Chapter 2: Enter the Two
"Find that damn detective character and kill him." Said a cloaked mushroom-shaped figure on a throne.
"Yes sir." Came a growl on the other side of the room.
The monstrous koopa was pleased to be out of his master's castle and on the road to his own. He looked out the window of his speeding coach to see the trees whiz by in a blur of green and brown. He thought about how to find the "damn detective" in such a vast kingdom.
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The prince looked outside his coach to see trees and the tower of the castle. So many damn trees, he though. He had just received word that his sister, who he hadn't seen in years, was murdered brutally and raped!
"Driver." He yelled out the window.
"Yes sir?" called the small mushroom man in response.
"Faster, we must get there before sundown."
The mushroom man cracked his whip and the horses escalated from a fast trot to a flat out run. Within fifteen minutes, they had reached the castle. When he exited his coach, the King of Mushroom Kingdom and Detective Porcini greeted him.
"Greetings Prince Toadstool," said the nervous detective and offered his hand in a shake.
The prince brushed by and went to hug his father. The queen of mushroom kingdom had died five years earlier after being run over by a runaway coach.
"Son! It's been to long," said the King, "Come, come in and let me show you to your room."
"Thank you father. I am devastated by the death of my beloved sister." He said as he wiped a tear and followed his father through the main gates. As they rounded the corner of a long corridor on their way to their room, they saw a figure lying on the floor. The king yelled for his servants and as he got closer, he realized it was the figure of a mushroom boy, who had been slashed but appeared to be alive.
"CALL THE MARIO BROTHERS!!" yelled the king as the medical team examined the boy and took him to the medical ward on a stretcher made of leaves and sticks. The King and Prince Toadstool had been waiting in the throne room for hours. Mario and Luigi came running in to the throne room, out of breath, buttoning their famed overalls and putting on their hats.
"What happened?" said Mario, out of breath.
"There was a boy, found in the hall cut up pretty bad. He mumbled something about murder attempt and the princess." Replied the King.
The three went to see the boy and asked him what happened.
"Mushroom manbig knifesaid princesshe killed Peach" the boy said with big breaths in between words, then his heart monitor went flat.