Training
"Congrats that was well played." Samus said giving me a nod. She was so excited to be back in her own suit it seemed she did not even care about the loss.
"Thanks, you guys were really tuff."
"We appreciate the complement." Fox said standing on Samus's left.
"How's Lucario?" Samus asked.
"Good, Nurse Joy's taking care of him." I said and Fox raised an eyebrow. "Oh…Nintendo hired her and Chancy form the Pokémon games."
"Interesting." Fox said. "Well, nice win, I'm going to go get something to eat. Either of you want to join me."
"No thanks." I said.
"Nope." Samus replied. Fox shrugged and walked off.
"So, were still friends right?"
"Best friends." Samus corrected.
"Thanks Lucario." I muttered under my breath for no one to hear.
"So do you want to go meet up with everyone else?" Samus asked turning around.
"Sure." I said and we walked through a couple hallways discussing the match.
The heroes, besides the few that were eating, were all hanging around. I stepped through the crowd, now able to keep my composure. I talked to a lot of people. When I finally made it out of the mass of characters, Meta Knight, Lucario, Falco, Samus, Marth, Zelda, and Link were waiting for me.
"Hey guys." I said smiling at them all.
"We need to talk." Samus said.
"About you're sword fighting skills." Meta Knight said.
"And you're magic." Zelda said.
"Your hand to hand combat." Lucario threw in.
"Your aim." Falco interjected.
"Especially your aim." Samus said.
"Not to mention getting you a real sword." Marth said, and received a hard elbow in the stomach from Samus. "I mean." He said coughing a little. "How to wield your sword."
"And how to balance it all." Link said with a wink.
"Why are you guys doing this?" I asked looking at them.
"Because you need help." Samus said. "That's obvious. After are match I realized how off your fighting skills are…What are you used to fighting anyway, Aliens." They all laughed, I gave a forced chuckle and sighed. But what was I supposed to say, Yeah I used to fight Aliens' as a Bounty Hunter and Destroy worlds for an evil monster. I shuddered at what they would think of me after that.
"Now, come we have much work to do." Meta Knight said spinning around.
"I get no say in this do I." I said plainly, Samus came and out her arm around me.
"None at all, after Meta Knight and I began talking, we decided this was best for you, you've got to learn how to fight us and the villains." She chuckled and dragged me along as we walked after Meta Knight. "So we will see you later." Samus said and left with everyone else except for Meta Knight and Marth.
"Wait a minute…" I said. Marth chuckled.
"Sword training first." Marth said leading the way onto a dome shaped room.
"This is a holographic room; you will come here with some of us for training each day." Meta Knight said toggling a control panel and picking a flat field with a sand bag. "Draw your sword." He said. I pulled the saber from its sheath carefully. In a flash Marth had his sword to my throat.
"You have to learn to draw faster." Meta knight instructed. "Try again." Marth and I sheathed our swords. "Draw!" Meta Knight called and I tried to fling my sword out, but it fumbled and fell and Marth's sword was directly over my heart when I spun back around. "Again." Meta Knight said and we went through the movements over and over until I could at least block Marth's attack.
"That's it right?" I said breaking a small sweat. Marth gave a small laugh.
"Your turn Meta Knight." Marth said and they switched places. Metal Knight had me move near the Sand bag.
"Watch." He said and pulled out his sword. "Side Sweep." He said and his sword swept left to right in a flash. "Thrust." He said and jabbed the air. "Parry." And his sword made a cutting movement sweeping up to down right to left. "And Feint." He brought his arm back as if he was about to attack and then jumped a step back as if dodging a parry. "Now you try, use the sand bag." He said. "Side sweep,
thrust, parry, feint." He continues shouting the movements in different orders. I preformed each with grace at first, but my endurance gave out quickly.
"That's enough for now." Meta Knight said as I began panting.
"It will get easier." Marth promised and I shot him an evil glare. He shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
"No more for today though right." I said hopefully.
"You should practice." Meta Knight said. "Every day, everything, even what you learn tomorrow, if you train right you will be much better next time." We walked out of the room as it changed back into a normal domed room.
"Ugh… Can I skip a couple days?" I sighed.
"No." Meta Knight said flatly.
"You need a good side." I muttered and he chuckled darkly.
"Look at it this way, what you are learning from experts a lot of us had to learn from scratch, or people unwilling to teach us." Marth said.
"Great…" I said sarcastically. "So Meta Knight who are you fighting today."
"No one." He said.
"Huh…But I thought."
"I made it to the next round, but they had an odd number of teams, as they will the next couple of rounds, so they drew two names to sit out, and they will be pared in the next round. Wolf and I are out today."
"That's interesting…so what time is it."
"Late, about eight o'clock." Marth said.
"Wait so the rounds are done for today?"
"Correct."
"Who made it?"
"Falco, Link, Ganandorf, Sonic, Snake, Mario…and of course you, Lucario, Meta Knight and Wolf." Marth said in one breath.
"And they expect us just to go home. Just like that?" I said looking round.
"I believe we all have room assignments." Meta Knight said. "We must find our own." We entered the big hall and Mario was there tapping his foot impatiently.
"Sorry for the wait." Marth said waving at Mario.
"Here, Marth and Meta Knight you have rooms 8 and 9, Celest, you are in room 10 and Samus is in room eleven next to you." He said handing us each silver keys with different teeth. "Good night." And he rushed off.
"Okay…No where do we go…" I said stunned he had not given us directions.
"You never got a map did you?" Marth asked. I recalled a piece of paper being shoved into my hands as I was eating lunch, and then throwing it away…
"Nope." I lied. They led the way to a far room which contained stairs into a long hallway containing enough rooms for each character. I found room ten. "Good night guys!" I called and they muttered a reply before entering their own rooms. I found myself facing plenty of space with a bed in the far corner with a nightstand and lamp. I stretched out in the space and then began going through the movements Meta Knight and Marth had shown me…This was going to be harder than I thought.