A/N: Enjoy!
Chapter 45: The Wizard's Disease
May 19
Makato's Room
"Makato, you are such a sleepy head!"
Makato slowly opened her eyes, rubbing them to get a clear vision. She recognized the girly voice and the blonde bangs on her forehead. "Peach?" She looked around her surroundings. The sun shined itself through the curtains, the birds weren't really singing however. Peach was wearing her pink dress as usual.
"What are you doing here?" She asked still in sleeping position. A sharp pain hit Makato's brain, as she tried to remember what had happened last night.
"It's 11:00 A.M."
Makato groaned. ". . .Why didn't anyone wake me up?"
Peach expected her to be surprised but that didn't go that way. "I tried but, you were so cute when you were asleep! I couldn't let anyone wake you up." Peach gleamed.
". . .Peach. . ." Makato sighed. "Well, . . . I need to send the box of potions to the post office."
"Oh, don't worry, Miru did that already."
"Miru? He did it for me?"
"Yep, around 7:00 A.M." Peach said.
Makato sighed, feeling unusually tired. "Give my thanks to Miru then. . ."
"What's wrong with you?"
". . .I'm just tired that's all." Makato mumbled.
"Take a potion then! Here-!" Peach quickly ran over to her shelves and grabbed a healing potion. She dashed right over to Makato. Suddenly, the potion flew right out of her hand. The cork popped out by itself and was poured into the black pot.
"What the?! The potion flew! Like a genie!"
Makato sweat dropped looking at Peach. "Genie?"
"Yea, how are you doing that?! All of your potions are in line, waiting to pour themselves into that black pot." Peach pointed to the black pot and the potions, magically being poured with no hands attached on them.
Makato turned to the black pot and saw her potions being poured by itself. "Oh. . ."
Peach gasped. "OH?! Aren't you like scared or something?! It's a ghost doing that!"
"No, it happens. . . don't worry. . .Just the Wizard's Disease. . . it will go. . ." Makato faced the other way, ignoring the strange not-paranormal-activity. Makato felt droozy as she put her to sleep, but Peach spoke, keeping her awake.
"I've been meaning to ask you. What's that giant hole thing?"
Makato turned to what Peach was talking about. She saw her flooring dented and broken in the middle of the room. As if someone punched the ground. . . Makato then remembered. The stone monster trying to kill her. Ike saving her head from being crushed like a watermelon. She also remember embracing Ike.
Makato also remembered touching his lips. ". . .We kissed . . . his lips. . . are soft. . ." Makato spoke quietly, blushing, staring into space.
"Makato?" Peach leaned in closer. "You're heating up Makato! Your face!"
Makato touched her face and made a quick reaction to it not to touch it again. "It's nothing! The hole was just a mistake I made!" Makato quickly flipped her body the opposite way and continued to sleep.
"Hey, you said something about. . . Wizard's Disease?"
No response from the potion princess. "I'll just go ask Miru than. Sweet dreams~" Peach lightly skipped away out of her room.
Living Room
Smashers were enjoying Chopped on a large HD TV. . .
"Wait, did you just say the Wizard's Disease?!" Miru sprang up from the couch. The Smashers around him stared at Miru. Peach nodded her head.
"Yes, Makato said something about the Wizard's Disease. I don't see why it's such a big problem. Makato didn't looked worried about it. I mean I don't know. . ." Peach shrugged.
"I never heard it before. . ." Zelda said, sitting right next to Link.
"The Wizard's Disease. . ." Miru started, "it's when the body rejects the magic in your own body. It's like a fever for wizards, but worst. Like for example. . ." Miru pulled out a random white board with an erasable marker. He drew a person wearing a wizard cap and fire around the person. "A fire wizard. Fire will leak out of that person. Like a gas leak. It's not even funny."
"Hahaha," Roy laughed. "I bet the whole town got on fire after that!"
"It could happen. . ."
". . .Oh."
"Yea, not so funny anymore huh?" Marth elbowed Roy's arm.
"Anyways, the Wizard's Disease is brought on a person from the things: One, lots of stress, two, it could be rare genetic disease, and three, it could come out of nowhere. One of these three things caused Makato to have that. " Miru erased the doodles he made and drew Makato. "It's dangerous than it sounds. Especially for Makato. Now you all probably would expect her to have potions flying out of her body or something, no!"
"Then what?" Pit asked.
"All of her potions would go into her giant black pot and blend altogether! Like a smoothie!"
"Ooh! Sounds tasty!" Toon Link smiled.
"That doesn't sound that bad." Ike commented.
Miru leaned very closely to Ike's face till he was uncomfortable. "Oh yes, it's bad."
"Ok, dude. Too close." Ike pushed his face out after that.
"Just thinking about it makes me have chills down my spine. I remember when I was a bird still, she had the Wizard's Disease. She was in her bed. . . tired, exhausted, not wanting to do anything, but sleep. Suddenly all of her potions started to pour themselves into her giant black pot!"
"Oh my gosh! Just like a genie!" Roy gasped.
"The whole castle could have been destroyed! The Knights had to move the pot far far away from Niho! The potions were like, poison, gasoline, smoke, lightning, death! I remembered once they moved the pot out of harm's way, it exploded. Like a bomb."
Everyone gasped in the living room.
"So, are you saying, she's making a time bomb?!" Pit asked.
Miru casually shrugged. "Yea, basically." He answered.
"We're so fucked!" Ness cried. "I'm too young to die!"
"I don't wanna die!" Toon Link cried.
The kids started to cry about not wanting to die. The older Smashers started to talk how they don't want to die.
"We need Dr. Black Jack!" Link panicked.
"There's Dr. Mario." Peach said.
"Yea!" Mario said, defending himself.
Ike stood up and calmed everyone down. "Ok guys, before we call Dr. Black Jack-"
"AHEM!" Mario interrupted with his fake clearing-his-throat-act.
Ike made a fake cough and continued. "I mean-before we choose a doctor, how about we check on Makato first?"
"I don't know about that. . ." Miru said. "For starters, it's best to stay away. Believe me."
"Ok."
"Hey guys, I just check on Makato a second ago. Potions are pouring themselves in!" Sonic said walking over to them.
"What?!" Everyone ran up the stairs to see the act.
"Guys! What are you doing?!" Miru questioned. He sighed, giving up and followed them.
A group of Smashers arrived inside her room and Sonic was right. Makato was sleeping, ignoring the potions doing suicide. The mixture in the pot was boiling mad. Colors were changing every time. The Smashers were shocked. And scared.
"Holy-"
"Mother-"
"Of Palutena-"
"It's like PCP." Roy said.
"Oh! Pretty colors! Lucky Charms cereal!" Kirby cheered puffing above the scary pot.
"NO YOU FOOL!" Everyone exclaimed.
"Why not? Let him die." Ike smirked.
Marth yanked Kirby's foot and slammed it on the ground. "You think everything's food don't you?"
"Yes."
"If you dip yourself into that pot. You'll never eat food ever again."
". . .Never ever? Forever ever?"
"Yep." Marth nodded his head.
Kirby started to cry very loudly while everyone plugged their ears. Makato didn't like the noise while she slept. In result, the potions fastened up their pace because of that.
"Ok, we got to go!" Miru pushed everyone out of Makato's room.
"No! I want to see my girlfriend!" Roy cried.
"Your girlfriend?" Ike questioned Roy.
Back into the living room. . .
"Oh, is there a cure for this Wizard's Disease?" Math asked.
Miru started to think for a second. "Well, Makato's mother, Queen Rosalinda, used her healing magic to cured Makato. There's two cures. One, is plenty of rest. Which is a bad idea for Makato."
"Is she does that, she will rest in pieces." Pit cried.
"And two, retrieving the Holy Wizard Flower. It's the antidote for the Wizard's Disease."
"Well where do you get that?" Ike asked.
"You get it in a forest. It's super rare."
"What are we waiting for?! Let's go! There's a time bomb and it's up to us Smashers to stop it!" Roy said. Everyone agreed with Roy cheered and chanted. Michelle came back from her shopping and saw people cheering and talking about the Wizard's Disease.
"Looks like we won't be calling Dr. Black Jack after all." Mario sighed in relief. "If he came, I wouldn't just be feeling alive."
"What's this about the Wizard's Disease?" Michelle approached them, holding snacks in her hand and clothing. Kirby tried to grab a snack from her bag, but Ike grabbed his little head and pulled him away from Michelle.
Miru turned to her. "Makato has it. And we are about to go to the forest to search for the Holy Wizard Flower. I think it's best if you stay out of this."
". . ." Michelle just smiled and walked up the stairs.
"Ok guys, let's go!"
"AYE!"
Forest
Miru, Ike, Marth, Roy, Link, Pit, Ness, Toon Link, Zelda, Peach, Sonic, Mario, and Kirby made their adventure through the giant trees, dancing in the winds as they step on the fragile grass.
"Ok, the Holy Wizard Flower is located in dark places. So look for dark places." Miru explained. "We'll all meet in this area. Don't die. Or get lost." Miru grabbed at tall broken branch and struck it through the grass. The area they were at was a grassy green field surrounded by trees.
"Let's all go solo. Whoever finds the Holy Flower first, wins." Sonic suggested.
"Wins what?" Roy asked.
". . .A date with Makato?"
"WHAT?!" Some of the guys exclaimed.
"Oh yea! I'm fired up!" Pit cheered.
"We'll be a great pairing." Ness said.
"Hey! What about us girls?" Peach pouted.
"A date with. . . a good friend of mine."
"What's his name?" Zelda asked.
"If I told you, it won't a surprise anymore."
"Ike, are you in?" Marth said.
"Of course I'm in. I'll kill whoever holds the Holy Wizard Flower."
Miru clapped his hands together to silence the talking. He pulled out a random picture of the Holy Wizard Flower. "The Holy Wizard Flower glows white from its petals. There's five white petals and a golden stem. Dragons eat these things."
"Well, no wonder they're so rare. He's eating them as a snack!" Marth said.
"Silly, Miru!" Peach giggled. "There's no such things of dragons in a forest!"
Miru became irritated from what the mushroom princess had said.
"Hey, where's Kirby?" Pit said looking around.
"Kirby's gone. . ." Miru said.
"HE'S GOING TO GET THE HOLY WIZARD FLOWER BEFORE US!" Roy sprinted into the depths of the forest, so did everyone else.
Hours of searching for the Holy Wizard Flower. . .
Ness and Toon Link decided to look for the flower together. They found a dark, large, rocky cave. The only source of light comes from the outside. Ness pulled out his mini flashlight and they both venture in the cave. A loud sound of a terrifying snore was gradually getting bigger, making them both sweat.
They both decided it was best for them to use their whisper voices. Going deep inside the cave, a faint light came from the distance. Ness turned off his flashlight, thinking it was best, since there was a light. Crystals illuminated the cave, and a small lake with fireflies.
"Whoa. . ." Ness and Toon Link said. They were both amazed with their own eyes to see a giant red creature, with giant wings and a long tail with yellow scales, next to all of that. Its snores echoed throughout the cave.
"T-that's a dragon." Ness said. "Um, let's look for the flower. . ."
"Hey, I found it." Toon Link pointed near his tail. The Holy Wizard Flowers glowed white inside his wrapped tail.
"Let's take easy steps so we won't wake up the dragon." Ness suggested.
"Good idea." Toon Link tip toed while Ness just walked. "Easy steps easy steps easy steps-"
"Hey! Why are you just walking?!" Toon Link growled in frustration.
"Hehe. . ." Ness made a small silly laugh.
They heard a scary roar coming out from the dragon, then its snore. That silence the mouths of Toon Link and Ness. As they both got near his tail, Ness tried to reach across.
"Ugh. I can't reach."
Toon Link pulled out his mini chain and grabbed the flower using it.
"Alright!" They both cheered quietly. "We got the Holy Wizard Flower!
"That means. . ." They both stared into each others with sparkles in their eyes. No they are not going to kiss. Ness and Toon Link both started to daydream about their future with them and Makato. Toon Link was the first to wake up and blurted, "Makato is going on a date with meh!"
Ness snatched the flower from Toon Link. "No! Makato is going on a date with me! Than our honeymoon will be after that!"
"No I am!"
"No I am!"
"No I am!"
The kids continued to argue in their loud voice while fighting over the Holy Wizard Flower. A large and deadly growl echoed through the cave. The ground shook every second and the smell of smoke sprayed all over the cave.
"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"
Ness and Toon Link stopped their pointless argument and turned to the giant vicious creature.
"WHY DO YOU HAVE THE HOLY WIZARD FLOWER?! THAT'S MY LUNCH!"
They both sweat dropped, at the same time, terrified. "A-a talking dragon?" Ness said.
"Don't act like this isn't normal. There's talking animals in the Smash Mansion." Toon Link whispered.
The dragon's nostrils inhaled and exhaled deeply with smoke coming out from both holes. Ness gulped. "Easy there Mr. Dragon Sir. . . We just need one! It's for a friend! She's sick!"
"HMPH. HOW ABOUT WE PLAY A GAME" The dragon created an evil smirked.
"Oh boy! I love games!" Toon Link cheered.
"GOOD. IF YOU GUYS WIN, I'LL LET YOU KEEP THE HOLY WIZARD FLOWER. BUT IF I WIN, I'M HAVING YOU GUYS FOR LUNCH INSTEAD!"
"Interesting conditions, sounds fair to me!" Ness said. "What's the game?'
"MY VERSION OF SIMON SAYS. DRAGON SAYS. LET US BEGIN!"
"Ok." They both said.
"TAKE THE FLOWER AND LEAVE THE CAVE."
"Oh! Thanks!" Ness and Toon Link said in a cheerful way. "How kind of you!"
"IT WAS MY PLEASURE. TA TA~" He waved his giant hand good-bye.
Ness and Toon Link turned the backs toward the dragon and took quiet steps to the exit of the cave. A minute later, Ness stopped his steps and grabbed onto Toon Link's shoulder.
"Wait. . ." Ness turned to Toon Link. "Something's not right. . ."
"I know. That was almost too easy." Toon Link smiled.
"No! He didn't say . . . .Dragon Says!"
"Oh God. . ."
"DRAGON DIDN'T SAY SO!" A ferocious voiced echoed in the cave. The smell of fire became known as they both saw giant flames following their path.
"RUN!" Ness and Toon Link sprinted out of the cave just in time before they were dead meat. Fire escaped from both of their sides, filling the forest with more forest fires. Ness and Toon Link gasped for air for their lives have been saved.
"I still got the flower. . ." Toon Link said, holding it up with his shaky hand.
The dragon flew out of its home and appeared right before them, flapping its giant wings in their presence.
"GIVE ME THE FLOWER! OR I'LL TURN YOU INTO SMOKED HUMANS!"
"AHHHHHHHH! WE'RE DEAD MEAT! THIS IS BEYOND FIGHTING TABUUUUU!" Ness cried.
The fire dragon released another waves of flames to the two targets. Suddenly the flames deflected Ness and Toon Link from three Smashers. Two sword wielders used their swords as a shield against the fire and a pink puff ball swallowed the fire continuously.
"ROY! IKE! KIRBY! WE'RE SAVED!" Ness and Toon Link cheered, hugging each other.
"Ha! Fire is my middle name!" Roy said.
Ike stood silent and let that comment slide. Kirby turned to Fire Dragon Kirby from consuming too much fire. He jumped high into the air till he was above the fire dragon. He filled his cheeks with poisonous gases, gasoline and lighters to create his giant special attack.
"FIRE DRAGON. . . . . ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!" Kirby's flames attacked the dragon till he turned charred.
"AHHHH! I'M OUTTA HERE!" The fire dragon flew back into his cave without dying.
"YAAAAY! Kirby defeated the dragon!" Ness cheered.
"Bravo!" Marth and Peach and Zelda clapped.
Link sighed in relief. "Alls well-"
"Ends well." Pit said.
"That was a close call." Sonic said.
"Agreed." Mario nodded his head. "No Dr. Black Jack. Yesssssssssss."
"Do you have some grudge against him?"
"Fortunately yes."
"I'm guessing you guys manage to get the Holy Wizard Flower." Miru smiled. He turned to Peach. "See?! I told you dragons eat these things!"
"Hmph, well sorry for doubting you." Peach crossed her arms.
"Yep! I got it!" Ness swiped the flower from Toon Link and showed it to Miru.
"Hey!" Toon Link said.
Roy swiped the flower from Ness. "I'm the winner here!"
Ike swiped the flower from Roy. "Think again."
Kirby swallowed the flower and cheered. "No I'm the winner!"
"GASP!" Everyone gasped loudly from Kirby's stupidity. "YOU IDIOT!"
Thus, the Smashers had another hard time retrieving the Holy Wizard Flower.
Back into the Smash Mansion
4:00 P.M.
"I got the flower! Makato!" A bunch of dirty, scarred hands all grabbed hold of its golden stem, while going into Makato's room.
Makato turned to them and was surprised of how they all looked. "Oh my, what happened to you guys? Like you got into some fight or something."
"Huh? Makato? You're not sick?" Miru walked over to Makato slowly just to make sure. He checked his surroundings. She was sitting on her bed reading a book. The black pot was empty. Potions weren't flying. Happy and energetic look on Makato's face. The Smashers stared at her as if she was crazy.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Makato questioned.
"Hey. . . who healed you?" Sonic asked.
"Aunt Michelle did." Makato smiled.
"HOW?!" Everyone exclaimed. Ike, Marth, Roy, Link, Ness, Toon Link, and Pit all let go of the Holy Wizard Flower and fell to the ground in exhaustion.
Makato noticed the flower and frowned. "Oh, you went to the trouble of getting the Holy Wizard Flower. I'm so sorry."
Peach shook her head and smiled. "It's okay. We want to make sure you were alright."
"Yea. . ." Miru scratched his head. "I was worried that the whole mansion would explode."
"What?" Makato titled her head.
"I mean, I'm glad that you're alright."
"Thank you all."
"If it weren't for Kirby this wouldn't have happen." Ike shot a glare at Kirby.
"Yea. He ate the Holy Wizard Flower. And we had to get another one!" Pit said.
"Oh, you guys are back from your trip." Michelle appeared out of nowhere and held up a giant plate of desserts. All assorted with cookies, cakes, cupcakes, brownies, cinnamon rolls, creme brulees, puddings, pies, and other unknown desserts. "I made some desserts for your hard work."
"Awesome!"
"Yaay!"
"Yummy!"
"Thanks!"
The Smasher gathered around the dessert platter and stuffed their mouths with satisfaction. Miru was the last to grab a dessert. He took three sugar cookies while making no eye contact with Michelle.
"Thank you. . . I don't know how you did it. . . but thanks for taking care of her." Miru murmured.
Michelle smiled sweetly. "Ah, it was you who I should be thanking. Ever since you mentioned the Wizard's Disease."
Miru slightly blushed. "I guess you're right about that. . ."
After talking and enjoying some delicious sweets, everyone left Makato's room in peace.
"I have a map of the SSBB Mansion. I should send this to Lord Mikoru. . ." She slowly pulled out her gloves and send it using her monstrous, ugly hands. "It was a close call. I could have almost give away my secret to stopping the Wizard's Disease. My hands don't like the taste of it at all."
Michelle left her room, locking the door with her key. She pulled her gloves tightly up to wear it touched her wrists and continued to walk in a slow pace down the hallway.
A/N: Hey readers, I've been meaning to ask you a question. But you don't have to answer it. But I would like it if you do.
What's your favorite chapter so far and why?
Well thanks for reading! Till next time! Review please~
