Grace POV
I'm so glad I got out of that mess! Now that the school is destroyed, I really have no purpose in going there anymore. So I walked around the city, and found the pizza parlor. I saw Mario and Luigi inside and I ran in quickly. "Grace! What are you doing here?" "They found us Uncle Mario! They fucking found us!" "Are you serious? "Yes! They were in human form though." I lead them back in the school, and found Annie and Marc outside. " I thought you got lost!" shouted a teacher standing behind them. " I didn't get lost, I can't explain." Annie looked at the techer "She's right! Miss Charlotte she can't explain.." I was ordered back to class again, even though the school was destroyed. Thanks a lot Ludwig, and your stupid robot too. We sat in what was the former hallways for classes, and teachers explained stuff but no homework, that was destroyed too. The one good thing Ludwig did. I sighed and saw the remains of the band room, perfectly in tact. My clarinet sitting right in the middle of the "room". I I went to pick it up, and with it was a note, it said "I'll be back, be careful. Love LK" I stood there and thought why would he warn me? Or is it Lemmy?... I picked up my clarinet, it was in it's case. Also I never brought to school, Luigi dropped it off yesterday. I opened the case and played a song, a song of defeat. We had lost this battle but we will win the war.
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Ludwig POV
I had lost once again, but I did destroy the school so I did win technically. What Grace did broke my heart, a lot. Why would she do this to me? I thought of Lemmy's words again "She hates you.." And I realized he was right. So I made up my new plans with the Koopalings. "Let's destroy the whole city!" "Let's kill some people!"I smiled. "Those are all good plans, but I have a much better one." "What is it?" "We kidnap Daisy, of course. It will make Grace try and take her place, and therefore she'll be locked up." "Why don't we kidnap the boy?" asked Wendy "Beacause! It'll be way too risky, he has a family. They'll look for him." "But's he's cute!" "How about we take them both?" shouted Iggy "She'll surrender to you for sure!" I completely forgot about the boy's family, and focused on him and Daisy only. They will both be in my grasp, not for long though. Grace will come, and she will surrender to me. It was a complex plan but it will work. It will work for sure.
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Grace POV
I waited for Marc to come this morning, he was late. Instead of waiting we left and got to school on our own. Annie was bit happy to see him gone, I wasn't so much. We were later greeted by the remains of the school and walked "inside" they must have canceled, for rebuliding because I saw a building machine in the place of the kids. Wait! That's not a buliding machine! It's a robot, the Koopaling's robot. A larger verison of it, anyway. I climbed up the top and Annie followed, and we got inside. There were the controls, and a few cells on the inside. Right away I could see Ludwig setting up the controls for the machine. I walked further down and saw the people in the cells. Marc! Aunt Daisy! "We'll get you out" I whispered. Clearly Ludwig must have heard me, "Look what we have here. Princess Grace and her sidekick".
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Ludwig POV
"Annie is not a sidekick!" Grace shouted at me. "I see you kidnap some friends of mine, let them out now!" "I will let them out, if you do something for me." I replied "What?" "You take their places, of course. Annie will also be included." "I don't know.. Maybe if you take Annie out of the deal." She was peering towards the controls for some reason, but I had no time to see what was going on. "But I need two people in those cells, not one." "No, I want Annie out of the deal! No other exception." "Alright. I see where this is going.." She wasn't listening to me she walked towards the controls, causing me to turn around. "So do we have a deal?" "Yes, we have a deal." She let out her hand, and I shook it. Then she wiped her hand on her dress, was I really that gross? Then she ran towards the cell, almost willing to be locked up.I went over to grab the keys,and I noticed the keys were gone. "Grace! Up here quick!" Annie shouted from above. Grace climbed up and out of the hatch before I could grab her. I re-opened the hatch and went up on top of the robot, Both girls, and Daisy were standing on top of it. "Ludwig! See these keys." Annie held the keys and dangled them above the ground, parts of which were on fire. "Yes, I see them. I demand you give them back to me this instant!" "If you say so." And she threw the keys, onto a firey part of the ground. I watched in horror as my perious keys melted. "Why did you do that, sidekick?" She didn't answer. Grace and Annie were getting ready to jump off "Daisy says she wants to stay with you, surprisingly. You better take good care of my Auntie, or I kill you." I heard Graces words and before I could reply, Grace and Annie jump off the machine and ran away. Leaving me with Daisy.
