After Luigi stopped sobbing and hugging Mario, he thought to ask Mario a question on just how they got here...

"Uh, bro, where did you come from, anyways?" Luigi asked his brother.

"Oh, where we came from?" Mario replied to Luigi. "We came here from a port town not too far from here."

Robin responded with a quizzical look. "Port town?" He then asked, wondering where such a place could be here.

"Yeah, there's a town not too far from here... it's... where we found ourselves after the flash..." Link responded, all the while pointing to himself and Mario. Both Robin and Luigi remember this occurrence, since they were alert when the world went dark back at their world.

"But... how do you expect to get back?" Robin asked.

"Easy, we got by when it came to getting a map in town. Took us a bit of time negotiating, but we got one." Link answered. He then pulled out a rolled up sheet of parchment from one of his pouches on his side, and rolled it out to show a map of a continent they were on. "According to this map... we are the continent of Euhin, in the country of Euthodox. Pretty strange names, I know..." Link said to Robin and Luigi.

"So... how did you know we were here?" Luigi puzzled, wondering how Link and Mario found them so quickly.

"We... did not. We decided to take a job to hunt a dragon that we heard was in the woods." Link replied. "So we searched until we found a fort, which was a likely hiding spot for it."

"Yeah... funny story... but Link? There's one problem..." Robin said.

"What?"

"That dragon... I... might have killed it before you did..." Robin told Link.

"That's... erm... ok. And where is the body?" Link responded to Robin with.

"That's... the body." Robin countered, as he pointed to the Manakete corpse that laid in the room.

"But how?" Mario asked. "It really looks nothing like a dragon."

"Well, it's better to understand if you came from where I originated from." Robin began. "This, is a Manakete. A person who can shape-shift into a dragon... with the help of this..." Robin explained, as he walked over to the corpse to pick up the orange stone that the hooded Manakete was still clutching. "This is a Dragonstone, a source of their transformation. They can use it to become dragons at will."

"Ok... but how will we prove it's the same dragon that was on the job we were taking?" Link questioned. He was not too sure just how the mayor was going to believe that this stone was how this man was able to become a dragon, or let alone believe that the dragon was even dead.

"I'll try to explain the best I can to him... whoever this mayor is..." Robin answered. "In the meantime, I believe we should search this place for anything that can help us." Robin then added. Link simply nodded with excitement at what will follow next.

Link went ahead and started searching the room for anything they can use. Link then laid eyes on one of the chests that was inside this room, a telltale sign to him that it was meant for him to open and relieve of it's contents. Link immediately walked over to the chest, sure to knock it open and claim his prize.

"And there he goes for the chests." Mario murmured, keeping an eye on Link as he cracked his knuckles and got himself into a position to open the chest. As he reached down and opened it, he realized the chest was chock full of an assortment of coins and other treasures, which gleamed in the torch lights brilliantly. Everybody, except for Link was amazed at just what they discovered...

"Ugh, it's full of loose coins and treasure! I can't lift that over my head triumphantly!" Link complained. He was still amazed, but just feigned disappointment just so he could say that, to try and amuse the others. The problem was, though, and every one person in the room knew this; not one of them, Mario, Luigi, Robin, or even Link could reliably store that much gold and treasure...

"So... how are we going to carry all this?" Mario asked Robin.

"Link, search the chest. There must be something that can be sold that we can actually take back to a town or city." Robin ordered Link. Link started digging through the chest and fished out several baubles and treasures, such as loose gems, necklaces, rings, and even some bullion's of silver and gold, presumably the few valuables left in the fort, and maybe of the victims who were destroyed by the Manakete.

As he fished out some more, however, he came across a ornate lock box, made of silver. The box itself was engraved with roses on the lid, with the stems extending to the bottom of the lid, with them entwining around each other. Link was rather curious as to just what could be inside, so he attempted to open it, to little to no avail.

"Argh, it will not open!" Link exclaimed.

"Well, great. Guess we better wait until we can find somebody who can open it..." Robin huffed. "What of the other chests?"

Mario and Luigi nodded and searched the other two chests that were in the room, but the results of their finds were not as impressive as Link's.

"Nothing but clothes and shoes in this box..." Mario said as he looked in his chest.

"Ehh... this one's got books and loose papers..." Luigi said, as he perused one of the books in there, noting to be just a journal made by a soldier who was guarding this fort.

"Books? Let me take a look..." Robin responded rather quick-like as he rushed towards the chest containing the books and took a look. Unfortunately, nothing really peeked his fancy, as these books were not the spell tome's or books about tactics he hoped for.

"Eh, nothing but diaries and journals... sorry to get so excited..." Robin said, as he shut the chest that Luigi opened.

"So, are we ready to leave for town?" Link said, stuffing some bullion's and bits of gems in his pouches.

"Sure, let's leave." Robin said, with the Mario Bros. nodding.

The party of four found themselves outside and back on the dirt trail again. Robin suggested that they should travel in a marching order to allow them some measure of protection (And particularly giving Robin a chance to demonstrate his tactical thinking.) so when they get ambushed, they will be ready for it. They eventually agreed that Link should take the front, allowing him to deal with enemies on the front, and because he's the one leading them with his directions he is taking from the map. Robin and Luigi are walking in the center row, allowing Robin to stay behind Link as he can prepare his spells. Luigi was honestly there cause everybody agreed that he was going to be hiding behind either one of them during a confrontation, mainly Mario. Mario took the rear, giving him the job of looking out for people approaching from the back of their party.

As the party exited the woods and out into an open field, Robin and Luigi took notice of the town, which was a short distance away from where they were. "Alright, I see it!" Luigi cried out.

"Just a few paces and we will be there..." Link added as they went along the trail leading to the port town from the woods. As he was walking however, he noticed something in the distance, that looked like two horsemen that are riding. When he got a look at them, they stopped in their tracks. "Wonder what those people are doing..." Link them murmured as he put his nose back into the map.

Luigi looked back over to the horses and kept an eye at them. Suddenly, the horses were moving towards where they are, which made Luigi a bit curious as to what their motives are, until he then saw that these horsemen looked a bit too far in front of the horse to look like they were riding it correctly. Suddenly as they approached, Luigi just then realized just what these "Horsemen" looked like; a beast that looked much like a lion head mixed with a man's upper body and half of a horse.

"Uhhh, Link? Could you... could... you take a look, please!?" Luigi stuttered as he went to Link and started tugging on his tunic in order to get his attention, which succeeded when he knew he was looking straight at him.

"What, Luigi? I am trying to study the continent..." Link snapped. He noticed Luigi was pointing towards where he saw those horsemen, but when he looked, he realized all too soon that these horsemen were monsters charging in on their position. When the heavy stomping of horse feet sounded over the plains, Robin and Mario suddenly looked towards the source and too, realized they were being attacked.

"Heads up! It's Lynels!" Link shouted, as he took out his bow. The party then faced towards the two beasts and got into position to fight, even Luigi, who thought he ought to show he is not as scared as he lets on to be.

Upon a look, the party saw that these Lynels were holding massive weapons which clearly looked to be made for them; A giant battle axe in one Lynel's hand, and a greatsword, held in one hand, by the other Lynel. These lion-maned beasts appeared to have confidence that they can destroy each one of the smashers present, and charged forward with impunity.

"Take this!" Robin said as he launched an Thoron beam at the Lynel with the axe. As it was charging too fast to reliably move out of the way of the beam of lightning, it was struck and promptly got knocked down to the ground by the resulting blast. As the other one was charging, it was struck a few times with Link's arrows, but none of those arrows seemed to slow this monstrosity down at all. This Lynel, however, was going for one sole objection; to cause as much fear as possible by targeting what looks like the weakest opponent, and as such, shifted his focus on Luigi, who despite putting up his fists in an attempt to look tough, was still shaking in his shoes the whole time.

"Luigi, look out!" Link then shouted to Luigi. The Lynel was hefting his greatsword straight into the air once he got to approach Luigi, and it appeared Luigi was going to fight this beast woefully unprepared, just so he can prove he can fight reliably without being scared. Link quickly got his clawshot out, and wasted no time in firing it at Luigi to pull him away from the Lynel, who got into striking distance of the green-clad plumber. As the clawshot grasped Luigi's arm and tugged him away to Link, the Lynel, with his greatsword, crashed it down on the ground with a thunderous quake.

"Link, I had him!" Luigi complained as he shook himself free from the clawshot and ran towards the Lynel to pound on him. Despite the monster's sword being stuck far into the ground with that massive swing, it took no time at all for it to pull it out of the dirt and readied the sword into a position for him to swing it again, this time with the determination that it will not miss this next slash.

"Alright, you big lunky horse-thing, time to show just what this lean, green, fighting machine can do!" Luigi shouted triumphantly, as he jumped up to the Lynel's face and with a resounding 'Yah!', kicked it straight in it's jaw. As Luigi planted the kick perfectly, he then realized this attack did little to nothing to faze the Lynel one bit, as it used it's free arm to swat Luigi down to the ground

"Oof!" Luigi winced as he hit the ground. As he got up again, he thought he was going to have to do something far more powerful that can deck this beast to the earth. He then realized he had the answer right in his hand, with a technique known as the Super Jump Punch.

Back in the world of the Smashers, Luigi was not taken too seriously in many matches. One thing everybody could agree on, however, is that Luigi has a very frightening uppercut in the form of the move he uses to make a jump, the Super Jump Punch. Dubbed the Fire Jump Punch, all Luigi had to do was make sure he can catch his foe in the beginning of the jump though, any later and the blow will just barely graze the foe, and leave a hapless Luigi open as he fell to the ground.

"Here goes..." Luigi said to himself as he rushed towards the monster with the intent of catching him with his Super Jump Punch. The Lynel readied himself against the charge and raised his sword up so he can strike once Luigi got close enough, all the while arrows from Link's bow, Fireballs from Mario, and successive bolts of thunder from Robin's Levin sword were being fired at it, with little to no effectiveness. And when Luigi got into his reach, the beast swung his sword in a wide slash, sure to kill the plumber. But when he looked, he noticed there was nobody in front of it, no corpse, no plumber, nothing.

This search for Luigi was short lived however. Luigi, before the Lynel swung it's sword, rolled underneath the beast's equine body and hid underneath it. Just then, a harsh flash of pain seared through the Lynel's body...

"Eyeh!" Luigi screamed out as he successfully landed a Fire Jump Punch straight under the beast's body. As the flash of pain hit, the Lynel was sent flying into the air, probably around a good 20 feet (Around 6 Meters) or so before it came crashing down with a sickening thud. The monstrosity then faded to a jet black color before it's corpse exploded in a purple smoke and vanished for good.

"Luigi! That was way too dangerous!" Mario then scolded Luigi. Luigi honestly felt too good after defeating that monster to really pay much attention to Mario's cautioning. It was really about time he proved he was more than just baggage... at least, that was what he though. Luigi always did had a problem with self-esteem...

"We're not done yet, that last one is coming back!" Robin shouted, as he saw the Lynel that was previously downed get back up from Robin's Thoron attack. The monster then ran up to it's aggressor, Robin, and ran towards him, axe at the ready.

But this Lynel was not going to give the tactician the pleasure of being downed by a axe swung with great power. It had other plans for it. As it was fast approaching the smashers, all the while being bombarded with repeated attacks from a distance, it took a great breath, and with it, an orange light welled up within the Lynel's mouth. And when he got all the power welling up in it that the beast needed, he launched a large ball of fire straight at Robin.

"Mama Mia, look out!" Mario shouted, as he rushed towards Robin with the intent of protecting him from the blaze. As Robin was trying to get out of the way, Mario then jumped in front of the fireball and whipped out his cape.

"Heeyah!" Mario grunted as he swung his cape at the fireball's immediate impact. As the cape struck the ball, it suddenly turned back around, and started flying back towards the Lynel that fired it. Tried as it might, the Lynel could not escape the fireball and as soon as it made an effort to run from it, the beast got struck with it as it exploded into a burst of flames. As the flames died down, the smashers took a look at the aftermath to see if it was truly defeated. What they then saw was the body of the Lynel then exploding into the same purple smoke the other one dissipated into as it was defeated.

"Phew... glad that was over..." Link then huffed as he put away his bow.

After making sure everybody was alright, he then turned his attention to a pouch that was left behind where the last Lynel met it's end at. "Strange... this was left behind..." Link then added, as he went over to the pouch, all the while stepping around the bits of flames that were strewn across the area of impact. As he picked it up and opened it, he saw there was a slip of folded paper that was in it, and decided to open up the folds and take a look.

There was a drawn likeness of Mario and Link on the paper.

"What does it say?" Robin asked Link.

"It's... a drawing of me and Mario." Link responded.

"Really?" Mario said. He then walked to Link just to see if he was telling the truth, and when he got a look at the slip of paper that Link showed him, he made a guess as to why they would have such a thing, which Link was thinking as well...

"Oh dear, somebody's got a hit on us!" Mario cried.

"And they sent something as powerful as these guys on us too. Whoever sent them must really want us gone." Link said. His mind raced on to think of just who would want them defeated. Surely nobody in town would have the gall of enlisting somebody as vicious as these Lynel's to try and destroy them, so whoever did this must have made a deal they could not refuse...

"Uh, we probably should keep walking back to town. I'd hate for us to get attacked again..." Robin said.

"Please!" Luigi pleaded. As much of a brave face he wanted to put on, he still did not think he was ready to face another attack like that. He just wanted to get to town just so he can relax for a bit and allow the others to plan their next move.

"We ought to get a move-on. There might be more..." Link urged the others. Mario simply nodded once it was settled they should pick up the pace and head back soon.