AN: Well... It's been a week and Roy found the journal again... so with out much more to do, here's the next entry in "Link's Journal".
Date: 8.11.02
Well Journal, I had a great week/weekend. Not too much has happend... yeah right. Now... where to begin?
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The day after the last entry, Marth and Roy finally returned. We (us three swordsmen) held a duel the next day. Samus watched, ooo'd and ahh'd as well as did the cheering for our fight. After our duel we packed up the cabin, and left for the deepest part of the woods we could get to. We all decided to camp there. Marth and Roy both went seperate ways into the woods, once again leaving me and Samus alone with eachother. If I didn't know better I'd say they were trying to get me and Samus closer to eachother. Anyway, we continued with our training (the four of us) and we packed up camp and left. Another reason other then that our break from the fighting was almost over, we also ran out of max. tomatoes and heart containers. The day after we got back we found in our mail that there was to be a grand tournament. The grand tournament was to include every smasher and some of the smashers that almost made it (forced to be used as a "costume" for another character). The grand prize? A whopping 500,000 Ninten creds. The prize lowered itself for the lower places, with last place only being around 100 creds. As soon as we heard this, Samus and I made an agreement that there would be no hard feelings for kicking the shit out of eachother (I wanted to make sure there'd be no hard feelings for me not going to go easy on her should we see eachother in the tournament in light of our blooming relationship).
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I had anothe packed day the day after we got back from our trip. The battle number was going to be doubled from the days missed due to the new arenas being put in. However, none of us were to mad about this as we were able to put the new arenas to the test, and apparently the rumors were true! They were old stages from the original tournament. I'm sorta mad that they didn't pick Hyrule Castle as one of the "old fashioned" stages. Oh well, I guess one can't always get what they want. Sometimes I still visit the old stage. Confused? You shouldn't be. You see, when they took off the old stages to put the new ones in, they didn't remove the old ones, they just merely didn't allow us to battle on them. We could still go and hang out there. I played the Ocarina Of Time (I had stolen it back from Zelda) for a while, while thinking about random stuff, such as: Should I thank my mini-me or still look to kick the shit out of him whenever I see him?, or "Should I tell Master/Crazy Hand that it was me who took the supplies?" and the main question that was probably on everyone's mind "Will I screw up in the tournament?" After a half hour or so of me playing the Ocarina Of Time in a trance like state I was shocked to hear clapping. I looked around and saw that it was Samus who was applauding my performance. She and I sat at the edge of the roof of the castle. We didn't have to worry about the tornados that appeared here and there every so often because the traps/hazards/weather conditions were disabled when the arenas were not in use for fighting. I got out the Ocarina (which I've now just started considering a regular old Ocarina due to it's uselessness during the tournaments) and started playing for Samus since she seemed to enjoy it so much. It was starting to get late when Samus had started to appluad for me the first time, and it was even later when I had finished playing my second piece. Sometime during my second performance we had moved to leaning against one of the towers and Samus had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulder. I smiled and laughed to myself at how happy I was to have Samus as my girlfriend. I still will say that Samus is better then that bitch of a princess I used to date. I ended up putting my Ocarina away and falling asleep there. But sleeping there was a bad choice.
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The next morning, we were all called to the viewing room of the FD. On the back wall was the tournament schedule. For the prelims it looked something like this.
STAGE: FINAL DESTINATION
STOCK: 5
ITEMS: NONE
ROUND 1:
MARTH
JIGGLYPUFF
SAMUS
FALCO
ROUND 2:
NESS
C. FALCON
ROY
PEACH
ROUND 3:
YOUNG LINK
PIKACHU
DK
BOWSER
ROUND 4:
KIRBY
ZELDA/SHIEK
YOSHI
FOX
ROUND 5:
LINK
GANONDORF
MARIO
ICE CLIMBERS
ROUND 6:
LUIGI
DR. MARIO
MEWTWO
MR. GAME AND WATCH
Then there was a group put off to the side, but the line from the smashers who won this went up into the semi-finals. So everyone called this the "seeded group". Though on the tournament board, it was known as Round 7.
ROUND 7:
DAISY
WARIO
PICHU
DARK LINK
I understood why they had put Daisy, Wario and Pichu together. They had Daisy and Wario because they just fell short of being in Melee, and Pichu was the only one of the offical smashers that was left. I was a little nervous around Dark Link. I mean, he's my dark side, he would make me try and kill my friends and stuff... at least. That's what I think he'd do. I was really tired and surprised when they had annouced that Round 1 would be commencing in five minutes.
We all ran for coffee, food, and to claim a good seat for the fights. Me? I walked right into a good seat and fell asleep. I didn't wake up untill after the third round though. When I looked at the tournament board, I found that Marth and Samus had won in Round 1. Falcon and Peach won Round 2 and Young me and DK won Round 3. I left the Master Sword to guard my seat while I ran to get some strong coffee and something to eat. When I returned I had found that Round 4 was already underway. I finished eating my huge bowl of Cucco Puffs and chugged the rest of my coffee just in time to see Shiek blast Fox off of the FD, making Zelda/Shiek and Fox the winners of Round 4. I gulped as it was time for my round. It was sad an pitiful as I got last place, followed by Mario, Ice Climbers and the jerk Ganondorf won. But apparently Ganondorf had cheated. He ended up using a heart container to heal himself when suposedly no one was watching him. So we re-did the battle. It was close, but Ganondorf and I won.
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There was to be a short break after the prelims were over. I couldn't wait so I could go sleep in a bed, with or without Samus in it with me ^_^ Anyway, in Round 6 it was a close battle too. Though Mewtwo's mind seemed to be distracted on something else *coughcough*Peachflashingthefighters*coughcough* so he ended up in last place. Followed by Game and Watch. Dr. Mario and Luigi both proved to be the victors of this round. Finally Round 7 came about and we all watched intently as Daisy, Wario, Pichu and my Dark Self walked up to the FD arena. After what looked to be a tough battle, Daisy and Wario won, thus ending the prelim matches. We were dismissed untill the evening when the quarter-finals would take place.
Of course I left straight to my room, which at the moment, I was not happy in. For you see, Marth and Roy were congradulating me on my victory at the same time Marth was counsoling Roy for his loss. At least Roy got 100 creds to spend on a date. I just walked into my room and closed and locked the door so I could get some piece.
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When the quater finals rolled around I was finally fully rested and I had good food in me to seal my victory over whoever I had to face. I walked back to my seat only to find that Marth was lounging in it. I had to remind him of his match before he would get out of my chair. His match was a good one. He, Samus, C. Falcon and Peach all went at eachother. In the end, the winners were Marth and C. Falcon. I comforted Samus on her loss as she walked out and joined me for the next match. In the next match the Hylians dominated (the Hylians being Young me and Zelda/Shiek). Then, in my match, I focused on kicking everyone's ass while staying alive. I think I may have been the most focused of the group. Ganondorf and Dr. Mario's asses were whooped leaving me and Luigi to move on to the semi-finals.
There was another short break before we all had to report for the semi-finals. The other smashers help a mini party for the eight of us going to the semi-finals. THe eight of us were: Marth, Falcon, Zelda, my younger self, me, Luigi, Daisy and Wario. After the mini-party, and us laughing our asses off at a drunk ganondorf, it was time for the semi-finals. In Round 1 Marth's training finally failed him as he was beaten for the top two places (the places needed to move on) by Falcon and my Younger Self. In Round 2, Daisy and Wario had such an ambition. I guess they figured if they won the contest the hands would let them be their own individual character. Unfortunatly for them, Luigi and I creamed'em. So now it was down to the finals. Unfortunatly it was also now like... 5:00 AM, so Pichu and the Ice Climbers were sleeping on the sofa in the back. The hands decided to torture us in the final round of the tournament by boosting the stock to 50. The matches were all recorded as we went. I wondered who the crowed wanted to win more... Me, Falcon, Young Me, or Luigi. The only ones who I was sure wanted me to win were Samus, Marth, Roy, and Mewtwo. It was one hell of a fight though, it started at 5:05 and ended around seven minutes before 6:00AM. In the end though, Luigi had won first place, I had second, Falcon in third, and Young Me in fourth. Luigi got the 500,000 creds, and I ended up with 400,000. I didn't care really that I hadn't gotten first place, I mean, 400,000 creds is pretty damn good. It's a hell of a lot better then what we get for the regular melees.
Something that I think was pretty damn good was that Zelda tried to sweet talk her way to having me give her some of the money I had won, you know what I did? I simply gave her the finger while I walked over to my room to put the money in my vault. Where it is and what the combo is? I'm not writing in here, simply because i'm sure that Roy is bound to find you (again) so I'm going to leave my vault a secret. Well, now that I'm finished writing this, and it's about seven in the morning, I'm going to sleep now. Oyasumi Journal...
-Hero Of Time-
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AN: Wow... I'm now shocked. For once I managed to get this up the first day I got it. Usually I'm stuck doing editing and stuff for a couple of days delaying the posting... lucky you! It's on time! Now... enough of my rambling here, REVIEW!!!!
Date: 8.11.02
Well Journal, I had a great week/weekend. Not too much has happend... yeah right. Now... where to begin?
---
The day after the last entry, Marth and Roy finally returned. We (us three swordsmen) held a duel the next day. Samus watched, ooo'd and ahh'd as well as did the cheering for our fight. After our duel we packed up the cabin, and left for the deepest part of the woods we could get to. We all decided to camp there. Marth and Roy both went seperate ways into the woods, once again leaving me and Samus alone with eachother. If I didn't know better I'd say they were trying to get me and Samus closer to eachother. Anyway, we continued with our training (the four of us) and we packed up camp and left. Another reason other then that our break from the fighting was almost over, we also ran out of max. tomatoes and heart containers. The day after we got back we found in our mail that there was to be a grand tournament. The grand tournament was to include every smasher and some of the smashers that almost made it (forced to be used as a "costume" for another character). The grand prize? A whopping 500,000 Ninten creds. The prize lowered itself for the lower places, with last place only being around 100 creds. As soon as we heard this, Samus and I made an agreement that there would be no hard feelings for kicking the shit out of eachother (I wanted to make sure there'd be no hard feelings for me not going to go easy on her should we see eachother in the tournament in light of our blooming relationship).
---
I had anothe packed day the day after we got back from our trip. The battle number was going to be doubled from the days missed due to the new arenas being put in. However, none of us were to mad about this as we were able to put the new arenas to the test, and apparently the rumors were true! They were old stages from the original tournament. I'm sorta mad that they didn't pick Hyrule Castle as one of the "old fashioned" stages. Oh well, I guess one can't always get what they want. Sometimes I still visit the old stage. Confused? You shouldn't be. You see, when they took off the old stages to put the new ones in, they didn't remove the old ones, they just merely didn't allow us to battle on them. We could still go and hang out there. I played the Ocarina Of Time (I had stolen it back from Zelda) for a while, while thinking about random stuff, such as: Should I thank my mini-me or still look to kick the shit out of him whenever I see him?, or "Should I tell Master/Crazy Hand that it was me who took the supplies?" and the main question that was probably on everyone's mind "Will I screw up in the tournament?" After a half hour or so of me playing the Ocarina Of Time in a trance like state I was shocked to hear clapping. I looked around and saw that it was Samus who was applauding my performance. She and I sat at the edge of the roof of the castle. We didn't have to worry about the tornados that appeared here and there every so often because the traps/hazards/weather conditions were disabled when the arenas were not in use for fighting. I got out the Ocarina (which I've now just started considering a regular old Ocarina due to it's uselessness during the tournaments) and started playing for Samus since she seemed to enjoy it so much. It was starting to get late when Samus had started to appluad for me the first time, and it was even later when I had finished playing my second piece. Sometime during my second performance we had moved to leaning against one of the towers and Samus had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulder. I smiled and laughed to myself at how happy I was to have Samus as my girlfriend. I still will say that Samus is better then that bitch of a princess I used to date. I ended up putting my Ocarina away and falling asleep there. But sleeping there was a bad choice.
---
The next morning, we were all called to the viewing room of the FD. On the back wall was the tournament schedule. For the prelims it looked something like this.
STAGE: FINAL DESTINATION
STOCK: 5
ITEMS: NONE
ROUND 1:
MARTH
JIGGLYPUFF
SAMUS
FALCO
ROUND 2:
NESS
C. FALCON
ROY
PEACH
ROUND 3:
YOUNG LINK
PIKACHU
DK
BOWSER
ROUND 4:
KIRBY
ZELDA/SHIEK
YOSHI
FOX
ROUND 5:
LINK
GANONDORF
MARIO
ICE CLIMBERS
ROUND 6:
LUIGI
DR. MARIO
MEWTWO
MR. GAME AND WATCH
Then there was a group put off to the side, but the line from the smashers who won this went up into the semi-finals. So everyone called this the "seeded group". Though on the tournament board, it was known as Round 7.
ROUND 7:
DAISY
WARIO
PICHU
DARK LINK
I understood why they had put Daisy, Wario and Pichu together. They had Daisy and Wario because they just fell short of being in Melee, and Pichu was the only one of the offical smashers that was left. I was a little nervous around Dark Link. I mean, he's my dark side, he would make me try and kill my friends and stuff... at least. That's what I think he'd do. I was really tired and surprised when they had annouced that Round 1 would be commencing in five minutes.
We all ran for coffee, food, and to claim a good seat for the fights. Me? I walked right into a good seat and fell asleep. I didn't wake up untill after the third round though. When I looked at the tournament board, I found that Marth and Samus had won in Round 1. Falcon and Peach won Round 2 and Young me and DK won Round 3. I left the Master Sword to guard my seat while I ran to get some strong coffee and something to eat. When I returned I had found that Round 4 was already underway. I finished eating my huge bowl of Cucco Puffs and chugged the rest of my coffee just in time to see Shiek blast Fox off of the FD, making Zelda/Shiek and Fox the winners of Round 4. I gulped as it was time for my round. It was sad an pitiful as I got last place, followed by Mario, Ice Climbers and the jerk Ganondorf won. But apparently Ganondorf had cheated. He ended up using a heart container to heal himself when suposedly no one was watching him. So we re-did the battle. It was close, but Ganondorf and I won.
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There was to be a short break after the prelims were over. I couldn't wait so I could go sleep in a bed, with or without Samus in it with me ^_^ Anyway, in Round 6 it was a close battle too. Though Mewtwo's mind seemed to be distracted on something else *coughcough*Peachflashingthefighters*coughcough* so he ended up in last place. Followed by Game and Watch. Dr. Mario and Luigi both proved to be the victors of this round. Finally Round 7 came about and we all watched intently as Daisy, Wario, Pichu and my Dark Self walked up to the FD arena. After what looked to be a tough battle, Daisy and Wario won, thus ending the prelim matches. We were dismissed untill the evening when the quarter-finals would take place.
Of course I left straight to my room, which at the moment, I was not happy in. For you see, Marth and Roy were congradulating me on my victory at the same time Marth was counsoling Roy for his loss. At least Roy got 100 creds to spend on a date. I just walked into my room and closed and locked the door so I could get some piece.
----
When the quater finals rolled around I was finally fully rested and I had good food in me to seal my victory over whoever I had to face. I walked back to my seat only to find that Marth was lounging in it. I had to remind him of his match before he would get out of my chair. His match was a good one. He, Samus, C. Falcon and Peach all went at eachother. In the end, the winners were Marth and C. Falcon. I comforted Samus on her loss as she walked out and joined me for the next match. In the next match the Hylians dominated (the Hylians being Young me and Zelda/Shiek). Then, in my match, I focused on kicking everyone's ass while staying alive. I think I may have been the most focused of the group. Ganondorf and Dr. Mario's asses were whooped leaving me and Luigi to move on to the semi-finals.
There was another short break before we all had to report for the semi-finals. The other smashers help a mini party for the eight of us going to the semi-finals. THe eight of us were: Marth, Falcon, Zelda, my younger self, me, Luigi, Daisy and Wario. After the mini-party, and us laughing our asses off at a drunk ganondorf, it was time for the semi-finals. In Round 1 Marth's training finally failed him as he was beaten for the top two places (the places needed to move on) by Falcon and my Younger Self. In Round 2, Daisy and Wario had such an ambition. I guess they figured if they won the contest the hands would let them be their own individual character. Unfortunatly for them, Luigi and I creamed'em. So now it was down to the finals. Unfortunatly it was also now like... 5:00 AM, so Pichu and the Ice Climbers were sleeping on the sofa in the back. The hands decided to torture us in the final round of the tournament by boosting the stock to 50. The matches were all recorded as we went. I wondered who the crowed wanted to win more... Me, Falcon, Young Me, or Luigi. The only ones who I was sure wanted me to win were Samus, Marth, Roy, and Mewtwo. It was one hell of a fight though, it started at 5:05 and ended around seven minutes before 6:00AM. In the end though, Luigi had won first place, I had second, Falcon in third, and Young Me in fourth. Luigi got the 500,000 creds, and I ended up with 400,000. I didn't care really that I hadn't gotten first place, I mean, 400,000 creds is pretty damn good. It's a hell of a lot better then what we get for the regular melees.
Something that I think was pretty damn good was that Zelda tried to sweet talk her way to having me give her some of the money I had won, you know what I did? I simply gave her the finger while I walked over to my room to put the money in my vault. Where it is and what the combo is? I'm not writing in here, simply because i'm sure that Roy is bound to find you (again) so I'm going to leave my vault a secret. Well, now that I'm finished writing this, and it's about seven in the morning, I'm going to sleep now. Oyasumi Journal...
-Hero Of Time-
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AN: Wow... I'm now shocked. For once I managed to get this up the first day I got it. Usually I'm stuck doing editing and stuff for a couple of days delaying the posting... lucky you! It's on time! Now... enough of my rambling here, REVIEW!!!!