First off I would love to thank Elemental Queen for being my first reviewer, I was frightened that no one would review at all so it does mean alot!

Secondly, here is the second chapter filled with more Syrupy goodness. Man I love her, she's awesome ^_^

Chapter two.

'Wario said something about Syrup being a pirate?' Came a familiar voice.

'Yeah, I remember her. Wario got into trouble with her after the whole six golden coins debacle,' Said another well known voice.

'Why is she here Mario?'

'I have no idea Luigi, probably to cause trouble for Wario I guess...' Mario replied. He sounded worried.

'I could just tell there was something troublesome about her, walking around like a hussy,' A sharp female voice rang out.

Lying there in her hospital bed, Peach could barely make out the conversation. Her body ached and her head hurt, she wasn't sure why. Keeping her eyes closed she tried to piece together the events that had led to her hospitalization.

She remembered seeing the pirates. Pirates. The voice belonging to Mario mentioned them. She fluttered her eyes open and blinked under the rooms lighting. Her friends rushed to her side. Someone grabbed her hand.

'Peach,' Mario's voice called out soothingly. She made eye contact with him and felt a wave of confusion sweep over her. She had no idea who this man was.

'Peach, what's wrong?' The man called Mario asked, his face etched with concern.

'Who are you?' She managed to squeak. Mario looked from Peach to Luigi and back again.

'It's me Mario, don't you remember?' He asked desperately, almost pleadingly. Peach shook her head. He seemed familiar but couldn't place him. Before Mario could say something a doctor had entered the room. He picked up the clipboard from the end of Peach's bed and murmured something.

'Doctor! Please do something she doesn't remember me,' Mario begged, tears starting to form in his eyes. The doctor examined Peach and sighed.

'I'm afraid there isn't a lot we can do, she received a massive trauma to the head. We can only hope that her memory loss is temporary,' The doctor said glumly.

'Is there anything we can do to try to help her remember?' Daisy asked. How she wanted to get her hands round that pirate hussys neck.

'Only thing for the time being is bed rest, peace and quiet. Perhaps you should all leave her and go back to your homes. Try and find items that could jog her memory, photo's would be good,' The doctor suggested. Daisy nodded sadly.

Peach's three friends bid her farewell and set off towards their homes feeling disheartened by the recent turn of events. Peach watched them go, saw their heartbroken expressions on their faces.

Meanwhile, in Club 64, a small club in the port of Toad Town, a group of pirates sat huddled together. Podley the bartender watched them with keen interest. He was uneasy about having them in his club but seeing as they were just sat nursing beers he let it go. The pirates were an odd bunch, ranging from Goombas, Shy Guys, Koopa Troopas, Boos and curiously enough the odd human.

'Maaan! I can't believe we pulled that off!' One of the Goombas said, some of his pirate companions nodded.

'Yeah... but where's the Cap?' A purple Boo enquired.

'She'll be here,' The Goomba replied. Their Captain had never let them down before.

'I dunno Goomber, something smells fishy to me...' A Shy Guy spoke up. The door to Club 64 sprung open. Everyone inside the club turned to face the door. Captain Syrup stood in front of them all with a big smirk plastered on her face.

'Awwwh! You weren't doubting me where you Shyler?' She headed towards the bar and tossed a coin over to Podley 'Make it a large one Sugar!'

Podley did ask he was asked, pouring a large glass of beer. He kept a watchful eye on her as he did so.

Shlyer, the Shy Guy jumped off his stool and allowed Syrup to peach herself on it. Podley brought her beer over to her and she nailed it in one.

'Cheers guys! Couldn't have done it without ya,'

'Okay Cap, where's our share?' Goomber demanded. Syrup raised an eyebrow and laughed. She stood up, tossed a small bag of coins on to the table in front of her. Now she was out of her dress and back in her normal clothes. Her red hair was topped with a purple bandana, she wore a light purple strappy top and a darker purple grey pair of baggy trousers cropped at the knees. A red belt complete with skull buckle tied around her waist and purple boots matched her trousers. To complete her look she wore octopus earrings. Her daily pirate wear made it easy to conceal her trust knife.

Taking her knife from out of one of her boots she sliced the bag of coins open sending the shiny gold pieces sprawling across the table. A few of the pirates stood up abruptly.

'What's this?' A few of them demanded. Syrup smirked.

'Your share, thats what,'

'Why you! We want our equal share!' A tall human from the back bellowed. Syrup waved a finger in his face.

'We never agreed to equal Sugar, you should always read the small print,' She laughed. The human lunged at her but Syrup was far to quick for him. She danced out of his way easily.'

'What small print?' He snarled.

'Exactly! Farewell losers!,' Syrup called as she leapt out of harms way and ran for the door leaving a group of disgruntled pirates behind her.

The next day saw Mario, Luigi and Daisy head back towards the hospital to visit Peach. They had spent the night rummaging through their belongings in search of items that may help Peach recover her memories.

They reached Peach's private ward and were greeted instantly by the doctor from the previous day. He looked anxious.

'Doctor?' Luigi asked.

'I'm not sure how to tell you this...' The doctor started to say, his hands were shaking.

'Doctor, whats wrong?' Mario asked as he pushed past the doctor, he was greeted by an empty bed. His heart stopped momentarily. Luigi and Daisy followed him.

'Where's Peach?' Daisy asked fearing the worst.

'We don't know, she snuck out last night,' The doctor admitted, feeling ashamed of himself.

'How?' Mario demanded.

'We're not sure, she was here at midnight but at six this morning she had gone. She's even left her crown behind,'

Mario sat down on the bed. Where would a possibly confused and alone Peach have gone?

Back down at the Toad Town Dock, Wario, followed by a very reluctant Waluigi had headed down first thing that day. Wario had decided to track down Syrups boat - the Sweet Stuff.

'Do you even have a plan should we come across Syrup?' Waluigi asked. He doubted that Wario had even planned this far ahead, never mind what he would do should they run into her.

'Yeah! I'm gonna beat her! If the Sweet Stuffs her she's bound to be!' Wario growled.

Wario suddenly stopped walking. He glanced over towards the dock and sure enough, there was the ship. Rolling up his sleeves he stomped off in the direction of the ship. He was about to walk up the ramp leading up to the ship's deck when Waluigi stopped him.

'Um, Bro? I don't think you should go any further...'

Wario raised an eyebrow and looked around him. At least five canons were aimed at them.

'Oi! Syrup you sneak thief! Show yourself!' Wario bellowed. Waluigi rolled his eyes.

'Yep! That's it, anger the people with all the weapons...'

'Shut it bean pole!' Wario snapped.

A few faces began to peer over the side of the ship, Waluigi guessed that there were Syrups crew. They looked like they were ready for a brawl and Waluigi didn't like the numbers. There was no way they would win this fight.

'I'd listen to your abnormally tall friend!' Came a shrill cry. Wario and Waluigi both looked up. Wario knew instantly that wasn't the voice of Syrup.

'Hey watch who you're calling abnormal!' Waluigi hissed back.

'What do you want?' The voice said again.

'Show yourself!' Wario called. He wondered who was on Syrups ship and where the elusive Captain really was. A slender figure stood at top of the ramp. She had white baggy trousers and a pink baggy t-shirt on. Her long blonde hair was scraped into a ponytail with a pink ribbon tied around it.

Both Wario and Waluigi stood with their mouths wide open.

'Peach?!'

EOC.