Sins of Darkness // an SSB fanfic// DISCONTINUED

Chapter 23

The squad walked to the university. It was Saturday, so Master Hand had asked them to come that day so they could properly discuss. They went in full armor, incase there was another attack. All of them were serious, not a single trace of happiness in them. Instead, only anger, fear, and courage.

Peach was very worried. She hadn't faced something like this before. Sure, Super Mario Galaxy was probably the most chaotic, but not this scale. And she was very scared. Scared enough she couldn't let go of Marth's hand. And he hadn't complained a single time. But she couldn't stay like that. She had to be brave, like the rest of her friends. She knew they were probably afraid as well, but they were covering that with their courage. And so she had to do so too. She took a deep breath, and slowly loosened her grip on Marth's hand, until she wasn't holding it anymore. She started shaking a lot, and she felt a lot hotter as beads of sweat formed on her forehead. Marth looked back at her, a little surprised, but then gave her a reassuring and warm smile. 

That smile. It made her calm down. She looked down, then looked back up, confident. She nodded and returned the smile. Then she heard something run through the leaves. Her eyes widen, she took her parasol out and pointed it at the source. She started breathing heavily.

"Peach? What's wrong?" Marth asked and put his hand on her shoulder. By then, the others had stopped walking and they were looking at her.

"You okay?" Daisy asked.

"Yeah, sorry, I could've sworn I heard something," Peach said. She Zelda walk toward her and when she reached her, she held both of her hands.

"It's okay, don't worry," Zelda smiled. "What did it sound like?"

"It was a rustle, probably a bunny running by," Peach answered.

"I don't think there are any bunnies around here," Samus said.

"There aren't," Zelda said, letting go of Peach's hand. "And deer don't usually come out at this time, there aren't any bears either."

"Maybe birds?" Peach asked.

"Pretty sure they already migrated to the South," Roy said.

"Someone's spying on us," Zelda said. "I can feel a dark presence." She raised her hand, making a pillar of light appear where Peach heard the sound. "Better said, something." Link cautiously walked there. He crouched down and picked up whatever it was.

"Looks like a drone," Link said and showed it to them.

"Hm, I don't hear any other ones," Time said, focusing really hard on sounds. "Yeah, there's no more."

Zelda smiled and looked at Peach. "Good job, Peach, if it weren't for you, the enemy would've probably heard all of our plans!"

"I... I stopped them?" Peach said. Zelda nodded and grinned. Marth smiled at her and wrapped his arm around her waist. Peach smiled and held on to Marth's hand. "Thanks!"

***

They sat on the large meeting room and waited for Master Hand to arrive. They filled up the seats around the long conference table, leaving one chair on the end for Master Hand. The door opened and Bayonetta stepped in, followed by human Master Hand. He nodded his head to them, which they returned, and sat on the last table. He crossed his legs and rested his on one of his hands. He gave a nod of approval to start talking.

"We made checkmarks in order to find out the location of the enemy," Robin said as he projected a map of Hyrule.

"They're near Ordon," Zelda said. Robin zoomed into the area of Ordon. "And here are our checkmarks." The two of them raised their hands, and yellow dots appeared on the map.