Disclaimer: I do not own the smashers, Lord of the Rings, Inuyasha, ZOIDS, or Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I do own the insane nicknames I gave them. I own my characters, KittyX and Kosei. Please do not flame! ^_^;; Oh, also, I don't own Kigari's characters, Host, Trey, Melema, Kyora, etc. Sorry to use them without asking. XD I don't own the Devil May Cry introduction or Runeclocks, also! _
Author's Notes: So close! So close to updating! Aah, I...can't...wait.... *goes insane and spontaneously combusts*
- SUPER SMASH BROTHERS ONLINE -
(Crossover)
Chapter 7 - Keep Your Eyes on Me, Now We're on the Edge of Hell
"Do we have any idea on where the fire temple is?" KittyX rolled her eyes as she watched the laser status board in front of her.
The group was waiting in the cafeteria, where there was a board placed up for visitors who couldn't see the first two matches. The distant shout of "GAME!" announced the victor of the first fight, and the name of Jigglypuff was scratched out as Pichu's name was placed in bold.
"Pichu won...wow." Inuyasha raised his eyebrows.
"Don't underestimate rodents," Kosei grumbled, fingering her wrist. Just recently she had been electrocuted by a wild Pikachu, and was still angry about it.
"Yeah..." Inuyasha blinked, "...unless they're up against me." he mocked fighting a Pichu with his Tetsuiaga.
Host looked rather unimpressed, watching Inuyasha have fun in his sword skills, and turned to the approaching Roy. KittyX repeated her question.
"Do we know where the fire temple is, Roy?"
"I...think so..." Roy raised a printed paper from the computer and etched on it was a map to an old sanctuary that the previous people on the partially deserted Nintendo planet worshipped fire, "I'm guessing this is it, because it's the closest thing I could find to fire temple." he shrugged.
Host grinned.
"Alright! Everyone ready?" she surveyed the group of four.
Roy smiled half-heartedly. His determination raged, but deep down inside, he was still nervous.
KittyX fingered he hilt of her customized beamsword as she grinned in her usual psychotic way.
Inuyasha raised yet another eyebrow, "Can we get on with it? You know I'm ready." his fangs showed as he grinned, too.
"Great! Let's go then!"
Roy stood before a sentence of words etched into the stone entrance of the fire temple. He took a deep breath and read it outloud.
"2,000 years ago a Devil warrior fought for justice. He became a legend. Now, the evil rises again...and another must raise his sword and fight!"
"I'll give you three guesses to whom that evil is," Host smirked.
"I'm guessing the one who must 'raise his sword and fight' would be Roy...right?" KittyX glanced at Roy, whom shrugged.
"The second half...the 'evil rises again' part was recently marked in..." Roy observed. He compared the sanded-away words of the first half and the new second half.
"Does someone still live here?" Host blinked, looking around the outsides of the temple, "It seems deserted to me."
Inuyasha had his back to the group, looking out over the desert plans. The wind blew gently, raising some sand here and there as it went on it's way. He shook slightly as he spoke.
"Somethings here."
The others slowly turned around, frightened by Inuyasha's words.
"W-Where?" Roy's eyes were wide with fear.
Host looked around the surface of the desert and raised an eyebrow. All traces of fear drained from her voice.
"There's nothing there, guys. Let's go." she turned back around to try to get into the temple.
Inuyasha turned around, his hand clutching tightly to the hilt of the Tetsuiaga incase anything happen.
KittyX watched as Roy studied a circle with different markings of a foreign language on them. They stood there for nearly fifteen minutes, watching Roy examine the piece of stone.
"Aaauggh! You stupid stone!" Roy charged at it with his sword, and surprisingly, one hit lit up one of the words.
Host's eyes widened.
"Colleen was reading a book a while back about something called Runeclocks...! They light up when hit by someone with pure intentions!"
Roy charged at the Runeclock again and again, pummeling the stone. The words slowly lit up until the whole thing was covered in light emitting from the words. A gate raised at the entrance, and Inuyasha watched, still nervous, as the light drained from the words on the Runeclock.
"It really is a clock!" KittyX exclaimed, "It's timing the downfall of the gate! C'mon!"
And sure enough, the gate was slowly falling down in time with the draining of light in the Runeclock. Just as the group was running for the gate to get into the temple, Inuyasha shouted.
"He's attacking! Help-p!"
But before Roy, KittyX, or Host could react, Inuyasha was gone. No where to be seen. Roy continued running, his thoughts thinking back.
"They'll take non-smashers too..." his thoughts trailed to what would become of him if he lost both KittyX and Host in this quest...
The last particles of light fell out of the Runeclock just as the now group of three made it under the gate. Host looked back across the desert.
"Maybe...there was something there..." she stammered, trying her best to remain calm.
"We must keep moving," Roy reminded the two girls, and they nodded.
"Right."
Back at the smasher headquarters, the rest of Roy's team were sitting nervously in the cafeteria, watching who won what on the laser boards. Donkey Kong's name was scratched out as Luigi won the second match of the day. Finally, lunch break.
They got up and went to get something to eat, sitting back down at their table.
"They've been gone for a while," Legolas said.
"Yeah, but we gotta give them a chance," Fox grinned, "It takes a while to get through a temple -- trust me."
"I hope they're alright," Zelda sighed, poking her food with her fork.
"C'mon, eat up, Zelda." Melema smiled at the princess, whom just sighed again, "Roy will be fine. You know him."
"Yeah, but he's weak right now," Fox put in, "He's very vulnerable."
"You'd be surprised about who was taken," Ness approached the group, having overheard their conversation.
The whole group looked up.
"Who?" Zelda's eyes were wide, hoping nothing went wrong.
"I saw it in a vision," Ness said, "Inuyasha was attacked and taken before they could help him."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome exclaimed.
"He didn't have time to use his Tetsuiaga?" Miroku asked.
"No...he was taken off guard," Ness looked sad for having to give the team this news.
"We must go help them!" Sango insisted.
"No, they'll be fine," Legolas nodded, continuing to eat, "I have faith in them."
Inside the temple was nothing like the outside. It seemed like they were standing on the roof instead of on the floor. Host looked around, and took a step. Everything seemed fine with them, the room was just switched...
"We must find a way to get to the top," KittyX pointed up.
They all looked and indeed saw a door there. The path to the orb.
"There's nothing here, though, and the walls are to far away to wall jump," Roy sighed.
"No...no, there's way," Host grinned, "Look!" she pointed straight ahead, where there was a door leading out on their level.
Running through the door, they were confronted with hell itself. Flames roared on either side of them, and only a straight path ahead was flame-free. KittyX and Host moved ahead, not talking, trying their best not to get singed by the flames, but Roy just walked along happily.
Soon enough, they came to a deadend.
"We can't go any further," KittyX looked around, "there's nothing here but flames!"
"Think again," Host gave Roy a strange look.
Roy blinked cluelessly.
"Go, run through the flames Roy! Find another door."
The pyro smiled and disappeared into the fire.
"I guess all we can do now is wait..." KittyX sighed.
Inuyasha struggled in the grips of his captor. He being surrounded in darkness, he could not see a face, but could of sworn he saw a face of a young, innocent looking boy on his way down.
"Let me g--!" he exclaimed, a piece of cloth shoved in his mouth and his hands tied.
Being flung into a room, he looked around after recovering from his fall and saw the worried faces of Link, Mario, and Marth. Without the ability to speak, he continued to look around the room and saw Link's Master Sword, shield, bombs, and boomerang; Mario's mushroom and fire flower; and Marth's Falchion; and his Tetsuiaga all locked up. Growling with rage, he fought against his binds, but they were tied to tight.
I guess I'll just have to wait for them to come, Inuyasha thought, and gave a reassuring look to the others, whom nodded in understanding.
"He's found something!" Host exclaimed, having just received a telepathic message from Roy.
"What?" KittyX asked anxiously.
"He said it's east from where we are...but how are we going to get there?"
KittyX surveyed their surrounding area and sighed helplessly.
"I don't know...aah...wait!" summoning up her bow, she reached for an arrow on her back and placed it on the bow. She muttered something that Host didn't understand, and the tip of the arrow turned into solid ice, "Ice arrows!" she smiled.
Host sweatdropped and watched as KittyX shot a whole bunch of Ice arrows at the flames. Sure enough, the flames died down enough for Host and KittyX to make it to Roy, whom had found a lever.
"It's to heavy for me to pull down," he sighed, trying again.
They all tried, but it didn't budge. Host smiled suddenly.
"This is a fire temple, right?"
"Yeah..." Roy blinked.
"Use your sword on it!"
"Of course!" KittyX slapped herself, and Host just laughed.
Roy swung forth his Fuuin no Tsurugi and the lever dropped like a rock. The flames disappeared around them as a locked door on the other side clicked open. Making their way across, they entered the door and were greeted with...sludge?
"Nightmare!" KittyX screamed, jumping back against the wall, "They're practically indestructable without Devil Trigger!"
"Nightmare? Devil Trigger? What?!" Roy exclaimed, confused.
"It's an acid creature that holds a hidden core you must defeat!" KittyX shouted worriedly, as the sludge transformed in a gun looking thing, "Move!"
Particles of light flew into the opening in the front of the Nightmare as he charged up. Seconds later, a large blast erupted from him as the three ran into a corner.
"We can't beat him without Devil Trigger!" KittyX shouted over the roar of Nightmare's cannon.
"So what are we going to do?" Host shouted back.
"This is a fire temple," Roy reminded them, "We have to be able to beat Nightmare with fire!"
"But the Devil Trigger is fire! If you have Ifrit, you can do Inferno on it!" KittyX sighed.
The group was silent for a minute as the gun Nightmare melted back into sludge.
"Well, how do we get it to show it's core anyhow?"
"I dunno. I forget," KittyX looked around.
"Wait..." Roy said, "I got an idea..."
Marth tried his best to stand up without the balance of his hands, but gravity worked against him. Falling back down in his corner, he sighed, and Inuyasha could of sworn he saw a tear fall down his cheek.
"Me maf tmo mine ma may mut!" Inyuasha tried to say, We have to find a way out, but failed.
Link glanced at Inuyasha, and got an idea.
"Memon!"
"Muh?" Inuyasha tried to understand his friend, but failed at that too.
"Memon!" Link said again.
Inuyasha's eyes widened.
"Memon!" he exclaimed, understanding.
Link had said 'demon'. He knew Inuyasha could access demon form, but he didn't know how exactly.
"Meah..." Inuyasha grinned, "Meah..."
"The matches are all over for today," Zelda sighed, "Roy never got to fight."
"No, his match is today." Legolas informed Zelda.
"What? It's not on the chart."
"Someone is coming." Legolas turned towards the door of the gym.
Roy raised his Fuuin no Tsurugi and slammed it down upon Nightmare, dealing the last bit of damage they needed. The sludge exploded in his face, splatting his armour. KittyX and Host stood right behind Roy, firing what weapons they had at Nightmare.
"We have to hurry!" Roy watched as a Runeclock lit itself from the death of Nightmare, and a gate ahead of the trio opened quickly, and was slowly coming down.
Running though, they looked ahead to see several series of gates doing the same as the last one.
"Faster!" Host shouted, but everyone was already going as fast as they can.
Roy and Host made it through the last gate just in time, but as KittyX jumped to get through, the gate slammed down in front of her and she was treated with a bloody nose.
"KittyX!" Roy exclaimed, but Host grabbed his wrist and dragged him on.
"We have to go, Roy! She'll be fine." Host looked back briefly, "Go find Inuyasha!"
KittyX sat there, looking sorrowful, for a few more seconds as she watched Roy and Host disappear into the depths of the temple. Eventually, she stood up and headed back the way she came, re-appearing a few minutes later back at the entrance of the temple.
"Inuyasha! Inu-kun!" she called, but no answer.
Walking straight to where Inuyasha stood when he was taken, KittyX was met with a frightfully psychotic grin on an innocent little boy's face as she was stolen underneath the sand.
[an: to make it easier for you all to understand what they're saying, I'll put it in parenthesis]
"Mittxe-ma! [KittyX-a!]" Mario exclaimed as he saw KittyX being tossed into the room.
The catgirl demon landed on top of Link, who was awoken by the rough landing.
"M'im morry...mere moo meeping? [I'm sorry...were you sleeping?]" she chuckled slightly.
"Meah... [Yeah...]" Link sighed, sweatdropping, "Mo...mi! [So...hi!]"
"Mut's moing mon? Mid moo muys mee ma muy mou?! [What's going on? Did you guys see the boy too?!]"
"Meah! Mut's mup mith mim? [Yeah! What's up with him?]" Inuyasha questioned.
"Mi mon't mo... Mi mon't mo... [I don't know... I don't know...]" KittyX sighed, looking around her surroundings.
Her eyes fell upon her bow and arrows and her customized beamsword, locked up with the rest of the people's weapons.
"Map! [Crap!]"
"Meah...mall mocked mup. [Yeah...all locked up.]" Marth rolled his eyes.
"Mou mell. Moo muys mare munna met moutta mere moon. Mouy's moming mith ma morbs. [Oh well. You guys are gonna get outta here soon. Roy's coming with the orbs.]" KittyX reassured the group.
Inuyasha nodded.
"Mood. Mope me murry's mup! [Good. Hope he hurry's up!]"
Roy stood before a chasm filled with flames. The room was square, and a single ledge ran around the room with a chasm, and then a platform in the middle were a glowing red orb sat on a fluffy purple satin pillow.
"Well, looks like someone really took care of this thing," Host blinked, observing how much the orb was cared for.
Roy glanced down the chasm, and saw burning skulls and body bones. He shuddered.
"D-Don't fall...fall down there..." he grimaced.
Host followed his look, and quickly took away her head.
"You just had to tempt me, didn't you?"
The flames were spurting out of the skull's eye sockets, making them seem like demon skulls which could float up any minute and attack. Ashes formed around the skull were the flame burned most, so it looked really scary when combining the fire eyes and black spots randomly around.
"How are you gonna get across?" Host asked.
"I dunno. Should I try jumping?"
"Don't risk it."
The red-haired pyro entered the cafeteria room, where the rest of his friends were waiting anxiously for him. In his hands was the Fire orb, flames seemingly bob around in the orb. It was a beautiful sight to behold.
"Got it," he announced proudly.
"Oh, and you don't credit me?" Host smirked, coming up from behind Roy.
"Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, worried.
"Oh he got taken," Host sighed.
"Yeah, Ness told us," Miroku stepped forward, "But do you know where he is?"
"No. And neither do we KittyX." Roy sighed.
"What?!" Kosei practically shouted.
"She failed to get through a gate, so we told her to find Inuyasha. Since she, apparently, hasn't returned here, I'm assuming that she was taken too." Host looked around.
"Two losses." Legolas sighed, "Atleast we got the orb. Now, hand it over."
"Why?" Roy asked, suddenly confused by Legolas' interruption.
"Hand it over!"
"Roy shoved the Fire orb into his pocket, "No! It's mine!"
"HAND IT OVER!" Legolas dived for Roy's pocket, but Roy rolled out of the way, making Legolas fall flat on his face.
The elf, having been knocked unconscious, was suddenly surrounded in purple light. Shining, a large white hand slowly came out of the elf's body.
"He possessed Legolas!" Host gasped, "How dare he!"
Host's charge to attack the Master Hand was stopped by Colleen, who was studying the hand.
"He's still slightly weak from the smasher's last triumph over him," she whispered to Host, "he'll be willing to kill himself if it meant getting the orb."
Host got a large grin on her face. The rest of the people stepped back as she transformed into Kigari, ready to destroy the Master Hand.
"Wait! Host! This is my fight," Roy tossed her the Fire orb, and unsheathed his Fuuin no Tsurugi, "Bring it on, Master Hand!"
Kigari dropped to the floor, holding the Fire orb, and faded away into Host.
"Aww, I wanted to fight him," she grumbled, but protected the orb nonetheless.
Darkness seemed to envelop the cafeteria as Roy and the Master Hand went at it.
"RELEASE THE FIRE!" Roy shouted, bringing his sword down upon the Master Hand's knuckles.
The big white hand laughed maniacally, not phased at all by the attack.
"You dare challenge the Master Hand? You will meet your doom very fast, mortal!" the ground shook as he slammed the floor.
Roy jumped into the air, barely missing the shock waves released from the slam. He came down and did his best fire smash attack. The Master Hand's white glove surface caught on fire, but it slowly faded away as he grabbed Roy and started electrocuting and squeezing him.
"Roy!" Host shouted, watching the pyro shout out in pain.
"Let...go...of...me!" Roy managed, barely able to breath, "Aaaugh! LET...GO!"
With one final squeeze, the Master Hand shot Roy up into the air. The pyro hit the ceiling with such force it left quite a large dent, and half unconscious, half awake, Roy fell to the floor.
"Give up, mortal? I am no match for you!"
"You...just...wait and...see!" Roy sat up, shook the hair out his eyes, and stood up with great strength, raising the Fuuin no Tsurugi.
"Haha! Your attempts are a waste of your strength." the Master Hand went in for another squeezing move, but Roy rolled out of the way and jabbed his sword into the Master Hand, who turned around in rage.
"MORTAL! YOU SHALL PAY FOR THAT!"
"The names Roy," he smiled, "...and I'm not just a mortal...I'm a pyro smasher! TAKE THIS!"
Flames surrounded Roy as he summoned upon the power of the Fire orb he had claimed so valiantly only a few hours ago. He charged forward and smashed the Master Hand several times, finishing him off with a large fire meteor attack.
"He just mastered Inferno!" Colleen exclaimed.
Host looked at the Yoshi, having heard of that move from KittyX.
"Do the orbs give Devil Trigger moves?"
Colleen glanced at Host, wondering where she could of heard of the legendary DT, but answered her anyhow.
"Apparently so. Roy was given the Devil Trigger move of Ifrit's Inferno!"
The Master Hand's maniacal laughter faded into pained shouts.
"You shall not win, mortal! Just watch as I claim this world for my own! Darkness shall rule you all!" the Master Hand disappeared into nothing, and the darkness lifted from the cafeteria.
Legolas stirred on the floor, still unconscious. Roy collapsed on his knees, the Fuuin no Tsurugi fallen before him. He stared at his gloved hands.
"Did I...do that?"
Author's Notes: Mwuaha! Sorry if the action failed to amuse you. I had a great time writing it though! Took all day because I lost inspiration half-way through the Fire temple. ;D My obsession in Legolas has been revived recently because of my seeing of Pirates of the Carribean, so he'll be playing quite a big role later on. XD But, of course, not nearly a big a role as Roy. \^o^/
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