Wow, it's been a year since I updated this. I feel awful, and I'm really sorry.

Chapter Five

"This is so exciting!" Young Link exclaimed, rushing into the room to where the laptop had stood. He ran his hand along the desk before running around the room. "Yoohoo! Are you here? Anybody? Where are you guys?"

"Hey, stop it!" Roy grabbed Young Link by the shoulders. "I think we should get out of here."

"It's just Master's office. Not some kind of haunted house or something…" Young Link protested with a grin on his face. He jerked free of Roy's grasp and began snooping around the room, calling out every now and then in a taunting tone. Roy sighed and watched the boy crawl around. This is ridiculous. I thought I was going crazy, but then Young Link assured me he saw them, too. Now look at us! He's even crazier than me! I think he's truly lost it…poor guy…

"You know what I think we should do?" Roy spoke up, making Young Link turn his attention towards the redhead. "We should check out the Library. I bet there are some books or something on ghosts that could explain what's going on."

"Yeah!" Young Link perked up, since he had been a bit disappointed in not finding anything useful in the dark office. "Good idea! Let's go!" He grabbed Roy's hand and pulled him out of the office.

The lights in the Library seemed to be off, too. Roy tried the switch, but the lights wouldn't work. Young Link groaned because exploring the Library in the dark would be a pain. Noticing the groan, Roy lit a fire in his palm, one of his many powers. A smile grew on the boy's face, and he began walking around the shelves, guided by Roy's fire. They walked up and down the shelves for what seemed like hours, and Roy could see that through the windows, it was getting dark. We might be late to dinner, Roy noticed as he followed Young Link. The two swordsmen stopped at the back of the Library, where the big conference table that had once held their wrapped up weapons stood. The table top was so shiny, they could see their reflections almost perfectly on the surface. Young Link gazed at himself for a second, then pulled himself away from the table and ran to a shelf.

"Hey, look, Roy! I found a book on ghosts!" Young Link pointed to a book high on the shelf.

"That's great," Roy called back. "Better let me get it; you're a bit too short."

Roy started towards Young Link, but the boy was too eager to wait. He put all his strength into a powerful jump, and reached from the book, but as he pulled it out, he knocked four others to the floor. They fell off the shelf and onto the carpeted floor with quite a lot of noise. Roy froze as voices started to be audible…especially a teenage boy's.

"Did you see that?" Roy made out from the other cries.

"See what?" a girl asked.

Both Young Link and Roy looked at each other, knowing very well that the voices were coming from the table. They both froze, not daring to move.

"Those books," the boy's voice said again. "They fell from the shelf, all by themselves!"

"No they didn't!" Young Link spoke without thinking. "I knocked them off!"

"Quiet!" Roy ordered. What the hell is going on? However, no one heard Young Link's cry.

"That is strange," the girl's voice spoke. "Perhaps it's—"

Before Roy could hear her finish, Young Link grabbed Roy and pulled him behind a bookshelf, distracting Roy so his fire went out.

"What is it?" Roy whispered only to see his question answered by Mewtwo floating down the aisle to the conference table.

"We have a connection," Roy heard the girl's voice. "Hello, Mewtwo."

"Hello," Mewtwo replied.

Roy could not believe his eyes—or ears. Mewtwo was there, in the flesh, talking to nothing! Well, it wasn't nothing…there certainly was something there…Roy just couldn't see it.

"Where's Ness?" It was a man who asked his question.

"He's…busy…" Mewtwo hesitated.

"So, now, let's get to it," the girl started. "Is it alright if I ask you questions…this time?"

Mewtwo snapped, "No. I'm not going to answer anything."

"But you know what's happened," the girl's voice sounded harsh. "Everyone knows you and Ness are dead. So join us, won't you?"

Young Link almost screamed, but Roy covered his mouth. He breathed, barely a whisper, into the boy's ear. "Let's get out. Now." They both crawled toward the door as silently as they could. Once they saw the welcoming light of the hall, they dashed towards it, running up the stairs and to Young Link's room. Slamming the door, Young Link's eyes were wide, and his breathing was heavy.

"Mewtwo and Ness are dead?!" he finally gasped out.

"Unbelievable…" Roy sat on the bed, staring at the wall. "How did that happen?"

"Who knows," Young Link shrugged, taking out the book he had tucked under his arm the whole time. "But let's get reading."

After half an hour of skimming through the book, Roy grinned. "Okay, some are afraid of fire," Roy lit his palm and tossed a ball of fire up and down. "That'll come in handy."

"But you've battled Mewtwo and Ness using fire before…what makes you so sure they're afraid of it?" Young Link asked.

"They may be, because they're ghosts now. Besides, the other ones that were at the table—they might be, too."

Young Link just nodded and continued to read. Then his stomach let out a humongous growl. "Oh…we skipped dinner while we were in the library…" Young Link observed.

"Yeah, we should get something to eat," Roy got up. "Coming?" The redhead noticed the boy had trouble tearing his eyes away from the book. "You know what, you stay here. I'll get is something and bring it back."

"Okay," Young Link replied, not looking up.

Roy softly closed the door and headed down the hall. He could hear the voices of his friends in the foyer, and checking the clock in the hall, it was about 8:30 PM. Some people would be heading to sleep if they were early risers. Hearing his own stomach growl, Roy stopped at the top of the stairs to look down the foyer. He smiled as Samus, Marth, Link, and Zelda stood in the hall, chatting casually. I'll just stop by and talk to them…I shouldn't break the news to them just yet…they're really gonna think I've lost my mind…I'll just hold it for now…

But Roy saw he was going to have to speak up sooner than he planned. In fact, he was going to have to speak up now. Mewtwo and Ness were coming out of the hall that lead to the Battle Arenas towards his friends.

"We need you four to come here for a second," Roy heard Ness spoke.

"No!" Roy shouted as he ran down the stairs. Who knew what those psychotic creeps would do to his friends! "Stay away from them, you guys!

"What's wrong with Roy?" Marth asked Link, who shrugged.

"You don't understand!" Roy almost reached the first floor, but stopped a few steps above on the stairs. "They're dead!"

Yeah, I don't actually know if ghosts are afraid of fire…I only know zombies are. Har har har.