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Snow Storm
0 ReviewsBowser and Peach are trapped in a snow storm.
Snow Storm
The harsh winter wind blew threatening to make Bowser's copter crash. Peach held on to the rail of the clown copter with both hands and closed her eyes tightly. Of all the times Bowser could have kidnapped her why did it have to be right in the middle of a violent snow storm?
The wind pulled on her hair turning it into a mess of tangled up gold. Her crown had long since been blown away as if it were light as a feather which Peach knew it wasn't. The clown copter shook and Peach held on tighter. "We're going to crash!" She screamed in fear. Deep down she just wanted to hear Bowser tell her that they wouldn't crash, that somehow he was prepared to face the storm ad bring her safely to his castle but no answer came.
Peach looked at the Koopa King who was focused on steering the clown copter. She didn't like that worried expression he had. A loud noise was heard from bellow as if the propeller hit something. Bowser tried to force it to gain altitude to no avail. It was impossible to see how high they were flying and if they were even going in the right direction in the thick snow that was continuously thrown at their faces.
Bowser had enough. He would melt that annoying snow the wind kept throwing at him one way or another. He took a deep breath and blew out flames as hard a he could. For a brief moment the light of the fire reflected off the falling snow flakes creating a light like the aurora and a path of vision was cleared.
Peach suddenly felt a little safer. Bowser was certainly strong sometimes she forgot how powerful he could be since he was surprisingly gentle towards her. That light was so beautiful that for a moment she forget where she was and with whom. Reality hit her full force when she manage to snap out of hr daze long enough to notice that the scenery she saw bellow was not familiar to her. "Where are we?" Peach asked yelling over the howling wind.
The effect of Bowser's flames quickly dissipated and the window of vision once again turned to infinite whiteness. "We're almost to the castle" Bowser assured her.
Peach did not have time to reply for the clown copter went crashing down like a ten ton rock without warning. She screamed and yelled louder than she ever had before. She truly feared for her life this time because this time it wasn't another of Bowser's plans, this time he wasn't in control of the situation.
Bowser didn't know what it in the world had caused them to crash. Though they felt the copter shake when the propeller hit something earlier it did not crash and now they were crashing for no apparent reason. Wait, the propeller that's it, it had stopped spinning. Even with the howling wind it was possible to hear its faint humming before. The hit must have damaged something that took a while to tare completely apart. He didn't have time to think of the satiation further. He held on to Peach and braced himself for a crash.
Though the hit was definitely hard, Bowser's shell was harder. He appeared to be unharmed save for being kind of stuck. Peach was on top of him having received practically no impact. "Bowser?" She found it odd that she didn't feel the fall how she expected to. The world was cold endless white swirling around her. Where did Bowser go? "Bowser!"
"Right here" The voice was close by, in fact it came from directly bellow. No wonder she didn't feel like she was on the cold ground, she wasn't. "I'm going to try to clear a path."
Peach knew exactly what he meant by that, more fire. "Alright I'm ready. She made sure to stay out of the way and once again Bowser's fire breath crated an opening in the endless white with the pretty light show from before. This time Peach made sure to scan the area instead of marveling at the aurora like lights. "There's a cave near by" she pointed.
"We'd best wait out the storm there. This isn't how it is supposed to be. Sorry I can't take you to better accommodations right now princess" Bowser said.
"This will have to do." The last thing on her mind was running away now, that would be suicidal in that storm. She started walking towards the cave. Though the path created by the fire closed she knew which way it was from what she saw. "Bowser?" She knew he wasn't fallowing her. She didn't feel his warm aura near by like before.
"It seems I'm a little stuck" Bowser confessed with embarrassment evident in his voice. "Go wait inside that cave and don't think of running off, you know it's dangerous. I'll be with you shortly."
Peach considered going on to the cave. Bowser probably deserved to be stuck on the cold ground during a snow storm as payback for taking her out of her nice warm castle but she didn't have the heart to leave him there. "I'll give you a hand." She walked back towards Bowser but due to the strong winds she had advanced less than she calculated so Bowser was still closer than she thought. She took a few steps and tripped over him falling on top of the Koopa King again. She got up as quickly as the wind allowed her to and pulled his claw up in a futile attempt to help him to his feet. She knew she couldn't possibly lift him but she had to try.
"It's not working, go inside princess this weather is bad for you" Bowser said. His voice sounded more distance as he became buried in the snow. Despite his natural warm aura he was really feeling the cold. Peach used to think that koopas couldn't feel temperature changes but apparently they could, they just had a strong resistance to it, or rather a strong resistance to hot temperatures. Peach could tell Bowser didn't like the cold.
"I can't just leave you here to freeze in this-ouch!" Peach was interrupted by the unpleasant feeling of a small branch colliding with her.
"Peach? Are you alright? What happened I can't se a thing with all this snow" Bowser asked.
"I'm fire, it was just a stick." She paused as she held the branch that was in fact more than just a stick and got an idea. "Can you light this?"
"Ow" Bowser complained when Peach hit him on the nose with the small branch.
"Oops, sorry." She kept poking at him to try to make it easier for him to light the 'stick' but it wasn't quite working.
"Ow, hey, yuck, get that thing out of my mouth wood tastes terrible. You should just go inside. I'm going to clear out some snow but the hot air around us won't last for long, ready?" Bowser asked.
Peach backed away. "Now."
Bowser breathed fire once again creating a bubble of warm air around them. Peach snatched some flames on the branch. "Keep that up for a moment. It seems your shell is stuck on some ice." Peach worked quickly to free him knowing that if not for the warm air the flames on her improvised torch would have already been put out. "There, you should be able to move now."
With a little effort Bowser was once again on his feet. "It worked... I didn't know you cared Peachy."
"Don't push your luck, let's go to the cave" Peach said in half amusement.
Meanwhile at Peach's castle Toad braved the storm to inform the Mario brothers that the princes had once again been captured. He moved in little steps against the wind practically swimming in the thick snow. Just when he thought he was almost to the gates the wind would blow harder and send him flying until he hit the castle doors. It was like that for all the other toads trying to accomplish the same mission of informing the Mario brothers of the recent happenings. Unfortunately all forms of communications were down due to the storm.
At first when ever a toad crashed against the door a toad butler would open it wondering who could be visiting during a storm and hoping that it was Mario back with the princess. However it was just a fellow toad victim to the wind. The butter had given up and decided that he would not open the door unless he heard someone calling to confirm that they indeed wanted to go inside and weren't just loosing another round against the strong wind, which remained undefeated by the toads.
Inside the cave the storm wasn't as bad. Bowser and Peach sat in front of a fire the Koopa King made. The princess was pale, almost blue from the cold and shivering constantly. Although she mentally kicked herself for it she sat close to Bowser almost leaning on him in search of warmth.
"I didn't mean for this to happen" the koopa king said sounding somewhat apologetic at the princess's obvious discomfort.
"I know but you really need to plan these things better. Couldn't you wait and kidnap me after the storm ended or better yet not kidnap me at all" Peach angrily said with her voice trembling because of the cold.
"Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, you would be upset if I kidnapped you then even if I do wish to spend Christmas with you. That's why it had to be today. I wanted to see you and give you your present early. The kids also wanted you to be-" He stopped, Peach was leaning against him now with her cheek touching his arm.
Her eyes were close as if trying to absorb the warmth without thinking about where it came from. "Is it ok?"
"What? Kidnapping you? Well if you would willingly come I wouldn't have to" Bowser sad without a single pause as if it was all one big word.
"No I mean... do you mind? You seem uncorfortable" Peach asked again.
He realized what she meant. He had become a little tense when he felt her leaning on him. "Of course it's alright" As if to prove his point he placed his arm around her shoulders pulling her closer.
"I told you not to push your luck" Peach said with a hint of annoyance.
"Sorry just making the best of the occasion" He shifted so she wasn't so close but kept his arm around her. She seemed satisfied enough with that.
"What were you saying before?" Peach asked.
"Before what?" It seems that he was so focused on her he had forgotten.
"About Christmas and the Koopalings?" Peach asked. She was very curious, that she could not deny.
"Yes, they wanted you to be there, they kept asking if 'Mama Peach' would visit soon" Bowser said.
Peach gave it some thought. She had never met the children's mother but from what she heard the queen passed away many years ago. That would mean that most of the koopalings were still very young when it happened with the youngest still a baby. She suddenly felt sorry for them having spent so many Christmas without a mother. She tried to push those thoughts away but simply couldn't. To hear Bowser's children wanted her around was not a thought she could cast aside. Regardless if they were the children of her kidnapper they were still kids and they wanted her there, perhaps even needed her to be there. She sighed. 'Why must I b such a softie? ' "Alright, I'll go and spend some time with the koopalings... But I don't have presents for them this is kind of short notice."
"It's alright, they'll be very happy if they know you actually offered to come. They love being mean but I think they developed a soft stop for you" Bowser said.
"Are they the only ones?" Peach asked smiling. She couldn't stop the comment from escaping.
"You know they're not" Bowser said returning the smile.
The cave didn't feel so uncorfortable after all. Soon the storm would clear and Peach and Bowser would realize that they weren't as far way as they initially thought.
Peach actually enjoyed her stay at the Koopa Castle putting up more decorations and working on Christmas goodies with the koopalings. They kept trying to capture her and Bowser under mistletoe. She couldn't let her guard down for a second but she had to admit their attempts were adorable in their own way. They were in fact so cute that for a brief moment she contemplated the possibility of letting them win if only once.
End
The harsh winter wind blew threatening to make Bowser's copter crash. Peach held on to the rail of the clown copter with both hands and closed her eyes tightly. Of all the times Bowser could have kidnapped her why did it have to be right in the middle of a violent snow storm?
The wind pulled on her hair turning it into a mess of tangled up gold. Her crown had long since been blown away as if it were light as a feather which Peach knew it wasn't. The clown copter shook and Peach held on tighter. "We're going to crash!" She screamed in fear. Deep down she just wanted to hear Bowser tell her that they wouldn't crash, that somehow he was prepared to face the storm ad bring her safely to his castle but no answer came.
Peach looked at the Koopa King who was focused on steering the clown copter. She didn't like that worried expression he had. A loud noise was heard from bellow as if the propeller hit something. Bowser tried to force it to gain altitude to no avail. It was impossible to see how high they were flying and if they were even going in the right direction in the thick snow that was continuously thrown at their faces.
Bowser had enough. He would melt that annoying snow the wind kept throwing at him one way or another. He took a deep breath and blew out flames as hard a he could. For a brief moment the light of the fire reflected off the falling snow flakes creating a light like the aurora and a path of vision was cleared.
Peach suddenly felt a little safer. Bowser was certainly strong sometimes she forgot how powerful he could be since he was surprisingly gentle towards her. That light was so beautiful that for a moment she forget where she was and with whom. Reality hit her full force when she manage to snap out of hr daze long enough to notice that the scenery she saw bellow was not familiar to her. "Where are we?" Peach asked yelling over the howling wind.
The effect of Bowser's flames quickly dissipated and the window of vision once again turned to infinite whiteness. "We're almost to the castle" Bowser assured her.
Peach did not have time to reply for the clown copter went crashing down like a ten ton rock without warning. She screamed and yelled louder than she ever had before. She truly feared for her life this time because this time it wasn't another of Bowser's plans, this time he wasn't in control of the situation.
Bowser didn't know what it in the world had caused them to crash. Though they felt the copter shake when the propeller hit something earlier it did not crash and now they were crashing for no apparent reason. Wait, the propeller that's it, it had stopped spinning. Even with the howling wind it was possible to hear its faint humming before. The hit must have damaged something that took a while to tare completely apart. He didn't have time to think of the satiation further. He held on to Peach and braced himself for a crash.
Though the hit was definitely hard, Bowser's shell was harder. He appeared to be unharmed save for being kind of stuck. Peach was on top of him having received practically no impact. "Bowser?" She found it odd that she didn't feel the fall how she expected to. The world was cold endless white swirling around her. Where did Bowser go? "Bowser!"
"Right here" The voice was close by, in fact it came from directly bellow. No wonder she didn't feel like she was on the cold ground, she wasn't. "I'm going to try to clear a path."
Peach knew exactly what he meant by that, more fire. "Alright I'm ready. She made sure to stay out of the way and once again Bowser's fire breath crated an opening in the endless white with the pretty light show from before. This time Peach made sure to scan the area instead of marveling at the aurora like lights. "There's a cave near by" she pointed.
"We'd best wait out the storm there. This isn't how it is supposed to be. Sorry I can't take you to better accommodations right now princess" Bowser said.
"This will have to do." The last thing on her mind was running away now, that would be suicidal in that storm. She started walking towards the cave. Though the path created by the fire closed she knew which way it was from what she saw. "Bowser?" She knew he wasn't fallowing her. She didn't feel his warm aura near by like before.
"It seems I'm a little stuck" Bowser confessed with embarrassment evident in his voice. "Go wait inside that cave and don't think of running off, you know it's dangerous. I'll be with you shortly."
Peach considered going on to the cave. Bowser probably deserved to be stuck on the cold ground during a snow storm as payback for taking her out of her nice warm castle but she didn't have the heart to leave him there. "I'll give you a hand." She walked back towards Bowser but due to the strong winds she had advanced less than she calculated so Bowser was still closer than she thought. She took a few steps and tripped over him falling on top of the Koopa King again. She got up as quickly as the wind allowed her to and pulled his claw up in a futile attempt to help him to his feet. She knew she couldn't possibly lift him but she had to try.
"It's not working, go inside princess this weather is bad for you" Bowser said. His voice sounded more distance as he became buried in the snow. Despite his natural warm aura he was really feeling the cold. Peach used to think that koopas couldn't feel temperature changes but apparently they could, they just had a strong resistance to it, or rather a strong resistance to hot temperatures. Peach could tell Bowser didn't like the cold.
"I can't just leave you here to freeze in this-ouch!" Peach was interrupted by the unpleasant feeling of a small branch colliding with her.
"Peach? Are you alright? What happened I can't se a thing with all this snow" Bowser asked.
"I'm fire, it was just a stick." She paused as she held the branch that was in fact more than just a stick and got an idea. "Can you light this?"
"Ow" Bowser complained when Peach hit him on the nose with the small branch.
"Oops, sorry." She kept poking at him to try to make it easier for him to light the 'stick' but it wasn't quite working.
"Ow, hey, yuck, get that thing out of my mouth wood tastes terrible. You should just go inside. I'm going to clear out some snow but the hot air around us won't last for long, ready?" Bowser asked.
Peach backed away. "Now."
Bowser breathed fire once again creating a bubble of warm air around them. Peach snatched some flames on the branch. "Keep that up for a moment. It seems your shell is stuck on some ice." Peach worked quickly to free him knowing that if not for the warm air the flames on her improvised torch would have already been put out. "There, you should be able to move now."
With a little effort Bowser was once again on his feet. "It worked... I didn't know you cared Peachy."
"Don't push your luck, let's go to the cave" Peach said in half amusement.
Meanwhile at Peach's castle Toad braved the storm to inform the Mario brothers that the princes had once again been captured. He moved in little steps against the wind practically swimming in the thick snow. Just when he thought he was almost to the gates the wind would blow harder and send him flying until he hit the castle doors. It was like that for all the other toads trying to accomplish the same mission of informing the Mario brothers of the recent happenings. Unfortunately all forms of communications were down due to the storm.
At first when ever a toad crashed against the door a toad butler would open it wondering who could be visiting during a storm and hoping that it was Mario back with the princess. However it was just a fellow toad victim to the wind. The butter had given up and decided that he would not open the door unless he heard someone calling to confirm that they indeed wanted to go inside and weren't just loosing another round against the strong wind, which remained undefeated by the toads.
Inside the cave the storm wasn't as bad. Bowser and Peach sat in front of a fire the Koopa King made. The princess was pale, almost blue from the cold and shivering constantly. Although she mentally kicked herself for it she sat close to Bowser almost leaning on him in search of warmth.
"I didn't mean for this to happen" the koopa king said sounding somewhat apologetic at the princess's obvious discomfort.
"I know but you really need to plan these things better. Couldn't you wait and kidnap me after the storm ended or better yet not kidnap me at all" Peach angrily said with her voice trembling because of the cold.
"Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, you would be upset if I kidnapped you then even if I do wish to spend Christmas with you. That's why it had to be today. I wanted to see you and give you your present early. The kids also wanted you to be-" He stopped, Peach was leaning against him now with her cheek touching his arm.
Her eyes were close as if trying to absorb the warmth without thinking about where it came from. "Is it ok?"
"What? Kidnapping you? Well if you would willingly come I wouldn't have to" Bowser sad without a single pause as if it was all one big word.
"No I mean... do you mind? You seem uncorfortable" Peach asked again.
He realized what she meant. He had become a little tense when he felt her leaning on him. "Of course it's alright" As if to prove his point he placed his arm around her shoulders pulling her closer.
"I told you not to push your luck" Peach said with a hint of annoyance.
"Sorry just making the best of the occasion" He shifted so she wasn't so close but kept his arm around her. She seemed satisfied enough with that.
"What were you saying before?" Peach asked.
"Before what?" It seems that he was so focused on her he had forgotten.
"About Christmas and the Koopalings?" Peach asked. She was very curious, that she could not deny.
"Yes, they wanted you to be there, they kept asking if 'Mama Peach' would visit soon" Bowser said.
Peach gave it some thought. She had never met the children's mother but from what she heard the queen passed away many years ago. That would mean that most of the koopalings were still very young when it happened with the youngest still a baby. She suddenly felt sorry for them having spent so many Christmas without a mother. She tried to push those thoughts away but simply couldn't. To hear Bowser's children wanted her around was not a thought she could cast aside. Regardless if they were the children of her kidnapper they were still kids and they wanted her there, perhaps even needed her to be there. She sighed. 'Why must I b such a softie? ' "Alright, I'll go and spend some time with the koopalings... But I don't have presents for them this is kind of short notice."
"It's alright, they'll be very happy if they know you actually offered to come. They love being mean but I think they developed a soft stop for you" Bowser said.
"Are they the only ones?" Peach asked smiling. She couldn't stop the comment from escaping.
"You know they're not" Bowser said returning the smile.
The cave didn't feel so uncorfortable after all. Soon the storm would clear and Peach and Bowser would realize that they weren't as far way as they initially thought.
Peach actually enjoyed her stay at the Koopa Castle putting up more decorations and working on Christmas goodies with the koopalings. They kept trying to capture her and Bowser under mistletoe. She couldn't let her guard down for a second but she had to admit their attempts were adorable in their own way. They were in fact so cute that for a brief moment she contemplated the possibility of letting them win if only once.
End
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