Attack on Waffle Kingdom
Mario and his companions were suddenly bombarded by the villagers, who were basically fighting them with everything they had. Those who didn't have weapons basically used hand to hand, and even resorted to cheap tactics like ganging up on one person.
Mario, Luigi, and Daisy didn't want to fight villagers, so they basically just tried to knock them out. Mario and Luigi stayed close to Daisy protecting her, since she was the only one there who couldn't fight well.
Link and Sheik on the other hand were a little more violent then Mario and Luigi. Link had his sword out and while he didn't like it, had no real problem killing a villager if he had to. Sheik however tried a little harder not to kill any of the villagers. Being a ninja he knew vital points where he could hit the villagers without killing them.
This fight went on for a while, with no end in sight. "Sheik, I'm going to end this!" Link said after stabbing someone in the back. Sheik nodded and turned to continue the fight. Link then cast Fafore's Wind to transport himself closer to the castle.
Mario was shocked when he saw that. "Mario!" Luigi called to him catching his attention, "He's probably gone to the castle to confront Peach!"
"Damn it!" Mario cursed as he turned and ran to the castle. Luigi looked at Mario as he ran not knowing what to think anymore. Truth was Luigi was very upset about Princess Eclair, and wasn't so sure if they could save Peach anymore.
"Mario..." he said to himself before continuing the fight.
Daisy had gone inside an abandoned building to hide. She too was really shaken up by what happened, and was cursing herself for creating such a monster. "Luigi, I'm sorry!" she said crying to herself, "All of this is my fault! I'm so sorry Luigi, Mario!" she said to herself through her tears.
Peach had been watching this whole thing from Princess Eclair's castle. Where she was there were monitors showing the entire kingdom, so she saw the whole fight. When she saw Link teleport away she got up and went into the throne room, knowing exactly where he was going.
"Deas!!!" Link shouted from the front door.
Peach was amused by his emotion, but also confused by the name he called her. "Deas? Who is this Deas you speak of?" she asked him.
"That would be the monster standing in front of me!" he said pointing at her.
"Oh, I'm a monster now?"
"You kill innocent lives, you force people to follow your will, all for the sake of "justice"!"
"But if I recall, you were out there killing innocent lives too just now." she said shocking Link, "You didn't have to kill them, all you had to do was take them out. If I'm a monster, then you're just as bad as I am."
"Shut up! I'm nothing like you!" he said as he pulled out the Master Sword, "And I'll prove it by ridding the world of you!"
"Ha, you can try, but beware not to underestimate me," she said as she held her hand out at her side, letting a dark cloud run down her arm, the cloud then turned into a sword similar to the Master Sword, but with a black hilt and a red gemstone where the Tri-Force symbol was on Link's sword, "I don't plan on just sitting around helpless like before."
Link let out a battle cry and rushed towards Peach slashing wildly at her. Peach was just blocking his attacks calmly, but then kicked Link away from her onto he ground. She then jumped into the air and tried to come down on top of him with her sword, but he rolled out of the way. He then blocked another attack from Peach and tried to do a sweep kick, but she did a perfectly elegant back flip out of the way. Link tried to go in for a jump slash but she turned to the side dodging the attack, she then slashed upward at Link knocking him in the air, but he flipped in the air catching himself and landing on his feet.
Mario was frantic as he ran to Princess Eclair's castle, praying that he wasn't too late. When he arrived he saw Peach and Link already in fierce battle. Mario was frozen as he looked at Peach fighting. She didn't even look like herself fighting like this. He saw the fierceness in Link's eyes showing that he was going all out. Peach on the other hand was perfectly calm, almost playful.
Was she toying with him?
Their swords met in a weapon clash and they stared at each other, Link enraged, Peach trying not to laugh. She finally couldn't take it anymore and let out a small chuckle.
"Something funny?" Link said not realizing why she was laughing.
"It's just that you look so tired, you've been fighting me with every ounce of energy you have. But look at me, I'm perfectly fine."
"Huh?" Link said once he realized what happened. He used up almost all of his strength and she used hardly anything. Just how strong was she? He then found out when she pushed harder on Link's blade forcing him to jump back away from her.
"I'm done playing around though, time for you to die."
"Like hell it is!" he said as he began charging his sword up with energy. He then began charging at Peach ready do slash at her. Just when he raised his arm to slash down though, Mario ran in and stood between him and Peach, holding Link's sword arm. "What the hell are you doing?!" he asked enraged.
"I won't let you kill her! I know I can still save her!"
"You mean after she forced the princess here to commit suicide in public and forced the people here to fight us, you still think there's an ounce of good in her?!"
"My Peach is still in there, I know it!"
"Your Peach is already dead! All that's left is that monster that if you don't let me kill, will just do what it did here, and in Sarassa Kingdom to somewhere else! Now get out of my way NOW!!!"
"No! I won't!
Link was getting really fed up now, "Damn it Mario, if you don't move right now I'll go through you!"
Peach was watching this and was getting bored, "You know, if you two are just going to fight each other then I don't think you need me, so I'll be seeing you," she said as she turned around to walk out.
"Wait!" Link shouted as he pushed Mario to the ground and ran towards Peach to kill her from behind. Mario ran up to Link and was about to stop him, but she turned around and slashed at both of them with her sword covered in a black flame. They both fell down unconscious from that blow.
"You didn't really think I was going to just walk away did you?" she said as she walked over to where Mario was, "Thanks for saving me, Mario," she then kissed him on the cheek and walked out.
A few hours later after the Waffle Kingdom cleared out, Luigi, Daisy, and Zelda went looking for Mario and Link. They found them lying down on the throne room of the castle, and quickly got them up.
"Link, are you okay?" Zelda asked once they both woke up.
"Yeah, no thanks to him," he said looking at Mario who was just helped up by Luigi and Daisy. He then walked up to them, turned Mario around and punched him really hard in the face, shocking everyone.
"Link!" Zelda said in shock.
"This idiot got in my way when I was getting ready to kill Deas!"
"Mario..." Luigi said as Mario got up.
"Is that true?" Zelda asked Mario, who was just silent.
"Get in my way again, and next time, I will kill you!" Link said before putting up his sword and leaving the castle, Zelda following after him.
"Mario, I'm sorry," Daisy said trying to comfort Mario, who just pushed her away and walked off too. "Luigi, what are we going to do?"
"To be honest, I don't know. I want to believe in my bro but..."
"But?"
"She did kill Princess Eclair," and with that said he walked off too, leaving Daisy to feel even worse. Link and Zelda's kingdom was now in danger, Mario was being forced to fight the woman he loved, and now Luigi had to watch his friend get killed right before his eyes. She knew it was all her fault, and right now, she hated every second of her life.
"Luigi, I hope you can one day forgive me," she said more so to herself before running after Luigi and the others.
