I'm sorry this is late. I've been busy with other things I never found time for this, but thankfully I finished this chapter.

Hope you enjoy it!

Peach was standing in front of Samus's door ready to knock at it any second.

Ever since yesterday's fight, Peach had been reciting multiple different ways to talk to Samus. She thought about being very calm. She thought about being more subtle. She thought about being blunt. All these different ways that could either work or go south.

But Peach knew what to say. She had to tell Samus that, despite Ridley's annoying presence, he was here to stay. Peach went through it with Bowser, Zelda went through it with Ganon, this was no different. It's what needs to be said and Peach was going to tell it.

She knocked on the door.

"Come in." said Samus. Peach walked in to find Samus out of her outfit and in her Zero Suit outfit. She was organizing her weapons and was making sure everything was operating well. "Hey Peach, were in the finals now. How you are feeling about it?"

"Pretty good." Peach took a deep breath and continued. "Listen we need to talk."

"About Ridley?"

"Sort of, I'm here to talk to you about your anger towards him." Peach was going for blunt. "Listen I get it, he's an asshole. But at the end of the day- "

"He could have killed her."

Peach went silent.

"I'm not stupid. I know you went through it with Bowser and Zelda went through it with Ganon."

"Then you also know that you're letting your anger get the best of you." Peach said firmly.

Samus said nothing and continued to adjust her gun for the third time.

"And yes, I went through it with Bowser. But when I got angry with him, I told myself that this is just a tournament. We fight yes, but he never killed me."

Samus still said nothing.

"I know it can be hard," Peach went from sounding firm to her more caring tone. "but you can't let it get to you."

Samus still said nothing. Samus was feeling a bit better, and Peach was right. Her angry towards Ridley was building and to add insult to injury, Samus's worry for Peach was now worse than ever. She knew it was a tournament, she knew it was a game, but that didn't help. Samus liked Peach and that was what was causing this worry and anger, and she hated it.

And she was about to hate it more.

"Attention!" said a loud voice from the speakers. "The first of the Final's are, Peach versus Ridley! Peach to meeting room 2, Ridley to meeting room 3 in five minutes!"

Samus went pale.

"Do you still trust me?" asked Peach. Samus turned around and looked at her.

"I said I did but after what Ridley did to Zelda . . ." Peach was silent for a moment, she took a deep breath and held back her annoyance at Samus. She wouldn't say it but, she hated that Samus didn't trust her, she hated that it took one fight to crush Samus's faith in her and she hated that she was now angry.

"See you after the fight." Peach then walked out leaving Samus along.

Samus felt like her heart was just stabbed.

Peach was about to head for the door when a sudden tug at her dress stopped her, it was Knight.

"Oh, hey Knight." Peach wanted to talk a least a bit more, but she wanted to simply get the fight over with. "I got to go, see you after the fight."

But once again she felt a tug at her dress. Knight didn't want Peach to fight, he already felt guilty for what happened to Zelda and didn't want the same to happen to Peach. Peach looked down at Knight, she was a bit annoyed at Knight but, she knew why he was trying to stop her.

"I'll be fine, trust me."

Peach pulled her dress out of Knight's stubby hands and went through the door. If Knight could scream in panic, he would, but all he could do was watch and hope she would win. Kirby came up beside Knight and put his hand on his shoulder, Kirby was scared too, but knew there was nothing they could do.

As Peach sat in the meeting room, she couldn't seem to stop her angry thoughts about Samus. She said she trusted me, and what, one fight makes her change her mind? She thought. She took a deep breath but, it didn't help. Soon someone entered the room, it was the Grim Reaper himself, except he was short, and his scythe was taller than him.

"Hi, I'm Greg the Grim Reaper, and don't laugh." He said.

"Trust me I won't." Peach said bitterly. Greg looked puzzled at Peach's tone.

"I thought you were considered nice."

"Look, I'm not having a good day and I already know the rules, so can I please just go into the elevator?" Peach said in an angry tone. Greg shrugged.

"As long as you follow them." He opened the elevator and motioned for Peach to enter. Peach entered and the door closed.

Soon the elevator opened, and Peach entered the arena. The arena this time had a more mountain look, there were two big boulders, one at the corner to Peach's right, the other at the opposite side. A few weeds were growing in random spots and sharp rock-like spikes were pointing out at the edge of the arena.

"Well Kreese, do you like this arena more than the last?" asked Howard.

"It's alright, better than a shit-smelling swamp." Replied Kreese.

Peach looked across the arena and saw Ridley, as she walked closer to him, she noticed a huge grin on his face, it made Peach annoyed, but she held it in. Soon they stood before each other, both took fighting stances and waited for the announcers.

"You look angry, are you doing ok?" asked Ridley sarcastically.

"Pretty good." Peach said nothing else, she knew Ridley wanted her mad and she wasn't going to let it get to her.

"FIGHT!"

Ridley was about charge Peach but was surprised by Peach jumping in the air and ramming her ass in his face. The attack sent him back a few feet, but he quickly recovered, Ridley then began clawing at Peach repeatedly, luckily Peach pulled out her frying pan and tennis racket and was deflecting all of Ridley's attacks. Ridley then spun around whipping his tail at Peach sending towards the boulder behind Ridley.

Peach's back and head hit the boulder causing her dizziness but quickly got herself up moved to her left before one of Ridley's fireballs hit her. She dropped her tennis racket and started throwing turnips at Ridley, most bounced off his face, but one did hit his eye.

"Ow! Hey!" More turnips flew towards him with greater force. "Come on!"

Ridley shot out more fireballs as he began flying towards Peach, once he was over her, he began an attack dive, but Peach was ready. When Ridley was close enough Peach jumped into the air and performed a backward kick at Ridley's face, causing him to crash down away from her. As he got up, he started chuckling, it left Peach confused.

"You're tougher then Zelda . . . I love that." He smiled as he said it.

Peach was about to throw another turnip when she noticed the Smash Ball under Ridley's tail. Ridley grinned at Peach. Shit, he knows!

"Sorry." He wrapped his tail around the ball. "Mine." He crushed it and he began glowing.

Ridley charged towards Peach and began clawing at her again, except this time Peach wasn't quick enough. As Ridley clawed away, Peach's dress was being ripped little by little, red marks started appearing on her and those marks started to bleed.

As Peach was being attacked, she started to wonder why he wasn't using his Final Smash. He had it and now would have been a good time to use it. But instead, Ridley continued to claw at her until her dress was now mere shreds hanging off her body and almost every inch of her skin was covered in marks. Peach was on her knees panting from exhaustion, the strike to her back and head weren't feeling good and the loss of blood made her light-headed. She looked up at Ridley who had his hands on his hips and was chuckling.

"Why didn't you use it?" She asked. Ridley leaned down and whispered into her ear.

"I didn't need it."

Ridley then bit down at Peach's midsection cared her into the air, Peach screamed in pain as his teeth pierced into her and was then flung towards the other boulder. Peach's back was hit again, and she wasn't moving. She was still conscious, but she remained still.

It hurt to move.

The audience cheered for Ridley's victory and once again Ridley raised his arms into the air and chuckled knowing he was in for the final round. Soon the glow the Smash Ball gave faded away.

"Damn what a bloody battle! Did Peach die? It looks like she's dead." Said Kreese.

"No, she's not dead. Otherwise, we'd half to kill Ridley." Laughed Hoard.

As Ridley relished in his victory, Peach remained on the ground. Her blood continued to pour out of her claw marks and her back was in serious pain, Peach started to cry. She couldn't hold it in anymore, her body ached all over and she feared to move because every move she made it hurt even more. And what hurt most was that Samus had been watching, she witnessed every second of the fight and was most likely panicking over her. She hated that Samus was scared, she hated the pain she was in and she hated that she was angry.

Soon four Toads showed up and began helping Peach, they tried caring her but stopped when Peach screamed out.

"Does it hurt to move your majesty?" asked one of the Toads.

"Yes." She said gritted teeth and teared filled eyes.

"Okay, we need to get you on the trolley so you can get to the infirmary. Will move you on to it and we won't move you again, ready?"

"Do it."

They cared Peach on to the trolley, she screamed in pain but soon the pain subsided, and she was taken to the infirmary.

Peach had bandages almost all over her body, only her face and a few spots of her body were showing. The bite holes Ridley made were stitched up and thankfully weren't bleeding anymore. She would make a full recovery.

Samus sat beside Peach, no signs of anger, no tears, nothing. She sat beside Peach waiting for her to wake up.

Samus was angry but was holding it in. She hated holding it in, she hated that she couldn't just shoot and kill Ridley right where he stood. She wanted to kill Ridley so much but knew she would get in serious trouble if she attempted so. What she had to do right now was to sit beside Peach and be here for her when she woke up. Samus then heard a chair pull up beside her, she turned her head and saw Knight climbing into the seat beside Samus.

Knight wanted to be here for Peach too.

"Guess we're both worried huh?" said Samus dryly. "This wasn't like with Zelda, this time he almost killed her. The doctors said she passed out due to blood loss."

Knight looked at Samus and said nothing.

"She probably won't wake up for a while." Samus felt like crying but held it in. "Ridley's probably laughing in his room." Samus felt like yelling but held it in. "I-I should. . . I'll be right back." Samus got up and left the infirmary.

Knight looked at Peach and sighed, he still felt it was his fault. Ridley was winning.

Samus was walking down the hall of the boy's hallway and her glare made it clear to any of the guys that they should stay out of the way of whatever she was doing.

Every one of them moved aside for her as she made her way to Ridley's room. She now stood in front of it and knocked.

"It's open." Said Ridley.

Samus bashed the door open and made her way in. Her glare clearly showed Ridley why she was here. He smiled. It worked. He thought.

"You nearly killed my friend." Samus said firmly.

"I meant for my bite to be mildly painful." He said with a smile. "I'm deeply sorry for my more, fatal bite."

"Listen here Ridley, I know what you're doing. And I'm fine with you doing it to me, but not friends." She pointed her finger at him while she spoke. Ridley was unfazed as he sat on his bed while holding a comic book.

"This ends now, got it?"

"Hey, no sweat. After all, your friends that were in the tournament are now injured anyway." He shrugged. What Ridley said made Samus want to kill him right here and now, she wanted to paint the room red with his corpse. Leaving his husk of a body lying on his bed unmoving.

Samus began charging her arm cannon, Ridley through away his comic and now stood in front of Samus. Samus was about to aim and shoot when-

"Ma'am." Said a voice from behind. "Stand down."

Samus turned around and saw two Tatepons, both wielding Ultra Heavy shields and Ice Axes. Both were in fighting position and despite their cute look, were known for being brutal. They acted as security for when fights broke out between fighters.

Samus stopped her arm canon form charging any further and Ridley sat back down.

"We ask you to please leave the boys area." Said one of the Tatepons

"Yeah, whatever. Hope to fight you next Ridley." Samus said bitterly.

"Wouldn't have it any other way." Said Ridley with a grin.

Samus returned to the infirmary when she entered Knight remained next to Peach. Samus could swear that Knight hadn't moved a single inch. She down next to him once again.

"Hey." She said.

Knight looked at Samus. Knight knew why she left, she needed to let out steam. But he also knew that Samus's anger was beating her. If she fought him, she could lose.

"I know I know; I should control my anger. It's just really hard." Samus sighed. She was tired of Ridley; she was tired of not getting her chance to fight him and was just plain frustrated.

"It's almost ten pm." Samus looked at Peach. "I don't think she's waking up."

Knight said nothing.

"Me and you are fighting tomorrow, will both need rest. Good night Knight." Samus left the infirmary and headed for her room. Knight remained with Peach and began thinking. He suddenly had an idea, an idea that he felt was necessary to help Samus.

What if . . . What if he fought Ridley instead?