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Chapter 14
When I finally came to my senses, the first thing I felt is sheer cold. When I surveyed the area, I realized that I was on a mountain of some sort. I also took note that Mr. L and my counterpart: Mrs. D had their backs turned to me and I was not tied up or anything...this may be my only chance to escape. I slowly stood up, careful not to make a sound. I tiptoed in the snow away from them and then got a sudden wall of green crystal in my face.
"I believe the girl is leaving without our permission," I heard Mrs. D in the distance.
"Not like it matters," I heard Mr. L, "We are in the mountains- mountains that she does not know her around. Either she stays with us and live or she could wander the mountains and die a freezing death."
I had to admit that he was right: I had no idea where in the world we are. But then again, it sure did beat staying in some dark, dreary castle.
And it sure beat staying with these two psychos.
"See ya," I hollered as I pounded the ground, forming an orange wall of crystals in between those two and I. Quickly with already crystallized hand, I punched a hole through the green crystal wall, big enough for me to seep through. Then came the hard part: running into an unknown territory and surviving.
It seemed like I had been wandering this mountain forever, I had no idea what time it was, I had no idea where I was going, I had no idea if I would live to see the next day, I had no idea about anything really. I could feel my legs wobbling, close to giving up now. I wanted to cry, but the icy winds stopped the tears from flowing.
"...I guarantee that that the person who will die is you!"
Was I hearing things? No, I could not have; I just felt intense heat it must be true. I picked myself up quickly and scanned the area, from through the howling winds and freezing snow I saw two dots moving at fast paces. One of them seemed to shoot blue flames, while the other one seemed to utilize both red flames and green electricity. Upon closer inspection, the two dots formed shapes: one in the shape of a Dragon Koopa and the other in the form of a human in green.
My human in green: my boyfriend in green.
And that boyfriend in green that I loved to no bounds was Luigi. I was so overcome with relief and happiness, that I literally jumped into the fray and almost got burnt as I toppled onto Luigi. "I found you finally." He fidgeted a little to get up, and as he did, I could tell that him seeing me left him speechless. So speechless that the words that hung in his mouth never came out.
But those unspoken words meant a lot to me. We both spent this entire story looking for each other; becoming stronger to overcome obstacles and to finally come face-to-face.
And now there were only two things left to deal with: crazed Bowser and the man over there clapping menacingly.
"Well down princess," Mr. L scoffed, "I thought you would perish underneath all the blasted snow. But I guess now that you are here, this will become very exciting indeed."
"There can only be one true Luigi and Daisy," Mrs. D added, "And we intend to make that us."
"And Bowser," Mr. L began, taking a long deep breath, "There is just no room for you in this world once we get rid of our fakes."
Bowser smirked as he spun quickly, shooting out very heated blue flames in sort of a vortex. Mrs. D and Daisy ducked under Bowser spinning fortress while Mr. L and Luigi jumped high in the air. Mr. L took his left fist and charged it with pure white electricity; Luigi did the same only he charged his right fist with pure green fire. The two of them forced themselves down from the air, fists pointed directly at Bowser's spinning fortress. Bowser saw the attack coming and immediately stopped his attack, he raised both his claws and caught both Mr. L and Luigi's charged fists.
"Not good enough," he growled. He smashed both Mr. L and Luigi into each other. Bowser laughed evilly, but completely forgotten about Daisy and Mrs. D; both of whom which slammed their own crystallized fist into Bowser's back. As Bowser tumbled forward, Luigi took the opportunity to get up but then Mrs. D acted quickly by pounding the ground under his feet and sending him high in the air. Infuriated, Daisy kicked Mrs. D in the gut and followed up by a punch that sent Mrs. D rolling backward in the snow. Mr. L grew angry at Daisy as he promptly shocked her with his own two hands. Daisy struggled greatly to become free, but no avail; that was the case until Bowser ground-pounded the two of them into the ground.
Bowser laughed evilly again as Luigi jumped right in his face and instantly punched him with his flamed fist. Bowser skidded across the snow and almost got pelted with another flamed fist if he was not so nimble. Bowser made a small jump back and parried another attempted attack from Luigi. Bowser swiped his left claw downward, in which Luigi sidestepped out the way. He acted fast as he pulled out his hammer and tried to knock Bowser out; Bowser stopped the attack cold as he acted fast as well by swinging upward and deflecting the hammer. Bowser suddenly heard footsteps behind him and ducked, leaving Mrs. D to jump and completely miss his head. She did however get a clean shot at Luigi, the force of his attack leaving him stunned. Mrs. D was about to charge at him, but she caught sight of Mr. L running toward her behind Luigi. Mrs. D jumped while Mr. L rammed Luigi from his back- sending Luigi flying straight and hard into Bowser. As Mrs. D landed on the ground and Mr. L slow to a stop, Daisy flipped over Mr. L's head, grabbed his neck in midair, and as she landed threw Mr. L straight into Mrs. D; the two went straight into Bowser and Luigi as they just got up. Daisy jumped high into the air and fully crystallized both her arms, "Out of the way Luigi," she yelled as she began rushing toward the dog piled group in the snow. She hoped that Luigi was able to make it out the way as she hit the ground with as much power as she could: causing a mass rumble and explosion-like effect on the dog piled group.
Her attack however backfired as she came to realize that she missed everyone (happy that she missed Luigi, but also angry for missing the others) and her stunt only caused another increasing rumble to occur. All of them lost their footing as they realized in horror that an avalanche headed straight for them; moreover, at an alarming rate of speed. They all frantically looked for some sort of cover, but on a mountain with much openness it proved all in vain. The avalanche was about to consume them until they all saw big ice chunks enough for them all to stand on. All of them jumped on a random chunk and went along for the ride.
This, however, did not stop the fighting. As soon as Luigi and Mr. L noticed that they jumped on the same chunk, Mr. L threw electricity at Luigi, whom jumped out of the way just in time. Mr. L grumbled as he held out his hand, having little watts of electricity flutter around it. The cluster soon formed an almost invisible white sword of just pure electricity. "This time," Mr. L growled, "I will make sure you die a very slow and painful death." He took a step forward and swung his sword down vertically, only to have it stop midway as Luigi parried it with his trusty hammer.
Daisy watched in agony as she observed Luigi and Mr. L fight intensely with their weapons. She wanted to help badly, but not a good jumper herself- unless she used a lot of her energy and her crystals- she could not make it to where the two were. She turned to see if any other dangers were ahead of her and she was right: Mrs. D was jumping over little bits of ice chunks and was heading for her direction. On the small closest ice chunk near Daisy's huge ice chunk, Mrs. D jumped high and landed perfectly in front of Daisy. She slowly raised and grinned, exposing her two arms: full of sharp crystals, patterned in a way that looked like a sword attached to her arm. "This is it," she said lowly, "I am going to take what were mine years ago!" She ran swinging her sword-like arms; Daisy backed up nearly having her neck cut off. She began thinking quickly of a way she could protect herself against swords. The thought hit her just before Mrs. D swung again, Daisy put one hand up and parried off the attack with her own sword-like arm. "Monkey see, monkey do," she replied coolly.
Luigi swung his hammer; Mr. L dodged again and retaliated with his own. The attack skinned the front of Luigi's hat, "So close," Mr. L muttered in frustration. Just as he was about to attack again, both Luigi and Mr. L looked up to see Bowser on his way down to smash them into the cold, roaring ground. "Surprise," he yelled as he smashed the ice chunk in three, separating Mr. L and Luigi. Bowser gripped his ice chunk and shot constant, frightening fast blue flaming fireballs. Luigi and Mr. L gripped their ice chunks as well and maneuvered through the rushing avalanche; it was much easier to do now that they had smaller chunks of ice to use. Bowser shot another blue fireball but it missed its target again, what was so different about this fireball was that it caused an explosion in the avalanche. It caused the avalanche to form even higher and engulf anything and everything in its path, including all five of the heroes and villains.
The avalanche had fallen, the avalanche had stopped. Not a thing was heard, not a thing stirred. But wait, what is this? Soft rumbling coming from somewhere among the midst? Why yes there appears to be some life still out there.
Luigi was the one would was the cause of the soft rumbling. He shook his head and smacked the side of it to release some of the snow out of his ear. He looked around the devastated scene: it was like a field of just plain white; not a single other object around- just plain old white. He pushed himself up to see if he could see anything in the distance: nothing. He put one foot in front of him and soon followed with another step ahead of the previous step. One step however made him wince as he stopped to look at what caused him to feel pain under his boot:
Daisy's crown, but no Daisy underneath it.
He became horrified; he frantically keeled on top the snow and forcing his gloves to shove snow from around him. "Daisy! Daisy," he cried still digging around for her as if he was a child who lost their precious toy.
All Luigi could salvage was her crown, her glove, a piece of her dress, one of her earrings...yet not one of them told him what he wanted to hear.
"So she is gone as well. Hm, cannot say I am surprised though; she just acted tough, she was rather weak anyway." The speaking seized for a moment before continuing, "And now so are those other two...But one last obstacle stands in my way..."
Luigi had enough of everything. He had enough with the deaths, he had enough with the fighting, he had enough with the angst, and he sure had enough of certain villains in his life. He was faced to overcome all of these things in order to have peace reign once again not only in the Mushroom Kingdom, but also the entire world. His left arm suddenly glowed a brilliant color of green flames; his right arm suddenly glowed a magnificent color of green thunder. He turned to his opponent, whom stood tall as Luigi just made constant eye contact with him.
"Bowser," he said slowly, "It is time to end this once and for all!"
Bowser smirked, "I could not agree anymore, Green-Stache." Bowser got into his fighting position as Luigi had done his.
"Do not disappoint me Luigi."
Bowser initiated the beginning of the end by spewing his infamous blue flame attack. Luigi clenched his hands and jumped over the assault; Bowser stopped immediately and jumped after him. Luigi shot a powerful green fireball followed by a powerful green plasma ball straight for the Dragon Koopa. Bowser utilized his metal claws and sent them straight back; Luigi retaliated by kicking the misguided projectiles away upward into the far reaches of...wherever they are heading now. The two collided with each other, and then it became almost a light show in the sky; flashes of green clashed with flashes of blue. It kept persisting on and on, neither side giving in to the other; however, one calculated and precise move made by Bowser caught Luigi off guard and sent him plummeting to the cold, unforgiving ground. Bowser gave chase, intent on the thought of ending Luigi's life just like he did to Mario. Luigi had different plans, however, as soon as Bowser came into range he sprung up into action and delivered and fiery, furious uppercut to Bowser's chin. Bowser spun and spun wildly in the air as Luigi threw a barrage of fireballs and plasma balls at him; all Bowser could do was shield himself the best he could as he was helplessly pulverized in the frenzy. Bowser uncovered his face just in time to see Luigi quite literally in his face, but he was too late to do anything about it; Luigi punched Bowser in the stomach, jabbed Bowser's snout, kicked Bowser several times, and ended his combo by ax-kicking Bowser hard into the ground. Luigi landed a few feet away from the fallen Bowser before he ran as fast as his powers would let him; Bowser got up not a moment too soon. He forcefully grabbed Luigi, gripping him tightly and nearly choking him. While still holding him, Bowser used his other claw to swipe at Luigi several times- giving him may cuts and scars mostly on his face. Bowser then threw Luigi up in the air and viciously spat blue flames at him, point blank.
Bowser scoffed as he watched Luigi fall from the air, burning in the process. He would have laughed in victory too if I had not been for Luigi getting up even though the blue flames burnt him severely and should have ultimately ended his life. But as Bowser continued to watch, he started to feel something he thought he never thought he would never feel again: fear. To see Luigi withstand such intense damage at such a close range, it made him have second thoughts; second thoughts as in: was he destined to lose? Was all this fighting just for him to lose to some coward plumber in green? "No," Bowser muttered under his breath, "I refuse to lose to such a coward!" Bowser rushed violently at a shocked Luigi, he grabbed hold of the green plumber and began squeezing him tighter and tighter, "Die, you stupid waste of space!" Luigi struggled to set himself free and for a breath of oxygen. He bones were at their very limit and he could feel himself losing his breath fast. Luigi felt around for a grip on the inside of Bowser's palm; and when he finally did, he let out a flash of fire and thunder from his hands. Bowser yelped out in pain, trying to lessen the heat coming from both his burnt hands. Even though Luigi was in desperate need of oxygen, he still put up a fight by lightly jumping and kicking Bowser straight in the face; Bowser held a paw to his face in horrible pain, now also not able to feel his snout. Luigi ran at Bowser again, but this time Bowser caught both of Luigi's hands and then the two began to fight for control as they both had each others' hands in their grips.
Bowser pushed himself forward, "You are too d*** annoying plumber."
Luigi pushed himself forward, "Yeah well, you are not so different."
The statement enraged Bowser, now gripping Luigi's hand even tighter than before, he charged up blue flames in his mouth. "I will make sure you perish in this horribly." Luigi tried to pull away but Bowser's grip was too powerful to break away from.
"It is over Luigi," Bowser yelled.
"No," Luigi cried out, expelling thunder and fire out of both his hands; it was a small blast that sent Bowser flying a short distance away. Luigi feel to one knee and gasped rapidly, he looked up and saw something that intrigued him: another cliff. Summoning whatever energy he could, he ran toward the fearsome tyrant. Luigi jumped into the air, giving a side jab on Bowser's cheek.
"You took many lives," he cried out.
Luigi again punched Bowser, in which made him stumble backward, "You desolated the Mushroom Kingdom..."
Luigi spun kicked Bowser next, "You hurt my friends..."
Luigi threw fire and thunder at him, "You killed those closest to me..."
Luigi charged his hands with fire and electricity as much as he could, "And worse of all, you took Daisy away from me!" Luigi used both his fists to punch Bowser with as much fire and thunder pressure he could possibly store within himself. The force of the impact impaled Bowser as he flew a small distance backward...straight over the cliff's edge. Bowser gave a shrill yell as he went into a spiraling free fall; as Bowser fell, however, he tried to grab hold of the ledge but ended up taking part of the ledge with him- particularly the part Luigi was standing on. Luigi made a desperate attempt to grab hold of something solid, but it proved in vain because he only ended up catching air and falling forward. Luigi let out tears, thinking to himself that he was going to die. But perhaps miracles were abundant for the hero in green as he stopped suddenly in midair; something grabbed/caught/tucked his leg and he was hanging upside-down overlooking the seemingly endless pit of which he watched in great awe as Bowser fell into, yelling out his last breaths. Luigi suddenly found himself slowly coming back up and over the newly formed cliff's edge. The minute he was safely on top safe grounds, a body soon fell on top of him and engaged themselves in a kiss upon Luigi's lips. It shocked Luigi at first, but then he realized that...
It was Daisy. A little bruised here and there, but other than that she was alive and that was all that mattered to them both: The fact that this whole adventure was finally over for them. Luigi fell into the kiss quite readily as the two embraced each other despite the cold atmosphere around them.
A short distance away...
"We could get them now while they have their guards down."
There was a pause before someone else spoke, "No let them be for now. I am too exhausted to put up a fight against the hero."
"Hero? What happened to all the accused names you have given him?"
"Heh, he proved himself to be a hero. Which makes all the more better the next rematch I take with him someday. Come on honey, let us go home."
"Now you are calling me 'honey?' Did you hit your head too hard or something."
"Is there a law where I cannot call my own wife some sort of nickname?"
"No. No there is no law forbidding that...sweetie."