(A/N: At the end of that last chapter, the girls were en route to Sarasaland because Cappy did not wish to return to Bonneton so soon. Rather than making Bonneton their first stop, as the game showed us, Peach decided to visit Sarasaland first. Let's see what happens here.)


"Well, here we are. The kingdom of Sarasaland." Peach smiled, glad that she was finally where she wanted to go first.

Tiara looked and saw a castle not far from where they were parked.

"Hey, Peach! Look! There's a castle over there!" Tiara said, pointing at said castle.

"I see it. In fact, that's exactly where we need to go." Peach said as they left the transport ship and started making their way up to the front doors of the castle.

"Is that where the people who can help you live?" Tiara asked.

"Yes. Let's go." said Peach.

"Should I act as a tiara for you?" Tiara asked as they walked to the front doors.

"You know what? That might be wise for now. You can reveal yourself only when I tell you to." Peach told her, removing her crown and setting it in her purse. Tiara then assumed her tiara form and landed on Peach's head, albeit a little lopsided. But Peach straightened her before knocking on the castle doors.

The doors opened, and Peach was greeted by a young red-haired girl in a maid's uniform.

"Your Highness!" the maid gasped upon recognizing Peach. She quickly made a curtsy before the Princess.

"No, it's okay. You really don't have to do that, and you know you can call me 'Peach'." Peach told her.

"Well, I feel that it's only polite, and my mama always taught me to respect royalty." the maid replied.

"Your mother raised you right, but really, it's okay." Peach said.

"If you insist." the maid replied, before asking, "I assume you're here to see Princess Daisy; am I right?"

"We have a winner!" Peach smiled.

"I won! I won!" the maid cheered, before asking Peach, "What did I win?"

"The honor of telling Daisy that I'm here and need to speak with her." Peach replied.

The maid nodded, before realizing what Peach said, and asked, "Say, what kind of game-show is this?"

Peach could not help laughing at that one, but she said, "Could you please tell Daisy that I need to speak to her?"

"Yes, My Lady. I'll go and inform Her Highness that you're here." said the maid, and she left.

"Are you known by the maids here?" Tiara asked Peach.

"I've been here every now and again, so yes. Plus, since the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland have good ties, it was pretty much a given." said Peach.

"Who's this 'Daisy' you were speaking of?" Tiara asked.

"Daisy is my cousin, but she and I are so close, we almost think of each other as sisters." Peach answered.


About a minute later, Princess Daisy was standing before the two. Well, she didn't know about Tiara, but boy was she happy to see Peach. Her face lit up like a Christmas tree when she saw her cousin standing before her.

"Hey, Peach! What brings you here?! I missed you so much!" Daisy joyfully exclaimed, giving her cousin a tight hug.

"I missed you, too, Daisy." Peach replied, unable to hug Daisy back because the hug kept her arms pinned to her sides.

Tiara certainly hadn't been expecting Daisy to greet Peach like this. It surprised her that a pretty girl like Daisy seemed to be real strong.

"If Daisy is this strong, would Bowser have been able to manhandle her like he did Peach... and me?" Tiara thought.

"I can't believe you're really here! Why didn't you let me know you were coming?" Daisy asked, tightening her hold on Peach.

"I... can't breathe!" Peach gasped.

"Ohh, oops. Sorry, Peach. Guess I don't know my own strength sometimes." Daisy said as she sheepishly released her cousin, allowing Peach to catch her breath.

When Peach could finally breathe normally again, she said, "The reason I'm here is partially because I feel like I need someone to have a girl-talk with."

"Someone like me, I'll bet." Daisy smiled.

"That's right, and this wasn't something I wanted to discuss over the phone, or in a video-chat on the computer. I wanted to discuss this with you in person." Peach explained.

"That's totally understandable." Daisy said.

"And I also need your mom there when we talk." Peach added.

"You need to talk to Mom, too? What for?" Daisy asked. Normally, when she and Peach talked, they talked alone. Apparently, this was serious.

"Well, I also need some motherly advice, and if my mother was still alive, I would have already gotten it from her instead of your mother." Peach replied.

"Good point." Daisy replied slowly, before saying, "Well, follow me. We'll go find Mom, and then we'll go and discuss whatever it is you need to talk about."

So Peach entered the castle with Daisy and asked, "Where are your parents?"

"Probably still in the castle's dining hall, digesting. We just got done having breakfast, you know." Daisy replied.

"I might have guessed." Peach said.

A few seconds later, Peach and Daisy were standing outside of the dining hall.

"Wait here. I'll go check." Daisy said. She entered the room, and then came out a few seconds later.

"I told Mom. She says she'll be along shortly. In the meantime, she wants us to go to the sitting room. She'll meet us there." Daisy said.

"Thanks." Peach replied.

So the two princesses made their way to the castle's sitting room and quickly made themselves comfortable on the sofa in there.

"Whatever you want to discuss must be pretty serious if you need Mom's help." Daisy said.

"Well, Toadsworth isn't much help, being a guy, and Toadette is pretty young." Peach reminded her.

"Hmm... you're right." Daisy said.


A few minutes later, the Queen entered the room, holding a tray containing 3 teacups and a teapot on it.

"Hello, Peach." the Queen smiled as she set the tray on the table before them and poured tea into each cup.

"Hello." Peach said as she took one of the cups of tea.

"So, what's going on? Daisy said that you came here because you needed to talk to her... and me." the Queen said.

"I do. I've just come back from the worst trip I've ever been on." Peach began.

"'Sloop John B'." Daisy smiled, naming the song Peach was referencing before taking a teacup and taking a small sip of tea out of it in a ladylike manner.

(A/N: In the song "Sloop John B", they say 'This is the worst trip I've ever been on'. Dad even said something like this to Uncle Bob, and his reply was exactly the same as Daisy's.)

"Yes dear, we all know how the song goes, but we're not going to sing it right now." the Queen gently chided her daughter, before asking Peach, "What happened? Can you tell us about what happened to you during this trip?"

"That's the easy part, and I know you're not going to be surprised when you find out what caused it to be so bad." said Peach.

"This ought to be interesting..." Daisy thought as she set her cup back down on its saucer and turned her attention to her cousin.


Peach began telling them about what happened a few days ago, when Bowser captured her and attempted to marry her. And she also mentioned Tiara.

"Pardon my asking, but who is Tiara?" Daisy asked.

"She was a friend of mine during the trip. In fact, she's right here with me." Peach said.

"Are you sure, Peach? I don't see her." the Queen said.

"That's because she's up here." Peach said, pointing to the top of her head.

"In... your brain?" Daisy asked. She thought Peach was a little too old to have imaginary friends. She and Peach both had imaginary friends when they were younger and forced to be apart from each other, but they would always forget about their imaginary friends as soon as they were together again.

"No, Daisy. See this tiara I'm wearing? That's Tiara, but she's just in her tiara form right now." Peach replied.

"You mean she has another form?" Daisy asked.

"Yes. Her true form." Peach replied.

"May we see what she really looks like?" asked the Queen.

"That's up to her." Peach replied, before turning her gaze to her head and asking, "Tiara, you don't mind showing yourself, do you?"

"I don't know." a childish, feminine voice replied to Peach in a whisper. Apparently, Tiara was just being shy.

"It's okay. Don't be shy. Daisy and her mother aren't going to hurt you. I promise." Peach assured the voice.

"Well, okay." replied the voice, and the tiara on Peach's head got eyes, which Daisy noticed.

"Whoa! I never saw a tiara do that before!" Daisy exclaimed.

"Then that means you've never seen a Bonneter before." Peach said as the tiara leaped off of her head, turning into some kind of ghost-like creature that resembled a bridal tiara.

"This is Tiara. She and I were both prisoners of Bowser during the trip." Peach explained as Tiara floated close to her.

"She's pretty cute." Daisy said.

"She's lovely." the Queen smiled.

Tiara felt better, so she relaxed on Peach's lap as Peach explained everything they had been through while they were in Bowser's clutches. Some of the things really had Daisy and the Queen surprised, but some of those instances made Daisy mad. One of them was so bad that she leaped to her feet and yelled, "LET ME AT HIM!"

Tiara got scared and hid behind Peach, but Peach said, "Actually, Daisy, I don't think he's going to be doing anything like that ever again. And even if he does capture me, it may not be for a very long time."

"Why is that?" Daisy asked, madder than Peach had ever seen her.

"I'm getting to that." Peach said, motioning for Tiara to come out.

"She's mad, Peach..." Tiara whimpered, frightened of Daisy's anger.

"Only at Bowser; not me, and definitely not you. She's not going to bite us." Peach replied.

So Tiara nervously took her place on Peach's lap again while Peach continued to explain what she had been through, and how Mario was trying to save her, but Bowser kept trying to kill him.


"I take it Mario rescued you eventually, since you're here right now." the Queen said.

"He did. He always does." Peach said. She went on to tell them how Mario finally rescued her from becoming the wife of their greatest enemy... and from an early grave.

"He truly is a good man, Peach, with a good heart." the Queen said.

"If I were you, Peach, after a rescue like that, I would've rewarded Mario with a big kiss, and my hand in marriage." Daisy said.

"Now Daisy..." the Queen started.

"Come on, Mom! If Dad went on this great adventure, cheating death and working hard to save you from marrying someone who didn't love you and only wanted your kingdom, you'd do the same!" Daisy said.

"Okay, I would. But not like that." the Queen replied, although she was blushing at the thought.

"I wish I could tell you that I did do what you said, Daisy... but I didn't." Peach said.

"You didn't?! Why the heck not?!" Daisy asked.

Peach explained how Mario and Bowser were forcing her to choose one of them. The key word was 'forcing', which was what Bowser had been doing to her the entire time. For Mario to start doing the same was just a bit much.

"Okay, can we just stop right there for a minute? I need you to explain this better." Daisy said, making a time-out gesture with her hands.

"Explain what?" Peach asked.

"I can understand you turning down Bowser, but MARIO?! The man loves you more than he loves himself! Why on earth would you turn him down when he shows you nothing but kindness, honesty, and more love than I've ever seen any guy show a girl?!" Daisy said.

"Daisy, Peach just said she was being forced. She was sick of it." the Queen said.

"Sick and tired of it. But by the time I got to Mario's ship, I calmed down enough to ask both of them to join me, Tiara, and her brother as the ship started to go. Mario made it, kicking Bowser out of the way." Peach said.

"Atta boy, Mario!" Daisy cheered.

"Didn't you talk to him after that?" the Queen asked.

"Well... no, not exactly..." Peach said.

"Not exactly?! For crying out loud, Peach! After turning him down, I think you should've come right out and given the man the explanation he deserves!" Daisy said.

"I should've. But he spent most of the ride home on the deck, and when he finally did come back in, he didn't seem to want to talk. He wouldn't even look at me. I know I should have spoken to him, but I was afraid to. I was afraid that if we started talking, I might lash out and say something hurtful to him. Something I would later regret." Peach said.

"So you love this guy, and you turn him down. Then you don't even work things out with him..." Daisy figured, before adding, "For shame!"

"Peach, you really should talk to him. Do you still love him, in spite of what he did after rescuing you?" the Queen asked.

"Yes..." Peach started.

"Then tell him, for Heaven's sakes!" Daisy burst out.

"Daisy, please!" the Queen said.

"Actually, I kind of agree with Daisy. Mario needs to know. For all we know, he's suffering from a broken heart..." Tiara said, before realizing what she just said and feeling stupid. She promised Cappy she wouldn't tell that Mario was heartbroken.

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Now Cappy is going to find out that I told when I said I wouldn't!" Tiara thought.

"A broken heart?! I... I never meant to break his heart!" Peach exclaimed, feeling worse about the way she spurned Mario.

"Okay, after what you've been through, I can understand why you didn't talk. But now it's clear that you and Mario need to talk sometime soon. Tell each other how you feel, what you've both been through." the Queen said.

"I don't know if Peach can do that without making Mario feel worse that he hadn't rescued her sooner. Some of the things Bowser did to her will make him mad... and hurt that he hadn't given Bowser a major, almost deadly beating..." Daisy said.

"I'll tell him everything, and I'll let him explain everything. Because I still love him-" Peach began, before Daisy cut her off, asking, "How much?"

"More than I'll ever love Bowser, that's for sure." Peach said.

"Atta girl!" said Daisy, clapping a strong hand on Peach's slender shoulder.

"But as much as I want to marry Mario... I don't want to get married right now. I want to wait a bit before thinking about marriage again." Peach said.

"Then you need to tell him that. You also need to tell him that you still love him. More importantly, you need to tell him what you've been through. And try to find out what he went through. Haven't the two of you ever told each other what you went through during these times where you were captured and he went to save you?" the Queen asked.

"Well, now that you mention it, not really... We never even talked about what we went through the time we swapped roles." Peach said, feeling sheepish.

"Now is as good a time as any to start talking about it, Peach. The next time you and Mario see each other, you need to talk." the Queen said.

"I will. And I won't say anything mean to him." Peach promised.

"Good. And even if you guys tell each other what happened in little bits and pieces, that's okay, too. At least you're working this out." said Daisy.

So now Peach felt a little better, having told two people she knew would be able to help. With that done, Peach was getting ready to resume her world tour.


After thanking Daisy and her mother, Peach hugged Daisy and said, "Give your dad my love."

"I will." Daisy promised, returning the hug, before adding, "And give Mario a hug for me if I don't see him before the next time you and him meet."

"Okay." Peach smiled.

"Where are you heading now?" Daisy asked.

"Bonneton, in the Cap Kingdom. That's where Tiara is from." Peach explained.

"Have fun, you two!" said the Queen.

"We will, Your Majesty!" Tiara said.

Then Peach and Tiara left the castle and went back to their mode of transportation. Peach decided to use the time on her world tour to think of how she was going to talk with Mario. How on earth would she be able to explain what happened to her?

"We've both been through more trouble than a person should be allowed in their lifetime..." Peach thought, wondering if Mario would be willing to tell her what he went through. The way he was feeling, maybe so...

"Oh, Peach. I wasn't supposed to tell you that Mario's heart is broken. Don't tell Cappy that I told you..." Tiara said to the Princess as they made their way to Bonneton.

"Don't worry, Tiara. My lips are sealed." Peach promised her friend.


And in the next chapter, we're going to rejoin Mario! Get ready for that, and stay tuned!