"A great beast slouches by…"

As the koopa king continued making his way towards his castle, a voice seemed to call out to him, but there was just one little issue with that… Where the hell was it even coming from?

"It is you, who is he."

"What? What is this?" No matter where Bowser seemed to look, he couldn't see hide nor hair of anyone who could be the owner of that voice… Unless.

"Ah. Search not, for I am not there. How would one describe me? I am...the voice within. I am your consciousness. I am above, and all around. I am all that is you. A consciousness bound to you, as you are to me. Shall we travel together?" Ha! I totally called it! (Think Bowser's brain went haywire for once? Bowser has a brain?)

"Stop talking!"

"Ah. So very unenlightened. Anger will get you nowhere. It matters not where you go, for I will speak my piece."

Bowser, why are you hitting yourself? Stop it. "GAH! SHUT UP!"

"I bear you no ill will. Our minds have bonded. This is a rare thing." (Again, Bowser has a brain?) Apparently this guy wouldn't shut up until Bowser listened, so he stayed quiet for once. "So rare that I will teach you."

"Teach me what? Hurry up!"

"Smash that boulder to see, use your inner strength."

The Koopa King complied, ripping the boulder a new… Why is there a spiraling hole floating in midair?

"And so it springs to life." Whoa, this is T rated, there are kids here. (Get your mind out of the gutter. Admit it, you were thinking the same thing.) "That is called a Chakroad. A con-"

"A Chakroad? Can we eat those?" Neptune, why did you have to jump in? "Why wouldn't I jump in? I'm bored…" (That and you know, main character privileges.)

"A Chakroad is not something you can consume. It would consume you first, tiny one."

"Nepu! I can hear it!"

"Our minds have bonded. This is a rare thing." Apparently two people could hear this voice. (Wait, I swear this is saying something. Both Neptune AND Bowser can hear him, and both are… Well, you know. Rulers of their own lands. … You think that's really it?)

"Um… Sis?"

"I think it's best to say they BOTH went off the deep end." Starlow deadpanned, wishing she had palms to cover her face with.

"Now we travel… With our MIIINDS!"

And… Why is Bowser back in the cave from just a couple minutes ago? "Hey! I was JUST HERE!"

"Wondrous. Thrilling. Yes. Powers of Earth and Space. Our journey took us to a place etched in your mind." The voice sounded proud, moreover full of itself. (He sounded like a bad Doge meme. So basically every doge meme then?) "Do you understand? No. For you are unenlightened."

"Quit messing with me! Take me back NOW!"

"Anger benefits you not."

"Yes… Well, it seems you are not near any Chakroads." Oh, now you're interrupting the story too?

"Aww… I wanted to warp to Noire's place and see her surprised face when I disappear forever." (I'm pretty sure that'd give her a heart attack if you disappeared forever. Maybe not if she's got someone else she's looking after. Catch my flow? You mean Uni?) "Oh yeah… Then I'll just disappear for a day or two." (Kind of like you already have?) "Hmm… Then what if I show up riding a dinosaur?" (... Long live Lady Purple Heart. And Lady Black Heart. But mostly Lady Purple Heart. This gag again?) "Well you know what they say. Some forms of comedy involve pumping a gag over and over again until the viewers gag on laughter." (True story. Huh, I've always seen them jump after my bad puns, or collapse on the spot. WAIT WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE STORY! I was wondering how long it would take before you noticed… Now let's get to it.) "Okie dokie."

"Brain guy! Take me to Bowser Castle and make it snappy!" It can't be that easy.

"This is beyond even me. One can only travel to Chakroads one has found. If one area's Chakroad is hidden, you go there not." Yoda? "It is the way of the mind… When you find a Chakroad, your mind bonds to it. Then you can travel."

"TOO MANY WORDS."

"You are unenlightened. Find the Chakroads, break things to find them. Then you can travel."

"Not that I care, but who are you, really?" (Bowser just sounded an awful lot like us right there.)

"Who I am… I exist in this kingdom, and that is all. And now I go."

"Hey! Hey!" No matter what he said or where he searched, the voice was completely gone. He brushed it off, and simply moved on. (Good on you! Who cares?!) Either way, after that little ordeal, the Koopa King went back on his way towards his magnificent castle. He walked, and he strided, and he sauntered until he found himself on a… beach with teeth everywhere? … What?! ("Don't question it, big guy." How are you… oh who cares. Main character privileges. Is this about to turn into one of those takeovers where the main character destroys the writers? Like um… What book was it, One Fi- STORY! "Yikes!" Wait, this is the end of the chapter though.)

"Allo?" And, conveniently, before everything faded to black, the Koopa King heard a very French voice calling out to him.

A/N(?)

Chisaku: Huh. Thought that would've been much slower, but that was a lot of fun.

Draco: It always is. Now I need to go fix all that stuff that Aki broke when he finally learned how to use his Devil Trigger. Don't ask me how I pulled that off.

Chisaku: I won't. Because I just spawned Finè by accident. Great, now I have more monsters to deal with.

Draco: Well have fun with that. I need to go stop Aki before he breaks anything… Oh never mind, he's just killing demons.

Chisaku: Great, Finè's killing everyone now. Alright, have fun with taking that EXP, I got a Goddess to slay. Gatrandis Babel Ziggurat Edenal...