Hello, my readers! Ready for a change of pace? I hope so! This next story is a lot more different than anything else I've published on her before. It will not involve yaoi. In fact the three main characters in this one are all females! This story is based off a weird dream I had, a particular episode of "Teen Titans," and the movie Insidious. (Disclaimer: I own none of those, except my dream.)
This was just another idea I had in my head. So I hope you guys enjoy. And once I get my ideas done with I'll start writing stories from the suggestions I've been receiving from my readers!
Well... Without further ado, here's the next story in Tales from the Mansion. Enjoy.
Story 3: The Demon Inside
There was a loud crash outside Peach's window. The Princess shot up out of bed, she blinked her eyes several times and as she woke from her deep slumber she realized her entire room was filled with an ethereal blue light. Peach rose from her bed and approached the window. Peach's interest peaked as she noticed the blue glow was coming from a small crater, a crater that had not been there before. Peach looked to her roommates, Zelda and Samus, who were both sleeping peacefully. Peach quickly left her room and ran outside to the small crater.
She approached the crater with extreme caution, but as she got closer she noticed the sounds of faint whispers filling the silent air. As Peach got closer she noticed the blue light was shining from a small necklace sitting in the middle of the crater. Peach's excitement peaked and she ran to the necklace. She knelt down to the necklace and heard the faint whispers were coming from the necklace as well, there were so many voices whispering that she wasn't able to understand what was being said. The beauty of the necklace distracted her even further from the whispers.
The necklace was a light blue rock shaped like a crescent moon and the chain of the necklace looked exactly like stars that twinkled in the sky.
"It's so beautiful!" Peach said as she picked it up. She held it in her hands for a few moments, and then happily put it around her neck. Peach giggled, and then turned around to return to the mansion. She didn't remove the beautiful necklace as she fell asleep.
The next morning Zelda woke up with a start. There was a malevolent presence near, and it was approaching slowly.
Zelda quickly jumped out of bed, which startled Samus.
"What is it?" Samus asked calmly.
"Something's wrong…" Zelda said looking around the room.
"What do you—"
"Peach, wake up." Zelda said as she approached the other Princess. Zelda nudged her, but there was no response from Peach. "Peach…" Zelda repeated, her worry began to increase.
"Look, there's something around her neck." Samus pointed to the shimmering chain that was exposed around Peach's neck. Zelda looked to the chain and reached into Peach's blouse to remove the rest of the necklace. A small blue light shone from the crescent shaped medallion as she removed it from Peach's shirt. Zelda examined the necklace thoroughly and ran her hands along the chain until she reached the crescent moon shape. As her hands brushed against it she let out of small shriek. Zelda jumped back and let the necklace fall back onto Peach's chest.
"It's the necklace" Zelda shouted. "It's the evil presence I'm feeling."
"Well take it off of her." Samus commanded. Zelda nodded and tried to remove the necklace, but it proved impossible.
"Peach!" Zelda shouted, "Wake up!"
Samus approached Peach's motionless body and began to move her eyelid up to expose her eye. Samus shouted and stumbled backwards.
"Her eyes!" Samus shouted, "Her eyes are gone!"
Zelda removed her attention from the necklace and pulled Peach's eyelid up to see for herself. Samus was right. The bright blue eyes that Peach had, had been replaced by complete blackness. Her eye sockets weren't hollow, they were just completely black.
"Her soul…" Zelda whispered.
"What?" Samus asked.
"They eyes are the window to the soul…" Zelda explained, "Samus. Peach's soul has been taken."
"Taken where?"
"In the necklace." Zelda explained looking back down the necklace.
"Well how do we get it back?"
"We have to go in the necklace." Zelda looked to Samus who nodded. "Here," Zelda said extending her hand, "Hold my hand." Samus took Zelda's hand and closed her eyes. Zelda gripped the crescent moon and began to focus. Zelda felt the malevolent energy fill her, and suddenly a sharp pain shot through her body. She couldn't scream, nor could Samus. And in an instant they felt themselves being pulled away from their bodies and towards the necklace.
When the pulling stopped Zelda and Samus opened their eyes and was greeted with an unpleasant sight. There were in a world they did not recognize. The sky was red, there was no sun, no moon. The sky was completely empty. The ground was also void of life. Dark rocks were the only landscape. As they looked around they noticed that the rock they were stand on was floating in mid-air.
"What is this place?" Samus asked, her voiced echoed through the nothingness.
"I'm not sure, but we should be able to find Peach her." Zelda replied. Zelda and Samus took a couple steps forward but the hellish silence was broken by an ear piercing scream.
"Peach!" Zelda said whipping her head around. The scream echoed throughout the void, so it was impossible to pinpoint the location of its source.
"Turn back." A mysterious voice whispered. "Turn back." It repeated.
"What the Hell?" Samus asked. She looked around, but they were unable to find the source of the mysterious voice.
"Turn back." The voice continued. "Turn back. Turn back. Turn back!" Zelda and Samus chose to ignore the warning and continued to explore the rock they were on. The echoes of the repeated warning pecked at the brains of both Samus and Zelda, until they finally reached the edge of the rock. Zelda and Samus looked over the edge and saw a larger rock with an archway on it floating below them.
Zelda looked to Samus, grabbed her by the shoulder and used Farore's wind to transport them to the other rock. The two appeared in front of the archway and was finally able to find what was constantly repeating turn back.
Three severed heads were hanging from the arch way and each one was speaking separately, but they all shared the same voice.
"Turn back," One head said, "Turn back," Another head echoed. "Turn back," shouted the final head. Zelda decided to ignore the warnings and walked through the archway and Samus quickly followed. As they walked through, the world around them vanished and was changed to a dark cave. Large black stalagmites hung from the ceiling, and a faint bluish glow was seen at the back of the cave. But more importantly, a pink figure was seen laying in the middle of the cave.
"Peach!" Zelda and Samus ran to their friend. As Zelda picked her up Peach shot her eyes open and let out a terrible scream. Her eyes were bloodshot. Peach dug her fingernails into Zelda's neck and scratched painfully as she continued to scream. Zelda dropped Peach back onto the ground and Peach continued to writhe and scream as if she were in terrible pain.
"I'm… Lost…" Peach screamed. "My soul is—" Peach stopped screaming and fell lifelessly to the ground.
"What the hell is going on here, Zelda?" Samus asked.
"I don't know." Zelda turned her attention away from Peach and approached the blue glow in the back of the room. The glow was emitting from a very large crescent shaped piece of rock. It was very similar to the necklace; however, it was much, much bigger. Zelda and Samus quietly examined the rock, until Peach's piercing scream filled the cave again. The two whipped around and saw Peach's body was floating in the air. Her body twitched in inhuman-like ways, and then it was lowered back to the ground. The screaming stopped and Peach began to exhale loudly. As she exhaled a spiral of red smoke poured from her mouth. The smoke began to clump together and create a solid form.
As Peach stopped breathing, the smoke had finally become solidified and a dark created with goat like legs, and massive horns slumped over Peach's body. It let out a huff of hot air. The creatures back was to Zelda and Samus and the two watched in amazement as it picked up Peach. The creature held Peach in the air by her arm, and she dangled lifelessly next to him. With his other hand the creature extended a large, sharp fingernail and began to bring it slowly to Peach's throat.
Zelda and Samus acted quickly. Before his finger nail could pierce Peach's skin, Zelda shot a burst of flame at the creature and Samus leapt with great agility and snatched Peach away from the demon.
The creature roared and turned to Zelda and Samus who stood guard in front of Peach. His glowing red eyes focused on both of them and he roared.
"BLOOD!" The creature screamed. "I need her blood!" The creature lunged towards Samus and Zelda. He extended his hand and struck the two of them with a powerful blow. Zelda was able to activate Nayru's love in time; however, Samus was knocked back several feet and crashed into the large crescent rock. Her back struck the rock and in a flash of bright blue light she vanished instantly.
"Samus!" Zelda shouted.
"Need. Blood. Need. Human. Flesh. Need to return to Earth." The creature growled. And locked onto Peach's lifeless body and began to quickly advance towards her. Zelda crouched next Peach's body and began to focus.
"Sages and spirits of light, I call on you! Help me now in my hour of need. Help me banish the evil forces of darkness!" Zelda shouted. The creature ran quickly towards them, but before he could make contact a large, powerful, gleam of light exploded from Zelda and it pushed the creature backwards and it roared in pain. Zelda stood firmly in front of Peach, but now with a large bow and the magical light arrows in her hand.
The creature roared again and launched towards Zelda who swiftly moved out of the way and threw a small fire ball at it. The creature snuffed angrily and glared at Zelda. She shot fire at him again which angered him even further. He lunged towards Zelda quickly who backed away slowly towards the cave wall. As the creature got closer Zelda prepared Farore's wind and before the creature could make contact, Zelda disappeared in an instant. The creature smacked the cave wall with such force that the entire place rumbled. Zelda appeared behind the creature. In the time the creature took to regain his compose, Zelda readied her bow and shot the light arrow into the creatures back.
The massive creature roared in pain, and it reached to try to remove the arrow protruding from its back. But the light began to take over, and suddenly the roaring ceased and the creature exploded in a burst of red smoke.
Zelda nodded triumphantly and turned to Peach who was still lying on the floor. As the read smoke vanished from the cave, the breath suddenly came back to Peach. She gasped quickly and repeatedly as her eyes shot open.
"Zelda!" Peach said urgently.
"It's all right, Peach." Zelda said as she dropped to Peach and wrapped her arm around her.
"There was a demon…" Peach said, her voice still shaken.
"He's gone now. Don't worry," Zelda helped Peach up.
"He was trying to posses my body that was still on Earth, Zelda." Peach explained. She walked to the large crescent rock. "The necklace I found last night was a portal between this world and ours. A demon from this world can inhabit the body of someone from our world if they destroy the soul of the person that had landed here and splash their blood on this rock." Peach explained. "I've been running from him for a long time, Zelda. If you and Samus didn't show up… He would have succeeded." A tear ran down Peach's cheek and wrapped her arms around Zelda. "Thank you so much!" Zelda smiled and hugged Peach back. Peach broke the embrace and turned back to the rock. "All we have to do now is touch this rock and we can return to our bodies back in our world." Peach explained.
Zelda extended her hand the two princesses touched the rock together. There was a light blue flash and in an instantly Zelda found herself back in her body in the Smash Mansion. She opened her eyes and saw Samus walking back and forth in the room.
"Zelda!" Samus shouted and ran to her. Samus helped Zelda off the floor. "Did you save P—" Samus was interrupted as Zelda shot her eyes over to Peach in her bed. Peach's eye's shot open and the blackness from her eyes had faded away completely and her vibrant blue eyes had returned.
"PEACH!" Samus shouted excitedly. Peach sat out of bed and wrapped Samus in a hug, but the embrace was broken as the crescent moon necklace began to vibrate. The three watched the necklace, and the blue light began to fade, and it began to crumble into dust.
The dust floated to the floor as the necklace was no more.
"The portal has been closed." Peach said calmly. "And it's all thanks to you. Thank you, Zelda. Thank you, Samus."
Samus, Zelda, and Peach smiled at each other and embraced each in another warming hug.
Some pretty weird stuff, huh? Yeah... I know. But what can I say, it's kinda based off a dream/nightmare I had awhile ago!
Anyway this chapter is just proof that not EVERYTHING I post in this story is going to be short little "one-shot" yaoi stories.
So! If you have any suggestions on what you'd like to see let me know!
Shadow-38