Happiness.
We need it to survive. It is the only worthy combatant of many feelings, the only way to win many fights. Happiness is what we strive for.
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Chapter 3: Strive for Happiness
I was off on my journey, but this time I knew exactly what I was to do. I knew who had my love, my life, my happiness. Him.
He usually is much less sly in his dealings, but everyone changes; even him.
I signaled to be let into his castle. The bridge was lowered, the door open. Could this be the door that led to her? I hoped, but I did not know.
Right then a guard knocked me on the head with his club. By the time I realized what was happening, two Koopas had me locked in their arms, while they dragged me to an unknown place.
The three of us went through the grandest door leading from the entrance hall. It was a gigantic doorway, with a theater-like red curtain hiding what lie beneath it in mystery to myself. The curtain was pulled by another Koopa guard manning the doorway.
The room was dark. Not just dark, but black as a night with no stars or no moon. Black as my happiness, no light to spark it one bit; no light to guide me.
We took a turn somewhere in the dark room, I think to the left. I was too concentrated on what my destiny beheld to notice such a trivial detail.
"Gah!" said the guard to my left. He had stubbed his toe on the wall. I guess even the Koopas didn't know the castle when it was so dark inside. But we were only a step from the door they had been looking for. Once again, my heart beat faster as we walked through the door; could this be the door to unlock my love, my life, my happiness?
My happiness does not come from Bowser, so in turn you could say my happiness was not in the room beyond that last door. Bowser was there, on his nice royal throne, chuckling to see his enemy in such a distraught state.
"Good afternoon, my little friend. I've been expecting you for a while now," Bowser said, almot as though he was keeping something from me. As to what he was keeping, I did now know.
He told all of the guards in the room to leave, and escorted me to another room, which I guess you could call his study. He sat in a larger-than-normal chair, and I took a seat in the only other chair in the room, a woobly, old, wooden chair. It creaked every time I budged, and as nervous as I was at the moment, it was as loud as a full orchestra.
Bowser offered me some Koopa Tea. It had been a while since I drank anything, so I accepted the tea, nonetheless reluctantly.
As I readied to listen to Bowser, he surprised me... he did something I had never seen him do before; cry.
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