long time no update huh? This story is getting close to its final chapters, tear tear. Stuff is getting a little more intense now, so you are not allowed to kill me or throw things at me for whatever I choose to do! So there! La la la! I am just an innocent lil fic writer!
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It was the worst pain anyone had ever felt, it was like your lung being ripped away yet you were still on the ground gasping for breath.
And at the same time it was like a drug, seething inside and making it easier to fall down and rest, accept your demise, and embrace the feeling of the solid, cold, earth on your body.
The flashing red and orange was blinding, and came in rapid successions. It would have given you a massive head ache, but your head had no time to feel pain, what with every other body part suffering.
You felt your brain numbing, your palms sweating, and your feet and legs losing the ability to carry you.
And then just when you thought you could crawl a little longer, take another baby step forward, or grip onto someone for support………….
There was black. And the last thing you had known………… was pain.
Thousands of innocent toadstools knew just that, as they were brought to their knees by the attack of the Sarasa's extremely lethal bob-omb.
So many soldiers now lie in the hospital wing, with the chancellor among them. Common people and members of the royal family were scattered in a lifeless manner.
The bob-omb had done just what it had intended, wiped out almost an entire realm and then some, and the tragedy that had just occurred, was only the beginning. Just now things were beginning to heat up and take a turn for the worse, especially when the sarasa's made their one major mistake.
Just before the bob omb had gone off Frog had talked Daisy and Mario into going on a bit of a journey with him. "We have to find out who stole Peach's broach!" He cried going frantic.
"It's just a gaudy piece of jewelry! Let it go!" Mario cried.
"You don't understand, Mario! The Sarasa's could do something dangerous if they get their hands on that gem! We have to find it and retrieve it."
Mario frowned. "It will do no good to just FIND it. How are WE supposed to protect ourselves from the opposition and guard this oh-so powerful gem?"
"I'm not an idiot Mario! We will return it to the king or the chancellor of course!"
"Oh, and then what Frog? Shall we say 'ya, umm, we found your princess's dead body and we've been hiding from your soldiers with the enemy this entire time in a little cabin'? ya! Brilliant!"
Daisy looked at Mario feeling hurt. So she was even just the enemy to HIM now too. This suddenly painted a much clearer picture of things.
"Mario, there's going to be another battle sooner or later, you can't hide out forever." Frog said sounding exasperated.
"Well, suicide seemed to work for Peach so-" Mario stopped in silence and looked forward, "do you see that?" he asked.
"What?" frog replied.
"That lumpy thing in the bushes." Mario said with a slightly lighter voice.
Frog and Mario stepped towards the bush when suddenly what could now be seen as a man in a cloak tried to scamper off in desperation.
"COME BACK HERE!" Frog cried, yanking him back by his cloak before he could get even a foot out of the way.
"get off me!" the man cried trying to wiggle himself free.
Mario recognized that voice. He angrily whipped the cloak off of the man's body. Once he saw who it really was, he could only stand there, mouth open.
"TOAD?" he cried taking a few steps back. "I… I can't… but…but how?"
Toad just snickered a little. "Simple, Mario, I faked my own death."
Frog looked a bit teary eyed. It was obvious how disappointed he was in his older brother. "But, why? Why would you do such a thing, Toad?"
Toad snickered once more. "Because that sappy excuse for a princess had run her country into the ground, if I faked my own death, I'd sneak that naïve moron Luigi some information, the princess would be dead, and I would lead that boy to success. The mushroom kingdom would be nothing but a memory."
Toad stood there, beaming in spite of himself, when suddenly….
He felt a hard punch to the jaw and Mario plopped himself down on top of the traitor, strangling and beating him. "NEVER call Peach a sap, or Luigi Naïve… ever!!!!" He shrieked thrashing Toad to let out his bottled rage.
Toad Pushed Mario off of him, displaying a lot of defensive skill for someone of his size. "You can't order me around! The sarasa's are in control now. You won't be living for much longer." Toad said adding a cackle to finish his statement off.
"all you are is a filthy traitor! If I slipped you a few coins right now you'd tell me everything I need to know, than it'd reciprocate to the sarasa's, and so on! You'll never be loyal to anyone!" Mario spat.
"No, you have it completely wrong." Toad sniggered. "The sarasa's know what they're doing, and I've learned a few things." He then took out a gun and forced Frog and Mario to the ground. "Now that I've let you in on my dirty little secret, you'll be taking it with you to hell."
Mario couldn't take this; he wouldn't allow himself to be shot by an old friend. The Toadstool's wouldn't be let down.
With nothing but pure rage backing him up and fueling him, he wrestled Toad down to the ground and pulled the gun out of his grasp. "Looks Like I'M in charge now!"
Toad stuttered. "Llll-ook. Lets not do anything crazy!"
"The rules are simple. You tell us where Peach's broach is, and the Toadstool's take you a part, as opposed to me." Mario said viciously.
Toad's eyes widened. "There is no broach."
"WHAT?" Mario cried feeling a bloodthirsty instinct and cocking the gun as he rested his foot on Toad's stomach.
"At least not anymore! It's been used!"
"For what?"
"For-for…. For a bomb that Luigi is planting in the mushroom kingdom!"
Mario and Frog looked at each other in fright.
"We have to warn the chancellor!" frog cried.
"there isn't enough time! It should be going off within a matter of minutes!" Toad declared.
"Than how the hell do WE keep ourselves safe?" Mario asked.
Toad looked off in the distance innocently.
Mario stepped down harder on Toad's stomach. "I SAID How do WE keep ourselves safe?"
Gasping for breath Toad said, "Take…. These…. And put them on now…… but remember…… they…. Only last…….. a little while………"
Frog and Mario took the two caps Toad held in his hands, which were metal caps, they both were about to put them on when suddenly they realized they hadn't seen Daisy in a little while.
"Daisy?" Mario cried. "DAISY!!!"
He accidentally released Toad as he and Frog started pacing and screaming Daisy's name hoarsely.
Toad grasped that instance for his escape and quickly tossed on a wing cap, doing 3 flips in the air before taking off and soaring gracefully through the sky.
"How could you be so freaking thick? How could you not notice she was gone?" Mario yelled thumping Frog on the chest.
"you didn't exactly let me know she had evacuated either, PAL!" Frog bellowed giving Mario a push.
Mario whirled around and saw nothing behind him but an empty cloak.
"Now Toad has escaped!" He shouted whirling his arms in the air and stomping his feet.
"Come on! Hurry up and put this metal cap on, we've got no time to save Daisy, hopefully she made it back to Sarasaland."
So the two put on their metal caps and dashed towards Frog's cabin, just as the bob-omb's power was unleashed.
The two lost their balance and fell to the ground, remaining there as they waited for this to end, praying that the metal caps didn't wear off.
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Luigi was practically hyperventilating. He had barely made it back through the warp pipe before the bob omb had gone off, and his gangly build didn't make maneuvering his way out of danger any easier.
But now he was back in the safety of one of the remaining Sarasaland castles, wishing he could only have seen the havoc that marvelous bob omb was reeking.
It was supposed to be his moment to soak in the glory, the moment that is brave endeavor would win him gloating rights.
That's when he saw his little spy dropping from the sky and taking a rough tumble to the ground. He wasn't wearing his cloak, which was rather unsettling. Toad never walked about the Mushroom lands with his cloak off.
Luigi ran over to the small man as he was dusting himself off. "Toad, what are you doing?" he asked
"I'm sorry, please forgive me! Please forgive me sir!" Toad cried practically groping Luigi's shins.
"What have you done?"
Toad's eyes practically explained the whole thing. You could tell that his heart was hammering fast enough to punch a hole through his chest.
"I…. I…. Got found out!" he weeped curling up in a ball by Luigi's feet.
"YOU WHAT?"
"by…. Mario!"
"This is fine! This is just GREAT Toad! Now what are we going to do? The Toadstool's will be searching high and low, if you even try to apologize to them you'll be blown to pieces before you're within 100 feet!"
Toad looked up at Luigi and replied, "So what's the plan?"
Luigi looked appalled. "What's the plan? You're asking ME? Why don't you do the thinking for a change?"
"I've had all the hard work! Did you honestly think that this would go on forever!"
"You were supposed to be more careful!"
"You're selfish Luigi! You thought that if I did your dirty work you'd earn the glory. I risked getting killed so you'd look like a hero!!"
"Don't blame me! You didn't seem to mind it when I was paying you!"
Toad just glared at his partner. Not a single word could summarize how he felt.
"You're more trouble than you're worth Toad! And when it's between you, or the Sarasa's I think I know the smarter choice."
And that was Toad's last moment alive. Luigi killed him. Let his blood drip from his fingers and the horrified expression on the face of his rotting corpse captured the horrid life of fear he had to live. His deceit had finally caught up with him…….
Ha ha ha ha ha! Flames all around! At least I'll be all nice and warm! He he he he. R+ r!
