DIF Chapter 18

Nuri's POV

Samus, Link and I left the safe house and jumped in the castle. We busted in, destroyed all the guards, and saved my sister.

Like it would ever be that easy.

Link had his normal attire of green clothes, Samus wore her blue jumpsuit, and I wore a simple pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. We all wore black cloaks as well for camouflage.

Our plan? Get to the sewer hole that's in the middle of the city and not get discovered. Simple right?

Not.

Apparently even though at least 3/4 of Ganondorf's army had left to search the forest, the city was packed with soldiers. The friendly soldiers just couldn't have said specifically the numbers of his army could they? There must have been more than hundreds. They were marching in precise movements. Some of them were men, but most of them were these weird green zombies –Primids- Link and Samus called them that.

We only had one chance, our best chance, which had to be timed perfectly. There was a small group of men marching who were probably drunk because their "marching" seemed more like a swaying group of zombies.

"99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall!" they sang. And they each would take one swig on one bottle.

Once they reached 76, Link said, "Let's go."

We jumped out of these foul dumpsters (I don't recommend living in one. There's some nasty stuff down there.) and quickly went behind the drunken soldiers. We grabbed two of them having our hands clapped shut around their mouths, and not a single one realized that they had one- no- two of their comrades that went AWOL. But it probably didn't matter if 5 or 10 guys were missing because that meant that there would be more to drink. Anyways, Link and I quickly dragged them to a crevice between two brick walls, and hit their heads with now broken beer bottles. We quickly undressed them (which now that I said it, it does make me feel really awkward…) and put on their clothes. Then we knocked the dumpster three times, two times rapidly, and then finally five times really slow.

Seconds later, Samus lifted the dumpster's lid. She scowled as she quickly peeled off banana peels on her legs. I noticed something was on her back and pointed and realized she had a really disgusting fruit cake smashed all over. Link and I made the mistake of smelling it and I felt like I would almost puke. It smelled horrible. The fruits had all turned into a queasy shade of black, and suddenly, I wished I was back in the dumpster again. I think my eyes were even watering. Link gagged a couple of times before Samus wiped off the toxic cake. I think she too, was trying not to gag. Finally, with my sense of smell coming back to life, we proceeded with our plan.

Samus winked, "Chaos time." With that, she ran out of the alleyway, gun in hand, that red mark glowing on her back.

Pointing the gun upward, she the fired three shots before taking off in the direction of the sewer. Link and I followed her, shouting with the stolen soldier's guns held up high. The other soldiers followed us, but we were in much better shape than them, and they were starting to get farther and farther behind. Every once in a while, we would shoot but we would fake bad aim and missed Samus. We ran through four blocks until Samus 'disappeared' into a corner and we just couldn't find her. When the other soldiers finally came up to us, we had our heads swiveling back and forth 'trying' to find where Samus had gone.

"Where is she?" yelled one of them, who probably was the only one who could speak without hyperventilating. "I thought the Smashers were all in Ganondorf's hands!"

"We can't find her!" I answered, trying my best to sound worried.

"Well…then….hack...I think…we should just- hack… let her…go," One of them said between breathes.

Huh?

Getting better at catching his breath during speech (without the coughing), the same soldier added, "Well if one of them…is alive…that must mean that others are too. Maybe we do have a chance of getting back our lives."

Link and I shared glances. I knew none of the Smashers liked Ganondorf's plan of total takeover of the world, but I didn't really realize how much the people of his kingdom didn't like it as well. Suddenly, I feel stupid for not realizing it before from the way people looked the first time I came to this city with Samus. Thinking back to that day, I realized how strange at how there were hardly any children, and by hardly, I mean none.

"I would finally be able to see my own daughter," an older man whispered, his eyes filled with hope. "I didn't even get the chance to hold her before they whisked her away. "I didn't even get to look at her. Do you know how it feels like to know you have a daughter and yet never know what she looks like or not even know what type of person she is?"

The rest of the soldiers held their heads down. Many had their hands clenched in fists.

"What's been done has been done," one said, his face solemn. "We can't change it and it's gonna take more than one Smasher to change the world. Right now, if we disobeyed the King's orders," he paused, biting his lip, "You won't change anything. You'll just be sent to death and someone else will take your place. We are soldiers, which means we are replaceable. If you were ever considered special, you wouldn't be here. It's the truth whether we like it or not."

Wow. Those words coming from a drunken guy? Shows how much they liven up around here. I gotta say, though, their words touched me. Add that to my reasons to kill Ganondorf, check. Here's my list so far.

Kidnapped my sister

Wanted a forced marriage with my sister.

Bombed Smasher Mansion hurting all of Samus's and Link's friends

Kicked my ass

Threw me off a cliff

Attacked my island

Everyone hates him

Should I find it alarming that more than half those reasons deal with me? Probably. Do I find it alarming? Nope. Let's face it; there are probably others that have longer lists than mine. Just shows how many people just love this green guy. You can just feel the love emanating from our hearts.

Back to the soldiers, they all had stayed silent. Slowly, one by one stood up and searched, if you call searching as people staring down the ground, their heads still held low.

Well, that wasn't a certain change in plans, but nether less, it still works out. With no one looking, we quietly lifted up a manhole, and jumped in.

"Jeez, what took you guys so long?" Samus complained. She had her arms crossed and her blue outfit didn't have a single scratch. Looks like she had no trouble sneaking in.

"Sorry, we just ran into something…unexpected," Link admitted. "Just move."

Sewers, like dumpsters, smell horrible, but after the whole incident with the toxic fruitcake, I think my sense of smell has started to become more immune to stink.

I wouldn't really want to go into detail about sewers, cause basically it stinks, has weird green stuff on their walls, and tend to have lots of rats and boy, did ugliness run in the family. No, I won't torture you with how the rodents looked like so I'll just jump to the part when we got out of that stink hole.

After a couple of shots from Samus's gun, the manhole was open and we were in a dark room, there was only one light, which showed a flight of stairs going up.

"We're in a basement. Guys, we just snuck in Ganondorf's castle."

Luna's POV

My dream with Aysu faded. I felt the world going back and forth, back and forth. Slowly I managed to see an arm, swooning back and forth. As the world starts to seem clearer, I have my eyes opened and I jumped, when I saw Red's face hovering over me.

Red fell down backward, with me on top of him. I stared at his eyes, confused, until Red's eyes focused on mine. We were like that for what seemed eternity. His eyes were startled.

"Hey!"

I bolted, jumping off Red just as Pit descended from the skies. I did my best to keep my face calm.

"Luna! You're awake! You feeling all right?"

I nodded, "Yeah, I…guess you can call it that."

Pit smiled back, "Rough morning, huh? But unless if you want Red's arms to fall off, if you ever start to feel weird or anything, I can carry you."

Carry me? I thought back to the shoulder I saw and realized I was being carried. How long has Red held me? Even though I would never admit it, I knew I was very heavy to carry.

Aww. So sweet, getting carried by your boyfriend. They really know how to charm a Luna. An annoying voice snickered.

I wasn't even fazed by her appearance. I've seen a yellow mouse shoot thunderbolts, an angel, zombies with purple orbs coming out of them, and creatures appeared out of a tiny little ball. Having another being inside you was so like, an hour ago. Get with the times!

What? Not even a friendly hello? Aysu made her voice sound hurt. I wanted to shoot a glare at her telling her to shut up, but being in my body and all- that was kind of hard to do.

"Luna?"

Shoot. I hadn't said anything back to them. I did my best to sound nonchalantly. "Sorry, I just got lost in thought." As much as I hated lying to them, I couldn't bring myself to tell them the truth. I think I've surprised them enough.

"Pika!" A voice called out, and suddenly a little yellow mouse was in my arms. For something that gave you painful thunderbolts, he was just so cute. His shinny black little eyes looked up at my face and his face was filled with worry, "Pi Pika?"

I snuggled the adorable little fellow, "Yeah I've fine. Don't worry. This girl is stronger than you might think. I may not have super lightning powers, but I can still give a fight! What do you think?"

"Pika!" he agreed.

After a few more hugs, I turned to face Pit and Red. "So, what are we going to do next?"

Pit cleared his throat, "Well, first there's something I need to tell you guys first. Something important."

"I'm listening."

"I need to tell you about the attack of the mansion."

Pit's POV

They're eyes bore holes in my head. Not even a single blink. Maybe it wasn't the best time to talk about this, but they had to know. Especially Red and Pikachu. They had no idea about what really happened.

I cleared my throat and told the tale of the lost.

"Poyo! Poyo!" an alarmed round pink creature called out.

I turned around. "What's wrong, Kirby?"

"Poyo!" Kirby explained. "Poyo. Link poyo. Marth Poyoo!"

Translation- Something's wrong! Link's back but he said that Marth's a traitor. He thinks something might happen at the mansion!"

The mansion? Not good. We were a pretty lengthy distance away from there. Kirby and I were back-up for the others.

Then, Link appeared, running. Why? Oh, I really don't know, maybe it's because he had a WHOLE FREAKIN ARMY chasing him? A huge pack of red motor unicycle monsters, Roaders, were gaining up on him. Following them were at least half a thousand Primids of all different kinds. Because more is always better, right? See kids, this is why you should always ask for little.

Link yelled, "Go! Fly to the mansion and warn them! Kirby and I will take care of them!"

"Poyo!" Kirby called out his famous battle call. What it meant, I had no idea. Instead I take a running start, before spreading my wings out. I try to go at my fastest speed, dodging all the annoying tall trees before being up in the air. I look back to see Kirby swallow two Roaders at once and Link shoot an arrow straight at five Primid's necks before being completely surrounded by the army. Being Smashers, I wasn't worried for them. Having two of them, if one of them was ever taken down, the other could revive him.

I faced forward as I flew to my destination. My heartbeat calmed down as I saw it, perfect with the Smash Statue out front.

Relieved, I fly straight toward it.

I was only a few yards away before it exploded, right in front of me.

I couldn't see. I couldn't feel. I couldn't taste. I couldn't smell.

But as my body fell down, trying to get itself back together, I felt that horrible feeling. I had only felt it the day the nightmarish Tabuu spread his wings and turned us all into stone. I felt something fly through me, like an arrow going through one's heart. My body screamed. I couldn't see. I couldn't feel. I couldn't taste. I couldn't smell.

Before turning into stone, I could hear one thing that will forever reside in my memories.

I heard laughter.

Yikes. That did take longer than planned to write. I'm sorry for taking so long, but I admit this- I had writer's block. I had ideas for later on, but I couldn't think of how to bring them here. Personally, I find writer's block embarrassing. I'm known for my crazy ideas at any time of the day. Anyways, I hoped you liked the chapter!