Chapter 4
The Day Before
Kirby woke up. He looked over at his clock. It was ten. No biggie. He had all the time in the world to sleep. After all, he WAS in Dream Land.
But wait....
Something pulled at the back of Kirby's mind. What was it? Wait a minute, he wasn't in dream land! He was at the tournament. Wait a minute... the TOURNAMENT!? Oh, dear Lord, it was ten 'o clock! Kirby leapt out of bed. The drawings would have started by now! He was late!
Kirby rushed down the stairs and threw open the main door. He floated over the building with the warp-gates on the roof, and then landed on the other side. He dashed as fast as he could toward the fifty foot walls of the arena.
Kirby could see the large cube that had hung over the stadium before, but this time, lowered down to the arena floor. The basic schematic of a 12- man tournament was displayed on it. So far, Link had taken the four spot and Yoshi had the eight. All the other slots were numbers. There were many lines showing how the winners of the matches would progress on up to the champion slot. But wait a minute... Yoshi hadn't been invited! Why was HE on the board!? Kirby's confusion was furthered when Captain Falcon appeared in the number twelve spot. He dashed onward to figure out what was going on.
Kirby burst into the arena, screaming in terror. He rushed as fast as he possibly could to the bleachers where his friend, Captain Falcon, was sitting. Marth looked over from the computer he was working, and Roy looked away from Mario, who was up drawing a number. "Kirby, you're late," Roy told him. Kirby blushed and looked down at his feet.
"Please take a seat with everyone else that's waiting," Marth asked, politely. Kirby looked over at the others, who were staring at him. Ness suppressed a laugh, and Samus was slightly shaking. Fox never even gave the slightest attempt to stifle his laughs, bursting out in hysteria. Kirby glared at him. If looks could kill, Fox would've been dead.
Roy continued calling out names and numbers. Mario took number one, Luigi took six, Fox took twelve, Samus took nine(much to her disappointment; she had wanted 11), Ness took three, and so on.
The next days matches would be Mario(1) vs. Pikachu(2), Ness(3) vs. Link(4), Jigglypuff(5) vs. Luigi(6), Kirby(7) vs. Yoshi(8), Samus(9) vs. Captain Falcon(10), and DK(11) vs. Fox(12). The matches, they were told, would begin the next morning, and continue until match three was over. Then, there would be an hour intermission, after which matches 4-6 would start. So, Kirby had all day today and part of tomorrow to practice. Yoshi was going down!
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Link stood in the woods, training for his match with Ness the next day. He held his sword out in front of his face, then began his routine. First, he leapt to the trees, jumping from the side of one to the side of another, slicing off branches he had previously marked off in order. When he was through with this, he allowed himself to fall to the ground. He landed on one foot, then placed his knee softly, but swiftly, beside it. He thought for a few moments and decided he could be satisfied with the amount of time he had taken to finish.
A voice beckoned out to Link. "Hey, there," Samus greeted. Link looked up from his kneeling position to see who had called him.
"Hello," Link said, standing up.
"How're things?" Samus asked.
"Fine," Link said. "How may I help you?"
"Well, I'm short a training partner," Samus stated. "Seeing how we're not exactly going at it tomorrow, I was hoping you could fill the empty slot."
"A practice match?" Link asked.
"Yes, a practice match," Samus told him.
"Where and when," Link asked.
"How about here and now?" Samus asked. Link smirked.
"Why not?" he asked.
"Ready?" Samus said.
"Set," Link continued.
"GO!" they shouted, in unison. Samus fired a rocket at Link. Link waited for it to get close to him, then fell to his back and kicked it in the side, making sure not to impact the warhead. Link then jumped to his feet and dashed, as fast as he could, at Samus.
As Link approached, Samus fired off multiple shots from her main cannon. She cleanly missed with each shot, and found Link on her in a matter of moments. He leapt through the air, sword in the air, preparing to strike. Samus held up her cannon to block the hit. Metal clanged against metal, and both fighters stood locked for a few seconds. Then, Samus punched Link in the face.
"Ouch!" Link said, as he recoiled from the hit. Enraged, he lunged at Samus, hitting her hard in the side of the head with the blunt end of the Master Sword. Samus' head went down, and her body followed. She rolled over in the dirt once, then sprang to her feet. She leapt back between two trees, taking cover from Link as he loosed an arrow from the Hero's Bow.
Samus heard Link's footsteps coming toward him. She charged her cannon for a while. As Link's head came into view, she rolled out of the way, laying a mine where she had just been, and leapt to the trees. She heard the mine blow behind her, and she thrust herself back through the two trees she had initially come through.
Link rushed through the smoke the bomb had left behind. He had another arrow notched in his bow. He looked around in the treetops for Samus. He found no sign of her. Then, movement.
Link's head darted to the left to find a huge blue orb headed straight for him. Link screamed out in fear, then jumped as high as he could.
Unfortunately, it wasn't high enough. The blast took out Link's feet, sweeping them from under him. As he fell forward, he loosed his arrow in the direction of the oncoming fire. He heard Samus' voice shout, then go quiet.
Link's chin hit the floor as footsteps sounded in the woods to his left. Link put his bow away and took out a bomb. He lit it and threw it into the woods. He heard Samus make a brief shout of hesitation. He threw another bomb to the source of the sound. "AAH!" Samus screamed.
Samus saw the bomb coming toward her clearly. She gripped it with her free arm and made haste to throw it back. She heard Link falter, then an explosion.
Link went flying through the woods, propelled by the explosion of his own bomb. He was, at first, unsure of what to do, but when he saw Samus standing right where he was heading, he drew his sword and prepared to slash. He saw Samus stumble, trying to get out of the way, then fall on her face, slipping on wet underbrush.
Link connected solidly with the midsection of Samus armor. The sword clanged against it, then bounced off. Samus turned and quickly fired a small, blue orb at Link. Having no time to react, Link flew back, dropping his sword. "Oof!" he grunted, as he flew through the air. His back hit a tree, and he slid down it, landing on his tailbone on the earth. "Aaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaha...." Link muttered as he tried to get up. Pain was shooting up and down his whole spine.
Samus walked through the brush, looking for Link, her gun raised to chest level. Where could Link have gotten off to? She had been searching for five minutes. Had he given up and gone home? No, not without getting his sword first. Samus was currently wearing it across her back, having tied it there with fission ropes.
Suddenly, something hit Samus from behind. She assumed it was Link. Samus would have reacted, but she was face first on the ground, getting her blaster pounded with a rock. "Hey, stop that!" She shouted in protest, waving her buster arm around and trying to get her attacker off her back.
"THIS IS FOR MY SWOOOORD!" Link shouted, giving the buster one last hit. He heard something crack and saw bolts of electricity dancing up and down the weapon. Link chuckled, and was immediately thrown off by an angered Samus.
"Do you know how long that's going to take to fix!?" she shouted.
"Sorry? This is a battle, things get broken," Link stated. He was, though, feeling rather shamed for inhibiting her in her next fight.
"THINGS LIKE BONES!" Samus countered, flinging a fist for Link's face. Link dodged to the side, then punched her in her helmet. The two glared at each other for a full minute. What followed was a long series of punches, kicks and blocks. They were both putting everything they had into this fight now.
Finally, the burst ended as Samus hit Link square in the chest. Link fell back, then leapt at Samus, kicking at her head. Samus grabbed his leg and threw him toward a tree. As Link whizzed by, he saw something red below him. He grabbed it, taking Samus with him as he fell. He used her armor to break his fall, then quickly drew his bow and notched an arrow. He pointed it directly at her head and drew the bowstring back. "You're dead," he stated, smirking. They stared at each other for a few moments, and then burst into laughter.
Link helped Samus to her feet and put his arrow back in his quiver. He didn't see the point: this thing wasn't called the Quiver of Infinite Arrows for nothing. He was glad he had picked it up on his way to help Mario with a request to help subdue Bowser.
"Good match," Samus said.
"Agreed," Link agreed.
"Let's go home. I'm beat," Samus suggested.
"You said it," Link settled.
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Kirby glared into Fox's eyes. He could stand being called a balloon, putty or any other name you can think of associated with a pink puffball...
Unless, of course, you compared him to cotton candy. Kirby's pink had completely left him, and was replaced by a scarlet red. Normally, Kirby would have pointed and laughed at Fox's confused face, but he was too angry to see the humor behind it right now. He leapt into the air, a blue wave appearing in his hand. He brought the wave in front of him as he slammed himself to the ground. When he did, a Sonic Boom echoed through the room, knocking Fox back into a wall.
Kirby surged forward, ready to beat Fox to a pulp while he was down, but he was grabbed from behind by not one, not two, but three people. Jigglypuff grabbed Kirby's left hand, Pikachu grabbed his right and Yoshi held his center back with his tongue. Kirby struggled wildly to get free, but was consoled by the word of Jigglypuff and Pikachu, whom he was now communicating with fluently. Pink flooded his face again, and he spat at Fox. He spoke some gibberish at him in a menacing tone of voice, then made his way up to his room to rest. "What's with him?" Fox asked himself. "He's usually very cheerful."
"Ya' shuldn' 'a call'd 'em 'so much cotton candy' when he turned away from 'yer bully'in," Captain Falcon told him, matter-of-factly.
"Shut up! By rights, you shouldn't even be here!" Fox replied.
"I earn'd my right 'ta be here fightin' that son-of-a-gun giant hand! You're here 'cus 'yer 'posed 'ta be this 'Great Warrior.' I bet 'yer useless outside 'yer fancy-pants 'lil ship!" Falcon shouted. Fox blushed and turned away.
DK stood in a corner, looking over at Fox, who was just dieing for an excuse to vent his anger verbally. "What're you starin' at, ya' big dumb oaf?" Fox asked him. DK rushed over and lifted Fox from the ground, slamming him into a wall. He bared his teeth and growled at Fox. "OKAY, OKAY, OKAY! LET ME DOWN!" Fox shouted, in fright.
"Ya' shuldn' 'a call'd 'em a 'big dumb oaf,' pal," the Captain said, chuckling.
"Ok, you don't want to let me go!? FINE!" Fox shouted. He put his arms at his waste in something that resembled a horseback-riding stance, closed his eyes, focused on the energies inside him, and then, shouting, released them in a 'Fox-Flame' burst. The monkey released his grip as the hot flames touched his hand. "Christ in heaven, everyone's so touchy down here. Touchy, touchy, touchy," he stated. DK glared at him.
"'S okay, big guy. 'Yell get a swing at 'em tomorah'," the Captain ensured him.
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It was first light, and the first match was about to start. Mario and Pikachu went to center stage, gave a friendly handshake and a bow, and returned to opposite sides of the arena.
"Ready!?" Roy said. The fans roared in the stands, which were packed full of spectators. Hot dogs and coke stood at the ready, as did the beer vendors. This place was going to make a killing.
"Set," Roy said. More cars pulled up in the driveway that had magically appeared overnight. Fans were still flooding into the stands, trying to find the empty seats that didn't exactly exist. Roy whispered something that looked incredibly like "Any time your ready" to Marth.
"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!" Marth bellowed. The fans roared in excitement as the first match of the tournament came underway...
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Okay peeps, first off, I'd like to ask 'yall, how did ya' like the fight scene?
Secondly, I'd like to apologize for being so brazen in the closing words of chapter three. I had my reasons for being pissed after I wrote the third chapter. So, again, sorry.
Thirdly, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to send in reviews of my story. I appreciate the support, but I'd like suggestions to improve my writings with some praise on the side. Don't get me wrong. As I said before, I'm grateful for the good comments I've been getting, but please, try to understand, it gets old fast.
Well, I guess those are my afterthoughts for Chapter 4. When my next review comes in, I'll write my next chapter... you get the drill by now, right? ;)
'Till next time,
The Angelic
The Day Before
Kirby woke up. He looked over at his clock. It was ten. No biggie. He had all the time in the world to sleep. After all, he WAS in Dream Land.
But wait....
Something pulled at the back of Kirby's mind. What was it? Wait a minute, he wasn't in dream land! He was at the tournament. Wait a minute... the TOURNAMENT!? Oh, dear Lord, it was ten 'o clock! Kirby leapt out of bed. The drawings would have started by now! He was late!
Kirby rushed down the stairs and threw open the main door. He floated over the building with the warp-gates on the roof, and then landed on the other side. He dashed as fast as he could toward the fifty foot walls of the arena.
Kirby could see the large cube that had hung over the stadium before, but this time, lowered down to the arena floor. The basic schematic of a 12- man tournament was displayed on it. So far, Link had taken the four spot and Yoshi had the eight. All the other slots were numbers. There were many lines showing how the winners of the matches would progress on up to the champion slot. But wait a minute... Yoshi hadn't been invited! Why was HE on the board!? Kirby's confusion was furthered when Captain Falcon appeared in the number twelve spot. He dashed onward to figure out what was going on.
Kirby burst into the arena, screaming in terror. He rushed as fast as he possibly could to the bleachers where his friend, Captain Falcon, was sitting. Marth looked over from the computer he was working, and Roy looked away from Mario, who was up drawing a number. "Kirby, you're late," Roy told him. Kirby blushed and looked down at his feet.
"Please take a seat with everyone else that's waiting," Marth asked, politely. Kirby looked over at the others, who were staring at him. Ness suppressed a laugh, and Samus was slightly shaking. Fox never even gave the slightest attempt to stifle his laughs, bursting out in hysteria. Kirby glared at him. If looks could kill, Fox would've been dead.
Roy continued calling out names and numbers. Mario took number one, Luigi took six, Fox took twelve, Samus took nine(much to her disappointment; she had wanted 11), Ness took three, and so on.
The next days matches would be Mario(1) vs. Pikachu(2), Ness(3) vs. Link(4), Jigglypuff(5) vs. Luigi(6), Kirby(7) vs. Yoshi(8), Samus(9) vs. Captain Falcon(10), and DK(11) vs. Fox(12). The matches, they were told, would begin the next morning, and continue until match three was over. Then, there would be an hour intermission, after which matches 4-6 would start. So, Kirby had all day today and part of tomorrow to practice. Yoshi was going down!
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Link stood in the woods, training for his match with Ness the next day. He held his sword out in front of his face, then began his routine. First, he leapt to the trees, jumping from the side of one to the side of another, slicing off branches he had previously marked off in order. When he was through with this, he allowed himself to fall to the ground. He landed on one foot, then placed his knee softly, but swiftly, beside it. He thought for a few moments and decided he could be satisfied with the amount of time he had taken to finish.
A voice beckoned out to Link. "Hey, there," Samus greeted. Link looked up from his kneeling position to see who had called him.
"Hello," Link said, standing up.
"How're things?" Samus asked.
"Fine," Link said. "How may I help you?"
"Well, I'm short a training partner," Samus stated. "Seeing how we're not exactly going at it tomorrow, I was hoping you could fill the empty slot."
"A practice match?" Link asked.
"Yes, a practice match," Samus told him.
"Where and when," Link asked.
"How about here and now?" Samus asked. Link smirked.
"Why not?" he asked.
"Ready?" Samus said.
"Set," Link continued.
"GO!" they shouted, in unison. Samus fired a rocket at Link. Link waited for it to get close to him, then fell to his back and kicked it in the side, making sure not to impact the warhead. Link then jumped to his feet and dashed, as fast as he could, at Samus.
As Link approached, Samus fired off multiple shots from her main cannon. She cleanly missed with each shot, and found Link on her in a matter of moments. He leapt through the air, sword in the air, preparing to strike. Samus held up her cannon to block the hit. Metal clanged against metal, and both fighters stood locked for a few seconds. Then, Samus punched Link in the face.
"Ouch!" Link said, as he recoiled from the hit. Enraged, he lunged at Samus, hitting her hard in the side of the head with the blunt end of the Master Sword. Samus' head went down, and her body followed. She rolled over in the dirt once, then sprang to her feet. She leapt back between two trees, taking cover from Link as he loosed an arrow from the Hero's Bow.
Samus heard Link's footsteps coming toward him. She charged her cannon for a while. As Link's head came into view, she rolled out of the way, laying a mine where she had just been, and leapt to the trees. She heard the mine blow behind her, and she thrust herself back through the two trees she had initially come through.
Link rushed through the smoke the bomb had left behind. He had another arrow notched in his bow. He looked around in the treetops for Samus. He found no sign of her. Then, movement.
Link's head darted to the left to find a huge blue orb headed straight for him. Link screamed out in fear, then jumped as high as he could.
Unfortunately, it wasn't high enough. The blast took out Link's feet, sweeping them from under him. As he fell forward, he loosed his arrow in the direction of the oncoming fire. He heard Samus' voice shout, then go quiet.
Link's chin hit the floor as footsteps sounded in the woods to his left. Link put his bow away and took out a bomb. He lit it and threw it into the woods. He heard Samus make a brief shout of hesitation. He threw another bomb to the source of the sound. "AAH!" Samus screamed.
Samus saw the bomb coming toward her clearly. She gripped it with her free arm and made haste to throw it back. She heard Link falter, then an explosion.
Link went flying through the woods, propelled by the explosion of his own bomb. He was, at first, unsure of what to do, but when he saw Samus standing right where he was heading, he drew his sword and prepared to slash. He saw Samus stumble, trying to get out of the way, then fall on her face, slipping on wet underbrush.
Link connected solidly with the midsection of Samus armor. The sword clanged against it, then bounced off. Samus turned and quickly fired a small, blue orb at Link. Having no time to react, Link flew back, dropping his sword. "Oof!" he grunted, as he flew through the air. His back hit a tree, and he slid down it, landing on his tailbone on the earth. "Aaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaha...." Link muttered as he tried to get up. Pain was shooting up and down his whole spine.
Samus walked through the brush, looking for Link, her gun raised to chest level. Where could Link have gotten off to? She had been searching for five minutes. Had he given up and gone home? No, not without getting his sword first. Samus was currently wearing it across her back, having tied it there with fission ropes.
Suddenly, something hit Samus from behind. She assumed it was Link. Samus would have reacted, but she was face first on the ground, getting her blaster pounded with a rock. "Hey, stop that!" She shouted in protest, waving her buster arm around and trying to get her attacker off her back.
"THIS IS FOR MY SWOOOORD!" Link shouted, giving the buster one last hit. He heard something crack and saw bolts of electricity dancing up and down the weapon. Link chuckled, and was immediately thrown off by an angered Samus.
"Do you know how long that's going to take to fix!?" she shouted.
"Sorry? This is a battle, things get broken," Link stated. He was, though, feeling rather shamed for inhibiting her in her next fight.
"THINGS LIKE BONES!" Samus countered, flinging a fist for Link's face. Link dodged to the side, then punched her in her helmet. The two glared at each other for a full minute. What followed was a long series of punches, kicks and blocks. They were both putting everything they had into this fight now.
Finally, the burst ended as Samus hit Link square in the chest. Link fell back, then leapt at Samus, kicking at her head. Samus grabbed his leg and threw him toward a tree. As Link whizzed by, he saw something red below him. He grabbed it, taking Samus with him as he fell. He used her armor to break his fall, then quickly drew his bow and notched an arrow. He pointed it directly at her head and drew the bowstring back. "You're dead," he stated, smirking. They stared at each other for a few moments, and then burst into laughter.
Link helped Samus to her feet and put his arrow back in his quiver. He didn't see the point: this thing wasn't called the Quiver of Infinite Arrows for nothing. He was glad he had picked it up on his way to help Mario with a request to help subdue Bowser.
"Good match," Samus said.
"Agreed," Link agreed.
"Let's go home. I'm beat," Samus suggested.
"You said it," Link settled.
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Kirby glared into Fox's eyes. He could stand being called a balloon, putty or any other name you can think of associated with a pink puffball...
Unless, of course, you compared him to cotton candy. Kirby's pink had completely left him, and was replaced by a scarlet red. Normally, Kirby would have pointed and laughed at Fox's confused face, but he was too angry to see the humor behind it right now. He leapt into the air, a blue wave appearing in his hand. He brought the wave in front of him as he slammed himself to the ground. When he did, a Sonic Boom echoed through the room, knocking Fox back into a wall.
Kirby surged forward, ready to beat Fox to a pulp while he was down, but he was grabbed from behind by not one, not two, but three people. Jigglypuff grabbed Kirby's left hand, Pikachu grabbed his right and Yoshi held his center back with his tongue. Kirby struggled wildly to get free, but was consoled by the word of Jigglypuff and Pikachu, whom he was now communicating with fluently. Pink flooded his face again, and he spat at Fox. He spoke some gibberish at him in a menacing tone of voice, then made his way up to his room to rest. "What's with him?" Fox asked himself. "He's usually very cheerful."
"Ya' shuldn' 'a call'd 'em 'so much cotton candy' when he turned away from 'yer bully'in," Captain Falcon told him, matter-of-factly.
"Shut up! By rights, you shouldn't even be here!" Fox replied.
"I earn'd my right 'ta be here fightin' that son-of-a-gun giant hand! You're here 'cus 'yer 'posed 'ta be this 'Great Warrior.' I bet 'yer useless outside 'yer fancy-pants 'lil ship!" Falcon shouted. Fox blushed and turned away.
DK stood in a corner, looking over at Fox, who was just dieing for an excuse to vent his anger verbally. "What're you starin' at, ya' big dumb oaf?" Fox asked him. DK rushed over and lifted Fox from the ground, slamming him into a wall. He bared his teeth and growled at Fox. "OKAY, OKAY, OKAY! LET ME DOWN!" Fox shouted, in fright.
"Ya' shuldn' 'a call'd 'em a 'big dumb oaf,' pal," the Captain said, chuckling.
"Ok, you don't want to let me go!? FINE!" Fox shouted. He put his arms at his waste in something that resembled a horseback-riding stance, closed his eyes, focused on the energies inside him, and then, shouting, released them in a 'Fox-Flame' burst. The monkey released his grip as the hot flames touched his hand. "Christ in heaven, everyone's so touchy down here. Touchy, touchy, touchy," he stated. DK glared at him.
"'S okay, big guy. 'Yell get a swing at 'em tomorah'," the Captain ensured him.
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It was first light, and the first match was about to start. Mario and Pikachu went to center stage, gave a friendly handshake and a bow, and returned to opposite sides of the arena.
"Ready!?" Roy said. The fans roared in the stands, which were packed full of spectators. Hot dogs and coke stood at the ready, as did the beer vendors. This place was going to make a killing.
"Set," Roy said. More cars pulled up in the driveway that had magically appeared overnight. Fans were still flooding into the stands, trying to find the empty seats that didn't exactly exist. Roy whispered something that looked incredibly like "Any time your ready" to Marth.
"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!" Marth bellowed. The fans roared in excitement as the first match of the tournament came underway...
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Okay peeps, first off, I'd like to ask 'yall, how did ya' like the fight scene?
Secondly, I'd like to apologize for being so brazen in the closing words of chapter three. I had my reasons for being pissed after I wrote the third chapter. So, again, sorry.
Thirdly, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to send in reviews of my story. I appreciate the support, but I'd like suggestions to improve my writings with some praise on the side. Don't get me wrong. As I said before, I'm grateful for the good comments I've been getting, but please, try to understand, it gets old fast.
Well, I guess those are my afterthoughts for Chapter 4. When my next review comes in, I'll write my next chapter... you get the drill by now, right? ;)
'Till next time,
The Angelic
