I don`t own much on that story... At least the story is complicated enough to rival with real mystery stories. Still not as impressive as Sherlock Holmes` story (and I know what I mean; I went to see it twice!) or Hercule Poirot, but well... whatever. Let`s begin, shall we?
Chapter 11: Waluigi! You`re Hiding Stuff!
When the tallest plumber of all entered the room, everyone could only look at him. His long legs and his thin body made him look like a branch. However, he had some kind of strange look on the face, a mix of confusion and anger. The symbol on his cap was not even a real letter; just an upside-down L. Who had this weird idea anyway? The plumber walked to the witness stand. As soon as he got there, Kamek lectured him.
"Your name is Waluigi. You are Wario`s brother and, as to what rumors say, Mario and Luigi`s cousin, or something alike. When you arrived on the crime scene, you saw the corpse, and yelled "It`s not me, I swear! I have never seen that javelin before! Um, I mean… what happened here? Did I miss something really terrible while I was at the Fair?" This indicated you recognized the javelin, but this also shows it could have been a simple incident as well. Am I right up to now?"
Waluigi nodded.
"So, do you think you might have done it?"
Waluigi nodded, and looked at his shoes. He felt guilty; it could be seen by his actions.
"Hey, minute!" Toddtoad said. "It is possible that Princess Daisy did it. There is a slight chance that it is not you who did it."
On this, Waluigi lifted his head. He seemed relieved.
"But… there is also a slight chance that it`s your fault," Toadsworth reminded him. "If you please, we will hear your full testimony, which will help us decide whether you are guilty or not."
"…Okay. My story starts somewhere around 9 AM. Wario was back from something I didn`t know about, and he explained me what it was. We left for the Tennis Court, and there Wario found Peach`s flower shirt. We played for a while until he told me about the Fair and its greatest attraction, the Haunted Mansion. I went there, but while waiting in line, I accidentally opened a secret pass."
"When going in it, I saw the greatest collection of weapons I had ever seen. I was amazed. I could also see Mario and Bowser battle it out outside the weapon vault. I stole one of the javelins from the vault and left. I went back home, and when Wario arrived, I showed him my discovery. Using his rare deduction, he told me that since the javelin has the Bowser seal on it, everyone will know I stole it!"
"Around 3 PM, I decided to hide the javelin near Bowser`s Castle. I arrived there at 5 and there I saw another javelin, but that one had no Bowser seal. So I exchanged the javelins, and headed to the fair. There I decided to try the javelin in a Fair mini-game, but after a series of events the javelin was thrown out of sight. That`s when I left for the Beach, and there I saw the javelin, which might as well be the one I had thrown minutes before."
"Wait, that`s it?" Toddtoad asked. "You had an easy day? You weren`t trying to do anything… evil?"
"What`s that supposed to mean?" Walugi asked.
"Well, we were wondering… since you`re a bad guy like Wario…"
"Wario? He was busy on something else. I wasn`t feeling evil that day I guess."
"Yeah, when`s the last time you`ve felt evil anyway?" Luigi muttered. Waluigi understood that and immediately replied:
"Hey, when I stole those keys it was some kind of dare, and it`s not my bad if Mario really wanted to dance!"
"Order! Order!" Toadsworth said, smashing his hammer. "Now, let`s get back to our case. Since you are linked to Wario, we wanted to ask you if you knew anything of use…"
"Well, he indeed told me some things, but it`s now unclear."
"Then we will discover it all on your testimony," Toadsworth said. "Can you repeat the first part?"
"My story starts somewhere around 9 AM. Wario was back from something I didn`t know about, and he explained me what it was. We left for the Tennis Court, and there Wario found Peach`s flower shirt. We played for a while until he told me about the Fair and its greatest attraction, the Haunted Mansion. I went there, but while waiting in line, I accidentally opened a secret pass."
"Cross-examination may begin," Toadsworth told Toddtoad.
"So, Waluigi… can you please repeat the first lines of this testimony?"
"My story starts somewhere around 9 AM. Wario was back from something I didn`t know about, and he explained me what it was."
"Hold it!" Toddtoad yelled. "So… he told you. What was it exactly?"
"I already said it; I don`t remember too well…" Waluigi said, pinching his mustache.
Toddtoad thought to himself: "Well, what your memory won`t reveal, your mind will reveal it." And he went in Waluigi`s mind. Three things out of five have been cleared. There were only two black spots. He tried erasing one. However, it was too dark. The other, however, was easily erased, and below, Toddtoad could see… Yoshi eggs?
"GOTCHA!" Toddtoad yelled. "You said you didn`t remember, but you were lying, because you were pinching your mustache. So, I looked in your mind and saw what you were hiding. Might it be possible… that what Wario was gone to do… had something to do with Yoshi eggs?"
Waluigi yelled "Ack!", his mustaches fell down, giving him a strange look, and his nose seemed to fall. A second later, all this was back in place. "Yes, it was all about Yoshi eggs. But I don`t remember anything else."
"Are you sure?"
"I`m as sure as the symbol on my hat is a upside-down L."
"Okay, then, you can continue with your story."
"We left for the Tennis Court, and there Wario found Peach`s flower shirt."
"Hold it!" Toddtoad said. "What did he do with it?"
"I saw it as soon as I entered the changing room; apparently Wario had used a nice trick. He had switched the boy/girl changing rooms signs another day, hoping to create some… chaos."
"He`s over 36 and he still makes preteen-level jokes. How smart," Kamek commented. "So, when Daisy and Birdo went to change, they were actually in the boys` locker room. But since there was nobody else in the Tennis Court, no one could see them. Thus, no one could tell them it was not the right room."
"Good deduction, Kamek," Toddtoad congratulated. "Well, now we know why Daisy`s shirt was in the boys` locker room. But one mystery remains, Waluigi: Why did Wario take it?"
"I don`t know actually if he took it. One minute I see it on a bench, and the next, poof! It`s gone. And Wario has a weird smile on the face, just as if he had found a zillion coins in a treasure chest."
"Well, this will help understanding this part. You can continue."
"We played for a while until he told me about the Fair and its greatest attraction, the Haunted Mansion. I went there, but while waiting in line, I accidentally opened a secret pass."
"Hold it!" Toddtoad said again. "What happened exactly?"
"Well… at one point I was tired of waiting in line, so I sat on a nearby rock. That`s when I probably sat on a button of some sort and I saw something opening. I entered there and I saw the weapon vault. From there, I could see the Toads being scared by the fake ghosts, and I could also see Mario fighting Bowser, which didn`t surprise me at all. And that`s it for the first part of my testimony."
"Okay. Can you tell again the second part?"
"When going in it, I saw the greatest collection of weapons I had ever seen. I was amazed. I could also see Mario and Bowser battle it out outside the weapon vault. I stole one of the javelins from the vault and left. I went back home, and when Wario arrived, I showed him my discovery. Using his rare deduction, he told me that since the javelin has the Bowser seal on it, everyone will know I stole it!"
"Cross-examination can continue," Toadsworth ordered.
"When going in it, I saw the greatest collection of weapons I had ever seen. I was amazed. I could also see Mario and Bowser battle it out outside the weapon vault. I stole one of the javelins from the vault and left. I went back home, and when Wario arrived, I showed him my discovery."
"Hold it!" Toddtoad yelled. "You told us pretty much all of that during the first part of your testimony. Now, for the javelin… why did you sow it to Wario in the first place?"
"Heh. You know what it is; partners in crime know everything of each other. If one do anything at least a bit evil, we gotta let the other know so that he can help his brother. Not like Mario! He never asks for help to Luigi. On this I can say I`m treated better." Luigi heard that and growled. "What, Luigi? It`s true!"
"Back to the javelin thing, please," Kamek interrupted. "So you showed it to Wario. Was it to know what he would think of it?"
"Well, I wanted to tell him about my discovery so that we could pick in there if we need weapons one day."
"Okay, move on."
"Using his rare deduction, he told me that since the javelin has the Bowser seal on it, everyone will know I stole it!"
When hearing the words "rare deduction", Toddtoad could only laugh. "Wario isn`t the brightest light in the attic, not the sharpest hunk of cheese in the cellar, that`s true. But what he said was true however. If Bowser or his minions were to see you with a javelin having the Bowser seal on the blade, they would report it to their leader, and you`d be in great trouble. I think we`re done for this part. Can we continue?"
"Around 3 PM, I decided to hide the javelin near Bowser`s Castle. I arrived there at 4:05 and there I saw another javelin, but that one had no Bowser seal. So I switched the javelins, and headed to the fair. There I decided to try the javelin in a Fair mini-game, but after a series of events the javelin was thrown out of sight. That`s when I left for the Beach, and there I saw the javelin, which might as well be the one I had thrown minutes before."
"Okay, I am ready to cross-examine, your Honor."
"So let it be. Can you repeat the first sentences, Waluigi?"
"Sure. Around 3 PM, I decided to hide the javelin near Bowser`s Castle. I arrived there at 4:05 and there I saw another javelin, but that one had no Bowser seal."
"So your first reflex was to hide the javelin around, eh?" Toddtoad asked.
"Yeah. A javelin with Bowser`s seal around Bowser`s castle… made sense in my opinion."
"If the other javelin was there," Toddtoad guessed, "it`s because Ludwig Von Koopa had already thrown it out the window. And Mario almost got hit by it. That means that when you were there, Mario was already gone to the Tennis Court. As such, he couldn`t see you coming. Continue, please."
"So I switched the javelins, and headed to the fair. There I decided to try the javelin in a Fair mini-game, but after a series of events the javelin was thrown out of sight."
"What happened exactly with the javelin? We need information, not suppositions."
"Well… At firs I tried it on a game where I had to make six tin cans fall. I won, so I re-tried. However I threw too fast, the javelin somehow passed through the stand`s back wall, slammed in an arbalest, and was thrown back to an unknown place. It flew out of sight."
"Okay… that clears it up. I think we`re done now," Kamek said.
"For once, I must agree. Waluigi didn`t know where the javelin flew off to. That means the javelin might have hit Yoshi as well. There is no way out of this unless we discover which javelin is in Yoshi`s heart. We will need something to clean blood stains."
Toadsworth called Shroomlock in the court and asked him to look in their detective items to see if they had anything to clean blood off a blade. Shroomlock answered that he`ll see, but he wasn`t sure. Shroomlock left.
"Now, we have only two possibilities; either it is Daisy, who threw the "Bowser seal javelin" to Wario and missed, or it`s Waluigi, whose seal-less javelin flew out of sight. I suppose it`s one of them. But to ensure any miscalculation and to have proof on Daisy`s testimony, we will end this with Wario`s testimony."
In next chapter: the final testimony! Wario will answer one main question everyone is asking since the beginning, but which one? And will he add anything new? Well, that`s to see! After that chapter, the final chapter will be about the whole answer.
