Date night

Chapter 12: The castle

Author's note: Ahhh!!! It's here! It's here! It's here! I could run around in circles with all of my excitement!  

Also, I'm not sure when the last chapter is going to be posted, since tomorrow I'm going up to see family.

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Three got a message from Mario, the castle was finished.

L, who was still next to him, also saw the message. "We should go."

Three jolted a little. "W-why?"

"Because the more you wait, it's going to hurt you and Four. You have to face him..." L began, a scowl formed on his face. "If that fucker tries anything I'm gonna..."

Three stopped him. "L... Four wouldn't do that to me... I overreacted last night."

L argued back. "You were experiencing a traumatic event from your past! I hardly call that overreacting!"

Three looked away from L, rubbing his arm. "Yeah, but I just left him there on the floor, dazed, confused and hurt..."

L let out a huff, he rubbed his head. "Christ, you two need therapy."

Three scoffed. "I am a therapist..."

"Talking to yourself in the mirror doesn't count as therapy."

Three's face turned pink.

L grabbed his cane. "Now come on, get dressed. We're going to the castle."

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The castle was huge.

Bright lights shined throughout the castle, Four's own emblem was the middle center piece, the whole thing screamed circus.

"Smg3! You made it!" Mario cheered, he ran over to both Three and L and gave them a bear hug.

"Hnng, Mario... You're squeezing us." Three was running out of breath.

"Oppsie." Mario let go embarrassed. He quickly got over it. "Mario's just so happy. It's finally here!"

They entered the castle; it seemed even bigger on the inside.

Mario opened the room to one of the rooms.

Bowser, Shroomy, and Meggy were helping unpack the kitchen.

"Why would anyone need a skillet like this?" Meggy held up a waffle iron.

"Actually, that's used to make waffles." Bowser butted in; he was busy placing down the fridge.

"Wait! That's how waffles are made!?!" Meggy looked surprised.

"Hello!" Mario interrupted them.

Bowser, Meggy and Shroomy all looked at the door.

"Smg3! Glad to see you finally made it." Shroomy smiled.

Three looked away, he felt his face blushing. "Yeah, well... L made me." He said quietly.

"We're almost finished in here. We'll catch up with you guys later." Meggy waved them goodbye.

Mario pulled them to the gaming room. Inside, Tari and Belle were playing some sports game Three didn't recognize. Wimpu, Sakio, Rob, and Kazio were cheering them on."

Rob noticed the three men at the door. He suddenly appeared in front of them. "Holy corn! Tari is about to beat Belle's record on Snowtrapped."

True to Rob's word, Tari was closing in with Belle's record. But the red head wasn't giving up without a fight. Tari did one final move with the snowboarder and had miss Belle's record by one hundred points.

Tari let out a sad "Aww." While Belle cheered.

Sakio put a hand on Tari's shoulder. "You did great."

Belle fist bumped her other. "Yeah, there's always next time."

An explosion could be heard from one of the other rooms.

Mario opened the door to the storage room to see Chirs and Swag standing there with Swag holding a rocket launcher. On the floor was an injured Depresso, who was also on fire.

Swag turned to face the people in the doorway. "What?" He asked, he gestured towards the clown. "I was just making sure we don't get murdered in the middle of the night!"

Three slowly backed away with L and Mario right behind him.

The bathroom was occupied by Peach. Luigi, who was waiting outside, had dried blood on him.

"Luigi, are you ok?" Three asked, wondering how he could be so calm about the situation he was in.

"Oh yeah." Luigi brushed off. "We just came back from Peach's old castle. Apparently, we needed a power star to finish building the castle."

Three let out a sigh of relief. "Thank God, I'm not sure if I could go back down there..."

L snickered. "Oh, knowing you. You would have brought explosives."

Three turned to face is brother, his face pink. "S-Shut up!"

Mario brought them to the guest room next.

They entire thing was split down the middle, with one side being cutesy anime stuff and the other being something you would see in a casino.

"LiKe ThE DrIp?" Bob asked, he wore his ladder shades.

Three looked over to see Melony sleeping and Boopkins and Toad playing cards.

L, however looked over and pointed to a door that was boarded up. "What about that room?"

Mario turned his head over like an owl. "No clue. Smg4 told us it wasn't finished yet..."

Bob slid closer to Three. "You totally topped last night, right?" He whispered right in his ear.

Three yelped and punched Bob in the face.

"Ow! My OvArIeS!"

"Uhh..." Three's face was entirely red. "S-speaking of Smg4, where is he?"

"Oh! He's in his new room with Fm and X!" Mario moved closer to Four's door and knocked.

Fm stuck his head out of the door, noticed Three standing there. "Give me one second." He said to Mario.

Mario looked back at the brother's and shrugged. Three swore he saw Mario nervously sweating.

The door opened again, Fm and X stepped out.

"Four wants to speak with you." X said directly at Three.

"Alone." Fm glared at Mario, knowing the plumber would try and do something.

Three gulped, suddenly feeling nervous. 'Welp... it's now or never.'