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Chapter 16
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Complications
Chapter 16: The Mushroom Day Parade
Peach and Daisy spent most of the day helping prepare everything for the Mushroom Day Parade. Choosing colors, the order in which the floats would slowly move down the streets, the best route to take through Toad Town, and many other details. The Mario brothers' jumping abilities proved useful in hanging banners and reaching the tallest parts of the floats. Though they had done a lot; this year the parade was going to be bigger than ever, and there was still a lot of work to be finished.
Toadsworth called the neighboring kingdoms and informed the special guests about the change of date; the parade would take place a little earlier than usual to make good use of the safe time Peach had between kidnappings. Toadsworth was glad to find that the guests had no inconveniences in attending the celebration earlier than usual this year.
After the parade work, the princesses and the plumbers decided to take a short break in Toad Town. "It's just ice and syrup." Mario poked at the drink. It was the in thing in Toad Town, ever since Peach and an unknown magikoopa were seen drinking it.
Peach decided that she did not like paparazzi, but she didn't let the memory of deceiving betrayal ruin he mood, nor would she let it ruin her liking for the icy treat. "It's simple but good."
"It's refreshing," Luigi seemed to like it, though he too was a bit surprised by the simplicity of the super cool tropical drink everyone was talking about.
"I like it; we could use more of these in Sarasaland." A cold snack was always welcomed in the hot desert. Daisy felt as if the weather in Sarasaland had been hotter than ever this year.
xoxox xox xoxox
"So there must totally be a reason we you called us here like this," Wendy ate a spoonful of her strawberry ice-cream. It tasted good no matter what, but ice-cream was especially delicious in the desert. "Unless this is like..."
"Poisoned! Ludwig is trying to poison Roy because of their fight from before! Ludwig, in the east dinning room, with the ice-cream!" While Morton continued his Clue style ramblings, Roy threw his bowl of ice-cream at Ludwig, who was quick to dodge. The bowl hit a goomba who was innocently passing by.
Frightened, the goomba ran away full speed and crashed into a Bowser statue, because the bowl on his head prevented him from seeing where he was going. The unfortunate goomba was thrown back by the impact and flipped upside; he got stuck in the large bowl unable to get right side up.
No one paid attention to the poor goomba. Lemmy got ready to throw his ice-cream and Morton continued his monologue. "First a fire fight, and now an ice-cream fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"Stop!" Ludwig tried to prevent further chaos, and gave Lemmy a look that warned him not to throw the ice-cream. "The ice-cream is not poisoned, nor do I have ill fated intentions. The reason I called you here with the promise of ice-cream, is because I am certain that you would not have attended if I simply told you I had something of importance to say."
Ludwig's audience groaned and started to leave, taking their ice-cream along. Junior was the only one who didn't mind staying to listen to Ludwig, as long as he got to finish his chocolate ice-cream.
"Wait! I have an important message from mama Peach!" Ludwig's siblings instantly sat down again.
"Why didn't you say so from like the beginning?" Wendy asked impatiently. She wasn't interested in her brother's ramblings about his latest musical masterpiece; but if this was about Mama Peach, that changed everything.
The room was filled with murmurs about what the message could be about, and why Ludwig knew about it and they didn't. "Everyone be silent, this must remain a secret!" Despite a few looks of disbelief and doubt about if Ludwig really had a message from Peach, the eldest koopaling, determined to make this work. "I have been contacted by Peach with an invitation to the Mushroom Day Parade, but it must be kept a secret from king bad."
After a short moment, during which even Morton was speechless in surprise, an avalanche of questions fell on Ludwig. "Why can't king dad go?" Lemmy asked.
"Why didn't we find out about this? When did mama Peach tell you?" Was Iggy's question.
Just as Ludwig expected, giving a simple message clearly to so many people was hard, especially when those people were his siblings. They kept asking more questions before Ludwig had a chance to answer the first. Eventually, Ludwig managed to explain the situation, or at least what he knew about it; and everyone agreed to keep it a secret from their father.
xoxox xox xoxox
Thursday rolled by, relatively uneventful, with more preparations for the parade in the Mushroom Kingdom. In the Koopa Castle at Desertland, the sand digging duties continued, and the koopalings guarded their secret. They almost got caught several times, but they stopped each other from revealing their plans for Saturday.
Peach called Ludwig back and arranged everything to meet the koopalings just outside Toad Town, in an area away from the main street where most people would gather to watch the parade. Overall, everything was running smoothly; but to Peach it felt like the calm before the storm.
By the time the quiet Friday came to an end, Bowser suspected that the koopalings had some sort of surprise for him. That had to be the only reason why they denied hiding anything, even if he somehow knew they were hiding something. The koopalings knew better than to hide their mischief, and most of the time they were too proud about being mean to even try to hide it; they loved being mean. In Bowser's mind, a surprise for him was the only explanation for the koopalings' behavior.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Good morning everyone! This is Mint T., live from the Mushroom Castle. It's a lovely Saturday morning and the atmosphere in Toad Town is of happiness and high expectations; let's see how things are going at the castle." Mint T. was a mushroom woman with red and white streaked hair and a white mushroom cap with light, minty-green dots. "It looks like everyone is quite busy here!" She made her way around the castle, followed by the cameraman, who was still transmitting live.
"This is a disaster! Sound the alert, we're under attack!" Toadsworth ran across the busy reception room in the background with Peach and Daisy trying to catch up to him.
Mint T. joined the chase and shoved her microphone at Toadsworth as soon as she caught him. "Sir Toadsworth, what are you expecting from the parade this year?"
Toadsworth took note of the camera and smiled nervously. "Yes, the parade... It will be splendid! Now if you will excuse me, there are some very important details I must tend to."
"Toadsworth, everything is ready. Why not stay for an interview?" When Mint T. noticed who had spoken, interviewing Toadsworth was the last thing on her mind. She couldn't miss the chance to interview the Mushroom King.
"Oh how lucky! The King of the Mushroom Kingdom is here to answer a few questions for us. And who do I see over there?" The camera turned towards Peach and Daisy at Mint T.'s signal. The princesses had been hoping to sneak out, but that would not be possible if they got caught by the press. "Princess Peach and Princess Daisy, will you both be joining us for an interview as well? I do hope so!"
While Mint T. asked the princesses a few questions, Toadsworth whispered to the kind, communication his recent discovery. The king was not as worries as the elderly mushroom, and tried to calm him down, assuring him that it was best to trust Peach's judgment. Their quiet conversation was interrupted when Mint T. asked the king about his plans for the day; but before he could answer Toad ran in. "The koopas they're here!"
"I know; I invited them. Thank you for giving me the message Toad," Peach made it look as if Toad's panic was excitement.
There was a moment of silence in which Toadsworth looked like he was about to combust; then Mint T. reacted. "You heard it everyone! Peach has some very special guests this year from the Koopa Kingdom. Does this mean that there will be peace between the kingdoms?"
Peach was about to deliver a heart felt message to the air waves, but before she could speak a single word; the koopalings rush in, bringing a panic at their pace. "Mama Peach!" Junior ran to Peach and hugged her.
Mint T. had a mischievous look in her eyes. "Once again we hear one of Bowser's children calling our Princess 'mama'. What does this mean? Could it be that the rumors of Princess Peach's secret affair with King Bowser are true after all? I, Mint T. will try to uncover this mystery!"
"I'm not having an affair!" Peach strongly disliked false rumors, and she really didn't want to deal with them on the day of the parade. "I simply invited the koopalings to attend the parade as my guests."
xoxox xox xoxox
After she finally got away from Mint T., Daisy went in search of the Mario brothers. The two plumbers were at the entrance to Toad Town, waiting for the parade to start. As it had been in earlier years, Luigi would lead the parade. One major difference this year was that Mario would have his own float, representing plumbers everywhere, instead of riding in the royal float at the end of the parade with Peach. Daisy would be in the royal float this year.
"Luigi, Mario!" Daisy made her way through the crowds. The Sarasaland princess knew that she and Peach shouldn't have procrastinated to talk to the Mario brothers but they simply could not find the right moment, or think of way to say it that would bring the desired reaction. "I need to talk to you. There's been a special change of plans."
"I don't get to lead the parade?" Luigi asked.
"That's not it; you can still lead the parade." Daisy knew how much Luigi loved parades; almost as much as she did.
"I don't get my own float anymore?" Mario had been actively involved in the design of the plumber float. It was a masterpiece of artistically arranged pipes and he was looking forward to riding it.
"It's not bad news," Daisy assured them. "We have some special guests for the parade this year... the koopalings!"
The Mario brothers stared at Daisy, waiting for her to say she was kidding and deliver the real news. "You really mean that, don't you?" Luigi finally asked.
"They must have a plan to kidnap Peach," Mario was quick to jump to conclusions.
"I'm sure it'll work out. We meant to tell you sooner but we were trying to think of the right way to say it." Being in a rush could be really inspiring, and thus Daisy had no choice but to decide that just saying it was the best way to communicate the message; no sugar coating or preparatory speech.
"Maybe Peach should ride in the pipe float just in case," Mario suggested.
Daisy knew that there would be some resistance, but it truly wasn't as serious as she and Peach thought. Maybe they really were worrying too much.
Before an agreement could be reached, a waved of screams overcame Toad Town, and a magikoopa appeared and started attacking people without explanation.
Peach had finished discussing everything with her father, and left him to calm Toadsworth. She was trying to make her people see that the koopalings had come in peace, when Kuvio arrived.
At first the people of the Mushroom Kingdom thought Kuvio was on Bowser's side, but that misunderstanding was quickly cleared. Kuvio intended to take Peach hostage, but he was stopped by Bowser, while the Mario brothers made their way there through the crowds. Bowser could not be easily fooled; he overheard Morton talking to Larry, and followed the koopalings to the parade.
"You kids owe me an explanation later," Bowser yelled before taking off on his clown-copter with Peach.
"Bowser we can't leave! I've seen what Kuivio can do and I will ask you to stay and help. There are too many people here for only Mario and Luigi to protect. Stay and help and I... I promise to go to your castle later of my own free will!" Peach knew that Bowser wanted to get her away from the danger, but she could not run away and leave her people to face the terrible magikoopa.
"You'll really come home willingly?" Peach nodded and Bowser couldn't refuse the offer. Bowser believed that Peach should be with him, that it was the best for both of them, he loved her and his castle was her true home. The clown-copter landed next to Kammy. "Make a magic shield or something around Peach; just make sure she's safe, got it old hag?"
"Yes," Kammy was not happy with her assigned task, yet she knew she couldn't change it. Still she tried yo point out the seriousness of their situation. "Kuvio is a dangerous enemy; I should assist Kamek-"
"Peach is the priority," Bowser emphasized every word, leaving no room for doubts. "Peach is always the priority."
Kammy stayed behind with the princess as she was told, but she was worried about Kamek. He found a powerful spell that could turn Kuvio's powers against him, in a book from the magic library; but it was very dangerous.
It was one of those occasions when the Mario brothers and Bowser reached a somewhat unclear mutual understanding; and Bowser joined the Mario brothers, or the Mario brothers joined Bowser, depending on which side told the story. There was a common enemy to be defeated, and once again they would have to work together.
Shadows and fire overcame the streets of Toad Town and people desperately tried to get away. When Kuvio prepared to use his time magic, Kamek stepped forward chanting a spell in an ancient language, the jewel on his staff shining to the rhythm of the words... and the two great wizards collided.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or characters. Next chapter, Friends and Allies.
Chapter 16: The Mushroom Day Parade
Peach and Daisy spent most of the day helping prepare everything for the Mushroom Day Parade. Choosing colors, the order in which the floats would slowly move down the streets, the best route to take through Toad Town, and many other details. The Mario brothers' jumping abilities proved useful in hanging banners and reaching the tallest parts of the floats. Though they had done a lot; this year the parade was going to be bigger than ever, and there was still a lot of work to be finished.
Toadsworth called the neighboring kingdoms and informed the special guests about the change of date; the parade would take place a little earlier than usual to make good use of the safe time Peach had between kidnappings. Toadsworth was glad to find that the guests had no inconveniences in attending the celebration earlier than usual this year.
After the parade work, the princesses and the plumbers decided to take a short break in Toad Town. "It's just ice and syrup." Mario poked at the drink. It was the in thing in Toad Town, ever since Peach and an unknown magikoopa were seen drinking it.
Peach decided that she did not like paparazzi, but she didn't let the memory of deceiving betrayal ruin he mood, nor would she let it ruin her liking for the icy treat. "It's simple but good."
"It's refreshing," Luigi seemed to like it, though he too was a bit surprised by the simplicity of the super cool tropical drink everyone was talking about.
"I like it; we could use more of these in Sarasaland." A cold snack was always welcomed in the hot desert. Daisy felt as if the weather in Sarasaland had been hotter than ever this year.
xoxox xox xoxox
"So there must totally be a reason we you called us here like this," Wendy ate a spoonful of her strawberry ice-cream. It tasted good no matter what, but ice-cream was especially delicious in the desert. "Unless this is like..."
"Poisoned! Ludwig is trying to poison Roy because of their fight from before! Ludwig, in the east dinning room, with the ice-cream!" While Morton continued his Clue style ramblings, Roy threw his bowl of ice-cream at Ludwig, who was quick to dodge. The bowl hit a goomba who was innocently passing by.
Frightened, the goomba ran away full speed and crashed into a Bowser statue, because the bowl on his head prevented him from seeing where he was going. The unfortunate goomba was thrown back by the impact and flipped upside; he got stuck in the large bowl unable to get right side up.
No one paid attention to the poor goomba. Lemmy got ready to throw his ice-cream and Morton continued his monologue. "First a fire fight, and now an ice-cream fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"Stop!" Ludwig tried to prevent further chaos, and gave Lemmy a look that warned him not to throw the ice-cream. "The ice-cream is not poisoned, nor do I have ill fated intentions. The reason I called you here with the promise of ice-cream, is because I am certain that you would not have attended if I simply told you I had something of importance to say."
Ludwig's audience groaned and started to leave, taking their ice-cream along. Junior was the only one who didn't mind staying to listen to Ludwig, as long as he got to finish his chocolate ice-cream.
"Wait! I have an important message from mama Peach!" Ludwig's siblings instantly sat down again.
"Why didn't you say so from like the beginning?" Wendy asked impatiently. She wasn't interested in her brother's ramblings about his latest musical masterpiece; but if this was about Mama Peach, that changed everything.
The room was filled with murmurs about what the message could be about, and why Ludwig knew about it and they didn't. "Everyone be silent, this must remain a secret!" Despite a few looks of disbelief and doubt about if Ludwig really had a message from Peach, the eldest koopaling, determined to make this work. "I have been contacted by Peach with an invitation to the Mushroom Day Parade, but it must be kept a secret from king bad."
After a short moment, during which even Morton was speechless in surprise, an avalanche of questions fell on Ludwig. "Why can't king dad go?" Lemmy asked.
"Why didn't we find out about this? When did mama Peach tell you?" Was Iggy's question.
Just as Ludwig expected, giving a simple message clearly to so many people was hard, especially when those people were his siblings. They kept asking more questions before Ludwig had a chance to answer the first. Eventually, Ludwig managed to explain the situation, or at least what he knew about it; and everyone agreed to keep it a secret from their father.
xoxox xox xoxox
Thursday rolled by, relatively uneventful, with more preparations for the parade in the Mushroom Kingdom. In the Koopa Castle at Desertland, the sand digging duties continued, and the koopalings guarded their secret. They almost got caught several times, but they stopped each other from revealing their plans for Saturday.
Peach called Ludwig back and arranged everything to meet the koopalings just outside Toad Town, in an area away from the main street where most people would gather to watch the parade. Overall, everything was running smoothly; but to Peach it felt like the calm before the storm.
By the time the quiet Friday came to an end, Bowser suspected that the koopalings had some sort of surprise for him. That had to be the only reason why they denied hiding anything, even if he somehow knew they were hiding something. The koopalings knew better than to hide their mischief, and most of the time they were too proud about being mean to even try to hide it; they loved being mean. In Bowser's mind, a surprise for him was the only explanation for the koopalings' behavior.
xoxox xox xoxox
"Good morning everyone! This is Mint T., live from the Mushroom Castle. It's a lovely Saturday morning and the atmosphere in Toad Town is of happiness and high expectations; let's see how things are going at the castle." Mint T. was a mushroom woman with red and white streaked hair and a white mushroom cap with light, minty-green dots. "It looks like everyone is quite busy here!" She made her way around the castle, followed by the cameraman, who was still transmitting live.
"This is a disaster! Sound the alert, we're under attack!" Toadsworth ran across the busy reception room in the background with Peach and Daisy trying to catch up to him.
Mint T. joined the chase and shoved her microphone at Toadsworth as soon as she caught him. "Sir Toadsworth, what are you expecting from the parade this year?"
Toadsworth took note of the camera and smiled nervously. "Yes, the parade... It will be splendid! Now if you will excuse me, there are some very important details I must tend to."
"Toadsworth, everything is ready. Why not stay for an interview?" When Mint T. noticed who had spoken, interviewing Toadsworth was the last thing on her mind. She couldn't miss the chance to interview the Mushroom King.
"Oh how lucky! The King of the Mushroom Kingdom is here to answer a few questions for us. And who do I see over there?" The camera turned towards Peach and Daisy at Mint T.'s signal. The princesses had been hoping to sneak out, but that would not be possible if they got caught by the press. "Princess Peach and Princess Daisy, will you both be joining us for an interview as well? I do hope so!"
While Mint T. asked the princesses a few questions, Toadsworth whispered to the kind, communication his recent discovery. The king was not as worries as the elderly mushroom, and tried to calm him down, assuring him that it was best to trust Peach's judgment. Their quiet conversation was interrupted when Mint T. asked the king about his plans for the day; but before he could answer Toad ran in. "The koopas they're here!"
"I know; I invited them. Thank you for giving me the message Toad," Peach made it look as if Toad's panic was excitement.
There was a moment of silence in which Toadsworth looked like he was about to combust; then Mint T. reacted. "You heard it everyone! Peach has some very special guests this year from the Koopa Kingdom. Does this mean that there will be peace between the kingdoms?"
Peach was about to deliver a heart felt message to the air waves, but before she could speak a single word; the koopalings rush in, bringing a panic at their pace. "Mama Peach!" Junior ran to Peach and hugged her.
Mint T. had a mischievous look in her eyes. "Once again we hear one of Bowser's children calling our Princess 'mama'. What does this mean? Could it be that the rumors of Princess Peach's secret affair with King Bowser are true after all? I, Mint T. will try to uncover this mystery!"
"I'm not having an affair!" Peach strongly disliked false rumors, and she really didn't want to deal with them on the day of the parade. "I simply invited the koopalings to attend the parade as my guests."
xoxox xox xoxox
After she finally got away from Mint T., Daisy went in search of the Mario brothers. The two plumbers were at the entrance to Toad Town, waiting for the parade to start. As it had been in earlier years, Luigi would lead the parade. One major difference this year was that Mario would have his own float, representing plumbers everywhere, instead of riding in the royal float at the end of the parade with Peach. Daisy would be in the royal float this year.
"Luigi, Mario!" Daisy made her way through the crowds. The Sarasaland princess knew that she and Peach shouldn't have procrastinated to talk to the Mario brothers but they simply could not find the right moment, or think of way to say it that would bring the desired reaction. "I need to talk to you. There's been a special change of plans."
"I don't get to lead the parade?" Luigi asked.
"That's not it; you can still lead the parade." Daisy knew how much Luigi loved parades; almost as much as she did.
"I don't get my own float anymore?" Mario had been actively involved in the design of the plumber float. It was a masterpiece of artistically arranged pipes and he was looking forward to riding it.
"It's not bad news," Daisy assured them. "We have some special guests for the parade this year... the koopalings!"
The Mario brothers stared at Daisy, waiting for her to say she was kidding and deliver the real news. "You really mean that, don't you?" Luigi finally asked.
"They must have a plan to kidnap Peach," Mario was quick to jump to conclusions.
"I'm sure it'll work out. We meant to tell you sooner but we were trying to think of the right way to say it." Being in a rush could be really inspiring, and thus Daisy had no choice but to decide that just saying it was the best way to communicate the message; no sugar coating or preparatory speech.
"Maybe Peach should ride in the pipe float just in case," Mario suggested.
Daisy knew that there would be some resistance, but it truly wasn't as serious as she and Peach thought. Maybe they really were worrying too much.
Before an agreement could be reached, a waved of screams overcame Toad Town, and a magikoopa appeared and started attacking people without explanation.
Peach had finished discussing everything with her father, and left him to calm Toadsworth. She was trying to make her people see that the koopalings had come in peace, when Kuvio arrived.
At first the people of the Mushroom Kingdom thought Kuvio was on Bowser's side, but that misunderstanding was quickly cleared. Kuvio intended to take Peach hostage, but he was stopped by Bowser, while the Mario brothers made their way there through the crowds. Bowser could not be easily fooled; he overheard Morton talking to Larry, and followed the koopalings to the parade.
"You kids owe me an explanation later," Bowser yelled before taking off on his clown-copter with Peach.
"Bowser we can't leave! I've seen what Kuivio can do and I will ask you to stay and help. There are too many people here for only Mario and Luigi to protect. Stay and help and I... I promise to go to your castle later of my own free will!" Peach knew that Bowser wanted to get her away from the danger, but she could not run away and leave her people to face the terrible magikoopa.
"You'll really come home willingly?" Peach nodded and Bowser couldn't refuse the offer. Bowser believed that Peach should be with him, that it was the best for both of them, he loved her and his castle was her true home. The clown-copter landed next to Kammy. "Make a magic shield or something around Peach; just make sure she's safe, got it old hag?"
"Yes," Kammy was not happy with her assigned task, yet she knew she couldn't change it. Still she tried yo point out the seriousness of their situation. "Kuvio is a dangerous enemy; I should assist Kamek-"
"Peach is the priority," Bowser emphasized every word, leaving no room for doubts. "Peach is always the priority."
Kammy stayed behind with the princess as she was told, but she was worried about Kamek. He found a powerful spell that could turn Kuvio's powers against him, in a book from the magic library; but it was very dangerous.
It was one of those occasions when the Mario brothers and Bowser reached a somewhat unclear mutual understanding; and Bowser joined the Mario brothers, or the Mario brothers joined Bowser, depending on which side told the story. There was a common enemy to be defeated, and once again they would have to work together.
Shadows and fire overcame the streets of Toad Town and people desperately tried to get away. When Kuvio prepared to use his time magic, Kamek stepped forward chanting a spell in an ancient language, the jewel on his staff shining to the rhythm of the words... and the two great wizards collided.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own the Mario games or characters. Next chapter, Friends and Allies.
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