The Next Star Festival

Chapter 4

A/N: Date is 23 July 2107, some characters are from my previous fanfics, enjoy!

Again, I don't own Mario stuff.

"Let me see, if this crate is that heavy." The Toad said as he snatched the crate from the other one's hand. Rosalina gulped.

"It is quite a bit heavy, I wonder what's inside." He said again. As the Toad slowly tried to open the crate, a mysterious loud and low pitched voice shouted at the group.

"Oi! Move it! We need them crates to ship our goods to the master!" The Toads, shivered a bit then they picked up the wood-crates and crept slowly down the cave. With the top of the crate where it is opened, Rosalina held the open part and slowly opened the crate about a few centimetres to examine the cave. It had black dark walls with green slime dripping down the walls, and a bush, considering being Nangon. The bush slowly moved through a door slightly open saying "Private". A few seconds later, one of the Toads announced.

"Okay, drop the crates; let's report back to the Sergeant." Rosalina heard about 4 thuds on the ground; the crate with her in it was the loudest. She peeked her head out of the crate and saw the only slaves in the room running out of the cave towards the base-camp. She got out of the crate and examined the room, there was lots of crates, big and small, to her right was an entrance to the next part of the cave without a door, some pipes behind her and to her left was the "Private" door. She slowly moved on her tiptoes towards it and put her ear against the door, she heard only a few words of speech inside.

"Have to get the annoying one you call." Said a voice.

"Just not able to, I wish that." heard another voice that sounded like Nangon's.

"Impossible! You must do this or both of you will be."

"Sir, but I can't do it now, because."

"Eventually try, with out."

"Will do it Sir, for."

She heard footsteps, obviously not Nangon's, larger, a lot larger. She hid inside the crate she previously had hid in. She peeked to see the person, or creature. She saw something that she had never saw before. It looked like a mutant, a beast with a billion spikes. Causing cracks in the floor for each footstep. Thinking that the mutant is Luko. He stopped for a few seconds and turned around, towards Rosalina. He got closer as Rosalina started gulping again.

"Excuse me Captain, we need to get through, these crates need to be stored here for the Lieutenant." A Toad slave asked. The Mutant Captain stood up firmly.

"Very well then, I shall go and have a break." The Captain replied as he slowly moved towards the next part of the cave. The Toad slaves slowly walked towards the base-camp again, Rosalina peeked out of her crate, and it was hard to see as there were more crates. However, she had just realised that the Toad slaves had a very odd-looking device on the back of their heads. It looked like another thing she hadn't seen before. She lost them; they were out of the cave. She got out of the cave and saw the Private room door opening a bit, it was Nangon.

"Quickly get in here." He said as Rosalina got up of the hard ground and dashed through the door.

A/N: If you type in on Google images "lotro cefrog" and look at the first image, that looks like the mutant Captain in this chapter.

Inside the Private room was an office, like any other office; there were paintings of certain places, Sirenna Beach, The Thousand year door, the fourth wall and a map of Castelia. Nangon asked Rosalina if she would know the mutant but she had no clue but he told Rosalina that the mutant was NOT Luko.

"Luko is a huge acid octopus that is fed on mysterious items, if we were to stop him; it's going to be really hard." Rosalina looked at the desk of the office and saw plans of what to do, it read: HUNT THE STAR-QUEEN DOWN! And at the bottom it showed:

REWARD: 1,000,000 toad coins / 790,000 Delfino dollars / 1,230,000 Wuhu pounds / 58,000 Resecoins.

"What happened with you and the Mutant guy in here?" Rosalina asked.

"Oh, he's friends with me, a spy, he and I were partners in crime for 22 years, we tried to stop Bowser but he became too powerful." Nangon replied. Near towards Rosalina's left was a door she had just recognised. It said the words 'Private' again.

"Stay here, this door is not for you, for me and Cefrog only." Nangon said as he slammed the door. Rosalina slowly waited in the office.

Walking down some stairs, Nangon shivered, the lights were out and cobwebs filled the room. The stairs were made of wood and creaked every step Nangon went down. The winds from an open window made the door slowly open and slam repeatedly. SLAM! Crrrreeeeaaakkkkk SLAM! Nangon jumped up and closed the window. He turned to his right and walked slowly towards the other side of the room. He stopped and realised there was a red light on his right shoulder, he swung his spiky tail at what appeared to be a Koopa Corporal holding a sniper rifle. The spikes stabbed into the Koopa Corporal and blood spilled down his body.

"Technology these days." Nangon thought to himself as he proceeded through the room. There were more cobwebs in Nangon's way, but he was not scared. He goes through them and came across a chest. Nangon opened the chest and grabbed a piece of paper that read: PASSWORD FOR LUKO 1947. He put the piece of paper into his pocket and slowly closed the chest. He turned around and examined the room for any Koopas or anything; the place was only filled with piles and stacks of books that were made centuries ago. As he walked towards the stairs, he tripped up on a book on the floor, at the bottom of a stack of books sticking out; this caused the whole stack of books to fall on him. He saw a bright light on the other side of the books and it came out of a door, Nangon managed to get the books off of his back and he went into the bright room, Nangon was confused, there was blood written on all walls and surfaces of the room. BOWSER MUST DIE! Or DEATH TO BOWSER! Or KILL BOWSER!

Nangon ran out of the room and headed up the stairs and ran into the door. It didn't open, but the front of his body was pushed out on the door which made a mark of his body. Rosalina opened the door and saw Nangon stuck to the door and couldn't get out. She grabbed onto Nangon's back and pulled him off of the door.

"Is there a problem?" Rosalina asked.

"Yes, follow me." Nangon demanded as he ran down the stairs and turned right towards the bright room. Rosalina was scared of creaking stairs, so she took it really slowly and took one step at a time, every 2 seconds. After that she ran towards the bright room and examined the blood writing on the walls.

"What, is this?"

EOC: The 2 adventurers have found the password to the next room and have learned lots of things. R&R!