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Jeshi: Another chapter finally! ^.^

Larry: It's been a…week, hasn't it? O_o

Jeshi: u.u..I don't care!! All I know is that I'm back, I'm ready to write, so MWAHAHAAHA!! ^.^ I haven't had any time to all week!! *

Larry: Bad….

Jeshi: VERY BAD!! T_T

Larry: And Jeshi doesn't own anything from Mario…

Jeshi: *taunting Piranha plant with a hot dog* Heehee! Here, you go…*hands it to the Piranha plant, who goes to eat it, but Jeshi pulls it away* HAHA! Just kidding! Here you go…*hands it back, pulls it away again* HAHA! Just kidding!! (and this continues for a couple of hours)
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Larry awoke the next day, his face resting in the dirt. He climbed up and looked around him. It was clearly day time, the sky was a deep blue hue with a few clouds. And there were people walking about in their own business.

It was sort of strange…he didn't even recognize the town he was in. Nothing seemed familiar. And the people..the people were even different! Or were they? They carried on about their business, and didn't even notice him. What was the matter with these people? Usually when they saw him, they'd run for their lives…but these people weren't.

They gave him weird looks…but they didn't run.

'These people have gone insane!!!!' Larry thought to himself. He felt a horrible grumbling pain deep within his stomach…the most common and obvious sign of hunger. Great. He had to find his way back to the castle, and now he had to find food!

Then he wondered….what about his siblings? And his dad? Did they know that he didn't come home last night?…Maybe they didn't notice? Maybe they didn't care?…What if he didn't find his way back home? No..he didn't want to think about it. He felt that if he thought about it, it would UPSET him…ha! That was a laugh…he never got upset about anything! He'd find his way back….he knew it.

He decided to venture a bit, when his arm was suddenly grabbed by a young looking lady. He turned and looked at her, expecting her to scream and run, or panic when she saw him, but she didn't. She stared in his eyes, and smiled eagerly.

"Child, looking for something, you are!" She said with quite a strange accent…it reminded him of those crazy gypsy women. Larry shook his head at her.

"Why do YOU need to know?" He snapped at her. Honestly, WHY did she need to know? Not like anyone cared anyway…

"Ahhh…but wondering I was…"she replied to him.

"Well, DON'T wonder, leave me alone!" he said hotly, "I'm not looking for anything, I'm just fine!"

"But Child…see do I in the eyes of yours…lost something you did…looking for it are you. Lost you are? Home finding you must?" she asked, still staring at him. He opened his eyes widely…it was strange, he could actually understand her crazy talk…and yet…HOW did she know?

"How…how did you know?" He asked alarmed. She smiled again.

"Precious thing home is to lose…figure much do I that come you from place of other night of last! Sleep do I not, watch did I from window of mine, see I did, you on earth you sleep on."

"You aren't making any sense, lady!" He said angrily. He tried to leave, but she kept her hold on him.

"Hungry koopa creature of strange is!" She said happily. Larry suddenly stopped trying to get away, and turned to face her.

"Wow…someone actually knows what I am around here…and yet, you don't run?" He asked.

"Run not I! Eat Child must! Sleeping place needs he for nights of any other he want."

Larry let her pull him into a nearby house. And instantly, she was cooking…whatever it was on the little stove she had in the corner of the tiny kitchen. Larry sat and looked around. There were dark curtains in many places…and she had a LOT of books. He then turned back to her.

"Are you….psychic or something?" He asked her. He assumed she must have been…who else decorates their home like this? And then again…who TALKS like that? Or who can read his mind like that?! She stared at him for a few seconds, then gave a mystifying-like smile.

"Maybe am I…maybe not I…" was all she said. He stared at her some more.

"But…you had guessed what was on my mind outside," he said.

Her mystifying smile then turned sweet, and her accent had suddenly disappeared when she replied, "Actually..it was pretty obvious. We've never seen any of your kind around here, koopa. NO ONE here besides me knows who or what you are. The people, they've never seen koopas before. So they don't consider you a threat. Anyway..like I was saying, it was pretty obvious that you were lost or something, because you had nowhere to sleep. I saw you sleeping outside, so I sat by the window and watched you all night, just seeing if you moved at all. It wasn't until you got up this morning and looked around with such confusion on your face that I decided to go see you."

He stared at her with eyes wide. No one here had seen or heard of a koopa?! Man, these people WERE crazy!!

"Hey…where's your accent?!" Larry asked suddenly.

"I don't really have an accent…I just use it to make myself more mysterious sounding…everyone in the village seems to think that I'm some sort of psychic or something, like I can predict the future…but they don't realise that I'm not. I just look in the person's eyes…I watch them…and I know. There's nothing special about what I do. I'm nothing but a phoney, but I don't charge people for it, no matter how much they offer. Because they can just get the same advice from anyone in town if they really looked," she answered.

"Wow…you learn something new everyday, I guess…" Larry stared down at the floor, when they heard a knock at the door.

"Who be at door of mine?" the lady suddenly called through the door, her 'accent' returning.

"Sheila! Sheila!! I really need your help!" came a woman's voice. The one now known as Sheila had then answered the door, and a short woman ran inside.

"Help need you?" Sheila asked the little woman standing in front of her.

"Yes!! Yes, exactly! You know that little baker man, right? You remember me telling you about him, right? Well…well…I…well.." the woman hysterically spat out.

"Talk to him you want?" Sheila asked. The woman nodded insanely, "not knowing of words must say you to him? Love you want him to?"

"Yes, PLEASE help, Sheila…what should I do?"

"Ahhhh….spirits of many say that confidence big help indeed. Mention you must about yellow flowers," Sheila replied mysteriously. The short woman nodded, attentively paying attention to her.

"Yellow flowers? Confidence? Okay…thank you SO much!" the woman said, then she ran out the door.

Larry sat around staring boringly.

"Okay…now WHY did you say that?" he asked Sheila. Sheila laughed as she closed the door that the wild woman had left wide open.

"She comes to see me everyday to talk about this baker…and this baker….does the same thing…and he talks about her. They both love each other. So I told the baker the other day that his one true love will tell him that she likes 'yellow flowers'…" she trailed off and grinned widely when she saw the astonished look on the little blue-haired koopa sitting there staring at her still. If his eyes went any wider…his eyeballs would have fallen out!

"And you just told her to tell him that she likes yellow flowers!!!….I see…."he replied, still staring in disbelief…so she was right…she wasn't psychic…she was just seeing what everyone else was missing.

"Where do you live, little koopa?" she asked him eagerly. Larry suddenly shook himself. He forgot that he was supposed to find his way home right now! Not talk with these pathetic town folk..but…he had to find out where he was.

"…Dark World, where is it from here?!" he suddenly asked. (A/N: That's not where he lives, you say? I'm sorry, people…;;;just the people who think I'm wrong!!;;;…but I heard that they lived in Dark World…5 sites have told me…frequently updated, going by what I found! ^_6)

"I'm sorry…but I've never heard of that place…." she answered, frowning slightly. Larry sighed tiredly. This was going to take a while…a little longer than he thought.

"…Where am I?" He then asked. She frowned even more when he asked that question.

"…The reason why no one has ever heard of us…or has heard of this town….is because it has no name….we aren't even on a map…"she replied sadly.

Okay, this was nuts…he was hungry, he REALLY needed to find his home…he didn't know where Dark World was….and now he was stuck in a town that wasn't even on a map!?!? This was completely insane!!! It was if he wasn't meant to go home….home….

The word rang through his head. What was this feeling? The castle, his family…the word 'home' was all he could think about for some reason…and the stomach pain wasn't JUST from him being hungry…

Was he…feeling 'home sick?'…

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Larry: HAHAHA!! THAT is funny!! ME? HOMESICK!! HAHAHAHA!! ^_^

Jeshi: *rolls eyes* Whatever…leave me alone.

Larry: Heheheheheheheehehehe….

Jeshi: SHUSH IT!! *throws a bob-omb at him*

Larry: ACK!! *

Jeshi: ^_6 Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up soon!
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