They nod, I smile then climb into my bed and turn my back to them and try and sleep. The night seems endless as I just sit there motionless in my bed, I turn over quietly and see Marth and Ike sleeping together. I sigh slightly then get up, I quietly leave our shared room and leave Lucina's room, making sure she didn't wake up. With my book in my hand I light a small fire and use that too see, I go into the hall with all the symbol doors and find one of mine. Maybe this will help me sleep… I open the door, when I get inside I cover my eyes letting them adjust to the sunlight, oddly enough it's morning in here. I slightly smile then I realize what this place is, I can't say that I've had great memories in here(6)… but it certainly brings something lost back into my mind. I close my book then just sit down on the ground, the wind pushes the sand around me, I just close my eyes and allow the sun to warm me up. I hear footsteps behind me, I would react but I know there's no real danger here so I just look behind me and see Shulk, Little Mac, Dark Pit, and another fighter I think Link was his name and I see a smaller form that looks an offal lot like him, I think his name was Toon Link. They all look at me then I stand up, "Are you all the same?" They chuckle awkwardly then nod.
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep at all" Little Mac speaks up, Dark Pit tries to retain his cool.
"Neither could I, but if I didn't have to share a room with that Goddess and that fool I'd be able to..." He chuckles slightly, Link just sighs.
"Well me and Link here just couldn't sleep because for some reason Zelda was mad at me and was telling Sheik ALL about it!" I smile awkwardly at him.
"Oh that might be a small bit on my fault for asking about relationships here" He sighs.
"She really need to cool off about that stuff!" Toon Link says while holding on to a light green blanket.
"Well since were all up why not have a little fight just to get our edges off!" Shulk suggest. Everyone, of course, is on board. I look to the most of them and notice they none of them have their weapons.
"How will we fight, we don't have all our weapons?" Little Mac chuckles.
"And here's the great reason for fighting barehanded!" He slips the gloves hanging on his waist on.
"Yet you can't stand on the stage if you tired" A snide remark from Dark Pit is heard, Little Mac grunts and faces him.
"You know this is why I always come after you in battle!" He scoffs.
"And all I do is toss you off the stage and push you far enough out and looks who's the victor!" I walk over to them and keep them apart.
"Dark Pit don't think I didn't remember what Coronus told me" He grunts then sighs and rolls his eyes, Little Mac backs off without any other warning, Link then speaks up.
"Well when you choose the settings it gives us our weapons and whatever else we don't have, plus we'd have to move to another stage since this one isn't eight people stage" I nod at his knowledge.
"Well where should we go then?" Shulk asks.
"Oh! Link we should go to that really big temple place that you went to!(7)" Link's expression changes to that of complete horror.
"I still have nightmares about that place sometimes… but sure why not" Toon link giggles then runs out of the Coliseum, Dark Pit follows not wanting to be here any longer while we soon follow them out. Shulk walks next to me and whispers something in my ear.
"Hey, did you just feel homesick, and that's why you came out?" I look to him.
"Well only a little bit, but I guess you could say it's my only reason for coming out here tonight" I chuckle, he nods.
"At least I'm not the only one I was about go into my place when Little Mac saw me" I nod.
"Well if your every feeling lonely you'll always have me... um to talk to at least." He chuckles and nods.
"Thanks Robin!" I smile at him as well. We get to the Temple and I see why he called that 'Huge temple' This place is gigantic for six people! Link stretches then the white hand we say before goes over to him, he starts to say some options since he's so familiar with the rules here; he quickly does it. Toon Link goes over to him and speaks outward.
"I think we should do teams!" The most of us agree on it, I already know that Shulks wants to be paired with me only knowing my fighting habits right now, but two solemnly disagree.
"If were going to be on teams it means that the green twins here and the buddy-buddy team and that means I'm going to be with Mr. Prat-fall here!" Little Mac nods, which slightly confuses me that he would agree with the name he's given him, but he speaks anyways.
"Yeah and I'm not teaming up with loner boy here!" Dark Pit growls.
"You want to say that again!" He chuckles.
"Loooonnnneeeerrrrr Boy" He says with extra emphasis like a child "Without Pit or Palutena here you'd be useless!" Dark Pit growls slightly.
"Oh that is it!" He somehow gained his blade and charges for Little Mac, both me and Shulk try and intervene when his blade reaches him and he counters him. The both of them are un-harmed, at least one of them should have gotten hit right? We turn to Link.
"There we go, you and Little Mac are the red team, me and Link are me are the yellow team, and Shulk and Robin are the green team" Dark Pit sighs.
"You weren't listening to us were you!?" He smiles brightly and shakes his head.
"When you've lived with Zelda for a week you'll see how I did it, but moving on from that, this a stock match, six lives, 1.6 damage ratio, all items, and team battle whoever loses first wins… oh and something that you guys might not know is that say for instance Link loses all of his lives, if I have more the two he could take my life and come back for revenge" I take in his knowledge and nod.
"That would have been great to know in 'Classic'." I smile and nod.
"But now that we know it let's use it to our advantage!" Shulk nods, then Link speaks once more.
"Ok well those are the rules, let the best team win!" With that he hit's a large 'START' button and were moved to different locations as the match begins...
*Hums a tone* I'm trying not to make this to sudden but I feel like i'm rushing it a bit, and sorry if your no fan of cliff hangers but it's the only way I can get myself to stop writing this {Aside from just getting tired}. But either way I hope you enjoyed this chapter, tell me if I got any of the character's story lines wrong, it'd be a big help!
(1): By 'rare chance' I mean DLC, if I confused anyone there.
(2): Yes I do know that Roy was in Melee but I feel that since he actually wasn't fully realized until years after he debuted in the game that Marth didn't know him, it's my logic and I'm sticking to to it.
(3): I wasn't exactly sure if within Fire Emblem: Awakening those monsters thingies, since I've only played the demo, if they were purple creatures or not, but if I find out that there not I'll remove it.
(4): This really isn't important but it's just whenever me and my brother play Classic Mode together we always go in opposite directions, and it just cracks me up!
(5): This may be a bit confusing but I'll explain in the best way that I can... Dark Pit yes he's a hidden as well as others, but after a little while I decided to let a few hidden's in already since I needed them for my plot, the character's that aren't hidden in my story are... Ness, Falco, Dark Pit, Ganondorf and Jigglypuff.
(6): This goes along sort of with number three, I just wasn't sure of what happened in the Coliseum in that game, so feel free to correct me if I did that wrong, I'll change it.
(7): For those who've played 'The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link' You probably know what I'm talking about, but for those who haven't it's the last temple in the game and you can't leave once you've entered it, and the boss oh boy- let me just move on.