Yo, fanfiction people! TheGroosenator here! And I have brought you my first actual yuri story! I happen to be playing through Paper mario: The Thousand Year Door again recently, and after beating the game for the 100th time, I thought of this crack pairing and thought it would be pretty fun to see this happen. I've seen no fanfictions of ShadowQueenxPeach pairing, so I'm the first one (that I know of) to do this! I'm still not sure about how this will turn out, but here we go!
I sat up in my bed. It was coming to be another restless night. I hadn't gotten much sleep lately; I wasn't sure why. It had been like this since Mario's battle with Shadow Queen. I wasn't simply able to properly sleep anymore. My thoughts would always wander back to Shadow Queen. I'm not sure what it was about her. It had been two weeks, yet I couldn't seem to get the last few pained words she said out of my mind...
In the Palace of Shadow
"Impossible... Unthinkable..." Shadow Queen trembled. The whole area was shaking around them. Mario, Goombella, Koops, Flurrie, Donny (which was the little Yoshi), Bobbery, Vivian, Mrs. Mowz, Beldam, Marilyn, and Doopliss were all nearly falling over at the trembling, but somehow they manged to stay upright the whole time. I could feel Shadow Queen writhing in pain. Mario had done it. He had defeated the Shadow Queen and finally ended this conflict once and for all. Her presence was slowly, but surely, fading from my body. I could feel it.
"How could I... I cannot be defeated by lesser beings such as these... And I had just been reborn into this world... I cannot... I must not..." She managed to get out before falling to the ground. The darkness around her began to fade and all that was left was her in my body in a crumpled heap on the ground. Despite all that had happened because of her, it was painfull to see her suffer. What's more is I could feel every bit of pain she was feeling. We were sharing this body at the moment, after all. I felt the cramps, the bruises, the cuts, the burns, the shocks, everything she had recieved during the battle. It was excruciating. Like no pain I had ever felt before. I was glad I was not the only one feeling the pain, though. After what felt like an eternity, a loud, ear-piercing scream echoed throughout the whole room.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!" was all anyone could hear. There was a sudden flash of light and everything went black after that. I thought I was dead until I awoke in a dark area. All around me was nothing but pitch-black darkness. I looked around and saw no one around me at first.
"Hello?" I called out into the darkness. All I heard was the echo of my call. I began to get up when I saw the spirit of Shadow Queen appear in front of me. She walked up to me and grabbed me by the collar of my dress and pulled me in front of her, up to eye level. Our faces were mere inches apart, our noses nearly touching. I wanted to move away, but fear kept me from doing so. Her dark violet eyes pierced into my light blue ones. I bit my lip in fear of what may happen next.
"Do not think this is the end. I will let you and your precious Mario live for now. But mark my words: I will return."I could feel myself trembling in her grip. The gaze of this woman just radiated hate and evil. I shut my eyes and waited for her to kill me until her angry expression softened for a moment before turning into a devilish smirk.
"Besides, we are connected now..." Shadow Queen whispered into my ear. I opened my eyes in confusion.
"W- what do you mea- " I did not get to finish my question before she put a gloved finger to my lips.
"In due time, you will find out. But for now, you should hush up and don't you DARE tell that plumber what you have seen, or I will kill you myself. Do I make myself clear?" She hissed in my face. This woman was the true definition of terror, and the way she hissed these words didn't help at all. All I could do was whimper and nod.
"Good. Now then..." She dropped me and let me fall to the floor. I could feel the pain of the battle slowly subside. As it did, so did Shadow Queen. She disintegrated into glowing, purple energy, which then proceeded to float into my chest and dissolve into my skin. It was the oddest sensation. However, I was soon overcome by a flash of light, and everything went completely dark again.
"Peach? Peach! Wake up!" I heard several moments later. I slowly opened my eyes to see Mario and all his other partners surrounding me.
"Mario... it's all over..." I breathed. Mario nodded his head and a tear fell down his cheek. I slowly got up, when suddenly, I heard Shadow Queen's voice once more in my mind.
"Remember. I will be watching you. For we are connected now, bound by spirit and body..." I heard her say before her voice faded once more, never to be heard again. At least, not for a while.
It had been two weeks since then, yet those last words still echoed in my mind as if they were only moments ago. I had been thinking them over for a while now, yet I still had no idea what they meant. I had repeated them over and over again, but I could not grasp their meaning.
"'Connected... bound by spirit and body'...Oh, whatever could that mean?" I sighed for the umpteenth time tonight. I decided to just try and go back to sleep when a shadow darted across my ceiling. I jumped and held the blanket close to my chest.
"Wh- who's there?" I called out. There was no answer. Only silence. I shook my head, thinking I must be seeing things. I layed back down. Just when I finally thought I was about to fall asleep, I heard a familiar, evil chuckle. I sat up in bed and what I saw in front of me nearly made me scream.
"You..." was all I could manage before I heard another chuckle.
"I thought you were..."
"Dead? Apparently, I'm no, for I am here before you..." The figure smiled wickedly.
And, I'm afraid that's where I'm gonna stop for now. Unlike my other multi-chapter stories, This WILL be updated regularly! I promise! I know it's a little bad, but it's my first yuri story, so please bear with me. I'll get into the good stuff later, but for now, just read and leave a review. Flames will be used to cook my tacos.