Blame TachibanaEri.

Peach Petals

Ezio was only partially awake when Luigi burst into his room, not bothering to knock first. "Messer Ezio, Messer Ezio! Something terrible has happened!"

Ezio groaned softy as he collected his wits and pushed himself up onto his elbows. "Slow down, amico, what's happened?"

"It's Signora Peach, sir… She's been kidnapped!"

Ezio was on his feet in a matter of seconds, heading towards where his armor was laid out on the table. "When did this happen?"

"Sometime last night, Signore, we cannot be sure…" Luigi looked embarrassed, and Ezio knew why. It was his duty to keep an eye on Peach, along with his brother's.

"Where is Mario?" Ezio asked, quickly donning his armor. "Does he know?"

"Yes, Signore, he is waiting for you downstairs…" Luigi cleared his throat and Ezio turned to look at him.

"What is it, Luigi?"

"There… Was a note, Signore… Addressed to you." He held out a rather wrinkled envelope.

Ezio snatched it from him and ripped it open, dark eyes scanning over the spidery writing. Once he'd finished it, he crumpled it into a ball, fist shaking with contained rage. "Bastardo! Luigi, tell my uncle where I'm going. Do not leave the villa, and do not let my mother and sister out of your sight. Do you understand?"

Luigi nodded quickly, dashing out of the room.

Ezio watched him go and then threw the note from him, disgusted to even think that he'd touched the same slip of paper as that monster. The one who'd stolen his princess and threatened his family.

"Bowser…"

It would have been hard to miss the spiraling towers of the Templar's cathedral even if Ezio hadn't known exactly where it was.

But as it was, he had found and begun to scale the large building in record time, leaving Mario on the perimeter as back-up. If Ezio wasn't out in half an hour, then the other assassin had instructions.

But Ezio wasn't planning on dying here. No, he would get his blond princess back and hopefully kill that bastardo Bowser in the process.

This torment needed to stop once and for all.

Peach squirmed on the stone cold floor, trying in vain to loosen the bonds on her wrists as she breathed softly and hoped the guards outside her door wouldn't decide to spring an inspection on her.

She wasn't worried about being left here for long. As soon as Ezio found out she was missing, he would come for her. He would find her, and then everything would be alright.

She winced as the ropes around her wrists dug into the skin as she pulled against them, but she hated being trussed up like this. It was demeaning, not to mention uncomfortable, and completely unnecessary.

There were two guards outside the locked and bolted solid-oak door, and another ten guards between here and the exit. Even if Peach had managed to escape the room and find a weapon, she never would have made it out.

But that didn't matter, she reminded herself, because Ezio would rescue her… Just as he always did.

Wow.

Okay, so I was chatting with my mother, and she made a Mario reference right in the middle of our discussion of Assassin's Creed.

I then tweeted about this phenomenon, and TachibanaEri told me to write this.

I listened to her.

This was originally going to be a One-Shot, but I'm having trouble concentrating, so it'll be a Two-Shot instead.

And yes. Mario is an Assassin.

"Messer" means "Master"

"Amico" means "friend"

"Signore/Singnora" means "Mr./Miss"

Mario and its related characters belong to: Shigeru Miyamoto & Nintendo

Assassin's Creed and its related characters belong to: Ubisoft