As Link ran like a loonie down the beach, the others did there own things.
Mario screamed, covered his eyes with his hat (as Luigi showed him how), and just ran in random directions. He knew this wasn't a very smart choice of action, but he couldn't think of anything else to do. There was pipes to jump into, no turtles to stomp on and throw at the statue; none of his normal stuff. So he just blindly ran around, crashing into trees and tripping over shells.
Lucina pulled out her sword and tried to strike Ben. She swung three times at him, but each time her sword went right through him. He kept on smiling with that creepy grin of his, as if he enjoyed watching her efforts fail. He probably did, actually.
Little Mac asked "What's Ben Drowned?" but nobody answered.
So Little Mac, while petting Epona, watched Link run. The sword fighter ran down the beach a ways, stopped, looked around, and then ran into the forest. He was gone for about fifteen seconds, then returned. He ran down the beach again for a ways, stopped, looked around, and then ran back into the forest. And so the process continued; it was a very long beach. -Until he just suddenly vanished. Gone. As if he suddenly became the wind.
Little Mac made a face. He turned to Pittoo to ask if he was the only one who saw that, but the anti-hero was too busy having a staring contest with Ben.
Dark Pit studied the statue. He looked it right in the eyes, thinking it would help the situation somehow. Ben smiled back, like he was challenging Pittoo. The angel couldn't decided which was creeper: The statue's smile or it's eyes. Pittoo was about pull out his scepter when Ben suddenly vanished. -Only to reappear, but now just inches away from Pittoo's face.
He became as pale as his original, Pit. He couldn't move -even blink- for a few seconds.
When he finally came to, he was very poetic about his death-defying experience and what must be done next.
"Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope." he repeated to himself as he turned around, scooped up his girlfriend, and began flying towards the ocean. "Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope."
"I couldn't agree more," Lucina said to him. She rapped her arms around his neck as they flew forward.
But suddenly she remembered something. She look down and yelled to Mario and Little Mac, "Look alive! Run!"
Mario lifted his hat. "Oh, yeah!" he exclaimed. He adjusted his hat and began running the same way Link went. Anything to get away from this nightmare.
He only ran two yards before Ben appeared in front of him, stopping him in his tracks.
"MAMA MIA!" he screamed. All the color in his skin washed away from the shock of the statue. He tried running a different way, but Ben just appeared again. Mario gave up at that point. He sat down on the sand, used his hat to cover his eyes again, hugged his knees, and rocked back and forth like a child.
Lucina gasped. "Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw that," she exclaimed.
"See what?" Pittoo asked. He was too busy trying not to fly into one of those singing birds (who would not shut up) to notice some-
GASP! Ben just appeared in front of them!
"AAAAAAAAHHH!" the two screeched. Lucina accidently let go of Dark Pit and began plummeting towards the earth. She fell through the air in a way anything other than graceful. But right before she face-planted on the ground, her boyfriend caught her. Clutching her close, he held her like she was a stolen jewel.
...But while he was saving her, Pittoo lost complete control and accidently nose-dived into the sea. Oh, well.
"Arrgh!" yelled Lucina once she swam to the surface. "Water up the nose! Gah!"
She began swimming towards the shore, but after just a few inches she stopped and began yelling again. "No! Ugh! There's seaweed under me! Gah!" she splashed around like a lunatic. "How is it touching my feet? I'm wearing booths! Ugh! Disgusting!"
If you thought Lucina was in a embarrassing case, check out Dark Pit: He was gasping for air, being swallowed by the waves, spitting out water, splashing about; the works. "Horror! The horror!" he screamed over the waves. "Pit never learned to COUGH swim! Oh, damn! Why those this water have salt? This is no way to run a ocean! What was mother nature thinking? GASP! I think I swallowed a guppy! Help me!"
As Lucina attempted to calm the angel down, Little Mac was watching from the beach. He was horrified by how these so-called fighters were acting. "It's just a statue!" he exclaimed at them, speaking his mind. "Sure, it's strange and magical and all, but it's still just a statue!"
"It took Link," Mario protested as he kept hugging himself.
"You can't prove that." Little Mac shot back. "Link does a lot of sketchy stuff; he probably just used that flute-"
"Ocarina," Lucina called out right before diving under the water.
"-ocarina of his to locate Young Link." finished Little Mac.
Lucina swam back to the surface just in time to hear that. "Gee, I wished I had one of those right now." she gasped while picking seaweed out of her hair. "I think Dark Pit just drowned."
"Serves Pittoo right," Mac declared as he continued petting Epona, who was still staring into space. "He had Ridley swallow Ike. Me and Ike smash at the Paper Mario stage every Friday night. You have any idea how many weeks it took Ike and Zelda to get all the saliva out of his cape?"
"Boo-hoo," Lucina sneered. "Dark Pit wrecked your little schedule. How tragic."
Little Mac gave her a disgusted look. The princess just shrugged, then went under again.
"Hold on," Mario said as he slowly raised his hat. "If Link can do that, why did we have to use that bandicoot portal to get here? Why couldn't Link just play a song and transport us here?"
"Because, of course, Link does not have a ocarina. Only Young Link does. At least, in this fanfiction, it is."
"Oh, I-a understand. Thank y- EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!" Mario turned to the man who spoke and screamed.
Lucina, with Dark Pit over her shoulder, came to shore and screamed. Even Little Mac was taken back by the sudden appearance.
It was the Happy Mask Salesman.
"Where the heck did you come from?!" Lucina demand as she gave Pittoo CPR.
The Salesman turned to her. He was smiling, as always. That big, creepy, unsettling smile of his covered half of his face. The way he carried himself, the huge backpack with masks covering it, the loud clothes, the way he was always hunched over; it was strange as it is. But for some reason -maybe the fact he just suddenly appeared on the beach- he gave of a vide creeper than normal. The birds singing Song of Healing backwards even seemed louder now that he was around. As if the song was just for him; his theme song.
HMS took a step towards her. He had only one thing to say to her:
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"
"Obviously!" cried Mario.
Lucina stopped punching Dark Pit's chest for a moment and tried to make eye contact with HMS. But she couldn't, because he always had his eyes close. And yet he never ran into anything.
She quickly looked away and went back to giving her boyfriend mouth-to-mouth.
Little Mac scoffed. "What's the big deal about you?" he asked the Salesman, walking towards him. "Sure, you just randomly appeared. But you don't scare me."
The Salesman turned to the boxer. He replied, "You shouldn't have done that." and then gave him a nod.
Suddenly, Little Mac burst into flames! His whole body was suddenly covered with fire. He also couldn't move, all he could do was be swallowed by the burning.
"Aaaaaaaaccccccccckkkk! Ahhhhhhhhhh! Oooooooooowwwwwwwww! Heeeeeeeelp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkk!" he cried with such pain and misery as he fell to his knees.
"Little Mac!" exclaimed Lucina.
Even this didn't get Epona's attention. Dang, stubborn as a mule, that horse is.
The Happy Mask Salesman just stood there, grinning happily at the festivities.
Mario looked up to see what all the screaming was about. "What-a is the big- MAC!" he saw the flaming boxer and screamed. He jumped to his feet and ran towards him. He lunged at Little Mac like a football player and pushed him into the ocean, which killed the fire.
"Oh, yeah! Mario number one!" he declared as he did a peace sign and began to dance about.
Little Mac hit the water at the same time Dark Pit came to. "Oh, hey." he murmured, still a little woozy. "Thanks for saving my life, dear."
"Anytime," said Lucina as she helped him to his feet.
Dark Pit wobbled a bit, but he was able to ask, "What did I miss?"
"Oh, this creepy guy suddenly showed up" (Lucina pointed to HMS, who waved.) "and had Little Mac light on fire."
"Really?!" he exclaimed. "Little Mac? On fire?"
That's when the boxer in question crawled to shore, covered with burns. "It looks like," he mumbled before collapsing on his back.
"Oh, man! I miss all the fun stuff," Pittoo groaned.
"Oh, don't worry," HMS smiled as he approached the angel. "You can be the next to anticipate in the subject."
Dark Pit smiled back to him, happy someone has offered to- Wait. The subject? As in, being lit on fire? "Ooooooooh, no thank you." he answered as he grabbed Lucina's hand and began walking towards Epona.
But Ben appeared in front of the couple and stopped them in there tracks.
"You don't have a choice, Pittoo." the Salesman cooed as he slowly went towards them, reaching his clammy hands out to grab.
Suddenly, completely out of thin air, Young Link appeared. He stood in front of Dark Pit and Lucina, blocking HMS from even touching the two. Young Link stood strong; with his head up high, arms crossed, and spine strait. -But he still wasn't wearing pants. Oh, well. No body's perfect.
He blew the hair out of his face and stared the Salesman down. HMS grin at him. "You shall get out of my way," he said.
"No!" yelled Young Link, pushing the man down. The Salesman hit the ground with a soft thump. Ben appeared next to him, not helping but just there to save face.
Mario gasped. "Whoa! You CAN talk!" he exclaimed.
"It's nice to see you too, Mario." Young Link answered.
Then he pulled out his ocarina. "Everyone, gather around me." he said. "I'm going to get us out of this freak show."
"But to where?" asked Dark Pit as they got together.
"To where Link disappeared to. But I'm sorry to say that you all won't like it."
Young Link began playing the instrument. The tune went slow and soothing. As he played, a fog began to engulf the five (Epona didn't care about any of this junk). It covered them head to toe, and slowly blind them all.
Right before the fog completely swallowed them, the Happy Mask Salesman sat up, reached out, and exclaimed "You shouldn't have done-"
POOF! They were gone.
That. Was intense.
Thanks, everyone, for telling me to bump this up to teen. I never thought I would get that serious in here. Wow. I surprise myself sometimes.
Yeah. So, about Ben Drowned. I'm not following the original story word-by-word, but I'm trying to keep the whole vide and essence of the creep pasta. Like Epona staring at the ocean, the Happy Mask Salesman, Ben popping up everywhere, stuff like that. I hope you all enjoy it.
Now, to answer a few questions: Okay. I get it. Y'all want longer chapters. So for now on, chapters will have at least 1,000 words. I hope you all are happy now.
And about my first fanfiction. Yes, this is my first SSB fanfic. But, no, it's not my first fanfic. My first I wrote about a year ago on a different website, then posted on here. Around a hundred people read it. It was about The Avengers trolling Loki and stuff. You would not believe how embarrassing and immature and embarrassing it was. Right before I began writing A Taste of Smashiness I deleted it on here, and later I made sure to rid every trace of it. Yeah, so don't ask to read it; it's gone forever (THANK GOODNESS).
This is my second fanfiction, and I'm proud to say I'm proud of this. :D
Oh, and my Wattpad account name is 1231heyo. Would you believe BraveMerida was already taken on there?!
Thank you all for once again reading! Woo-hoo!
(P.S. Please leave a review. I posted this chapter 48 hours ago and nobody has reviewed yet. I usually get around half a dozen reviews by now. I'm starting to worry.)
(P.P.S. As in "starting to worry", I mean COMPLETELY FREAKING OUT!)