Amerella: Greetings! I am helping Queen Sunstar with this Chapter.
Queen Sunstar: (Holding head) Writers block…
Twila: (Hands Queen Sunstar a book shaped like a block) Here, read your writers block, and get busy! Amerella, she tried to kill me off in the last chapter!
Amerella: What did you do to make her mad?
Twila: I don't know. I was reading over her shoulder, like I always do.
Amerella: (Reading last chapter) Hmm, I see. She brought you to deaths door so Kalmar can get taken. Here is the latest chapter, folks! Twila, the disclaimer?
Twila: (Boredly) Queen Sunstar and Amerella do not own the Mario brothers, only their own characters like Solance and Lunella.
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Solarton stared silently at the flickering flames inside the fireplace. His mind went over the details of what had recently happened. Suddenly, a gust of wind whooshed through the room, causing the flames to dance madly, and burn out. The room was plunged into darkness. Solarton only flinched. He stood up, and went to the fireplace to restart the fire. Something hit his shoulder from behind, and he spun around, staff flashing warily, only to come face to face with the Eye.
"What are you doing here, Hellhound?" Solarton asked, struggling to keep his voice calm.
"Overlord Solarton, my old archrival, I came to warn you of my spawns true intentions. He let the others escape, because the ones he wants are the stars…" The eye bobbled up and down, communicating telepathically.
"Your spawn has killed two of my best Suns, and injured two others. Lord Sunnings will be fine, but we don't know if Brighton will make it." Solarton snarled.
"So sad, and Brighton knows the weakness… of both of us…" the eye whispered, "I am nearly resurrected… Flora and Pyronia's blood has given me strength… but it won't be complete until the blood of Aqueena and Thundrina is given to me…"
"I killed you once, Hellhound, and I will not hesitate to do so again!" Solarton growled, drawing himself up to his full height, his spikes brisling.
"Heed my warning, or lose the stars…" Hellhound hissed, fading out. The room returned to normal, and Solarton found himself sitting in his chair, watching the fire in the fireplace. He smelled dried blood in the air, and felt his heart race, as he stood, and turned. There was nothing else in the room. Solarton looked around, and caught sight of a tattered piece of paper sticking out between two books. Cautiously, he crept closer to the paper, and touched it. Carefully, he pulled it out, slowly, from between the two books. It was an ancient bookmark. It showed the order of the Celestials. A mustache less Eldstar was on top, followed by a young Solarita, and below her was Silverado, and last came the Earth. The edges were bloodstained, and brittle. Solarton was so engrossed with what he had found that he didn't hear the door open.
"Solarton? What are you looking at?" Twiletta asked, walking into the room.
Solarton jumped a mile, and spun around, his spikes instantly going stiff, the traditional fear response. He relaxed once he realized it was only Twiletta. His spikes returned to normal.
"You startled me, dear. I found Solarita's old cross stitched bookmark, with Silverado's blood on it." Solarton said.
"Let me see… this is an amazing find. It means that the legend of Silverado was wrong. He was only trying to protect her from the Hellhound." Twiletta said.
"I saw the Hellhound." Solarton whispered, "And I think this has something to do with this. I am going to go check on Brighton."
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Geno was amazed by the size of the mansion, and it beauty inside as well as outside. As he walked down a hallway, he felt himself pass through a shaft of cold air. He turned, and screamed. The ghost screamed back.
"Geez! Don't you watch where you are going?" the ghost asked.
"You are a ghost." Geno said.
"The name is Biff. I'm Master Luigi's personal trainer. Yes, I am a ghost." Biff said.
"Shouldn't you be in the Ghost Realm?" Geno asked.
"I should, but I am stuck here, like some of the others. There's Melody, Shivers, Belcha the cook, the dog, Madame Clairvoyant, Bill, and King Boo lives in the basement." Biff said.
"I'm Geno." Geno said.
"Biff, are you terrorizing the guests again?" Daisy walked around the corner.
"Mistress Daisy, I was introducing myself to the guest." Biff said.
"Biff, you haunt the weight room. What are you doing in the hallway?" Daisy asked.
"I got hungry, and decided to go see if I could talk a snack out of Belcha." Biff said.
"Ghosts eat?" Geno arched an eyebrow.
"Where else do you think we ghosts get our energy? Of course we eat." Biff said.
"Biff, I would be more inclined to believe you, if you were standing in front of the dinning room door, not in front of Melodies room." Daisy said.
"Okay, I give up. I'll go back to the weight room." Biff sulked, floating back to the weight room where he belonged.
"Gadd released several of the ghosts from their paintings." Daisy said, "We will stay here for the night, and leave tomorrow morning. I smell something good cooking in the kitchen, and I need to go make sure Belcha is not trying to cook the ghost dog, again."
Daisy left Geno in the hallway, and walked around the corner. Suddenly she stopped.
"Geno! Some of the doors are fake!" She called. There was a crash, followed by a scream.
"Thanks for the warning that's a little late!" Geno called back.
Daisy walked through the dinning room, and entered the kitchen. Belcha had loved food in life, and now spent his afterlife cooking meals. He had gone on a diet, and lost most of his weight that he had gained in life. His death weight was 789 pounds. He had dropped nearly five hundred pounds.
"Belcha, what is for dinner?" She asked.
"Healthy food, Mistress Daisy. I decided on a pasta entrée with a side dish of dark, leafy greens in small quantities." Belcha said, his ghostly hands invisible at the chopping block.
"We have a guest, and Luigi is still out." Daisy said, "And you are still feeding Gadd, and the other ghosts."
"Thanks for the reminder, Mistress Daisy. Any idea on when Master Luigi gets back?" Belcha asked.
"I wish I knew." Daisy slipped out the backdoor into the side yard where Ghostie, the ghost dog, spent its afterlife. She whistled, and heard an answering bark as the bull dog came charging up to her.
"Hello to you, too, Ghostie." Daisy cooed to the dog. She played with it until Belcha rang the dinner bell.
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"He got Kalmar, Klevar." Muskular whispered.
"What?" Klevar wondered if he heard the blue star spirit right.
"The Daybreaker got Kalmar!" Mamar screamed, finally finding her voice.
"This is bad, very bad. What would the Daybreaker want with Kalmar?" Luminosity asked.
"The star rod." Twila spoke from behind her.
"The star rod?" Luminosity questioned.
"If we were to go dark willingly, then the Star Rod goes dark, and the Daybreaker becomes all powerful. Not even Fate would beable to stop him then." Misstar explained.
"Kalmar is good, so we won't have to worry about him changing, right?" Luminosity asked, her spikes stiff, showing her fear.
"Who knows what the Daybreaker can do." Muskular said.
"Luminosity and I will return to Skyland, and figure something out with Brighton. Last I heard, he had woken up." Twila said, "Luminosity, I'll orb us there." The Moon and the Sun disappeared in a flash of blue light.
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Luigi hobbled around the room, trying to walk. His scraped and bruised lags protested each time he put weight on them. He want to leave as soon as he could. Solance came into the room.
"Luigi, I know you want to leave, but doing too much too soon is not good for you." Solance said.
It was the next day, and Solance had a bandage covering his right eye. The scrape was not deep, and it had bleed some more this morning. Luigi had endured another round of Queen Nimbus changing his bandages. The solution she used had stung like the dickens on his scrapes as she scrubbed his injuries clean. Solance had suffered next as she attacked his scrape over his eye.
"My legs barely hurt. We should be able to leave soon." Luigi said, walking a little better.
"Queen Nimbus told us to stay here and heal for the next two weeks, which I intend to do." Solance said.
"Then be my guest. I'm leaving tomorrow." Luigi said.
"Queen Nimbus will decide that." Solance said.
At that moment, Queen Nimbus entered the room.
"Luigi, how do those legs of yours feel?" She asked.
"They feel great. I feel very little pain." Luigi said.
"That's good. Solance, your scrape is bleeding, again." Queen Nimbus said, going to the cabinet to get out more gauze, antiseptic solution, scissors, penlight, and medical tape. She got to work on Solance. She peeled back the bandage, and used a washcloth dipped in the solution to clean the injury. Then she held the washcloth in place while applying pressure to stop the bleeding. Then, she turned on the penlight and checked the eye for bloodspots. She bandaged the injury.
"It is healing up nicely, but I do wish it wouldn't bleed so much. Luigi, lets check those legs." Queen Nimbus said, turning her attention to Luigi, who grimaced, and sat down on the edge of the bed obediently. Queen Nimbus cut away the bandages, rubbed more antiseptic solution on to the scrapes, and rewrapped Luigi's legs.
"Queen Nimbus, I need to go back to Skyland, soon." Luigi said.
"I understand, Luigi. I'll let you leave tomorrow morning with Solance, since I am pretty sure that his wound has finally stopped bleeding for good." Queen Nimbus said.
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Waluigi floated in pure darkness, mulling over what Brighton had told him.
"Dad is right. I have got to fight back, but how?" Waluigi asked out loud.
He felt his feet touch something solid, and noticed the ground. He saw a desert like landscape, with mountains rising in the distance. The sky, if you could call it that, took on a dark purple hue, making the landscape black. He looked ahead to see a floating white light.
"I get it, now. I am still in control. Now, I can fight back." Waluigi walked forward, moving toward the light.
"What do you think you are doing?" The Daybreaker spoke, causing the landscape to fade out.
"Reclaiming my body!" Waluigi screamed.
"Unfortunately, your body is mine, fool!" The Daybreaker growled.
"Why do you want my body?" Waluigi asked, changing tactics.
"You are me, Waluigi. Its time to accept that fact now, or should I call you Twilus?" the Daybreaker asked.
"What?" Waluigi asked.
"You still have not figured it out? I am you, Twilus. I am the dark part of your soul. You were killed by Brighton, and reborn as his son. Remember that battle?" the Daybreaker asked.
The darkness lifted. Waluigi heard the sounds of a ragging battle, before he saw it. He found himself staring at the angry face of Brighton, and watched as he spun around to counter a blow from Lumin. Waluigi felt the cold steel of a sword being driven into his back, and screamed. He saw the flash of silver that was lumens sword, and saw darkness.
"Why did you show me that? Why now? That was 5000 years ago!" Waluigi cried.
"He killed you, Twilus. I waited for you to be reborn, but I couldn't get back into you because of the Skyland/Shyland war. We are finally reunited, Twilus." The Daybreaker growled.
"Daybreaker, are you saying that you and I are one? Am I somehow doing this to myself?" Waluigi asked.
"I am you. You are me. We are one and the same…" the Daybreaker said, "You can't fight yourself…"
Waluigi went silent, pondering this. The more he thought about it, the more it started to make sense. He remembered the nightmares he had suffered from as a child. Each dream was the same. He would see the blood splattered angry face of his father, with a sword in his right hand, and his left hand bandaged, and he would turn to counter a hit from Lumin, feel the sword in his back, and see the glint of lumens sword, and wake up as it went dark, screaming and crying his fathers name. Brighton would come running and comfort him, telling him it was just a nightmare, nothing more.
"They thought it was an after effect of the war, that I saw a soldier die, and it had scared me. I am the Daybreaker." Waluigi whispered, anguish squeezing his heart. As much as he wanted it to not be true, he knew that it was true.
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High over the southern sea, the wounded Blade hovered. Waluigi stepped out onto the deck, and raised his arms, chanting in an ancient language. A cloud formed, and began to swirl in slow, lazy circles. The wind began to howl, causing the cloud to spin faster. It began to split, and grow larger. The storm crawled toward Solarsky.
If anyone had been watching the storm form, they would have thought it was a normal storm, until it glowed dark purple, and changed to black.
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Twila took the lead inside the hospital. She went up to Mario's room first.
"Mom!" Mario cried, "You were saved!"
"Mario, my son." Twila felt her motherly instincts taking over, again, and hugged Mario.
Eleanor signaled Twila to step outside for a minute. Bowser stood up, and went with them.
"Milady, his Lordship, Brighton," Eleanor got interrupted.
"Please, cut the royal title stuff. We are not inside Clockwork." Twila said.
"Twila, He is worse." Bowser said, bluntly.
"What happened?" Twila asked, a sickening feeling in her stomach.
"Brighton had a seizure, and he was down for sometime. They don't know how bad the damage is to his brain. Also, his other organs have taken damage from the toxins released by his liver as it failed." Eleanor explained.
"And?" Twila asked.
"They won't know anything until he wakes up. They are sending Mario home tomorrow, and Eleanor and I thought it best to take him with us back to Castle Kooplin to recover, unless you want him to stay in Clockwork." Bowser said.
"Take him with you, and make sure he recovers." Twila decided, "I'm going to go see Brighton."
Luminosity joined Twila in the elevator.
"DK told me everything." Luminosity said.
The Elevator stopped in the Lobby, and the door opened to reveal Rose and Violet, who had been waiting for it. Rose was the Princess of Gardena, an Island out in the Aegean Archipelago. The Aegean Archipelago was also the home of Yoshi Island, the two DK Country Islands, Kremlin Island, Isle Delfino, and the Iceland continent down on its frozen southern tip. Rose was heavyset, with long red hair. She had deep green eyes, and wore a dress similar in design to Peaches dress. Rose preferred to wear light green, as it brought out her eyes. She wore a sun shaped brooch with an emerald in its center.
Violet was tall, and skinny, much like her boyfriend, Waluigi. She had long black hair, and deep gray eyes. Her dress was purple and blue, and her brooch was in the shape of a star. Her crystal was an amethyst. Violet was not a Princess, like Rose, Peach, and Daisy. She was the Guardian of Starworld, home to the Hallowed Four, a group of Yoshies with special powers. Starstone was the Queen of all Yoshi kind, and was rumored to be the only winged Uni alive. She was deep rich twilight purple with a white horn and wings. Sandstone, the Dreamspeaker, was a yellow Uni with a yellow horn. Windstone was dark blue with white wings, and Firestone was red, and had no wings, or a horn. The two women entered the elevator.
"I heard, Twila. Brighton will pull through." Violet said.
"I came once I found out. My kingdom is praying for Brighton to recover." Rose added, "How is Wario and Waluigi holding up?"
"Waluigi is ah, indisposed, and Wario went with Luigi to uh, help deliver something to Nimbus Land." Twila said, lamely.
"No offense, but why don't I believe you?" Rose asked, as the elevator began to move again.
"I didn't tell the truth, because I didn't want you to worry. Wario and Luigi are out fighting the Daybreaker." Twila said, closing her eyes as if the truth hurt.
"No, not Waluigi! Please tell me, Waluigi is not the Daybreaker!" Violet cried.
"He is the Daybreaker, Violet." Luminosity said.
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The next morning found Daisy and Geno outside the mansion, watching the pipe rise up out of the ground. They jumped in, and shot out of the pipe into Mushroom Kingdom. Daisy lead the way into the Pipe House, and two seconds later, a rusty colored pipe spat them out in front of the Hospital, where they met up with Mallow, Solance, and Luigi.
"Daisy! You are safe!" Luigi cried, giving her a hug.
"Luigi!" Daisy cried, burying her face into Luigi's shoulder.
"Geno, you have not turned?" Mallow asked.
"No, but I almost did turn." Geno said, "Lets get the show on the road, people!"
Everybody walked into the hospital, and passed by Mario, who was being discharged into the care of Bowser, and Eleanor. DK and Yoshi were with them. They were headed back to their homelands. Five minutes later, they met up with Luminosity out in the waiting room.
"Twila has not left Brighton once, since we got here yesterday night." the female Sun said, filling them in on what happened to Kalmar, and Twila's near death experience.
The lights flickered dangerously, as the storm made its arrival. The wind howled, as thunder and lightening went to war. The rain fell, like drops of blood spraying from an open wound. Luminosity turned to look out the window, as the lights gave up their desperate battle to stay on.
"Sweet mother of Eldstar…" She whispered. Luigi turned, and bit back a scream.
"Momma Mia…" He said softly.
Outside, the clouds spun, forming a giant funnel that raced to met the ground. The rain turned into record sized balls of hail, and the windows cracked ominously. The dark funnel raced toward a shell shocked Solarsky. Twila ran into the waiting room, and froze the windows.
"Funnels are never purple! Luigi, Wario, go! Luminosity, can you do something about the electricity? The generator is in the basement!" The Moon cried.
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Queen Sunstar: And I'll stop here, as I have no more time to work. Next chapter is part two of this one.
Twila: Don't forget to Review, please!
Amerella: Next update, is Monday of next week.
