Chapter 3

Samus walked inside heading for her room. Just as she reached the exit Link had caught up with her.

"Don't tell me you're turning in early." Link said.

"Sorry, but I've got to go with my boyfriend. Then I'm turning in for the night." She shifted her eyes in the direction of Falcon.

"Boyfriend? Was it not that long ago you were telling me you hated Captain Falcon? Since when?"

"I thought I told you."

"That's one thing you never told me. "

"Well Link its true, he-"

"Samus, come on!"

Link turned to see Captain Falcon heading out the rec. room while gesturing Samus to follow. Samus whispered bye and went out the door. Link cocked his head to the side in confusion. Zelda had walked up from behind. She had saw Samus leave.

"Where is she going Link?" she asked.

"Don't know." Link looked at the two of them go up the stairs. But I'm sure everything will be clear soon enough.

Later that night

Link went back to his room. His new room was connected to another room. There was a bathroom in the middle of the two rooms. And on either side, was a bedroom with two beds.

"Okay, this isn't so bad. I have to share it with two other people." The door rattled and Link's ears perked up. Two certain red and blue haired swordsmen came inside. Link knew who they were.

"Hey Marth and Roy, guess we're roommates." Link smiled.

"Guess so. Should be a riot." Roy repeated. He had already grown to like Link when they did a little swordsplay during the party. Marth only observed, but he was impressed with Link as well.

"You two share a room over there." Link pointed to the other side.

Roy and Marth just stared at him.

Marth crossed his arms. "And you get a room to yourself because why?"

Link pondered this for a moment and then spoke. "How old are you two?"

"16." Marth replied.

"Same here." Roy added.

"Well I'm 17 and I guess that pretty much explains why." Link laughed. Marth and Roy just glared at him.

Samus' Room

"I can't believe you two were out there alone!"

"We didn't do anything. We just happened to talk about ourselves and this mansion."

"And what would have happened if you had blurted out the other part of your life? Then what, Samus?"

"I don't know."

"Well listen here. You cause anything to spill out and I will make sure you regret that you did! Do you understand me?"

Samus quietly replied. "Yes."

6AM in the morning

Link was up early thinking back about Samus. I never noticed lately, but Samus is starting to become more and more distant from me. She doesn't kid around with me as much as she used to. I didn't even know Samus had a thing for C.F. She always hated him with a passion. What's up with her? Is she desperate or something?

Marth was up early as well and had walked in the cafeteria to see Link there with a puzzled look on his face. He's thinking about something serious... but I'll wing my question anyway.

"Hey, Link? I have a question to ask you." Marth called.

"Huh?" Link looked up from his thoughts and blinked his big blue eyes. "Oh sure." He turned to face Marth when he sat across from him. "Shoot."

"Well, you seem to be really close with Samus Aran, correct?"

"Um … right." Okay, where's he going with this statement? Link thought to himself. "Any particular reason why you're asking me this?"

"Well I thought maybe it would be nice to get to know her. Maybe we can battle together and train and-

Link cut him off. "Marth do you like her?"

Marth groaned. Is it really that obvious? Well can't hide it in now. He'll probably not rub it in my face as much as Roy would if I confessed it to him. "I won't lie about it. She's pretty interesting and well...you know the rest."

Link had to let it sink in for awhile but then a smile formed. "That's great Marth!"

"Not really. Isn't she that racing guy's love?" Marth lowered his head.

Link realized he was talking about Captain Falcon. "Oh right. But who cares?"

Marth raised his head. "What do you mean? I don't want to intrude on their relationship."

"I think she was just desperate. She doesn't really want to be with him. So, you got to win her over." Link concluded.

"You really think so?"

"Can't be wrong, Sam has always said she hated C.F so much...I don't believe in this relationship for a second."

"Yeah, she wasn't smiling last night when he came to get her. I really would like to see her smile more. Maybe if we did something together... " Marth's enthusiasm came back. "Thanks, Link. I knew you would have the answers. After all you have a girl like Zelda."

"Yeah I am and… WHAT? Nonononono. She's just a friend Marth and nothing more." Link said quickly.

Sure, Marth was trying not to be all about love during his stay at the SSBM mansion. But he knew love when he saw it. He just rolled his eyes mentally. "Right, Link."

The cafeteria started getting louder as smashers swarmed inside. Zelda had reached the table where Marth and Link were at and sat down.

"Wow, it sure gets loud in here. I could get used to this. All the time at the castle, our family meals are all quiet. These are loud and obnoxious." Zelda said with a giggle.

"YOU AGAIN? I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH YOU."

"WELL IF I LIVE AND BREATHE! IT'S THE HIGH-MATINENECE PRINCESS! THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE CRIED HOME BY NOW."

Everyone at the table groaned. They knew exactly who it was. Peach and Roy had entered and they sat at their table. They continued on barking at each other. Marth plugged his ears. Link and Zelda groaned in pain. Their yelling was sensitive to their Hylian ears. Link opened one eye and noticed someone here. With the amount of strength he had left, he nudged Marth. Marth turned as Link pointed to Samus walking out to the garden. Marth nodded in thanks and headed towards the exit.

"Link can you stop them?" Zelda hissed.

"I'll try. Peach, Roy, will you two guys SHUT-UP?" he shouted.

Roy and Peach stopped immediately. Link's voice was ten times louder than their own. They just decided to glare at each other. Zelda sighed in relief. Mario came to the table and sat down.

Peach squealed. "Mario!"

Mario saluted. "Hey, Peach."

Peach quickly brought Zelda over to her. "That's Mario."

"The Mario whose traveld the whole world? They say you're famous." Zelda said.

"Sure am." He replied as he scratched his head in embarrassment. "I wouldn't say I'm so very famous."

Peach disagreed."Of course you are! And that's not all! He's-

Mario turned as Peach kept bragging to Roy and Zelda about Mario.

"A real annoyance, that princess." Link muttered.

"You aren't telling me anything new. Haha, but get to know her first. She's actually pretty cool in her own way." Mario said back as he slumped into his seat. "Anyway Link, did you here about more stuff stolen from the Nintendo Museum?"

"Yeah, too bad for them."

"Well, Master Hand is doing a full check on this house. And I volunteered to help him look around."

"He thinks one of us stole the stuff?"

"Yeah, he's being kinda suspect about everyone. Including me."

"I knew he never trusted anyone here."

"Well I'm not really trustworthy of everyone here either." Mario scanned the room.

Link placed his head in his hands on the table. This place is really falling apart.

Garden

"Marth, you followed me."

Samus and Marth were out by the pond and Samus just noticed his presence. It was quiet and peaceful in the garden. It even blocked out the sound of the cafeteria.

"Well you said you wanted to talk some day."

"Yeah I guess I did." She got up from the bench and went over to Marth. "So what do you want to talk about?"

"Well, maybe you can show me the different arenas."

Samus thought about it for a moment. "Sure, why not." She went back towards the pond but went around it. "Follow me."

Marth slowly walked over to her, but kept an eye out for Captain Falcon. He's not here with her, so this is your chance to make her forget about him. And whatever you do, don't make a fool of yourself.

Samus kept walking while keeping an eye on Marth. Wonder what he's thinking about. She stopped at a door. She got out a key and unlocked it. Inside were pod like capsules. She walked over to one and Marth followed. They huddled up inside one. When locked inside she pressed a few buttons and they were gone in a flash. They appeared on a place Marth had never seen before. Almost everything there was green and had a face. Samus finally turned and spoke. "This is Green Greens. It's one of Kirby's levels. Kind of a creepy place since everyone has smiles."

"I'll say." Marth kept looking around. His eyes stopped on a tree. He walked over to it. "Even the tree has eyes. Don't know what he needs them for, it can't do anything. Just then the tree blew wind so strong it made Marth fall on the ground.

Samus laughed. "You shouldn't say that." She sat down on the ground with him. "The trees can be really mean when they are talked about."

Marth chuckled. "Well, thanks for the late fact."

Samus gave him a small, warm smile. "Sorry."

The tree dropped two apples from the tree. Marth grabbed two of them he geld on up to Samus. "Want one?"

Samus looked at the apple then at Marth. She slowly took the apple. "Thank you." she said.

Marth looked at Samus out of the corner of his eye as both of them started to bite into their apples. Today will be a good day.

In the lounge room around 7PM

Link and Roy were playing a checkers game. Link had Roy cornered.

"Come on Roy. You got to move some time today."

"Quiet, Link. I'm trying to form a strategy"

"On what…on how to lose?" Link retorted.

Mario had come again in the midst of their game. "We're going to investigate right now."

"Really, well be careful. Someone may know what you're up to." While Link was looking at Mario, Roy decided to make a few arrangements with game. He started adding and removing some of the pieces and he also moved some.

"I highly doubt it. Master Hand kept this between me and him." Just as he finished his statement, Peach had entered the lounge.

"Mario, I heard what you have to do. I really don't approve of this. But I have faith in you, so be careful, okay?" Peach had reached Mario.

"I will." Mario got up. "Later guys."

"Later. Okay, Roy it's still your turn."

"Fine, I'll move this piece here and…" He did a few jumps and ended up taking all of Links red checkers. "Game." He crossed his arms.

Link looked at the board then at Roy. "What? I could've sworn-

"Link?" Zelda had come in with Pichu in her arms again. Pichu squirmed free and went on the floor under the table. "They wanted to know if you guys wanted to watch a movie with us."

"I guess, since I lost the game."

"Pichu!"

Link looked under the table and grabbed Pichu. "You shouldn't be under there… what's this?" Pichu had something in her mouth.

Roy slumped into his seat and groaned. Oh no.

"Aren't these checkers…?" Link's eyes shot up quickly. "Roy!"

Roy was already gone. Link growled in anger and chased after him. "COME BACK HERE YOU LYING CHEAT!"

Zelda and Pichu stood there clueless. They just blinked in confusion.

"Huh?"

"Pi?"

Hyrule Temple Arena

Samus and Marth had been having a good time all day, looking at all the arenas. They shared some good laughs and stories all day.

"So, Link fell off the top of this pillar?"

"Yep. It was so funny." Samus laughed remembering that day. "He was so upset that the crow knocked him off of it and took his hat. Should have seen him running around with his sword, yelling every foul word imaginable."

Marth and Samus continued to laugh as they left the arena.

Planet Zebes

They reached the next arena their last stop.

"And finally, my arena."

Marth felt like he was burning up when he stepped out on Zebes. He waved his hand like fan to fan himself. "Whew. It's hot here."

"Well, that's the lava problem. It-"

She was cut off as the lava erupted and started to rise. It rose to a high level, but not high enough to reach them.

"Sure is a lava problem."

"Yeah and it keeps coming back up at anytime it wants."

Suddenly a big quake started. It caused Samus to lose her balance and fall. She thought she would fall and Marth would just laugh at her. But she fell against Marth as he moved in front of her and put a steady arm around her. She stayed in leaning on his chest until she looked up at Marth. He wasn't laughing but showing a face of deep concern.

"Are you alright?"

Samus raised up a little to face Marth. "Yeah, I'm fine." she said. Feeling she was getting to comfortable in Marth's arm she pushed herself away quickly and backed up.

Marth realized what he did and turned red. "Sorry."

Samus was blushing madly. "It's okay … um… we better head back."

"Yeah."

They left quickly back to the mansion.

Smash Mansion

When they returned they went outside to the fresh air. They turned to face the moon.

"I didn't realize we were gone so long." Samus replied.

Marth turned to her. "It's okay, isn't it?"

Samus' eyes shined in the moonlight. "Yeah. I had a really good time."

Marth eyes were shining too. "Me too. Maybe we can do it again?"

Samus turned to Marth. "Maybe."

Suddenly a loud scream was heard from the mansion. They both turned their heads to the mansion.

"What was that?" Samus asked.

"Don't know. Let's go check it out."

They quickly ran inside. They ran up the flights of the stairs. When they reached the top they looked to see a crowd of people. Samus and Marth pushed themselves to the front. Link, Zelda, Peach, and Roy were in the front with pale faces. Their eyes were frozen in place. When Marth and Samus turned to what they were looking at they gasped. What they saw was a puddle of blood with master hand in the middle covered in it and Mario had blood trickling from the top of his head.

End of Chapter

Now here's a little bit of Mystery. Someone has attacked Mario and Master Hand, but who? There's more to come later. Review Please!