Mario woke up with a start, as if from a bad dream.
He held his head as he tried to remember what had happened; but it hurt too much to try and think. He looked around, but didn't see his brother anywhere.
"Luigi!" He called...a shot of pain to, his already throbbing, head made him stop abruptly.
He growled in aggravation.
"Luigi where are you?" Mario shouted despite the pain it caused.
There was no answer...
He remembered even though he didn't want to. He was about to give Bowser a serious beat down when that other Koopa waved it's wand and Mario ended up here. But where was here?
Mario looked around; he was in a field full of flowers.
A pungent aroma hung in the air.
"Would you mind not shouting, please?"
Mario spun around quickly to find...no one?
"Who said that, show yourself?" He looked around trying to find the person speaking.
"You are a silly one aren't you?"
"I'm in no mood to play games! Who are you and what do you want?"
"I want you to stop shouting. And look towards the sound of my voice."
Mario finally found where the voice was coming from. A giant plant that was blowing, of all things, bubbles.
Mario jumped back in surprise, then walked up to the flower and touched one of its petals gently.
The flower giggled "Fresh!" Mario stumbled backwards and fell.
"That's it I've snapped..."
"Oh that's just awful, you've snapped one of your leaves? What kind of flower are you?"
"I'm not a flower..."
"Oh no you're a weed? Oh go away you retched, retched, weed!" The flower began to shiver with fear.
"I'm not a weed either."
"A bug?" The flower asked Mario shook his head.
"I'm a person."
"Oh I've heard of those before, persons are so nice they water you and put you in a nice yummy sunbeam..."
"People..." Mario said
"What?"
"People are so nice..." Mario corrected.
"Are they as nice as persons?" The flower asked brightly, Mario slapped his forehead.
"It's been nice talking to you but I have to go. I have to find my brother."
Mario began to walk away, when the flower spoke to him again.
"I can help you find your brother..."
Mario turned around "You can?"
"Yup..."
"How?"
"My names bubble flower, wanna know why I'm called bubble flower?" Mario really didn't want to know. But if this plant could help him find Luigi, then he was more than willing to humor it.
Mario nodded yes.
"Because of this..." The flower began to blow a bubble from the center of its petals.
"Uh...that's very nice, quite impressive, but how are you going to help me find my brother?"
The plant didn't answer it just kept blowing the bubble.
It got bigger...and bigger ...and bigger...and bigger...until it was so big that a person could fit inside.
"Well what do you think of that?" The plant said out of breath.
The bubble gently floated over to Mario engulfed him and started to rise.
"H...Hey w...what's going on?" Mario spluttered
"With a birds eye view you'll be able to spot your brother in no time." The flower said cheerfully.
"N...n...no w...w...wait-" Mario stammered as the bubble rose even higher.
"No need to thank me..." The flower waved a leaf good by as Mario drifted up and out of sight.
"Such a nice people." The flower said to itself and continued blowing bubbles.
High in the sky Mario was doing his best to stay calm.
"Mama-mia I hate heights" He mumbled as looked for his brother, praying that the bubble wouldn't pop.
Luigi cried hugging his blankie in one arm, his favorite stuffed toy dinosaur in the other.
Mario on his way back to his bed, from the bathroom, heard the bawling and went to investigate.
He found his four-year-old little brother out side of his room crying.
"Shhhh! Stop crying you'll wake up mama. What's with those crocodile tears?" Mario asked
"I had a scary dream." The boy sobbed as he struggled to breathe. He was really upset.
"I want my mama!"
"No you can't wake up mama, she worked so hard today, and she's really tired." Mario told the crying child. He cried louder
"Cut it out... tell me what mama does when you have a bad dream and I'll do it."
Luigi calmed down a little and told Mario...
"First she gets me a glass of warm milk..."
"I'm not aloud the use the stove, how about cold milk?" Mario asked Luigi nodded
Mario and Luigi went to the kitchen. Mario got his little brother a glass of milk.
"Now what?"
"Mama tucks me in..."
Mario led Luigi back to his room and Luigi climbed into bed and Mario covered him up.
"Any thing else?"
"She kisses me and tells me that dreams aren't real..."
Mario was sort of embarrassed; but kissed the top of Luigi's head.
"Bo, too." Luigi held up the, green velvet, dinosaur.
"No, I'm not going to kiss your stuffed animal!" Mario said shaking his head.
Luigi sniffled he was going to start crying again.
"Ok, ok, but if you ever tell anyone I did this I'll tickle you till you throw-up." Mario made a face; but kissed Bo.
"What did you have a bad dream about anyway?"
"Ghosts" Luigi answered
"Ghosts? You don't have to be afraid of ghosts."
"I don't?"
"No, cause I would beat them up if they tried to hurt you."
"Really Mario?"
"Yeah"
"But they're really, really scary." Luigi trembled a little
"Whenever you feel scared of a ghost just keep telling yourself they're not real."
"Ok." Mario started for the door "Thanks Mario"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, go back to sleep will ya?"
Luigi snuggled down in his sheets and drifted of to sleep.
Every muscle ached there wasn't a spot on Luigi that didn't have some bruise or bleeding cut or scratch.
"Uhg, who would have thought that getting slammed through a brick wall, twice, could hurt so much." Luigi painfully got up and looked around for his brother.
He was very sad when he remembered the last words that weird Koopa said to him
~You'll never see your brother again~
~What did he mean by that? Is Mario...No! I can't think that way! Mario's alive I just have to find him that's all~
Luigi saw a large house off in the distance he started to walk towards it. After about ten minutes he finally reached the porch. The house was dilapidated Luigi wasn't sure if any one even lived there now. He heard a rumbling in the distance...Thunder it was going to rain. Luigi stepped on to the porch and knocked on the door.
"Hello? Is anyone home? I'm lost and I was wondering if you could help me!"
"The door creaked open and Luigi stepped inside the house. He looked around all the chairs and tables were covered by, dusty, cloths. The whole place was a maid's nightmare.
"I guess this house is abandoned...no sense staying here if I can't get any help." Luigi turned to leave a gust of wind nearly knocked him off his feet. Out side it was pouring. The rain came down in sheets. A loud crash of thunder shook the whole house. And scared Luigi out of his boxers.
"Looks like I found a good reason to stay" Luigi closed the door and decided to search the huge house for useful supplies.
To be continued...
A Pic that I drew on my pc it's called Luigi "N" Bo it's on fellow author, artist and IM buddy Koji's site here's a Link
http://www.geocities.com/saiiko/Guest_Jes_bo.gif
Hope you like it to keep the file size down for Koji I sent it without the back round but it still looks good... Enjoy!
Next chapter: Untitled as of yet. Mario gets into a bit of trouble on the search for his brother, When he runs into a few of Bowser's minions that are up to no good.
Luigi has troubles of his own when he finds out that the house he's in is haunted (Has nothing to do with the game "Luigi's mansion") And well see what Toad's up to. Bowser makes a small appearance as well.