Super Smash Bros. - Wolf Song [Book #1]

Chapter 9 - Memory lane

An unsettling silence was between us, but only for a few moments. Robin spoke up.

"I don't expect you to remember anything just yet, nor for you to understand anything."

"I just... I don't know how I should respond to this."

"You don't have to respond at all if you want to," he spoke reassuringly,  "You can just listen if you would like."

None of this makes sense. Ever since I entered the Smash world, my whole life has turned around. It's a great thing to think about, considering I am in a completely different place than my old life. My old life was nothing special, it was awful. But now, I'm here. I want it to be a good thing, but it is all so much to take in at once. I've only been here for 1 week or so. Yet, so much has happened during that time. It's frightening.

This world, this fictional world, is where my home is. It's where I want my home to be. But, what if this is all some dream that seems like it goes forever? After all, fiction is fiction. It's not real.

But... what does that make me then?

"You were 5 when you left." Robin's voice broke my train of thought, and I looked at him with an understanding expression.

"So that's why you were asking questions about my childhood. I spent it with you, didn't I?"

He slowly nodded and smiled a little, seeing me connect the dots.

"How did I even leave? What happened to me?"

Robin gave a big sigh, as if he was recalling a bad memory, which he probably was. He stared off into the golden scenery in front of us. Clearing his throat before he began, he sounded like some narrator from a movie or something.

"Heh, you sound like a professional story teller."

"Well after this, I suppose I will be." Thus he began the long story of my childhood.

"One day when I was here at the mansion, I brought you along with me. Home, our real home, was in a dangerous situation. So I brought us here to find refuge in the mean time. You were only five years old. That garden you saw with Pit? That was our garden. It was broken and dying when we first found it, so you and I brought it back to life and claimed it as our own."

I cut him off when I remembered that small little thing at the cliff edges. "Iquissa? Is that my name?" He turned and nodded in reply.

"We played and messed around with each other, until you did something incredible. You found a nearby stick and pointed it at me, pretending it was a wand. But then a vine shot out and trapped me to a tree. You kept waving it around, excited about your newly discovered power. Later I came to a conclusion that your inner power was the power of Nature." He paused as he clearly reminisced about the memory- it looked like a happy one from what I could see in his eyes. He sighed before continuing.

"As time passed, I realized that home would not be getting any better if I only ran away from it. I had a lot of time to think about it, and I was unsure about leaving you here alone. But after a while, I returned back to our dimension to set things right. I left you here, because it was far too dangerous to be going back to. I left you under the care of Pit, Link, Zelda and Samus. Marth, Lucina and Ike agreed to travel back with me.

"But before I left, I was afraid that I might not return again. So I gave you a small necklace, to remember me by. It was of a bird on a branch, covered in silver."

I looked down at my necklace and realization just hit me in the face like a brick. "The bird is a Robin, isn't it?" I smiled a little.

"It is. I was wondering when you were going to figure that out. Took you long enough," He smirked at me. I gave him a light punch in the shoulder telling him to "knock it off." He proceeded with the story.