Bow Before Your King
Chapter 8 - What Can Possibly Go Wrong? (Part 1)
(Like I said in my profile, this chapter was supposed to come out last night, but the only reason to why it's late is because of my laptop dying on me, but it's here!)
Alright, so we get to spend time with Ganondorf once again today. This chapter fortunately ended up being posted earlier on a Monday which is a plus. I don't wanna spoil stuff here for obvious reasons, so let's get right on to it. But before, I need to respond to two guest reviewers really quick.
Guest: I was just thinking about how I was portraying Ganondorf in this story. Glad you like how I'm handling him. He's basically a "gentle" version of Bowser, with that calm exterior you mentioned. However, I hope I don't make him seem like too boring of a character to which he has no emotions. He's even smirking way more in his victory animations. So maybe it's best if he stays calm, while expressing some sort of emotion at the same time. SmashKing24's "Black Ain't Your Color" portrayed Ganon perfectly, so I'm using it as a guide. Thanks!
El: Yeah, Ganondorf is the most difficult of the three. And even though I've only played "Kirby's Epic Yarn" for the Wii in regards to Kirby games, I don't find Dedede that hard to portray. Some people portray him to be a really big jerk, yet if anything, I feel that if anything, he could be a bit annoying. But the "misunderstood" part has something to do with the huge controversy surrounding him being an anti-hero/villain, but more on that will come later. Oh, and she thinks Smash is too violent? Lol, if Smash was "too violent", than that means all fighting games are violent basically. Let's not talk about what would happen if she ever sees Mortal Kombat.
~KF
Waiting and children. Enough said.
Well, that was the short way of putting it. Though for an explanation, of course it was a long story. Ganondorf Dragmire remembered the time when the movie was set to begin in the Smash Mansion's auditorium at seven in the evening, and it just so happened to be fifteen minutes before the scheduled time, which triggered an excited Ness unsurprisingly.
However, something just had to ruin the boy's moment. Since Ganon had no intentions on being caught with Ness of all people whatsoever, he decided that it was his best interest to have Ness wait in his room and arrive a couple minutes late. The King of Evil figured that upon the movie's starting time, all of the auditorium's lights would be off, which would have increased the chances of a couple certain fighters never being noticed. Though, just to be on the safe side, Dragmire decided to head in with Ness a couple minutes afterwards, further adding into his annoyance.
Currently, if one was watching, he or she would have assumed that the two Smash veterans were having some sort of 'staring contest' with one another. Ganon remained standing with tied up arms, eyeing Ness with a straight look, who happened to be sitting on the corner of his bed. Yet, with Ness blinking a couple times, followed by the gerudo's blink, and no words being immediately spoken such as 'you lost' or 'I won', the thought of a staring contest taking place would have went out the window.
Ganondorf's head leaned forward a bit, still not bothering to force a word out. Nonetheless, with Ness's third blink, the boy could not have taken the silence treatment any longer.
"...What are we waiting for!?"
"..." Sighing due to the sudden yelling, Dragmire shook his head gradually, glancing back at Ness promptly. "It is not that time yet. We are to remain here until it is time for us to go."
"...But we are going to miss the movie!"
"We will not." Fighter twenty-three's volume raised a few notches with a glare. "We are to not leave this room until I say so. Nothing you do, nor say, is going to change my mind. Deal with it."
Perhaps Ganondorf did in fact made the right move by not having kids. With children, not only they would have been a major distractions for the gerudo's future evil intentions with Hyrule, but also, if he was targeted, than it would not have been a surprise for him if his offspring were immediately on the radar as well.
While the concept of children was the main topic, Ganon's door opened to reveal none other than Young Link, Toon Link, the Ice Climbers, the Duck Hunt duo, Villager, and Lucas.
"..." His mouth opening slightly to make a small noise, in combination with his right eyebrow being lifted was more than enough to confirm his curiosity and confusion. Ganondorf instantly shifted his head to Ness. "What are they doing here?"
"I told them about the movie and they wanted to come!" He explained, taking a brief second to eye his best Smasher friend. "...Well,... everyone but Lucas and Villager..."
The blonde boy himself pointed towards the other kids in self-defense. "They made me go with them! I don't wanna be remembered as 'the kid who didn't put his big boy pants on and watch a horror movie'!"
"Me too!" said Villager.
"I didn't want to be involved in this, but as much as I don't want to get in trouble, I'm curious to see what the movie will be like myself, so I stayed with them." Young Link elaborated on his intentions. "Besides, I didn't want to be bored for the rest of the night... even if I have to be with you of all people..."
"..." Without question, the mind of the seven foot tall villain was flooded with a million thoughts flowing through at once, which included a mixture of questions, complaints, and even insults he could throw to all the innocent children plus the animal duo standing in front of the doorway, the latter category being solely for Young Link half the time.
...Hold on a minute... Animal duo?
That was when his attention specifically focused on Duck Hunt, more so on the infamous dog himself, notorious for his behavior back in the classic Nintendo days.
"...Explain that, then?"
Watching in the direction of his pointed finger, Ness's friends knew that they did have quite a bit of explaining to do in regards to the animal's involvement.
Toon Link sighed, wanting to take that role. "Okay... We were already playing with Duck Hunt before we heard the news from Ness, who texted us by the way. We were all getting excited before the Duck Hunt dog started barking. We thought that he wanted to go to, so here we all are!"
"We were gonna tell Bowser Jr., but he would been annoying the whole time." Nana the Ice Climber added.
"..." The level of irritation when up from four to seven. Yet at the same time, it could have been even worse for Ganon. For that situation in particular, he decided that at the end of the day, as long as they stood out of his way, he would choose to stay out of theirs. "...Fine... We'll all go together when I say it is time. Do not interact with anyone in the hallways, since none of us know who exactly will attend the viewing of the thriller besides Ryu, Lucina, Mac, and Ike. Do not make any noise, and stand by me at all times. I'd rather not deal with any children wandering off."
"And finally," His finger pointed at the Duck Hunt dog. "keep him quiet."
To Dragmire's surprise, all of the children accompanying him, including the Duck Hunt Duo correctly followed his instructions with no if's, and's, nor but's about it. In spite of that, it was best for him to continue to keep his mouth shut in order to not jinx anything. That would have definitely been anyone's worst case scenario. He hoped that no one would have had the nerve to state the most dreaded phrase in history. But then, who would have been stupid enough to say just that? Probably either anyone that never had a brain, or anyone who never lived that long to have enough experience.
Ganondorf was in fact thankful that he lived on the Melee floor, so he never had to have a great amount of impatience to reach the ground floor. However, his level of patience had to come in play, thanks to the kids wanting to go to the cafeteria to retrieve snacks. Not only dinner for the Smash Mansion began almost an hour ago (which was still going at the time), but there was also the fact that they all already ate their food. Dragmire knew very well that the only reason to why they had the desire to travel back to one of the most popular rooms in the mansion was because of them wanting to grab a few snacks so that they could all enjoy them while watching the movie. The notorious villain in particular never really cared for sweets at all, with cake and lemon meringue pie being two of the few exceptions.
But other people wanted to grab items from the vending machine? Great. Now Ganondorf had to waste time standing still, ignoring whoever was in the cafeteria at the time eating their meal, and eyeing the kids one-by-one as they all took their turn.
"...Oh yeah, dogs can't have sugar, right?"
Lucas nodded to Ness's blink. "Don't ever feed dogs sugar. One time, there was somehow a candy bar on the floor near Boney at home, and he almost ate it! Dad saved his life!"
"Enough chitter-chatter." The orange-haired Melee veteran wanted the small talk to continue no longer. "We need to get moving; it is already inconvenient for me to be traveling with you all, yet it seems that we have our own reasons to head to the auditorium. I, for some reason, never received a verbal invitation from any of my fellow Smashers, despite most knowing of who I am. You all are in a far worse position than me for obvious reasons. We will head into the auditorium and sit in the back row so that it is not likely to raise suspicion. It is exactly two minutes to seven, so we shall walk slowly and quietly. Understood?"
Upon turning on his heel to make his way out, all of the children Smashers involved took a glance at one another standing in place.
"...Ya sure this is gonna work, Ness?"
"Of course it is!" Ness bobbed his head up and down rapidly to Popo. "It's gonna work because it has to work! What can possibly go wrong?"
Young Link leaned his head back a bit.
By the looks of it, quite a few mansion residents got word of the horror-flick that was set to play that evening. Including Little Mac, Lucina, Ryu, and Ike, there was Fox and Falco (who had no care if the whole thing was Wolf's idea), Dedede, Bayonetta, Robin, Dark Pit, Ken, Samus, Captain Falcon, Shulk, Meta Knight, Mewtwo, and somehow R.O.B. (who only accepted the offer due to curiosity). There were of course some Assist Trophies and Pokemon that came to the mix, so it was safe to say there were a little more than thirty beings, more than enough for a small party in the Smash Mansion. Then again, unauthorized parties were strongly against the rules. Literally no resident had to be reminded of the time Funky Kong the spirit came over one day and threw a party on the Ultimate floor, and managed to invite almost everyone that was considered trustworthy to others.
There was a large projector screen above the stage, which if one applied common sense, he or she would have assumed that it was for the movie to be shown. Typical for movie theaters of course, and the mansion's auditorium seemed as they were in fact in an actual movie theater, which many claimed to be the best part since it was right in their own home. After all, it was only up to five floors down with a few corners to turn.
Near the stage were R.O.B. and Wolf O'Donnell himself, using the laptop to make sure everything was just right for the movie to begin.
"Okay..." His uncovered eye suddenly blinked. "Everything seems to be the order. I've already put the DVD in."
R.O.B. the robot sighed. He knew deep down that not even halfway before 'Chainsaw Destruction: Texas Style' finished, he was going to regret it. Deeply. Everyone and their brother would have known that horror movies were never exactly his forte. Yet for that situation, the Brawler realized that he rarely experienced watching horror movies at all, and so, with quite a bit of pondering, he decided to give it a chance.
"Huh?"
Fox McCloud's rival immediately shifted his head to his right to stare at a popcorn mess on the floor, the lupine and robot raising their heads slightly to find F-Zero racer, Captain Falcon, eyeing them back with his mouth opened a bit. Waluigi took role as the innocent bystander, eyeing the mess before shifted his head back and forth everyone, including Rodin three steps behind the notorious Assist Trophy. Put two and two together, and one would have got the answer within zero point two seconds.
"Aw, come on!" Zororark shouted from the back of Rodin. "The movie is about to start!"
A groan from the Brawl mercenary was sounded.
"Look, Master Hand informed me that I was responsible. Clean it up."
-/-
Five minutes past seven, and the movie began. Currently, there was a scene to where the movie seemed to show some sort of prologue.
...
"Move!"
"Ah!
"Ugh!"
"Off!"
"*Bark*"
"Sh!"
"Shhhhh!"
A few irritated movie watchers turned to face a decet of iconic Smash characters shuffling in the back row of the auditorium. Sure, there was the chance that they might have been seen upon entering, yet, not much noise was heard prior. Regardless of that, since there was quite a few sounds currently, it was enough for them to be considered 'noisy' in the movie theater, especially with the bark that was sounded.
To Ganondorf's surprise, besides Duck Hunt being the most likely Smasher to be exposed, not one individual bothered to face around to eye them. Therefore, literally no one could waste five seconds to identify at least one of them, despite some of the voices sounding very child like. ...Meh, perhaps it was all thanks to the loudness of the movie.
"You stepped on my 'Milkin-Way'!"
"Not my fault!"
"Shhh!" Ganondorf Dragmire already had second thoughts of the kids tagging along with them. He knew going alone was the safe option. "Be quiet. You two can tear each other apart over the chocolate treat for all I care. But not here. Not now."
"..."
"..."
With an irritated Toon Link taking one more quick second to glare at Popo, both remained in their seats, having no choice but to listen one of the most dominant villains in Nintendo history. As for the rest of the children, their were almost as if staring at the projector screen was their job. If Dragmire happened to be looking at the time, he would not have recalled one moment where any of them moved their eyes away, not even the Duck Hunt Dog, nor duck.
Yet since he himself had his eyes fixated on the horror-flick playing in front of him. Just two hours. Two hours of watching a simple horror movie with kids by his side, plus two common everyday animals. Sure, the latter was not on his list of expectations, yet in the end, it should have never been that difficult to deal with. Right?
...Right?
One of the kids said the dreaded phrase. Great. Anything and everything is going to go wrong in the next chapter, since I decided to split into two parts because of me thinking it was necessary to end it here. But in all honesty, I really don't know how I feel about this chapter in terms of my writing and all. What do you all think?
Really surprised how fast this story is taking off so far in regards to reviewers, favs/follows, and views altogether, in comparison to most of my previous fanfictions, so thank you all for the feedback and making this one of my top ten most popular fics here based on the stats (been writing on here since 2012 you know). It's best to raise awareness that these three fighters still exist despite the roster having over seventy (soon to be over eighty) characters!
Questions:
1. Who is the most/least likely child to get scared of the movie? What about all the rest of the children involved?
2. Do you guys like it that Young Link is naturally the most responsible?