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1. Gates
Vaan snorted as he watched the wind whip across the Estersand. "Now isn't this ironic?" He brushed his blonde hair out of his blue eyes. "I hate the empire and yet here I am hunting the creature responsible for holding up the food for their banquet." He frowned and pulled out the primer Tomaj had given him. "Now what did Tomaj say it looked like?" he flipped to where he had written the description. "A member of the deadly nightshade family, possessing fangs, red skin, and little stature. Does not appear to posses the abilities that are common to the deadly nightshades."
A loud shrieking cry caught his attention. He whirled around to see what looked like a fanged tomato on a puppet body chasing after what looked like a mushroom with a cane. Since Vaan was certain he had gone insane, it seemed natural to him that the mushroom was screaming things like, "Away you despicable cad!" and "somebody help!", while smacking at the tomato with the cane.
Vaan shook his head feeling dazed. "Okay, insane or not that red thing looks like my mark." He raised his hand and let magic crackle around his fingers as he concentrated. He'd have to remember to thank Yugri again for giving him the aero spell and its accompanying license. She knew he loved magic. As the tomato and mushroom ran by him, Vaan let the spell fly. The tomato screamed as the wind spell cut into its body and burst its heart, killing it instantly. Vaan let out a whoop and reached down pulling a fang out of the tomato's mouth. The mushroom stood and stared at him panting slightly. After a moment, it spoke.
"Why on earth would you want a tooth from that brute?" Vaan glanced at the mushroom and took in its appearance. A little taller than the tomato with oddly expressive black eyes and an enormous white handlebar mustache. Vaan pinched himself and sighed when the cane wielding mushroom didn't vanish on the spot.
"Okay, I'm not dreaming, your still here and this thing matches my mark description perfectly." He glanced at the fang in his hand. "This tooth is proof that I found and killed my mark. No one's going to take my word on faith." The mushroom nodded sagely.
"A wise attitude to take. You look like a youth, even if you don't seem to carry yourself like a typical whippersnapper." The mushroom glanced off to the side. "I see that the gate is still open." Vaan followed his gaze and was shocked to see a giant red set of doors sitting smack in the middle of the Estersand. The massive slabs of metal were open onto a rather verdant green lawn. A number of mushrooms similar to the one in front of him were peeking around the sides looking petrified.
The cause of their obvious fear was the wild saurian that usually resided at the bottom of the field. It had come up to sniff at the door and eye the mushrooms with what Vaan could tell was idle curiosity. He'd be willing to bet his magic collection that it looked like ravenous hunger to the terrified mushrooms. He sighed and put his fingers to his lips and let out a loud whistle. The giant dinosaur perked its head and catching sight of Vaan, let out a strange snorting snuffle and eyed him. Vaan grinned and held up the tomato and a wolf that had decided to try him as a snack when he had first entered the Estersand. The saurian let out snort and pounded up the sand, stopping ten feet from him. Vaan grinned again and threw both the carcasses to it. It caught both of them in its mouth and wandered off to find somewhere less open to eat its meal.
The mushroom released the vice grip it had on Vaan's leg. "Will you please come with me? I am certain the princess would want to thank you personally." Without waiting for a response the mushroom turned and trotted towards the gate. Vaan followed with some bemusement. As they walked, the mushroom asked over his shoulder, "Was that gigantic monster a pet of yours?" Vaan couldn't hold back a snort at this.
"More like it's Rabanastre's pet. That thing's been around since before I was born. It doesn't bother us and it keeps the area mostly free of wolves. People have been giving it food for at least three hundred years. It's practically domesticated these days. The mushroom stopped in front of the gate.
"Please follow me. I assure you that we will not harm you." The Mushroom walked through the doors and stopped to wait for him on the other side. Vaan snorted and thinking that if this one was any example he should be fine followed.
The instant he passed through the door frame, the agate on his vest clasp lit up with pale blue fire and a wall of blue light went up behind him. Vaan whirled around threw a fist at the wall. He nearly fell as the agate glowed again and his fist went through full force. Someone behind him giggled slightly.
"Clearly you are not trapped on this side." Vaan turned and stared. There behind him surrounded by mushrooms of various size and color stood a young woman. She stood at about his height and wore a bright pink dress that swept the ground. Her brilliant blue eyes were matched perfectly by golden hair that was nearly waist length. She smiled, showing to rows of white teeth and lifted the hem of her dress slightly and swept forward. Vaan caught sight of pink high heels as she moved. She stopped in front of him and reached up to adjust a small crown on her head, before straightening her elbow length white gloves. The mushroom beside Vaan let out a squeak.
"Princess, this wonderful child saved me!" The Princess looked down at the mushroom and gasped.
"Toadsworth! Thank heavens you're alright! When the gate opened and sucked you in I feared the worst! First that thing pops up out of nowhere and resists all our attempts to open it, and then it opens on its own and drags you in!" Toadsworth waved his cane merrily.
"Not at all! I landed out in a desert and was immediately beset by a most vile brute. I feared it would be the end of me! Then this darling boy came along and killed the beast with a single spell!" The princess looked up at Vaan.
"You have my deepest thanks. Please tell me, what is your name?" Vaan blinked as she looked at him expectantly. Vaan rubbed his head for a moment as her melodic voice asked him, "Are you alright?" Vaan let his hands drop.
"Yes I'm alright. Uh, my name is Vaan Ratsbane. If you don't mind my asking, who are you and where am I?" The princess giggled.
"Well Mr. Ratsbane, you are at the foot of my castle. I am Princess Peach Toadstool, ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom." Vaan let out a long inelegant snort.
"Now I know I'm going crazy." The princess blinked and shook her head, the blue spheres on her ears swinging slightly.
"Why do you think that?" Van frowned at her.
"Because the Mushroom Kingdom is fairytale land that supposedly existed four thousand years ago. Everyone in Ivalice knows that."
AN: This is my first attempt at a crossover. I know that these two particular ranges seem kind of crackish, but when someone mentioned that they were about the only two games that hadn't made an extremely obvious collaboration, the idea came into my head and wouldn't go away. I have quite a large plot behind this story. it's in the process of being refined and transcribed.
Ahem:Fans of my other two stories, Change, and Gathering of dreams need not worry. They have'nt been uploaded in so long because the devices they were stored on are missing. I am retyping them and overhauling the unposted chapters i have typed for them. Especially Change. it's very hard to end a story. and to answer one particularly silly PM, no I am not dead, nor have i fallen off the face of the earth.
Ahem:This will have romance between Ashe and Vaan. It just won't be for a while. and while Vaan is at Peach's castle, you won't bee seing much of the Mario Bros. The princess is a vastly underestimated and underused character in my opinion and i aim to change that. The next chapter should be up before too long. See you then!
Just click that button to send me a criticism please. Pointless flames shall be used to heat my cauldron of ideas.