Unlocking Luigi (Mario's POV)

It was just an ordinary day in the Kingdom. The castle was in tip-top shape, and Bowser was still taking a break from terrorizing us. Nothing was out of the ordinary that I could see. I was just bored as hell.

I still enjoy Peach's cakes, but I didn't see that as an excuse to stay unhealthy, so I decided to do some exercises. The first one that came to my mind was running around the castle. I made a pretty good distance. On the 64th lap, I was pretty tired, but I pushed on, because I still felt pretty fat. I figured I would just keep on running until I fell down out of automatic exhaustion.

Nothing odd happened for a really long time. I was glad about it and hoped that I would be able to mentally relax that day. But on my two thousand four hundred and first lap, that's when it happened. I heard something coming from behind the castle. Obviously, I didn't know exactly what it was, or who it was for that matter, but the sound checked out perfectly to be another person. I knew it was probably just Toad screwing around, but I went there any way to make sure that everything was okay.

I came to the back of the castle, to the statue in the garden. But I didn't see toad. I didn't see Peach. In fact, as the day had been completely normal so far, I did not expect what, no, who I saw. It was...HIM.

"Brother!" he exclaimed, unusually cheerfully. "You found me!"

Holy shit, I thought. How can it be?

"Lu...Luigi?" I replied.

Luigi: "I can't believe you did it! First you save the Mushroom Kingdom, and now you save me! You're a hero!"

Me: "..."

Luigi: "I'm so glad to finally be out of there. I thought for sure that I would be stuck inside that tomb for eternity. Now I see the light again! And we are together again! Isn't that awesome?!"

Me: "..."

Luigi: "Mario?"

Me: "What? Oh! Uh, yeah, yeah man, it's really good to see you. I'm glad your're here too, brother."

Luigi: "I'm gonna go insode now. I can't wait to see the others!

...

Wow! You've dropped some pounds, bro!"

He went into the castle.

What...the fuck...just happened?

Luigi was never at this castle. There had been no signs of him anywhere. Now he just appears after I run a fuckton of laps? That can't be a coincidence.

Did he get stuck in that tomb, the mark and how? Is it the same way I was stuck in that green pipe for so long? This just raises too many fucking questions for me. This is so god damn wierd.

Well, now that he's here, it's just one more soul that I need to take care of. One more person in my life that I need to protect in order to thrive.