'A hammer…how did I not see that coming…' Luigi thought as he shook his head and walked over to the green hammer.
He was about to try and lift it, when he noticed something. The guards were grinning, as if they knew something he didn't. Luigi took another look at the 'pedestal' and noticed what they were giggling about. Someone had glued the hammer to its pedestal, making people think that only the 'chosen one' would be able to pick it up. Luigi sighed before grinning. He gathered a small amount of electricity into his hand before grabbing the metal handle and sending the electricity through it, snapping off all of the glue. Easily lifting the hammer up, the guards had shocked looks on their faces. Pulling out his empty hammer strap, Luigi tied it to his back before turning to the exit.
'Wait...'
Luigi turned around and looked around. The others looked at him, confused.
(What is it?)
"Did you guys hear that?"
(Hear what?)
"Please...'
"See! There it is again!"
(There what is again?)
Luigi was silent for a moment before turning to the guards.
"Are there anymore artifacts in this temple?"
One of the guards, annoyed that he was able to lift it up, grinned. "Yeah, but it's in a sealed chamber."
Luigi nodded. "Could you please take me there?"
The guard laughed. "You think YOU can get in? No one, not even the QUEEN has ever entered those grounds!" He said smugly. "But I'll tell you what, I'll humor you and show you the entrance to the sealed chambers' entrance."
Luigi expected this. There was always that ONE smart aleck that would irritate you. At least he wasn't as bad as Waluigi. Luigi was led to another chamber where the outlines of a door was easy to see against the blue bricked wall.
"Well? Think you can figure this out, 'Mr. Hero'? HAHAHAHAHAAA!" The Bei left him, his laughing echoing down the hall.
It soon died out, when Luma turned to Luigi.
(Well...wasn't HE nice...)
"Don't worry, it's actually a good thing he left." Luigi said as he turned to Luma and smiled.
(Why's that?)
Luigi walked over to a small blue orb that was standing on a small podium-like table. He put his hand against it and closed his eyes. Luma floated over to him, wondering what he was doing.
(Luigi?)
The plumber's eyes snapped open. "This sphere hasn't been lit for over a thousand years!" He said in shock.
(What? How...how did you know?)
Luigi smiled.
"Because I can use the Thunderhand AND Future Sight."
Luigi took a deep breath and clapped his hands together, the ring of energy reappearing at his feet. Pressing the palm of his hand against the sphere, Luigi drove the electrical charge of energy into the sphere. A flash of light made Luma shield his eyes, but when the light died down, a low rumbling sound could be heard. Turning to the outline of the entrance, the blue stone wall began rising. Luigi turned to Luma and smiled.
"See?"
Luigi quickly entered the hidden room while Luma quickly trailed after him. The spark of the orb disappeared before the door started to close. The moment it closed, the Bei gaurd ran back into the room to find it empty.
"Where did they go?" He looked around desperately. Worried, he'd wondered if he'd made a mistake laughing at him.
Luigi walked into the room, calming the freaked out Luma since the stone wall had closed in on them, and looked up to see a giant orb towering over them. Luigi smiled as memories of Oho Island resurfaced in the front of his mind.
~Flashback~
"M-m-mario? A-are you s-s-s-sure we s-should be in h-here?" A terrified Luigi asked his older brother as they wandered into the temple grounds.
Mario sighed before turning to his younger, yet taller, brother. "Calm down Luigi, its okay. They said there was a treasure here, so we're just going to try and take a peek at it before heading back to the mainland, alright?"
Luigi shakily nodded before they continued to walk deeper into the temple. Upon reaching an alter, A giant orb lay on a pedestal. Mario stared at it. It was a giant pink-ish sphere that held a glowing fire in the middle of it.
"How did they get a fire in there?" Mario wondered as he stepped in to get a closer look.
Luigi took a deep breath trying to calm his nerves and sat down on a small ledge, only for it to give way underneath his weight.
"YAAAA!"
WHAM!
Mario looked over the edge to see Luigi on the ground, his eyes spinning in circles. "Geez Luigi, give me a heart-attack why don't ya." He sighed before walking back to the orb. Luigi got up before shaking his head, ridding himself of his dizzy-ness. Getting up, Luigi noticed a path to his right. Wondering where it led to, Luigi followed it. He had entered a gian room, much like the one he and Mario were in a moment ago, when suddenly the wall behind him closed up, keeping him from returning. Panicking, Luigi started banging on the door while screaming for Mario. The walls were too thick however, for his voice to be carried into the other chamber. Instead, the room he was in suddenly dimmed and a voice boomed out.
"WHO DARES WAKE ME FROM MY SLUMBER?"
Luigi was shaking in horror at the thought of having awakened an angry Island Spirit, and slowly creeped around and looked up to see an alter, much like the one in the last room.
"WELL? ANSWER ME GREEN MAN!"
Luigi jumped upon having been discovered, and slowly walked up to the alter. "U-u-u-u-mmmm...m-m-m-my n-n-name is L-l-l-luigi. L-l-luigi S-s-segale." He looked around, trying to find the source of the voice, only for no-one to appear in sight. Wondering if he was just hearing things, Luigi turned to the large blue sphere on the pedestal of the alter. It had...
"Electricity?" Luigi wondered aloud, staring at the orb in fascination. He wondered how in the world he could see live electricity flaring in the center of the orb, and for a reason he didn't know, he placed his hand against the surface of it. His other hand soon followed, and Luigi felt a warmth spread throughout his body.
It's warm, but at the same time, cold.
Luigi suddenly felt this funny sensation coursing throughout his body, making him see lights flashing before his eyes. He shot his hands off of the orb, seeing white, Luigi stumbled around for awhile, bumping into something, Luigi put a hand on it to steady himself. When Luigi regained his sight, his body was still tingling. He looked to see a Crescent Moon statue. It was beautifully detailed, glowing a light blue. Luigi wondered why it was here, when suddenly, the room went pitch black. He looked around to find not just the statue he was leaning on glowing, but the other eleven statues were glowing as well! Luigi slightly backed away, before noticing he too was glowing, only a light green instead of a light blue. Quickly turning around to the alter, Luigi noticed he was somehow at the bottom of the stairs, and that a strange tiki-like man was standing at the top of the stairs. He was wearing tribal robes, and his face was painted green. His eyes were defined by blue outlines around his eyes, and Luigi could tell he was glaring at him. He was also wearing a blue crescent moon hat thingy on his head.
"FOOL! YOU HAVE DARED TO TOUCH THE SACRED SPHERE OF LIGHTNING? YOU SHALL BE PUNISHES IN THE MOST HORRIBLE OF WAYS!"
Luigi swallowed hard, wondering what horrors would await him. Five minutes passed, then ten, and finally the tiki-man yelled out in rage.
"WHAT THE HECK! WHERE ARE THE AGONIZING SCREAMS? WHERE IS THE PAIN THAT IS BROUGHT BY TOUCHING THE SACRED SPHERE? COME ON! THROW ME A BONE HERE!"
Luigi stared up at the man in pity. It seemed Luigi had done something that he wasn't expecting. Walking back up the stairs, Luigi looked at the man before coughing to get his attention.
"Um...what is supposed to happen to me?"
"You should be electricuted into a writhing mass of pain and misery! Why aren't you doing such?"
"Um..I'd like to know that too..."
There was silence in the room for awhile until the tiki-man had an idea.
"Hold on a minute...hold up your...which is your writing hand?"
"Umm...my right? I'm actually ambidextrous...so it doesn't really matter..."
"Hmm! Try focusing your energy into your left hand!"
Luigi stared at him for a moment before trying to focus some energy into his left hand. What appeared was a light green fireball. When Luigi didn't seem phased by this, the tiki-man tried something else.
"Try your right hand!"
Luigi did as commanded, but instead of a fireball, a surge of electricity appeared in his hand.
"ACK!" Luigi nearly jumped ten feet when he saw his right hand.
"AHA! THERE it is! I can't believe it! I can finally leave this creepy place! Someone else now knows the Thunderhand! Though I'm surprised you also know the Firebrand, but that doesn't matter."
"Eh?"
"Because someone else knows the Thunderhand, I can rest in peace! Oh! Before I forget, if you don't find someone to pass the technique onto, then you will be sealed in here until you find someone who can also use the technique! LATER!"
Luigi looked around as the room lightened back up and the door opened up to show a rather bored Mario.
"Are you done yet? You were yelling at me earlier for looking around here, and now I see YOU staring at a DIFFERENT orb."
Luigi looked back at the orb before running down to see Mario. "Hey Mario," Luigi started as they left the temple. "Did anything...wierd happen while you were with that fire orb thingy?"
"Eh? No. All I saw was that it was like our fireball abilities." Mario shrugged. "Nothing big."
The two Segale'sleft that island via Luigi having to use his 'Special Ability' to turn into a surfbaord and continued on their journey, but Luigi felt that this was noth the end of his Thunderhand adventure.
~End Flashback~
Since then, Luigi had learned to circle energy by clapping his hands together, as they formed a 'complete circuit'.
Walking up the staircase, Luigi put a hand against the dome. Taking a deep, nastalgic breath, Luigi clapped his hands together and began pushing energy into the orb. Suddenly, the entire room lit up in a bright green light. Stepping back, Luigi watched as a ghost rose up from the center of the orb, her long flowing blond hair covering her eyes and draping down past her waist. She wore a long, yellow-green kimono, and had a dark blue Obi tied around her waist.
"Thank you for helping me. It has been many years since this beacon has been lit."
"Beacon?" Luigi asked curiously.
The ghost lady nodded.
"Yes. This sphere is a sacred beacon, used by Thunderhand users to travel accross the galaxy. You may not know, but the Thunderhand masters were once travelers of the comsos."
"Really?" Luigi asked in awe. He hadn't known that...
"Yes. Some legends actually spoke of them also commanding time."
Luigi smiled. Like Future Sight.
"You do not yet know how to access these beacons, do you?"
Luigi shook his head no.
"Then I will teach you."
The lady touched Luig's forehead, where a gleam of light appeared. Luigi blinked to find the room shrouded in darkness again, but with the Sphere glowing a bright, healthy green. He now knew how to travel to each orb in the entire cosmos. Not to mention the few lightning spheres at home. Heck, he could probably pop up back at home if he wanted to. Luigi smiled.
Instant transportation. Awesome.
Luigi smiled to Luma and started heading to the newly opened exit.