A/N: Hello everyone! How's it been going? Guess who just finished their junior year in high school? Yep, me. Only one more year till I graduate! Now that I'm done with school for the year, I'll be much quicker on updates and whatnot, this past school year was torture, but thankfully the hard part is over. The only thing about this summer that I have to worry about is senior project, which hopefully won't take up too much of my time. But let's not worry about that now, I'm here, so let's get on with the show.

One more thing, I haven't played the beginning of the game in a while, so I had to remember as much as I could for the castle meeting scenes.

Disclaimer: Own nothing 'cept for Isabelle.

After the wedding ended, that's when things really started heating up. As it turns out, all of King Bowser's minions ended up teleporting into the castle. With a little help from Natasia, they are all under our control, with the exception o a few. It's unknown what happened to Bowser and the Princess, most of us, Dimentio included, can only assume the worse, but the Count, and I don't really think so.

I sat on the edge of my floating block, apparently the laws of gravity didn't apply here, kicking my feet back and forth. The only ones in the room besides me, were Dimentio, the Count, Natasia, and Mimi, who was disguised as O'Chunks, trying her best at an impression, which was quite good, trying to lighten the mood and all.

"Sorry I'm late," O'Chunks familiar accent spoke up. Jumping up onto his block, he looked up to see himself, staring at himself, "HEY! How did I beat myself here?"

We all laughed at his response, I spoke up to him, "Gee, O'Chunks, did you hit your head off something when you woke up this morning?"

He turned, staring daggers to me, "NO! It's just well," he paused, probably trying to find the right words, "Well, I had no idea how well Mimi could impersonate someone."

Mimi giggled, turning herself into the Count, "Golly, thanks O'Chunks, I'm glad I can get a complement off someone."

"Hey Mimi, what do ya think you're doing? Copying the Count's image is disrespectful!" O'Chunks called out to her.

The Count only chuckled slightly at this, "How impressive Mimi, only as impressive as…well, Count Bleck!"

Mimi giggled as she transformed herself into the Princess, "Gee Count, any day I spend with you makes me fill like I'm in a dream-filled world."

I heard Dimentio cackling, "Really? And here I thought Mimi's dream filled world was a gem-filled pool with hunky lifeguards."

Mimi gasped, and angrily turned to Dimentio, transforming into Bowser, "Dimentio, have you been reading my diary?" she angrily yelled at him. I swear, if I didn't know any better, I thought she was ready to breath fire at him.

Dimentio only chuckled, showing no obvious fear to Mimi's rage, "No, not at all my dear, I just know you that well." Dimentio, always the classy liar.

"Now, now my minions, stated Count Bleck, now is not the time for fighting, we must save that for later, if what Natasia said before is true."

I saw Mimi's look of rage, turn into one of confusion, "Wait, what did Nassy say before?

Natasia rolled her eyes, one of her many pet peeves were when people don't listen, or pay attention when she was talking, "What I said before was, um, about inter-dimensional activity has been going on, I can only suspect that it has something to do with the heroes, as stated in the Light Prognoctious." That was what surprised me the most, the Light Prognoctious. It was an ancient prophecy book like the Dark Prognoctious, only it foretold events to counteract the events of the Dark Prognoctious, including the Chaos Heart. It mostly spoke of four heroes that would put an end to these events, the one mostly spoken of was the "Man in Red".

Dimentio spoke up from behind me, "My guess, if these 'heroes' really do exist, is they will have to go to the Yold Desert. From what I know, these is are ancient ruins there, ruins that were once temples to the Tribe of Ancient, the writers of the Light Prognoctious. They will probably go there first."

That was new. The Tribe of Ancients? The writers of the Light Prognoctious? I always hated it when I get too much information at once. But it got me wondering, if the Tribe of Ancients wrote the Light Prognoctious, they who wrote the Dark Prognoctious? What sort of being would write up such events they he foretold?

I was interrupted from my thoughts by O'Chunks, who was now filled with energy, looking like he was ready to take on an army, "Leave it to me, Count, I'll give 'em a good 'n proper chunkin'. 'Ey Iz, Dimentio, Mimi, you guys should coming along, I'll give ya a lesson in fighting." And just like that, he was off, running out the doors like a bat out of hell. I silently turned to look back at Dimentio and Mimi.

"Hmmm…I am in the mood for some chunking, this should be quite interesting. I'd like to see what these heroes are like. Coming along Isabelle?" Dimentio looked over at me. I saw a strange look in his eye, almost like he was planning something, but I decided to ignore it, I haven't been out of the castle it what seemed like forever, and a little sunlight could do me some good.

I smiled, "Sure thing, I'm in the mood for watching a fight," This should be good. I thought to myself. As always, he grabbed a hold of my hand, and we teleported off to the desert.

We ended up being on the outskirts of the desert. We thought if these heroes were to get into the desert, they would have to come through here, plus we could spot a town, probably about a mile away, no doubt they would be there.

Dimentio and I were sitting on top of a palm tree (palm trees in the desert? I don't think the laws of nature apply to this part of the universe). O'Chunks was sitting below us, taking in the desert sun. It wasn't really that hot for a desert, it was probably around seventy-six, or seventy-seven degrees, but it felt nice, and we weren't complaining.

"So, what can you do with those new powers of yours?" Dimentio's quiet voice spoke up. I sat up in a half awake state, and rose an eyebrow at him. A soft laugh came from him, "Don't act so surprised Izzy, the Count told us of the powers he have you, and he told us how well you managed to control them. If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to see for myself."

I was taken aback by what he was asking, I only tried my new powers once, and that was when I was demonstrating for Count Bleck, I didn't know what would happen if I tried them now, especially since y powers were still relatively new, "Uh…I don't know. I can shoot energy beams , and create force fields, but that's all I know how to-" I was cut off short by a sudden blast of energy to my left shoulder. It was powerful enough to knock me out of the tree, onto the ground. The pain was intense, but surprisingly I'd managed to fight it off. O'Chunks saw what happened, and quickly ran over to me, "Isabelle, are you okay?" he asked as he offered me his hand, which I took. The pain didn't last long, I looked to my shoulder, my sleeves from my shirt were burned off, and my shoulder was red, yet it wasn't burning, or even hurting. I knew that didn't come from nowhere, somebody attacked me.

Dimentio came down to me, to my surprise, he had no look of concern, or worry, it looked rather like a look of…disappointment? "Dimentio?" I asked quietly. He continued to stare me down, which gave me the most uncomfortable feeling.

"Dimentio!" O'Chunks explained. Dimentio turned his attention to O'Chunks. I sighed softly of relief, happy that I wasn't under his icy stare. "Did you see what happened to her up there?"

Dimentio smiled, the creepy smile of which I don't think I've seen in ages, "Why, yes I did, and there's your answer," he pointed off into the distance. O'Chunks, and I looked over to where he was pointing, and sure enough off about three hundred yards of us, was a man, and a…butterfly? They were coming in our direction, but the thing that surprised me, was that this man was dressed entirely in red.

"The Man in Red?" I thought to myself. Surely this couldn't be the man spoken of in the Dark Prognoctious, could it? Even though he was still a couple hundred yards away from us, he looked to be short, probably around five feet tall, and no offence to him, was also a bit chubby. Another thing that surprised me was his moustache, it look almost identical to the one that man who crashed the wedding had.

I heard O'Chunks gasped, "You don't think that's him do you?"

Dimentio approached him, "There's no doubt about it, you see that pixl there? Only the hero can find them, and use their special powers." I looked back over to see a very strange being, it looked like a flying baseball glove. "You go out on ahead, we'll stay here just incase you mess up." Dimentio flew over beside me, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable again.

O'Chunks laughed heartily, "I doubt that Dimentio, you might as well go wait back at the castle, this shouldn't take long," he ran off ahead, ready to take them on. I turned to Dimentio, who was still smiling. He suddenly grabbed my hand, "Come on, I doubt that he will defeat them, so it's time for plan B." I rose an eyebrow, did he actually plan this out, "What's that?" I asked. Dimentio's smile than turned into a different kind of smile, an evil one, "A meeting with the guardian."