Chapter 17

Luna's POV

My first thought was, I'm screwed. Second thought? Seeing how I was completely surrounded by green clothed zombies with the crappiest chance of escaping, I figured, what the heck, I've got nowhere else to go, might as well try to survive.

There was an eerie silence, where each one of those dead-eyed creatures was glaring at me. Without thinking, I set my left foot back and brought my arms up to my chest, with my hands in tight fists.

Big mistake.

Pandemonium broke out. One of them shouted a war cry, and they all charged at me, with their weapons held high.

I panicked. What was I supposed to do? They were all coming at me in every direction. Besides, if you take a look at the numbers, there really wouldn't be much of a fight. After all, there's only one of me, and god knows how many of them.

Duck . My darker self, instructed. I blinked in surprise. I forgotten about how she could only be heard from me. Such things like that can easily mess up your mind.

I followed the simple command, and watched as a green sword of light swung where my neck used to be.

Kick to your side, block the hand, and catch the boomerang.

Huh? I cocked my head in confusion, but realized I was too slow in comprehending as I felt a punch to my chest. I stumbled back in surprise before my head banged with a thick, gold boomerang, bringing me to my knees.

I was already a little dazed, so my mind couldn't comprehend why such a bright light was forming in front of me until I heard a pop and the light seemed to get even bigger at an alarming rate.

Suddenly, I felt as if my body were hijacked. My legs shot up and leaped away from the sinister light. As my mind cleared, I realized it came out of a gun with scope on its side. My body swiveled to the right, as my right leg lifted up and swung at two zombies causing them to fall back. Then I shifted to my left, dodging a punch that would have inflicted a massive amount of damage. I grabbed two fists that were inches near my face and flung two of them at my right, taking several others with swords down.

My hands grabbed the hilts of the beam swords and made a perfect X as two other sabers crackled and fizzed as their wielders dropped them from being overwhelmed by sheer strength. I slashed through their chests and they disintegrated into ominous purple orbs. I ripped through a wall of them before I flung the sword straight at the stomachs of three fighters standing behind each other. I quickly realized with dread and a little bit of humor, that I couldn't retrieve my weapon, when I saw that it was completely stuck in their bellies. Only the tip of the saber was jutted out.

I guessed now I had to defeat an entire army of zombies with just one sword instead of two. But, no biggie.

I heard several gunshots coming from behind. I whirled around, holding the hilt of the sword in both hands, as I saw several balls of light directed straight at me. In one deft arc, I cut the balls of light in two, and didn't even flinch as they detonated when I was only feet away from it.

My light sword started crackling. Instincts won over and I threw it towards a pack of a dozen of them when it started to give rapid sparks. Seconds later, a bright light appeared and voila- those dozen weirdoes disappeared. Dirt was falling back down to the ground and my vision decreased to almost zero with the huge clouds of dust blanketing the battle scene.

I coughed at the dust, and felt my eyes water as it hurt my eyes.

Can't…hold on… much…longer, my other self gasped.

Abruptly, I could feel my body again. But the sensation was short-lived when my entire body felt like jell-o. I collapsed to my knees, thinking, "What the hell was going on?" I felt so tired and my breathing picked up. There was a ringing in my ears. Every single bone in me, groaned in pain. Black spots danced in my eyes. But what was the most unbearable, was this head-splitting headache. And the queasy stomach didn't help, either.

The dust clouds finally subsided and I knew without even looking, that those green creeps, were looming over me. I slowly, brushed my hands on the soft moist ground.

A piercing thought came through my mind and I unexpectedly knew what to do. I crawled to where the mud was dampest and slipped my hands into the pond. I concentrated hard and realized there was a lot of water underneath this part of the forest.

I managed to choke out some words, "Go back to what you were."

And the earth was in tremor as you heard the sound of waves and the crackling ice rise above the earth and pierce through everything in its way.

Amazingly, I didn't faint, but I wished I did.

Red's POV

We were ambushed. When Pikachu shot out his lightening, shocking both me and Pit, I realized Pikachu didn't mean to hit us (I still remember the days he shocked in his slumber. They felt just as horrible). He just couldn't control such a wide-spread attack. Every Primid (and their varying forms) that was hit dissolved.

I took out Ivysaur, who loved grabbing two Primids with his vines by bumping themselves together and then flinging them at a tree or at other Primids. He had it easy, yawning,( from not being taken out of his Pokeball for so long) never moving from his place.

Pikachu was shocking the life out of the Primids. I'm amazed he could do so many thunders and thunderbolts. Every once in a while, he'll do quick attack to dodge hits and hit other opponents. He was seriously overdoing it, but I knew if I told him to back down, he would only try even harder.

But Pit was the one with the most work. Using his Sacred Bow of Palutena, he would send arrow after arrow into each one of their lifeless chests or shift from blades and rip through a crowd of 20 sword Primids.

I scanned the battlefield. Pit, Pikachu, and Ivysaur were doing okay. That leaves only Luna…

As soon as her name came to my thoughts, I panicked. I didn't see her anywhere. I didn't hear her. A million questions buzzed in my mind. Where is she? Is she alright? Did the Primids hurt her? Did they kidnap her again?

That last thought rang through my head as if it were a gong being hit repeatedly. The Primids could be distracting us- separating us, so they could get her alone. I had to find her.

But how? The forest is thick, and I doubt the Primids will just let me stroll by while I searched for Luna. We would have to fight our way through.

"Pit! Pikachu!" I called out. "We need to find Luna!"

Pit was surrounded by a herd of Primids. With his arms extended, he brought the Sacred Bow of Palutena (Now in blade forms) and in one clean sweep, he crossed his arms, wiping out at least 4 of them. He grunted, "Kinda busy here!" But with a couple more contacts with the Sacred Bow of Palutena (Gah, that's long! From now on I'll call it a bow or two blades), he was able to create a small passage for escape. And came next to me. Pikachu had zapped five Primids surrounding Ivysaur before we moved.

"We should split up!" Pit suggested. "That way we cover more land. Better chances of finding her."

I hesitated, knowing it would make battling harder. After all, this had been the first time we'd fought since what I guess was a long time ago.

Pit must have guessed what I was thinking because he smiled and said, "Don't worry about us. Even if it's been a while since we've fought, that doesn't mean we forgotten how to battle. Besides, Luna's an outsider. She's the one in most danger."

I nodded when I realized he was right. Then the others split up, splitting up the large groups of Primids. I ran to my right as I let my thoughts wander.

We're Smashers. We know how to fight. Luna, well, I'm not even sure she knows how to. I hoped so, or how else did she find us in the storage room in the castle? Then I remembered on how surprised some of the Smashers were when they figured out that Samus was girl. I think she whipped some of them with her electric whip, especially Snake, when those some said some downright wrong things.

Then other idea struck me. Even if she knew how to fight, for how long will she be able to stand on her own?

Pit's POV

Slash. Kick. Dodge. Run. Search.

I did this constantly as those annoying zombies kept on following me. It seemed like there was an endless amount of them. I know I've defeated at least thirty of them, but nether less they kept stalking me.

I looked around for what seemed like the millionth time for any signs of Luna. Red filled me in on her after the whole water incident. I couldn't help but feel horrible for her. Sure, Ganondorf messed up all of us smasher's lives, but she wasn't like us. She was an outsider, who suffered more than any of us.

Finally, heard sounds of combat, and headed toward that direction. I was very far away to witness a black haired girl throw a beam sword in the air and explode. There was something different about her though. I'm pretty sure she had green eyes, but this time they were beautiful silver. I couldn't see anything, until the dust subsided.

Then I saw Luna breathing heavily, lying near a tiny pool of water, her lips moved, but I couldn't hear what she said. I ran towards her, grasping the hilts of my blades to cut down any Primid in her way.

But I was not needed.

Because get this. The water glowed. As if that wasn't weird enough, there was a huge rumbling, an earthquake, shaking the ground horribly.

But the trail of unnatural was only beginning, because then huge jets of water sprung from the ground and went straight through the bodies of those Primids because they instantly turned into spears of ice as soon as they came out of the ground.

I looked behind me to see all of the Primids following me stabbed too. Every single Primid was getting destroyed.

An entire army, destroyed with water. That's some immense power you got there.

Unfortunately, it's not very controlled. Because the entire area was getting swarmed with ice spears I had to evade at least three of them. And they were all very close in giving me some intensive pain.

My wings snapped out. I had to get out of here fast.

"Pit!"

I turned around to see Red barely dodging a sharp stab, with Pikachu on his head, showing alert eyes.

"We gotta get out of here, bro!" I shouted.

"But-" he couldn't finish because I snatched him up in air as another icicle formed right where he was standing.

Now I think we all know I'm a angel and that I can fly. But there's a limit on how much you can carry in flight. Especially, if your carry-on is squirming in your hands.

"Red, stop moving and get out your Charizard. We're gonna fall down really fast if you don't. You won't be able to help Luna like this."

And just like that, he complied. A Pokeball came out and sure enough a big orange Charizard popped out. He flew underneath me as let go of Red.

Now three out of four of us were safe, but that wasn't enough for us.

"Do you see her?" Red asked.

I didn't, but then I thought about the pool of water Luna was lying in. Immediately, I lower down, and do a perfect one hundred eighty degrees curve.

"Follow me! I got an idea."

I went to where there were more the most icicles (which were also where they were at their largest) and sure enough, I found that black haired girl.

I lifted my finger pointing, "Over there!"

Long story short, we flew down and ran over to her.

"Luna!"

There she was, breathing heavily. She croaked, "Hi guys. You…missed…the party." She hunched over and coughed.

"Pika!" I had forgotten all about the little mouse. He jumped off Red's head and bounded near her. He looked up, with a weary expression.

"Hey Pikachu. I missed you." She gave a grim smile. "Don't worry, I'm all right."

She attempted to stand but she would have collapsed if Red and I didn't grab her by the arms. She was definitely not all right. Her face was flushed and she looked really sick.

Red had both hands over her face. "Luna, you are not okay. Look at me! Look at me!" And I realized her eyes just glazed over him, she really was in a messed up state.

I pressed my backhand, over her forehead. And dang, she was burning up.

"You have an extremely high fever. Don't move." I said.

Luna repeated, "I'm alright."

With her clothes torn, bruises all over her body, and I think I saw burnt marks on her hands; she was far from being alright. I'm amazed she was able to speak. I wanted to yell at her and tell her she's gone delirium but instead, I gave a weak smile, "You sure are one tough girl. If you really put your mind to it, you could really become one of us- a Smasher."

"I'll think about that," she muttered before the fever pulled her down.

Luna's POV

Sleep can be bliss when you're tired. But not when you have your other self show up.

"Miss me?" she grinned.

I groaned, "Seriously? Isn't it bad enough that you've barged in my life without my consent, but now you're in my dreams too?"

"You know, you could show more appreciation for someone who probably just saved your life."

"Two things," I lifted two fingers, "One- I didn't ask to be hijacked! I like to be in control of my body! Thank you very much! Second- you seriously need name."

Dark Luna was surprised. "Why?"

"I can't just keep calling you my "Darker self!" You need something else to call you by!"

She crossed her arms, "I'm not a pet."

"No really? I had no idea." I rolled my eyes. "Everyone has names. I have a name. Red and Pit have names. You deserve a name."

"Why can't I just go by your name?"

I wanted to slap my forehead. "Because that's my name. Even if you exist in me- which I'm still not comfortable with- you're not really me. You've got an entire different personality than me. I'm me and you're you. So that means you should get a different name."

She sighed, "Fine. Call me what you want as long as it's not a pet name. So what did you have in mind?"

I pursued my lips. I actually hadn't thought much on it. What would be a good name for her?

My other self must have guessed what I was thinking from the long pause. "Oh god, you seriously didn't think about one, did you? After all that talk for nothing. I was starting to get interested you know?"

I cleared my throat, "Well how about something that has to do with the moon? Not my name, but something else. For example, you're like my shadow, in the dark. Maybe a name that has to do with darkness or shadow…"

"I don't like things with darkness. It makes me sound like an evil person." My other self offered, "But I don't mind Shadow."

I stared at her, "I thought you didn't like pet names."

"It's not a pet name."

"Yes it is."

"It's not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too, and you know it!"

She raised her hands in the air. "Okay fine! I don't want Shadow anymore," she grumbled. "But I'm not changing my mind about the darkness names."

I thought harder. "Well, how about Alma? It means soul and it seems like you reside in my-"

"Nope," she interrupted, "I'm not something that possesses you."

I glared hard at her. "You did that when I was fighting the zombies!"

"And I did it to make sure you didn't get hurt! I have good reason too. You have horrible battling skills, but your magical abilities are increasing."

I felt uncomfortable. "About that- what did I really do? I didn't make water pop out of the ground and freeze, stabbing my enemies- right? I was just delusional, right? I couldn't possibly do that."

A long pause passed by until she finally spoke, "That was all you."

I wanted to protest, but my other self beat me to it.

"The fighting was done by me. But that requires great energy and I couldn't last long. Of course, the tired me, was in your body, so you were tired too. I had no more energy to even speak to you, much less to appear before you. When you summoned the water, you should have passed out and not even be able to convert them into ice, but somehow, you gathered the energy we released while battling and used it. You are by far, the strongest moon user I've ever resided in."

My mind was buzzing with questions, but two of them stood out. "What's a moon user and why do you say it as if you've lived in them as well?"

"A moon user is one who controls the water. I think it's pretty self explanatory that you're one of them. For your second question, yes there were plenty of moon users before you, and I had resided in all of them."

"Can you tell me what they were like?"

She shook her head, "No. When they pass away, in a way I do too. But then I'm reborn when another one is born. I have no memory of their and my pasts. Truthfully, I guess I could be considered immortal."

My other self must have seen my disappointment, "But we're getting pretty off topic. We were deciding on a name. Do you have any other ideas?"

"I've only got one left. It means moon water. I figured it makes the most sense since ever since I met you, I've learned how to control water. Besides my name is a different name for moon and whether we like it or not, you are somewhat a part of me."

She shrugged, "Then what's my name?"

"You shall no longer be called my other self. Nor will you be called Dark Luna. You are you. I am me."

"Quit the act. Just tell me my name."

"Aysu. You're name is Aysu."

Aysu smiled, "Aysu, huh? I like it, Luna."

I grinned back, "I figured you would, Aysu."

Okay that was way longer than usual. But I seriously felt that Aysu needed to get her name. I'm really glad the way the battle scene came out. If you have any suggestions, please tell me them!