As the sound of roaring engines filled the air, karts dashed through the course carrying their racers. Each one of them carrying determination of winning the race, racing through items, throwing them, drifting through rough turns and landing tricks.

"You can't catch me!" Taunted the blonde princess in pink. Peach was in first place and just crossed the finish line, beginning her last lap, holding a green shell behind her kart.

"Oh yeah, I can!", came back the brunette princess in orange. Daisy in second place, holding a mushroom, gaining behind Peach by a couple of feet.

"Yahooo!" Shouts Daisy as she uses her last mushroom and zips passed Peach, stealing first place from her.

Peach was so tempted to use her green shell to hit Daisy, but there was a chance of missing, not mention that someone from behind might hit her with a red shell. It was best to wait, better safe than sorry.

As Daisy passes through an item box, she ponders what it would be like to win first place, it would be her fist time doing so, and it gave her excitement to finally be first in a Kart Prix. The item Daisy got was a banana and she holds it behind her kart,keeping herself safe from attacks behind her. She went back to her thoughts of winning first place, people would cheer for her, Daisy gets a trophy, Peach would congratulate her, and Luigi would finally have the courage to ask her out.

Daisy was forced out of her thoughts when she heard an alarm-like sound, at first she thought it was a red shell, but when she turns her head around, and spots a blue shell, her eyes go wide, knowing full well that the blue shell is unavoidable. The blue shell reaches Daisy, doing a full twirl above her head then colliding with her kart, hurling Daisy high in the air and leaving behind a blue explosion. Luckily, no one else got caught in the explosion, Peach, along with Donkey Kong, Toad, and Yoshi all pass Daisy, leaving her in fifth place.

As Daisy collects herself and she continues the race, she already notices her position-seeing as how not only that Peach passed her, but along with Donkey Kong, Toad, and Yoshi.

"This is bad", says Daisy, she would need a to get a good item and fast to regain first place. Daisy passed through an item box and received a three mushrooms, maybe she could catch up.

Daisy uses one mushroom and catches up to Yoshi, but before she can use her other mushrooms, she and everyone else is struck with lightning, causing everyone to lose their items and shrink to minuscule size. Now there was no way Daisy could take first place back, since being small slows everyone down. Daisy wasn't going to give up, she stalked behind Yoshi and in doing so gave her kart an extra boost and taking forth place and finally crossing the finish line.

Forth wasn't what Daisy anticipated, but she was glad to have tried her best, after all, fourth was better than last. Daisy's total score wasn't all that bad either, but finishing in forth, left her two points away from taking the bronze trophy.

At the award ceremony, everyone celebrates the three winners, giving congrats, praise and love. Peach held the title of first place, DK in second and Toad in third. There was confetti everywhere and everyone cheered and clapped for the winners, including Daisy, though she didn't win first place, she was glad that Peach did, and since she was so close to winning a trophy, there was no doubt that she would try again and someday win.

ONE MONTH LATER

"Dear Mario,

I'll be waiting for you at the castle on the night of the star festival. There's something I'd like to give you.

From, Peach."

Mario just received a letter from Princess Peach to the Star Festival, where everyone watches the stars fall from the sky. Mario carefully folds the letter back into its pink envelope and places it on a desk. He of course, was very excited to know what Peach was going to give him, so much that he ran out of the house, almost bumping into Luigi on the way out. Luigi looked at the wide open door, sighed sadly, closed the door and walked away.

Mario ran through the royal streets with his arms out wide, as if he was a plane, he spots many different color Toads on the way, giving Mario the impression that he was almost there. He jumps in the air, shouting his signature "Wahoo!" as star bits were falling in different colors from the lovely night sky, and Mario made sure to pick some up to give the princess later. It felt nice giving Peach a gift, it was a sign that he cared.

Meanwhile , at the castle, Peach was on her balcony, pacing back and forth with a Luma in her arms. Daisy leaning on the balcony rail, the two were talking while two Toads were stationary at the balcony entrance.

"Mario's not coming." Peach said hopelessly, sadness in her soft but high-pitched voice.

"Don't say that, he'll be here", Daisy replied, lending a supportive hand on Peach's shoulder. "He's always shown up, right?"

It was true, when Peach sent letters or invitations, Mario was always there, but every time Mario shows up, Bowser kidnaps Peach and ruins whatever event she had planned, whether it be to just have cake, or her own birthday. Peach never understood why Mario stuck around for her after every time Bowser came and kidnapped her, anyone with a functioning mind would just give up, but not Mario. Why?

"I know, but what if he won't this time?

"Oh come on, If Mario didn't care about you, he wouldn't show up at all."

"I guess so", Peach says, flustered, feeling a bit better about the situation, as she gently stroked the luma on its head.

She was very flattered to know that Mario would be there for her when she needed, sure everyone adored Peach, but the love everyone had for her was different when it came to Mario. Her heart flutters when her and Mario spend time together, tennis matches, kart races, parties whatever they did together, Peach enjoys it, and she hopes Mario does to.

Daisy saw the pink on Peach's cheeks and gave a toothy smiled, Mario and Peach were always a cute couple. They were always together during events and most of the time, they were never seen apart. Daisy always wondered why they aren't more than really good friends.

Peach in turn, thought about Daisy and Luigi, they seem like a more distant pairing. Peach knew that Daisy liked Luigi, but was confused on whether he felt the same way.

Another thought hit Peach, where is Luigi? She knows that Mario was coming to the festival, but was Luigi coming too? Peach decided to change the subject.

"By the way, didn't you invite Luigi?"

Daisy's smile falters a bit.

"I did, but he didn't want to come."

"Oh, I'm sorry, Daisy"

"It's OK, don't worry about." Daisy was a little disappointed that Luigi didn't show up, she was always knew Luigi as the nervous and shy one , but that's what Daisy liked about him, his timid personality was cute to her. Daisy signed. Even though Luigi wasn't coming, she was still going to have fun, it's been a very long time since she's been at the Mushroom Kingdom anyway.

"Hey, why don't I go get us something to eat". Daisy says, trying to change the subject.

"Sure", replies Peach with a smile on her face.

Daisy turns around, lifts up her dress, and heads for the balcony entrance, the two Toads bow as Daisy leaves the balcony. She heads downstairs and walks through a hallway. The interior of Peach's castle wasn't really different from the exterior, pale pink walls with red roofs, red carpet with gold trims spread over pearl white floors, and windows with fuchsia curtains. Daisy still marvels over the interior of Peach's castle, it was a lot bigger, fancier and more royal- like compared to Daisy's.

Constantly looking left and right, Daisy almost forgot why left the balcony, she continued her way to the royal kitchen, then again, Daisy forgot where Peach's kitchen is -maybe she should ask where it is. On her way she spotted many different Toads touching up the decorations for the star festival. They were so focused on the decorations they didn't even notice her. Daisy walks up to a pink Toad, and taps on his little mushroom head.

"Hey, Toad!"

"WAH!" He screams in his raspy high-pitched voice, surprised as he's forced out of his concentration. He drops a box of confetti and it spills all over the floor.

"O-oops! Sorry!"

"That's okay." He turns around. "Ah! Daisy, what a surprise! " Toad says picking up the confetti one by one and puts them back in the box. "I didn't know you were coming to the star festival."

Daisy giggles. "Well, surprise", Daisy says shrugging her shoulders. "Do you need some help with that?"

"Nope!"

"Oh, well, OK. Oh! I need to know where the kitchen is."

Toad stopped what he was doing and turned to Daisy, he pointed behind him.

"Go straight ahead and turn right."

"OK, thanks, bye!" Daisy waves to Toad as she walks to the kitchen.

Daisy continues on her way to the kitchen, keeping Toad's directions in her mind. She finally comes across three pathways each one having there own red and gold carpet. The pathways went left, right and straight and Daisy of course went straight. Next, Daisy came across two more pathways, left and right. Daisy went right, and soon enough, she came in contact with two huge golden double doors.

It was a very busy sight, as many Toads kept running back and forth, in and out of the doors. Daisy walked into the kitchen, trying to avoid tripping over any on the way in. Once Daisy's in, she looks around the kitchen and sees even more Toads working on stoves and ovens, they even left open the giant refrigerator.

Daisy walked up to the nearest Toad, who was cleaning the messy kitchen and tapped him on his mushroom head. He quickly turned around as if he'd just been struck, which surprised Daisy even more. After the Toad realized who it was, he calmed down.

"What is it, Princess Daisy?" The Toad said politely.

"Peach and I are gettin' kinda hungry, ya got something to eat?"

"Oh!" "The princess?" "Okay!" The toad ran off to the other side of the kitchen. He grabbed a stool and put it in front of the extremely long table. He stood up on the stool and grabbed two pieces of cake that were already prepared for the princess, just in case she wanted to snack a early.

He walked carefully back to Daisy and gave her the cakes. The cakes in question, were different in size and color. The first one was a big piece of vanilla cake, it had pretty pink icing with red sprinkles and a nice juicy looking pink peach on top. The other cake was a smaller piece of chocolate cake, with chocolate icing and a small bouquet of edible yellow daises on top. Both were on fancy and expensive looking saucers with pure silver forks.

The cakes looked absolutely delicious, especially the chocolate one- after all, Daisy loved chocolate. She turned around and carefully walked out of the kitchen, starting her journey back to the balcony. Daisy now knew why the Toad was carefully walking with the cakes, the pink one was way too heavy, and the smaller one was light as a feather, Daisy had to balance them in both her hands.

Daisy looked at the chocolate cake, of course it looked delicious, and the bouquet of flowers was an obvious sign that the cake was for her, then she looked at Peach's cake, why was Peach's cake bigger? Daisy knew that Peach was never that big of an eater, as evident to her small frame, so why is her piece so big? Maybe she puts all that weight somewhere. Daisy then thought of Peach's bum and cringed. In Smash, the peach bomber was her strongest attack, earning her a decent spot on the top tier list. It all made sense now, it was the cake that made her strong, that's why she makes cakes for Mario so much.

Daisy giggled and looked back at her cake, Daisy was in fact a very big eater, and Peach knew it, so shouldn't Daisy have a big piece of cake too? Did Peach tell the Toads to give her a smaller piece because she ate too much?

"That'd be embarrassing," Daisy says out loud, thankfully she was by herself.

Though, it would be nice to be able to bake a big delicious cake and to be able to eat it. -

If only-

***BOOM***

A loud explosion is heard and the castle shakes as if there was an earthquake, and because of it, Daisy dropped the cakes. All the Toads panicked and started screaming and running around all over the place. The earthquake stopped after several moments, but there was still the sound of screaming Toads and the sound of cannon fire.

" What was that?!" Daisy said. She looked around to see where the loud sounds came from. Daisy found nothing and decided to look outside a nearby window, and she gasped in horror. What she saw was fire and burning buildings. Not to mention that there were Toads who were frozen in what looked to be crystals. What shocked Daisy the most was when looked up in the air and saw four enormous pirate ships floating in the air. They were Bowser's ships.

"Hey!" "This way!" Daisy yelled for the Toads to follow her, and she immediately ran down the castle halls, the castle was being evacuated.

Normally, in a dangerous situation, it was the job of the Toads to evacuate the monarch. Not Daisy, for she already knew the safety measures and knew exactly what to do.

Daisy and most of the Toads made it to the castle entrance, and the giant double doors were wide open, making it easy to escape. Once everyone was outside, the Toads began tending to their brothers who were either hurt or crystallized. Daisy looked around for Peach. Where is she?

"Peach!" Daisy screamed at the top of her lungs, but her voice was most likely drowned out by the explosions and Toads screaming. After no response, Daisy's attention went back to the ships, one was stationary in the air while the other one was gliding toward the castle, and there was something walking and stopped just before they reached the bowsprit of the ship. It was big, yellow and green with spikes. It was. Bowser.

"B-b-bowser?!" Daisy whispered in fear, shuddering visibly. Daisy watched eyes wide as she saw Bowser look towards the balcony, where she and Peach were, then Daisy saw that she was still there with the luma still in her arms! What was Peach still doing there? Why didn't she evacuate? Daisy was knocked out of her thoughts when Bowser spoke up to Peach, his voice was loud and thunderous, with nothing but power and intimidation.

"Princess Peach!" "You are formally invited to the creation of my new galaxy!" Bowser's words were nothing more than roars, but it was understood that he meant business. One of the two Toads that were still on the balcony with Peach, coward behind her, and Peach herself cradled the scared luma in her arms.

Bowser gave an evil laugh.

"This festival's over!" He lifted his arms in the air and came out was what appeared to be blue lightning and shot it in the air, causing clouds to separate. Behind the clouds was something that appeared to be a giant flying saucer.

Mario ran through the royal streets, trying to get to Peach's castle. On the way he spotted crystallized Toads and burning buildings and the was filled with meteors that came from Bowser's second ship. Mario wanted to help the Toads, but he heard a voice calling his name, it was his fair maiden, Peach.

"HELP ME," Peach's cries of help rang though the royal streets, urging for Mario to rescue her.

When Mario reached the castle bridge, the flying saucer above it shot three lasers around the castle. Giant chains from the ships extended and attached themselves to the soil around Peach's castle, enabling them to lift it in the air. Peach, her castle and Mario were brought into space in a matter of seconds, Peach stayed in the same place with the luma in her arms and the two Toads still behind her shaking in fear while holding each other. Peach cried out to Mario once more.

"Mario!"

Mario looked up to the balcony where Peach was, when he shifted his gazed when Kamek came out of no where.

"So long! Enjoy you flight!" Kamek said as he was charging up his wand. Once charged, he blasted one single red shot from his wand, and it hit his target with excellent precision. Mario flew so far from the castle and back down to earth, Peach who saw the whole thing and lost it, and for one last time called out to Mario.

"MAAARIOOOOOO."

With that, Peach's castle disappeared.

A/N: I've been wanting to do a "Jealous Daisy" story for a while, and now I've done it! Also, the cover of this book was made by me and I posted it on my deviantart. If you wasn't to see it, here's my link:

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For any of you Mario fans out there, made this Prologue and based it off the opening of Super Mario Galaxy!