A Mother’s Love

A Super Mario Galaxy Fan Fiction

By TheScorpion0081

Interlude: The Road Before Us

Once upon a time, a young girl met a young star child and went on an adventure to find its mama. Eventually, she became the mother that the luma, and many others like it, was looking for.

Since the young luma transformed into the comet, the young girl and her new family traveled the galaxy for many years, having many adventures together. Along the way, many lumas found their way to the girl’s home, the affectionately christened Comet Observatory, where she loved and took care of them until they left to follow their destinies. It didn’t matter how long they stayed or what they became in the end, she loved them equally and watched over them as their mother. She played with them, read them stories, comforted them when they were sad, nursed them to health when they were sick, and even taught them lessons about the world that they are a part of. All and all, everyone was happy and the little girl never regretted the promise that brought them together.

Even though they were happy, however, not everything was smooth sailing. Like all living things, they would run into trouble. Some minor cases, like illness and homesickness, they would work through together and without incident. Other cases took a little extra, causing the young girl to learn more about her extended family, herself and her place among them. Whatever happened, even at times when she questioned herself, her love for her children never wavered.

This is a tale of one such time. A time where the young girl found that with that with family there’s responsibility and that with love…

…there’s power.

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Chapter 10: What Was Missing

One day, while passing through an asteroid field, three lumas came up their mama while she was in the library. The young girl was cleaning up after a previous reading session, humming a tune before being interrupted. “Mama, can you play hide-and-go-seek with us?” the youngest red luma asked.

“Please?” the other two said together.

The young girl giggled and brushed her red hair from her eye when it fell. The library was still not the way she would like, but a small break never hurt every once in a while.  “Sure, I’ll play with you,” she said.

The lumas, cheering, flew away as quickly as they could to hide. “Huh. I guess I’m it,” the girl thought aloud as she stood in the doorway and began to count to ten.

After reaching ten, she ran out of the library and began her search. Not to be outdone so easily or leave anyone out, she even secretly enlisting some other lumas to help in the search. Within a short time, the young girl and her lumas found two of three players in hiding. One was hiding in the garden’s doorway while the other was in the girl’s bedroom, disguised as a bunny among the stuffed animals that the girl and lumas played with.

However, after more searching, they couldn’t find the youngest. “That’s strange,” the girl thought out loud, “we’ve search everywhere, and there is no sign of him.”

“He’s not in the engine room,” one luma called out.

“Not in the fountain either, Mama,” another chimed.

No one has seen the luma anywhere. Everyone was worried, none more so than the young girl who couldn't help but feel that she was to blame.

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Chapter 11: See You Later

The search continued until every corner of the Observatory was checked at least three times. The worry in the young girl’s heart began to grow more and more as time went on with no promising news. That is, however until a thought came to mind as she looked out into the surprisingly dense asteroid field. “We are in an asteroid field, right?” she said, turning back to the lumas who have gathered behind her. "There're many places to hide out there. Maybe he left the ship." The young girl and her lumas all began to call out to the red luma, but to no avail.

“He must think we are still playing,” a chocolate luma said, “he would probably want us to find him.”

The older, chocolate-colored luma prepared to venture out alongside a blue one, one of the lumas that hid earlier, to try and find him. The young girl stepped in front to stop them.

“No!” she said with a sternness that surprised the lumas, “I won’t put any of you in danger for my carelessness. If anyone is going out there, it will be me.”

The blue luma argued that statement. “It’s not your fault, Mama. It was our idea to play the game. We should have said to stay on the ship,” the luma said as his eyes began to tear.

The young girl walked up to the luma and held it in her arms. “No more tears, little one. Everything will be alright. We will find him very soon, and then we will all bake some cupcakes together, okay?”

All of the lumas gathered around to cheer up their blue sibling until his tear were gone. The young girl, after leaving the chocolate luma in charge, hopped in the old spaceship and ventured out into the field.

“We will be together again. I promise,” the young girl whispered as her search began.