Hi there guys, I know that is has been a while but I am back with a brand new story. This story, however, does not resolve around fighting. It is simply a story involving the characters from the Mario universe.

As usual, I do not own anything that is mentioned in this story, they all belong to Nintendo and their respective companies.

And with that, let us begin.

Please enjoy the story!

Chapter 1: The Day Before The Festival

It was a pleasant day in Mushroom Kingdom. The birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, the villains were not attacking, nor were they up to no good, and most importantly, Daisy was not screaming, or even talking for that matter, at least not yet, not at the moment.

Back at Mario and Luigi's house, the two brothers were enjoying a heart to heart talk over breakfast.

"The atmosphere sure seems serene and peaceful today," Luigi commented. "Almost like as if it was trying to trick us that it is going to be a good day until the villains' start making their move again."

Mario nodded his head as he ate his toast.

Just then, the phone rang. The younger brother went towards it and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Oh hi Luigi, it is me Toadsworth," the voice at the other end replied.

"Good morning to you, what is your purpose for calling us today?" Luigi asked.

"Well, I was wondering if you or your brother could help me to run an errand today; I need to send a letter to MC Ballyhoo discussing the plan for the next Star Carnival festival that will be held next year, unfortunately MC Ballyhoo's email account recently crashed for some unknown reason and so I need to send a four-page document to him via actual mail, like back in the old days," Toadsworth explained.

"Ok, so where do we come in?" Luigi asked, trying to take note of everything Toadsworth was saying.

"Well, I am quite busy today so I was wondering if you or your brother could help to take the documents to the post office and send it to MC Ballyhoo on my account; I will send the documents to your email account and all you have to do is to print them out and take them to the post office and mail them to him, would that be too much of a hassle to you?" Toadsworth replied.

"No problem, you can count on us!" Luigi exclaimed with determination. "Just for the record, what do you have in your schedule today that keeps you from going to the post office?"

"Well, you see, I have to go to town to prepare a gift for someone at tomorrow's Friendship Festival, so I do not have time to go down to the post office myself," Toadsworth explained.

Luigi was taken aback by two particular words that started with the letter "F", which Toadsworth had just mentioned.

Meanwhile, as his younger brother talked on the phone, Mario secretly took one of his pieces of toast from his plate.

Not long after, Luigi put down the phone and ran towards the dining table.

"Bro, I have to tell you something!" Luigi shouted.

"If it is about your toast then sorry I know nothing," Mario quickly said.

"We have completely forgotten that tomorrow is the Friendship Festival," Luigi told him, ignoring what he had just said.

"…I think only you have forgotten about the Friendship Festival, I remembered it and that was why I spent last night planning my options carefully," Mario said.

The Friendship Festival was a special event which took place in Mushroom Kingdom every year on the 7th day of the 7th month from 7am to 7pm. During this event, all the hatred and rivalry towards one another are put away for the time being and everyone comes together and bond. The entire city will be filled with events, booths, performances and a lot of other things which you might typically see in a parade, carnival and theme park all together.

Most importantly, during this day there is a tradition that each citizen in Mushroom Kingdom who is an official member of the Friendship Festival committee will be sent an email telling them a random name which was assigned to them. They must then try to find a gift which is deemed suitable to give to the receiver. Though of course some gifts are better than others. What makes this even more complicated is the fact that the email telling them who they are getting a gift for is only delivered to them the day before the actual event, which means they have lesser than twenty four hours to find the perfect gift of their receiver.

At 6AM, hundreds of trucks will be sent to pass by every member of the committee's house to collect the gifts. All of the gifts, with a tag of the receiver's name, will then be placed inside a few helicopters, and attached to a small paper parachute, which will fly around the Festival area. At 5PM, the pilots will then drop every single gift from the helicopters. The gifts will then descend to the ground and everyone will start searching amongst the gifts to see if they were lucky enough to receive a gift that year. When the festival ends at 7PM, the crew members will then gather the uncollected gifts and send them to the receiver's address the next day. Lastly, the sender's identity will remain anonymous. As such, nobody will know who sent them their gift and why they chose that particular gift.

And as of last year, the brothers had joined the committee and will be taking part in the big event once again this year.

"And so, since I finished up on my research, I have pretty much figured out what gift to get for anybody," Mario said.

"Let's go check the computer for our emails, also Toadsworth wanted me to print out a four paged document to send to MC Ballyhoo," Luigi said.

The two brothers then went to the computer table, which is basically the table that the computer is on.

As Mario turned his back from the computer while Luigi printed out the documents, he wondered who he was going to have to choose a gift for this year, and whether or not he will be lucky enough to get one this year. After all, the number of members of the committee is lesser than half the number of people attending the festival.

"Ok, I have printed out the documents and now I will take them to the post office to mail them to MC Ballyhoo, once I have done that I will look for a gift," Luigi said. "I will meet you again later at home bro!"

Luigi then logged out from his email account and went to collect his belongings. The two brothers then waved goodbye before Mario logged on to his account. He then clicked on the email which was sent to him by the Friendship Festival committee boss. When he saw the name of his receiver, he nodded his head.

"I think I should know what gift to get for him," Mario said.

And with that said, Mario quickly gathered his belongings before locking up the house and leaving for town, well aware that it was going to be a hectic day indeed.

And that is it for the first chapter. I hope you have enjoyed the story so far.

Please stay tuned for the next chapter.

Goodbye for now!