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Chapter 4

Morning; had not realized that I went to sleep, nor that I was sleeping in one of the castle's beds, nor the fact that I was in the same bed with Daisy. I quickly checked myself and sighed a relief when I still had all my clothes on-Daisy also had her dress on too. I got up and stretched feeling pretty good this morning. A pair of arms wrapped around my neck, obviously Daisy had woken up too.

"Good morning," she said, kissing my cheek.

"Good morning," I replied back through a blush.

The two of us said nothing else for while, just looking at the sunrise, until I decided to break the ice, "Um, Daisy?"

"Yeah?"

"Um, nothing happened last night, right?"

She paused for a moment as if thinking of what to say, "...Not that I know of."

I mentally sighed a relief in my head, "Okay just wondering anyway."

Daisy was about to probably ask me what I meant, but luckily the door to our room burst open. It was Toad and he looked pretty frantic, "Luigi, Daisy! Come out to Toad Town quick!

"What happened," was all I managed to breath. Toad Town was by far in ruined turmoil. Houses were desolated; most houses that were there were not even there anymore, roads were demolished, rubble lay everywhere, and Toads of all kinds were laying on the ground-either dead or barely clinging to life at all.

"How did this happen," Daisy breathed.

"It is simple," a voice behind us spoke. It was Merlon, and his usual attire was tattered with dirt and some tears were present, but he seemed healthy enough. "Bowser went on a rampage last night while we all slept."

"But how could such a huge Dragon Koopa cause this much damage as quickly and quietly all in one night?"

"How does Bowser commit such drastic acts? We may never know," Dr. Toadley appeared also. His usual attire was in similar fashion as Merlon, only he looked extremely tired with his tired, red eyes. "But is that the most important matter right now? I think not."

"Luigi, the most important thing right now is that you catch up to Bowser and stop him before he does anymore damage to the Mushroom Kingdom."

"Where exactly would he be? His own castle, I would presume."

"Daisy, I really do not want you to come with me," I confessed. "What if something happened to you? What if you die because I..."

Daisy put her finger gently on my lip, "Shhh, you're over thinking this whole thing."

"But..."

"Luigi, I am with you because I love you and I want to protect you."

That statement caught me off guard. Daisy protecting me? Was is not supposed to be the other way around?

"I mean what if something happened to you?"

Well, I would not care what happened to me, as long as you are safe.

She took my hand, interlacing her fingers with mine, "Luigi, you are all I have in this world. If something happened to you because of me..." She started to tear up.

"Woah! Daisy do not cry!" I quickly wrapped her in a hug. "Come on, I will not let anything happen to you or me. I promise."

"I know you will."

It took another five minutes to reach Bowser's Castle, but I was not prepared for what I saw. What I saw was horrible: Bowser's Castle was completely and utterly destroyed. Nothing but absolute ruined rubble. Minions of Bowser's army lay dead, very few were alive. Daisy and I rushed to the scene. The first person we ran into was Kamek, one of Bowser's loyal minion and adviser of all time.

"Luigi," he growled, "What brings you here?"

"Where's Bowser," Daisy got straight to the point.

"He is not here," he replied hatefully, "Although I do not think any of us want to see him right now."

"Why is that," I asked puzzled.

"Because he was the one who did this in the first place," Bowser Jr. yelled out in the distance as he made his way to us. His other brother, sister, and Kammy also made their way to us also.

"He was relentless," Ludwig started.

"He would not stop at nothing," Morton added.

"He ruined all my favorite shoes and stuff," Wendy outburst-ed.

"If you plan on taking him down, be our guest," Roy put in.

"But make sure you are careful," Lemmy and Larry both said.

"Why, it is just Bowser. What is wrong this time," Daisy asked.

"Something is not right with him," Iggy said.

"What do you mean," I asked.

"Bowser is insane," Kammy said, "He just speaks slurred words and constant sentences. He mostly kept saying Peach's name over. He also did not respond to any of us, he even nearly killed Kamek."

We turned to Kamek, who just growled and winced as he helped a random injured Koopa up. He had a deep cut going up his arm. "Go and stop him, before he hurts anyone else. Or worse, kills them in his insanity."

"But where would you think a insane ragon Koopa go," I wondered. It did not take long to see smoke arising in the distance. Smoke signifies fire, and this fire seems to be originating from Yoshi's Island...

Next chapter: The Search For Bowser

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