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Marth buttoned up his cotton shirt. His boots were somewhere on the floor, probably hidden under Roy's armor. He walked over to the armor, lifting it gently so Roy wouldn't wake up.

Unfortunately, his boots were elsewhere. Marth swore under his breath, where did I put them? He continued to search the room before finding them beneath his bed. Marth couldn't sleep so instead, he decided to stroll the palace.

As long as Roy and him have been guardians, they have never even looked at the whole palace, or half of it for that matter. Marth opened the door to hallway when light flooded the room. He quickly went into the hallway and shut the door behind him, hoping the candlelight hadn't awoken Roy.

Marth looked at both ends of the hallway and decided to go south. The statues and paintings on the walls made Marth stop just to get a good look at them. As the minutes went by, he noticed a door behind him that led to Princess Zelda's quarters. He thought he would peek to see if the Princess would be awake at this hour, but then thought against it.

As soon as he turned to leave, he heard a rustling sound in the room. "Maybe she is awake after all," Marth turned and opened the door. The room was silent and dark. What the? Marth looked around and saw nothing. He turned to leave and the door shut.

There stood Ganandorf with a hand on Princess Zelda's mouth. "Princess Zelda!" Marth step forward. "Not another move," Ganandorf sneered. He lifted his hand and out shot a purple ball of energy.

Marth eyes widened in horror as the ball came towards him. The energy ball hit him with full force in the chest, sending him flying backwards through the balcony doors and over the railing.

"MARTH!" Zelda finally unclasped Ganandorf's hand that was around her mouth. She watched in horror as her guardian flew over the balcony railing.

Roy's eyes flashed open. He sat up and looked at his brother's bed. Empty. Roy shot out of bed, grabbing his sword and dashed out of the room. "I'm coming!" He shouted.

Ganandorf slowly walked up to the balcony with Zelda still clutched at his side. "Hmmm." He smiled to himself. He looked over the railing and his smile changed to a frown. Below him Marth barely hung on the edge of the balcony.

Ganandorf flung Zelda back into her room, and started to chant his magic. Zelda slammed into her bedpost and collapsed on the floor, unconscious. "Time to die," Ganandorf sneered as purple bolts shot down and surged through Marth's body.

Marth jerked and twitched as thousands of volts electrified him, but he continued to hold on. Ganandorf suddenly stopped, as a sword was thrusted through his body. He clutched the sword with a bloodied hand. Soon, his whole cloak was soaked with blood.

Roy jerked the sword to the side, making the sword go deeper. Ganandorf turned around and saw his adversary. "Yyy-oooo-uuu." he choked, and fell back wards off the balcony.

Roy leaned over the railing and gave his hand out to Marth. As his brother was pulled back to safety, Roy gave him a smile. Marth returned the smile as best as he could. When Marth's legs were over the railing, he collapsed on top of Roy, asleep.

Roy shook his head. He will never forget this. When he got up to go help Zelda to her bed he realized something. She wasn't there.