Chapter 1: The Invitation.
It all started one bright, beautiful morning in Toadville, the famous Mushroom Kingdom capital. The sky was a cheerful cyan, with hardly any clouds visible in the sky. Birds chirped pleasant notes and multi-coloured butterflies flitted around the attractive flowers of the Mario bros garden. The butterflies fluttered away as the flowers were showered with a plethora of water droplets from a watering jug, held by a lanky man clad in light blue overalls and a green cap which displayed a glowing 'L' on it.
It was a pleasant day. The man in green's dark brown smooth moustache, with each half tilted slightly upward, waddled as he turned away from the garden and walked down his front lawn, humming to himself. The day couldn't get better, and no one in his or her right mind would make it worse. Or so he thought.
All of a sudden a loud, flapping sound was heard as a weird creature, wearing pilot goggles and a postman uniform, flew out of nowhere. The man quickly hopped back as the creature landed with a soft thump next to the post box. The creatures face was yellow, with a distinguishable beak. He had a polished blue shell. He looked like an oversized turtle that stood on legs. He was Parakarry, the mail koopa.
"All right there, Luigi?" said the mail koopa to the man, before whipping out a fancy pink letter. "From the Princess, as usual." Parakarry explained, "She told me to read it out to Mario or you as you bros might forget to check the post box." Luigi nodded. "Okie-dokie." He said. He and his brother usually got letters instead of email or telephone calls, because they didn't have a mail account or a telephone which could take calls other than the ones concerned with plumbing.
"Okay, here it goes." Said Parakarry, and read out the letter, imitating the voice of the princess.
"Dear Mario bros,
I hope you are well. Today is a very special day as the Queen of Bean Bean Kingdom
is coming to visit the capital. We are organising a feast to welcome them, as I told
you both before. So, do come to the castle at 4:30 pm today. I'll be waiting.
Love,
Princess Peach Toadstool.
P.S: There is no chance that Bowser will attack. He accidentally blew up his armada
of airships while trying to sing a song rumoured to be composed by him for me (he
never gives up, you see)."
"Okay then. That's pretty much it. Too short than her usual." said Parakarry, handing the letter to Luigi. "Thank you." Luigi said quickly, obviously very excited. "Ok then. Bye." Parakarry said and he shot off the ground, flying away into the vast blue sky.
Excited, Luigi spun around and, in a single leap, covered the distance between him and the front door of his house, and whipped the door open with astounding superhuman quickness, almost ripping it off its hinges. He clambered into the house, excitement of the feast vivid from his expression. He had been excited about the feast since Peach told him and his brother, and he had almost forgotten about it until today. Of course, he had to remind his brother about it too, who was almost as forgetful. "Mario!" he called out. The day had sure gotten better. Only if he knew it was going to get much worse…