He must have seen me pass by and wondered what I was doing. The first time I had seen him since the Origami Festival and now he was nothing but a kabob. I fell to my knees.

He looked at the sword piercing his chest. "Olly?" He looked up at me with fear in his eyes. "I'm so sorry. For everything."

Super Dimentio pulled his arm back and folded his hand back. The Origami Craftsman fell, the red water-like substance coming from the hole in him. Olivia, the Princesses, Mario, and Luigi came over, and Olivia knelt down to the fallen Toad.

This was all my fault.

If I hadn't gotten mad at him for something so simple and idiotic, I wouldn't have died and I wouldn't have met Dimentio! None of this would have happened if I wasn't a fool.

I felt something snap inside of me. All of my anger and fear was suddenly released. I needed to stop Dimentio before he hurt anybody else.

"Dimentio..." I stood. "How is it that you could become so desperate as to kill someone who did nothing to you or your plan?"

"What? No..." He took a step back.

"You have crossed the line. To think I actually was going to help you! You are insane! I can see why Olive didn't want to trust you!"

"Olly? Calm down!" Olivia came over, but I held up an arm to prevent her from coming closer.

"My name is Olly Shokunin of the Origami Kingdom. You killed our father, now prepare for vengeance!"

I charged Dimentio, who held up his arm to block me off. I grabbed his arm and forced it down, burning a bit of his arm in the process.

"Why won't you fight me?! I thought you wanted to see my power! You're scared now, because you got what you wanted?!"

"Ah!"

Dimentio opened a portal in front of me when I went after him again, but when I was about to fall through I felt something appear in my hand and I swiped the portal away. I saw I was now holding a sword with a golden hilt and a pattern of falling confetti on the blade.

Dimentio tried to back away, but I summoned a ball of water and tossed it at him. It froze when it made contact with the ground. It missed, but it distracted him long enough for me to go after him again.

I grabbed him by the side of the head and jabbed my sword into the center of his mask. I applied a bit more pressure, but he grabbed my leg and tossed me aside.

"I won't go back there!"

I landed on the ground hard. I attempted to get back up, but a pain shot through my arm and I fell back down. I couldn't even move my left arm anymore, so I switched the sword to my other hand and used it to help me stand. I faced back to Dimentio again.

I tried once more to get to his mask, and he attempted to block me off again. When he reached for my sword, a part of the ground came up and forced him down, holding his hands in place. I landed on top of him and stabbed his mask again, this time hearing a crack.

I forced it down harder, causing a visible crack to appear where the colors of the mask separated.

"No, no! I won't go down like this!" He tried to tear himself free.

"Sorry, Dimentio." The crack grew wider. "But Queen Jaydes has BIG plans for you."

The mask snapped in half.

A burst of black mist pushed me back. Dimentio stood. The ground withered when the mist touched it. We made eye contact.

Dimentio's face was more of that black mist, and his eyes were yellow. His hair was also messed up a bit.

"That mask was there for your protection."

I grabbed the black half of the mask. I looked back at Dimentio. He used his thousand-fold arms again, but it came short of my face. He fell to his knees and his arm grew limp.

"What's happening?"

I grabbed the other half and folded it back together. I walked over to Dimentio and held out the mask to him.

"I won't take your...pity..." He landed face-first on the ground.

"Dimentio."

He took his face off the floor to look at me.

"Take it, or else you and Olive will both die."

"Why do you care?!" He coughed up what looked like black liquid. "Neither you or anyone else would bat an eye to my death! Mario didn't even care when he banished me to the Underwhere!"

"Don't waste your breath." I crouched down to his level. "I had to learn how to heal, not hurt. I know you can too. Fawful did, Bowser did, Olive did..." I gave him a gentle smile. "Now it's your turn. Then I'll work on repairing what's been broken on the Shadow Queen as well. Just please; take it. I know how badly you want to avoid going back there. You and I aren't so different, Dimentio."

"Not again...not you..."

I put the mask on the ground and stood back up. "The choice is yours. You can die the same awful person you act like you are, or you can try to change for once, and get to live."

He slowly reached for the mask, coughing up more black. He grabbed it and moved it closer to his face.

"How do I know if I will regret this...?"

"Did you regret destroying your home? Perhaps. But at last you would have tried; and that makes a difference."

"How did you...?"

"I do not know. It just came to me, like how breaking your mask would weaken you."

Dimentio, with shaky hands, put the mask back on. After, he fainted, for he had used the last of his energy in doing so.

"Fare...well...I..." I looked over at the group. The Origami Craftsman was okay? He had been bandaged, but he was alive. I felt too weak...to...stand...