Once again, welcome to a very suspenseful story made by me, Demented and Disturbed. Last time, a stranger bared gifts to the group, disappearing without a trace. Yet, nobody knows what the items are used for, or when will they be used. That's it, except this is one of those long fanfictions :)
Disclaimer:
The Koopalings and Junior belong to Nintendo
Felica, Melody, CJ, Ben, and Prince Carlos belongs to me
Once again, enjoy and review!
P.S. I won't be on unfortunately a lot due to school. But I will update!
It became nighttime as the Fire Kingdom glowed dimly in the distance, that our heroes and heroines began to stir from their deep slumbers. Ludwig, in particular, woke up first and stared at the sun that began to set. He went up and stretched, before sitting on his safety pack.
Is zhere really that special someone for my like my brozhers found? If so, vhere is she? His thought was soon interrupted as Larry murmured in his sleep. "I missed you so much, Carmen." Ludwig sighed and laid flat on the ground, still sighing. His sighing woke Melody up, who replied grouchy.
"What the heck's wrong with you?" Her hair was badly messed up from sleeping on the ground, so it was all on one side. Melody rubbed her eyes and pulled the blanket off of Morton, who cried, "No, mom! Five more minutes!"
She went around, pulling the blankets off of them since they didn't have any alarm clock with them. As soon as she woke everyone else up, she stood up on a little hill and asked, "What's the game plan today?"
"First, we should get this letter to Carlos," Larry pulled out the letter from his shell and passed it around. "Mhm, smells like vanilla!" Felica sniffed, her cat ears pointing up in interest. "Carmen would always do that..." Larry trailed off, thinking about her.
"Then, we should get the key! We could climb up the wall of the castle to the prince's room," Felica suggested, while brushing her tail. "and ask him for the key, before going into the dungeon."
"That's a great idea!" Lemmy spun around and landed on his girlfriend's tail. "But wouldn't the rope burn on contact because the concrete is real lava?" Melody popped out from the crowd.
"No worries," Iggy replied. "the rope is flame retardant. I made it myself."
"We're gonna die," CJ whispered to herself. "which is fortunate because I was born dead." "Anyway, how are we gonna get inside the castle walls? Guards are there 24/7."
"Consult the book!" Morton yelled as Melody grabbed the book and flipped through the book until she found it. "Aha! Right here: Although the castle is under full guard, the wall has a secret door that leads to the castle. From there on out, stay in the shadows until you reach the prince's room. The heat will be bearable, as many people are heat-resistant."
"Good, and where is dis 'secret door' exactly?" Roy asked. " It really hasn't been a 'walk in the park' so far."
"The secret door is near the front entrance, the tell-tale carving of a heart in the brick."
"Wow. That was easy," Melody tucked the book in her pack and stood up. "Onwards!" She marched to the castle, a piece of spider web stuck to her right foot. Everyone looked at each other with worried looks, before following her.
***The Castle Wall***
Everyone gathered up by the castle wall, a piece of paper in front of them. "Okay, can anyone repeat zhe plan again?" Ludwig asked the crowd, who groaned in reply.
"Hey! I just vant to make sure zhat zhe plan doesn't go vrong." Ludwig replied. "So, can anyone repeat zhe plan again?" He repeated once again.
Felica stood up and recited the plan perfectly. "As soon as we enter the castle grounds, we will use the lava ivy on the wall to climb up to the prince's room, where we'll give him the letter and hopefully get the key for the pipe."
"See? It's zhat easy!" Ludwig petted Felica on the head, who rolled on the ground after that and turned to the castle wall. "Everyone look out for a heart!"
Felica padded over to the wall and put her fingers on it. She rubbed it against the wall. "Uh, c'est tellement inutile! There are hearts everywhere!" Everyone grunted or moaned in frustration. "Remember, it has a heart-"
"Found it!" Lemmy pointed at a brick in the wall with a heart and initials carved into them. "How do we get it open?" Junior asked Ludwig, who was already looking for some sort of secret lever. Lemmy stared at the brick intently.
"What are you looking at, mon amor?" Felica came over, her tail stroking Lemmy's backside. "Trying to open the door," Lemmy reached up, his ball rolling forward. He screamed and fell over, Felica catching him before he hit the ground. The ball kept rolling and stopped when it reached the wall.
"Are you okay?" Felica stared in Lemmy's derpy eyes. "Yeah, I'm-" Rumbling interrupted the two as the wall parted to show a dark hallway lit with torches. "We found it!" Lemmy hopped down from Felica's arms and jumped on his ball.
Everyone looked around for guards, before entering the hallway. Felica trailed behind, Melody walking next to her. "How's the relationship going?" She asked.
"Good, I guess."
"Ah, good. Roy's not bad, either. Except what happened a while ago, but that passed. Anyway, let's go."
***Castle***
Larry scaled the castle wall, yellow gloves on his hand. Might as well tell you what happened before this:
Ludwig had to ask who was going to climb the tower wall to the prince's window. Larry, of course, choose to go because he had promised Laura to give the letter to her ex-boyfriend and tell her sorry for something. How his hands weren't burning in agony from the fire thorns was thanks to Felica.
She had given him a pair of yellow gloves, which she replied 'were made out of a magical fire-retardant material made by her sorceress grandmother so that she be able to climb fire thorns.' As he climbed, he tried not to look down, so Roy wouldn't yell "Wimp!"
He stopped at the window, and looked through it for a moment. Larry saw the familiar bedroom of Carmen's, but a different person was sleeping in the bed. The boy's hair was really messed up, like what it would happen if you went through a windstorm. Carefully, Larry reached in his pocket and pulled out a lock pick, which was also from Felica from her days of robbing people. Lemmy screamed at her for this, and she replied, "I didn't know it was wrong."
A click! surprised Larry and he opened the window. He snuck in and looked around for the key. The key, of course, was on the prince's bed. I thought it would be easier than this. He thought as he walked up to the bed, careful where he stepped.
When he got up to the bed, the golden key was in the prince's hands. Really, fate? Really? Larry grabbed the letter from Laura and stared at the key. He had to time this right, or else the prince would wake up. Slowly, Larry reached for the key...
"Prince Carlos!" A guard ran in the door, guards following after him. The prince woke up and looked in Larry's eyes.
"Hi."
Bam! Larry stumbled back as Carlos jolted up in his bed. "Who are you?" He asked, as two guards grabbed Larry from behind.
"I'm Larry! I know Laura! She told me to tell you that she's sorry! Look at the letter on your bed!" He yelled as the guards dragged him out of the room.
"I thought she was gone..."
***Dungeon***
Slam! Larry hit a wall, literary, as the guards threw him in the cell with some familiar people. His vision was blurry as he stared at familiar blue hair muttering, "It's all my fault..."
"Not it's not, Felica." Melody stroked the cat-person as a green-haired koopa looked him over. "What the heck?!" Larry backed up in the cage. "Larry, it's me, Iggy."
"Oh. That was awkward."
"Let me tell you how we got in here," Iggy told him. "we were all waiting for you to come down with the key..."
***FLASHBACK***
Iggy scuffed his foot against the hot floor. Of course, it wouldn't hurt him, as he is fire resistant in his father's side (how come he didn't get his father's retarded brains?) He looked around the castle grounds.
Melody and Roy were poking at a rock slug with a rock. Junior, Felica, and Lemmy were doing some circus tricks, while Morton was sleeping with C.J. as his pillow. Wendy was complaining about the heat melting her make-up. I wish she would stop complaining...
He reached in his shell and pulled out a picture of his girlfriend and him on the tennis court. Iggy made sure that Ludwig didn't see him do this, because he got jealous every time he saw how happy they were. A scream was heard from the distance. He turned and saw Wendy fighting some castle guards.
The guards were carefully made of lava and rock, with long javelins. They kidnapped us all and then...okay, okay, I'll stop!
***FLASHBACK ENDED***
Iggy finished and dug through the bag of stuff Calli had given them. He pulled out the box and looked at the box top. Inscribed on the box in curvy letters were: Knock once for rules, twice for wishes.
He looked at the box again, before knocking on it. The box shook, and in shock, Iggy dropped it on the ground. Blue smoke came out of the box and out of the blue, a boy appeared.
The boy had light brown hair and bright, blue eyes. He was wearing some sort of Arabian pants and golden pointed shoes. Stretching, he went down to the shocked koopa prince.
"Thanks for letting me go, master."
"And who are you?" Iggy asked the visitor.
The boy laughed and stared at Iggy. "Name's Benjamin, you can call me Ben. I'm a genie-well, genie-in-training."
Iggy stared at Ben mysteriously. "Genie-in-training? I thought genies were in oil lamps, like my dad told me."
"Well, my dad passed this training box from his training, so...let me tell you the guidelines."
"Rule #1, I can't kill anybody," Ben told Iggy. "Because I'm not that cold. Rule Number 2!" He held up two fingers/ "I can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else, 'cause that's messed up!" And Rule Number Three!"
"I CAN'T AND I WON'T raise anybody from the dead. Because, that's just downright creepy!" Ben stuck his tongue out at Iggy to emphasize.
"And Rule Number 4, be specific," Ben told him. "Say your wish is "I wish for a back rub". Who's gonna give it to you? A dirty man? A bear? And where does this masseuse come from? Do I zap some guy away from his family dinner, leave some kid traumatized? "Mom where did dad go", "I don't know, son, he just disappeared from the table, sorry". He mimic out the voices, making Iggy laugh.
"I wish that-"
"Wait, knock again." Iggy knocked again and Ben stood up taller.
"So, master, what is your wish?"
"I wish that I-" Ben raised an eyebrow at him. "I mean, I wish that my friends, family, all these innocent people, and I would get out of here. Also, I wish that we have the key to the Desertlands pipe."
Ben looked pleased. "I won't count those wishes as two, but your wish is my command, as soon as I snap my fingers. But I will tell you what happens. In the ways of a riddle." He said, Iggy a little confused.
"It's something I wanna try out, so here goes." Ben stretched a bit before saying the riddle. "Someone who misunderstood will come with the key, where the prisoners will yell 'Yippie!' Jump in the yellow pipe and jet away, to where a monster awaits in plain day."
Iggy looked at him, pleased. "One question before you leave: what if my siblings and friends need a wish?"
"I knew you would ask that, because I can partially see into the future. But, my box splits itself, so a part of me will always be there." He snapped his fingers and disappeared inside the box, which after contact, split into 11 pieces, one for each traveler.
With an appalled expression on his face, Iggy stuffed a piece in his pocket. He then went around, giving his friends and family a piece of it. When they asked about it, he kept a straight face. Sighing, he looked through the bars of the cage.
He saw a somewhat familiar person walked by, their stuff in his hands. "Prince Carlos!" He head his brother Larry call as the prince began to unlock their cage.
"I'm sorry-Larry is it? Sorry for locking you and your friends in here. I didn't know you were here for Laura." The tone in his voice when he said her name sounded foreign to him. Everyone walked out and thanked him for letting him out.
The other prisoners and the group hopped into the opened warp pipe. Iggy was about to jump in when Carlos stopped him. "Wait. I need to ask you something. How did you and the other Iggy worked out?"
Iggy must have been the gender-swapped of Izzy. Iggy thought, and he spoke. "It took patience, understanding, and loving each other very much."
"Thank you for the tip, here's mine. As soon as you get there, run and keep running. The guards will chase you until you cross the border, which they're not authorized to pass. Look for the oasis and whatever you do, don't drink the water. Now go!" The prince pushed him in as the guards came.
Iggy felt the rush of air through his hair as he went through the pipe.
***In the Other Side...*
Hermione sat straight in her chair as some of the soldiers began to set up a video conference with Auburne. Of course, Auburne was waiting for the heroes in her secret underground base, that even Hermione herself didn't know until know. The screen fizzed and it showed her sister's face. Auburne, or Morgan for now, was wearing a gold tiara with a fire stone on the top.
"Auburne," Hermione spoke calmly. "how's the base holding up?"
"It's going great. Ryder dropped me off on his way to Kyloyn's and his base." Auburne's voice came out fizzed, but it was still audible.
"And what of our siblings?"
"Hold on. I'll get them on this line." Hermione heard some typing and two phones ringing, and soon, a sunglasses-wearing koopa and a spirit with purple hair was applying mascara.
"Kyloyn! Ryder!" The voice seemed to startled them and the koopa had a confused look on her face. However, the spirit just looked plain pissed.
"Hermione! Do you have to call me at this time?! I was applying this mascara on my eyebrows!" Kyloyn exasperated.
The eldest of the four of them raised an eyebrow. "And why are you applying mascara, instead of possessing Wendell's body?" She asked calmly.
"Well, I was going to," Kyloyn said angrily. "Until I was rudely interrupted by this hothead." She pointed to Auburne, who was in the upper left corner, next to her.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HOTHEAD?" Auburne yelled, conjuring a fireball randomly and throwing on the ceiling. The ceiling rumbled momentarily, but it stopped.
"Careful." Hermione warned, but Auburne was not done with her ranting.
"AT LEAST I'M NOT FLOWER BOY OVER HERE IN THE CORNER, DOING NOTHING!" Then, all heck broke loose. All three of them were agreeing with each other, until Hermione had enough. Her violet eyes had a fire going on.
"ENOUGH!" She yelled, making everybody else go silent. "I certainly don't care about your arguments, and I certainly don't care about your mascara applying. Now, I certainly care about the plan and I don't want anything, and I mean anything, will put flaws in this plan."
Auburne, Kyloyn, and Ryder all tried to interrupt, but Hermione kept going.
"Now all you have to do, Kyloyn, and listen this time," Hermione continued. "Is that I need you to posses Wendell, and get ready for the heroes. You too, Auburne and Ryder. If you don't follow these simple instructions, I will personality turn you into a stone statue. Now, LEAVE!"
All three of them immediately hung up and Hermione looked at the soldiers. "And what are you doing standing there? GET TO WORK!" The soldiers bumped into each other and left the room.
"And where is Crevincie and Dimioria!" Hermione yelled as a raven and a dove left the room through a window.
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