STAR PEACH
A Peach and Fox Fanfic.
Ever since I saw Super Smash Bros. Brawl I wanted to pair these two together, so I did and they deserve each other. I do not own these characters and all rights are to their respective owners.
The Mushroom Kingdom...
Underneath a luminescent starry sky, Princess Peach Toadstool stood on her balcony listening to a silly argument between two adult Toads and an Officer Toad. The fight was about a spilling of tea on the floor and the officer seemed to not be getting through to either of them. Peach sighed and walked back into her castle, closing the balcony door behind herself. Toad, Peach's servant and best friend came striding into her room with a clipboard and a smile on his face.
"Hello, Princess." said Toad setting the clipboard down on the princess's poufy, silk comforter.
"Hello, Toad." said Peach walking to the dresser to retrieve her brush.
"And how are you feeling this evening, Princess?" Toad asked while sticking a stamp onto an
envelope and writing on it.
"Tired," Peach said sleepily, while brushing her long blonde hair and gazing out the glass balcony doors at the pearlescent moon that cast a beautiful glow all across the Mushroom Kingdom.
Toad folded the paper on which he had been writing on and sealed the gummy flap of the envelope closed. He set it down beside him on the bed and sat waiting for the princess to speak.
Peach set her brush down and smiled softly. "Why do people fight?" she asked Toad.
Toad looked at her as if to ask "What?!" but he answered he question nevertheless.
"No one seems to know a central reason." he began "Many people fight when they are angry or if they are sad and some do it just for the fun of it."
Peach walked to her mirror and looked at herself. "So there's not a central reason? None at all?" she asked while taking off her crown and resting it next to a vase of pink roses and a small brown teddy bear with a red scarf.
"As far as I'm concerned, Princess," Toad said while gazing at the envelope he had just laid down "No, there isn't one." He sighed and looked at her as she walked towards him. "Why do you ask?"
"No real reason, I just heard an argument for the tenth time this evening." Peach said while sitting down next to him. She looked at the letter beside him. "May I?" she asked before picking up the letter. "Go ahead." Toad said a bit sadly.
It read:
Toadette T.
13 Shroom Lane
Toad Town, Mushroom Kingdom
109876
"So, you are writing to Toadette?" Peach asked.
Toad sighed and looked at the floor sadly. "Yeah." He replied. "This is the fifth letter I've written her and she still hasn't responded.
Peach felt sympathy for the poor little guy, he was under the princess's rule and one of her "Elite Toads" but still he was a servant and that didn't look super-impressive to the girls, especially Toadette. "You like her, don't you?"
Toad looked at her with the look of someone who has high hopes but then realizes the cold irony of reality. "Yeah, I do." He sighed "You caught me."
He looked at her and sighed once more. "Am I ugly?" he asked her.
Peach's eyes grew bright and her mouth dropped. "No, why would you think that?" she asked.
"I just feel that way sometimes, maybe that's why Toadette don't like me."
Peach wanted to tell him that it was not only Toadette but other women who were picky and often overlooked a good mate in favor of a popular one. "Who does she like, if not you?"
Toad looked at his feet as if he was too embarrassed to be faced with the idea. "Another toad, princess." He said "His name is Rus. T and he is a millionaire, or at least he owns more coins than I ever will.
Peach patted his back and smiled "But you are one of my elite Toads and I value you very much, what could be better than that?"
"I'm a servant, Toadette says," said Toad bowing his head in shame, "I am nothing more than a slave, that's what Rus. T says too."
"Slave?!" Peach exclaimed "You are my friend; I would never imagine forcing you to do something you didn't want to. They act as if I whip you with a whip and shout orders at you all the time."
"Everyone does." Toad said while retrieving the letter from Peach's lap. "They all laugh at me when I say I am one of your guards."
"Well, I am your friend, Toad." Peach said in a-matter-of-factly tone, "And I love you as such."
"I know," sighed Toad, "But I wish I had me a girlfriend."
"You have your whole life to get one, Toad." said Peach patronizingly. "You shouldn't rush or you may end up with the wrong one and then the right one will not be able to get to you because you will be with the wrong one."
Toad wanted to laugh at the princess's repetitive words but he held back. He placed the letter in his vest pocket and lay down.
"Do you think I'll ever find a soul mate?" he asked Peach quietly.
"Of course you will." Peach said while rising from the bed to change into her nightgown.
She retrieved the garment and disappeared into the bathroom.
She just would not understand, Toad thought. As he pulled out the letter and looked at it once more. "She could never like me."
"Don't say that." Peach said while walking out of the bathroom in her nightgown and sitting beside him once more. "She just doesn't know what you are capable of."
Peach wrapped her arm around Toad in a motherly hug. "We'll show her, someday."
"I hope so." Toad said unhopefully.
"I was in the same situation once." Peach said while looking at the vanity.
"When?" asked Toad.
"It's been almost what-a year now?" Peach asked trying to recall the days it had been since she had brawled in the Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament. She smiled as she crossed the room to the vanity. She retrieved the bear and brought it to Toad.
"Oh, what a cute bear!" Toad said smiling. "Where'd you get it, Princess?"
Peach sat down with the bear in her arms. "A friend gave it to me." She replied touching the red scarf around its neck. "A special friend…"
"Oh, and who would that be?" Toad asked smiling with wide eyes.
"An old friend…" Peach sighed.
Toad's face became angry. "Who?! Mario?!? After all those horrible names he called you at the Smash Mansion! Peach I would have expected-!" But Peach laughed and calmed Toad down.
"No, not Mario." She said quickly. " We're done for, now." she said.
"Then, who is it?" Toad asked with a puzzled look. "Anyone I know?"
"You should know him." Peach giggled "You were always getting mad at him at the Smash Mansion."
Toad thought about everyone he had yelled at whilst at the Smash Mansion, Marth, Link, Ike, Falco, especially. But he could not grasp the name of who Peach was speaking of. He sighed and laughed a bit. "Okay, I give up. Who?" he asked.
"Fox…" said Peach.
Toad smiled a huge smile and it felt good to smile after such a disappointing evening.
"Fox?" he asked "Fox McCloud, the leader of StarFox?"
"Yes, Toad." Peach agreed "That is who gave me this bear. He won it at the celebratory carnival Zelda hosted in Hyrule."
"Aww!" Toad said happily, "He gave it to you, that's so sweet."
"This scarf was his, but he tied it around the bear and told me that he felt better knowing I had something with me of his." Peach said touching the scarf and smiling sadly.
"Where is he now?" asked Toad while staring at the moon.
"He's in his own world, the Lylat System. You should know that." She smiled.
"But have you two always had this feeling?" Toad asked.
Peach turned the bear upside down to give herself some thought. "No, not really." She said remembering the days in the Melee Tournament. "Me and Fox hinted to one another maybe once or twice but other than that, we didn't really show one another any other feelings." She sighed once more as she went back into those times that were now way too far away to remember. "He had a girlfriend at the time or maybe a bit afterward. We gave one another a small chance but it ended in us realizing we were just too different from one another."
How so?" asked Toad with a curious look in his eyes.
"Well, I am human; at least that's what society makes out. And Fox, well, he's anthropomorphic. He's an animal capable of human feeling and speech and intelligence but, no matter what, they will always see the animal side of him. I don't see it, but they always seem to."
"So when did you two actually get together?" Toad questioned
"Just barely last Autumn, I think." Peach said. "I've lost track of the days so I am not really sure when it was."
"But how did it happen? I mean, you two choosing one another?"
"Well, it started out as a bit of a consolation period. He and his girlfriend had broken up and he needed someone to talk to so I listened. I did learn things I never knew about him, his crush on me, obviously. But I was his friend; almost a sister in a way."
"And then..?" asked Toad with a big smile on his face.
"Well, then came that one time where we were pitted together randomly against Sonic and Wario and the time when I was "kidnapped" and he rescued me."
"Aww…" sighed Toad. "You two sound like you really love each other."
"We do." Peach said while walking back to her vanity to replace the teddy bear, only to pick up another object. Which she brought back to Toad. "This was also a gift from him.
"It's a ring." Toad said eyeing it. "An emerald ring. A heart-shaped emerald ring."
"Emerald is his eye color and he picked it out." Peach said.
"Does he have anything of yours?" Toad asked while handing the ring back.
"Just my handkerchief and a necklace," Peach said while putting the ring on her finger and looking at it sadly.
"So in what way did you relate to me?"
"I just told you, I felt that there was no way for me and Fox to be together for so long and then-wham! There we were giving each other gifts and telling one another our feelings. It all comes, but within time." She said while patting his foot. "After all patience is a virtue…"
"That I just don't seem to have." Toad finished.
"No, you have plenty of patience." Peach laughed and hugged him.
They both sat there happily and thought about what the future would hold for them. Peach then yawned. "I think it's time we get to bed. It's been a long day and I have so much to do tomorrow. "Okay, then, Princess." Toad said hopping off her bed and heading to the door. "Thanks for cheering me up." Before he opened it though, he turned. "You really think it will happen?" he asked hopefully.
"All in time, Toad. Now, go to sleep. As your boss I command you to sleep." She laughed and stopped. "Wait! Toad." Peach said.
Toad turned and faced her. "Yeah, Princess?" he said.
"His actions say he does, my heart says he does, and he's even said it too. But do you really think he does love me?" She asked. Toad opened the door and turned to her and smiled. "Of course he does, Princess. Now, go to sleep." He closed the door gently and was gone.
Peach settled into her bed and looked up at the ceiling. "I know he loves me." She said to herself, and then she rolled over and fell asleep dreaming of him and her together.
*Violet*
Wasn't that a nice beginning?
Also I'm learning how to format my stories better so yeah, the next chapter will be up shortly.
As I've said before I can pair any characters I want together…I just can't convince the world that that's the way the story should go. Also, I don't know if Toadette is one of Peach's guards so she is an independent woman in here.