Where we last left off our Heroes, they managed to make King King of the Seed Kingdom and the Ukky Clan forgive each other but Fine saw Eclipse and clung on to his dinosaur making them run off, so the Heroes went after them.
"Fine!" Rein shouted as she and the Heroes all searched for Fine throughout a dark forest.
"Any luck?" Sonic said as Tails and Penny flew down.
"No, we haven't seen them." Tails shook his head.
"I hope Fine is okay." Aya said as Luigi patted her shoulder.
"Did she really have to cling on to Edgy Boy's ride like that?" Eddy said.
"Knowing Eclipse, he might do something outrageous if we corner him," Rein said worriedly.
"I don't think he'll do that-pumo." Poomo said.
"He would! Eclipse is a such a savage, rude, bad-mouthed, self-important, cruel, brutal, cold, and heartless guy!"
"Woah, take it easy girl!" DK said. "You don't even know the guy!"
"Even now, while we're talking, he may be abusing Fine!" Rein imagined Eclipse torturing Fine who was tied up and gagged. "No, no, no! I can't let that happen!"
"Anyway, we need to find her as soon as possible!" Knuckles pounded his fists together as Poomo noticed something.
"There are some footprints-pumo! Let's follow them-pumo!"
Rein and Poomo both ran and followed the footprints with the Heroes on their tail. Unbeknownst to them, they were watched by a teenage girl with glasses, hair tied in braids and wearing a schoolgirl seifuku.
"Who... are those people?" She said to herself. She looked around having nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to follow them.
Meanwhile with Fine and Shade, the dinosaur was able to calm down as they stopped by a river.
"Where are we?" Fine said.
"That's what I need to know," Eclipse said. "She never really runs blindly like that."
"In other words, we're lost because of what I did? I-I'm sorry." She sees Eclipse ordered his ride to drink some of the water. "So cute, what's it's name?"
Eclipse said nothing as he went to the back.
"Hey, don't ignore me!" Fine fumed but she sees he was feeding it food. "Ah! I want to do that too!"
She tries to feed Eclipse's dinosaur, but it kept on eating.
"Look! Why doesn't it want to eat mine?" Fine whined but the dinosaur eats it much to her glee. "Ah, it's eating it! You're really clever, aren't you?"
She sees Eclipse walking away. "Wait, wait a minute. Where are you going? Hey, say something! Wait for me!"
Unknown to them, a figure in a tree was watching as their eyes glowed.
"Tell me, what are you doing?" Fine asked as she saw Eclipse picking up sticks.
"It's already late, we have no choice but to sleep here tonight."
"I see, you're gathering firewood! Let me help you!"
"Back off, I don't need your help."
"But I want to help you!"
Eclipse sighed as Fine was busy picking up sticks, was she about to pick up another one when she touches Eclipse's hand, making her gasp with a blush as she backed off.
"U-Um, sorry." She held her chest as her heartbeat was heard. "Well... um... why do you know about the Prominence?"
Eclipse's eyes widened as Fine continued. "Actually, I've been wanting to talk to you. Tell me, why... do you... always appear where we are?"
Eclipse turned to her as she held her chest with a blush.
"Ah, again, what's this? Why am I feeling this? Why?" Fine thought as her heartbeat is heard again as Eclipse stares at her... until grumbling was heard.
"I'm so hungry..." She deflated, before noticing bananas on a tree.
"Ah! They look great! Ukky!" She ran to the tree and used her climbing skills she learned from the Ukkys and DK. She then grabbed a banana... but she realized she no longer has a tail and fell down. Fine screamed until Eclipse caught her bridal style.
"I can't believe you, you always do reckless things." He said as Fine's face turned bright red as she flipped off and backed away.
"Th-Thank you, I'm alright now." She thanked as Eclipse walked past her.
"There is something strange... about my heart."
"Let's go, hm?" Eclipse stopped in his tracks.
"Eh, what's wrong Eclipse?" Fine noticed what Eclipse was looking at. There were three people all of them lying unconscious, one male, and two females. They had pointy ears and wearing attire not from here.
"Who are they? We need to help them!" Fine ran to them as she tried to carry the male but to no avail. "Um... a little help?"
Back with the Heroes, they were walking in the fog still searching for Fine.
"Fine! Come on out!" Sonic called out.
"It's getting late!" Double-D said.
"Oh, where could she be?" Rein said but they noticed some sounds as Poomo yelped and hid under Mario's cap.
"Man, being in this creepy forest reminds me of the time we met the Kankers." Eddy shivered.
They heard more sounds as some of them got close with their weapons out.
"Stay close to us," Luigi said as he held to Aya like a father protecting his child.
"Come on out and show yourself, monster!" Ed said.
Then galloping was heard and it was revealed to be Bright on a horse.
"Bright-Sama!" Rein said happily.
"Princess Rein?"
"Prince Charming? What the heck is he doing here?" Eddy said.
"There are several rumors about this forest," Bright said as he got off his horse. "I've been trying to find out the truth behind them."
"Rumors?" Tails said.
"Yes, everyone who travels through the forest experiences something really frightening," Bright explained. "Apparently, they've started calling this place Scary Forest."
"Scary Forest? Sounds threatening-pumo!"
"How original." Eddy rolled his eyes.
"Well that's-a very brave of you!" Mario smiled.
"As a prince, I've realized that I have duties to perform."
"He's so cool!" Rein thought.
"I suggest you should all leave this place right away."
"Not without Fine," Sonic said.
"Where is Princess Fine anyway?" Bright asked.
"Ah, Fine is in trouble!" Rein exclaimed. "Eclipse took her away!"
"What!? That's... we must go look for her!"
"Could have say it better myself!" Knuckles said. As they were about to leave, they heard a noise of a stick being stepped on.
"W-Who's there-pumo?" Poomo said as he hid in Ed's pocket.
"I'll handle this," Penny said as she walked to where the sound was heard and then she finds the girl from earlier.
"Hello!"
"Um... hi?" She nervously said.
"What's your name?" The Android Maiden said in a friendly way.
"Uh... Saki Yoshida."
"Well Saki, what are you doing out here?"
"I... I can't remember. All I remember is I was at home, thinking about changing myself until I was hit by a bright light."
"A bright light?" Penny said, remembering what Rolf said about being brought by a bright light.
"I'm sorry, I didn't have anywhere else to go."
"Well, you can come with us!"
"Really?" Saki said in surprise.
"Yes! We are very friendly people!" Penny said happily. Saki stared at Penny unsure before silently nodding.
"Um, okay."
"Great!" Penny smiled as she grabbed Saki's arm and took her back to the Heroes.
"So Penny, who was making that noise?" Eddy asked before noticing Saki. "And who's that?"
"Everyone, meet Saki Yoshida!" Penny introduced.
"Um... hi." Saki waved nervously.
Realizing she was displaced just like they were, the Heroes took the time to explain everything to her.
"What? I'm in another world?" Saki said in surprise. "Like in an Isekai manga?"
"Ooh, I love reading those!" Ed smiled.
"Well, welcome to the team, Saki!" Sonic grinned as Saki smiled.
"Maybe... I can finally make some friends." She thought as she walked along with the Heroes.
Meanwhile, the three people that Fine and Eclipse found were laying on a tree until the male's eyes opened. He looked around at his surroundings and sees the two females who are starting to wake up as well.
"Where... are we? Link? Impa?"
"Ugh, what just happened?"
"Um, hello."
They turned to see Fine and Eclipse.
"Oh, who are you?" The blonde woman asked.
"Princess Fine, and that's Eclipse." Fine introduced herself as Eclipse looked away.
"I am Zelda, that's Impa and Link."
"Hi." Impa waved and so did Link.
"How did you get here?" Fine asked.
"Well, I remember we were back in Hyrule, then a bright light engulfed us," Zelda explained.
"A bright light? Hyrule?" Fine questioned.
"We don't know where to go," Impa said.
"Maybe you can come with us!" Fine suggested.
"Really? I hope you don't mind." Zelda said.
"Just don't get in my way," Eclipse said.
"What's with that kid?" Impa frowned.
Later, Fine, Eclipse and the newcomers walked throughout the forest after Fine explained everything.
"Hey, are we supposed to be this far from the river?" Fine said to Eclipse.
"It was a single path with no branches, how could we get lost?"
"But..." Fine then bumped to Eclipse.
"Why did you stop?" Impa asked as Eclipse looked around.
"Oh, he's so tall." Fine blushed as how tall Eclipse is before shaking her head. "Now isn't the time to think about that!"
"Is there something the matter, Fine?" Zelda asked.
"N-No, nothing at all."
"What are you going to do, Eclipse?" Impa asked.
"I'll find the way." He then turned to Fine. "You won't be any help, stay here with them and wait for me."
"But...!"
"Fine," The red twin turned to Zelda. "I think it's for the best."
"But... I don't like anything scary!" Fine cried as she ran to Eclipse and bumped to him.
"Oh my." Impa giggled as Link came back, having been gathering what appeared to be ingredients from the forest. "Why am I not surprised you'd try to find any raw materials you can get your hands on?"
Link said nothing, but simply shrugged his shoulders as Zelda giggled.
"Princess Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Fine-Sama!"
"Poyo!"
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Ed said as they kept on searching for Fine.
"Yes, Yes!"
"Ah, I heard her!" Rein said.
"Yeah, we heard her too!" Tails said.
"You know, I've heard that all those travelers who had terrible experiences here heard a strange voice first." Bright said.
"What do you mean by that?" Eddy said.
"Not only that, look."
They looked to see the twisted tree.
"Ah, that tree is..."
"Oh dear, we seemed to be just going around in circles," Double-D said.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Eddy growled.
"Now that I think about it, I saw that same tree when we reached the river," Rein said.
"What? So this is just an illusion." Bright said.
"An illusion?" Penny said, remembering someone with that ability from where she came from, and frowned. The person she was thinking of had started out as an enemy before becoming an ally.
"Illusion?" Sonic said. "Great, having flashbacks of Infinite. Except his illusions ended up becoming real!"
"Fine, can you hear?" Luigi said as in another part of the forest, Fine and the others heard the voices calling out to Fine and Eclipse.
"Are there others here?" Zelda said.
"It's everyone else!" Fine said happily as she ran ahead. "I'm here!"
"Wait, Fine!" Impa said as they chased after her, but Eclipse looked around the forest before unsheathing a whip.
"This forest is..."
"Rein?" Fine said as she ran through the forest.
"Fine? Are you the real Fine?" Rein called out.
"Yes I am! I'm coming!"
"Fine, don't go too far!" Zelda said as they see Fine running on top of a tall tree.
"What the..." Impa said.
"...Heck?" Sonic finished as they see Rein running on top of the tall tree.
"Rein, wait!" Penny called out.
"Something is definitely wrong!" Bright said.
"Rein!"
"Fine!" The twins reached the top of the tree.
"I'm glad you're okay!"
"Thank goodness!"
But then, they heard rumbling as they tree they are on began to move and grow.
"What in Sam Hill is happening!?" Double-D exclaimed.
"What is going on!?" Fine and Rein said as the roots turned into stairs as they went down.
"What is this!?" Zelda said as the Heroes noticed them.
"Is that-a Link and Zelda?" Luigi said.
Sonic grinned. "I haven't seen them since-"
"Yeah! The Smash Tournament! Was that what you were gonna say!?" Eddy sarcastically spat.
But then, they all changed clothes with the boys dressed as girls and the girls dressed as boys.
"Uh, why am I wearing this?" Fine said as she was dressed as Shade.
"Uh, I've become Bright-Sama?" Rein said as she was dressed as Bright.
"Hey, what the heck!?" Sonic said as he, Tails, and Knuckles were in dresses. "Good thing Amy isn't here or she'd flip.
They see the Mario Bros dressed as princesses. Mario was in a pink dress as Luigi was in an orange dress.
"Reminds me of when we dressed you up as-a Princess Peach to fool Cackletta, Luigi!"
"Oh yeah!" Luigi laughed while waving a fan.
"This doesn't suit me!" DK complained.
"Oh come one!" They see the Eds and Rolf in dresses and wigs.
"Oh good gracious!"
"I feel so pretty, you guys!"
"Why is Rolf in this lavish frilly gown like Mama at the Gathering with Papa in their youth!?"
"Poyo!" They see Kirby with a ponytail wig and couldn't help but find it adorable.
"Oh my!" They see Penny, Aya, and Saki dressed as boys.
"Why am I wearing this!?" Impa said as she, Zelda, and Link are in different clothing.
"Everyone, why are you dressed like that?" Fine and Rein said before laughing.
"Hey, this isn't funny!" Eddy growled.
"This is not the time to be having fun-pumo!"
"Pumo?" They see Poomo in purple dress and lipstick.
"I've become a girl-pumo. Boys and girls are flip-flopped-pumo. Oh dear!"
"Poomo, you look rather adorable as a girl." Penny giggled as the others laughed.
"I don't like this-pumo!"
"Would you please let me handle this?" They turned to see none other than Tio going down the stairs in a dress. "Princess Fine, Princess Rein, and everyone else, it's so nice to see you again."
"Hey, it's Tio." Tails chuckled.
"Tio, you look great in that dress!" Fine laughed.
"So cute!" Rein gushed.
"A princess is supposed to fight for the princes!" Tio said before perking up. "Huh? Something doesn't sound quite right here. Anywhere, here I come!"
But then his heel snapped causing him to roll down the stairs screaming.
"Oh dear, will he be okay?" Zelda asked.
"That's probably gonna be a running gag." Eddy said.
"Princess Fine! Princess Rein!" They turned to see Bright in Rein's gown, tiara, and make up. "Could you please tell me what is going on here?"
Rein blushed as the Heroes tried to contain their laughter but Eddy laughed like crazy.
"Prince Charming is now Princess Charming!"
"Eh, it doesn't roll as well..." DK noted.
"Disgusting!" They turned to see Eclipse in Fine's gown. "I've got to find a way to turn back into myself! This is so embarrassing!"
Fine blushed as the Heroes couldn't take it anymore as they laughed.
"Oh, man!" Eddy laughed. "This is so too rich!"
"I can't believe this!" Bright and Eclipse exclaimed as they vanished along with the stairs, making the heroes fall to an endless void.
Fine, Rein, and Sonic landed in the river as they tried to swim.
"Was the river..."
"...This deep?" Fine and Rein said.
"No! Not water! I can't swim!" Sonic tried to run, but he kept on sinking.
"We can't go up at all!" Fine, Rein, and Sonic sank down to the depths, never to see the light of day ever again...
"We're dying!" In reality, they were on the river splashing as the Heroes watched.
"Guys? Hello? Snap out of it!" Knuckles said as Sonic opens his eyes.
"Oh... guess we fell in a kiddy pool." Sonic chuckled in relief as he turned to the twins. "Alright you two, you can stop."
"We can't, we're drowning. Someone help!" The twins cried before stopping once they realized they were in no danger.
"Oh, the river changed back to how it was originally," Fine said.
"Are you two alright?" Bright asked.
"Bright-Sama?"
"Eclipse?" The twin turned red as they find out they saw everything.
"D-Did you..."
"...See everything we did?"
"Uh... no, no. I didn't see you splashing in the river like frogs." Bright awkwardly said.
The twins turned bright pink. "This is so embarrassing!"
They both ended up doing their 'I Hate It' dance as they all sweatdropped.
"Isn't that embarrassing?" Saki asked.
"They do-a that sometimes," Mario said with a shrug.
"I see," Zelda said before giggling. "It's quite charming, actually."
Link hummed and nodded his head in agreement.
Later, the gang sat around a fire trying to keep warm.
"Hey Link, Zelda, long time no see." Sonic said.
"Um, do we know you by any chance?" Zelda asked.
"You know? Smash Bros? Subspace? Master Core? Galeem and Dharkon? Ring any bells?"
"Sonic, remember what-a Master Hand told us about Link and Zelda last time?" Mario pointed out.
"Oh yeah, those guys are from different timelines or something like that," DK said. "I remember the last ones were from that Twilight Zone or whatever."
"I'm confused." Knuckles said as Kirby looked sad that they aren't the Link and Zelda he remembered.
"Where are you going?" Bright asked as they see Eclipse standing up.
"None of your business, I'll go wherever I want."
Bright stood up. "I can't let you do that, why are you following the princesses and their friends?"
"I agree, would you please tell us why you're always around wherever we go?" Double-D asked politely but Eclipse didn't say anything he was about to leave.
"Why won't you answer me?" Bright demanded as he was about to unsheath his sword. "Depending on your answer, I may have to punish you!"
The twins gasped as the Heroes watch in worried anticipation as Eclipse huffed.
"You don't actually believe your sword will work against me, do you?"
Eclipse took out his whip, which ended up cutting a nearby tree branch as the two boys glared at each other tensely.
"You guys, stop fighting!"
"Now's not the time for that!" Fine and Rein said as they stood between them.
"Aw, It was just getting good." Eddy frowned as Sonic elbowed him.
But then wind blew which puts out their fire as they see the forest started to get distorted and covered in darkness.
"W-What's happening?" Aya said as she held on to Luigi.
"Another illusion?" Tails said.
"If only we had someone to break illusions with his right hand," Ed said.
"You read that manga too?" Saki said in surprise.
"Ed knows every comic book, cartoon, movie. manga, and anime in existence," Eddy said. "I'd be surprised if he DIDN'T know something from those things!"
"What should we do?" Rein asked.
"I can't take this anymore..." Fine whimpered.
"Now that it's come to this, we have no choice but to do that."
"We have no choice."
"Let's do it,"
"Let's do it!"
"Do what exactly?" Impa asked as the twins took out their Sunny Luches.
"Magical Girl Transformation Time!" Ed explained with a smile.
"Fan fan Fine!"
"Ran ran Rein!"
"Prominence dress up!"
They transformed as Saki and the Hyrule Heroes looked in awe.
"They're... Magical Girls?" Saki gawked.
"I mean, yeah?" Eddy said with a shrug.
"Twin twinkle bloomish! Darkness, go away!"
They used their Prominence to clear away the darkness, but it's not working.
"Eh, why isn't it working?" Rein said.
"You used Prominence in the day back in Ukky Mountain, remember-pumo?" Poomo said.
"Oh..." They heard chuckling as they see it is coming from the tree.
"Alright, show yourself!" Knuckles said, pounding his fists.
"Listen, I'm kind enough to let you dream a lot more." They see glowing eyes in the tree.
"Mama-Mia, a Treevil?" Luigi said, recalling the living tree monsters back from the Mushroom Kingdom.
Mario shook his head. "I don't think this is a Treevil, Weegee."
"Enough!" Eclipse shouted as he lashed his whip into the tree and took out a strange-looking creature, much to everyone's confusion.
"What is that?" Eddy said.
"It looks like the creatures that rob the children of their dreams that Nana warned Rolf about!" Rolf said.
"Hi everyone, I'm a Baku, a dream-eating creature. My name's Snowy."
"A Baku!?" Fine, Rein, Bright, and Eclipse gawked.
"The heck's a Baku?" Eddy asked.
"Well Eddy, a Baku is an animal that eats dreams," Double-D explained. "They're originally from Chinese folklore."
"Ah, yes!" Rolf realized. "In the Old Country, we accept creatures from many tales around the world!"
"Well, we're not going to let something like-a that in Pi'illo Island." Mario said, shaking his head.
"Poyo!" Kirby agreed.
"So you're the one responsible for these illusions?" Sonic asked.
"Making us dress up like girls?" Knuckles growled.
"No, they're illusions, they're dreams!"
"Whichever!" Eclipse said.
"Why did you do that?" Penny asked.
"Well, people let me eat a lot of dreams in this forest. You know they're so delicious! So I decided to share them with those who go through the area."
The Heroes turned white as sheets after he shared that before growling in anger, furious red tick marks appearing on their heads.
"What? What is it something I said? Hello?"
"Looks like Rolf will have dinner today," Rolf growled as they surrounded Snowy.
"Um, why are you coming closer to me? Was the dreams I shared not your taste?"
And by a second later, sounds of beating up were heard as Snowy screamed in agony and terror.
"Do you think that was decidedly unheroic of us?" Double-D asked.
"I see no problem with it." Knuckles said.
Ed tore out some of Snowy's guts and shared them with Rolf as they cooked them by a new fire. Zelda and Impa frowned as they covered Fine and Rein's eyes and Luigi did the same to Aya and Kirby while Bright and even Shade looked rather sickened. As for Link, he shrugged his shoulders as he joined the boys in cooking.
"You guys have weird appetites..." DK said with a sweatdrop.
After all that, the Heroes managed to get out of the forest thanks to Penny.
"Well, glad to be out of that place." Eddy said. But then a figure jumped out of nowhere, alarming them.
"Watch out, Fine!" Bright said as he tackled Fine, shocking Rein.
The figure was revealed to be Eclipse's pet dinosaur, Regina.
"Dinosaur!" Ed said.
"Hey! What did you tell it to do?" Bright demanded.
"It's just an animal, you're overreacting." Eclipse huffed.
"Then don't make that thing jump out of nowhere!" Eddy growled.
"Wait, everyone!" Fine said.
"He might have told it to take your Luche-pumo!" Poomo said.
"Surrender, evil villain!" Ed said.
"Eclipse..." Fine said.
"You will never come near Princess Fine again," Bright said. "If you do anything bad to her, I will never forgive you!"
"Yeah, what he said!" Sonic said, but Rein gasped at Bright's words and wondered, does he like Fine instead of her?
"I'm not interested in anything except the Prominence," Eclipse said as he got on Regina. "She means nothing to me."
Fine gasped at his words. "Never follow me again, you're bothering me!"
Eclipse lefted as the Heroes stood.
"Prick." Eddy growled.
Later, the Heroes walked on the path along with the newcomers Saki, Link, Zelda, and Impa.
"What was that all about?" Saki asked.
"Long story." Tails said.
"Cheer up, Fine." Bright smiled.
"S-Sure! I'm not feeling down at all!" Fine said, as she almost fell off of Bright's horse but Impa catches her.
"Hey, careful would you?"
"Please be careful next time, Fine," Bright said.
Fine chuckled. "Thank you."
An angry vein appeared on Rein. "First of all, you're too selfish, Fine."
"Huh?"
"Hey Rein, is there something wrong?" Mario asked.
"Of course! She made everyone worried! How can she be smiling so foolishly like that?"
"What? Are you insulting me?" Fine glared.
"I'm just pointing out the facts." Rein said. "Besides, I can't believe you made friends with someone like Eclipse."
"Look, he's not even my friend!" Fine argued. "You're the only one who's upset here, why?
"You're the one who's upset!"
"Settle down, you two." Double-D said but he had the feeling they weren't listening.
"Stay out of this!"
"Ach! Why are you two feuding like Nano and Nana when deciding what to cook for dinner?" Rolf asked.
"I wonder what's going on with them-pumo?" Poomo said. "Somehow I foresee terrible trouble-pumo."
"I don't know what I just ended up getting into..." Saki sighed.
Knightmare Lord A/N:
Bloodyguy needed my help outlining the story for him. This is my strength in setting up how things work, followed by correcting grammar errors and the like.
Also yes, we just had the Heroes killed someone, but nobody cares.
Bloodyguy A/N:
Yeah, mostly I needed outlines for where to introduce new heroes. That's right, new heroes will be joining them soon! Who will they be? Keep reading and find out! Stay tuned!
