Oh ma gawd my bapi Sora just got in! That took way too damn long, flippin Mickey Mouse finally said yes. Hopefully, he gets along with the other kids (He will definitely get along with Pit and Pittoo), and hopefully, he isn't an ultra mega S tier character that turns the online meta 180 degrees upside down 3 seconds after release ⊙_⊙. Too bad smash ult is over, we have no more Dlcs, poor Crash and Nintenoreos69, time to wait another decade for Smash Bros 6 :'DTwo Month? Two whole months since my arrival in this familiar yet unfamiliar home. The tides have been turning quite evenly for me lately, like literally, summer crashed into me like a brick!
The arrival of summer brought many things to my radar. Summer Showdown was the most important, it was a seasonal event within the bigger tournament. It was one of the most important sub-tournaments of the year. My two buddies and I have been training every morning until dawn, for the past 3 whole days! We are shooting for a week straight, but that seems unlikely. I don't think I can get myself dragging the two of them out of bed every day in the morning, especially Ness. He always asks me to give him five more minutes of sleep so he can "Wake up", but that usually turns into twenty minutes, and eventually an hour, and then the whole day. I didn't mind, he can sleep all he want, I will just spend time with my other friend instead!
Today was the fourth day, and all three of us were exhausted. (they are exhausted from waking up early, I'm exhausted from pulling Ness' 1000 pound butt out of his bed) We dragged ourselves through breakfast and into the training center. As the tournament started picking up pace, more fighters are encouraged to start vigorously training, everyone wanting that sweet title of Summer champion, us included.
"You know things are heated when Dedede decides to train at 7," Ness told us while we entered the lobby of the training center. "Guys? Are you two even listening?"
No, we were not, in fact. We were talking about smoked green beans topped with garlic butter. Us, TL, and I, we're really close now, to a point where we talked about everything. From thoughts to random things. These conversations usually excluded Ness, hence his annoyance.
"I'm talking...Guys!"
"Oh yeah Nessu, what's up."
"Yes, Ness?"
"Let's just go..." Ness mumbled. "Oh, how I miss you, Lucas. Now I'm stuck with them two..."
Training was as fine as usual, none of us were in the mood for it, but we all knew that slacking was gonna get us nowhere. Ness was ferociously chucking rocks at the dummies, and Toon Link and I were sparring with short blades. The sparring wasn't particularly fair, and that victory came to him almost every time, but I enjoyed the process nonetheless.
"Every offensive decision is based on your first step," TL said. "Try to hold the blade close to your eyes, and predict your opponent's step-"
"Link, you are talking to me like I know what you are talking about. I use sticks, not swords."
"Guys, I'm bored, do y'all wanna have a catch or something?" Ness said after he wiped his sweaty forehead with his red towel.
"We can't just stop training now, Ness, remember tonight? If we want to make time for tonight..." Toon Link replied to Ness, who groaned and then walked away.
"Oh right. I almost forgot." Ness said and went back to his bucket of rocks.
...
"Wait what is gonna happen tonight?" I asked, nobody has mentioned a word about tonight. "Should I know what you are talking about?"