Chapter 12: Lumina

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There was only one more Keeper left to save

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There was only one more Keeper left to save. Lumina, The Keeper of Light. The leader of The Keepers of The Elements. Strangely, the ten Peach saved appeared. "We have some news, Princess Peach." Terrus began. "About the last Keeper?" Peach asked. "Yes," Kori replied. "She is not on the mainland of Elementopia." TicToc chimed in. "She's up in space." Poisius added. "Again?" Peach asked. "Yes, but we've noticed some strange things going on up there." Willow replied. "It's something that, like, shouldn't up there." Krysta chimed in. "Like some kind of negative energy..." Aqua added. "But getting back on topic, you have to get going. The last of us is waiting." Ventus said. "You're right, I must get going now!" Peach exclaimed. "Yeah, now scram!" Pyro replied, aggressively. "We believe in you, Princess Peach!" Electra chimed in, chirpily. "Here's to hoping you come back alive." Umbros added, ominously. With these words of encouragement, Peach was teleported out of the temple once more, while the Keepers of The Elements watched on.

Peach was taken to a highly volcanic planet, which Bowser had constructed artificially, using Lumina. She was waiting for the voice to remind her to get going, but it didn't look like there was nothing too wrong here. But like with the incident on the Mugen Express, anything could happen on this planet. This last part of the adventure started with a seemingly innocuous trail. The trail was lined with volcanoes, and Peach knew what to do when volcanoes erupted. So far, things were...would quite be the best way to describe walking through a valley of volcanoes? Let's just say it was normal. And just when Peach thought this was too easy, she was treated to a sudden bright flash, followed by the sound of an explosion. Eruptions, and very bright ones at that! The lava was so bright, Peach could barely see. It was like Shiver Valley, but a thousand times worse. Peach staggered through the valley, trying to see where she was going, while also trying to avoid the extremely bright lava. Eventually, Peach squeezed her eyes shut and barrelled forward. She didn't know how long she had been running for, when she bumped into something hard. She put her hands on it, it felt like wood. Peach opened one eye, and then the other. She hit a dead tree. Peach looked behind her, the lava had completely filled the valley, thankfully, Peach had no reason to go there anymore. She continued on her way. She then found herself at a lava river, which wasn't as bright as she was expecting. Sitting on the river was a Spine Coaster, and a wide one at that. "Alright," Peach thought. "This should get me to Bowser quicker." She hopped on the Spiny Coaster, and it started moving. Peach sat on the Spiny Coaster, she could do with a rest after finding eleven Keepers with very little breaks. Ah, foolish Peach, if only it were that easy. To disrupt her little ride, a group of bright fireballs jumped out of the lava and arched over the Spiny Coaster track. Peach quickly sat up and started avoiding all the fireballs, in spite of how bright they were. And then, just as it seemed the fireballs stopped jumping out of the lava, the Spiny Coaster started going down a waterfall...er, lavafall. Not only that, the speed at which it was going made it impossible for Peach to react fast enough to avoid any oncoming hazards. More fireballs started jumping out of the lava again, and Peach could barely avoid them. After that, the Spiny Coaster reached the bottom of the lavafall and started cruising along a straight line. But only for a little bit, after a while, it started climbing up a hill, up which the lava river was flowing. This time, fireballs weren't the only thing that was an issue. As Peach was going up the hill, lava geysers arched over the Spiny Coaster. These guys were Bright with a capital B. And hot, too. Peach could feel their heat as they glided beside and over the Spiny Coaster. Like any rollercoaster, the Spiny Coaster went up, and then it went down. The lava geysers formed a tunnel as Peach went down the river. When the Spiny Coaster reached the bottom of the hill, Peach spotted another one coming up beside the first. Peach wondered why this was, but she elected to stay on the Spiny Coaster she was sitting on. That was not a good idea. As not only were there more lava geysers, but there was a bucket load of fireballs shooting out of the lava. Through all this chaos, Peach jumped back and forth between the two Spiny Coasters. Finally, after a long, agonising, dangerous journey between both Spiny Coasters, Peach finally landed on solid ground. Her legs were sore, her head was still trying to process the insanity that transpired, her eyes were spinning in opposite directions, and for a second, she thought she was hallucinating when she heard the voice. "Are you alright, Princess Peach?" But then, obviously, Peach realised she wasn't hallucinating. "Uh, yes, of course." She replied. "I think..." She added, uncertainly. Peach continued on through the volcanic landscape. Peach thought it was weird that the voice was talking to her this much, but she didn't think too much of it. As she continued walking, Peach heard an explosion. She assumed it was either a faraway volcano or thunder, but she started seeing debris falling out of the sky. Not just any debris, volcanic debris! At that, Peach instantly started hightailing to avoid all the debris. The debris ranged from the size of apples to the size of houses. They exploded upon impact wherever they landed, and the noises they made was newsworthy. After a few more minutes, the meteor shower ended. And Peach rested on a rock. The voice returned. "After you have that rest," the voice told her. "You must keep going. You're not too far from that man just yet." Peach wondered what the voice meant. "How do you know that?" She asked. "You'll see~" The voice replied, vaguely. Peach then started to wonder if the voice and Bowser had any connection, but as the voice said, she'll see. After her quick break, Peach arose from the rock and started walking again. Nothing happened to Peach as she walked, it was a bit strange, considering everything that had happened prior to that point. But then, something started creeping over the horizon, something like a castle. Peach suddenly realised...that was a castle! Bowser's temporary castle! Constructed by the powers of the Keepers of The Elements. A determined smile spread across Peach's face, she was ready to teach Bowser a good lesson. She wasn't going to go easy on him. Peach marched towards the castle, only to stop when she was searchlights. They were very bright, and they were moving around very quickly. Peach wondered how she was going to get around them. She then realised that she had no other option, she had to run through them and set off all the alarms. The door was a few feet away from her. It was dark red, and on the doorframe, twelve lights flashed on and off, all in the colours of the Keepers of The Elements. Peach took a deep breath and ran towards the door, squeezing her eyes shut as she ran through the lights. Naturally, all the lights caught her, and all the alarms started blaring. A shower of Bob-Ombs came flying from the green outer walls of the castle. Peach opened the doors with all her might, they opened slowly, but Peach went in as soon as they were open wide enough. Once inside the grounds of the castle, the doors strangely opened for her. Peach went inside. "You're in." The voice whispered. "Now to find Lumina." Peach thought. What Peach didn't know was that Bowser had already set up some trials for Peach, each involving a different element. The first trial was a mix of Fire and Ice - here, Peach had to melt one half of the room and freeze the other. The second involved Minerals and Electricity, where Peach had to electrify the crystals on one side of the room, and crystallise the other. Third trial: Earth and Nature, plant flowers the 'earth' part and cover the 'nature' part in the dirt. The last three trials were practically the same thing, with the only exceptions being the elemental combinations. Trial 4 was Air and Time, Trial 5 was Water and Poison, and the last was Darkness and Light. But, sure enough, after these six trials, Peach was prepared to deal with Bowser. She got into an elevator which would take her to Bowser's room. She was anticipating the final battle, she was ready to give her all in this fight. At last, the elevator reached Bowser. She walked through a long hallway to reach the door to Bowser's room. She opened the door. Bowser was sitting, evilly, on a throne. He was wearing a crown, with a white orb attached to it. The room he was sitting in was large, with a balcony taking up almost half of one wall. "Here you are, Peaches." Bowser said, getting off his throne. "Don't refer to me like that, Bowser." Peach retorted. "You have a ton of explaining to do! How could you do this to my picture book?" Bowser didn't seem phased by this. "Don't get in a twist, Peaches." He told Peach. "It was all just love." "Love, my foot." Peach grumbled. "In any case," Bowser added. "Let's get down to business." The final battle had begun. Bowser began blasting bright blasts at Peach, trying to blind her. She avoided all of them. Bowser then tried throwing bright Koopa Shells at Peach, she avoided them too. She punched Bowser in the stomach, channeling all her anger through that singular punch. In response to this, Bowser started ground-pounding, producing a bright shockwave that spread throughout the room, which Peach jumped over. Bowser started blasting even more bright blasts at Peach, which she avoided, this time, Peach punched Bowser straight in the jaw. It seemed to have hurt him, significantly. Angrily, Bowser started spitting a bright, white fire, Peach barely managed to avoid this, but it singed a tiny part of her dress. Peach suddenly noticed the white orb on Bowser's crown. Backing to the other end of the room from Bowser, she prepared to charge at him. Bowser did the same. And then, both started running towards each other, screaming their throats raw as they went, and then Peach jumped. And as she did, she grabbed Bowser's crown. She found the white orb attached to the crown. Peach, with one satisfying pull, ripped the orb off the crown and threw the crown on the floor.

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