Author's Note:
Hello! This is my first fanfiction on this site and it's called Kisses and Waves. I've wanted to make this fic for a while and I am glad I am getting to it! Kisses and Waves will be a multi-chapter long story and I will try to update regularly, but I cannot promise that. This is a fic starring Mario and Pauline and their past relationship. It will be full of drama, romance and tears, so enjoy! :)
The sounds of angry clamoring had chased them out of their hiding spot in the short shrub. From the loosely attached door, a taller, older toad had stepped out of the house. The light from inside had illuminated the darkness outside, so he could at least step out of the house without tripping. Off the dirt ridden Welcome! mat, his stomps were heavy on his wooden patio and his mouth opened in a furious scowl, "This is third time this week, you little runts! Be men and come out!" He shouted into the abyss of trees and heavy bushes, shaking one fist.
They panicked a little too much that time and moved hastily backward. The shaking branches rattled against each other as their bodies shifted around. Curse words spluttered from their mouths and the insects fluttered off the leaves amidst their movements.
"Y'all wanna run from me again, huh? HUH?!" Seeing the bugs buzz from the bush furthest from his porch, the toad growled. The toad bent down and reached to his side, thinking he found his targets. He grabbed a heavy, LED lantern off the side of the porch. It clanked noisily as he lowered his other hand to flip on the switch.
"Then how do you like this?!"
Flicker.
Flicker.
Flicker.
His mouth turned, his denchers gritting against each other in frustration. The ONE time he thought he could catch them. "Damn batteries." With a weak hand, the toad gave the lantern a smack on its side.
They watched with their hearts in their throats, beginning to slowly exit the bushes with more care than before. Their hands were sweaty with anticipation as they waited for the inevitable beam of light to shine right at them. The unkept, dry ground crackled under their sneakers. One wrong move could get all of their asses kicked and none of them could afford that in the middle of the boonies with no one to call to. But what were they expecting when they pranked this guy again?
"A-HA!"
Bam! There was the light, incandescently bright. It lit up the whole surrounding area, especially what was in front of it. The toad lifted it up like a mad man, despite his eyes straining from the intense light, "Now come out, you!"
They had no other choice, but to freaking book it, realizing the fact once the toad was half-way down the rickety wooden stairs leading down to the ground. This toad was fed up! Sure, they had pranked him a few times before, but this old fart hadn't done more than screech and curse. Now, he appeared to be taking matters into his own crusty, veiny hands.
Instead of tip-toeing, their feet broke into a full blown sprint. Their shoulders bashed against one another's, trying to get a head start out of there. They were out of the bushes by that point, the old fart couldn't pinpoint where they were now, with that hearing of his, right? Right?
Instead, the toad swung the lantern with guster, in the direction where the bushes were shaking. The light revealed five figures dashing away in a flurry, all of them wearing black jackets and the toad narrowed his eyes and his mouth solidified into a toothy grin, "THERE you are!"
He focused in on two of them, however, as if he recognized them. Unlike the others, the two wore red and green. The shorter, chubbier one wore a red streak across his jacket and a red hat while the other. The other one, who was clinging to the red one's arm, wore a green streak and a matching green cap, "YOU TWO AGAIN?!"
The group found themselves running like hell, hearing the revving of a motor in the distance behind them. It could've been a car or a chainsaw, it could be anything, but all they could do now to avoid it by letting their legs carry them as fast as they could.
Even though they were already running at full speed, they somehow sped up, hearing an echoing voice call, "Quit running, you! Let's sit down and have a chat!" The fact that no one knew what direction it was coming from was scaring the life out of them, "Come back here!"
One of them, with shaggy brown hair and uncut sideburns ran alongside his friend with the red-streaked black jacket, "Mario, dude, just where the hell did you park the car?" He hissed.
The red-jacketed friend was one of the last in the back, lagging behind the rest. Mario had a round face with chubby cheeks, dark brown hair, blue eyes and an almost fully grown mustache. With a high pitched Italian-accent, he exclaimed, "Reggie, like I know these-a-woods!"
"My brother knows-a-them better than me. He's the only one of us that actually comes back here!" After just avoiding crashing into a tree by a hair, he called to the one running significantly faster than everyone else, adorned in the green-streaked jacket, "Ay, Luigi!"
Luigi appeared similar to his brother, except, he had a longer face with a skinnier body and differently styled mustache. Like Mario, he had dark-hazelnut hair with long sideburns and bright sky blue eyes, "Bro?"
"Where's the car, bro?" Mario shouted with urgency, beginning to hear the motor gaining on them.
"Bro!" He shouted at his brother's pause. They had NO time to think about this!
Luigi narrowed his eyes, "Let me think, bro! We just-a-started running in the forest and we're definitely not going the way-a-we came!"
"Well, Weege, start thinkin' soon!" Another friend cried who had curly black hair and long eyebrows. When Luigi ignored him, he deciding to be a little mischievous and run his fingers around Luigi's shoulders, "Or else the boos will come for you!"
"B-Boos?" Suddenly, Luigi screeched to a stop. His feet dug against the ground and he fell back onto his rump, flinging the dirt all over his shoes onto his clothes. The others were forced to stop as well, to avoid colliding with Luigi and causing even more problems.
"Dammit, Lou! Now-a-look at-a-what you did!" Mario scolded, hitting Lou quite harshly on the arm, "We're-a-gonna be stuck-a-here for hours..." he rolled his eyes, finding tears welling up in Luigi's eyes.
"Boo-Boos...No-No Boos…" Luigi murmured, sniffling a little.
Reggie and the rest were panicking, "Mario, you gotta do something, man! He's gonna get us all messed up!"
Thinking fast, like he always did, Mario wrapped his arms around Luigi's body and uncurled him from his ball, "I'll just-a-have to do this, then!" He easily picked Luigi up and threw him up over his shoulder, patting his brother on the back, "I might have to go a little slower, but, it's-a-better than nothing!"
"Boos…" Watching the ground begin to move under him, Luigi stammered, unable to break out of his state even though he was safe on his brother's shoulders.
"Nice save, Mario. Now we just gotta find the car-"
"SWAMP!" Lou shouted and the group stopped in front of a large swamp-like river.
Reggie practically screeched, "Again?!"
"Let me handle this…" With Luigi still over his shoulders, Mario stepped to the front of the group, eyeing the dense water just inches from him, covered in algae and strange mushrooms growing out of the muck.
Seeing a disembodied shell lurking in the middle of the swamp, an idea popped in Mario's brain, "Watch-a-this, fellas." Mario hopped over to the shell and it made his friends gasp at his boldness. He landed on the koopa shell with little difficulty, even avoiding a slip that would send him tumbling into the parasite-ridden and possibly poison swamp. Looking above him, Mario found a ledge and he smirked with victory, using his impressive, natural jumping skills to rocket himself up there, "I'll-a-get you!"
Laying Luigi on the ground next to him, Mario stretched out his hand, gesturing for his friends to follow him up. Reggie jumped first, as eager as he was, and landed wobbly on the koopa shell, "Dude, I'm slippin'!"
"Reggie, just jump towards-a-me!" Mario said, and Reggie did as he was told. He jumped from the koopa shell, and even though he hadn't been able to get the same height as Mario did, his friend caught him by the wrist and hoisted him up to the ledge, "See?" Mario smiled, giving Reggie a bro fist.
He repeated this with the last two of his friends, each of them thanking him profusely, "Thank the Stars you're such a great jumper, Mario."
They were all snapped back to reality at that second, hearing a revving motor in the near distance. Somehow, that crazy, persistent old fart was still on their tails, much to their amazement. The headlights of his truck were also beginning to become visible. No one said another word, and just bolted. Even Luigi was snapped out of his trance and raced to catch up with the others.
The old toad's truck must've been on the road, attempting to catch them once they were out of the forest, "We must-a-be close!" Mario said confidently, "We-a-just gotta get-a-there before the-a-old fart does!"
Sure enough, they were, they saw the lights of their roofless van coming up on the side of the road. They had parked just a little ways down the street, and they breathed a sigh a relief.
"THERE IT IS! THE CAR!" Lou cheered, "Come on, dudes!:
Luigi was not at all relieved and his eyes were hooked on the toad's truck gaining on them, "He's gaining on-a-us!" He was so hooked on the racing vehicle didn't even realize his running speed decreased and was falling behind the rest of his friends. When Reggie grabbed his hand to pull him along, he screeched, "EEEE!"
"Thanks for nothing, Weege." He teased and Luigi only pouted.
Mario jumped in the driver's seat, turning the key in the ignition and placing his hands on the steering wheel. Luigi jumped into the passenger's seat and the their three buddies filed into the back seat.
"You can't run from me!"
A cackling voice behind them boomed, coming from inside a truck that swerved out of a driveway and accelerating towards them.
"Punch it, bro!" Luigi tapped frantically on Mario's shoulder, and without a word, his brother slammed on the gas. The three friends in the backseat laughed maniacally, pointing at the toad's angry face through the window of the truck.
Their car raced through the narrow, barely paved road. The frame bumped and bumped, with every rock or bump they ran over everyone was tousled like they were groceries, especially Lou, since he had nothing to hold onto that weren't his friend's shoulders.
Reggie kept watch in the back, snapping his head around every once in a while to check the toad's progress. Then, the friend on the other side of Lou handed him a sack of toilet paper that was stacked in the trunk.
Reggie realized what Lou intended to communicate to him and he cheered, "Yeah! Double dash style!" before tossing his arm back and chucking the lump of toilet paper at the truck. Roll after roll was thrown from the back of the car, all in random directions. Some smacked against the window of the toad's truck while some fell onto the road.
They burst out into laughter once again, making Mario raise an eyebrow, flicking his eye up to the rearview mirror to avoid losing sight on the road. "What is up with-a-you? I'm getting jealous-a-now!" He laughed, turning the steering wheel hard to pull off an unexpected short turn.
Throwing the toilet paper had set back the toad and his truck a little bit, the friends found out, seeing the vehicle behind theirs bump and slow as it came in contact with the bouncing toilet paper rolls. The three high fived in the back seat, and when they looked down at their seats, there was no more toilet paper left, "Guys, he's totally slowed down, Mario, just take a lot of turns so we can finally lose him." Lou whispered.
"Right on, bud." Mario agreed.
As the ride went on, Mario took as many backroads he knew back to his and Luigi's house. No matter what street it was, Mario turned, all he wanted was to lose that old toad. While Luigi was wide awake, trying to get over his adrenaline rush, their three friends had partially fallen asleep in the back seat. Each of them took shifts to make sure no one was following them, but that was only when they were less than five minutes away from the brothers' house.
Mario called his friends to wake them up, "We're here!"
He slid carefully into the short driveway and parked the car in the second space in the garage. Luigi calmed himself down, knowing that he was back in the safety of their parent's house, "We are NOT-a-doing that again, bro!" He remarked, holding his chest to calm his racing heart.
"Can't count on that, bro." Mario shrugged, taking the keys out and jumping out of the car. He high-fived his friends, needing to jump up to reach their hands.
"He can just not bring you next time." Lou said, following Mario to his parents' mushroom-shaped, three story house. Smoke billowed from the chimney and the savory aroma of Mario and Luigi's favorite pasta found their nostrils.
"Mama's making-a-something!" Mario said, the smell coming from the open windows made his stomach growl.
"Thank Star Haven, I am starving!" Reggie admitted, and his friends gave a nod, "You think your mom will let us in, dude?
Luigi peaked through one of the windows, noticing a plump middle aged woman working at the stove. Her dark brown, almost black hair was tied in a loose bun at the back of her head. The loose strands on her forehead kept back with a cloth bandana. Wiping her hands on her apron, she stirred a spoon around in a boiling pot, and Luigi's mouth watered. "Mama's here!"
Mario took the house key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole, yelling as he opened the door, "HELLO, MAMA! It's-a-me, Mari...o…"
His voice died out once he saw who was at the dinner table. His papa sat cross armed, his big, friendly eyes were turned down in disappointment. Mario was welcomed with no hug, no pat on the shoulder, but a cold glare. Mario noticed it first and he stopped in his tracks, ignoring the fact that the door just smacked him in the shoulder. It struck him in the heart, Mario had gotten a look from his papa no son wanted to see.
"Sons." Papa said sternly with little pause between his words, "Take a seat, we need to talk."
Author's Note:
Hope y'all enjoyed and I'll be sure to update soon! Remember, this is my first fanfic on this site, so please don't hesitate to give feedback. I would love to hear what you have to say.