Chapter 25: The Fall Of King Mario And Elder Luigi

"I won't let you take him!" Luigi growled and before anyone could stop him he ran forwards to the King and slammed the stick hard across his back, one hit and the stick broke in half.

King Mario laughed and turned whacking Luigi across the face and sending him flying across the floor. Daisy and Peach ran over to him, but Sky, Star and Jack all stayed where they were.

Looking from Luigi to the King they growled and stepped forwards clenching their fists. "This means war!" they said in unison. King Mario laughed and then stopped suddenly. "You three take on me and your father?" He went quiet and then burst out into a fit of laughter again.

"You three have been burden since the day you were born!" Elder Luigi kicked in, he hadn't said much since they had arrived and it was about time he did. "I should have killed you two off long ago!" Elder Luigi shouted.

"You monster!" Daisy screamed out, "you evil ugly horrible monster I hope you rot in hell!" She added and helped Luigi to his feet.

"Aww what's this Daisy the Hero or Daisy the zero?" He laughed. "They aren't your children so stay out of it!" He bellowed and walked over towards her as if he was going to hit her.

Luigi stepped between them and shoved Elder Luigi away from Daisy and Peach. "Stay away from m-my wife!" He stuttered, this caused a hysterical reaction from Elder Luigi and King Mario.

"Enough wasting time here!!" King Mario growled and turned to Mario. "It's time Mario did what I brought him here to do!"

"Not without…" Sky was about to say when Elder Luigi raised his hands at them and the three fell to their knees bound in chains, so tight they almost cut off the air supply to their lungs.

Luigi, Daisy and Peach ran over in an effort to help them but the chains were to strong and not even the strongest man in the world could bend them; let alone break them!

"Don't do it King Mario!" Peach shouted, there was nothing any of them could do, Luigi tried to think, tried his best to think like Mario but he just wasn't Mario, he couldn't do what Mario did so well.

"Mario, I ordered you to sacrifice yourself willing to the fountain!" King Mario ordered loudly and laughed as hard as he could as Mario complied with him. Walking around his he walked over to the sword of the massive white horse and took it out of its holding place.

Luigi attempted to run over to him but Elder Luigi grabbed his arms and held him back. Peach and Daisy stood to move but King Mario raised his hand and bound them in chains like the others.

"YOU MONSTER!!" Peach screamed "MARIO DON'T DO IT ITS NOT YOU ITS NOT WHO YOU ARE!" She screamed as loud as she possibly could at him.

"Mario!" Luigi shouted as he walked past him. "Mario don't do it! I'm your brother I can't do this without you!" Luigi cried out to him, but Mario never even lifted his head to acknowledge the fact he'd heard him, Mario's only motions were that of which he was using now.

Mario stepped up on to the ledge of the fountain and turned to the people before him. King Mario stepped back a few paces so he was stood almost next to the people he'd bound in chains. Elder Luigi followed suit and looked to Mario, still holding Luigi back, though he had to admit Luigi was putting up a fight in an effort to get to Mario.

Mario slowly raised the sword and continued raising it until the point of the swords came up and rested against his chest on his heart. Moving his hands up the length, he reached up just far enough so he could grip the handle.

"MARIO!!!!!!!!" Luigi cried and shouted as loud as he could, Mario pushed down hard on the sword and it went straight through him with ease. "I need you brother…" Luigi said and looked away as it happened.

Everyone turned their head away and the blood began to drip down the sword. The curse on Mario broke and his eyes gave off some expression, looking to Luigi in incredible agony he reached his hand up. "Luigi…" He managed to say as blast of red light left him and his body fell backwards into the fountain, hitting it with an all mighty splash.

Luigi saw him, he saw the look and ripped his arms full force away from Elder Luigi, but the blast of red light sent him staggering backwards. Gathering his senses, Luigi again went to move towards Mario but stopped suddenly, there was a rumbling beneath his feet and the fountain began to get brighter and brighter.

"It's working!!" King Mario shouted over all the noise of rumbling and energy building. "Mario!!" Luigi shouted and went to run towards him, when suddenly everything stopped. There was a complete and utter dead silence, not a whisper, a wind, a crack; nothing. Then there was an almighty blast as if the world had blown up, the fountain blast its light outwards, the water dispelling from its holding place and forming a rock in the bottom of the fountain.

The blast was so strong, Luigi and the other were all blown away, luckily enough the chains binding the two princesses and the three children all came free and left loose around their bodies.

King Mario and Elder Luigi were thrown back against a wall, their back hitting it with an ear shattering thud as the light blasted its way out of the tunnel. In all the commotion, nobody noticed that Mario's body lifted from the fountain and held itself in position. It never moved as the light faded out of the tunnel.

Slowly Mario's body was lowered back down into the fountain by the powerful light and it softly let Mario cross shaped form rest down at the bottom of the fountain next to the rock. As Mario's form did so, Mario's outstretched arm laid softly down beside him, the tip of his fingers gently brushing against the rock.

The light dispelled from the room down the tunnel and out into the night, leaving inside a very shook up bunch of people. There were heavy breaths filling the room as the occupants tried to regain their senses. Luigi sat back against the wall he'd been smashed in to and looked across at Elder Luigi and Mario against the wall too.

"Are you guys okay?" Sky asked looking to Daisy, Luigi, Peach, Star and Jack. They all semi nodded and looked to King Mario who got up first, he started to move slowly over to the fountain and stopped kneeling down over it and reaching inside. There was a moment's pause by everyone as Elder Luigi joined him.

"Both pick it up at the same time right?" He said to King Mario and King Mario nodded both of them picking up the stone at the same time. When it got to the air Elder Luigi let King Mario take it.

Turning swiftly he looked to the group with an almighty grin on his face. "I did it! I WON!" He bellowed the last past clearly and raised his prize high into the air. Elder Luigi laughed and both men started to grow literally, their muscles began to bulge with power.

"What's about we test this baby's power out on the desert people!" Elder Luigi said and King Mario agreed, both moved over to their horses, who once sat upon began to bulge and grow with power.

"We have to stop them!" Daisy shouted and all nodded, including Luigi. Sky ran out and grabbed the sword that had left Mario's chest in the blast of light and ran across to the horses holding it out the horses ran straight through the blade, leaving half of it on the floor.

"Damn!" Sky cursed and dropped the broken in half sword to the ground. "Come on quickly!" Peach shouted and the group ran after the horses. "We can't let them destroy this universe if they do they'll take us with it and there will be no hope for anyone!" Jack shouted and the group ran as fast as they could.

When they eventually reached the end of the tunnel King Mario and Elder Luigi had joined hands in the air, each of them holding on to the rock. The skies started to turn an even more darker red; the sand storms had died a little but were getting fiercer.

Both of them had glowing red eyes and both of them were full of nothing but pure evil. "We're too late!" Luigi shouted and the group came to a halt at the entrance to the cave. "Nobody can save you now!" King Mario roared, Daisy took a hold of Luigi's hand and gripped it tight.

He felt her hand in his and immediately gripped back at her hand. He'd failed.

"ITS MINE ALL MINE!" King Mario roared and Elder Luigi laughed loudly. "Stone, make this place no more!" He bellowed and waited. The stone began to shudder furiously in his hand and in Elder Luigi's.

"What the?" Elder Luigi said, he couldn't let go of the stone. "Mario I can't let go!" He shouted at his brother. King Mario tried to let go of the stone too but failed, their arms were frozen in the air, gripping the stone. As the lightening crashed around them, Jack pointed to the sky. "Look!" he shouted and watched a bolt of lightening ripped across the sky and down through the centre of the cave to the room where the fountain was.

The light in the cave began to come again, but attentions were turned away from the cave and to the man in pure white who had appeared out of nowhere in front of the two huge horses.

"Mario?" Elder Luigi asked of his brother. King Mario stared at the man clad in white and said nothing in reply to his brother. There was no need for words anymore they were doomed.

"And so your darkness has consumed you, now you shall live in pain for the rest of eternity." The man in clad white said, his voice overpowering any noise that might have existed.

"Oh shi…" Elder Luigi was about to say but a bolt of bright white pure energy blasted out of the tunnel knocking the people at the entrance forward and to the ground, all of them simultaneously looked up to see what would happen and stared at the light as it split in two and struck King Mario and Elder Luigi dead in the heart.

Both Men on the horses froze; time itself had frozen and nothing was moving, no wind, no sounds, although they were aware of it the whole split seconds that it had happened. Both men felt the devil himself consume their bodies, their souls and everything about them slowly disappeared. The man in white disappearing with them.

The stone once held in the hands of King Mario and Elder Luigi dropped to the floor and vanished.

"It's over…" Sky said slowly.

"Their dead and gone…" Jack added.

Slowly sitting back on his legs, Luigi looked around himself and the others. The sand storms were dying, the sky was turning into a light blue and the sun was rising on the distance. The people of this universe began to gather up together as one, coming towards Luigi and the others clad in black.

Their faces were somber but yet not. The trees that once wilted were flowering beautifully, the flowers in the ground that were once dead came back to life with amazing grace and the water drained from its horrible murky colour and turned into a crystal blue.

"We're free…" Star finished.