A/N: There's a criminally low amount of Starlow/Bowser fics so I decided to leave my little contribution with this fic. TBH no idea how long it'll be, since I'm just at chapter 2. There'll be no other pairings unless stated otherwise, but the focus will be Starlow/Bowser.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the first chapter of this mess made only to raise awareness about this pairing! :D

(If this actually takes people's interest which I doubt, I will explain the basic point of how I will write the character and the world, since there are different interpretations of the Mario universe, just so people get a general idea of how the fic will be. Anyways, read now.)

Chapter 1: Starlow's visit!

Location: Bowser's Castle.

"Ugh…" Grunted a loud, roaring voice.

"Your Evilness, do you require assistance?" Asked a raspy voice.

Bowser sat up on his bed. "Bah! I'm the Koopa King! All I need is for you to get out of my room and let me sleep already, Kamek!" Bowser demanded while pointing a finger at the raspy voice.

"... As you wish, Your Gruntiness." And with this, Kamek the Magikoopa left Bowser's chambers.

"Ugh." Said Bowser while plopping down into the bed, closing his eyes trying to sleep. "Ack. I can't seem to get any better!" Then he sat up again and looked at his bandaged arm. "Stupid thing, just get out of me already!" With his other hand, he began clawing away the bandages, until blood started dripping out of them. "OW! Too deep!" He plopped down into the bed yet again. "This isn't fair. I should be kidnapping Peach already! Not laying in bed while dressing like a mummy!" He complained to nobody.

Location: ?

Through the Bowser's lands, there was floating a small, yellow and sparkling star sprite. Its destination was Bowser's castle. It had a smile on its face, which was its whole body, actually, through the journey.

I wonder how Bowser's doing, wondered the small star sprite.

"Lord Bowser! Dinner's ready! Mwehehe!" Said a loud and high-pitched voice that seemed to be all over the place through the other side of the door to Bowser's chamber.

"Come in!" Bowser commanded.

Suddenly, a Boo with a black bow-tie just materialized from the other side of the door, holding a plate with an humongous fried chicken. The Boo was staring at his wounded arm but wisely said nothing. The Boo put the plate of fired chicken on a night stand beside Bowser's bed.

"Now leave!" Bowser commanded.

Without saying anything, the Boo left.

With his bleeding arm, which was the closest to the chicken, he tried to reach it, but the pain just worsened. "OW! Bah, stupid thing!" Then he tried to reach the chicken with his other hand, but since he was resting all of his weight on his bleeding arm, the wound reached an apparent all-high peak of pain. "GROOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" He roared from the pain while clutching the wound, trying to ease the pain.

"Your Loudness? Is everything alright?" He heard Kamek say from the other side of the door.

"LEAVE!" He shouted, and after a while of silence, he was sure Kamek left. He hmph'd, then looked to the chicken with such focus, it seemed like he was trying to make it float to his mouth.

"HELLO YELLO!" He heard a voice he easily recognized, he looked around the room, and a yellow ball with shoes and a star on top of her head was at one of the windows in his room.

"Chippy! What're you doing here? Perhaps you considered my offer to become one of my minions!" Then he roared in laughter.

"First, my name's not Chippy! It's Starlow!" She said annoyed, then floated inside the room, approaching Bowser. "Second- WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, BOWSER?" She yelled while floating closer to his bleeding arm. "WHAT. HAPPENED?" She asked again.

"Nothing!" He tried to swat her away with that same arm, but the only thing it did was get the bandages even bloodier. "OWWW!"

"Bowser, you're clearly hurt! Let me help you out!" Then she began looking around the room for something.

"I never gave you permission to help me!" Bowser said angrily despite being offered help.

"And people don't need your permission to help you, idiot!" She said while floating closer to him, holdingg a white box with her little feet. She put the box above the bed, beside Bowser, then opened it with a kick. "Now, raise your arm!" She said, and surprisingly, Bowser did so without arguing. She had white cloths in her mouth now, and was circling through the wounded arm, effectively applying more bandages. "There. Much better!" She said while contemplating her work. "What happened, Bowser!?"

Bowser just crossed his arms. "None of your business! What do you want?"

"Geez, you're welcome." Starlow said sarcastically. "I just came to check on you, see how you were doing."

"And why would you do that!? I am THE king of koopas! I have a whole army at my disposal!"

"And by the looks of it, they're not doing a good work."

"Ack, this is useless!" He said while punching the mattress he was laying in. "YOU're useless! At least do something useful and get me food!"

She hovered close to the fried chicken and looked at it for a minute. "No." She said.

"Eh? What do you mean 'no'!?" He said, now looking at her with an angry look in his face.

"Exactly that. You can't eat this." She overed close to Bowser's face. "I can't let you eat that."

There was a black, thick smoke coming from his mouth now. "WHAT!? I AM BOWSER, THE KING OF KOOPAS, YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO! NOW YOU EITHER GIVE ME MY CHICKEN OR-"

"Calm down."

Now there was fire coming out of his mouth. "ACK. AND DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN, EITHER. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU-"

"Stop acting like such a kid." Bowser closed his mouth after this, staring angrily past Starlow's soul. "You'll need to calm down and act like a grown-up."

Bowser closed his eyes and crossed his arms again. "... Crud..." He muttered.

"Your Badness, is everything alright!?" They heard Kamek behind the other side of the door.

Before Bowser could speak up, Starlow beat him. "Actually yeah, come in." She said.

"Your Loudness? Who's there? Princess Peach?" He asked and opened the doors. The first thing Kamek saw was a yellow circle right in front of the door. "Hm? Who are you?"

Starlow just hovered close to the fried chicken. "Tell me, what is this?"

"It's, uh, fried chicken... who are you?" Kamek asked in confussion.

"And why are you feeding him this?" Starlow asked.

"It's Lord Bowser's favorite meal..." Kamek said, confused.

"Yeah, it is!" Bowser intruded into the conversation.

Starlow looked at him. "Calm down, act like a grown-up." She said, and Bowser pouted but said nothing else. Starlow looked at Kamek again. "Please bring a Mushroom soup, thank you."

"Eh, b-but who are you?" Kamek said. "And what're you doing here? Why are you bossing me around now? I'm in charge of Lord Bowser and all of a sudden you come here and-"

"I'll be his caretaker now, since you're doing such a sloppy job at it. Now, can you bring that Mushroom soup? Perhaps a Refreshing Herb tea as well?"

"W-WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ALL OF THIS!?" Kamek asked, now outraged, and turned his attention towards Bowser, who was, surprisingly, acting like a grown-up. "Lord Bowser, is-is any of this true?"

"Well, Bowser, why don't you tell him?" Starlow said while slightly tilting her whole body to the right.

Bowser was now looking between the stares of both the Magikoopa and the Star Spirit, and was hesitating for an answer. "Um..."

"Your Indecisiveness?" Kamek asked.

"Bowser?" Starlow asked.

He closed his eyes and thought for a moment about the choice of words of the two of them. "... Yeah, that's right. She's, uh, my caretaker now..." Bowser said hesitantly.

If Kamek noticed that hesitancy, he decided to not say anything, because he just adjusted his glasses. "Well, alright, I'll see to it that the requests are now done." He looked at Starlow and nodded. "Farewell, miss...?"

"Chippy." Starlow said almost instantly.

Kamek nodded again. "Farewell, miss Chippy." Then he got out of the room, closing the doors with magic. After he was gone, Starlow let out a sigh of relief.

"What was THAT for?" Bowser roared, and Starlow slowly turned to look at him with a smile on her face.

"Oh hey, thanks for playing along!" She said, still beaming a smile at him.

Bowser somehow was at a loss of words upon seeing her smile. After a few seconds of awkward silence, he coughed. "Well, it was nothing. It was, uh, amusing to see you boss Kamek around so easily. Yeah." Then he looked at the side while crossing his arms yet again. "I still don't know about that 'caretaker' stuff though. I have a whole army!"

"Well, it was really just an excuse, but you know, now that I think about it, it doesn't look like a bad idea."

"W-what do you mean?" Bowser asked, now turning to look at her.

"Hm, well, I mean I'm gonna take care of you, 'till you get better. Isn't that obvious?" She said, tilting her body to the right yet again.

"Y-you don't need to do that! I'm a king, I have plenty of minions to do that for me!"

"And none of them really care if they do it good enough. That's why I'm gonna help you." She reasoned.

"What gives you the right to belittle my army like that!?" He asked while pointing a finger at her now.

"Oh well, maybe it was your bleeding arm when I came here."

"W-well that was me and besides-"

"Or the fact that they bring you such greasy, unhealthy food when you're sick?"

"It was a personal request-"

"Or maybe it has to do with the fact that you were all alone when I came here?"

"They occasionally check on me..."

"That Magikoop- Kamek, right? He only came here because he heard you shouting at me like a child throwing a tantrum."

He crossed his arms and looked at the side irritated. "This is stupid..."

"Well, what do you say?" Starlow asked.

There was a moment of silence. After a while, Bowser just sighed. "Alright, you can take care of me, I guess."

Starlow was abou to tell him, yet again, that people didn't need his permission to help him, but then she thought, since she was talking with the 'prideful king of all koopas', this was "As good of an answer as I can get, I guess."

"Huh?" Bowser said while side-eyeing her.

Starlow just giggled, and it sounded like several rings chiming along. "Nothing."

"Just so you know," He turned to fully look at her now. "When all is done, I'll still be back into kidnapping business, got it?" He said.

"Oh yeah? Then Mario's gonna defeat-"

Bowser breathed fire at Starlow, which she narrowly avoided. "DON'T MENTION THAT NAME EVER AGAIN!" He calmed down after a while. "If... huff... if you're gonna stay here, don't mention him again AT ALL!" Starlow kept staring at him as if expecting something. He sighed irritated. "I mean... please, don't mention him again? Pretty please?"

Starlow smiled in approval. "Much better, Bowser! Alright, I won't mention Ma-" Bowser growled and Starlow gulped. "I mean... that name... again. Promise."

"Alright..." He looked at the side with arms crossed again. "So... are you just gonna sit here, or actually take care of me as you said?" He asked Starlow.

Starlow was about to say something, but was interrupted by a loud and high-pitched voice that seemed to be all over the place "Lord Bowser? Your request is now done! Mwehehe!"

"That was quick..." Bowser admitted out loud. "Come in!" And two Boos materialized, one holding a VERY huge bowl with steaming soup and a spoon inside the bowl, and the other holding a teapot set with a huge cup, but not as big as the bowl. They realized they had no space and were about to voice this, but Starlow quickly grabbed the plate of fried chicken, giving the Boos space for the new food, thus, they put the bowl and the teapot set where the fried chicken was.

"Now leave!" He said, and Starlow looked at him with an angry expression on her face. The Boos were about to materialize out of the room, but...

"Thanks for the food, guys!" Starlow told the pair of Boos, who turned around to bow at her, then left the room.

"What the heck? What was that for!?" Bowser asked irritated.

Starlow looked at him, still with an angry expression. "What was what for!?"

Bowser crossed his arms. "Servants don't need to be thanked." He spat.

"Seriously? Ugh..." She said indignantly. She hovered close to the food. "Anyways... do you need help eating?"

"... No..."

"Bowser?"

He sighed. "I don't NEED help, but you may have the honor of helping me." He said in an authoritative tone. Starlow giggled, still sounding like several bells. "Hey, what's so funny!?" He asked.

"Oh, nothing." She said. She then grabbed the teapot with her mouth, and poured some tea into the big cup. After it was almost full, she gently placed the teapot in the plate, then grabbed the ear of the cup with her mouth and hovered in front of Bowser, looking at him expectantly.

"What?" He said while reaising an eyebrow, and Starlow just kept hovering in place, since she couldn't answer. He tilted his head in confussion, then understood what Starlow was trying to do, and grabbed the cup by its bottom, and Starlow stopped biting the ear of the cup.

"Phew, aren't you slow." She said.

"Pfft." He said. He then blew away some steam from the tea. "Are you seriously expecting me to drink this?"

"It'll make you feel better." She said matter-of-factly.

"I prefer coffee..."

"Bowser..."

"Agh, alright, I'll drink this stupid tea!" He then downed the tea in one go, and put the cup in the plate of the set. "Satisfied now?"

She sighed kind-of-disappointedly. "Yeah, I guess, but you still need to eat your soup..."

He pointed a finger at Starlow. "Don't mistake me for that good-for-nothing plumber! I'm not eating anything that has to do with mushrooms! I don't even have any idea how the Boos managed to make a mushroom soup so quickly, since I'm pretty sure we don't have that filth here in my castle!"

"Ah, come on. Can you at least eat it before judging it?" She said while tilting her whole body to the right.

He crossed his arms. "No!"

"Please?" There was silence. "Pretty pleeeease?" She said while closing her eyes and smiling.

Bowser sighed. "Alright, gimme that soup..."

She put the bowl in top of her (somehow) and floated in front of Bowser so the bowl could be right in front of his face. Bowser hesitantly grabbed the spoon and filled it with soup. He blew some steam from the spoon and hesitantly put it inside his mouth. He savored the soup and his eyes widened. "Bowser? This bowl's kinda heavy... and hot..."

Bowser grabbed the bowl with one hand and agressively shoved spoon-fulls of soup inside his mouth with the other. "SO GOOD!" He said between spoons of soup.

"I thought you didn't want anything to do with that filth?" Starlow said.

Bowser eructed in front of Starlow. "Bah! Just shut up, okay?"

"... You could use some manners, you know..."

"PFFT! You're talking to BOWSER the KING of KOOPAS! I don't need manners, you know!"

"And you wonder why Peach doesn't like you..." She muttered under her breath so Bowser couldn't hear her.

Bowser just ignored her and dropped the bowl beside the teapot. "I'm. So. Full!" He said while rubbing his shell where his belly is. "You know, I'm so full that I... I just..." He closed his eyelids and yawned. He then plopped down in the bed and adjusted the covers of the bed above him in a mess. He started to snore loudly.

Location: Peach's Castle.

In the Mushroom Castle, Peach was staring out into the night sky from one of the windows, fidgeting with her fingers nervously.

"Princess? Is everything alright?" An elder toad behind her asked, and she slightly turned her head to look at the voice, Toadsworth.

"It's alright, I guess." She turned to look at the sky yet again. "Thanks anyways, Toadsworth..."

"Princess, is it because of Miss Starlow, is it not?" Toadsworth said while raising an eyebrow.

Peach sighed. "Yes, that's it. I mean, I know I shouldn't worry since she's a Star Sprite, but still, this is Bowser we're talking about..." She hung her head, still not looking at Toadsworth. "He's injured and all, but what about his minions? I worry for poor Starlow..."

"Hmm. Why don't we give her a message to get back here then, Princess?" Toadsworth suggested while tilting his head to the side, and this time, Peach did turn her head to look at him, although with a raised eyebrow.

"... It was her idea, Toadsworth." Peach went back to staring at the night sky. "I mean, I also feel sorry for Bowser, but, I mean, someone like him would have no problem recovering, right?" She sighed. "I baked him a cake, so no ill feelings, right?" She said, trying to reassure herself. Deep inside herself, she cared about EVERYONE, even about Bowser, although in a much different way than how she cared for others.

"Do you perhaps want me to call for masters Mario and Luigi, then?" Toadsworth suggested, now gripping the top of his cane with both hands, his pose being firm.

"But it's so late..." She sighed. "First thing in the morning I want is to talk with them. But, in the morning... okay?"

"I understand, Princess Peach. I will get them both in the castle in the morning." Then he turned around to leave the room they were in. "Good night, Princess."

Peach turned her head around. "Good night, Toadsworth." She said with a smile, and Toadsworth responded nodding his head, and disappeared out of the room, then closed the doors. After he was gone, she sighed again.

Starlow had said this morning that she would go visit Bowser, see how he was doing. Peach couldn't help but worry, imagining what Bowser could possibly do to the poor Star Sprite just to get her yet again.

She sighed, again. "Please Starlow, be careful..."