[Hi y'all, here's a new part now that school is starting to chill out again]
Bowser couldn't pull himself out of bed, the idea that that.. man could even be back, sent him mad, not to mention he had the chance to have his hands on one or multiple of his children.. it terrorised him, every nightmare, every dream, every moment awake or asleep, it scared him out of his scales, hed get out of bed occasionally here and there to help with the investigation, spend time with his children and do his royal duty of course but.. with the even idea that it could be him pushed him to stop lying to himself.
Everything wasn't fine.
The other kingdoms were about as much help as Bowser thought they'd be, his kids, the ones who were home were apologetic and of course, Bowser wouldn't.. no couldn't be upset with them, but they didn't really have any information, the kids did their best to remember what they could but..
It wasn't enough.
Bowser stared at his ceiling.. counting the bricks before forgetting the number and staring over again.
He was still here for his kids, and now.. now half of them were kidnapped.. or worse..
Bowser didn't like to think about the worst part of things.
Kemnek had come in a couple of times with offerings of food..
And to remove the food that Bowser didn't eat.
The letters came from Luigi occasionally, how the time in the mushroom kingdom wasn't helping, how the riddle made very little sense..
How had he been so confident so early on?
Maybe it was dilution.. maybe shock, maybe the thought that no matter where they went, or what happened to them.. everyone in the kingdoms the people they'd be nice to them, they'd help his children because they were children.
Yes, there were.. assumptions still around about koopas, but.. people helped children, people weren't like him..
"Uh.. Bowser?"
His yellow eyes pulled away from the roof at the voice, staring at the green man.
"Luigi, ah, welcome back. Kemnek didn't.."
"Warn you I had returned, yeah, no.. I asked him not to so I could bring this personally."
"..why are you talking to me so.. royally.. did something happen..?"
Bowser sat up slightly, something in Luigi's tone was off, worried panicked..
"I found, something."
Luigi would fiddle with his gloves gently his eyes going down to the ground.
"What did you find..?"
Luigi would reach into his bag pulling out a roll of.. parchment?
"It's an old order from one of the old kings but it's been altered."
He'd hand it over nervously as Bowser takes it he unravels it looking at the old writing something about the rights of children during a war.. but at the bottom, there was.. too fresh ink..
*"You have found the first clue, the reason you lived, enough to grow, I couldn't lose my throne, lose it to my daughter no never no, so here is your hint, child of the koopas, the hope for the future, child of those now sp low, lose my crown, I didnt no sir, but I did lose something, when I took them from you, but what did I lose and where did it go?"*
Bowser's eyes read the words over and over again his yellow eyes scanning them again and again.
"Hes.."
"Gotten into the mushroom kingdom yes."
Luigi finished before opening Bowser's dresser drawer, pulling out the original poem.
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Peach is sweet, yet she knows her pit is beep. The rose in red, greedy parasites will be greedy. The green weeds should be pulled while Daisies grow, yellow like gold in the sun. Follow the garden as it grows. It'll lead you to something you will know.
MY crown will show you my anger, glowing red like blood, less than luck for you, my little bud.
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"It has to be about the second place.. the rose in red."
Luigi would begin to pace, clearly having to have been getting about as much sleep as Bowser.. which is zero.
Bowser sighed.. it was him.. no one else called him the hope for the future..
"His wife."
"What?"
"His wife left him during the war, she ran to back your world.. why he used a red rose I don't.."
Luigi's eyebrows furrowed before they went up.
"Peach calls Mario her rose, we come from Brooklyn.. the next hint could be in Brooklyn."
"Her rose.. how nerdy.."
Bowser couldn't help but mutter with a roll of his eyes, it was a reflex, an action without thought.. but he could have sworn he saw a hurt look in Luigi's eyes.
"Yes, but.. unfortunately, I don't think Brooklyn would be okay if they saw.. well.."
"The lizard who swore to burn them to the ground?"
"Yeah.."
"Well.. I could get Kemnek to transform me."
"He can do that!?"
"Yeah, he can do that?"
820 words.
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being a "hero" dad is not as straightforward (bowser x luigi/bowuigi)
Fanfictionbowser tries his best as a father. He may not be the "hero" in his story, but to his kids, he's the "hero," so when his kids go missing its his job to be the "hero" and talk to his enemy's, when they dont see anything out of the same old or have "no...
