Chapter 3
“Uhhhhh…..where am I?”
Mario woke up in a bed in an elegant bedroom full of paintings and sculptures. On the ceiling there was a dome made from fine glass letting light into the room. When Mario saw the Warp Pipe with the “Do Not Enter” sign on it he realized that he was in the castle’s guest bedroom.
Mario got up from the bed and found that someone took his clothes off and had washed them. He put them on and went downstairs.
Mario went to the dining room and found the King and Peach eating breakfast. Peach looked up at Mario and spoke to him.
“It is about time you woke up, you were sleeping in that bed for 3 days. Sit down now and have some breakfast.”
Mario sat down. A mushroom servant put in front of him a steaming bowl. Mario looked down to see what it was. It was oatmeal. Normally Mario didn’t like oatmeal, but he was starving and he ate it up. When he finished he was about to get up when Peach told him to sit back down.
“So how did you get in?” asked Peach
“I don’t know,” said Mario, “I just remember the ground slipping away in the forest and waking up in the bedroom.”
“That’s odd. Let me guess, you were going through the forest to get to the secret warp pipe because our guards wouldn’t let you in.”
“Yes that is exactly what happened. They said something about their Great Leader not permitted them to let me in.”
“The Mushroom Guards have been doing that lately. They have disobeyed our orders and said that they were not under our command anymore. They have been so disobedient that we were forced to behead some of them.”
Peach told Mario that he was dismissed and he got up and left. As Mario was walking up to his room he ran into Luigi. Luigi had the same dull emotionless look on his face that the Mushroom Guards had. Luigi grabbed Mario’s hands and quickly tied them up. Luigi picked up Mario and carried him. Luigi paid no attention that Mario was kicking him in the face. Mario had one thought going through his mind:
“Where are you taking me?” |