Mario Kart 8 just came out and E3 has finished. I AM SO HAPPY! NEW Starfox game, Pac Man confirmed for Smash Bros, so many amazing things. Go to my deviant art page to see some fan art and my thoughts, as well as my youtube Channel: PaperMario2013... PLUG INS! Story time.
I woke to the sound of arguing. Geez, sounds like my family when I was in high school. I feel so at home.
"What do you mean they bypassed the desert!?" Bowser yelled out at Morton.
"I'm telling you dad! They bamboozled, they U-turned, they hop skipped and jumped out of there, they're out of here, they..." He kept saying to his father. So you have your cartoon personality do you Morton? Then again, they all kinda had that 'Mario Bros 3' and 'Super Mario World' personality. Good, at least now I knew how to act if I ever got stuck with one, like yesterday. Bowser was getting tired and picked Morton up by his legs and held him upside down. "I'm telling you the truth dear old dad! Boom Boom said they had just skedaddled off before they even crossed the border! I swear, I'm imploring, you gotta..." Bowser opened the front door and threw him out of the throne room. "UNDERSTAND." A huge bang emitted from the hall.
"I don't care if they skipped the desert! Now help your brothers find them OR YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO CARRY YOUR WEIGHT LIFTING EQUIPMENT BACK HERE ON YOUR OWN! GO find them!" Bowser slammed the door and I felt a surge of fear flow through me again. He looked at me and suddenly he seemed a bit calmer. "Heh! How much of that did you see?" He asked me.
"Uh... e-enough..f-from what I've heard..." I tried to answer. He laughed at me.
"Y'know, I'm kinda glad you came along. Every time I look at you I feel more powerful, more dominant. Probably because your quivering all the time and I find that hilarious." He told me. Oh good I'm a stress toy he plays with whenever he's upset. Let's hope he doesn't resort to eating. "Now, I'm gonna give you a break today." He walked up to the cage. "You get some time stretch those puny little limbs of yours, and breath in the fresh, smokey air." He laughed and opened the cage. Wait, is he letting me out of the cage? Can I actually go and DO STUFF? I'M kinda FREE! "You're allowed to walk about the castle as long as you don't go into certain parts of the castle and don't try to escape or disturb our current establishment. Got it?" I walked out and nodded. "What did I say about responding?" He glared at me.
"Ye-yes sir, I mean captain, I-I m-mean your majesty, sorry, it's a habit." I tried to say not looking him in the eyes and shivering. Did I mention he was 2.5 times bigger than me?
He laughed at my reply. "HAHAHAHA! Rich! Truly rich. Keep it up kid and you might actually make a nice pet. You're definitely more entertaining than any Yoshi I've ever had." He continued and walked back to his throne. "Now go knock your self out. Remember, you're still a prisoner in my castle." He pointed to me.
"I-I will. Thank you... y-your majesty." I walked toward the door when it suddenly opened infront of me.
"Daddy! I'm he-" Wendy stopped and looked at me with a shocked face. "OMG! DAD! He's out of his cage!" She ran toward her dad and pushed me out of the way.
"Wendy dear, let him go. I'm just letting him out so he can get some exercise is all." Is he sure I'm not already his pet? For the last few seconds that's how it sounded. "Go and get out of here kid. Don't mind us."
"Okay." I responded and looked at Wendy.
"Hmph." Was all she said and snapped back to her father. I went through the still open door and entered the dinning room. It still looked the same as it did today. With the exception of a few koopas cleaning the table. I guess they ate breakfast...or lunch.. or mid morning meal... late after noon bruch... er... I don't know what time it is! I suddenly remembered something.
"Where's that room with the giant clock?" I asked my self. I tried to remember the layout of 64's castle and tried to find the room I was thinking of. I went down the stairs and exited out into that large circular hall that had the paintings to Tall Tall Mountain and that other water level. The paintings were vandalized and some were either torn up or blocked off. So much for checking to see if I can jump through them. I walked down the hall and saw the stairs that led to my destination I went through the sliding doors and saw the clock. I went closer and looked up at it when I suddenly BAM.."OWW!' I looked behind me and saw a certain ball with stars on it. No not the four star dragon ball.
"HAHA! Got ya!" It was Lemmy. He bounced of the top most step and landed infront of me. "What are you doing here? This is MY play room." He said.
"Wait, YOUR playroom?" I asked and looked around the room. It looked just as empty as it did in the game. "Looks kinda empty to be a play room doesn't it?"
"What do you mean? I got all these new toys! He said and rolled to one of the corridors in the walls. He threw one of the balls he had with him into the corridor and rumbling sound emitted from the corridor. Suddenly a bunch of rubber balls, bats, bowling pins and slinkies came flowing out of it.
"I do NOT remember those being there!" I yelled and backed up. I ran up the stairs as the lake of toys began to fill the room. It got up to about two feet when it stopped.
"See? AND THEY'RE ALL MINE!" He yelled and dived into it. I swear I think he's the most retarded of the all. I looked to see where he was. "So again, what are you doing here?" He asked.
"Well,I just wanted to know what time it was. And this is the only clock in the whole castle I could find." I answered.
"Well, you mind getting out? I'm kinda trying to practice here." He told me. He seemed like a nice enough kid.
"So what happened in Acorn Plains? I heard you ran into some trouble." I told him.
"What's it to ya?" He asked with a tense tone.
"Nothing, just wondering. Why? Is it too embarrassing?" I asked him. A little bit of a tease if I must say.
"Well kinda. Its gotta be like the fourth time the Mario Bros have beaten me. You'd think I'd start using actually weapon instead of these balls." he said climbing out of the toys. Heh, Balls. Yeah that was ill timed.
"Well why don't you? What did your dad have to say about it?" He sat down next to me. Okay this is pretty cool. I'm actually having a 1-on-1 with a koopaling. Awesome! yet weird.
"First off, yeah I know, I need to seriously change my strategies. And about my dad... well he yelled at me. And I'm grounded. It's hard pleasing him sometimes." He told me. "Wait why are you talking to me about this?" he asked. Why was I asking him this stuff?
"Well... hmm... I guess it's because I'm gonna be here for a while so... heck might as well get to know you guys." Well that was my last minute answer anyways. I mean heck, what else was i going to say. Wouldn't it be cool to talk to and get to know the koopalings?
"Really? You'd think a human would be scared or hostile toward koopas like us. What's your name?" He asked me.
"Paul Davidson." I answered him.
"Huh, I'm actually kinda glad you came in here Paul. Thanks for the talk and all that." Suddenly the clock struck 12. The tole of 12 was followed by a knock at the door. Lemmy jumped down and opened the door.
"Prince Lemmy, your father is requesting your presence in the dinning hall. It's time for lunch." The voice said.
"Okay then." Lemmy swam back to the middle of the room so I could see him. "I gotta go now. You should probably leave too." He told me.
"No problem." I jumped down the steps and watched him exit as he waved at me. I waved back and slowly followed. I still needed to hide from the others... at least for now. I waited till the doors closed for me to exit. I looked back at the clock. "Ehhh. That level was kind of annoying at some points anyway." I said shaking out the idea of going in to Tick Tock Clock. Could've gone in to kill some time (pun) but there were other places I wanted to see.
I made my way down the stairs and I could see the various henchmen getting ready for Mario's eventual arrival. They were placing down the classic fire chains, filling up lava pits, various thowmps were going up in places that were a little to obvious to the point where you shouldn't get hit by them if you have ANY sense of sight at all, and a few bullet bill cannons being placed every few feet. I made it to the foyer and saw what was once the colorful and calming painting of the sky, was now dull, simple, and grey. I looked down the stairs and saw that sun mural in the center of the room was gone and some doors were barricaded. I wanted to hum the 'Inside the Castle Walls' theme but it obviously wouldn't fit. Unless it was a rom hack or something.
Suddenly something caught my eye, some lights coming from the Bob-Bomb Battlefield room. I felt intrigued and wanted to investigate when the doors opened behind me revealing Jr. "Aww you again? What are you doing here?"
"Nothing. Just looking around." Jr. was only about few inches shorter than me so I didn't find him much of a threat. "What are you doing?"
"Well if you must now, I need to tell my brothers it's lunch time. I swear sometimes I feel like I'M the older brother looking after the babies of the family. Now stand aside." He commanded. Hmmm, I wonder if I could have a 1-on... NO What am I saying!? I'm not talking to this guy. He gets enough attention as is the little twat. I decided to let go ahead, THIS TIME. Next time Im freaking tackling the guy, putting him in a box and sending him to Isle Delfino.
"As you wish your majesty." I said weakly moved to the left and he went forward. I looked at him as he... slid down the stair rail...Okay...
He made his way to the door and kocked on it. "HEY LUDWIG! LARRY! C'MON! PAPA WANTS US NOW!" The lights turned off in the room and the door burst open. Jr. jumped back trying to avoid getting smacked in the face.
"Move aside little bro. IT IS CHOW TIME!" He said and ran up the stairs passed me.
"NO WAY! You aren't getting that dinner before. I'm older and need more sustenance!" Ludwig yelled after his brother and ran passed me just the same. Well how bout that. Ran passed without even a hello. How wude.
"Like I said, 'babies of the family'." Jr. shook his head and went up stairs. I couldn't help but smirk as they left. I decided to go to the door Ludwig and Larry came out of and see what they were doing. I turned the knob but the door didn't budge.
"What!?" I exclaimed to my self. "What is this? Do I ACTUALLY NEED STARS to enter now? What the heck?" I asked myself. I contemplated ramming the door but the would probably be breaking Bowser's ' don't disturb our current establishment' rule, so I didn't. I decided to go out see how the koopas managed to junk up the place. I opened the front door and looked around. Dirt patches where green grass used to be, craters, new walls, burnt or deforested trees, trash, graffiti, smog... yep, seems about right. A bit worse than the game shows but hey, what else is new? I walked out into the windy ash filled air and took in my surroundings. I started feeling hungry again so I walked to the nearest, still in tact, bush and looked for something edible on it. Sure enough I found a yoshi fruit on it. I picked it and bit into it. Still watery, still juicy, still tasty. I held it in my hand and looked for more, there HAD to be more around here still.
I walked closer to the moat and saw that water as already replaced with lava. I didn't get any closer to it for obvious reasons. I backed off and noticed some goons patrolling. A green koopa was walking around on a raised up part of land while a red koopa was walking below. If you're a Mario fanatic like I am, you know what'll happen next. The green koopa walked a little to close to the edge and fell off landing on top of the red koopa. "GAH! DANG IT GREG! THAT'S THE FIFTH TIME!"
"S-sorry, sir, you know it's a common condition among green koopas. It's a really bad habit that we posses." The guy named Greg explained before getting bucked off by his superior. I laughed at the scene playing out before me. Sudden the red Koopa snapped his sight towards me.
"Hey! YOU!" He yelled at me. I stood still and looked as he rushed toward me. "What do you think you're doing?! Did Lord Bowser give you permission to walk around out here?" He asked me.
"Y-yes he did. I swear! You can ask him your self." I told him.
"Well if that's the case then fine. So what glorious miracle occurred that convinced Lord Bowser to let you out?"
"He- kinda sees me as a good stress release thing. I've been doing such a good job entertaining him he let me out for a while." I answered. The koopa had an odd expression on his face for what I said.
"Wow. Didn't think Lord Bowser was into that kinda stuff." The red koopa pondered. I suddenly realized what he was thinking.
"Nononono, that's not what I mean. You see because I cower in fear every time he addresses me he finds it funny. Kinda puts him in a better mood whenever that happens." I clarified. The koopa nodded. Suddenly I was tackled. "OW! HEY!"
"I GOT HIM SIR! HE'S NOT GETTING AWAY!" Greg yelled as he held me down. The red koopa face palmed.
"Dangit Greg. Get off of him. He's not trying to escape, he and I were just talking." The red koopa explained. Greg automatically got off me.
"Oooh. Sorry Rodrick. Uhhh, well...what were you guys talking about?" He asked us.
"None of your business Greg. Now what are YOU doing out here all by yourself?" He pointed at me.
"Well, it's my first time out of the castle in a few days so I decided to look around and explore." This ain't gonna do it I need to get these guys off my back so I can keep looking around. "Listen, Sorry if I disturbed your guys' patrol, but I've gotta go and... look at stuff. So I'll just be goi-"
"Oh no. You're not getting off that easy. We still got more questions for you." Rodrick interrupted me. Was it weird I was having conversation with the bad guys of my favorite game series? I thought not.
"We do?" Greg asked. Rodrick just ignored Greg's question. He saw the fruit in my hand and asked me a question.
"So, what exactly are you doing out here and what's with that fruit?"
"Well, obviously I'm hungry and looking for food." I stated the obvious.
"Yeah to be honest that was a little too obvious Rodrick?" Greg said before getting conked on the head. Greg retreated into his shell and was kicked away. 't that the Koopa equivalent of a homicide or something? My God.
"With that aside, you're trying to find more of those fruits huh?" Rodrick asked me.
"Yeah, pretty much. I love how these things taste." I told him. "Do you know where I can find more of these?" I asked him. Rodrick pondered.
"Yeah I think I might. Just let me go check and see if Greg didn't fall into a lava pit or something." He said and went in Greg's direction. Homicide, I say.
We found Greg's shell near a warp pipe sticking out of the castle. "My head, it hurts and it's spinning too much." His eyes were spinning.
"Well how bout that. Greg found the pipe I was looking for." Rodrick said and lifted his comrade up.
"I did?" Greg asked in a tired tone.
"In there, it's the castle gardens. There should be some fruit in there. But be warned, it's gated off from the inside door and some boos are in there." I thanked him and went in through the pipe. This is fun, going through pipes.
I got inside and I recognized the gardens as that on section of the castle in Mario 64 that had all the boos in it. The gardens were larger and had way more plant life than in the game. The fountain was also more complex, there was a glass roof on top of it all. There were definitely boos in the area though. I looked to my right and saw the bush I was looking for. I reached my bush of choice and began picking the fruits. I hurried because I could hear laughter nearing me. There's one right behind me isn't there? I turned around after picking 4 fruits and saw THAT FACE! "GAAAAAH!' I swerved around it and ran back to the pipe only to notice a "?" floating slightly above it. the fruit going in first. I made it out and met with Greg and Rodrick.
"How was it?" Rodrick asked me obviously hearing me yell in fear.
"Terrifying, but satisfying." I said and showed the fruit of my labor.(pun)
"Looks delicious. But you better get back to his majesty's throne room other wise he's gonna get mad." Rodrick warned me.
"Wait really? Wow, time flows fast in the Mushroom Kingdom." I said to him.
"We don't get it either. Anyway, you better get going." Greg told me.
"Thanks for the help you guys. Will I see you guys again?" I asked. These guys were actually pretty cool I wouldn't mind hanging out with them again. You know if Bowser allows me.
"Eh, maybe. I like you kid. You actually made our shift pretty fun." Rodrick stated.
"Totally! I really liked getting to talk to you Mr... uh.."
"Paul Davidson." I told them my name.
"Oh, it was really great Paul." Greg said while looking nervous and...batting his eye lashs?... wait a minute.
"Ugh... you okay there Greg?" I asked. I'm serious that looked pretty feminine to me, not to mention flirtatious. Rodrick crossed his arms and looked at his friend.
"Well pal? You blew your cover already, should we tell him?" He asked.
"I guess." Greg said with his voice sounding much higher now, and embarrassed.
"Paul, Greg's full name is actually, Grejina." (Not to be confused with Greninja.)
It was there that I realized, "Wait, you're a girl?!" I asked 'Greg'.
"Ye-yeah. It's really common for people to mistaken me for a male koopa. But, that's mostly because I wanted to part of Bowser top minions and well, common female koopas never really manage to reach that level." Greg, I mean Grejina explained. So she's pulling off a Mulan then? Eh, understandable. I guess Koopas run by that rule as well.
"Oh well, ugh, I hope you manage to reach that goal." I said trying to pretend the
whole 'secretly a girl' thing didn't happen. Of course it was harder than you think.
"Well uh.. now that we got that we got that out of the way... When might I... I-i mean we see you again?" She walked to me and looked me in the eyes. I'll admit, this was kind of a cute moment...in a weird way. Thankfully Rodrick spoke...
"Ooookay! Sun is setting and Lord Bowser will be waiting." Que the running out of time jingle.
"Oh right, and uh sure maybe. And thanks! Bye!" I said and ran to the front of the castle without looking back. I went up the stairs but then suddenly. "Shit I forgot where the throne room was." I've only been through the castle once and the layout was different from Mario 64's. I had to get to throne room ASAP. then I saw Lemmy. "Oh! Lemmy!"
"Oh hey, Paul. What's wrong?"
"Where's your dad's room again? I forgot where it was." I asked him.
"Just through the doors upstairs, up the spiral stair case, take a left at the Tall Tall Mountain painting, then you go up the stairs there keep going and if you feel like your walking up infinite stairs, don't worry it'll stop eventually, Kamek just put that illusion there to scare noobs. then you through the..." I stopped him there.
"Okay I got it, thanks for the help buddy!" I told him and followed his directions. I heard say something else giddily after I opened the door but I wasn't paying attention and didn't hear it. I made it thought the circular hall, up the stairs (the illusion stopped after a minute) and made it to the familiar dining room. I ran past the table and entered the throne room. Bowser was sitting there on his throne almost expecting me to walk in at that moment. He just glared at me, ad I of course shat my pants. By the way am I ever gonna get a change of clothes? I've never worn the same close for more then two days. Okay I did once and I shall never do that again.
"Wow, record time. What? Did you get lost or something?" He asked.
"As-a..um, well yes sir, I did." He chuckled.
"Heh,typical. Oh well, I guess I can't fault you too much, but make sure to get here earlier. GOT IT!" He demanded.
"Ugh, yes sir, I will get here with the specified time limit sir!" Is Bowser trying to turn me in to minion of his? I hope not, I HAVE A LIFE!
"Good, now get in the cage. The longer you stay out if it is a minute I waste not sleeping."
"Yes sir, getting there!" I walked to the cage and closed it myself.
"Good, now nighty night kiddo. And keep up the submissive attitude, I'm enjoying it more and more as time goes on." Bowser laughed and walked out the front door. I was stuck there to think to myself in the dark warm room.
"Well today went better. Made a few friends, had a few laughs, and apparently I have an admirer now. Today has been... okay, just okay."
I CAN'T END CHAPTERS CORRECTLY! But seriously, sorry for the late update. Fun fact, this was supposed to come out BEFORE E3. Off by a few days, damn. So how about the new friends and love interest? Typical? What a Twist? Ae any of these your reaction to this chapter?
Anyways I hope you like this chapter and remember to type in a comment, fav, follow, and those other things that let me know I'm not screwing my self over by writing fan fiction. But hey, anyone who writes fan fiction is screwed already. Enough philosophy,
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