Pawns of Destiny: A Tale of Two Heroes
Chapter 12
Shy Guy Hip Hop (part 1)
The warm summer's sun high above the Mushroom Kingdom shone brightly in the sky casting rivulets of soft white light over the quite surroundings, which just happened to be the very outskirts of Koopa Village.
Luigi, with his hands resting on his head sauntered down the paved path with surrounding vegetation that was slowly giving way to small cottages, gave a loud yawn. The day, fallowing Luigi's meeting of his new travel companion had been an uneventful one.
The pair that had only known each other for mere hours had already become fast friends and chatted happily about unimportant things such as the weather and each others favorite food, which they hoped to be eating soon. In Luigi's opinion anything was better than being forced to think about the bleakness of his current situation that weighed so heavily on his mind. Being lost in a strange world of princesses and talking turtles, separated from his brother the only person apart from himself, as far as he knew, who was also from earth. Not knowing if Mario was alive and safe or- It's best not to think about such things on an empty stomach and a sleep deprived mind.
Luigi gave Sherbert a pleading look, that was almost comical, "Please tell me it isn't much further… I'm about to drop where I stand," the boy whined.
Sherbert sighed heavily, "well we are already within the town's limits," the turtle started "but I'm afraid that there isn't a restaurant or store until we get into the middle of the town; which will probably take about another hour if we keep at this pace." Sherbert couldn't help but feel bad as he saw the heartbroken look on Luigi's face. They didn't have much further to go at all, but Luigi was obviously quite tired and hungry and desperately needed to stop and rest for a while. Of course Sherbert only knew this because Luigi couldn't help but whine about it… continuously.
Luigi seemed to notice that he was starting to test his new friend's patients he quickly mumbled an apology and continued walking in silence, save for his growling stomach and string of Italian curses whenever he would stumble over his own feet from being flat out exhausted.
The awkward quiet stretched on for several minutes as the pair continued forward. Luigi looked quizzically at Sherbert who stopped, seemingly for no reason. "What's the mat—"
"Shh-shh," The little Koopa cut him off, "Do you hear that?" Luigi visibly puzzled, looked around "… hear what?"
"Listen…" The turtle ushered. Luigi stood and closed his eyes, and listened, all that he could hear was the rustling of leaves and the gentle blowing of the wind and the chirping of the birds in the trees… then a small sound reached his ears, it was very low and it was easily understandable how he missed it before. Luigi offhandedly wondered how a Koopa, with no visible ears could have such good hearing. He focused on the noise listening intently trying to discern just what it was he was listening intently to.
Hip hop, hip hop, hip, hip hop…
~Odd… it almost sounds like chanting…~ he thought
After a few more moments of silent listening, the sound to Luigi's notice was starting to grow. It was loud enough now that it was easily distinguishable from the natural sounds of their surroundings… and getting louder. "What do you suppose that i—"
Hip hop, hip hop, hip, hip hop,
hip hop hip, hip hop, hip hop!
"We've go to get out of here, now!" Sherbert whispered harshly
"Quit cutting me off didn't your Mama ever teach you any
manners?" Luigi, quite loudly, asked who was plainly annoyed by Sherbert's rudeness.
"Will you keep you voice down you idiot?!"
Sherbert's voice was still a whisper as he tried
vainly to cover Luigi's mouth, but it was pointless; the teen towered over the
turtle. He was easily three feet taller than his friend.
"Hey, that wasn't very nice…What is your problem? You--"
"Okay, okay I'm sorry now shut up… please, or they'll hear us!"
"Who?"
"No time to explain, we just have to get out of here now!" Sherbert whispered glancing around nervously and fidgeting slightly. The noise had gotten considerably closer and it had become apparent that whatever was making that noise was moving in Sherbert and Luigis' direction.
"Yeah okay fine…" Luigi said confused not bothering to keep his voice down as Sherbert had instructed, however rudely.
"and keep your voice—"
Hip hop, hip hop, hip, hip— The sounds abruptly stopped, that could only mean one thing… "oh no…They heard us," Sherbert moaned softly more to himself than to Luigi.
Hip hop hip hop hip hop…
"Come on we've got to find a place to hide!" Sherbert grabbed Luigi's hand and pulled him over to the side of the brick path they had been walking on. At the moment they were out in the open, the only place that would have been ideal for hiding was a small house about half a mile back in the direction they came. Unfortunately that was also the direction the mysterious "Hip Hop" sounds were coming from and Sherbert was NOT going to be going that way… it would be nearly a mile and a half to the next home, where they could ask the owners to allow them shelter until this unseen danger had passed; but they wouldn't make it with out being seen but whatever was making that sound.
Sherbert looked around frantically as Luigi stood lazily by waiting for his friend to instruct him on what he wanted him to be doing. Luigi in all honesty thought Sherbert was being paranoid by what sounded like nothing more than a group of kids playing some kind of game, but he would humor the turtle for no other reason than he was his friend.
"What about those bushes over there" Luigi Jerked a thumb behind him and directed Sherbert's line of vision to a small, very small, patch of shrubbery behind them.
"it looks a bit small, we might be seen… but … beggars can't be choosers, get over there!" The orange shelled Koopa pushed his friend near the bush trying to make him move a little faster. "all right, quite your pushin'!" Luigi crept down an all fours and scurried over to the bush and laid as low to the ground as he could hoping that no part of his body could be seen from the road. Sherbert took a place next to Luigi and retreated into his shell. And not a moment too soon for whatever was making Sherbert so upset was walking around the bend in a group. Luigi parted the bush just enough so that he could see a flourish of red robes cross his field of vision. All the while noisily making "hip hop" sounds.
"Hiiiiiiip HOP STOP!" A short figure wearing a black robe with it's hood up, and a white mask with two large oval shaped holes for eyes, that sort of reminded Luigi of a villain in a slasher movie he'd once seen; commanded the red robes, that stopped instantly.
"Hip hip hooop trespassers will be slopped"
"hip hop hiiiiip, find trespassers quick, quick, QUICK!!" The black one, obviously the leader, prompted the others who stood in a tight group of about 30 if Luigi's estimate was correct… it was hard to tell since they all looked exactly the same red hooded robes with white masks, he considered it possible that he may have counted some of them twice.
The group broke apart as each robed figure straying off in a different direction searching for something.
Luigi breathed easy since none of the red robes seemed to be looking anywhere near where he and Sherbert were hiding. Or so he thought.
"Hip hop, POP! Hip hop POP" Luigi nearly jumped out of his skin as an exuberant red robe, jumped up and down behind him yelling like it'd just struck the lottery for a cool million. "Shhhhhhh!!" Luigi looked around and made a grab for the hem of the robe to pull down the nusance hoping that it hadn't attracted the attention of the others.
Unfortunatly the small figure, who didn't even appear to be trying evaded all of Luigi's furious grabs for its person. Luigi still hiding behind the bush preoccupied didn't notice the little thief stealing Sherbert's shell with Sherbert still in it!
"Hip hop Pop!" it said in a 'sing-song' tone
"hip hop kid?" the leader answered
"Hiiip Hooop" it exclaimed happily and held the brightly colored orange shell above its head dancing excitedly as if it were a great honor to be in possession of a Koopa Shell in the first place.
"Hiip hooop hooray!" shouted the other reds gleefully
"hip hip hop HEL-- Mufu" Luigi had succeeded in finally capturing and quieting the source of his annoyance. Wiggling violently, and crying out with muffled "HIF HOF MELFs" Luigi's captive finally became totally quiet, But it was too late Luigi felt many small hands pull him down, Luigi felt the small figure in his hands slip free and it undoubtedly went to helping it's friends keep the plumber pinned to the ground. "leggo of me, Let GO, Sherbert heeeeeeeeelp, please!!" Luigi cried.
Thrashing violently Luigi felt more hands reach out and touch someone… too bad that someone had to be him.
"Sherbert, heeelp don't leave me here like this!" Luigi didn't know why but he was gripped with fear. The harder he fought to get up the more hands he felt pull him down.
Exausted Luigi finally gave up the fight and just lay there breathing heavily his vision swooned forcing him to close his eyes. He was feeling a bit off color for some reason.
Not that Luigi had any recollection of it, but having been a dead for a couple of hours had taken it's toll on him physically.
Luigi startled…(badly) when he felt he was no longer touching the ground, he was moving… the red robes carried Luigi down the road he lifted his head to see if Sherbert was reciving the same treatment. To his releaf and to his sorrow he couldn't see the turtle anywhere. "He… left me…" Luigi lay his head back down he felt it softly supported by a set of hands belonging to one of the mask wearing, robe having, plumber-pilfering people.
Luckily, (if you could call it that) he didn't have time to consider his hurt feelings…
Luigi felt a great weight fall onto his chest and he lifted his head slightly, opened his eyes and dizzily looked forward to see the leader of these… these whatever these guys were sitting on his chest with a smug expression… at least Luigi assumed it was a smug expression… he couldn't really tell with the mask and all. ~Great… I've become public transportation for a band of freaks in hockey masks. … I should be charging fair~ Luigi bitterly tried to shake free and make his passenger fall off, it just tired the poor boy further.
"Hey… get off of me!" Luigi said weakly, he was already so tired before his struggling had sapped what little strength he had left making him quite weak.
"Trespasser will not speak, Pop will speak hip hop trespasser will listen." The robed figure stated calmly the carriers had now begun to chant
"hip, hip hop, trespassers will be slopped; hip, hip hop, trespassers will be slopped!" quietly so not to interrupt what their leader. ~Trespassers will be slopped? Wonder what that means…~
Luigi could still hear it… and it still annoyed him, and he still contemplated going 'Bruce Lee on their sorry butts' … Just as soon as his ego recovered from being jumped and captured by a bunch'a pigmies. Sure there were a lot of them… but come on they're two nothin for cry'n out loud!
"Trespasser? This is a public road, you don't own it, I wasn't trespassing" Actually for all he knew it the land could have belonged to this guy in the Jason mask, but Luigi HIGHLY doubted that. Just who did this guy think he was?
SMACK!! Luigi was hit right in the mouth with from as far as he knew was a paper fan.
"Hip hooop Trespasser will not speak!!" The Masked figure shouted highly annoyed
"Ow what the hel—" SMACK!! "Hop hip quite it!! Only Pop will speak trespasser will NOT speak. Easy peasy to pleasey measy, you seesy? Trespasser listen now?"
Wishing that he could rub the pain off of his face Luigi settled for nodding and laying his head back down on the soft pair of hands and closed his eyes. The leader 'Pop' spoke again.
"hip hoop you did not stop, sign says stop and trespasser did no—"
"Sign what sig—" WHAP!!
~I should of known better… (;.;) ~ Luigi thought while trying to ignore the fact that he was getting slapped around by someone three-quarters of his size.
"trespassers, not read signs, trespasser not know how to KEEP QUEIT!"
"HOP HIP KID, SIGN hip hop…" Luigi felt a second person jump on the 'Luigi Express To Parts Unknown' He let out a "woof" as something weighing about as much as a good sized stone dropped onto his stomach knocking some of the wind out of him.
"Hip hop here-it-is Pop" Luigi looked up and saw the red robe hand something to the Pop which he held right in front of Luigi's face so he could see
"The sign" Pop stated flatly
Luigi looked at the octagonal sign befuddled. It was the same shape as a stop sign the background color was white with a red trim running along the outside of it and in the middle was a crudely drawn picture of him with a diagonal slash on through the middle.
"hip hop see, no trespasser, it's what the sign reads… Trespasser can read can't he? Hip hop, Pop would feel bad if trespasser had trespassed because he couldn't read the sign."
~What?? They just drew that sign, the paint is still wet!! And it doesn't even look like me… the nose is too big! _* Can I catch a break today??~
"I can read…" Luigi gasped and closed his eyes (mouth too) quickly, waiting to get smacked again...but thankfully it never came. "Good, good, trespasser is guilty; Pop would not want to punish innocents."
Luigi opened his mouth, he wanted to say some very nasty things to these pests. Pop waved the fan gently above his head and Luigi "shut his pie hole" as Mario had often told him looking quite dejected. "Trespasser has something to say?" Luigi nodded yes
"Trespasser may speak."
"I didn't trespass you guys, just made that sign right now, you don't own nothing… you're just a bunch of short bullies; and if I wasn't so tired I would do what my Mama used to do to me when I was bad as a kid and would 'tan your little bottoms'!" Having regained a small amount of his strength Luigi started to struggle once more. "Get off of me you freaky little weirdos!!" "er… but then again I don't think that's what you had in mind when you told me to speak." Luigi mumbled to himself. He knew that if saying a few words out of turn got him a smack in the face he was seriously fearing what insulting a crowd of these guys would get him.
"trespasser is tired? Hip hop"
"what?"
"Trespasser said he was tired…Trespasser must not sleep well. Pop will help ^_^"
"eh…" Luigi said obviously confused.
The masked midget put his hand behind his back and as if from nowhere he produced a rubber mallet… a rather large rubber mallet. Luigi squirmed
"Heh hey w-wha- what are you gonna do with that?"
"Help you sleep, hip hop, what else?"
THWACK!!
Goodnight Luigi! -_-!
Yo, I'm not dead!
Part two coming soon… and if you believe that I have a
bridge I would like to sell you ~ Jes :)