Super Mario Legends
By Mosobot64
Chapter 1-In a Strange World
Mario, a plumber operating in Brooklyn, New York, and his brother Luigi, were simply having a rest from thier day. They sat down around a small coffee table in thier apartment they also called thier office, and decided to play some poker.
"Okay, your turn Luigi. How much do you bet?" Mario asked him, laying down twenty dollars.
"100 bucks." Luigi replied.
"Oh, come on, that's a bluff!" Mario cried. 100 dollars was almost all Luigi had.
"Fine, lay 'em down then." Luigi said, smirking.
Mario laid down all of his cards. So did Luigi. Mario had a pair of sixes and a pair of eights, while Luigi had a royal flush.
"A Royal Flush?!? You've gotta be kidding me!" Mario cried in amazement.
"You owe me 80 bucks, bro," Luigi said, crossing his arms defiantly and smirking.
Suddenly, there was a call on the phone. For good reason, both had a smile on thier faces. You see, both of the brothers had been making very little money, and needed business. And since they only Mario had a girlfriend, the call likely meant they were in business.
Mario picked it up. "Hello?" He said.
"Oh, hi, Mario. It's Pauline. Be sure to meet me for a date at Bigby's pizza. I'll buy you your fav..." Mario's girlfriend, Pauline said on the other end.
"I'm THERE!" Mario cried. He grabbed forty dollars, put on his red cap and was just about to run out the door when Luigi asked him something.
"Hi, mind if I come with, big bro?" Luigi asked him.
"No, Weedge, you've gotta stay here and make sure someone answers a business call if we get one." Mario replied.
"Whatever that is..." Luigi replied, mockingly.
"Hey, Luigi, you don't need to mock me-"
"Just because despite the fact that I'm your younger brother, I got the better grades in school?" Luigi replied, crossing his arms.
"Yes..." Mario growled. "Listen, I HAVE to go. Hold the fort, Weedge, kay?"
"Fine, fine..." Luigi said, with a pang of boredom in his voice.
As Mario left, slamming the door behind him, Luigi muttered darkly under his breath. "'Hold the fort, Weedge'. He ALWAYS makes me hold the fort. Why didn't I just get a career in engineering?"
Luigi sighed, and then returned to his normal voice. "Because I'm his younger, more mature brother, and I ALWAYS have to be the one to watch his back."
Luigi bent down his head in sheer boredom, waiting for a call.
Mario dashed off down the street, quickly as he could, towards the local pizza place.
Pauline is such a sweetheart, Mario thought. But this time, the pizza's on me!
Soon, Mario saw the small pizza place, with the large sign, reading "Bigby's Pizza". He walked inside.
There he saw his sweetheart, Pauline. She had orange, neatly trimmed hair, and wore a summery yellow dress.
"Hello, Mario. Took you long enough." Pauline said, smiling.
"Ah, it's just my geeky brother. Wanted to come with me. I swear, Weedge has no social sense." Mario sighed.
"It's not that, muffin, it's just that he's very loyal to you. You should be happy for that." Pauline replied, gently.
"Yeah...maybe I should." Mario told her.
The waiter then walked up, notepad in hand.
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Luigi was, as usual, very bored when Mario left him to handle the phone.
"I just wish he would tell me how he talks to girls the way he does. I've never had a girlfriend..." Luigi sighed.
As he was moping around feeling sorry for himself, the phone suddenly rang.
"Finally, some action." Luigi smiled, picking up the phone. "Hello?"
"Come soon to clean up my pipe...." An elderly woman's voice rang eerily from the other end. As she told him her address, Luigi began to sweat from the sheer creakiness in her voice. She must have been ancient.
"Yes...we'll come as soon as we can." Luigi replied, pulling himself together.
Luigi put down the receiver. He was going to wait until his brother came home to do this.
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After Mario and Pauline had eaten their sausage pizza, the waiter gave them the bill, thirty-five dollars.
"Okay, I'll pay for it." Pauline said.
"No, it's on me." Mario replied.
"But I hear you and Luigi are having financial problems."
"But, I'm your boyfriend, and you let me choose the pizza, so I'd better pay for it."
"Oh, fine." Pauline said, crossing her arms.
Mario put his forty dollars on the tray with the bill, and he and Pauline went outside.
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"I have to thank you for bringing me out here today, Mario." Pauline smiled and him.
"Ah, it's no big deal. I just thought you may have liked to give this place a visit." Mario replied gently.
The two sat in the lovliest place in all of Brooklyn, sitting on a cliff overlooking the city, between two cherry trees.
"It's a good night." Pauline said.
"I see what you mean."
The moon was shining, and there was a gentle wind, not cold, but it blew the cherry blossom petals toward them.
The two began to lean together, ready to kiss.
But suddenly, Mario got a call on his cell phone.
"Yes?" He flipped up the flap on his cell phone, aggravated.
"Listen, bro. We've got business. I'll need your help. Meet my at the apartment." Luigi said on the other end.
"I've got to go." Mario said, calmly but angrily, putting the cell phone in his pocket.
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When he got home, Mario talked to Luigi, as Luigi told him what happened.
"So, why didn't you just do the job?" Mario asked him, angrily.
"She wanted both of us." Luigi reasoned. "And...she gives me the creeps." Luigi said in a frightened voice.
"Alright, Luigi, where's the address?" Mario asked him, sighing.
"Right here." Luigi handed Mario the slip of paper that he had copied the woman's address down on.
"Okaaayyy...."Mario said, picking it up from Luigi's hand. "Let's go."
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They arrived at the house of the first costumer they had had in three weeks. It was a broken down old place, old white paint peeling, cherry trees dead and gnarly, and the stench of rotting animals pungent. Luigi was sweating and shaking like a leaf.
"Uh...Mario? I don't think it's safe...." Luigi said, in a shaky voice.
"Oh, come on, Luigi, pull yourself together! I didn't leave my date just to have you whining to go home!" Mario snapped at him angrily. "Besides, business is business, no matter how creepy it is!"
"I suppose..." Luigi said, still afraid.
The two walked up to the house, and rang the doorbell. It sounded wholesome enough, but Luigi still cringed.
"Oh, Weedge, stop being a baby!" Mario told him.
"I'm not being a baby-" Luigi was about to say angrily to him, when the door opened.
A very old woman, with deep creases in her face, greeted them. "Welcome. You must be the plumbers. Come in, come in." She sounds even older than she did on the phone, Luigi thought, as Mario went in without hesitation.
"Well, Weedge, are you coming or not?!?" Mario asked him impatiently.
"Yes, yes, I'm coming, I'm coming..." Luigi growled, walking in behind his brother.
The door closed with an eerie creak behind them.
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"Well, you are rather young to run your own business, eh?" The old woman, told them, pouring them tea.
All around them were beautiful paintings, with a nice fire crackling in the fireplace, and bookshelves laden with old books. They sat around an old coffee table, the woman in a rocking chair and the brothers in wooden chairs.
"Yeah, but we do the job." Mario said, drinking his tea.
"Really? How has your business been doing?" The woman asked them.
"Now that is none of your-"Mario started a little angrily, before Luigi put his hand out to interrupt him.
"Not good, actually. You're the first we've had in weeks. But we've been able to live on it." Luigi said calmly.
"I see. Well, as soon as you've finished your tea, I'll lead you to the source of the problem." The woman said, putting the kettle down on a cloth on the antique coffee table.
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As soon as they finished their tea, the two brothers went around the back of the old lady's house. They saw a huge green pipe sticking up from the ground, just small enough for them to crawl on.
"Whoa. That's one big pipe." Luigi said.
"Yes. And unbelievably enough, it's clogged up. Could you unclog it for me?" The old lady said in a most creepy voice.
"Yeah, sure. But it's gonna be pretty expensive!" Mario said.
"Oh, that's no problem. I have a lot of money I never find a use for. You can just climb in, the clog runs in pretty deep..." The old lady said, as Mario climbed into the pipe.
"Mario? I'm not too sure we should go with this. I'm not sure we'll be able to crawl back out!" Luigi called to him, as he was crawling in.
"Luigi, stop being a babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy......" Mario said, as he more or less fell in.
"MARIO?!?" Luigi called to him from the top. "MARIO!" Luigi jumped into the pipe.
"Heh, heh, heh. Enjoy the ride." The lady said in a dark voice, her eyes glowing blood red.
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White light surrounded Luigi, although it somehow didn't blind him.
"Wha-where...am I? Where-"Luigi asked in bewilderment, his voice echoing through the milky light, which somehow reminded him of stars. "AHHH!!!" He felt himself being torn apart, and then lost consciousness.
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Mario lay on hot sand, seeing his brother with his eyes still closed. Mario slowly got up, and began to look around.
They were in the middle of a desert, with cacti having black, beady eyes, and the sun shining, also, strangely enough, with black beady eyes.
"I don't get it...the sun doesn't have eyes, this has gotta be a dream!" Mario exclaimed, not recognizing the world at all.
"Uhh...where....where...am I...?" Luigi asked quietly and weakly, slowly getting up.
Suddenly, a brown, stumpy creature with sharp teeth, the size of a tiger, got ready to attack them. It growled, teeth bared, eyes glowing red with intelligence.
"Oh, no." Luigi said in sheer worry, as the creature got ready to attack them.
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Oooh, that was good! Evil cliffie, huh?
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, I'm back. Mosobot4evar!
-Mosobot64, Author
