Disclaimer: I hate these things. You know the disclaimer, same as Chapter 1. It's probably too early to ask the following question, but I'm dying to know. D3fan, RockRoyalty910, since you are the only two that seem to like this, may I include you in a story of mine sometime? I would really like it. Let me know in one of your reviews. Thanks. About this chapter, it's very long and kinda mushy, but I like it. I like a good romance.









Chapter 5

A deadly threat and a Love Revealed



The Great Fox had been in hyper space for about 3 hours and had just come out around a large blue green planet. The Medieval Planet. Every one was on the Bridge except Bentley, Katt, and Carmelita. They were just sitting there, waiting for a report on Sly's condition.

" Think the headache will live. Fox?" Falco asked.

Everyone shot him an angry look, especially Murray.

" Man Falco, He's in there, fighting for his life, and you speak of him like he's nothing." Murray scolded at him.

" Stupid kid risked his life for someone he loves that doesn't return his love." Falco jeered. As he finished speaking, Krystal slapped him in the face.

" Shut up, shit for brains! Or I'll do it for ya!" She commanded angrily.

" You heard the lady, shit for brains." Fox added Shut the hell up."

" Dude, that was just not cool." Bill added.

" Drop the act, Bill, it ain't working." Slippy told him.

" But my doctor said to loosen up a little." He replied

" Forget it." Slippy sighed as he rolled his eyes.

" Hey, look." Peppy said as he pointed to the door. Bentley and Katt walked in, their white rubber gloves stained with blood. They took them off and tossed them in a nearby trash can that was already full of empty beer cans. No one asked the question that was on their minds

"Will he live?", afraid of the answer. Murray finally got the courage to ask.

" So, (gulp) how's Sly." He asked worriedly.

"He'll live." Katt sighed with relief.

The group all sighed with relief and congratulated Bentley and Katt for their efforts.

" How did his broad react?" Falco asked with an unconcerned tone. Katt glared at him evilly.

" She was so relived that she cried herself to sleep." She replied

" She hugged him so tight." Bentley added. " She refused to let him go. I think she really has feelings for him."

" That's great you guys!" Krystal said happily.

" Yeah." Fox added.

" It is Great, isn't it?" Bentley replied. " If Sly hadn't made it, his only wish was for Carmelita to return his feelings. He just wants her to be happy."

" That's so romantic." Krystal said with a hint of emotion.

" Hey, baby, since Sly's okay, we really need to get some sleep. Tomorrow we set out for Hyrule." Fox told her as he put his arms around her hips. She pecked him on the lips.

" Yeah, lets go to bed." She yawned.

" How will we get to Hyrule?" Bentley asked worriedly.

" Walk, I guess. Why?" Fox asked puzzled.

" Sly's not only got a laser wound, but has 3 broken ribs and 2 fractured ones. He can't walk unless he can take the pain of 2 ribs breaking and 3 poking him in his lungs." Katt and Bentley replied at once.

" Perfect." groaned Falco. Krystal and Katt both punched him in the stomach and Murray kicked him in the nuts.

" Oh, sweet Jesus!" Falco cried as he fell to the floor.

" Serves you right." Bentley snapped.

" Nonetheless, this will complicate things. The Landmaster's engine isn't running, and we can't carry him on this hike." Fox added.

Slippy snapped his fingers and ran over to activate the team's robot, Rob, who was in the corner charging his power.

" Hey Rob," Slippy asked. " Tonight, can you dig out all our travel gear and find us a wheelchair? I know we've got one here somewhere."

" AFFIRMATIVE, I WILL GATHER YOUR GEAR AND FIND YOU A WHEELCHAIR." Rob complied in his robotic voice.

" That settles that." Peppy said as he got up from his pilots seat and left for his sleeping quarters.

" He's got the right idea." Laughed Krystal.

" Goodnight everybody." Katt laughed as she went to her sleeping quarters. Everybody left to go to sleep and Fox glanced back at Falco, who was still rolling around on the floor, holding his stomach.

" Your sleeping in here tonight." Fox commanded. With that he shut the door and locked it.

30 minutes later, in the infirmary, Carmelita woke up to find he head buried in Sly's pillow next to his head. He sat up and looked at his chest. He still had on his blue shirt, but his chest was wrapped tightly in white bandages. She saw that he was doing better, as he was breathing peacefully without grunting in pain every second or so.

"Take care while I'm gone." She whispered in his ear. She left to take a shower. She walked down the hallway about 20 feet and came to one of the ships bathrooms. It looked like any other bathroom, with a shower, large round tub, toilet, and a large sink counter with a large, clean mirror over top of it. She hung her small coat on a rack next to the door. Then she heard a low, deep rumble behind her. The room lit up for a second, like lightning had done it, and then the sound of clouds swirling and bubbling could be heard. She was afraid to look up, much less behind her, which was where the sounds were coming from.

" It's okay," She told herself. " It's probably just some machinery malfunctioning. I'll tell Slippy after I take my shower."

She began to feel better, but when she turned around and saw the mirror. Her eyes opened wide with fear. Her jaw dropped. She felled down an her rear end and struggled to scoot up against the wall fearfully. The tried to clutched at the wall as she stood up, trying to grab onto something to steady her, as she was shaking like a leave in the wind. The mirror was swirling with black energy clouds and lightning would flash every now and then in the haze. Then the clouds swirled into a vortex (whirlpool). She tensed, expecting something to jump out of the mirror and eat her alive. Instead, the hideous head of a Human man appeared in the center of the spinning mass. The man had long, stringy black hair that ran down the back of his neck. His eyes were glowing yellow. His face was grey, with a long scar on his right cheek. His face had a thick black goatee running around his lips. His teeth, though regular sized and fit in his mouth, were sharp and jagged. The head looked at her and smiled evilly. She tried to scream, but it never left her throat. She didn't have time. The head spoke.

" Heh, heh, heh. I have found you. I will deal with you and your friends after I conquer Lylat. You cannot run. You cannot hide. I will... KILL you!" The head spoke in a voice that could scare Freddy Krouger it was so deep and haunting.

The head Laughed cruelly as it twirled and shrunk until it disappeared. The black clouds then cleared away too. Soon all was the same, as if the clouds had never been there.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" Carmelita screamed as she fell to the floor and curled up into a ball, holding her knees tightly, her eyes still clearly expressed with fear.

No one came. All the bedrooms were down the hall a long ways, and besides that, the doors to them were thick. Her screams never reached anyone. There she waited about 10 minutes, when in the doorway, Sly tried to old himself up. Pain was fully visible in his face.

" Carmelita, are you okay?" He grunted as he knelt down beside her and put his hand on her shoulder. " I heard you scream."

Carmelita looked at him through teary eyes. Then she tuned and clung so close and hard to Sly it hurt him a little.

" Please, stay with me. Don't leave." She cried in his ear.

Sly recovered from his shock and hugged her tightly.

" Never. I'd never leave you." He told her softly.

" Ahem." came a female voice from behind them. They looked up and in the doorway stood Krystal in her white robe. She was leaning against the door with her arms crossed with mischievous grin on her face.

" Am I interrupting anything?" She asked with a small laugh.

" Uh... no, of course not." Sly replied as he blushed. " She screamed and a came to see what happened. Uh, say, uh, what are you doing up?"

" Going to the bathroom." She replied "I thought you couldn't walk."

" Yeah, but it hurts like hell." Sly told her. " I had to force myself in here." At this point Carmelita hugged him tighter and sobbed in his shoulder.

" Oh no, I caused you to hurt yourself on my account. Again!" She whined as she buried her head in his shoulder.

" No, Carmelita, no." He tried to comfort her.

Krystal noticed the look on her face.

" Hey, looks like something scared her." She observed.

" I'm trying to figure that out. Could you leave for a minute or two?" Sly asked.

"I'll go find you guys an extra room." Krystal then departed to find the pair an extra room. After she left, Sly asked Carmelita "What happened? I thought you were hurt."

" I don't want to talk about it." She wept.

" Baby, please tell me." He asked her in a tone that melted her heart.

" Oh okay." She began. " But it's only between you and me for now, promise?"

Sly looked at her a minute and said " I promise.

She then told him about the head and the magic energy. . " And that's not all." She wept. " He threatened us. He said he would kill us." She then began to cry even more.

" Carmelita, listen to me!" Sly commanded softly as he looked at her directly in the face. " It wasn't real, you just hallucinated, that's all. You have been very stressed the passed few days."

She looked at him a minute and replied in a somewhat relieved tone " I hope your right. I was so scared."

"Hey, you too, your rooms ready." Krystal said as she entered the room. " follow me." Carmelita put Sly's arm around her shoulder, and helped him walk to their room. Once there, Krystal went back to bed. Sly got off Carmelita's shoulder, threw his hat on the ground, and crawled under the covers. Carmelita, took off, all her clothes except her braw and underwear, and crawled in with him. She snuggle up as close as she could to him. Sly felt her body pressed tightly against his. Her fur and underwear felt so soft and smooth. She buried her head in his neck.

" Hold me." She whispered softly.

Sly put his arms around her and stroked her long blue hair.

" I love you, Carmelita. More than life itself." He whispered softly in her ear.

" I love you too Sly." She replied as she embraced him with a loving kiss on the lips. With that, the two young lovers drifted off to sleep.



Meanwhile, in the ruins of Corneria City, Zeramon, Bowser, Ganandorf, Scales, and the Fiendish Five watched as the populous was forced to build a castle in Zeramon's glory. Sharpclaws where everywhere, hitting people with whips, forcing them to work themselves to the bone.

" Um.... uh... My lord?" Asked Scales.

" Speak your mind, my reptilian friend." Growled the dark lord.

" (gulp) um...." Scales was afraid to say anything.

" Spit it out, you pathetic cretin." He shouted at the top of his lungs angrily.

" Wolf has fail to destroy the Great Fox." Scale's replied very quickly.

Zeramon's eyes narrowed and he looked up at the sky. A huge military gun ship, 3 times bigger than the Great Fox, was Preparing to land. He turned his palm toward it.

" What's he doing?" Asked Raleigh.

" I do not know." Replied the Panda King. They all soon found out Black magic clouds swirled around his hand for about 5 feet around him. Then the black energy was sucked int his palm. He then shouted a word no one understood. A beam of energy, bigger than he was blasted out of his hand, lighting the whole countryside.

The energy blast was so powerful that it blew the bad guys back. Luckily, they managed to grab onto clumps of grass.

"That energy blast is blowing us back!" Shouted Bowser.

" No shit, Sherlock!" Ganandorf screeched.

The energy blast worked its way toward the ship. Then the ship blew up in a brilliant orange flash. Everyone was staring at it when he looked at them and scream " Back to work, mortals!"

Everyone resumed working.

"I think he's upset." Mouthed Muggshot to Clockwerk.

" Let go of my tail!" Scales complained to Mz. Ruby.

"Sorry, handsome." She replied sweetly. Scales rolled his eyes.

" Enough babble. Come with me. I have to show you something to show you." Zeramon commanded.

" Okay." Everyone gulped.

Zeramon said a chant in a language that no one understood. And in a swirl of dark magic, reappeared on a planet the color of coal. The area was a black wasteland as far as the eye could see.

" Follow me." Commanded Zeramon. He led them through dead cities, cemeteries, and though dead woodlands till they came to a cliff that overlooked a huge valley. They looked down and gasped. They valley was moving.

" Down there, is our army." said Zeramon as he pointed into the valley.

" That?" Asked Clockwerk with astonishment.

" Those," added Zeramon, " are ORCS."

" Orcs?" asked Scales still trying to comprehend the sheer size of the army. IT must have numbered in the hundreds of millions.

" This is the army we will use to conquer Lylat. And we'll do it in less than a month." He said as he smiled an evil smile.

" How do we conquer the whole system?" asked Mz. Ruby.

" Shut up, you'll make him angry." Clockwerk scolded her.

Surprisingly, Zeramon just smiled and held up his broadsword.

" I will use this. And I will use my magic to change all guns into swords and bows."

The blade was 8 feet long and had weird markings in an ancient language. The handle was 2 feet long with a demon carved in it and had three black jewels in it. One on the bottom, and one each side of the hilt.

The bad guys stared in awe at the sword and then Zeramon said very deeply and chant-like:





One sword to rule them all

one man to wield it

one sword to bring the darkness

the wielder will then his kingdom,

BUILD IT!



This caused all of them to become speechless. They had heard this chant in ancient history books. It was about a sword that was to powerful for words. The Taznagolon.

" Let's move!" The Arth falls next!" Zeramon commanded. He then did a chant in that engulfed the whole army in black magic and made them disappear. Then he and the bad guys disappeared. The Arth was about to fall to not the orcs alone, but to Zeramon's endless power.

( Authors note: The Arth is the Lylat version of present day Earth, including the Spirit World.)

Meanwhile onboard the Great Fox Sly and Carmelita were laying in bed, cuddling. Carmelita rolled over and kissed his lips passionately. He loved the feel of her lips. They were as smooth as silk. He looked at her lovingly.

" Do you remember when our eyes first met?" She asked.

Sly thought a moment. That was a day he would never forget. It was two years ago after he had stolen a large diamond from a mafia that no one knew about. His first heist.

" Yes. I thought I had gone to Heaven." Sly told her.

Carmelita smiled and snuggled closer to him, wrapping her legs around his.

" Why did you quit thieving?" Asked Carmelita.

" I decided that I wanted more in my life than that." He replied.

" What did you want?" She continued .

" You." He replied as he kissed her softly on the lips.

They just lay there for a few minutes, kissing when Sly asked Carmelita a question.

" How did you convince them not to arrest me?" Sly asked Carmelita.

" I told them you could recover stolen artifacts from other criminals." She replied.

" So that's why I play Robin Hood now." He joked.

Just as their lips were about to touch again, Bentley knocked on the door.

" You guys want some breakfast? Murray and me are makin' flapjacks." He hollered through the door. Sly looked at Carmelita, who nodded at him.

" Sure Bentley." Sly Replied through the door.

" Got it. Be back in a second." Bentley reassured the young lovers.

Sly turned and looked at Carmelita, who was grinning a wide, playful grin.

" What is it, Carm? He asked.

" I got a great gag." She replied with a hint of excitement in her voice.

" Yeah?" Sly inquired. " What is it, baby."

" We'll act like were doing it and freak Bentley out when he comes back." She replied as she pressed against him more tightly.

" Carmelita, that's funny, but I can't because if you lay on top of me, my ribs will break." Sly told her.

" Who said that we've got to be on or under the other?" She smiled.

" I love the way you think." Sly laughed.

They cuddled even closer and Carmelita began to moan and pretend to feel the pleasure of sex.

Bentley came through the door and looked at the couple.

" Oh, oh my, I'll just leave you two's sexfast, I mean breakfast, on the night stand." He said as he laid their plates on the stand next to their bed. " Hurry, you guys." He added as he reached the doorway. " We'll be leaving in a little bit." With that he closed the door.

On the outside of the door Murray walked by and heard Carmelita cry trough the door in an excited voice.

" Oh Sly! That Feels good!" She screamed.

Murray bought the act.

" Are they...?" Murray asked Bentley as he pointed at the door.

" I guess they really love each other." Replied Bentley flatly. " lets go wait for them with everyone else in the entertainment room.

In the bedroom, Sly and Carmelita both laughed, kissed each other, and ate their breakfasts, and got dressed.

They then all met in the entertainment room where Sly got his wheelchair. Then everyone got their stuff and began the three day trip to Hyrule. They were sure to be in for a surprise when they got their.