"Are they here yet?"Jewel asked excitedly.

"No," the rest responded.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"...are they here yet?"

"NOOOOO!"

"Jewel stop asking!" Summer ordered. "This is the twelfth time you asked!" The little girl sighed and climbed down the stairs with loud steps. Today, the rest of the brawlers come to the mansion for the tournament. The Gamers are excited to see them, so they decided to watch for the train to come by the station about a mile away from the rooftop. So far, nothing was out in the distance besides many miles of trees, a small lake, and the railroad tracks that led to a small station.

"What's taking them so long?" Summer complained. James glared at her, but she had a reasonable point. They've been waiting since the early rays of the sun, but now the yellow circle is high into the sky. Jewel got impatient and decided to play with Lucas and Ness while the others continued to wait. Suddenly, a blue ball zoomed to the train station and back to the mansion. Unfortunately, they already knew that it was Sonic, the speedy hedgehog. So they sighed and continued to stare at the station.

"Anything yet, Sonic?" Jarod yelled to the little garage on the roof, which held the staircase. The blue light runs up the stairs and stops in front of Jarod, where you can clearly see Sonic's frizzy blue hair, red sneakers with socks, and white, classic gloves.

"Nope," he replied sadly. "We got another hour to kill." The Gamers groaned loudly because an hour could mean another three.

"So what do we do now?"Keiza asked. "It's clear that they'll come later."

"Any ideas?" Bryan said.

"I know!" Lizzy exclaimed. "We could play the cup game."

"Brilliant idea!"

"I'll go get the cups!" James exclaimed. He raced down the stairs while the others waited anxiously. The cup game is really simple. All you have to do is turn your cup upside down and follow a particular pattern that involves clapping, beating your cup, and moving it. But if you go too fast, the pattern would mess up. That's the game of elimination. If you made a mistake, then you're out. James came back with red cups in his hands, as he sat down, he let go of all the cups and placed them upside down. The others sat down, grabbed a cup, and started to play. They played the pattern as fast as they could until a person messes up. Then the procedure would start again until the next person gets out. Jarod, James, and Lizzy were about to start their round when they heard a voice screaming.

"It feels so good to be home!" The three stopped the game and immediately ran to the roof wall where the others were. People are coming from the train station to the mansion in small groups.

"Who screamed?" Lizzy asked.

"I think it was Ike," Jarod assured. And sure enough, the Fire Emblem swordsman yells those same words again for everyone to hear.

"I feel like screaming back," Keiza says. "What do you guys think?"

"I don't see why not," James shrugged.

"Ready?" Jarod announced. "One...two...three!"

"Hi!" the group screams loudly. The people down below looked among themselves to see if any of them screamed the call. Seeing their attempts failed, the Gamers tried a number of calls.

"Hey, over here!" James yells.

"You're looking at the wrong direction," Keiza screams.

"Look above!" Bryan cried.

"You're destination should be above your view of perspective," Lizzy exclaimed.

"This isn't a math class!" Summer yelled. "Look up!"

"Caw-caw!" Jarod screamed like a bird. "Caw-CAW!" The last part was a bit high for his voice, but he lasted for at least one minute. After straining his voice, he said with multiple breaths, "Never mind."

"Wow!" Keiza cried in awe.

"That was really impressive," James complimented.

"And I think you got the brawler's attention," Bryan added. The team glanced down below and saw their friend's faces. Most of them were in shock with wide eyes and their mouths dropped. Others had disgusted looks on their faces and thought it was idiotic.

"What else can that guy do?" one of them asked.

"I don't know," Lizzy yelled back. "But we should find out before he overdoes it again."

"That's a good idea."

"Let's get him some water because I think he's passing out," Bryan insisted, seeing Jarod's condition. His face was growing pale and he was pacing back and forth from the roof wall to the rest of the group.

"He didn't drink water, did he?" Lizzy questioned.

"Well, he doesn't drink a lot every day," James stated. Everyone was in agreement and Bryan and James carried their leader to the staircase while the rest of the group follows, hoping he'll be okay. "Out of the way, guys!" James shouted, in case people decided to go up the stairs. "We got a down soldier in our mists."

"Sorry guys!" Bryan yelled as some fighters went through the staircase door on the first floor."It's an emergency!" They immediately got out of the way for them as they moved to the cafe. James and Bryan set Jarod on a table while Jewel was coming into the scene.

"What happened?" she asked frantically.

"He overdid himself," James quickly explained.

"Someone get water fast!" Bryan yelled. Keiza and Summer quickly ran into the kitchen and came out with fresh, cool water. As this was going on, Lizzy immediately began to think. How do you cool a guy that is heating up? That was on her mind for sometime until...

"Heating up...that's it!" she said to herself.

"What?" Summer asked.

"Summer come with me. I need your help saving Jarod."

"Got it. Jewel, stay here! We'll be right back!" The twosome dashed out of the room and into the hallway where the door led to outside. A couple brawler's are there but not too many. Lizzy recognized Marth and Ike immediately and ran towards them.

"Marth, I need to ask you something," she said.

"Well I'm surprised to see you guys here," he replied with a smirk.

"Never mind that. Have you seen Link?"

"No, which kind of surprises me because he's usually early. Have you seen him, Ike?"

"Nope," the blue swordsman with a red bandana replied. "But I'm sure he'd still be outside."

"Thanks!" Lizzy exclaimed. She and Summer began to run for the door again in hopes of finding their friend outside.

"Why are you running?" Marth shouted to them.

"We need to find Link before Jarod has heatstroke," Summer yelled.

"Heatstroke!?" Before Summer could respond, Lizzy called for her to come outside. The young Gamer sighed and went to Lizzy's side while trying to avoid more people.

"Do you see him?" Lizzy asked.

"No," Summer replied, searching the area. They ran again to the nearest tree and climbed a branch to get a wider look of the place they're looking at. Lizzy got a bad cut on her knee and Summer had lots of bruises. But they needed to proceed with their mission. "There!"

This is chapter 2! Sorry I took so long, school got to me! Anyway, I'll update as soon as I can. I hope you've enjoyed it so far!