Chapter 5: Breakfast
AN: Hello everyone! How do you like the story so far? I know that what Hollis says in the first paragraph has spelling/word choice mistakes. She's not a morning person. Thanks to AnimeGmr101 for the favourite.
"Hollis… Hollis...HOLLIS!" I yelled. Hollis shot straight up and looked around. "Whas goin' on?" she mumbled rubbing sleep from her eyes. "It's time to get up silly." I told her. Hollis leaned over and checked the clock. "It's only 7:30! Going back to sleep." She rolled over. "Well I usually get up at 6:30 so feel lucky that I didn't wake you up then." I snapped pulling off the blankets. Finally, I managed to get Hollis out of bed and down the stairs. She was wearing her usual green hoodie and jeans but at least I got her to brush her hair.
When we got downstairs, most of my friends were already there with the exception of Pit. "I take it Hollis isn't a morning person," Marth smirked when we walked in. "No and I'm proud of it." Hollis stated as she made a beeline for the pancakes, piling five of them on her plate, which she then drowned in maple syrup. When we sat down, Hollis noticed Link staring at her. "What is your deal?" she snapped. "Nothing," Link shook his head, "it's just, do you usually eat that much?" Hollis looked down at her plate, "Now that you mention it, I usually eat more than this. Why?" "How are you not fat yet?" Link asked. Hollis jumped up. "Are you calling me fat?" Hollis glared at Link.
Hollis and Link got in a very heated argument. I sighed and finished my breakfast and walked over to my friends. "Can we go train now? I've had enough of this," I pointed at Hollis who had Link in a headlock. So much for not being a morning person. Roy nodded, "Sure. But before we go, do you have a camera on you?" I was surprised. "I have a phone, why?" Roy grinned evilly. "Can you take a picture of this? It'll be great for blackmail if Link ever gets cold feet." If Link got cold feet, I don't think whatever they were doing would be a good idea but I took the picture anyway.
Hollis joined us half an hour later in the arena. The first brawl of the day was a timed team battle. Me and Hollis were blue team and the Ice Climbers were the green team. When the brawl started we would all be teleported to The Bridge of Eldin which was one of my favourite arenas. "What's the plan?" I whispered to Hollis.
"Kill everyone not on our team."
"Ha, ha. Be serious for once would you?" I rolled my eyes. Hollis huffed, "Fine then if it's such a big deal. So in the beginning basically do whatever to win, but try to keep them separated. When the smash ball comes, I need you to keep them busy while I get it. We good so far?" I nodded. So far the plan was simple yet effective. "After I've summoned the wave the entire stage will be wet so I need you to freeze it over then once we deal them critical damage, turn it into spikes or something so that we win, 'Kay?" "A lot of this rides on chance," I said, "but I think it might work." Hollis grinned, "So let's do it!"
"3…2…1…GO! The Ice Climbers Nana and Popo ran towards us sticking together like usual. We held our ground until the last second then I pushed Nana to one side of the stage with my powers and ran after her, while Hollis leapt over Popo then blocked his escape with her sword. We were able to deal a significant amount of damage and make the twins think our entire plan was to separate them. Very slowly, Hollis and I let ourselves be pushed towards the center as the twins gathered strength. By this time Hollis and I were pretty much back to back so when the twins sung their hammers, we jumped out of the way as they hit each other. Since they were on the same team, the attacks wouldn't deal any damage but the momentum (and a bomb drooped by one of the Boboblins) shoved the twins towards opposite ends of the arena again where Hollis sung her sword, and I swung my ice whip and knocked them out of the arena.
We grinned and high fived, turning our heads to see the Ice Climbers, and the smash ball come back into the arena. Hollis summoned a small spurt of water which pelted the ball but it stayed intact; that is until Popo hit it with his hammer before dropping down into the arena. "Oh dang- Nephelle move!" Hollis hollered at me before the twins shouted and summoned an ice burg directly where I'd been standing.
Control the ice. You can do this, it's your element. I thought to myself as I stood on the top of the ice burg with my eyes closed concentrating hard. I was dimly aware of Hollis shouting something at me but that wasn't important. All that mattered was bending the ice. All aspects of snow and ice are yours to control. Think of your power not only as a weapon, but as an extension of your mind and body. Slowly at first, I felt the ice moving to my whims. It might not have been my power, but it was my element and I was stronger-it would move. The ice burg vanished and I dropped to the ground and opened my eyes. I felt different, stronger somehow.
I looked over at Hollis who had backed up to avoid taking serious damage. "You okay?" "Am I okay? You're the one who just stood right in the middle of a final smash!" She grinned. "What? That should have hurt you!" Nana exclaimed and I smirked. "News flash kids: don't try to fight an ice mage with her own element. Strike!I commanded and all the ice power that had been building up in me rushed out in the form of a giant ice beam that hit the twins so hard, it killed them even though they didn't have any damage; and just in time too. "GAME! The winner is… BLUE TEAM!"
"That was incredible!" Hollis exclaimed as we left the arena. "I didn't know you could do that!" "Neither did I," I admitted. No one was surprised by the fact that I controlled ice (they already knew that) but at the fact that I had controlled someone's final smash, which was supposed to be impossible. After that fight, the rest of them seemed more laid back to me. Everyone kept watching to see if I could do it again but I didn't. Maybe the power needed to charge or something or I could only use when I was in serious trouble.
Roy tried to get me to do it again in a training session after but it just wasn't working. "I don't think you're doing it right." He insisted stubbornly but after an hour and a half, even he had to admit that I wasn't going to be able to do that again for a while. "Well, at least we know you can do that," Marth said. "It might come in handy later." "Maybe," I replied but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
So that's how most days in the smash mansion went; breakfast, training, brawling and lots of arguing. At dinner one night I realized that I finally felt like I belonged somewhere.
If you guys remember, I mentioned that I would be introducing a character named Nyssa in chapter 6. Care to guess who she might be? Leave a review with your guess and I'll tell you who's right in the next chapter. Also if you see Underline and italics, it's Nephelle/Nyssa speaking a different language which I was too lazy to come up with. I know controlling the final smash seems kind of overpowered, but that wasn't my intention. Having a lot of control over her element is something super important in later chapters. The final smash control thing doesn't happen again (I think) and it isn't something she can use willingly. Sorry about the long end note, I just wanted to explain about the Marry Sueishness.