Attack on Sarassa Kingdom

Mario and Luigi were doubtful that they would make it to Sarassa Kingdom before Peach and her army, so they decided to call Daisy and warn her about Peach. Thankfully Mario always had his cell phone, so Luigi wasted no time calling Daisy. Even if she was clingy, she was still Luigi's girlfriend, and he loved her to death.

So far it was a peaceful night in Sarassa Kingdom. As usual the people were beginning to wind down for the night. Even Daisy, who was always one of the last people in the kingdom asleep, was thinking about turning in early. She had this bad feeling, like something awful was getting ready to happen. The ringing of the phone ruined her train of thought for a second, but her advisor, Toadstien, took care of it. She was on her way to her room, when she was called.

"Princess," Toadstien called, "it's Master Luigi."

Daisy yawned, "Tell him I'll call him in the morning," she said.

"He says it's urgent, and asks to speak to you immediately."

Daily was slightly annoyed now, but she decided to humor Luigi. She went to the phone, and sent Toadstien away. "Hello Luigi," she said sort of annoyed right now.

"Daisy, is everything alright over there?" he asked frantically.

"Yes, why wouldn't it be?" he was obviously being melodramatic as usual, and it was starting to annoy Daisy even more.

"Princess Peach is on her way there now!" he said, making it sound like it was the worse thing that could happen.

"Oh, great," she yawned, why was that a problem?

"No, not great! She's on her way there to invade!" Daisy woke up when she heard that, "I don't know why she's acting this way, but she's changed into this evil, twisted version of herself. Somehow she brainwashed all of the people of the Mushroom Kingdom and forced them to join her army," Daisy was dead silent. She remembered Peach telling her about something like this in her dreams. "Daisy!" Luigi shouted bringing her back to reality.

"Yeah Luigi, I'm here. Um, are you sure you aren't exaggerating?" she asked, praying and hoping he was.

"I'm sure. Both Mario and I saw her army on it's way to Sarassa Kingdom, I'd imagine she's almost there by now."

"Is it, like that time...?" Daisy said more so to herself.

"Daisy? What's wrong? Do you know something about this?" he asked on instinct, it just seemed like she did with how she said that.

"Sort of. You see, something happened on the day of the koopa attack last month," she started, feeling like she should have said something sooner.

"Something happened?" Luigi repeated.

"Yeah, you see-" there was a slight click on the other line, then a ring tone, "Luigi? Luigi, are you there?" she turned around and screamed. It was Peach, standing there. Daisy looked at her cousin up and down and was shocked by the new look.

"Daisy!" Peach said a little to enthusiastically.

"Peach?" she asked, in a way where you could almost here 'are you alright?' at the end, she was also curious as to how she got there so fast and so quiet.

Peach hugged Daisy, who just stood there frozen. "It's great to see you!" she stepped back, and feigned concern when she saw how Daisy was looking at her, "What's wrong?"

"It's just, you look so..."

"What do you think?" she spun around showing her dress. Daisy thought the dress looked nice on her, but the cape she thought was a bit much. "I know it's a little out of character, but I wanted to try something new, you know?" she said like it was nothing. Daisy felt like something was wrong.

"Um, Peach, how did you get here so fast?" she didn't know what else to ask, so she just asked the first thing she wanted to know.

"Oh, that's simple, watch this," she then vanished from in front of Daisy, who just looked around confused.

"What the?"

"Boo!" Peach said from right behind Daisy.

"Ah!" she screamed and turned around to see Peach right behind her, "How did you..." she started to ask, but when she finally got a good look at her eyes she was devastated, "No... Peach..." she said, praying she didn't fall into the darkness she was afraid of before.

"I can do a lot of other stuff too, watch this," Daisy then saw the vase next to her begin to float, and suddenly she was a little afraid of Peach, "Isn't this cool?"

"Peach, I-" there was a loud bang outside, which startled Daisy, "What was that?"

"Oh, they're here already?" Peach said like she was waiting for this.

"Who's here already?" she asked in a worried tone.

"You have to see this," Peach said as she took Daisy's hand, "Come on," she said as she lead Daisy to a window where she could see the entire Sarassa Kingdom.

What Daisy saw would haunt her forever. Sarassa Kingdom was in flames. She heard people screaming, children crying, and everywhere was destruction.

What scared her the most was that the attackers looked like Peach's soldiers. Why would she attack her kingdom like this, and where did she get this many soldiers. Then she remembered Luigi's call. He said she brainwashed the villagers into becoming her army. Daisy thought of women and children fighting too, and it made her sick.

Peach lost her fake perkiness, and just looked at Daisy's horrified face with a sinister smile.

"Well, what do you think?" Peach asked in a low, evil tone that sounded nothing like the sweet Peach Daisy knew.

Daisy just turned and looked at Peach with a look of horror and devastation. Was this monster really her cousin?

"Luigi was right. You really are going to attack all of the other kingdoms." she didn't want to believe it. She wanted to wake up from this horrible nightmare, and see her sweet, innocent, shy cousin again.

"Ah, he told you that?" she said sort of disappointed, "I wanted to surprise you."

"Is this about the nightmares?" Daisy finally asked the question she wanted to ask from the beginning, but was afraid to.

"Daisy, I can't lie to you. Yes, these are about the dreams. But nightmare is such a harsh term."

"But why are you doing this to me? I don't condone this action either way, but why are you attacking my kingdom?" she asked Peach, who suddenly wasn't smiling.

"You really want to know why? Fine, I'll tell you," she started, then she glared at Daisy with a look that sent chills down Daisy's spine, "I hate you."

"Wh, what?" Daisy was in shock when she heard that. Peach hated her?

"Remember when I said that I was a horrible person, and that I hated people? I meant you!" these words hurt Daisy worse than anything, "I've always hated you!" she said, words edged with sheer hate.

"But why?" she asked stepping away from Peach a little.

"Like you don't know?!" Peach suddenly blew up, letting out all of her feelings, "Ever since we were children I was in your shadow! You were pretty, you were athletic, you were outgoing! Everyone always flocked around Daisy, but where was I? I was in the corner, by myself, with my pigtails, and my glasses! Why do you think when we were in high school, I suddenly stopped wearing glasses, and wore my hair out?! I wanted to be noticed, just like you! But you always had to be a center of attention!"

"But I never tried to..." she couldn't even finish that sentence, because she was right. Daisy always loved attention. She never once thought of how Peach felt, she just assumed that Peach liked being alone.

"Even when we became adults, it was the same thing! Like when I came home from Rogueport. That was my time! But you just came in with your temper and made it all about you! I hated it! Everyone was staring at you; they didn't give a damn about me, their Princess!"

It was then that Daisy realized two things. One, Peach wasn't being possessed by an outside force, this was all her. And two, she was partially to blame for creating this monster. She never knew this was how Peach felt. If she could take it all back, she would.

"Peach, I'm so-"

"Save it!" Peach interrupted, "You had all through elementary school, all through middle school, and all through high school to apologize! I don't want an apology, I want revenge!" Daisy got scared when she heard that, "I want everything that's yours. I want your castle, I want your kingdom, hell, I'll even take away Luigi," she walked up to Daisy and was standing face to face to her, "As long as I leave you with nothing, I don't care what I have to take."

Normally Daisy was a little taller than Peach, but right now Peach seemed a little taller than Daisy. Maybe it was the stilettos, but it may have been a little bit psychological too, because Daisy felt pretty small right now.

"I won't let you do this!" Daisy said trying to sound strong.

Peach raised her arms as if trying to provoke Daisy, "Then stop me! I dare you!" Daisy couldn't do anything though. Partially because she knew that she was no match for what Peach had become, but also because that was still her cousin, and she loved Peach. "You can't, can you?" a gust of wind came that was so strong it blew Daisy into a wall a good few meters away, "But I can!"

As Peach walked up to Daisy, Daisy just looked up at the monster that was her cousin. The monster that she helped create.

Mario and Luigi just got to the castle and were running to the hall where Peach and Daisy were. The sight of Daisy on the ground terrified of Peach who was walking closer to her made both of them shocked.

"Peach!" Mario shouted.

Peach slightly looked where he and Luigi were standing, "Oh, you finally decided to join us?" she asked in a cold tone. Daisy took that as her chance to run to where Mario and Luigi were standing.

"Daisy, are you alright?" Luigi asked Daisy.

"Don't worry darling, I'm fine. Scarred for life, but I'm fine," she said looking back at Peach.

"Peach, why are you doing this? Why are you hurting your friends, your family?" Mario asked.

"Because I'm tired," she replied, "I'm tired of being pushed around all the time by people of other nations. I want to show them all how dangerous I really am, so I'll never have to worry again.

"Is that what this is about, revenge? You're doing this for revenge?" Mario asked in shock. He didn't want to believe that she would go this far.

"I'm doing this to create my world! Daisy's kingdom is just the start, soon I'll do this to all the other kingdoms too. Then, I'll put them all under my control, just like I did the Mushroom Kingdom."

"So what about us?" Luigi asked, "Are you going to put us under your control?"

"That all depends on what you three do. If you join me, I'll spare you, but if you oppose me, then I'll just kill you like all the rest," she said as she glared at them.

"Peach, please stop this!" Daisy pleaded, "Think about what this is doing to poor Mario! You two were supposed to get married in another month! How do you think he feels seeing his future wife like this!"

Peach didn't seem too affected by that, she just looked at Mario.

"I have no intentions of stopping what I've done. Now Mario, he's free to do what he wants. So what is it Mario?" she asked almost lovingly, "You're either with me or against me, so which side are you on." Mario was dead silent, frozen with fear. How could he make such a decision. Peach was obviously a little hurt, because her loving smile faded into a cold stare. "No answer?" she said to him after a few seconds, "Then I'll decide for you," she said as she pulled off the wedding ring Mario gave her. She then threw it on the floor in front of Mario, who was in shock. Did that just happen? Did she turn her back on their wedding?

An army of Peach's soldiers ran in and surrounded Mario, Luigi, and Daisy, "These three have no place in our new world," Peach told her men, "Kill them."

"What?!" Luigi said as he looked around, "She has us surrounded!"

"What are we going to do?!" Daisy asked Luigi.

"I have no idea. There is no way we can beat all of these soldiers," he then looked at Mario, who was just looking down at the ring on the floor. "Mario, we have to get out of here!" but Mario wasn't listening. He got down and picked up the ring, just staring it with a blank stare. "Mario!"

Just then two figures crashed through the window and were fighting Peach's men. One was Link from Hyrule, the other looked like a ninja wearing a tight blue suit, closed white vest with a red eye on the front, white mask and hat that looked like a hood, and blond hair tied in a braid. Link and the mysterious ninja fought off the soldiers, then looked at Peach with a look of sheer terror.

"Damn it!" Link said as he looked at Peach, "Sheik, we're too late!" he said to the ninja, now identified as Sheik.

"We can't worry about these soldiers," Sheik said in a cool, almost soft tone, "Link, get us out of here!"

"Right!" Sheik and Link went over to Mario, Luigi, and Daisy, who were confused as heck.

"Who are you two?" Luigi asked.

"Allies," Sheik said to Luigi, then turned to Link, "Now Link!"

"Fafore's Wind!" Link shouted, and all five of them disappeared in a green tornado. Peach was both shocked, and pissed.

"Empress," one of Peach's men said as he ran over to her, "What shall we do, find them?"

"Don't waste your energy, they've left this region. Continue taking control of the city."

"Yes Empress," he saluted. He then lead the men back out of the castle. Peach just looked at where Mario and his friends once stood.

"Fafore's Wind...?" she asked to herself. She then realized who those two were, "This is getting fun," she said as she walked out to the balcony. There she saw her men, all cheering for her. They had just won Sarassa Kingdom.

"One down," she said with a sinister smile, "Three to go."