Chapter 3: An A-maze-ing Experience
(A/N: Yes, the title's corny. Deal with it)
As I step out of the portal, I realize that I have already lost all chance of fighting on familiar territory. With Peach, DK, Yoshi, and myself, of course, out of the way, I run out of familiar areas…well, there's always Bowser, I guess, and Luigi will probably show up.
Oh well. I emerge from the portal into what appears to be a cave. There's not much to it, though, I just run forward and-
Wow.
Some things that strongly resemble mummies are standing on a platform in front of me. I jump at them, but one of them grabs me. It hurts a bit, but I recover, and smash all three of them away. They react to my attacks similarly to the Goombas and Koopas did.
I continue on, and I come to another area. Following the path, I encounter more mummies and then some octopi that shoot rocks at me, or something. I just Mario Tornado it out of the way and continue.
Suddenly, a blob-like thing falls from the sky and eats me. Or something.
Anyway, it spits me out, leaving me with a bit more damage, but I continue. I come to a fork in the road and choose up. I fight through some more creatures and run into a room with a sword in the middle. Then, the sword disappears and I am somehow teleported to a black area, and Link appears.
"Hi, Link. What werea thosea mummies?"
Link, however, ignores me, and swings his sword. Hmph. At least last time he taunted me.
Fine with me, I'll just go beat him up. I do so without much trouble, and I am teleported back to the maze room. The sword is gone. I turn around and go down at the fork, fight some more thingies, and see another room with a sword. Lo and behold, I am teleported away and I fight another Link.
As my percentage climbs these fights become more of a challenge but this isn't too bad. I deal with Link, and continue. It seems that I'm looking for a room without a sword in the middle.
After quite a bit of uninteresting exploring, getting beaten up by mummies, octopi, blobs, Links, traps, and lava, I finally find a room that doesn't have a sword! Instead, it has some sort of floating triangle thing. I think suddenly of Zelda's mentioning of something that had to do with a triangle. Tri-something.
Anyway, when I run into this room, a portal appears and I am finally taken out of the maze.
I appear in some sort of temple, and I see Princess Zelda preparing to fight. This should be interesting.
I run up to her, and she hits me with some sort of electricity. What the-
As I fly up into the air, she causes the air in front of her to combust, setting me on fire as well.
Wow…and I thought Ness's moves didn't make any sense.
I launch a fireball at her, but a large bluish polyhedron surrounds her and deflects the fireball. It reminds me of Fox's reflector thingy, but much more ornate. In any case, I rush away (this area is huge!) to regroup. Suddenly, her body starts to sparkle and a ninja appears in her place.
I didn't think we were allowed to teleport away from the battle and send someone else in our place! She can't-
Whoa…this ninja is fast! She (he?) ran all the way over to me and kicked me. Then, s/he did a crazy breakdancing move that sent me flying. As I came to retaliate, she threw a slew of barely visible darts at me. This is not going well.
I finally jump up to get a hit on her (I'll just call it a her; presumably it is still Zelda) when she gets a whip out of nowhere and smacks me with it. Then, she stands upright and crouches suddenly, which somehow sends me flying into the air to my death. Whatever…physics never applied to this tournament anyway.
As I come back in my invincible state, the ninja changes back to Zelda. Interesting. I give her no quarter this time, though. I smash up, jump and flip kick, Super Jump Punch. As she prepares to land, I charge up my smash hit, and release it just in time to send her flying. Unfortunately, this level is so huge that it doesn't matter too much, but it's a start.
She retreats to the lower part of the level (arrgh! This level is SO BIG!) and transforms back. As I follow, she pulls out her whip again and cracks it. I land next to her, and she does some sort of explosion and disappears, only to reappear above me. I am sent flying with her, aflame. I've had enough of this.
"You'rea going down!" I shout angrily. Not that I expected her to answer, which she didn't. It just made me feel better.
I smash her up, and she bounces off of the wall above us. I wait for her to land by charging up my down-smash. When she lands, I release it, and send her flying. Her double jump and explosion thingy are enough to get her back this time, but after I punch her a few times then smash again, she flies away for good.
Whew…that was more trouble than I expected. That Zelda sure packs a punch…and her ninja alias is so fast! Oh well, I wonder what's next.
(A/N: Can you tell how much I hate that temple level? It's so BIG!)
