Chapter 11: Evacuation
Luigi, Toad, and Daisy were all sitting in the drawing room that afternoon. Toad and Daisy were involved in an engrossing conversation while Luigi sat vaguely following it. Several times he looked out the window. The view was spectacular. At one point, however, something odd caught his eye.
"What's with the fog?" he asked. Daisy and Toad stopped their conversation short and walked over to the window to find out what he was talking about.
"What are you talking about?" Daisy asked.
"There's fog in that one part of the forest, but nowhere else," Luigi said, pointing to a white cloud that had settled in a part of the forest across the field.
"I dunno," Daisy said. "It's certainly never happened before."
They all went back to their business. Some time later, however, several of the servants came running into the room.
"What? What is it?" Daisy asked.
"There's a group of monsters from Gray Town coming toward the castle!" one of them exclaimed. They hurried over to the window, and, sure enough, they were advancing right for the castle.
"What do they want?" Daisy asked.
"They want to destroy the castle!" the servant answered.
"What?" the three exclaimed.
"Come, your highness, we must get you out of the castle!" another servant cried, and started to lead the way out.
It seemed to take forever, but they finally made it to the kitchens and left through that door, being as the front door would be too risky. Once outside, they used the cover of the forest to get around and to the other side of the field. Many of the other servants had already escaped, and others had followed them out. There were others who had stayed to try to defend the castle. Daisy, Luigi, Toad, and a few others continued on their way toward the path that would take them to the nearest town.
When finally they found it, they started toward town. But it didn't take long for them to get a call from further down the trail. Several people were hurrying down the path in their direction.