A familiar light made itself known once more. Marth felt his hopes rise once more. Maybe... maybe this time he could go back to the safe, calm castle.

As the light fell, Marth's hopes had risen. This place looked a lot like a castle. It was a little different than the castle where he had started this insane mission, but... perhaps it was just a different floor of it. Maybe he was back!

Unfortunately, after walking forward a few feet, Marth's high, high hopes fell at an alarming rate. The first thing he noticed was one, no... two, no, wait... an army of the undead. The second thing Marth noticed was the gaping holes between floating pieces of brick and concrete. The first undead creature that Marth had seen began to charge at him and apparently didn't notice the large space between them and fell below. Marth followed it with his eyes. It had landed without a scratch at the bottom, which appeared to be flooded. The creature- no, creature was too much of an endearing term for this... thing. That's what it was. A thing. The thing quickly regained its composure and began slumping across the waterlogged ground below.

Marth gulped as he looked up again to see the other undead thing glaring at him... daring him to come closer. He glared back and, never able to resist a challenge, jumped across the gap to the thing. He drew his sword in midair and landed on the undead, causing him to bounce across the land, just like the creatures in Mushroom Kingdom. Marth was sure of it now. This was definitely just another part of the quest.

He stood up on the concrete slab and looked around. There were more undead things and concrete slabs, as well as a few doorways on the other side of this main room. Marth knew that this had to be a maze. So many paths and different ways to take it, there was never any doubt.

He nodded in an understanding way and began to leap to each concrete slab, destroying the undead things in his path.

He soon reached the first doorway. It lead to a plain corridor with more of the undead things. Marth destroyed any of them that got in his way. The hallway seemed to have a dead end at first, until he heard a Ping! noise. He looked up to see another concrete slab and some other creature that resembled a fish out of water on it, trying to attack him. The creature was shooting seeds of some sort and was hitting the wall, causing it to Ping! in response.

Marth bounded onto the floating piece of land above him and attacked the strange fish-like creature. It didn't take much to send this creature flying. It was weak and dimwitted, and it only continued to attack the wall when Marth jumped.

He looked up from where he was standing. The short corridor above him seemed suddenly ominous. There was something new about it that he just couldn't put his finger on. Although the sense of fear was immense.

Hesitantly, Marth began to climb onto the ledge. When he reached the top, he was surprised at how the room ahead was so much cleaner than the rest of the castle. It seemed almost to be like a display in the way that there was a sword in the very center of the room.

It was a very beautiful sword too. It somehow caught the light in a dimly lit room. The metal seemed strong, yet it also appeared lightweight. Then again, one could never tell unless they actually held it.

But, the very moment that Marth wrapped his fingers around the hilt, the pedestal dissolved and the sword was torn from his grip. It soared through the air and landed in the hands of a man that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. His face was covered by darkness.

"So you're here already, are you?" The voice said. It sounded strangely familiar. "I wasn't expecting you for another few hours." He stepped into the light. Marth was dumbstruck.

"Link?"

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I know, it was a really short chapter, but I had to get it out before people started getting impatent. :P The one after the next one will be longer.

foxdude: Thanks, and I have taken your advice. . I didn't even realise that I had it like that.

Soiel: I am honored to have written the first Smash Bros. Fic that you've ever read. Let's hope I leave a good impression.

Thanks for your reviews! Sorry this chapter took so long and ended up so short. My geography teacher, Mrs. Pain-in-the-- I mean.. Pendergrass has been giving out a lot of homework lately. So busy. x.x