Chapter 6: Princess Nyssa Traken of Arya
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Third person P.O.V
"My lady!" A girl with pixie cut red hair turned her grey horse around and galloped back towards the source of the noise. "You wanted to speak to me captain?"
"Yes my lady. Are you sure we're going in the right direction?" the captain inquired. "We've been traveling for three days now. How can we be sure she even came this way? Remember that you haven't seen her for two years."
Nyssa Traken nodded her head, "I know captain but you must trust me, after all I knew her best. She often spoke of this place, it must be where she is." Nyssa turned and continued on the trail, following it to the end of the forest. "See captain? Patience pays off," Nyssa pointed towards a large house. "That's where she is, I'm sure of it. Come on Blaze, let's go!"
Nyssa spurred her horse and she galloped down the hill. When she arrived in front of the mansion she dismounted and knocked on the door. A boy wearing a green tunic opened the door. "Who are you?" he asked.
"I am Nyssa Traken, Princess of Arya and I am here to speak with the other princess," Nyssa replied. The boy looked at her; in her red tank top, brown shorts and orange converse she certainly didn't look like a princess.
"Which one, Princess Zelda of Hyrule or Princess Peach?"
"None of them," Nyssa told him, "she would have the same last name as me."
The boy shook his head, "Sorry but I don't know any Trakens."
"That can't be right; she often spoke of coming here. Could I come inside and see if I can spot her?" Nyssa asked confused.
"Sure follow me. My name is Link." Link led the princess inside. "Today's Sunday so there's no brawls at the moment and everyone around our age is in the smaller common room picking a movie to watch later." Nyssa followed Link into a smallish room where other teenagers sat talking. "So did you come to see Zelda or Pe-" Link was interrupted when Nyssa flew across the room at one of the teenage girls sitting on the couch.
"Hey sis!"
Nyssa's sister P.O.V
(You didn't think I would give it away just yet did you?J)
A girl with pixie cut red hair flew across the room yelling "Hey sis!" and hugged me.
"Long time no see huh?" I gasped trying to get my breath back. The other smashers were laughing at me.
"So if Nyssa is your sister then that makes you a princess too doesn't it?" Roy asked.
"Yes it does," I sighed.
"Princess Nephelle Traken," he mused, "never saw that one coming. How come you never told us?"
"Because I didn't want you to know; my family is kind of complicated."
"Anyway Nephelle, our birthday is next week, you need to come back to Arya with me for our coronation." Nyssa turned to me.
"Coronation? Shouldn't your parents already be the king and queen?" Marth asked.
"They're dead," I said shortly. Marth nodded and dropped the subject.
"Oh, also it would be good if you could bring, like maybe, a couple of warriors with you and maybe a mercenary." Nyssa told me.
"Why on earth would I do that?" I asked confused.
"Did I forget to tell you? We're kind of fighting another country right now."
"How did you screw up so badly?" I asked shaking my head. "I know you have a talent for pissing people off, but this seems extreme."
Nyssa laughed, "Jeez you worry too much, and it's just a border skirmish."
"But let me guess, you taunted them one too many times and now they wish you harm," I retorted.
"My ladies, if I can interrupt," the Captain entered the room. He bowed to me and said "It has been a while Princess." I nodded before Captain Notaro continued, "Before the king and queen died, they left specific instructions that, if you were to ever have your coronation, it would be on the 2nd of August." Nyssa looked at me and we were both thinking the same thing: brother's birthday.
"So, she won't let us be crowned on our birthday but instead she wants us to wait until our dead brother's birthday?" Nyssa questioned angrily.
"She said it was for sentimental reasons my lady," Captain Notaro informed us. More like to remind us of our failures, I thought. "My lady do you think you will be alright here until I return the week before August 2nd?" Norato asked Nyssa. Nyssa and I looked over at my friends who were all nodding enthusiastically. "Yeah, I'll be fine," Nyssa grinned.
"So, this is smash mansion." Hollis and I had volunteered to show Nyssa around before dinner. She had brought her golden dragon Kilgarrah and he was flying around with Nova (by the way, the dragons are siblings). As kids Nyssa and I had both played the SSB game so we were both familiar with how the brawls worked. In the end we just sat in my room and killed time playing video games. "No, Red don't do that, can't you see Green- YOU IDIOT!" Nyssa hollered at Red Link. The three of us were playing a multiplayer mini game on Four Swords and Hollis aka Green, had just killed her.
"Ha ha!" Hollis laughed, "Looks like I win again- oh damn- RUN GREEN RUN! Not that way you dummy!" I had snuck up behind her with the little hat on then grew to full size and killed her with a bomb.
"Sorry guys but Purple is always the winner," I gloated.
Not soon after the three of us went down to the dining room and joined the others for dinner. Master Hand introduced Nyssa and some people were confused as to why another new smasher had shown up with no warning, but when he explained that she was my twin sister and a princess they nodded like that made sense but did a double take; it meant that I was a princess too! Luckily that didn't mean that I would be treated any different which was exactly what I wanted so I was perfectly happy.
"Your sister sure is popular," Marth noted. I was sitting beside Nyssa and Marth across from Hollis and Samus.
"It's like a role reversal," I joked, "usually she's the guarded one and I'm the social butterfly." Marth smiled at my joke then turned to have a conversation with Roy. I pulled out a book and spent dinner pretty much ignoring everyone. It was awesome.
"Hey are you coming or what?" I looked up to see Hollis staring at me. "We're going to watch the movie but since you were so absorbed in your book you didn't see us leave."
"Yeah, yeah I'm coming," I said getting up. The two of us made our way to the smaller common room. All of our friends were already there and trying to pick a movie.
"So what should we watch, Doctor Who or Sherlock?" Nyssa smiled innocently at us as we came in the room.
"Uh how about neither?" Hollis suggested rolling her eyes.
"We need to find a movie that everyone will like," I added. Nyssa let out an exaggerated sigh and flopped down on a couch.
"You do it then if you're so smart." Hollis and Link dug through some boxes of movies while me and Roy looked at Netflix, stopping every once in a while to hear suggestions or play a preview. We finally settled on 'The Avengers' (about the MARVEL superheroes) which promised to be both funny (Tony Stark, duh!) and full of adventure.
Peach went to make popcorn while everyone settled down to watch the movie; Pit sat in a chair, Link and Zelda were on the floor, Nyssa and Hollis were on another couch, Samus also sat in a chair and the last couch was occupied by Ike, Marth and Roy who were smacking each other with pillows. I sat on the floor in between the last two couches so I could annoy all my friends in one go. When the movie started everyone quieted down and no one said anything for the first twenty minutes, but Nyssa couldn't resist quoting the Avengers as they said their lines; she'd seen this movie many times.
Roy then dropped a pillow on my head and when I turned to glare at him he mouthed 'smack Nyssa'. She was getting pretty annoying. Without even looking I reached back with the pillow and smacked Nyssa in the face. "Sorry sister dear, but could you shut up? We don't need you showing off your great intellect until after we're finished the movie." I knew Nyssa and the one fool proof way to get her to shut up was: quote someone from one of her many fandoms. Sure enough the Sherlock reference made her so happy that she let us watch the rest of the movie in near peace. A room full of teenagers can't keep total silence for long.
After the movie some people hung back but most of us went up to our rooms. "I am soooo tired," Hollis gave an exaggerated yawn. "I'm going to go straight to sleep tonight, no video games."
"Surely you must be joking," I laughed. Instead of following my friends I went in a different direction, and soon I was just wandering aimlessly around the mansion getting my thoughts together.
Suddenly, I felt someone tapping my shoulder, "You know your room is on the complete opposite side of the mansion right?" Marth smirked.
"Yeah I know. I didn't feel like going to sleep yet," I told him.
"So, you okay? You've been acting kind of weird since your sister showed up," he said. Someone had been bound to notice my out of place behavior. It's not that I didn't want Nyssa here, but the fact that she was here meant that my past was catching up with me; not something I liked to let it do. "Hard to see your sister again huh?" I blinked, totally surprised.
"How could you tell?"
Marth shrugged. "Well I guess you're right. I had kind of a rough past and I don't like to think about it. Seeing Nyssa again makes it harder for me to pretend that some stuff was fake," I muttered. This is awkward.
"Maybe talking about it will help," Marth suggested.
"That'd take all night!" I joked but then I nodded. Marth had been a really good friend to me so I figured what the hell. "People were bound to find out anyway I guess. This might take a while though…"
And that's chapter 6! Thank you for reading and feel free to review on your way out. Don't forget: updates tomorrow too!