Chapter four.
The next a.m they were all rested up and ready to fight. They went to the main office to Check who brawled when. The board read
Battle one: Ike v.s Marth
Battle two: Roy v.s kestrel
Battle three: Zelda v.s peach
Battle four: snake v.s Um
Battle five: dark link v.s Emma
Ect, ect, ect.
"Great. A fight with Roy." Kestrel growled and rolled her eyes.
"Hey at least you don't have to fight dark link. He's impossible! Without an element, when he goes all shadow invisible, i can't see him!" Emma complained.
"At least you don't have to fight your role model!" Aragon argued. They stopped though as the crowed started pushing up.
Later Ike beat Marth. Then it was Kess's turn. Kess walked up to the stage and pulled out her sword. She called across to Roy, "you can't beat me! I'm kestrel the powerful."
Roy just laughed. They started brawling. Roy lunged with his sword and kestrel simply sidestepped it. She then called out and said "hurry up slowpoke! You're boring us half to death!" She laughed and hit Roy with a darkness ball in the back of the head. Roy's face turned as red as his hair. He then jumped and broke a smash ball. He let loose a Maniacal laugh. Kestrels face went white. She then let out a shaky laugh. She the. Started backing towards the edge of the stage. Roy grinned and called out "not as much of a hotshot now are you kestrel?!"
" so you think. But not so i think!" Then Roy shot his final smash at kestrel. Kestrel laughed and did multiple back flips over his head. She landed behind him.
"Woah. Where did that come from? Who cares! It was great!" Kestrel thought to herself. Roy's smash kept on going until it was about to hit crazy hands favorite deep fried banana stand.
"Nooooooooo!" Crazy hand yelled as he threw himself in front of the smash. Little did Roy know crazy hand could deflect any final smashes. The smash bounced off of him and shot towards the poor unsuspecting Roy. It hit him full on in the face. He was flung backwards to the middle of the stage.
"Who threw the hammer?" Roy whispered. Kess accidentally knocked some water onto Roy's face. That woke him up. His face and eyes turned fire red.
"You. You. You deep fried banana brain!" Roy screeched. He dashed towards her going better that all out. His fury adding to his power.
Roy was flinging her weapons out of her hands as though they were sticks. Kess realised this. She thought then" right sticks!" She then picked up a smash hammer and ripped the handle off. She then danced around until she was close enough to poke him in the small of his back. She poked him enough that he fell off the stage and she was declared the winner. After the match was over she appeared in a puff of black smoke and sent darkness birds over the audience. The crowd went beserk. Then it was peach and Zelda. Zelda won. Then it was snake and um (aka Aragon).
Aragon was facing snake.
"So UM are you ready to be beaten?"
"Ha! You wish!" Aragon laughed at snake. And then, the battle began. Aragon started by trying to dash in close enough slash at snake but snake would just use his hover pad to fly out of the way! So after a few failed attempts, Aragon started with the fire blasts. The first one hit snake full in the face.
"Grrrr. You can't best me that easily, rat face!" Snake yelled at Aragon, just as Aragon stepped on one of snakes land mines. BOOM! During the time he was distracted, snake used the radio chip in his ear to access his codex.
"That's Aragon. He's the son of Roy, ruler of the fire kingdom. He is the most powerful fire elementalist in the multiverse. The only weapon he doesn't see coming is the one of a kind boomerang dagger. Only Harper wields one. Since you don't have one use a banana peel. He is clumsy. Use that to your advantage. His only blind spot is to his left and slightly behind him. Watch out for the fire shockers though. That could put Ike under for a month." The codex told snake. Snake took the opportunity to get behind um and slide to the blind spot. Then, quick as a flash, he slammed Aragon to the ground and held him down with his foot.
"Oh is poor itsy bitsy um hurt? Do you want to drop out?" Snake taunted. Aragon grunted.
"In your dreams snake." Aragon then flipped over and engulfed snake in flames. Snake, howling in agony, fled the arena. Aragon had won! The crowed cheered and chanted his name. He held up his hand and shot a fire beam as big as a great oak tree, skywards. As it exploded into multi colored lights. the crowed oohed and awed at all the right spots.
"Stage dive!" Aragon yelled as he jumped off the stage. The crowd parted and he hit the ground hard.
"I think I broke my everything. Let's do that again!" He groaned as he passed out. After Aragon was rushed to the doctors it was Emma's turn to brawl. She stalked out onto the stage. She stood there facing dark link, who was standing there on the other side of the stage leering at her. She called across the stage trying not to let her voice shake and show her fear. " y-y-you can st-still b-b-back out."
"Ha! In your dreams. There's still time for you to leave." He called back.
"You wish dark link. You wish."
And with that they launched into battle. It was a flurry of swords clanging and cries of pain if one actually connected a blow. Dark link cracked a smash ball. He carefully aimed it and shot. Emmas eyes went wide as it shot towards her.
"Shape shifting dont fail me now!" she whispered to herself. The final smash shattered in a bang and a puff of smoke. The crowd fell silent. Never before had a smash ball abruptly disintegrated! they were all craning their necks to see what had happened. There was a sharp intake of breath as they saw a phoenix come soaring out of the smoke. The smoke cleared and the phoenix landed taking its true shape. It was emma! dark link was turning ninety different shades of purple and red. They both retreated to their own sides of the stage to catch their breath. Dark link stood there, fists clenched so tight they were turning red.
"You mangy little rat faced rodent. You don't even deserve to fight me cause you're a peasant!" Dark link called across to her. That made Emma mad.
She launched herself across the stage screeching a fierce battle cry of the dragon tongue.
"Nala reinomaina taynatagua raymanai!"
Translation: "You toad faced dragon dung! Perish in flames." And with that she slashed her sword in a downwards strike and with a complicated flurry of sword combos, gave him various wounds, and sliced his hat in half as she gave him a haircut. He was shaking by then.
"Gulp. Is is that all you can do?" He asked. Not letting her see how scared he was. They were standing close to the edge of the stage. Dark link almost falling off and pinned helplessly by Emma.
"Nope." Emma replied. She slashed him on one wrist.
"That's for calling me rat faced." She cried as she slit the palm of his other hand.
"That's for calling the daughter of the king and queen of the shapeshifter kingdom a peasant" she growled. And then the dropped her dagger on his foot. He Howled in pain.
"And that. Friend, was to ensure that you will never, ever insult my kingdom, the shapeshifters kingdom every again, in your sorry, sad and wasted lifetime." She insulted him. His smirk totally vanished. He was terrified of what she was gonna do next. As if in answer to his question she kicked him once in each shin, then, she gave him such a glare, that if looks could kill, he'd be long dead. Then, she power kicked him in the chest. He went slipping backwards, off the stage. Once he was gone, she stood there looking at where he had fallen off, panting. She turned to the crowed and as dark link came back up to congratulate her, she shifted into a Phoenix and back. The crowd was silent. Then all of a sudden, they burst out in cheers and cries of disbelief. Then once they came to accept that a stranger from another realm, had beaten the second best brawler that had. The brawls carried on all day and the banana stand was moved to a safer location after many a near miss. There were a few more failed stage dives. And then a feast. After the feast they all went back to their rooms. Some with round one trophies, and some without. All with sore muscles, hopes for the next round, and bets on who would win against who.