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The One I Love (cont'd)I had spent several hours meditating in my personal locker room, slept for about another hour, and decided it would be best to seek out some expert advice. So I hastily made my way to the Great Yoshi's locker room; it was always open anyway. The room was similar to mine, but was lit only by several candles seemingly scattered about, and the air was constantly filled with the aroma of unidentifiable incense. I knelt on both knees before the Great Yoshi, who was apparently meditating.
"Mmm, a problem you have." Yoshi informed me, never opening his eyes. "This I have foreseen." It was rumored that Yoshi imitated a fictional character from a universe parallel to our own.
"Yes, I find myself in a great dilemma," I replied. "I --"
"Mmm, of course." Yoshi interrupted me. "You feel as though you are in love, yes?" As usual, Yoshi knew what I would've said anyway.
"Yes, but I don't know how –" I started again.
"Yes, yes. How to express your love, you know not." Yoshi interrupted again. "My advice, you seek." The sage finally opened his eyes, but remained in a meditating position. I leaned closer to hear his advice.
"Help me, you can…?" I found myself talking like Yoshi.
"Mmm, naturally, Pond-Skipper," the dinosaur replied. "Hmm… The Dark side of the Force clouds my vision…" I had no idea what he was talking about. Dark side? Force? Perhaps references to the one he allegedly imitates?
"The Force?" I asked aloud.
"Mmm, much to learn, you have. Anyway, as I was saying," the Great Yoshi continued. "Past failures are guideposts for future success." Yoshi always gave his advice in riddles, and normally one wouldn't know what he means until that moment in time where it's really needed.
"What?" I asked anyway.
"The Great Yoshi has spoken! Leave now, you will." Yoshi commanded. I got up to leave, reluctantly, as an official in a black suit barged into the room.
"Yoshi, you're up!" He called.
"Yoshi!" the dinosaur replied, reverting from his meditation to his self as seen in the matches; nearly speechless and happy-go-lucky. Yoshi left the room, with me following closely behind, en route back to my locker room to await my next match.
I lay back in my bed, arms outstretched over my head. I thought of Zelda, and tried to compose the conversation I'd have with her the next time I saw her. Hey, Zelda (or Sheik if need be), how's life treating ya, was my first attempt. Nah, she's too sophisticated for something like that to work. Maybe I could just say 'Hi' and see how it goes from there? That could never work, could it? On the one hand, I had never tried it, but on the other, I haven't tried much. I sat up, defeated by my own meditation. I ran my hands through my hair, just a wee bit frustrated. I heard a sudden rap on my door.
"Time for your match, Link!" an unknown voice came from the other side of the door.
"Yea, yea." I replied, got up, and grabbed the Master Sword and my shield. I exited my room a bit slower than normal, as I still had a billion thoughts running through my head. Does Zelda even know I exist? Of course she does, I've saved her on more than one account. I found myself contradicting… myself a lot.
"3…2…1…GO!" an unseen announcer boomed. I suddenly wondered who it could be… perhaps another nameless official. I scanned the battlefield, which happened to be one of my favorites; Final Destination. A two-stock match, free for all, Marth, Ganondorf, I, and Samus, in that order left to right. I caught Samus firing a missile from the corner of my eye, and put my shield up just in time to avoid damage. I ran towards her with my blade at the ready. Just then I felt a monstrous being crashing into my back, followed by a sword slash that sent the huge bulk and I into the air. I noticed it had been Marth who smashed Ganondorf into me, then sent both of us flying. Ganondorf landed first, only to suffer a missile from Samus then a half-way charged Shield Breaker from the 'Tiara Boy'. I averted my attention from the brute to Marth, as I Meteor-smashed the bugger to the other side of the platform. My sword became firmly implanted in the floor, and I hastily pulled it out.
"You filthy braggart!" Marth yelled in my direction, as he charged toward me. I jumped; not knowing Samus fired a fully-charged shot, and watched as Marth flew to the other side again. I landed and tossed my boomerang at Samus, but somehow Ganondorf jumped in the way, and, being too slow to avoid my weapon, shielded himself from it. I pulled my bow and an arrow out to fire at Marth, but found he had already gotten too close to me for comfort. I let the arrow fly the short distance it would, but Marth managed to pull off a Counter that sent me closer to Samus. I think Ganondorf was flying around somewhere. Samus grabbed me with her grappling thingy and sent me over the edge to the first elimination of the match. I reappeared on my disk and took a moment to survey the area. Ganondorf was grabbed by Samus and thrown to his elimination much like I had been earlier. Marth was nowhere to be found. I noticed Samus charging up her weapon, and finally dropped from my disk, but I didn't expect Marth to be right under me, ready to attack. I flew up a short distance, and tried my Meteor smash on him again. He Countered me this time, though, and I came in slashing distance of Samus, so I took the chance to smash her to oblivion. I turned to see my other two adversaries duking it out on their own. I felt I needed to be a part of that, so I charged toward the nearer of the two, Ganondorf, and executed a nice smash attack, which sent him towards Marth, whom in turn smashed the Gerudo back toward me, so I charged my Smash attack. When Ganondorf finally came in range I let the attack loose and watched him fly into the abyss.
"Fighter eliminated!" the same announcer announced. I noticed Samus and Marth were both on a collision course, with me between the two. I sidestepped behind Samus when she was close enough, just as she fired another missile at Marth. He took the full brunt of the blow, and was sent to his first elimination. I smashed Samus again, aiming more for damage than elimination, and thrust my shield in front of me as she shot at me with an uncharged gun. My Hylian Shield had a small burn mark from it, but it went away almost immediately. That's what I really liked about the shield; it always made sure it looked good. I suddenly had a hunch to sidestep to behind myself, and taking it, found it was necessary to avoid Marth's Smash attack. Before he could react, Samus sent yet another missile his way. Again, he took the full force of the projectile, and I followed up with a Smash attack to his back. He flew towards Samus again, and was just fast enough to make a Counter move to Samus's latest missile attack. The human in the Chizo suit flew to her final elimination.
"Fighter eliminated!" the announcer boomed. Marth turned toward me, with a look of pain on his face. He then fell to one knee. I wondered what could be up, but then again I couldn't remember the last time Marth had been physically injured.
"Aaagh!" He finally yelled, clutching his left knee with both hands, and dropped his blade. "My knee!" I immediately dropped my guard and went to help the poor guy out. I sheathed my sword and shield and offered a helping hand.
"You, you're truly," Marth started, and he made a face of gratitude as I made a half smile. "A bloody moron!" His face twisted to that of an ogre, and he grabbed me with both hands and threw me over the edge. I came back to my senses just quickly enough to execute a mid-air jump back to the platform, but Marth was waiting for me with a Smash attack. I flew over the edge again to my elimination.
"Fighter eliminated!"
There's chapter 2 for ya. Hope you enjoyed it, chapter 3 will be coming up soon enough!