Two chapters in one day? Man, I am on fire! I'll probably post fifteenth more tomorrow, because I am officially addicted to fanfiction (Don't judge me)
Shulk woke up to find Mist, Meta Knight, and Lucina staring at him.
"Woah." Shulk said. "How did you guys get here? Did I win the lottery or something?"
"Don't joke around!" Lucina said. It took a minute for Shulk to release she was crying.
"Why are you crying?" Shulk asked. "Who did this? Let me know and I'll-"
"NO!" Lucina screamed. "You can't stay my retainer anymore."
Shulk sat up in shock. "But… it's all I want! Please keep me! Wait a second, why can't you?"
Meta Knight took a deep breath. "Shulk, it's not you, it's your health. If you were healthy you could stay Lucina's retainer. But… you're not."
"I'm not" Shulk blinked confused.
"You're sick." Mist said. "And not like cold sick. Really, really sick."
It took Shulk a minute to process this. "What disease do I have?" he asked.
Mist winced. "Shulk you have…"
"Well?" Shulk asked. "What is it?"
Mist let out a sigh. "You have been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer"
The room was silent for a moment.
"WHAT?" Shulk asked.
Lucina nodded tears rolling down her cheeks.
"I doubted it at first." Mist admitted. "I mean you seemed too young to have it at the time. But the more I looked the clearer it became."
"That's why you can't work for me anymore." Lucina said wiping away tears.
"Please." Shulk said. "I've seen the enemy and I need to fight. Besides you need me. I'm the only one who can kill a god remember?"
"Shit." Meta Knight said "That's true. Well, you haven't gotten to weak yet, and if you're careful…"
"Don't tell me you're actually going to not withdraw him!" Lucina screamed.
"Please Lucy." Shulk begged. "Keep me on the team. I don't care about the disease. I care about you guys. All I want is to keep yo- I mean everyone safe and find the hostages!"
Lucina thought for a moment. "Alright." She finally said. "I'll keep you in battle. I wished for a map that would tell us all of the locations of the prisoners, and where going out on a rescue mission tomorrow. But you're spending every free moment at the hospital."
"Alright." Shulk said. "I accept."
I can't believe this. Cancer? That's the last thing I would've expected. How will I tell my friends back on Bionis? But even with this stupid disease, I will keep on fighting. I don't care what happens to me. I will protect you Lucy. Then, maybe one day, I can finally confess to you, my love.
Meanwhile
"Where is Meta Knight going off to again?" Isabell asked.
"There was an emergency at the hospital." Ike said. "I'm worried about Shulk. Yesterday, he had blood on his hand for no reason."
"Everyone has blood on their hands these days." Lucario said.
"What do you mean?" Hoopa said eating a donut. "You've never fought in a single battle."
The four of them where talking a walk a few miles outside of the smash mansion.
"Neither have you." Lucario pointed out.
Thank goodness for that Ike thought. I really don't want to fight anyone. But if I do fight for someone, it's always my friends.
"Please" Isabell said. "Stop fighting!"
All of a sudden a bright red beam shot at Lucario who dodged it last minute.
"MILORD!" Isabell screamed. "Are you alright?"
"I'm just fine." Lucario said. He look around until he heard a laugh from up above.
"Well, well, WELL!" a voice said. "Look at what the Delcatty dragged in!"
A huge dragon flew down, with a girl about the age of 21 on top of it. The girl had short chin length black hair and strange red eyes. "I have to admit you dodge well. Was I off? HA HA HA HA HA OF COURSE I WAS!"
What in the blazes? Ike thought. Has this girl lost her marbles, or has she never had them to begin with?
"Who… who are you?" Isabell asked.
"Nice of you to ask!" the girl pointed to herself. "I'm Lord Galaxia Knight's second admin, but you can call me Zinnia! And I'm guessing you're Lucario? Wow, you're way cuter than expected! Not as cute as my darling Aster, or my retainers but still cute!"
Lucario blushed. "What are you doing on top of that Salamance?" He mumbled clearly embarrassed to be called cute.
"Hum… Let me think, OH THAT'S RIGHT!" She said while snapping her fingers. "I'm ambushing you!"
Suddenly a bunch of armed warriors jumped out from the sidelines.
"I hope you're ready" Zinnia said. "Because you're extremely outnumbered! You could always give in and let me capture you HA HA HA HA HA!"
"Never." Lucario said. "I will keep fighting until the end. Everyone" Lucario turned around. "The psychopathic bitch is right about one thing, we are outnumbered. Try to only handle one person at once." An aura lit up in Lucario's palm. "I'll deal with her."
"How cute" Zinnia said jumped off of her Salamance. "SALMANCE! HYPER BEAM!"
Ike turned his back and stabbed one of the mercenaries. He gagged and fell down in a pool of blood.
One down. Let's see who I'm up against next.
"You do well against the mercenaries." A voice mused. "But let's see how you do against Lord Zinnia's retainers!"
Ike turned around to see a young girl about Shulk's age with short blonde hair and green eyes. Two bronze knifes where in her hands.
Ike let out a battle cry and lunged at her. She dodged then jabbed forward with her knives catching Ike in the arm. Blood began to pool out of it but he ignored it as he performed an explosion attack. The girl screamed and fell backwards. All of a sudden his wound began to heal. He turned around and saw Isabell waving at him.
"Do your best!" she yelled.
"I owe you friend." Ike said.
"Aww." The girl said. "Your healers pretty cute. AW DAMN IT FIORA, SHE'S THE ENEMY" she slapped her head.
Ike lunged at Fiora, hitting her in the chest. She fell backwards, got back up again and charged, hitting Ike again. He winced than swung his sword, hitting her in the arm. She staggered backwards.
She's pretty badly injured Ike thought to himself. How much longer will she be able to go on for? Well, time to lay the killing blow I guess.
Ike lunged at her, but his sword was stopped by another. He looked forwards to see a man with long brown hair stopping his blow.
"Dunban?" Fiora asked.
Dunban turned around and smiled. "Don't worry. I'm here to protect you" he looked at Ike than his smile turned into an ice cold glare. "No one hurts Fiora and gets away with it." He snarled.
"Oh yeah?" Ike asked. "And who are you to decide that?"
"More than you think." He snapped. "I am Galaxia Knight's third admin, Dunban. That girl you just tried to kill is my little sister. So therefore, I can't let you live can I?"
Fiora looked at Ike and smiled as if to say you're screwed.
"Oh yeah." Ike snapped. "Let's see how good you really are old man."
"You're one to talk." Dunban snorted.
"EVERYONE! RETREAT!" Lucario screamed.
"Huh?" Ike said. He turned around to see a ring up in the air.
Dunban smiled. "Looks like you lost."
"YEAH!" Fiora screamed. Her wounds had been healed by a cleric with blonde pigtails. "DON'T EVER COME BACK HERE AGAIN!"
"Shut up you stupid bitch." Ike said angrily.
Fiora hugged Dunban who put his arm around her. "Leave her alone" he snarled. "I swear. If you touch her again, I will kill you."
"IKE!" Hoopa screamed. "You coming!"
"Yes!" Ike screamed. I can't believe we lost. He thought while running. Not to mention I made an enemy out of the third admin. I guess I can't blame him. If someone hurt Mist that badly, well I'd teach them a lesson they'd never forget. But still.
It hurts to be hated.