"I was hoping to show Cass the garden today." Ludwig said. We were discussing what to do for today and we could not come to an agreement.
"Nonsense! Let's do something fun. Let's go shopping!" Wendy replied.
"But we went shopping a few days ago." I groaned.
Bowser then walked by. He seemed in a very good mood and had a very big grin on his face. One could only guess what was going on in his mind.
"Look, there's king dad! I lets go get some money so we can go shopping." Wendy said and hurried off.
We followed her. She ran up and asked "kind daddy, can we have some money?"
"Of course you can." He said. I was shocked that he would give in so easily. I looked over at Ludwig and he seemed shocked too. "You and Cass going shopping for dresses for tomorrow?" he asked.
Wendy started to ask what tomorrow was when Larry ran up from behind bowser and started shaking his head and waving his arms. Wendy went along with it.
"Of course we are!" she said.
"Well here you are. Have fun you two." And then he left. We all turned to Larry.
"What is tomorrow?" Ludwig asked.
"Tomorrow is the annual ball in honor of our granddad Morton sr." Larry said. "We all forgot. I have been running around telling everyone. I have to go tell Roy now before he says something stupid."
"Roy always says something stupid. Just try to get him from angering kind dad." Wendy said as Larry headed out.
"So Cass, would you like to go with me to the ball?" Ludwig asked.
I started blushing. "Well I haven't really been to one before. I have no idea what they are like, but sure I will go with you."
He smiled and Wendy started to hurry me out. "Come on Cass the ball is tomorrow and we have nothing to wear!"
"Ok then, bye Ludwig!" I waved as we went out.
"Wendy there was a few dresses in my room when I first got here. Could I just wear one of them?" I asked.
"No you could not! Neither of them would be appropriate for a ball! Good thing you have me here to help you. First rule: no black. You wear enough of it already."
"Fine then." I replied. "Rule two: no pink."
She sighed "fine we can compromise."
We were walking through the malls searching for dresses. "Wendy, who is exactly going to the ball?"
"Why us, the people who live in dark land, and anyone we invite. King dad always invites princess peach but she never comes. Why is there someone you want to invite?" she says.
For a second I think. The only person I could even think of asking would be Stevie. Even if she was not in the hospital right now I couldn't invite her. I could see how horrible they would treat her since she was a goomba.
"No not really, can you imagine if someone invited Mario?" I jokingly suggested.
"Ha-ha that would be hilarious! Probably would end up either with the castle in flames or a dance-off."
When we reached the store Wendy started grabbing dresses left and right. She had one hand in which she would say mine and one hand she said yours. Store employees surrounded her and I followed behind them all.
She went in first to try some dresses on. She went came out with a strapless white dress on with pink flowers on the design. She shook her head and went back in.
I looked at some of the dresses she handed for me. One was a white dress with a silver strap. It showed a little too much for me and I put it back.
She came back out with an orange dress on. Her shell was off in the background. Well I guess that is their clothes, and it would have been hard to find a dress with it on. "What do you think?"
"It's nice but it's not you." I said.
"Here go try this one on." She said and handed me one of the dresses.
I came out wearing a blue dress. It was very big near the bottom.
"It reminds me of the ocean." I say.
"So do you want it?"
I look in the mirror for a few minutes. "No. maybe if I can't find anything I like better." I put it down on the bench.
"How about this one?" she showed me a red dress that criss crossed in the back.
"No I would like the dress not to be that much on the ground. It would get dirty very easily."
"Good thinking. Here can you try this one on for me please?" she asked and held out a yellow dress with one strap over the shoulder. In her other hand she had one for her in pink.
I picked the dress up and changed. We came out and Wendy looked gorgeous.
"We look amazing!" she said.
"You do. I like this one but it does not look good with my blue hair."
"Fine I will put it back with your other maybe dress." She said.
I looked through the pile of dresses. It was exhausting to buy dresses. I then found a sleeveless dark blue dress with a jeweled design going across the top. It was small enough to not look over designed.
Once I tried it on I loved it. It did not show too much, and it matched my hair almost perfectly. I stepped out of the changing room and Wendy gasped.
"Please tell me you like it, or else I will be forcing you to wear it."
I laughed. "Don't worry I like it."
We then bought our dresses. They were each around 400 coins. Man I seem to be bumming money off of people lately. Oh wait, I'm captured so there is no way I could have even gotten a job if I wanted to.
We then made our way back to the castle, where we then ran into Roy.
"Hey guys, you heard about the ball?"
"Why yes we have, we just got back from dress shopping." She said. "And your too late, Ludwig already asked her."
"fuck." He swore "I am not going to be the only one dateless again! I forbid it!" he screamed.
"Who are you kidding of course you will." Wendy remarked.
"Nevaaaa!" he then did a battle charge outside the castle. I looked outside the window. I could still see him with his hand made into a fist running.
"Ok now that the freak show is over we can go decide on what accessories and makeup we will be wearing. Oh and how we will do our hair." Wendy gushed on.
"Wendy I am kind of tired." I said. "Can we maybe decide this tomorrow? The ball won't be until the evening right?"
"Correct. Well I am going to decide for me and tomorrow will be all about you. Bye Cass."
Did she really just leave me here by myself? Well even if I tried to escape there is probably a bunch of guards, plus the fact that I would not know where to go.
I started to head back to my room. The day was ending and the ball would be tomorrow. I am so nervous. Suddenly I felt a presence behind me. I turned around and Iggy was there.
"You still seem upset. What's wrong?" he asked.
"Oh the thing in the morning I feel better about. But you know about the ball tomorrow right?" he nodded "well I never been to one before. I don't even know how to dance at one."
"Well I know how! I have been to a billion of them. Here I will show you." He volunteered. He then pulled me into the room he apparently came out of when I walked by.
It was his bedroom. "Do you know the waltz? It's what they usually do at these kind of things."
"I have heard of it but I never really done it. To tell you the truth I never really danced before. All the dances at my old town was usually just slow dances and people grinding up against each other which did not look fun." I told him.
"Ok first you stick your left hand on my shoulder and have your hand out like this." He stuck his hand out slightly bent with his palm forward. I did as he said and he stuck his hand around my waist and grabbed my hand with his other hand.
"Very good. Now step back with your right foot. Nice. Now with you left tracing the letter L."
I tried to do as he told me. "Now shift the weight to your left foot and slide your right so that your feet are together."
I managed to do as he said. "It's simple really. Now you just do the same movements starting with your left foot."
We practiced and he started counting "1, 2,3". I started counting in my head. After a while I got it down.
"Great job. Now it's getting late and Ludwig would kill me if he found you passed out in my room." Iggy said.
"Ok then. Thank you so much Iggy." I said.
"No problem." He replied.
We waved goodbye and I headed out to my bedroom.
Ok guys hope you liked the chapter! Six koopalings as of right now do not have a date. I could make them dateless, make up a random oc, or if anyone has an oc they don't mind me using for the next chapter and a few maybe in the future they can message me or put it in the review section. The characters you send in have to be able to fit in the story so no making them a relative of the royal family or of the heroes in the mushroom kingdom. If anyone does decide to send in an oc I will probably pick the one that comes in first and fits.