A/N: Okay so last time we got some Iggy and Ludwig time. Fawn gets along with Iggy, not Ludwig to much. Now we get two more: Roy and Lemmy!

Thank you to reviewers TrollingForever and Angela :)

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Chapter 13: Nightmares

Luigi

We had finally managed to get past the fifth land. And not a moment to soon, the boss was terrifying!

We were on our way to a good camping site when someone tapped my shoulder. I jumped and whipped around in surprise. Cult was standing there, chuckling.

"Relax Luigi, it's just me."

"Oh...sorry," I said, sighing in relief. I liked him, but he was a little...scary. He was a very gruff Toad, and he had a gruff attitude. He said creepy things sometimes. "Um...uh, what-a is it?"

"Listen...ya ever get tired of this?"

"What do you mean-a?"

"Doing this same old adventure over and over. Ya go on some crazy adventure with Mario and you have to fight all sorts of monsters, which you don't want to, and it's all for nothing!"

"Nothing?"

"It could be so much easier! You don't need to take this same route. Following this same path, taking the long way, fighting monsters, following Mario..."

"Huh?"

"Luigi, you put up with all this crap, all for your brother, and you get no credit. You deserve more than that! Listen, I have better ideas to get to the castle faster. If you followed me, you could get all the credit!"

"I-I...uh..."

"Whaddaya say?"

"Uh...I-I'm okay-a! Bye-a!"

I quickly caught up with Mario, running away from him.

The truth was, I was interested in his offer...I've always wanted to have a little credit. But a new adventure sounded scary! And I couldn't abandon Mario! He may get mad...I couldn't do it!

Bowser

Everyone was gathered around, eating and yelling at each other as usual, when Junior stopped to ask me something.

"Hey, King Dad?"

"What is it son?" I asked, turning to smile at my youngest.

"How come you went out on the Clown Copter last night? I heard it take off and saw you fly out from the window. I could've sworn I saw someone with you..."

I twitched. "Uh...I was just going out for a little joy ride. You know, air myself out. Heh..."

"What about the other person I saw?"

"Erm...you must've imagined it son," I said nervously.

"Oh...okay."

I internally sighed when he gave up, still not feeling comfortable with my ease around Fawn. It felt weird that I had been so friendly with her, I didn't know what I was thinking! She just seemed so curious and happy, and genuinely interested in my work...I guess my ego got the best of me and kind of wanted to show off. Oh who am I kidding...I also wanted to just share it with her. She seemed so happy with it...and so unafraid of it all!

It was astonishing to me that she wasn't afraid of me, but she also embraced flying! This was so unusual for me, and she was so happy and grateful about everything. She was like a real...friend.

To be honest, I didn't have many friends. People found me to be...well, a jackass. Not even that…a good deal of people saw me as a monster. They just don't get how cool and evil I am! As much as I told myself this, outside of the occasional chat with my old friend King Boo, I was rather friendless.

Is Fawn...my friend? I'd asked myself this a million times. I thought long and hard about it in my seat at the breakfast table. I thought about how fearless she was, how nice, how much she loved my kids, how much she liked my ideas...the fact she said we were friends when we met. I guess it'd be okay if she was kind of my friend...

Fawn

After I woke up, Jimmy came shortly after. He dropped off a breakfast and the clothes that I came in, taken and washed while I was asleep. I slipped them on, glad to be in my original attire, and ate my meal. Once I finished, I bade Jimmy farewell and took off to explore the castle more.

I walked through the halls, observing it all, before I realized I was finally on the first floor of the castle. Upon further searching, I found the entrance to the castle courtyard. I was struck by the view.

The area was spacious, being about half a football field. The grass was mainly purple, with a few grey areas. There were exotic purple, grey, and red flowers, and Piranha Plants. There were trees splattered around, some bare and some bearing vibrant red leaves. There were cobblestone paths zigzagging throughout it, with a plaza in the shape of Bowser's insignia in the middle of it all. On the small fountain there was a fountain that spewed lava instead of water, and four black obsidian benches.

Wow...this place is amazing... I made my way to one of my benches to sit, when I bumped in to someone. Despite the person being slightly shorter than me, the force he possessed sent me back a few steps.

"Yo! Watch where yo goin!" I saw that it was Roy.

"Oh...um, I'm so sorry!" I said nervously.

"Whatcha think yo doin?" he asked angrily.

"I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean to…I wasn't paying attention, and the next thing I knew I was tumbling back from your strength! I'm sorry that I wasn't paying attention!" I was getting more nervous by the second.

But his anger seemed to dissipate as he said, "Strength?"

I thought of what to say before nodding quickly. "Well, yeah! You're really strong.

He stood still, emotionless, before grinning crookedly. "Well…guess I can't blame ya for tryin to feel a guy like me up."

"I...yes?" I said unsurely, not sure what he meant by that.

"Huh...guess I may be okay with it, if a girl like you were doin it," he said, his grin growing wider. He walked a little closer.

"I uh..." I said, uncomfortable with the lack of personal space. I began to back away.

He grinned even wider and slowly placed a claw on my arm. "So...you wanna get wid a prince?"

I didn't know what he meant by 'get with', but I did notice his hand on my arm. It kind of felt like Bowser's, but the touch made me feel very uncomfortable, my personal space feeling violated by someone who wasn't my friend. What is he doing? Is this normal? ...Do I just let this keep happening? He began to slowly move it up and down, and I felt him put his other claw on my hip, his face moving closer. Okay, I don't know what he's doing, but I don't like it. The uncomfortableness became to much, and I wiggled my way out of his grasp, backing up quickly.

He stood there holding the air, and looked at me, confused. "What...didn't you wan dis?"

"N-no...no, I didn't like that...I-I'm sorry..." I said, scared.

His face twisted in anger, his eyebrows lowering below his sunglasses. "You bitch, you led me on!"

What did I do? "U-Uh...I'm sorry..." I said, becoming very scared.

"Yo shut up, you're just a dumb bitch afta all."

"N-no I'm not!" I said, indignant.

"Yeah, whateva, dumbass," he said, sneering. He pushed me a little.

I fumbled back and caught myself.

I'm not dumb...I just don't understand things sometimes!

"I-I'm not dumb..." I said timidly, feebly trying to defend myself.

"Oh yeah? Whaz ova there?" He said, pointing in the distance.

I turned, wondering what he could be pointing to. "Um...where?"

I felt him shove me from behind and I fell on to my knees.

"Ow..." I said, my knees scraping a little.

He walked in front of my fallen form and chuckled. "Hah! You're even dumba den I thought! You fell for da oldest trick in da book!"

"Wh-what?"

"Later, dumb bitch." He turned and walked away.

"W-wait..." I called feebly, wanting desperately to disprove him.

I...I'm not... I curled in to a ball on the floor. Oh I am...I'm such a failure...I can't pay attention, and I don't get things...like people, or new things...it's like that time with Cult...

I felt another claw place itself on my shoulder and I turned around sharply. But I saw Lemmy on his ball, hunched over to hold my shoulder.

"Are you okay?" he asked, concerned.

"Uh...yeah," I said, standing up. "Thank you..."

He frowned and said, "I'm sorry about Roy...he can be mean sometimes, I don't get why...he wasn't always like that. Are you okay? Did he hurt you?"

I shook my head. "No, but thank you for asking." I was glad to be in the presence of a friend.

"I was walking by right when I saw him push you. I'm sorry it happened..."

"It's okay," I said, beginning to feel better now that Roy was gone and Lemmy was here.

He looked down at my knees. "No you're not! Your knee is bleeding..." He pouted before breaking in to a smile. "Wait! I have band aids in my room! Let's go, I'll get it for you!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, come on!" he said, grabbing my hand.

But I lingered and continued to stare at the area Roy told me to look at.

"Wait...so there was nothing there?" I asked, slightly confused.

"Um...no, there's not really anything there."

"Oh...so it was a trap..."

Lemmy took me to an elevator that I hadn't noticed in the stairwell. He said he and his siblings usually didn't use it unless someone was hurt. We went up the elevator four floors and went through a door that led to Lemmy's hallway.

Lemmy's hallway was by far the strangest, the entire hallway being a rainbow color. There were paintings of him making silly poses, most on his ball, and a few in the circus. But like the others, he had one serious painting of him. I also saw some sort of award from the circus hung up.

He took me in to his room, which was even stranger. The walls were red and white stripped, and the carpet was a bright orange. Almost like a circus or something... There was his bed, which contained a teddy bear and red and white stripped sheets with a clown face in the middle. There was a dresser, a desk with lots of drawers (this seemed to be a constant), but most surprising was a tightrope set strung up in a corner, along with a trampoline.

"Hang on one sec, I'll get you your band aid," Lemmy said, rolling to the desk. As he fished through the drawers, I pondered the reason for the strangeness of his room.

"I guess you want to be in the circus...?" I thought out loud.

"Yeah, pretty much," he replied, coming back with a band aid. He bent over from his ball to place it on my bad knee.

"Thank you."

"No problem!"

"So...you do want to go to the circus?"

"Yeah..." Lemmy said, a little weaker than his usual happy self.

"Well, why do you seem upset about it?" I asked curiously.

"Well...it's nothing." His smile looked weak.

I was actually going to let it go when I remembered that sometimes people lied about their feeling. I need to remember that stuff more…I'll ask one more time. "Are you sure?"

He pushed his fingers together nervously. "Well…promise not to tell anyone?"

"I promise."

He sighed. "Because...no one really supports it."

"Well why not?" I frowned.

"Well, they say they want me to do something more important or something. I guess being a prince means that I have to become good at something good for a prince..."

"Like?"

"I don't know, business, artsy stuff, being pretty, smart stuff."

"Well, why can't entertaining people be on that list?" The logic of this wasn't making sense to me.

"Because it's weird to people...I'm supposed to do something more 'normal'. Apparently joining the circus is weird...the only person to support is King Dad...and he barely does. He doesn't approve completely, but he said I can do it if I really want to. But my siblings and the advisors don't..."

"Well I don't understand why you can't."

"You don't?" He looked shocked.

"Of course not! Well the way I've always known it is that if you're good at something and you like something, than that's definitely what you've got to do!" I said surely, this being the common sense I was taught.

"But I don't know if I'm any good..."

"But you walk around on a ball! That's talent right there!"

"But I don't know if I can put up a good show." He was pretty unconfident, and I came up with a way to make him feel better.

"Well, why don't you show me then?"

"Huh?"

"Well, there's circus stuff there. You can show me how good you are at it!"

He blinked. "Do you...really want to watch me? Only King Dad has watched me...and that was only a few times when I was a kid! You'd want to!"

"Sure!" I said genuinely, honestly excited to see a good show. "I'd like to see what you can do!"

"Well...okay!" He said, back to his happy self.

He rolled over to the tightrope sent and jumped up on his ball and landed on the trampoline. He then jumped way higher than I thought he could possibly do. He jumped high enough to land on the tightrope, which was set up around twelve feet off the ground, without even wobbling. Incredible!

"Lady and...Fawn! Welcome to the show! In comes Mr. Agility Supreme, Lemmy Koopa!" he proclaimed.

I clapped loudly at his entrance and he began to do tricks.

At first he started with just walking around the tightrope. But then he bounced off the tightrope and on to his ball effortlessly, and rolled over to the desk. He pulled out bowling pins and rolled back to the trampoline. He somehow jumped on to it with his ball, and landed on the tightrope , now balancing on a ball on a tightrope, without falling! He then proceeded to roll around on said tightrope and juggle! He stared to jump up and down on the trampoline while doing fantastic tricks. All the while I whooped in holler in pure amazement of his abilities.

He finally got off and rolled over to me. "Thank you, thank you!"

"You're incredible Lemmy!" I said enthusiastically. This boy is unbelievable, he did things I didn't know we're possible!

"Thanks! Now you try!" he said happily.

"Huh?"

"Come on, it'll be fun!"

He ran to the desk and fished out another ball. He gave it to me and I began to try and balance on it. I decided it was only fair to try it, and I thought it may be fun. It didn't work, and only after several failed attempts and laughter did I manage to stay on.

"You're doing it! You're doing it!" he yelled happily.

"I am! Oh my stars, I am!" I said happily, wobbling in place. Only until someone entered the room.

"Lemmy! Time for dinner!" Morton yelled as he entered the room.

I lost concentration and yelped as I fell off the ball and on to the floor.

"Ow..." I murmured, my back in pain.

"You okay?" Lemmy asked, both Koopalings rushing to me.

"Yeah you did some wicked flip! It looked really cool, but I bet it really hurt! Say, what were you doing on that ball anyway?" Morton asked.

"Lemmy was showing me how to balance on it...it was fun, and I'm okay."

"Cool! Well Lemmy, time for dinner," Morton said.

"Okay," he replied. He turned to me and said, "Bye Fawn! You're really really cool! Thanks for believing in me..."

I smiled and patted his shoulder. "No problem."

He smiled back before we left the room with Morton.

We all walked down the hallway and down the stairs, and we split paths at the entrance. Lemmy walked on to the dining room, but before Morton left, he turned and said, "Hey, Fawn! I'm definitely going to hang out with you tomorrow! We're going to talk a lot and stuff, okay?"

"Okay," I said brightly, glad that I would have something to do.

Morton turned and walked off after Lemmy and I opted to go back to my room. Once I got back, a dinner was there, provided by Jimmy. I ate it contentedly and went to sleep shortly afterward.

"Dummy!" "Stupid!" "Are you even paying attention!?"

My classmates were jeering around me because I had broken their friend's glass marbles. I had picked them up absently to observe them and had dropped them by accident.

"I uh..."

"So stupid!" I can't believe her!" She's gotta be the dumbest kid around!"

The girl who the marbles belonged to was crying. One of the classmates kicked me and I fell. I began to whimper.

"I'm sorry..."

"Are all humans this dumb?" "Are they all so blind?" "So selfish?" "Pay attention!" "Stupid!"

My lip quivered. "I-I'm not..."

"Dummy!" "Stupid!" "Spacey!" "You're so dumb!"

"I'm not dumb! You all shut up!" I yelled as I ran away.

I ran until I made it to the woods, where I wandered around to feel better. I wandered and daydreamed until I heard a voice.

"Fawn! WATCH OUT!"

"Huh?"

I felt something push me down. I looked up to see Cult shielding me from a bear. The bear rose his paw to swipe at Cult's face.

"CULT!"

I woke up with a start. I sat upright quickly and breathed heavily.

Dream...

I looked around frantically for Cult and the bear, tumbling out of bed in the process.

Dream...dream...

I wandered in the dark aimlessly, searching less frantically now.

Nightmare...

I stopped in place.

It was just a nightmare...

I breathed heavily, trying to calm down.

Memories...old memories...

I sighed. They were old memories I had. Being here must've triggered them somehow. I knew going to sleep would be in vain; I was to stimulated. I considered watching TV, but I didn't want more stimulation. This was something this pink room was giving me to much of already, even in the dark. I decided I wanted to go outside. I considered my balcony, but I thought of a better place to go to.

Bowser

"Ahhhhh!""Monster!""Run!"

The townspeople were all running away from me, terrified.

"Wait! It's not like I'm going to hurt you!" I cried.

"Ugly!""Evil!""What was the king thinking, bringing them here!?"

They all ran, terrified of me despite my young age.

"Why...why are they all so mean to me?" I muttered, tears in my eyes. I looked up and saw a little girl crawl toward me, a pacifier in her mouth.

I smiled. "Oh Peach...you never thought I was a monster..."

We suddenly grew older. "Why does everyone outside my kingdom think I'm a monster...heck, even the people inside it are scared of me too..."

"Because you are a monster," a new voice hissed coldly.

I turned my head to see the new voice.

"Cl...Clawdia..." I whispered. "Why..."

"Because you're a monster. You do evil things, and have a demonic power. I was terrified of you, and eventually fled. You drove me off, you fiend!" she spat vehemently.

It stung. "You're wrong...I've got it all under control! I'm not that evil...I'm not!"

I turned to the grown Peach. "Tell her Peach!"

"Tell her what? That I agree with her?" Peach replied hurtfully, tears in her eyes.

"P-Peach..." I began to cry too.

"I trusted you...I was so naive to trust you...and you violated it by kidnapping me and my chances at happiness!" she said, hurt. Mario appeared and hugged her from behind.

"No..." Sadness and rage swelled within me.

"Why can't you let me be free?" Mario kissed her neck.

"No!"

"I hate you," they both spoke coldly together.

"NO!" I roared. Everything went red.

My body sprung forward. I breathed in and out, quick and shallow.

It was just a dream...oh stars, it was just a dream...

I got out of bed and forced myself to put on my shell. I knew I wouldn't sleep for a while, so I knew where I wanted to go to relax.

Fawn

I stumbled my way down the halls and remembered the way to the courtyard. I made my way to the obsidian benches, expecting to find solace, when I found someone else there instead.

"Bowser?" I spoke aloud. He turned his head from where he was sitting.

"Oh...hello," he greeted, equally surprised by my presence.

We both remained silent until I asked, "What are you doing here?"

He didn't answer immediately, but somehow I knew what it was. "Nightmare?" I guessed.

"...Yeah. You?"

"Same..."

He nodded and turned back to the fountain. There was some sort of silent mutual understanding that we didn't want to talk about it.

I stood in front of the bench and asked, "May I sit down?"

He raised a brow. "Uh...sure."

I had realized that there were more benches to sit in. But I wanted to be next to a friend...plus he was so warm, it made it nice to sit next to him. It was why I sat closer to him during the magic show then I needed to. I took my seat and knew I was right, feeling the warmth radiate from him. It made me feel a little better. We soon paid no mind to each other, content to just sit there in each other's company.

We sat there in silence until Bowser actually made slight small talk. "Lemmy said you spent the day together."

"We did, he's a very nice boy. Very talented," I replied, both of us calm and half engaged in the conversation.

"That he is."

More silence until he spoke again. "Sorry about Roy."

"It's fine."

We didn't speak to each other again. We continued to sit with each other in content silence for quite some time.

Well wasn't that sweet? Bowser's accepting Fawn as a friend, and they shared a peaceful, mutual moment together. And isn't Lemmy sweet? Roy...not as much ^^'

Again, for Roy fans, this isn't the end of his development. It isn't 'Oh Roy's an asshole in this fic. Pretty much it.' There's more. I actually like Roy, he's one of my favorite Koopalings XD just no bias allowed, I've got plans for him, and the others.

I'm glad it was a shorter chapter! I feel like I need those. Well, hope you enjoyed. Read, review, bye