Okay. Just before we get started to the chapter, I want to let you guys know again that Pokémon Trainer is going to be called like that so far in the story since Red (Red Link) already have the same name.
Also, since you guys who read the manga about the Picori/Minish people, I'm going to call them Minish. Just to let you know.
And, watch out which one of the smashers are going to kiss with and without the mistletoe. That means there might be a few couples going to kiss without it while a few other couples going to kiss with it.
Now, on with the chapter!
Welcome – Ch.53 The Minish Winter Festival
"Name: Alyssa Sol."
Alyssa's eyes began to flutter open after hearing her name.
"Gender: Female."
Then, her eyes shot wide open after being awake inside a white room as her wrists were latched up on the handles of a chair and struggled to free herself.
"Age: 18."
"What's going on here?" she shouted, until the brunette saw a mysterious person was wearing some sort of royal uniform like a dark blue-colored collar shirt with a white shirt underneath, a pair of black pants and combat boots, a white scarf tied around his neck, and he was also wearing some kind of mask that almost looks like a tiger's face.
"Hello, Alyssa." The person said in a boy's voice.
"How did you know my name? Who the heck are you anyways?" the brunette hissed.
"Me? Well, I'm the person who wants to give you this." The boy answered and that's when he placed a blue book on top of her lap.
Then, that's when Alyssa's eyes shot wide open again after seeing it was the same book Earla held with her after the white-cloaked fighter changed few of the possessed fighters back to normal and summoned the White Dragon before she died.
"Still, I don't why you left us for those friends of yours!" the boy wearing the tiger mask scolded at the black-cloaked fighter.
"How do you know?" she questioned, shocked.
"Heh. Looks like you can't remember me after I erased your memories from your past as a kid, except when you met your friends."
"YOU WHAT?" the girl was enraged and as she tried to break free from the latches, she winced as she can feel few pieces of skin from her wrist were starting to bleed. "YOU'VE ERASED MY MEMORIES?"
"Oh, and another thing, since that black angel's girlfriend died in the hospital during the attack, you'll be the one to wake up the girl."
"Listen, pal! I serve no one but myself!"
"Are you sure? Cause it'll be the only way to bring back your memories."
Alyssa didn't say anything after that. When she glanced down at the book in front of her one more time and turned to the boy, she had no choice.
"Fine. I'll do it." She finally said and that's when the latches from the chair and began to unlock from her wrists, but she can see blood falling from the blisters.
"Good luck." The boy said his last words and that's when the brunette's whole body began to glow all purplish-whitish and disappeared into sparkles.
Suddenly, Alyssa's eyes shot wide open and she sat up as she was panting and sweating from the dream she just had. When she glanced around her surroundings, she was back at the snowy garden and the holy-like room where Link pulled out the Four Sword and split into four.
"Alyssa! You're awake!" Diana exclaimed.
"What happened?" the brunette questioned after rubbing her aching head.
"You've fainted again, Alyssa." Krystal explained to her.
"So, she's okay now?" Red (the red Link) questioned as she checked up on Alyssa.
"You guys don't have to worry about me. I'm fine." The brunette said as she stood up, until she and the other fighters heard the sound of rocks crumbling. "Huh?"
Then suddenly, all the crumbling rocks everyone heard started to come together and began to form into some kind of giant made out of rocks and boulders which began to let out a loud roar which made most of the smashers to cover their ears.
"Wha…What is that?" Krystal screamed.
"It's what Link was trying to say! By pulling off the Four Sword, the seal was released!" Vaati shouted.
"Also known as Vaati's dark self; Gufuu." Green added.
"Yeah, but still. We've beaten him once, and we'll do it again!" Blue said with confidence in his voice.
Then, the four Links took out their swords and charged at the rock giant and just as they swung their swords at the dark beast, something terrible happened; the swords have no effect and that's when the rock giant slammed its arm against the four Hylians and send them flying through the air and crashed somewhere far away from the others.
"Guys!" The smashers called out to them when suddenly, the rock giant began to open its 'mouth' started sucking trees, plants, snow, and everything near it like a vacuum cleaner.
Not only that, it was sucking in so hard and violently, the fighters have to hang on onto something, until Fear, Jake, Lucy, Alex, Kuro, and Aria's wings started to pull them backwards and heading straight towards the rock giant, screaming and yelling.
"NO!" Alyssa screamed and that's when she summoned several chains from her hands and used them to tie up the winged-fighters and stopped them from not getting any closer to the giant's 'mouth'.
"Hang on, guys!" Eddie shouted as he helped Alyssa to pull down his brother and their friends down, followed by Carrie, Krystal, Ella, Nick, and Zoey who were also helping them.
"He's trying to eat us!" Lucy screamed as she and the other flying fighters were in fear as they were going to be sucked inside the rock giant's 'mouth'.
Meanwhile, each of the four Links slowly stood up as they were groaning from being hit by the rock giant.
"What happened? Why didn't the Four Swords have effect on the giant?" Red questioned as the other three Links were wondering the same thing.
"It's been many years since we last used these swords. So, I guess that's the reason why they didn't have effect." Vio suggested.
"Either that, or Gufuu has become stronger." Green mentioned.
"Nah. That can't be it. Besides, we're just warming up." Blue said, until the four Links hear the sound of screaming and yelling from the other fighters and saw they were hanging on and using their force from not getting themselves sucked inside the rock giant.
"Let's go!" Green shouted and he and the other Links quickly got up and ran to help the other smashers.
"Carrie! Use your whip to pull down them too!" Nick called out to Carrie.
Obeyed, the brunette began to take out her whip and quickly tied up the flying fighters again and they were being pulled down a lot lower to the ground now.
In the meantime, Fear was trying to control the shadows from everywhere to close the giant's 'mouth', Diana began loading and firing at the giant using her bazooka, Charles kept shooting by using both of his machine guns, and both Lucy and Kuro were shooting several arrows, but their attacks and weapons didn't have effect either.
Then, that's when the four Links came to help them. Vio was helping pulling down the flying fighters down, Red used his fire rod and began burning the rock giant along with Nick who was using his fire powers as well, and both Blue and Green were fighting with the rest of the smashers at the dark creature.
Just then, Alyssa's eyes shot wide open as she saw the same blue book she saw from her dream was flying in the air as it was being sucked in and heading towards the rock giant.
"THE BOOK!" she screamed and that's when she let go of the chains she was holding to pull down the winged-fighters and used another chain to tie up the blue book.
But that was a big mistake. Suddenly, the cloaked fighter began screaming as she too was being sucked in and heading towards the beast.
"Alyssa!" the fighters shouted, until they all heard someone shouting, "Ivysaur, use vinewhip!" and saw the Pokémon Trainer's Ivysaur used its vinewhip attack and tied up Alyssa from not getting any closer to the rock giant like the book she's holding in her arms now.
"Don't worry, Alyssa! We're going to get you down now!" Diana shouted to her best friend as the grass-type Pokémon started to pull down the brunette.
"Easy for you to say!" she shouted back as her eyes shot wide open to see the rock giant was getting closer to her.
"The book! Read the words that are highlighted in the book!" Alyssa heard a voice inside her head shouting to her.
Then suddenly, the book began to open itself in front of her and stopped at a page where there were a few sentences highlighted in light-blue, but there were written in some sort of language.
"Here goes nothing." The cloaked fighter thought to herself and began shouting the words.
"La joie est le bonheur, la folie est la folie.
(Joy is happiness, Insanity is madness.)
Envoyez-moi vers le bas le pouvoir de trouver la faiblesse de l'ennemi!
(Send me down power to find the enemy's weakness!)"
Suddenly, there was a bright flash of lightning coming from the sky and to everyone's surprise, the clouds grew dark and swirled above as they began to send down four Smash Balls. Then, those Smash balls landed in the hands of the four Links.
"Use them to kill the giant!" Alyssa screamed. "Hurry!"
After the four Hylians nodded with agreement, they all crushed the Smash Balls in their hands which now gave them a rainbow aura all over their body as their eyes were glowing gold.
"Ready, guys? At the count of four, we attack!" Green shouted. "1!"
"2!" Blue shouted next.
"3!" then Red.
"4!" Vio finished it off.
Then, that's when they all charged at the rock giant as they activated their Final Smash; The Triforce Slash. With that, the triforce symbol on the four Links hands flashes and the rock giant was suddenly trapped inside a prison of light and in a quick speed, the four warriors were slashing their swords at several place at the beast and finished it off with one final strike.
After letting out its final roar from the pain it was giving, the rock giant slowly collapsed to the ground as is was beginning to disappear. Meanwhile, the winged-fighters had the control of their wings again and landed safely on the ground as Ivysaur gently put Alyssa to the ground to her feet.
"So, I guess that's that." Vaati said, until he saw the cloaked fighter holding the blue book in her hands, looking at it shockingly. "You okay, madam?"
Then, Alyssa flinched and quickly put the book inside her cloak and turned to the wind sorcerer. "N-No! Nothing's wrong!" she stammered.
"Alyssa! You're okay!" Aria exclaimed as she flew down and hugged around the brunette's neck. "I thought we were gonna be goners for a second there!"
When Aria hugged Alyssa, the brunette's music box fell out from one of her pockets.
"Oops. Sorry, Alyssa." The little angel said and just as she let go and went to pick up the music box, she noticed there was a small red button next to the lid. "Hey, what does this button do?"
Just when Aria pressed the button…FLASH! A bright flash of light blinded the angel's eyes and that's when she got all dizzy and fell to the snowy ground.
"Aria?" Alyssa and few of the other fighters shouted and both Red and Ella helped her get up back to her feet.
"Mommy…? …Is the piano swimming in the toilet again…?" the little angel asked as her eyes were spinning.
Then, Blue busted out laughing while the others were relieved that Aria was okay, until a white square-shaped paper came halfway out from the music box.
"What's this?" Fear questioned as she pulled out the white paper while Blue was shouting and laughing, "Piano swimming in the toilet? Ha ha! Ow! My insides are hurting!" until Green hit the back of his head.
Then, the white paper slowly began show some color and stopped as it was a photo of Aria before she got dizzy from the flash.
"Alyssa…? Is your music box also some kind of camera or something?" the female dark angel questioned as she hand the photo to Alyssa.
"Really? I don't think I remember that." The brunette said and picked up the music box from Aria's hands and opened it inside to check if there's something else inside she didn't remember, ignoring the music it was making.
"Your name is, Alyssa?" Vaati asked her.
Alyssa ignored him and that's when her eyes shot wide open as she found a little stack of photos inside the music box, until both Green and Blue were starting to fight each other once again.
"Uh…Are they always like this?" Terra asked Vio while the other smashers were sweatdropping.
"Yes. They can be idiots these days." he said, sighing.
"Can't we all just get along?" Red shouted as he was watching the other two Links still fighting.
"Hmph. You got the idiots part right." Diana said as she was sharpening her claws.
"Get off of me, you wanna be 'king'!" Green shouted as the Link in blue tackled him to the ground.
"What'd you call me?" Blue shouted back and that's when he dragged Green across the ground and threw the Link in green at the smashers.
"Look out!" Jake shouted and that's when he and most of the fighters got out of the way, until Vio was the one being hit by Green which made the smart Link stumbled into Alyssa, who was busy looking through the photos inside her music box to notice what's going on, and that's when their lips smashed into each other.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were shot wide open and dropped their jaws as they watched both Vio and Alyssa accidently kissed each other as the two fighters were blushing like mad as their eyes were shot wide open as well. The two of them rested there for a moment until Vio was one of them to pull away, still blushing. For Alyssa, as she was wondering what just happened, she gritted her teeth and that's when she stepped on one of Vio's feet.
"YEEEEOOWWWW!" Vio yelled as he grabbed his aching foot where Alyssa stepped on and fell to the ground, still holding on to his foot.
"Wow, Vio. Three times your foot has been stepped on already." Blue said, until both Green and Diana hit the back of his head. "Ow! Hey! What was that for?"
"For making one of your brothers stole my best friend's first kiss!" Diana shouted at Blue.
"Listen here, wolf-girl! One, it was your friend's fault for just sitting there in the first place! And two, he and the other Links ARE NOT MY BROTHERS!"
Then, that's when Alyssa snapped and took out the blue book from her pocket and threw it at the Link in blue, which hit directly at his face.
"YOU IDIOT!" the brunette hissed and that's when she returned looking more of the photos inside her music box.
"You got hit by a GIRL!" Alex laughed at the look on Blue's face after being hit by the book.
"Shut up!" he shouted back.
In the meantime as Alyssa was still looking at the photos, her eyes shot wide open after she saw a photo of three little children who looked about 10? 11? She wasn't sure, but there were two girls and one boy in the photo. The first girl was on the left as she had short brown hair with curls at the ends and a pair of blue eyes as she was sitting on a rock as she wore a pinkish-whitish dress and carries a bouquet of flowers in her hands.
The second girl was in the middle as her short brown was tied into a small ponytail which gave her a spunky look and also has a pair of blue eyes and all she wore was light-blue shirt, a pair of brown shorts, and black sneakers and she was holding a sword in one of her hands.
And for the boy, he had blond messy hair and a pair of blue eyes too and all he wore was nothing but a green tunic with black sleeves, a pair of white pants, and a pair of brown shoes. By the looks of the boy, he looked like he was ready for any challenge and he was holding a sword in one of his hands too.
Not only that, as Alyssa checked the other photos, they were mostly about the three children hanging out together, at festivals, and other events. There was even one photo of the spunky girl with the boy posing as they were best friends and another one where they were slashing their swords at each other for practice.
Just before she went to check at the last few photos, she felt a hand on a shoulder which made her flinch and turned to see the Link in red next to her which made her put away the photos and close the music box.
"What do you want?" she asked him, trying not to sound suspicious, until her question was answered when Red gave her the blue book.
"I just want to give this back to you." He said. "It is yours, isn't it?"
"I don't know. I just used to hit that Blue guy over there." The brunette said as she pointed to Blue. "He has quite a short temper."
"I HEARD THAT!" Blue yelled.
"Well, it's true." Alyssa scoffed as she put away the book in her pockets again and turned to Vaati. "So, we did what your 'master' said, defeat the rock giant, and now what?"
"Actually…I'm not sure." That's all he said. "B-But, you can go visit the Minish village. It's already the day of The Winter Festival."
"The Winter Festival?" the fighters questioned.
"Well, it's actually pronounced 'The Minish Winter Festival', but it's okay if you guys don't want to go." The wind sorcerer explained.
"Wait. Are you saying…We're in Hyrule?" Green shouted.
"Of course we're in Hyrule. Where else will you get the Four Swords from?" Vaati said to him.
"B-But, don't you think that Gufuu will come back and destroy Hyrule again? The seal has been broken!"
"Green, my master told me nothing is going to happen when you pulled the sword. You already defeated Gufuu anyways in the first place."
Just before the Link in green could ask anymore questions to the sorcerer, few of the fighters got in his way.
"What's the Winter Festival all about?" Carrie asked.
"It's when the Minish people set up decorations, play some snow related games, and giving out presents to each other." Vaati explained.
"Sounds kinda like Christmas." Lucas said.
"You're right. It does." Ella said also.
"Well, should we go?" Eddie asked.
"Yeah! Let's go! I want to see what the Minish Winter Festival looks like!" Aria exclaimed.
"It's been a while since I last visited the Minish Village. So, I guess we could go." Green said.
"You sure? It feels kinda weird going celebrating a different holiday." Rebecca said.
"Come on, sis! It'll be fun! Besides…I WANT TO GET OUT OF THE COLD OR I'LL DIE!" Michael shouted as he slithered out from Alyssa's cloaked sleeve.
"Yeah! We should definitely go!" Red exclaimed.
After a moment, all the fighters were beginning to agree to go to the festival.
"Great! Now it's settled!" Krystal exclaimed as she clapped her hands together. "We're all going to the Minish Winter Festival!"
"YEAH!"
"AHAHAHAHAHA! You got beaten up by a little pipsqueak!" the evil boy named Kevin laughed as he was taunting the cyborg named Naomi.
"SHUT UP!" she hissed at him. "That girl was stronger than I thought, okay?"
"Hold still, Naomi. I need to repair you." A man behind her said as he was fixing her metal arm back to her body.
The man who was fixing Naomi had gray hair with a hint shade of purple, but you can't see his eyes because he wore a pair of sunglasses over them and he also wore nothing but a white lab coat, a pair of military boots, and a black top hat.
"I swear, when I see that girl again, I'll strangle her little neck until it cracks!" the cyborg cursed under her breath.
"Patience, Naomi. You'll get your chance, but you can't the girl just yet." The man said to her.
"And why not?" Naomi spat at him.
"Because that's what my mother says." Kevin explained as he was loading some bullets to one of his guns and aimed at the man in the lab coat. "And you have to do what she says in order for your creator to live."
"I already know that, you idiot!" the cyborg hissed at him. "And just you wait, I'll become one of the top fighters of Subspace."
"We'll see about that." Another voice was heard which made the others flinch.
"I see he's already awakened." Kevin said as he turned to the unknown figure, hiding in the shadows.
"Yes. I am awakened thanks to a certain someone I've known for a long time." The figure said and everything turned black.
"Wait. We have to shrink down in order to visit the Minish Village?" Ruby asked as she and the other fighters were led to a tree trunk with some sort of hole inside it.
"Yes. It's really easy since I'm a Minish myself." Vaati said. "But, since there are a lot of you, you guys want to take turns who goes first and next."
"Can I go first? I think I'm gonna die any minute now." Michael asked as slithered up to Alyssa's head.
"Sure. Why not?" Vaati said as he let Alyssa and Michael on the tree trunk and began saying words, magic words, and all of a sudden, both the brunette and snake began to shrink down into the size of a person's thumb and they both began to fall through the hole.
As they landed safely on a few mushrooms, they were glancing around their surroundings and they found some kind of door inside the stump. As they walked through the door, their eyes shot wide open as they saw the trees, the plants, and even the snow were twice the size than before, until they noticed some creatures that kinda looked like tiny elves with big eyes and were wearing nothing but leaves and flowers as clothes and feathers as tails; the Minish people.
Shocked, Alyssa began to scream which got the Minishs' attention and turned to the brunette.
"Alyssa? You okay?" Vio was also shrunk down and asked her, until he saw the Minish people staring at them.
"Oh my gosh! It's, Link!" one of the Minish shouted and that's when the other Minish people began shouting as well as they started to make a crowd around the shrunken fighters.
"Why is Link wearing purple clothes?"
"Who's that girl with him?"
"I don't know, but she's cute!"
"Another human? How fascinating!"
"Look at their clothes!"
"Hey, cutie! What's your name?"
"Are they here for the festival?"
"Can I have your autographs?"
"Link…HELP ME!" Alyssa screamed again as she held onto the Hylian, wondering what were they saying.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back it up guys! There are still some people trying to shrink down for the festival!" Alex shouted as he, Red, Blue, and Green were shrunken down and they used their shields and pushed the Minish people out of the way to give them space.
"You two lovebirds okay?" Blue asked both Alyssa and Vio teasingly, until the two 'lovebirds' hit him across the head, blushing madly.
"Shut up!" Alyssa hissed at Blue while Jake, Lucy, and Eddie were next to be shrink down and catch up to the others.
Shocked, the Minish people started in awe as they saw the fighters who appeared and started to crowd around them, again.
"Four Links? How's that possible?"
"Are they quadruplets?"
"No, they must've pulled out the Four Swords!"
"Look at the girl with wings! She's pretty cute as well!"
"Uh…those other winged-guys didn't like what you said."
"Back off you guys!" Lucy shouted with rage as the Minish people were getting on her last nerves and that's when they slowly backed away after what she said.
"Thank you. Those guys were getting annoying." Eddie said to her, until he noticed Ella was free falling for a few seconds after being shrunken down and just before he tried to catch her, Alex reacted and caught her instead.
"Dang it. Alex stole my girl." He muttered to himself until Jake got in his way.
"You're jealous, aren't you bro?" he teased him with a grin on his face.
"Sh-Shut up, Jake." Eddie said.
After a little while, both Carrie and Fear appeared as the last of the fighters were shrunken down and as for Vaati, when he shrunk, his appearance changed into his Minish form which made him look adorable.
"Back to my old self again." The sorcerer said, until he saw the other Minish people staring at him for a minute, and they all ran away, screaming in fright from him. "Not again…"
"What's with them?" Carrie asked.
"It's me. They're still scared of me." Vaati sighed.
"What? Scared of you?" Peach questioned.
"It's because I nearly took over Hyrule when I turned evil and was almost killed by having too much force of the Triforce." The sorcerer explained. "After I've learned my lesson and returned to the Minish Village, everyone was scared of me, except my master."
"So, is this the reason why you wanted to invite us for the festival?" Aria asked. "You just needed some company other than you master?"
The Minish didn't say anything for a short moment as he let his head down, until he felt someone's hand on his shoulder and looked up to see it was Alyssa.
"Vaati, right? Well, I understand what you're feeling right now. You were lonely that the Minish people were scared of you, huh? Just to let you know, I felt the same way after I heard about my parents' death. I thought I was going to be alone forever, until I met these guys." Alyssa said and pointed to the smashers. "And guess what? They're my friends now and yours too. So, that means we're not alone anymore because we have each other and friends stick to together till the end."
After what the brunette said, a shade of red appeared on the Minish's face as he can feel tears form in his eyes. Then, that's when he embraced her in his arms and even though Alyssa hates it when boys hugged her, she just let him hold her as she let him cry on her shoulder and patted the back of his head for comfort, until...FLASH!
"Whoa! I see some competition going on here!" Blue shouted as he took out the new taken photo from Alyssa's music box.
"How did you-?" the wind sorcerer pulled away and was too shocked to say anything else, until he noticed the snapped look on the brunette's face.
"BLUUEEE!" Alyssa screamed and that's when she lunged forward and tackled the Link in blue to the ground which made him let go both the photo and music box and free falling in the air for a few seconds until Aria caught them.
"You got three seconds to tell me the reasons why I shouldn't beat the crap out of you!" the brunette hissed at Blue which made his spine shiver.
"WHAT IN DIN'S NAME IS GOING ON HERE?" a voice was heard which got the fighters' attention which Vaati and the four Links recognized that voice before.
Then, there stood a Minish who had a long grayish-whitish hair that's been tied up on his head in a swirl and beard, wearing a light-green cloak which makes him looks like a sage, and he was holding a brown colored cane with the shape of some kind of bird on the top.
"Master, Ezlo!" Vaati called out to the elderly Minish known as his 'master' and embraced him like he was his father.
"Okay, okay, Vaati. Stop it now." The elderly Minish named Ezlo said.
Right after the lavender Minish let go, Ezlo began to notice the four Links, especially Blue who was still pinned down to the ground by Alyssa.
"Boy, what in the name of Goddesses are you doing?" he asked the Link in Blue and it wasn't until the brunette got up and punched Blue's head.
"Idiot…" she mumbled to herself and went to Aria and put the photo in the music box and put her music box in one of her pockets.
"Ezlo? It's great to see you again!" Green exclaimed after seeing the one of his partners during one of his adventures again.
"It's great to see you too, Link." Ezlo said, until he noticed the other three. "And them as well. So, I see that you pulled out the Four Swords."
"Yup! It's great for the four of us to see each other again after these years!" Red chirped as he was talking about him and the other Links.
"So, are all of you here for the Winter Festival?" the elderly Minish questioned after seeing the smashers.
"Uh…Links? What is he saying…?" Aria was one of them to answer as she had a puzzled look on her face.
"Oh. Yeah. I almost forgot that you guys haven't eaten the Perara Fruit." Green said.
"What's that?" Fear questioned.
"It's a type of fruit that helps you understand the Minish language." Vio explained and turned to Ezlo. "Would you mind if you take the others where the Perara Fruits are?"
"Sure. Come along, humans." Ezlo answered and motioned the smashers to follow him and just when they began following him, Alyssa's head began throbbing all of a sudden.
As she tried to ignore it, flashes of images, people, and places appeared in her head. Just when they were trying to show her something, she felt a hand on her shoulder which made her flinch and made the images disappear. When she looked up, she saw Vio who looked worried.
"You okay?" he asked her.
Then, that's when the brunette glared at him and turned away from him. "Of course I'm fine! Even though you're trying to be nice to me, that doesn't make me forget for you stealing my first kiss!"
"Would you just forget about that? It was just a dumb kiss anyways." Vio said to her. "Besides, I just to apologize after what happened earlier when, you know."
"It's alright. I guess you're right about the dumb kiss." The brunette said more calmly, until Blue got in her way. "What do you want, Blue?"
"Don't your friends touch each other when you were little?" he asked her.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You flinch everytime someone touches you."
"Do not."
"Do too!" Blue shouted and that's when he grabbed Alyssa's arm and she did flinched and he said, "Ha! I knew it!"
That got Alyssa irritated and she pulled her arm back to make him let go. I guess he was right about me flinching whenever someone touches me, she thought and catch up to the others as they were heading inside a large barrel.
Inside the barrel, there were many plants everywhere like some kind of greenhouse, except inside a barrel. As the smashers stared in awe at the sight of the plants, Ezlo went up and talked to one of the Minish who work here.
Then, that's when the other Minish people walked up to the fighters and gave each of them some kind of fruit; the Perara Fruit. When the fighters ate the fruit, it tasted sweet and juicy like any fruit would taste like and that's when they now understand the language of the Minish people around them.
"Do you understand me now?" Ezlo asked them.
For their replies, some said, "Yes," and the others said, "I guess so."
And then, that's when the Minish people inside the barrel came up to them and started to crowd around them as they were in awe seeing a lot of humans all at once.
"More humans!"
"Look at their clothes!"
"They're so cool!"
"May I get your autographs?"
"OOOH, AUTOGRAPH PLEASE!"
"OKAY! THAT'S ENOUGH!" Ezlo yelled as he glared back at the other Minish just looking at them. They began to back away slowly as he made his way through them and went to the smashers.
Then, that's when Michael slithered on top of Alyssa's head. "And do you perhaps have a house where I can stay at? I have to watch out for the cold or I'll die." He asked the elderly Minish.
"Did…Did that snake just talked…?" Ezlo questioned, shockingly.
"Yeah. It's a long story and that snake happens to be my older brother." Rebecca explained, awkwardly. "But, he's serious about him dying in the cold."
"O-Oh. Very well then, I'll take you guys to my home to be away from the cold." The elderly Minish said and he hit his staff's end on the ground. "Make way!"
The people became scared and made way for them, separating the crowd into two just wide enough for them to go through.
As they went on, there was an unusually small Minish in their way. Ezlo did not mind him, of course, because he was one of the child Minish. But, this little Minish was in Alyssa's, Fear's and Carrie's way as she just stared up to them with a smile of certain joy. Her eyes gleamed seeing the three fighters with her and seemed to want some attention from the three of them.
"Like, we really need to go. So could we please pass?" said Fear, trying to be as courteous and friendly as possible.
The little Minish did not budge.
"Hmmm…." Alyssa gave it some thought. Now she knows how to make the young child happy. "Would you mind taking care of this for me?" she said, giving her black blindfold to the little kid.
When the little Minish got the blindfold, she was wondering what to do with it, until Carrie used it and tied in the kid's hair, like a ribbon.
"There. Now you look more cuter than before." Carrie said and watched the young Minish squealed with joy and scurried off to her home. "Mommy, mommy! I got a human's ribbon!"
Fear began to smile and turned to the cloaked fighter. "You know that you're never getting that back."
Alyssa just chuckled and shrugged her shoulders. "I got a spare." She pulled out an extra blindfold and put it over her blue eyes.
"How can you even see wearing that blindfold?" Carrie asked her.
"It's part of my training." Alyssa said and she and the other female fighters catch up to the others.
As they arrived in the house, Ezlo locked the doors to avoid any other commotion. A sigh escaped from his lips, and he settled down in the living room where the smashers stayed.
"Warmth. This is much better." Michael hissed happily as he slithered from Alyssa's shoulder to a nearby shelf.
"Since all of you can finally understand me now, are all of you here for the festival?" Ezlo asked the fighters.
"Yup! We can't wait!" Red chirped happily.
"And, I can see some of the Minish people are starting to put up the decorations." Vaati said as he looked through one of the windows.
"Hey, Ezlo, right? When does the festival start?" Ella asked the elderly Minish.
"It doesn't start until in the afternoon." He answered.
"Hey! In the meantime, why don't we help setting up the decorations too?" Krystal asked the others.
"Better than doing nothing…" Blue mumbled.
"I'll go! I want to help!" Ella exclaimed which made both Alex's and Eddie's face lit up.
"Same here!" they shouted, but ended up glaring at each other while both Jake and Lucy were sweatdropping.
"Okay I guess." Nick said.
Then, that's when the other fighters began to agree as well and they all went back outside to help the Minish people set up the decorations, except Michael who still doesn't want to freeze to death since he's still a snake.
Alyssa's POV
So yeah, now everyone's starting to help the Minish people to set up the decorations for the festival, like winter flower petals, some empty berries filled with light orbs like lanterns, and nature stuff. Also, I heard that one of the Minish people said later at night, there's going to be a firefly show. But still, I get the feeling I sense a dark aura around me, but I'm not sure where is coming from.
"What's even better, that's the time where many couples kiss right when they're under the mistletoe." A female Minish sighed after she was thinking about the romantic moment.
"Wait. You guys have mistletoes here…?" I asked her.
"Yeah! Is there someone that you really like and wanted to get a kiss from?" another Minish came up and asked me.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Heck no! There's nobody here that I like!" I said to them, until I noticed few of the female smashers were blushing all red.
But still, that Vio bookworm stole my first kiss if it wasn't for the idiotic Blue and Green! I just wish I could forget the whole thing, like someone hit me on the back of my head or someone erase my memories so I could forget it!
Then while I was putting a berry lantern next to a Minish's house, I began to notice there was a building next to the house. The building was a tree with a hole at the bottom where the roots were.
"Oh. I see you noticed the library." The female Minish from before said to me.
A library? Great! Now I have somewhere I can sit down and look at the rest of the photos inside my music box in piece!
"I'll be back before the festival starts, guys! If you need me, I'll be at the library!" I told the others and went inside the library.
Inside, the library was awesome, especially a Minish's library.
"May I help you?" a Minish was standing behind a metal-made counter.
He looked faintly disapproving, but not like he wanted to rip my lungs out, so I figured he wasn't the one I sense the strange dark aura I had earlier.
"Yes," I stepped forward, looking as serious and professional as an eighteen-year-old brunette girl can look in a library. "Is there a good place where I can sit down and relax?" I smiled at him, putting real warmth to it, and he blinked.
"Well, you go straight forward and make a right and you'll be where you want peace and quiet in the reading section." He said.
"Thank you so much," I said, smiling again.
As I followed what the Minish told me, I was in a room where there were shelved books in each row, tables made from different types of wood placed everywhere, more Minish people reading the books or studying, and Vio- Wait. VIO?
Then, my eyes shot wide open and I did saw Vio. He was sitting on one of the tables and was reading a book, not bothering to look up which is grateful for me. But, seriously? Why, Vio? Why here and now? Forget it. I'm not here to see him. I'm here to find out who were those kids in the photos inside my music box.
When I sat down a chair that's far away from the purple bookworm, I quickly took out my music box, grabbed the photos, and closed the music box before it played more of that annoying music.
Then, that's when I began looking for the last photos I didn't get a chance to see thanks to Blue and Green's stupid fight and Vio stealing my f-! Gah! Why am I thinking about this now?
Anyways, when I looked at one of the last photos, I saw that spunky brown-haired girl looking all scared and panicking as she fell from a tree. I don't know why she took that picture. Maybe she accidently pressed the button or something, doesn't matter.
In the next photo, that photo made me nearly jump up from my chair I was sitting and make a scene, but I stayed calm although I was still shocked that the photo I saw had a picture of the girl with a Minish, a lavender colored Minish that looked exactly like Vaati.
All of a sudden, my head began throbbing again just like earlier. Then, the same images, places, and people began to appear in my head again, trying to let me see them, but I refused. I placed my hands against my head trying to scream of how much pain it was giving in my head, but I didn't
"Scream! Scream! Scream!" I can tell my head was talking to me and trying to make me scream, until I felt someone was behind me.
The next thing that came over me, I reacted and clenched both of my fists and hit the person, but I didn't know what came over me after I heard the cry of the person shriek after I hit him. It was Vaati who I hit. Thankfully, nobody didn't saw the commotion and that's when I helped the Minish get up to his feet.
"I'm so sorry, Vaati. I didn't know it was you and I didn't mean to hit you either." I said to him.
"It's…It's alright." He said, rubbing his cheek where I hit him.
Crap. Now I feel really bad now for hurting him like that, until that's when Vaati took out something from his hat and held a light orb in his hands.
"I want to give you this." He said and gave me the light orb.
"For me? What for?" I asked him, feeling the light orb illuminating in my hands.
"As a thanks for cheering me up earlier…" he said, but still rubbing his sore cheek which made me feel even worse.
"Well, no problem. And thank you for the orb, but are you sure it doesn't hurt where I hit you?"
"N-No. Not one bit."
Then, that's when I narrowed my eyes at him and that's when I put away the orb in one of my cloak pockets and placed one of my hands on the cheek where I hit him and he started flinch and started to feel hot all of a sudden. Did I really hit him that hard?
"You liar. It does hurt." I said to him.
Then, he looked down on the ground and I can tell he must've felt ashamed of himself for lying like that, until he placed his own hand on mines where I held his cheek which made me flinch as well. Man, I hate it when that happens whenever someone touches me.
"Just s-stop. It hurts even more when you touch it." He stammered as he pulled down my hand.
Just before I was wondering what's going on with him, I heard the sound of footsteps coming towards me and when I turned to see who it was, it my best friend, Diana.
"There you guys are." She said. "Come on! The festival's starting!"
The festival. That's right! I was so busy focusing what's going on I nearly forgot the festival. Then, that's when both Vaati and I got up and followed Diana to the exit.
On the way, I saw Vio again in one of the aisle and I started walking towards him.
"What are you doing here since the festival is going to start?" I asked him.
"It's not my thing." He shrugged, until I grabbed one of his wrists and dragged him to both Diana and Vaati.
"Oh no you're not staying here and miss the fun! Come on, Vio! The festival's gonna start!" Diana said to him and without having an argument, he just goes with it and we all went outside for the festival.
Story's POV
When the fighters exited the library, their eyes shot wide open and were in awe seeing the berry lanterns lighting up everywhere in many colors, the decorations, and both the Minish people and the smashers were gathering around in the center and by the looks of it, a few of the smashers were holding some instruments the Minish people made for them.
Both Eddie and Richard were holding a piece of wood with strings attached to it which makes it sound like a guitar and bass, Nick was holding a pair of hollow wood which makes it sound like a pair of bongos, Ella was holding a metal tube which makes it sound like a trumpet, and Jake, Fear, Krystal, Carrie, and Lucy were each holding a rubber tube with a light orb on the top which make them look like microphones.
"Hey, guys! What are you doing?" Alyssa came up and asked them as she was followed by Diana, Vaati, and Vio.
"We're gonna perform for the start of the festival." Krystal was one of them to answer.
"Really? That's great!" Diana exclaimed.
"Yes, it is, but you guys have to sit down now. We're going to start." Richard said.
When everyone in the audience sat down on some wooden chairs, they all listened as the fighters began to start playing.
(A/N: If you want to know what the fighters are playing, it's "Feliz Navidad by Celine Dion.")
"Feliz Navidad," the singers began to sing.
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
(Then, Krystal began to stand up front and sang,)
"I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart."
(And everyone,)
"We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of our heart."
(Back to Krystal.)
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
(Everyone.)
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
"We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of our heart."
"We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of our heart."
(Krystal.)
"From the bottom of my heart."
(Everyone.)
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
"Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad."
"We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of our heart."
"We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of our heart."
(Krystal.)
"From the bottom of my heart.
From the bottom of my heart."
"We wanna wish you
From our hearts."
Then, everyone in the audience stood up from their chairs and were cheering and applauding for the fighters on stage right after they took a bow.
"Hey! Look!" one of the Minish people shouted and pointed to the sky and to everyone's surprise, the fireflies began to appear and started to light up and fly around like shooting stars.
"Wow…" Zoey stared in awe at the show, until she saw Nick next to her which made him blush.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" he said and the female fighter nodded.
"Yo, lovebirds!" Diana called out to them. "Look above!~"
Then, that's when both Nick and Zoey looked up and shot their eyes wide open to see a mistletoe above them, making them blush like mad.
"It's the mistletoe!" Ella squealed and some of the fighters were all staring at the two fighters. "You know what that means!"
"KISS! KISS! KISS!" the fighters chanted.
Suddenly, Nick wrapped his arms around Zoey and pressed his lips against hers. Shocked, the female fighter couldn't believe the boy of her dreams is actually kissing her which made her kiss him back, making them feel sparks and fireworks inside their bodies.
"Alright, Nick!" Rebecca shouted, until she felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see Terra, who was blushing and pointing in the air.
Confused, when the blond fighter looked up, her eyes shot wide open to see there was a mistletoe above the two fighters. Then, just before the male fighter leaned down to kiss her, an arrow was shot through the mistletoe which cut it and fell on top of Terra's head. Then, that's when they realized it was Ike who fired that arrow from Kuro.
"Dang it, Ike! Why did you ruin my moment to finally kiss, Rebecca?" Terra shouted, until the mercenary took out his sword and charged at the fighter, but was stopped when Alyssa used her chains and tied up Ike's sword from not getting any closer to Terra.
"Boys can be idiots these days…" Diana sighed, until she saw Blue glaring at her. "Stare as long as you want. It's true, you know."
"SHUT UP, WOLF-GIRL!"
Then, that's when the Minish people began playing the instruments and everyone started dancing to the music as they were all celebrating the night of The Minish Winter Festival.
FINALLY! I'm done! *sighs of relief* Sorry it took me so freakin LONG to post this chapter. It's been a busy week since tomorrow is Christmas Eve and yeah...
Since there's nothing much for me to say, I have one important thing to tell you guys: I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PUT ON THE NEXT CHAPTER AND THE REST OF THIS STORY!
53 chapters of inspiration, and the rest are not! So, if you have any suggestions, please review or PM me. Please!
Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!
Bye! :D
