Three Princesses, One Wish
Next chapter. Yay! Fight scene!
Sparkly love from sparkleeyes20.
Chapter 17
The men saw the girls almost at the village before they finally began to run after them. They didn't want the three women to get hurt; they loved them too much for that. Meta-knight was worried the most. He finally got to tell Zelda the truth but never got her opinion on the matter. They had almost reached the girls when the three in front of them stopped to stand next to the man in red. They stopped as well and waited in anticipation as to what would happen. The man turned and saw the three girls then smiled wickedly.
"There you three are!" he exclaimed.
The three stood there without emotion. The man looked them over one at a time.
"Zelda," he said to the woman in blue.
"Father," she responded.
"Ilia," he said turning to the woman in yellow.
"Dad," Ilia growled.
"Seria," he said in a light voice to the woman in pink.
"Daddy," Seria spat with a glare.
"I've been looking everywhere for you three. Now come along home, your sister is waiting for you," he told the three in a sickly sweet voice.
Zelda looked to Seria and Ilia one last time. After seeing their nods, she turned to the man.
"We are not going with you father," she said in a strong voice.
"Oh? And why not?" he asked getting in her face.
"After everything you have done to us, who would," Zelda replied.
"You brat!" He growled.
Then he did something no one but the girls expected.
He raised his left hand and struck Zelda across the face.
Zelda went flying back from the force of the hit. She hit the ground hard before sitting up a bit dazed. Seria and Ilia looked like they were about to kill their father. Meta-knight ran up to Zelda and placed a hand on her back to keep her sitting up. She looked up at him.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him.
"We could not let you do this alone," he told her.
"We will be fine," Zelda commented.
"How do you know that for sure?" Sword asked her running up to the two.
"Take a look," she said motioning to the girls.
The two were fighting like no tomorrow. Ilia deflected another blow headed her way and punched their father in the face. He reeled back. Seria was waiting behind him and when he came close from reeling back she gave him a sharp kick to the back. He fell to the ground from the force of two blows to two vital parts of his body. Sword and Blade were shocked at how the two women took down the man without even thinking about the consequences. Sword and Blade looked to Zelda. She looked at them and smiled brightly.
"Why didn't they care about the consequences of trying to take down your father?" Sword asked.
"Family fights in place for other family when a member of that family is injured. Without question," she replied quietly.
Seria and Ilia walked back up to the four waiting.
"Meta-knight!" Tiff yelled running up to them with Kirby and Tuff trailing.
"Tiff? What are you doing here?" Meta-knight asked.
"We felt the shaking. What's going on here?" she asked them.
"One word: our father," Seria said.
"But… that's two words," Tuff commented.
"Really?" she asked and began counting on her fingers how many words she said.
Ilia face palmed at her slow moment.
"Look slowness up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of Seria," she said.
"Ilia… do not be mean," Zelda said calmly.
"Yes Zelda," Ilia said while hanging her head.
"YOU BRATS!" The heard the girls' father roar behind them.
Everyone looked over to see the man in red getting up. Blood trickled down the side of his mouth and his eye was slowly turning a black color from the punch Ilia delivered. Zelda stood up quickly with a bruise darkening on her cheek where he hit her.
"Everyone get back!" she yelled.
Everyone took off running as the girls' father summoned a ball of black magic. He threw it at the nine. Zelda turned around and held out her hands. The ball of magic hit her hands and she began to skid backwards from the power. She stopped and destroyed the ball of magic. She gasped for breath.
"Are you okay?" Seria asked her.
"I am fine," she replied.
The ground shook again. The nine of them lurched.
"But we will not be in a few moments," Zelda said while looking at their father.
"We're going to have to change back Zelda! We don't have a choice!" Ilia screamed.
"Then let the real fight begin. Change back girls!" she ordered them.
Seria and Ilia's eyes flashed under their hoods and they both began to grow taller. Zelda did the same. The all grew until they just about reached them man's height (AN: that's the size of a regular human by the way.) and their hooded cloaks began to shrink as well. They each undid the cloaks and they floated to the ground with a faint swish of fabric. The men gasped as the cloaks fell to the ground. They were a lot different without their cloaks and back to their normal size. Seria was the shortest but now her hair reached her lower back. Ilia was just a bit taller than Seria. Her hair remained unchanged however. Zelda was the tallest. Her hair was also the same length as it had been before. Each of the three girls wore a different outfit that complimented them. Seria had a pink shirt and a pink skirt with a leather belt with a golden buckle. There was a sheath for a sword on her left hip. Ilia had on a yellow three quarter way sleeve shirt with yellow capris. The belt around her waist was made of some sort of animal skin. There was also a sheath for a sword on her right hip, giving the observers a hint that she was left handed. Zelda was the most shocking person because of what she was wearing. She was wearing a deep blue one piece leotard that had no sleeves and no straps. (AN: When I first imagined Zelda about… 1 year ago, this is what she was wearing. So deal with it. JK on the deal with it part!) A silver ringed belt hung diagonally across her waist. On the part that was lowered, which is on her right hip, was a sheath for a sword hilt. She was graceful, elegant, and looked extremely strong from just a single glance. She turned to the others.
"You six, stay here! Come girls, we have a fight to win!" she commanded.
"Yeah!" Seria and Ilia shouted.
The three ran off towards their father with the six others waiting on the hill. The fight lasted about three hours with the girls landing some hits and their father landing some hits. Seria got really tired at one point and came to rest with the other six. Ilia was quickly losing energy. Zelda was perfectly fine however. She didn't seem tired at all, fighting with as much vigor and strength as she did when she began. Ilia withdrew a few moments later and collapsed. Blade immediately rushed to her side. Sword was still beside Seria from where she came over earlier. Tiff was confused by this but then realized why.
"They love them, don't they?" she asked Meta-knight.
"Whom? Sword and Blade?" he asked back.
She nodded and he nodded back.
"They do. Very much in fact," he responded, looking back at Zelda.
"And you love her, right?" Tiff said pointing to Zelda.
He paused for a moment.
"I do. So much," he finally replied.
"Aw! That's so sweet! I'm so happy for you!" Tiff said.
"Thank you," he responded with a smile under his mask.
Seria heard this and turned Meta-knight and Tiff. Tiff gave her a questioning look while Meta-knight just stared. She then smiled and shrugged her shoulders. Meta-knight turned back to Tiff.
"That went over better than I expected with Seria," he said quietly.
Tiff chuckled at this quietly. They both turned to watch Zelda fight again. She and her father were now sword fighting. Zelda's sword was black on one half of the blade and white on the other. Meta-knight and Tiff guessed it was because she could use light and dark magic. Zelda was gracefully blocking her father's blows with ease. Eventually, about an hour later, her father slipped up and she was able to disarm him. She planted the sword over his heart. He panicked before relaxing.
"You cannot shed blood on Porriga. It is against its rules and will end up killing you instantly," he said smirking.
"I can shed blood on Porriga if it is for others and not my own intentions. This is for the safety of my sisters and this planet, not my own desires! And by this, I wish for your strength Porriga!" she yelled and shoved the blade into his chest.
He screamed in agony before his eyes went a blank white. He… was no more. Zelda breathed deeply several times before pulling the blade out of his chest. Half of the sword was stained in blood. Zelda stepped away from his body before turning around and walking back to the group. She reached the eight observers and sat down with a sigh.
"Are you alright?" Seria asked her.
"Killing him… was harder than it seemed," she responded.
"He was our father. Of course it was," Ilia told her.
"Still…" she said before trailing off.
"It was just as hard to watch you kill him as it was for you to kill him. But it had to be done. Stop worrying so much," Seria said.
Zelda nodded and looked behind them. She smiled at what she saw.
"What a beautiful sunset," she said.
The rest turned that way and saw it as well. They all 'ooo'ed and 'ahh'ed at it. One thing haunted Zelda's mind however.
Now that her father was dead, she had to rule the kingdom of her planet.
Sweet! We only have one more chapter to go! But don't worry; I will be making a sequel as well as quite a few one shots with this! Stay tuned for the last chapter!
Sparkly love from sparkleeyes20.