Gamer4 in. Here's the next chapter. I don't know if anyone noticed, but despite this story being partly under the humor genre, there hasn't been much humor in here. Maybe we'll finally get to some in this chapter? Thanks to everyone supporting this.

Warning: may contain spoilers for Warriors.

Disclaimer: No, no I don't own Warriors or Super Smash Bros.

Chapter 4

The Truth

Mario didn't expect anything weird to happen that day. He woke up, walking down the hall, past a wolf on its hind legs firing a blasting ray at a yellow mouse on its hind legs that was shooting lightning back. Nope, nothing weird yet.

He went down into the kitchen, where he poured himself some cereal and put some sugar on it. He looked up as he ate. A 2-D figure that was entirely black was making beeping sounds at a gigantic left-hand glove. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

Bowser walked into the room. He went straight to Mario. "What do you want, Bowser?" Mario asked cautiously. He didn't exactly trust the turtle/dragon crossbreed thing. They'd attempted to kill each other on several occasions.

"You'd better watch yourself," Bowser responded, grinning nastily. "I'm the king of werewolves, you know."

Mario looked at him with his eyebrows raised. "Is this like the time when you told me that you're my father/half brother?"

"It was an honest mistake," Bowser said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Mario grumbled, returning to his breakfast. "Go date your non-existent girlfriend."

"Oh, I have a girlfriend," Bowser sneered.

"For the last time, Bowser," Mario said, sighing, "Peach isn't your girlfriend. That's just some idea you came up with, and kept trying to catch her, even though, as both her and I have told you, she hates your guts!" He shouted the last words.

"Oh, not Peach," Bowser said. "I'm going out with Aphrodite."

"She doesn't exist, Bowser."

"Shun the non-believer!" Bowser said. "Shun!"

"Right," Mario muttered. "Well, can you go audition for Candy Mountain somewhere else? I'm eating here."

"I'll get you for this one day, Mario! You can't disrespect the werewolf king!"

"I'll take my chances. Get out of here."

Bowser turned and left, muttering darkly.

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Firestar, Graystripe, and Zelda had been watching the whole thing. "Please tell me that Mario's the one with the red pelt," Graystripe said.

"Don't worry," Zelda answered. "It is. The other one's Bowser. We don't know what's wrong with him. Just wait here while I get Mario ready for this." She went over to Mario.

Mario turned around, and before Zelda could say anything, he said, "If you came to tell me that you're the queen of nymphs, you can just turn around right now."

"Don't worry," she said. "I just wanted to ask something about that book you gave me."

"Okay, what?" Mario asked, sounding happier instantly.

"Is there someone named Firestar in it?" she asked. She knew there was, but she didn't know what his status was, or anything. She also wanted to get Mario ready for meeting the two from the book.

"Is there someone... What?" Mario asked. "He's the main character in the first series! Even after that, he's one of the most important cats in the whole series! I can't even describe how important he is!"

"What about Graystripe?" Zelda asked, trying to sound innocent.

"Are you trying to sound dumb?" he asked. "He's Firestar's best friend! How could you not know these two?"

"Okay, okay, calm down, Mario," Zelda said, then asked, "What-"

She was cut off when Mario said, "If you're going to ask who Tigerstar is, just go away right now."

"I wasn't going to ask that," she promised.

"Then go ahead," Mario said.

"What would you do if you could meet them?"

"That would be awesome. Depending on what they did."

"If they had questions, would you answer them?" she asked.

"Probably."

"Follow me," she said, then led him up to her room, where the two warriors were waiting.

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"Where are you taking me?" Mario asked.

"You said you would like meeting Firestar and Graystripe, right?" Zelda asked, stopping right outside her room.

"Yeah, I'd love to meet them," Mario said, confused. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"Exactly what I wanted to hear," Zelda said. "Go into my room and you'll see."

So Mario went into her room and looked around. Then he noticed two people sitting on the bed. They were dressed something like what Link would look like if he modernized and went orange or gray instead of green. "Meet Firestar and Graystripe," Zelda said from behind him.

Mario looked from the one in orange to the one in gray, to Zelda, then back to the orange one. "Really?" he asked.

"I wouldn't lie to you, Mario. That's really them."

"But, they're out of the book, and... well... human."

"We can hear you, you know!" Firestar called out.

"How did this happen?" Mario asked.

"I was trying a spell to bring Midna to the Smash Bros. and these guys came out of the book. But they want proof that they were in a book. They want you to answer their questions before they'll believe it."

"Okay," Mario said as he walked in to greet them. He stood next to them. They looked at him.

"Did Zelda tell you why we're here?" Firestar asked.

"Yes," Mario answered. "I'll be glad to answer you questions."

"Okay," said Graystripe. "I'll ask first. Is that OK, Firestar?" Firestar nodded. "Okay, who is the one who killed Redstripe? Oakheart or Tigerclaw?"

Mario looked at him, and for a moment, Graystripe thought Mario would be stumped, but then he answered, "No one. It was Redtail that Tigerclaw killed. Oakheart was killed in an accidental rockslide, Redtail ran from the rock fall, shouting that Oakheart was dead, then Tigerclaw killed him, hoping to become the new deputy, because Redtail was deputy at the time."

Graystripe exchanged an uncertain look with Firestar, who then asked his question: "What was Brightheart's original name?"

"Lostface," Mario answered at once. "Bluestar thought Starclan had betrayed Thunderclan, so when Brightpaw was attacked by dogs, losing an eye and an ear, Bluestar named her Lostface. When she healed, she was given a new name by you, at Cloudtail's request."

Graystripe, suddenly looking inexplicably angry, asked, in a dangerous voice, "How did Silverstream die?"

Mario seemed taken aback by Graystripe's anger. He'd expected them to take the news badly, (he knew he wouldn't react well to finding out, say, that he was a video game character, who's deeds were done by people playing video games for enjoyment), but he couldn't understand why they'd be angry. "Umm, she was having your kits, and it all went wrong. Cinderpelt turned up in time to save the kits, but Silverstream didn't make it."

Graystripe suddenly stood up, his anger more pronounced than before. "So you were telling the truth," he said to Zelda. He wasn't shouting, but he seemed close to it. "Leave us, please."

Even Firestar seemed surprised. Mario could tell that Zelda didn't want to leave either, but they weren't sure why Graystripe was angry, and maybe Firestar could calm him down. "Come on, Zelda," he said, and the two left.

Outside, Zelda said, "That didn't go as well as I hoped."

"Well, they're probably just distressed," Mario said. He looked back, hoping that they would cheer up. "They just found out that they're fake, and people just read their stories for entertainment. It's understandable."

"I guess you're right."

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