Final chapter of this battle! I've learned my lesson and won't be doing 5 chapter fights for insignificant characters any more…
Chapter 24: Battle of Darkness!
Link charged at The Paint Monster with the Biggoron sword in his hands. The Monster slammed down its hand trying to squash Link, however Link just jumped backwards narrowly evading the attack. Kirby and Pikachu ran up beside him.
"How do we defeat this thing?" Kirby asked.
"I don't know," Link responded.
Pikachu ran forwards dodging all attacks that the Paint Monster threw at him. Electricity began to swirl around Pikachu creating a defensive barrier and preventing the Paint Monster from hitting him. With the monster distracted by Pikachu, Kirby charged forwards swinging around a sword. Link on the other hand backed up and loaded his bow with an arrow preparing for the right moment to strike.
Kirby jumped out of the way from an attack and countered by slashing the paint however any damage that was done to the paint instantaneously healed. Pikachu on the other hand ran towards the Monster and tackled it; the electricity around him began to slowly destroy the paint.
'Now!' Link thought to him self. He fired the light arrow at the Dark Seed. The SNES shield however appeared and blocked the attack neutralizing it.
"You are too late, the Dark Seed has already began to germinate." Shadow Mario's voice began to laugh.
"No, it is never too late!" Link said loading up a second arrow. Kirby jumped into the air slashing his sword at the SNES Shield, which resulted in the sword breaking in half. Kirby then pulled out a giant wooden hammer smashing the SNES Shield down into the ground. With the shield out of the way Link fired the second arrow, this time it hit the Dark Seed. In a large explosion of light the Dark Seed vanished.
Shadow Mario just laughed as he began to come out of the paint. In his hand he held up the Medallion of Time. The bright light that appeared from the light arrow suddenly reappeared and the Dark Seed was floating there when everything died down. "Now Dark Seed mature into a tree!" Shadow Mario ordered as he threw the Medallion of Time at the seed. The moment it touched the seed it became a tree floating in the air. Its branches were brushing against the side of the barrier. Shadow Mario just stood on one of the tree's roots that reached to the ground.
"No way!" Pikachu shouted out surprised. "That seed became a tree in a matter of seconds!"
Kirby jumped up towards the tree and landed on one of the roots. "Then lets burn this damn thing!" Kirby shouted breathing out a constant stream of fire onto it. Link grabbed an arrow and placed it on his bow, he then fired it up to the top of the tree. It became a fire arrow and started a small fire.
Link jumped up into the air onto the roots and then jumped at Shadow Mario swinging his Biggoron Sword. Shadow Mario jumped up into the air to avoid the attack. Instead of hitting Shadow Mario, he hit several of the roots cutting them off. Link landed on another root and jumped towards Shadow Mario who was still in the air. This time Shadow Mario was unable to dodge and attempted to block with his paintbrush. A smile crossed Link's face as he hit Shadow Mario cutting his torso. Shadow Mario fell down dumbfounded realizing that he left his paintbrush down in the paint monster below.
"Now for this tree!" Pikachu said jumping from root to root. Link nodded holding the Biggoron sword. He jumped from the root that he was standing on and slashed the trunk of the tree only for the Biggoron sword to get stuck partway through.
"Crap," Link shouted frustrated as he landed on a root. The branches began to scratch against the inside of the barrier producing a sound much like that of nails scratching on a chalk board only louder and more painful. An apple then fell from the top branches hitting Kirby on the head and causing him to fall off of the roots down below.
"I really don't know what is more pathetic right now" Pikachu cried holding onto his ears. "That we are being beaten by a tree, or…" Pikachu couldn't finish as the deafening sound of the barrier shattering rang through the air drowning out any other noise. Soon everything was silent again and the only noise that could be heard was the waves bashing against the coast.
Link just looked off in the horizon where something was quickly rushing towards them. "Its Mario." Link said. Mario came running towards the paint monster; only he was now riding a green dinosaur. "Is that a Yoshi?" Link asked. The Yoshi spit a strange liquid from its mouth at the paint, instantly it dissolved leaving Shadow Mario, the paintbrush, the Smash Shards, the NES Sword, and the SNES Shield on the ground.
Link jumped down from the trees roots and grabbed the NES Sword and the SNES Shield. "Its good to have these items back," Link smiled. "Now then tell me where the Medallion of Time is!" Link shouted pointing the NES Sword at the tree. Link closed his eyes and then reopened them. "There, okay!" he jumped onto the roots and ran towards the trunk of the tree drawing the Master Sword.
Link then jumped up to the center of the tree slashing at it wildly. The Master Sword just passed through the trunk as though it was air, as it was now a phantom blade. 'Where is it?' Link thought. 'Where is the Medallion of Time?' Suddenly his arm stopped moving and the Master Sword was stuck in the tree. From what Link could see of the blade it had regained its physical appearance. "Guess I found it," Link laughed hanging from the Master Sword as though it was a branch at the side of a cliff. "Now I just need to get down." What came next surprised Link. The wood beside the Master Sword suddenly caught fire causing Link to let go of the Master Sword in shock and fall down. Luckily for him he landed on Kirby who was inflated.
"Looks like this battle is over," Kirby sighed.
"Not quite," Link replied. "As long as this tree stands Isle Delfino will never be able to return to normal. Kirby can you stay steady for a moment?"
"Sure," Kirby responded. Link grabbed an arrow from his quiver and placed it on his bow. He then aimed it at the Biggoron Sword that was still impaled in the tree. He fired the arrow and it became a bright light and hit the Biggoron Sword. Just like the area around the Master Sword, the area around the Biggoron Sword was set on fire.
"This tree is evil," Link began to explain. "It was when the Master Sword impaled the tree that I realized that this was the only way that it could be destroyed. The holy aura from the Light arrow, and the Master Sword purified the area and set it on fire."
"So what's next?" Pikachu asked jumping onto Kirby. "We still have to get rid of the tree!"
Link stared at the tree for a few seconds before making a response. "I'm thinking one of two options, with out the Medallion of Time to support the tree and its irregular growth it will quickly rot and die the other option is that it will burn to the ground."
Kirby floated down to the ground and then became his normal size again. An immaculate golden light then lit up the area, and everyone couldn't help but look up to the source. It was the tree. From it the Shine Sprites and Power Stars were escaping and as each one left the tree it began to turn into dust eventually disappearing with a gust of wind. The Master Sword and Biggoron Sword fell down and landed in the ground.
Shadow Mario got up off of the ground. "You might have defeated my paint monster but you haven't defeated me yet!"
"Let him have it Yoshi," Mario sighed getting tired of this prolonged battle. Yoshi proceeded to eat Shadow Mario and turn him into an egg; this was followed by throwing him far away into the ocean.
"And here's hoping that we never see him again," Pikachu said.
"Don't get your hopes up. He still has a smash shard so we might see him once again, and The Master will go after him for the shard." Link replied.
From the island Samus was staring at them with her arm cannon raised up. "Finish them Samus!" A voice echoed from some speakers through her helmet. Samus however lowered her arm cannon. "Why didn't you finish them off?" the same voice shouted outraged.
"Sorry but I've had a sudden change of heart," Samus replied with a somewhat childish tone of voice.
"You'll be wanted by the Galactic Federation for this!" The voice continued to shout. "We hold your life, your past, present and future! If you disobey us we will hunt you down and eliminate you!"
"Your empty threats don't scare me," Samus replied. "Consider this conversation over!" She ended the conversation.
"You know they will come after you,"
Samus turned around shocked by the sudden voice. There she saw Fox leaning up against the lone tree on the island and the Great Fox floating above water.
"Yes, even if all I really did was follow my beliefs and pay taxes." She responded. "It might be best to hang low for a while, and I do need to get my suit repaired."
"The only other place that you can get your suit repaired beside the Galactic Federation would be Mute City."
Samus nodded. "I'm going to have to ask you for a favor then," She replied. "Can you get me there as quickly as possible?"
"I can't," Fox answered. "We would stand out too much in the direct route, and the Galactic Federation would surely be watching those routes. If we take a more indirect way then I'm sure we should be safe. The quickest indirect route I can think of will take at least 7 days. Even the direct route will take at least 2."
"Thank you," Samus replied.
"I guess I should talk to them and see if they would like to come."
On the beach of Isle Delfino everyone was lying on the sand exhausted. "Lets hope we don't have another long battle like that," Kirby sighed.
"There they are!" a voice shouted out. Everyone jumped up surprised. "The heroes of our island!" Standing there was the entire population of Isle Delfino.
Fox approached the island in a small boat. Also in there was Luigi who was unconscious. "Let us throw a feast for our heroes!" The islanders proclaimed.
Luigi moaned and slowly began to get up. "What's going on?" he asked Fox.
"They defeated the paint monster and are being praised as heroes of this island, and they are going to throw a feast." The approached the beach and both of them got out of the boat. "Link!" Fox shouted Link walked over. "We are leaving now to go to Mute City," Fox explained. "You can come with us now, or we'll come back in about 2 weeks."
"We're staying!" Kirby and Pikachu said at the same time not giving Link any say in the matter.
"I guess staying an extra 2 weeks wouldn't hurt"
"Ok," Fox replied getting back on the boat. "I'll come back in 2 weeks."
From the shadows two others watched. "Amazing!" one said surprised, the voice was that of a male teenager. "I didn't think they could win!"
"That doesn't change our plans brother!" a female voice responded. "You finish them off, and I'm going off to Kongo Jungle!"
"Enjoy your festivities while you can!" The boy laughed.
To be continued…
Finally that fight is over!