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War of the Elementals
Chapter 1
The morning was gloomy and foggy from the rain lastnight. Marth awakened, feeling fatigued from lack of sleep. He sat up
and thought about what had happened the previous night. He was alone in his room, signaling that he had slept in.
" Man what a night that was..." he said softly to himself, while getting out of bed. He thought quietly about the night,
whilst getting dressed, when suddenly a knock at the door startled him. Quickly, he threw his clothes on and went to answer
the door. As he reached out his hand, a grim thoguht passed through his mind.
' What if it's a trick of some sort, like with Zelda and Peach?' Marth jerked his hand away.
" Marth?! MARTH?! Are you in there?! Jeesh, it's about time you got your arse outta bed!" Roy was now pounding on the door.
" Oh... Sorry Roy!" Marth said as he flung the door open to let his red-haired friend in.
" Hey man, you ok? You slept awfully late..." Roy asked with false concern, then he grinned and punched Marth in the arm
playfully. " What are you up to today?"
' Hmmmmmm... I feel like sparring for a while...' Marth thought while rubbing the spot Roy had hit.
" Helloooo?" Roy impatiently waved his hand at Marth.
' He seems awfully bouncy today. Must've had sugar for breakfast again...' he thought while yawning at him.
" I feel like training today, how about you?" Marth asked lethargically.
" Sure! Where to?" Roy answered energetically.
" Hmmm... I'm not sure... We could just go to the dojo out back..."
" Ok! Let's go!"
Upon their arrival at the dojo Master Hand had once set up for them all to train at, Marth and Roy saw Link. Roy's grin
and happiness seemed to disappear as Link shot him a fiery glare.
Fighting back the short-fused urge to explode, Roy decided he had best keep civil. " Hello, Link." He said hotly.
" Hey..." Link gave a polite smile to Marth, and a sarcastic one to Roy. Then he turned his back on them, and walked away
quickly toward the mansion.
" What was that all about?" Marth piped up curiously, watching the Hylian silently storm off.
" I think it may have something to do with me putting a hand on Zelda's shoulder last night... Other than that I'm not too
sure..." Roy frowned at the thought of Link's jealousy.
" Hmmm... Maybe... Well, I suppose we should get to the sparring we were discussing..." Marth drew his sword and got ready
to fight with Roy.
" Yeah, you're right." Roy unsheathed his blade and took on a fighting stance.
They stared at each other for a moment, then steel hit steel and the clanks of the blades filled the air. Marth slashed at
his chest, and narrowly missed, but Roy countered with a great deal of force which set him off balance. Marth stumbled
back slightly, surprised by Roy's strength. He smirked at him.
" You're stronger than I thought, Roy." he commented.
" That's just the tip of the iceburg!" Roy hollared, and swung his sword down forcefully. He missed and swung again. Marth
was dodging each strike with a great deal of grace and agility. After about the 5th miss, Roy grew irrate, and began blindly
slashing around in a frenzy. Marth was just too fast for him, and his heavy sword was beginning to tire him. Marth managed
to get Roy a couple of times with the flat of his sword, which bruised him slightly, but didn't seriously harm the
half-dragon. In a rage, Roy slashed as hard as he could, with all the power he could muster. Luckily for Marth, he missed and
hit a wooden pole instead.
" Damn! With the force I'm using, you should be down now!" he panted at the Altean Prince, struggling to get the sword
free from the pole.
" That's not what matters. You focus too much on brute strength alone, and while strength is a good thing to have in
battle, it isn't everything..." the prince tried to help his friend get his sword unstuck, " Roy, you need to be more focused
on other attributes. You seem to have a strong thirst for power, almost like Ganondorf... And being like this is what keeps
you from becoming a truly great swordsman..."
Roy glared hard at him, and shoved his friend's hand out of the way. " Are you saying I don't know how to fight? Are you
suggesting that I'm a power hungry maniac like him?"
" No Roy, I'm simply trying to help you improve..."
" Well thanks for nothing! I don't really care about what you have to say Marth! I don't need your advice! I don't need you
to tell me who to be!" he snapped.
Marth was beginning to see Roy's temper kick in.
" Roy calm down... I didn't mean..."
" I don't need you to help me improve..." Roy pulled the sword from the pole with one hand, and glared coldly at his best
friend.
Marth just stared blankly at him. Then, a low grumbling noise began, followed by a tremor.
" What the hell?!" the red-head cried out as he and Marth were lifted into the air by a multicoloured light.
" Roy what's happening?!"
" I-I don't know!"
Suddenly, everything around them went black. Everything but themselves had vanished, and the only thing to be seen were
themselves and a strange figure. They couldn't quite make out whom it was, nor could they see any detail at all on it. From
what they could see it was a man, with long hair, and a long, katana-like sword.
" Marth and Roy... Water and Fire... We meet atlast..." It said in a voice that was both fluid yet low, almost like liquid
metal.
Both of them reached for their swords but they found that they weren't there. Looking up they saw Falchion and the Sword
of Seals floating above the figure.
" There won't be any need for weapons in our battle. And the battle has far from even started..." it said in a tone laced
with venom. It was that moment that both Marth and Roy felt they were done for...
" Don't look so afraid, you poor fools. I may be of the darkness element, but my battle lies not against but with you."
" W-Who are you?! What do y-you want from us?!" Roy demanded, studdering slightly.
" I am called Sephiroth... Wielder of the Masamune... The one-winged angel..." Sephiroth stepped into the 'light' and they
could see his one wing unfold from behind his long silver hair. " I am here to deliver the message of war to you, to shed
light upon the fact that our world is coming to an end."
" And what do you want us to do about it!?" the ex-general was starting to lose it again, in his already foul mood.
" Calm down fiery one. Soon all will be explained. For now you must let all of the other elements know of their destiny.
Tell the guardians of Earth, Air, Spirit and Light of their destiny. Before it's too late."
" But," Marth began, " How do we know who is who?"
" Exactly who is what elemental guardian, I am unsure of... But be warned, in this seemingly short time you have been
speaking with me, a week has passed in real time. Now, only Link, Zelda, samus and Peach remain. The rest of your friends
are now Crazy Hand's metal minions. He has started a conquest over the universe by destroying Master Hand... And the the
elements are the only ones who can stop him..." Sephiroth explained cooly.
" So let me get this straight..." Marth was about to question him.
" There's no time! You must go now!" Sephiroth raised a hand and their swords were returned to them and they were sent
spiraling back into the dojo...
Or what was left of it. The mansion was on fire, and a giant Bowser, Ganondorf and several normal sized metallic versions
of their former friends were attacking it. Link and Samus had managed to free Peach from the mansion, but before they could
save Zelda, they got caught up fighting these fiends.
" Roy, we have to-" Marth looked to his side, and the coloured drained from his face. Roy wasn't at his side. He looked up
and saw the hot-headed Ex-General running toward the Smash Mansion, sword in hand taking out any metallic monsters in his
way.
" ZELDA!!!" he ran to the burning door and slammed it down with his sword. Roy barged in and ran down the smoky corridors
to find her. A flaming beam of wood fell from the ceiling and clobbered him in the head. Upon being knocked to the floor, Roy
still didn't give up. He yanked himself to his feet and took off the metal armor on himself.
He finally heard a cry from Zelda and he smashed his way through the door into the room. He found her choking on the smoke
from the intensifying flames. Roy shiethed his sword behind his back and scooped the princess up into his arms.
" Link...?" she questioned him, as he was nothing but a blurry image to her right now.
" It's ok Zelda, I'll keep you safe." and with that he rushed out of the place. Or atleast he tried.
From the outside, Marth, Peach, Samus and Link watched as a shrunken Bowser, Ganondorf and a small cluster of metal
warriors retreated for some strange reason. Then the worry finally struck them.
" They're both still in there!" Marth cried out.
" This is all my fault," the hylian shook his head, " I should've gone in there to save her myself. Then we'd all still be
alive."
" How can you give up faith in Roy so easily?!" Peach gave a slap to Link.
" Because! He's just an ignorant fool!"
" I have faith in him." the prince announced.
" Don't have too much faith in him..." A hollow voice sounded. Giga Bowser, made by fusing Bowser with the metal warriors
stormed his way over to them.
" Oh no!" Samus spoke up.
" We can take him." Link redrew his sword.
" I'm scared..." Peach hid behind Marth and Link.
" But..." Marth started, " What about..."
Any hopes of Roy's survival were shattered when Giga Bowser crushed the mansion in a single swipe.
" NO! ROY! ZELDA!"
The monster roared and laughed maniacly. " You truly believed I'd let them live?! The Guardians of Fire and Air!?"
" Roy... I'm sorry..." Marth fell to his knees and began shedding tears for his friend.
" Marth! Look!" Samus cried.
A red glow broke through the splintered boards and concrete that used to be their home and in a fiery explosion, the
rubble was disintergrated and the metal of Giga Bowser melted. As the smoke cleared Roy could be seen holding Zelda in one
arm, and holding his other hand out as if he had used it to summon such a blast. He was panting and looked weakened, and
after giving his friends a half smile and a weak 'I'm ok.', he collapsed in a heap.
" So... Zelda is the Guardian of Air, Roy is Fire, and Marth is Water... What does that make us?" Link asked, holding an
unconcious Zelda in his arms. He had been in a snit the entire night after he had seen Roy hold Zelda.
" We aren't sure. All Marth and I know is you two have a fifty-fifty chance of being Earth or Spirit..." Roy said in a
weakened voice. He had since woken up and was wearing only his pants and the bandages that covered his torso.
" I don't think we should be worrying over it right now. Right now we need to find a semi safe place for shelter tonight."
Marth suggested.
" All right... I know of a cave where I used to sit at night sometimes to write in my journal. If it's still there, we
could spend the night in there and figure this out overnight." Samus piped up.
" I say we should go then. And make our present hiding place there..." Link lifted Zelda up, and with that the small group
was off to find a way to retaliate against this attack.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Ok so maybe this chapter wasn't that great, but atleast it didn't talk about poopshoots and butt bricks. Ah well R&R,
and flame if you want. We need flames to light our barbeque cause we're out of lighter fluid...
War of the Elementals
Chapter 1
The morning was gloomy and foggy from the rain lastnight. Marth awakened, feeling fatigued from lack of sleep. He sat up
and thought about what had happened the previous night. He was alone in his room, signaling that he had slept in.
" Man what a night that was..." he said softly to himself, while getting out of bed. He thought quietly about the night,
whilst getting dressed, when suddenly a knock at the door startled him. Quickly, he threw his clothes on and went to answer
the door. As he reached out his hand, a grim thoguht passed through his mind.
' What if it's a trick of some sort, like with Zelda and Peach?' Marth jerked his hand away.
" Marth?! MARTH?! Are you in there?! Jeesh, it's about time you got your arse outta bed!" Roy was now pounding on the door.
" Oh... Sorry Roy!" Marth said as he flung the door open to let his red-haired friend in.
" Hey man, you ok? You slept awfully late..." Roy asked with false concern, then he grinned and punched Marth in the arm
playfully. " What are you up to today?"
' Hmmmmmm... I feel like sparring for a while...' Marth thought while rubbing the spot Roy had hit.
" Helloooo?" Roy impatiently waved his hand at Marth.
' He seems awfully bouncy today. Must've had sugar for breakfast again...' he thought while yawning at him.
" I feel like training today, how about you?" Marth asked lethargically.
" Sure! Where to?" Roy answered energetically.
" Hmmm... I'm not sure... We could just go to the dojo out back..."
" Ok! Let's go!"
Upon their arrival at the dojo Master Hand had once set up for them all to train at, Marth and Roy saw Link. Roy's grin
and happiness seemed to disappear as Link shot him a fiery glare.
Fighting back the short-fused urge to explode, Roy decided he had best keep civil. " Hello, Link." He said hotly.
" Hey..." Link gave a polite smile to Marth, and a sarcastic one to Roy. Then he turned his back on them, and walked away
quickly toward the mansion.
" What was that all about?" Marth piped up curiously, watching the Hylian silently storm off.
" I think it may have something to do with me putting a hand on Zelda's shoulder last night... Other than that I'm not too
sure..." Roy frowned at the thought of Link's jealousy.
" Hmmm... Maybe... Well, I suppose we should get to the sparring we were discussing..." Marth drew his sword and got ready
to fight with Roy.
" Yeah, you're right." Roy unsheathed his blade and took on a fighting stance.
They stared at each other for a moment, then steel hit steel and the clanks of the blades filled the air. Marth slashed at
his chest, and narrowly missed, but Roy countered with a great deal of force which set him off balance. Marth stumbled
back slightly, surprised by Roy's strength. He smirked at him.
" You're stronger than I thought, Roy." he commented.
" That's just the tip of the iceburg!" Roy hollared, and swung his sword down forcefully. He missed and swung again. Marth
was dodging each strike with a great deal of grace and agility. After about the 5th miss, Roy grew irrate, and began blindly
slashing around in a frenzy. Marth was just too fast for him, and his heavy sword was beginning to tire him. Marth managed
to get Roy a couple of times with the flat of his sword, which bruised him slightly, but didn't seriously harm the
half-dragon. In a rage, Roy slashed as hard as he could, with all the power he could muster. Luckily for Marth, he missed and
hit a wooden pole instead.
" Damn! With the force I'm using, you should be down now!" he panted at the Altean Prince, struggling to get the sword
free from the pole.
" That's not what matters. You focus too much on brute strength alone, and while strength is a good thing to have in
battle, it isn't everything..." the prince tried to help his friend get his sword unstuck, " Roy, you need to be more focused
on other attributes. You seem to have a strong thirst for power, almost like Ganondorf... And being like this is what keeps
you from becoming a truly great swordsman..."
Roy glared hard at him, and shoved his friend's hand out of the way. " Are you saying I don't know how to fight? Are you
suggesting that I'm a power hungry maniac like him?"
" No Roy, I'm simply trying to help you improve..."
" Well thanks for nothing! I don't really care about what you have to say Marth! I don't need your advice! I don't need you
to tell me who to be!" he snapped.
Marth was beginning to see Roy's temper kick in.
" Roy calm down... I didn't mean..."
" I don't need you to help me improve..." Roy pulled the sword from the pole with one hand, and glared coldly at his best
friend.
Marth just stared blankly at him. Then, a low grumbling noise began, followed by a tremor.
" What the hell?!" the red-head cried out as he and Marth were lifted into the air by a multicoloured light.
" Roy what's happening?!"
" I-I don't know!"
Suddenly, everything around them went black. Everything but themselves had vanished, and the only thing to be seen were
themselves and a strange figure. They couldn't quite make out whom it was, nor could they see any detail at all on it. From
what they could see it was a man, with long hair, and a long, katana-like sword.
" Marth and Roy... Water and Fire... We meet atlast..." It said in a voice that was both fluid yet low, almost like liquid
metal.
Both of them reached for their swords but they found that they weren't there. Looking up they saw Falchion and the Sword
of Seals floating above the figure.
" There won't be any need for weapons in our battle. And the battle has far from even started..." it said in a tone laced
with venom. It was that moment that both Marth and Roy felt they were done for...
" Don't look so afraid, you poor fools. I may be of the darkness element, but my battle lies not against but with you."
" W-Who are you?! What do y-you want from us?!" Roy demanded, studdering slightly.
" I am called Sephiroth... Wielder of the Masamune... The one-winged angel..." Sephiroth stepped into the 'light' and they
could see his one wing unfold from behind his long silver hair. " I am here to deliver the message of war to you, to shed
light upon the fact that our world is coming to an end."
" And what do you want us to do about it!?" the ex-general was starting to lose it again, in his already foul mood.
" Calm down fiery one. Soon all will be explained. For now you must let all of the other elements know of their destiny.
Tell the guardians of Earth, Air, Spirit and Light of their destiny. Before it's too late."
" But," Marth began, " How do we know who is who?"
" Exactly who is what elemental guardian, I am unsure of... But be warned, in this seemingly short time you have been
speaking with me, a week has passed in real time. Now, only Link, Zelda, samus and Peach remain. The rest of your friends
are now Crazy Hand's metal minions. He has started a conquest over the universe by destroying Master Hand... And the the
elements are the only ones who can stop him..." Sephiroth explained cooly.
" So let me get this straight..." Marth was about to question him.
" There's no time! You must go now!" Sephiroth raised a hand and their swords were returned to them and they were sent
spiraling back into the dojo...
Or what was left of it. The mansion was on fire, and a giant Bowser, Ganondorf and several normal sized metallic versions
of their former friends were attacking it. Link and Samus had managed to free Peach from the mansion, but before they could
save Zelda, they got caught up fighting these fiends.
" Roy, we have to-" Marth looked to his side, and the coloured drained from his face. Roy wasn't at his side. He looked up
and saw the hot-headed Ex-General running toward the Smash Mansion, sword in hand taking out any metallic monsters in his
way.
" ZELDA!!!" he ran to the burning door and slammed it down with his sword. Roy barged in and ran down the smoky corridors
to find her. A flaming beam of wood fell from the ceiling and clobbered him in the head. Upon being knocked to the floor, Roy
still didn't give up. He yanked himself to his feet and took off the metal armor on himself.
He finally heard a cry from Zelda and he smashed his way through the door into the room. He found her choking on the smoke
from the intensifying flames. Roy shiethed his sword behind his back and scooped the princess up into his arms.
" Link...?" she questioned him, as he was nothing but a blurry image to her right now.
" It's ok Zelda, I'll keep you safe." and with that he rushed out of the place. Or atleast he tried.
From the outside, Marth, Peach, Samus and Link watched as a shrunken Bowser, Ganondorf and a small cluster of metal
warriors retreated for some strange reason. Then the worry finally struck them.
" They're both still in there!" Marth cried out.
" This is all my fault," the hylian shook his head, " I should've gone in there to save her myself. Then we'd all still be
alive."
" How can you give up faith in Roy so easily?!" Peach gave a slap to Link.
" Because! He's just an ignorant fool!"
" I have faith in him." the prince announced.
" Don't have too much faith in him..." A hollow voice sounded. Giga Bowser, made by fusing Bowser with the metal warriors
stormed his way over to them.
" Oh no!" Samus spoke up.
" We can take him." Link redrew his sword.
" I'm scared..." Peach hid behind Marth and Link.
" But..." Marth started, " What about..."
Any hopes of Roy's survival were shattered when Giga Bowser crushed the mansion in a single swipe.
" NO! ROY! ZELDA!"
The monster roared and laughed maniacly. " You truly believed I'd let them live?! The Guardians of Fire and Air!?"
" Roy... I'm sorry..." Marth fell to his knees and began shedding tears for his friend.
" Marth! Look!" Samus cried.
A red glow broke through the splintered boards and concrete that used to be their home and in a fiery explosion, the
rubble was disintergrated and the metal of Giga Bowser melted. As the smoke cleared Roy could be seen holding Zelda in one
arm, and holding his other hand out as if he had used it to summon such a blast. He was panting and looked weakened, and
after giving his friends a half smile and a weak 'I'm ok.', he collapsed in a heap.
" So... Zelda is the Guardian of Air, Roy is Fire, and Marth is Water... What does that make us?" Link asked, holding an
unconcious Zelda in his arms. He had been in a snit the entire night after he had seen Roy hold Zelda.
" We aren't sure. All Marth and I know is you two have a fifty-fifty chance of being Earth or Spirit..." Roy said in a
weakened voice. He had since woken up and was wearing only his pants and the bandages that covered his torso.
" I don't think we should be worrying over it right now. Right now we need to find a semi safe place for shelter tonight."
Marth suggested.
" All right... I know of a cave where I used to sit at night sometimes to write in my journal. If it's still there, we
could spend the night in there and figure this out overnight." Samus piped up.
" I say we should go then. And make our present hiding place there..." Link lifted Zelda up, and with that the small group
was off to find a way to retaliate against this attack.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Ok so maybe this chapter wasn't that great, but atleast it didn't talk about poopshoots and butt bricks. Ah well R&R,
and flame if you want. We need flames to light our barbeque cause we're out of lighter fluid...