Hi guys! MarioYoshiZW here. My second facfic, I'm excited about this one. It's a middle school fanfic, so just be prepared. I know, there are a lot of Mario middle/high school fanfics out there, but I felt I needed to make my own. As always, please enjoy the story and please give me feedback on it. It would be cool to see what kinds of ideas you have. I'll write as much as I can. DISCLAIMER: I do not own Mario, Luigi, or any of those characters. So, I present to you...
Middle School Madness!
Introducing Characters:
Mario: An Italian kid who is new to the school and is excited but also nervous to start. Especially when he sees Peach. Has a twin, Luigi, he is rounder than his brother. Bowser bullies him and his brother a lot, but Mario is never afraid to back down.
Luigi: Mario's little brother, Luigi is shyer and a bit of a scaredy cat. However, if you get Luigi mad, you'll pay for what you did. Has a crush on Daisy.
Princess Peach: The popular girl at Tanooki Middle School, everyone likes her and wants to be her friend. A lot of boys drool over her, but she has her eyes set on only one of them.
Daisy: Peach's best friend since third grade, she has a crush on Luigi. She is sporty and not your average middle school girl.
Bowser: A mutant turtle dragon thing, Bowser is the school bully and will do anything to win Peach's heart. Bowser enjoys picking on the Mario Bros, especially Mario.
Rosalina: A mysterious middle schooler who is very smart. She wants to be friends with the Mario Bros, and has a small crush on Luigi.
Yoshi: A fun-loving dinosaur, Yoshi is eager to be Mario's best buddy. He can always be leaned on if you're feeling down. Has a small crush on Birdo.
Birdo: A pink dino, Birdo cares a lot about her fashion statement, but not really about school.
Toad: Toad is energetic and quickly takes a liking to the Mario Bros. He's Peach's trusty messenger, being one of the few boys who is just a friend.
Toadette: One of Peach's closer friends. Has a small crush on Toad.
Koopert: A koopa troopa who seems to get in Mario's way a lot and is one of Bowser's cronies.
Wario: A large, mean kid who never does well in school. He's a member of Bowser's bunch, and everyone is confused as to why he is in 7th grade.
Waluigi: Tall and skinny, almost no one wants to be his friend. Which is fine, because he is very antisocial. He has Wario as a brother, and serves Bowser.
Toadsworth: The principal of Tanooki Middle School.
Alright, let's begin our story. Mario is at his new house sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast.
Time: 6:40 AMMario was sitting at the table, a bowl of cereal in front of him. He was picking at it, thinking about how 7th grade would be. He was nervous, that was for darn sure, but he was also excited. Who knew what could happen at an entirely new middle school, with new kids, new teachers, new everything?
"Hey, bro," a voice said from the stairwell. It was Luigi, Mario's younger twin brother. He wore a white shirt with a green stripe at the top, navy blue sweat pants, and black Vans. His haircut was similar to Mario's. Mario had a similar outfit; a red shirt, blue sweat pants, black Vans.
"Hi, Weegee," Mario replied. "You ready for school?"
"I don't know," Luigi admitted. "New teachers, new kids, new everything. How about you?"
"I'm excited, but nervous at the same time," Mario replied as he washed out his bowl of cereal and placed it in the sink. "Well, we better pack our things and get going if we're to catch the bus."
"But..." Luigi started to protest. "Oh, never mind." He sighed. "I'll grab a bagel on the way out."
"It's your own fault you got up late," Mario said.
"I forgot we had school, okay?!" Luigi returned. At this Mario grinned in a way that stated he was snickering at him inside. Luigi blushed as he told himself not to tell anyone those things.
Mario slung his backpack over his shoulder and grabbed his binder. It was a nice binder that zipped open and closed and had a handle for him to carry it with. It was soon to be filled with books, worksheets, and other school-related stuff. He and Luigi headed out the door to the small shelter of a bus stop and waited for the bus to come.
They were not waiting for a yellow school bus, however. The bus they were waiting for was a city bus reserved for Tanooki Middle School. Mario's parents had to get their children bus passes to ride the bus to school.
Other kids had started to come to the bus stop to wait for the bus as well. Finally Mario spotted the bus in the distance down the street. He took his bus pass out of his pocket as the bus stopped in front of him. He climbed aboard the bus and swiped his card through a slot near the driver seat. It beeped as he went to go find a seat. A few kids were on the bus, but not many. Mario found a seat by himself and stared out the window, watching the other kids get on the bus until the bus pulled up in front of the long brick building of Tanooki Middle School.
Mario took a deep breath. Well, this is it, he thought as stepped off of the bus. An adult he figured was a teacher was yelling where students were to enter the building.
"Sixth graders come right here to this door!" she yelled. "Seventh graders go around back to door 10, and eighth graders go to this side of the building! Mrs. Raineer is standing by door seven!" She continued to repeat this to the kids just getting off of the bus. Mario went to door 10 towards the back of the building. He saw many creatures waiting for the bell to ring so they could enter the building. Yoshis, toads, goombas, koopas, and even a few other people were standing within a 20 foot radius of the door. People were uncommon in the Mushroom Kingdom, so it was a surprise to see five or six of them within the seventh graders. Finally the bell rang at 7:20 AM and the kids crammed themselves through the double doors to get into the building.
Mario took his schedule out of his pocket once he made his way through the rush of seventh graders. He searched the schedule, looking for his homeroom. Finally he found it. Rm. 26, he read. Me. Koopal. He took a right down the breezeway and when he came to a split he went left a short way. He spotted room 26 and entered after taking a deep breath. He saw yoshis, toads, koopas, and goombas sitting at seven different tables. Mario gulped, knowing he would have to sit by someone he had never met before, and took a seat beside a yoshi, setting his binder on the table. The yoshi examined him curiously, studying his face, clothing, and hair.
"You're new here, aren't you?" the yoshi asked.
"Uh, yeah," Mario replied nervously. He was excited, along with being nervous. He hoped he could make a friend out of the yoshi. "How'd you know?"
"I've never seen you here before, and I know almost everyone here," the yoshi replied. He decided to introduce himself. "My name's Yoshi. Pleased to meet you," he held out his hand to shake.
"I'm Mario. Nice to meet you too." He took Yoshi's hand and they shook.
"What's your next class?" Yoshi asked.
"Language arts. How about you?" Mario replied.
"Same! That's cool. Who do you have it with?"
"Mrs. Parament."
"Same!"
"Cool," Mario said. He brought himself to ask the question. He had too, or he would be lost. Literally. "Could you help me find my way around here? I've got no idea where anything is." He blushed a little.
"Sure," Yoshi replied. "Maybe Mr. Koopal would let me show you around." Yoshi rose from his seat to go talk to the koopa. Mr. Koopal had a small grey-white beard and wore silver oval glasses over his dark blue eyes.
"Mr. Koopal?" Yoshi began. The older koopa turned towards Yoshi, listening to him. "Can I show Mario around the school? He's new here."
"Sure," Mr. Koopal replied kindly. "You two can share a locker. My lockers are 1-20. Leave your binders here." He paused to pull a lock with a slip of paper attached to it out of a plastic bag. "This is your lock and code," Mr. Koopal gave the kick to Yoshi.
"Thanks," Yoshi said, giving him a curt nod. He went back to Mario.
"Well?" Mario asked.
"He let us go. Grab your backpack, but leave your binder here. I'll show you where Mr. Koopal's lockers are," Yoshi replied. Mario rose to his feet and they left the classroom. Just then the bell rang.
"That's just a warning bell," Yoshi assured Mario, who was surprised at how early the bell rang. "It rings one minute before you have to get to class."
"That's nice," Mario replied as they took a right and headed down the breezeway Mario had walked into.
"I know, right? Ah, here we are," Yoshi said. "Let's take this one, right here at the end." Yoshi pointed to the closest locker, which Mario saw was locker 20. It was the closest on that side to door 10, where Mario came in.
"Okay," Mario said. He took his backpack off and hung it on one of the hooks inside of the locker.
"Here's the code. You'll memorize it soon enough," Yoshi said and gave him a slip of paper with three numbers on it. Mario repeatedly said the numbers in his head so he could memorize it.
"Thanks," Mario said.
"Alrighty, now for a tour of Tanooki Middle School!" Yoshi exclaimed and grabbed Mario's arm, pulling him down the breezeway even further, turning left at the end to find a short hallway that ended abruptly with a door.
"This is the UA, or Unified Arts hallway. It'll be your 4th or 5th hour," Yoshi said.
"My 4th hour is technology with Ms. Toadly," Mario said. "In room 5."
"That's the door on the end," Yoshi said.
"But what's this whole 'Brown day' and 'White day' thing?"
"Oh. Well, today's a White day, so what do you have?"
"I have chorus. Ugh," Mario groaned. He did not like singing.
"So tomorrow you will have gym, then chorus the next day, and so on. Basically, every other school day you'll flip between chorus and gym," Yoshi explained.
"Ah."
"Okay, to the seventh/eighth grade hallway we go!" Yoshi announced. Mario followed yoshi back up the breezeway and back into the long hallway that had Mr. Koopal's room along with many others.
"See this sign?" Yoshi pointed to two laminated pieces of paper. One said "24-40 --", the other said "- 14-10".
"Yeah," Mario replied.
"Those numbers are the room numbers going the way the arrow is pointing," yoshi explained. "There's a sign wherever there are stairs leading up to or down from a floor. All of them look like these except they have different room numbers, obviously."
"Well, that's convenient," Mario remarked.
"Like I said, upstairs have them too," yoshi said. So let's check out the library, gym, and cafeteria!" Yoshi grabbed Mario's arm and pulled him up the stairs and into another breezeway with windows that streatched from floor to ceiling on both walls. They stopped where the windows ended and the breezeway split into three.
"To your left is the library, to your right is the gym, and straight on the left wall are the doors to the cafeteria," Yoshi told Mario. It took a minute to take in the information yoshi had just thrown at him. Finally he could find words again.
"Cool," he said.
"I think that's it," Yoshi said. "Let's go back to the room." They went back down into Mr. Koopal's room. Mr. Koopal smiled at their arrival.
"How was the tour, Mario?" he asked.
"Pretty good," Mario replied.
"Good. Now, you boys better grab your binders. The bell will ring in a minute."
Mario and Yoshi went over to their table and picked up their binders. The bell rang about 30 seconds later, letting the students filter out of the classroom to go find their first hour classroom.
"Let's go, bro," Yoshi said. Mario smiled. He had made a friend. And he was definantly going to need one here, for strange things tend to happen at Tanooki Middle School. And this year would be no different.
Well, what do you think? I have chapters 2 and 3 written down in a notebook, so they'll be published soon. Anyways, please leave a review and/or like it. It will be greatly appreciated. Well, see you all next time!