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« on: November 22, 2005, 03:29:15 PM »
Wario opened his eyes.
No noise. He must've been the first awake.
He sat himself up.
"Whoa!" He cried.
There in front of him, stood an elderly, bearded man with a crown. Behind him were several identical toads.
"Good morning." said the man.
"Ain't nothin' good about it." grumbled Wario. "Who the heck are you?"
"I am the king of Grass Land" he said.
Wario hopped up. "King, huh? I'm a king too." He slapped the Grass Land king on the back.
"Are you, now?"
"Yeh. Got a big ol' castle and everything."
Mario lifted his head.
"What the-? Who are you talking to?"
Wario turned to look at Mario.
"Mind your own business, common peasant." He turned back to the King. "Don't mind the riff-raff."
Mario sighed.
"Are they here?"
Sure enough, there were seven men, dressed in fancy clothes and wearing crowns on their heads. Each had some toads standing with him.
"Oh, hey. Don't stand so close, Your Majesty." Mario said, gesturing away from the sleeping Bowser. "He's liable to hurt you if he wakes up and the first thing he sees is a Mushroom King."
"Oh. Indeed." The king took several wide steps away.
"Where are your soldiers?" Mario asked.
"They're below ground, eagerly awaiting your expert training."
"Wha-? Oh, no. No, you see, I'm not training them."
"Oh...will it be the the younger one, then?"
"Umm...no. Err...we don't actually know anything about that kind of stuff."
"Then who?"
Mario pointed at the sleeping koopa.
"You can't be serious."
"We don't like it either, but we have no choice. They were the only ones who could contact you."
"I don't understand. Why couldn't you have used the tunnels we took to get here?"
"Because..." Mario could not think of a good reason.
Kamek approached them.
"Ah..yes. I had hoped, that you woudn't realize-"
"You tricked us!"
Kamek backed up.
"Now, now. You wouldn't want to do anything hasty."
"I think I would."
"We're all on the same side here, right?"
"I thought we were." Mario made a grab for him.
"You wouldn't have agreed, any other way!" he cried, ducking out of the way. "We need your help, and you need ours."
Mario swung.
"Think about it! We can't afford to be fighting each other!"
Mario stopped.
The others had been awakened by the noise.
"Oh. The Kings are here." said Peach.