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Roy's POV

I blinked at Marth. What was going on? Why was Marth acting this way? My eyes nervously darted toward Samus who had the most curious expression on her face; like a cross between stone-cold and an intense gaze, like she was looking for something in Marth and trying to ignore him at the same time.

"I hope you enjoy your stay here." A slightly high-pitched voice echoed the surroundings. My heart beat slightly faster. I knew this voice…

"Peach?" My eyes flicked over to the blonde princess who was smoothing her bright pink dress. Her eyes held a playful, flirtatious expression; one I hadn't seen before.

"Fancy seeing you here in the Room of Eternity. I thought it would never change." Peach said, in the same playful tone. She laughed at her little joke before she walked over to me. She was quite close. Closer than I would've dared to walk to her, if I hadn't known she liked me. I could feel her breath, light and airy against my nervous heavy breathing.

"Peach…" I was happy to see her here, but I found it unsettling that she was acting a little too calm for a predicament like this. After all, it wasn't everyday that you suddenly popped into a place where there was nothing but air, and started flirting.

"Roy. I don't like the looks of this." I heard Samus suddenly growled next to me. Her eyes weren't on me, but they were on Marth, who was slowly advancing on her too, with a mean expression on his face.

A hand grabbed my arm and I was jerked toward Peach. She laughed playfully, sliding her arm around me. Her other hand was now fiddling with my hair. It felt quite nice, but I was becoming a little worried. This wasn't a time to romance. What was Peach doing? "Peach…" I started to say, but suddenly her lips were forced against mine; hers were hot and heavy and mine were awkward and inexperienced. Half of me wanted to go away. The other half was sliding into her seduces… I couldn't think. My head was light-headed, and the kiss sent sharp tingles down my spine. It felt… wonderful. But something didn't feel right here…

"ROY! THIS IS NO TIME FOR THIS!" At her voice, my head jerked back and looked at Samus. She was backing away from Marth, who had a strange look on his face. I pushed Peach away, who stumbled to the floor and lay there, looking quite blank.

In the meantime, Marth suddenly lunged at Samus, knocking her to the floor. Straddled on top of her, he withdrew his sword. He leaned in and whispered dangerously, "So Samus, what are you going to do now? Because of you, I'm going to lose everything… that was dear to me. You are in the way of everything." He reached out, and brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. Then he leaned closer and whispered in her ear, "You'll get what you deserve. And once you're out of the way…" He trailed off, whispering something else I could not hear. Samus's eyes widened at this while he raised his sword preparing to behead her.

I couldn't let it happen. I ran and withdrew my own sword before realizing I had none. Where was my sword? I spun my head around and saw Peach laughing and holding it. The flat of the blade was pressed against her cheek and her eyes were closed. What is going on here? I asked myself.

There was no time to retrieve it. I called out, "MARTH!" Marth was startled and dropped his own sword. Samus seized it and with a strangled cry she stabbed him in the gut. Marth's expression froze. Slowly, he toppled over her. She roughly pushed him aside and we watched him, his eyes wide open, blank. A pool of blood was quickly surrounding him. I couldn't believe what Samus just did. She didn't look regretful; on the contrary, she spat on the dead body.

"What's up with you!" I asked, noting her disgusted look.

"If you didn't notice, he tried to kill me." She coldly replied.

"He was my friend. I've known him for a very long time!" I was so shocked that I could not feel sorrow.

"Self-defense." Samus replied.

"He could've been brainwashed!" I wildly made up. After all, anything was possible in a place like this… wherever that was…

Samus fixed me with a gaze, "In case if you don't know, he never cared about me. He almost let me die, when Medusia was about to kill me! I don't think he's brainwashed." Samus crossed her arms and tilted her chin up in a defiant way.

"Just because he doesn't love you doesn't mean you can kill him!" I shouted at her.

Samus wasn't looking toward me. She had a strange look on her face, and her emerald green eyes were glittering. "It doesn't matter anyway." She wiped the sweat right between her nose and lip with her arm. She was staring at the spot where Marth was lying.

"What do you mean, it doesn't matter!" I shouted. "You killed somebody. If you don't think that's bad, than I don't know what is!" I was on a nervous breakdown. Was this really the Samus I thought I knew?

She faced me. I was surprised to see a bitter half smirk. "He's not really dead." She whispered to me. "You forget where we are at."

"Where?" I asked, "A room of blank whiteness that goes on forever won't bring him back."

Samus chuckled, "Marth isn't dead." She said the statement as if she believed in it. She crossed her arms, "You forget that we are in the Room of Eternity. That means that he'll be alive… but he will be in pain." Her smirk grew to a grim line, "Anyway, that isn't him." She turned away from me, her arms still crossed. "And if I'm not mistaken, Peach isn't either. They aren't the real Peach and Marth."

"How do you know?" I asked wondering how Samus knew so much.

Samus sighed, facing me again. "Roy, what is Prince Marth destined to be ruler of?"

I frowned, "Well actually, he's exiled so-"

"Well, what was he supposed to be ruler of!" She spat. She was growing impatient at my confusion.

"Altea." Came my stammering answer.

"Exactly!" Samus said. Her eyes were bright, "Altea! Before Marth was about to stab me he whispered something in my ear. He said something like 'once you're out of the way, I'll be able to have my kingdom Altrea back'! He said Altrea, not Altea!"

I stared at her. "He could've had spit in his mouth or something-"

But Samus shook her head, "No, the way he said it was clear."

There was a groan behind us. Samus turned around. She uttered a sharp cry. "Samus!" I turned around and faced her sharply. She was doubled on the floor; a mask of pain was etched on her face. She clutched her stomach and blood seemed to be spurting out from there. My sword wedged between there. She pulled it out and threw it right next to her, grimacing in pain.

"Samus!" I immediately knelt to the floor. She was gasping in pain, "…Peach..." She broke off, gasping.

But in the meanwhile, something strange was happening to Samus. At every drop of blood she shed, every gasp she uttered, every time she shuddered, she seemed to fade a little. At first I didn't notice it. But I noticed that her feet were fading away. And then it slowly spread up her legs, hips, stomach, chest, and arms. Her head was only left. It was hanging immobile in the air. "Peach… sword…" Finally she disappeared all together. "Samus?" I felt even more scared. It was something when you had a friend by your side that was actually acting according to situation. But once that friend is gone, you have to fend off for yourself, and it takes more courage for that.

I turned around, looking for Peach. She was standing, her arms crossed, looking at me angrily. She was in a fighting stance. "Pick up your weapon." She growled. I knew I was in big trouble. I picked it up. I didn't want to fight Peach so I ran.

Peach's POV

"Ugh… my head." I heard Link say behind me. He stood up unsteadily, his feet wobbling dangerously underneath him. I ran to help him up. "Where are we?" He asked, looking at Medusia's playroom.

He had just come around, and I hadn't told him about this playroom yet. There had to be a reason we were sent here. "Link… we're in Medusia's playroom."

"What?" He asked. He let go of my arm that he'd been using for support. He was steady this time. He turned around and stared at the luxurious, gigantic playroom and whistled. "I wish I had a playroom. I never had one. It must be fun having a room like this." Apparently, Link didn't know how big exactly a playroom had to be.

"They usually aren't this big. They're actually smaller. And they're less expensive than this." I thought about my own playroom I used to have. Although, I was a princess, Medusia's playroom was even bigger than mine. It was roughly as big as a basketball stadium.

I heard Link hiss quite unexpectedly. "What is it?" I asked quickly.

"No door." He grunted.

I frowned. Did this mean that this wasn't her actual playroom? Was it an illusion? "This might not be her actual playroom. Anyway, it doesn't matter. We have to find the others." I said aloud.

"Roy?" He suggested slyly.

I blushed only slightly. He probably didn't even like me anyway. I told this to Link. He chuckled, "You still think he doesn't like you even after we saved your necks from Medusia last night?"

"What? What do you mean, 'last night'? I never met anybody last night!" I exclaimed. Was Link going delusional? I frowned, wondering if he was playing a trick on me. It was a mean one, if he was.

Now it was Link's turn to frown. "Peach, I know sometimes you forget things quickly, but you can't have forgotten what happened last night that quickly."

I ignored the jibe about my memory, "Nothing happened last night!" But then I remembered what happened what we found when we woke up. Hadn't we all woken up, dirty, sore, and disheveled? Hadn't we woken up with rips and tears on our clothes? I frowned. Did something really happen when we were sleeping. Was Link's story right? Then how come I didn't remember? Surely if it had to do with Medusia, I would have remembered it. So how come last night was a blur in my head? "What happened?" I asked slowly.

Link let out a frustrated sigh. He opened his mouth to tell what happened when there was a creaking noise. I turned around, looking for the noise. There was a treasure chest in a corner. And there was a unicorn plushie opening the lid.

Wordlessly, we watched it. I was fascinated by it, more than scared. Link on the other hand looked perplexed. The unicorn plushie was made of a shiny material that shined in different colors at different angles. The wings were made of silvery cloth and the horn, tail, and mane were made of gold cloth. The plushie clumsily dropped to the floor, its hind legs in the air. For awhile it sat there, its beady eyes seeming to look past us and then suddenly it straightened. And it grew…

And grew…

And grew…

And grew some more…

Until it was the actual size of a unicorn. In fact, it had turned real. It was preening its wings and gazing at us with its same blank expression that looked oddly cold though it was looking directly at us now. It stamped its now gold hooves against the floor impatiently.

"It's so beautiful." I breathed. I took a step closer to it, but Link threw out an arm catching me heavily in the chest. I gave him a questioning but irritable look.

"It could be dangerous." He growled.

"Dangerous!" I laughed, "Unicorns are a sign of purity, hope, and goodness. There's no way it could hurt us!" But I was wrong.

It lowered its horn and charged. I yelled and I ran, Link ahead of me. The unicorn was really fast though. Link suddenly turned around, and withdrew his sword. He stabbed the horse in the chest. It made loud clanging noise and I noticed that Link's hands were vibrating from the blow. He dropped the sword in shock and exclaimed, "It's metal!" We swore at the same time. The unicorn reared on its hind legs. Link caught its horn and suddenly he was pulled along for the ride.

Up… down… up…. Down. The horse kept bucking and Link was holding on for dear life. I could tell he couldn't keep it up for long. He suddenly flipped over and he was riding the horse, bareback, sliding up and down, his head bouncing violently. "Peach, HELP!" He roared.

I was shaking. I didn't know what to do. The sword wasn't much help. Suddenly I had an idea. I sprinted to a corner. The unicorn, as I hoped it would, followed with so much speed that it looked like a blur. Then, I jumped as high as I could and the unicorn, who couldn't brake in time, slammed his horn into the wall and couldn't get its horn out. It began to buck violently but then it gave up. It stood stiffly against the wall. And then, it shrunk…. Smaller

And smaller…

And smaller…

And smaller still…

Until it was a plushie again. I breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to face Link. There was a problem though. I gasped. I backed away slowly. The unicorn had become a plushie, true. But so had Link. He was now a doll.

I picked him up, brushed some of the blonde hair aside and whispered, "Link?" the doll-Link didn't reply. It stared back at me with dull blue eyes, no longer friendly, no longer caring, no longer scared. They were blank, and they seemed to look past me. I couldn't believe it.

Somebody sniggered behind me. I turned around. "Medusia!" I was angry now. "What did you do with Link and everybody else?"

"Poor Peach. You were always the idiot of the lot." She rolled her eyes at me. She snapped her fingers and Doll-Link sailed to her. She caught it and grinned at the doll. "In case if you didn't know, Link is no longer with you anymore. He's gone… and he won't come back. You can't save him any longer. He's now lifeless."

"Liar!" I shouted. I didn't want to believe it. "You're just making me scared!"

"And it's working." Medusia laughed cruelly. She was right. I was getting more scared by the second. "After what happened last night, I was furious to find out that you and Link were together. What if he told you everything that happened?"

"What happened last night that's so terrible you can't tell me?" I asked sharply.

Medusia's grin widened. "Of course you wouldn't know. I did, after all give you a potion to forget that particular time period. You must know that I'm very good at alchemy, chemistry, and am an expert sorceress."

I knew all that of course. When Medusia and I were still best friends, she would tutor me in chemistry because I was horrible at it, while she was the top student. She was also president of the ESA (Expert Sorcerers Association) Club, which was very hard to get into because you needed to take a test before you got accepted into the program. "I know, you don't need to brag all the time." I spat.

"One of these days, and you're temper will get you." She said, clicking her tongue. "If you really want to know what happened…" She took out something from the purse that she was holding and threw it on the floor. It was a vial with green liquid in it. She laughed, "It will help you remember." She snapped her fingers twice and then she was gone. I stared at the bottle. Knowing Medusia, it was probably poison. However, I picked it up anyway and stuck it in my dress pocket. I turned around. To my complete surprise, there was a door! I wondered how it had gotten there. This place was really weird but I ran over to it, relieved to get out of this childish place. I closed my eyes, opened the door, and dashed out.

Scarcely two seconds later, I crashed into somebody, who lost their balance and fell on me. I groaned, as I felt the person's weight against me. I could tell it was a man, but other than that… "Peach, don't make me hurt you." The person sharply said.

I gasped. "Roy?" Thank goodness, I had somebody here with me! I opened my eyes. I was staring into a white space of nothing. Roy was on top of me and he got off of me. He raised his sword that was bloodstained and pointed it at me. I gulped. My relieved feeling vanished. What was going on?

"Roy, what are you doing! It's me, Peach!" I shouted at him angrily.

"I can see that!" He retorted, "Why else do you think I'm pointing this at you? If you take one step closer, I'll…"

"Why are you trying to kill me?" I asked. My mouth was really dry now. It didn't make any sense, Roy trying to kill me. Something must've happened.

"You started it!" He shouted.

"I started what! I just came here!" I answered.

"Stop trying to play tricks with me." He warned. But his weapon was lowering.

"Roy, it's me Peach! Ask me anything, that I know about you!" I was pleading now.

Roy was quiet for a minute. "What do I fear most?" He asked. His sword was raised again.

I thought. What did Roy fear the most? I couldn't remember. I opened my mouth to tell him to ask me something I actually knew about him. I had only started talking to him, ever since this whole "Test" thing had started. But then I remembered. "Elevators!" I blurted.

Roy's eyes widened. "So it really is you." He dropped his sword, shook his head and muttered, "This place is driving me nuts."

"What's going on?" I asked.

Then he told me what happened in "The Room of Eternity". I listened, and blushed when he told me what Clone-Peach had done to him. To think, if Roy had actually thought my clone-self was actually me! But I didn't comment, and right after that I told him what had gone on in Medusia's playroom.

"Both Link and Samus are gone then…" He frowned. "I can't see a connection to why they'd be gone…"

"Me either." I frowned also. "How are we going to get out of here?"

"I don't know… But we have to be really careful here. This place is playing tricks on people's minds… Peach." He said, suddenly facing me, looking me straight in the eye. He grasped my shoulders, though not unkindly. Even though we weren't so close, it took a lot of force to look back into them… those sapphire eyes. Quit being a romantic! I scolded myself, though I had to admit what he was doing was quite random.

"What?" I asked softly.

"Promise me you'll be okay…" Roy said.

"What?" I asked again. Like I couldn't take care of myself! But that seemed to snap him out of his, caring reverie.

"Take care of yourself, because I'm not going to be doing any unnecessary saving here." He threw back his head and laughed, and let go of me a little harshly.

"Well, thanks." I muttered. Color was returning back to my cheeks a little too brightly. I hated when he did this to me! This was the second time already and I felt like killing him now for letting me down. My heart, which was pumping blood at a hundred miles per hour, was now returning to its original rate.

He faced me and grinned. I couldn't help grinning back though. The feeling of euphoria that came from his smile faded after awhile. There was nothing to do in this place. It was never going to change. Unless…

I gasped suddenly. Something cold brushed against my cheek. "What's up?" Roy said, suddenly facing me. It couldn't be…

But it was.

"Snow…." I quietly said, more to myself than him. I faced the sky, looking at the once empty white sky. It was now full of snowflakes that whirled around gently. One landed on Roy's nose. I laughed.

"What?" He asked. Completely, unaware of what I was doing, I brushed the snowflake off his nose, feeling the warmth of his skin against my cold fingers. It was amazing how he could stay warm in the snow. He flinched, but did not back away. He was looking at me now, looking quite unsure of what to do but he looked a little pleased. Or was it just me? I quickly turned away.

"We have to get out of this place." I said. Wind was picking up now. It was bitter cold, and my dress was short sleeved. I shivered, and flung my arms around me, in an attempt to stay warmer.

"I know." Roy said. The cold wasn't affecting him yet. It was probably because he loved fire, and he had enough of it to ward off the cold. He gave me a sympathetic look but didn't offer any sign to help me. The last thing I needed was sympathy if he wasn't going to help me.

"I'm not cold." I said, noting his look and trying very hard not to shiver.

"Mmm…" He said, giving me an amused look. Amused! Nothing was amusing here! "I think I'll be the judge of that." He unclasped his cape and wrapped it around me, his arms practically hugging me. His fingers brushed against my neck and goosebumps traveled up my arms that had nothing to do with the cold when he lifted my hair out of the cape. Warmth spread from my heart to my face, my fingertips and my toes.

"Thanks." I said awkwardly, feeling stupid that I couldn't think of anything else.

Roy seemed embarrassed of his actions and muttered, "I don't want any blonde hair on my cape."

But I smiled. I could see past Roy now. I could see past his insults, glares, and hot-headedness that he was really a nice guy.

"What is that?" He said, pointing to a bulge in my pocket. It was the potion Medusia gave me. I still didn't know if it was poison or not. I told him about it. "You don't remember what happened last night?" He asked incredulously. A deep blush was covering his face. I wondered why. He obviously knew what went on.

I shook my head to indicate that I didn't remember. "So d'you think its poison, or what?" I asked shaking the bottle under his nose.

Roy took a look at the green liquid, "Knowing Medusia…" He started darkly. "I suggest you don't keep that with you.

"So can you tell me what went on last night?" I asked. I was eager to know why Medusia seemed happy I didn't know, and why Roy had become uncomfortable at it.

Roy shook his head. "I'm not sure if I'm the one who's supposed to tell you." He murmured.

Suddenly something very much like a short human fell from the sky and landed in the snow. He brushed himself off, looking very scared. "Mario?" I asked.

"Dr. Mario." He corrected, indicating the doctor attire he was wearing. "Where… are they?" He gasped. Apparently he had been running.

"Who?" I asked wide-eyed.

"Mario… Yoshi… Luigi… DK… W-where are they?" he panted.

"How should we know?" Roy asked.

Dr. Mario sunk to the ground. "What's wrong?" I asked. I knelt down to Dr. Mario and helped him up.

He looked at me gratefully. "We were in a jungle," He started. Dr. Mario explained that they were already running when they appeared in the jungle. They didn't know what they were running from but it was really bad. The ground had shook each time the monster took a step. They heard laughter coming from this beast too. That made them run even faster. They came across a labyrinth (A/N: A labyrinth for those of you who don't know, is a maze… only its much more complicated than a normal one and there are traps everywhere… if you've read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the last task Harry has to do is a perfect example of a labyrinth) and they stuck together. But Yoshi, DK, Luigi and Mario ran ahead of Dr. Mario and left him behind. Dr. Mario came across a pathway that branched off into three places and he didn't know which side they took. He called out for them, but they did not respond. Finally he took the left fork… and fell through a hole and landed here. "And now I don't know where they are!" He cried out in desperation.

My throat seemed to stick. What happened to Mario? My best friend… where was he? What happened to him?

Roy was examining his sword (He had cleaned it in the snow, while Dr. Mario was telling the story) suddenly he sharply inhaled, as though he realized something.

"What is it?" I asked dejectedly, still thinking about Mario.

"Doc… who were these people again that disappeared?" He asked, ignoring me.

"Um, Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and DK." He replied, puzzled at what was going on.

Suddenly I knew too. Roy and I locked eyes, and I understood what was going on. "No way…" I breathed.

"WHAT!" Dr. Mario exclaimed.

"Doctor, DK was holding the map last, wasn't he?" I asked frantically.

"Um… I don't believe so. I think Kirby is currently in possession of it." He said, thinking over it.

I sighed. That meant it was still safe.

"What's going on? Why were they taken away?" Dr. Mario asked, still puzzled.

Roy sighed, "It all fits… Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, DK, Samus, Link… All of them could touch the map without burning themselves… They were the ones that possessed the pieces. And all of them have disappeared. They've been taken away for some reason…" His voice trailed off, looking at the snow.

"And that means that… Kirby, Ness, Fox, Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff and Pikachu… they must already be gone, or they are going to be." I finished.

"We can't let that happen!" Dr. Mario exclaimed, jumping to his feet.

"In case if you haven't noticed, Doc, we're stuck in this Winter Wonderland." Roy mumbled. The cold was making me feel very sleepy. I tried to stay conscious but before I knew it, my eyes had closed, and I was hunched over, not completely relaxed, but more comfortable than when I wasn't sleeping.

Zelda's POV

If it was a World of the Dead why were we still alive? I glanced over to Marth who was still looking at Samus, his eyes filled with regret. "Was there something I missed?" He asked himself, shaking.

"What?" I asked.

"I don't understand… why are they dead?" He asked. My brain wasn't functioning right. Regret coursed through my body like poison. I glanced at the brown hazy sky. Everything here fit the mood. I glanced at Link's body. A wave of nausea hit me, and I doubled over, spewing out whatever I'd eaten for breakfast.

"You okay?" Marth asked beside my shoulder.

"I-I think…" I replied, taking a shuddering breath. Now that I'd vomited, I'd stopped feeling queasy and I stared at everything around me with lucidity. I let out a slow hiss. "This doesn't feel right."

"Nothing here is right." Marth said. He touched Samus's face and suddenly withdrew back, letting out a yelp.

"What is it?" I asked. The flesh that he'd ran his arm over disintegrated leaving a glimpse of bone.

"There's something about this place…" I said. Magic was giving me a warning here. Things didn't look as they appeared.

Marth was staring at Samus's face again, sadly. "This is all my fault." He moaned.

"What is?" I asked.

"I'll bet this would've never happened if I'd protected Sammy in the first place. Now its all my fault." He said in his mournful voice.

"Protected her? What are you talking about!" I exclaimed.

"Last night… d'you remember?" He asked, his dark eyes swiveling on mine.

I shook my head no.

"How could you not!" He sighed, "It doesn't matter anyway, it's not like we're going here anyway, so I might as well just tell you."

At the first words he spoke about last night, I remembered. The memories flashed into my head, one by one. I remembered everything. I lowered my eyes. Link saved me. That had to be accounted for something… I felt utterly stupid for rejecting him in the first place. So he really had cared for me after all. Whatever Saria was doing… it was all a trick.

"We have to get out of here." I declared.

"How?" Marth asked.

"I don't know but I'm not going to stand here." I said, surprising myself of being bold all of a sudden. I stood up and immediately felt myself getting sucked up through something. I let out a scream.

"Zelda!" Marth yelled. He grasped me by the hand and was pulled into whatever I was getting sucked into.

Seconds later we slammed into a forest. Sunlight peeped through the trees and fluttering orbs of light flitted around. I lifted my head and looked in the direction of which I was facing. I saw Peach, Roy and Dr. Mario. They were lying down. Or were they just lying down? A sudden chill gripped me. What if they were dead too?

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END OF CHAPTER… what was it again? Oh yeah…. 12! I know I said it was going to be long… but I decided to leave the rest of it to the next chapter, because I'm going to be talking about whatever happens to the rest of the team. Review please… I hate ghost readers… and please tell me if I did anything wrong in this chapter… XD