Me: Sorry about the unintended cliffhanger in the last chapter, my computer is kinda weird like that.
Sera: Improvization is her specialty, thankfully.
Me: Yeah...I only own Sera, Ivy and Sam. The rest belong to Nintendo.
Sera opened her eyes in a room filled with bright lights. She was apparently in a hospital-type room, only without the smell of antiseptic everywhere. The teen sat up, only to cringe from a pain in her lower back. We must've fallen from the sky again. Sera thought with annoyance. From where she was, the elemental controller could see Ivy in a bed to her right and Sam in a bed across from her own. Both were unconcious, or at least asleep.
Kamek peered through a crack in the door to the imfirmary. One of the girls was awake, and only after about a day. He shuddered to think about what might have happened had Bowser decided not to take the girls in.
The Koopa King waved a clawed hand and declared, "Alright. Just make sure that they talk, Kamek." With relief, the male magikoopa called out the medikoopas and had them take the humans to the infirmary. Bowser just left in the middle of the comotion and pondered why he had made that decision.
It seemed that she was in some pain, but didn't want to show how much. The girl carefully stood up out of bed. Her clothes from when they had found her were still on, even the boots that she wore on her feet. With a satisfied smirk, she went over to the girl with green hair and shook her a little. The little girl groaned quietly and switched the side that she was sleeping on. Kamek knew from experience that waking up a child as young as the green-haired girl seemed often resulted in a grouchy mood for both the sleeper and the person waking them up. The older girl shook the younger again, which finally woke her up.
"What is it...?" She asked sleepily.
"Good, you're not in a coma." The brunette commented. "You and I need to wake up Sam so that she can tell us where we are."
"Why can't we do it later? I'm tired." The younger girl complained after a loud yawn.
"We also need to see if any of our possessions are here, Ivy."
"So?"
"So, if we don't know where we are, and we don't have anything of our own here, then we could be anywhere! Even in Castle Oblivion again!"
"I never went to Castle Oblivion."
"But I did."
"Sera, instead of bothering the 11-year-old, why don't you just come over here so that I can punch your face for waking me up?" A third voice came from the other side of the room as the third girl sat up in her bed. Her short, curly hair was a little puffy from being slept in, but otherwise looked ok. From what Kamek could gather from the conversation, this girl was named Sam. "Or, you could tell me why we're in an infirmary instead of the cold, hard ground like we usually are." Sera, the girl wearing the trenchcoat, shrugged.
"You got me." By now, the little girl, Ivy, had given up trying to sleep again and sat up with a grumpy look.
"Let's look around, then. I'm sure that if we don't find out where we are, we'll at least find some food." Sam's stomach growled a little as she mentioned food. Kamek panicked a little. He was supposed to notify Bowser if the girls woke up, but he had been distracted by their conversation to do so. As the three continued on talking, he used his wand to bring up a picture of Kammy. Though he loathed the female magikoopa a lot, she was the only person closest in distance to the King that could use magic.
"What do you want, old man?" Kammy asked irritably.
"Tell his Highness that the girls are awake and have revealed their names." Kamek didn't mention the 'nickname' that his rival called him. She passed on the information, only to ask yet another question on behalf of Bowser.
"And their names are...?"
"Sam, Sera, and Ivy. The one called Sam seems to be their leader; She seems to know of other places that her companions don't." After passing on this bit, Kamek listened at the door. It seemed that the girls had left via the other door in search of food. "I'll follow them and pass on anything of use." With that, the magikoopa closed the link and used his magic to find the path that the girls had taken. Soon enough, he was in hearing distance of the three humans.
"I think that we're lost." Sera stated. It had only been maybe a minute or so, but the similarity of the passages confused all three of them. Sam, however, didn't think so.
"Just follow the smell of cooking or burnt food and we'll find a kitchen here. If I know Bowser, he'll probably have at least three kitchens ready for his use in his own castle." Kamek paused for a moment. He'd never seen this girl before, and yet she was talking about the King as if he were a friend of hers.
"How do you know that this is Bowser's castle?" Ivy asked, putting to words the question in the male magikoopa's mind.
"Well, his face is on almost every decoration," Sam explained, "The color sceme is red, green, and gold, there was a picture of Peach on the wall a minute ago, and-" Just before she spoke the last item, the curly-haired girl stopped in front of a double door that had no knob. "Here we are!" Sam pushed her way into a deserted kitchen. It had probably been left alone for an hour or two, since there was virtually no heat in the room and there wasn't any dust on the shiny counters. The teen opened a pantry door and took inventory mentally. "I could probably cook something, but I only know how to make a few things."
"I want French toast!" Ivy demanded in a typical 11-year-old way. Sera shrugged.
"French toast it is, then." Sam took down a loaf of bread and some powdered sugar. "Sera, Ivy, go find me a little bit of butter, a couple of eggs, and some maple syrup." The two split up in different directions in order to get what the oldest girl asked for while she laid the items on a counter next to a stove. Meanwhile, Kamek watched from a convenient window in the double doors and contacted Kammy again.
"What is it this time?!" The female magikoopa shouted.
"The girls are now in kitchen number 5, Sam is starting to make something she calls, 'French toast'. It seems that this girl has been here before, or knows his Greatness from somewhere since she knew that this is his castle."
"Did she say how she knew?" A gruff voice that could only be Bowser's asked in the background.
"I think she was about to before they discovered the kitchen. No one is inside at the moment except for them." By now, the girls had gathered the ingredients, a spatula and a frying pan along with three plates. Sam tried to turn on the stove, only to discover that it was a gas one. She said something that Kamek didn't catch. Sera snapped her fingers and a flame was now burning in the previously unlit burner. "What the...?"
"What is it, old man? Lose your glasses again?" Kammy's voice snapped him out of his reverie.
"I think that the girls might be able to use magic. The girl, Sera, she just made fire appear out of nowhere." Ivy licked her lips as Sam took a piece of bread that she had just dipped fully in liquid egg and put it on the frying pan. A sizzling sound could be heard through the door. Apparently, making fire come out of thin air wasn't unusual for those three.
"Fire out of nowhere? What are you talking about, Kamek?" Kammy was so shocked that she actually used the male magikoopa's name.
"This is the strangest thing I've seen in years. What are these girls?"
Me: A first look at Sera's powers can shock people into babbling.
Sera: That was only a tiny fraction of it, for those who don't know.
Ivy: So tiny, that everything else that she can do are as tall as skyscrapers!
Me: -blinks- Maybe not that tiny. Almost forgot, the Castle Oblivion thing is from an earlier fic of mine and is owned by SquareEnix, not Nintendo. Review, please!