My Love For You Never Dies
Chapter 7: An Unexpected Turn
Author's note: Based on Super Mario Galaxy mixed with Paper Mario.
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I bet you're all wondering what has happened to our beloved friend, Peach. Well, you're about to find out.
Sadly, I don't own Mario. (cries hysterically) OK, I am done. I do own Khira, Mario and Luigi's sister and the story of course!
On with the story!
As she observed her best friend's evil smile and new appearence, Khira was slowly trying to comprehend what was in front of her. She had no idea what had happened to Peach but she knew one thing: the person in front of her was not the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom that everyone knew and loved. Sure, she looked like Peach and spoke like she did when Khira had talked to her about Mario a few days ago. But it was the eyes that couldn't fool her. Those eyes that had once been filled with love, care and happiness had been replaced with anger, hate and pure evil. She also saw that murder was in her eyes and that was what terrified her the most. Khira had no idea what had happened to the old Peach that was her best friend, and who exactly this person was in front of them. All she could think about was Mario and when she delievered the news to him, he would be more than devastated.
"Princess!" Luigi shouted. "Thank goodness you're alright! We've been looking everywhere for you! What's with the clothe..." Luigi was interrupted as he began to run towards her by his sister's arm. "What are you doing?"
"Don't go near her, Luigi," Khira said. "That is not Peach."
"What do you..."
"Look at her eyes if you think I'm lying."
Luigi looked at what his sister was trying to point out to him. His eyes widened at the sight and was frightened by the coldness of her eyes and how different they were. The original kind and sweet princess had become a cold hearted and evil queen. He took a step back also trying to understand what had happened to turn her into this. Luigi noticed Sparky huddled on Khira's shoulder, hating the evil energy that was had come when she arrived in Petalburg.
"If you're done staring, why don't we have a little more fun?" Peach snickered, tossing her hair back over in shoulder and closing her eyes in disgust. "It's so boring watching you. I can believe my king picked such weak and boring people to be his arch rivals. This shouldn't take too long."
"King?" Luigi asked.
"What shouldn't take too long?" Khira asked in caution.
Peach looked back at her with an evil smirk, showing her teeth and Khira could see the desire for murder in her eyes.
"Isn't it obvious? Killing you both won't be that much trouble," Peach said, once again revealing her cold looking red eyes.
Both Luigi and Khira's eyes went to the size of dinner plates when she charged at them with incredible speed. Peach then shot hot flames of fire at them out of her hands which thankfully, they both dodged. But she didn't stop or run out of fire. Her fire was similar to Bowser's fire which confirmed Khira and Luigi's worst fears: Bowser had gotten to her and now she was working for him. Luigi knew that if Bowser had ordered Peach to kill him and Khira, he most likely sent forces to find Mario and kill him too. When Peach began throwing fire balls at them, Khira pulled out her staff and repelled the fire with a gigantic wave of water. But Peach just ran right through it and charged at Khira with a sword.
"Could you at least make it a little bit more interesting for me?" Peach said mockingly. "Come on. I know you can put on at least a little show. I've seen you fight and this is all you got?"
That triggered Khira's anger in a way that ruined her sense of judgement. Peach or not, there was no one who get away with saying that and not recieve some sort of punishment. She wanted her true strength?
"Oh," Khira said, smirking. "You want an entertaining show? Well, you got one!"
She pulled out her sword from her belt to even the fighting field. She clashed swords with her best friend and they began fighting as if they had been at war with each other for centuries. Each one had the other at death's grip several times before the other took the offensive back.
"Luigi! Take Sparky and the Mayor and get out of here!"
"But you..."
"NOW! I'M NOT SAYING IT AGAIN!"
Sparky hopped on Luigi's back as he ran to to Mayor's unconscious body and then ran for the hills. But he wasn't going to leave his sister to die and he was going to get her help.
Khira and Peach had continued to fight until they came at each other so hard that they pushed each other back to the tops of two different houses so they could catch their breath and look at each other.
"Wow," Peach said, panting. "You're pretty good. It seems you can do more than cast spells to put out fire. I'm impressed, you're the best fighter I've ever faced. It's quite a shame that you're my Lord Bowser's enemy. You would be an amazing addition to his army. Oh, well. It's nothing personal, it's just that you're the mortal enemy of my King. Sorry."
"What happened to you, Peach?" Khira demanded, hoping to get some answers before they had to fight again. "What did he do to you?"
Peach smirked evilly again. "It's not a question of what he did to me but you despicable people did to him."
"What are you talking about?"
"You honestly dare to pretend like you don't even know? You invaded the Koopa Kingdom multiple times causing much terror and horror across my people and of my King! You even tried taking it over and tried making it apart of your own kingdom! And worst of all, you kidnapped me and brainwashed me into being the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom! You even tried making me fall in love with that beast Mario! And now, my king can no longer tolerate your treachery against him, his innocent people and his queen! I, Peach, Queen of the Koopas, swear that I will not rest until I have put the fear and agony in your people like you did mine, or until you and your brothers are dead!"
Khira stood there in absolute disbelief. Bowser had completely brainwashed Peach to the point where she didn't even remember who she really was. Not to mention the story was completely backwards in Peach's mind and now she knew that Peach had the motive and ability to try to kill her and her brothers. But she would never let that happen. She would try to convince her with more words before they had to fight again.
"Peach! Stop this nonsense! You've been hypnotized! You're not the Queen of the Koopas and you're not in love with Bowser! Try to remember, please! You're Princess Peach Toadstool, beloved Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom! You're my best friend and you love my brother Mario with all your heart! He's worried sick about you..."
"KING BOWSER WARNED ME ABOUT YOUR MIND TRICKS! ENOUGH WITH THE LIES!"
Peach threw more fireballs and now activated her armor to be completely covered with spikes. She charged at Khira like a mad woman, and Khira although horrified at what had happened to her best friend, knew that she couldn't let her guard down. So, she made the painful decision to fight back with everything she had. She pulled out her staff and began saying a quick enchanment. She closed her eyes and quickly focused.
So stars, hide your fires
Do not punish her for false desires
But give me strength to hold her power back
For she is a friend I cannot attack
She hovered up into the air and spun three times, and just as Peach came charging towards her, her eyes turned bright white and she aimed the staff at her. Powerful electricity came at a fast speed out of the staff and shocked her badly. She screamed a horrible scream and it pained Khira to hear it, but she had no choice. She had to weaken her enough in order to escape and hold her off for a little while. As the electricty stopped, Peach fell to the ground, twitching in pain from the after effects of Khira's enchantment. But Khira was also weakened by the spell and it took more energy out of her than she had originally expected. She fell to the ground as well and struggled to move. But to her atonishment, Peach was able to get up and she slowly started walking toward her. This time, with a spike that had fallen off her armor in the fall. She was barely limping, but she could still move and she still had the murder in her eyes.
"I'm impressed once again," she said weakly. "But you still have to die."
Khira tried to move but it wasn't possible. She prepared for the end and she hoped Luigi and Mario would be able to take care of this mess on their own.
"Say goodbye..."
"STAY AWAY FROM MY SISTER!"
"YOSHI!"
Khira couldn't move but she knew those voices better than anyone else.
Luigi came charging on Yoshi's back to the scene of the intense battle that just occured between his sister and his brother's love. He managed to come up to Khira and grabbed her from off the ground before Peach managed to kill her. Khira could barely keep her eyes open but she knew that her brother hadn't abandoned her and saved her life. For once in their whole time being siblings, she was thankful that he hadn't listened to her. Yoshi ate some nearby fruit and chucked it at it Peach who was still attempting to catch them and they ran for the hills.
"Good job, Yoshi! Next stop, Rogueport!"
"Yoshi!"
And as they raced towards the pipe, Luigi looked down at his sister. He had never, ever seen her this weak or this exhausted after a battle before.
"Khira, what happened?"
"Simple. I got my ass kicked by the new Queen of the Koopas and my best friend." She sighed. "Mario is not going to be happy to hear this."
"We have to go rescue him before Bowser's troops find him," Luigi said. "Yoshi, to the train station and fast!"
"No," Khira said, weakly. "We don't have three days and we need to get to Poshley Heights now. Yoshi, head for the Rogueport sewers. There's a shortcut and you need to hurry!"
"YOSHI YOSHI!"
And their old friend dashed to the pipe back to Rogueport as the three of them hoped that Mario was alright.
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Wow. Things are getting much worse. Oh, well. But Yoshi is finally in the story!
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