Chapter 3: funeral crashers, koopa bashers, and Luigi's lost it!
"Luigi.."
Luigi had been hearing these voices for days now. Ever since Mario's gruesome end, Luigi had been hearing his voice in his dreams. He had also seen gruesome images in his mind; images that foretold the future of the MK. Luigi had tried telling these things to other people, but they disregarded him as a crazy dreamer.
However, there was one person who stuck by his side every time someone rebuked him. Daisy, as a matter of fact, had put an end to the heckling of her man with what the locals simply call the "slap heard round the world." The sorry sap on the receiving end of the blow had to move to Iceland just to stick his head in the ice water and stop the pain. Ouch. Anyway, Daisy was over at Luigi's house that night, and Luigi was extremely grateful to have someone stay with him on the eve of Mario's funeral.
Luigi had to let Daisy know how he felt about her. But he had to wait until the right moment. Although he had to admit that deepening his friendship with Daisy into a relationship was the last thing on his mind. Of course, first was getting his revenge on Bowser. For now, however, he decided to forget about Bowser, and enjoy a quiet evening at home with his good friend.
"Luigi, you haven't said anything since I got here except, 'Hi Daisy, please come in and sit down.' What's on your mind?" Daisy said to break the silence.
"Nothing" He said. "Well, actually, there is something."
"What's that?" Daisy asked him.
"Well, it's just that...Mario was my only living relative before last week. My parents both died when I was young, and me and Mario were raised in the street by our uncle, a tough old Italian American man who first taught us how to fight." Luigi sat there silently.
"Go on" Daisy told him.
"One day, when me and Mario were in the sewers fending off several weird creatures, we found the pipe they were coming out of. We climbed into the pipe, and were suddenly in this kingdom."
"Mario pointed out to me that the people were all turned to stone. Both of us wondered why or how this happened. It turned out that Princess Peach had been kidnapped by Bowser, and was being held at his castle. For some strange reason, we went off on this adventure and defeated Bowser, rescued the princess, and the rest is history."
"Wow. That's awesome, Luigi."
"And now he's...gone..." Luigi faded into silence.
Daisy just sat next to him and wrapped her arms around him. She just held him through the night.
The next morning, it was dark, rainy and nasty. "Just the type of day for a funeral.." Said Luigi as he got up and out the door. At the church, the casket was closed up. Apparently, they had not been able to find Mario's body. It made perfect sense, considering Bowser basically vaporized him with his power.
So the funeral service began. It started off with a reading from the Bible, and then, various people were allowed to the podium to voice their thoughts and memories of Mario. Luigi was up on the podium, and he was just getting ready to speak, when Bowser and his kids crashed the party by crashing through the church window!
"Mwa ha ha ha ha!" Bowser laughed! "I myself have some thoughts and memories of Mario!" The evil koopa laughed.
I''ve said my piece, now I''m off to some hardcore SSBM action!
