I lied again; I did find another spot for the Wii Fit Trainer... considering I had the Wii Fit Balance Board earlier in the story I think it makes sense.

Sadly I don't think there is a spot for Mega Man.

Day 27: The last day of peace

I was in the train station. "Now departing for the Real World… This is your last call for returning to the Real World!"

I woke up and looked around my room. Something was telling me that today was going to be a nice day.

I did my normal morning routine, and then looked outside. Some fresh snow had blanketed Smashville. I just walked out. The sky was clear, there wasn't a cloud in sight. It was all just blank.

I wanted to go find a hill to toboggan down, then just come home and drink a bunch of hot chocolate. Everything was so pure. But, before I did anything like having fun, there was one thing I had to do.

I returned to the train station. This place constantly was drawing me to it. It even appeared in my dreams. I didn't quite understand it, but this place was somehow important.

Snow had blown into the train station and I walked around. There was nothing there. I pressed against the walls, and even went into the employee area, but there was nothing anywhere. Using aura showed me absolutely nothing. All the walls appeared solid. None of the lockers were hiding any secret passages.

"Well, that was useless." I said to no one. I began to make my way back outside. However from deep within the train station, I heard a train's whistle. I just rushed to where I thought I heard the sound. But the tracks were completely empty.

I tried using aura, but that showed nothing as well. I just sighed, and made my way out of the train station. I was now satisfied with my investigation of the train station, despite my hunches, it appeared to be completely normal. My only remaining lead was now looking for an Akashic Point. I was somewhat worried though, that the Smashers wouldn't let me out of Smashville again.

Off in the distance I saw a giant building. I walked up to it and was rather surprised to see that it was a giant stadium that was built on the outskirts of Smashville. There were several wireframes each wearing construction hats. One just quickly put one on me, and directed me into a finished area. It was a small gym. There were several weights, elliptical machines, those bikes, and off in the corner, there was currently Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, and a stark porcelain white woman that I had never seen before. She had dark grayish hair tied into a pony tail. She was wearing a blue tank top that exposed her stomach, it also had the words "Wii Fit" on it. She was also wearing yoga pants.

Currently they were all doing different yoga poses. The white woman was helping Peach and Zelda.

"Nugai!" Peach said. "What brings you here?"

I was a bit confused at how they saw me when they were facing away from me, but then I noticed that the whole room was kind of lined with mirrors. And then I felt like an idiot.

"I just saw this building and was curious what it was, and then the Wireframes led me into here." I replied.

They both nodded.

"Would you like to join us?" Zelda asked.

"Sorry, but..."

I however was unable to finish that sentence. The white porcelain figure just immediately came over and dragged me to them and began forcing me to do some Yoga poses. "I guess some wouldn't hurt." I said.

After 10 minutes of yoga poses I excused my self and made my way out of the place. Quite frankly, that white porcelain thing terrified me. I feared that I may have offended it, and it might be out for my blood...

I stepped outside the construction zone, and a wireframe took back the hard hat. I just made my way back into Smashville. I was actually quite impressed by those wireframes. Considering I didn't see that stadium yesterday, they worked really quickly, and silently…

I made my way to the Kid Smasher's house. They were all outside, around a giant mound of snow making a snow fort. "Want to help us Nugai?" Popo asked.

"Sorry." I said. "I have had far too much physical activity all ready today."

"Excuses." Ness scoffed.

The other kid Smashers seemed to nod.

"Maybe later." I said.

I just walked away. I don't know if it was the Yoga poses, or what, but my body was beginning to hurt all over. Realistically, the trainer was there helping me do the poses properly so nothing should have been strained. I just cringed as I stepped forwards.

Damn it, what's going on?

I found a bench and sat down. I began to breath in. After a few minutes the pain disappeared. I wondered if it was my body degrading. If that happened if I had to fight the Reaper again, then well, I'd probably be dead.

I just stayed on the bench and looked up at the sky. As my head came down, I saw something moving through Smashville. It was incredibly suspicious and also incredibly strange. It currently just looked like a giant blob of stuff. I got up and went closer to investigate. As I got closer I saw that it was a blanket monster!

I tried to use aura to see underneath all of the blankets, but, I figured the blankets were hiding the aura of the person.

"Who are you?" I asked.

The person underneath suddenly jumped a bit, rather surprised. I guess he couldn't hear me approach. He just removed some of the blankets covering his face. "It's me! Pit!" He said.

"Pit?" I said confused. Sure I had seen him around, but it was just way too weird. Why was he dressed like that? "Why are you dressed like that?"

Pit just sighed. "Let's get inside to talk." He said.

We made it to his house and we entered. He quickly began to remove the layers and layers of blankets. Soon I saw why. His wings were just there, and afterwards it was practically his bare back. "Normal clothing for you guys doesn't work on me." Pit said. "You have no idea how much of a pain it is getting into something that does have holes cut out for my wings."

I just nodded. "I see, so the blankets just draped over you just to keep you warm."

"Exactly." Pit said. "So, welcome to my home. Make yourself at home."

"Okay."

"I'm going to make some hot chocolate. Do you want any?"

"Yes please."

I just walked into his living room. The place was white. It had what appeared to be rather expensive marble on the floors and the walls. There were columns in the rooms. "I tried my best to make it look like Skyworld." Pit laughed. "It's my home away from home."

I walked around his living room. The place looked more like a tourist attraction, or a museum than an actual living room. Hanging on the walls was his bow. I just reached for it. I grabbed the bow, and it separated into two blades. I just practiced swinging them around a few times. Despite their look, they were really light. I put the blades back together, which was much easier than I thought it would be, and then put it back on the wall.

Also hanging on the wall was a mirror shield. I looked at myself in the reflection for a few seconds.

There was also a bunch of silver armor on a table.

I then soon found a scroll. It detailed something called the Miracle of Flight. It talked about a technique that could let you fly for five minutes.

"Here's the hot chocolate." Pit said coming in carrying two mugs. In both there were some marshmallows. "I hope you don't mind the marshmallows."

"No, not at all." I said taking the hot chocolate.

"They are the closest things that remind me of the clouds down here." Pit said rather cheerfully. He went over to some clouds and just jumped onto it like it was a sofa. "It was so nice of Master Hand to order in all these things for me."

Come to think of it, I had only seen Pit. I never had the chance to sit down and talk with him like this. I also sat on a cloud couch. It was amazingly soft, and seemed to immediately conform to my shape.

I want this for my house…

"So, Pit." I said. "What is it like to fly?"

Pit looked at me rather taken back. "I can't fly, at least not without assistance."

"But you have wings, and…"

Pit's happy attitude had quickly switched to a rather depressed one. "Yeah. I'm an angel that can't fly."

"I see." I said. "Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just saw the scroll over there talking about the miracle of flight, and jumped to conclusions."

Pit just nodded. "All I can really do is just stay flying for five seconds. A far cry to the limit of five minutes that the miracle of flight has." He showed me the technique. His wings glowed in a blue aura and for a few seconds he was flying. But soon it ended, and he was back on the ground.

I got up and read through the scroll a few times. I wondered if I could actually do something similar with aura acting as my wings, or creating my wings. Aura could be solid for a few moments…

"Would you mind if I tried it?" I wondered.

Pit just seemed to laugh. "Yeah try it." He said.

I just closed my eyes. I tried to think about the aura as wings on my back. When I opened my eyes, nothing was there. I could release the aura from my back, but for some reason I couldn't maintain it. After several attempts, and feeling light headed for using a good portion of aura I stopped.

"The biggest problem with me seems to be the amount of energy required." Pit sighed. "I don't have enough energy to maintain my flight for more than five seconds at a time. And if I try to force it, I quickly use up all the energy I do have. But one day I know I'll fly on my own."

"I hope you do fly on your own one day." I said. "Even if it is just for five minutes."

"Thanks Nugai." Pit laughed.

"By the way, what are those?" I wondered, pointing to the various objects on the wall.

"The Sacred Treasures." Pit said. "They used to be powerful objects from Skyworld that could vanish evil."

"Used to be?" I said.

"They are quite old." Pit said. "I wouldn't be surprised if they broke. At this point, they really only should be used as display items in a museum."

I nodded. "Can any person use the Sacred Treasures?"

"Not really." Pit said. "I'm sure the Goddess Palutena can, and I can, but you have to go through some trials to make sure that you're worthy of their power. And then they bond to you."

"I see. Pit, by any chance do you know anything about Akashic Points?" I asked.

"That's what Ganondorf was talking about yesterday, wasn't it?" Pit said. I just nodded. "I do know some things, but I believe that only Gods have the right to alter reality. Mortals, doing it never results in anything good."

"So, I guess, you're not going to tell me anything." I said.

"Correct." Pit replied.

"Not even if I told you that I think the Reaper found an Akashic point, and has been using it's power?" I wondered.

"Nugai, I've been told that power corrupts people." Pit said. "I'd rather not tell you about these things and have the possibility of you being corrupted. I also don't really know all that much about them, just that they exist and what they can do."

"I guess that's fair enough." I sighed. I was hoping that I could get some information about the Akashic Points. "Still, if The Reaper has the power of the Akashic Points, why isn't he using it? He could instantly alter reality to kill everyone."

"Our world is governed by many rules. One of the biggest is this, power comes at a price." Pit replied. "The price for that may be too great, and he decided to do it the old fashioned way."

I just nodded. "I understand. I'll do my best to remember that."

Pit just smiled. "I wish I could help you out, and answer your questions about the Akashic Points, but honestly, you probably know just as much as I do. Really the only other think I know is that the Akashic Points can only bond with one person at a time."

"So, only one person would be able to use their power at once? So, even if I find an Akashic Point, it can't be used against the Reaper."

"No, they are independent of each other." Pit said. "Just that if you find one that The Reaper has bonded with you can't bond with it, and he can't bond with the remaining 6."

"Would I be able to destroy that Akashic point then?" I wondered.

"You might, but considering it is something that bonds the world together it might be disastrous if any harm comes to it." Pit said.

"Thank you then." I said. I finished the hot chocolate, and left Pit's house.

I looked around Smashville, wondering who else I really hadn't talked to or been with that much since I got here. I wandered around, hoping to run into someone else to talk to or find. But they were all elsewhere. Probably inside their houses. I eventually just found myself at the museum. I went in and down to The Roost, however no one was there. I made my way back into the museums and I began to look through all of the exhibits.

Much to my surprise all of the exhibits had been donated by a single person. Fish, bugs, fossils… but every time I went to read the donor, a mosaic seemed to block the name. I figured it was the same as my mind doing the mental bleeping out of a name.

Why can't I know my name!?

It really frustrated me. It was something that everyone else took for granted. A simple real name. Something I wanted to know.

I'm not just Nugai. I'm somebody. I've got a name, but why the hell can't I remember it!

The words of that person who I met in my dream and claimed to be me rang through my head. "It's pointless to just keep asking what your real name is. In the end that's all irrelevant. It's the journey that matters. When you get out, the world is going to need Nugai, not the old you."

I just want to know my name. Is that too much to ask for? All Nugai is, is just a placeholder…

I just made my way through the museum looking at different things. And then I noticed a strange door. What memories I did have were quickly telling me that door wasn't there any time previously. I just walked up to it and opened it.

It was a library room. Just walls and walls filled with books. I looked around, but they just appeared to be books on archeology, and appraising objects, along with some minor history on Smashville, along with records of all the previous inhabitants, their names, family trees. I looked for mine, but there was nothing.

I walked out of the library and back into the museum. Having seen every single display, I just walked out back into Smashville.

I made my way to the Kid Smasher's house. They were still building their snow fort. "Hey, Nugai have you changed your mind?"

"Yeah."

I needed to do something constructive. I was instructed by Ness to start rolling a bunch of snowballs, and when I couldn't roll it because it was too heavy to call them, and they would come over and place it wherever they pleased.

After about five snowballs, they all rushed inside for food. I followed.

We got some nice vegetable soup. Although they seemed a bit annoyed that I was eating with them, and they wouldn't get as much.

They also had hot chocolate to help warm up. They all looked like they were having the time of their lives. And yet, it was beginning to annoy me. I was going to die unless I found the way home in less than 10 days. The Reaper was still at large. There was a mole in the Smashers, waiting to strike at any moment.

And they were all carefree.

Was it ignorance? Youth? Or something else?

"They live each day fully doing what they please." A voice said to me. "If they want to build a snow fort they go and build it. You were like that once too."

I could see the villager, the younger me, sitting across from me. If I was beginning to hallucinate him, I was really losing it.

"You decided to fill up the museum. No matter how many forgeries you got, you weren't deterred. No matter how many times you were stung by bees, no mater how many times the fish got away, you got back up on your feet and tried again."

"Hey, Nugai, you okay?" Popo shouted. "You seem like you're spacing out."

"I'm just tired." I said.

"You only made 5 snow boulders though." Ness said. "You don't have the right to be tired." He teased.

"It's just the exercising I did in the morning caught up to me." I lied. "I think I need to just go and fall asleep back home. "I'll help you out tomorrow."

"But by tomorrow it will all ready be done." Toon Link said.

"We'll show you the completed snow fort then." Ness smiled.

"I'll look forwards to it then." I laughed.

I got up out of the house, and made the way back to my own. I really was exhausted though. I entered the house and just made my way upstairs and collapsed on the bed.

I smiled. Today was nice. I wouldn't mind more days like it.

Sadly this was going to be the last day of peace…

I seem to have a pattern of long chapter, short chapter... no idea why that is... Although in this case, I didn't really want a long chapter.

Notes:

Some references to Kid Icarus Uprising were there.

And I think that's it... See you next chapter.