Okay guys! I started Chapter 9! And I'm pleased to report that I got a lot of reviews before I even started… YIPPEE! I'm so happy…
Mr. Game & Watch: See? I told you she has no life…
Crystalicios: (Hisses) You are supposed to be petrified!
Kirby: Er-hem! Crystalicios doesn't own SSBM…
Crystalicios: Hey! How'd you know I was gonna ask you that?
Kirby: (Rolls eyes) I'm psychic… although it was pretty obvious
Crystalicios: Okay people of acknowledgements!
Yoshi: In other words people who actually reviewed…
Sean a guy: I am glad you like my fic so much… And yes I know Alana is… whatever you said…
Jan2789: Thanks… I'll try updating ASAP
Xiao-Darkcloud: I tried to make it as complicated as possible:-P
Special sign: And yet we have another anonymous reviewer… Roy is a common favorite… most probably because he's hott…:) Oh, and thanks for making an exception because if you read my conversations above, you'll know that I'm crazy for reviews: P
Roy's war goddess riku: I'm glad you love my stories. It doesn't matter if you keep saying that though: P (Yoshi: That's because it means more reviews…)
Well now that we're done here is Chappie nine (I thought I would end on chapter eight but I guess we can make an exception right ;)
Link's POV
We sat in the room. Finally, after seeing Marth's face, Falco finally shut up. He was staring at his face sadly.
I wasn't with Marth though; my chair was rather faced to Mr. Game & Watch. On his bedside table there were flowers and candy bars from Captain Falcon, Yoshi, Luigi, Mario, DK and some others. And even though Marth's table was more stashed with flowers and trinkets, I couldn't help taking my face of Mr. Game & Watch. You really don't know what you got until it's gone.I couldn't help thinking to myself. Of course we knew what we had with Marth. He was always there. But Mr. Game & Watch never missed an event. When Samus broke her leg, he gave her a Get Well card. Even when Roy started throwing up some poison (He tried to suicide himself but it apparently didn't work) when nobody else gave him anything Mr. Game & Watch spent some time with him and gave him a card.
Of course we never realized he was always there. Now, I realized, we did. He was already healed, He was just petrified and that was it. It was the same with Marth.
"Wonder who the murder dude was." I caught Falco muttering softly to himself. I didn't want to answer.
Suddenly the doors were busted open and I saw a yellow mouse emerging from it. I thought it was Pichu but when a smaller version of me appeared I highly doubted it was Pichu.
"Y-you're here!" I said joyfully.
"Yeah…" Panted Popo, who came five seconds later, dragging Nana in with him, who apparently was unconscious.
He flung her on a bed and sank into a chair, exhausted. Young Link simply handed me a branch before giving me a grin.
"What? You thought we wouldn't make it?" He asked me.
"No- I thought it would take you longer." I said, bending the truth.
I plucked ten leaves and handed Falco five of them. I turned my attention to Mr. Game & Watch. I force-fed him the Asylpha leaves and within moments he finally stirred.
It was like a miracle. His eyes (A/N: You can't really see his eyes in the game: P) fluttered open and he groaned. He sat up and flexed his arms.
I turned around to Marth, just as he stimulated his arms for the first time. He looked confused and his eyes were blank for a second. Then when he saw me and Falco he laughed in relief.
"What?" I asked, confused.
"I was thinking that heaven's ugly compared to what people said, but when I saw you and Falco I knew this wasn't heaven."
Falco laughed uneasily before clapping him on the shoulder.
"What!" I asked Pikachu who was tugging on my sleeve ever since I fed Mr. Game & Watch his leaves.
"The murderer is… Fox!" He exclaimed to me.
"Huh?" I said, not taking this in. I was too happy for my mood to be spoiled.
"HELLO! FOX IS THE MURDERER!" (A/N: Okay people who're confused, Alana's the murderer, Fox has nothing to do with it, but as he was being possessed, the Y.Link, Pikachu and the Ice Climbers saw Alana as Fox) He bellowed in my ear.
"Oh…"
Marth suddenly sat up, alert. "Yeah… But someone else petrified me… I'm not sure who though…" He trailed off, trying to remember. "I know it was a girl though, because her voice was feminine."
Then the truth dawned on me heavily. There were only four girls in the Mansion. And only one was capable of using magic.
"Zelda…" I muttered under my breath. It seemed like a bucket of ice cold water washed over me. I was suddenly hurt and overcome with emotion. Zelda would never do anything without a good reason…
"Oh, my Gosh! I just remembered something!" Falco exclaimed. "I saw Fox heading for Peach's room!"
I was instantly alert. "Marth, come with me. Falco, stay here and watch over the kids and Mr. Game & Watch."
"WHAT!" He asked, more of a statement. "I'm coming." He said, giving me a fixed stare.
"I think you should let Falco come. That's Falco's Stare of Doom version 5.5." Marth told me.
"Fine… The rest of you stay." I told everyone exasperatedly.
"Hey! I'm in this too! Fox almost killed me! I'm the one who should be giving him some payback!"
"ALRIGHT!" I roared. "The rest of you stay here. If Master Hand comes, say we're in Peach's room, because the Murderer's in there. Got that?"
I didn't wait for a reply. I ran out and pushed the elevator button. Five seconds later Marth said, "Let's take the stairs, this is taking too long."
With that we rushed upstairs and headed down the long corridors and burst into Peach's room.
What's going on? I thought.
Roy's POV
"Stop!" I shouted.
"Stop!" Mimicked Alana; a smug smile was playing on her face. "Oh Roy… When we're finally together-"
The door thudded open and we saw Link, Marth, Mr. Game & Watch, and Falco bursting in. Link opened his mouth but no sound came out. Obviously he was surprised to see mostly everyone slumped to the floor except for Peach, me, and Alana.
Quick as a flash, Alana spun around, her eyes were holding, something between lethalness and paranoia. She aimed her hand at them and was about to fire that bolt of energy when Falco quickly fired his gun and they collided. She looked surprised but then she sneered.
"Oh, looks like some of you got game after all." She softly said.
"Leave them alone!" Link shouted. His hand was slowly reaching for his sword.
"And who's this hunk?" She asked merely surprised.
He looked outraged. But Mr. Game & Watch and Falco restrained him from taking out an arrow.
"Well… whoever you are… you won't get far 'cause Master Hand's gonna be here any minute!" Marth told her.
Somehow they were all inside the room and the door was shut.
"You're alive?" She asked. Then she yawned. "Whoever this Master Hand is, I could probably kill him but, I wouldn't want to waste any more time."
"So what're you going to do about it?" Peach asked her. She was kneeling on the floor, and her arm was resting on her bed.
"This is what I'm going to do." She sneered at her momentarily before making a complicated gesture with her hands.
Then suddenly we were in Final Destination. (A/N: If you haven't noticed, Final Destination is one of my favorite arenas… plus it seemed very important and stuff)
"What happened?" Peach asked stupidly, blinking her eyes.
Alana rolled her eyes exasperatedly and muttered, "I don't know why you like a girl so naïve, Roy… I TELEPORTED YOU GUYS!" She completed her sentence with a shout.
Then her hands glowed a soft reddish glow and she released it on Peach. Peach leapt up and tried to dodge it, but the red energy bolt was much faster. It struck her and she fell with a cry. She hit the floor and lay motionless.
"What have you done with her!" I yelled, running to her.
I hit an invisible barrier that covered her and flew back.
She laughed sardonically and scornfully replied, "I placed a death sentence on her! If she doesn't get the right treatment in thirty minutes or less, she'll die!" She laughed.
Link was gaping at her. His normally friendly eyes turned into disgust. Falco's gun had dropped to the floor the same moment Peach drop to the ground, while Marth unsheathed his sword. Mr. Game & Watch seemed petrified all over again.
She snapped her fingers and Peach, Zelda, Samus, and Fox all vanished and reappeared, trapped inside the black orb (A/N: You know the one that's at the center bottom of the stage) and it flew overhead and hovered fifty or so feet above us. Everyone inside awoke, except for Peach, who'd already started turning pale. Zelda pounded her hands uselessly against the orb while Fox tried to use all his moves against it. Samus wasn't doing anything; she knew it was useless to try and escape. She was gazing down at us below, or rather Marth.
"What've you done to them?" Marth cried out, after seeing Samus looking hopelessly down at him.
"Nothing really, other from the fact that I trapped them in there so they wouldn't blab, once I'm finished with you!" She finished her sentence with a rather nasty look.
I couldn't bottle up my anger anymore. Peach had told me to keep it in, but I couldn't anymore, after all these days I felt like blowing, I finally had my chance. I unsheathed my sword and charged at her and struck at her.
She repelled the attack with another invisible barrier like thing. I crashed to the floor and groaned, feeling the side I had hit.
"Aw… Did Roysie-Boysie get hurt?" She asked adopting a babyish tone.
The next thing I knew, Link aimed a punch at her. Sure enough, his fist found its target; her stomach. Doubling up in pain, I watched her smug smile erase with some satisfaction. Falco did his Falco Fire (A/N: I don't know if that's what it's called… when he does the little fire thing) But she blocked it again.
It came as no surprise when there was no smile. Her emerald eyes gave off a distinct angry glow.
Suddenly she flew up and muttered some incoherent words and a rain of sparks showered us. Marth was deflecting them with his sword, while Falco was using his nifty deflector. The only one who wasn't quick enough to dodge them all was Mr. Game & Watch. He mostly got grazed by them but one of them hit him square in the face.
I kept at dodging them though I knew that we couldn't keep this up forever. I knew that was Alana's plan. So I leapt up and aimed my sword at her heart. She tried to block it, but my power was too strong for her, so my blade went through her invisible barrier. A vague memory suddenly popped up:
Roy knew that Ness was still following him. He stalked to his room, but when he reached to his door room he spun around and grabbed Ness's shirt and pulled him upward to his eye level.
"Stop following me!" He shouted into his face.
"S-Sorry…"
"I know you aren't."
"I just wanted to know why you like fire."
"Because fire kills way more painfully, and besides being hot is just… ME!"
I smiled faintly and suddenly I drove it in further, only to realize she had vanished, so I plummeted back down and landed squarely at my feet.
Alana was at the ground fighting Mr. Game & Watch. Her hair color suddenly turned a bright red and she released fire from her hands.
He dodged it nimbly and laughed, "Is that all you got?"
Maybe, it was because Mr. Game & Watch was enjoying playing with her, but whatever it was, Alana became all business. She started fighting with such veneration Mr. G (A/N: I'm getting tired of typing his full name all the time) kept taking a step backward, which gave her an advantage. And suddenly he was at the edge fighting for his life (Well not really, but once your off the stage you faint and get transported to the hospital) he aimed a bacon strip at her but she swiped at him with her fiery hands and this time he didn't dodge it. He fell over the cliff and couldn't get back on. The light that announced his defeat came up right when Marth struck out at Alana. She was unaware but she deflected it in the nick of time. But instead of being teleported to the hospital wing he appeared in the black orb.
That made me look over to Peach. Her skin complexion had turned paler. We had to end this soon, or else…
Meanwhile Alana had conjured up 3 people- that were exact duplicates of her. Marth, who had was about to attack stopped, confused.
"You're going to have to find the real me in order to try and defeat me!" She laughed.
Marth charged at the center one, Link took the left, and I took the right. Falco was taking the other centered one.
I could cry from despair if I wanted to. She'd never give up. Never.
"Peach will die." The Alana I was fighting quietly told me.
Of course I believed her, but half my brain tried to lie to me, saying there was hope.
"If I go now with you will you spare her?" I asked.
Link, Marth, and Falco stopped and watched us talked. The other Alanas had suddenly disappeared. The sneer on her face vanished and was replaced with a frown. She considered it for a moment, placing her hand on her hip, the other was held out in front of her, waiting to attack if I did.
Then her frown was replaced by a sneer again. "I never liked Peach anyway. And what's the point anyway? I'm going to have you, whether you like it or not."
With that, the other clones appeared again and she conjured a sword and blocked my swipe with a clash. I wanted it to end so badly. But how? She evidently had become stronger.
END OF CHAPTER 9!
What will happen next? Stay tuned to find out!
