A/N: Just saying, I may base some aspects of characters off their animated counterparts, mainly because animated characters have a bit more life in them.
The Mushroom Kingdom is going to be based off the game: Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. It's one of the few maps of the MK that I know personally.
"What are you?" the man asked, looking a bit shaken from what he just saw.
"Ah, what kind of question is that?" Fhara asked, slightly puzzled.
"Well, uh, ah never mind. Say, weren't you the same person I ran into earlier?"
"Yes," she said. "Guess we kinda ran into each again didn't we?"
"We sure did, I thought I was a goner from those Hammer Bros and Rocky Wrenches."
Fhara kinda figured the turtles were the Hammer Bros and the mole was a Rocky Wrench, since it kinda made sense. After all, the turtles were holding hammers and the mole was holding a wrench.
"You're welcome, Mister...?"
"Luigi Mario, no need for the Mister." the man said.
"Uh?"
"My first name is Luigi, last name Mario." he clarified.
"Oh!" Sounds strange
"I know it sounds funny...my brother's name is Mario Mario. What's your name?"
Shoot! I don't have a last name, think!
"Name's Fhara...Flower, yeah, Fhara Flower." she said.
Luigi chuckled. "Sorry, but I just find that your name sounds like Fire Flower, and with your fire and whatnot."
"Yeah, some coincidence huh?"
"Say, how did you do your fire things? I'd never see anyone with a Fire Flower do that before."
"I'd...rather not tell..." she looked down and twiddled her thumbs.
"Ah, that's all right. I'm not into that fancy stuff," Luigi bent down and picked up a large hammer that was on the ground. "I wonder why some of Bowser's minions tried to gang up on me?"
"Bowser? Who's that?"
"Oh he's the worst. He-"
'BOOM!'
Fhara turned around and saw columns of smoke rising from various buildings. Large, FLYING wooden ships dotted the skies, cannon firing down on the town.
"Oh no, he's here..." Luigi said. "The castle! C'mon Fhara!"
"W-w-what's going on?!" I didn't even hear those things coming!
"Bowser's attacking us again!"
Luigi ran further into the town, Fhara blinked before following him.
"H-hey wait up!"
Celina hovered in place over Toad Town. She didn't really want to explore the town on the ground, but rather from the skies. It just seemed more natural for her to be up here.
"Seems like a nice place," she mused.
She spotted a lake and another forest nearby from her vantage point. "Something is telling me this is just some kind of mask, but meh." she said. "Better find out where the other two went, don't want them causing trouble."
The Feather started to head to the ground when her hearing picked something up. A whirling of a motor, she figured. Taking a look around, she spotted what looked to be a battalion of...flying ships?
"What the hell?"
Then she heard it.
'Thoom!'
The sound of a cannon firing. She watched as a cannonball flew into a house and exploding, sending debris everywhere.
"Oh crap."
Today started out so nice for Mellow, and now...not so much. Earlier she was playing with a group of Toad children(?), now she's trying to protect them from bipedal turtles and short, brown mushrooms with feet.
"So you like picking on kids huh?" she said as a dark orange aura came over her, completely replacing her usually sunny disposition with something else entirely. "Well, I guess I have to teach you all a lesson on playing nice."
She punted one of the brown mushrooms to the stratosphere before grabbing a turtle and using him as a club against everyone else. She finished off by sending him screaming into the stratosphere as well.
The children on the playground cheered for her as the rest of the turtles and mushrooms who weren't caught up in the slaughter ran away to wherever they came from.
"Totally deserved it," she said as she dusted off her hands. "Seriously who attacks kids?"
"Mellow!"
The Mushroom turned and saw Celina land nearby, thankfully with a softer impact. "Hi Celina! What's shaking?" the dark aura and mood disappeared and was replaced with her usual attitude.
"Oh thank goodness you're ok, and-whoa. What happened here?" Celina asked as she noticed the large amounts of turtles and brown mushrooms laying unconscious on the ground.
"These things tried to attack me and those kids," Mellow pointed to the kids on the playground behind her. "Gave them the old one two, if you catch my drift."
"Ah, that explains why I saw a turtle flying in the sky." her mind went back to see a turtle flying off into the distance before twinkling.
"So, have you seen Fhara?" Celina continued. "I think this town being attacked, and I want to make sure she's safe."
"Attacked, like right now? Oh right, that would explain those flying ships."
"Exactly, c'mon let's go find her."
Celina took to the skies, while Mellow ran back down the road to the town, leaving a cloud of dust in their wake.
Luigi and Fhara hastily sped towards the castle. The two dodged falling debris from buildings as well as the occasional shell that would explode in front of them.
"Where's the castle?" she asked.
"Just up ahead!"
The castle came within view of the two after a few moments, a few ships were hovering around the castle. As the two came closer, they noticed the front of the castle was being guarded by a large amount of Hammer Bros, some other bipedal turtles, and small human-like things that wore a white mask.
"Mama mia! That's a lot of Bowser's baddies!" Luigi said as he skidded to a stop. "There's no way gonna get in without confronting that!"
Fhara wanted to object, saying she could just burn them all. But, she remembered she doesn't know the extent of her powers yet, how powerful they are, or how much control she has over it. "True...can we sneak in?"
"No, the castle has been redone so people can't sneak into castle. Only way we can get in is through the entrance."
"Fhara!"
The redhead turned around and saw Celina land behind her.
"Thank goodness you're ok. We'd thought you'd be worse for the wear." she said.
"Oh this is Luigi Mario," she pulled the green man over to them. "I met him earlier today. Luigi this is my friend Celina...uh Feather."
"Uh, hi..." he said meekly. Luigi felt slightly intimidated by her presence, mainly because of the tinted helmet.
"You have two first names as your name?" Celina asked.
"Yeah, it's something that gets overlooked most of the time. My brother's name is Mario Mario."
"Anyways, what's going on? One minute I'm seeing clear skies, the next I see this place is getting bombarded."
"I don't really know, but it has to do with someone called Bowser...I think Luigi can explain it better," Fhara said. "Say, where's Mellow?"
"She was supposed to be following me-"
"Right here!" the large woman slammed down a few feet away from them. "Kinda hard to follow you without having to run THROUGH stuff."
"You do realize normal people do that right?"
"They do? Can't anyone smash through stuff?"
"You are such an idiot."
"No I'm not, you are!"
"These are your friends huh?" Luigi said to Fhara as the two women started to argue.
"Yeah, they're good friends. Their personalities just don't like each other," she said with a sigh. "Um Celina, Mellow! I think we have bigger issues to deal with!"
The two glared at each other before turning to Luigi and Fhara. Luigi briefly told them who Bowser was, some kind of large turtle creature that like to kidnap Princess Peach and take over the Mushroom Kingdom.
"How long has this been going on?" Celina asked.
"Yeah, and it sounds frequent as well," Fhara added. "Considering you said, "Bowser's attacking us again" earlier."
"Hold on, AGAIN? This thing has been attacking you guys on a daily basis and you do NOTHING to stop him?!"
"W-we try to stop him, but he's quite persistent every time we defeat him." Luigi said.
"We?"
"My brother and I are the ones who usually have to defeat Bowser...it's a long story."
Celina sighed. "I have so many questions right now, but I think they should be put on hold until later," she said. "Now do you two have a plan?"
"Well, I was thinking you could fly me and Luigi into the castle and-where's Mellow?"
The three looked to where the tall woman was supposed to be and instead saw a blinking dotted outline of where she was supposed to be.
"Don't tell me she just ran in there." Luigi said as the three sweatdropped.
"She did...though in all honestly I was gonna make her do that anyways." Fhara said.
Then, they heard the explosion.
Turning to the castle, they saw the large army currently being decimated by one large and very angry woman.
"YOU LIL' SHITS THINK YOU CAN BEAT UP KIDS HUH?! LET ME SHOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE!" Mellow shouted from a distance.
"Shouldn't we help her or something?" Luigi asked.
One of the ships fired a very large bullet-like projectile with a painted-on shark smile at Mellow. Much to everyone's surprise, sans Fhara and Celina, she actually caught the thing in her arms. She readjusted the shell and threw it back at the said ship. It then exploded, sending the ship crashing down on the ground.
"I think she can handle it." Celina said. "Now, who's lighter?"
Mario blinked as he regained consciousness. The last thing he remembered was everyone was trying to get to the doors since some kind of gas was filling the banquet hall, but no one could get out cause they seemed to be locked.
As he came to, he noticed he was tied up and was in a cage, carried by several Koopa Troopas. The area around him didn't look like the the banquet hall either, it looked to be some underground area since it was dark and hard to see.
"How much further?" one Koopa asked. "This cage is kinda heavy."
"Not much," another said. "And stop whining!"
Mario tried to get out of his binds, but eventually noticed he couldn't. Even if he did escape the ropes, he wouldn't be able to figure a way out of the cage. He silently sighed, of course Bowser would try to capture him and his bro, it only makes capturing Peach easier. He wondered where Luigi may be-
Wait a second...Luigi!
He remembered that his little brother ran out of the hall before this all happened. Luigi, where ever you are. I hope you are safe.
He suddenly felt a prick on his neck and he was out again.
The group of three landed safely within the castle courtyard. Celina put down Luigi and Fhara jumped off her back.
"Huh, I kinda expected some kind of guard waiting for us." Luigi said, pointing out the lack of Bowser's troops in the main part of the castle.
"Maybe it's a hit and run? Takes what he needs and guns it?" Celina asked.
"Could be, but then why does he need such a large army outside the castle?"
"Beats me. So where are we going?"
"Ah, the banquet hall. That's where most of the festivities were being held, follow me!"
Luigi lead the two down a confusing maze of halls and corridors until they stopped at a corner. Luigi looked back at them. "Ok, the entrance is right around this corner...hopefully there isn't more of Bowser's baddies."
He quickly peeked around the corner and saw a couple of Jailgoons and Choombas guarding the door to the banquet hall.
"What are those things?" Fhara asked.
"Uh, its a Jailgoon and a Choomba," Luigi responded. "A Jailgoon is the robot that is controlled by a Goomba, that brown mushroom like creature, and the Choomba is, well, the Goomba with a smoke stack."
"Oh...I had no idea you can be born like that."
"Neither did I." Luigi said.
"Um, I think we should move." Celina said.
"Why?"
"Cause a Choomba is coming towards us."
The group looked backwards and saw said creature charging full tilt towards them.
"Aw nuts..."
"Here we go again..." Fhara said.
Mellow dusted her hands off before wiping her sweaty forehead. "That was quite the brawl," she said. "Too bad my hoodie got burnt..."
During the battle, a couple of those giant bullets were able to hit her dead on and explode, but the only extent of damage was to her orange hoodie. The hoodie was no longer wearable and had to be discarded during the battle.
However that couldn't be said the same to everything else. At least several of the flying ships were burning on the ground and those still flying were visibly damaged. Those who were in the army on the ground were either badly hurt and lying unconscious, or, to those who survived the onslaught, fled in terror.
"You know...I'm kinda sleepy. I wanna take a nap." she said with a yawn. "I should find Celina and Fhara first though, wonder where they are?"
She played with her fringe as she thought. "Something is telling me they're in the castle," she said. "But why?"
Suddenly SISTERLY INSTINCTS kick in.
"Oh NOW it's getting PERSONAL..."
The aura returned, unsatisfied and hungering for more pain...
The giggling only made it worse.
A/N: I dunno about you but I think Mellow has something...loose inside of her. Anyways, this was supposed to be on a couple days ago but the site's servers decided to crash and burn. Even today I have a hard time connecting to this thing.
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Till next time,
-D.W