I do not own Mario nor the other characters. I only own Toadine, Lakira, and Plumeria. Anyway R&R.

I tried to get a little more action into this chapter, I hope you like it!

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"What have you done to Toadette!"

Lakira jumped and turned around. She saw the familiar mustached man in overalls.

"Mario!" Lakira said shockingly, "How did you get back! I thought you were trapped back in your world!"

"Answer me! What have you done to Toadette!" Mario asked. He was growing angry.

Lakira looked down at Toadette and said, "Go back to the castle, Lord Bowser is waiting." Toadette obeyed and left.

"Do you want to know what I did to Toadette? She's simply hypnotized." Lakira answered, closing her eyes, "Just like every other citizen of the Mushroom Kingdom."

This angered Mario even more. He remembered the last time someone was hypnotized. The victim was Peach. Bowser had Kamek hypnotize her and almost made her marry him. What was Bowser's new plan? If he did anything to Peach, Mario will kill him.

"Ah. You must be worried about the Princess, right?" Lakira asked, "You'll find her soon enough." Lakira opened her eyes to see a fireball aiming straight at her face. She quickly dodged it and glared at Mario, who was clearly the cause of it.

"So your looking for a fight, eh? Well, you just got it!" Lakira yelled, gripping her staff harder than before.

Mario fired two more fireballs at Lakira, and like last time, she dodged, but her staff was hit. Lakira took her staff and aimed it at Mario, firing many more fireballs at him. Mario fell to the ground, to avoid the fireballs.

"What the hell!" Mario cursed after getting hit by his own attacks.

"I'm a mimic Mario." Lakira said, "I can mimic attacks and learn them. That's how I learned hypnotism from Kamek."

The name Kamek made Mario's anger reach it's peek. Mario stood up, facing Lakira, his eyes burning with anger.

"Hm?" Lakira watched Mario, slightly anxious to see what he has up his sleeve.

Flames appear in Mario's hands, and quickly grew until they were about the size of basketballs. Mario fired them at Lakira, but instead of going straight, they started to spiral around Lakira, engulfing her in a cyclone of flames. Lakira shrieked. If she didn't do anything soon, she could die! She held the staff in front of her, and shortly, a bubble of water formed around her, canceling out the flames.

Lakira fell to her knees. She was burned badly, but by using her healing abilities, she cured herself, just weakened her even more. Mario also fell to his knees, slightly weakened from his new fire attack.

"Why do you work for Bowser?" Mario asked.

Lakira was silent for a few seconds, then answered, "Why should I tell you!"

"Please tell me." Mario said.

Lakira sighed, "Fine, I'll tell you the whole story… I was raised by Bowser, secretly, so he could use me against the Mushroom Kingdom when I was old enough, and just incase I didn't obey his every whim, he made Kamek put this curse on me, so that if I do not obey Bowser's orders, he can order Kamek to take my life away… I didn't mind working alongside Bowser, it was actually fun, but when he told me to go after the two toads known as Toad and Toadette, he ordered me to hypnotize them, or unless they try to resist it, to kill them… I was a little hesitant because I already knew they would probably resist, and try to run, and… I never killed before, and I don't want to end up savage like Bowser if I do kill them! So I actually did you and your friends a favor, by hypnotizing them, not killing them."

"If you were raised by Bowser, what about your parents?" Mario questioned.

"What!" Lakira said.

"Did Bowser ever tell you what he did with your parents, how he got possession of you?"

"No… No he didn't…" Lakira whispered, then yelled, "HEY! Why the hell am I telling you all of this stuff! It's none of your business! I'll let you free this time numbnut, but I swear, next time we meet, it will be the last!" After saying that, Lakira disappeared in the shadows.

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"Lord Bowser!" Lakira yelled, as she appeared in the castle.

"What is it Lakira?" Bowser asked, still in the throne.

"I wanted to ask you something." Lakira started.

Bowser blinked, "Yes?"

"What ever happened to my real parents?"

"They worked for my father, but ever since you were born, they were useless. Thus my father and I killed them." Bowser answered.

Lakira screamed in her mind. "A-Alright Bowser… I just wanted to know." Lakira walked away into a different room, "That bastard. I'll kill him for taking my parent's lives!"