Dil: Part 2 of the last chapter!
Peach: So let's just get done!
Yoshi: I agree!
Luigi: Let's just go.
Daisy: You forgot something… Dil doesn't own anything except his own ideas! (And the four made up characters at the end)
Everybody: Let's start Part Two!
The Shadow Of a Stranger:Chapter 17: Friends 'Till the End (Part 2)
"Junior!" Peach screamed as the Bullet Bill hit him. "NO!"
Peach tried to run out but Luigi pulled her back. Peach turned around and slapped Luigi.
"Don't try and stop me!" Peach glared at Luigi.
Luigi winced. "She treats him as if she was really his mom…" Luigi thought.
"Get down, Luigi!" Yoshi said pulling him behind a rock.
"But Peach…" Luigi exclaimed.
"Can handle herself…"
Yoshi and Luigi turned around to see Daisy looking at Peach.
"Junior!" Peach screamed as another Bullet Bill aimed towards him. Peach jumped towards Junior and pushed him out of the way.
But she wasn't quick enough to evade the Bullet Bill.
"Dammit!" Peach cursed as the Bullet Bill hit her abdomen.
"Mama…?" Junior asked in a weak voice.
"Don't worry." Peach said picking him up and trudging over to the warp pipe for safety. "I'm okay."
Then a Bulky Bom-omb was aimed straight for St. Mushro Hill.
"Holy Carp!" Toadette exclaimed sticking her head up from a rock that she and Toad where hiding under. "What the heck is-"
The Bulky Bom-omb exploding a few meters away from her cut off Toadette. Slowly she perked her head up, only to see thousands of Bom-ombs headed for them.
"Toadette!" Toad yelled. "Get down!"
Toadette tried but she couldn't move.
"I… can't move my… body!" Toadette said.
"What? Stop playing around and get d-" Toad stopped. "Your not kidding are you."
"NO! I'M-"
BANG!
"Toadette!" Toad exclaimed running after her. She was hit by a Bom-omb that exploded a second later.
"Toadette!" Dixie exclaimed running from behind the tree Mario was at.
"Stop!" Mario pulled Dixie by the collar. "It's dangerous!"
"But I have to help!" Dixie protested.
"No! It's to dangerous!" Mario declared.
"Helping one when they need it. That's what friendship is about!" Dixie said starting to cry. "Now let me go! I have to help her!"
Mario stared at his leg. His hat's shadow covered his eyes.
"You're right…" Mario let go of Dixie's shirt. "That is what it's about."
Mario looked at her and smiled. Dixie flashed a smile then ran out to get Toadette.
"Mama!" Junior exclaimed. "Shouldn't Dry Bones be gone?"
"Wait…" Peach thought for a second. "You're right. It's been well over 2 minutes since we escaped. That means he wanted us to escape."
"Peach!" Daisy, Luigi, and Yoshi called out. "Why isn't the castle exploding?"
"He was lying!" Peach yelled out. "He wanted us to escape!"
"But why?" Daisy asked.
"Probably so he could steal the Ruby Mushroom…" Peach started to think. "The Ruby Mushroom! That's it! The part he forgot!"
Then, All of a sudden, the ground started shaking.
"EARTHQUAKE!" Luigi yelled! "TAKE COVER!"
"No…" Peach got up and ran towards the castle. "No!"
The bridge that led to the front of the castle broke. One side of the tower tipped over. The windows broke open. Glass flew everywhere.
"Peach!" Daisy and Yoshi exclaimed running out to get her.
Peach watched as her castle, the place she grew up in, fell to pieces. Peach stood there. Glass flew by and cut her in several places. Her home was gone!
"Peach!" Yoshi grabbed Peach. "Come on!"
"No!" Peach struggled. "I can't let it just be destroyed."
"There's nothing we can do!" Daisy exclaimed. "And Dry Bones has to be dead by now! There's no way even he can survive this!"
Peach sighed as she was pulled up the hill.
Minutes later, the ground had stopped shaking and castle was in ruins.
Tears rolled down Peach's cheeks. It was gone. Because of that Greedy Pig, Dry Bones. Everything was gone! Eight of her best friends! All dead because of him.
The others stood next to Peach all looking out at the castle ruins.
"We should get out of here." Daisy said.
"You're right." Luigi said. "Five out of the nine of us are injured."
"But it's 1:00!" Dixie exclaimed. "The hospital probably isn't open."
"Dixie, The hospital is opened twenty-four seven." Yoshi smiled.
"Oh…" Dixie giggled.
Everyone else laughed. They hadn't laughed all day.
"Come on!" Peach said. "Let's go to the hospital."
"For Pete's sake!" Said a female koopa sitting in a chair behind the counter in the lobby of the hospital. "I don't see why a hospital would need a secretary at 1:50 in the morning?"
"Just face it Kacie!" Said a female noki. "It's all you got job wise."
"I'd rather work on Moo Moo Farm, Niko!" Kacie said sarcastically.
"Well there are some jobs from Moo Moo Farm in the paper." Niko said.
Then a Cheep Cheep and a Lakitu walked up to the desk.
"Hello Doctor Cavishi and Nurse Kital!" Niko greeted the two people in doctor uniforms.
"Hello Niko, Kacie" Nurse Kital smiled.
"Here are the filings you wanted." Doctor Cavishi said handing Niko some paperwork.
"Have you heard the rain?" Kacie asked.
"Yeah… It's been like this all day." Cavishi said.
"I'm surprised there hasn't been any crashes." Kital laughed.
Just then, the sliding doors opened and nine people stepped in.
Kacie, Niko, Doctor Cavishi, and Nurse Kital all turned to see the nine survivors sopping wet and helping each other inside.
"Oh my gosh!" Nurse Kital exclaimed.
"Princess Peach? Mario?" Niko asked.
"What happened?" Kacie wondered.
"There's no time! Hurry and get them upstairs!" Doctor Cavishi ordered.
Nurse Kital and the two secretaries rushed to find some stretchers. Once they came back they placed Mario, Toadette, and Junior on the stretchers. Peach and Daisy were injured too but thankfully they could walk.
Everyone rushed up to the top floor where Doctor Cavishi's office was.
The Doctor rushed the three into the examination room. The other six sat in the waiting room.
Then, Nurse Kital opened a door and stepped out.
"Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, I'll check you for any bruises or anything else." She called.
Peach and Daisy nodded and followed her into the room.
As time passed the Nurse checked everyone else for any severe problems but there were only a couple bumps, bruises, scratches, and scars.
Eventually, Dr. Cavishi came out with Mario and Nurse Kital following him. Mario was using crutches.
"We removed the pieces of glass and gave him stitches, so he's going to need those crutches for a while." Cavishi said.
"Junior only had a couple bruises and bumps. We bandaged him up and he'll be okay." Nurse Kital said.
"What about Toadette?" Toad asked.
"Dr. Cavishi suddenly frowned and stared at his feet (Wait… Cheep Cheep's don't have feet!). Nurse Kital walked over to Toad.
"Hun… your friend, Toadette, Is in a coma…" Nurse Kital said sorrowfully.
"No!" Toad jumped up and ran into the room. "Toadette? Toadette?"
"I'm sorry, Hun, but she's in a coma." Kital said.
"No she's not!" Toad yelled. "She's just asleep."
"This isn't a time for ignorance…" Peach told Toad.
"She'll wake up!" Toad cried. "I know she will…"
Dr. Cavishi looked at Toad with full concern. "She might wake up…" He said.
"See!" Toad said.
"Then again she might not…" He mumbled.
Everyone frowned. They had already lost eight friends, and they didn't want to lose nine.
"Toadette's chance of waking up is 50/50." Nurse Kital said.
"She will wake up…" Toad smiled. "I know it!"
As the night ended the waiting room seemed quite. All but three people were asleep. Peach… Daisy… and Yoshi.
"Thank you…" Peach said to the two other people awake.
"Huh?" They asked.
"If it weren't for you I would of probably died from the glass." Peach explained.
"Well, What are friends for?" Daisy asked.
"Friends 'til the end?" Peach asked.
"Yep!" Yoshi said smiling.
"Mh hm!" Daisy smiled too as they were friends 'til the end.
Hopefully the end isn't to Soon…
The End
Dil: That's it!
Peach: Yay!
Luigi: That was Fun!
Yoshi: Is there going to be a sequel?
Daisy: There better be!
Dil: There sure will be!
Everyone: Yay!
Everybody: Shut up, Everyone!
Dil: I've got to start the epilogue so lets end it!
Everybody and Everyone: PLEASE R&R! SEE YA!
Yoshi: TTFN! I always have to end it!