I love this story. It's probably one of the most suspenseful story I ever wrote! Don't you agree? Anyway, I wonder if you guys guessed whose creepy giggles belonged to. I won't tell if you didn't guess, but guess it's disclaimer time.
The Koopalings, Junior, and Mario related items belongs to Nintendo.
CJ, Melody, Andrew, and Felica belongs to me.
Enjoy and please suggest good chapter names 'cause I suck at names!
"Junior!" Ludwig sharply told him."Vhat are you doing here?" Everyone brushed themselves off and helped each other up as Bowser Junior replied calmly to his angry brother.
"I told you I was gonna come," Junior answered."One way or another." He smiled evilly as he climbed out of Larry's arms."Just looked what's in my bag," he held up his bag for everyone to see. There was his paintbrush, as well as an extra pair of bandana, rations, rope, flashlight, some paper, a phone, and matches."
Melody looked at his pack for a bit."You're really some sort of survivor," She said impressed."Maybe he should come with us." "Not unless he tells us how he got here." Ludwig murmured."Alright, I'll tell ya!" Bowser Jr. said as he sat on the ground.
***Flashback***
"You see," Bowser Jr. started."I already knew that you would say no to me going, even though I went last time. So I made you think that I went back to my room."
Bowser Jr. was watching his siblings talk about the plan to get to the lab. He was smiling mischievously. He crept out into the hallway down to the underground lab of Iggy.
"So, I actually had a tape-recording of Iggy's password, so I used that to my advantage."
Junior was searching for the secret wall, feeling for the bumps that Iggy had put so that he wouldn't forget. After a while, he found it. He smiled, reaching into his shell and playing out a tape recorder he hidden the other day before in his brother's lab. The combination was luckily recorded on it and so he played it. The door obliged when it finished.
"I got all the stuff I needed," Bowser Jr. told them."Now I just needed to wait for the right moment to strike."
Later at night, Bowser was kissing his little clone."Good night," he said softly as Bowser Jr. pretended to fake yawn. He went over to the door and shut off the lights. As soon as he closed the door, Bowser Jr. immediately got up and pulled p some cookies and a radio from his pillow.
"It took seven sugar cookies to keep me awake long enough to hear you guys in the hallway."
Junior's eye was twitching as he was about to open another cookie package, when he heard: "I can't believe we were able to pull it off," and "This will be fun."
He stopped for a moment until he heard footsteps heading to the lab. Junior flipped off his blankets, grabbed his safety pack and ran off the door, leaving a mannequin he made earlier in his place.
"By the time the maid came over to check on me and saw the mannequin and alerted Dad and the SecuriKoopas, I was running hard and into the lab, where you guys were entering and that's how I'm here today."
***Flashback Ended***
"Dat's makes a lot of sense," Roy punched his little brother softly."Bro, you are da bomb!" Ludwig raised an eyebrow, before saying,"Fine. He can stay."
"Yay!" Lemmy cheered as he hugged Junior."You can come with us!" Junior smiled happily, before saying,"Where are we?" Everyone looked around as Iggy pulled out his phone."It seems that we are in the Grasslands. Larry's Kingdom."
"Really?" Larry asked Iggy, taking a quick look around."Maybe it didn't work and we are actually at home." "Would this be home if it had a poster board saying,"Welcome to the Grasslands'?" He pointed to a sign and everyone looked up.
He was right, for there was a sigh printed in giant, bright blue letters, saying: WELCOME TO THE GRASSLANDS. It was next to a yellow sidewalk which winded through the hills. When everyone stood on a huge hill, there was a river the went lazily through the hills, cheep-cheep jumping out from time to time. A bridge connected the land on this side to the other side.
"It's..." Felica sighed, throwing up his hands."Beautiful." "I know right?" A voice answered, scaring everyone except Felica."Who said that?" She said, before stopping mid-way to a figure sitting on the sign.
He was sitting on the sign, like Felica said. The teenager was wearing a striped shirt and khaki shorts. His black hair brushed neatly, but not too neat. The yellow eyes of his told everyone that he was a ghost."Do you like the weather here?" He asked everyone."I think it's nice and the view is splendid up here."
CJ stared at him for a moment, growling a bit."What are you doing here?" She asked the visitor."Don't be mean, CJ," Ludwig whispered-yelled at her."Ignore her. She just gets mad easily." Ludwig said apologetically."That's fine," the visitor said, even when CJ was signing,'Shut Up.'
"I am Ludvig Von Koopa," Ludwig introduced himself."These are my siblings: Lemmy, Roy, Iggy, Wendy, Morton, Larry, and Junior. And these are some of their girlfriends: Melody is Roy's girlfriend and Felica is Lemmy's," he said."And this is CJ." Ludwig pointed to CJ, who was punching a tree.
"I'm Andrew Jackson," The ghost said, shaking hands with Ludwig."You can call me Andrew." He turned to CJ."What's up with her?"
"Don't know."
"Wanna know something?" Andrew pointed toward the castle in the distance."That girl in the castle, Laura; she's deathly afraid of spiders. It scares the crap out of her." "Vhy vould you tell us zhat?" Ludwig asked.
Andrew laughed, which confused them."It'll help you ahead of time," he said before disappearing."How vill it help us?" Ludwig sighed, before Iggy came up to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry," Iggy said."Maybe it'll help us a lot." Before he could say any more, a piece of paper blew into his face. Iggy mumbled and pulled the paper off his face."Guys, look." Everyone crowded him as they showed him the picture.
It was a grown up koopa and eight little ones in front of them. They looked exactly liked the Koopalings, expect different. Their names were neatly written neatly on the bottom of the picture. However, it looked like part of the picture got torn off somehow."I guess it was someone they hated that they cropped out of the picture," Melody said.
"Hey look," Larry pointed to a light blue-haired koopa."That's Laura!" Everyone crowded the picture and pointed out more people like: Julia, Morgan, Wendell, Ivy, Raelyn, Emmie, and Lucinda."Strange," Ludwig pointed out."Zhey look like us."
"Yeah," Lemmy said."That one looks like me!" He pointed to Emmie."Maybe they are us, just genderbent." Iggy concluded."Yeah," CJ said sarcastically. "Couldn't you see that?" "Yeah, thanks," Morton thanked for the tip. Everyone face-palmed at the remark.
"Let's keep going," Ludwig ordered as everyone traveled along in the sunny bright world of the Grasslands. Soon, they came to a cave system with a sign that said, 'Shortcut to Grasslands Castle'.
"Maybe we should go through there," Morton suggested, before Roy turning to him."Dis is why I nicknamed you 'Moron'. You don't go somewhere dat has a sign!" He pointed to the sign."Maybe it really is a shortcut," Lemmy agreed."One way to find out." He pulled out his flashlight, and went ran into the cave.
"Lemark!" Ludwig turned on his flashlight and followed him down."If you can't beat them, join them." Roy said as he followed them down the tunnel."He's right." Iggy followed Roy down."This is gonna chafe my make-up!" Wendy whined as she followed her brothers down."Might as well follow," Morton and Larry said together and followed them down."This isn't gonna be good." The rest of them said as they followed them down.
***The Cave***
Larry POV
"Eww," Wendy cried."This is disgusting!" Water was dripping from the ceiling, moss growing on the ground."You're lucky, sis," I murmured."I don't have any shoes, so what are you whining about?"
Wendy was answering, but I tuned her out. Even if we been here for only a couple of minutes or so, I really missed my girlfriend, Carmen. She was a fiery gal; seriously, she was a fire elemental. Her hazel eyes always sparkled when ever we went to hit targets in the woods behind the castle. A secret; I thought she was hot when she got angry.
I kicked a stone and sighed as water dripped down my neck. That felt good, since I didn't take a shower. I was thinking how mad Carmen will be when we came back without telling her where we went.
"What's up?" Melody randomly asked when she caught up to me."Noting. I'm just thinking what my girlfriend would be saying if I cam home without telling her where I was." "Remember you went on that adventure and Roy didn't tell me where he was going."
"Yeah?"
"I nearly blew a fuse," Melody sighed, remembering what happened."But Roy told me to look at the sky. And so I did, but he swooped down in his arms and kissed me. That." She told me."Is how you get an angry girl off your back."
"I'll try to remember that when we get back," I smiled for the first time we got here."Sunglasses." Melody shoved me a bit off track."Watch it, Plant Lover." She joked around.
The cave somewhat got darker and steeper as we went down the cave. Ludwig yelled out once in a while to make sure that we were there. I sometimes stepped on Wendy's shoes, which she replied,"Watch it! I'm trying to keep my nail polish from chipping!" I sighed heavily, which caught Melody's attention.
"Here," She reached in her pack and pulled out her headphones."Use these." She pushed them in my stomach and ran up to the front to check on the others. I looked at them. They were electric blue and had little guitars printed on the sides. Shrugging, thinking to myself, It wouldn't hurt to put them on for a while, and placed them on my ears.
It was complete silence, and I couldn't anyone talking; for the headphones muffled the voices. That was my deadly mistake. I couldn't see what was happening, 'cause I made the mistake of closing my eyes to enjoy the silence. When I opened them again, everyone was gone. Vanished from sight.
"Guys?" I asked in a small whisper. It actually echoed throughout the walls, even thought it was quiet. I crept along the walls, trying not to start hyperventilating under the pressure. You see, I told nobody this but I was afraid of caves, especially if they had spiders.
Carmen would always say that you should face up to your fears, even if they are deadly. But try saying that being scared of the water is stupid to a fire elemental like her. I moved forward, keeping my flashlight in front of me.
"Ludwig? Lemmy? Anyone?" I kept looking, moving my flashlight to a place every time I heard a noise from that spot. Finally, I thought, They must have scouted on ahead to make sure it's safe. Impressed with that thought, I sat down.
I dug in my safety pack and pulled out my tiny man-eating plant, as well as a cookie ration. I placed the plant on my lap, and a couple of times I would break off a piece of cookie and feed it that. I put out a finger was I was sure it was full and petted it. Ludwig had it made genetically so that it wouldn't bite when it was full.
"Guess it's just me and you, Little Guy." I whispered as the piranha plant purred in response. "That's what I'll call you, Little Guy." Of course, I was so in Little Guy that I didn't notice that there was a whistling noise and something was on my neck.
I placed Little Guy down and stood up. I felt on my neck and grabbed on something. I quickly pulled it out and winced at the pain. When the pain passed, I looked what was on my neck. A tranquilizer dart with the word, 'Gotcha' written on it. I started to feel a little sleepy and when I tried to walk, I slipped on the moss and fell.
Before I lost consciousness, I looked up and saw the eyes of who shot the dart. Those green eyes were staring into my soul, reading my every thoughts and secrets as I passed out.
Nothing to say here, but that was mysterious. And also I updated twice in a row! Yay! Ciao for now, readers!