As much as I would love to own all these characters, I unfortunately don't. All characters are owned by the almighty Nintendo. This is my very first fanfic, so please take that into account if you decide to review it. Happy reading!

This story takes place after Mario had defeated Bowser in Isle Delfino. The shine sprites had returned, and everybody was partying. There was fun and games left right and center. This is the last day of their vacation. Mario had challenged Il Piantissimo to a final race, just before they return home. We join Mario half way through the race.

Chapter 1

Mario was running as fast as he could through Bianco Hills, but it wasn't fast enough. He started to slow down. Puffing and panting, he still kept running as fast as his legs would let him. As Mario looked behind himself, he noticed he was getting caught up. He took a last few steps forward before falling to the ground. He was exhausted, he couldn't even lift his head up to see if he had been caught up.

"Come on Mario, I thought you could do better than that" shouted Il Piantissimo who was chasing him.

Mario mumbled something in return. Suddenly, Il Piantissimo grabbed Mario by the arm. He lifted Mario up onto his feet with all his strength, but Mario soon fell to the ground again.

"Looks like I win for a change" he cheered.

Peach and Luigi, who was watching the race, lifted Mario up from the ground and sat him on Yoshi.

"Yuk" Yoshi said as Il Piantissimo was collecting a trophy for winning the race against Mario.

"Mario smell like sweat bands"

"You would as well, if you had to race against that guy" Mario muttered.

Mario looked up at Il Piantissimo collecting his trophy. All the natives were cheering for him. He held his trophy high as he approached Mario.

"I can't believe I beat you"

"I let you win" Mario said as sweat started to drip down his face.

"Yeah it looks like it" laughed Il Piantissimo.

Il Piantissimo shook Mario's hand and walked of with the trophy. Peach approached Mario, and she wasn't looking too happy.

"Why did you have to lose, I have now lost a 50 coin bet to that pink Yoshi over there" she said pointing to the pink Yoshi who was jumping for joy.

"Sorry Princess, I don't know what was wrong with me today" Mario said sadly.

"Now I can't afford that lovely pink dress I saw in that shop yesterday".

"Why do you want another pink dress? What is different about the one in the shop to the one you are wearing now" Mario asked politely.

Peach looked at Mario as if he had asked the silliest question in the world.

"It doesn't matter" said Peach as she was checking the time.

"Why are you checking the time?" asked Mario.

"We have to leave Isle Delfino in a couple of minutes remember. The vacation is nearly over, and we have to be at the plane soon."

Mario quickly jumped to his feet, and ran back to the hotel. He got inside the hotel and ran upstairs to his room. His room was a mess, it looked like a cleaners worst nightmare. He quickly slammed the door shut and started to pack his spare dungarees and caps. Peach knew what he was doing, he always packs his suitcase in the last minute. Mario was starting to panic, he didn't want to keep everybody waiting like he did last year. He quickly shoved everything into his suitcase as fast as he could, but in wouldn't shut. So he jumped onto the suitcase and butt stomped it.

"Aah, that's done the trick" Mario said as he grabbed his suitcase and ran down the stairs and out of the hotel towards the plane.

"Hey Mario, you haven't paid yet" shouted the hotel manager. Mario ran to the manager and asked how much he owed.

"Well it's 20 coins per night, so that bit adds up to 140 coins". "Then its 200 coins for the food you ordered during the night, and it's also."

"Oh here take it all" Mario said in a rush as he grabbed all the coins from his pockets and gave it to the manager.

After Mario paid twice as much as he needed to, he started to run back to the plane. Eventually he got on the plane and strapped his seatbelt on.

"You made it just in time" Peach said as she was waving out of the window to everybody.

The planes star powered engine started, and it gracefully flew to the sky.

"Well that was a great vacation don't you think" Peach said as she switched on the mushroom radio station.

"Can Yoshi go again next year" Yoshi said excitingly.

"Of course you can Yoshi, I don't see why not" said Peach giving a smile to Yoshi.

A few hours later, and everybody was quiet. Peach was reading her monthly pink dress magazine, Yoshi was playing Super Mario Advance 3, and Mario was just relaxing in his chair looking around at everybody.

"Oh no" Mario shouted as he quickly stood up".

"What matter Mario" Yoshi said looking worried.

"We have forgotten Luigi" Mario said as he was pointing to Luigi's empty chair.

"Calm down Mario" Peach said reassuringly. "I have given him permission to stay another week He deserves it after rescuing you from that horrible mansion".

Mario's skin shivered when he heard the word mansion.

"Yeah, I guess he deserves it" Mario said proudly. "I just worry about him being on his own, that's all".

"Looks like we have got something to worry about" Peach said looking out of the window as they started to land back home.

Peach, Yoshi and Mario slowly climbed out of the plane and looked around them, and it was not a pretty site.

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There you go. I hope it was ok. Please review it because I would like to know your honest opinions. If enough people like it I will carry on with the story. Thank you for reading.