Norman is back! Even though it hasn't really been that long since I last wrote a chapter. Nothing much to say here except I suck at writing realistic dialogue and formatting such things. This chapter contains some stuff that was cut out of chapter three due to length (it was when I hit seven pages in Microsoft Works Word Processor that I realized I had a problem). I once again really appreciate your reviews and opinions, so please continue reviewing because I really do value and read each and every review. To me it's like "I am random person who just showed up on the internet literally two weeks ago and others are already taking interest in my work!" and it's really helpful to have others politely point out what I'm doing wrong. Thank you to the reviewers! Also in every finishing Author's note I put some weird quote. That's because I see other authors that regularly put quotes at the end of their works and typically it's the same thing every time, but I don't have a regular to use quote, so I just make up weird ones. So let's see how many weird quotes I can make up before I either find a good encouraging quote to others and/or give up. One more thing, to specify, Luigi is a kitsune, but since that's pretty much a mythical creature everyone is going to refer to him as a fox until it's specified what he is. So without further ado (why do I keep saying this?), here's chapter 4!
Chapter 4: Fluffy Friend
"YOU WHAT?!" Bowser roared as Kamek cowered beneath a nearby table. "I may have accidentally… 'poisoned' Luigi's water instead of Mario's" Kamek barely squeaked out before having to dodge to the side to avoid a spout of flame from Bowser. "P-p-please master, please calm down" Kamek stuttered out between his chattering beak. Kamek needed to think fast. There was no way Bowser was going to calm down on his own without some words of some type of revengy reassurance. 'Think, Kamek! Think!' Kamek thought to himself as he continued to barely dodge the flaming doom that Bowser kept hurling at him, doing quite well in spite of wearing his usual magikoopa garb that almost looked suspiciously like a dress. Just then Kamek got it! He was just going to tell Bowser what he was originally going to!
Kamek was flying back from the Mario household, stolen pasta recipe fluttering in the wind when it hit Kamek. Even if he could get a sample of Luigi's blood, he wouldn't have the right supplies to create another proper serum, considering he had used up almost all the budding super leafs. Kamek sighed in frustration. Bowser wouldn't be happy about this.
"W-w-well sir, I can get a sample of Luigi's blood and try to improve the formula so I can use a better one on Mario" Kamek shouted while still dodging all the flames ((but probably not as many as I will get while writing this! Sorry, I couldn't resist)) Bowser paused for a second while thinking this through. "Hmmph," Bowser growled "Well, I am going to crash the party tonight, so you need to come along and get the blood sample."
"Yes sir!" Kamek said as he grabbed a gun-looking thing with a long needle from the nearby table, that somehow survived Bowser's fit of rage "This will make it extra painful!"
Bowser's scowl turned into a grin "Just what I'd expect from you, Kamek."
And with that, both of them started preparing for the night's coming raid.
Daisy didn't know what to do. Luigi had been acting sort of off all night since he first came in, from the weird outfit change to the weird sight that she saw when trying to convince him not to leave. First off, Luigi never took off his classic green shirt and green overalls unless he was forced to or had to wash them. Most weirdly of all, when she heard him get up and she called out for him and tried to get him to come back, she went into the hall and saw the weirdest sight of all. It was almost as if Luigi was more animal than human, with his hair blonde as she had earlier noted as weird, matching the color of an inexplicable giant fluffy tail sticking out from his back. The look of fear in his eyes didn't even seem like him. There was no denying for her that he was a bit of a scaredy cat, but the amount of fear that she could see reflecting in the sapphire pools of blue that were his eyes was not even close to normal and didn't quite look human. As soon as he saw Daisy, he didn't hesitate and took off running like a speeding bullet, his tail bouncing behind him as he ran, leaving Daisy yelling for him to come back. In the process of the indoor track team practice, he also lost his hat, revealing two giant fox ears peaking out of the hair on the top of his head, seemingly replacing his regular ears. Daisy knew something was up and out of duty for her possible future boyfriend she picked up his hat and she set off, trying to trail where he went. It wasn't too hard as it seemed he left small tufts of blonde fur (as Daisy deduced it to be) as he ran creating a fairly reasonable path for her to follow 'well it is summer after all,' Daisy thought to herself as she marched on, trying to find her friend 'and that's not a thought I ever fathomed crossing my mind in regards to Luigi' Daisy kept walking, picking up the small tufts as she went as although she didn't know exactly what was happening, but she could guess that Luigi didn't want attention for whatever was going on. Suddenly Daisy heard a yell and she picked up the pace to see where it was coming from.
It was then that she came across Waluigi in the hallway, covering his cheek from view and sneezing. Daisy knew that this guy was a total whack job who was not one to entertain the thought of or mess with, but she needed information and fast. "Where's Luigi?" asked Daisy to him with the perfect amount of venom in her voice to show him who was in charge and that she meant business. Waluigi stared her straight in the eye, with a small bit of fear and shock in his own. "He attacked me," Waluigi said with a now crazy look in his eyes as he removed his hand from his cheek to show his glove was stained with blood and that he had what appeared to be five claw marks etched deep across his cheek, still fresh and bleeding. Daisy gasped in surprise, as this was even more unlike Luigi then everything else that had happened up to this point. Waluigi started sneezing again, blowing a slight amount of blood onto Daisy's face, and raised a shaky finger and pointed towards a now nearly empty wing in the castle. "He went that way. Stop that monster before he does anything else. Sorry for the sneezing, I'm allergic to animal fur." Daisy looked down at the tufts of fur in her hand along with the hat that belonged to Luigi. Was this all really him? Daisy left behind Waluigi who started muttering gibberish about fox people. Daisy got more and more concerned with each step as she followed the trail of shed fur. What was going on? Daisy finally hit the end of the trail of fur, which lead to the wing's bathroom. Daisy picked up the last tuft of fur on the ground and dumped the small pile of fur she had gathered into the nearby trash. "Luigi," she called out gently. No reply, but the slight sound of heavy breathing alerted her of his presence inside. Daisy tried her best to comfort him and to get him to come out, but to no avail. Instead all she got was the sound of a dog whining. 'Is there a dog in there or is Luigi making that noise somehow?' Daisy thought to herself as she continued to try to coax him out. Suddenly the whining cut out and was instead replaced by a soul splitting scream that had to of come from Luigi. Daisy didn't care that this was a men's room and slammed open the door to rush to Luigi's aid. Daisy was hit with a sight that she couldn't make sense of. With the sheer weirdness of past events of the night, it would have made sense that nothing would surprise Daisy anymore, but no. Nothing could really prepare for the sight Daisy was feasting her eye's upon. Daisy went into the men's room to find what looked like Luigi growing fur all over and getting smaller. Daisy stared on as he got smaller to where his clothing covered him and seemingly swallowed him up whole, leaving only a small lump in the center of his shirt. Daisy froze and continued to look at this sight for at least a solid two minutes, brain not fully processing what had happened. Daisy continued to stare until the lump started to stir.
Luigi was enclosed in a lovely dark cocoon of warmth when he regained consciousness. First he was able to hear, hearing only what sounded like stiff and scared breathing. Next he was able to smell, smelling what seemed like the weird fruity soap that is in the bathroom of public restaurants, but it was way stronger than before. Suddenly another scent hit his nose that made Luigi sigh in contentment. It was the scent of the perfume Daisy wore that was made of some sort of desert flower, but unfortunately when Daisy put it on, the scent seemingly vanished and Luigi could only smell it when she was holding the bottle. 'Wait, where am I?' Luigi thought to himself as he began to squirm to only find he was held fast by some sort of fabric that surrounded him, with no light to offer any hints. And to top that off, his body felt extremely weird and didn't feel right at all. Luigi tried to squirm harder and finally found what seemed like a fabric tunnel. Luigi wiggled his way into it and started squirming to move forward as the tunnel seemingly brightened up to reveal that the tunnel was indeed made of fabric with each individual thread clearly visible. 'Where am I?' thought Luigi to himself for the second time. Suddenly Luigi hit the end of the tunnel and poked his head out. Everything looked oddly giant as Luigi looked around and realized he was in the men's bathroom at the castle. Then his eyes rested on Daisy who was staring at him in shock, who also seemed oddly giant. "Luigi, what's going on?" she asked, her voice very noticeably shaking as she spoke indicating she was shocked about something. This was very out of character for Daisy, as she was typically a tough tom boy, rarely shaken by anything under a magnitude seven earthquake. "What are you talking about, Daisy?" Luigi tried to say, but was only greeted by a look of confusion on Daisy's face. Luigi repeated what he said, saying it slowly, but all he heard were some barks and yips… was that a "moo" in there? Daisy's shocked face turned to one of panic "Great," she said with strain in her voice "and now you can't even talk." Luigi was still confused, but before he could do anything, Daisy walked over to him and freed him of the cloth prison that everything other than his head was stuck in. When Daisy lifted him up, he got a good view that the so called "prison" was in fact his shirt sleeve. Luigi didn't know how to properly panic, but then Daisy set him down on the bathroom counter and all Luigi could see reflecting in the mirror other than Daisy was a weird blonde fox kit. Luigi tilted his head and the reflection did the same thing. He tried standing up, but lost his balance rather quickly and fell sideways onto the countertop and bumped his muzzle pretty good on the sink. Wait, his muzzle? The fox thing was him! Due to the fact of no normal person ever having to undergo such circumstances, Luigi didn't know what to do, so he did the only logical thing that just about anybody else who was in his shoes would do: He had a good old fashioned mental breakdown full of twitching wildly and barking and yipping and whimpering uncontrollably. That ought to be sufficient panicking. Daisy watched on silently as the fox kit was having his mental breakdown, knowing full well that he could be no one other than Luigi.
Suddenly Luigi stopped his convulsions, as his mind couldn't take it anymore and he promptly passed out, legs twitching every once in awhile. When Luigi came to in a couple minutes he first felt the sensation of a giant hand petting his back and soothingly saying "It's alright Luigi." repeatedly as they kept stroking him. Luigi's memory of the night's events up to the mental breakdown came flowing back into Luigi's mind, which caused him to jump a little, startling the hand that was petting him. Luigi opened his eye's and saw that he was surrounded by orange silk rivers, but then realized he was sitting on Daisy's lap and this was her dress he was seeing. As Luigi felt heat spread over his face, which he now noticed the long and somewhat narrow muzzle that was in his line of vision, Daisy picked him up in both hands and held him so they were face to face. "Are you alright?" she asked, enunciating very carefully and clearly. "Yes-" Luigi began to say, somewhat forgetting the fox situation at the moment, but then realizing that all Daisy could hear was dog noises. Luigi caught this and then started nodding his head up and down, so to indicate yes in the best way he could. Luigi frowned a bit (or the fox equivalent of this), not knowing whether he should feel weird that his possible future girlfriend/love interest was holding him while he was a defenseless baby animal who couldn't talk. Luigi decided to stop thinking about this before he triggered another mental breakdown. "Do you know why or how this happened?" she asked next. Luigi thought it through before answering. He did nothing out of the ordinary that could really trigger this or any type of result anywhere close to this. Luigi shook his head. Daisy sighed and clutched him to her chest, stroking him absentmindedly. "What am I going to do with you?" she murmured, but was cut short by the ringing of a tiny quaint bell that was in Daisy's brooch, which could be removed and doubled as a clock. "Oh no!" Daisy cried, almost dropping Luigi "I need to be backstage for my speech in five minutes!" Daisy paused for a minute and then looked down at Luigi, who was looking back up at her curiously, head tilted slightly to the side. She sighed, as she couldn't take him with her. "Luigi, stay here," Daisy started as she gently laid Luigi on the floor beneath the sinks "Unfortunately this is very important and can't be missed, but I will come back for you as soon as I'm done convincing everyone that my kingdom is prosperous." Daisy then eyed all of Luigi's clothing on the floor and quickly picked it up, including his hat, which Luigi noticed that she had and deduced that he must have lost it while he was running, and put it in one of the bathroom stalls on top of a toilet that she closed the toilet lid on. Daisy then locked the stall from the inside and crawled out from underneath, then gave Luigi one last look and left with a promise of coming back for him soon. Luigi sat on the bathroom floor on his back for a few minutes, not sure what to do. Luigi then raised one of his paws into the air to get a better look at it. It was tiny and had downy blonde fur covering it. Luigi suddenly realized that he had been naked this entire time and that Daisy had seen it all and started shuddering in a mix of wanting to crawl up the nearest hole and dying and embarrassment.
Suddenly the sound of the door opening caught Luigi's attention and he fell dead still knowing full well it wasn't Daisy. Luigi caught a sight of blue and red and realized that it was Mario who must have finished his speech. "Man, isn't it nice to get away from the crowds sometimes?" Mario asked himself as he looked at himself in the mirror. Luigi only shrank back, not wanting his brother to see him in this state and involuntarily let out a loud whimper. Mario froze in his tracks. "Anybody there?" he called out, as Luigi tried to squirm his way further out of sight, but only making more noise as he continued whimpering. Mario squatted down as he realized the sound was coming from under the sink. Luigi started shaking violently as he realized he was about to be discovered. Mario spotted Luigi, not realizing it was him, and only saw a very pathetic looking baby fox shaking on the floor. Mario's face blossomed into a smile "Hey little guy," he said gently as he reached out a hand to grab Luigi. This only caused Luigi to tense up more. Mario noticed this as he started wrapping his hand around Luigi, whose body (not including his tail) could easily fit in his hand, being slightly bigger than his palm. As Luigi felt his brother's now giant hand wrapping around him, he let out a small bark, which caused Mario to chuckle. "Feisty little one, aren't you? It's alright, I won't hurt you," Mario cooed as he held Luigi close to him, cuddling him warmly to which Luigi couldn't help but snuggle closer to Mario, smelling his cologne and taking it in and subconsciously remembering it as his brother's scent. "Now who would abandon such a sweet widdle thing like you?" Mario asked in baby talk as he lifted Luigi to his face and started snuggling Luigi more. Luigi knew Mario loved baby animals, but didn't know he loved them this much! "Now I think it's pretty obvious that you don't have an owner, so how would you like to come home with me?" Mario asked with a voice like silk as he started scratching Luigi's belly in the sweet spot, causing Luigi to involuntarily move one of his hind legs back and forth, which only caused Mario to giggle. "You're going to need a name, aren't you?" Mario said, still cooing, as he lifted Luigi up to eyelevel "Let's see are you a boy or girl… yep, definitely a boy." Luigi knew his face would have been as red as Mario's shirt if he wasn't covered in fur. "So how about I call you… Lucas?"
'Well, at least that isn't too far from my real name' Luigi thought to himself as Mario cradled him in his arm's again, holding Luigi like a baby. "Lucas it is! I can't wait to show you to the princess, Lucas!" said Mario as he started to walk out of the bathroom with Luigi cradled in one arm. 'Oh boy' Luigi thought to himself as Mario, the overly affectionate baby animal lover who typically didn't show much emotion, walked off holding him 'Isn't tonight going to be fun.' Little did Luigi know that the night hadn't quite exhausted it's store of surprises for him yet.
And that's chapter 4! Man that took forever to write. As a side note, the Lucas name isn't going to stick too long, so I'm going to continue to refer to Luigi as Luigi. Lucas is a name I came up with because I like it and also my Lucas amiibo was staring me down from my bookshelf and he'd probably go send me to join Hinawa and Claus if I didn't use his name. Another thing is the indoor track team. That came to be because my geometry teacher told my class about when he used to teach at a school where kids would skip class all the time and the school was laid out in a giant circle. There would be truancy guards and whenever they saw a kid out of class, they'd chase them and the kid would never get caught because the school was in a giant circle and they just had to turn a corner and hide in a room and they couldn't be found. So that's the inside joke. Also, I keep forgetting to put the disclaimer that I don't own any Nintendo characters, but I think it's pretty obvious that I don't own anything but the story idea. Also not to mention this site is called fan fiction. Net. FANfiction. So what awaits Luigi next? Will I ever stop asking annoying questions? How many times did I use the word or some variation of the word "thing"? [28] These are all some legitimate questions. So until next chapter, Norm out. And don't forget to have a good old fashioned mental breakdown once in awhile!
