Crittical Chapter 10: The Storm Breaks part 2, a mario fanfic

Queen Sunstar: My writers block has passed, and I am back in action!

Twila: Should I be worried?

Queen Sunstar: No, you don't have to worry.

Twila: (Sarcastic) Insert disclaimer here, and you should know by now that Queen Sunstar doesn't own me, or any of the Mario bros characters, only her own characters like Solance.

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"Me? Go out there? Are you nuts? There's a flipping monster tornado out there!" Luigi wailed.

"Luigi, you are the future Sun of the skies! Go out there, put a stop to that thing!" Twila cried, "Get moving!"

"Hello, what part of there's a monster tornado out there do you not understand?" Luigi shot back.

"I'm not arguing this with you! Go! You control weather!" Twila yelled.

"I control electricity! Not weather!" Luigi cried.

"What do you think powers a storm?" Twila screamed.

"Uh, Electricity?" Luigi asked.

"Yes! Go out there and short circuit that thing before I warp you out there myself! Oh, and go solar!" Twila cried, "Wario, you too!"

Luigi closed his eyes, and glowed briefly, going solar. He became Brightsun.

"What can I do?" Wario asked Twila, "I'm earth!"

"You can help by moving the earth to slow that thing." Twila said, "Luminosity, go! There isn't much time!"

Brightsun flamed outside, with Wario in tow. He left Wario on the ground, and rose to meet the oncoming storm. His hands glowed blue, and he fired off a round of blue Thunderhand charged lightening bolts. They went through the tornado, and Wario yelped, diving out of the way.

"Do you mind? I'm trying to do something here!" He screamed.

"Sorry!" Brightsun called down, and resumed staring at the storm.

"Well, are ya gonna stare at it while it destroys everything, or are ya gonna actually do something about it?" Wario asked.

"Wario, I'm thinking! I can only think so fast you know!" Brightsun called down.

"Brightsun, you can't exactly think it to death, you know!" Wario screamed.

His answer was a lightening bolt crashing into his backside. He howled, rivaling the cry of the wind.

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Luminosity flamed down to the door leading to the basement. She heard a dripping noise, and froze, listening.

Drip…

Did the noise seam to be moving? Luminosity felt her heart rate speed up, as her hand rested on the doorknob. She opened the door, and saw nothing. Cautiously, she crept into the dark room. Suddenly, the door slammed closed, causing her to jump a mile. Luminosity swore she herd sadistic laughter.

Creek…

Luminosity backed up until she hit something slimy. The footsteps moved closer, and closer…

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"DO YOU MIND? THAT WAS MY BUTT YOU JUST FRIED, BRIGHTSUN!" Wario screamed. He got no answer.

"Brightsun?" Wario looked around. It was eerily calm, and quiet. He looked up and saw a faintly glowing purple orb, and made another realization.

"Oh shroot, I'm inside the thing. Hmm, I bet that is what is controlling this thing." Wario raised his right hand, palm up, and lifted a chunk of the ground. His hand curled into a fist, and the chunk of earth curled into a large rounded stone. He made a throwing motion, and the rock shot into the orb. There was a crackling noised, and the storm wavered, and slowed down. Wario heard Brightsun scream out another electrically based attack, and ducked. The orb exploded. The storm died out. Wario finally got his first look around. The storm had cut a swath of destruction through the heart of Solarsky. Even Clockwork had sustained some damage.

Brightsun saw the two rocks coming, and tried to flame out. He got smacked by both rocks instead.

"Wario!" Brightsun screamed, reverting back to Luigi, "What was that for?"

"See the scorch mark on my pants? That is what that was for!" Wario cried.

"Wario, that was not me." Luigi said.

"Who else shoots lightening?" Wario said.

"The storm did for awhile back there. Our job is done. Lets go back inside and see how Dad is doing." Luigi lead the way back to the hospital.

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The Daybreaker watched from afar as his storm died. He growled menacingly, and turned to walk into the Blade. Something caught his eye, and he turned toward Clockwork.

"So that is where Eldstar went." Waluigi mused, striding into the Blade. Silently, the warship turned toward the castle, and landed neatly inside the courtyard. no one noticed the black shape crawling into the castle, and shrinking into the shadows.

Eldstar floated away from the window after watching Luigi and Wario deal with the storm. He saw a flash of black and felt something hit his shoulders. He whipped around and saw nothing. Eldstar turned back to the door, and felt the thing strike again. He struggled, but it was no use. His body refused to obey his commands, and he found himself walking outside. Eldstar could only watch helplessly as his body walked aboard the Blade.

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"Do come any closer! I am powerful!" Luminosity called into the darkness.

"I know, but Twila still sent me after you!" Solance answered.

Luminosity let out a breath of air, "Solance! You scared me! I can't see a thing in this darkness!"

"I can see just fine in the darkness. Generator is over there." Solance said, forming a fireball in his hand. The glow of the fireball lit up the room in a dim glow. Luminosity went over to the generator, and formed a bolt of electricity in one hand, while using her mind and other hand to work on the wires. Solance yelped suddenly, and nearly put his fireball out.

"Stupid Fuzzies! Stay away! I mean- Oww! that's it! Fireball Frenzy! Well, you didn't listen to me when I told you to stay!" Solance said to the black fuzzy.

"I am almost through here! Keep them back! Oh, and black ones take health, green ones take flower points, gold ones take some of both, purple ones are poisonous, blue ones put you to sleep, red ones make you angry, and gray ones do everything." Luminosity called.

"What do white ones do?" Solance asked, keeping the white fuzzy away from him.

"White? If that thing blows, we are screwed!" Luminosity called.

"They keep coming and coming!" Solance responded, forming a wall of fire around him and Luminosity.

"Electro Rage! I need a few more minutes! Hurt, didn't it?" Luminosity used her hand holding the electricity to hit a blue fuzzy that tried to drop down on her, "Finished! Lets see if it will work! Don't fail me now, yellow, green and blue!" Luminosity turned on the generator, and the lights came on. The Fuzzies squealed and exploded left and right. A fireball knocked out the white one, and Solance warped out into the sky, where it couldn't hurt anything when it exploded. The two suns walked back out into the main area of the basement, and Luminosity heard the dripping noise again. It was only water dripping from a leaky overhead pipe. They headed back upstairs.

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Kalmar looked up when he heard the door open, and watched Waluigi toss Eldstar in to the cell next to him, and leave. The young star spirit levitated shakily up to the window separating the two cells.

"Sire?" He called.

"Yes?" Eldstar looked up, "Who else does he have, Kalmar?"

"Just me, Sire." Kalmar said, "Why is he going after us? I don't see Geno, or Luminosity here."

"The Daybreaker is the Last Survivor of Dark Utopia, Kalmar." Eldstar levitated gracefully up to the window.

"Dark Utopia? I'm confused. What is Dark Utopia?" Kalmar asked.

Eldstar sighed. He didn't want to have to tell the long harrowing story of the fall of the tenth planet under Brighton's care.

"Some things are best left unsaid, Kalmar. Are you sure you want to know what Dark Utopia is?" Eldstar asked.

"I feel that I need to know this, Sire. It may have something to do with why we were captured." Kalmar said.

"Normally, a Sun cares for three to five planets. Not Solon, who cared for ten different planets. I'll tell you everything, Kalmar. Billeiniums ago, when I was a Star Kid, there were ten planets being nourished and loved by Solon. Utopia and Earth were close together. All ten planets flourished into healthy young worlds. Then disaster struck. Utopia became infected by evil, and went dark. Solon tried everything to save the planet. In the end, He removed two of its beings, and forced the planet to self destruct. The female died sometime later due to some unknown disease, but the male lived. He called himself the Daybreaker, and vowed to kill Solon for killing his world. He was different from the others of his kind. His soul is immortal. Utopia's remains is the Asteroid Belt. The Daybreaker's body died, freeing the Soul trapped inside. Then came the Hellhound battles. The Hellhound created the Daybreaker. I will try to describe both of his forms. He has his normal form. He looks like a black shadow siren in the shape of a sun. He has two normal red eyes, and a third, larger eye above the normal eyes. This eye is quite similar to that of a snake. Its pupil is black while the rest of the eye is blood red. He has two long silver horns on ether side of his head where the third, and fifteenth spike would be. His spikes are poisonous, much like those of a cancerous sun. it is believed that he is a Shadow Siren/Sun cross blood. That is his normal form. His other form is that of a giant Eye. It is his third eye. He was finally brought down by Silverado, Solarita's lover. Silverado made the ultimate sacrifice to protect her, but he didn't kill the Hellhound, only weakened it further. Solarton was the one who finally killed the Hellhound. The Daybreaker went and invaded Twilis's body, and began the Daybreaker war. He was supposedly defeated by Brighton, but it nearly cost Brighton his life. If the Daybreaker succeeds in turning the entire Sky Legion dark, he'll have access to the Star Rod, which he'll use to resurrect Dark Utopia, and conquer the entire Universe, and resurrect Hellhound." Eldstar watched the younger Star for a reaction.

"This is serious, then. Brighton can't save us because of his injuries, basically, we are screwed." Kalmar said.

"Actually, we are not screwed yet, Kalmar. Brighton's blood runs strong and deep in Luigi." Eldstar said.

"Luigi is afraid of everything. He'll never survive a quest of this magnitude, Eldstar, Sire." Kalmar said.

"Kalmar, there is a hero inside everyone. Even Bowser has a hero inside of him. There is no absolute evil inside this universe, just like there is no absolute good. Luigi will rise and overcome this challenge." Eldstar said, "It is up to him, now."

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Luigi and Wario met up with Solarton in the Critical Care Lobby. Twila was waiting for them. With her, was Luminosity and Solance.

"They finally moved Brighton out of the OR, and up a floor to Critical Care. He is finally breathing on his own, and is awake. Luigi, Brighton has been waiting for you." Twila said.

"Does this mean I'm no longer losing another Sun?" Solarton couldn't decide weather to laugh, or cry. He wound up doing both.

"They are saying that he has a fighting chance to recover. Mario was discharged this morning into Eleanor and Bowsers care." Twila said, leading them into a small private waiting room. She took Luigi to the open door in the back of the room. The Critical Care floor's hospital rooms were designed with a small waiting area in front of each room, and there was a tiny hallway between each room to make it easier for a doctor to respond to emergencies.

"Brighton, Luigi is here. Who is going to tell him?" Twila sounded tired.

"I will, Twila. Luigi, its all right. I don't bite. Come in." Brighton said, his voice slightly slurred. Luigi felt himself relax. Twila went back out into the waiting area, leaving Luigi to walk into the room, and sit down.

"Its good to hear your voice again, Dad. Why do you want to talk to me?" Luigi said.

"There is not much time left. Its up to you now, Luigi." Brighton said.

"What is up to me?" Luigi asked.

"You are Earths last hope. Long ago, there were ten planets under Solon's care. One of them, a planet named Utopia, found between Mars and Jupiter, went dark. It renamed itself Dark Utopia. In the end, Solon was forced to destroy it. Its remains became known as the Asteroid Belt. The Daybreaker is the Last Survivor of his world. In order to bring back his world, he needs the Sky Legion to go dark and give him the Star Rod. Also, he is trying to bring back the Hellhound. He needs the blood of the four Celestial Guardians to do so. He already has the blood of two of them, Peach and Daisy. He needs Violet and Rose to finish the job. There is another reason why Dark Utopia was destroyed. If Dark Utopia is brought back, Its gravity will rip Mars to shreds, and could possibly be strong enough to harm Jupiter. Once Mars is destroyed, it will destroy the Earth. You need to go on this Quest to stop this from happening. Go to Star Peak, and ask for the Good Star Daydream. Daydream will tell you more then I can about the Daybreaker, the Hellhound, and Dark Utopia." Brighton said.

"I'll take the quest." Luigi answered, "I'll make you proud, Dad. Do I have to go alone?"

"No, my son. Geno and Mallow are going with you, and so is Wario and Solance." Brighton said, "You will leave tomorrow morning."

"I understand." Luigi stood, and heard Daisy scream. He ran out into the other room, and found her on the floor, in Wario's arms.

"What happened?" He asked.

The window at the end of the hallway creaked open, and Waluigi strode into the room. He put his hand up, freezing everyone in the room. He took Peach, Daisy, Rose, and Violet, and left, unfreezing the room, and leaving the usual trail of blood with the handprint on the window still.

"WALUIGI!" Wario cried, running to the window. He saw nothing, but the falling darkness outside.

"He took my Daisy!" Luigi cried.

"He is going to resurrect the Hellhound!" Brighton called from the other room.

"Luigi, we will get her back from him. I promise." Mallow said.

"The Daybreaker did something to her. He is trying to turn her evil." Geno spoke up.

"Tomorrow Morning, we meet back here to start on that quest. I'll stop at nothing to get my Daisy back!" Luigi responded, feeling brave.

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Queen Sunstar: Sorry about the delay in getting this chapter up. I couldn't work on it at all last Weekend due to power surges from the storm, and the fact My sister and I were cleaning out the cubby hole under the stairs back at our parents house. Who knew we had so much stuff crammed back there. I will do everything in my power to not be a day late next time.

Twila: Reviews are greatly appreciated! This story has had over 546 hits!