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[#014 - Amnesty] the princess and the dragon (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)
Theme Prompt: #014 - Time of Need (Amnesty 28)
Title: the princess and the dragon
Fandom: Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (ft. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (mmmmmostly because of injuries and Bowser's potty mouth)
Word Count: 995 words
Author's Note: I wrote most of this while listening to House M.D. lmao, I continue to appreciate that they slipped in what're considered childish stuff like House reading comics or referencing Pokemon or playing on a PSP he receives as a gift in one episode. It's unusually endearing to me haha.
Anyways this is another continuation, this time to "a dance unfinished"
(sidenote for some reason the ending fought with me, sowwy if it feels off)
PATCH NOTES: Alas, once again I have fucked up and posted minus the title as well as screwing up something in the fandom bits. Again. Sorry!
Summary: Fawful wakes up in a corrected timeline of sorts - his adventure in the future caught the attention of Peach and Bowser, both of whom end up discovering him in Peach's Castle.
--
There’s a pulsing pain in his hands that greets Fawful when he can finally open his eyes again - along with the smell of magically scorched clothes and golden mushroom tea. (Golden mushroom tea?)
Light and thus the world comes back to his eyesight, although it’s partially blurred and he realizes one of his lenses have been damaged. The undamaged lens of his glasses shows worried Toads and half of Princess Peach - immediately sending alarm bells through his mind. Last Fawful recalls, he was on the rooftop, not inside..
Those memories come back slower than the more immediate ones, but Fawful now recalls it. Midbus, the current version that he cares about, got sick and he needed medicine sooner, so Fawful had intended to go to the castle infirmary before simply going back. Then he’d seemingly passed out upon noticing a disturbance .. somewhere between the infirmary and the pipe in question, he can’t remember it..
He feels nauseous, even while he notices the stomps that take place - Fawful’s having trouble hearing the voices of those around him even while being partially lifted up by the Toads. He blinks a couple more times as the pain finally makes him slightly more aware.
Bowser - having likely arrived in a rush - is standing over him.
“ – What the hell is this kid doing here? He’s the reason for Kamek’s freakout?”
Peach sits herself close by, frowning. “Fawful..? Are you awake now?”
“..In pain.. Worse than wasps stinging endlessly on a helpless baby, but.. Yes..” Fawful replies dazedly, his mouth very dry. “What’s.. this about Kamek? When did I get back to the present?”
“The.. present?” the human princess questions, whatever sharper edge remaining in her voice seeming to turn instead to confusion. Bowser looks even more irritated, crossing his arms.
“Kamek was saying some crap about the Cobalt Star at me this morning, so I had to bother Toadsworth to let me in. The old man said Peach was over by some viewing platform..”
(..that is where I went.. To try and see what was going on in the future..)
Fawful blinks again, still half-squinting given his broken glasses and thus not quite entirely seeing Bowser’s change of expression, just sensing something isn’t being told explicitly to him. Only Bowser and Peach looking at each other, a twitching frown from both adults that is hard to interpret for him, only being ten years old.
“..What is wrong?” the Beanish kid finally asks, deciding to just shakily cover up his right eye lens and thus spotting part of the problem - angry patches of darkness all across his hands and wrists. Peach’s face starts to look closer to something Fawful’s never wanted to see of anyone since Cackletta - something like sympathy, maybe concern and .. that fierce kind of protective .. whatever the name for it is, Fawful can’t come up with it. Bowser’s eyebrows raise into his forehead, and the kid can tell from what he mouths to the Toads a simple “what the fuck” before he again turns to Peach.
He has to strain to hear the next few whispers.
“Peach, this looks way worse than just some kid making up shit. I’ve only seen that crap on Kamek’s hands, they look like scars. What the fuck is that?”
The princess’ hair is at this point partly hanging off her shoulders over the front of her dress. “Severe magical scarring. Whatever caused it, Fawful needs medical attention. I already sent for a specialist in the Kingdom.”
Bowser huffs almost too quietly and gestures at Fawful himself. “You don’t remember the crap his mom did? He mind controlled my kids and my Minions, Peach, I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him!”
“...He came into contact with something horribly evil. I can feel it even just sitting here. I.. think it may have opened the time holes again, and Fawful must have came into contact with it before it spat him back out.”
But Fawful still feels sick, still doesn’t really want the help, so he tries to shuffle away from the whole situation. The medicine’s still needed for Midbus, he’s unimportant right now, so Fawful tries shakily to stand and turn back to the staircase to go back downstairs to the sewers’ pipe. Bowser growls, and with a remarkably gentle tug backwards, grabs the kid with one hand, stilling Fawful’s movements again.
“Kid, don’t try it.”
“B-but I don’t want to be here,” Fawful argues, wincing when he tries to pry Bowser’s scaled hand off of his chest. “Be letting me go! I was leaving my shop for Midbus to be getting better from his flu!”
“..Midbus?” Bowser says with confusion.
Peach’s head soon snaps from looking at the Koopa king, mirroring the confusion. “You have a shop in Toad Town?”
“...No, not with exactness, but .. Midbus is.. being my friend. His health is being more important right this second.” Fawful finds that tears are making his existing vision issues worse, his next few blinks feeling wet while tears pool up. “I’ll be disappearing again when he is having wellness, just let me go! Just let me go.”
“I’m sorry, Fawful, but.. You need to get better too. You got hurt,” Peach insists gently toward him, leaning forward. “Can you tell me where Midbus is? We can heal his illness as well.”
“But.. It’s supposed to be a secret..” he squeaks out, trying to lean away from Peach and not managing it due to Bowser’s strong grip.
“Damn it, kid, can you just let us help you?”
Fawful looks up at Bowser. The irritation’s returned, but that same weird look Peach has is also mixing with it, making the boy feel strangely small and helpless. They look so much like parents worrying over their kids, especially Bowser, and it’s so familiar it hurts.
“..Okay.. He.. is in the sewers,” Fawful directs, shakily so, and off the Princess goes. He has to stop talking now, what with his hands shaking..
Title: the princess and the dragon
Fandom: Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (ft. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (mmmmmostly because of injuries and Bowser's potty mouth)
Word Count: 995 words
Author's Note: I wrote most of this while listening to House M.D. lmao, I continue to appreciate that they slipped in what're considered childish stuff like House reading comics or referencing Pokemon or playing on a PSP he receives as a gift in one episode. It's unusually endearing to me haha.
Anyways this is another continuation, this time to "a dance unfinished"
(sidenote for some reason the ending fought with me, sowwy if it feels off)
PATCH NOTES: Alas, once again I have fucked up and posted minus the title as well as screwing up something in the fandom bits. Again. Sorry!
Summary: Fawful wakes up in a corrected timeline of sorts - his adventure in the future caught the attention of Peach and Bowser, both of whom end up discovering him in Peach's Castle.
--
There’s a pulsing pain in his hands that greets Fawful when he can finally open his eyes again - along with the smell of magically scorched clothes and golden mushroom tea. (Golden mushroom tea?)
Light and thus the world comes back to his eyesight, although it’s partially blurred and he realizes one of his lenses have been damaged. The undamaged lens of his glasses shows worried Toads and half of Princess Peach - immediately sending alarm bells through his mind. Last Fawful recalls, he was on the rooftop, not inside..
Those memories come back slower than the more immediate ones, but Fawful now recalls it. Midbus, the current version that he cares about, got sick and he needed medicine sooner, so Fawful had intended to go to the castle infirmary before simply going back. Then he’d seemingly passed out upon noticing a disturbance .. somewhere between the infirmary and the pipe in question, he can’t remember it..
He feels nauseous, even while he notices the stomps that take place - Fawful’s having trouble hearing the voices of those around him even while being partially lifted up by the Toads. He blinks a couple more times as the pain finally makes him slightly more aware.
Bowser - having likely arrived in a rush - is standing over him.
“ – What the hell is this kid doing here? He’s the reason for Kamek’s freakout?”
Peach sits herself close by, frowning. “Fawful..? Are you awake now?”
“..In pain.. Worse than wasps stinging endlessly on a helpless baby, but.. Yes..” Fawful replies dazedly, his mouth very dry. “What’s.. this about Kamek? When did I get back to the present?”
“The.. present?” the human princess questions, whatever sharper edge remaining in her voice seeming to turn instead to confusion. Bowser looks even more irritated, crossing his arms.
“Kamek was saying some crap about the Cobalt Star at me this morning, so I had to bother Toadsworth to let me in. The old man said Peach was over by some viewing platform..”
(..that is where I went.. To try and see what was going on in the future..)
Fawful blinks again, still half-squinting given his broken glasses and thus not quite entirely seeing Bowser’s change of expression, just sensing something isn’t being told explicitly to him. Only Bowser and Peach looking at each other, a twitching frown from both adults that is hard to interpret for him, only being ten years old.
“..What is wrong?” the Beanish kid finally asks, deciding to just shakily cover up his right eye lens and thus spotting part of the problem - angry patches of darkness all across his hands and wrists. Peach’s face starts to look closer to something Fawful’s never wanted to see of anyone since Cackletta - something like sympathy, maybe concern and .. that fierce kind of protective .. whatever the name for it is, Fawful can’t come up with it. Bowser’s eyebrows raise into his forehead, and the kid can tell from what he mouths to the Toads a simple “what the fuck” before he again turns to Peach.
He has to strain to hear the next few whispers.
“Peach, this looks way worse than just some kid making up shit. I’ve only seen that crap on Kamek’s hands, they look like scars. What the fuck is that?”
The princess’ hair is at this point partly hanging off her shoulders over the front of her dress. “Severe magical scarring. Whatever caused it, Fawful needs medical attention. I already sent for a specialist in the Kingdom.”
Bowser huffs almost too quietly and gestures at Fawful himself. “You don’t remember the crap his mom did? He mind controlled my kids and my Minions, Peach, I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him!”
“...He came into contact with something horribly evil. I can feel it even just sitting here. I.. think it may have opened the time holes again, and Fawful must have came into contact with it before it spat him back out.”
But Fawful still feels sick, still doesn’t really want the help, so he tries to shuffle away from the whole situation. The medicine’s still needed for Midbus, he’s unimportant right now, so Fawful tries shakily to stand and turn back to the staircase to go back downstairs to the sewers’ pipe. Bowser growls, and with a remarkably gentle tug backwards, grabs the kid with one hand, stilling Fawful’s movements again.
“Kid, don’t try it.”
“B-but I don’t want to be here,” Fawful argues, wincing when he tries to pry Bowser’s scaled hand off of his chest. “Be letting me go! I was leaving my shop for Midbus to be getting better from his flu!”
“..Midbus?” Bowser says with confusion.
Peach’s head soon snaps from looking at the Koopa king, mirroring the confusion. “You have a shop in Toad Town?”
“...No, not with exactness, but .. Midbus is.. being my friend. His health is being more important right this second.” Fawful finds that tears are making his existing vision issues worse, his next few blinks feeling wet while tears pool up. “I’ll be disappearing again when he is having wellness, just let me go! Just let me go.”
“I’m sorry, Fawful, but.. You need to get better too. You got hurt,” Peach insists gently toward him, leaning forward. “Can you tell me where Midbus is? We can heal his illness as well.”
“But.. It’s supposed to be a secret..” he squeaks out, trying to lean away from Peach and not managing it due to Bowser’s strong grip.
“Damn it, kid, can you just let us help you?”
Fawful looks up at Bowser. The irritation’s returned, but that same weird look Peach has is also mixing with it, making the boy feel strangely small and helpless. They look so much like parents worrying over their kids, especially Bowser, and it’s so familiar it hurts.
“..Okay.. He.. is in the sewers,” Fawful directs, shakily so, and off the Princess goes. He has to stop talking now, what with his hands shaking..