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Matchmaker: Chapter Two
Princess Peach paced across the hallway red-carpeted floor, before taking a deep breath. All of the guests had left.
"How can Mario be in love with Bowser?" she asked herself.
"Bowser obviously had something to do with this," Toad opinionated.
Peach raised an eyebrow. "Why would Bowser want his rival and arch enemy, Mario, the good guy, might I add, to fall in love with him?" she asked, trying to calm down.
Toad thought about it for a minute. "Well…maybe Bowser didn't want Mario to fall in love with him. Maybe he wanted someone else to fall in love with him…?" Toad guessed. "I mean he was fuming when Mario started chasing him."
Peach slowly nodded. "Maybe you're right! Who would he want to fall in love with him, though?"
Peach and Toad exchanged glances. "Me?" Peach asked doubtfully. "Well, during Mario's paper adventure…I did find Bowser's diary…" she recalled, pacing back and forth, "and in it, he wrote that he secretly liked me," she shuddered before continuing, "and that's why he kept kidnapping me!"
Toad gasped. "Then that was it! He was trying to get you to fall in love with him, but somehow it turned out Mario loved him…" Toad tried to put the pieces together.
"Wait a minute," Peach stopped pacing, "Mario fainted in my arms, right before he fell in love with Bowser…"
"…As if he had gotten hit by something…" Toad continued.
"…Like an arrow…" Peach continued.
"…A love arrow!" they exclaimed in unison.
"That's it! Somehow, Bowser got hold of a love arrow, and was aiming at me, and Mario got in the way. So, after getting hit with the love arrow, the first thing Mario saw was Bowser," Peach said, "and now he claims he's in love with Bowser," she concluded, balling her fist and slamming it down into her open hand.
Meanwhile…
"I-a love you!" Mario exclaimed happily, as he looked at Bowser, who was angrily seated in a cold metal chair, with his right arm propping his head up lazily.
"How could you aim at Mario?" Bowser hissed angrily at Cupia.
"I didn't mean to, your evilness, but Peach moved the minute I shot the arrow, and Mario moved where she had been…and…" Cupia sadly stopped, to glance at a laughing Koopa. Koopa was laughing so hard in his stall; he was pounding the hard metal floor.
"Shut up," Cupia scowled at Koopa.
"Make me," Koopa stuck out his tongue, before continuing his laugh attack.
Cupia rolled his eyes before glancing at Bowser. "Is there any way we can reverse the spell?" he asked him.
"How should I know?" Bowser asked angrily, in a huff. "I'm not the cupid, here!" he said angrily.
"Whoa…take a chill pill," Toad advised. "Mario's not that bad –"
Bowser shot him a threatening glance, and Toad swallowed his comments with his bravery.
"Mario's not in love with you, now is he? You wouldn't know how bad he is!" Bowser boomed angrily at Toad.
"Anyway, Cupia," Bowser turned to Cupia. "Do you have like…a manual or something, that goes with being a Cupid?"
Cupia nodded. "Yep," he said, pulling out a manual from somewhere behind his back.
"How did you do that?" Koopa asked curiously, stopping his laugh attack.
Cupia shrugged. "I dunno, do I look like the writer to you?"
Koopa raised his eyebrow. "Whatever."
Cupia cleared his throat before professionally putting on reading glasses and scanning his manual.
A few minutes passed. "Is this going to take all day?" Toad asked impatiently.
Cupia rolled his eyes, before resuming scanning the manual. "Ah," he said finally, "here it is!" he pointed triumphantly at page 189 of the manual.
"Just hurry up and tell us how to reverse the spell!" Bowser said quickly, eyeing the love-dazed Mario, who was trying to hug him.
"Well," Cupia said, reading over the page before looking up at Bowser, "prince charming will make his premiere right about now…" Cupia snapped his fingers and a tall, handsome young man with brown hair, and baggy blue pants appeared. "…And he has to kiss Mario to wake him from his eternal sleep." Cupia threw his reading glasses over his shoulder, and set the book down.
Bowser looked at Cupia like 'what the heck are you talking about?'. "Mario's not doomed for an eternal sleep though, you idiot!" he raged as Mario kissed Bowser lovingly on the cheek.
"No-a need to get upset-a my sweet ravioli puff," Mario said romantically, as Bowser frowned.
"Cupia, find the real spell," he tried to be calm, before looking at Mario, as Mario puckered up to kiss him. "FAST!" Bowser raged angrily.
"It's gotta be here somewhere," Cupia tried to be reasonable, scanning through the book.
"Hey…uh, where am I?" Prince Charming asked obliviously, looking around the cold, dark metal dungeon.
Bowser growled angrily. "In the dungeon," he fumed, kicking Prince Charming into a dungeon stall.
Prince Charming seemed to relax. "Oh, okay. Just wondering," he said calmly, smiling a large smile that revealed his perfect pearly whites.
Koopa and Cupia exchanged cocked-eyebrow glances, before Cupia continued to search his manual.
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Meanwhile, back at the castle…
Peach looked down at herself. She was wearing a tight black suit that people wear when they're spy's.
"I don't know about this," Peach started.
"It's okay, princess," Toad reassured, "we'll both sneak to Bowser's Dungeon Chamber, we'll catch subject A," Toad pointed professionally to a drawing he had planned out. "Which is really Mario," he said, "and you'll kiss him, and he'll snap back to reality, realizing that he actually doesn't love Bowser, he loves you!" Toad shoved the professional drawing down his black spy outfit's front pocket.
"Actually, I was going to say," Peach posed in front of the mirror, "do you really think black is my colour? I knew I should've ordered the one in pink…" she frowned.
Toad fell over anime style. After surfacing he pulled Peach out of the front door by her wrist. "No time for games, princess. Now, it's serious."
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Meanwhile, at Bowser's Dungeon Chamber…
Bowser was checking his watch impatiently as Cupia continued to search.
"Ah-ha!" he yelled happily. "Here it is!"
"That's what you said last time," Koopa said dryly, "and it resulted as this," he said sarcastically, pointing at Prince Charming, as Prince Charming shot him a charming toothy smile. Koopa sighed. "I rest my case."
"No, this time its really it!" Cupia said excitedly, grabbing his reading glasses. "After shooting a love arrow, to make someone fall in love with you, the only way to make the person back to normal is to…" Cupia gasped.
"What?" Bowser asked.
"Yeah, what?" Toad and Koopa asked in unison, as Cupia gulped.
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Meanwhile…
(Mission Impossible music plays in the background).
Peach threw her climbing hook high over Bowser's dungeon. She tugged on it firmly, and it didn't budge.
"Hang on, Toad," she said, grabbing hold of the mushroom retainer as she slowly climbed up the wall.
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"I have to what?" Bowser asked angrily.
"Kiss Mario…" Cupia repeated sadly. "That's the only way."
Koopa and Toad laughed.
"Kissy, kissy!" Toad taunted, pretending to pucker up.
Bowser rolled his eyes and frowned.
"Bowser and Mario, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Koopa chortled.
"Shut up," Bowser hissed angrily.
"Ooh, Mr. Sensi~tive," Koopa taunted.
Bowser growled, and Koopa fell over with laughter.
"So are you going to kiss him today, or next week?" Cupia asked sarcastically, tapping his watch impatiently.
Bowser growled. "Hey, I don't see you kissing your Italian arch-rival!" he yelled angrily, "I'll do it when I'm ready!"
"You're ready?" Toad repeated.
"You mean…after you confess your undeniable love?" Koopa asked, pointing to Bowser, "or before?" he fell over laughing.
"Shut up or you'll have to kiss me!" Bowser threatened angrily, slowly moving towards Mario.
Toad frowned. "Eww! That would be sooo totally gross!" he cringed.
Koopa cringed, too. "Bad picture…" he shook his head violently, as Bowser towered over him.
"Pucker up!" he threatened in a yell. Koopa backed away to the back of his dungeon stall.
"You know what? I'm actually all booked up at the moment. Maybe later? Like…when I'm dead?" Koopa said quickly.
Bowser smiled falsely. "Oh, you've taken the liberty to allow me to kill you? How sweet," he said, frowning and opening his mouth to breathe fire on Koopa, as Koopa shook with fear.
Crash
Bowser closed his mouth tightly, and turned away from Koopa. "Did you hear that?" he growled, as Koopa sighed in relief.
"No, we're deaf," Cupia relied flatly. Bowser glared at him, before looking up at the ceiling.
"It sounded like it came from up there…" he said suspiciously.
Meanwhile, on the roof…
"Princess," Toad frowned. "We have no time for falling on the roof," he pointed out.
Peach dusted off her dress as she stood up from falling. "Yeah, I know," she said.
"Hey, what's this?" Peach asked, pushing a red button.
Meanwhile…
Bowser towered toward Mario. "Alright Mario, do your worst," he said angrily, turning away and closing his eyes shut. Mario jumped excitedly, and puckered up.
"Come-a here!" he said happily, pulling Bowser towards him, as Bowser regretfully puckered up, too. They were inches away from each other, when -
"Ahh!" Peach and Toad fell in the dungeon.
They looked around for a bit, before Peach blinked, wide-eyed at what she saw.
Bowser and Mario were kissing.
"Mario!" she yelled angrily. "How could you!" Mario and Bowser stopped kissing to look at her.
"Remember princess, he got hit by the love arrow…" Toad explained quickly.
"Oh right," Peach smiled. "Okay, you can continue then," she said. Mario took that as an opportunity to show Bowser what he was made of. Bowser got wide-eyed.
Toad cocked an eyebrow at Peach, along with Koopa, the other Toad and Cupia.
"Wait…" Peach squinted her eyes, and thought for a minute. "Bowser, unhand Mario at once!" she demanded, finally.
"Or else what?" Bowser asked with an evil smile.
"Or else…" she thought.
Later…
"Or else I'll get stuck in your crummy dungeon," she said flatly to herself, sadly holding on to two dungeon stall bars, inside of her dungeon stall. Toad gently patted her shoulder.
"Everything will be alright," he reassured her.
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The real question is…will everything be all right? Hmm…even I don't know. *sweat drop* Lol! Anyway, reviews are greatly appreciated!
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Satokasu Suki
