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Color snapped up from her sleeping position, hands grabbing the railing to keep her steady from the sudden bang on the ship. Color also heard high pitched toad screaming
“Get the princess!”
“Man almost overboard!”
“What is that thing?!”
Mario grabbed Color’s arm for stability as the ship tried to stabilize itself.
“I’ll go make sure the Princess is alright! You gonna be okay up here?” Mario asked, holding his head so he makes sure that his hat doesn’t fly away
“I’ll be alright, you go on ahead” Color responded with haste, slowly taking her hands off the rail.
Mario ran over to the group of toads that were ushering Peach inside the ship while Color just realized everything was all dark and cloudy when it wasn’t just a moment ago. Bowser was knocked out on the ground like the good-for-nothing Koopa he was under a dark purple cloud. Color could barely make out eyes and hands but they were there cloaked in the smoke of the cloud.
“Vue He He He I’ve come to take the package to our world and the dear princess! I believe it was wrongly addressed!” the smoke said
“Vue He He, my ass” Color muttered under her breath
“Well here’s one of my things now, now where the dear princess,” the smoke asked
Bowser shook his head before getting up “I'm the only one allowed to kidnap the princess!” he shouted before uselessly clawing at the cloud. His claw passed through and the Smoke’s hand started to gain more definition as it floated over to Color
Color got up and ran towards the front deck of the ship, she didn’t know what this thing was but she knew it couldn’t take her. She hid behind the flag pole as the hands grew closer and closer, she ran from the flagpole to the back of the ship and to the front again in an attempt to confuse the floating hands but it was fruitless as it seemed to her that the hands were automatic. Color had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. The hand grew closer and closer to her face and she heard whispers and felt the rawest purest form of fear. Color had closed her eyes preparing for the worst and then everything went quiet.
Color opened her eyes and she happened to be on a bed again. Not as big and decorative as the one in the castle but a bed nonetheless. Color sat up and looked around, it felt like a guest bedroom like the one in the castle. She got up and opened the door to the hallway which had doors lining the walls. She guessed one of these doors led to the deck so she started to look around in each room one by one, most were just bunk bedrooms that were probably for the toads. Color thought the ship was never-ending and started to become shameful of being so lost on such a simple-looking boat until she tripped over something and fell face forward on some carpet despite the floor being wood. Color looked up while rubbing her forehead and realized she fell on a suitcase trolly being driven by Mario.
“Hey, Mario” Color said awkwardly “Are we there yet?”
“We been ‘there’ for about 30 minutes” Mario answered pushing the trolly along“You passed out on the railing randomly that you almost fell off of the ship so I put you down here”
“Oh,” Color replied meekly “Well thanks. And why do you have a Suitcase trolly?”
“We just finished up getting Peach’s luggage off the ship and I came to put this away and see if you were up yet” Mario answered
The trolly stopped and Color got off the trolly while Mario put it away “By the way, do you mind pointing me to the exit of this place?”
Mario said it was no problem and led Color off the ship’s bottom floor and up to the deck and finally down the ramp where she met up with Luigi and Princess Peach.
“Heya sleepy head!” Luigi patted on Color’s back
“Could you really call me a sleepy head? I don’t even felt like I slept at all” Color responded
“What?” Peach said
“I said ‘Could you really-”
“No I heard you but you said that you felt like you didn’t sleep at all” Peach stated “That’s a cause for concern because an entity could’ve tried to control you
“Really now?” Peach’s statement perked up Color’s interest
“Yes, I think it happened to Luigi once?”
“It did”
“Yes and it’s a cause for concern because we don’t know how to remove this entity or even what it is” Peach expressed
“Huh, well I’m sure it’s nothing but I’ll tell y'all if something happens” Color assured Peach as the four of them walked to the deluxe hotel that they had booked. Color like always immediately passed out once they got there. Once Color opened her eyes she was on the clouds
“Jeez,” Color groaned, rubbing her eyes “Where am I this time?”
“You’re in your mind space right now” an unknown, disembodied voice spoke
“Well, hello voice are you going to teach me about my magical singing powers?” Color teased
“No”
“Oh, okay them” Color shrugged off “What are you here for anyway?”
“The power that you displayed against the turtle man. I’m here to teach you it” The voice spoke
Color snickered at the phrase ‘turtle man’ “Okay, okay what it’s called anyway?”
“Better together, your power is those black hands that you can summon at will and can control them as well. You have 60 of those so use them wisely” The voice said
“Well, skillful and convenient!” Color exclaimed, “Can I wake up now?”
“Yes, but we will meet again” the voice spoke before everything went black
Color woke up once again in the same place that she fell asleep in from a knock at her hotel room’s door. She stayed put for a little before she got up and opened the door
“Who is it?” Color said rubbing her eyes
“THE ROYAL-” A toad started to screech
“Quiet it”
“The royal family of the Note kingdom has noticed your arrival and wants an audience with you at 1 pm”
“Better,” Color sighed “What time it is right now?”
“11 am”
“Oh shi-, umm tell everyone I’ll be ready in 30 minutes,” Color told the toad
The toad saluted and ran off while Color rushed to get ready, coat in hand, and hair very messy she ran out the door.
“Color? You alright? You’ve been all nervous ever since we left” Mario asked
“I feel, incomplete if that makes any sense,” Color said “I guess it’s because I rushed out the door”
“We’re here!” the driver exclaimed
Everyone got out of the car and into the Note’s kingdom’s royal castle. The place had light, pastel colors of purple and white. With different kinds of notes making up the symbols of the place. The four were led to some meeting room. Complete with a long table and a podium with a projector behind it. Everyone took their seat in the room. Color and Luigi fell asleep on each other until they were woken up by the loud horns of a ceremony to begin
Two toads that they brought along ran over and opened the gates, they were heavy so they opened slowly but surely and in walks in a strange, strange man.