Paper Luigi X
Chapter 1: In the Land of Waffle
The old man docked Luigi on the Waffle Kingdom's main city, the one that held Princess Éclair's Waffle Castle. The palace itself had a rooftop waffle cone, waffle doors, chocolate wall, and Luigi noted it was raining syrup.
"Good luck Luigi! You're going to need it. Wherever you want to go, I'll take you…" the old man explained. Luigi tipped his hat in gratitude; that was his new way of saying thank you. If he was going to go on this adventure, he had better start up some catchphrases and original moves.
"If it works for Sonic, it might work for me!"
He stepped--tripped--off the boat and onto the pancake-ish roads. A lot of small-Toad looking creatures walked around, except instead of having Mushroom heads, they has waffle cones. No surprise there.
"This is a nice little Kingdom!" Luigi exclaimed. He regretted his words instantly when a shrilling shriek rang through his ears. "Oh no! That doesn't sound good at all!"
Luigi jumped behind a trash can and wailed "Mario!" until he realized that this was his adventure, and he had to save people when they cried out for help. If he had a theme song, he'd being playing it right then as he heroically sprung toward the cry of distress. It was a Waffle Kingdom girl, backed-up against a Post Office with some kind of peanut looking-things snarling at her. She looked up toward Luigi with fear-stricken eyes.
"Can you please help me Mr.?" she breathed. Luigi couldn't say no to a scared little face like that. He jumped into battle against the Pea-Nutts. Each Pea-Nutt had 3 HP, and there were three Pea-Nutts. Luigi, at first, didn't know what to do, until the girl told him to jump. Luigi nodded and leaped into the air. Everyone looked up in awe, but the first Pea-Nutt didn't stare long because his eye was taken out by Luigi's boot. Since he was such an expert jumper, Luigi's jumping did 3 damage, to fully kill it. But the down-fall to that was that it took him a while to regain balance.
"I don't feel so good…" he shook.
"Then just use your hammer instead! It's not as powerful as your jump, but you'll be able to maintain a strong stance!" the girl explained. Luigi was about to attack again, but then one of the rabid Pea-Nutts crawled up his leg and bit his nose. The other one then sprang into the air and knocked Luigi back. This incredible attack took a good 4 out of Luigi.
"Ow! That was not nice!" he yelped.
"Don't give up! You can do it!"
"but I only have 6 HP!"
Luigi sighed and, ignoring his own protests, jumped on the second Pea-Nutt. He stumbled backward and fell onto the stage floor. One more enemy down, one more to go. The last opponent went to nip Luigi's nose again, but the girl quickly shouted for Luigi to defend himself. Luigi wasted no time and lifted his arms to his face, ending up in him taking away only one HP instead of two.
"good job! You're almost done!" the girl cheered. Luigi panted. Is this was Mario did everyday?!?! He wanted to get this battle finished right away, so he jumped again. Sure, it killed the Pea-Nutt, but Luigi slipped and crashed into the wall next to the girl. He gained 10 Star Points.
"Hooray! I know they're nuts, but they sure are nutty!" she exclaimed.
"That was horrible…"
As an reward, she gave Luigi a taste of a Mushroom. Luigi was glad they had familiar food and chowed down instantly. When he was done, he asked the girl her name.
"My name's Frogette! Thank you for saving me…uh, what's your name?"
Luigi smirked and stood in a heroic fashion. "I am…Super Luigi!"
Frogette sweat dropped. "I'm just going to call you Luigi."
"That's cool."
"Well, I'd love to stay here, but I have to be on my way somewhere else. If you ever need help or something, just call me up!"
With a wink, Frogette trotted off. Luigi wanted to ask her for directions to the Waffle Castle, but obviously she was busy. He turned to ask some other Wafflanian, but they were all in a buzz about Princess Éclair being kidnapped, most of them sobbing. Luigi decided that this must've been very serious, so he frantically searched for someone friendly and helpful. Everyone was too sad, and some were trying to be tough to impress others, and tossed Luigi into a tree.
"Oooh, anyone know how to get to the castle?" Luigi moaned. Suddenly, a little blur of brown rushed next to Luigi and waved a friendly hand.
"hello stranger! I'm Frog!"
Luigi rolled his eyes. "I'm guessing that's the name of your species too."
"Whoa! How'd you know?"
"Lucky guess. So, do you know how to get to the Waffle Castle?"
Frog laughed and rolled onto the ground. Luigi stared at him until he stood up, wiping a tear away.
"Who doesn't know where that is?!?"
"Uh, me!"
"Ha ha! I WORK there, you know. Éclair's special advisor. All you have to do is go through that Moon Gate over there and bing! Castle. Ya can't miss it. I was on my way there myself, so I guess I'll be nice and lead you."
Luigi was a bit skeptical of Frog, but followed him anyway. A few people took note to Luigi going for a stroll with Frog, and getting a few suspicious looks.
"Hurry, chap! Minister Crepe is awaiting me!" Frog called, already a few feet ahead of Luigi.
"Hey! That' s the guy who sent me-and Mario, but he's busy-here!" Luigi recalled. "Is his name…Master Creepy?"
"No! Minister Crepe. If you don't call him by that, you're pretty much in deep water."
Luigi gulped as Frog used all his might to try and shove the Moon Door open. Luigi went to help him, gently giving it a push with a hand. Frog collapsed forward, falling face first.
"uh…whoops."
"Yeah. Whoops.
Luigi wasn't getting off on the right foot…more like the left one.
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Inside Waffle Castle, there was a giant painting of Princess Éclair. She had long flowing, chocolate brown hair, a light vanilla dress with deep brown accents, dainty little white gloves, like Daisy's, seemingly meant for a tea party. Her main features were the éclair based pin on the front of her dress, same colors as her dress, and her tiara was a waffle color, and her center jewel was none other than the Marvelous Compass piece itself!
"Oh Éclair! Your beauty amazes me…" Luigi said dreamily with Frog gawking at him. "…what? She's pretty."
Frog shook his head and lead Luigi down the green carpeted halls. At the end of the biggest one was the Grand Room, which had doors to the ball room and the meeting room. Frog took a left and guided Luigi to the meeting room.
"this is a nice place!" remarked Luigi.
"We know. That's all we ever hear about." Frog groaned and dangled from the doorknob of the Meeting Room's door. Luigi helped him once again, and gained a death glare.
"What? I wanted to help."
"I could do it by myself, thank you very much!"
"…don't know how…"
Frog stormed away, claiming someone was calling him. Luigi brushed him off and entered the meeting room. At the end of a long table was a flaky looking character in a long, dark blue cloak, a layered white mustache, and a blue hood covering his face, except for charcoal gray eyes and said moustache.
"Luigi! Come in. Where is your brother?" Minister Crepe began. Luigi was too in awe to answer his question.
"Oh my gosh…you know my name! I-I-I'm in shock!" Luigi looked like he was about to faint.
"Of course I know you. You're the green Mario! Luigi! Personally, I'm a bit disappointed that Mario didn't show up…his skills are quite impressive."
Luigi's face fell. "He's on a treasure hunting vacation with a few of his buds. Too busy to save innocent princesses…" He now put up his feet and did his new trademark hat tip. Crepe rolled his eyes. Luigi knew he didn't care where Mario was, and the minister stood up and turned his back to the green plumber.
"This is hopeless…" Crepe told himself. "…but since he is the only one here, he must. There is no other way."
Crepe whirled himself around. "As you know, I'm Minister Crepe-"
"How do you say that? Every time I try, I end up with something near Master Creepy, or Malicious Croppy…"
Crepe's grey eyes flared. "I am Minister Crepe! Known by nothing else! Get it right, or suffer!"
Luigi shrank in his seat. "Minister C-C-Crepe…" he whispered. Crepe returned to his normal mustached grin.
"Prefect. Now, our fair Waffle Kingdom had two treasures. The first being Princess Éclair. But that horrid Chestnut King went berserk and kidnapped her. Vanished before my very eyes. I consulted an oracle on what to do, and he said a certain compass could locate her, since said compass was broken into seven pieces and one is now embedded in her tiara. Our land had a second treasure: the Marvelous Compass. Find its seven parts, and find Éclair…"
Luigi nodded, and Crepe reached into his deep pocket and pulled out a bronze base to a compass. When Luigi held it in his hand, it suddenly blazed a brilliant white.
"Whoa! What's happening!" he cried. Crepe seemed to hide a smile. As Luigi looked into the compass, he thought he saw a vision of a volcano. He then felt a shock go up his arm, and he learned the Compass Move Refresh Direction. Crepe nodded.
"The compass is leading you to the south, Luigi. To Rumblebump Volcano on the Pudding Continent. Go Luigi, get the seven pieces, and put the compass together to find Éclair! Use the Compass' power to help you!"
Luigi proudly accepted the large task at hand; no going back now. He slithered his way out of the castle, avoiding Frog at all costs. The other frogs of what was known as Frogfield, now knew that Luigi was getting their princess back. They cheered and praised for him, filling Luigi with pure confidence.
"I can do this," he thought to himself. He returned to the docks where the old man was waiting.
"Where to, Luigi?" the man asked.
"Before we go anywhere, I must know your name," Luigi explained. This guy was a bit mysterious. The old man smiled.
"I'm known as Bosco." That was all he said. Luigi shrugged; he was satisfied.
"To the Pudding Continent, Good Sir Bosco!" Luigi ordered. Bosco chuckled deeply, started the sails, made sure Luigi was secure, and took off. Luigi was on his way.
I decided to post this one after all, though next week I know for sure there'll won't be one. Just a simple heads up.