(Start on DLC Island. CUPHEAD, MUGMAN, CHALICE, and CHINA are by the sea. CUPHEAD is holding the relic.)
Cuphead-I noticed something really strange before the timeline split. This relic started glowing.
Mugman-I told you this thing was bad news.
Cuphead-Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?
Chalice-Cast it into the sea! Destroy it!
Cuphead-I guess it's not doing me any favors.
(He throws the relic into the sea.)
Cuphead-Good riddance!
Chalice-But where do we go from here?
Mugman-Let's look at the recipe and see where we have left to go.
(He takes out the recipe, and all of them look over it.)
Mugman-It looks like the next ingredient to get is the Icy Sugar Cubes from Mortimer Freeze.
(CHALICE freezes [pun totally intended].)
Cuphead-What's wrong, Alice?
Chalice-You know in the saloon when Esther was talking about how I fought against an ice wizard?
Cuphead-Yeah.
Chalice-That's him.
(Flashback to 15 years earlier. CHALICE enters an icy coliseum with spectators made of snow. MORTIMER FREEZE sits at a throne in the back.)
Chalice-(narrating) The Calix Animi sent me to investigate an ice wizard who had formed a snow cult out of the reanimated bodies of those who had entered his turf. At that point, I was a strong fighter, but I was too scared to hurt anyone.
(The young CHALICE talks very animatedly to MORTIMER.)
Chalice-(narrating) I pled with him to stop his evil activities at once without any fighting...
(MORTIMER shakes his head.)
Chalice-(narrating) But he refused to listen to me.
(CHALICE draws her spear.)
Chalice-(narrating) Left with no other choice, I summoned my spear. It only took a few seconds for him to overpower me.
(MORTIMER raises his arms, sending a wall of snow towards CHALICE, covering the screen in white. Fade to the present.)
Chalice-He froze my body and added it to his numbers, leaving behind a soul that can pass into the mortal plane but can never truly escape the astral plane.
Cuphead-So that's how you became a ghost.
Chalice-Mugman, do you mind eating another astral cookie for me? If anyone's gonna face him, it has to be me.
China-I'm sorry. A what?
(MUGMAN takes out the box of astral cookies.)
YOU ARE READING
The Adventures of Cuphead and Mugman!
FanfictionThis is a retelling of the hit indie game "Cuphead". It tells the story of Cuphead and Mugman, two brothers who live in the mystical Inkwell Isles. While exploring, the boys stumble upon the Devil's Casino. They have a good run of luck, but then the...
