"All of you look so tasty~"

"Mario! Do something!" Luigi shouted. Mario rushed toward Rumia and took out his trusty hammer and raised it and brought down right on Rumia...'s barrier. The sudden impact caused Mario to violently vibrate, Rumia grabbed Mario's neck and opened her mouth to feast on the red plumber. But Mokou delivered a swift, hard kick to Rumia's head knocking her back and dropping Mario.

"Thanks," Mario said, "That girl is a lot stronger than she looks."

"Well she's not strong enough," Mokou replied, "I'll take her out."

"Ugh... damn.." Rumia said recovering, before she got up Mokou managed to get behind Rumia and put her into a chokehold, restricting her movement. As Rumia struggled to break free, she started to feel fuzzy...

Her surroundings started to go dark(I mean she's always surrounded by darkness but you hopefully know what I mean).

Dark... darker... yet darker.

Until, Rumia collapsed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! You killed her!" Luigi shouted.

"She's not dead," Mokou replied, "She's just unconscious. Besides, wasn't she just trying to kill you a few minutes ago?" Mokou asked.

"Ermmm..." Luigi down at his bleeding arm, he had forgot about it and it started to hurt again.

"Owwwww, I need to do something about this wound..." Luigi said.

"You're right Luigi," Mario said, "Mokou is there any form of hospital around?" Mario asked.

"Well... Eientei could be open at this time... we could travel over there and you guys could stay for the night. Mokou replied.

2am, Mokou, Mario and Luigi are traveling to Eientei.

A defeated and unconscious Rumia lay on the grass of the forest. A ghastly creature floated over Rumia it's glowing blue eyes glistened in the night, it had a red growth beard thing and a white mane on it's head, aside from those features it was completely black.

"Poor child," it said, "You look lost, and tired, and unconscious. Well if you are like this you may enjoy your nightmare I will dawn upon you"

(A nightmare about... I don't know... a giant blob eating her, or something like that.)

Darkrai, looked disgusted from what he was viewing from Rumia's nightmare. But then Rumia shot up and started screaming in terror.

"Good morning child." Darkrai said to Rumia.

"That was an awful dream!" Rumia said neglecting Darkrai.

"That was a nightmare," Darkrai said, "I also heard that you, Rumia are obsessed with the consumption of humans."

"Well... I do eat humans... but why are you asking me this?" Rumia questioned.

"I have a proposal to make."

"You're going to marry me?" Rumia said, blushing slightly.

"N-no. Let's make a deal, I'll make the human's in the village fall into a nightmare and you can feast on them all you want." Darkrai said.

"Uh huh," Rumia said, listening.

"Once you had your fill. You will help me enter the Dream World and overthrow it." Darkrai explained.

"Uh huhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Rumia said, definitely listening.

"Well then, let's get started..." Darkrai said sinisterly.

At Eientei

Mokou knocks on the shoji, and the door opened to reveal a familiar face. She was wearing a red and blue shirt, skirt and hat with a health cross on it. She also had a long white laced ponytail.

"Ah! Good... morning? What brings you here, Mokou?" Eirin asked.

"Because these two got lost," Mokou said, "Would-" Mokou shivered, "Kaguya mind if these two stay for the night?" Mokou asked.

"Hmmmm... let me ask..." Eirin said she closed the shoji and footsteps could be heard going away from the doors.

Inside Eientei

"The two can stay Eirin, tell Mokou to piss off... no, wait! Tell her we don't allow animals at our doorstep."

"Well, I'll make sure I'll tell Mokou about how you feel.." Eirin said. Once Eirin went outside to Mokou, Mario, and Luigi. The two brothers looked confused, whilst Mokou had agitated look on her face..

"Ermmm... the two can stay, and Kaguya said-"

"I know what she said," a fuming Mokou said, "I'll be here in the morning to pick these two up." Mokou walked away from the entrance of Eientei.

"Please come in," Eirin said.

"Um, I'll come in later," Mario said.

"Mokou!" Mario shouted at her, turns out she didn't go that far.

"Hmm?"

"So this Kaguya girl.. you must not be friendly with her.."

"We've had some history."

"Really! How far does it go back?

"What's it to you?" Mokou snapped, "godammit, I'm your guide out of this forest, not your secretary!"

"Well, sorry, just asking."

"Go inside, I'll see you tomorrow," Mokou said, Mario decided to listen and walked back to Eintei.

"Yo, Mario!" Mokou said, Mario turned around.

"Being young, especially when you can't die and you're forced to stay young forever. Something like death almost seems blissful, " Mokou was staring into the deep blue sky, "I've tried to end it myself a few times... trust me."

"Mokou, " Mario said, " I'm not your therapist, but I really think you shouldn't be so careless with yourself. Do something worthwhile! I don't know, I just met you!" Mario exclaimed.

"How do I..."

"I'm not sure... you'll figure something out, right? Until then, in the words of the late Freddie Mercury:

"keep yourself alive!"

Mario ran back to Eientei. Leaving Mokou to herself, she had a lot to think about.

Back at Eientei

"I'm back!" Mario said. Luigi, Eirin, Kaguya, Reisen, and Tewi all stared at Mario.

"Uhhhh..." Mario had strolled into a tea session, and he hadn't even taken off his shoes.

"Erm... please sit down Mr. Mario," Eirin said. The plumber had taken off his shoes and got on his knees next to his brother at the small table. Eirin set a cup of tea in front of Mario and sat back down.

Well, this is uneventful... Kaguya thought, and she was right, there was only more bizarre moments to come.

END*

Epilogue*

Mokou had been thinking about what Mario had said.

"Keep yourself alive huh?" she said to herself.

"He doesn't even know the half of it," she said with a slight smile as she walked back into the forest.