The Super Smash
Author's notes
YAY!! Finely someone gets to use the super smash, I'm not telling who though you will just have to read.
I can't believe I'm getting two chapters so quickly, it's not normal for me 0.0 I am shock-ed and amaz-ed. I guess my life has dramatically calmed down XD
I had way way to much fun writeing this one :D
Anyway, enjoy!
Thanks for reading
K.J DarKnight (dangit all I keep almost signing my real name XP)
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Fox lead the group, Red in the middle and Falco taking up the rear, claiming to 'Cover the tracks'
"Cover the tracks? Falco you're a pilot you don't know the first thing about tracks" Fox pointed out rolling his eyes. Falco scowled picking up a stick he chucked it at Fox but missed by a few inches, Fox smirked.
"I do know a thing or two about tracks and a certainly know dragging your feet doesn't help" Falco said angrily, still hungry and upset. Fox planted his feet and pointedly dragged them, not picking them up at all. Falco through up his wings in frustration and Red chuckled to himself.
"What are you laughing at boy!" Falco growled casting him a nasty glare.
"Nothing I wa…." Falco cut him short pointing a feather accusingly at him.
"I think you both want Wolf to find us, see if I care" Falco folded his wings and continued to stomp moodily along causing puffs of dirt to fly into the air. It wasn't to long before Falco broke off in a coughing fit. Fox and Red fallowed suit from all the dust the combined effort of Falco and Fox had kicked up it wasn't surprising.
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Wolf smiled showing off his teeth, ahead of him he could clearly see a set of tracks leading into the forest, the dirt made it easy for Wolf to track his prey.
"In the air you may lose me, on land you leave a clear trail Fox, I will have you and your little friend very soon" Wolf said fallowing the trail.
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"Ok lets agree to kick up as little of this stuff as possible" Red said whence the coughing had stopped.
"Agreed" Fox said coughing a couple more times. Falco just nodded in agreement.
"I told you not to drag your feet" Falco complained as they started moving again.
"You didn't know that would happen" Fox said folding his arms again, the two pilots seemed almost eager to get on each others cases.
"Will both of you guy's shut it, I think I hear something" Red said stopping to listen. The other two stopped as well, for several moments nobody seemed to even breath.
"I don't hear anything kid, you must be hearing things" Falco said and began walking once more.
"Sorry to agree with Falco but I don't hear anything either Red" Fox said looking at him with a shrug. Red sighed and kept moving too, but continued listening for anything else.
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The group had to sit around the largest table now, their group seemed to grow day by day. Marth Link and Ike sat along one side of the table Gorleth Alara Peach and pit on the other. Peach sat directly across from Marth she would have liked to sit next to him but Link was courteous enough to sit there before she could.
"Ok we know how many there are and where they come from, but how in the world are just the four of us going to take these things on?" Ike said seeming a bit frustrated, Link had explained what he and Peach and seen but they hadn't gotten anywhere on any further planning.
"Five, I can help to" Everyone looked at Peach, she smiled sweetly, Ike spoke up first
"Four" he said again, Peach jutted out her lower lip and pouted
"No offence Peach but it's to dangerous, we aren't even letting Alara come along" Marth explained kindly. Peach sighed and looked at Marth.
"Anything you say" she said purposely sounding dreamy. Marth looked at her as if she was crazy, but only for a half a second before looking away.
"Well we aren't getting anywhere tonight, why don't we all sleep on it, we will all have clear heads in the morning" Gorleth suggested earning nods and mumbled agreements.
"Well I will head home for the night then" Alara said as she got up.
"Maybe you should stay Alara, it's not safe out there especially at night" Pit said only worried for her. Alara smiled softly brushing a stray strand of red hair from her face.
"I'll be fine Pit, don't worry about me" Alara assured pulling her jacket on.
"At least let me escort you home" Marth said getting up, he wasn't taking no for an answer.
"You might as well stay there the night Marth, I only have two rooms available" Gorleth added, Marth looked at Alara for her answer.
"Alright, that would be fine, I have a spare room" Alara agreed
'I'm going to then" Peach chimed jumping to her feet, the last thing she wanted was for Marth to go out of her site.
"No Peach, this inn still needs a woman's touch" Marth said kindly, before going quickly after Alara who had already left.
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"Thank you Alara, for letting me come along" Marth said as they walked
"Well it certainly wouldn't have been very nice of me to leave you with Peach" Alara said smirking. Marth smiled
"Yes that would have been entirely unfair" Marth said seriously but then smiled
"At least she's a Princess, she's got that going for her" Alara commented
"What does that matter?" Marth asked looking at Alara.
"Well…She at least has a chance with men like you, I'm just a commoner, nothing special" Alara blushed some and looked at the dirty ground. Marth stopped and looked at her, she stopped as well but didn't look up.
"On the contrary Alara" Marth gently reached out and lifted her chin so she would look at him.
"She might be a princess, but you don't need that title to make you special, you are beautiful, smart, brave, and not annoying. You have far better chances then she does" Marth said honestly, Alara blushed and looked down as soon as Marth moved his hand away.
"No more talk of not being good enough alright" Marth said smiling at her. Alara looked up and smiled too.
"Let's keep moving, we still have a way's to go" Alara said to change the subject. Marth nodded and the two of them continued walking. Neither of them spoke for several moments.
"So you live alone right?" Marth asked to break the silence. Alara nodded
"My family was killed by 'them' Gorleth and the Inn is all I have left now" Alara explained.
"If that's all you have, why don't you just stay at the Inn?" Alara sighed at the question
"He only has to rooms available, if I did there wouldn't be anywhere for all of you to stay" Alara said simply.
"There must be more rooms in the Inn, and I haven't seen any other patrons" Marth pointed out. Alara bit the inside of her lip, as if considering saying something more.
"Well, Gorleth won't say anything, but the other rooms are full of people 'they' have injured, more die every day and more come to fill their places. Gorleth has this underground passage they use to keep 'them' from finding out, I'm afraid if they do then they will come after Gorleth" Alara explained watching the dirty ground as she walked.
"Why hasn't he said anything? He knows we want to help" Marth said surprised at the new information. Alara shook her head
"He doesn't want to concern you with it, there's nothing more that can be done but make these people comfortable till the end. Those things have some kind of poison in them that slowly kills people." Alara said still watching the ground.
"Maybe there is something, Pit might know" Marth said only wanting to help.
"I will ask him" he said decidedly. Alara looked abruptly up shaking her head
"No no you can't, Gorleth can't find out I told you anything"
"And why not? What harm would it do?" Marth asked, only wanting to understand.
"Please just don't say anything" Alara pleaded with him, Marth sighed
"Alright, I won't breath a word" Marth promised. Alara slowly nodded.
"Thank you Marth" she said softly. Marth smiled
"You're welcome"
The two of them walked along in silence for a time neither one of them knowing what to say now. The dark streets they walked along seemed to become more narrow and darker until at long last Alara stopped in front of one of the buildings. Like the rest all the doors and windows were boarded up. Unlike the others however there were claw marks along the side of the building and around the front door as if one of 'Them' had tried to claw it's way in and perhaps succeeded, it was hard to tell now however.
Alara walked to the front door and unlocked it, stepping inside she waited for Marth, as soon as they were both in she closed and locked the it.
"Um, can I get you anything before we head to bed?" Alara asked though not really sure what she could offer him, her pantries were nearly bare now.
"No thank you" Marth said but smiled.
"I'll show you to your room then" she said simply and lead the way up the steps, Marth stopped her half way up. Taking her arm he gently pulled her back , drawing his sword.
"What is it?" Alara asked slightly alarmed. Marth nodded to the floor, Alara looked down to see spots of green slime on the carpet.
"Stay behind me" Marth instructed as he moved forward up the steps, he didn't know where it was and he felt more comfortable at least knowing where Alara was so he could defend her if needed.
Marth had only just reached the top step one something black slammed into him knocking him back into Alara. All of them tumbled back down the steps. Marth could smell the foul rotten outer of the creatures slimy breath and could feel it's claws in his shoulders and chest. As he hit the ground floor the breath was knocked out of him, landing on his back with the seven foot monster on top of him. With a horrendous shriek the creature jumped back, Marth felt his sword slip from his fingers, it had embedded itself in the monsters arm. Marth knew he had to act quick, gasping in air he got to one knee, taking a quick glance around he spotted Alara on the floor not far away.
Marth jumped to his feet and with speed and agility he rushed the creature, grabbing the hilt of his sword he yanked it out but only to lose hold of it again as the monster whacked him with one powerful arm throwing him onto the other wall, again knocking the breath out of him, Marth crumpled to the floor temporarily stunned.
When Marth came to it was only a few moment later but it had Alara trapped up against a wall it's beak like mouth inches from her. Marth acted quickly grabbing his blade he scrambled quickly to his feet and swung. Though the blade barely nicked it the creature fell to the side. Marth took the opportunity, running to Alara he grabbed her arm and pulled her with him as he ran for it.
"Downstairs!" Alara shouted "There's a seller it can't get in there" Alara pulled her arm free and ran ahead of Marth leading the way. Marth chanced a look back, the monster was on their tale on all fours. The entire house shook from it's wait, ahead of him Alara stumbled from all the shaking and fell to the floor. There was no time, Marth spun around and lifted his sword high above his head, it glowed white and Marth's entire being seemed to glow blue, with a swift motion he moved forward and swung. The creature flew backwards crashing through several walls till it slammed into the stone wall of the neighboring building and collapsed. The powerful swing lifted all the grey dirt and dust and swirled it around him like a cloud. Alara covered her face with her arm as the air rushed towards here.
Marth dropped to his knees coughing violently, Alara with one arm wrapped around her face and eyes closed ran into the cloud of dirt, quickly finding Marth she pulled him to his feet and helped him out of the slowly falling cloud. Marth was still coughing by the time they got away from it.
"Marth? Are you alright?" Alara asked concerned. Marth could barely hear her concerned words, he nodded all the same. Marth felt himself falling but he couldn't stop it, Alara tried in vane to hold him up.
"Stay with me Marth" Alara's words seemed distant and garbled. Everything went dark after that.
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Ike stood up stretching his arms, Pit had gone off to the kitchen insisting on helping Gorleth clean up.
"Well I'm off to bed then" Ike yawned and turned for the stairs.
"Where do I sleep?" Peach demanded more then asked.
"On the floor for all I car" Ike said bluntly before disappearing up the stairs. Peach pouted again then looked at Link who sat alone now at the table, lost in his own thoughts.
"You're just going to sit there and let him insult me like that!" Peach said folding her arms. Link looked up.
"What? Sorry?" Link said confused as to what she might be referring to.
"You people are all useless, you let him insult me and expect me to sleep on the floor?" Peach demanded sounding upset. Link sighed.
"Take my room I don't care" he said calmly. Peach's shoulders slumped slightly with the lack of attention she was getting. Peach through her hands up in frustration.
"You people have no respect for royalty!" she almost shouted at him as she got up. Link sighed again but at the moment he didn't care much.
"Look I saved your but enough today, why don't you just be happy and stalk on up to the room and get off my case" Link said also standing now. Peach put her hands on her hips and was about to tell him off when Pit stepped in.
"Calm down you two, the last thing we need is fighting amongst ourselves" Pit said calmly.
"Princess, why don't you come upstairs with me and I'll show you were you can sleep" Pit offered. Peach folded her arms and looked down at Pit.
"Fine" she said simply then fallowed the angel upstairs leaving Link alone in the dining area.
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Link sat back down at the table immediately hearing the all to familiar laugh.
"I don't want to hear it Midna" Link groaned.
"I've been annoyed enough for one day" Link helplessly watched as Midna's shadowy form appeared.
"You sure have a way of attracting royalty" Midna laughed. Link sighed and folded his arms on the table, resting his head there and stared at the warn wooden table.
"Shut up will you" Link groaned. To his surprise she did, looking up she was gone and instead there stood Gorleth.
"You should rest Link, you need it" he said kindly.
"Thank you but I have a feeling something bad is going to happen, I intend to be awake for it" Link said. Gorleth nodded in understanding.
"Well I shall see you in the morning then" Gorleth said with a smile and went on his way to his room in the back.
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Link was beginning to nod off when he felt it, the ground shook. Link practically jumped to his feet causing the chair he had been sitting on to clatter to the ground but he ignored that and remained tensed his hand on the hilt of his blade. Link slowly drew the blade as he heard something scratching at the door he could hear the wood as it began to splinter, Link could almost smell the rotten breath of 'Them'.
Pit came into the room seeing Link ready for a fight he fallowed his gaze to the door.
"Pit get Ike up" Link said in a hushed tone, Pit nodded, he light feet made now sound on the creaky stairs.
The tri force on Links hand began to glow just as the door burst open, Link cried out in rage, light shot out and trapped the creature, Link lunged forward and slashed repeatedly at it but each time his blade glanced off it's rough scales.
Link was vaguely aware of the creaking stairs as Ike descended but that was unimportant, this creature had to die. Link had to jump back as the light faded and the creature was released, the blade had done little damage but the light had seared most of it's scales. Before it could move Pit fired his already aimed arrow, it shot forward striking the monster right in the middle of it's head, it reared back making a sort of shrieking sound that caused Link to drop and cover his ears.
Ike and Pit only flinched at the sound though despite it Ike lunged forward thrusting his large golden blade into the creatures gut, to his surprise the blade pierced it's scales and hit home cutting it off mid shriek. Pit fired again knocking it back, it crumpled to the ground pulling itself free from Ike's blade. Right before their eyes it began to smolder and turn to ash and from ash it turned into the same grey dirt.
Link got back to his feet picked up his blade and sheathed it.
"At least now we know we can kill 'Them'" he commented, Ike and Pit both nodded.
"Let's get this door fixed up" Ike picked up the now splintered door. Gorleth having been awakened by all the commotion was standing behind all of them a shocked look on his face.
"You killed it" he said still shocked he stared at the pile of dirt that had once been a threat. All three of them looked at him but not a word was spoken as they heard someone calling from the back.
"Gorleth?" the door to Gorleths room swung open and there was Alara, she looked worried.
"Gorleth it's Marth, he's been injured" she said hurriedly….
To be continued…….