Chapter 2, but I have a feeling no one likes deaths...oh well, I kind of wanted to finish it anyway.
The death part won't be until Chap 3 so heads up on that. (one note: Marth or Ike won't die)
I translated what Ike and Roy said in Japanese when they win a battle, so it might be confusing.
After seeing Marth cry that afternoon, I wondered if he ever came back to that spot. I doubt he did, but I went there anyway. The trees on that lonely walkway were starting to gather leaves again after a long, cold season. It didn't take a long time to walk when I found that blue figure again.
Marth was walking with an arched back, along with sloping shoulders. This time, I came up to him carefully and asked.
"Taking a walk again?"
"Yeah, it feels nice here at this time of day."
"...yeah."
That's all we talked, but it was better than yesterday. After a long pause, I thought I saw Marth smile, probably not to me, but it was the slightest change that ever occurred on his face during the whole walk.
A week passed by like that, quiet and gently. He finally started to look at my eyes when he spoke to me. That's good, but I was still worried why he was acting so strange to me. Every time we walk together, Marth's back was straight, and his walking was a little faster. Marth doesn't cry in front of me, or anyone anymore, but I thought I heard a sniffle when he went back in his dorm room.
In battles, he attacks more often now. ...until that one day that I won.
"I'm only fighting for the ones that I care about"
Once I said so, I saw a slight flicker in Marth's eyes. But that was only for a short moment, and he quickly went back to applauding. If you were blinking, you would've missed it. Nobody seemed to notice his change. Marth said he didn't feel well, and went back in his room without dinner.
As I watched him go in, he had that arched back and sloping shoulders again. I didn't understand why at that time, but we had dinner without him. Kirby and Yoshi were fighting over the last piece of food, Mario and Captain Falcon were laughing at whatever they were talking about, Link was talking to Ness, convincing Lucas to eat the carrots he was poking at. The seat next to me was empty, where Marth finally sat a couple days ago. He started talking about how his world was, what he did when he came here, etc. The plates were set, undisturbed.
Everybody around me seemed like a blur. It was so colorful just yesterday, but now it looked like a dull splash of things. It was as if I was completely still, and there was life all around me, occurring so fast. I was probably the black cloud, and everybody else was a rainbow.
Peach noticed me, and she tapped my shoulder after dinner. She had a serious look in her eyes, and I was surprised. Peach never had such hard stares before, or as I noticed. She was always so happy and smiling. So every time someone noticed us, they would turn away. I guess most of them know that look in her eyes.
"Now I know why Marth's been avoiding you."
"You do?"
"Why haven't I known...He had that same look when Pit came here. ...do you know why?"
"...no,"
Peach sighed, and quickly wrote down a note. It had a title of the book.
On the sixth floor of this place, was a giant library. It had a terrace, so I sometimes use it to take a rest. But I've never looked through the library itself. Nobody was here, and the sound of my boots on the wooden floor was echoing. I found the book that was on Peach's note. It wasn't so old, but some of the pages were bent.
"The Previous Smashers..."
I took that to my room. I looked through Marth's past, and I saw that he had a hard one. He once thought of committing suicide before he came here. I couldn't believe so, seeing him so joyful with the other Smashers. But that doesn't necessarily have a connection with him avoiding me. But in the next column, I took in a breath.
"...Roy Pharae,"
He appeared like Pit, but I knew he was a different person. He had strong blue eyes that told me he had experience in war too. But he's not really alike to me.
"Went to war as young as fifteen years old, Roy Pharae's father, Eliwood was very ill at the time. Roy was afraid of his own power of being a commander. But after joining Smash Brothers, Roy had more courage and belief in himself. He had a sword called "Sealed Sword" and that weapon breathed fire at times."
...a sword, that breathes fire.
"He was very protective of his people, and that must've been why his winning sayings reflected that. They were "I'm not going to lose", "It was a difficult battle", and...
..."I can't lose for the people I care about"
I didn't know, that it was so similar.
I jumped out of my room and ran to Marth's door. The building was quiet, so I assumed everyone was asleep. But Marth likes to read at night so I thought he might be awake. As I guessed, I saw a dim light spilling from the door, and I tried to grabbed the door knob. I stopped when I heard a stifling cry.
"...why did...r, Roy, why..."
I dropped my hands, and waited for Marth to stop. He kept on for fifteen minutes, and I couldn't do anything. I could image him cupping his face and trying not to let out a horrible sob. Why did he have to cry so horribly?
I was getting irritated by myself, and I turned to leave.
Then, the door opened.
"...Ike,"
"M, Mar..."
The looks in his eyes glowered in anger.
"Since when were you here?"
"...I..."
"Don't tell me you've came to hear me cry."
I couldn't say anything back, and I closed my eyes in regret. I remembered Peach's advice that felt like a year ago.
"Yeah, but don't go too straight all the sudden. He may be really fragile right now so be nice to him."
Then I thought,
Isn't that the opposite?
I opened my eyes.
"I know you're not the kind of person who cries so often."
Marth's face took in a dramatic change of anger to surprise. I didn't know if he was surprised in how I said that back, but I continued.
"I sometimes look at you from far away, and it's so different when you talk to me than to others. I wondered why, so I tried to talk to you that first day we went on a walk. But then you started crying so I was surprised..."
"Wh, what's your point?"
"My point is, how much longer are you going to drag on what happened on the last Smash Brothers?"
I guessed that worked, because Marth's mouth fell open with a gasp.
"I, Ike...you..."
"Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be waiting on that walkway. So...just sleep now."
I turned around again to my dorm room. He stood there, like how I did.
The next chapter's the last one, if anyone's reading;-;
It's a semi-happy ending, not a bad one. I hate writing bad endings.