Soren POV

Link entered the scary door first, followed by Ike, then Roy, I squeezed through the door last. I looked around; the mansion looked different in some parts. The nasty blobs littered most surfaces. "Where do you think they're hiding?" Link asked slowly.

I had an idea; actually, I had many ideas, "let's check every room first." I remarked, everybody nodded as we headed upstairs. The first door we opened as a nightmare. On the beds there were the trophies of the smasher who'd been in the room. Link tried tapping the bottom of the trophy but nothing happened. "That's not a good sign is it?" I muttered grimly.

Link shook his head, "no it's not."

"Come on, let's keep checking." Ike said as he turned and left the room. I followed behind him slowly, Link and Roy entered the next room first, I grabbed Ike's arm before he went in after them.

"I'm sorry for arguing with you." I whispered.

"Yeah, I didn't know you had it in you." Ike teased me, "But, seriously, I think you're right."

I let go of his arm, "you know how much I've regretted coming here, don't you?"

"I guess, you didn't fit in quite like I expected. But if you would have told me about Marth and Roy I would have pounded them into a wall." Ike remarked.

"But, I did figure out one thing."

"Okay, you can't start talking and then not finish, spit it out."

"I figured out that even though I'm still different, people can still like me as a friend. Strange right? It's a good thing I don't care about friends."

"Uh-huh, just keep thinking that you don't care." Ike said with a nod.

"Shut up." I growled, Link and Roy came out of the room.

"Hey, you two, focus!" Roy hollered as we went onto the next room. I noticed that it was Peach and Zelda's room. Oh, yeah, and Elincia's. We opened the door, no trophies.

"This is really starting to freak me out!" Link admitted shivering, I didn't blame him. Why were we the only people without incurable trophies? I mean, I know we're walking around, but what does that mean for the other brawlers?

"Okay, everybody, calm down. It's not that big of a deal." I said as calmly as possible.

"How is this not a big deal? Soren, I thought those trophies were fake but I guess they aren't since we don't have them! But what does that mean for the others?" Link remarked nervously. Wow Mr. Courage was losing it.

"Maybe we should quit checking the rooms?" Roy offered clearly as disturbed as Link, after all if we couldn't fix the trophies weren't those basically their dead bodies? Oh yuck! I never thought of it like that. I feel like I'm going to barf.

"Yeah that sounds smart." I agreed, the idea of seeing all the brawlers basically dead was not a pleasant one. I mean, who wants to glance at the dead trophy bodies of everyone? As in everyone.

"Guys, I know it's disturbing but we have to check." Ike argued.

"Then you check." Roy muttered.

"Fine, Link come wait by the door. Roy you wait here and Soren, can you go wait by the stairs?" Ike asked.

"Gladly." I replied; glad to be rid of those disturbing trophies. I walked to the stairs, I looked down the stairs, surely it'd been more than ten minutes, where was Zelda and Peach? Suddenly I heard a shrill scream. Peach. I ran down the stairs without a second thought, I saw someone in the kitchen. Zelda was standing although she seemed to be shaking. "Where's Peach?" I asked.

"I don't know. We were altogether, and then suddenly I was separated. I don't know what happened, Soren." Zelda cried, looking at the ground.

"Are you hurt?" I asked.

"N-no…" she whispered, still looking at the ground, "I think they were heading upstairs." Great, that meant, that hopefully the others had found them safely.

"Okay, let's go check." I remarked slowly I walked to the foot of the stairs, but something was wrong. It was almost like a purple force field was blocking the way. "LINK!" I hollered, the three others ran to the stairs were they stared in shock. "Guys, something bad happened!"

"Soren, get away from her, now!" Link hollered at me, I was confused by this point, not knowing what he meant.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I scoffed, questioning Links sanity.

"That's not Zelda you idiot!" Link hollered, I glanced at her. And I understood. Her eyes, which I hadn't seen until now were red. Just awesome. Zelda's form became Vaati's.

"Bravo, Link." Vaati growled, clearly wanting to break that force field and kill him.

"Soren! Do something!" Roy hollered at me. What the hell was I going to do? Sure I could fight him by myself and get the crap kicked out of me!

"Vaati, where are they?" I hollered.

"Who?"

"Zelda and Peach and… Kirby!" I exclaimed.

"Soren, I think you forgot Elincia." Ike grumbled.

"Oh, yeah, and her." I added.

"Uh, I guess you could fight me and maybe figure out?" Vaati offered slyly.

"Okay. Fine." I exclaimed, Vaati hovered above the ground, in one swift motion he shot a ball of magic straight at me. with no other choice I took my book and hit it back at him, he hit it back at me, I hit it again, and it knocked him to the ground, I ran over to him and with no other choice hit him with my book (this fight is based after the LoZ: OoT final boss between Link and Ganondorf) he flew back to his feet and continued with his prior attack I kept on hitting it back at him and beating him with my book. Not the most effective thing I've ever done in my life, but… by some miracle, he fell to the ground. I figured that over hitting him with my book I would try using a spell, so I shot fire at him; I had defeated him.

"Good job, kid… they're in the library, remember where you read that book of prophecies? Down there. Good luck." He said with a weak smile, he suddenly disappeared I don't think I killed him, but Vaati diffidently wouldn't be coming back. The force field disappeared. Link ran down the stairs.

"Good job, Soren! Though I could have done it better myself."Link admitted.

"Are you okay?" Ike asked nervously.

"Yeah, but we still have to save everyone." I remarked, if it would have just been Elincia I wouldn't have been so eager to save anybody, but my friends were there too. Damn, I'm getting way too mushy. A part of me still wanted to run out the door screaming bloody murder. But I wouldn't.

"I can't wait to see Peach." Roy murmured, okay I was confused. First Peach had been with Mario, then she broke up with him to be with Roy and then I guess Bowser just has a crush on her…? Weird. So I guess her and Roy were currently together.

"Let's go to the library. We're going to end this." Ike remarked. Couldn't have said it better myself.

That's it for this chapter! Thanks to everybody who's stuck with me throughout this whole story, like I said in the last chapter, this story is nearing its closing