A New Life
It was a peaceful day in the Mushroom Kingdom. The Koopa Empire had perceived to be no threat to the Kingdom due to it still in the process of trying to rebuild itself. Everyone in the Kingdom went by their day, doing their mundane tasks just to get by. However, there were a couple of brothers who had to adjust to their new lives as heroes. They lived in a small size house that was just a few minutes away from Toadstool Castle. They were officially known as Mario and Luigi, but to everyone else, they were the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom.
"Mario," Luigi called already up in the early part of the day making breakfast for the duo. "Come on it's time to eat." Luigi waited patiently for his brother as he didn't want to eat by himself. "Oh he better not be sleeping still." Luigi thought feeling hunger pains. "I want to eat already. We got a big day." Luig went upstairs to Mario's room, where he found his big brother sleeping still. Luigi face palmed himself as he realized he should have wakened him up manually. "That pizzano has never set his alarm ever since we decided to stay here." Luigi thought as he decided to play a prank on his brother. Luigi had been working on a Bowser paper Mache mask ever since their first encounter on him and had put exact detail on it. It was almost an exact replica of Bowser's face. "If this doesn't wake him up, then I don't know what will." Luigi went to his room and wore the mask as he went back into Mario's room gently tapping him on the shoulder.
Mario woke up to the growling sound of what appeared to be Bowser. When he saw Bowser's face he immedialty screamed "MAMA MIA! LUIGI WE GOT AN INTRUDER!" Mario then heard snickering coming from Luigi as he took off the paper Mache mask, realizing that Luigi had tricked him. "Why you little…" Mario said angrily as he jumped from his bed and wrestled Luigi. Even though the brothers were a dominant duo against any opponent, Mario had always gotten the better of Luigi when it came to wrestling.
"Uncle. Uncle" cried Luigi as Mario let him go, allowing Luigi to get up and gently rubbing his arm, pretending that it hurt.
"Oh you big baby." Mario replied sticking his tongue out. "You deserved it for scaring the living Koopa out of me."
"I thought you always said scaring the living sh-"Luigi replied before Mario cut him off.
"Exactly Luigi," said Mario giving him a little smirk. "Anyway why did you have to wake me up?"
"Don't you remember?" asked Luigi causing Mario to shrug his shoulders. "We promised Peach and Daisy that we would play a game of tennis with them. Now hurry up and get dressed because the food's getting cold." Luigi then proceeded to go downstairs to the kitchen, waiting for Mario.
"He's such a drama queen." Mario murmured to himself, changing out of his pajamas and into his traditional outfit. "At least I get to spend the day with the princesses." Mario then hurried downstairs to join Luigi in eating.
Mario was sitting at the dinner table to join Luigi for a pregame breakfast. To Mario, the food looked incredible as always whether it was the quality of the Mushroom Kingdom, Luigi's masterful cooking, or both. "Man, I feel spoiled, we get to eat like royalty and it doesn't even cost us a dime." Luigi chuckled at that fact reflecting on how good the brothers had it here.
"Remember in Brooklyn when it cost us an arm and a leg just to get a decent meal on the table." Luigi replied, causing both brothers to chuckle. "I guess that's what happens when we got into the hero business."
"Yeah bro." Mario said taking a bite out of Luigi's scrambled eggs. "And if I remember correctly, there was a certain someone who didn't want to come to the kingdom. Mr. I'm scared of Ninja Turtles." Mario laughed while Luigi played it off.
"And If I remember correctly," Luigi said devilishly raising his eyebrow. "You were the one who said that we were going to be plumbers forever." Now the roles were switched while Luigi was laughing and Mario was the one who stayed silent.
"Alright, alright let's change the subject," Mario said taking another bite. "What is our strategy going to be for winning this game? Remember we want to win, but not to humiliate the princesses by humiliating them in the court."
"I always thought we would trade off sets" Luigi replied finishing his orange juice. "That way when we get to the final set. We win, it was a competitive game and everyone is happy. Including the princesses. They do look good when they are happy." Luigi then started daydreaming about Daisy's smile.
"Hey Luigi," Mario said snapping his fingers in Luigi's face. "Stop being lovey-dovey for just one second and focus. We need the eye of the tiger, our game faces on, and we got to eat lightning and crap thunder."
"You just burrowed that from a bunch of movie quotes didn't you?" Luigi asked raising his eyebrow yet again.
"Shut up and finish your breakfast." Mario said eating up all the eggs and bacon left on the plate.
They continued their breakfast conversation for another ten minutes talking about real world events that were luckily able to find out through weekly visits to the outside world. "Good thing Toadsworth told us how to get back to Brooklyn." Said Luigi finishing up his last bite of eggs. "Or else we would be totally cut off." Mario nodded in agreement as he checked his watch.
"Mama- Mia" said Mario quickly getting up from his chair and rushing towards the door leading out of the house. "We are going to be late, hurry up Luigi."
"Now he tells me to hurry up." Luigi thought as he quickly got out of his chair and the Mario brothers rushed for Toadstool castle.