February 18: Marth: 19 Years

They were in the banquet hall of the stadium.

"It took 19 years!" Marth cried. "But it finally happened!"

The room was filled with applause. Marth just bowed down. "Congratulations Marth!" Master Hand said into a microphone. "After 19 long grueling years, your game has finally made it to America!"

"This is also the fiftieth chapter of this story!" Crazy Hand laughed. "13.62% SUFFER FOOLISH AUTHOR!"

Everyone just ignored Crazy Hand. He didn't like this. "Our national anthem is playing!" Crazy Hand shouted rushing over to a giant CD player. He pressed play and the Caramelldansen began to play. "Stand at attention and do the dance!" Crazy Hand shouted.

Everyone just whimpered and did the dance. When the song was over everyone looked back up at Marth.

"I'm grateful that you all came here today." Marth smiled. "Let us liberate my country together!" He shouted pulling out his white DS Lite out of his pocket and holding it up in the air. "I'm just curious though Crazy Hand. Where did you get the money for all of this?"

Crazy Hand had bought them all DS Lites and Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, and had given them out as they had all entered the banquet hall in the stadium.

Crazy Hand just laughed. Master Hand just floated over to Marth and whispered. "You don't want to know."

Marth just laughed uncomfortably.

Ike walked over to Marth he was pushing Roy towards them. "Hey want to have a match, just us three, to congratulate you on your game coming out to America, finally."

"Yes!" Marth replied enthusiastically.

Marth, Ike and Roy walked over to the center of the room. Suddenly they were teleported out of the room and into the stadium.

"Please select your stage." A digitized voice said.

"Castle Siege." Ike replied.

The next moment the three of them were transported to the stage.

"3, 2, 1, GO!" The announcer shouted.

Marth rushed towards Ike. With a swing of his blade he knocked Ike back. Ike quickly realized that Marth was going to be serious in this match. He was just hoping for a friendly match, but Marth was hardly going to let that be the case. Quickly Ike realized his back was facing Roy. He jumped up into the air as both Marth and Roy attacked. Their blades got caught and they began to exchange several blows. Ike came down swinging his sword. It was enough to get both Marth and Roy away from him and let him land safely. Ike began to charge up an explosion. Quickly Roy rushed towards Ike, however he was too slow and Ike created an Explosion sending Roy and Marth flying back. They both knew that it was full strength so that Ike had received a bit of recoil.

Marth rushed forwards towards Ike. Ike quickly brought down his sword, but Marth countered sending Ike's strength back towards him. Ike grunted and quickly turned around. Roy had jumped up into the air and was about to bring down his sword. Quickly Ike created a shield around himself. But the duel onslaught of Marth and Roy caused the shield to break quickly. Ike was sent flying, he tried to recover however couldn't reach the edge, just like it looked like he would be knocked out the field began to change to stage two of Castle Siege.

Marth took this opportunity to rush towards Ike, who had momentarily let down his guard. This proved to be a fatal mistake as he was sent flying out of the stage. Unfortunately for Ike, this meant he was knocked out of the match since it was only one stock.

Marth faced Roy and the two ran towards each other and jumped into the air as the field change for Castle Siege completed. The two attacked each other in midair. Marth was knocked back. But this didn't stop him. He quickly recovered and jumped back towards Roy slashing upwards. Roy was hit by the tip of the blade and knocked back.

The two of them knew each other extremely well. Having fought against each other constantly for a long time. They were each other's sparring partners. However they rarely got to fight each other seriously. Perhaps it was that reason why they both ganged up on Ike. They both wanted to fight each other seriously. But Marth could tell that Roy was holding back.

Marth ran forwards and their blades clashed. "Why are you holding back?" He asked. "Is it because this is my day?"

Roy didn't respond, yet Marth could tell through his swordsmanship. Fighting through countless battles had allowed one to decipher even what the subtlest movements meant. Roy was holding back.

The stage began to change once again. "Fine, I'll make sure that you will have to fight me at full strength!" Marth shifted how he was holding his sword. Even this small switch was a frightening one. Marth ran towards Roy, and the two swords collided. Instantly Roy was overpowered. Once again Marth swung at Roy, this time Roy tried to counter, however Marth was able to break through the counter.

Suddenly an explosion came from Roy's sword pushing Marth back. The stage changed to the third and final phase of Castle Siege. The smallest platform. Both of them knew that the match would end before Castle Siege was reset.

Roy began to charge up an explosion. It took Marth a few seconds to register this. He began to rush forwards towards Roy. Quickly Roy shifted his stance to receive Marth's attack. As Marth swung his sword, Roy continued to charge up, and blocked the attack simultaneously. Marth's eyes suddenly flared with horror as an explosion engulfed them both. Both of them went flying backwards. Marth skidded across the platform, while Roy was knocked out of the ring.

"Game!" The announcer shouted. "This game's winner is: Marth!"

However Marth was none to pleased about his victory. "Why did you hold back?" He asked Roy.

"I had all ready received damage from Ike." Roy replied. "That and it was just a match for fun. It wasn't ranked or anything. Besides, this puts me in a better position for when we do fight for real. I know what to expect."

"You guys shouldn't have ganged up on me." Ike moaned.

"And you shouldn't have stayed in the middle." Roy replied. "You should have kept one of us in the middle."

They returned to the party for Marth's game finally being released in America.

Everyone was occasionally glancing at Lucas and Claus. "Looks like they are the only characters that haven't had their game released in America…" Everybody said.

"Its okay…" Lucas muttered. "Maybe it will be remade on a DS Port or something…"

Everyone just looked away, they couldn't stand how sad and pitiful it was. The recent news was making it look less likely.

"And at least there is the translation patch…" Claus added on.

Roy was also slightly depressed. "Hey, maybe in another 11 years you will have your game remade!" Marth joked.

Charizard just stared at the corner weeping. "This could have been my chapter." He cried. "Damn you, tier list making people for being lazy and giving my tier to a background character… And damn you voters!"

The art cel (the preorder bonus for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon) looks absolutely amazing, and I found a nice spot for it on my router… And why I didn't give the same comment to Roy that I gave Lucas. He did appear at the end of Fire Emblem (The first one that was translated for the GBA) only he was a lot younger… A LOT YOUNGER

'The Recent news' is referring to how Earthbound probably won't be coming to the VC… and that the ESRB rating was a mistake…

13.62% done this story… It seems a lot more than that…

Oh… And a new Sakurai project? YES PLEASE! (Though it looks to be at least a 2011 release…)