One Piece the Movie
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Chapter 12: oh, no! Here comes trouble!
(Mushroom Kingdom: Toad Town)
Toad was slowly walking through Toad Town, full of regret and sadness.
This was because of the fact that he wasn't really able to help Luffy out much while he was there.
Not only that, they may have wasted his time, trying to help him by sending him to the princess without knowing whether or not she would help him.
And it really slowed him down rather than helped him in the process.
And it's not like he's going to be able to help him on his adventure I mean come on he's a mushroom toad.
What are you gonna be able to do, scream and run away?
Let's be honest, he wasn't exactly a fearless killing machine meant to take down any threat that came to the kingdom.
Especially if it came to going up against his army of monsters.
Toad was completely useless in that field, and especially in that field.
Because of this, he felt extremely guilty over what had happened. He just wanted to get back to his store and get back to doing what he was good at.
(Back at the store)
Bernie was still standing behind the cash register, taking care of a customer.
"So these keys are like custom made right? I'm just asking in case I don't know if they accidentally get lost or break or something", the customer was a blue Toad who was holding one of the golden keys from the side of the cash register.
Bernie nodded his head reassuringly," yep made a mess off, took quite some time to. I got a whole case of them in the back".
The blue mushroom smiled and grabbed four more keys from the bin," all right I'll take five of these".
Bernie then shot him a confused and shocked expression," Wow that's a lot. I hope you don't plan on losing all of those keys".
The blue Toad quickly shook his head before chuckling,"hehe no some of my other friends are moving in with me to start this special club, and I wanted to get the more keys for when they moved in that way just to make it easier for everyone! I've been saving up so I'll pay whatever price".
Bernie quickly nodded his head," well all right that'll be ten coins".
The blue toad reached into his back pocket and pulled out each of the coins, one by one, until it reached the number ten.
Once he grabbed all five of the keys and began walking out to the front entrance before waving back," all right thanks again, Bernie see ya"!He shouted as he exited the store.
Bernie waved back at him before grabbing the coins, and opening up a chest underneath the counter, and placing each of them inside.
After he's finished, putting all the coins inside, he closes the chess and gets up from underneath the register, just to spot to his excitement Toad, who was slowly walking back towards the store.
Bernie hopped up from behind the register, and made his way over to him,"Toad your back, thank God, please tell me you dealt with "you know who" and this whole crazy situation", he asked hopefully.
Toad nodded his head in response,"yeah".
Bernie blew a sigh of relief.
The last thing he wanted was for their business to be put in jeopardy, because of a strange creature that toad befriended.
And thankfully his friend was able to fix this whole mess up without any problems either.
Bernie was about to say something else when he then noticed the sad and depressed look on Toads face.
His relief then quickly turned into worry,"Hey Toad, you alright"?
Toad sighed sadly before slowly looking up at his friend,"Yeah I guess it's just that….well I kinda wish I was able to help him more".
Bernie shot him a look of confusion.
What the hell was he talking about?
He did take him to the princess right? So then there's no reason to feel guilty about it.
Unless...
Bernie stepped up towards Toad,"Wait what are you talking about? You brought Luffy to the princess right"?, he asked curiously.
"Yeah but she said she wasn't gonna help him because she was busy with other matters. And Luffy took that as a green light to go out and find his friends by himself without her,"Toad explained.
"Ok then- Wait, why are you upset about that, all you were supposed to do is take him to see the princess and that's it, whether she wanted to help or not. So what's the problem"?,Bernie asked.
Toad shrugged his shoulders,"I don't know, I guess that I thought of this little assignment as a bit of an exciting adventure for a little bit and now it's kinda over".
Bernie (after hearing that) tilted his head to the side and placed his hands on his hips curiously,"Toad if I didn't know any better I'd say you'd have something on your mind you wanna talk about".
Toad paused for a moment after hearing that.
What was he trying to say?
That he wasn't happy with the life he lived now?
That maybe he wanted something more than just owning a store most if not all the other toads could get somewhere else.
To be honest, he couldn't really explain it, but he knew one thing and it was that whatever this feeling was, it was eating at him constantly.
He took a deep breath before speaking up,"I'm mostly just saying that, I don't know, maybe going with him on his journey wouldn't have been such a bad idea".
Bernie almost immediately started shaking his head,"Toad, NO"!
"Ah come on Bernie, what are we doing in this kingdom that's so important that we'd let someone walk into a literal death trap", Toad argued.
"Toad don't be like that, he went out there by his own choice! That has nothing to do with us! And even if we did go out and help him, it's not like we'd be a lotta help to him! We're Toads, you know that we are not built for danger, we're too adorable for that "!Bernie shouted.
Toad slaps his hand on his face in frustration before walking inside the store,"There you go again with that! Bernie, don't you ever get tired of everyone out there telling us we're too cute and adorable! And that we're not capable of doing anything more than work around the kingdom and protecting and serving our princess! Especially when there might be a small chance that that's not true"?!, Toad said as he started grabbing, and placing items on some of the shelves.
Bernie saw this and grabbed an item as well before placing it on the aisle," Of course it's true, that's all we're meant to do and that's all we need to do. And at least we have guards".
"You mean the same guards that I just easily was able to bribe in order to get a complete stranger to enter the castle! Oh, wait, no, the same guards that are too scared to even leave the kingdom grounds"!Toad pointed out before moving to the other side of the aisle.
Bernie shot him a look," Oh what, are you saying you all of a sudden hate your life here".
He took a deep breath before continuing,"What no, look, I'm not saying that I don't love my life here and running the shop. I'm just saying that we're built for more than just this. And I'm tired of just sitting here looking like idiomatic, cute and adorable background characters that just sit around, looking stupid while we support the main character! When we could carve ourselves a path to a supporting character, or even a main character of a story, rather than just being this"!, he shouted before finishing up with the aisle and making his way over to the front counter then planted his face on the top.
After a few moments of looking at him in silence, Bernie stopped what he was doing and slowly began making his way towards his friend," Toad, buddy come on, this is what we're meant to do. We're not meant to go out on crazy adventures, or stand gloriously or heroically over a cheering crowd. We're meant to do our duties and leave it to someone who is meant to go out and have those crazy adventures and glorious moments. We're just not built for those kinds of things".
Toad lifted his head up from the counter and shat a blank expression at his friend," You say that, but I just saw a scrawny and honestly weird looking guy without a weapon or any allies to his name, run out if our kingdom in order to go and fight an entire kingdom full of blood thirsty monsters just so he can save his friends. Don't you get it Bernie?! Some random guy who the world probably wouldn't even think of as a hero is about to go and run face first into certain death"!
Toad shouted pointing his finger outside the store entrance into the distance of the mushroom kingdom."And you want me to sit here and believe that this is the only life that we could possibly have"?!
"Well what do you expect, Toad? Him going out there to fight those things was his choice! That has nothing to do with us because we don't know him! And he's not one of us either! For all we know he could be some main mc in a story, or maybe just a goofy unimportant sidekick to a (probably) awesome mc! Who knows, who cares?! It's his lifestyle, not ours and it never will be"!Bernie shouted,"And the sooner you learn to accept that, the sooner you'll have a better life here!"
Toad took a deep breath before speaking up,"Bernie it's not that simple to jus…..t," he said before trailing off.
He suddenly noticed something outside but couldn't quite tell what it was.
He hopped over the register and started to walk towards the entrance.
With Bernie following after him, not quite finished with the conversation yet,"on no, toad we are not finished here! Now look I know this isn't something you have quite grasped in your head yet but you can't-".
"Bernie, does that look like smoke to you?"Toad asked worriedly as he pointed to a line of smoke coming from the entrance of the town.
"What are you….."Bernie's face went from angry to almost instantly confused at the sight of the smoke,"What the hell"?
Toad walked outside the store and tapped another mushroom on the shoulder,"Hey Ted, what's up with the smoke"?
The mushroom shrugged his shoulders,"Don't know, maybe the bakery downtown burnt some of their supplies again"?, he suggested.
Toad after hearing that nervously turned to Bernie (who was walking right up behind him).
Once Bernie was there with him, he shot Toad a ("this better not have been caused by who I think it is") look before placing his hands on his hips.
Toad shrugged in response to the look.
And to be honest he didn't know who bought this either.
But he knew one thing for a fact and that this wasn't caused by Luffy in the slightest.
He saw Luffy walk back out into the mushroom forest to most likely go and find the warp pipe he was shot out of in order to find his friends.
So there's no way that this would be caused by him.
After a few moments of looking up at the fiery smoke, Toad suddenly noticed that other mushroom toads were running specifically away from that direction.
They looked as if they were in danger of some sort.
He then looked back up at the smoke with worry, (Was it really so bad as to where they have to run from it).
Once he did he noticed that the smoke clouds were growing larger by the second.
Showing that whatever was going on had no intention of stopping.
Toad kept looking around and saw that more of his fellow mushroom people were still running away from the Smokey area.
An almost huge crowd of running toads started to form as they were all running in different directions (aside from the smoke one).
If it was dangerous, they were making it seem that someone could really use some help.
Toad had to figure out what the hell was going on. I need to do it quickly.
Bernie turned to toad in worry, but he didn't see the same look on his face, instead he saw a determined look.
His face went pale at the sight of this.
He knows exactly what that look meant, and what Toad liked to do when he had it on.
Bernie reached out his arm to grab Toad before he could get the chance to go and do something stupid,"No no no no no, Toad don't you dare-".
But it was already too late.
Toad sprinted off towards the direction of the smoke as fast as he could.
Bernie tried to chase after him I'm an effort to stop him but he was too late to catch him in time before the crowd came in and got in his way.
Bernie tried to shout, "Toad wait no-", but the noise of the crowd drowned out his voice, making it impossible for Toad to even hear him.
His friend was running off to find trouble, and there was nothing he could do about it
(Downtown)
Moving and pushing straight through the crowds that were moving in the opposite directions.
Toad was determined to see what exactly was going on.
He ran through the town as fast as he could, hopping and jumping over carts, tables in front of restaurants, and even other Toads that were in his way.
While he ran making his way to the scene, all kinds of thoughts filled his head.
(In his head)
("What's go on")
("What exactly started all of this smoke")
And then closer he got to the scene, the more he felt the smoke fill the air.
Not only that, but when he passed by some other Toads, he saw that they all were covered with injuries.
They were nothing serious, just a few scrapes, small cuts, and bruises.
But it wasn't exactly making it easier for his nerves to settle.
And it didn't help that all the commotion wasn't too far up the street, though he didn't know whether or not to be thankful about this or not.
He was getting closer to the location as he heard what sounded like rubble, and debris, falling or breaking.
This caused him to jump in surprise a tiny bit.
Not only was there smoke, but now it was rubble getting thrown around.
What the hell is going on over there?
It sounded as if a fight was going on that he didn't know about.
Or maybe something a lot worse.
And then out of nowhere he had one final question…..
("Was whatever that was over there terrifying enough to scare all the other mushrooms")
Toad would very soon get his answer.
Once he turned this next corner towards a cloud of smoke, he saw a yellow scaly hand appear from the smoke and grab him by the blues vest before picking him up and slamming him into a wall.
Toad winced in pain as the hand held him up tightly against the wall.
Then suddenly a giant cloaked figure slowly appeared from inside the smoke.
This figure was the same person whose hand was currently holding Toad up against a wall by his vest.
And from what he saw, it looked like the figure was somewhat observing him.
It was as he was trying to see who he was about to kill with his own bare hands.
He did this for a few moments before suddenly bursting in laughter at what he saw.
This went on for a few seconds before he was finally able to calm himself down and look straight at Toad," well well well looky what we got here, looks like one of the small fry actually ran towards our direction", he said before chuckling loudly.
He slowly brought himself closer to Toad's face," you must think yourself a hero, huh ya little stubby shit", he asked him as he tightened his grip on Toad, causing him to grunt in pain.
Though he didn't answer the cloaked figure's question.
He was a little busy trying to free himself from his tight grip against the wall.
Seeing the foolish little mushroom person ignoring him angered the cloaked giant," ya know", (chuckle)," I always did wonder what was inside those little mushroom caps of yours," reaches behind himself and pulls out a sledgehammer that was almost as big as the figure himself.
Toad froze at the sight of the giant hammer, in fear of the weapon.
"Why don't we give it a good couple of whacks, just to see what we're dealing with", he said sinister Lee as he pulled the hammer back in preparation to swing it at Toad's head.
Toad closed his eyes to brace himself for what was about to happen next.
The cloaked giant started to swing the hammer forward at a quick speed.
But then just when the hammer was about Conner with Toad's face, a voice called out to the cloaked figure,"Boris, enough playing games"!
The two turned to see multiple cloaked figures menacingly appear out of the smoke.
The big guy dropped his shoulders and sighed loudly,"uuuhhh come on Captain, can't I just have a little fun caving his head in", he begged.
Toad turned pale in the face after hearing that, in fear that the other intruders would let him if they wanted to.
One of the other cloaked figures stepped forward before placing an also yellow, reptilian scale hand on his shoulder,"No we're not here to have fun we're here on a mission remember?! So stop screwin around and focus"!
The bigger figure dropped his head in disappointment as he lowered his weapon and lightened his grip on Toad.
Toad was about to sigh a breath of relief, thinking he was in the clear.
When suddenly the smaller figure quickly turned to him and slapped his hands together,"Ahem, sorry about my friend here. He's more of the meathead type than the brain type", he said as he patted the bigger guy on the shoulder.
He then turned to face the other cloaked figures,"Me and my others here just arrived not too long ago and are hoping to request an audience with your princess on behalf of our glorious King".
Toad tilted his head and raised a brow at what he had just said.
Who were these guys?
Why did the look like they were in a cult of some kind?
Why were they attacking his home?
And why earth would he let them go anywhere near the princess after this?
"Who…..who are young-guys' ', Toad struggled as he was still being held up tightly against the wall.
The cloak figure paused for a moment before he started to chuckle loudly in Toads face, as if to mock him,"Wow yeah I guess we should start with that huh. And here I thought you toads would remember us by now given all that we've been through".
The cloaked leader then snapped his fingers, signaling for all the other cloaked figures to remove their cloaks, which they almost immediately started to do.
One by one, each of them removed the cloaks that cover their bodies.
Which, as a result, revealed their true faces.
And what they did, and Toad saw who they were, the color in his face, completely drained away in fear, causing him to gasp loudly.
He knew exactly who they were now, and then, with no allies of the mushroom kingdom.
If anything, they were the mushroom kingdom's worst enemies to date.
They were some of the most vicious creatures this world has ever seen.
Theirleader, was far from an exception to the legends either.
They were the enemies of the mushroom kingdom...
Koopas!!!
They were some of the worst creatures to ever encounter in this, or any world, if you ran into them.
They were known for taking over and destroying other kingdoms at certain that path
They were one of the worst things to ever walk this world.
They were... turtles?
Believe it or not, the worst enemy of the mushroom kingdom were a bunch of turtle like creatures.
But they weren't just any turtle lake creatures, if anything they were far from the average turtle.
Koopa Troopas are large, humanoid turtles. They usually had yellow skin, blue eyes, a shell, and shoes. The colors of the shell often vary among the species, but the two most common are red and green. They also had shoulder and new pads too that helped match their color. They even had rounded helmets that fit the exact shape of their heads.
The were only five of the green shelled koopas that were present.
Koopa Paratroopas are pretty much the same as Koopa Troopas, save for the fact that they have wings to fly with.
There were four of them present, all of them who had red shells.
Hammer Bros. (or Hammer Brothers) are a species of Koopa that stand upright and throw hammers at passing-bystanders. They have bigger shells than Koopa Troopas and also wear helmets. They have also been described as elite members of their king'sKoopa Troop.
There were two of them present at the scene and arm to the teeth with hammers.
The sledgehammer bro was a koopa with yellow skin and belly plates, green shells and helmets, and big feet with three toes each. Unlike their smaller relatives, Sledge Bros. do not wear shoes, and their eyes are also smaller and beady; additionally, they usually carry around large sledge hammers instead of small, clawed hammers.
As was stated earlier, Boris was the only sledgehammer bro with them.
And last but certainly not least, the supposed leader of this group pulled off his hood to reveal a red shelled Koopa. But he wasn't like the other ones he wore. Spiked shoulder pads on his shoulders, and had an eyepatch on his right eye, giving him a somewhat menacing look.
Once he has revealed himself, the red eyepatch, Koopa gave Toad a devilish smile," And where are my manners? I am The Right Hand Man Of The Koopa General: Trython and I'm here on a little mission".
Toad started to shiver in fear as he still realized what this really was.
It was an ambush in the mushroom kingdom, and it was being led by the Koopas.
"W-what are you Koopas doing here? And what do you want?", Toad quickly asked, trying to get information out of them.
Trython started to laugh loudly,"Aw come on I know you toads are a little on the slow side but I know you're not that far over. It's obvious that we're here for you princess"!, inches a little closer to Toad before whispering,"And we're gonna get her".
Toad gasped once again," The hell you Koopas are! The princess will never let you kidnap her"!, Toad bravely shouted.
"She will if she wants this fungus converted shithole of a kingdom to keep standing on its feet and not be ripped apart by our secret weapon"!, the koopa leader shot back before turning and pointing to a giant box that some of the Koopa troopers were pulling into the town.
It was a Normas almost as big as the entire water fountain area.
What the hell was in that was so big that it would be counted as a secret weapon.
Whatever it was Toad knew for a fact that it wouldn't do anything good for his home.
He had to stop them before they could unleash it on the town.
He tried even harder to try and free himself from the sledge Bros grip,"I'm not gonna unleash whatever's in there out of my home! And I'm sure as hell not gonna let you lay a hand on our princess! Because I'm going to stop you"!
After hearing his brave declaration, The koopas stood there, staring at him blankly.
A couple of seconds passed bed they all start hysterically, bursting out laughing.
"Oh no guys be careful! The stuby little fungus midget's gonna try stop us",Boris mocked before once again bursting out into laughter.
Which in return caused his grip on Toad to tighten.
If they hadn't heard a funny joke before they sure did now.
If they had known the toads to be that funny they would've probably spared a lot more of them than planned.
But they had a plan to follow and they weren't about to just stray from the plan.
"Wow who knew you little guys would be that funny and adorably pathetic at the same time", Trython mock Toad as he tightly pinches one of his cheeks.
Toad groaned in pain as he then used his hand to push him away,"I'm serious you reptiled freaks! I'm gonna let you hurt or destroy my home"!,Toad angrily declared.
But instead of it making the Koopas back off it only really made them laugh even harder.
"Well we'll we'll, looks like we got a little hero here! Ready to kick ass and save the day"!, turns to sledgehammer Koopa and taps him on the shoulder," hey Boris, why don't we give the little hero the special hero's treatment, huh"?
Boris grinned widely,"I was thinking the same thing", he said, as he slowly lifted up his sledgehammer and pointed towards Toad's head.
The determined look on Toad's face, lol is shifted into a terrified look.
Seeing as though he may have made his situation with them a lot worse than the better.
And there was no one there to back him up or help him.
The Koopas begin to chuckle as they were here, getting ready to have their phones soon.
But unbeknownst to them that was another mushroom person, hiding out in the distance, watching the whole thing occur.
It was Bernie!
He had somehow made it through the running crowd and was able to find toe but unfortunately, he was a little tied up at the moment.
Not only that they looked as if they were about to cave his head in.
Bernie wanted to help with every fiber of his being, but I knew he wouldn't be able to do much against them, especially against big guys like the sledge hammer bro.
So he just stood there, hidden away from them trying to think of a plan on how to help his best friend.
Add a couple of ideas ran through his head, but he knew they wouldn't work.
For one, he knew better than to ask any of the help from any of the other mushroom people, they would be too scared to eally want to help out.
He was thinking about going to get the princess, but after hearing that plan, that's the last thing he wanted to do.
cause a distraction? No, that will only send a few of them away.
He needed a distraction that would keep all of their attention and focus on it instead of toad and him.
After thinking for a few more moments, an idea finally popped into his head that might work.
He turned and looked out into the distance, that Luffy kid sure seems loud enough noxious enough to distract them all.
And with all that talk about fighting those monsters in the dark lands, he sure would seem confident in his own skills.
And while they pummeled him, he and Toca find the opportunity to escape.
It was perfect, if he'd be able to find him out in the forest.
He looked out towards the mushroom forest out in the distance.
If he was lucky, maybe he would be able to find that kid and bring him here in time before he left this world.
But he needed to hurry.
Bernie jumped up and quickly, but quietly made his way around the whole situation in front of him by basically hiding behind food cards or going through different building windows before finally making it to the mushroom kingdom entrance, and running out towards the mushroom force as quickly as possible.
Toad didn't look like he had much time left, so he needed to be quick, really quick.
(Peach's Castle)
Peach was pacing back and forth in her throne room, thinking about what she was going to say to the other rulers of the other kingdoms.
(Unfortunately for her that was proving to be a much more difficult task than she originally thought).
She was basically reading off of note cards that she liked to use for whenever she needed to get her thoughts down.
"(Ahem)Fellow rulers, comrades and friends alike, Bular is coming to launch a full fledged attack on my kingdom! And so I basically need all of you to basically send all of you soldiers that may or may not get killed in order to….save…..my kingdom- no no no no what the hell am I thinking"!, She tore off that page and tossed it away before turning to the next page to look for something better to say.
"Alright, this enemy that we face is more powerful than we've ever faced for I know, but if we band together and unite our kingdoms so that we might hope to be…..almost….as….powerful-", stops before sucking her teeth,"oh yeah peach maybe if you get them all to band together maybe and hopefully create a bunch of giant sparkles too while you're at it", she said sarcastically before tearing that piece of paper off and throwing it to the side.
She then turned to the next page to see if this one would be better than the last two.
"All right, look everyone, Bular is coming and we all know about what his army is capable of and if we don't stop him he'll kill all of us! Well he's mostly coming after our kingdom, but surely he'll come….for... .yours…too- Arg GOD DAMMIT"!!!, she angrily shouted as she then threw the notes at the wall.
She then went over and sat down in her throne before cupping up her face in her hands, frustrated with her lack of progress with her big speech.
(Yeah, it was that bad and it wasn't getting any better)
She was preparing to leave that next morning, and she had no idea what she was going to say to the rest of the royal council.
The entire mushroom kingdom was counting on her to get those armies together, in order to protect the kingdom.
Not only that, she needed the army to be strong enough to somewhat hold off Bular's forces.
Who is she kidding?
She'd be lucky if even one of the kingdoms wanted to help.
And that's if she came up with a convincing enough speech to get them to help.
Though evaluation would've been the easiest option for them to take, she wasn't about to just sit there and run away, While everything she worked hard to protect would be torn apart by those monsters.
Especially if it was made by people whom she calls family.
She couldn't let them down no matter how hard the situation was.
And that was just a basic problem right now.
She was still hung up over the human. She met literally an hour ago.
The first human she ever met, and she shooed him away just like that.
No, she fully didn't regret refusing to help him with his situation.
She would've liked to know more about him in other humans that he may have encountered.
Growing up with all the mushroom people was nice, but it would've been great to have been around someone of her own kind rather than her friend Princess Daisy of course.
But because of the current situation and her determination to help her kingdom, she may never get the opportunity again.
Any chance of her learning about the human world, other humans, what they like, what they wore, and what they ate are all gone.
And that deeply disappointed her in a way she couldn't imagine.
She would literally kill to get another opportunity like that.
Unfortunately though she didn't see that happening anytime soon.
Just then, while she was in her thoughts, the throne room door suddenly swung open.
Toadsworth quickly limped into the room as fast as he could before, stopping in, taking quick glances around the room.
Once he spotted the Princess he ran over to the steps leading up to her throne,"Princess are you alright?! I heard screaming"!, he asked concerningly.
There was no response from her.
She didn't answer him immediately because she didn't really know what to really tell him.
That she was frustrated with the fact that she couldn't figure out what she was gonna tell the other kingdoms when she met them.
Oh wait, even better that she was somehow conflicted on meeting another human for the first time.
And the icing on the cake, that she didn't know how she was going to make sure that her and the other kingdoms were able to go up against the troll empire.
Oh, she was thinking negative thoughts, and she didn't really want to show him, mainly because she served as a beacon of hope for the kingdom.
And the last thing, the people who are already on edge with everything that's going on wanted to see the princess off her game as well.
So before answering the princess took a deep breath and straightened herself up before looking over at him with a smile and nodded her head.
"Yes, I'm perfectly fine, Toadsworth. I just accidentally dropped my notes on the ground,that's all", she said in a reassuring tone as she got up from her throne and walked down the steps and passed Toadsworth, to pick up her notes that were in the middle of the floor.
Toadsworth rose an eyebrow at this and placed his hands on his hips," Really? Nothing else happened here?"
She nodded her head,"Yes"
"There's nothing that might be on your mind that you would wish to talk with me about"?, he asked suspiciously as he tilted his head to the side.
She quickly shook her head,"No of course not".
"Really?", he asked once again.
She nodded her head again,"Really", before going back to looking at her notes, before she then made her way over to her throne.
Toadsworth just stood there, looking at her suspiciously.
He knew for a fact that something was wrong with her.
He was a lot of things, stupid was most certainly not one of them.
Especially when he had raised her for the last 20 years of her life.
He knew there was something wrong with her and he thinks he knows exactly what it is that's bothering her.
He slowly walked up the stairs to her and gently placed his hands on hers (which suddenly surprised her but at the same time got her attention),"Princess please know you can't lie to me".
She was about to say something in defense of that but then quickly stopped herself and slowly turned away from him,"I'm making it that obvious, huh"?
Toadsworth chuckled before nodding,"Yes you never were too good at hiding anything from me, you all know that", he reminded her before turning to look at the ground and then turning back at her,"It's about the whole situation Isn't it".
She looked away from him for a moment and chuckled,"Nothing gets past you, huh", Takes a deep breath,"Everyone in this kingdom is counting on me to protect them and keep them away from danger. And the last thing I want is for them to have to have their homes taken away from them by someone who thinks they have the power to do so. And that's why this meeting needs to go well in order to keep that from happening. And I'm trying so hard to figure out what the right things are to say to them that will get them to agree to help us. But no matter how hard I try, I can't stop the thought of them refusing to give us an eight out of my head, especially when they know we need it the most. And to make things worse I just feel conflicted on meeting another human being other than Daisy for the first time in my life and I just waved him away, without even really getting a chance to at least get to know about him or other humans. And now I'm trying to figure out how to keep the destruction of our kingdom from being the only outcome of this whole thing and it's so stressful to think about and I'm not sure where to go from after this? and I know you think that running would be the only real option for us but I disagree. I know there's something else we can do that we haven't thought of yet. But now I...just don't know where to go from here".
She had to take a minute to catch her breath, mainly because she was kind of out of it from all the talking she was doing at least.
While she was doing that, the toad's worth was just sitting there trying to process all that she had just sat.
Or at least trying to figure out what was the right thing to say to her at that moment that wouldn't crush her spirits.
That was the last thing she needed right now especially with how important the situation was.
He took a step closer to her,'' Princess listen, it's alright to feel under stress about a situation like this. It can be a lot for any person, no matter how many years of experience they might have. The point is that you keep yourself together in focus on what the main objective is. I raised you to be strong, smart, and resourceful and I expect nothing less from you. I expect you to be strong and stand your ground no matter what situation comes your way", he then places his hand on her shoulder,"But don't forget to let others into your heart and help guide you in ways you never thought you could be guided. You never know what you could learn from those around you and what they have to offer. And if you really have to go out there and face off against the dangers this world has to offer then, then so be it, just know that I'll be right here waiting for you to return and giving you all my love and hopes as well.. In the end, I know you'll be able to figure it out because that's the kind of person you are".
The princess (after hearing that) slowly began to smile as she then placed her hand onto his as well,"Thank you toadsworth, you always know what I need to hear don't you"?
Toadsworth smiled confidently," well, of course I do as you're-"
Suddenly the door slams wide open as multiple mushroom guards come flooding into the room.
This startles, both Peach and Toadsworth causing them both to jump.
Toadsworth accidentally lost his balance and fall on his back.
Peach (after calming herself down a little) had gotten up from her throne and looked down to see that the mushroom guards were huffing and puffing, as if they were out of breath from running a distance.
She turned to look at Toadsworth (who was rubbing his back from the fall) and went over to help him up.
Once she did she quickly started to check him out, trying to make sure that he didn't have any severe injuries that needed to be checked out.
Once he had properly deduced that he had no injuries, she nodded to him, as he did her, as a sign that everything was alright.
Once that was over, the two of them quickly made their way down the steps before then running across the room towards the royal guards, wondering what was going on with them.
Peach stopped on from of them,"Is everything alright"?, she asked in a concerned tone.
One of the guards in return shot her a scared and terrified look before answering.....
(The Mushroom Forest)
Luffy was quickly making his way through the mushroom forest as fast as he could in order to get to that warp pipe.
Whether it was by slingshotting through the air by using some of the mushroom tree's.
Or by hopping on or jumping over giant mushrooms on the ground.
Either way he was making it there to that pipe no matter what stood in his way.
After a few more minutes of running and jumping through the mushroom forest, he was finally able to make it to the place he had arrived, the Warp pipe.
Once he was there he was able to get a better look at the are
It was just like how he had saw earlier, surrounded by mushrooms, and a ruined structure, covered in vegetation
He then placed his hands on his hips , confident that he was able to find and locate the one thing that could get him out of there and help find his friends.
He started walking up to where the pipe was, but then all the sudden he stopped for a moment.
He turned his sights back to the mushroom king for a quick.
To be honest in the short time he was there, you kind of grew fond of it.It was fun, colorful, and had lots of nice people.
Unfortunately their leader wasn't too quick to help him out though.But sometimes on an adventure, you take the good with the bad. And it wasn't like it was a complete and total bust. He was able to meet a few new people while being there. Like toes, Bernie, (and even though they had gotten off on the wrong foot) the princess, who seemed very determined to protect her land and people.
And for that little fit in mind that she didn't really want to help him, considering the fact that she was busy, trying to protect her own people in the family. When you have to do something like that for a reason so no more he couldn't be angry at her.
Though it didn't really help him out with his situation.
And it didn't really help that he was in another world with no idea where to go.
He would have to rely on himself and his own skills to be able to help him, go out and find his friends wherever they might be in this so-called scary"Darklands".
And then apparently what everyone was telling him is that if he did go there, he would have to go up against this "Bular" if you ever wanted to be able to see his friends again.
So any normal person would probably be too scared to go up and face this challenge monkey D Luffy wasn't just any ordinary person.
And he sure as hell wasn't scared of any "Bular" or his army.
And so therefore, he was up for the task of rescuing his friends and kicking this bull, our guys ass, if and when it came to that.
And so he bid farewell to the mushroom kingdom, and started to walk closer to the warp pipe.
He was about to stretch his arm up to go and grab it when suddenly.
"HEY WAIT PLEASE DON'T GO"!!!
Voice shouted from a distance behind him causing Luffy to stop and turn around to see who it was.
And when he did he saw that it was one of the mushroom people except he was a red colored one.
And he was running as fast as he could towards him.
Luffy tilted his head in confusion…..
Who was this guy?
And what did he want with him?
"PLEASE WAIT I NEED YOUR HELP"!!!!, the mushroom person called out to him again.
Luffy was able to get a better listen on this guys voice and almost instantly recognized him.
It was Bernie!
Toad's friend and he stated earlier his business partner.
What was he doing all the way over here?
Luffy decided to just shrug it off before he began running over to him to see what was wrong.
And after a few seconds of running the two of them finally met.
The burning in the moment or two to catch his breath from all the running he did.
Luffy didn't really need to do that, so he just decided to go straight to the questions," Hey Bernie, what are you doing all the way out here I thought you were at your shop"?
Bernie was still hurting and puffing and trying to do his best to speak and answer his question,"L-L-Luffy, y-you gotta help us! Our enemy, The K-K-Koopas sent spies into our kingdom in order to t-t-try and k-kidnap our princess! T-Toad t-t-tried to stop them b-b-but now he's in t-trouble"!
Luffy eyes went wide after hearing this….
Yeah, only left a little while ago and everything goes to shit, just like that.
Bernie, who has mostly calm down, was still trying to plead with Luffy," you have to help him or they're going to kill-".
Before he could stay another word, Luffy had already ran right past him and made a beeline for the mushroom kingdom.
He had to hurry if he was going to help his friends from whatever threat might be causing so much destruction.
When he took a closer look, he saw smoke in the distance, causing him to run even faster.
Hang on Toad, Luffy was on his way…,…
(End Of Chapter )
Hey Everyone, sorry for the long awaited chapter I had to handle some business but everything's OK and I got this out in just the right amount of time.
Next chapter will be coming out sooner than later, believe me