Story Fourteen: Green
Bowser Junior was playing with his older brother, Larry. They were having lots of fun by themselves. Since they were the youngest, they had the least responsibilities. Pretty much just their studies and helping when their father needed their help attempting to defeat Mario again.. With so much free time, they had taken to playing with each other. Sometimes they would sneak into the Mushroom Kingdom and teased the Mushroomer children, at others they would go exploring the Dark Land Mountains. Today, they decided to play in the main castle's indoor pool. They were using Lemmy's ball in a sort of aquatic game of catch. It would be hours before Lemmy had figured out who took his ball, and hours more for him to reach them. Lemmy was not very agile on his own two feet...
It was well into their game that Junior had thought of something. "Hey Larry?"
The older koopaling caught the ball in his claws. "Yeah?
"You know how you and dad and I have a green face and shell...? And Lemmy and Ludwig and Iggy?"
"Yeah. What about it?"
The hatchling scuffled his foot on the surface of the shallow end of the pool. "Well... Why is Roy pink? Did he lose a bet and have to wear Wendy's shell for the rest of his life or sumthin'?"
Larry laughed. "No, no that's not it. He's green too. He just paints his shell pink."
"Then what about his face?" asked the confused prince.
"Roy wears a scale-tight pink mask. Havn't you seen where on the back of his head the mask is tied together?"
"Yeah. I wondered what that was..."
After about thirty seconds, Bowser Junior asked another question. "Well... Why does he paint his shell?"
Larry looked a little embarrassed. "Uh... when I asked him... He... he beat me up."
"What? Why?"
"Because, quote him, 'it ain't none of yer beeswax!'"
"Oh. Do the others know why?"
The older koopa-kid thought about it. "Well, Lemmy might, but he'll be too upset with us for taking his ball. Ludwig would, but he's leading the Kooparmada to attack the Mushroom Kingdom... Iggy would too but he's always too stuck up to talk to us. As for Wendy, well... she's a girl."
Another moment of silence.
"What about Moron?" the endless source of questions asked.
"Morton." Larry corrected with a chuckle. "I saw a picture of Mom and Dad on their wedding day. Mom's face was the same color as her beak, while her shell was pink, like Wendy's. Her hair was a lot like Lemmy and Iggy's in color, but it was mostly pink. There was a koopa-koot standing behind her, Dad said that it was grandpa- mom's dad, I mean. He was brown all over with a gray shell, a lot like Morton."
"But Morton's face is white... why are his face-scales white?"
Right as Larry was opening his mouth to reply, the pool-room's main doors burst open. "LARRY! JUNIOR!" a familiar voice roared.
"Uh-oh... he found us much sooner then I had thought he would." said a surprised Larry. As he turned around to look at his partner-in-crime, he had found that Junior was already running for the window.
((A/N: Sorry about the wait, I've been busy with preparing for college, and when not doing that I was playing Twilight Princess or Second Life. Also, I was kind of stuck on what to write this chapter about, the idea hit me last night as I was looking at a picture of Bowser Junior. Picked up the idea at 2am and finished it by 3. Not bad for something written in the wee hours of the morning.))