Chapter One:
After saving Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser. Mario decided it was time to take a much needed vacation in Sarasaland. But unfortunately Sarasaland was invaded by aliens, and Mario ended up having to save Princess Daisy instead of relaxing. In the end the alien invader Tatanga was no match for Mario and was quickly defeated. But before he could be captured, Tatanga made his escape to outer space.
Shortly afterwards, Mario started making his return to his home in The Mushroom Kingdom. During his travel, Mario thought to himself. "What are the odds that my vacation turned out to be such a stressful time." "All I wanted to do was some sightseeing, and take some pictures in front of the pyramids."
When Mario reached his home Luigi was already outside to greet him. "Hiya bro, how was your vacation?" "Did you take lots of pictures, how was the food in Sarasaland?"
"Sorry Luigi I wasn't able to take any pictures while I was there." Said Mario as he opened the door to their home.
"Ah, that's to bad, maybe next time". "Oh by the way, you received a letter from Princess Peach while you were gone". "Would you like me to read it to you"? Said Luigi.
Mario nodded.
"Okay lets see, it says that Princess Peach heard about what happened in Sarasaland, and she would like to see you as soon as you return."
When Luigi finished, Mario replied.
"Thanks for reading it for me Luigi." "Well I guess I should go to bed now, if I want to wake up early enough to meet up with Princess Peach in the morning."
As Mario headed of to his room, Luigi look around their home and said to Mario. "Wow! I still can't believe Peach gave us this house, after you rescued her, she must have been very grateful." "This sure does beat living at Toad's one bedroom apartment." "Can you believe just a few months ago we were traveling around with a circus." "Dear Miyamoto how things have change, well good night bro."
Later on as Mario laid in bed, he thought back on his life before moving to The Mushroom Kingdom. Indeed Princess Peach was very grateful that Mario had saved her from the king of the Koopas. So grateful that she gave Mario and Luigi a place to stay. Mario and Luigi originally weren't from The Mushroom Kingdom. They had just moved there a couple of months ago from a small town near by. They both worked for a traveling circus, where Luigi would feed animals and clean their cages and Mario and his girlfriend Pauline performed an act with a gorilla named Donkey Kong or D.K. for short. They were making a modest living and saving their coins so they could all move to Toad Town, which was the capital of The Mushroom Kingdom. Mario and Luigi were planning on opening a plumbing business while Pauline was planning on opening a toy store.
Everything seemed to be going well, but unfortunately D.K. was infatuated with Pauline, and would get jealous of Mario when ever he was around her. One day D.K's jealousy became so intense he kidnapped Pauline during one of their acts and tried to escape by climbing ladders to the roof of the circus tent. Mario was quick to action as he climbed the ladders to save his girlfriend. After climbing to the top of a platform filled with barrels, DK tried to tare the tent open to escape, but the tent was too strong to tare. In a panic D.K. started throwing the barrels at Mario to slow him down, so he could have more time to think of a second escape route. Mario was halfway up the ladders when one of the barrels hit him, causing Mario to lose his balance and fall all the way to the bottom. But that didn't discourage Mario, he just got back up and climbed the ladders again. The audience thought it was all part of the act and would cheer when Mario successfully jumped over the barrels and would boo D.K. whenever he hit Mario with them. Eventually Mario saved Pauline from the mighty Donkey Kong and escorted her to her dressing room while the crowd cheered and applauded.
Back at her dressing room Pauline seemed very shaken up by the whole ordeal. Mario asked if she was alright.
"No Mario I'm not alright, Pauline began. I was being dangled by some love sick gorilla." "I thought I was going to fall a few times."
"If you did fall, I would have caught you Pauline, you know that." Said Mario
"I Know Mario, but what if you didn't? It would have been game over for me."
"Don't say things like that" Said Mario with a concern look on his face.
Pauline's shakin up expression turned into a sad one as she said. "Mario, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't like going on crazy adventures, I want to settle down and live a simple life."
Mario in a nervous tone said, "Yeah I know that. That's why we been saving our coins to move to Toad Town so we can live a normal life."
"No Mario, I think we both know that will never happen. You love adventuring too much to settle down in one place. We has a normal life once, when you used to be a carpenter. But then you got bored with your job and wanted to try something new. So then you became a doctor and things were fine for a while. Until you decided that you wanted to become a boxing referee on your days off from the hospital and started hanging out with Little Mac and Mike Tyson. You were too busy doing other things that you forgot to renew your medical license, and now you're working at a circus with a gorilla. I think what I'm trying to say Mario, is that we are too different. We want different things in life, and I think we should break up."
That last sentence hit Mario hard.
Mario practically begged Pauline to change her mind, to give him another chance, that he would change his ways and settle down with her and focus on one career. But Pauline wasn't budging, she had made up her mind. With tears in her eyes she said she was sorry and that Mario would always have a special place in her heart. That same night Pauline packed her belongings and left.
The next day Mario brought a large basket of bananas to D.K's cage to make amends with him. D.K. accepted them and looked sorry for the other night. As D.K. ate the bananas, he handed Mario a postcard of a place named Donkey Kong Island. Mario examined the postcard for a few moments, then spoke to D.K.
"I guess you're pretty home sick huh?"
D.K nodded.
"And since Pauline isn't here anymore, I figure you don't have any reason to stay anymore." "Well I guess the only fair thing to do now is to let you go."
Mario reach into his pocket and got the key to let D.K out. When he opened the cage D.K. got a great big smile on his face and took off running, but before he left D.K stop to wave goodbye.
Mario waved back to the great ape then turned around to head back to his room. As Mario walked back he thought to himself.
"You know what, we didn't always get along, but I'm sure going to miss Donkey Kong."
As Mario finished speaking, a big barrel hit him right on the back and sent him straight to the ground. As he got up, Mario could hear D.K laughing in the distance. In that very moment Mario knew he had to move to The Mushroom Kingdom with Luigi as soon as possible to get a new start. Hopefully their buddy Toad would let them stay at his place for a while, as the Mario Bros saved enough coins for a place of their own.
Thanks for reading my very first story.
More chapters will be on the way.
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