Hi duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes. THIS chapter is looooong! And is loaded with ACTION! So read on yo! Oh, and there's some words that have this little do-hickey * next to them, and at the end, I'll give an explanation of what they are. Oh, and it does get a little emotional at the end for Marth and Meta, but Remember: I DON'T WRITE YAOI. You would run up to your friend and do everything Marth does in the end if you were in the same situation too. (If your friend is a puffball.) rather "friendship is the victory". You know BTW, you really should be reading that if you haven't read this series from the. beginning.
"Yes! Yes! And yes again!" Meta knight hopped up and down before joining me on the couch the
next morning. "Let 'em join?" I asked, to which his reply was a violently excited nod. Kirby ran in
happily, followed by Mewriey. The two hopped onto the couch next to us as well. Mewriey purred
with great pleasure and leaned lightly on Meta knight's side. Mewriey liked both Meta knight and
Kirby a lot, she couldn't talk in English yet, but Lucario, Mewtwo, and Mesprit said her poke`mon
vocabulary was very wide. She really liked Meta knight a lot, and loved Kirby as her playmate.
Dark Meta knight and Shadow Kirby walked in too, they sat down with the villains and remained
silent. Shadow Kirby had a band-aid on his paw, and a steak on his right eye. Kirby giggled
hysterically at him "Poyo-poyo-poyo!" He taunted. Shadow Kirby gritted his fangs and snarled. He
took off the badage on his paw and yanked off the steak and took a bite out of the raw meat.
Mewriey growled and began to stand up. Mewtwo looked up from reading a news paper and
called to her. "Mewriey. Love, would you like to come on a walk with daddy?" She looked over at
him. She simply couldn't pass up a walk out in the fresh morning air. Shadow Kirby, left uncared
about by Mewriey, growled to Kirby. Kirby stuck out his tongue at him. Shadow Kirby walked up to
him quickly and got ready to punch him. Meta knight however was prepared for him. Dark Meta
knight rushed over and pulled Shadow Kirby away, sticking his silver sword up close to Meta
knight's throat. "You can't go beating up my trainee like that!" Meta knight's eyes filled with red hot
anger at his clone's words "You let your little monster attack Kirby, and now your saying for me to
leave him alone?!" Meta knight looked like he wanted to punch Dark Meta knight in the face. "You
wanna fight? Wanna have a Knight-Duel?!" Dark Meta knight leaned into Meta knight's mask so
he was pressing against it. "When and where?" Meta knight leaned into his clone's face as well.
"At the edge of the forest, where it's completely cleared, the ground is dirt and stone and it's just
by Fire Gulch, sunset." "Deal." Meta knight snarled. His clone backed out of his face and walked
off. Ganondorf, Bowser and Wolf looked at him confidently. He nodded to them. "It's in the bag."
He rolled his eyes and snickered. I wasn't quite sure what a Knight-Duel was, I wanted to ask
Meta knight but he was off to his room as soon as his clone walked over to the villains again. I had
enough time to ask "Hey Meta knight! Where are you going?" His reply was a look that told me he
was grinning a bit under his mask, and "To get ready for sweeping the gulch out with him."
Needless to say, I wasn't reassured.
That evening at the gulch, Zelda, Link, Ike, Pit, Sword, Blade, Kirby, Tiff, Tuff, and I sat on a large
rock, hoping that Meta knight wouldn't be lead to defeat. "Why are we hear again?" Pit asked, to
tell you the truth, they were unsure about what exactly was going on. "There having a Knight-Duel.
What's that?" I asked. Ike's eyes widened and Sword and Blade looked at me amazed. "They're
having a Knight-Duel you say?!" Ike whispered. "Yeah, what is that?" I asked still confused. "It's a
battle between two knights that strongly disagree with each other. They fight to the death in an
attempt to eliminate one another. They use every one of the knight's codes of weaponry, fighting
techniques, skills and the like." Ike and the two armoured warriors whispered softly. "All of them?"
I asked. "From mount-riding, to swordsmanship, from the battle-ax to the Morning Star*, every
weapon and battle type in the book." Sword's words trailed off as he looked up to the sky. Dark
Meta knight appeared on one side of the long distanced battlefield, he had many weapons with
him, he had a shield that had a black dragon clutching to a mirror that had wings, the mirror had a
big crack down it and the dragon had a shard from it in its fangs. He looked ever so ready to end
Meta knight. Then from the other side of the field, walked out my best friend in the whole world.
Meta knight. He had armor that looked simply amazing, but I knew it was for more than beauty.
He too had numerous weapons with him, and a shield that had a star in the middle of it. What
looked like a Kilin*, was reared up on the star, with a long and sharp horn in the center of its head,
and a long, lion-like mane. The shield had the Letter "M" with a sword through it in the background
of where the Kilin was standing. The two gave each other a long stare before saying or doing
anything. Finally Dark Meta knight spoke up, "We start mounted, then go to whatever fate
happens to throw into our face." "I don't have a mount." Meta knight said with no emotion at all.
Dark Meta knight looked like he was only going to wait a few short seconds before yelling "Too
bad!". We all thought hard for a short amount of time. Link finally spoke up "I'll be his mount." He
started to walk out on to the field. Dark Meta knight burst out with laughter. "You're kidding, silly
boy! You're a human! Not a mount!" Meta knight looked over to Link with happiness in his eyes.
Link grinned and took on wolf form. "Ah, on the contrary. Silly knight! I'm a Wolf! Not a human!"
Link's teeth showed as he grinned again. He lowered to let Meta knight on, then stood up ready to
make any move commanded. Dark Meta knight rolled his eyes, "Okay then, I'll fight tooth and fang
with such." He let out a whistle. Wolfwrath romped up to him and lowered for him to climb onto his
back. The two wolves looked at each other with fighting energy in their eyes. Meta knight and
Dark Meta knight held lances firmly in their gloves. "We` ampe to` se` beaducwealm! A`sti`an!"
The two shouted at the same time. They got a few confused looks from their mounts and us. Ike
Sword and Blade seemed to be waiting for them to continue. I had no idea what that meant. They
looked at each other and then at us. "That means we fight to the death, go. Let's just go already."
Dark Meta knight sighed. Meta knight nodded and Link reared up. Wolfwrath did as well. The two
knights were soon jousting roughly. Dark Meta knight was yelping out mad war cries without end.
Ganondorf, Wolf, Wario, Bowser, and Shadow Kirby had also come and were sitting on the other
end of the field, whooping and hollering for him. Meta knight kept calm and gripped his lance
tighter as his stress level shot up a little. Link romped around in a circle and then burst out with
great speed at the wolf monster. He would have an easy time running and jumping with speed.
Meta knight was extremely light and even though he had quite a few weapons, it didn't affect
Link's agility at all. Wolfwrath spat out fiery balls from his mouth which Meta knight used his shield
to block. Link ran up and latched himself onto the monster's ear biting hard as he could.
Wolfwrath tried to shake him off and then gashed Link in the face with his white fangs loaded with
venom. Link released his grip and backed up to strike again, but then he wobbled a bit, and then
fell over. "Link!" Meta knight got off him and tried to pull out the fang in the wolf's snout. Wolfwrath
lowered so he could hop into the air and pounce on Meta knight. Meta knight, still gripping onto his
lance held it out in front of his chest. By the time Wolfwrath realized this, he couldn't stop running.
Meta knight jagged the lance into Wolfwrath and hard as his little arms would allow him.
Wolfwrath yelped out loudly and a loud crunching noise was heard. Meta knight, almost
instinctively, dashed away as soon as he heard the noise. Then I realised what had happened. It
was instinct. Meta knight's lance splintered as it went into the wolf's chest. Meta knight pulled Link
out onto the sidelines and yelled out to us "Keep him safe!" and ran into the battle again.
Wolfwrath snarled angrily as he looked up from his chest, which had a jag in it from the lance. It
was bleeding a lot and he was heaving every breath he took. Meta knight jumped up into the air
and kicked the beast in the side hard. The monster fell over. Dark Meta knight got off and let out
an ear piercing cry before pulling out a club and swinging it violently at Meta knight. Meta knight
flew about into the air and landed on a large rock. He pulled out a bow and set a handful of arrows
on fire with a piece of flint to his sword. He shot out numerous arrows at a time. Dark Meta knight
stretched out big, devil-like, horrible, demonic, black wings. Wings with torn up skin and claws that
were so sharp he could use them like a knife if he wanted to. He flew up and whipped out a
Cross-bow. He shot arrows at Meta knight without any end. Meta knight pulled out a new set of
arrows, but these ones had what looked like dried liquid on them. They were poisoned. He looped
around and around in the air and them drill rushed at Dark Meta knight, but instead of meeting the
steel of Galaxia, he yelled out from poison burning at his skin. He grabbed a bow as well and
converted to arrows with hooks built into them. Meta knight barrel-rolled to the right and left
dodging every arrow shot at him. He pulled out a medieval flail and whipped it so the loud
snapping noise filled the air. Dark Meta knight put away his bow and took out the club again. Meta
knight lashed the flail with great strength, it had spikes that could pierce skin if it so much as
brushed up against something. Dark Meta knight swung the club about, one stroke from that
weapon could knock someone out. Eventually Dark Meta knight knocked the flail out of Meta
knight's glove. Meta knight made a mad dash for the ground, put his shield down for a short time,
and prepared to yank out another weapon as soon as Dark Meta knight landed as well. When he
did, Dark Meta knight took out a spear and stood their, his eyebrows that showed through his
death mask bounced tauntingly as if daring him to defend himself. Meta knight stood erect and out
of a fighting stand. He glared at his dark copy. I knew his favorite weapon of choice besides his
sword, the thing he would use if he was ever deprived of Galaxia. He liked it so much, he named
his ship after it. Yep, that's right. The Halberd*. He pulled out a long stick that shot out a spear-
head crossed with a Battle-Ax. Meta knight held it firmly, and then swung it forward at his evil
clone. Dark Meta knight blocked and thrust his spear forward at Meta knight. Meta knight swung
it again and chopped off the head of the spear. Dark Meta knight let out a small "eh," and pulled
out another type of weapon. Shurikens*. He held up one of them and flung it at Meta knight. Meta
knight swung the Halberd again and it flew back up to Dark Meta knight. Dark Meta knight caught
it and flew to the backside of Meta knight and threw it. Meta knight jumped and forgot completely
about using the Halberd against Dark Meta knight. He took out a Fuuma Shuriken* and began to
spin wildly around. He finally hurled the over-sized throwing star at Dark Meta knight. Dark Meta
knight was too busy trying to keep track of Meta knight to notice it until he was out on the ground.
Meta knight caught it in both hand and put it away so he could take out something else. Dark Meta
knight examined his wing, which Meta knight had sliced up with his Fuuma Shuriken, and snarled
up angrily at Meta knight who was taking out yet another weapon. "You disable my flight," he
breathed before taking out something else. "I disable yours!" He pulled out a javelin and flung it
at Meta knight. He was thrown to the ground immediately. He was able to pull the javelin out of his
wing and turn his wings into their cape form again before Dark Meta knight came at him with a
Battle-Ax. He pulled out a Morning Star and swung it around. The sound of metal clashing echoed
through the forest. Meta knight finally was able to use the chain on the Morning Star to grab the
Battle-Ax and fling it out of Dark Meta knight's reach. He slammed the huge, spiky, metal ball
against Dark Meta knight's body and smacked him across the battlefield. That gave him just
enough time to run and grab his shield. Dark Meta knight was running out of weapons, but he
knew Meta knight was too. He grabbed his own shield after having dropped it after he went for
Meta knight when he had the Halberd out. He Ran forward with it and bashed into Meta knight,
causing him to drop his Morning star. Dark Meta knight and Meta knight unsheathed their swords
and the clashing metal was heard again. I was getting a little excited and was sure Meta knight
would win. But I looked at him carefully in the midst of that battle, and I saw the thing in his face
that scared me the most. He was running out of steam. He was trying so hard to let out battle
cries so he wouldn't pause for breaths and he was using follow throughs and all of his best
techniques, but he was way low on energy. He used a whole chunk of it to help him when he
was almost out, when he slammed his sword into Dark Meta knight's arm, causing the both of
them to drop their swords. They fell far out of reach into the gulch's pit, they could get them later,
but now, they had only one type of fighting left, they would have to go with simple close combat.
They did, and Meta knight. . . . didn't, do very well. Dark Meta knight was now sitting on him and
pulling up his wings so he would be in immense pain. "TELL ME WHO'S BETTER NOW
METANNA!" Dark Meta knight could be heard snapping to Meta knight. Meta knight was in great
pain and at this point was crying out because of the pressure on his sore wings and the weight of
Dark Meta knight on his back. "OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWIE!" Meta knight kicked and
banged his gloves on the ground. "'Owie' isn't a person Metannna, now tell me, you girlie wimp."
Dark Meta knight pulled harder and layed back so he was crushing Meta knight almost. Meta
knight blinked up at him, and then gave a look that I knew by heart, a look that said he wasn't
finished yet. "Hey Dark, wanna hear something kind of funny?" Meta knight said softly through his
painful breaths. "I like funny things. Unlike you I have a sense of humor, what is it sissy?" He
leaned further back like he was on a lawn chair. "Did you know that the difference between when
you take off your mask and I take off my mask is one little letter? Wanna see?" Meta knight
breathed. I was ready to go over their and throw Dark Meta knight off of him. He flung him off and
took off his mask, he blinked at everyone with huge puppy-dog eyes. As always, everyone looked
out and said, "AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!" He put his mask away and pinned Dark
Meta knight to the ground, he pried off his mask and pushed him up for everyone to see. "Fear
the ugliness!" Meta knight yipped with a grin on. Everyone looked startled and said
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!" Dark Meta knight, is not a cute one. He had
sickly pale, starless, glaring eyes, and fangs that looked like they came from a snake. His skin
was black with evil and he had no blushing color where his cheeks were, instead scars and slices
from swords and other weapons. Dark Meta knight had a nasty scowl on and bared his teeth at
everyone. Meta knight rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue to him. "Toldyaso." He smirked.
That earned him a punch in the face from Dark meta knight. He body-slammed Meta knight into
the ground. Tears of pain rolled down Meta knight's eyes, but he kept them opened enough long
enough to reach into his cape and grab something. "I have one more question for you Dark." Dark
Meta knight was on top of him again, "What is it baby-face?" he muttered putting on his mask
again. "What does the bomb say?" Meta knight seemed to be trying to smile. Dark Meta knight
gave him a confused look. "Boom?" He asked, not sure of what Meta knight meant. Meta knight
gave a bit more of a grin. "Good." He said before pressing a button on the object he took out. It
was a bomb. We all got to safety before the thing blew on us. I freaked out as soon as the smoke
cleared up a bit, I could never, never stand Meta knight getting hurt by a bomb. Again. I could
have died every time he did a match and smart bombs were allowed. I could never stand the
horrible feeling of his body in my arms as I could do nothing but cry and cry wondering if my best
friend would be alive the next time I saw him, I could never live through. I could never live though
the feel of him being carried in my arms, just wishing he could tell me that he would be fine. I
could never go through that again. "Meta knight! Please Be out here Meta!" I called hoping
desperately for an answer. "I'm over here 'Cough' 'cough' Marth 'cough'." A small voice said. I let
go of my breath and ran over to him. I knelt down and hugged him softly. "Never, are you ever
going to do something like that again." I sighed. "I don't plan on it." He whispered as he leaned on
me for support. "You killed him then?" I asked looking down into his big, soft amber eyes. He
shook his head, "No, he's very well alive, but I'd much rather not win or loose to a Knight-Duel,
than die and win everything in the world." I lowered to let him climb onto my shoulders. He
wrapped his arms around my neck and rested peacefully. I walked off to find the others. I had one
question to ask him. "Meta knight, that girl Tiff, is she the same girl that we saw kiss you when you
were unconscious in that movie?" I held onto him as I hopped over a log. I could see what he was
doing, but I got a little movement from him. "Yes, she is. I think I'll ask her about that." He sounded
rather happy.
*Morning Star: A type of mace that is made of a stick, a chain, and a metal ball with spikes on the end. A similar type of mace is used by Mace knight in "Revenge of Meta knight", except it has no handle.
*Kilin: Another word for the Japanese unicorn. It has an antler-like horn and a lion-like main. They are very vicious and a lover of honesty and those who tell the truth. Many Japanese stories are plotted with a person accused of a crime is put on trial and, then is put in a ring with a Kilin. The Kilin will read through the person's heart, and if they are guilty, they will charge at the person and kill them.
*Halberd: A Medieval Weapon that is a cross of a Battle-Ax, and a Spear. They are good at dealing damage. They were a popular weapon of choice by many Knights.
*Shuriken: Another word for Ninja throwing stars.
*Fuuma Shuriken: A giant Throwing Star that deals High damage. They are thrown as if they were frisbees.