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***Another reminder on who's who: (Mario); [Luigi]; *(Peach)*; Me***
Peach looked around. "Well, where should we start?"
….At the beginning.
(Grrr….)
You deserved that one, buddy.
[Leave us alone, why don't you?]
Fine. I'll go, even though I know the secret to get out of here…
*(What??)*
(She's bluffing.)
[Who votes to keep this story going before the readers die and rot in their chairs of boredom?]
They moved carefully through the maze, staying close together. After what seemed like hours, they stopped and rested. Luigi looked up at the ceiling. "I could have sworn we've been here before," he mumbled.
"Well, I didn't see you leading the way through this heck of a situation." Mario retorted. "If you have a problem with the way I'm directing you, go ahead and be the leader!"
"Fine! I'll do a better job than you ever will…"
Peach spoke up. "Jealous are we?"
"Hey!" Luigi yelled back. "Our sibling rivalry is none of your business!" They kept walking, aimlessly following the long circles of mirrors. What seemed like more hours later, they stopped again.
"Look familiar to you?" grumbled Mario.
"Ah, who asked you?"
"Yo, Lewis and Clark! Maybe if we stopped fighting we'd get a lot more done," suggested Peach tersely.
"Who deemed you the ruler of my life?" demanded Mario. He turned to Luigi. "And you! Why don't you just go your own way, and I'll go mine!"
"Oh, is that the way you want it?"
"Yeah, you heard me, you aqua-phobic freak!!"
Luigi went red in the face, then attacked his brother head on. The two of them wrestled around for what seemed like even more hours, especially to Peach. She just rolled her eyes and tried looking for a door.
The Marios took no notice of her, but continued to fight. And they fought dirty! Biting, clawing, punching, and kicking. (We won't say where for that last one.)
Peach moved along the mirrored walls in the area the plumbers were wrestling, keeping her hands on the glass, and pushing on a panel once in a while. She stopped, exasperated, and cried out, "Can one of you idiot plumbers please help me??"
She leaned heavily on a mirror behind her, which happened to be the one she was looking for. It lifted up from behind her, and Peach tumbled back into darkness, screaming.
Now the brothers looked up. They stared at the panel as it slowly closed.
"Peach!" yelled Luigi. They untangled themselves and scrambled for the mirror just as it shut. They frantically pushed at it, yelling for the Princess. Their efforts were futile, and they sat exhausted on the floor opposite each other. They caught their breath, and glared at one another. They started yelling at the same time…
"Why weren't you watching her??"
"If you had half a brain, you'd have…"
Sigh. You'd think they would have learned by now, but nooo…
"Don't make me come over there, you skinny little…," threatened Mario.
"Bring it on, fat freak!!" shouted Luigi angrily.
Mario had taken only two out-raged steps when the floor beneath him gave way and formed a steep slide. He disappeared, and his yells died away as Luigi stood there in shock. He came to himself and raced to the opening, but again, he was too late. He knelt there, stunned. He jumped when he heard a loud voice resound through the hall. "If you had half a brain," Bowser repeated the words. "You'd have…..…listened to my advice!!!" His laughter again faded away, leaving Luigi alone. Alone in the nightmarish corridors. Alone in the house of horrors