Chapter 35: The castle of The Master

They walked through the endless corridors of The Master's castle. Everywhere they looked it was the same. Shadows stretching out as though to grab them and devour them, just like they were devouring the hallway behind them and in front of them. Suddenly Ness stopped walking.

"Its pointless to keep walking." He sighed looking around. "We are all ready in his trap. All we have been doing is walking around in circles."

"How do you know that?"

"The last time we passed here I marked that suit of armor." Ness explained pointing at a rather big gash across the suit of armor. "I think the Master has designed this castle so that those who just rely on strength to get to him will fail. And so we have to think outside of the box. So now we have to look for another path." Ness paused and looked around. "In fact this feels more like a test for something much more grand."

"The Master is testing us?" Everyone said synchronized.

"Well that's what I think at least." Ness replied.

They continued to walk forwards until they noticed a door that was in plain sight. "Why do I think we are just blind?" Pikachu asked.

They walked through the door and noticed another door at the end of the room and walked into there. This progressed for seven more rooms. Link opened the final door and saw a fleet of stairs. "This is it." He said feeling the Master's presence at the top of the stairs. There was no response.

Link looked around. He knew now that he was alone for the upcoming battle. The castle had defeated his friends. He just looked up the staircase and began to walk up.

Fox stared wide-eyed at the person in front of him. It was none other than his father James McCloud.

"Fox you've grown!" James said. Fox didn't reply, most likely because he was in shock. "I know what you are thinking son, you want to know if I am really your father."

With that Fox pulled the trigger and shot his father at point blank. "The answer was no," Fox responded. "He's dead and I've accepted that fact. And even if you were my father I still would of shot you. My job as captain of the Great Fox is to protect my crew, and even if my own father were to step in front of me I would kill him."

Mario and Luigi were in Princess Peach's castle at the Throne room. "Thank you for rescuing me Mario." Princess Peach said. Luigi just stood there shocked for not being recognized for all the hard work that he did.

"It doesn't have to be like this," A voice whispered into Luigi's ear, panicking Luigi quickly looked around to see who was talking to him. "You won't find me…" the voice said again. "You can kill Mario and get all the credit yourself."

Meanwhile the same voice was whispering into Mario's ear. "Luigi hates you, and will try to kill you. Look at his hand all ready it is charging up with energy. He wants all the praise for himself, he wants to be known as the one who took down Bowser and rescued the Princess."

Both Mario and Luigi's hands charged up with energy. Princess Peach smiled devilishly. With out any warning two fireballs were sent at Princess Peach. When they hit her she disappeared along with the rest of the illusion.

"Know this!" Mario and Luigi shouted out at the same time. "We are never going to go against each other!"

Pikachu was watching the same nightmare that he had been tormented with for a long time, his brother's death. The events transpired in front of him.

"Why did you let that happen?" Dark Pikachu asked appearing in the air. "I would still be alive if you had stopped his murder!" Pikachu just walked away from the taunting however Dark Pikachu just reappeared in front of him. Blocking his path no matter what way he moved. Pikachu fiercely looked at Dark Pikachu. "Yes I can feel the hate in you! Let it build up and let me be reborn." The electric lance appeared in Pikachu's mouth and he stabbed it into Dark Pikachu.

"Get out of my way!" Pikachu demanded.

"So you can go kill The Master. But will his death bring back our little brother? Will it bring me back?"

"No, but it will stop me from having the reoccurring nightmares." Dark Pikachu began to disappear and Pikachu walked on.

Kirby, DK and Yoshi were in front of piles of food. DK seemed only interested in a pile of bananas while Yoshi and Kirby were staring at everything else.

"Wait!" Kirby yelled before they were going to run towards the food. "We are still in The Master's castle what if he poisoned the food?"

They all thought it over for a few moments until they moved on resisting the temptation of the food.

Samus had her eyes closed and her blaster arm up. With out any notice she was completely surrounded by Space Pirates. She just smiled as she proceeded to kill every one with little effort. When that was done she continued to walk forwards.

Captain Falcon was racing around a track. He could feel it he lived for this. Each second he heart beat faster. When one other racer tried to pass him Facon accelerated further and began to swerve to make sure the person couldn't pass him. He was then violently sent flying forwards. When he opened his eyes he was back in a room in the Master's castle.

"You looked incredibly stupid" Samus said, her arm cannon smoking.

Jigglypuff was singing in front of thousands of people each one was cheering her on. However she noticed something odd about them. None of them were falling asleep. Even after she stopped singing they continued to cheer her on. With that she walked off the stage she was still able to hear their cheers.

Ness's eyes were watering as he used his PSI to break the illusion. The other ten warriors walked through the doorway.

"Where's Link?" They asked.

"He is probably all ready fighting the Master." Ness replied.

Link stopped walking up the stairs and had come face to face with a giant door. He pushed against it and opened it to the final battle.

To be continued…

Its impossible, I can't actually be reaching the end of this story!