Hi again! Metaknight4ever here as always! I know this is a little, or a lot corny, but I was bored and I like it so my mind's not in change-the-dang-story mode! I'll make another more action-filled if everyone wants. (I love MK in case no one noticed)
Meta knight and Marth went out to the top of the smash mansion's roof and gazed up at the stars, each lost in thought. After a few minutes, Marth turned to Meta knight and asked
"Hey Meta knight are we friends?" Meta knight turned to Marth who's side he was leaning on.
"Yeah, just don't tell the others please."
"Why? They'll be thrilled, You don't know how surprised and happy they'd be!" Marth questioned putting his arm around Meta knight's shoulder again and giving him a caring squeeze.
"They'd laugh at me, I'd be made fun of." Meta knight sighed seeming saddened again.
"What? They wouldn't do that! They're all terrified of you!" Marth said almost laughing in his tone
"They are?" Meta knight asked curiously, he apparently didn't know it.
"Yeah you may not know it, but you're very intimidating and can be pretty frightening. But if you want I won't tell them." Meta knight thought that over, if they were scared of him then it wouldn't do much harm.
"Well, I suppose that if they wouldn't do that, then you can tell them if you want." Marth shrugged and stretched out on the flat rooftop, he smiled to Meta knight one more time before yawning and rolling onto his side.
"Night Meta." he whispered before drifting off to sleep, Meta knight leaned on Marth's side a little more and sighed again but this time as a cleansing breath.
"Good night Marth, have a good rest." he spoke softly this time, with care, and a million questions flooded his mind 'What? How? Why in the world would he want to be friends with me? I am cold to everyone, what did I do to make him care for me personally? It must have been something but I don't know what, but I've never felt liked before, not since. . . I was in the army and Jerca and Garlude showed they were glad I made it into knighthood. But now that I do feel liked, I- I, I actually miss it. Oh how am I gonna do this?' He breathed heavily, but kept quiet as not to wake up Marth. Maybe he cared for Marth and didn't even realize it. Now he too was tired and slid down, falling asleep against Marth's hip. Meanwhile, not far away at all, both had been watch under Pit's eyes.
"Oh wow! He actually touched him and didn't get beat up! So it's okay if the secret gets out hmm? okay I'll do it out of the kindness of my heart for Marth." He said in a sinister tone, yet also quiet so he wouldn't wake up Meta knight who was an amazingly light sleeper. Pit zoomed off to tell Mario, Luigi, Samus, Snake, Sonic, and anyone else he could think of.
The next morning, Marth and Meta knight went down to breakfast, and on the way Marth, showing he didn't want Meta knight to feel uncomfortable, didn't bother him to death about taking his mask off and allowed him to walk slightly farther behind him. A few of the fighters eyed them curiously before Meta knight gave them a menacing glare and they went on like nothing happened. Marth chuckled at the spooked look on their faces trying to avoid eye contact with Marth or Meta knight. Meta knight blinked up at Marth with sparkling happy eyes and ran up to his side proudly. It felt good to see the frightened look on their faces change to a confused look, Meta knight always liked everyone to be unsure about things when he was around, it was amusing to him, and for some unknown reason, made him feel more secure about his surroundings. Marth normally would have disagreed with that, but it was very funny to see them try to be bored with the sight, but they were far from it and most likely wanted to get out of the room right now. Some did. While some did their best to ignore them. Pit however gave each of them a big, grin, his eyebrows bouncing in a taunting way.
"Hello Marth, how are things?" He said with a yawn. "You my friend are brave, staying near the puffball of fury all night long." Marth nodded half-asleep then spewing coffee out in a gasp of astonishment
"What? How? Where? When?. . .Huh?!" Trying to figure out how Pit would know of this, Meta knight who wasn't eating just stretched his majestic wings and with eyes that questioned and threatened at the same time, stared down Pit. He then spoke in his deep, stern, mellow, dark, cold voice asked
"Pit, out of the curiosity of my soul, how did you learn we were out on the roof last night so soon? I do not beleive Marth had a chance to tell anyone that we're best friends yet." Marth nodded and then stopped,'Whoa! BEST friends?! Wow, It felt like we were and I'd say that we are, But Meta knight has serious pride, He can be so, well. . .um. . .uh. . .arrogant in a way, but sort of a good way. Well this is one great day for me already!' Pit was now stuttering wanting not to tell Meta knight that he was spying on them, but if he didn't say anything at all that might be worse than telling him.
"Uh, well, um I was spying on you two last night! I'm sorry!" To that Meta knight got up, grabbed Pit and whipped him into the other room with all his strength. He shot in there after him and everyone's head turned to the sound of Pit yelling
"Owwwwwie!!! Ouch! Hey! No oww! Hey I just said I'm so-owwww!!!!!" and Meta knight's voice barking in anger after him.
"No! The thing that bothers me is not that you were spying on us, but that you later gossiped about it!" then some more yells of pain from Pit, and then some more words from Meta knight that were to low in tone that it couldn't be made out. A minute or so later, Pit stumbled out of that room with a black eye, and a bandage on his right wing and left arm. Meta knight walked casually out behind him he flew up to Pit's shoulder and patted it in a mocking/friendly fashion. "Did we learn something new today?" he asked, Pit shivering slightly at his gesture.
"Never gossip about Meta knight." Pit answered quietly and sat down next to Mario stroking his battered wing. Meta knight sat down smirking underneath his mask then he blinked up happily at Marth. Who, surprisingly, hit him on the wing.
"Ow! Why'd you do that?!" Meta knight said rubbing the wing in a soothing fashion.
"Stop picking on people, as if they're not scared of you enough, you don't need to bully Pit in front of everyone to make your point of how tough you are." Meta knight rubbed his wing some more, then nodded. Everyone was whispering amongst themselves on how Meta knight didn't attack Marth back. . .
The two went for a walk outside afterwards, and Marth asked about the 'best friends' thing
"Because you are my best friend." Meta knight shrugged with a light tone in his voice.
"Really? You mean that?" Marth said hopefully, Meta knight nodded again and rubbed this wing again.
"Yup, just don't hit me anymore okay?"
"You nearly killed Pit in the other room, I told you they all are scared of you enough, you don't need to worry about being made fun of. They would know well enough not to mess with you, they'd be amazed if you passed them over when on a regular basis they would have to face your wrath." Marth pointed out asking himself where he came up with such intelligent remarks. Meta knight gave him a long, emotionless look then said yes. They chatted for most of the rest of the walk, Marth was talking to himself quietly at the same time. 'This guy is smart! Uxie smart! I feel so dumb talking to him! He deserves a smarter friend, I do hope he actually means that we are best friends.' Meta knight didn't care that Marth wasn't as smart as he was, Marth had pointed out how he should have a smarter friend than him, but Meta knight just laughed and said that Marth was smart, just in different fields than Meta knight was in. They stopped under Whispy Woods in Green greens, and went over almost every topic in existence, Marth was telling Meta knight his stories about the wars in his homeland when Marth asked in mid-sentence, "Have you ever had any wars in your Homeland?" Marth got an answer far from what he expected. He figured Meta knight would say yes, but nothing big, or yeah, but not very long, or even just no. But instead the answer from Meta knight's mouth was
"Yes, a long terrible one, so bad that I had to join the army for it. I'm the only known survivor from it." Marth's eyes widened and he begged Meta knight to continue on, he was curious and was determined to hear it. "It'll be long, and It's very sad." Meta knight warned.
"Then you must allow me to cry when I do get sad, and I'll listen all afternoon if that's how long it will take." Marth said. Meta knight sighed then continued on. "
I was about 100 or so, if I were a human I'd be a little younger than you. When my father when to fight our threat Nightmare, a nearly invincible being. And my three older brothers had been recruited as well, all four of the men in my family had been killed trying to fight one enemy, and I was the only hope my mother and sister had, I was eligible for knighthood and I met the two best friends I ever had named Garlude and Jerca. . .Not long after we'd become friends, Jerca had been taken captive and turned into a horrible creature that would finish off our whole army, I had no choice but. . .but-"
"But what?" Marth asked softly as not to sound like an interruption.
"I had to save our troops and put him out of missery. . .by killing him." Meta knight said his throat closing over his words slightly. Marth moved closer to Meta knight and nodded calmly, then curiosity struck him again. But he had to say the question he wanted to ask in a caring way.
"I see, Meta knight, what happened to Garlude?" Meta knight regained a little bit of composure and spoke again in a way that showed he was loosing his calmness, but was trying to act like everything was all right.
"Garlude and I had Been sent on a mission to claim a sword from a monster, we both made it in, but the monster had spotted us and we fought it, I was distracting it, while Garlude snuck up to the pedestal where the sword was kept. She flung it to me and motioned for me to run, once I had caught it, the beast went for her, I tried to save her. But. . ." He paused for a long moment. ". . .I failed." Meta knight said then turning away from Marth quickly. Marth began to feel bad, Meta knight didn't "cry" last night, just simply was shedding tears of thankfulness. Now he could hear Meta knight sniffling, and could see water forming big, wet, shiny drops in Meta knight's eyes. He was shaking violently, like he was vibrating. Marth looked at the intensity in his amber gaze and asked what Meta knight was doing.
"I-I can't. . .cry. It's not honorable-. . .or strong." He managed to make out, his voice shuddering.
"Honor doesn't matter now, nor does strength. I'm your friend Meta knight, and you shouldn't try to stop yourself from having emotions. It doesn't matter if you cry in front of me, or anyone let alone. Tear-shed is natural, and everyone does it, even the numskulls that came up with the idea it's unhonorable." Marth whispered to Meta knight. Meta knight looked up at Marth trying to hold his tears back for one more second, then dropped to his knees (Or whatever they are.) crying. Marth placed his hand on Meta knight's back, for a minute, then helped him up. He put him in his lap, and held him closely and gently again. Meta knight turned to face Marth, and then nuzzled his Mask into Marth's chest. Marth was startled but was happy to see Meta knight trusted him for comfort, he hugged him caringly now. Meta knight leaned into Marth's arms. He'd stopped crying especially hard. Now with small, harmless tears that stained his mask, he sighed heavily again and blinked with eyes that were cloudy and blurred, yet the light in them twinkled up at Marth.
"Thank you Marth, That feels better." He spoke quietly, his voice still sad, but also happy. Marth sighed and hugged Meta knight once more.
"I'm sorry I asked about those stories, I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I-"
"It's alright Marth, I understand, You were curious and wanted to know, Later when I'm feeling a bit better, I'll tell you of some of the adventures I had if you want." Meta knight said patting Marth's arm and climbing off his lap. He raised his Mask a bit to let out the water from his eyes, Marth got up and they walked back to the Smash Mansion.
*Gasp* Oh no! What's this?! It's a Cliffhanger! muwahaha! ok! I'll see how fast I can get chap. 5 done!