Chapter 23

THE FINAL CASTLE!

    Mario and Luigi enter the castle to find eight doors. They have the numbers one through seven on them. The eighth door has seven key holes in it. The first door is unlocked.

       “I think I get it.” Luigi says.

       “Good, because I’m totally lost.”

       “You idiot! It’s not too hard to figure out! We go through each room and get the key and put them in the key holes. Once we go through them all, we can get through the final door!”

       “I knew that.”

       “Then why did you ask?”

       “…”

       “Let’s go already!”

       They walk towards the first door and open it. They walk in and find it to be the exact same room in the first castle. It had the lava pit, the walls, everything!

       “How are we going to get across?”

       “Jump, like we did last time.”

       “Ummm. I can’t jump that far.”

       “You did last time.”

       “Barely.”

       “JUST JUMP!”

       “NO!”

       “ARRRGH!”

       Luigi kicks Mario hard and Mario flies over the pit and onto the other side. Then Luigi jumps to the other side.

       “You really need to lose some weight.”

       “Shut up.”

       They both go into the next room and find a golden key. Mario goes to pick it up, but the moment he touches it, they are warped to the first room. The key is already in the door. Door number two gets unlocked. The Mario Brother go in it. In the next room is a room exactly like in the second castle.

       “Luigi.”

       “Yes.”

       “Don’t step on the tile again.”

       “I’ll try not to.”

       Luigi carefully steps over the step that trigged the trap. Unfortunately, this new trap is motion censored, and Luigi triggers it. But instead of scythes coming down from the ceiling, saw blades come up from the floor. But before they do, Mario sees the control box at the exit.

       “STOP SETTING OFF TRAPS!”

       The saw blades somehow are homing blades, and two head for Mario. The other two head for Luigi. The Mario brothers start running as fast as they can. Mario runs towards a wall, does the Matrix run-up-the-wall-and-back-flip-off-it-old-school-style thing. The saw blades crash into the wall and break. Mario makes a break for the exit, but a wall of saws spurt up from the ground. Mario makes a slow motion dive over the saw blades. Then every single saw, including the wall of saws, home on Luigi, who screams like a little girl. Mario shuts off the saws just before they hit Luigi.

       “No sweat.” Mario says as sweat drops drip off his face.

       The Mario brothers go into the next room to find the key. They touch it and are transported back into the first room with the key in the keyhole. Door number three opens. The Mario brothers go in it. As soon as they go through the door, it slams shut behind them and locks itself from the outside.

       “What was that?”

       “The door closing you idiot!”

       “No not that. THAT!”

       Luigi points to a huge Boo right in front of them. It is transparent.

       “Looks like it won’t hurt us.” Mario says.

       The Mario brothers turn away from the Boo, but then it becomes solid and moves towards them. Luigi looks behind his back at the Boo, but it becomes transparent again.

       “Something tells me this is going to be a mini boss battle.” Mario says.

       Mario turns around and throws an object at the Boo. The Boo becomes transparent and the object sails through him. Mario turns around and throws a knife behind his back. It hits the Boo and he dies.

       “That was easy.” Mario says.

       The door at the other end of the room opens. There is a key there, they touch it and guess what happens? Door number four unlocks and they go through it. In the next room is a pit filled with water. In the water, are various dangerous animals.

       “Let’s see if it’s safe to swim across.” Luigi says.

       He throws a coin into the water. The moment it hits the water, a shark eats it.

       “Something tells me that it isn’t safe.” Mario says.

       Luigi suddenly gets an idea. He breaks down the down behind him, gets a running start, and uses the door as a wakeboard. A shark smashes into the door from underneath. Luigi goes flying and lands on the other side, but the door sinks to the bottom of the water.

          “OH GREAT! Now how am I supposed to get across?” Mario says.

          “Just wait over there. After all, the key is in the next room.”

          “Oh yeah.”

          Luigi opens the door to find the key… guarded by three Hammer Bros.

          “WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING HERE!” one of the Hammer Bros yells.

          “To get the key.”

          “WELL GUESS WHAT WORM? WE AIN’T GIVIN IT TO YA!”

          “I didn’t want to have to resort to this.”

          Luigi shows them an extremely funny picture of Mario at the Christmas party. The Hammer Bros start chuckling. Then they start giggling. Then they start laughing really hard. They all laugh so hard that they get a heart attack and die. Luigi goes over to the key and touches it. He is transported back to the first room. The key is already in the keyhole. Mario meets up with Luigi and go into door number five. The has a big pit of lava with very small stepping stones.

          “My gosh! This room is going to be a synch!”

          Mario jumps on one of the stones. The stone sinks very fast and Mario burns his butt. He goes flying to the entrance of the room.

          “I hate it when that happens.”

          Luigi tries do to the same thing, and quickly jumps from stone to stone. However, each time that Luigi jumps on one, it breaks apart. He reaches the last one, but the moment he touches it, it breaks. Luigi is sent flying back to the beginning.

          “My gosh. We’re in trouble.” Mario says.

          A Koopa Troopa walks over to them and starts laughing his puny head off. Mario jumps on it, making it go back into its shell. Mario then gets an idea. He uses the Koopa Shell as a surfboard to get across. He tosses the Koopa back to Luigi, who does the same thing. In the next room is a Belome guarding the key.

          “Ohhh. I’m STARVING! IT’S TIME TO EAT!”

          Mario takes some Chili Peppers out of his pocket and throws it into the Belome’s mouth.

          “Ohhh. Room service has been so kind to me!”

          He dies because he is allergic to spices.

          “Where did you get the Chili Peppers?”

          Meanwhile on Zombie Island…

          Shaggy reaches into his pocket for the chili peppers to stall the zombie. He feels nothing.

          “ZOINKS!”

          “RRRAAAARRRRRHH!!!”

          “Let’s not look into that.”

          They touch the key and are back in the first room again. The key is already in the keyhole blah blah blah. They go in the sixth door. They are in the battle ring yet again. In the middle of the ring are six Hammer Bros.

          “I’ll handle this one.” Mario says to Luigi as he pushes him out of the way.

          One of the Hammer Bros throws his hammer at Mario. He kicks it up in the air, and kicks it back at the Hammer Bro. It knocks him out. Another Hammer Bro charges and tries to hit Mario, who dodges and grabs the hammer from the KO’d Bro. He uses it to smash in the other Bros face. All of the other four charge at once. Mario jumps at the last second and they all crash into each other. He lands on one of the Hammer Bros, knocking him out. One of the Hammer Bro gets up and swings his hammer at Mario, who dodges and throws his hammer at the Bro. It hits him in the face and he gets knocked out. Mario goes over and grabs both hammers. Another Bro gets up, and Mario smashes him with both hammers. The final one gets up. Mario hits him in the side of the face with one hammer, then the other side with the other hammer. He gets knocked to the floor and Mario smashes him with both hammers. He gets KO’d.

          “An excellent display of violence Mario.” Luigi says.

          “Thank you.”

          A staircase appears and the Mario brothers go up it. They see the key and grab it. They are transported back to the first room. There’s only one more door to go! They go in the seventh door. In the room is just an ice floor with the door at the other end. They start walking across.

          “This is easy. Too easy.” Mario says.

          RUMBLE RUMBLE!

          “What was that?” Mario says.

          “Mario. Look up.” Luigi says with his eyes wide open.

          Mario looks up and sees stalactites wobbling.

          “RUN!!!” Mario yells.

          The Mario brothers run to the next room, dodging stalactites.

          In the next room is the key. Behind it is an army of Fire Brothers.

          “WE HAVE YOU TRAPPED!”

          “Not really!” Mario yells.

          They both grab the key and are transported to the first room. All of the keys are in the keyholes. They turn one by one and the door disappears in a flash of light, revealing a pipe.

          “This is it.” Mario says. “The final battle. Are you ready?”

          “I was born ready.”

          The both run towards the tube side by side. Suddenly, a trap door opens up below Luigi. He screams and falls down it. Mario skids to a halt and runs over to Luigi.

          “Luigi! Are you okay!”

          The next paragraph is censored because otherwise, this story would automatically be rated T (Teen), maybe even M (Mature).

          Mario turns towards the Warp Pipe, takes a deep breath, and jumps in.

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