Life After Death: Chapter 11
Evil Prevails, Luigi Bails
Kate slowly opened her left eye. Her mind was spinning in confusion. The last place she remembered was being outside a shed beside Mario. Now her surroundings were nothing but darkness and stone walls...yet this seemed familiar to her. To familiar. As she walked around, she looked at the window above her that had now been barred and wooded down. No light shone through the room except for tiny cracks in the wall. Although it was day time, it always fealt like night from lack of warmth and heat. Kate was cold, hungry and in pain. If she was going to survive now, all she could do was listen to what that creep would tell her. She would now have to obey his every command if she wanted to get out of this place alive. This was not the time for insulting come backs that would lead to her death.
Luigi looked all over. No sign of any way he could find Mario or Kate. As he finally found a pipe which lead him underground, he hopped in not knowing where it would take him. As Luigi travelled he prayed that he would get somewhere near his brother. The pipe lifted out of the ground, and sure enough, Luigi hopped out and looked around. As he turned around completely, there was a magnificent view of the area. There were mountains, hill tops, even bodies of water. This place was a tropical place everyone always dreamt of going. As Luigi searched for Mario and Kate in awe from the beautiful scenery, atleast ten koopa's found him and blocked his way. This time, Luigi was on his own, sure he did beat the snot out of those two kooplings, but this was much different.
Mario woke up and to his suprise, no one was there. Mario began to panic and have a fit. He looked down at the sleeping bag where he uncovered a note that was lying in it. Mario read it in disbelief. 'This isn't Kate's writing.' Mario thought to himself. The writing was so terribly written it looked as if someone had a fit with the paper. Mario looked at the note and tried to match the writing to everyone he knew. It looked sort of like a bullies printing. It wasn't Luigi's printing, he had been missing for a while. Mario began to lose interest in the issue of kate, and began to panic what could have happened to Luigi. Mario frowned at the thought. His brother could be dead, somewhere just lying there. Or he could starve to death with no one there to watch him pass. Mario let out a tear that ran slowly down his cheek.
As Kate realized her surroundings, she all of a sudden had aching cramps. 'Oh no, not now.' Kate was not in the mood to be locked up right now, for she was having her own problems. Her monthly curse had arrived and at the time where her capturer stole all her belongings. She needed that purse with all of her private accessories in it. So she began pounding at the door. "Hey, Can Somebody Hear Me! I Need To Get Something" Kate only hoped that her words were heard. As she heard two koopa's talking, she heard tiny feet walking away. Those two koopa's ended up walking into Bowser's chamber. "Your majesty, the Princess wishes a meeting with you. She needs something." The koopa made a short bow and then walked off with the other koopa. Bowser looked down at his son. "No one except me enters or leaves this chamber while I am gone. You got that" Bowser said in a serious tone, practically choking his own son. All koopa jr. could do was knod in fear. "Yes father. No one enters or leaves." Bowser slammed the door locking it on the way out. As he approached Kates dungeon he heard very unpleasent noises. It sounded as if she getting ready to hearl. He slowly opened the door. "Kate are you alright" He paniced in fear when he seen drops of blood. He observed the blood and looked at her. "Are you alright" Kate groaned in pain and lifted her head a bit to see who was talking. "Quick, I need a pad. Anything quick" Bowser simply looked at her in pure confusion.
Of coarse, Kate fealt like smacking her head. Obviously he wouldn't know anything. His kind simply shed, they never went through menstraul. Bowser had an even more confused look when she began to laugh at her own stupidity. "You remember that purse you stole from me, well I need it." Kate simply replied hoping to not have a stupid question followed by her command. Bowser just left and shortly returned with the bag. She unzipped it and rumbled through it trying to find something and quick. Bowser left when he realized what had happened. Apperently shortly, Kate would have to educate these reptelians about mortals someday.
Luigi kept up his speed and tried to get rid of all the koopa's at once. It wasn't working. Every time he killed a koopa, another would come into battle. All of a sudden, a koopa stabbed him in the back. Luigi fell to the ground. He didn't know what to do. He was now in pain. He now lost. He could not win with one million koopa's attacking him. Although Luigi thought about the consequense of giving up. Small images of his child hood were coming back to him. Him and Mario always playing 'To the rescue' when they were younger. Luigi missed those days so much. Luigi and Mario always played those games with fictional characters. In there game, they always won, but Luigi realized that this wasn't his game anymore. It was someone elses, and he just got beat inside of it. Luigi was not one to give up life so easily though. Luigi could not fight with a wound that all the others would aim for. Instead the perfect idea Luigi had the whole time. Luigi simply ran away and tried his best to lose all the koopa's. The blood gushing out of his back was leaving a trail, but the koopa's were dumb and to idiotic to spot it. As Luigi stopped to take a breather he came upon a place that for some reason looked familiar. He had never been there before, but someone else he knew did. He looked up at a large shrine with sacred markings. Without realizing what he was saying, something caught his mind and Luigi muttered "I'm finally back home."
Mario starred at the lake. He lost Luigi, he lost Kate, he lost Daisy, he even lost himself. What was there to live for. Mario would never forgive himself if he found out that any of them were hurt. Mario was mostly worried about Luigi. although Mario admirred Kate alot, Luigi was his flesh and blood. Without Luigi they would have never grown up to be called the next Mario bros. They never would have lived out this adventure together, if it wasn't for him. Luigi was his sibling, his friend, practically his kid. There parents weren't a very large part of their life. They almost never seen their mother and their father was always either watching television, not wanting to be disterbed, or he would be on the internet hogging the msn, talking to his drinking buddies. Mario was disgusted with how life turned out. Luigi looked to Mario, and Mario failed in protecting him. For Mario, that brang out a whole new way of saying parenting. It was so sad. To think he lost one of the most important people in his life. Mario looked away from the Lake and up to the sky trying to listen to his heart. His heart told him that if Luigi was dead, Luigi would be ashamed to see Mario grieving over him like that. Luigi would want Mario to find Kate so that would never happen to her. So again off Mario went, continuing the search. Little did he know that a spirit was guiding him along his way.
Kate opened the dungeon door. Bowser was foolish not to lock the door. She slowly snuck out and walked around the castle, avoiding every koopa and para-troopa, trying to find atleast one way out. As Kate slowly turned around Bowser's face met up with hers. "Going somewhere" He said in a curious tone waiting for a reply from the now, scared and petrofied Kate. "Um, I was just going..." Kate tried to think of something quick but Bowser stopped her. "You were just on your way out. Leaving so soon? I believe that I unlocked the door for a reason. Now seeing that you can't be trusted, I will give you one more chance. You are aloud to walk the halls of this castle, but you are not aloud to leave, or you will be hunted down and be returned directly to my chambers so you will be confronted." Kate gave a sarcastic look as if she was about to punch him in the nose. It was unfare. What did he want from her anyway. Was she just some object to get Bowser's enemies in his trap? Or was she just someone he picked on to get reactions. Kate was becoming very irritated and soon was going to become very angry.
Luigi was completely healed. Something happened but he couldn't explain it. It was just like magic. All of his wounds were gone, and he didn't have any regrets about anything any more, it was like he had just been free'd. Luigi began his quest again on his search to find Mario. Luigi wondered how Kate would react when she seen him again. Yet there was no mistaking that there would probably be conflict between him and Mario, Mario would probably flip on and on about how Luigi caught the punch. Luigi would be happy to finally see him again. For some reason he couldn't get the image of Kate out of his head. Perhaps he just liked her...or maybe it could have been something a little more.
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