Queen Sunstar: Sorry for the short chapter. I didn't have much time to type this week. This chapter is done in Brightons point of view.
Twila: Nintendo owns everything but Queen Sunstars characters. See Ch. 5 for complete list.
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Pain filled every part of my body. I was awake in a sense, yet I still slept on. My eyes remained closed, yet I could hear everything going on.
'You know what I want, Twila.' I spoke telepathically to her. A sun is linked mentally to his moon. My chest throbbed agonizingly, and a warm darkness consumed me.
I was floating in a ball of white light. For a minute, I wondered if I were in SA. (Brotherhood, CH. 7) a few minutes later, I realized I was inside a cavern. I looked around. Luigi lay to my right, unconscious. Solance was on my left, laying in a small puddle of blood. His eyes were open, and I knew he was alive by the slight movement of his chest. I didn't see Wario, and Peach. I felt the familiar weight of my Sunstone around my neck.
"Luigi? Solance?" I tried, wondering if they would be able to hear me. I had dream traveled before, to Luigi. (Brotherhood, CH. 7)
Luigi jerked once, and groaned.
"Dad?" he asked, "Am I dead?"
"No. I think you are dreaming. What happened?" I asked, floating over to the youngest of my four sons.
"I think the volcano erupted. I got trapped on an edge, and Solance warped to me to save me, but the ledge broke. I was falling, and I felt myself trying to go solar." Luigi whispered.
It was then that I saw the rock trapping him. The cavern rumbled, and Solance gasped sharply.
'I have got to help them, but how?' I remembered the Sunstone I was wearing around my neck.
"Luigi, I am going to give you my Sunstone. It helped you before, and maybe it will help you now." I handed it over to him. The roof cracked. Listening with my heightened sense of hearing, I could hear Warios voice, arguing with someone.
"I don't care if I could cause the whole cave to fall in! Green bean is down there!" Wario cried.
"Wario, I know you are worried about Luigi, but we need to wait. Help is coming!" Mallow reasoned.
"But green bean…" Wario trailed off.
I suppressed a chuckle. Wario and Luigi had definitely bonded during the last quest.
"We have to wait, okay?" Mallow spoke again.
"Guys! Move it or lose it!" Peach screamed suddenly.
I turned around to see Luigi glowing. He was trying to go solar. My Sunstone began to glow in response, and Luigi changed, reverting to his solar form, Brightsun. He flamed out of his trap, and went to Solances side. That was the last I saw, as darkness fell over me again. Once again, I drifted at the edges of sleep and being awake. Then I sensed another presence.
"Waluigi?" I called out.
"Dad?" Waluigi answered, "What are you doing in my mind?"
"Where are you exactly?" I ignored the question.
"This is creepy! I'm talking to my own father in my mind! Lets see, hmm, I'm inside my body?" Waluigi was being sarcastic.
"Waluigi!" My mental voice adopted a sharp edge, "cut the attitude! You must be asleep, as I am dream traveling from person to person."
"Sorry. My body is at the beck and call of the Daybreaker. I'm just a disembodied soul, trying to figure out away to take back my body." Waluigi answered, "You can dream travel? I thought only Sandstone, the Dreamspeaker, could do that."
"My mother taught me how to dream travel to help me deal with severe night terrors when I was young. Waluigi, I have suspected this for quite some time, but what you just said confirms it. You are the reincarnation of Twilis, the half blood. He was the original Daybreaker. His soul has overtaken you." I explained.
"What? What are they giving you for pain, morphine? That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard!" Waluigi cried, "get outta my mind!"
"It's true, Waluigi." I felt him blocking me, "Fine, be that way."
As I faded, I heard him call out, "Its really true?"
"Yes." Darkness reclaimed me, and once again, I found myself in the wonderful borderland between sleep, and wakefulness. The next thing that happened, was boredom. How do people who stay in comas for years do it? I felt as if my mind was rotting. How long has it been now, two, three days? I quickly gave up trying to figure that one out. I decided to think about the attack instead. I recalled that it was close to noon, or was it more one in the afternoon? When I had heard something on my right, or was it my left? And turned to hit, only to get hit head on in the chest. I remembered Solarton screaming, and where had he come from? Then darkness. I found myself drifting again, and met up with Geno, who looked like he had been through war.
"About time you showed up, boss." He said.
"What happened to you? The plan was to go undercover and relay information about the Daybreaker at twenty-four hour intervals, not escape with Daisy." I said.
"Plans change. If I stayed, the Daybreaker was going to kill me." Geno said.
"Geno, this also creates a new problem. The Daybreaker is going to replace you, and he'll want someone powerful, like Solarton, or Eldstar." I said.
"Lets see, he already has a sun, and if his plan is what I think it is, he'll go for a moon, like Twila." Geno said.
"This does change things. How far from civilization are you?" I asked.
"Daisy has discovered her guardian powers and can become Flora at will, and according to her, we are in the middle of nowhere." Geno said.
"Luigi's team is indisposed, Waluigi is possessed by the Daybreaker, and I'm in a coma. Geno, its up to you." I said.
"Actually, Its up to you, boss. You have to wake up." Geno said.
"Its drug induced, so I can't wake up." I said.
"Then you'll have to lose Twila." Geno said, knowing he was hitting a very raw nerve.
"How do you wake up from a drug induced coma, Geno?" I snapped back.
"You say you have been dream traveling, right? Dream travel back to your body." Geno said.
"What?" I tried.
"Don't you get it? You can't dream travel through a drugged haze. This is a natural coma. You can wake up. You have been dream traveling to every body else's mind, but your own. If you go back to your own mind, you'll wake up." Geno explained calmly.
"You could be right." I faded back into the darkness, and returned to the borderland between sleep and wakefulness.
'Okay, self. Time to wake up. Come on, wake up. Why aren't you waking up? Wake up! Come on, wake up, wake up, wake up! Okay, this isn't working.' I thought at myself.
Then it was like a weight had been lifted from my eyes. I became aware of something hard and plastic in my mouth.
'Oh great. They intubated me. This complicates things. Oh well, I'll go telepathic.' I thought.
I opened my eyes, and was greeted by a new darkness. This darkness was different. I knew at once that I was awake. The darkness lightened as my damaged optical nerve began to function at its usual 28 percent. The darkness was replaced by a thick white film, my normal eyesight. I can see very little, but I make up for it with my heightened sense of hearing.
"Twila, the doctors say it doesn't look- Twila, he just woke up." Eleanor's voice rose a few octaves as she finished her sentence.
'Eleanor, tell Twila she is in danger. Daybreaker.' I thought out.
"Twila, they have a breathing tube in his mouth, so he can't talk. He just spoke telepathically. He said that you are in danger, Daybreaker. No, I haven't- Twila? Twila!" Eleanor turned to me, "Darn cell phone tower dropped the call." She stepped outside, and spoke to Bowser. He and DK got up, and left. She came back in followed by Yoshi, and a Toad doctor.
"Good to see that you finally decided to return to the land of the living, Brighton. My name is Dr, Toadala, and I'm your doctor. What is your pain level?" He held up a chart.
'I'm fine, no pain.' I chose to speak telepathically. The doctor jumped a mile.
"I forgot to mention, Brighton is telepathic. Just talk like you normally would, and he'll answer you, with his mind." Eleanor said.
"Okay, you will be in here for a while. It is not looking good for you right now. We had to remove your liver, and we gave you a part of Mario's liver, but there is so much toxic waste in your blood, that it is starting to die. You are simply too ill to undergo another transplant." the Toad sounded sad.
'You don't know me, doc. I'll pull through. This is nothing compared to what I've endured before.' I answered.
"Look like we have fighter on our hand." Yoshi said, speaking in his fractured English.
"Do I have to spell it out for you? Dead liver dead body." Dr. Toadala said.
'Then I'll have to be the first to survive this. I am not leaving this world without a fight. If King Boo wants me, he'll have to do war to get me.' I said.
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Queen Sunstar: I'll end it here for this week. This chapter is important in plot development. Until next time.
Twila: Yay! Brighton woke up! Oh and don't forget to leave a review, now!
