As promised, here's chapter 6 before friday!
Guest who reviewed: The chapter are very short but very informative. I'm loving this so much. I can't wait for the next chapter. When I read the description I almost skipped the story thinking this might be a bowserxkoopaling slash XD
Glad to here you love it! I'm trying to make it longer (comparing it to chapter 1 and 2) but I'm not the best at long writing. And I would never write that OMG! XD
Chapter 6 - Undercover Messenger
It was 2 days since his "return" to the castle and Ludwig was bored out of his mind. He had just spent 3 hours listening to the old toad lecture him about being a proper princess and was now listening to him drone on and on about the economy in the Mushroom Kingdom. He had no idea how Peach coped with such and annoying and boring codger as her adviser, but he had developed respect for her for being able to do so.
"Princess are you even listening to me?!" Toadsworth snapped. 'Oh great now the old fungus is angry' he thought to himself, "Yes I am" he replied in an extremely exaggerated posh and proper voice. He could to take the mickey out of Peach he thought, he had to at least have some fun whilst pretending to be her.
"What did I just say then?" Toadsworth tested, "umm... mushroom prices are going down?" Ludwig replied unsure of whether he was correct or not. "No! I shall have to repeat myself, make sure you listen this time!". 'Urgh...'
Larry was hard at work, he had spent the last 7 hours drawing up complex schemes to prank his siblings (I guess some people never learn their lesson) and he was nearly done on the perfect prank for his sister Wendy:
Step 1, sneak into her room at precisely 9:43 PM, that's when she leaves to have a shower everyday
Step 2, go into her wardrobe and take out all of her clothes, this should take exactly 4 minutes
Step 3, hide her clothes in Morton's room, he always goes to polish his mallet at 9:47 PM and he'll be too dumb to notice
Step 4, put the "special" dress in her wardrobe
(The special dress was blue, with "I love Mario" written in red on the front)
Step 5, be positioned outside her room with a camera for 9:58 PM, Wendy gets out the shower at that time so she'll be getting dressed
Step 6, take picture of her in the "special" dress
The plan was perfect, and it was 9:38 PM leaving him 5 minutes before having to take action.
BANG. Larry's door suddenly swung open making him jump followed by Bowser walking in, "You! Come with me!" Bowser demanded before hastily walking out. Larry wanted to argue but obediently followed him, 'great! all that planning wasted' he thought to himself.
Bowser had lead him to the throne room again to find Kamek standing there waiting for them. "Shall we commence with phase 2 sir?" Kamek asked the King of Koopas, "Go for it!" Bowser replied and without hesitation Kamek fired a magic projectile at Larry once again.
Larry's body began to glow and then started to change shape, he got shorter and skinnier and his head got bigger. His shell disappeared and so did his hair, instead his head had grown in an afro shape and it had blue spots on it. Larry now realised he was a toad. Kamek gave him a blue waistcoat and white shorts that looked more like underwear than shorts, he put them on and was completely a toad. "Ok! Go assist your brother at the castle, tell him about Phase 2!" Bowser told the toad Larry before ushering him outside and shutting the doors.
The castle was grand, it looked almost as good as his dad's castle but it had to much Red and White, two colours that Larry despised. Unless of course, they were the colours belonging to a cherry-topped cream pie that was about to splat a victim's face. But that's the only exception! To give Peach credit, she was good at interior design, every item of furniture, display or general decoration was over high standard and didn't look out of place. There were paintings on the walls of a fortress which looked full of thwomps and a goomba next to one 10 times its size. There were also portraits of Peach, Mario, Luigi and what seemed to be a very old toad holding a star high in the air, it was probably something boring in the kingdom's history.
After walking past the many paintings it dawned upon Larry that he had no idea where his brother would be, he decided the best way to find him would be to ask someone, but how would he do so without causing suspicion of himself? As he kept walking he saw a red toad carrying a tray with a glass of white wine and a corked bottle, he didn't have time to think twice so he swiped the tray from the toad and kicked him in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground and scream, "HELP M-" but he was cut off by Larry knocking him out with the tray (after he had taken off the drinks). He put them back on the tray and carried on walking.
Around 2 minutes later he reached a larger room, there were 2 toads dusting it with cloths and feather dusters, another toad was sweeping and the fourth one was writing on a clip board. Larry approached the one with the clip board as casually as he could, "Hey- I mean, Excuse me sir. Do you know where I might find the Princess at this time?" he asked as formally as possible. The toad looked up from his writing and stared at Larry confused, he then glanced at the tray of wine and them back to Larry, "The Princess doesn't drink white wine." he responded suspiciously. Trying not to panic Larry responded, "Yes but this was special wine imported from The BeanBean Kingdom sent by Queen Bean herself! The Princess wished to try it due to it being so special!" He hoped this was even a valid excuse, "Hmm... Ok. She's in her quarters in the east wing, well unless she's still being lectured by Toadsworth, then she'll be opposite in the board room." "Thanks!" Larry replied before briskly walking to the east wing before he could be questioned further.
In the east wing there were only two rooms, the board room and Peach's quarters. This was because the second of the two included her private bathroom, walk in wardrobe (which in Larry's opinion is pointless because she only wears one dress unless she's doing sports), and her bedroom. As Larry approached Peach's bedroom he could he a voice talking, it sounded like Peach's but he couldn't understand it through the wall, with a slight reluctance he knocked on the door. The voice stopped and he heard a sigh, then the clacking of heels walking towards the door, which in sequence swung open revealing a princess behind it. "Hello, what is it that you are here for?" She asked in a posh voice that caught Larry off guard for a moment, "Ludwig, is that you?" Larry responded which caught Ludwig off guard. "Um- Ludwig? Who's Ludwig? I'm Princess Peach!" Ludwig declared fearing his cover was blown, Larry barged into the room and shut the door behind him so no-one could hear them, "Knock it off Kookie! It's me! Larry!". Ludwig wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't used that nickname he hated, "Larry! Oh my gosh am I glad to see you!" He exclaimed before tightly hugging his brother, Larry struggled to pull away but was eventually successful. "What the heck bro? Since when do you hug people?" Larry asked still in shock, "I don't know?" he replied confused himself, "I think this disguise is getting to my head a bit." "Why are you a toad?" Ludwig asked, "So I could get to you!" Larry replied as if it was obvious, while turning around to see the room around him, it looked pretty nice but way to girly for him. Although what did catch his eye was an elderly brown toad tied up and gagged on the table, he turned to his brother who had already noticed that he'd seen it, "I couldn't bare to listen to another lecture." Ludwig said casually which caused both of them to laugh.
Larry then gave his brother the glass of wine and poured one for himself, they clinked them together before drinking it, "Now! The real reason I'm here is to tell you about Phase 2..."
