-Continued-

Part 3 Talking to death

After a mass confusion of both the victim and the others, the SSBM head onto their separate ways to get some rest. It's about 11:00am. Kirby has awakened from his faint status to see the stadium in a wreck. Yoshi is down on the ring scrambling the ruins into a near by trashcan.

Kirby screams out loud enough for Yoshi to hear him. "Yoshi! What happened?"

Yoshi turns to him. "You don't remember? Oh, yeah, you were down a few minutes."

Kirby goes down the staircase to Yoshi. "Man, you know what that means right?"

"It means you were unconscious?" Yoshi says unsurely.

"No, it means we can't have any battles tomorrow! Because of this rubbish, the fans won't come, and the committee is going to have to fix up this place."

"I don't think the fans would want to come back…" Yoshi says as he giggles. "That new comer's sister came here and scared the audience away. We'd be lucky if we see anyone on Friday."

"I'm confused…but you could tell me the story some other day, I'm bushed." He took his suitcase and his warp star and went on his way.

"I'm exhausted as well." Yoshi drops the rocks and walked to the bus stop.

Mushroom City, a great place to relax until the midnight rush, the rush of shy guy cops that is. Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Peach, Marth, and Roy are in the Mushroom bar. Lube is there too.

"I need a drink after that match!" Lube says as he lies down on the counter. "Hey bartender, give me a bloody mary…thanks.

Everyone's face looked shocked.

"Aren't you a little too, a, young?" Peach said.

"Who me? Naahhh…."

"Here you go." Toad said.

Marth and Roy are in a separate table cornered in the shadows.

"There's something I don't get here…" Marth says as he rubs his chin.

"Heck I didn't get any of it." Roy says as he finishes his drink in one shot.

"What's there not to get?" Lube shouts as he reveals he was eavesdropping.

"We weren't talking to you, so stay out of our business." Marth says in an annoyed tone.

"Shheeshh! I was just trying to straighten things out! Don't gotta' get all personal!"

"Yeah, sure." Marth said.

Lube hops out of the counter. "I'm out."

In a far distant trashed spaceship, Raide lays down in fear of the voices that haunts her. Grim stands solemnly and watch the stars outside the glass. He is well under his gloomy state, worried about his caretaker. Raide tries to fall asleep, but the voices in her head came closer to her. She figured she's not alone in this abandoned ship. Grim turned away from the circular window and glared at the appearance that was death.

"Raide!" Grim shouted out fearfully. He began to shake, and hid himself behind Raide as she got up.

"I'm not coming with you! If it was my fate to die, why am I still here?" Raide said standing up for herself.

"That planet was meant to destroy…everyone. It's now your choice to either murder your sister, or, let me do the work."

"How about I slaughter both of you! I don't need to follow anyone!"

"Humph…you're…just like your sister…"

"Shut up! I'm no way close to that weak desperate childish girl!"

"Under my observation, she's the more powerful one."

"You just want me to give in! Well, it's not going to happen!"

"Listen to this…" He grabbed Raide's neck with his corroded skeleton like hands. Raide saw his grin, a bony structure smile, and his piercing glowing red eyes.

"Raide!" Grim shouted.

"It's either you, or your young sibling…make that choice in 24 hours…or I take it into my hands."

Part 4 Vacation time! Or is it?

At Mario's place, Mario and Luigi are just waking up from a well-rested night. Mario hits the showers and Luigi goes to the kitchen to make some breakfast.

Luigi yawns and looks up. "Ahh! What are you guys doing here!"

"We're making breakfast for you and Mario. Actually, Daisy is. Don't tell anyone, but I'm no good in cooking." Peach turns on the television for some morning news.

"Uh, that's very kind of you Daisy." Luigi says as he scratches his head.

"Anything for you Luigi!"

Mario comes in with a towel on his shoulder.

"Hey! Nice to see you two. What's the occasion?"

"My turn!" Luigi speeds to the showers.

"Is it wrong to have a grand breakfast with our lovely plumbers for a day?" Peach says with a smile.

"Ah, no…but you never did this before. Hey, first time for everything right?"

"Breakfast is ready!" Daisy sets the food on the table. "Mario, I know you have a big stomach, so I cooked twice as much just for you."

Peach giggles inside.

"Thanks Daisy!" Mario starts digging in.

"This is Mushroom Kingdom's morning news, with Toad and Boo as your newscasters." Toad took out his papers and straightened out his blue tie. "Today's Thursday, July 14, 2005. Our top news today takes place in our very big tourist attraction site, the SSBM tournament stadium. There was a quiet devastating blow that got fans scattering out from the stadium walls."

"He's talking about what happened last night." Daisy said.

"Everyone had to evacuate." The event was shown on the television and focused on Kirby's unconsciousness. "Guess that was too much excitement for Kirby!" Boo cracked a laugh.

"Ha, that is kind of funny!" Mario said in a chuckle.

"This leaves the committee to clean up the garbage. There will be no battles today. If we're lucky, the stadium will be active tomorrow. Now we turn to Boo for the weather."

"All right!" He dashes to the weatherboard and takes out his pointing stick. "We are here, so, as you could see its 80 degrees." He took his pail and shovel. He turned to the camera with his sunglasses. "It's time for the beach everybody! Every boo for themselves!"

"That's right! We should go out and have fun! This might be our only chance!" Daisy said.

"Why? It's going to be hot all month." Peach said.

"And we got the weekends off." Luigi says as he stuffs food into his mouth."

"I got major appointments. Girl's got to' look good!"

"Oh please. Come on! Let's go to my beach!" Peach said.

"I'll invite the others. This'll be fun!"

"Awe, I'm bored!" Lube says as he spins himself on the ground. Yumi lives far away from the others, not even located near Mushroom Kingdom. Yumi's outside thinking of everything that went on yesterday.

(Sigh)"Lube, I still have no friends…no one wants to talk to me."

"You're an outcast!" Lube says as he points at Yumi.

"Lube! That's not helping." She sits down and hugs her legs close. Lube finally gets it. Yumi wants friends on earth and not just himself.

"I'm sure someone will come around." He snuggles himself next to Yumi and rests his eyes.

Marth comes in and looks at Lube with a hopeless look on his face.

"Great, maybe I shouldn't have come here."

Lube opens his right eye. "What? No way!" He jumps right up. "What are you trying to do? Sneak up on me or somthin'?"

Yumi picks up her head to see Lube and Marth quarreling.

"I didn't come here to see you."

"Put um' up pal!" Lube suddenly thinks he's a bouncer and tries to throw jabs at Marth.

"I'm not going to fight you!" Marth says with a twitching eye.

"Lube it's ok." She gets up and greets Marth.

"Umm…."

"What? Cat got your tongue? You either say something or get going!"

"Lube! Be nice."

"The rest of the SSBM are going to the beach, want to join us?"

"The beach! Well why didn't you say so?" Lube runs into the house. "Don't worry Yumi I'll pack your stuff too!"

"I guess that's a yes."

Lube comes rushing out. "Ready!"

"I guess you're useful for something."

"Put a sock in it blue dyed frizz ball!" Lube says trying to hold his temper.

The sun is out, the sand is tan, and young Link's getting a tan! It's just the perfect day to go out and enjoy the day. Marth, Yumi, and Lube just walked in. Lube finds a shady spot.

"Mine!" He runs to the special spot to find Falco stopping him in his tracks.

"And what do you think your doin"?

"Hey, hey, hey! I got this spot first! If anyone should get it, it'll have to be me!"

"Oh, no…pardon me Marth. I have to stop him before he gets himself into trouble."

Falco removes his shades. "This is my spot foxy, now scram!"

" And what are ya gonna' do if I don't!"

Yumi grabs Lube.

"Nothing! Hehe…sorry about that Falco. Lube can get over tempered."

"No problem. Hey, just for you, you can have this spot. Fox and I will go get some other shady ground."

"Really?" Yumi's eyes began to glow sensing friendship.

"Oh brother…" Lube says in an undertone.

"Thanks Falco."

Lube sets up their spot and runs off to Pichu.

"Hey, Marth. There's enough space for both of us."

"Uh…" Marth starts to redden. "Uh…sure." He sits aside Yumi and feels tension between the blanket and himself.

"Hey pokemon!" Lube says with a smile.

Pichu looks up at Lube.

"Want some help?"

"Uh…" Pichu looks at his unfinished sandcastle, and then looks at Lube. "Ok."

"Luigi! Heads up!" Daisy slams the ball to the other side of the net.

"Whoa…Owwpph!" Luigi got knocked out of his feet and got his face into the sand.

"Oh my gosh, Luigi!" Daisy said surprisingly.

"Bro, are you okay?"

Luigi shakes the sand off his head. "I think so…"

Peach and Daisy comes towards Luigi.

"Luigi I'm so sorry." Daisy says as she panics.

"At least you left a face print." Peach says in laughter.

"This is awesome! No fights, no brawls, just peace and relaxation." Link says with his arms behind his head.

"This is more than peaceful. We're surrounded with beauty." Zelda says walking aside Link. "I wish we can have this everyday, or maybe once in awhile…just a time for ourselves.

Link turns around and holds Zelda's hands. He lurks in to kiss Zelda until…

"MONSTER!" Ness shouts out as he points to the sky turning darker and darker.

Everyone stopped what he or she were doing and took a glance at the dark reddish sky. A light suddenly appeared brightening the beach. Raide was behind all this, and so was her assistant Grim.

"Hey everybody!" Grim said this and gashed out acid from his widened break. The people dodged the attack. The sand started to turn into Shucku Onis; 15 of them. (Shucku Onis are onis/demon monsters with blades for arms, one eye, and they have an orb of souls as stomachs that keep them living.)

"Nice timing!" Link shouted out in an annoyed tone.

"What, is she getting more powerful?" Yumi says in her head. Thunder surrounded Raide's body. "Aren't you going to give me a clap?" She sets the army to surround the SSBM competitors. "Smart idea huh sis? The beach was a great idea to destroy you and the SSBM…no weapons, no problem."

"You're going to have a problem for the ones that don't need weapons to fight!" Falco said.

"Yeah, let's do this!" Lube said with encouragement.

Kirby and Yoshi were walking by the beach. Yoshi took his shades off.

"Noon already?"

"Naw, it can't be…" Kirby looks to his left to see Peach's beach being invaded. With his mouth wide open, he tapped Yoshi's shoulder.

"What is it Kirby?" He looked at Kirby's direction.

"You know what this means right?" Kirby took out his microphone and went on a higher surface. Yoshi tagged along. "Ladies and those demon thingamajigs! It's battle time! SSBM vs. demon thingamajigs!" Kirby says as if he was announcing a match at the stadium. "Fighters, fight!" Yoshi shouted on the mic.

Lube, the fast character he is, went out and dodged past by the Onis into the city to find the fighters weapons, and some decent clothing. He comes back in a few seconds and throws everyone his or her belongings.

"So I see. You want this to be an all out battle, huh Lube?" Roy said.

"Got it!" Lube said.

"Great thinking! I couldn't imagine myself fighting in my swimwear." Link said.

"Good, now that your all set…let's get this dirty match started." She launched herself into Yumi, slamming her into boulders and into the city's buildings. Citizens run fearfully away from the two, and out of the city.

"Now that I've gotten them busy, we fight alone." Raide draws her sword.

Yumi picks herself up, and the blood rushing down her face gives her the idea that she might not survive this match.

"Raide something is bothering you. I can tell…it's all over your face."

"What do you know?" Raide pierced Yumi's shoulder and pushes it in further.

"We better hurry! We don't know where Yumi and Raide is!" Daisy said.

"Then we'll swing by this situation fast." Fox swifts behind an oni and charges himself with effective flames.

"Greeeeekkk!"

Fox then breaks the orb of souls, letting out the souls of the innocent free. The oni quickly decays.

"We found the weak spot!" Young Link said.

So every one charged at the monsters, in teams or by themselves.

"Oh no, I've got to find Yumi!" Lube flies in the air just to be stopped by Grim.

"And where do you think you're going?" Grim says with an evil sneer. He double kicks Lube straight into the sand.

"Get this you…" Grim froze Lube sending his mind into darkness and deepest fears.

"That'll keep your mouth shut. You irritating voice was getting on my last nerves."

"Looks like Lube is down!" Yoshi grabs his popcorn.

"Hey…where did you get that popcorn?" Kirby said.

The group finished off the monsters, but double the amount appeared right before their eyes!

"Dang, these guys just won't give up." Falco said.

"There's double this time!" Pichu says in a shaky voice. He sees Lube just standing there and runs to him. "Lube! Your friend's in trouble!" Lube doesn't answer. "Lube?" Pichu turns him around to see him haunted. "Gasp!"

"We have no choice but to keep going on it!" Peach said.

Marth knocks out the Onis out of his way and ran off into the city.

"Hey, Marth? Where're you going?" Roy shouts out.

"Great! He abandoned us!" Peach said.

Grim rolls on the ground with laughter. "Hahaha, quack! You guys have no chance!"

"Somebody shut that bird up!" Nana said.

"Hey!" Falco said popping his head out.

"Not you! The evil one!"

"Should I slowly kill you…sister?"

"If getting (couch) rid of me is really what you want, then get rid of me already. But I see no reason. If you wanted that thrown so bad, why didn't you come back?"

"And show my face to that father of ours, no way. I rather burn to ashes!"

"You're not doing this for your own pleasures, you're doing this for someone else."

"You don't know what you're talking about."

"Sure I do…we're connected…in some way. You know what you're doing is wrong, but someone is telling you other wise. You're letting someone control you Raide. I don't know you much, but I know you don't accept-"

"Give it a break already!" She releases the sword out of Yumi. "I kill you, I lose all the voices and all the darkness…that lies within myself."

"Don't do this…"

She aims her sword to Yumi's beating heart. "Sorry Yumi…(tears flow down her cheeks) but I must…kill you!"

"No!"

Marth creeps up behind Raide and stabs her just before she can kill Yumi. Lube is freed and all the Onis turned into ashes. It became cloudy, and the air was dry; something Marth's sword was not. Raide's blood flowed onto Yumi's clothes and she felt guilt throughout her soul.

"Marth…you killed Raide."

It started to rain and suddenly a thunderstorm came about.

"Killing her was your only chance for survival."

-Killed her? You only stopped her on her journey…she's mine. Nothing that belongs to me withers away…-

Raide vanishes and on the other side, Grim went on his way.

Marth helps Yumi up.

"That voice again. I have to save her from whoever is controlling her."

Yumi falls into Marth's arms in pain.

"Yumi!"

"Bring me to Lube…"

"What is he-"

"Don't worry, he'll heal me of these wounds…"