The Next Star Festival

Chapter 1

A/N: This chapter is set in 2007 when the previous star festival happens.

"We're nearly here mama!" One of the Lumas pointed out as the Comet Observatory flew past the other miniscule planets that they called 'Something Galaxy'. Rosalina didn't reply, she rather felt a bit concerned about a strange group of brown ships about 500 kilometres away from earth.

"It's probably just somebody arriving to enjoy the star festival as well." Polari alerted. "It only starts in 1 hour; the people of the brown ships may be a little bit late, wait that is suspicious." Rosalina still didn't say anything. Still looking at the brown ships. She went to the telescope and looked at the ships closer. It had cannons as if they were pirates.

"Get the Observatory to Earth faster; we don't want to be seeing those ships so we shall enjoy the star festival for an hour." She demanded. Polari controlled the Observatory and they zoomed down to earth in a matter of seconds.

In less than a minute the Observatory had successfully landed on the surface of the Earth, it was normal like any other year as she landed. All of the Lumas were looking at her thinking what to do.

"Everyone stay here and watch the star festival, Polari look after my Lumas, I'll be back in an hour." Rosalina said as she abandoned her Observatory and headed to the Town Square of Toad Town. She looked up and saw some stars already passing by; it reminded her of other Lumas that she once was their Mama, who have now turned into stars. It made her feel happy, she was happy, until she tripped up on something.

"Owwwww, please get off of me." The something asked and Rosalina shot up in less than a second.

"Thank you" It said.

"Oh I'm very sorry there Mr. Tortoise" Rosalina said.

"Just call me Nangon." Nangon asked. Rosalina picked up the Tortoise and put him on her shoulder.

"You must be Rosalina, watcher of the stars and protector of the Lumas, am I wrong?"

"No, you are exactly right, and how old is this Nangon?" Rosalina asked.

"Well I'm actually 33 in a week, I still have about 110 years left, but I'm really slow." Nangon replied.

"That's very unfortunate, so are you going to see the next star festival in 100 years?" She asked.

"That is if I can reach that age which is likely, but you can't think right?" He replied. "Oh of course YOU can, lucky."

"Anyway, so where do you want to go then?" Rosalina said.

"I need to go back to my house which is also a shop. It is 1 kilometre west from here in the outskirts of the Mushroom Kingdom, by the Sarasaland border. Please be quick because it takes me more than an hour and I don't want to be spotted by Bowser." Nangon replied.

"Bowser?" Rosalina thought.

"You haven't heard of him? He's Mario's arch enemy, he captures the princess (Peach) and gets Mario to save her, and he also has eight Koopa kids, about 50 magikoopas and thousands of armies of Koopa Troops."

"Mario?" She thought again.

"The saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom against Bowser and his evil brown ships with cannons." Nangon said.

"So Bowser is the Bad Guy with the Brown ships?" Rosalina asked.

"Yes." Nangon said. "Well let's go then, we don't have all day!"

"Yes Nangon, sorry." Rosalina replied as if she was a maiden. She walked to the Sarasaland border with Nangon and it only took them 10 minutes.

"You can stay for some more time at my place if you want, you know, has some star bits with some tea." Nangon asked anxiously.

"Sure then." She replied.

"That was some really nice tea you have their Nangon." Rosalina complimented.

"Thanks madam." He replied. "I shall see you in a century." Rosalina left Nangon's house and headed into Toad Town. On her way she saw more stars passing by, she was soon welcomed by several Toads at the gate to Toad Town. They were waving with their little hands as she walked past the gate of Toad Town. She saw many shops next to houses selling star bits and star toys.

"Rosalina! Nice to see you!" A Toad said. He ran up to her. "I'm Toadbert, one of the MAOTOE's! The Mushroom association of Toads of Earth! We arranged this star festival! As you can see we have many shops selling all kinds of star and festival-related stuff!" Rosalina didn't say anything, only staring at Toadbert wanting to know more.

"Follow me and I can show you all around the activities of the 21st century star festival!" Toadbert advised.

"It's been all the same since 15000 years ago." Rosalina thought in her mind. Suddenly two miniature Rosalina appeared on her shoulder, one angel, and one devil.

"Trash the place with your magic powers!" The Devil demanded.

"Don't do that, you should respect all of the Toads that made all of this possible." The Angel objected.

"Are you okay?" Toadbert asked. The Angel and The Devil disappeared.

"Err, yes, yes err Festival, Festival!" Rosalina snapped out of her thoughts.

"We will venture into Peach's castle, where the giant barbecue is held, and I think Peach would like to see you." Toadbert said. "Happy with that?"

"Yes, yes." Rosalina replied, without paying much attention, she followed Toadbert into the castle still looking very stupid.

"Well I'm going to get some dinner early, your tour is over, please look around Peach's castle, she won't mind you." Toadbert said as he abandoned Rosalina. She crept out of one of the doors that lead into the storage room. The fresh cold breeze swooped into her face as she stumbled along to the end of the room and saw blood stains, she gasped but then she realised it was the blood of Luigi when he was stabbed by Rosalina's brother. But she just remembered to keep track of time, she had

10 minutes until the star festival began so she hurried out of the storage room.

She exited the castle and was still recognised by some toads, they still waved at her and she still didn't respond. She could see Bowser's ship arriving very shortly. When she left the Entrance of Toad Town she saw a man in a red plumber suit, it was Mario, and she knew Bowser would soon arrive so she dashed to the Comet Observatory. Mario had just entered Toad Town and she just arrived at the Observatory.

"Mama!" A few Lumas said to Rosalina.

"Mama is in a rush so please, act normal!" She replied. In a matter of seconds the Comet Observatory had returned back into its normal position in space and she joined Polari and the other Lumas watching the star pass Earth; it was beautiful she thought. Until they saw at the bottom, Bowser's army of ships had arrived.

"Rosalina, a note." Polari said. He passed the note over to Rosalina and it read.

Rosalina,

Thank you for escorting me back to my house the other hour, I owe you one, next time we meet, in 100 years.

Nangon.

"Who is Nangon?" Polari asked.

"Nangon is just a guy who is going to next century's star festival." Rosalina replied. She went to the Gateway Galaxy on her own to have some 'quiet time' where she just thought in her head what plans were happening. Until she met Mario.

EOC: Bowser has ruined the 21st century star festival and SMG1 begins. Chapter 2 will be set in 100 years in the future. The blood stain was caused when Rosalina's anonymous brother stabbed Luigi in 'A Game Of Death'

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