Chapter 17: Trouble from a Brother

                                    

                                          
"Any sight of her?" Daisy asks as she returns to the base floor, where the boys are also returning.
"Nothing," Waluigi said as he sat on some rubble. They were currently in the Shifting Sand Land, looking inside the old pyramid. Mario and the rest of them have been traveling to as many kingdoms as possible to look for Peach, yet they still haven't found her.
"Well she has to be somewhere! Look, how about we look in the Ice Country next? Or check out Dinosaur Island?" Mario suggested.
"Oh for crying out loud!" Wario said, turning to Mario, "can we just stop with the wild goose chase and check out the Darklands! We all know that she's there!"
"We don't know that!" Mario yelled back.
"I think you just don't want to admit that she ran to Bowser!" Daisy said, standing by Wario's side. Waluigi was going to stay out of this, but boy, did he wish he had some popcorn to watch this with.
"She would never do that! Not after all he puts her thought! Being locked up, her kingdom being destroyed, and the awful way he flirted with her! Have you heard some of the pick up lines he uses on her?"
"Yet she's not anywhere she likes to go to. She's not anywhere she would be held captive. Where else would she be?!" Daisy yelled back at Mario. Mario was in denial; he knew that Peach would never do that. But the more and more they look, he knows deep down that it may be true. Sure, Peach and he fought like an average couple, but the fact that she went to another man, his own enemy, hurt him so deeply that he wanted to cry. He held back his tears, he wasn't going to admit that she willingly went with Bowser, nor would he let Daisy and those two crooks see him breakdown for a second time.
"I still think we should check-" Mario started but stopped when he heard crying. Everyone started to look around till Waluigi pointed out a Boo. Wario quickly went over to the crying Boo.
"Hey, why are you here?!" Wario yelled out as if he was going to fight it. The Boo didn't move or turn to face Wario; it just started talking.
"I-I'm hiding. That meanie chase me out of the pyramid...I was only trying to help...."
"Help? Who were you trying to help?" Waluigi said, thinking that this was a bit fishy.
"The princess...Princess Peach...she begged everyone to help her."
"Peach?!" Mario said, running over to the Boo, standing next to Wario, "Where is she?!"
"You miss her...she was here but was taken back to Bowser castle in the Darkland...I tried to save her but I couldn't. Not with that spell he has on her."
"What spell? What did that monster do to her!" Mario shouted, his anger blinding his reason.
"Well, before they left, she was...enjoying his company," Boo said. Mario's blood boiled at those last words. He knew that Peach would never go with him willingly, and now Bowser would pay for it. He ran out of the pyramid without missing a beat, leaving the other behind. Daisy also ran out when she heard this, her blood boiling just as much as the Koopas went this low. Wario chases after the two while Waluigi stays back a little. He looked at the Boo, hoping that something would change, but it kept crying. He had no choice but to leave to not fall back too far, but this didn't seem right.
Once the four humans were gone, the Boo stopped crying and laughed.
"That was way too easy, hehe." The Boo said as it started to leave, "oh King Boo is going to be so happy. That hot head of a plumber is going to make a mess! Haha!"