Disclaimer: Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones is a belonging to his respective corporation and creator: Nintendo and Intelligent Systems. I do not own anything created by Nintendo as well. The following characters belong to the author.

Adrion: A recruit from Renais in training to become just like Seth.

Adam: A journeyman from Frelia in training to become Frelia's first hero.

Nicole: A young maiden from Rausten. The uptight best friend of L'Arachel.

Irene: A citizen of Renais and a mage-in-training. She's driving Innes crazy.

Special Guest appearance of: Mikaya from FE: Goddess of Dawn, Link from Zelda: Twilight Princess, and many more.


Ephraim and Eirika – The Sacred Twin Life
The One with the Wii—

-Castle Renais-

There was a knock at the front portal inside Castle Renais. Seth went to answer it and saw a silver-haired girl standing at the door with a red small bird on her left shoulder. She carried a snow-white case. She was dressed elegantly like a mage in her bluish outfit, clashing with her sand-color boots.

"Why hello there, sir. My name is Mikaya, nice to meet you." She greeted Seth politely.

"Hello to you…" Seth hesitated, "Err…are you here to see King Fado or something?"

"Actually, I'm here to see Prince Ephraim." Mikaya replied while peering inside the castle, "Is he around?"

"Well…"

"What's up?" The voice of Ephraim sounded behind Seth. Seth turned around to see Ephraim approaching him and Mikaya.

"Well, Prince Ephraim," Seth scratched his head, "This girl wanted to see you."

"And indeed." Mikaya smiled, shook Ephraim's hands and entered the castle uninvited. Ephraim approached the silver-haired girl, "Who are you?"

"Never mind who I am." She said, "I'm here to offer you this beauty." Her bird chirped with excitement. She opened the case and there laid a white square console with a bluish line across its top border. Next to the console were a remote, a nunchuk controller, and little other equipment to plug in. All equipment was looking, at a certain extent, sophisticated.

"What's that?" Ephraim marveled.

"Introducing, my friend, the Wii." Mikaya said and her bird chirped on cue.

"Wee?" Ephraim and Seth repeated.

"Wii. This baby right here will take you to places you've never been before," she then whispered, "and I mean never been."

"Isn't that a video game console?" Seth examined the console.

"Video game?" Ephraim examined the remote, "That's like a DVD player."

"Look do you want it or not?" Mikaya crossed her arms, "I didn't come from across the globe to not successfully make a sale. And that's my last copy!"

Seth raised an eyebrow, "From across the globe?"

"How much is it?" Ephraim looked interested.

"About 600,000 gold."

"600,000 gold?" Seth exclaimed, "I could buy a house with that amount!"

"I'll take it." Ephraim pulled out of his pocket a bag of gold and handed it to Mikaya. Seth looked shock. Mikaya couldn't stop smiling and the bird sang happily.

"Oh my, thank you so very much!" she said, "As promise, you won't regret it."

"Oh, he will." Seth muttered. Ephraim stared at Seth then shook his head, "Come on, Seth, stop being so paranoid. It's just an interactive DVD player, not a death machine."

"You do realize it's a video game console?" Seth said as he examined a Wii demo disc with the pictures of Samus on ice, Mario gliding with the stars, Link transforming into a wolf, and even Wario ready to launch a fart attack at a certain group of fighters. He looked so paranoid, he was about to faint.

Ephraim took the demo disc from Seth, "A console that needs an award, my friend." He walked away.


-Castle Frelia-

Innes walked down Castle Frelia's hallways. He came across Irene and immediately took a detour, but Irene caught him, "Good morning Innelicious!" Irene smiled at her 'boyfriend'.

"Oh, hey Irene!" Innes greeted rather joyfully, "I didn't see you there."

Irene snorted, "Oh stop. You did so."

Innes grinned coyly, his shoulders raised up, "Okay I did." Irene squealed and jumped with joy.

"Hey listen Irene," Innes spoke, "I know we've been going out for like a month or so, and to celebrate our one-month anniversary, I got us something."

"Really?" Irene sounded amazed, "And all of that time, I thought you were avoiding me."

Innes bit his lips, "Oh, so now you noticed. Well anyway…" Innes pulled out a gold ticket from his pocket and showed it to Irene, "I got us a romantic getaway for two to the mountain lodge of Rausten's Dark Forest."

Irene stopped smiling, "Rausten Dark Forest?" she said, "Isn't that place a little…spooky?"

"Relax honey," Innes said, "So what if it's a dark forest and it always look like the twilight zone in the middle of the day, doesn't mean we can't spend time together."

Irene sighed then nodded, "You're right. Any place to be spending our anniversary is your call."

Innes squealed and hugged Irene, "I knew you would understand. Okay, I'm going to go pack the suitcases."

"Hurry up Inneliciousness!" Irene yelled as Innes took off to his bedchamber. He came across a suspicious Tana. "What?" he said.

"What are you up to again Innes?" Tana narrowed her eyes, "I know you hate her guts, so why the sudden change of heart?"

"I don't hate her guts." Innes said, "I've never hated her guts. I…am a loving machine." Innes after saying that began moonwalking away. Tana shook her head and rolled her eyes in disgust.


-Castle Renais-

Ephraim and Eirika were inside the family chamber of Castle Renais. Ephraim was setting up the Wii to the television screen and Eirika was watching him.

"And so there it is!" Ephraim exclaimed, "An interactive DVD player that let you play games on TV screens, convenient huh?"

"Very." She said, "But you do realize it's a video game console."

"Hey I know what it is okay? I'm not stupid." Ephraim said. The prince plugged the Wii on the TV screen, inserted the game disc and picked up the Wii remote he left untouched and unharmed on the table. Eirika looked around in confusion, "Where's the controller?"

Ephraim waved the remote, "Duh!"

Eirika gasped, "That's the controller?"

"It's complete with the nunchuk." Ephraim waved the nunchuk controller with his other hand. Eirika took the Wii remote from Ephraim and examined it, "Huh! Well this is rather unusual heh? How much did you pay for it?"

Ephraim hesitated, "Well…it's kind of a high price, but it's no big deal."

"Ephraim." Eirika sounded serious, "How much?"

Ephraim muttered, "600,000."

"600,000 GOLD?!" Eirika screamed.

"But as I told you, it was not a big deal, no?"

"THAT WAS OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS!!!"

Ephraim blinked for a second then smiled, "…well I guess it's an early merry Christmas to us." Ephraim grinned. Eirika scowled. Ephraim then lowered his head.

"Look, I don't know why you used our holiday savings to buy this machine?" Eirika said, "From what I think, it might be a rip off."

Ephraim now looked angry, "A rip-off?!"

"You gotta take this back."

"Heck no, I will take it back! And don't call my baby a rip-off!!!" Ephraim hissed. Eirika was now the one to blink. Ephraim continued, "I mean do you know what this is?!"

Eirika narrowed her eyes, "A DVD player?"

Ephraim scoffed, "No." He turned on the Wii and the game. A demo version of Super Mario Galaxy appears on the screen. Ephraim flipped the remote in the air and at the same time, Mario twirled in the air on the screen. Eirika amazed, "WOW…"

Ephraim caught the remote in midair, "That's right sister." He said, "This is no DVD player…it's the Wow-factor."

Eirika moaned, "Do it again."


-Castle Frelia-

Tana saw Irene exiting the guest room and heading toward the grand hall, carrying suitcases, bags, and some of her personal belongings.

"Err…Irene?"

"Tana!" Irene approached the princess then burped on her face. Tana frowned.

"Oy, that came off loose." Irene nervously giggled, "Anyway I'm off to Rausten with your brother Innes. Isn't he romantic?"

"Yeah very." Tana dully said, "But listen Irene, we need to talk, between us girlfriends."

Irene pulled a pop-tart from her pocket, opened it up and ate it, "I'm listening."

"Don't you think that Innes has turned over a new leaf…in a strangely strange way?"

Irene pondered. Tana continued, "I mean listen…I know we have our differences, but I don't want you to get hurt. My brother taking you to that Dark Forest at Rausten…I think he still hasn't given up on getting rid of you."

Irene snorted, "What are you talking about…?"

"Irene, come on girl! Smell him. See this in a perspective. Innes is bad." Tana shook her head then threw her hands around, "Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad."

Irene pondered for a minute. She then crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes fiercely, "Oh, I see what's going on here?"

"See?" Tana exclaimed, "You do understand me girl, don't you?"

"You're trying to steal Innes from me are you?"

"That's r—" Tana caught herself, recoiled and confusedly, she looked disgusted, "W-What?"

"Admit it." Irene approached Tana and pointed at the receding princess, "You're trying to steal my man from me aren't you, blonde brat?"

"HEY! I'M HAVE BLUE HAIR YOU KNOW?" Tana began screaming, "AND WHO ARE YOU CALLING A BRAT? I'M TANA AND EW, YOU'RE NASTY!!! ME AND INNES?!? I'M HIS SISTER!!!"

"Sister?" Irene sneered, "You're just posing as one, witchy tot."

Tana gasped in horror as she tripped and fell on her butt. Irene moved her face closer to Tana's, "But guess what? Even if he takes me to Pluto and leave me there, I will come back for him! And you will not try to approach him, not even from a hundred yard."

Tana whimpered. Innes finally came in the scene, dressed up for the occasion in a formal onyx suit wear, his hands on his back, "I brought you something Irenicious."

Irene turned her attention to Innes and brought up a smile, "Oh my, honey welcome back."

Innes faced a shaken Tana, "Tana, something the matter?" he asked a bit ominously.

Tana squealed in a low-pitch, shaking rapidly her head "no."

"She just tripped." Irene lied, "And I was about to help her out like a good friend." Irene offered her hand to Tana after saying this. Tana hastily crawled backwards into her room. Innes blinked but Irene kept on smiling.


-Castle Renais-

Ephraim and Eirika were moving constantly with Wii remotes on each hand. They were playing a Wii sport game of tennis.

"You're not getting away that easy." Eirika struggled.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

"Well try this for size."

Ephraim leaped in the air and swung the remote as if it was a racket. Eirika gasped at the sight of 'You Lose' on her screen, "What?"

"WHOOOO!" Ephraim triumphantly leaped on the couch, his arms in the air, then did a cabbage patch dance, "WHO'S THE MAN NOW? WHO'S THE MAN NOW? WHO'S THE MAN NOW?" He followed up with a disco number then the running man then the robot with his back turned.

"Yeah, celebrate while you can bro." Eirika sneered, "But I guarantee you, your loss will be my victory."

Ephraim plunged on the sofa after his little winning dance-off, "Woo, I'm thirsty. I think I need a glass of water."

Eirika simply stared at Ephraim. Ephraim looked back at her then shrugged, "What?"

"Can't you get it yourself?"

"Well duh, in a minute."

"What's this button here for?" Eirika examined a star-shaped button between the A-button and the Home-button of the remote.

"I dunno, but if I were you I wouldn't push—"

Eirika pushed the button right before her brother could finish his sentence. The Wii remote began to shake. Eirika dropped the remote in panic and receded, "Maybe it's the rumble feature."

"If it was a rumble feature, then how come everything is shaking?" Ephraim stared at the Wii then at his surroundings. Everything was shaking uncontrollably. The Wii's light began glowing bright blue. The twins glowed bright blue in response. They hugged each other.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Eirika screamed.

Everything suddenly became enshrouded in white thick fog as the twins screamed in fright. The fog passed away after a second, leaving the room completely empty but in a mess. The Wii stopped glowing and its remotes and everything else stopped shaking. The twins were gone. Gone like the wind.

--- --- ---

-???-

A revived splendor that is Ancient Rome was now seen as a spectacular surrounding. Roman-structured pillars of ivory and pearl white completely surrounded another roman-structured platform, the size of an arena, which rested in the midst of an endless pit shrouded in fog. Ephraim and Eirika were there, at that unknown place.

"Where are we?" Eirika wondered.

"See? I told you not to touch that button!!!" Ephraim exclaimed.

"Well if you knew what was going to happen, how come you didn't warn me in the first place?" Eirika argued.

"I never thought it would come up!"

"Well, it did."

"Well-come…" a deep cold voice spoke from behind the twins. Eirika and Ephraim looked around, trying to track the voice. They saw across them a wolf with signs on his forehead, wrapped in an unusual black robe. The wolf morphed back into a human being with pointy ears as it approached the twins, "…to the happiest place on earth." he finished, this time with an elfish voice.

Eirika gulped.

"O-kay, who are you sir and why are you laughing like that?" Ephraim disturbingly asked the man with the pointy ears.

"Oh what's funny heh? Well let's see shall we? Name's Link by the way and I've been cursed…like you'll be." The man with the pointy ears snapped his finger. The twins turned around and saw up in the sky the image of their family room back home.

"What the—?" Ephraim shook.

"That's our house!" Eirika exclaimed.

"That's right." Link said, "As you can see you are trapped into the virtual world of Wii… we mostly call it the Wii World."

"Wait a minute, we're inside the console?" Eirika exclaimed.

"What did you think?" Link said, "And one way to get out of this mess is if you…finish the game, as many will say."

"Oh that's easy." Ephraim said, cracking his knuckles, "Let me finish a game of tennis and we're out of here."

"Oh-oh! That won't do you any good." Link snickered.

"What are you talking about?" Eirika demanded.

"You got a demo disc." Link explained, "So the only way you will get out of Wii World is if you finish all games."

Eirika and Ephraim's eyes expanded. Link turned around and began walking away, morphing back into a wolf, "Good luck with that, new neighbors." He leapt into the fog.

Eirika turned around, staring directly at Ephraim, her eyes frozen in horror. Ephraim grinned, "Well think about it. How many demos are out there to try?"

"Try an endless of them!!!" Link's voice boomed. Eirika stared back at Ephraim. She looked like she was about to bash him upside the head. Ephraim gulped, "Still a small number no?"

An hour came to pass and the twins were still waiting around in the Ancient Rome platform. Ephraim reclined, swirling his finger on the floor as if scribbling. Eirika was pacing around.

"What are we going to do?" Eirika yelled, "We're stuck here! Lost and doom to wander in Wii World for all eternity and we find out we have to pass an endless list of games just to get out?"

"Actually they're demos."

Eirika grabbed Ephraim by the colon, "This is all your fault Ephraim!" she yelled, "If you haven't brought that Wii from that silver-faced girl in the first place—"

"My fault?" Ephraim countered, "You're the one who pushed the button on the Wii remote! And don't call that nice salesperson silver-faced."

A box suddenly appeared near the edge of the platform. It looked like a shipped box because of the shipping labels imprinted on it, including a strange symbol that looked like a ball with two lines intersecting each other. The twins turned their attention on the box and approached it cautiously.

"What do you think this is?" Ephraim muttered.

"It's a box, can't you see?" Eirika said.

"Of course I can see it." Ephraim said.

"Then what are you so afraid of?" Eirika argued.

A man suddenly came out of the box. It was Snake. His scowling scarred eyes locked on the twins.

"It's Showtime."

The twins looked at each other in horror.

"Now you know the answer to your question." Ephraim said.


-Dark Forest Lodge-

"We're here." Innes smiled from ear to ear as he entered a wooden living space filled with warm and fuzzy furniture. The lights were all conjured up of candle fires, brightening the room in radiance. Irene looked around and immediately she felt like she was home.

"So this is the place?" she asked.

"Yep." Innes replied, "Cool comforting and all around charismatically…horrific."

Irene questionably raised an eyebrow, "Huh?" She turned around and noticed Innes was gone. The wind yowled through the room and the candlelights blew out in a snap. The furniture in fur morphed, revealing to be hairy Mauthedoogs. The devilish beasts howled and slowly approached a shaken Irene.

"Innes…" she gulped.

Innes was already halfway far from the haunting lodge. He was running through the bushes, carrying only his packed stuffs. A grin appeared on his face and up-front as Irene's scream rang horrifyingly through the twilight, "INEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!"


-Castle Frelia-

"Hey Innes, have you seen Irene?" Tana curiously asked.

"Yeah." Innes said proudly, "I got rid of her."

"Are you sure? Have you not completely ridden of her?"

"What's up with all of your questions?"

Innes and Tana entered the castle's lounge, "I told you I got rid of—AAAH!" He suddenly saw Irene before he could finish.

Irene was floating in midair, her legs crossed. Next to Irene were two Mauthedoogs growling nastily at the prince. Innes put his hands up as if a police officer told him to, "Irene…"

Irene narrowed her eyes and the creatures growled more viciously. Innes shook, "Put the doggy dogs down so that we could talk about it."

Irene snapped her fingers and the beasts disappeared in blue smokes. She landed her feet on the ground and slowly approached Innes, "Innes you…"

"How did you do that?" Tana interrupted, marveled to Irene's obedience training of the Mauthedoogs, "Are you like one of the Demon King's servants or something?"

Irene forced a smile, "My mother was his worshipper, so that's why they didn't attack me."

"Your mother…was?" Innes blinked.

"She died by the way…tragically and young."

Innes gulped. Irene lashed out, "I can't believe you Innes!!! You know what…" Irene looked at Tana then looked back at Innes, "Tana was right about you."

Tana froze. Innes blinked, "Tana?" he then narrowed his eyes, "Did my sister say something mean about me?" Innes locked his eyes on his sister. Tana grinned, "Now why would I say something…gotta go." Tana left the room hastily. Innes faced Irene.

"No, she told me how this whole trip was yet again another plan to get rid of me. Innes, why of all the world, can't you tell me straight up to my face that we can't be together?"

Innes' mouth were about to drop, "I told you a hundred-million times!!! I kept telling you that but were you listening?"

Irene shrugged and brought a confused look, "I thought you were joking!"

"Joking? My serious face is not joking."

Irene crossed her arms, "Really? So you singing me those poems were?"

Silence took over Innes. The prince sighed in defeat, "Irene, I'm sorry." He said emphatically, "You were always edgy and very messy that it was difficult to make you understand. That's why I began avoiding you."

"I'm sorry you feel this way but… that's the way I usually am."

Tana peeked in the watch the conversation. Irene and Innes stayed silence once more. Irene continued, "So…I guess this is good bye then."

"I guess so." Innes said, "But it's been fun having you."

Irene giggled and Innes smiled. After a brief moment the duo hugged. Tana smiled slightly at this sight. Irene was heading out but she stopped near the door to turn around and face Innes once last time, "…bye Innes." Her voice sounded low and cheerless.

Innes waved without saying a word. Irene headed out and as the door closed shut behind her, Innes shook; his arms across his chest.

Tana went to her brother for comfort, "Are you okay brother?"

"Yeah…I'll be fine." Innes said, "Just one question?"

"Yeah?"

Innes angrily faced Tana, "What did you tell her?"

"Nothing." She quickly replied. Innes narrowed his eyes at his transfixed sister.


-Wii World-

Snake approached the twins. The twins receded from Snake.

"Who are you and please don't hurt us." Eirika whined.

Snake gave Eirika a confused look, "Hurt you?" he slightly shook his head and smiled, "No, I wouldn't hurt your precious beauty, kid." Snake stroke Eirika's hair then angrily faced Ephraim and cracked his knuckles, "It's you I wanna hurt."

"Okay so you want to hurt me but not her?" Ephraim argued. Eirika frowned and Snake cocked his head on one side.

"Is that a problem?" Snake asked.

"Will you hurt me still if I was a girl?" Ephraim asked ignoring Snake's question.

"I wouldn't see a difference." Snake pointed his blaster at Ephraim. Ephraim froze. Eirika screamed, "Noooo."

-Castle Renais-

Seth was passing by the family room when he heard Eirika's scream through the TV. He slowly peeked in and saw the twins and Snake.

"Eirika? Ephraim?" He blinked. He then ran to the TV and as soon as he picked up the remote…

-Wii World-

…Ephraim jumped, dodging Snake's blaster shot. Snake frowned. Eirika gasped. Ephraim amazed as he landed back on his feet, "Amazing…how did I do that?"

"Stay still you!" Snake boistered.

-Castle Renais-

"Princess Eirika! Prince Ephraim!" Seth yelled on the TV.

-Wii World-

Ephraim and Eirika looked up and saw Seth in the sky with the Wii remote.

"Are you all right?" his voice boomed, "How did you get in there?"

"Seth!" Ephraim yelled back, "You were the one who controlled me!"

"You saved Ephraim's life!" Eirika yelled.

-Castle Renais-

"Huh?" Seth brought a confused look.

-Wii World-

"Who the heck is this?" Snake faced Seth, "Yo, butt out! This is my fight!"

-Castle Renais-

Fado passed by and saw Seth by the TV screen. He peeked in and curiously entered inside, "Seth, what are you doing? I thought you were on duty."

-Wii World-

Snake aimed his blaster at the distracted Seth and pulled the trigger once more. The twins screamed as they saw the blaster shot traveling from the weapon towards the paladin.

-Castle Renais-

Snake's blaster shot flew off the TV screen. Seth barely dodged it, but the shot landed on Fado, propelling him to a wall. Seth ran to Fado, "Your Majesty!"

-Wii World-

"Father!!!" The twins screamed.

Ephraim faced Snake, "Oh now you're in for searing pain!!!"

Ephraim ran to Snake, threw himself on him and both landed on the ground to wrestle.

"Ephraim NO!!!" Eirika screamed in panic.

-Castle Renais-

Seth helped Fado up, "Your Majesty, are you all right?"

Fado noticed his chest plate was intact but his head had a bump, "A little ache in the head, but I'm fine. See?"

Seth sighed in relief, "Oh thank the Saints of Glory."

"But what in blazes is going on?" Fado approached the TV angrily, "And what was that burning force that came out of the TV and what are Ephraim and Eirika doing there?" the king noticed the twins and Snake duking out.

"I knew it."

Fado faced Seth angrily, "Knew what?"

"We'll talk later, but look!" Seth noticed the Wii remote's star shaped button glowing and pointed Fado to it. Fado marveled.

Adrion suddenly entered the room in panic, "Your Majesty! Silver Knight! You've got to see this!!!"

Fado and Seth followed Adrion to the throne room. They saw space pirates wandering the room, soccer players playing their matches, strangest aliens gunning each other and right outside they could see a huge strange flying ship passing by, its shadows took almost all the room as if it was night dusk.

"Whoa." Seth marveled.

"Can't somebody please tell me—" Fado didn't finish when a famous soccer player shot the ball towards him. Fado caught it with his hand, "…what's going on?"

"I think they're all coming from—"

A huge missile landed right on the throne, exploding into a huge ball of fire and blazes. Fado, Seth and Adrion ducked for cover. Ducking right next to Fado was a figure in space suit armor. The figure faced Fado, removed its mask, revealing itself to be a blond woman, "Are you all right sir?"

"WHAT IS GOING ON?"

"Space pirates. Lots and lots of them. Name's Samus." Samus puts her mask back on, "Gotta take them out. Y'all stay put." She ran back to the crowded scene.

Adrion followed Samus, "Wait a minute! You can't go there! That's King Fado's—"

A baseball slammed right on Adrion's head.

"Sorry!" the voice of a baseball player yelled out as Adrion collapse.

"I have an idea Your Majesty." Seth proposed, "Please head towards your suite for safety. I'll be right back."

Seth left in haste. Fado looked around in confusion, "Wha—Wha…you're going to leave me here all alone?"

"Here we goo!" A familiar voice sounded. Fado looked up and before he knew it, he was carried up to the ceiling by none other than Mario.

"What do you think you're doing?" Fado struggled, "Get me down of here!!!"

"Mamamia, could you calm down sir?" Mario blinked, "I need to show you something."

"HEEEELP!!!"

-Wii World-

"Stop it, stop it right now!!!" Eirika cried desperately as she watched Ephraim fighting Snake still. The duo separated from each other and rose on their feet. Ephraim got hold of Snake's blaster and aimed at him. Snake lifted his hands up, "Dude, are you really going to shoot me?"

Eirika shook her head, "No, no of course not." Eirika ran to Ephraim, "You're not going to hurt him are you?"

"Of course not, cause I have no idea how to work this thing." Ephraim examined the gun confusingly.

Just then a motorcycle was heard nearby. The twins and Snake turned around and they saw Wario on a motorcycle coming from the empty platform and he kept going, "Coming through!!!"

The twins and Snake got out of the way, allowing Wario to slam face front on a pillar. Wario gets off his motorcycle, shook his head from dizziness and saw the company. He smiled, "Hi."

"Who are you and how did you get here?" Eirika blinked, "They're no platform afar."

"Yes there is." Wario said, "It's simply shrouded in fog."

The fog cleared up, revealing the narrow platform to be simply ground floor at every direction. Only the pillars surrounded the company.

"Well, looks like we had plenty of opportunities here instead of whining." Ephraim glared at Eirika.


-Renais-

Seth entered one of Renais's town vendors' boutiques and approached the counter.

"Excuse me; I'm looking for someone…"

The person behind the counter turned around, revealing to be Mikaya. Her bird was not with her at the moment. She spread an innocent smile.

"…I've been looking for." Seth finished.

"May I help you?" she said, "Oh wait, you're the one who didn't want my customer to purchase the Wii, so I can't help you."

"Listen here." Seth said, "Either you come and see the mess you've done to our castle or I get my money back, or…"

Seth heard a chirping sound. He looked up the ceiling and saw the bird's case. He jumped to pick it up, pulled a marker from his pocket and pointed at the bird, "…your bird gets a makeover."

The bird chirped in shock. Mikaya frowned, "Fine. Can I help you?"

"Yes, I want my money back."

Mikaya narrowed her eyes.


-Castle Renais-

Mikaya followed Seth to Castle Renais. Upon arrival, she marveled at the overwhelmed throne room. In addition to what was seen earlier, there in the midst stood an orchestra, which seemed to be forming a gap between four competitive tennis players. A monstrous character on one side of the room was bashing everything in sight with his hammer-morphing hands. A monkey was even seen rolling around inside a ball. A man with gray highlights was also seen running around and shooting at his enemies. Among them, there was one who wielded a katana and blocking all of his attacks. More explosions ensued and a herd of alien took shape out of nowhere. There were even surgeons performing operations in the middle of the war environment.

"Amazing. It looks just like a party." Mikaya breathed in awe.

"Party?" Seth frowned.

Mikaya shook her head then began walking away, "Come on. Help me find the Wii remote before Sonic and the football players of the NFL tackles you."

"Sonic and the football players of the NFL?"

Sonic suddenly zoomed past Seth, "Excuse me." He said. Seth twirled in one place and became dizzy. He quickly noticed he held a football. He looked up and yelled. A stampede of football players pinned him on the ground.


"I told you to get out of the way before Sonic and the football players tackled you." Mikaya entered the family room, laughing at a wounded Seth. Seth grumbled, "Yeah well thanks for the lovely warning. Now I am wounded from head to toe."

Mikaya rolled her eyes. She saw the Wii remote and approached it, "There it is."

-Wii World-

"Can I have my gun back?" Snake begged Ephraim. Ephraim looked at the blaster then back at Snake suspiciously, "Only if you promise not to hurt us."

"Or Father." Eirika finished.

Snake sighed, his eyes looking up. He raised his hands and halfheartedly pledged, "I promise."

Ephraim threw the blaster to Snake. Snake caught it midair and instead of placing his weapon back in his holster, he aimed it at the twins again.

"Hey!" Eirika complained, "I thought you promised!!!"

"Well lady, promises are meant to be broken. Face fact."

"Ooh! Ooh!" Wario jumped in between the company, "I have an idea. Why don't we play a game?"

Ephraim sighed, "Wario. For your information, we are in a—what are you doing?"

Wario rubbed his growling stomach, "I don't feel so good…" Wario turned his back on the company and bended. Snake looked horrified, "He's gonna blow!!!"

The twins still looked confused but after seeing Wario's butt gathering energies, they freaked out, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!"

"GOOD BYE MY POISONED FRIENDS TO-BE!!!" Wario yelled, "WARIO WAFT!!!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

-Castle Renais-

Mikaya pushed the star-shaped button. The button stopped glowing. The twins mystically appeared back in the family room still screaming and hugging, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

The twins noticed their surrounding being the family room and immediately they stopped screaming. "W-We're back home?" Eirika said.

"We're back home!" Ephraim yelled.

"We're back home!!" The twins hugged tightly and joyfully.

"Welcome back, Prince Ephraim and Princess Eirika." Seth said.

"Seth, how did you get us out?" Eirika exclaimed.

"Oh I didn't. She did." Seth pointed at Mikaya. The twins faced her. The girl waved shyly, "Hi."

"Oh. Well…" Ephraim hesitated, "thank you."

Eirika crossed her arms, "So you're the silver-faced girl."

Mikaya looked offended. Ephraim elbowed Eirika. Eirika shrugged, "What?"

An explosion was heard through the TV screen. The twins, Seth and Mikaya looked and saw a cloud of flatulence smoke build up the sky. They looked at each other and laughed.

"Well what do you know; that Snake guy got what he deserved." Ephraim said.

"Where's Father anyway?" Eirika asked.

-???-

Fado relaxed on a beach chair, sunglasses on his eyes and fresh lemonade on his hand. He was with Mario on a planet that has a small house and a cut-grass, flower bedding patio with sprinklers and a barbecue griller on a side, "You were right Mario." Fado grinned hauntingly, "I do so need a vacation from my everyday issues… in the world of nowhere."

The duo laughed hard.

"Actually Fado, we're in a galaxy." Mario corrected.

"Oh!" Fado snorted, "Well what do you know? I'm getting dumb. It's working!"

Fado and Mario laughed their hearts out.


END OF CHAPTER