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Chapter 15: Communication
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Complications
Chapter 15: Communication
The sound of what could be described by some as a romantic rock song, and by others as noise, broke the relative silence of Bowser's Desertland castle. He didn't waste a second in answering the cell phone. "Peach! I was just getting ready to go pick you up. I won't let those plumbers take you away from me this time!" Bowser did not say hello, or ask who he was talking to. He simply assumed it was Peach, because the number of his spiky green cell phone was recorded on the pink cell phone Kamek gave Peach, and did not appear anywhere else. The screen displayed a number with no name, which meant that the call didn't come from Peach's cell magic phone, but Bowser wasn't paying attention to the details.
"Hello, Mr. Koopa? It's Koopaisy, is your son Ludwig home?" Daisy spoke in a high pitched voice, squealing a little, in a perfect imitation of what a Ludwig fan girl would sound like. Bowser couldn't tell it was Daisy on the phone.
Bowser squeezed the cell phone in his strong hand. A normal cell phone would have shattered, but that one was magically enhanced to be very resistant. "Ludwig!" Bowser's voice echoed all over the castle.
The blue haired prince rushed to his father, using the echo of his voice as a guide to find him. When Ludwig arrived, before he could utter a single word, Bowser continued yelling. "Tell your friends to call you on your own phone. I could have missed a call from Peach because that koopa-something girl, is calling you on my Peach-only number!" Bowser was too busy yelling at his son and didn't hang up.
"I do not know the number of the line you have reserve for Peach," Ludwig reminded his father. Bowser had warned the koopalings that when his Peach phone rang, everyone was to be perfectly quiet, and whatever he was doing at the time, would have to wait. They were instructed to leave Bowser alone, so he could give all his attention to Peach with no interruptions.
"Your fan girl knows it!" Those fan girls that had recently started stalking Ludwig were sneaky, so sneaky that catching them was too troublesome for Bowser, and he had to yell at someone about this. Ludwig was the obvious choice.
"Ludwig! Is that you? I need to talk to you!" Daisy yelled into the cell phone in hopes of having Ludwig hear, and somehow put the pieces together to figure out that someone needed to talk to him without Bowser's knowledge.
Ludwig couldn't hear the voice from the cell phone but the wheels in his head began to turn. Only Peach knew the number for Bowser's Peach phone and a girl Ludwig didn't know was calling him. That happened often, but it would be too much of a coincidence if by chance, she happened to dial the secret number meant only for Peach. "I understand; you have my deepest apologies. I will tell my friend to call me on my cell phone and never to call your number again. I will tell her to call me at my number-" Ludwig knew that Bowser wouldn't allow him a minute to talk to his 'friend', so risking that this really was some crazy stalker fan girl with a crush on him, Ludwig proceeded to yell his number which caught Bowser by surprise, because the king was supposed to do all the yelling. After another quick apology, pretending that he didn't realize he was yelling, Ludwig ran off to wait for the call; that would hopefully explain the recent event.
xoxox xox xoxox
There was a knock on the door that made Peach and Daisy's victorious laughter stop. Peach's finger rested gently on the call button without pressing it, with Ludwig's number displayed on the screen. She saved the number for easy access in the near future, and hid the cell phone under her pillow. "Come in."
Much to the princesses' relief, it was not an upset Toadsworth who came in after he somehow overheard them; it was Luigi and he had no idea about their plans. "Did you call me?"
Luigi must have heard Daisy trying to get Ludwig's attention, and thought she was calling his name. "Not really... We were just having some girl talk."
"Oh... I'll leave you to that then." Luigi had no intentions of staying and listening to a conversation about things he did not understand, or things he really didn't need to understand. After Luigi left, Peach and Daisy breathed in relief, they had not been caught.
"I thought Luigi went home." Daisy saw the Mario brothers leave and wondered why they had returned so soon. She hoped it wasn't anything related to Toadsworth knowing of the secret plans... No, there was no way Toadsworth could have found out, or else he would have already come running to give them a long exaggerated speech about the terrible dangers they would be putting themselves and the entire kingdom in, should they purposely invite koopas to invade the Mushroom Kingdom during the parade.
"My guess is that Toadsworth called them back to help with the parade. That means we don't have a lot of time, I'm sure Toad will be here soon to tell us that Toadsworth needs to speak to me about very important matters. Then, I will be expected to spend the rest of the day choosing every little detail about the parade, and since you're here, your opinion will be expected too. Usually, it's fun; but we have other things to do," things that Toadsworth would never approve of, things that would later require a long explanation, things that would eventually involve the cooperation of the Mario brothers... Peach hoped to talk them into helping somehow, but she knew it wouldn't be easy.
"This year's parade will be very interesting that's for sure." Even if Daisy was surprised with Peach's decision at first, she was willing to help Peach all the way.
"You're enjoying this," Peach noted, she could see it in Daisy's eyes, and in her smile. Daisy never liked routines.
"You know I am, but hurry up and call before Toad arrives; and turn on the speaker phone, I want to hear!" Daisy's mischievous smile told Peach that she had more than just the planned call in mind...
xoxox xox xoxox
Ludwig sat in his music room, where he spent most of his time, staring at his cell phone, waiting for it to ring. The cell phone was on top of Ludwig's piano; it matched his blue hair, and did not emit a single sound. He might as well entertain himself while he waited for the call, if it even happened. But before Ludwig could touch the keys, a piano melody composed by Toadofsky began to play.
"You're playing that stupid song again?" Roy intruded into Ludwig's sanctuary, the music room. Ludwig had a personal music room in each castle. Roy had arrived to end his peace and snatch the cell phone, as soon as he realized that the music was coming from it, instead of the piano. "This is the worse ring tone ever!"
"Return that to me, I am waiting for a very important call!" That was the last thing Ludwig should have told Roy if he wanted to have his cell phone back as soon as possible.
Roy ran away with the ringing cell phone, mocking Ludwig. "Who's the call from? Your girlfriend?"
"That is not of your concern!" Ludwig was going to solve this mystery and Roy was not going to stop him.
"You want it back? What'cha gonna to do get it?" Roy had left the music room and was being chased by Ludwig down the halls, occasionally pushing goomba maids aside, and nearly crashing into patrolling koopa troopas.
"If you do not return my cell phone this instant, you will be facing dire consequences!" Ludwig was close to catching Roy.
"Everything is dry here, it's a desert!" Apparently Roy's vocabulary was a little limited.
That was all Ludwig could take. He fully intended to recover that cell phone before it stopped ringing. Ludwig took a deep breath and shot a fire ball at Roy.
"Stupid cheater!" Roy retreated into his shell to shield himself from the fire and that allowed Ludwig to catch up. However, instead of receiving his cell phone back, Ludwig received a fireball from Roy, which he narrowly avoided.
Morton spotted the action and ran to watch the show. "Fire fight!" Morton announced at the top of his lungs. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Lemmy arrived, balancing on his favorite star printed ball. "What's going on?" He forgot that asking Morton any question was not a good idea, but by the time he realized his mistake, it was too late.
"A fight!" Morton started to ramble. "There's a fight with fire! I saw Roy throw a fire ball at Ludwig, and Ludwig returned fire, and there was fire! Lots of fire! There's lots of fire now! It's a fight with fire!"
xoxox xox xoxox
Kammy paced around the entrance to the library impatiently. Kamek had opened the door for the workers, and they were currently digging out sand and carrying it away. "Is this really necessary?" Were the spell books down there really so important? Was it worth it? "The books are going to be ruined anyway."
"The most important books will endure this. I advise you get out of the way. Why not come hyperventilate over here?" Kamek patted the empty chair next to his.
Kammy did not appreciate his comment; none the less she got out of the way, but she did not sit down. The workers began to slow down, and those with the duty of carrying the sand away had not yet returned for the next load of sand. "What's taking so long?"
"Go check," Kamek didn't feel like getting out of his comfy chair if Kammy could take care of the situation instead. Besides, she was the one who refused to sit still.
"Go check yourself!" Kamek's request made Kammy sit down, even if that was no longer what Kamek wanted her to do.
Kamek shook his head; he knew it was hopeless to try to get Kammy to go see what was wrong now. He called over one of the koopa troopas working on sand duty. "Yes, sir?"
"I want you to find out what is delaying the work and solve it," Kamek instructed.
The koopa troopa left on his mission and returned a few minutes later with the news. "I found out what was going on."
"I don't see the work progressing, why didn't you solve it?" Kamek might have been old, but he wasn't old enough to forget what he said a few minutes ago. He remembered quite clearly instructing the koopa troopa to solve the problem, mistakenly assuming it was something simple. Kamek thought the workers might have gotten distracted, or thought they could slack off since they were working under Kamek and Kammy, instead of directly for Bowser.
"The situation was beyond my control, sir." Kamek didn't like the koopa troopa's short answers and lack of detail.
"Why is that?" Kamek was starting to become impatient and Kammy was snickering at the sight.
"Because Prince Ludwig and Prince Roy were having a royal battle, sir. The other Princes and Princess were there as well; they were watching the battle." The koopa blinked in confusion as he found himself talking to a pair of empty chairs where he was sure that two magikoopas sat a mere few seconds ago.
xoxox xox xoxox
It took a good fifteen minutes and two headaches to stop the battle. Ludwig didn't usually act this way, but with all the stress, he couldn't take anything else going wrong. Finally, the audience was sent on their way, Roy went off to find something more interesting to do, and Ludwig recovered his cell phone, which was miraculously still ringing. Kamek and Kammy return to their previous seats watching koopa troopas transport sand out of the tower, and the work continued.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Hello? It's Peach, don't tell your father I'm calling." That was Peach's first warning when she finally heard Ludwig answer the phone. She thought she had copied the wrong number because it took so long.
"Finally!" Daisy had also become impatient. Honestly, didn't anyone teach those koopalings that it was very rude to leave people waiting on the phone?
"It's just as I thought, you really were trying to call... but why?" It was a big enough surprise that Peach would call anyone in the Koopa family, but why Ludwig?
"You're the oldest, so I thought you could help me out with something," Peach began to explain. "I want to invite you and your siblings to the Mushroom Day Parade next Saturday, but Bowser can't know. If he comes, he'll want to kidnap me and there will be a panic. Everyone needs to be on their best behavior for this to work out."
Peach's words came as a shock to Ludwig, not only was she inviting them to a parade, but she went out of her way trying to communicate with him to do so. "I'm sure everyone would love to go. I will try to talk them into behaving but I can't say for certain that they will listen. However, since it is for you, it might work."
Peach's plan was coming together nicely. As if on cue, a knock was heard on the door, followed by Toad's voice calling for Peach and Daisy. "Thanks Ludwig, I have to go. I'll call you back later to plan this in more detail. Make sure Bowser doesn't find out."
Fortunately, Ludwig understood the importance of keeping this a secret, and assured Peach that his father would not find out. As much as Ludwig wanted them to be together, if Bowser ruined Peach's parade by causing a panic with his mere presence, would not help Bowser and Peach become closer. Though from Ludwig's point of view, they seemed to have become closer even without the help.
Ludwig didn't fully comprehend what was going on, but he would find out soon. In the mean time, he had a lot of work to do giving his siblings the news; and most importantly, making sure it was kept a secret. That task would surely prove to be quite a challenge, especially in Morton's case; but Ludwig was determined to make it work.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own the Mario games or characters. Next chapter, The Mushroom Day Parade.
Chapter 15: Communication
The sound of what could be described by some as a romantic rock song, and by others as noise, broke the relative silence of Bowser's Desertland castle. He didn't waste a second in answering the cell phone. "Peach! I was just getting ready to go pick you up. I won't let those plumbers take you away from me this time!" Bowser did not say hello, or ask who he was talking to. He simply assumed it was Peach, because the number of his spiky green cell phone was recorded on the pink cell phone Kamek gave Peach, and did not appear anywhere else. The screen displayed a number with no name, which meant that the call didn't come from Peach's cell magic phone, but Bowser wasn't paying attention to the details.
"Hello, Mr. Koopa? It's Koopaisy, is your son Ludwig home?" Daisy spoke in a high pitched voice, squealing a little, in a perfect imitation of what a Ludwig fan girl would sound like. Bowser couldn't tell it was Daisy on the phone.
Bowser squeezed the cell phone in his strong hand. A normal cell phone would have shattered, but that one was magically enhanced to be very resistant. "Ludwig!" Bowser's voice echoed all over the castle.
The blue haired prince rushed to his father, using the echo of his voice as a guide to find him. When Ludwig arrived, before he could utter a single word, Bowser continued yelling. "Tell your friends to call you on your own phone. I could have missed a call from Peach because that koopa-something girl, is calling you on my Peach-only number!" Bowser was too busy yelling at his son and didn't hang up.
"I do not know the number of the line you have reserve for Peach," Ludwig reminded his father. Bowser had warned the koopalings that when his Peach phone rang, everyone was to be perfectly quiet, and whatever he was doing at the time, would have to wait. They were instructed to leave Bowser alone, so he could give all his attention to Peach with no interruptions.
"Your fan girl knows it!" Those fan girls that had recently started stalking Ludwig were sneaky, so sneaky that catching them was too troublesome for Bowser, and he had to yell at someone about this. Ludwig was the obvious choice.
"Ludwig! Is that you? I need to talk to you!" Daisy yelled into the cell phone in hopes of having Ludwig hear, and somehow put the pieces together to figure out that someone needed to talk to him without Bowser's knowledge.
Ludwig couldn't hear the voice from the cell phone but the wheels in his head began to turn. Only Peach knew the number for Bowser's Peach phone and a girl Ludwig didn't know was calling him. That happened often, but it would be too much of a coincidence if by chance, she happened to dial the secret number meant only for Peach. "I understand; you have my deepest apologies. I will tell my friend to call me on my cell phone and never to call your number again. I will tell her to call me at my number-" Ludwig knew that Bowser wouldn't allow him a minute to talk to his 'friend', so risking that this really was some crazy stalker fan girl with a crush on him, Ludwig proceeded to yell his number which caught Bowser by surprise, because the king was supposed to do all the yelling. After another quick apology, pretending that he didn't realize he was yelling, Ludwig ran off to wait for the call; that would hopefully explain the recent event.
xoxox xox xoxox
There was a knock on the door that made Peach and Daisy's victorious laughter stop. Peach's finger rested gently on the call button without pressing it, with Ludwig's number displayed on the screen. She saved the number for easy access in the near future, and hid the cell phone under her pillow. "Come in."
Much to the princesses' relief, it was not an upset Toadsworth who came in after he somehow overheard them; it was Luigi and he had no idea about their plans. "Did you call me?"
Luigi must have heard Daisy trying to get Ludwig's attention, and thought she was calling his name. "Not really... We were just having some girl talk."
"Oh... I'll leave you to that then." Luigi had no intentions of staying and listening to a conversation about things he did not understand, or things he really didn't need to understand. After Luigi left, Peach and Daisy breathed in relief, they had not been caught.
"I thought Luigi went home." Daisy saw the Mario brothers leave and wondered why they had returned so soon. She hoped it wasn't anything related to Toadsworth knowing of the secret plans... No, there was no way Toadsworth could have found out, or else he would have already come running to give them a long exaggerated speech about the terrible dangers they would be putting themselves and the entire kingdom in, should they purposely invite koopas to invade the Mushroom Kingdom during the parade.
"My guess is that Toadsworth called them back to help with the parade. That means we don't have a lot of time, I'm sure Toad will be here soon to tell us that Toadsworth needs to speak to me about very important matters. Then, I will be expected to spend the rest of the day choosing every little detail about the parade, and since you're here, your opinion will be expected too. Usually, it's fun; but we have other things to do," things that Toadsworth would never approve of, things that would later require a long explanation, things that would eventually involve the cooperation of the Mario brothers... Peach hoped to talk them into helping somehow, but she knew it wouldn't be easy.
"This year's parade will be very interesting that's for sure." Even if Daisy was surprised with Peach's decision at first, she was willing to help Peach all the way.
"You're enjoying this," Peach noted, she could see it in Daisy's eyes, and in her smile. Daisy never liked routines.
"You know I am, but hurry up and call before Toad arrives; and turn on the speaker phone, I want to hear!" Daisy's mischievous smile told Peach that she had more than just the planned call in mind...
xoxox xox xoxox
Ludwig sat in his music room, where he spent most of his time, staring at his cell phone, waiting for it to ring. The cell phone was on top of Ludwig's piano; it matched his blue hair, and did not emit a single sound. He might as well entertain himself while he waited for the call, if it even happened. But before Ludwig could touch the keys, a piano melody composed by Toadofsky began to play.
"You're playing that stupid song again?" Roy intruded into Ludwig's sanctuary, the music room. Ludwig had a personal music room in each castle. Roy had arrived to end his peace and snatch the cell phone, as soon as he realized that the music was coming from it, instead of the piano. "This is the worse ring tone ever!"
"Return that to me, I am waiting for a very important call!" That was the last thing Ludwig should have told Roy if he wanted to have his cell phone back as soon as possible.
Roy ran away with the ringing cell phone, mocking Ludwig. "Who's the call from? Your girlfriend?"
"That is not of your concern!" Ludwig was going to solve this mystery and Roy was not going to stop him.
"You want it back? What'cha gonna to do get it?" Roy had left the music room and was being chased by Ludwig down the halls, occasionally pushing goomba maids aside, and nearly crashing into patrolling koopa troopas.
"If you do not return my cell phone this instant, you will be facing dire consequences!" Ludwig was close to catching Roy.
"Everything is dry here, it's a desert!" Apparently Roy's vocabulary was a little limited.
That was all Ludwig could take. He fully intended to recover that cell phone before it stopped ringing. Ludwig took a deep breath and shot a fire ball at Roy.
"Stupid cheater!" Roy retreated into his shell to shield himself from the fire and that allowed Ludwig to catch up. However, instead of receiving his cell phone back, Ludwig received a fireball from Roy, which he narrowly avoided.
Morton spotted the action and ran to watch the show. "Fire fight!" Morton announced at the top of his lungs. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Lemmy arrived, balancing on his favorite star printed ball. "What's going on?" He forgot that asking Morton any question was not a good idea, but by the time he realized his mistake, it was too late.
"A fight!" Morton started to ramble. "There's a fight with fire! I saw Roy throw a fire ball at Ludwig, and Ludwig returned fire, and there was fire! Lots of fire! There's lots of fire now! It's a fight with fire!"
xoxox xox xoxox
Kammy paced around the entrance to the library impatiently. Kamek had opened the door for the workers, and they were currently digging out sand and carrying it away. "Is this really necessary?" Were the spell books down there really so important? Was it worth it? "The books are going to be ruined anyway."
"The most important books will endure this. I advise you get out of the way. Why not come hyperventilate over here?" Kamek patted the empty chair next to his.
Kammy did not appreciate his comment; none the less she got out of the way, but she did not sit down. The workers began to slow down, and those with the duty of carrying the sand away had not yet returned for the next load of sand. "What's taking so long?"
"Go check," Kamek didn't feel like getting out of his comfy chair if Kammy could take care of the situation instead. Besides, she was the one who refused to sit still.
"Go check yourself!" Kamek's request made Kammy sit down, even if that was no longer what Kamek wanted her to do.
Kamek shook his head; he knew it was hopeless to try to get Kammy to go see what was wrong now. He called over one of the koopa troopas working on sand duty. "Yes, sir?"
"I want you to find out what is delaying the work and solve it," Kamek instructed.
The koopa troopa left on his mission and returned a few minutes later with the news. "I found out what was going on."
"I don't see the work progressing, why didn't you solve it?" Kamek might have been old, but he wasn't old enough to forget what he said a few minutes ago. He remembered quite clearly instructing the koopa troopa to solve the problem, mistakenly assuming it was something simple. Kamek thought the workers might have gotten distracted, or thought they could slack off since they were working under Kamek and Kammy, instead of directly for Bowser.
"The situation was beyond my control, sir." Kamek didn't like the koopa troopa's short answers and lack of detail.
"Why is that?" Kamek was starting to become impatient and Kammy was snickering at the sight.
"Because Prince Ludwig and Prince Roy were having a royal battle, sir. The other Princes and Princess were there as well; they were watching the battle." The koopa blinked in confusion as he found himself talking to a pair of empty chairs where he was sure that two magikoopas sat a mere few seconds ago.
xoxox xox xoxox
It took a good fifteen minutes and two headaches to stop the battle. Ludwig didn't usually act this way, but with all the stress, he couldn't take anything else going wrong. Finally, the audience was sent on their way, Roy went off to find something more interesting to do, and Ludwig recovered his cell phone, which was miraculously still ringing. Kamek and Kammy return to their previous seats watching koopa troopas transport sand out of the tower, and the work continued.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Hello? It's Peach, don't tell your father I'm calling." That was Peach's first warning when she finally heard Ludwig answer the phone. She thought she had copied the wrong number because it took so long.
"Finally!" Daisy had also become impatient. Honestly, didn't anyone teach those koopalings that it was very rude to leave people waiting on the phone?
"It's just as I thought, you really were trying to call... but why?" It was a big enough surprise that Peach would call anyone in the Koopa family, but why Ludwig?
"You're the oldest, so I thought you could help me out with something," Peach began to explain. "I want to invite you and your siblings to the Mushroom Day Parade next Saturday, but Bowser can't know. If he comes, he'll want to kidnap me and there will be a panic. Everyone needs to be on their best behavior for this to work out."
Peach's words came as a shock to Ludwig, not only was she inviting them to a parade, but she went out of her way trying to communicate with him to do so. "I'm sure everyone would love to go. I will try to talk them into behaving but I can't say for certain that they will listen. However, since it is for you, it might work."
Peach's plan was coming together nicely. As if on cue, a knock was heard on the door, followed by Toad's voice calling for Peach and Daisy. "Thanks Ludwig, I have to go. I'll call you back later to plan this in more detail. Make sure Bowser doesn't find out."
Fortunately, Ludwig understood the importance of keeping this a secret, and assured Peach that his father would not find out. As much as Ludwig wanted them to be together, if Bowser ruined Peach's parade by causing a panic with his mere presence, would not help Bowser and Peach become closer. Though from Ludwig's point of view, they seemed to have become closer even without the help.
Ludwig didn't fully comprehend what was going on, but he would find out soon. In the mean time, he had a lot of work to do giving his siblings the news; and most importantly, making sure it was kept a secret. That task would surely prove to be quite a challenge, especially in Morton's case; but Ludwig was determined to make it work.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own the Mario games or characters. Next chapter, The Mushroom Day Parade.
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