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Chapter 13
0 ReviewsThe Mario brothers arrived at Iceland and Kuvio gets ready to attack. A three way battle, what will happen to Peach?
Complications
Chapter 13
Sinking into the shadows and coming out from other shadows, Kuvio easily reached Bowser. He watched as the Koopa King escorted Peach to dinner, the princess looked like she was lost in thought, as if she wasn't really paying attention to her surroundings. This was too easy; at least that's what Kuvio thought, until the Mario brothers arrived blasting their way through. Mario was certain that Peach needed to be saved. She was being kept in Bowser's Castle against her will, because there was no way she would be there by choice; and therefore she needed to be rescued.
"Mario!" Luigi knew it was hopeless to make his brother slow down when he was ready to take an adventure all the way. The journey could only end when the damsel in distress was brought home safely, never before that. "Daisy said-" Luigi stopped, he felt strange; as if time itself was moving forward faster than it normally would. He felt as if it had been a very long time since his last meal.
Mario's stomach growled and his expression showed pain. He usually had an active appetite, but now he felt like he was starving.
"Mario!" Peach wasn't sure what was going on, but she felt it too.
"There's no need for useless games. Slow torture can be such a waste of time, and for what? The dead will not remember their own suffering." Kuvio revealed himself; he was ready for a head on attack.
He looked familiar to Kamek, but younger than when they last met. "You are...?"
"Kuvio, named after my father, surely you remember him..." Kamek traced the source of the strange magic to Kuvio. Time manipulation was a spell his father had been working on. Time magic had many limitations, with time travel being next to impossible; but with enough magical energy, time could speed up so the enemy would become tired and hungry.
Mario assumed Kuvio was on Bowser's side, he was a magikoopa after all. Mario might have felt like he was starving, but he was certainly not out of the fight, and neither was Luigi. Mario pulled a fire flower out of his pocket, absorbing its power and throwing flames against Kuvio.
Kuvio disappeared into his own shadow at the last moment, and the fire balls continued their course towards Bowser, who easily deflected them with his own fire breath. "Kamek, get Peach out of here!"
"Sire, it is important that you know. Kuvio is not our ally!" Kamek approached Peach to teleport her away, but she refused.
"Kamek, don't. I'm not sure what Kuvio did, but I think I can help..." Focusing her energy she called out her power to heal, surrounded by a golden light her energy reached out to Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Kamek.
"That's not important now. Just get Peach out of here!" Bowser still thought of the Mario brothers as his main enemies. The Koopa King would not let the plumbers take Peach away this time.
It didn't take long for the koopa troopas guarding the Iceland castle to be informed of the situation and charge in. Luigi had used a feather and was flying, and stumping on koopa troopas, while Mario threw fire balls. The fire duel was mostly between Mario and Bowser while, with a lot of frustration, Kuvio started to feel ignored.
Kuvio tried to use his time magic again but it was easily deflected by Kamek. "Do you really believe I do not know how to use this sort of magic?"
"A counter spell... at your age, for how long can you continue doing this?" Kuvio had a point, he had plenty of youth to throw away for the sake of his spells and Kamek, although he had more powerful magic, didn't have any youth to spare.
A beam of iridescent magic, surrounded by spinning primary shapes, crashed into the spot where Kuvio previously stood, leaving only a hole on the floor. "Missed..." Kammy flew right above Kamek on her broom; she knew that even if it looked as if she hit her target, Kuvio escaped at the last second.
The koopalings joined the battle along with Kammy, and everything went spiraling into a chaotic state that Kuvio could not handle. He made a temporary retreat, leaving the koopas and plumbers to their battle.
xoxox xox xoxox
Kamek had teleported Peach away against her wish to stay, though he did not take her too far; she was only taken back to her guest room. The chaotic battle continued, until eventually, Mario and Luigi showed up at Peach's door, beaten and exhausted, leaning on each other, nearly collapsing. The Mario brothers could usually take a harsh battle, and had seemingly endless stamina, but not when hunger came into the picture. None the less, Peach had been rescued once again.
Peach didn't see Bowser again when she was leaving the castle, she made no efforts to argue about leaving. She knew everyone at the Mushroom Kingdom was worried, and the Mario brothers needed to rest and recover; they were only trying to protect her. Even so, Peach decided that she would return to the Koopa Castle, she had a promise to keep, and she fully intended to keep it.
xoxox xox xoxox
The tension had settled down, after the Mario brothers were treated to a large dinner, and Toadsworth finished his speech about Peach's safety. Daisy was anxious to hear every detail of Peach's adventure. She was practically dragging Peach to her room to get the full story with no interruptions, since the Mushroom Kingdom Princess had hinted she did not want to talk about it in front of Toadsworth.
With the door closed and locked, Daisy sat on Peach's bed impatient and smiling, almost savoring the interesting story that was to come. "Don't skip anything!"
Peach nodded and sat down. So many things had happened, she didn't know where to start. She decided it was best to start with meeting Bowser at the Forest Maze. "You might have already found out Lavanda was not as nice as she appeared to be."
"That much I know for sure." No one who teleported people without warning, to be lost in far away lands, was okay in Daisy's book.
"At first I thought Lavanda was working for Bowser, because he was at the Forest Maze too. She was trying to play match maker for us..." Just as Peach expected, Daisy found it amusing.
"Bowser's crush on you is really growing out of proportions! But what do you mean at first? Was Lavanda not on Bowser's side after all?" Daisy urged Peach to continue.
"No, she was on an entirely different side; apparently she had a grudge against Bowser and Kamek... I think it's the same for Kuvio." Peach's mind wandered into the possibilities the future may bring. Kuvio was definitely not out of the picture yet.
"Wait a second; you're adding characters I don't know. Who's Kuvio? This is getting really interesting." For Daisy, changes and new people were welcomed to break away from the monotony of being the princess of Sarasaland.
"I'm getting there; you don't want me to skip anything, right? Back to the Forest Maze; I ended up getting kidnapped and taken to Bowser's Darkland castle. Lavanda went as well." Peach didn't look too happy about getting kidnapped again, but she didn't really look upset; she was simply accustomed to it. "Lavanda tried to play matchmaker but of course, it didn't work. Then-"
"Wait!" Daisy called a stop. "You're speeding up on the narration, you always do that when you're about to skip an important detail."
The slumber party wasn't exactly an important detail to the overall situation, but it was most likely something that Daisy wanted to hear. "You know me too well," Peach admitted.
"Of course I do." Daisy grinned proudly. "Well?"
"There was a slumber party, an improvised slumber party. Wendy wasn't too happy about it, and Lavanda was drunk..." Peach went on to narrate the events that followed, Lavanda's betrayal, the trip to the Spirit World and everything else. Daisy also added her part of the story, explaining what she was doing in the mean time.
"Here I thought I had a big journey because I was teleported to Hyrule, but your adventure took you even further away than that." Daisy spoke in amazement. "The Spirit World... I wish I could see it."
"I'm not sure if that's such a good idea. I was lucky to make it back safely into my body, but it was an interesting place. The Sun, not the one we see in the sky, the leader of all the Suns, he's not cheerful at all. He just stays in his office all the time reading the newspaper, and regulating the rules for solar temperatures. Mercy is a little sarcastic, not how I would imagine Mercy to be, and there where so many spirits..." Of course Daisy wanted more details, how they looked, talked, walked, everything. Peach went on to describe each spirit, with Daisy either laughing or expressing surprise as a reaction.
In the end, Daisy concluded that the Sun, although somewhat sour, sounded handsome, Kiwi needed professional help with his excessive guilt problem, Lenore could have very well been Denial's mortal incarnation, and that "Rainbow has issues."
"It must have been hard to die so young, leaving all her children behind. She liked kids so much; she even chose to stay as a child. Daisy, what do I do? I promised Rainbow that I would take care of her children, and when I asked mom, she said I should do what I thought was right and... I saw her, I really saw her!" All the excitement had finally sunk in, and Peach's rush of emotions came out too quickly for Daisy to follow.
"Wait... What? Peach!" Daisy wasn't sure what that last part was about, but one second Peach was telling her the story of her most recent adventure, the next she was crying.
Peach dried her tears and took a deep breath. The most important part of what she had to tell Daisy was spoken too quickly, without the needed explanation. "Rainbow was once a part of our world..."
Daisy nodded slowly. "Yes..."
"I think she was Clawdia, I only saw a picture once, but they looked so much alike. It all adds up, Denial's clues, how she used to watch Bowser in the past, and even if she stopped watching him, she still watches the koopalings. I promised to take care of them. Rainbow said she has no memories of her past, but I think that deep down she knows..." Peach suddenly felt a heavy weight on her shoulders, a responsibility that she had accepted willingly and was not going to abandon; but a heavy weight none the less.
"Wow..." Daisy took a moment to let everything sink in. "You actually met Clawdia's spirit... If that's how it was, she's practically giving you her family, since she can't really take care of them from the Spirit World. Peach, what are you planning to do, and what did you mean when you said mom?"
"I saw my mother, the spirit of the peaches." The words of Peach's mother were comforting, and it was wonderful to see her after so many years; Peach knew that life would bring many challenges in the near future.
Daisy stared; she stared for a full minute as if Peach had grown a second head, then a third and forth. "Could you repeat that? Peach, that's amazing! And you're sure you didn't dream any of this?"
"Yes, I'm sure." Her mother's face was still clear in Peach's mind. She had told Peach she had to return to her world, and try to live a happy life; to follow her heart and make her own choices. Those words gave Peach strength and confidence, the situation was still unexpected and worrying... complicated; but Peach was going to face it.
xoxox xox xoxox
Even under five blankets, and taking into consideration the hot temperatures of Desertland, Kamek couldn't help it but to shiver. Kammy had an I told you so expression. Even if she had not warned him recently; some time ago, Kammy had told Kamek not to push himself. The last battle certainly took its toll on Kamek. He could only pull the blankets tighter around his body, and go on about how he wasn't going to let some over confident child beat him.
"We have to prepare," Kammy paced around Kamek's room ignoring, the chattering of his teeth. "Bowser is busy planning his next kidnapping, er... rescue. You know how he kept saying Mario kidnapped Peach, because this time she wanted to stay. Mario is the main enemy, he always has been, but Kuvio can't be ignored. If I had the right spell..."
"You rely too heavily on magic, and so does Kuvio." Kamek tried to control his shivering and shaking while speaking; but the coldness he felt was still obvious in his voice.
Kammy did not like the comparison. "You use magic too; maybe even more than I do, and for the most simple things-"
"I know, I need to do something about that too. But let's not argue; we need to think of a way to block out Kuvio's time magic without absorbing its effect." Kamek would never directly admit it, but losing one day of life was losing too many, with as little time he might have left at such an old age.
"I'll start searching for something in those ancient, dust covered, spell books you keep in the basement. They might be good for something, other than collecting dust and termites, after all." Kammy dismissed herself in puff of smoke, leaving Kamek alone in his room at the Desertland castle.
xoxox xox xoxox
Kammy coughed loudly; teleporting herself directly into the basement was a bad idea. At least if she had teleported to the entrance and walked in, less dust would have been blown into the air, and into her lungs. Once the dust cleared and settled into the floor, antique furniture, and ancient items; Kammy made her way deeper into the dungeon-like basement. Using her wand as a light, she stopped in front of a large wooden door. This was no ordinary door, the chamber inside was protected by magic, and would appear as nothing more than an oddly positioned broom closet to anyone who opened it without the right spell.
Kammy knew this was the reason why Kamek suggested that everyone should move to the Desertland castle. She chanted an ancient spell, in a language that only a few talented magic users knew. Her wand was surrounded by familiar shapes, but despite the relatively common appearance of the spell, it was a very rare one. The three primary shapes were gently absorbed by the door. With nothing more than her confidence to assure her that the spell had worked, Kammy opened the door to the secret magic library of Desertland.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or characters and I do not own The Raven. Peach's healing ability in this chapter is based on her "group hug" magic from Super Mario RPG. I'm sorry I took such a long time to update. Homework has been very time consuming lately, I even had homework during Christmas break. I'll try to get the next chapter out faster than this one.
Chapter 13
Sinking into the shadows and coming out from other shadows, Kuvio easily reached Bowser. He watched as the Koopa King escorted Peach to dinner, the princess looked like she was lost in thought, as if she wasn't really paying attention to her surroundings. This was too easy; at least that's what Kuvio thought, until the Mario brothers arrived blasting their way through. Mario was certain that Peach needed to be saved. She was being kept in Bowser's Castle against her will, because there was no way she would be there by choice; and therefore she needed to be rescued.
"Mario!" Luigi knew it was hopeless to make his brother slow down when he was ready to take an adventure all the way. The journey could only end when the damsel in distress was brought home safely, never before that. "Daisy said-" Luigi stopped, he felt strange; as if time itself was moving forward faster than it normally would. He felt as if it had been a very long time since his last meal.
Mario's stomach growled and his expression showed pain. He usually had an active appetite, but now he felt like he was starving.
"Mario!" Peach wasn't sure what was going on, but she felt it too.
"There's no need for useless games. Slow torture can be such a waste of time, and for what? The dead will not remember their own suffering." Kuvio revealed himself; he was ready for a head on attack.
He looked familiar to Kamek, but younger than when they last met. "You are...?"
"Kuvio, named after my father, surely you remember him..." Kamek traced the source of the strange magic to Kuvio. Time manipulation was a spell his father had been working on. Time magic had many limitations, with time travel being next to impossible; but with enough magical energy, time could speed up so the enemy would become tired and hungry.
Mario assumed Kuvio was on Bowser's side, he was a magikoopa after all. Mario might have felt like he was starving, but he was certainly not out of the fight, and neither was Luigi. Mario pulled a fire flower out of his pocket, absorbing its power and throwing flames against Kuvio.
Kuvio disappeared into his own shadow at the last moment, and the fire balls continued their course towards Bowser, who easily deflected them with his own fire breath. "Kamek, get Peach out of here!"
"Sire, it is important that you know. Kuvio is not our ally!" Kamek approached Peach to teleport her away, but she refused.
"Kamek, don't. I'm not sure what Kuvio did, but I think I can help..." Focusing her energy she called out her power to heal, surrounded by a golden light her energy reached out to Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Kamek.
"That's not important now. Just get Peach out of here!" Bowser still thought of the Mario brothers as his main enemies. The Koopa King would not let the plumbers take Peach away this time.
It didn't take long for the koopa troopas guarding the Iceland castle to be informed of the situation and charge in. Luigi had used a feather and was flying, and stumping on koopa troopas, while Mario threw fire balls. The fire duel was mostly between Mario and Bowser while, with a lot of frustration, Kuvio started to feel ignored.
Kuvio tried to use his time magic again but it was easily deflected by Kamek. "Do you really believe I do not know how to use this sort of magic?"
"A counter spell... at your age, for how long can you continue doing this?" Kuvio had a point, he had plenty of youth to throw away for the sake of his spells and Kamek, although he had more powerful magic, didn't have any youth to spare.
A beam of iridescent magic, surrounded by spinning primary shapes, crashed into the spot where Kuvio previously stood, leaving only a hole on the floor. "Missed..." Kammy flew right above Kamek on her broom; she knew that even if it looked as if she hit her target, Kuvio escaped at the last second.
The koopalings joined the battle along with Kammy, and everything went spiraling into a chaotic state that Kuvio could not handle. He made a temporary retreat, leaving the koopas and plumbers to their battle.
xoxox xox xoxox
Kamek had teleported Peach away against her wish to stay, though he did not take her too far; she was only taken back to her guest room. The chaotic battle continued, until eventually, Mario and Luigi showed up at Peach's door, beaten and exhausted, leaning on each other, nearly collapsing. The Mario brothers could usually take a harsh battle, and had seemingly endless stamina, but not when hunger came into the picture. None the less, Peach had been rescued once again.
Peach didn't see Bowser again when she was leaving the castle, she made no efforts to argue about leaving. She knew everyone at the Mushroom Kingdom was worried, and the Mario brothers needed to rest and recover; they were only trying to protect her. Even so, Peach decided that she would return to the Koopa Castle, she had a promise to keep, and she fully intended to keep it.
xoxox xox xoxox
The tension had settled down, after the Mario brothers were treated to a large dinner, and Toadsworth finished his speech about Peach's safety. Daisy was anxious to hear every detail of Peach's adventure. She was practically dragging Peach to her room to get the full story with no interruptions, since the Mushroom Kingdom Princess had hinted she did not want to talk about it in front of Toadsworth.
With the door closed and locked, Daisy sat on Peach's bed impatient and smiling, almost savoring the interesting story that was to come. "Don't skip anything!"
Peach nodded and sat down. So many things had happened, she didn't know where to start. She decided it was best to start with meeting Bowser at the Forest Maze. "You might have already found out Lavanda was not as nice as she appeared to be."
"That much I know for sure." No one who teleported people without warning, to be lost in far away lands, was okay in Daisy's book.
"At first I thought Lavanda was working for Bowser, because he was at the Forest Maze too. She was trying to play match maker for us..." Just as Peach expected, Daisy found it amusing.
"Bowser's crush on you is really growing out of proportions! But what do you mean at first? Was Lavanda not on Bowser's side after all?" Daisy urged Peach to continue.
"No, she was on an entirely different side; apparently she had a grudge against Bowser and Kamek... I think it's the same for Kuvio." Peach's mind wandered into the possibilities the future may bring. Kuvio was definitely not out of the picture yet.
"Wait a second; you're adding characters I don't know. Who's Kuvio? This is getting really interesting." For Daisy, changes and new people were welcomed to break away from the monotony of being the princess of Sarasaland.
"I'm getting there; you don't want me to skip anything, right? Back to the Forest Maze; I ended up getting kidnapped and taken to Bowser's Darkland castle. Lavanda went as well." Peach didn't look too happy about getting kidnapped again, but she didn't really look upset; she was simply accustomed to it. "Lavanda tried to play matchmaker but of course, it didn't work. Then-"
"Wait!" Daisy called a stop. "You're speeding up on the narration, you always do that when you're about to skip an important detail."
The slumber party wasn't exactly an important detail to the overall situation, but it was most likely something that Daisy wanted to hear. "You know me too well," Peach admitted.
"Of course I do." Daisy grinned proudly. "Well?"
"There was a slumber party, an improvised slumber party. Wendy wasn't too happy about it, and Lavanda was drunk..." Peach went on to narrate the events that followed, Lavanda's betrayal, the trip to the Spirit World and everything else. Daisy also added her part of the story, explaining what she was doing in the mean time.
"Here I thought I had a big journey because I was teleported to Hyrule, but your adventure took you even further away than that." Daisy spoke in amazement. "The Spirit World... I wish I could see it."
"I'm not sure if that's such a good idea. I was lucky to make it back safely into my body, but it was an interesting place. The Sun, not the one we see in the sky, the leader of all the Suns, he's not cheerful at all. He just stays in his office all the time reading the newspaper, and regulating the rules for solar temperatures. Mercy is a little sarcastic, not how I would imagine Mercy to be, and there where so many spirits..." Of course Daisy wanted more details, how they looked, talked, walked, everything. Peach went on to describe each spirit, with Daisy either laughing or expressing surprise as a reaction.
In the end, Daisy concluded that the Sun, although somewhat sour, sounded handsome, Kiwi needed professional help with his excessive guilt problem, Lenore could have very well been Denial's mortal incarnation, and that "Rainbow has issues."
"It must have been hard to die so young, leaving all her children behind. She liked kids so much; she even chose to stay as a child. Daisy, what do I do? I promised Rainbow that I would take care of her children, and when I asked mom, she said I should do what I thought was right and... I saw her, I really saw her!" All the excitement had finally sunk in, and Peach's rush of emotions came out too quickly for Daisy to follow.
"Wait... What? Peach!" Daisy wasn't sure what that last part was about, but one second Peach was telling her the story of her most recent adventure, the next she was crying.
Peach dried her tears and took a deep breath. The most important part of what she had to tell Daisy was spoken too quickly, without the needed explanation. "Rainbow was once a part of our world..."
Daisy nodded slowly. "Yes..."
"I think she was Clawdia, I only saw a picture once, but they looked so much alike. It all adds up, Denial's clues, how she used to watch Bowser in the past, and even if she stopped watching him, she still watches the koopalings. I promised to take care of them. Rainbow said she has no memories of her past, but I think that deep down she knows..." Peach suddenly felt a heavy weight on her shoulders, a responsibility that she had accepted willingly and was not going to abandon; but a heavy weight none the less.
"Wow..." Daisy took a moment to let everything sink in. "You actually met Clawdia's spirit... If that's how it was, she's practically giving you her family, since she can't really take care of them from the Spirit World. Peach, what are you planning to do, and what did you mean when you said mom?"
"I saw my mother, the spirit of the peaches." The words of Peach's mother were comforting, and it was wonderful to see her after so many years; Peach knew that life would bring many challenges in the near future.
Daisy stared; she stared for a full minute as if Peach had grown a second head, then a third and forth. "Could you repeat that? Peach, that's amazing! And you're sure you didn't dream any of this?"
"Yes, I'm sure." Her mother's face was still clear in Peach's mind. She had told Peach she had to return to her world, and try to live a happy life; to follow her heart and make her own choices. Those words gave Peach strength and confidence, the situation was still unexpected and worrying... complicated; but Peach was going to face it.
xoxox xox xoxox
Even under five blankets, and taking into consideration the hot temperatures of Desertland, Kamek couldn't help it but to shiver. Kammy had an I told you so expression. Even if she had not warned him recently; some time ago, Kammy had told Kamek not to push himself. The last battle certainly took its toll on Kamek. He could only pull the blankets tighter around his body, and go on about how he wasn't going to let some over confident child beat him.
"We have to prepare," Kammy paced around Kamek's room ignoring, the chattering of his teeth. "Bowser is busy planning his next kidnapping, er... rescue. You know how he kept saying Mario kidnapped Peach, because this time she wanted to stay. Mario is the main enemy, he always has been, but Kuvio can't be ignored. If I had the right spell..."
"You rely too heavily on magic, and so does Kuvio." Kamek tried to control his shivering and shaking while speaking; but the coldness he felt was still obvious in his voice.
Kammy did not like the comparison. "You use magic too; maybe even more than I do, and for the most simple things-"
"I know, I need to do something about that too. But let's not argue; we need to think of a way to block out Kuvio's time magic without absorbing its effect." Kamek would never directly admit it, but losing one day of life was losing too many, with as little time he might have left at such an old age.
"I'll start searching for something in those ancient, dust covered, spell books you keep in the basement. They might be good for something, other than collecting dust and termites, after all." Kammy dismissed herself in puff of smoke, leaving Kamek alone in his room at the Desertland castle.
xoxox xox xoxox
Kammy coughed loudly; teleporting herself directly into the basement was a bad idea. At least if she had teleported to the entrance and walked in, less dust would have been blown into the air, and into her lungs. Once the dust cleared and settled into the floor, antique furniture, and ancient items; Kammy made her way deeper into the dungeon-like basement. Using her wand as a light, she stopped in front of a large wooden door. This was no ordinary door, the chamber inside was protected by magic, and would appear as nothing more than an oddly positioned broom closet to anyone who opened it without the right spell.
Kammy knew this was the reason why Kamek suggested that everyone should move to the Desertland castle. She chanted an ancient spell, in a language that only a few talented magic users knew. Her wand was surrounded by familiar shapes, but despite the relatively common appearance of the spell, it was a very rare one. The three primary shapes were gently absorbed by the door. With nothing more than her confidence to assure her that the spell had worked, Kammy opened the door to the secret magic library of Desertland.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or characters and I do not own The Raven. Peach's healing ability in this chapter is based on her "group hug" magic from Super Mario RPG. I'm sorry I took such a long time to update. Homework has been very time consuming lately, I even had homework during Christmas break. I'll try to get the next chapter out faster than this one.
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