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Part Two
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Slaying the Dragon
Part Two
Several Toads were waiting for Peach outside, loading her luggage into a car. "You planned this all along, and you didn't tell me until the last minute," Daisy felt as if Peach was hiding something, but disregarded it as stress.
Peach thanked the Toads and told them they could go back inside. They wanted to see her off but she insisted, and they understood she wanted a moment alone with Daisy. "For what I will do, I will dedicate my life to making peace with the Koopa Kingdom and taking care of Bowser's children as my own. Before accomplishing my mission I will make his kingdom mine, and try my best to make up for this..." It was easy to see that Peach was holding back tears.
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The trip was long and mentally exhausting. Peach had heard that Bowser was currently in his Darkland castle. Though it was daytime, the land made true to its name, shrouded in a dark starless sky. Peach too a deep breath and drove towards the castle.
Several koopa troopas, goombas, magikoopas, paratroopas, and all kinds of people, stared in disbelief but did not try to stop her. They knew Bowser would always welcome princess Peach, and it would surely make him very happy that she had arrived on her own free will.
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"The new guy that has the shift before yours is so clumsy! He broke the light on the first day." Skyri did not like having to sweep up the pieces of a giant light bulb. The aforementioned 'new guy', had ended his shift and left in a hurry, skipping out on the chore and leaving the watch tower in darkness. "It's not enough that I have to fly from one watch tower to another, and he just sits here, he had to go and skip on own fixing his own mess."
"Should we gang up on him and give him a beating?" Though Keres was only kidding, Skyri was in a bad enough mood to grin mischievously at the idea.
"Let's do it!" Skyri was a cute paratroopa, she was described by some as looking like an angel, but she had her temperamental side. "It's not like the king will complain, we make better guards than that guy anyway. Why can't we have the same shift?"
"It's supposed to make the guards more efficient is one is half way done with their shift and the other is just getting started. But you don't need to report to the next tower for a while right?" Keres also showed he had a mischievous side of his own. The blond koopa troopa wrapped his arms around the sky blue haired paratroopa. "It may sound like a contradiction, but there is a bright side to this darkness..."
Skyri giggled, Keres held her close and... the sound of a horn made them jump apart. They scrambled to find a new large light bulb and fix the tower's illumination. Down bellow there was a car, a pink car waiting at the gates... "Princess Peach?!"
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When Peach finally found herself with Bowser, she felt her stomach flip upside down, her heart was pounding, her eyes stung and her throat was dry, but she somehow managed to hide all of that. "Hello," Peach tried to mentally compose herself, she would have to say more than just a simple greeting.
"Peachy!" When Bowser ran to hug her, no doubt filled with hopes with her sudden willing visit, Peach did not rest the hug.
If she was to sacrifice him for the sake of peace and safety, for the wish that her people would certainly voice if they were ever asked, then she would at least grant his wish before she took it all away. "Marry me..."
Peach voice was barely above a whisper, but Bowser and his children, who had followed him and were quietly watching the events unfold, heard her clear as crystal.
Bowser thought that he was dreaming. He held on to Peach afraid to wake up and lose her. Peach stepped back and looked into Bowser's eyes awaiting his response. This was more than just a dream. "I'll marry you again, as many times as you want. I love you."
The koopalings cheered while Peach and Bowser shared a kiss, and they thought her tears, were tears of joy.
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Peach was in a hurry to finish her mission. She did not want to go through with it, but the Mario brothers did not have a lot of time left. Peach had requested that all the legal documents be taken care of first, whether a coronation and wedding ceremony occurred or not, it would not matter; because Peach was the new Koopa Queen by law and she did not have time for a party.
The rumors in the Mushroom Kingdom told of a secret cure, hidden in the Koopa Kingdom. Surely that tyrant King Bowser, would force their fair princess into marriage again in exchange for the lives of Mario and Luigi. Bowser did in fact hold the cure, a fact that the Koopa King was not aware of, but that cure was not a potion or amulet as people had imagined.
After all the necessary documents were signed, Peach suggested going on vacation before sitting down to plan the wedding ceremony. "I heard the hot springs at Nimbus Land are beautiful this time of year."
Nimbus Land... Weren't they having a bit of a dragon ghost problem lately? But if his beloved Peach wanted to go there, then Bowser would agree without a second thought. He would just have to protect her.
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"I wish you a safe trip..." Peach and Bowser were about to leave, Kamek and Kammy had insisted on having Bowser give the high ranking commanders their orders for his absence. It was only a way to get a moment alone with Peach, and when Bowser was busy speaking of his future with Peach, which wasn't what he was supposed to be talking about anyway, Kamek slipped away.
"Thank you," Peach caught Kamek's suspicion right away.
The elderly wizard had no intentions on hiding the truth since he was certain that Peach already knew. "I was the one who did it, in case you wondered. It was done long ago when the Mario brothers were still babies. I curse Luigi before Yoshi and baby Mario were able to rescue him. Luigi passed the curse to his brother by their strong bond of siblings, and that prolonged Luigi's life, but in the end, they both fell. I know you wish to obtain the cure."
Peach was silent. If Kamek knew about her plan then it was all over; if he interfered, if he stopped her... if he revealed the truth to world...
"The lovely lady, with a heart of snow, the dragon slayer she was called. When the monster's heart beats no more, she shall break the curse of yore. I won't stand in your way." Kamek vanished into thin air, teleporting himself to a location unknown to Peach.
Peach was shocked beyond words, she had assumed that Kamek would defend Bowser, but he had stepped aside. Was it that he did not believe she could do it? It certainly wasn't in her nature, but the council had decided and her people would surely support that choice if taken to votes. The stage was set and Zombone would be blamed. Peach couldn't afford to be suspected, yet at the same time, she wanted to be stopped.
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Prince Mallow had invited Peach and Bowser for tea. Peach accepted, and Bowser agreed only because she did. The conversation that occurred in the tea room was small talk between Peach and Mallow. They spoke of the weather, of the trading between their kingdoms, nothing too deep.
Finally Peach and Bowser were shown to their rooms so they could settle in, then visit the hot springs. Peach had noticed Bowser looking a little light headed as he headed to his room. She heard a thump and immediately ran after him. "He's alive, only sleeping."
Peach nearly jumped out of her skin in surprise. Mallow had been very sneaky in approaching the room, and even more so with Bowser's tea. "Is this to make it easier for me?"
"The story you told me about from that ancient book, it does speak of a lovely lady, but when the story was interpreted, it was decided that it was the dragon's heart that mattered. You lured him here and made him lower his guard; you don't need to do anything else. I'll send the soldiers I have on stand by to retrieve the heart and deliver it to the selected wizards so that they might create the cure." Not once did Mallow pronounce Bowser's name, it felt too person if he said it, even if it was personal either way. The koopa lying unconscious on the floor was not a stranger to Mallow. After traveling with Mario, Peach, Bowser and Geno to find his home, Mallow had come to look at all of them as dear friends. His parents even kept statues of all five of them as heroes of Nimbus Land.
"If it doesn't work, it will all be in vain... Please Mallow, leave this to me..." Peach felt the tears coming back. Even if it was in sorrow, she had to do this. The sorrow of losing Mario and Luigi would be greater, not even for her, but for her people, for her allied lands, for her friends...
Mallow nodded sadly and gave Peach a dagger. The blade's handle was elegantly decorated with gold and sapphires, but the blade itself was very sharp. The young prince left the room in tears, he had wishes to stop crying, he had promised to hold back his tears, but this time he could not.
Peach looked at her reflection on the blade. "Cold as snow..." Peach lifted it over Bowser's heart and froze in place. She willed her hands to move down, while her mind screamed in pain, but she stopped less than an inch away from stabbing Bowser's heart. "I can't..." and she cried, because her heroes would die, because she let everyone down, and most of all, because she came so close to killing a man who loved her so much. "Forgive me..." She tossed the dragger on the floor and hugged Bowser, letting her tears flow. "Please forgive me..." she kissed him gently, thinking he could not feel or hear anything, in his state, but she was wrong.
When Peach looked up she saw Bowser had opened his eyes. He hugged her and let her cry while gently stroking her hair and offering a few words of comfort. "I still love you..."
"How could you? I nearly killed you. If you were awake, why didn't you say something?" Peach was sad, ashamed, in deep regret, and in a panic. She didn't want to lose Mario and Luigi, and she didn't want to hurt Bowser.
"If you hated me enough to kill me, then if it's best if I'm put out of my misery..." There was no anger in Bowser's voice, even in their current situation he sounded loving towards Peach. "Peach, tell me what this is about. I know this can't be your idea, it's not like you. Who is making you do this?"
"Unless they are given your heart in a potion, Mario and Luigi will die. I was supposed to make it stop beating..." Peach replied between sobs.
"Princess Peach! Princess Peach!" Mallow's voice echoed down the halls. He froze and stared with wide frightened eyes when he realized that Bowser had already woken up. He should have guessed the effect wouldn't last more than a few minutes.
"Explain yourself fluffy, you're too soft to push Peach into something like this. Who is behind this entire plot?" Bowser demanded to know. He held Peach protectively, as if to assure her that who ever made her go this far would pay.
"I ran back here to say that the Mario brothers have miraculously recovered..." Mallow had just received news from the Mushroom Kingdom. Even Toadsworth was feeling better after Mario and Luigi got up as if they were not sick in the first place. The magic users tending to them could no longer detect the curse, and the Mario brothers' only complain was their empty stomachs, which was immediately solved with a banquet.
Peach's short conversation with Kamek replayed in her mind. "The lovely lady, with a heart of snow, the dragon slayer she was called. When the monster's heart beats no more, she shall break the curse of yore."
"Isn't that the cure for one of Kamek's old curse spells? The curse actually activated? But it was already broken, right? Before the plumbers kicked the bucket... Oh well it doesn't matter. I think I'll invite Mario to my wedding; he'll never live that down. Is there still a wedding?" Kamek had told Bowser about this long ago. Bowser knew that if the curse was ever to be activated, it would be broken because Peach already held his heart, and it was as close as it would get to the heart of a dragon.
'The lovely lady with a heart of snow', Peach was the lady, with a heart as pure as freshly fallen white snow. 'The dragon slayer she was called', Peach was the only one who could get Bowser to do whatever she wanted if she set her mind to it. 'When the monster's heart beats no more', Peach did not think of Bowser as a monster, and thus she could not bring herself to sacrifice him, because deep down she truly cared about him. 'She shall break the curse of yore', Kamek knew it would happen this way from the start, that was why he did not try to stop Peach, he didn't know the story had been misinterpreted.
"It was only a misunderstanding..." It had all happened too fast. The pain and fear pushed her, and so many others into doing and saying things that they did not wish to do or say. "It was all to break that curse." Peach sighed, and Mallow slipped out of the room to give them a moment alone. "We were already married once, then we signed the documents, but I'm not ready for another wedding..."
Bowser knew this was coming, he still felt a bit disappointed, but Peach still had her arms around his neck, she was still pressed against him as if she felt safe in his arms, and he had never held her like this before, plus he got a few kisses out of this entire misunderstanding, so he was a lot happier than he could possibly be sad. "That's fine, if you want to go back to the Mushroom Kingdom I understand, but don't forget to come see your husband every now and then."
Seeing Bowser's truly happy smile, Peach smiled back. "I won't forget," and she remembered...
End
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or character. This was a short story since I'm still working on "Complications", another BowserxPeach fanfic that I still need to finish. It feels similar to my old BowserxPeach story "Antidote" but at the same time completely different. The main similarity is the use of a magical curse to cause the plot. But other than that, who has the curse, and the actual plot are different. I can't exactly say where this came from... We were talking about slaying dragons in an original role playing game at RPGalaxy (a forum which I suggest you join, just follow the home link on my profile) and how this character didn't want to slay a good dragon. I was also reading a wikipedia article about the Slayers anime. I guess the word stayed with me, and taking into account that Bowser was originally supposed to be a dragon, but they couldn't fit him into the sprite space in the old eight bit Nintendo, then it kind of fits, and the plot bunny took over from there.
Part Two
Several Toads were waiting for Peach outside, loading her luggage into a car. "You planned this all along, and you didn't tell me until the last minute," Daisy felt as if Peach was hiding something, but disregarded it as stress.
Peach thanked the Toads and told them they could go back inside. They wanted to see her off but she insisted, and they understood she wanted a moment alone with Daisy. "For what I will do, I will dedicate my life to making peace with the Koopa Kingdom and taking care of Bowser's children as my own. Before accomplishing my mission I will make his kingdom mine, and try my best to make up for this..." It was easy to see that Peach was holding back tears.
xoxox xox xoxox
The trip was long and mentally exhausting. Peach had heard that Bowser was currently in his Darkland castle. Though it was daytime, the land made true to its name, shrouded in a dark starless sky. Peach too a deep breath and drove towards the castle.
Several koopa troopas, goombas, magikoopas, paratroopas, and all kinds of people, stared in disbelief but did not try to stop her. They knew Bowser would always welcome princess Peach, and it would surely make him very happy that she had arrived on her own free will.
xoxox xox xoxox
"The new guy that has the shift before yours is so clumsy! He broke the light on the first day." Skyri did not like having to sweep up the pieces of a giant light bulb. The aforementioned 'new guy', had ended his shift and left in a hurry, skipping out on the chore and leaving the watch tower in darkness. "It's not enough that I have to fly from one watch tower to another, and he just sits here, he had to go and skip on own fixing his own mess."
"Should we gang up on him and give him a beating?" Though Keres was only kidding, Skyri was in a bad enough mood to grin mischievously at the idea.
"Let's do it!" Skyri was a cute paratroopa, she was described by some as looking like an angel, but she had her temperamental side. "It's not like the king will complain, we make better guards than that guy anyway. Why can't we have the same shift?"
"It's supposed to make the guards more efficient is one is half way done with their shift and the other is just getting started. But you don't need to report to the next tower for a while right?" Keres also showed he had a mischievous side of his own. The blond koopa troopa wrapped his arms around the sky blue haired paratroopa. "It may sound like a contradiction, but there is a bright side to this darkness..."
Skyri giggled, Keres held her close and... the sound of a horn made them jump apart. They scrambled to find a new large light bulb and fix the tower's illumination. Down bellow there was a car, a pink car waiting at the gates... "Princess Peach?!"
xoxox xox xoxox
When Peach finally found herself with Bowser, she felt her stomach flip upside down, her heart was pounding, her eyes stung and her throat was dry, but she somehow managed to hide all of that. "Hello," Peach tried to mentally compose herself, she would have to say more than just a simple greeting.
"Peachy!" When Bowser ran to hug her, no doubt filled with hopes with her sudden willing visit, Peach did not rest the hug.
If she was to sacrifice him for the sake of peace and safety, for the wish that her people would certainly voice if they were ever asked, then she would at least grant his wish before she took it all away. "Marry me..."
Peach voice was barely above a whisper, but Bowser and his children, who had followed him and were quietly watching the events unfold, heard her clear as crystal.
Bowser thought that he was dreaming. He held on to Peach afraid to wake up and lose her. Peach stepped back and looked into Bowser's eyes awaiting his response. This was more than just a dream. "I'll marry you again, as many times as you want. I love you."
The koopalings cheered while Peach and Bowser shared a kiss, and they thought her tears, were tears of joy.
xoxox xox xoxox
Peach was in a hurry to finish her mission. She did not want to go through with it, but the Mario brothers did not have a lot of time left. Peach had requested that all the legal documents be taken care of first, whether a coronation and wedding ceremony occurred or not, it would not matter; because Peach was the new Koopa Queen by law and she did not have time for a party.
The rumors in the Mushroom Kingdom told of a secret cure, hidden in the Koopa Kingdom. Surely that tyrant King Bowser, would force their fair princess into marriage again in exchange for the lives of Mario and Luigi. Bowser did in fact hold the cure, a fact that the Koopa King was not aware of, but that cure was not a potion or amulet as people had imagined.
After all the necessary documents were signed, Peach suggested going on vacation before sitting down to plan the wedding ceremony. "I heard the hot springs at Nimbus Land are beautiful this time of year."
Nimbus Land... Weren't they having a bit of a dragon ghost problem lately? But if his beloved Peach wanted to go there, then Bowser would agree without a second thought. He would just have to protect her.
xoxox xox xoxox
"I wish you a safe trip..." Peach and Bowser were about to leave, Kamek and Kammy had insisted on having Bowser give the high ranking commanders their orders for his absence. It was only a way to get a moment alone with Peach, and when Bowser was busy speaking of his future with Peach, which wasn't what he was supposed to be talking about anyway, Kamek slipped away.
"Thank you," Peach caught Kamek's suspicion right away.
The elderly wizard had no intentions on hiding the truth since he was certain that Peach already knew. "I was the one who did it, in case you wondered. It was done long ago when the Mario brothers were still babies. I curse Luigi before Yoshi and baby Mario were able to rescue him. Luigi passed the curse to his brother by their strong bond of siblings, and that prolonged Luigi's life, but in the end, they both fell. I know you wish to obtain the cure."
Peach was silent. If Kamek knew about her plan then it was all over; if he interfered, if he stopped her... if he revealed the truth to world...
"The lovely lady, with a heart of snow, the dragon slayer she was called. When the monster's heart beats no more, she shall break the curse of yore. I won't stand in your way." Kamek vanished into thin air, teleporting himself to a location unknown to Peach.
Peach was shocked beyond words, she had assumed that Kamek would defend Bowser, but he had stepped aside. Was it that he did not believe she could do it? It certainly wasn't in her nature, but the council had decided and her people would surely support that choice if taken to votes. The stage was set and Zombone would be blamed. Peach couldn't afford to be suspected, yet at the same time, she wanted to be stopped.
xoxox xox xoxox
Prince Mallow had invited Peach and Bowser for tea. Peach accepted, and Bowser agreed only because she did. The conversation that occurred in the tea room was small talk between Peach and Mallow. They spoke of the weather, of the trading between their kingdoms, nothing too deep.
Finally Peach and Bowser were shown to their rooms so they could settle in, then visit the hot springs. Peach had noticed Bowser looking a little light headed as he headed to his room. She heard a thump and immediately ran after him. "He's alive, only sleeping."
Peach nearly jumped out of her skin in surprise. Mallow had been very sneaky in approaching the room, and even more so with Bowser's tea. "Is this to make it easier for me?"
"The story you told me about from that ancient book, it does speak of a lovely lady, but when the story was interpreted, it was decided that it was the dragon's heart that mattered. You lured him here and made him lower his guard; you don't need to do anything else. I'll send the soldiers I have on stand by to retrieve the heart and deliver it to the selected wizards so that they might create the cure." Not once did Mallow pronounce Bowser's name, it felt too person if he said it, even if it was personal either way. The koopa lying unconscious on the floor was not a stranger to Mallow. After traveling with Mario, Peach, Bowser and Geno to find his home, Mallow had come to look at all of them as dear friends. His parents even kept statues of all five of them as heroes of Nimbus Land.
"If it doesn't work, it will all be in vain... Please Mallow, leave this to me..." Peach felt the tears coming back. Even if it was in sorrow, she had to do this. The sorrow of losing Mario and Luigi would be greater, not even for her, but for her people, for her allied lands, for her friends...
Mallow nodded sadly and gave Peach a dagger. The blade's handle was elegantly decorated with gold and sapphires, but the blade itself was very sharp. The young prince left the room in tears, he had wishes to stop crying, he had promised to hold back his tears, but this time he could not.
Peach looked at her reflection on the blade. "Cold as snow..." Peach lifted it over Bowser's heart and froze in place. She willed her hands to move down, while her mind screamed in pain, but she stopped less than an inch away from stabbing Bowser's heart. "I can't..." and she cried, because her heroes would die, because she let everyone down, and most of all, because she came so close to killing a man who loved her so much. "Forgive me..." She tossed the dragger on the floor and hugged Bowser, letting her tears flow. "Please forgive me..." she kissed him gently, thinking he could not feel or hear anything, in his state, but she was wrong.
When Peach looked up she saw Bowser had opened his eyes. He hugged her and let her cry while gently stroking her hair and offering a few words of comfort. "I still love you..."
"How could you? I nearly killed you. If you were awake, why didn't you say something?" Peach was sad, ashamed, in deep regret, and in a panic. She didn't want to lose Mario and Luigi, and she didn't want to hurt Bowser.
"If you hated me enough to kill me, then if it's best if I'm put out of my misery..." There was no anger in Bowser's voice, even in their current situation he sounded loving towards Peach. "Peach, tell me what this is about. I know this can't be your idea, it's not like you. Who is making you do this?"
"Unless they are given your heart in a potion, Mario and Luigi will die. I was supposed to make it stop beating..." Peach replied between sobs.
"Princess Peach! Princess Peach!" Mallow's voice echoed down the halls. He froze and stared with wide frightened eyes when he realized that Bowser had already woken up. He should have guessed the effect wouldn't last more than a few minutes.
"Explain yourself fluffy, you're too soft to push Peach into something like this. Who is behind this entire plot?" Bowser demanded to know. He held Peach protectively, as if to assure her that who ever made her go this far would pay.
"I ran back here to say that the Mario brothers have miraculously recovered..." Mallow had just received news from the Mushroom Kingdom. Even Toadsworth was feeling better after Mario and Luigi got up as if they were not sick in the first place. The magic users tending to them could no longer detect the curse, and the Mario brothers' only complain was their empty stomachs, which was immediately solved with a banquet.
Peach's short conversation with Kamek replayed in her mind. "The lovely lady, with a heart of snow, the dragon slayer she was called. When the monster's heart beats no more, she shall break the curse of yore."
"Isn't that the cure for one of Kamek's old curse spells? The curse actually activated? But it was already broken, right? Before the plumbers kicked the bucket... Oh well it doesn't matter. I think I'll invite Mario to my wedding; he'll never live that down. Is there still a wedding?" Kamek had told Bowser about this long ago. Bowser knew that if the curse was ever to be activated, it would be broken because Peach already held his heart, and it was as close as it would get to the heart of a dragon.
'The lovely lady with a heart of snow', Peach was the lady, with a heart as pure as freshly fallen white snow. 'The dragon slayer she was called', Peach was the only one who could get Bowser to do whatever she wanted if she set her mind to it. 'When the monster's heart beats no more', Peach did not think of Bowser as a monster, and thus she could not bring herself to sacrifice him, because deep down she truly cared about him. 'She shall break the curse of yore', Kamek knew it would happen this way from the start, that was why he did not try to stop Peach, he didn't know the story had been misinterpreted.
"It was only a misunderstanding..." It had all happened too fast. The pain and fear pushed her, and so many others into doing and saying things that they did not wish to do or say. "It was all to break that curse." Peach sighed, and Mallow slipped out of the room to give them a moment alone. "We were already married once, then we signed the documents, but I'm not ready for another wedding..."
Bowser knew this was coming, he still felt a bit disappointed, but Peach still had her arms around his neck, she was still pressed against him as if she felt safe in his arms, and he had never held her like this before, plus he got a few kisses out of this entire misunderstanding, so he was a lot happier than he could possibly be sad. "That's fine, if you want to go back to the Mushroom Kingdom I understand, but don't forget to come see your husband every now and then."
Seeing Bowser's truly happy smile, Peach smiled back. "I won't forget," and she remembered...
End
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or character. This was a short story since I'm still working on "Complications", another BowserxPeach fanfic that I still need to finish. It feels similar to my old BowserxPeach story "Antidote" but at the same time completely different. The main similarity is the use of a magical curse to cause the plot. But other than that, who has the curse, and the actual plot are different. I can't exactly say where this came from... We were talking about slaying dragons in an original role playing game at RPGalaxy (a forum which I suggest you join, just follow the home link on my profile) and how this character didn't want to slay a good dragon. I was also reading a wikipedia article about the Slayers anime. I guess the word stayed with me, and taking into account that Bowser was originally supposed to be a dragon, but they couldn't fit him into the sprite space in the old eight bit Nintendo, then it kind of fits, and the plot bunny took over from there.
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