Me: Now to show off- I mean introduce Sam and Sera's powers!

Sera: And remember, just 'cause we have these powers and are from Earth (sorta) doesn't mean that we're Mary Sues. Got it?

Me: -sweatdrops- I only own Sera, Sam and Ivy.

"I guess it's my turn then?" Sam asked as Ivy went back to stand in front of her older friend. The green-haired girl nodded. With a smile, the curly-haired girl stepped foreword. She muttered an incantation and a ball of fire appeared in her hand. Sam seemed to have a little trouble holding the form, but managed to show what she needed to. As she let go of the fire, she explained, "I'm a mage that knows a lot of spells. I can only do so much a day though, since I have a limited amount of magic for some reason." Sam shrugged. "I've lived with it long enough to not complain as much anymore." A hand motion from the teen mage made Sera come foreword, even though the trenchcoat-wearing girl looked like she didn't like this at all.

Without a word, Sera snapped her fingers. A ball of visible air appeared above her hand while the one around Kamek's wand vanished at the same time. A spark of electricity came from an overhead light and fused with the wind. She snapped the fingers on her other hand and a flame was now in the middle of this tiny vortex. Sera pointed at a nearby water spigot and a stream of water came out and went into the collabaration of elements after half of it froze in mid air. The final piece of this orb of sorts was a bit of stone that had fallen off of a stone wall just outside of the kitchen and flew in through a crack in the double doors. When it was finished, she held it in front of her like an artifact.

"Well? What do ya think?" All of the adults were speachless. "I'm what my friend calls an 'element controller'. As you can tell, I can control all four of the elements as well as ice and lightning. I'd get lava too if it weren't too noticeable." Sera rolled it around in her hands. "Don't think that I'm gonna help out with evil plans either; I've been through with that stuff for years now and I'm not about to change my mind." Bowser cursed mentally. With just her power, the world would be at his feet. With all three? Who knows what kind of evil he could produce?

Suddenly, the Koopalings burst into the room. Well, not so much 'burst' as 'fell over through the double doors in their shock from the display that they had just seen'. The older siblings had held up the younger ones via a strangly connected wall, when Ludwig lost his balance after Sera's explanation. Instead of falling backwards, all eight of them fell into the kitchen.

"What are you doing here?!" Bowser roared. In the confusion of all eight kids trying to explain what happened at once, Ivy's sugar rush returned more powerfully than before and she ran out of the room while giggling. Cursing quietly, both Sam and Sera chased after her. The only person to have noticed this was Ludwig, the oldest of the Koopalings. Without anybody noticing, the blue-haired koopa left the kitchen to follow the girls.

"Come back here, dammit!" Sera shouted. The 11-year-old had a lot more speed than she normally did and turned left at the intersection that was about ten yards away. The teenage girls followed quickly, but were stopped at a path that split two ways with no way of telling where Ivy had gone.

"You go to the right, I'll go to the left. Holler if you catch her." Sam ordered and the two split up. Ludwig decided to follow the curly-haried girl, as she seemed to know what she was doing. Soon, Ivy could be seen up ahead. Sam's eyes widened when she realized that the green-haired girl was poking an angry yellow-and-brown Piranha Plant. She sprinted and pushed her away just as the plant opened up its mouth. Unfortunatly, Sam's hand was in the path of the unusual plant's mouth long enough to get bitten. Of course, the teenager responded to that by screaming in pain at the top of her lungs. This snapped Ivy out of her sugar rush quickly.

"Bad Planty! You don't bite people's hands!" The little girl said angrily and used her hands with a bit of her power to open the jaws wide enough for her older friend to take her own out of its mouth. "If I catch you doing that again, you won't have any teeth to bite with!" The Piranha Plant, sensing the power that Ivy had within, looked sheepish (if a plant could really do that). By now, Sam was sucking in her breath from pain and cast a healing spell before her concentration could be broken. The wound closed up without a scar, but the teenage mage seemed feverish. Ludwig had run up and was now touching Sam's forehead. He knew which species of Piranha Plant this was; a tropical one with a fast-acting poison. It wasn't fatal. In fact, it was one of the weakest poisons in the world, but the victims usually got a fever and had to rest for a day or two before going about. Of course being a koopa, Ludwig didn't know what a human's normal temperature was supposed to be, but Sam's forehead was slightly warmer than what the Prince thought to be normal for a human. Ivy also touched her friend's hand under Ludwig's scaly one. "She's burning up!" She exclaimed with worry.

At that moment, Sera had finally made her way to where the three of them were. She had heard Sam's scream and came running to the source. The teenage human picked up Ludwig by the shell (a daunting feat, even by koopa standards since the Prince was about three times the size of an average koopa) in order to look at him at eye level. "What. Happened. To. Her?" Sera said slowly. For once in his life, the koopaling was scared of a human.

"S-she pushed the little girl away from the plant a-and got bitten. The poison, it only lasts for a day or two, but she needs to be in bed during that time." The blue-haired koopa was amazed that anyone could have this much anger over a friend getting hurt. Sure, his father was roaring mad (literally) when he had learned that the Mario Bros. had entered his castle and defeated most of his children (Jr. was in another castle) while he was, er, incapacitated, but this situation was different. As far and the Prince could tell, the two teens weren't related to each other. Sera dropped Ludwig without a word and knelt next to Sam.

"I know you have a spell in that computer of a brain that can cure poison. You've used it before." The other teen shook her head sadly.

"I tried it already." The lighter brunette frowned. "Sometimes, if the poison's very weak, the spell doesn't work since it is easily cured." Sam smiled. She wasn't in pain, but the fever made her uncomfortable. Still smiling, the mage muttered a couple of words while pointing towards herself. Sera recognized the words, but didn't do anything since it was too late. Sam's head rolled back as she fell into a blissful slumber.

Me: Um, Yeah, sorry about taking so long...

Sera: What'd I tell you?

Me: I'm gonna be gone for a time starting this weekend, but I'll update as often as possible after I come back.

Sera: a.k.a., when she feels like it.

Me: Please review!