Jimmy flew closer to the flying castle. He was still in the process of figuring out a plan to get in there without causing too much trouble. He turned to the others in the air and asked. "What do you think we should do?"

"We should bust on in!" Lakilester smiled devilishly. "We'll go in with a bang and attack them all!"

"I think we should sneak in...but I wonder how can we?" Bow asked everyone. "I'll bet Bowser even knows where we are now!"

"Let's bust on in!" Goombario shouted from within Jimmy's arms. "I think now is the time to do something big!"

"Well...I'm afraid we'll have to fight them now!" Jimmy groaned as he saw a unit from Bowser approach them. "They probably saw me..."

"Attack!!" The commander cried and several of them tried to rush Jimmy but he nimbly flew out of the way. Bow sighed and wondered why she had to even bother but she took a breath and roared horribly, it caused the Silver Flyers to freak out and fly in all directions in utter chaos. The Commander griped. "Oooh! THESE TROOPS ARE SUCH A BUNCH OF COWARDS!"

Jimmy smiled impishly and started to fly towards him and he backed away. "You should be scared too!" He flew up and came down on the Commander's wings and they broke off. The Commander fell down to earth with dots for eyes and an anime sweat drop. Jimmy looked down to Goombario and they both smiled. "His troops have more brains then he does..." He flew to the castle grounds and landed gently. His wings flashed and vanished into his back. Jimmy groaned. "Ugh, I'm almost out of it." Jimmy took a feather before they completely vanished and transformed it into an apple pie. "Well...why not!" Everyone had a piece quickly and Jimmy finished the pie off quickly. Jimmy was about to turn to the door when something caught his eye. It flew in closer and he turned to Lakilester. "You have any idea who that is? Looks like a Lakitu."

"No one I know..." Lakilester replied. "...wait...AUGH! Yeah! It's my commander!"

"What do you mean?" Jimmy asked as Lakilester went blue in the cheeks.

"I used to be in the Lakitu Squad back in flower fields but I quit and joined up with Mario to save the Princess. She's probably got it in for me ever since I went AWOL." Lakilester said. "She's a pretty good scrapper so watch it. She probably has the Lakitu Squad with her."

She approached him and smiled in a dervish way. "So Spike, you've joined up with Jimmy here... you're a traitor!"

"Oh yeah? I'm having MUCH more fun in this unit than yours. I'm the leader!" Lakilester nervously replied.

Jimmy picked up on that and looked at him and rolled his eyes and gave him his 'yeah right' smile. "Oh! so you are huh?"

She gave Jimmy a smile and said. "Well, congratulations..." She flew out of their reach and four more Lakitu joined up with her. "Well...you're unit will go against my unit. You and me and everyone else against my posse here."

Jimmy jumped back and shot the Lakitu with a lightning bolt. It zapped him and the currents danced around him and his cloud which ALSO showed pain. Jimmy jumped up and stomped the Lakitu with a power stomp and he fell to the ground. He turned to Lakilester who was trying his hardest to fight off his former commander's spinies and thunderbolts. "Hey commander!" He joked and saluted. "What's your command?"

"Augh! Get her away from me!" Lakilester whined and then he got savagely zapped by a lightning bolt. He was knocked into the gates of Bowser's castle. "Please! Pretty please!?"

Jimmy ran up to her and said. "Fine but only if you promote me ahead of you when this battle is over!" He then started jumping and kicking at the Lakitu girl and she turned to him.

"So you wanna fight me? My name's Terra Kee and I'll accept your challenge..." Terra Kee replied and Jimmy took a fighting stance, waiting for her to make the first move.

Meanwhile, Goombario headbutted his Lakitu and came up and down and up and down on him, making great headbutt hits. The Lakitu groaned and fell to the ground. Parakarry was dealing with another Lakitu who was chucking spiny eggs at him. Parakarry dodged them and made a circle and ducked in his shell, ramming the Lakitu into the ground. Bow was having fun with hers, he was running from her, screaming in terror and boasting bright red slap marks on his face. She laughed while chasing him. Jimmy saw all this and turned to her. "Guess it's you and me." Goombario jumped to his side and so did Parakarry and Bow. Jimmy then shrugged. "Well...I guess it's all of us against you, huh?"

"Troops! About face!" Terra Kee shouted but found all her troops were in no condition to fight. "Augh!! I can't find any good help these days!"

"Sure! That's because you're a villainess." Jimmy shrugged again as she flew back and launched a lightning bolt at him. Jimmy just whipped out his feather and it turned into a mirror and it reflected the bolt. It flew back and zapped her, the currents flew about her and she screeched in frustration. "Now." Jimmy said as Goombario, Bow, Parakarry and Lakilester all attacked. Lakilester attacked with a spiny which winged her in the mouth. Goombario summoned his energy and power headbutted her while Parakarry slammed his shell into her. Bow then slapped Terra Kee five times and she fell down to the ground, totally down and out. Jimmy swished his mirror back into a feather. They opened the doors of the castle and walked in.

From within, they could see total chaos within, there were troops running around aimlessly and they were all screaming about the prisoners escaping. They encountered a group of Hammer Bros. and Parakarry ducked into his shell. He spun sonic fast and flew into them, crashing into them, the floor, the walls and the ceiling, knocking himself into whoever was in his way. Jimmy used the feather shield to block any hits coming his way and Parakarry poked out of his shell, all dizzy. Jimmy took out his friend badges and shouted whimsically. "It's a party! Why not invite everyone!?" He summoned them all, and they went on a spree of attacking the enemy. Jimmy and everyone ran up the stairs to the main area and found none other than Luigi and Mario and Peach running around. "Wow! Are you..."

"Yes! You must be Jimmy! Thank you for making it up here!" Luigi cheered. "We've been having fun up here since we escaped..."

"I escaped when I was skinny enough to wiggle free of that stone block they trapped us in." Mario nodded happily. "We took the time to exact our vengeance on these guys."

"I got everyone." Jimmy replied. "We're going after bowser!"

"Excuse me but how DID you get up here?" Peach asked.

"Jimmy here's a Drakonian!" Goombario nodded and Jimmy smiled. "We FLEW here with Jimmy's help."

"Let's go upstairs!" Mario shouted and they ran up to the upper levels of the castle. They saw that there was a large room in which they expected a fight. Everyone paused for a break when the doors to the throne room busted open. Out flew a shell that stopped in the middle of the room. There was three more shells and they emerged. One was Red, another was Blue and another was Yellow. They smirked coolly and they pointed their fingers, sending out a flash. They were none other than the Koopa Bros. back for a rematch. Ninji Koopa Red stepped forward and mumbled. "That's wierd...it usually stuns em'"

The Blue Ninjikoopa approached them and mumbled to the others. "You know...there's eleven of them and four of us..."

"I know..." The Red one replied nervously. "But you know that we always take beauty before duty so..." He jumped up and yelled it to them loud and clear. "We the Koopa Bros. and we're gonna put the hurt on all...11 of you!"

"How about we make it a little more even?" Jimmy asked innocently. "You let Me, Peach, Luigi, Parakarry, Goombario, Bow and Lakilester ahead so you can battle Mario, Kooper, Bombette and Watt so you'll have an even 4 against four!"

"Hey! You bet!" The Koopa Bros. cheered. "This'll be easier then I thought!" Jimmy and the seven he chose calmly walked past them and they told him. "Really appreciate it!" Jimmy smiled back to them and the group closed the door behind them. The Koopa Bros. took their stance and waited for the attack when they suddenly realized. "Hey...wait a minute..."

"I love those guys..." Jimmy mumbled and they all laughed about it. "Well, let's go to the top of the castle to face Bowser now." They walked up the stairs and they saw that the next room was the throne room and it was decorated with all the trappings of a king.

Kammy flew into the room from the stairs that led up and shrieked when she saw them. "WHAT!?! WHY?! HOW!?!"

"Just forget about it." Jimmy groaned. "We're here together and that's all that matters. Well, what have you in store for us this time?"

"Well! Since you made it here...You'll be entertained by Bowser himself! Hey Bowser, stop fretting and start battling! We've got...guests!" Kammy shouted. "He's finally made it here.

Bowser stomped down the stairs and griped. "Oh man! My forces couldn't even handle a punk like you. Well, I'll remedy that!"

"NO!" Luigi stepped up. "I'll fight you."

"BWA HA HA!" Bowser laughed. "You'll make a good appetizer." Everyone got out of the way as Luigi and Bowser took their stances and sized one another up. Bowser ran to Luigi and he jumped up and landed hard on Bowser's head. Bowser turned and glared at him. He opened his mouth and out came searing fire breath. Luigi dodged it and ran behind Bowser and grabbed his tail. Bowser cried out and Luigi began spinning him around. Luigi launched him into the far wall and Bowser collapsed to his shelled back. He growled and attempted to trample Luigi but he just jumped up and hip dropped on Bowser's head and it knocked Bowser to the ground, he rolled around on the ground, gripping his head. Luigi ran and grabbed Bowser's tail and started swinging him around again. Everyone including Kammy had dot eyes and anime sweat drops on the backs of their heads.

Jimmy turned to Goombario and commented. "Wow...Luigi's strong."

"Well...Bowser's not that hard to beat." Goombario said. "It's all a matter of circumstance. Bowser was only hard last time because he was invincible."

"He was beaten even though he was invincible..." Jimmy muttered. "How...stupid..."

Luigi launched Bowser against the wall again and Bowser quickly got up and ran screaming up the stairs. "AARRGGHH!! I CAN'T STAND IT!!"

"Wow, he took a little fit like a little sissy girl!" Lakilester commented. "Was he like this last time?"

"I WIN! IN YOUR FACE, BOWSER!!" Luigi paraded around, strutting his stuff. "WHO'S THE MAN!?!?"

Kammy turned to Jimmy and said. "Excuse me a moment." She flew up the stairs and through the room above. She found Bowser in his room, crying. "KING BOWSER! IS THIS ANY WAY TO ACT?!"

"Mario beats me...Luigi beats me...Peach even beats me sometimes...That new kid'll probably beat me...It's no use...What's the point?..." Bowser sobbed. "IT'S NOT FAAAIR!!"

"Hm! You're weaker than I thought..." Kammy laughed to herself. "You look tough but you have no brain in that spiky, bony exterior. In order to be a leader...you must be strong in both body and mind. You have neither!"

Bowser got up and glared at her. "What did you say?"

"You're no leader. You've been abdicated. You've been relieved of duty...it seems that you weren't a good choice for power after all..." Kammy sighed and then she smirked with black evil. "Oh well, you seemed like a promising pawn.."

"EXCUSE ME!? I...A PAWN!?" Bowser roared. "You'd better be careful Kammy..."

"I have no need to be careful with a boorish slob like you. I am no longer in need of you..." Kammy smiled devilishly, her eyes gleaming. "I am far greater then you."

"Who do you think you are?" Bowser hissed.

She raised her eyebrows and smirked that evil grin again. "...You'd be suprised...I am not who I seem..."

"Who are you?!" Bowser asked, now a little worried. "There's something truly evil about you and I know a lot about evil..."

"You aren't going to know because you don't need to." Kammy gently said and she jumped off her broomstick. She waved her wand and her eyes gleamed with evil. "You must now be removed. Your life is now over...sleep well, Bowser...gandlegash vicin nes kilion rashi!" She then waved her wand and it glowed with a black evil glitter. Bowser charged at her but he was pulled back by a murky ashen hand. He realized he was now in a black pool of death when more ashen hands reached up and grabbed him. He tripped and more evil hands grabbed him and pulled him into the black hole. He was lowered into it, screaming and he was pulled into it. The hole closed up, Bowser was gone forever. She laughed soft at first but then she screamed with it. "This world is going to be mine!!"

Back down the stairs, Everyone was looking around. Jimmy gripped his arms and asked. "Is it me? Or did it just get colder in here..."

The rest looked around. "It's you..."

Jimmy saw that there was a figure in the room. It was nothing but a black silhouette. "Are you..."

"Yes I am...my name is Deah Feeit and I'm Kammy's final and most trusted servant." Deah Feeit said coyly. "Well..."

"But you're just a shadow with red eyes!" Goombario protested. "That means that you're some sort of monster!"

"Hee hee hee...I am." Deah Feeit snickered malevolently. "I am but not one of the living...I am what you would call...a somnambulist or a simpler term...a zombie."

"What?!" Jimmy shouted. "That's impossible! You can't be a zombie! There's no way you can be!"

Deah Feit grinned evilly. "Only an idiot would try to kill something that's already dead. So I guess you can just give up now and join the ranks of the dead. Let's battle."

Jimmy took a stance and looked at Goombario with worry and he replied. "T-this is Deah Feeit and she's the final apprentice. She's well...one of the undead and someone we'd all only want to see in our nightmares. Since she's already dead I guess physical hits are impossible. I don't know anything else about her...I'm sorry."

Deah Feeit flew back and summoned an oily chain of black slimy energy and it hit Jimmy and knocked him all the way into the corner. Jimmy groaned and writhed in pain. She flew up and floated silently over to him. Goombario jumped in front of her but she waved her hand and knocked Goombario fifteen feet away from her, casually tossing him aside. Lakilester and Parakarry also got in her way and she just brushed them away as well. They collapsed somewhere near the other side of the room. Bow flew up and slapped her 5 times across the face and Deah Feeit stumbled back. She then clapped her massive claw like hands over Bow and threw her to the side. Jimmy touched the teleport badge and beamed back to a more open area of the room. "Um...Luigi and Peach...any ideas?"

"I don't know...I've never fought the undead..." Luigi mumbled.

"She's as black as night...so maybe...I could beat her by using the light!" Jimmy noticed some light shining in through the windows and it spilled over the floor. Jimmy ran over to the light and Deah Feeit turned and unleashed another stream of black gooey lightning headed straight for Jimmy. Luigi jumped in its path and he slumped to the floor and shook with agony.

"Ugh! Shine the light! I...I'm fine...just do it!" Luigi grumbled.

Jimmy waved his feather and it turned into a mirror. He used the mirror to reflect the sun onto the shadowy Deah Feit. It touched her and she convulsed. "AAGH!! DON'T!!" Deah Feeit attempted to fire another gooey ark of lightning but the line shone through it and the light continued to hit her. She melted away into but a floating, Bloodshot eyeball. The eye blinked and then spoke using psychic powers. "How about this?" It's pupils became tiny and everything turned Blue with yellow streaks. Suddenly from out of nowhere, fairies with ashen skin and blood red halos surrounded each person in the room, 2 to a person and whirled around them, making everyone sick and queasy. "I casted a spell on all of you. You have 30 seconds to kill me or else you'll all turn into zombies and join us!" The eyeball started flying around the room menacingly fast and it crashed into anyone it came across, knocking them back. Jimmy fell into meditation and started to imagine and sense the eyeball's movements. Time was running out but everyone knew they had to be silent no matter how scared they got. Jimmy suddenly opened his eyes and shot a bolt of lightning and it hit the eyeball right in the dead center of it's pupil. It screeched and exploded in a mess of goo. 30 seconds ran out and they didn't turn into zombies and they all sighed in relief.

"That was scary." Jimmy breathed. "But we should expect to face worse, huh?"

"What bothers me is that Kammy and Bowser have monsters on their side." Bow mumbled. "We fought that Banshee in the mountains and now this...I have a feeling that we're in for a little more than we think..."

"I'm not afraid..." Goombario shivered. "Monsters, ghosts, zombies and ghouls...I'm not afraid...I'm not afraid..."

"Don't be afraid. I'll be here to protect you from them!" Jimmy smiled but then Goombario frowned.

"Thank gawd we didn't get turned into zombies! That would've sucked!" Lakilester said. "Well...we've got to go fight Bowser or Kammy now. We wouldn't want to be late."

They all nodded and went up the stairs, going to the top of the castle without a doubt in their minds or a fear in their hearts.

That's the end of Chapter 17. Things are getting REALLY interesting now huh? Tell me what you think by reviewing! I need some feedback!