The onlookers exchanged glances among themselves, even more confused. What were the small plumber and the big koopa talking about?
Suddenly, there was a loud trumpet fanfare and many angry yells coming closer to Mario's front lawn. The trumpets were signaling Princess Peach's arrival. The angry yells were from the inhabitants of the Koopa Kingdom, who were angry of their king's incompetence that day.
"Bowser!" Peach gasped.
"Bowser!" yelled Bowser's town's people.
"Bowser!" Luigi yelled, turning to the small plumber next to him.
"Mario?" Bowser yelled, facing the giant turtle for an explanation.
"Luigi," Mario said, willing to tell him what happened.
Everyone started talking, yelling or screaming all at once. Bowser and Luigi tried yelling for them to be quiet, but with no avail. Finally, Mario sucked in his breath and let out the loudest roar he could, which shook the ground, blew the nearest people back a few feet, and definitely silenced everyone.
Eveyone looked up at Mario, in stunned silence. Feeling kind of embarrassed, he said, "Um, well, you're all probably wondering what's going on, huh?"
Peach was the first to speak. "Bowser, what are you doing here?"
Mario was about to say something, but Bowser interrupted. "
I'm Bowser!" he said, lowering his head a little.
Mario said, "It's true." Silence. "I'm
Mario."
"What?" said Peach, along with a few others.
"This morning, we both woke up as the other, and we had to go through the day as the other, too," said Mario.
The people of both kingdoms listened as Mario and Bowser retold all that they had gone through as each other, which explained a lot of the problems(Peach finally understood why "Mario" was such jerk earlier, and Bowser's citizens knew why he had been a dumb king that day). When the finished retelling up to the very present, there was a moment of silence as the sun set, and then Luigi spoke up. "I think they should apologize, don't you?" Everyone nodded in consent.
Bowser turned to Mario. "Yeah....s-sorry I gave you a hard time for... well I guess I didn't realize you had enough to worry about already."
Mario replied, "Hey, you're the one with a bunch of kids and a kingdom to take care of. I guess I'm ...sorry too."
There was a little round of applause after their apologies, and suddenly a bright flash filled the air. When the light dimmed, Mario and Bowser were both on the ground, dazed. Mario opened his eyes and looked up. Luigi was looking down at him with a worried expression on his face. Wait a minute! Luigi had been smaller than Mario's fist a second ago, and yet here he was, looking over him! That meant--
Mario stood up. Next to him on the ground was the large body of Bowser, and Luigi stood on his other side, being almost the same size as Mario. Mario let out a whoop of joy. "I'm ME again!" he shouted.
Bowser blinked twice. He was looking up at the stars. He turned his head to the side and saw two small plumbers, roughly the size of his fist. He sat up. All around him were little people! He looked down at himself, and saw scaly skin and spike metal bands around his wrists. "I'm... ME! Yeah!" he said, as happy as Mario was. Their audience cheered, and Mario and Bowser faced each other again.
"Friends?" Mario asked.
"Er... well, as close as it will ever get to that," Bowser said. They shook hand and claw, and everyone seemed happy.
Peach, who had walked up to Mario and put her arm around his shoulder, said, "Wait a minute. How did you guys switch in the first place? I doubt you two would have caused all this trouble on purpose."
"Oh yeah," Bowser said. "Well, apparently Luigi was sick of our bickering and wished on a shooting star that we would swtich bodies."
There was a moment of dawning comprehension in which everyone turned to Luigi, realizing that HE had caused all this trouble, while he realized that he was surrounded by mad people from two entire kingdoms. He gulped.
I sure wish I could see another shooting star right about now!, he thought.
THE END
Edited by - Markio on 2/21/2005 3:28:08 PM