This is a new chapter. at first it might seem like the gym chapter but it kinda is but it's very different. first couple of paragraphs are the same. it starts to be different at lunchtime when they meet peach just to let any of you people know, how don't feel like reading the whole thing!!! :) enjoy

Chapter 10: Leaving Already

"Did you know that this place isn't really an academy?" Roy asked Marth and Link at breakfast. 'Make him stop' Link pleaded. He was always in misery waking up in the morning and the lack of sleep from the party last night didn't help either. "It's just another orphanage with a higher education range!"

"How do you know this?" Marth asked just wanting to fall asleep on the table.

"Kirby!"

"Roy, how can you be so alive when we barely had any sleep last night?" Roy shrugged.

After breakfast they went to Art with Mr. Mario and Mr. Luigi. Mario was pretty nice while his brother was shy and timid. Then they went to World Language with Mr. Wario. He didn't really care what the students did in that class, as long as they don't annoy him, so they took this time to catch up on their sleep. Next was Science with Mr. Olimar. Mr. Olimar was a shy and timid little man. He had only this tuff of brown hair on his head and wore yellow top to bottom. No one knows where he gets his yellow pants though because they are made out of his ruby material used in astronaut suits.

"Would you like cheese or pepperoni?" Today's lunch was pizza and after the classes which were each an hour, it seemed like heaven to eat. 'That voice' the trio thought.

"PEACH??!" They all shouted.

"Oh hi boys!" Peach waved hello.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well can't you see? I'm working here!" They all stared at her lunch lady outfit. "I'm the nurse as well as the cook!!"

"WHY?" they asked even though the answer could be really simple.

"Well, I like to help to treat to people's injures-!"

"No, that's not what we meant." Link shoved Roy and Marth along. They were at their table with their lunch in no time.

"Oh dang, I forgot something, I'll be back." Marth and Roy looked at each other. Link was a king at sarcasm but lying was his weakness.

"Cheese or pepperoni? Oh Link you're done already? I-" Peach couldn't help but stare at his angry eyes. She was terrified.

"Look, Lady," Links voice went to a whisper but Peach could hear him crystal clear as can be, "We're thankful that you went through all that trouble to get us safely here but stop right now. Stop trying to be with us. Everyone looks at you as if you were an angel, but I can see through your lies. You're just a fucking devil who doesn't know their place." With that he walked away getting silverware as if he actually went up there to pick up something he forgot to get.

"What did you do?" Marth glanced at Peach's frozen figure.

"Doesn't it feel like there's something sinister about her? Or am I the only one?" Marth looked sternly at Link telling him not to do it again.

"Isn't it great that Peach is here?" Roy's comment interrupted Marth's and Link's intense stare. Both of them stayed quiet.

"Hey Roy over here!" Kirby called out, waving to them with his free arm.

"Well see you guys later!" Roy left to go eat with Kirby as Marth found Pit and Link left with Falco.

"Okay after Lunch we have English, then Math, then SS and then Gym!" Kirby reviewed the schedule over to Roy with an evil grin.

"What's so special about gym?" Roy asked even though he was already a fan of gym.

"Oh you'll see! It'll be fun." Lit was quite peaceful with Mr. B. He was really tall and wore green pants and a yellow shirt. Math was interesting when they got a pilot as a teacher. His name was Mr. F., and introduced himself as a pilot. Mr. F., was tall and muscley, he wore a pilot helmet with a yellow scarf. 'What is with all the yellow?' Marth wondered getting sick of the color. He wore a very eggplanty (purple) suit. Social Studies was next, who was taught by Mr. D. He wore, of course, yellow pants with a red shirt and a winter cap. He was kind of average height and plump.

The day seemed to speed to gym, even though it really didn't since each class was an hour. Everyone gathered in the gym and waited for the teacher. He soon appeared as if he could feel them summoning him. He was tall with a green bandana and a gray suit. Marth looked around at students, noticing the excitement in their eyes.

"Students, you may begin and give these newbies a demonstration of what we're doing in gym!" The three were given chairs on the sides and then a dummy was placed a couple of feet in front of them. Kirby was first, and he jumped up really high almost to the ceiling of the big gym. As he came down, the wind started to pick up in the room. Marth, Link and Roy could see the wind swirling around Kirby's frail body. He landed without a big boom like they thought was going to happen. When Kirby hit the ground, a powerful wave of wind came at them. If it wasn't for the wall, they would probably be, literally, blown away. Kirby was there, where the dummy was, kneeling down. Around the room were scattered remains of the destroyed dummy. From all the force, you would have thought that it would leave a huge dent in the floor but it didn't, which was strange seeing that the floor was normal, shiny wood gym floor. Kirby got up and smiled as he exited the floor.

Marth, Link and Roy were shocked and couldn't talk as they watched the rest of the performances. Last, was Pit. He kneeled, being the farthest from the dummy as can be. His arms were out as if he was holding an imaginary bow. He pulled back ready to fire the 'arrow'. Like Kirby's performance, the wind started to pick up except it was swirling into a mini tornado forming as the arrow. Pit let it go and it went swirling forward. There was silence until another wave of wind came at them when it hit the dummy.

Marth, Link and Roy were so used to it by now that they didn't even flinch when it hit them. Like all the rest, there was no evidence on the gym, that what they saw really happened.

"So what do you think?" The gym teacher asked with all the students behind him, curious as he as.

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"Link, I know Marth got you mad but you can't just slap everyone that gets you mad. It doesn't work that way, sweetie." Daisy held him close to her. Tears fell from his eyes. His face seemed so hot as the tears slid down his cheeks and onto her dress.

"Please Daisy, they don't get it. They need to grow up-"

"Link dear, I don't know what happened to you in the past but this is a new start." Link looked up at her with his frustrated eyes, as hard as he tried to hide it, she could see the fragile, breaking spirit within him, "They don't know anything about you, so you have to educate them what you're like. You are what you want to be. You can only change because of yourself, but make sure that if you change, it's because you want to." Link sat still on her lap, looking into the air, letting the words sink in.

"I don't want to change!" Link wiped his tears on his sleeves and looked at Daisy with a determined face.

"Marth and Roy are nice and you never know when someone will accept you for who you are." Daisy patted his had.

"I won't let them. -"

"Link, what are you afraid of? Why do you try so hard to keep people away?"

Link remembered that day way back, the first day being under the care of Daisy. He fiddled with the Swiss army knife in his pocket. He rubbed his finger on the blade's edge, making sure he wouldn't cut himself. CREAK the loose door alarmed someone coming into the room. He didn't even look up knowing who it was.

"Hi Link, I…I'm sorry. Please don't go." Link turned to the small figure and pointed the knife at them, then looked up to see the pale white, small face of Link Jr.

"Sorry, I thought you were Marth." Link scooted over to indicate him that he could sit down with him on the floor and closed and pocketed the knife.

"Please stay! I'll miss you." Link looked at the pleading eyes of the small child.

"Sorry, I can't say that I will. It's nothing personal…."

"I know. Then I wish you good luck though and I wanted you to give you this." Link Jr. took off his hat. 'Does he seriously think that, that hat will fit my head?' Link watched him carefully. He soon took an object out of the hat, another hat, this time bigger. Link tried it on and it fit like a glove.

"How did you get this?"

"It was my brother's."

"Won't he need this then?"

"No, he's dead." Link stopped asking questions and looked at the boy. He was crying not daring to look at Link, feeling embarrassed.

"I'm sorry." Link patted his head and took off. He heard running steps and stopped. Link Jr. ran up to Link and hugged him.

"I miss him so much!!!!" He cried into his shirt. The two sat down at the closest wall and Link just let him cry until he was exhausted. 'He must have been a great brother' Link thought thinking on what he was like. To be honest, he was jealous. But that was another story to tell someone else later on.

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"I'm so sorry about, yeah." Pit apologized not able to meet Marth's eyes.

"Don't worry about it."

"Stop by when you're in the neighborhood okay?" Marth nodded as they exchanged addresses and numbers to contact each other.

"I just want to say, thank you, you were a great friend." Pit said as he left. Marth smiled as the door closed and then frowned. 'Am I just being selfish by leaving?' Marth questioned himself.

"Aren't you going to say good bye to Kirby?" Marth asked Roy.

"I'd rather not."

"Why not?"

"I don't like good byes." Roy sat on his bunk bed he was going to miss." The last time I said good bye, I never saw that person again."

"Who was it?" All of a sudden Link came in carrying Link Jr. He placed him on his bunk and gently laid the covers over him. Marth and Roy remained quiet not wanting to continue their conversation.

"It's time to go."

"Where will we go?"

"Back to our families?" Marth quietly suggested.

"I can't." all of them said. They had so many questions for each other but they had a gut feeling they had to go their separate ways, hoping that one person might speak out and keep them bound together.

"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!!!" an alarm yelled. The three jumped up something was wrong, but they were happy in a way.