DanceDream: Never heard of that, but I'll assume watching it would be a bad idea. Well, Toadsworth is her caretaker - He was employed. What if there was a corrupt ruler? Would it be a good idea to entrust it to them? Caliburn? Dunno. Peach, the wishgranter princess, and maybe Daisy will be the only ones to actually make extensive use of swords, but others might use them from time to time. It'll be relevant eventually... It's a shout out to the Legend of Zelda. Well, you'll see what Russ has... And maybe learn something else, too... Well, it's good that she's feeling better. Yes, about Omega, and I wasn't sure who. I saw fireworks... Oh how I love fireworks...
Fyre Red: You're going to see what Russ found. It's not a bad thing. She didn't think of doing that, and don't make assumptions like Peach did.
TatlTails: Glad you think so. Yeah, it's supposed to look like it. The ghost isn't supposed to be future Amy. Nope, never played Kingdom Hearts.
Adventures of Mario & Sonic: Peach's Adventure
Book of Heroes
The book Russ T held in his hands had a simple title written in pictographs:
Book of Heroes
Russ opened the book, and began to read.
The Brothers
Two brothers will end the great war with the Koopa. Using naught but physical prowess and strange magical items, they will bring the great war to an end. The princess will be freed, and will rule the kingdom in stead of her departed father.
There will be many attempts to reinstate the war perpetrated by the great demon king; but all will fail under the hands of the brothers. The Mushroom Kingdom will finally know relative peace.
This is not their last adventure. The Brothers will fend off the great demon king again and again; growing stronger with each battle.
Other threats will plague the two:
The red man will team up with the princess; the great demon king; a lost prince; and a star spirit to defeat an evil mechanical marvel from another dimension.
The red man will be captured by the king of ghosts, and the green will free him.
The red man will destroy the evil that the Four Heroes of Shadow so long ago failed to destory.
Both men will face an alien invasion in the past, along with the help of their younger selves.
All worlds will be threatened by a man mourning for his love. In the end, he is redeemed, but he is not the true villain. The jester is.
The brothers will team up with the great demon king to put an end to the star of darkness.
Heed this warning, friend to the brothers:
How... How had the people who'd written the book known that he...
The jester, the master of dimensions, the pleaser of crowds; is he who must be truly watched for. A master manipulator and gifted with powers of prophecy, the jester has been manipulating everything from the start.
All will be lost if he is to succeed in his plan. All worlds will fall, to be replaced by a world made in the jester's image.
Death holds no bonds on a master of dimensions. The only way to truly defeat him is to remove his power.
The jester will manipulate anything and everything to his advantage. There is nothing in this or any world he truly cares for. Everything is behind a careful level of manipulations and persuasion.
His manipulations will eventually lead to the banishment of the brothers. Only one clue can be given from the likes of us: Knowledge of how to use another power can be more useful than a large amount of your own power.
The rest of the book was blank, until the very last page.
Friend of the brothers, take this book.
All will be revealed in time.
"What does that mean?" Russ asked.
It's a magic, book, isn't it? appeared on the page.
"... Of course." Russ sighed, before walking out of the library with book and key in tow. He found Peach and Amy talking to each other.
"-Montoya on him, but 'Peach Toadstool' doesn't really have the same ring to it, and I don't think I could actually go through with it anyway..."
"No, it doesn't," Amy agreed, "Hey, Russ found the key!"
"Yes, I did," Russ said, "I also found something called the Book of Heroes... It said that the friend of the brothers should take it with."
"... That's the Book of Heroes?" Toadsworth asked, looking at the simple brown book, "The legendary book that tells of heroes, what they can do, and what they'll need to pass their quests... Looks a lot more plain than I'd expect."
"I got the wish sword!" Peach said, holding it up. Russ seemed impressed.
"... I got lame powers. Let's go and get the Emerald Radar."
Peach nodded, and took out the strange flute.
Russ T walked up, and unlocked the final lock on Mario's door. He and the two girls walked inside, finding nothing on the ground floor other than normal household items.
"Upstairs, then," Russ led the two up the stairs.
On the loft, there were four beds obviously color-coded for who used them. On the far wall, there was a blue door with a drawing of two fox tails on it.
"... I'm going to hazard a guess and say we need to go in here," Amy pushed open the door. Tails' handheld was sitting on the table in the middle of the room. Amy waded through the cluttered floor, grabbed it, and came back out.
She showed it to the other two, and they left Mario's house.
"That was... Anticlimactic," Russ commented.
"Well, we're only halfway through," Peach said, "Now we have to find the Chaos Emeralds..."
An explosion sounded at the castle as swirling purple clouds surrounded it.
"... Oh, and the plot twist. Yeah, can't go without that."