Well, This was fairly fun to write.

Roy: I don't think I like the idea you put into this chapter. Or the next few, if the idea lasts that long.

Marth: I do. (evil laugh)

Link: I know Zelda and I do. So you're out numbered, unless Ardath and Semaj come to your rescue.

Roy: Semaj left, remember? He just got to be a special guest. Who is our special guest today? Drumroll please. (drumroll) Our special guest is... My father!

Eliwood: Well Met.

Ardath: Well met, milord! You know, your son can be an idiot sometimes? I mean, seriously. I think I'll tell you about the time he-

Lord Eliwood, would you like to disclaim?

Eliwood: How do you do that?

Marth: By saying that Pryomaniac Aru of Pherae

Link: Doesn't own anything worth suing her for.

You guys just disclaimed. Maybe next time you're a special guest.

Eliwood: Onward to chapter... Um... What Chapter?

Roy: Onward to chapter 7!

Chapter 7: Girls Night Out

"MELEE!"

Roy jumped off the platform and landed near Katan, who had just finished inspecting her blade. He cloud see a fire burning in her eyes, making it seem like the sour mood she possessed earlier was only a bitter dream. Bowser appeared on another platform, the one in the middle of the stage. It was only just big enough for him to stand on. Mario waited behind him on the other platform where he had started.

"Heh heh heh, are you kiddies ready?" Bowser taunted. Unlike the other smashers, who usually ignored the taunts (Unless you were a girl and Link had just taunted you, pushing his golden hair out of his face with a smile, cough, smirk) Katan replied.

"I was born ready!" Katan paused and taunted Bowser back. Her taunt was made up of swinging her blade like the blades of a helicopter, first on her left, then her right, then in front of her, dropping the blade so it landed between the cracks in the stones, giving Bowser a cocky smirk. What made it more interesting was when she swung the blade around, it made a mirror like image, or a picture. Each time it was different, but most of the time it was the flicker of a flame.

Bowser charged as she drew her sword from the stones, and gave it a little swing. Roy watched Bowser and Katan as they met in battle with a clang of sword on claws. Mario scrambled around a platform to the blue team's right. It was supposed to be a trap, Bowser being the distraction. They didn't underestimate the two swordmasters in this fight.

Katan flung herself at Bowser while Roy charged at Mario, drawing his Sword of Seals. As he neared Mario, his charge was cut short as Mario flung a ball of bright red flame at the boy. His damage counter barely rose as he fell to the ground with an "Umph!"

Katan was also surprised as Bowser breathed Koopa Fire at her. Neatly, she spun to her right and hid behind a fallen platform to avoid the damaging fire. The giant Koopa approached the platform and barreled it over. Just as he thought he heard Katan get squashed, he was slashed from above. Katan had climbed a top the fallen platform and jumped as Bowser pushed it over, not even noticing her. Bowser's damage counter rose.

Roy was beginning to overpower the red plumber. He slashed with his sword and fell back. Mario's fire flower on his glove had been slashed, disabling his fireball attack. Roy held his blade behind him. He could feel it powering up. The audience saw the power as the sword turned to a nearly blinding light. Mario was about to punch him when he swung the blade over his head, shouting "FLARE BLADE!" at the top of his lungs. The sword made contact with both Mario and the ground. As it touched Mario and the ground, it erupted with an explosion. Mario got an immediate KO, although his damage counter only counted 38. With a triumphant grin, he looked to Katan and Bowser's little battle. His Sword of Seals remained on fire for a moment longer, then faded away to nothing.

Katan's blade was also on fire, but it didn't stop its delightful dancing burning, and the flamers silver and blue; Katan's colors. She was much stronger than the Koopa King. She imagined to herself that his claws were the swords of many enemies, so she would use her sword skills to get around the dagger like claws. She had discovered that the Koopa Fire barely hurt her (to the jealousy of most of the other smashers) at all, so she wouldn't pay it any heed unless her counter began to grow. For the battle, she didn't need to worry about it.

Roy say and watched her as she taunted Bowser for the thousandth time. Bowser growled and charge at her. It was a fatal mistake. Like a snake, Katan struck at Bowser, the smashed him out of the arena with a display of fireworks.

"Game Set!" the announcer yelled. "Blue Team Wins!"

"Hurray!" Katan cheered. She did a little victory dance as they were picked up by the teleporter. As the reappeared in the control room, the audience let out another cheer.

"Great-a job, Katan, Roy." Luigi cried out as he helped his brother stand upright.

"Great-a job, Roy, you-a really knocked me-a out!" Mario called to the red head as he stumbled out into the crowd, obviously surprised by the side effect of the Melee arenas.

Katan waved weakly at the crowd as Samus and Marth came forward to help the two outside where the rest of their friends waited. The crowd continued to cheer as the created a path to the door. One of the smashers opened the door for them, and they stumbled out.

The instant they came out, Young Link bowled them over, with a huge grin on his childish face. "Wow, you two sure are a team!" Young Link told them. "You could probably beat all the smasher in the tournament, even Ganondorf!"

"Naw." Roy and Katan chimed. Katan blushed.

"Say, where is Luan?" Katan looked around for the missing dragon.

"He said he needed to go to some Gate and would be back in a week or two." Link replied, pulling Young Link off of Roy.

"Oh…" Katan went silent.

"Hey, do you want some Lon Lon Milk?" Zelda asked.

"You mean that milk that gave Marth his strength back?" Roy asked. He was still on the ground, too weak to stand back up.

"Yes. Katan, you'll need some if you want to come with us." Samus helped Roy up while Marth gave Katan his hand.

"Where are you going?" Link asked. "What are you three planning?" Marth elbowed him in the ribs.

"Link, never ever ask a woman about what she talks about to other women and or girls." Marth advised. The girls, Roy, and Young Link laughed. With that, they started for Zelda's room.

Zelda's room was nothing like Peach's room. Because of Sheik, the room had to fit both a boy and girl's thoughts. Fortunately, the two agreed on most things. The walls were a soft forest green, the shelves and desk made from the wood of a tree that had fallen on its own accord; an ash tree. Some of the shelves held Sheik's ninja materials, while others held Zelda's books. Zelda loved books. (No surprise. She's got the triforce of Wisdom, remember?)

One of the beds was a deep blue that matched Sheik's fighting outfit. The other was a deep emerald green. The bathroom was a light gray with dark gray lines to make it look like the stonewalls back in Hyrule Castle.

Zelda had put a little refrigerator in the room, and it had nothing but Lon Lon milk in it. Link and Young Link's eyes brightened up, but Zelda hissed at them. "Don't you dare, these are only for strengthening up after a battle. Malon sends me these herself."

She grabbed two of the bottles and gave one to Roy and Katan. They took them gratefully and gulped them down.

"Wow, I don't feel so tired anymore!" Roy jumped up and down to prove himself. He grinned.

"Thank you, Zelda." Katan smiled.

"No problem." Zelda smiled back.

"Okay, we should-" Samus started to say when a announcement was heard. The company stuck their heads out the door so they could listen.

"Attention all smashers!" came Crazy Hand's voice. "Master Hand and I have been thinking, and we have decided to announce that on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we will be holding a big dance! We would also like to announce that two weeks after Christmas, we will be holding a big get together. Everyone is allowed to invite two people from their homelands! We need to get some life back into this place. Also, starting one week and a half before Christmas, Mewtwo, Ness, Master Hand, and yours truly will be hanging up special mistletoe. Also known as the Cursed Mistletoe, you will be forced to kiss whoever is unlucky enough to be standing under it with you. If you don't, well, you don't want to know what happens. It's an awful consequence." With that, the announcement was over.

"Cursed Mistletoe?" Zelda blinked. "Forced to kiss? What if-"

"Oh, and I forgot to mention," Crazy Hand's voice came over the intercom again. "The curse doesn't apply to couples if they are the same sex. ONLY BOY AND GIRL COUPLES ARE AFFECTED. Thank you, and have a HAHAHAHAHA day."

"Whew, I thought I would end up having to kiss another girl." Samus let out a sigh of relief.

"Wow, I can't wait!" Zelda let out a little squeak. "And Christmas is only in two and a half weeks!

They were about to go into the room again when Fox and Falco appeared. "Hey, you guys." Fox called.

"Exactly a week from now, there is going to be a breakfast meeting for Master Hand to better explain the announcement. So don't be late." Falco told them.

"Pass the word around, okay?" Fox asked.

"Sure thing." Marth nodded. Peach Bumped into Fox and Falco.

"Oh, hello. Passing the word around?" she asked.

"Yes." Falco replied.

"Good job." She waved to them as they turned and headed down the stairs. She then approached the group. "Are you almost ready?" she asked the girls.

"No." Katan replied. She headed down the hallway a ways then disappeared into her room with a wave. "I'll be there in a moment!" she called.

"Oh, take your time! We are just having a small problem, so we'll be leaving in half an hour." Peach called back.

"Okay!" Katan had poked her head back out, so she disappeared into the room again, closing the door and locking it.

"Well, I'm going to go take my armor off and shower." Samus waved to the little group too. "I'll come back to your room, Zelly."

"Okay, I'll be waiting!" Zelda called.

"So where are you going?" Link asked. Roy, Young Link, and Zelda laughed when Marth smacked him with a sigh. He then dragged Link off, leaving Roy with Zelda.

"Oh, shoot." Roy jumped.

"What is it?" Zelda asked as Roy fiddled with his armor.

"Well… I want to invite everyone to my room tonight for a sleep over, seeing as it should make it safer." Roy smacked his head.

"I can tell the girls, don't worry. Who should I tell?"

"Katan and Samus, and you too." Roy told her.

"Okay, I'll tell them. See you later!" she closed her door while Roy hurried to catch up to the other two to tell them.

The girls all met down in the garage. Unlike when they had gone the day before, they were going to another mall, further away, so they were going to take a car. In the group, there was Peach, Zelda, Katan, Samus, Jigglypuff, and Nana, with the addition of Pichu. Peach jumped into one of Captain Falcon's racers.

"Climb in everyone!" she called. The racer was one of Captain Falcon's least used cars, because a) it was pink, b) he had his Blue Falcon (Is that what its called?) and c) it was large.

Samus sat in the passenger seat beside Peach. The others sat in the back, hoping none of the others were carsick. Pichu sat on Katan's lap and looked at her with his little beady eyes.

"Hi, I'm Pichu." Pichu squeaked. Katan smiled and ruffled his fur.

"Hi, Pichu, I'm Katan." She said gently. Pichu grinned, showing his little baby teeth. Katan couldn't help herself. She hugged the little pokemon. Pichu squeaked and hugged her back.

"Your so cute!" Katan exclaimed. Pichu just grinned some more. It was the beginning of a new friendship.

The drive was rather noisy, with the girls all-talking about the dance coming up. Nana, who was sitting next to Katan, was talking about maybe asking Young Link to the dance.

"Why, that would be a great idea! You know, I think he has a crush on you, Nana." Zelda told the pink Ice Climber.

"Really?" Nana's eyes sparkled.

"Really." Katan confirmed. She had overheard Zelda and Link talking about it, and had joined in herself.

The mall wasn't as big as the one they had gone to the day before, but it was a girls mall. The only boys there were the smart early bird boyfriends, sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands searching for something for their girls.

Pichu sat on Katan's lap when they entered. They were met with bursts of pinks and purples, with soft baby blues and romantic reds. It was a clothes store battle, with sales everywhere, Christmas present wrappers being paid to wrap presents. There was a fountain in the middle of the long walkway, with a couple of swans rising up to fly into the sky with each other. The fountain was filled with pennies and nickels. Pichu wanted to throw some in, seeing as all the money in the fountain went to some homeless children's fund, but he didn't have any pennies. Katan handed him one, and they both threw their pennies in, closing their eyes to make a wish.

"You know, a lot of wishes made in this fountain come true." Came a voice behind Katan. She turned around and came face to face with a blue fox.

"Krystal! How are you?" Zelda and Peach called together.

"I'm great. How's Fox?" she asked. "And yourselves?"

"Fox is great, and so are we. Are you staying in town?" Peach asked. Samus turned from looking at the mall directory with Jigglypuff and Nana.

"Yes, I am. I've been looking for a present for Fox and Falco. Katt is also in town. We're staying at a hotel." Krystal smiled. "So, is this one of the new smashers?" she pointed to Katan.

"Yes, and she's already one of the best." Zelda smiled. "She beat Bowser today in a team match with another one of the new smashers. His name's Roy. He took out Mario."

"Mario and Bowser? On a team? That's amazing." Krystal laughed.

"Yes, but they've put their differences aside since the end of the first tournament." Peach grinned. "I'm rather proud of them. They've actually become some what like distant friends."

Krystal chuckled. "So, what are you all doing here?" she asked, pulling out a pad of paper and a pen, scribbling on it before giving it to Peach. "Here's my number."

"Thanks. We've just come for a Girls only night, with the addition of Pichu. Plus, there is going to be a dance, so we'd might as well get some dresses." Zelda explained.

"A dance?" Krystal's eyes widened.

"Yeah, a dance." Nana joined them. "Maybe you three can come, since you have boyfriends at the mansion. But we'll have to warn you about the Cursed Mistletoe."

Krystal chuckled some more. "Okay, ask Master for me, would you? Call me with the answer, but I have to go." Krystal waved. She then remembered something. "By the way." She turned to Katan. "I'm Krystal. Fox's girlfriend."

"I'm Katan. And I don't really have a boyfriend." Katan curtsied.

"But she's after Roy." Zelda laughed. Katan blushed and nodded, nearly making Pichu fall off her shoulder.

"Well, good luck, Katan." Krystal waved to the others. "Good bye, hope to see you soon!" Krystal called.

"Bye Krystal! I'll be calling you!" Peach called. The other girls called their farewells and the shopping commenced.

The girls went to a dress store first. Even Samus didn't mind. She bought a dress, hoping to attract Marth's attention with it. (its not revealing.) Katan couldn't make up her mind between a couple dresses, and Peach ended up buying at least seven.

Next, they went and got some ice cream (what's a trip to the mall without getting ice cream?) and chatted about crushes and boyfriends. Peach told the girls why she had chosen to come to this mall, and not the nearer ones too.

"The boys are also having a night out. At least the ones that really care." Peach announced. "Mario told me."

"Good thing we chose to come here then." Zelda commented. She didn't want Link to see her new dress. "So who went with him?"

"The group I heard was Mario, Link, Marth, Fox, Roy, Falco, Young Link, Kirby, Yoshi, Luigi, Popo, and Ness." Peach replied.

"Wow, quite a large group, huh?" Samus licked at her ice cream.

"I wonder why they went…" Katan thought out loud.

"Probably for boy's things." The girls laughed. After they finished their ice cream, they moved on to set up an appointment for a pedicure and manicure before the dance on Christmas Eve.

Later that night, after they had finished their dinner (They had eaten out), the girls finally started home. Samus drove this time, while Pichu, Jigglypuff, and Nana fell asleep. Katan stroked Pichu's soft fur, and she began to fear for the little mouse. What if the killer attacked him? She decided to take him to her room to sleep. She felt very connected to the little mouse.

"He's nice isn't he?" Zelda whispered. She turned and looked at the window, where the wipers were busy wiping away the new falling snow.

"Yes. I think I'm going to take him to bed with me. I'm afraid… Afraid the killer will come for him." Katan's voice sounded heavy with fear, but not for herself.

"Well…" Zelda trailed off. She thought about bed. Then she remembered something.

"Oh, Roy invited you to a sleep over tonight, along with Samus." Zelda whispered.

"Tonight? Okay, that sounds like fun." Samus said from the front. "What about Peach?"

"Oh, Mario invited me to his room tonight." Peach yawned. "We're helping with the Christmas stuff, so we need to talk it over."

"Oh, good." Zelda sighed with relief. They pulled in through the last gate, then parked in the garage. They silently smuggled their shopping goods to their rooms and prepared for Roy's sleepover. Katan and Samus met Zelda in her room to wait for the boys to get home. There was a party going on down stairs. Captain Falcon would hold a party, no matter how many could come. Pichu slept on Katan's lap still, snuggled up in one of Katan's blankets.

The boys got home about an hour later. Roy rushed to his room to get it ready, while the rest took their time.

"Fox! Falco!" Peach called.

"What?" they called back.

"Krystal and Katt are in town." Peach smiled as the two grinned at each other. "I have Krystal's number, and you could probably ask her for Katt's number."

The two took her number, Fox telling them he was going to call as soon as he got to his room. Peach smiled, pocketing her phone book. She had written the number in it so she could also call Krystal anytime.

Katan, Zelda, and Samus trudged to Roy's room, Katan still holding Pichu protectively. They knocked. The door opened a moment later to reveal that the three boys were already there.

"Hey, so you came!" Link grinned at the girls. "And you brought an extra."

"An extra?" Marth and Roy looked and saw Katan holding Pichu.

"He can come, can't he?" Katan asked.

"Of course, he's already asleep." Roy smiled at her. Katan blushed, but no one noticed as the three girls entered.

The room was still the same, except that the beds had been pushed away and stripped so that they could all sleep on the ground.

After the girls had gotten situated, they all sat down on the bed of blankets Roy and Marth had made.

"So what first?" Link asked.

"Truth or Dare!" Zelda squealed.

"Yes, I agree…" Marth got a shifty eyed look.

"Just no kissing." Roy pleaded. Marth sighed.

"Fine, no kissing." Marth pulled a pen out of his bag. "Here, instead of choosing someone, we'll play by chance."

Clearing a place for the pen, Roy got a board from somewhere and set it down so the pen could spin. "Zelda goes first, since it was her idea."

Zelda smiled and spun the pen around. It landed on Marth.

"Marth, truth or dare?" Zelda asked.

"Um… I think… I shall pick… Truth." Marth smiled.

"Okay." Zelda thought for a moment. She looked at Samus, who was watching her.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" Zelda asked.

"In which way?" Marth asked back.

"Love."

"No." Marth concluded. Samus wanted to shout in joy.

Marth spun the pen. It landed on Link.

"Truth or-" Marth started.

"Dare." Link grinned.

Marth grinned more evilly. "I dare you to sing the Barney song. In the hallway at the top of your lungs."

Link's eyes widened in fear. "Oh goddesses, what have I gotten myself into." Link stood up and went to the door. Roy grinned. He had gotten a video camera just for these kind of things. Grabbing it, he pushed past Link and kneeled, turning on the camera.

"Link, about to sing the Barney Song. A dare by Marth." He told the camera.

Link sighed, then took a deep breath. The sooner he got this over with the better.

"I Love you!" he began. "You Love me!" Heads popped out of their rooms. "We're a happy family!" more cameras. "With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you!" laughter. "Won't you say you love, me, too!" he darted back into the room where everyone was dying with laughter. Roy entered, closing the door, laughing his head off.

Link spun the arrow when the laughter finally died down. It landed on Katan.

"Truth or dare, Katan?" Link asked.

"Truth." She replied, wondering what would happen if she had chosen dare.

"Um…" Link thought for a moment. "Do you-"

"Wait! I change my mind!" Katan said, an idea in her mind of what he was going to ask.

"Is that legal?" Marth asked.

"Yes, cause Link hasn't asked the question yet. Go on Link, a dare." Samus stood up for Katan.

"Oh, okay. I dare you to…" he thought for a moment. Curse the no kissing rule! He looked at her appearance. "Well, its not as interesting as my dare was." Link glared at Marth, who grinned back. "I dare you to do the chicken dance."

Katan stood up with a grin, and began to do the chicken dance while the rest tried to hum the beat, but they couldn't stop from laughing.

When she was done, Katan reached out to spin the pen. It landed on Samus.

"Truth or dare, Sammy." Katan looked into Samus's emerald eyes.

"Truth."

"Do you have a crush on someone?" Katan now had an evil glint in her eye.

"Yes." Samus replied.

"Who?" Marth asked.

"Was it part of the question?" Katan turned on Marth, the evil glint gone.

"No."

Zelda got up and acted like she went to get something only to screech and attack Marth with a pillow.

"Pillow fight!" she yelled. Marth went down in a flurry of Zelda's pillow. The others rolled away to grab their pillows. Katan attacked Link, who turned and hit her in the stomach. Roy came from behind, only to have Samus attack him to help Katan recover. Pichu, who had woken up, jumped on Katan's shoulder again. Katan smiled and attacked Marth this time, who was beginning to overpower Zelda. Zelda turned and attacked Roy, while Samus went for Link. The battle went on until Marth complained that Link had hurt him. With a pillow.

Katan and Pichu disappeared into the hallway, only to reappear with Pichu's pillow and favorite blanket along with his lucky scarf. They finally settled down, and dropped off one by one to sleep.

Well, I could have posted this hours ago, but I managed to get almost all of the next chapter writen.! Hurray! I'll be posting as much as possible, so keep an eye out for the updates! I might be able to squeeze in two more today, depending on whether or not I get kicked from the computer.

Roy: I stll don't like the mistletoe idea, although at least you didn't make it with same sex groups.

Eliwood: Well, I must be going now. I have some peasants to deal with.

Marth: Good by, Lord Eliwood!

Link: Bye Eliwood! Hope to play some more poker with you soon!

Ardath: Good bye, milord!

Roy: I refuse to say good bye.

Yeah, good bye milord. Make sure you keep a room empty for me, so I don't have to stay in Roy's room! For if I do, Roy will have to sleep with the peasants!

Roy: What ever. Read and review, please! It makes the authoress happy!