Author's Notes: I got this next one done pretty soon, though I doubt we will be making another one for at least a couple of weeks. I also admit that it's not too long, yet I hope you like it. Please enjoy!

Chapter 31: The Crossing to England

"Yes?" Link asked.

"Hm…" the one who called herself Nazz said. She sat down at the table beside him and giggled. "You sure look strong."

Unknown to Nazz, the imp in Link's shadow eyed Nazz closely.

"I guess you could say that." Link said.

"Heh, heh, really." Nazz said. She glanced over to the sword on Link's back.

"Oh wow, nice sword you have on you." she said.

"Oh, you mean this?" Link asked. Link unsheathed his long, old-styled blade before her.

"It's pulsating with the power to repel evil…" Beldam thought. "For my own safety, I better not go near it."

"It's called the Master Sword." Link said.

"You are… quite powerful for someone your age, aren't you?" Nazz asked. "I'll bet you have some kind of destiny of your own, don't you?"

"How did you know?" Link asked, somewhat bewildered.

"Oh, uh, just a guess." Beldam said. "…but really, care to tell me about your destiny?"

Link looked down to his shadow. He could see the shadow of the imp had replaced his own, and she gave him a shake of her head.

"Uh… uh…" Link said at first, then returned to look at Nazz. "Why do you ask?"

"Oh, it's just that…" the one called Nazz stopped herself. "Well, can you keep a secret?"

"Sure." Link said.

"Ok…" Nazz looked left and right, then back at Link. She got close to Link's ear, and whispered: "I have a destiny too."

Link merely starred, still bewildered. "You do?"

"Yup." Nazz said. "Like you, I have my own mystical weapon." She reached around her neck, and pulled out a hidden necklace. It was made of gold, and appeared to be styled in an equivalently ancient item. There was a red, circular emblem hanging on the front of the necklace, one that Link was able to see his own reflection in.

"Wow…" Link said, starring in awe at it.

"If you want…" Nazz began, with her smile growing larger. "…you can hold it."

"Ok." Link said. He reached out to touch the medallion.

"That's it, swordsman." Beldam thought.

The imp's ears twitched, as she heard the thought clearly and vividly.

"Just a little bit more, and I'll have you right where I want you."

The imp suddenly threw herself out of Link's shadow. Her shadowy form materialized right in-between Nazz and Link. She appeared to be half the size of Link, wearing only but a peculiarly shaped helmet, which covered one of her two red eyes. Her body was multiple shades of gray, mostly light gray in front and dark gray in the back. She had strange, light blue markings all over herself.

Nazz and Link both starred, widened at the her sudden appearance.

The Imp starred Nazz right in the eye. "I don't think so."

And with that, the one named Nazz suddenly found herself flying in the air. She soared several feet backwards before smashing into a cupboard filled with glasses and plates. Nazz crashed into the ground, followed by the glass filled cupboard that crashed on top of her.

All of the pub's patrons turned to look at the mess. Link jumped from his seat, as the Imp floated beside him, fuming in a rage. The group also noticed the child lying underneath the fallen cupboard.

"R-run, everyone!" Link shouted at the group.

The panicked patrons began screaming and rushed out of the pub's front door.

Link turned back to the imp.

"What are you doing, Midna?!" Link asked the imp.

"You should be thanking me right now." Midna said. She peered over to the girl who had fallen on her stomach. "That girl just attempted to kill you."

Link gasped. "She what?"

They could hear the sounds of glass shards moving aside. Both of them returned their attention to Nazz. They both watched in awe as she began to get up. But not in a human way. Nazz began leaning backwards, rising upwards, like of there was a rope on her back pulling her back upright.

As she completed her rising, the last few pieces of glass on her slipped off her body. The one named Nazz wiped her face with her right arm, smearing a little bit of her host.

"Oh, I see it now." Nazz said. "You look normal, but it turns our you're already possessed by someone else."

"I'm not an evil spirit, like you." stated Midna.

"She's an evil spirit?" Link asked.

"Ha ha ha…" Beldam laughed. "Whoever you are, you're smart. My name isn't Nazz, that's the name of my host. Beldam's the real name."

"What do you want with me?" Link asked.

Beldam laughed evilly. "Oh, you know, a little of this, a little of that."

Link unsheathed the Master Sword once again.

"Is that your game?" Beldam asked. "Bring it on."

Two Days Later

"Where are we?" Bloo whined.

"I don't know." Mac said. "Now quit asking me already."

"Yeah, were are we?" Luffy repeated after Bloo.

"I'm not sure." Nami said, looking at the map.

"Where are weeeeeeeee?" Bloo and Luffy both asked at the same time.

"SHUT UP!" Mac and Nami both exclaimed.

The ocean had been clear the last couple of days since they departed Peru. They hadn't come across much at all, save for a quick detour through the Panama Canal the previous night.

The ship's new crew of 7 people had rested calmly in the Merry Go for a while now.

"Here, let me help." Double D said.

Nami was using the same Map that Double D had, the large poster of the world atlas.

"Well, at first I thought that this was a miracle." Nami said. "I'm trying to make the first one to make a world map in my world, and here we are with a commercial map from yours. And it's so undetailed that it's USELESS."

"Hey, at least we found the Panama Canal." Double D said. "That means that we're in the Atlantic Ocean, and not too far away from England!"

"No offense, I mean you're a brilliant inventor." Nami said. "But you couldn't navigate for the death of you."

Double D laughed in guilt, with his arm behind his head.

"Look." Nami said. "We are supposed to be headed North East. But since we left the Canal, all I think we have been doing is heading North." She pointed on the map. "If I'm right, we're not headed for England. We're going to a place called New England."

"New England, USA?" Double D asked.

Nami nodded. "Look, look…" Nami said. "If we keep going where we are going, we could end up anywhere between Cape Cod Massachusetts to Brooklyn, New York."

Mario glanced over at Nami. "Brooklyn?!"

"Yes, Brooklyn." Nami said. "That's what this stupid map says, anyway."

Mario went silent for a minute.

"Mario, are you ok?" Vivian asked.

"Um, yes." Mario said.

Mario walked towards the bow of the ship. He stopped at the Merry Go's goat figurehead, peering past it towards the ocean.

"Brooklyn. I-a haven't been there in decades." Mario thought. "Not since…"

"Hey, Mario!" Bloo called. "C'mon!"

"Uh, I'm-a coming!" Mario said, running to his aid.

Two Days Earlier

"…….wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!"

The Ed-Mobile 2.0, after several hours, finally hit land. It smashed it's way through the dirt, causing mud to rush everywhere as it plowed through the land. It was forced into becoming slower and slower, until both friction and the ground forced the van to slowly halt.

The three rockets at the end of the car were still steaming, yet turned off entirely. The engines were still running, although they sounded damaged, backfiring every couple seconds.

A few seconds later, the van turned off. The front and passenger doors slid open, and three very dazed passengers fell out and into the ground.

"Oh, my aching head." Eddy groaned.

"Way to go, jerk." Goombirro groaned, lying on the ground.

They could hear murmuring all around them. Eddy looked up, noticing a few local people starring at them.

One of the men rose an eyebrow upon seeing the three of them. "What the devil-"

Eddy gasped, jumped up, and hid both of the Goombas behind his back.

"Hey!" they both shouted.

"Nothin' to see here, folks, go away now." Eddy told the group.

The group remained still, standing there for a few seconds, until:

"Someone call the news crews! There are aliens!"

"No their not!" Eddy shouted back at them.

The group continued to chatter, getting a bit closer towards them.

"Uh… uh… -look!" Eddy shouted, pointing into the sky. "It's a UFO!"

The entire group shouted and peered upwards.

"Do you see it?" one of the civilians asked.

"I don't see a bloody thing." replied another.

As they had been distracted, they could hear the van's engine start up again. They all turned around to see the mud-covered van rush towards them. They all exclaimed and jumped out of the way. The van rushed past them and into the streets.
"Oh, now you learn how to drive." Goombirro said.

"Shut up." Eddy told the Goomba.

"C'mon, let's not argue again." Goombella said to the two of them.

"Ok, so where are we?" Goombirro asked.

Eddy looked around, observing the city streets. He was interrupted though, by the tolling of a loud toll of a bell.

All three of them looked out the front window, spotting a large, famous bell tower.

"Is that Big Ben?" Eddy asked.

"Big who?" Goombella asked.

"No way!" Eddy shouted. "We're in England!"

"Where?" Goombella asked.

"It's a place, across the ocean, I think." Eddy said.

"Well, that's just great." Goombirro said.

"We have to get back to the others!" Goombella shouted.

"I don't know how!" Eddy shouted. "I barely picked up how to drive this stupid thing!"

There was a loud bump, as all three of them hit the top of the van, before falling into their seats.

"You know, I'm glad I've been wearing this helmet now." Goombella commented.

"Could we slow down a little?" Goombirro asked.

"I don't know how!" Eddy shouted.

"Great." he replied.

"No more fighting, ok?" Goombella asked.

"Fine." the other two said.

"It's 6 pm, I'm with two Goombas, a mythical gas tank, no idea where I am going, and I'm hungry." Eddy said.

"I think we should try to find a phone or something first." Goombella said.

"Well, let's find a phone in a restaurant." Eddy said.

"Whatever." Goombirro said.

The van rushed down the streets, causing some people to run or dodge it.

"Look over there!" Goombella shouted. She gestured towards a small building to the right. "Look, it's some place called the J. Potts Pub."

"Pubs are bars." Eddy said. "I'm underage."

"Just like you are underage to drive?" Goombella asked.

"Let's find some other place." Eddy said. "Hold on, you two."

Eddy took a sharp turn, rushing down the streets and directly past the pub.

Link and Minda were only temporarily distracted when the heard the sound of a very loud engine rush past. They heard the sound of screaming, and turned to look out the window in time to see a muddy-old van rush past them, with it's passengers screaming. Just in a flash, the van vanished from sight and down the street.

"…what was that?" Midna asked.

Link merely shrugged.

"You two shouldn't turn away from a battle, you know." Beldam said.

They both turned back and saw a huge mace made out of ice. It crashed into the two of them, causing them both to fall down.

"Idiots." Beldam said. She walked away from that spot, wiping a bit more of the blood that was on her face.

She walked towards the fallen Link. "So, swordsman. How strong are you feeling now?"

Link grunted, still somewhat in pain.

Beldam suddenly felt a strong pressure on her ankle. She fell front wards, having been successfully tripped by Midna.

"Come on, come on." she said, helping Link back onto his feet.

"We should get out of here." Link said.

"No, no, no." Beldam said, all of a sudden back on her feet. "I'm not done here. Neither are you, Link."

Link took his Master Sword, and rushed ahead, towards Beldam.

"Wait, not a good idea, Link." Midna stated. "If you slice her in half, only her host will die. Who knows what will happen if we unleash Beldam's Spirit?"

Link stopped. "Then what am I supposed to do?"

"Ah, what a dilemma." Beldam said. "A host always does make the perfect shield. At least for the sappy."

"Release the girl." Link said. "Release her, so that we can fight fair."

Beldam laughed. "Fair? Why would I have to do that?"

Link growled and let his sword drop.

"That a boy." Beldam said, smiling. "But you do have a point. I'm already powerful. Maybe I don't need this whimp of a shield anymore. Perhaps a more powerful, influential host would be more like it."

"Powerful?" Link asked.

"Yeah…" Beldam said, with a nasty smirk. "One with… a destiny."

Link starred, wide-eyed.

"FREEZE!" shouted a voice from nowhere.

The front door of the pub burst open, as two members of the UK police force rushed in.

Before Link figured out what had happened, Midna took him. There was a dark flash, as the two of them surrounded quickly in dark particles. They then vanished from the scene.

"They escaped!" one of the officers shouted.

"Take that one then." another said, pointing to Beldam, who was left in the room.

"Please." Beldam said with a laugh. She pointed at the two officers, then snapped her fingers.

"Solidify."

The two were surrounded by a blinding white light. A second later, they had changed entirely, now both nothing but statues.

"What a waste." Beldam growled. She angrily stormed out of the pub, shoving both of the statue officers out of the way. They both tilted and fell on the floor as she exited, and slammed the door behind her.

Rolf sat down. The 6 pm sunlight was diminishing quickly, as the tall mountains that surrounded his village ensured a faster sunset then in most places.

He was inside one of the clay-structured buildings in the village. The windows had no glass, so fresh air flowed inside freely. Rolf's father, the Sheppard, sat on the other end of the room, starring down his son.

"Father, Rolf means no harm, yet he must ask you. Why have you-"

"Rolf asks too many questions." his father said. "The Sheppard will answer them all with a fact. You will save the world."

"Rolf knows this. He has… how does Rolf say this without sounding like a parsnip… he already saved-"

"You saved the Great Puni tree, as well as the rest of another world, from the Shadow Queen." Rolf's father stated.

Rolf stared, mouth agape. "You know?"

"I knew you were going to save it before you did." spoke the Shepard.

"…but how-"

"It was inevitable." Rolf's father said. "We knew for a long time that someone in our family would save the world. But it wasn't until the day you traveled to the Temple of the 7 Stars… exactly 9 years ago to this date, when the village was attacked by the three witches. It was not a mere coincidence. Rolf, I realized your destiny that day."

"But how did Rolf's father know about the other world?" Rolf asked.

"I have my sources." Rolf's father said.

"…sources?" Rolf asked.

"Does the Shepard talk with strudel in his face?!" Rolf's father asked. "Of course, sources!"

"So… Rolf is destined to save the world again?" Rolf asked.

"Of course. Aside from the sock-hat, you are the most important hero in the world."

"You know about Double D-Edd Boy?" Rolf asked.

"Again, I know plenty of things." he said. "And, I know that in order to save the world, you will need to learn these things."

"Very well." Rolf said. "Rolf shall be honored to accept these teachings and all… yet first, this comes with a request of my own."

"Request?" Rolf's father asked

"Rolf wishes to see it. Reina's grave." Rolf stated.

"You cannot." Rolf's father said.

Rolf suddenly got up. "Why not?"

"Sit down, now." Rolf's father said.

Rolf sat down again instantly. "Yes, father… and why not?"

"This is because it is impossible."

"And why is it impossible?"

"You are not ready yet, my son." Rolf's father said.

"When will Rolf be ready?" Rolf asked.

"When he learns enough." Rolf's father said.

Rolf nodded. "The teach me. All there is to know. Please teach me."

Four Days Later

"Ok, we're here." Double D said. "With good news and bad news…"

"Well?" Bloo asked. "Out with it, out with it, out with it!"

"Quiet down." Mac groaned.

"The good news is that we reached land." Double D said. "…but, not England."

"Yeah." Nami said, somewhat discouraged. "We are in some city called Brooklyn."

Mario sighed. "Brooklyn…"

It was true. Before the Merry Go stood the Brooklyn Bridge, with busy traffic running on top of it. The city itself was just behind the bridge, with magnificent towers standing taller then life itself.

"Maybe we should stop." Double D said. "We may be able to buy a more efficient map somewhere."

"We don't have time." Nami said. "The others are in danger."

"Yeah, I say we ignore this place and keep going!" Luffy said. "I'm gonna find my crew and stop Beldam at all costs!!"

"Well, it was captain's orders." Double D said. "Very well, we will leave now."

"Wait!' Mario shouted.

The entire crew turned to look at the plumber.

"What is it?" Mac asked.

"It's… Brooklyn. I lived here before." Mario said.

"You did…?" Double D asked.

"Yes. I need to go back." Mario said.

"We can't, Mario," Double D said. "I'm quite sorry, but we must save the others as soon as possible."

"And I must see-a Brooklyn." Mario said.

"We're not stopping." Nami said.

"…very-a well. Then you leave me no choice." Mario said.

They all stood, rather baffled.

The next thing they knew, Mario bolted forth, past the entire group. He jumped the rail, and threw himself into the bay. The entire group ran to the rails to watch him. Mario surfaces seconds later, and shook his head.

"Mario, come back!" Mac shouted.

"Stop it!" Bloo shouted. "We don't have time! You're dooming us all!"

Mario ignored them, and continued to swim towards Brooklyn.

The plumber contemplated as he continued to swim. "I'm coming…"

Author's Notes: So yes, Brooklyn, in case the fans didn't know, is Mario's old home. Midna and Link are both from the Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. And even more is on it's way soon. Please review, as always!