Chapter 2
A/N I'm happy that some people already are liking this story! I'm going to try to update regularly but my schedule for this year will be restricting somewhat. I'm in a bunch of clubs and I'm doing marching band plus participating in an orchestra so I'm going to be busy. But if I can make time to read fan fiction, then I should have the time to write it.
Thank you all who have favorited and followed already! That makes me happy people are enjoying this becauase I'm having fun writing it!
I do mention Super Mario 3D World, but I think that instead of joining after the gang rescues all the Sprixies, Rosalina joins them at the beginning, as in this story she was visiting Peach to try to get to know her better besides kart racing, sports, and parties and followed Peach into the pipe, joining them and having her first adventure with the gang.
Peach really wanted to get to know the person who helped Mario to save her during the events of Super Mario Galaxy. Because of this and because Rosalina is basically a newer member of the Mario group, Peach really wants to become friends with her. This is why she's interested in getting to know Rosalina.
By the way the characters heights shall be changed because I think it would be better for some of them to have almost equal heights and if I already said Luigi's height which I don't think I did, I'd say he's about 6ft. I'll probably clarify heights in this chapter or the next. Anyways onward to the story owo
POV LUIGI
Luigi was happy he ended up having a dreamless night. He didn't need anything more to distract him then what was already going on. He glanced at the clock on the bedside table seeing that it was only 8 in the morning. He casually rolled out of bed and got dressed, grabbing the book too, as it seemed that he shouldn't leave it alone, it was more of a feeling then anything.
Still a bit drowsy and ready for some coffee, Luigi headed downstairs. The kitchen hadn't been used this morning, he could tell, so he started taking out all the ingredients needed for pancakes and also started up the coffee machine. Luigi used to not like coffee, but all the adventures with Mario eventually took its toll on his sleep and now sometimes he feels he can't function properly without it.
After creating a large batch of pancakes and setting up the table for breakfast, Luigi called upstairs for Mario in an attempt to wake him up. Luigi could hear a small groan from upstairs, letting him know that Mario was indeed awake.
Luigi set out the coffee onto the table and poured himself and Mario a mug. Personally, he preferred it with some cream and some sugar, but normally with just cream. Unlike Mario, who just liked it black.
Before sitting down, Luigi grabbed the book from the counter and set it down on the table, silently watching it. He broke out of his stupor as Mario unintentionally stomped down the stairs, his hair a bit messy and sat down in front of him. They ate silently, and before Luigi was down, Mario had already eaten and gone out the door with a "See ya bro!"
Luigi stared at the door, and with a slow blink continued eating. There really was no rush, at least he didn't think so. After finishing and cleaning up the dishes and table, Luigi was ready to go. He had grabbed his green backpack from upstairs and put the Book of Sors inside while also grabbing a couple of mushrooms and power-ups, just incase.
Luigi walked out into the backyard of his house, grabbing his hammer as he always left it by the door and slipping it into the backpack as well. He turned back to the house and started to climb up onto the roof, which there was a platform on for star-watching, one of Luigi's many small hobbies. The area was about 6ft x 6ft give or take, with two small chairs and a chest.
Luigi walked over to it and looked at the word passcode. The passcode was something quite simple. Star. Luigi fingers spun the dial till it spelt the word Star and felt the lock fall off. Luigi pocketed the small object and gently pushed the lid of the chest open, revealing a brightly spinning launch star.
It had been about 2 weeks since he last visited her. He knew she wouldn't be angry. She never was. He knew that she was glad he could join her for a conversation so she got plenty of enjoyment from just chatting.
Luigi jumped up and into the launch star, before abruptly spinning and being launched up into the air. The launch stars all had a pre-set course, so it was difficult to get out of one, so Luigi knew he was safe. As Luigi kept going up, up, and up he always enjoyed the sights of planets as he flew to the Observatory. Luigi looked down as he flew out of the Earth's Atmosphere, and stared at the Earth beneath him, enjoying the sight.
Luigi passed by a few planets he recognized, like Good Egg Galaxy and Beach Bowl. It had been fun exploring the galaxy with Mario when Peach got kidnapped and taken into space...twice. Those two adventures were a bit different then the others and he enjoyed meeting the different people-or rather aliens?-from different planets.
Luigi stopped reflecting about those adventures as soon as he saw the Observatory coming closer. It was a beautiful sight, with the-umm what exactly was it? The thing in the center that powered the spaceship- pulsating with a blue-green glow. Luigi landed on the spaceship and looked around at all the lumas flying around, playing and having fun and he smiled.
"Hello Luigi," A warm, slightly motherly voice welcomed him. "Hello Rosalina, sorry about not coming sooner. I was a bit busy." Luigi said back, with a smile.
Rosalina was probably about 6ft or a bit under that, like Luigi, with a long light blue dress that had a white strip around the very bottom, that curved up at the middle part of the front of her dress to make a triangular shape, that had white fabric showing through. At the top of the dress her shoulders were exposed, and it had a white strip also, but with a star pendant in the middle like a brooch. She had long sleeves that had a bit of white on the ends, and also had a pair of 4 pointed star earrings. Her platinum blond hair in the front had a long bang against her right eye, and had long hair down the back. She carried with her a wand with a golden outline of a 5 pointed star on the top.
Luigi remembered being nervous around Rosalina until he found that power star and Mario told Rosalina that Luigi found it. She had thanked him herself and then sat and talked to Luigi for awhile. After Mario rescued Princess Peach, Rosalina gave him the launch star so he could visit her. Their relationship was alike to best friends, and Luigi knew that Rosalina had no desire to date him, and only wanted to be friends, which Luigi was perfectly fine with that, as he felt the same way.
Rosalina's voice snapped him out of his thought: "...you here?" Luigi quickly focused on her, slightly embarrassed that he had not heard her question. "Could you repeat that please? I daydreamed for a moment there." Luigi asked. "I meant to ask why you came here. I just have a feeling it's not for some regular chat."
"No, not exactly. Is there a place we could just sit and talk? I think it would be better if I just showed you why I came to you." Luigi responded. "The garden is a nice place. Would that be fine?" Rosalina questioned. "Yes." Luigi responded.
Rosalina gave no response as Luigi was suddenly floating in the air inside of a bubble. She just smile, and with her wand held out controlling the bubble Luigi was in, she flew up to the top of the Observatory and landed. Luigi yelped as the bubble popped and he fell onto the ground, but Rosalina helped him up and they entered the garden.
The garden was a room with stone pillars in a circular pattern surrounding the center of the room. Flowers bloomed around the center, which was bare, and appeared to be slightly elevated off the ground, making it appear to be a different material other then just dirt.
They entered the room, and sat down in the center. "So..." Rosalina started, "What is it?" Luigi was slightly startled, thinking that she was almost referenced the book but she was merely referencing the question of why he had come to the Observatory. Luigi reached into his backpack and took out the book and held it out in front of him. Rosalina stared at it, and for a second he could have sworn there was recognition in her eyes, or eye, (sorry), but it disappeared as soon as it came.
"...What is it?" Rosalina curiously asked him. "It's name is the Book of Sors. What I know right now is that it is filled with prophecies, but I think there is more to it then that. Supposively there is someone from the beginning of Earth who has been hunting for this book and it is my job to protect it and with four others defeat this person and save the world, and I believe you are one of the people who is supposed to join us." Luigi finished, opening the book to prophecy 217 again, pointing out the line: "The Goddess most motherly, protector of the Galaxy"
Rosalina stared back at him. "Are you sure?" She tentatively asked. "Sure," Luigi said, "After all, you did join us on our last adventure." Rosalina stared again, and just when Luigi was beginning to doubt that she would join in, she let out a sigh, and said "...Yes. I did think that last experience was interesting. Do you have any idea what this will be like?" "No," Luigi said with a sigh. "But this time it isn't Bowser at least." He said with a laugh, slipping the book back into his backpack. Rosalina let out a small giggle as well, before standing up and offering a hand to Luigi, who took it and stood up.
"Mario should be waiting for us when we go back to Earth with our fourth member." Luigi said, as Rosalina used her magic once more to go back down to the ground floor. They landed, and then Luigi said, "The fifth, however, I think we have to find. I think the quill will help." Rosalina stared at him questionably. "...Oh yeah. Theres this quill in the book that told me-well, more like wrote to me and I read it, all this information." As Luigi was talking, he took out the book and opened the cover, revealing the quill, which he showed Rosalina. "Strange thing," She said, staring at it, observing it. Luigi laughed, "What a strange thing indeed."
As they stood there, Rosalina suddenly took out a small whistle and blew into it. No sound came out and Luigi looked at her, his face displaying the question he was about to ask. "This whistle is alike in a way to those dog whistles on Earth I believe. It is a signal for all the lumas to gather to me. It produces a sound only lumas can hear." As she was talking a large crowd of lumas surrounded them, chattering, with one chocolate colored one with blue eyes and a small nightcap on coming straight up to Rosalina and floating by her. Luigi had been wondering where Polari had been this entire time, and it appeared that the luma had been sleeping.
Rosalina cleared her throat, and all the lumas quieted. "I shall be leaving the Observatory for Earth. I am leaving Polari in charge. I should be back soon." As soon as she finished talking, the circle of lumas rushed in, knocking Luigi down and covering Rosalina from view. He could hear them all complaining and some crying. He could hear Rosalinas soft, whispery voice calming them down. Luigi knew all the lumas were extremely attached to Rosalina as she was their Mother, or motherly figure, so he knew that it would take a bit for the lumas to calm down and let Rosalina be free.
It took a bit of time, but eventually the lumas drifted off, saying their goodbyes until only one was left: Polari. They were talking in whispers, so Luigi couldn't hear them, then Polari finally flew away and Rosalina joined Luigi. Rosalina walked over to the Library area, and pushed over one of the couches, revealing a launch star, before entering and blasting off. Luigi followed, watching the observatory shrink into the distance before turning his head back around and glazing at all the planets before Earth came into view.
They landed on the roof of Mario and Luigi's house, and Luigi closed the chest that contained the launch star used to get to the Observatory. Luigi walked over to the ladder and instead of going down, jumped off, landing on his feet. He glanced up seeing Rosalina start to move down the ladder. As soon as she stepped down, Luigi opened the back door of the house and held it open, letting Rosalina walk inside first.
Luigi went inside, closing the door behind him. Noises were coming from upstairs, most likely coming from the gaming room. Luigi started walking up with stairs, and Rosalina followed him as they made their way down the upstairs hallway to the gaming room and looked inside.
The game room was large, with a big flatscreen TV on the wall with a large couch in front and several chairs to the sides. Mario and Peach sat on the couch and were playing 'Mario Kart', which spectators from the kart races Mario hosted had created with permission from everyone involved, and Mario was in first with a blue shell coming and Peach was in second on the final lap. As they watched, Mario got hit right before the finish line, and he cried out with frustration as Peach passed and got first with him coming in second. The results showed up, as it seemed to have been their final race, with Peach coming first by three points.
Luigi took this opportunity to sneak up behind Mario and suddenly grab his shoulders, making Mario jump with a shrill squeak. Everyone laughed while Mario turned and glared at Luigi. "What?" Luigi said, still laughing. "You do it to me, so in turn I do it to you." Mario let out a disgruntled sigh and turned back around facing the TV on the wall.
Luigi and Rosalina sat down in some of the chairs to the side. "Peach, did Mario explain?" Luigi asked. "Yes, he did. Before we left the castle I went to the castles secret library, and found some books with information on where the last hero of our group is." Luigi held up a hand for Peach to stop, and she did, knowing what he was going to ask.
"The castle's library did burn, but most books were saved and put into a new smaller library behind a false wall. There were mostly history books, but I found one story about how a huge disaster occurred and an entire kingdom sunk under the Earth. The way it was said, it seemed that it occurred near here, and that instead of being covered up with dirt, the Kingdom is instead a cavern. Do you think we should try to look for that as a starting place?"
Peach seemed quite happy with the knowledge she was able to find. Luigi thought for a moment before responding, "Did it mention any specific landmarks that might allow for us to locate some sort of entrance?"
"Well," Peach said, thinking. "I believe that the area where it could have been is where Toad Town is, and since there is an underground section of Toad Town, maybe there might be unexplored caverns down there?"
Underneath Toad town was a special area for the containment of the Dark star, which is now empty, due to the Dark star being presumingly destroyed, but there was an area beneath that too. There was a large cavern, which had multiple branches leading elsewhere. Princess Peach had hired some Toads to go down and map the cave system, but none of them returned.
"Is it safe?" Luigi asked. He noticed Peach's nervous look and sighed. "I sent Toads down there but they never returned." She said, looking guilty.
"Peach, it's fine. We could bring some rope and set something down in the cavern so we could unravel the rope and can find our way back using the rope." Luigi said, remembering the greek myth about the labyrinth.
"Peach," Mario spoke up, "If you had told us about this sooner, I would've gone down there and explored it for you! It sounds like fun even though toads got lost down there, but it'sa me, so I would be alright."
"Thank you." Peach said. Rosalina had remained quiet, just listening before speaking.
"Peach, when do you think Bowser will try to kidnap you again?"
"Oh! Bowser is a big concern as well." Peach responded with a sigh. "If we leave today, he shouldn't bother us, at least not until tomorrow, but by then I don't think he can find us."
"Does he really basically kidnap you each day?" Rosalina asked, surprised. "Not on the weekends." Peach said, giggling.
"Peach and Rosalina, do you mind staying here while Mario and I go get supplies?" Luigi asked the two princesses. "I don't mind," They both said simultaneously, the glanced at each other and giggled. Luigi sighed before getting up and leaving, Mario following him.
POV ROSALINA
After the two girls stopped giggling, Rosalina stood up and joined Peach on the couch. "So," Peach started, "After this, are you interested in staying for awhile, since we never did get to hang out much when you visited last since we where all busy on that adventure." Rosalina had to think for a couple of minutes as Peach started to grow increasingly nervous at the delayed response.
"...Yes" She finally said.
Peach squealed and hugged her, as Rosalina flinched at the sudden contact, but relaxed and hugged back. Peach giggled at the awkward response before letting her go.
"Finally! We will be able to actually get to know each other after this! It's been a while since a I've seen a new Princess or another human and the last one I got introduced to was Pauline and I have no idea where she went." Rosalina laughed at her enthusiasm. "If there are breaks during this adventure, we could always chat." Rosalina said.
Peach seemed happy with her response and they both giggled. Rosalina was happy that Peach wanted to be her friend. The first time she had come to one of the events Mario hosted, which if she remembered right was Kart Racing, she had met the rest of the Mario gang, but one of them had instant dislike towards her and that was Daisy. She didn't know why, but at the end, when Rosalina ended up winning first, she saw Daisy storm off. Rosalina had adapted to racing quickly, so when she ended up as first it was a surprise to everyone. Later, Peach told her that Daisy was jealous and left it at that.
"I'm going to assume when we get down to these caves we will be splitting up. Are you going to be my partner?" Rosalina asked, thinking ahead.
"Of course!" Peach responded. "And after this adventure, I shall bake a cake to celebrate!" Peach said.
"You bake?" Rosalina asked, curious.
"Yes, it's one of my hobbies, like gardening. I only know a few recipes." Peach responded.
"Maybe I can help you. Baking was something I found to be fun, and I would love to see what types of food you can make." Rosalina said. Baking and cooking she know a lot about, since she had to feed both the lumas and herself, although most of the lumas preferred just starbits.
They talked a bit more, just small talk, until the guys came back with the supplies.
POV LUIGI
Mario and I had gone down into the basement to grab rope, leaving the princesses behind. It didn't take very long, and there actually was more rope down there then Luigi had expected. He couldn't remember why there was rope in the basement, for all he knew was it was just there.
They came back upstairs, with the rope in some backpacks they had found to find the girls talking and laughing.
"Alright!" Luigi called out, the two girls turning their heads to look at him.
"Take a bag." Luigi said, setting down two backpacks, both looking worn and were a tan color.
The girls grabbed the backpacks, and they set out for the cave.
The group of four headed down into the passage that was conveniently behind the dark star containment area. Peach led the group down the stairs into the unknown depths, and Luigi glanced behind, checking to see if anyone was there, but no one had followed them.
They headed down the passage, walking down for at least 10 minutes, before the steps ended and they were able to stop walking.
When they were heading down, Peach had pulled out a flashlight, as there were no lighting systems down in the unexplored area. When they filed out of the staircase, everyone took out a flashlight, the beams lighting the cave up.
The light showed two main splits off of the cavern, and several smaller passages spread out along the edges.
"The toads hired to map this cavern explored the smaller caves first. All of them led to dead-ends, so we should focus on the two larger passages." Peach informed them, shining her light around.
"Alright. Mario and I will take the left and you can take the right, but first we should tie the rope to something near the entrance so we can follow it back." Luigi responded, opening his backpack and taking the rope and tying it to a stalagmite on the floor. "Also, if you find something, just send a text or come back and wait here so we can regroup and explore together." Luigi added.
Everyone was okay with Luigi's plan, and so they set off into the dark unknown.
A/N there. This is a bit shorter then I wanted but given that I haven't been typing much over the past weeks it's ok. I just wanted to get this chapter out because for two weeks I have band camp and there isn't much that I can do in way of writing.
Hope you enjoy!