Chapter six: Duo.
Whoo! I'm back suckers! *blows air horn* (*≧∇≦)ﾉ鹵
Erm, sorry about that i'm a bit hyper at the moment I just stuffed my face with cookies earlier. That and I get to finally reintroduce my favorite smash character! *SQUEEEEEL!* (*≧艸≦)
Alrighty then chumps the new and improved chapter six in now online and fully operational running at 3.5 kilobytes per second and raising… I don't know just read the damn story and ignore me!
Special thanks to:
Magic Shelly: awh, thanks, super adorable was what I was aiming at lol. Wow that is some dedication to want to buy all those products even the risky ones, such as the Charizard Balls, or Falcon Pawnch! But hey I hear you I would love smash waffles too, to bad they don't make waffle irons shaped like smashers. Hey I get that I too read stories even if i'm in a rush and can't leave a review no matter how much I want to, but it does keep me busy when i'm riding the bus.
Lucina was watching the fireworks with Robin amazed and baffled at the beautiful sight from atop the ferris wheel. She scoots closer while Robin embraced her in his arms, she rests her head on his chest listening to his calm heartbeat. "Robin I've missed you so much, I lost you once, then you come here and I thought I'd lost you again." She tells him softly as she closes her eyes and relaxed with a gentle sigh.
"Lucina no matter what happens or where I go I will always find my way back to you that's a promise." He assures her placing a hand on her chin and slowly raising her head to meet his gaze, she feels that warm feeling rushing down her body again making her heart melt. She stares into his eyes seeing the glow of the fireworks reflect off of them making them gently twinkle. She then feels him lift up her chin slightly as he begins to inch closer making her heart start pounding. He stops a mere inch from her face feeling his warm breath sending shivers down her spine as she gently closed her eyes. He gently runs his thumb down her cheek as their lips make contact and she runs her hand through his hair. She feels something warm against her lips and tastes blood making her eyes snap wide open and pull back.
"Robin?" She trembles as she sees the blood running down his mouth as she stares in horror. She touches her lips to see them stained with the same blood making her gasp in fear. A large claw shoots through his chest as he grunts in pain and the life slowly drains from his face. "ROBIN!?" Lucina screams in horror while also placing a hand over her mouth watching him get dragged away. The whole place starts to rattle violently and a huge wave of fire starts engulfing everything around her. A huge creature starts raising from the ground with a deep eerie sinister growl, it towers over her as its glowing red eyes pierced through her soul. She sees the lifeless Robin dangling from its claws as she backs away in fear and tears start to flow down her face. It roars towards the sky with a deep eerie pitch while a lightning bolt flashed through the skies as the flames finish engulfing everything...
Lucina woke up in a panic quickly sitting up on her bed and panting hard and sweating while her heart was racing. She looks around all paranoid and panicked only to see she was in the room. "It was? a dream? But what does it mean was that Grima!?" She thinks in panic while tightly hugging her pillow and some tears rolled down her cheeks. "Is Robin in danger again is he going to die!?" She exclaims to herself in panic and hugged her stuffed panda for comfort. Thinking back to the dream as the memory was still fresh in her mind, what did it mean though it was actually frightening her. She couldn't stop thinking about it the image of Robin as his life slowly ended, it was haunting her making her hug her plushy tighter and felt some more tears run down her face. She wipes the tears off and looks at the clock striking 4:39 AM, it was very early but she could not go back to sleep with that dream haunting her thoughts. She got out of bed and heads to the bathroom, she turns on the sink splashing some warm water on her face. She dries herself with the towel and looks towards the mirror to see the figure glaring back at her and screams. She tumbles backwards slamming into the back wall in a brief panic, Dark Pit comes running into the bathroom blades in hand.
"What, what? the hell is going on!?" He quickly exclaims looking around while swinging his blades around. She points towards the mirror but figure was no longer in the mirror nor anywhere for that matter. "What the hell is wrong with you!?" He exclaims at her while he rebuilt his bow and tossed it aside with a deep frustrated groan. "Jeez if your scare yourself that much then don't look in the mirror!" He remarks and walks away a little angered while grumbling to himself and she huffs in annoyance.
"No one asked you to come anyways, I had no need of your assistance I can take care of myself!" She snaps back while trying to collect herself and he scoffs rather annoyingly.
"Don't flatter yourself I only got up because I know if something gets you I'm next, so I figure I take it out while it's busy taking you out!" He responds rudely as jumps back into his bed and threw his covers over himself. She decides to ignore him, but he did help her forget about the whole thing if only a little. Lucina changes into her usual attire and heads out the door, the halls were dark and shadowy, she walks to the elevator and pressed the down arrow and it opens up instantly. She pushes the button with a one on it and waits patiently as it takes her to her destination. When it arrives she steps out and heads towards the living room, Marth was there in the corner reading a book on one of the desks.
"does he even sleep?" Lucina wonders to herself mentally as Marth takes notice of her presence.
"Lucina you're up already?" He asks rather surprised as he sets his book aside, "aren't you tired from staying up late at the festival?" he adds and she slowly takes a seat across from him.
"I could actually ask you the same question how are you up already?" she asks him and he just simply waves her off.
"Well I actually went to bed early last night I always do" he responded plainly with a shrug, "but last I heard you stayed until the very end of the festival with Robin did you not?" He states while she starts to shift uncomfortably in her chair avoiding his gaze.
"I uh," she begins while fiddling with her fingers nervously, "just couldn't sleep, guess I'm still excited about the place." She lies to him and he nods his head slowly as he seemed to be observing her making her a tad big more nervous.
"You look distraught, is something bothering you, it's alright you can tell me I am family after all." He says but she just groans unsurely and he sets his hands on the table clasped together. "Is it Robin, was he rude or impolite to you last night, did he do anything?" He says very sternly afterwards and she quickly looks up at him like if he grew a second head.
"WHAT!?" She blurts out but he just stares sternly at her, "No of course not he has nothing to do with this!" She quickly responds and he just grunts and nods his head slowly. "Well," she says afterwards rather uncomfortably while slowly rubbing her arm and looks away from him as she feels a slight tingly feeling while thinking about the tactician.
"Are you ok?" He suddenly says, "you don't look well and your face has redden up are you sick?" He says gently placing the back of his hand against her forehead. Lucina lowers her gaze hiding her face as she began blushing deeply while Marth looked on puzzled.
"Well I guess I just had this bad dream and well it felt so real and it got me a bit shaken up I guess." She changed the conversation with a sad sigh resting her head on her hands.
"Well here, it seems like you need this more than I do" he tells her and handed her a cup of coffee, she thanks him and takes the beverage. "I'm sorry but I have to go I have a meeting at five." Marth tells her and heads out the room and disappears into the hall. Lucina goes and sits on the couch and after a while she started to fall asleep again drifting off…
Lucina was watching the fireworks with Robin, she gets closer to him and rested her head on his chest. He starts gently stroking her hair as she sighs peacefully. "Robin I've missed you so much, I had already lost you once, then you come here I thought I had lost you again." She tells him calmly and he places his hand on her chin slowly lifting her gaze to meet his. The fireworks reflected off of them giving them a gentle twinkle.
"Lucina no matter what happens or where I go I will always find my way back to you that's a promise." He assured her, he starts inching closer to her making her heart start racing. He stopped when he was were inches away from her face. He was still passionately looking into her eyes as she felt his warm breath against her skin sending shivers down her spine. She then gets closer and locks lips with him while running her hand through his hair. But seconds later she tastes blood and immediately pulled away from him, he grunts in pain all the while blood was dripping from his mouth. She touched her lips to see them stained with the same blood making her freak out as this scenario came back to her. Tears quickly start flowing down her cheeks as she sees the claw penetrate through Robin splattering his blood all over her.
"Lucina" he says weakly. He was lifted into the air by the claw that pierced him while he slowly extends his arm towards her, "Lucina" he breathes out very weakly as she starts to sob and desperately reach out her hands towards him.
"ROBIN!" Lucina screams as she watched him fall when the claw let go horrified at what just transpired. She leans over staring down at the dark abyss the wheel seemed to be at, tears flowing down her face as she continued to sob desperately searching for the tactician. She hears the deep eerie growl and slowly turns to see the large creature raising slowly. A huge wave of fire starts spreading around it as it towers over her she sees its large horns on its head pierce the sky. It roars a deep eerie pitch as the whole place starts to rattle and she backs away in fear unsheathing her sword. She holds it loosely in her trembling hands desperately holding back her tears, it lifts up its claws and she sees Robin's lifeless body hanging on them. The sword drops from her hands as it lets go of him and his body falls into the abyss. It opens its jaws widely as an orange glow forms at the back of its throat with an eerie screech…
Lucina quickly sits up in panic her heart racing and panting hard while tears started rolling down her cheeks. She wipes them away and notices a blanket was wrapped around her and Raven sleeping on the other sofa across from her. Lucina was shaken up by the dream making her tremble in fright making her wrap the blanket around herself tightly. "The dream again but what does it mean? Is Grima back why now, I don't understand is it just a dream or something more!?" Lucina exclaims mentally as the images of the dream were fresh in her mind, it was haunting her again Robin's face as his life was ending and the sinister look of the creature. She stands up and quickly heads out of the room as the images kept playing in her mind, she was frightened but she didn't know of what she should be frightened of. What made it worse is that the dream felt all too real like she was actually there. She was heading through the rec room when she runs into Robin but he just gives her a warm comforting smile as always.
"Lucina whats wrong you look really pale and frightened as if you saw a ghost?" He suddenly says worriedly and she buries her head in his chest and begins sobbing uncontrollably. He wraps his hands around her protectively as he felt her tightly gripping onto his coat while she trembled uncontrollably. He gently strokes her hair trying to get her to calm down and she starts muttering incoherent nonsense through her sobbing. He sits down on the small sofa near the end of the room where they were to try and get her relaxed and calmed. But in the end she ended up crying herself to sleep on his lap but he did manage to catch a few of what she was trying to say to him in her panicked state; she had a nightmare about something awakening and believes his life's in danger or something along those lines.
Raven walks into the room looking worried and sees Robin deep in thought while Lucina was fast asleep on his lap, her nose was a light shade of pink and there were some tear stains running down her cheeks. Robin spots her and she makes a gesture as if to ask what happened but he shrugs a little concerned. "She came up to me in distress apparently she believes Grima is back and is after me" he whispers as Raven sat on one of the armrests.
"Well that can't be possible you told me yourself that you struck the final blow sacrificing your life as well like I did. But then again there is still no explainable reason as to why we're still alive." She whispers back and he nods slowly placing a hand on his chin looking deep in thought.
"I am a tad bit concerned though since I overheard a conversation between Zelda and Link the other day, oddly enough it was about the same topic, Zelda's been having visions of a sinister beast escaping from confinement and has been haunting her dreams as of late it can't be a mere coincidence." He adds afterwards and she looks back at him worriedly and then down at Lucina.
"Still though i'm sure it's fine. If something is happening however the Elite Six already know about it and can handle it." She replies sternly while he nods slowly but surely and she sighs tiredly. "There is still room for concern though something doesn't feel right around here I too have a feeling there is a malevolent presence around here." She adds afterwards and he leans backwards draping his head as he pinched his eyes while yawning.
"Perhaps we should look into the matter ourselves, if it is indeed Grima who has returned then we should be prepared for what is to come. Plus from the description Lucina gave me about her haunting dream this fiend does seem to fit his figure. Nothing i've heard or read about have ever had those large demonic horns that monster did, Lucina claims that was it's most distinct feature when she saw it in that dream." He informs her giving her a stern look and she shifts around before nodding her head.
"I remember that too, you know I'll personally talk to Zelda about this she trusts me and her being in the Elite Six I'll get more in depth information." Raven states as she stands from her seat and places her blanket over Robin padding him on the shoulder. "You should get some rest too you look worn out and tired" she adds before she turns and heads out the room in the direction of the Library. Robin closed his eyes and at that moment a floating figure passes by in the hall the same direction Raven went. Robin would have left to go to his room but he didn't want to disturb Lucina especially after what had happened. He simply leans backwards and closed his eyes going through his thoughts trying to come up with some sort of logical explanation for all that is occurring, only to drift off into sleep moments later.
*later*
When Lucina awakes it was already late into the morning and the mansion was lively again. She looks up to see Robin's face leaning over hers but with his eyes closed being sound asleep. She could hear his calm rhythmic breathing, she stares blankly at his lips that looked to be soft to the touch. She feels her heart speed up just thinking about it and begins to feel hot headed again as her cheeks tint a light rosy color. "Well looks who's finally up, morning sleepy head" Ravens voice is suddenly heard making Lucina jump up startled but also ramming her head against Robins face. He instantly awakes with a loud groan of pain while lifting up his hands towards his face as blood started oozing out his nose. Lucina quickly stands while gasping worriedly and Raven places a hand over her mouth while silently gasping.
"Oh gosh Robin are you ok!?" Lucina exclaims worriedly while nervously tapping on his arms. "I'm so sorry, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry!" She says in quick succession while handing him a handkerchief for his nose.
"It's quite alright I assure you" he says calmly while taking the handkerchief and holding it against his nose and lifting his head up.
"Still though we should have Dr. Mario have that looked at" Raven says as she grabs Robin's arm and drags him away despite his protesting. Lucina sighed frustratingly and slumps down on the sofa and she looks down at her hands to see some of Robin's blood making her start to shake. She shakes her head furiously and cleans it off with another handkerchief forgetting about the whole thing or at least trying. Lucina heads to the cafeteria and decided to dismiss the whole thing as a terrible nightmare, none of it made sense or seemed likely to happen it did take place during the events of last night. The place was rather empty except for a few smashers here and there that were early birds. She goes and sits on the swordsman table to finish the coffee Marth gave her earlier. Dark Pit was the first to enter afterwards entering from the back door and headed towards her. She sat there confused as to why he had went to sit with her but he immediately spoke up before she could.
"Alright so today Master Hand decided will be a extra day of training, I have some ideas on how we can combine our combat methods to over power our enemies." He finished as Raven walked in soon after and headed towards them and she sat next to Lucina but stayed silent. "I'll discuss the details to you later meet me in our training room after breakfast" he adds after and heads out the back door.
"What was that all about?" Raven asks Lucina curiously while she takes a seat across from her.
"I'm not sure but according to him today will be an extra training day as declared by Master Hand" Lucina responds with a shrug.
"Really and how did he come by this information?" Raven asks her afterwards more curiously as she leans forward placing her hands on the table with a stern look.
"Well he didn't say he just said Master Hand has already scheduled it for today." Lucina responds being confused as well as she shrugs again taking a sip of coffee.
"Well then I guess we'll just have to wait and see if Master Hand appears today to confirm it." Raven says afterwards and leaned back in her seat again with a yawn. She then looked like she was lost in her thoughts and the dream also slipped back into Lucina's thoughts. They then hear a someone behind the doors shouting pleads and approaching too.
"NO! please, have mercy on me I beg you!" The voice sounding like Pits but Lucina wasn't to sure says, she looks back at Raven confused but the tactician just shrugged. The doors open and Palutena walks in followed by a crawling Pit. He grabbed her ankles while he laid himself splat on the floor "Please! show some mercy I promise I won't do it again!" He exclaims while giving her giant round pleading eyes.
"No" she responds sternly and despite him holding on she continues to walk dragging him along the floor.
"Pleeeeese!" He begs again while he hugged one of her legs and begins whimpering.
"Pit I already said no and that is final, nothing you do or say will change that!" She tells him and forced him off makes herself a coffee and headed towards the girls table with Pit following looking depressed. Robin walks in soon after and joined the girls at the table he and Raven begin a conversation among each other, but they were being very discreet about it as they whispered among themselves. Lucina however sat there in awkward silence staring at Robin while thinking back to the dream. The speakers come on and Master Hand's booming voice echoes through the mansion.
"Attention all smashers report to the cafeteria, repeat, all smashers report to the cafeteria!" He orders and the speakers shut off momentarily afterwards. Dark Pit walks in through the back door again conversing with Dark Link and laughing. Soon after though the cafeteria starts flooding with smashers from all directions. Lucina stayed with the swordsman which this early in the morning felt like sitting with a bunch of zombies. Master Hand appears in the center soon after with the Elite Six at his side and he cleared his throat. "Smashers now that we are settled in and gotten all of our excitement out of the way, it is time for the tournament to begin. Today will be the final day of training so you and your partner have all day to brush up on your techniques, at the end we will hold practice battles each team will be pinned against each other. I have posted who will be facing who in the lobby, so smashers this is it the smash four tournament begins!" Master Hand finished as the cafeteria erupted with cheers from a lot of the inhabitants, he vanishes soon after and the Six join their comrades at different tables for breakfast.
Later on Dark Pit stood up and heads to the swordsman table strait towards Lucina, "hey you ready we have a lot to work on today" he tells her and she nods.
"Yeah I'm ready let's go" she responds eagerly while getting up from her seat, Marth however stops her before she could leave by grabbing her arm.
"Mind if I accompany you Lucina?" he asks her, she smiled and agrees with a nod but Dark Pit seemed slightly annoyed by this.
"Yeah it's no problem you can come too plus i'm curious to see who you have to battle as well." She responds and they head out the door following Dark Pit towards the lobby. They approached the lobby and Lucina scans the large list of names for her's, she finds it to see they were against Lucario and Bowser in her and Dark Pits room. Lucina remembered Lucario from her first day at the mansion, and Bowser from her encounters with him during the game yesterday they seemed like formidable foes. Lucina sees Marth was paired with Link and he was against Raven and Shulk.
"Alright come on I have some strategies planned already that we need to work on to beat those two." Dark Pit tells her and heads out Lucina turns to Marth to wave a quick good bye.
"I'll see you later a lunch Lucina" he tells her and heads in a different direction. Lucina and Dark Pit head down the hall and get into the elevator pressing the button with a five.
"hold the door!" A voice calls out but Dark Pit pressed the close now button while laughing.
"What was that for!? we could of waited for them!" She exclaims while he crossed his arms leaning against the wall with a grin.
"It was more fun this way" he responds plainly and started laughing again but Lucina was unamused. They make it to the training floor and they head out towards their designated training room. Dark Pit slid his ID and the door opens and they venture back into the white room with a booth in the middle. Dark Pit pulled a different device out of the booth this time and set it on top, he grabbed the control and dimmed the lights and took a seat in a nearby bench. "Alright so I have some footage here of our two opponents so we can study their moves, and also learn about their weakness everything has a weakness." He tells her as she sat next to him, "Unlike you I haven't been sitting on my ass the whole time and actually bothered to study up on our foes." He adds and the small portable projector comes to life as she groans in annoyance.
"Well what exactly are we up against then?" she asks him and crossed her arms, he presses a button on the device and a screen showed Bowser.
"Alright our first opponent is Bowser now he may not look like much but he's a powerhouse, not only that but the bastard is really heavy so K-Oing him isn't exactly an easy task. But he has a weakness his moves are powerful but slow, and the more powerful the moves the slower they are leaving him completely vulnerable to attack should he use his full strength." He explains as the screen changed to a several screens of Bowser executing different moves.
"So it seems the best way we can beat him is with fast combos" Lucina says observing all of the different moves he frequently uses trying to find a pattern.
"Yeah we have to come up with a system to strike him fast and fierce not giving him the chance to counter, also remember not to stay to close to him or we will find a way to counter strike as he's all about close combat." Dark Pit tells her and the screens change to Bowser breathing fire and torching many opponents. "Now this is his most dangerous attack to be on the lookout for, his fire breath. It can really raise your damage and fast, and once you're in the fire it's really difficult to get out so be on guard against that. Not only that but when the flames eventually do die down you'll have enough damage for him to easily K-O you." He informs her while she continued watching some of the screens one in particular caught her attention, which was Marth being torched it look like he was having a difficult time getting out of it.
"so do you have something in mind to counter his fire breath?" she asks the dark angel as she sees many fighters struggling with his breath attack.
"Yeah the best chance that we got is to use our shield, Bowser's flame over the course of time will start to die down to mere embers. luckily our shields will hold out long enough to tire him out a perfect chance to counter as well." He responds and switched to the next screen which was a picture of a glowing Bowser, surrounded by an aura of multicolored lights.
"And this, this is the most devastating thing to be on the look out for, his final smash." He tells her and the screen changed to a Bowser who smashed a smash ball and started to transform, he seemed to be growing in size and with a bright flash Giga Bowser stood there towering over his opponent. Dark Pit changed the screen to a series of screens which showed Giga Bowser dominating his opponents with ease. Each screen showing smashers trying to survive the wrath with little to no success.
"And how do we counter such a threat?" she asks looking over the dominating monstrosity on the screen. It seemed no matter what he destroyed his opponent in a matter of seconds.
"Same way actually, see his attacks are stronger and more powerful but still slow, dodging many of his attacks should be simple and again we let him run out" he responds casually.
"What do you mean?" she asks him slightly confused, while adjusting herself in her seat to turn to him.
"See while his final smash grants him great power it will not last forever. Sooner or later his power will run out and he will revert to his normal form." He responds and changed the screen again and it played of Giga Bowser beating another opponent and after started shrinking till soon with another bright flash he reverted back into Bowser.
"And now the next opponent. This one is a tough one and I hate combating it with its special ability!" Dark Pit proclaims as the screen changed to show a image of Lucario but this time his paws were glowing with blue energy. "Lucario the aura Pokemon, basically he used his life force to fight not only that but apparently the more damage he takes the stronger he gets" he explains switching over to multiple screens with Lucario at different damage levels.
"So how do you plan to combat him?" she asks him concern wondering if he even had a plan.
"Well, the best I came up with was use his own power against him, his attacks are fast and fierce and he can detect where your at all times using his aura" he responded.
"Don't we have anything else on him I'm not really all that confident in this plan?" she tells him rather concerned but he just grunts in response.
"Well you will be if you see this" he replies confidently as the screen changed and showed Lucario in a match with masses of damage. Lucario was dropped off the stage and he tries to recover but due to all the power, he manages to completely go over the stage and vanished in a bright flash of multicolored light loosing a stock.
"Are you sure" she asked still uncertain "doesn't seem like a lot to go off on?" She said jotting down some notes on a notepad she acquired earlier.
"I'm positive" he reaffirmed standing up and stretched as she finished her notes and skimmed them over.
"Alright then I guess we'll just have to go with that" she says as the slide show came to an end. The lights came back on after a while and Dark Pit puts away all the equipment, and the white room turns into the grid room in the middle of space.
"Alright so now we have to practice our set of moves and come up with different combos, also you have to make sure your moves are ready for anything." he tells her while he looked over the notes and she places her hand on the hilt of her sword.
"Yeah I already got that covered I've been practicing at home before I came here, and I knew it was a matter of time before I would be back in combat." She proclaims taking out Falchion and swinging it in the air a couple of times.
"Yeah, well, according to our last training session you didn't practice enough." He remarks still looking over the paper and she places her hands on her hips with a huff.
"Hey buddy, in case you forgot, you weren't letting me think strait last time" she responds and turns her head with an angry huff while crossing her arms.
"Yeah, let's go with that story if it will make you feel like any less of a sore loser" he tells her mockingly while looking up at her with a cocky grin.
"Hm, Nice try, but I'm not playing any of your games today or falling victim to any pranks." She proclaims as she calmly walks around a puddle he left but he however keeps his cocky grin and shrugs.
"Well finally i've been waiting for this day, I finally get to put the hurt on someone!" He exclaims thrilled as he slams his fist into his open palm while Lucina simply rolled her eyes. He presses a button and several blue and red alloys materialized going into fighting stances, Lucina readies herself as does Dark Pit who separated his bow into two and swung them around. He started sparring with the red alloy easily overpowering them and giving them critical damage. Lucina however was taking her time and studying her opponents while countering every so often. Dark Pit dismantled his opponents in a matter of minutes while as Lucina however was still sparring with hers, Dark Pit just crossed his arms and watched impatiently. She ends up doing an upward slash afterwards splitting her last opponent in half. She lands back on the floor swiftly and sheathes her sword while brushing some hair away from her face. She stops to catch her breath looking back at him seeing that he looked as if he hadn't even broke a sweat. "What was that are you tired already that was nothing!" He remarks while he flailed his arms around before crossing them.
"You obviously had me doing all the work!" She retorts with an angry huff placing her hands on her hips while glaring at the dark angel.
"Yeah right you were struggling the whole time!" He scoffs and turns away with a smug look, "I'm starting to wonder if you actually belong here" he adds as a grin spreads on his face.
"At least i'm trying unlike some!" She says as she angrily stomps her foot making his grin wider. "I mean seriously you only sparred for like a minute before you turned them against me all so you can ridicule me!" She points an accusing finger at him and he just smiles and shrugs very smugly.
"Lets face it compared to your ancestor you are a defective in the hero king timeline, you didn't inherit anything that makes Marth what he is, rendering you a completely shameful fluke." He tells her smugly laughing a little as he walked away with a simple shrug. Little did he realise though that had caused the bluenette to snap, her eyes lit up with fire while she tightly gripped her sword. Lucina didn't know how but something inside her snapped she had lost all control, she raises falchion in the air and screams in anger and frustration and dashes at him. Dark Pit stood there however just grinning like an idiot and leaning against the wall, making alloys appear in front of her but she kept on cutting them down fast and fierce. She started stabbing one repeatedly and very angrily but ended up losing her sword by jamming it into it roughly, before it fell backwards and got lost in the large crowd of alloys after her. But that didn't stop Lucina as she began fighting barehanded, making her way through never taking her eyes off her target. When she was upon him she quickly and swiftly cartwheeled towards him in an attempt to land a precisely aimed kick. He catches her foot and flips her making her fall on her stomach while he scoffed. She tries to swipe his feet from under him only for him to jump up into the air and fly unto the platforms high up above. What he wasn't expecting though was her quickly making her way up the different platforms towards his. He smirks knowing full well he has her in the palm of his hand as soon a massive grin spreads on his face.
He starts making obstacles and alloys appear in her path much to her frustration which angered her more. Not to mention his backhanded compliments always touch a nerve that drove her more insanely angry. "Well I guess I can't blame you, it has been 2000 years, so i'm guessing your family just ran out of things to pass on to their descendants." He remarks from above making her growl in frustration and throw a severed head at him. He side steps while chuckling like a idiot to himself as she made the last jump reaching the platform he was on. Dark Pit was just laughing as she continued to head towards him taking out more alloys, but his laughing only seemed to fuel her anger even more till it was just the two of them left again. She stood there panting hard and glaring at him reaching for her sword only to realize she had lost it earlier. "Wow, you know what I think you are actually just a hopeless Marth."He remarks as she clenched her fist tightly hearing his laughter making her grit her teeth tightly as well. Lucina lashes at him but he stood his ground arms crossed and grinning, she was going to strike him but at the last second got tackled to the ground by a group of red alloys. He begins walking away while laughing hysterically and turns around pointing at her.
She was struggling under the weight but still kept on attempting to reach him as she was still slowly crawling towards him, despite all the alloys trying to hold her down too. She manages to grab one of his ankles before she collapse due to all the weight, laying on the floor panting angrily hard. But when she hears his laughter she growled loudly out of anger while trying to get up again but to no avail. He walks over to her and kneels while patting her on the head "wow you are a hopeless Marth" he remarks and walks away smugly. Lucina screams out of pure rage and raises to her feet while the alloys splattered around her defeated. Dark Pit quickly turns around only to get tackled by Lucina making them fall off the high platform. He tries to fly but Lucina grabs his wings preventing him from doing so while also trying to kick him in the face. Dark Pit holds his arms in front of him in an X formation blocking her kicks while laughing maniacally. She lets go of his wings and throws herself at him taking ahold of him, and holding him so as to smash him into the ground head first when they land. He lifts his feet up and kicks her away separating them both and was about to flap his wings to get to safety only for him to crash into a pillar head first. Lucina however hits several of the other platform edges before landing on the floor. Dark Pit stands up holding his now throbbing head and spots her laying completely still on the floor. He scoffs and walks over placing his foot on her and moving her slightly to check if she was conscious. But gets no movement from her so he turns her around and catches her fist in his hand with a smug grin. "Nice try but I was expecting another cheap shot from you" he says while lowering her fist and she pushes him away roughly.
"Whatever, all you do is nothing but cheap shots and petty insults!" she remarks. Trying to catch her breath having had strained herself trying to attack him.
"Yet it seems you do not take it so" he responds with a shrug and walks away ending the simulation. She decided to calm down instead of going along with any more of his antics. She was actually mentally bitch-slapping herself for playing into his hands again. But when she snapped it was like she was no longer in control of her body it was anger and wrath that commanded her.
In another training room,
Bowser and Lucario were in their training room sparring with each other when a loud bell rang through the mansion, lunch time. "I'm heading out are you going to stay?" Lucario asked the terrapin who had a toothy grin.
"Yeah you go ahead I want to be in tip top shape when we thrash those noobs" he responded slamming his fist into his open palm. Lucario nodded and the simulation ended and he headed out the door, Bowser however started shredding yellow alloys to keep on practicing he was more intense on those. After a half an hour or so he tired himself out and headed to one of the benches and lied down to take a nap, he started to slowly drift off until he completely passed out. Little did anyone know that in the hall a floating figure was making it's way around the training floor hiding in the shadows. It was completely cloaked in a robe the white eyes shone from within the hood intensely. It entered an open door to find the king of koopa's napping on one of the benches. The figure had a wicked toothy grin on its face, it was time to resurrect after years of being imprisoned. It was finally time to raise and take its revenge, all will bow before him or be destroyed, alas it was time to crush all these pathetic warriors like the worms that they are. It opened Bowsers jaw slightly and it looked like it was forming into a shadowy gas and entered his mouth, Bowser started choking and gagging while thrashing around and after a moment he laid completely still again. His eyes snapped wide open shinning a bright ruby color while emitting a deep eerie growl.
Lucina wanted to head to the Cafeteria once the bell had rung but Dark Pit kept on going on about strategies the entire time. She holds up her hand in front of her cutting him off, "Well I am kind of hungry so I think I'll-"
"Meh don't worry, I got it covered, I came prepared so we don't have to waste a minute of training, I ordered out." He cut her off and handed her something wrapped in a orange wrapper with a zigzag W on it, he also takes out another from a bag for himself and started eating. Lucina unwrapped the thing to reveal a giant greasy burger that she look at unsurely before taking a bite. Well boy did she regret that for it was sort of soggy and had a raw flavor.
"What this made of deceased cow!?" Lucina exclaimed to herself and spat the thing out into a napkin. She looked down at the thing with a frown and turned to see Dark Pit devouring his with pleasure. She just looked back down with a sigh she wanted to leave but it wasn't possible as he had the remote and hasn't undone the barrier.
"Hey if you don't like it give it to me and I'll give you fries" he tells her and handed her a large yellow cup with a W, she exchanges food with him and took the large yellow cup. She took out a brown curled fry and stared at it confused.
"These look nothing like the fries that Robin usually eats?" Lucina thought to herself and ate one. Unlike the burger she was actually amazed at the flavor compared those fries tasted amazing. She wanted to tell Robin about the curly fries since he seems to like fries so much. Well she ends up finishing them quickly having been seduced by the irresistible flavor. Thing is that being salty they also made her mouth feel dry making her thirsty. "Hey got anything to drink?" she asks the dark angel who was finishing the large load of food in his mouth.
"Yeah, sure, hold on" he replies and opens a tiny blue box and took out a soda can. He hands it to her with a wide grin on his face however, she cautiously took it wondering what the hell he was grinning about till she opened the can. The soda shot out and drenched her face with dark brown liquid, Dark Pit started laughing hysterically and Lucina turned and glared. She grabbed one of the burgers and opened it and smeared it on his face really slow, he stops laughing as the burger slowly slid off his face making Lucina giggle uncontrollably. "Oh it's on!" he said as he took the massive patty from the burger and tried to slap the thing on her face. She quickly stands avoiding the thing and he goes after the giggling bluenette. He throws the thing at her making it splat against her cheeks. She picks up a tomato and flings it at him like a frisbee making it spatter against his nose. They just kept tossing things back and forth at each other laughing at the others demise. She takes what's left of the other burger and tries to smear it against his face but he halted it and tried to do the same to her. They end up mushing the thing in their hands and bump into each other and fall backwards. They both simply sit up and laugh at the others messed up face and random chunks in their hair.
After the whole little charade was over they both took off to clean up having made a mess of themselves. Lucina headed off to the washroom on the training floor which was also the locker room. She cleaned herself off and changed into a spare of her usual attire. she closes her locker to see Raven was standing there with her arms crossed while leaning to the side. She had also managed to startle Lucina as well "R-Raven w-what are you doing here?" Lucina blurts out while the tactician chuckled.
"Funny I could ask you the same question Lucy" Raven responds plainly as a smile spread on her lips.
"I-I uh, just felt like cleaning up, after long hours of practice" Lucina responds while slowly scooting away awkwardly.
"Well that and I was also wondering why you didn't go down for lunch, you're spending an awful lot of time cooped up with your partner" Raven added shortly after.
"W-W-What do y-you mean?" Lucina asked her backing away, Raven however just kept on creeping closer to Lucina her smile growing larger.
"I mean you and your partner, well, you seemed to have walked out of there rather exquisitely, yes I saw." Raven tells her as Lucina placed her back against a wall and Raven places her arm against the wall trapping Lucina there.
"T-That, I-I, it's not what you think" Lucina blurted out confused as well unsure of what to say or what was going on.
"By the way, you know I'm only teasing you right?" Raven adds as she grins, "I don't know that you're getting at" Raven finished she turned and left while laughing.
"Smashers it's time for the practice matches, head to your opponent's room and let the smash begin!" The speakers turned on a little while later, when Master Hand finished the speakers shut off again.
Afterwards in the training room...
Lucina's heart was actually beating faster this was going to be her first match. She and Dark Pit were waiting for the opponents to arrive and Lucina was getting nervous. "Alright remember the plan you take on Bowser and I'll take Lucario" Dark Pit tells her. She nods and then they hear loud stomping as Bowser entered followed by Lucario. They all got into positions as the room turned to the grid flying in the middle of space, Bowser smashed both of his fists together while aura started to glow on Lucario's paws. Lucina was tightly gripping her sword while her nervousness was taking over, Dark Pit separated his bow and swung his blades around the air. A loud booming voice started to count down for the match to begin.
3...
Lucina felt her heart start pounding in her chest,
2...
Bowser started dripping embers out of his mouth,
1...
Lucario and Dark Pit eyed each other cautiously while getting into battle stances,
GO!
Dark Pit and Lucario instantly rushed at each other and started attacking with a fury of attacks. Lucina activated her shield as scorching flames were making their way at her. She saw the flames parting from the sides of the shield, it stops and Bowser stomped his way over to her and grabbed her. He delivered a couple of headbutts before launching her, Lucina stood up and charged her special attack while Bowser came at her again. She struck but she only managed to push him back a little, he threw a punch at her but she rolls out of the way. He makes a large dent on a grid pillar that was behind her, she managed to score a couple of hits while he continued trying to land a hit. Bowser inhaled again and Lucina raised her shield, but instead of using flames he grabs her again and slowly headbutted her while she struggled in his hold. After that he smashed her to the ground the impact knocking the air out of her, he raised a foot and brought it down but Lucina caught it in her hands. She was struggling under all the pressure Bowser was putting into his foot, he stood over her with a large toothy grin on his face watching her struggle. When it seemed that she would not give up Bowser inhaled again, she took notice of Dark Pit watching as he shook his head and whispered "such a worthless and hopeless Marth." Lucina felt her anger bubbling up again and started lifting Bowsers leg, Bowser stopped inhaling as his eyes went wide when Lucina lifted his foot off her and dropped him on his back. She grabbed his legs and threw him into a pillar nearby completely shattering it, and Bowser was buried under a pile of rubble.
Lucina charged her special again and when Bowser emerged from the rubble she struck him with all her might. He takes off flying a couple feet and crashed on the floor taking even more damage. Lucina dashed at him and started attacking him with a fury of attacks, he tried countering but Lucina was moving too fast for him to counter. His damage was now at lethal levels and she charged her special attack once more. He stands up again and his eyes go wide when he saw a blade come at him with blinding speed. He takes off flying higher and further while also crashing into a series of pillars shattering them completely, when Dark Pit saw this he smirked and continued his attack on Lucario. Lucina failed to see the orb floating around due to all the smoke but when she did it broke, when the smoke cleared Bowser emerged glowing but he was knocked out on the floor. Lucina was wondering what was going on until his eyes snapped wide open again glowing bright orange, he stands up and roars in pain holding his head thrashing around. Lava starts spilling from his mouth as he fell to his knees and a large wad of lava launched out of his mouth. Lucina slowly backs away confused as to his sudden new behavior and lets out a loud screeching roar and stops glowing.
"Bowser?" Lucario says as he took notice and stopped his fight with Dark Pit, they both quickly head over and stood at Lucina's side. Bowser's scales started peeling off slowly, his horns start to grow in size, his tail was becoming longer, his shell breaking away while taking on another shape. The trio slowly backed away,
"NOOO! get out of my head!" Bowser screeched and threw up another load of lava on the floor. He was grunting loudly in pain as he fell to the floor he thrashed around for a bit before laying completely still. Lucario cautiously approached the fallen Bowser who had a small stream of lava falling from both sides of his mouth.
"Bowser? comrade are you alright?" Lucario asks him but didn't get a response. Lucario put his figures against Bowsers neck to feel his pulse but Bowser's eyes snap wide open now glowing blood red and he violently grabs Lucario by the neck.
"I'm I alright!?" he responds in a deep sinister voice different from his own as he lifted Lucario in the air. "I've never felt more alive!" he adds while he threw Lucario across the stage and let out another screeching roar. He started growing in size and after a while he completely ripped out of what was left of his old body. Now towering over them was Giga Bowser's menacing form and suddenly flashes of lightning strike in the background.
Lucina and Dark Pit slowly backed away as he let out a sinister laugh, "I'm free at last! after all these years the one true master has resurrected!" he says in his sinister voice. A screeching roar sounded again much more louder and the sound of something that seemed to shatter. Lucina and Dark Pit covered their ears at the intense sound. Lucina was thinking back to what she heard about him how he was imprisoned inside Bowser, she stared in horror knowing one thing for certain, he has revived.
"Dark Pit we have to run and warn the others!" she tells him grabbing his hand to drag him away.
"Of what I'm not running away bigger size doesn't make a bigger man, I'm taking this creep down!" he responds sternly getting into a battle stance.
"Dark Pit you don't understand, that's not Bowser anymore he's not using his final smash!" she says frantically with panic in her voice still trying to drag him away. He pushes her aside and approaches the fiend while she watched helplessly.
"Hey dumbass that was pretty stupid taking out your own partner like that, now I'm taking your giant ass down!" Dark Pit shouts at him while swinging his blades around.
"Pathetic worm! you dare challenge me!" Giga Bowser barked at him turning around to glare at the dark angel while steam emitted from his mouth.
"Bring it you overgrown lump with horns!" He shouts back and dashed at him, striking at blinding speeds but Giga Bowser blocked the attack just as fast. He swats Dark Pit with the back of his hand into a pillar and shattered it. Dark Pit quickly emerged but Giga Bowser stomped on him before he got up.
"What the hell!? why Am I feeling pain all of the sudden, didn't Master Hand put a barrier!?" he says weakly while slowly getting back up holding his ribs.
"Fool! I shattered the force field to take out my enemies once and for all!" Giga Bowser snarled and pounded Dark Pit to the floor with his large fist. "Pathetic!" he spat having easily defeated the dark angel.
"Dark Pit!" Lucina screams as she saw his body lay limp on the floor not to move again. Giga Bowser turns to face her and gave her a murderous glare as his eyes flared.
"YOU!" he spat as he stomped forward. "You helped imprison me! the victory would of been mine if you wouldn't of interfered! Now you will pay for that mistake with your life!" he threatens. She slowly backs away frightened and confused as to what was he talking about, he lunges at her but she ran away while he chased her shattering everything in his path. She screams when he shattered a pillar very close to her, she has to make it to the booth to end the simulation, then she could leave the room and warn the others about the menace that spawned.
She was upon it when she felt a sharp terrible pain on her back, he had clawed her. She screams in pain and fell to her knees feeling the blood slowly dripping down her back. Giga Bowser laughs sinisterly as lightning flashed in the background again, she tried to get up and run again but he grabbed her in his giant hand. He holds her tightly and started to crush her while Lucina struggled in his hold loudly grunting in pain. "Only in the end do you truly understand!" he barked and adds more pressure. Lucina starts desperately gasping for air as he crushes her lungs laughing triumphantly. He gets blasted from behind by a purple arrow shortly after.
"Let her go ugly!" They hear Dark Pit shout, he drops her when another arrow hits him on hand. Lucina fell to the ground gasping for air lying crippled on the floor.
"Guess I'll have to rid myself of this worm first!" he growls as he turns towards Dark Pit. He stomps towards Dark Pit and charged a headbutt making contact with a pillar causing a large explosion. When the smoke cleared Dark Pit stuck him dead in the chest with all his strength, Giga Bowser stumbles backwards holding the large gash on his chest. Dark Pit seemed satisfied at the wound he caused and shot an arrow at him and stuck him in the wound again. Giga Bowser roars in pain and fell to his knees holding the wound with one hand and supporting himself with the other. Dark Pit prepared to finish him off as he split his bow into blades, but then stops when Giga Bowser chuckles as he stood up and his wounds healed and a sinister grin spreads on his face. Before Dark Pit could react Giga Bowser punched him with a hand full of dark energy. Dark Pit took off flying and crashed on the floor a loud crack is heard and he laid completely still. "Good riddance!" Giga Bowser spat and turned around to look for his previous prey.
Lucina was crawling as best as she could to reach the booth her breathing shallow. She grabs the booth to support herself and reached for the control with a shaking hand. Another flash of lightning struck in the background before she was pinned to the ground with intense force. She looks up to see Giga Bowser glaring down at her with murderous chilling eyes. "Now we end this, so I can finally rid myself of you filth!" He barks as he inhaled a mighty gust of wind, he opens his massive jaw wide and Lucina saw a bright orange glow form at the back of his throat. Lucina closed her eyes and turned her head to the side waiting for her inevitable end, but instead she hears Giga Bowser roar in pain. She opened her eyes to see a bright blue laser impact his chest, he backs away as he continued to get blasted each hit seemingly more devastating than the last. Lucina then hears loud maniacal cackling and sees a giant twitching disembodied glove latched itself to Giga Bowser. It send a surge of energy to Giga Bowser and he gets to his knees while roaring in pain. He soon gets down to his hands unable to take the surge. Soon after he falls to the floor, he starts to shrink and turning back to normal and laid completely still. The hand detached itself and the room turns back to normal. With a huge puff of smoke it turned into Crazy Hand's human form and started jumping around.
The Elite Six quickly entered the room followed by Master Hand. They all spoke about something but Lucina didn't catch it and she started to feel more weak. "Everyone clear out now!" Master Hand orders and everyone behind them leaves the room as told. "Check the wounded" he orders the Six.
"We got critical!" Marth shouts as he stands over Lucina's broken body, "hey Lucina stay with me, help is on it's way don't give up on me now." He whispers to her as he knelled next to her, Lucina however smiles gently while he stoked her hair. Her breathing becoming more sallow, he holds her in his arms as someone would a sick child. "Hey it's ok I'm right by your side" he holds her closer "I'm so sorry I put you through this" he whispers to her. She gently shook her head and smiled while she held onto his hand.
"I'm glad actually... I got... to me... meet y-you... t-the hero... king... my a-ancestor... my i-idol" she whispers weakly. Her eyes start to slowly close as she fell limp in his arms and her head hanged back.
"Guys I need help here now!" Marth shouted as some tears rolled down his face. Zelda approached "we are helping Lucario he has a crushed wind pipe what ha-" she didn't finish and placed her hands over her mouth when she saw Lucina's broken body in his arms. Bowser awoke and was in a tantrum as the rest tried to hold him down but to no use, his skin was slowly starting to turn black and his eyes started glowing a ruby color.
"Take him to the Eternal Chamber" Master Hand ordered as he magically bound him, "I curse the day you did this to yourself" he mutters as Bowser was teleported away by Mario and Peach.
"Let me through!" someone shouted as he shoved passed some of the smashers in the hall and enters the room. Robin dashed to the other side where he saw Lucina laying limp in Marth's hands, when he approached Zelda and Marth stepped aside. Robin fell to his knees and placed his head down and started choking up as he tightly held her in his arms, the others too gathered around soon after and watched in grief. Master Hand put his head down and clenched his fists. Robin kept his gaze down on her as tears rolled down his face and landed on hers. The others looked away as well while some others chocked up too. Robin silently mutters something to her, but, Lucina stayed motionless in his arms nevertheless looking unnaturally pale was this her end...
Sooooo, ok I gots bad news for you too… ok here goes, so this was suppose to be released a week ago, wtf you ask? Well see I am lagging behind in school, I am no where near my goal and the deadline is by the end of december so I has to hurry. December is right around the corner now and I know I wont make it at this rate. So I started going all out on school I even had to request an additional class. So now I have to be at school by 6am, and don't leave till 4pm! Not to mention each class is like two freaking hours long! So as you can tell I get home pretty exhausted and spend my afternoons sleeping. But that doesn't mean i'm giving up on you guys, no, not at all. Just saying the next update won't be out for a while so don't be surprised if you don't see me till next year. If I don't finish before the deadline I run the extreme risk of failing collage and I simply can't afford that.
Ok, um, yeah not what you were expecting right well ok, I know this story is comedy but I added a little suspense and action to spice it up a bit. As always feel free to leave a review it always brightens my day, im still taking requests too, want to see something say it and it'll be sure to happen. Ok then my beloved readers that is all dear Emmy has for you, now I part with you with but a humble Toodles! (* ^∀^)ﾉｼ
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