"Final inning, two strikes, bases full, baseball star Waluigi Wario is about to go on!"
"Waluigi get your bat and stop talking to yourself!" screamed Waluigi's baseball coach as the rest of his team laughed at him. Waluigi grabbed his bat and went to the plate.
"Come on guy's easy out!" said a member of the opposing team.
Waluigi got into position and the pitcher threw the ball. Waluigi swung then missed
"STRIKE ONE!" Screamed the Umpire
The pitcher regained the ball and threw a curve ball. Waluigi swung then he heard.
"STRIKE TWO!"
Waluigi got ready this time; he had to hit the ball. He had too. The pitcher threw the ball, Waluigi swung then
"STRIKE THREE! THAT'S GAME!"
The other team jumped with glee as his team looked at Waluigi with shameful eyes.
Waluigi's father slammed the door shut at around midnight. Waluigi sat up in bed and tip toed into the dining room. His dad had a suit case and was taking items he saw and stuffing them inside the small suitcase.
The father was taking everything food, money and valuables. Then Waluigi's father looked to the top of the fridge. A large jar was on the top of the fridge, with black marker Waluigi had written on the jar "school fund" for him and his brother's education. Without it they wouldn't be able to afford going to school and buying text books. He grabbed the jar dumbed all the money into the suitcase and closed it.
Waluigi was shocked; they needed that without it neither he nor Wario could go to school. He went out of the shadow's which he had seen everything his father had done and ran at him.
Waluigi lunged at his father but his father seeing what was going to happened closed the suitcase and slammed into his sons face. Waluigi went to the ground with a crash and everything went black.
Ten Years Later
Pirate Land 1959
The bay was bustling with people buying things at the shops by the shore. Ships were sailing in to the harbor but on one of the ships shipping salt a skinny man in all purple stood out of site of the crew. He threw his luggage onto the beach. Then he swan dived into the bay.
Reaching the shore he grabbed his two suitcases and left to find a place to rest. He wore black overalls and a purple undershirt. He had bright orange shoes and wore a purple fedora. He walked his swagger as he went around the fleece market but wasn't working at people's wares.
He reached a housing district. The area was nice with a strong brick walkways and a large fountain in the middle. The houses were made of a smooth stone. Seagulls sat around the fountain as an older man was giving them bread.
"Richer side of town," thought Waluigi as he walked by the fountain and the old man and saw that the old man wore a fine suit and top hat he also had a diamond studded cane. Waluigi saw the management building and headed towards there.
Waluigi walked in a smelled the cleanness of it and the upper class smell. Waluigi never knew that smell. He walked up to the desk and saw a blonde man in blue clothing. The man looked up at him and looked disappointed.
"Who are you?" The man in the blue asked
"Um, Waluigi Wario of Tycoon, I want a room," he replied
"Alright but this isn't a hotel Mr. Wario we must rent a house or leave, the price is fifteen coins per week."
Waluigi thought about what the man in the blue said then putting down his suitcases took out a coin bag and took out fifteen coins.
Taking the coins the man in the blue said "Thanks Mr. Wairo my daughter will show you too your home, Rosalina!"
"Thank you sir but I would like to make a deal with you," Waluigi said still talking to the man in the blue. "I just got off a boat, I have no job, I have some money but I can only pay my rent for only the rest of the month. So I ask you as a good man, may I have a job and you can take the rent out of my paycheck."
The blue man was surprised by the man's words and then puzzled about what to do.
"I guess so Mr. Wario but I can only have you right now as a sorter in the back," the man in the blue said looking to the back as his daughter walked in.
"Thank you sir and you must be," he said to the man in blue and then looking at his daughter he became speechless.
She was beautiful. She wore a light blue dress. She had a small innocent face and long flowing blonde hair which covered one of her eyes. Her eyes also looked beautiful, they shined with blue and her eye lashes were perfect. That was the word he would use to described her, perfect.
"Um sir?" She asked. Waluigi woke up from a daze he was in and blushed.
"Oh, yes are going to show me to my place?" He asked
"Yes, follow me," she replied softly and walked out of the building. Waluigi followed after her.
"So this is your house," said Rosalina in front of a house that looked like the rest.
"Alright thank you, also Rosalina?" Waluigi asked looking to her
"Um yes? How do you know my name?" She asked back at him
"I heard your father say your name, speaking of your father is working for him difficult?"
"Oh so you're working with us, well yes but I'm assuming you're a sorter since that's our only open post. You'll be fine for now unless you get on my dad's very good side and get promoted. Then you go to a manger or an ad manger then if you mess up. You're either fired or he gets extremely rough on you."
"Well that's nice to know I'll guess I'll see you tomorrow for work I guess,"
"Alright I'm the secretary for my father so you might see me," she replied then turned to walk away. Waluigi looked at her smiled then walked into his new home.
"We get a lot of mail here especially business offers so what you need to do is to sort the mail," said the man in the blue explaining Waluigi's new job. "Good luck Wario," Waluigi looked at him then replied "names not Wario names Waluigi," the man in the blue looked weirdly at him then walked away.
"Nice mouth Mr. Waluigi," said a younger Koopa who was working the same job as him.
"So um how much mail do these people get every day?" Waluigi asked then a worker came in with a cart of about five mail bags.
"About fifteen bags per day, this is just the morning bags," the koopa said heading to the bags.
"How do you they get so much mail?" Waluigi asked still surprised by the amount of mail
"He's a popular man that Gaxaly, he owns a successful real estate area, he was a former governor of the first island….."
"Wait governor?" Waluigi asked
"Yep was a pretty powerful in Pirate Land politics for a long time before going back to his business,"
"Why? He could've been president? Is that what this place has?"
"Nope, could have been head minister, he was planning on running but he didn't no one really knows why he didn't,"
"Really huh, weird,"
"Break time you two," said a cheery Rosalina peeking into the mail room.
"Alright," replied a happy Waluigi as he got up and followed Rosalina into a break room.
"Hey I'm going to head out," Waluigi said to Rosalina as he was about to head out the door.
"Wait?" Rosalina said with a tint of hurt in her voice "where are you going?"
"Going to shore smell the morning air might also maybe look at the shops,"
"Wait," she said standing up from her desk "I'll go with you."
Outside the warm summer air with the smell of salt water filling the two noses. The two walked down from the housing area to the main area of Island One. They eventually stopped by a small shop run by a Koopa.
"Hello you young couple interested in my wares?" asked the koopa and the words of the two being a couple made Rosalina turn a light shade of red.
"Oh, look Waluigi," Rosalina said excitedly forgetting the Koopa's comment and pointing to a sliver necklace with a light blue gem in the center. Waluigi grabbed it and put it around her neck.
"You look beautiful with it," said Waluigi in an almost distant voice as Rosalina turned a shade of red.
"Sir," said Waluigi "How much is the necklace?"
"Thirty coins!" The koopa replied looking at the necklace.
Waluigi looked into his coin bag, he had just enough. Waluigi walked to the counter with Rosalina at his side and dumbed out all his coins from his bag.
"Wait, Waluigi I can buy it you don't have too," Rosalina said looking up at Waluigi.
"No it's fine trust me," Waluigi said with a smile coming to his face. The koopa took the coins then rung up the necklace. The two walked out of the shop and then started to walk back to the management center. While walking up there was a loud crash and a single scream turned to hundreds of screams. Turning Waluigi saw a single ship sinking into the bay.
It was a passenger ship and people were jumping into the bay. A large hole was showing through the side of the ship. Rosalina gasped in horror then Waluigi saw something. A small child try to get out from the bottom the ship and it was obvious that the child would have trouble getting out.
Waluigi ran on the bay threw off his shoes and his hat and dove into the bay. Waluigi was always a good swimmer and a great diver. But in his opinion his best skill as a swimmer was how long he could breathe underwater, for almost close to a minute and a half. No one knew how he could do it but he could.
He take a deep breath a dove into the waters. He swam into the hole in the ships and reached an air pocket. The child was there crying over a body. Waluigi was shocked to see a woman. She was young and had long brown hair and was knocked out but Waluigi hoped she was still alive.
"Kid!" He urgently to the child "Let's get out of here, both you and your mom."
The kid looked scared but Waluigi didn't care. He took the child in one arm and his mother in another.
"Take a deep breathe I'll get us out of here." The child obeyed and after both toke a long deep breath they dove into the water.
They reach the surface and both grasped for air. He heard the streak of Rosalina when he and the child reached the surface. He took them to the shore and laid them on the ground.
"ZANNER!" Screamed a distant voice. A man totally soaked ran towards them and went for the child named Zanner. He hugged his child and the both began to cry then his father looked to the woman and in a tiny voice "Cynthia."
"Out of the way!" said a woman in all white "I know CPR!" Then woman began the CPR and then after a few minutes she opened her eyes. The family hugged for many minutes then the woman named Cynthia hugged Waluigi. "Thank you, thank you so much."
"Waluigi! Rosalina!" Said a man who Waluigi recognized as the man in blue.
He ran to the both of them and hugged his daughter. Then looked to the both of them
"Fred said that the both of you went out and then I heard screams and I thought something happen to you two."
"No father but Waluigi just saved two people's lives!" She said with tears in her eyes. The man in blue was surprised and looked to Waluigi and said quietly.
"I'm giving you a raise,"
