A/N: Ah! Chapter 40 has arrived! Sorry for the long wait. I was busy with stuff and homework and how much I hated homework. Just recently finished watching the whole walkthrough of Crisis Core FF7. Believe me, the ending made crying like a little baby and I still can't get over it about Zack. ;-; Also Nov 12 announcement, it was an hour ago and I found out that Cloud was going to be in Smash! Oh my gosh!

Without any further interruptions. . .Please enjoy the 40th chapter!

Chapter 40: The Fifth Day

11:59 P.M.

Nobody in the pouring rain. Makoto stared up at the sky with dead purple eyes with white streaks in her hair. 'It hurts! I hate him! I hate him!' Her darkness cried. The boy body slowly started to change back into a girl.

Mikoru, watching from above smirking. "What a performance you put on Ike. . .but in the end, I will get all the credit. The Five Day Knock Out Spell will begin." Mikoru jumped down from a tree and walked toward Makato. It was now 12:00 A.M. The sound of thunder echoed.

"Day 4 successful, 80% of Makato's darkness kept. No memory was lost. Now then, let the Five Day Knock Out Spell commence!" Mikoru clasped his hands together, hoping a guarantee that 20% of Makato's darkness would drain out of her.

However, nothing happened. Only the sound of rain kept on going. Mikoru growled in frustration.

"WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!" Mikoru lashed out. Mikoru grabbed the jar of darkness, taking a closer look. His eyes widen.

"A fluke?! It taunted me?!" Mikoru destroyed the jar using his bare hand. He glared down at Makato, sensing something strange.

"Her darkness was in her body the whole time. . .Something is not right. . ."

Mikoru studied her. 5 minutes later, he figured what the problem was.

Flashback

In a restaurant, Makato, Robin, and Utora, Makato's father, all sitting together in a table with lots of food.

"Father, there's something important I need to tell you. It's about the Five Day Knock Out Spell that was cast onto me." Makato said.

"Explain." Utora said. "I felt like I heard it before. . ."

"Ok. You see. . .I got a fever and drunk on the first day. Second day, I was aroused who ever I am the most friendly with. The third day would be a body switch and the fourth day would be a body change. I don't know what the fifth day would be."

"Ah, I see. . .Tell me. . .Who did this?" Utora asked.

"Mikoru. . .Fumiharu."

"Fumiharu. . .I heard that name before. The Dark Knights. . .I heard of that spell before while I was doing some studying." Utora stretched his arms and relaxed them back down. "The Five Rice Knock Out Spell-"

"Day." Makato giggled a little bit, correcting him.

"Haha. . .Excuse me. The Five Day Knock Out Spell. A very difficult spell to practice. Only someone evil would master it. The purpose of that spell was to separate the darkness of a person. Their dark side. After that your, body will disappear. But your soul would be in a weird body. Something, I would say, chibi? It will take only a second, once it hits midnight for the darkness to separate 20% at a time. Once 80% of the darkness drained out is complete, the fifth day would be to get the remaining 20% out and then, your body will be bad, leaving your darkness to take over your life. If a day doesn't succeed, then the spell will be broken."

"Father, I don't feel anything being drained out from me."

"You see, it's because of the Dark Seal. When I put the Dark Seal in you, it took me 2 whole years to seal half of your darkness inside of you. But, in order to destroy the seal in general, it would take 2 years to destroy it. But since I put your angry emotions into the seal, it could break anytime. So please try not to get angry."

"As long as I don't get angry on the fifth day, the Five Day Knock Out Spell will not work?"

Utora nodded his head. "Yes." My my! You learn so fast! Also, Makato, that darkness in your heart wants happiness. That's how you can control your dark side. Once it's happy, it will accept you as one. But don't worry about that spell! That's an immature spell! Hahaha! As long as you don't give in to hate."

End of Flashback

Mikoru clenched his fist together. "I see. . .the Dark Seal was interrupting my spell this whole time. I did notice when she gets mad, her darkness would leak out, little by little. That's good news for me. ."

Mikoru kneeled down next to Makato. "Strange, since her emotions are in the seal, it brings a whole different conclusion. Either her darkness takes over her, or I separate her darkness from the Knock Out Spell and make Makato disappear. Either way, I'll just have to make her angry."

Makato's Mind

In a blank space, Makato sat across her darkside with her legs close to her body, like a ball.

The sound of chains kept on clashing from the dark Makato's arm movements.

"It hurts so much! I hate it! I hate him! I hate him!" She cried once again. Makato frowned and lowered her face.

"I know. It hurts. . .Tell me, what is your desire?"

"I want happiness, love. But in the end, he showed me how to hate him." The dark side answered. "I want to kill him. Yes. Free me, let him know you hate him. Ike can never make me happy. I'll get even with him."

"I can't. . .I want you to be happy."

"I can't be happy because you're not happy!"

". . ."

"You put all of your sadness to me. Why is that? Why are you letting me cry?! These are your tears you have shed!"

Makato looked up at her dark self; she wanted answers. "I couldn't take the pain anymore." Makato placed her hand where her heart was located. "It hurts my heart so much. I couldn't take it, so I gave it to you."

"You-! Don't give me your pain! You have to accept it!"

Makato woke up to reality feeling the rain once again. "Accept the pain?"

"Do you hate Ike?" Mikoru asked her. Makato turned to the voice that was talking to her. Mikoru was kneeling next to Makato. Mikoru noticed that one of her eyes was light blue, the other was purple.

"I. . ." Makato didn't have an answer for that.

"In the end, Ike hated your guts. He despise your presence."

"No. . ."

"Do you hate Ike? Do you hate Samus? Ike didn't believe in you. Instead, he believed in Samus' story." Mikoru placed his hand on Makato's stomach. "Ike even tried to kill you. But somehow, Ike doesn't remember it. Why is that?"

"M-memory lost. . ."

"Samus gave Ike a potion. The Death Wish potion that was meant to kill you. She secretly got your DNA and put it in Ike's drink. I'm sure you remembered."

Makato's eyes widen. Samus did it? Makato slowly started to remember when Ike tried to kill her.

Flashbacks

Makato panicked. He made another swing. Makato ducked, hearing most of her being potions shattered and destroyed behind. Makato was dodging Ike's swings while her room and her items were being destroyed. With no shield. Ike came closer to Makato.

"Why Ike. . ." Makato softly said. "Why are you trying to-"

"Kill you?" Ike interrupted. "Of course." He laughed evilly. "If you keep moving like that, it will be difficult for me to cut your pretty face." Ike put his sword away and slowly put his hands around her neck. Squeezing it harder and harder till no air came. Makato gasped for air. Trying to break his grasped.

"What's wrong with you Ike? This isn't a joke anymore." Makato said walking a little closer to Ike. He was still given her the death glare, thirsty to kill her. Suddenly, Makato felt a sharp pain to her brain. "Was this. . . .pain . .coming from his glare? Why can't I sense if he. . .had taken a potion. . .or not? It must, have to be. The Five Day spell. . ."

End of Flashbacks

"Death Wish potion. . .? Why would Samus. . ."

"Samus cheated didn't she? After all, we did cooperate; in order to keep the Five Day Knock Spell going."

"W-What? She cooperated with you this whole time?"

"Yes. She did. But it was more of her plan though."

"You're lying. Samus would never do that."

"But she doesn't like you. Why is that? That's when she came to me."

"That's a lie." Makato growled, shaking her head.

"Samus gave the Death Wish potion to Ike to make sure that he would kill you. Samus also destroyed all of your potions so the Spell would continued. Ike believed that you gone mad and did the destroying yourself. Now, he hates your guts."

"No, Ike doesn't hate me!"

"Why Makato dear? You would still defend him after what he has done to you? Remember what he had said to you?"

'Ike stared down at the Prince of Niho. "Makoto, keep in mind that I don't like you, I hate you. I wish would just die so you can stay out of my life for good. I only like you for your body that you have. Other than that, I don't fuck with potion princesses like you."'

Makato closed her eyes tightly. "I-!"

Mikoru smirked. Corrupting Makato's mind with a mixture of lies and truths. Mikoru leaned to her ear. "Now, say it. You hate Ike, do you not? Release your anger." He whispered.

Makato's light blue eye slowly changed to purple.

"I hate him. . ." She softly said. Her teeth were getting sharp by the second. "I'm so angry. I hate Samus and Ike! I hate them both!"

Mikoru smirked. "Good. Keep saying it." Mikoru made his hand glow black using his right hand. Suddenly, he struck that hand through Makato' stomach. Makato's eyes were paralyzed; she tried looking down at the hand that was in her body. Blood leaked out from the opening.

"M-Mikoru. . .you. . ."

"This is what I've been waiting for. My darkness."

Mikoru was able to traveled inside Makato's mind and found where the darkness was located. The dark side of Makato.

The Dark Seal was slowly fading away. Dark Makato turned to Mikoru.

"Have you come to free me?" She asked. The chains in her arms and legs were slowly getting soft.

"Yes. Under one condition." Mikoru walked toward her and held her hand. "Become my wife. Together, we shall rule over Niho."

"I like your magic that I'm sensing. I don't care what you do to me, as long as I'm free." She answered.

"Well said." Mikoru said.

Back into reality, Mikoru removed his hand from Makato's body. He then clasped his hands together as if he was praying.

"Now! Five Day Knock Spell shall now commence!" Those words made Makato's body glowed a foggy black. The black aura leaked out; right next to Makato, it started to take the form of a human body. Makato's blood was slowly coming into its body. A ghostly figure appeared. Two pigtails, glowing purple eyes. Makato's darkness was finally out in a way.

"Why do I feel like a ghost." Makato's darkside asked Mikoru. Mikoru turned to the Makato on the ground. "Be patient .In less than 24 hours, you will be complete. All the blood from Makato's body will come to you. You will then get a body."

"I see. What will happen to her?"

"Her body will turn into something else. I say, perhaps a doll?"

"Interesting. What if someone comes?"

"I made a special barrier where no one can see us. By the way, if Makato get's rid of her anger. This would be a fail."

"What do you mean? I am her anger. Her hatred."

"Yes, but she's you. And you are her. Since you have been separated, she still has some control of you whether you noticed it or not."

The dark Makato placed her hand to her chest. "You're right. I just have to kill her then."

"I wouldn't do that. If she dies in the process of your body being complete, you will die as well."

"Hmph." The dark Makato crossed her arms.

"However, she's in a bad condition so I wouldn't worry about it. Also, your feelings are three times more sensitive. Even a sentence can make you change. So in the meantime, you will be staying here till your body is complete."

"Whatever."

Makato's dark side looked up at the dark sky feeling nothing but the rain. Mikoru carried Makato's body and put her against a tree. "My plans won't be ruined. This will work."

(^_^)

May 16

Halberd

7:30 A.M.

Back in the boys room, some of the boys are already awake, talking to each other, playing games, and other stuff. Still in their pajamas. Marth opened his eyes and yawned with a smile in his face.

"What a day. I will be missing Makoto."

"Huh?" Pit questioned Marth as he rubbed his eyes, laying on his bed.

Miru was playing Go Fish with Link, Ness, Lucas, and Falco. "So what's the fifth day? It is called the Five Day Knock Out Spell." Miru said.

"I bet she turns into a giant monster or something!" Roy said. "Thinking about it gives me the chills!"

"What?" Link gave a confused look to Roy.

Marth shook his head. "No no! It has the word knockout, remember? So she gets knocked out by a giant hammer." People imagine a giant wooden hammer knocking out a chibi Makato.

"Cruel!" Roy said.

Link set his cards down, searching around the room. "Hey guys, what's that noise?"

"What noise?" Meta Knight said. Most of the guys stared at the pink puff ball, Kirby. Who was sleeping on a hot pink beanbag chair. A small, red, digital alarm clock was next to him. The strange noise was coming from the alarm clock:

Slob on my knob like corn on the cob

Check in with me, and do your job

Lay on the bed, and give me head

Don't have to ask, don't have to beg. . . .

"Kirby. . ." Fox groaned, laying back in his bed.

"What kind of song is that?" Pit wondered. Kirby had a giant grin on his face when the song started to play.

"OK, that is just weird. . ." Ness said. The volume from the alarm clock, surprisingly got louder and louder.

Real name Rover, I said bend over

I started to knock, then came the odor

Smelled like mush, shouldn't had a woosh

Told her to stop, and take a douche

While she did that, I didn't want the cat. . .

The boy Smashers had to cover their ears to keep from getting deaf.

"Ugh! Someone turn it off!" Toon Link cried.

"What kind of alarm is that?!" Pit exclaimed. Link turned to Ganondorf and Snake, who were still sleeping. "How is that even possible?!"

A foot smashed the red alarm clock into tiny electronic pieces. Kirby woke up at an instant to see what stopped his jam.

"My alarm clock! Nuuu!" Kirby cried. He looked up at the person who destroyed it. Kirby was then grabbed by the head from the mercenary.

"Would you do all of us a favor and keep your music to yourself?"

"You're not the boss of me!" Kirby kicked his face and scrambled out of the door that was open.

"Damn Kirby."

"Ike?!" Marth gasped. The prince got up from his bed and hurried to Ike.

"Where have you been-?" Marth stopped talking and stared at his right hand.

"What's in your hand?" The prince asked.

Ike glanced at his hand. It happened to be a broken camera that Samus had. "It's nothing. . ." He answered. He crunched it up more in his hand till it turned to oblivion. "It's finally over. . ."

"What?"

Ike chucked the camera into the garbage that the boy Smashers had in their room.

Marth scratched his head, pretending he didn't see that. "Um, about Makato. . ."

Ike stood frozen, remembering what he had said to Makato. Those words kept repeating in Ike's mind. "Makoto, keep in mind that I don't like you, I hate you. I wish would just die so you can stay out of my life for good." He shut eyes tightly, hoping to forget it. The image of Makato's sad face appeared also. "Makato. . ."

"Earth to Ike? What's wrong?" Marth asked. Ike got his sense back and left the boys room. Marth called out to him.

"Where are you going?! Hey!" Marth slowly followed him. "Honestly. . ."

"I need to see you. . .Makato." Ike mentally said. The first thing Ike did was he went to the girls room. Instead of barging in, he knocked on the door. The door was opened, revealing the mushroom princess. She rubbed her eyes and looked at Ike.

"Oh, Ikey. . ." Peach said. "Good morning."

"Makato. Is Makato here?" Ike asked. Peach turned her head and search the room that was filled with many girls snoring. Peach shook her head. "She's not here. In fact, I didn't see her last night if I recall."

"Do you know where she is?"

"I honestly don't know. Check her room." Peach suggested. Ike speed walked away. Peach looked behind his back.

Ike opened the door to Makato's room, only seeing what was left of her potions. It was a mess indeed.

"She's not here either. . ." Ike said.

Marth took a peek behind Ike. "She didn't run away did she?"

"Forest. . ." Ike murmured. The forest was the last place he he saw Makato before he left. Ike then ran out of the room. Marth quickly turned around. "Where are you going now?"

Forest

Ike, out of breath, arrived in the forest. He searched desperately for the princess, but she was nowhere to be found. "This was the last time I saw time her. Makato, where are you?" 10 minutes later, Ike found something stained on the grass. He bend over to take a closer look. He then touched it with his finger.

"Blood?"

The blood on his fingers turned to a gas and faded away.

"What the? It disappeared."

Back in the Halberd

Zelda was talking to Link about the next event. "The next event is acting! Can't you believe it?!" Zelda said almost laughing.

"Wow! This is going to be interesting to watch! I wonder if they are going to do the play, Romeo and Juliet. . ."

"That will be exciting."

"Zelda." Ike called out to the elf princess, making a hand gesture to come to him. Zelda and Link glanced at Ike. "Be right back." Zelda said to Link.

"Sure, yea. Go with the mercenaries. . ." Link rolled his eyes.

"It's nothing like that." Zelda sweat dropped.

Ike explained to Zelda when he witnessed blood vanishing.

"Blood disappearing?" Zelda questioned. Ike nodded. "Yea."

"Where?"

"In the forest."

While the two are walking in the forest. . .

"Why are you here?" Ike asked the prince. Marth rubbed his head.

"Curiosity killed the Roy as they say. . ."

"Roy?"

"Stop talking for a sec." Zelda ordered.

"Yes ma'am." The two teens said.

Zelda closed her eyes, focusing the area around her. The trees, the grass, the magic, the smell. Minutes later, she opened her eyes. "Someone's here. . .I would say. . .two people?"

Marth and Ike gave Zelda an unsure look. "Where?" Ike said.

"I see nobody." Marth said, looking around. "Stop with the lying. . ."

"I am certain someone is there. . .I can feel some dangerous dark magic around here. It's best if we head back for now."

"Whatever you say Zelda." Ike said. As the three of them head back, Marth, walking behind Ike, grabbed Ike by the shoulder. Ike stopped and turned to the prince, who had a serious look on his face.

"Hold up Ike. There's something I need to confirm with you. . ."

". . . ."

Zelda turned around, feeling no one behind her. She shrugged and continued to walk back to the giant ship.

Ike had his back facing the prince. "Did you talk to Makato last night in the forest?" Marth asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't get any meat so I head back to the Halberd." Ike answered.

"That message was just to lure you in the forest. Pikachu told me the details. He said he was you in the forest. And Makato disbanded him so she can talk to you."

"You can't always believe a rat. . ."

"Ike, you've been acting strange since yesterday. . .and we all noticed it." Marth crossed his arms. "I'm only going to say this again. Did you talk to her?"

Ike lowered his head. "I ignored her. . .I told her to stay out of my life, wished that she was dead-"

Marth yanked Ike's collar towards him out of anger. "Why?! She wanted to talk to you ever since, and you ignored her?! Why would you say those things?!"

Ike grabbed Marth's arm and squeezed it to let go of his shirt. "Did you think it was easy for me to do that? To say all of those things?" Marth was then pushed, releasing his collar. Ike pulled out a picture two days ago from the body swap day when Samus took pictures of herself, using Makato's body.

"Look at this Marth! Samus threatened me with this! If I didn't go out with her, these pictures would have been exposed to the world!"

Marth eye's widen in shocked. "That picture. . ." Ike put it back in his shirt. "I couldn't allowed that to happen so I promised to be her boyfriend. Samus forced me to ignored Makato, and all means saying those bad things to her."

"I had no idea. . ."

"Now you know. . ."

A questioned popped up into Marth. "What was in your hand this morning?"

"It was a camera that include of all her nude. Samus promised to give the camera to me if I ignored Makato on the fourth day."

Earlier this morning. . .

Samus and Ike were in the dining area of the Halberd. Samus handed the now broken camera to Ike.

"As promised. . .you don't have to be my boyfriend anymore. And those photos are gone. I promise. I think we are better off as friends. . ."

Ike grabbed the camera and crushed it using his bare hands. "I agree. Honestly, I somewhat did enjoy our fake date. It brought some of my memories on why I hated Roy so much."

Samus laughed a little bit. "I see. Well, I'm going back to bed. Take care. . ."

"Yea. . ."

The two went back to their rooms, as if nothing had happened between them. Ike heard a noise coming from the inside of the boy's room. "Oh, I know this song . ." He then realized the cries and complaints were coming from the Smashers. That were annoyed by Kirby's alarm.

Back into reality. . .

"Everytime I passed her was like a stab in the chest. I couldn't do anything. . ." Ike continued. Marth put his hand on his shoulder with a faint smile.

"You're wrong Ike. You did do something. Unlike me. You protected Makato. . ."

Ike then made a little smile, knowing Marth can cheer him up. Marth continued talking, "You protected Makato from being on a porn website." Marth smiled. It then went 0 to 100 real quick. Ike answered with a disgusted look on his face, feeling in gloom.

"What's wrong?" Marth asked, noticing. Ike shook his head.

"It's nothing. Forget it."

"Ike is a true hero indeed-!"

"Shut up!"

"Now Ike." Marth walked ahead of Ike back to the Halberd. "Now you need to say those things to Makato. I'm sure your words would get to her."

"She probably hates me. . ."

"Don't worry, I'm sure with a punch of reasoning and a punch of persuasion, she will understand."

Ike didn't say anything for a while, until he realized what Marth just had said. "Figure of speech right?"

Marth hesitated for a moment. "Uh, yea!"

Ike growled. "Wow, you little bitch! You actually think I'm going to punch her!"

"Haters gonna hate. . .?" Marth awkwardly shrugged. "Let's be honest, you were a bit of a douche yesterday. I mean, you treated Makato like she was the plague."

". . .Just shut up. I had no choice. . ."

"Choice or not, don't come crying to me when she rejects your apology~"

Ike threw a rock at Marth's head. "Is like you want her to hate me." Ike popped a vein a carried a rock that was 10x bigger. Marth gulped. "I was just joking about the punch of persuasion and the rejected apology! C-Can't you take a joke?!"

Ike calmed down a little bit. He dropped the rock and carried another that was 5x bigger than the last one.

"H-hey!" Marth exclaimed. "I thought we were all good!"

"Yea. . .but you didn't say anything about me not being a douche bag." Ike evilly grinned at the prince.

"I said 'let's be honest'! If you drop that rock now, I'll tell you everything about yesterday and what exotic things Roy did to Makoto."

"Makoto?" Ike questioned.

Marth smirked. "I'm sure you noticed. Makato turning into a boy on the fourth day. But promise me not to kill Roy and not to hate him forever."

Ike dropped the rock. "It all depends. . ."

9:23 A.M.

Halberd

Breakfast

Everyone was dressed in their normal clothes. People were enjoying themselves, like always, to the full course breakfast. Fruits, cereal, breakfast burritos, donuts, pancakes, waffles, coffee, smoothies, danishes, milk, (and everything else that was considered breakfast). Zelda did some explaining to most of the people around her about the forest. Some strange, evil, magic being chanted. As if an invisible wall was created from the outside to keep out humans from coming inside. Also, Zelda explained about Ike noticing Makato not returning to the Halberd since last night, which brought together an answer.

Miru buried his head under his shirt in shame. "I am like the worst childhood friend ever. This is probably like the 9000th time I did what I want and not look after the princess. I put my head in shame. . ."

Link rubbed his back. "It's not your fault Miru don't worry about it."

Zelda cleared her throat to get other's attention. "I have come to a conclusion. A magic barrier is being place in the forest."

"A magic. . .barrel?" Roy questioned.

"Yes- -no! A barrier! After some thought, drops blood in the forest that suddenly disappeared. My prediction is that the Five Day Knock Out Spell is being held there. Strong magic in that certain area. It could only mean a barrier to keep others inside. I'm sure Makato is in there, in a very bad condition. The sooner we help her, the better."

Chattering rose around the dining room. Makato wasn't at the Halberd last night, neither this morning.

"I'm sure that Mikoru is there as well." Miru said.

"Most likely. . ." Zelda said. "I'm going to destroy that barrier to make sure Makato is in there.

Most people agreed with what Zelda is doing and planned to follow her soon.

Breakfast was whining down to an end. Most people left their dirty plates on the table, like always, the girls would clean their plates.

The mercenary, Ike, was still sitting in the dining area, finishing his waffles. He stared at his almost finished waffle on his forsk intensely, reflecting on the past; what he said to Makato; the sadness in her words. Ike stood up and left the dining area, not in the mood to finish his waffle. The one that caught Ike's eye first was Roy. Roy had a stern look on his face. His arms were crossed and his body position read pissed. The redhead approached Ike.

"In the end, I couldn't do anything for Makato, but I can't help but to think that you caused this last day to happen." Roy started. Ike kept silent look.

Roy continued, "I heard from Marth and Pikachu. You didn't talk to Makato and all she ever wanted was a chat. Instead you ignored her and left her in the rain?! What kind of man are you?!"

Ike then calmly said, "Is that all you want to say to me?"

Roy took in a deep breath and exhaled. "No. I'm not done with you yet. I really hated you for doing that. I heard from what Marth said. Is it really true? About those photos and being Samus' girlfriend, just to protect Makato. . . .from being on a XXX porn website?"

Ike fell to the ground from that last question. Roy blushed in embarrassment. "H-hey! I'm being serious here!"

"How I hate my dignity from this. Damn you Samus. Damn you third day. Yes it's true." Ike pulled out the same photo he showed to Marth out from his shirt. Roy leaned in for a closer look. He wasn't really amused.

"What the? This picture had only her underwear on. How are you so turned on?"

Ike gave a death glare to Roy.

"O-oh I mean-" Roy cleared his throat, using a now serious voice. "I now understand now. Thank you."

"Believe me, it could have been worst. . .Samus would had probably showed worst to everyone in the Halberd. Now I have one more thing that I must do. . ." Ike was about to put the photo away, but suddenly Roy stopped his hand.

"Wait, Ike. Why do you even have that?"

". . .To show proof that I am not lying." Ike answered. Roy grinned. "Noo, you're keeping that as a good luck charm!"

"How did you know-?!" Ike froze.

Roy snickered. "Oh! So I was right! You sneaky little perv~!"

Ike made an out-of-nowhere roundhouse kick to Roy's face as he was sent flying, hitting the ground seconds later. Roy grunted in pain, putting his hand on the cheek that was in pain. "Why you monster!"

Ike glared down at him. A deadly aura surrounded the mercenary. "Oh me, the monster? I think you're the monster here." Ike pulled the black rope that was tied to his waist as a whip. He walked toward Roy and put his boot-shoe thing on his body. "I heard from the royal, Princess Martha that you did some excotic things Makoto's banana?"

Roy didn't know what he was talking about at first. The memory came back to him as sweat dripped from his forehead. "Y-yea, I ate that delicious fruit! I just took Makato's banana and ate it. Haha. . " Roy said, nervously.

"Oh, I wasn't talking about the fruit. . ." Ike said.

". . .I-I'm an innocent, little boy and I don't know what you are talking about."

"Stop fucking lying. Kids like you should be punished. Also Roy, try not to turn into a masochist when I'm through with you." Ike yanked his black rope, preparing to whip. "Prepare yourself."

"Wait! I was just curious! I swear!" Roy cried.

"Curiosity killed the Roy, as they say."

A loud painful scream echoed throughout the Halberd. Knowing it was Roy's voice, 80% of the people in the Halberd did not give a shit.

10:30 A.M.

Forest

Zelda left the Halberd to break the barrier in the forest. Other people joined to help. While there was still time, there's hope.

"Falcon Speed!" Captain Falcon exclaimed running ahead of the group. Falco sighed, shaking his head, "You don't even know where the damn barrier is."

Captain Falcon stopped and turned to Falco. "Even so, I'll use my Almighty Falcon instincts!"

After minutes of walking in the green landscape, Zelda stopped. "I sense it, right here." She said looking around. Others looked as well. "Now I just need break the barrier. . ."

"FALCON. . . .PUNCH!" Captain Falcon did a random punch to an invisible wall. People were surprised that he actually found the barrier. "All using the power of the Almighty Falcon instincts!"

"I wish I could be like him. . ." Roy said, inspired. He then groaned. "Ugh, my body is so much in pain right now."

"Oh, really?" Marth said not surprised. "I just now noticed Miku didn't showed up for breakfast nor that Kaito boy. Rosalina said she had to do something. Naruto is doing something in his own world. I will never understand how he does it."

Roy answered with a groan. "I don't care~! My body is in a whole lot of pain!"

"Umm. . .I'll be right back. . .I want to get my bow and arrow." Miru said, still unsure about the forest. Marth nodded. "Ok."

Zelda walked up to Captain Falcon and put her hand on his shoulder. "Good job Falcon. It brought less trouble for me to look for it." Zelda put her hands on the barrier, putting all of her energy and magic to the barrier.

Inside the Barrier

Dark Makato couldn't help but to play with the dying Makato from boredom. Makato's body was now small and wide like a chibi's body. Her body was white, squishy, and sloppy. It would kinda remind people of mochi. Makato's eyes were round and white, and her mouth was curled like a cat's mouth. Blood still kept on bleeding out from her stomach, going into the dark Makato's body.

The magic barrier that was created was for people that are inside could only see the people on the outside. Anyone outside of the barrier can't see the barrier.

Mikoru noticed a lot of people near his barrier that he made. He eyed Zelda only, who was trying to break the barrier. "Well well. Looks like we have guest."

Dark Makato saw Ike first amongst the crowd. She clenched her teeth and made her fist into a ball shape. "I'm going to kill him! Lemme at him!"

Mikoru ignored what she said and walked toward Zelda. "I won't let anyone interfere with my plans." Mikoru stretched his hands outside of the barrier to Zelda's neck, yet still invisible to the others.

Outside the Barrier

"Break the barrier! Oh yea! Oh yea! Break the barrier! Oh yea! Oh yea!" Toon Link, Ness, Lucas, Ice Climbers, Yoshi, Diddy Kong, and Kirby chanted doing a synchronized dance.

Marth glanced at Zelda's back. "Zelda, is this going to take long?"

Words tried to come out from her mouth, only a crack came out. Ike gave Zelda a confused look.

"Zelda?"

Link walked to Zelda and noticed something strange about her. Her eyes were shut tightly and her face was slowly turning red. Zelda had some air to talk. "Can't. . . .breathe. . Something is. . .choking me."

"What?!" Link didn't see any hands or anything that was squeezing her neck.

"Cut the air!" Pit shouted.

"Aaaaaaeeyaaaa!" Link swung his sword between Zelda and the invisible barrier. It seemed that the grasped was broken apart. The elf princess coughed and gasped for air.

"Are you okay?" Link asked. Zelda slowly nodded her head. "Yea. Thank you Link."

"So, someone is actually in the barrier." Roy said.

"Did you manage to break it?" Marth asked Zelda.

"Not yet. Whoever it was, they didn't like it."

Out of nowhere, Ness viciously banged on the barrier simultaneously. "Open up! Or else you can kiss your ass dead!"

A visible hand, wearing a black glove grabbed Ness' neck, squeezing it harder and harder. Ness was lifted off the ground being choked. The Smashers around him tried to break the grasp between the hand and him.

Zelda was able to destroy the barrier, using the magic she had left. The sound of shattering glass echoed throughout the forest. Ness was then let go, coughing for air.

"That was crazy!" Lucas said patting his back. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. . ." Ness cracked a smirked. "What I did was totally manly."

"That almost got you killed." Ike finished.

The barrier was finally broken, revealing the three figures. Mikoru swiped his hands together and sighed. "Well well. You finally figured it all out." He started.

"So it was Mikoru after all." Zelda said. "Where's Makato?"

Mikoru walked behind the girl with white pigtails and put his hands on her shoulders. "Why, you are looking at Makato right now."

"Is that what I think it is?" Roy asked Marth. Marth nodded. "That's Makato's dark side. . ."

"Makato's dark side, huh?" Ike said. Mikoru eyed Ike, watching his reaction.

"She's so hot. . ." Roy stared.

"Get serious, baka." Marth slapped his head.

"Don't make me laugh! Where's the real one?!" Pit yelled.

"Oh." Mikoru rolled his eyes to the chibi doll Makato on the ground and picked her up like a kitten. "You mean this thing?"

Everyone didn't know whether to be angry or surprise. Silence spread through the group. Speechless.

"As you can see. This is the fifth day of the Five Day Knock Out Spell." Mikoru continued, "Once this day is completed, this Makato will disappear. There is nothing you fools can't do about it."

Pit turned to the others. "What should we do?"

"Makato needs our help." Marth said.

"Yea. . ." Ike said.

"We just have to get her back." Zelda said. "Everyone, prepare to attack!"

Dark Makato walked in front of Mikoru slowly. Mikoru noticed her presence and said, "Oh you want to fight too?"

The dark Makato scoffed. "Heh, I have no business with anyone here-but Ike. . ." Her purple eyes were still glued to Ike's. She stretched her right arm out toward everyone. Her hand started to glow a dark purple, creating a giant, dark aura. Out of nowhere, like a supersonic beam, the aura aimed for each person in the forest, like a contagious disease. Their bodies were covered in foggy smoke. Small screams came from each person. People tipped over one by one, collapsing on the ground.

Somehow, Ike wasn't affected by the strange aura.

"What the?" Ike sweated dropped. He quickly turned to Marth who was on his knees. His eyes were droopy while his body sway.

"So, sleepy. . ." He muttered. With that, the prince fell to the ground, snoring.

"Marth. . ." The mercenary looked around at his surroundings. Pit and Link were asleep. Peach was asleep. Everyone was asleep in the forest; even Zelda was asleep. Ike turned back to Dark Makato and Mikoru. Mikoru was behind the dark Makato observing while he put on his mischievous smirk.

Ike cracked a smile. "Some kind of sleeping gas huh?"

"Yes," Dark Makato answered, "They will keep on sleeping until they die. But I want to kill you personally."

"You saved the best for last." Ike crossed his arms. "This may sound like a bad idea for me, but I came here to talk to you-"

"He has nothing to say, kill him." Mikoru interrupted.

"You don't have to tell me." Dark Makato was creating a beam that was ready to shoot Ike. Ike just stood there. He looked down at the chibi doll, Makato, who was slouching near Mikoru.

"You said, you wanted to talk to me." Ike looked back at Dark Makato. "I promise I would listen."

Dark Makato was paralyzed from what he had said. The chibi Makato twitch a little from his words as well. "I-I-Ike. . ."

Back at her angry glare, she released the beam that aimed for Ike. An explosion was made right behind Ike as Dark Makato thought he made a mark on him.

"Why? Why did I miss?" Dark Makato paralyzed in shock.

"Hmm, why did you miss?" Ike said with a confused look. Ike thought about what Mikoru said earlier. He took a glance at him. Ike could tell that he wasn't in a good mood, like his plan was being crushed. Could Ike's word's somehow effect the dark Makato? Could this be the key to turn Makato back to normal?

Ike then looked straight back at Dark Makato. "Could it be from what I said? Or from my appearance? If my style gets in your way, don't be afraid to say so."

The dark Makato was now embarrassed. "W-What?!" She charged at him, ready to stab the mercenary through using her hand as a spear. A thick smoke of purple surrounded her right hand.

"DIE!"

Ike grabbed her wrist, stopping her attack. The purple smoke disappeared. Ike stared into her eyes. Dark Makato growled; she used her other hand to make the same attack to the stomach. Dodging it, Ike let go of her hand and jumped back, making space between.

"So tell me, are you really Makato?" Ike said putting his hands on his hips. Dark Makato stood silent for a second, looking at the chibi doll behind her.

"I am the darkness of Makato. I am her hate and evil. " She responded. "Soon, my body will be complete. Once all of her blood is transferred into me. Right now, I can only use a third of my power." She explained. Ike saw the blood slowly disappearing from the chibi after it leaked to the ground.

Ike then knew for a fact that the blood he saw in the forest, on the grass, was Makato's blood.

"Ah, I see. You must be very powerful." Ike nodded his head.

"I am powerful! You taunt me?!" Dark Makato yelled.

"No no no!" Ike shook his hands. "Anyway, I like to test that power of yours." Ike drew his sword out. Dark Makato smirked. "Finally you are getting serious here. Get ready-!" Dark Makato created both of her hands into spears and sprinted toward Ike. "-To die!"

"Now you need to say those things to Makato. I'm sure your words would get to her." Those words reminded Ike what he needed to say to the darkside of Makato.

"I'm sure a little sparing wouldn't hurt." Ike thought. "Okay get ready to be rekt-!" Ike ran toward the dark Makato as well. A second away from attacking, Ike somehow tripped over a little rock, making a face plant to the grass. Dark Makato stopped and arched an eyebrow, confused.

Ike groaned in pain. He lifted his face up, putting his hand on his face to adjust his nose. "Redo! Redo! God, my nose!"

"Haha. . ." She answered softly. Ike knew for a second, he wasn't going to get any sympathy from her. Hoping to see a giant 'Kame Kame Ha' beam to his face. Ike looked up at her face and was surprised from her reaction.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tears were coming from her eyes. She kept on laughing till her stomach started to hurt. She cringed and fell on her knees, dying from laughter.

"She's laughing. . ." Ike gave a dumbfounded look. "She's laughing?" He glanced at the chibi doll and noticed the blood stopped disappearing, but it only kept on leaking slower than ever.

The mercenary smirked. "Oh I see now. . ." Ike felt like he was making progress. Mikoru growled and grabbed his sword behind his back.

"Ike. . .he needs to die. If she can't kill him, then I will."

Before Mikoru could make another step, an arrow zoomed by him, hitting part of his gray hair. Mikoru glared at that person whoever have the attention to kill him. Miru made a small smirk, preparing the next 3 arrows.

Miru was on a tree branch pointing the arrows at Mikoru.

"You're not going anywhere Mikoru. You'll have to go through me first."

"Tch," The dark mage pointed his sword at Miru. "You're gonna regret doing that. . ."

"Why such a stupid trip made me laugh so hard?" Still grinning, Dark Makato wiped her tears and stood up on her feet. She looked back at Ike.

Ike got up and smirked at her.

Dark Makato blushed. "W-What?! I did not find that funny, FYI!" She exclaimed.

"Sure. . .Anyways," Ike's face darkened, including his tone. "Time to get serious. Get ready for my secret technique." He lowered his face so the dark Makato wouldn't see.

Dark Makato couldn't help but to make a tiny grin. 'To be honest, that was pretty funny but. . .It's time to get serious. . .What is his secret teachnique?'

Ike put his hands to his cheeks and used his two fingers to pinch them. His head was still facing the ground. "Great. . . ."

"Great Aether? He's not drawing his sword, what is he plotting." Dark Makato murmured.

"GREAT SILLY FACE!" Ike shouted. He stretched his cheeks as far as he good while swoosh his tongue out.

"So this is his secret weapon?! This is too intense for me!" She barked. Dark Makato tried not to curl up her lips, for the Great Silly Face will get no sympathy from her. Ike moved closer to her. She also noticed another thing that Ike added to his Great Silly Face.

'Hip swaying?! Don't laugh! Don't laugh!' Unable to control it, she bursted out laughing and crying. Minutes later, she fell to the ground, breathing heavily.

"You. . .win." She muttered in defeat, still grinning.

Ike sighed, glad he was done with whatever he was doing. "Like I said, I came here to talk to you." Ike walked up to Dark Makato and pulled her hand to make her stand on her two feet.

"Makato, darkside Makato or whatever. . ." Ike cleared his throat. "Those past few days, I ignored you for so long. I hurt you. I caused so much pain to you. Can you guess why I did all of those things?" Ike lifted his arm and pointed at Dark Makato. "I did that all out of love."

Dark Makato's eyes widen in surprise. "Love?"

"I did that all, to protect you, from blackmail." Ike grabbed Dark Makato's hand and embraced her.

"Makato. . .I could never hate you! Ignoring you literally killed me. Even pushing you down took away my life. Please understand. I'm sorry. For everything. During those past few days. I apologize for everything. Forgive me."

Dark Makato couldn't move from his words. She couldn't breathe or blink, but to show only small drops of water from her eyes. Realizing from what he just had said, her face brightened up to a red. 'All to protect me, out of love. I'm so. . .happy. He loves me.'

"Ike. . ." Dark Makato looked up at Ike's face.

"I just wanted your love. I didn't want you to hate me. That was my wish, personally. Thank you Ike, for making it come true." It wasn't like her evil smirk she would make, it was a warm, sweet smile. After they have part, the dark Makato appeared a small potion in her hand. It was in a purple glass container, also it appeared the liquid inside of it was transparent. She forcefully put it in Ike's hand. "Take this. This potion can undo the spell I made with your friends that are sleeping.

"Thanks."

Dark Makato glanced at the chibi Makato. She then turn to Ike. "I gotta go now." She said. "Makato needs me now. If I don't go back, then the Five Day Knock Spell will continue."

"I understand. Take care." Ike said. Dark Makato nodded a little. She leaned over and pecked Ike on the cheek. "That's from me. Goodbye."

"Wait-."

"I said goodbye."

"Ok ok." Ike lifted his hands in the air. Dark Makato slowly started to fade away as she closed her eyes. Distracted, Mikoru turned over to Dark Makato.

"The darkness! I was careless!" Mikoru teleported to her, leaving Miru behind. "H-hey!"

Mikoru walked over to Dark Makato and shook her roughly. "Don't listen to that traitor! Why would he love you?! He hates you!"

No response from the dark Makato. Her body became even more transparent, more bright, just like the sun in the sky. Seconds later her body turned into a golden mist; as it traveled through the air, it quickly went back into the chibi Makato's body. Mikoru was frustrated indeed. All of that hard work for nothing. He then glared at Ike, who was a few feet away from him.

'Ike I will kill you. Just you wait. I swear it!'

Mikoru disappeared after that thought. The mercenary thought Mikoru was there seconds ago, but just shrugged it off.

"Ike!" Miru ran toward him, calling out his name. "Ike!"

"Miru, I thought you were sleeping-" Hoping for the others to be awake, it was only Miru standing.

"I just went back to the Halberd to get my bow and arrow, after that I saw everyone on the ground but you. So I went to do a surprise attack to keep Mikoru occupied."

"Nice thinking. Why can't you just use Link's bow and arrows?"

". . .Um. . .Anyways!" Miru let that comment slide off. "How did it go?"

Ike put his arms behind his back. "Surprisingly. . .well. The darkside of Makato is now pure and back into Makato's body."

"That's good." Miru sighed. "Everything's back to normal huh?"

Ike thought about the word 'normal' and nodded his head. "Yea. . . ."

"We should check on Makato." Miru suggested.

"Yea- -Oh! Hey, Miru can you do me a favor?" Ike handed the purple glass bottle to Miru. "Give everyone a drop of this potion everyone that's sleeping."

"But, why? Why can't you do it?"

"I don't know how to deal with potions." Ike answered. "You're the only experienced person."

"I guess you can say that." Miru grew a sharp pointy nose and walked to the dead-like bodies.

"Thanks Miru." Ike turned over to the chibi doll Makato, which was now a real human body. Eyes were still close. The body didn't move a bit. The wound in her stomach was healed. Blood stopped leaking. She still wore the green loose sweater vest with the pink tie and a white shirt inside, showing its collar on the outside. Along with green plaid pants, brown shoes with white socks. Ike walked up to her and kneeled on one knee.

"Makato. Can you hear me?"

". . .Nmm. . ." Makato answered. She opened her eyes and saw the mercenary right before her. "Ike." Makato got up from her back and shook her head.

"Are you ok?"

Makato slowly nodded her head. She looked down at the grass unable to face Ike. "What you said, was it true? To protect me?"

Ike pulled the same photo he showed to Roy and gave it to Makato. "It was on the third day of the Knock Out Spell. We all knew that you were in Naruto's body. And Samus was in your body. Samus made a threat. If I wasn't her girlfriend, those pictures would have be exposed."

Makato unexpectedly handed the photo back to Ike. He hesitated for a moment but then grabbed it. "Last night, what you said and did to me, was to protect me also?" Makato frowned. Ike firmly put his hands on the princess' shoulders. "I'm sorry Makato. Samus told me to say those things. Please understand. I didn't have choice."

Makato looked up at Ike's face. "Even so, you put me in such an uncomfortable situation like you know I'm not happy you know I'm trying to see if it will work out here and I know that it's not-" Tears poured down from Makato's face, unable to stop them. She put her hand over her face to keep it hidden. Ike pulled into a hug and petted her hair.

"But," Makato continued, laying her head on his chest. "You said, it was for love. What did you mean?"

"You heard that? What I meant was-"

"I know, it's because you fight for your friends."

Ike grinned and patted her head. "Yea, my 'I fight for my friends' campaign."

"My other side of me is now under in my control and the Dark Seal is not needed anymore. Thank you Ike."

"Makato, let me make everything up to you." Ike said with a serious tone. Makato glanced up at him. "You don't have to-"

"But I want to. It still hurts me. Every time I ignored you, it killed me." Ike then realized what he had with him. He let go of Makato making a hunt for something under his clothing. "I almost forgot-" Ike pulled out two tickets to the Delfino Plaza. Lucina gave it to him because she didn't want to go there. She wanted to go to the Delfino Plaza once she became a Smasher. Ike handed one of the tickets to Makato.

"Delfino Plaza tickets to the Delfino Restaurant. . ." Makato read the ticket.

"I'll buy you whatever you want at the Delfino Plaza after going to the restaurant. How about it?"

Makato smiled. "Ok."

The mercenary glanced at his ticket again. "Good thing there's no expiration date, because I will murder Master Hand-"

"Would you really?"

"Of course not." Ike laughed. "Then it's a date." Ike stood up and grabbed Makato's arm to pull her to stand on her two feet. Ike glanced at the clothes Makato was wearing.

"Why are you wearing pants?"

"I was a boy on the fourth day." Makato said. "That's why."

"Oh, I see." Ike saw Miru running toward him and squeezed Makato into a bear hug. "I'm so happy that you're okay! I'm sorry for not being there for you!"

"Miru. It's okay. Don't blame yourself." Makato smiled and hugged back. Miru parted away and turned to Ike. "Perfect amount of that potion. Everyone should be awake. Though it took me along time to make everyone swallow it, especially Kirby. . ." Miru shivered.

Ike couldn't help it but to laugh. "Well now that everything is finally over. . ." The mercenary yawned. "What time is it?"

"It's 3:30 P.M.!" Lucina popped out of nowhere showing her watch to Ike. "It's time for the Mario and Sonic War to start! That's 30 minutes ago!"

Robin followed behind. "We all wondered where you guys were. Even the hands didn't know where most of you guys ran off to. So, we checked the Halberd." Robin explained. "Some of the girls said, you guys went to search for Makato. I'm guessing it's the fifth day, of the Five Day Knock Out Spell."

"Well it's all over." Miru said stretching.

"That's good." Robin stared at Makato and walked toward her. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

Makato looked at herself. She shook her head. "Not that I know of. I pretty fine actually."

"Well that's good."

Lucina nodded her head, agreeing with Robin. She eyed all of the yawing Smashers when she spotted Marth's royal, blue cape. "OMG Marth-sama! What a coincidence!" She ran over to him and hugged him. "Ugh, let go of me Lucina. . .why are you here anyway? My head hurts."

Lucina grinned. "Want me to kiss it to make it better?"

"No thanks. . ." Marth said refusing her offer. The other Smashers started to wake up as well.

"I'm guessing I'll have to do a shit ton of explaining." Ike sighed. "Once everyone wakes up. Hey Robin, can you tell Master Hand that we will be running a bit late. We'll be there at 4:30 P.M.."

"Yes, Mister Ike. Consider it done. Let's go Lucina." Robin dragged Lucina out of the forest, while she pleaded for Marth.

"That takes care of that. Now we can continue this Mario and Sonic War with no interruptions."

Makato nodded her head. "Yes."

"I wonder what the next event is going to be." Miru said laying on the grass.

Ike grabbed the picture from his shirt and teared it into tiny bits and let the air take it. "Well, whatever it is, it should be good."

A/N: Hope you enjoy this long chapter! Till next time! And have a great Christmas!