The third chapter, The Chase Around the Land
"I still think that I should try to infiltrate Bowser's lair." Mario said. "How about you go investigate that house and I'll infiltrate Bowser's lair?" He suggested. Luigi opened his mouth to protest, but Mario didn't let him speak. "Good! Then it's settled!" Mario rushed off. "But-!" Luigi protested. But Mario was too far away to hear. "Could I hire a Toad?" Luigi grumbled as he headed towards the Haunted House.
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Daisy entered her shack and picked up her broom, which was actually a tree branch with some hay tied onto the end. She began sweeping up the dust and broken plates when she saw the door to her bedroom was ajar. She remembered what had happened earlier. "Damn. Now that Luigi is probably all worried about me." She grumbled. "I guess I'll check in on the big baby." Daisy leaned her broom against the wall and headed towards Luigi's Mansion.
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Luigi walks up to the door of the Haunted House. He knocks on the door. "Hello?" He calls. He hears the sound of high heels clacking. "Oh, good. Whoever it is, it's not a ghost." Luigi sighs, relieved. The door cracks open and a witch looks out. "Yes?" The witch inquires in a low voice. Luigi let's out a scream of terror and runs to find Mario. He catches up with him in no time. "M-Mario! Peach is being held c-captive by a SORCERESS!" Luigi tells Mario. "A sorceress?!" Mario gasps. They run back to the Haunted House to find out exactly what is going on.
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Peach sighs and burries her face in her hands. "That was Luigi. I must have scared him because of.......this...." Peach pulls the Witch hat off of her head. "I guess I can't be here anymore." She looks at the hat bitterly. "I still haven't forgiven them." Peach stands up. "So, I'm off!" She leaves the Haunted House.
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Daisy rings the doorbell. No reply. She waits five minutes. Still no reply. She bangs on the door and waits a couple minutes. No reply. "LUIGI!" Daisy shouts at the top of her lungs. "GET OUT HERE!" No reply. Daisy turns her back to the front door and storms off towards the Mushroom Palace.
When she reaches it, she places her hands on her hips as she waits for the drawbridge to lower. "State your business!" A voice shouted. Daisy sighed in annoyance. "I plan to murder the entire Toadstool Royal Family, steal the throne and hand the land over to King Bowser." She says sarcastically. There's a moment of silence. "We have that on the list of 'people not to let in', but it's not in that order. So, you're clear to enter." The Toad replies. The drawbridge lowered. "Geez. Does Toadstool even realize what morons she has working for her?" Daisy grumbled as she walked across the drawbridge. She threw open the door to the throne room. "Hey! She's not allowed in here!" A Toad Guard shouted. Daisy continued to walk towards the throne. Geez. Had her sister been so afraid of her that it was the law not to let her in? Oh, well. Daisy stood infront of the King.
"Daisy!" The King gasped. "What brings you here?" Daisy norrowed her eyes. "Toadstool ran away, didn't she?" She inquired. The King nodded. "I picked it up when the two Lame-io Brothers came to my door demanded if I had kidnapped my own sister." Daisy explains. "I see I'm not welcome here, so I just came to return this." She holds up the Peach doll, hands it to the King and turns around to leave. "Daisy," The King began. Daisy stood, waiting for the King to say more. When the King realized that he had her attention, he continued. "it is well known that you are after the throne of the Mushroom Kingdom. That is why you are not welcome. Maybe if you hadn't tried to kill Peach during a Tennis Game with your Tennis racket, or that other time when you tried to knock her unconsious with your golf club, or that OTHER time when you tried to knock her off her kart." Daisy said nothing, instead continued to walk out the door.
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Peach boards a train to Southern Mario Land, now wearing a Pirate outfit. She reaches the beach of Mario Land, named Peach Beach. She looks out into the water to see Daisy's Cruise ship, in which her sister treasured. Peach smiled a little. She walked along the port to see a ship with a sign saying 'For Sale'. Peach payed the amount of coins and sailed off in her ship.
Luckily, the ship was easy to steer. However, for someone who had never sailed in a ship before, it was very difficult. She accidentily sailed into Pirate's territory. Unknowing of this fact, Peach got out of her ship and walked into a cave.
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Meanwhile, Daisy was trying to get back to her shack, when she accidentily boarded the wrong bus! "What do you MEAN, 'this bus only goes to Southern Mario Land'?!" Daisy demanded to the Bus Driver. "I mean exactly what I said." The bus driver told her. "Isn't this the 833?!" Daisy asked, getting a headache. "This is the 832, Miss." The bus driver told her. Daisy's eye twitched. She got off the bus at Peach Beach. She was walking along the docks when a Koopa Kid pushed her into the water.
"Hey!" Daisy shouted, spitting the water out of her mouth. Suddenly, a whale rose out of the water below her. It sprayed water out of its blowhole and Daisy went flying off. She landed right infront of the entrance to a cave. "Ahhhhh......!" Daisy cried as she tried to sit up. She had landed on a rock! She rubbed her back. "Ouuuuuuch....." She complained, finally standing up. She walked into the cave. She saw Captain Bowser about to hurt Koopa Troopa! "That's mean!" Daisy shouted. "He doesn't have a sword!" Captain Bowser laughed. "And just what are you going to do about it?!" He demanded. "Nothing, I guess." Daisy shrugged and turned her back to the Koopa Captain. She was headed for the exit, when--
"You!" A voice shouted. A girl in pink wearing a captain's hat came rushing past her. Daisy fell. "Hey! I wish people would stop pushing me!" She shouted at the female Pirate captain. Then, it hit her. "That pink dress...." Daisy whispered as she watched the captain defeat Captain Bowser. "The way she runs......that hair....that voice.....P-PEACH!" Daisy jumped up and pointed and accusing finger at Peach.
"I'm....." Peach murmured, a tear in her eye. "This is silly, Peach! It's childish! This is something that everyone would expect ME to do!" Daisy pointed out to her sister. Peach took a step back, pushed past Daisy and ran out of the dark, dank cave. Daisy said nothing. She was wondering how she was going to get off of this island. Then, she got an idea. "Hey, Peach! I noticed that you have a ship." Daisy shouted after her sister, running out of the cave. "I've got nothing to do, so why don't I help you in your traveling?"
Peach paused, deep in thought. She rested her head in her right hand as she always did when she was thinking. "Okay, Daisy." She finally agreed. "Put this on." Peach handed Daisy a yellow version of her pirate outfit. "Why?" Daisy grumbled as she boarded the ship. She entered one of the cabins and put on her Pirate facade. Why was she helping Peach?
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Meanwhile, Luigi was pounding on Daisy's door. "I tell you, I saw her leaving Bowser's Palace!" Luigi told Mario, who had a doubtful look on his face. "So, now both Peach and Daisy are missing. Great." He commented. "Daisy isn't missing!" Luigi said. "She's just off on her own! She always does that!" "Anyway, we need to find out where Peach is." Mario reminded his brother. "I bet you're still convinced that it was Daisy." Luigi grumbled. "Yeah, and seeing her come out of Bowser's Palace made me even MORE suspicious!" Mario snapped. "Let's just forget it. What are we going to do?! Put up signs?! We need to get into Bowser's Palace!" Luigi sighed in annoyance. This argument was going nowhere. "Okay. Let's go, then." He agreed, getting a headache. So, they headed towards Bowser's Palace.
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"You know," Daisy began as she steered the ship towards Eastern Mario Land. "your birthday is coming up, Peach." Peach nodded. Then, she grinned. "So, you started calling me Peach again, have you?" She inquired. Daisy glared. "Damn. You got me there." She grumbled. "You still wish that we weren't sisters, huh?" Peach asked, smirking. "I never said that." Daisy pointed out. "The Mario Brothers are probably banging on my door right now, demanded if I kidnapped you, AGAIN!" Peach shook her head. "They're not stupid." She told Daisy. "I guess you're right." Daisy sighed. "But, they're annoying at some points."
Peach chuckled suddenly. "True, but once didn't you say you had a crush on Luigi?" She asked. Daisy whirled around and glared, her face red. "I said NO such thing!" She snapped. "Oh, yes you did! I stole your journal one day!" Peach told her. "Dear Diary," Peach quoted. "I have a crush on Luigi!" Daisy tackled Peach. "You little bratty, spoiled.....!!" Daisy screamed as she and Peach wrestled. "Anyway......" Daisy sighed, standing up and dusting off her dress. "are you coming back for your birthday? The Mario Kart races and Volly Ball is coming up." Peach grinned. "You haven't ever played either of them." She reminded Daisy. "Hush! I managed to convince Mario to let in a few other characters. Toadette's going to be there, Birdo, Paratroopa, Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi." Daisy told Peach. "And I also convinced him to let me work on some Karts and courses and new, speacial items."
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Mario kicked down Bowser's door, where Bowser was teaching his son, Bowser Jr., how to breath fire. "Beware Bow--" Bowser Jr. breathed fire on Mario, charring him. "--ser." Luigi spotted a fireball flower. He jumped for it, but Bowser charred him to a crisp. Suddenly, cages dropped from the ceiling and locked up the Mario Bros.! Bowser laughed. "NOW who is going to save the Mushroom Kingdom? Bwahahahaha!" He laughed. Bowser Jr. joined in, laughing impishly. "He's right! What are we going to do? Without us, the Mushroom Kingdom is doomed!" Mario said, gripping the bars tightly.
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Daisy was sitting on a crate playing her CD player. "Don't grieve, the Sailor Eyes. This is about you in the Sailor Wind!" She sang. "This song knows the path of the star!" Peach sang. "This is so fun!" Daisy nodded in agreement. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a Bob-omb flew and landed in the ship! The ship blew up, sending Peach and Daisy flying into the air. That was when everything went black.
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Toad was sitting on the train to Sarasaland. "Daisy probably got tired of being nice and moved back to Sarasaland." He said. Then, Toadette got on the train. "Hi! What are you doing here?" She asked Toad. "I thought I'd go see if Daisy was in Sarasaland." Toad explained. "Huh. I got the same idea." Toadette revealed. She plopped down in the seat across from Toad. "Too bad Daisy never got to be in the Grand Mushroom Prix." Toad said. "Yeah, well," Toadette began. "that's because she and Peach have never gotten along with eachother very well." Then the train conductor shouted over the intercom. "Next and last stop, SARASALAND!" He shouted.
"I still think that I should try to infiltrate Bowser's lair." Mario said. "How about you go investigate that house and I'll infiltrate Bowser's lair?" He suggested. Luigi opened his mouth to protest, but Mario didn't let him speak. "Good! Then it's settled!" Mario rushed off. "But-!" Luigi protested. But Mario was too far away to hear. "Could I hire a Toad?" Luigi grumbled as he headed towards the Haunted House.
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Daisy entered her shack and picked up her broom, which was actually a tree branch with some hay tied onto the end. She began sweeping up the dust and broken plates when she saw the door to her bedroom was ajar. She remembered what had happened earlier. "Damn. Now that Luigi is probably all worried about me." She grumbled. "I guess I'll check in on the big baby." Daisy leaned her broom against the wall and headed towards Luigi's Mansion.
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Luigi walks up to the door of the Haunted House. He knocks on the door. "Hello?" He calls. He hears the sound of high heels clacking. "Oh, good. Whoever it is, it's not a ghost." Luigi sighs, relieved. The door cracks open and a witch looks out. "Yes?" The witch inquires in a low voice. Luigi let's out a scream of terror and runs to find Mario. He catches up with him in no time. "M-Mario! Peach is being held c-captive by a SORCERESS!" Luigi tells Mario. "A sorceress?!" Mario gasps. They run back to the Haunted House to find out exactly what is going on.
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Peach sighs and burries her face in her hands. "That was Luigi. I must have scared him because of.......this...." Peach pulls the Witch hat off of her head. "I guess I can't be here anymore." She looks at the hat bitterly. "I still haven't forgiven them." Peach stands up. "So, I'm off!" She leaves the Haunted House.
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Daisy rings the doorbell. No reply. She waits five minutes. Still no reply. She bangs on the door and waits a couple minutes. No reply. "LUIGI!" Daisy shouts at the top of her lungs. "GET OUT HERE!" No reply. Daisy turns her back to the front door and storms off towards the Mushroom Palace.
When she reaches it, she places her hands on her hips as she waits for the drawbridge to lower. "State your business!" A voice shouted. Daisy sighed in annoyance. "I plan to murder the entire Toadstool Royal Family, steal the throne and hand the land over to King Bowser." She says sarcastically. There's a moment of silence. "We have that on the list of 'people not to let in', but it's not in that order. So, you're clear to enter." The Toad replies. The drawbridge lowered. "Geez. Does Toadstool even realize what morons she has working for her?" Daisy grumbled as she walked across the drawbridge. She threw open the door to the throne room. "Hey! She's not allowed in here!" A Toad Guard shouted. Daisy continued to walk towards the throne. Geez. Had her sister been so afraid of her that it was the law not to let her in? Oh, well. Daisy stood infront of the King.
"Daisy!" The King gasped. "What brings you here?" Daisy norrowed her eyes. "Toadstool ran away, didn't she?" She inquired. The King nodded. "I picked it up when the two Lame-io Brothers came to my door demanded if I had kidnapped my own sister." Daisy explains. "I see I'm not welcome here, so I just came to return this." She holds up the Peach doll, hands it to the King and turns around to leave. "Daisy," The King began. Daisy stood, waiting for the King to say more. When the King realized that he had her attention, he continued. "it is well known that you are after the throne of the Mushroom Kingdom. That is why you are not welcome. Maybe if you hadn't tried to kill Peach during a Tennis Game with your Tennis racket, or that other time when you tried to knock her unconsious with your golf club, or that OTHER time when you tried to knock her off her kart." Daisy said nothing, instead continued to walk out the door.
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Peach boards a train to Southern Mario Land, now wearing a Pirate outfit. She reaches the beach of Mario Land, named Peach Beach. She looks out into the water to see Daisy's Cruise ship, in which her sister treasured. Peach smiled a little. She walked along the port to see a ship with a sign saying 'For Sale'. Peach payed the amount of coins and sailed off in her ship.
Luckily, the ship was easy to steer. However, for someone who had never sailed in a ship before, it was very difficult. She accidentily sailed into Pirate's territory. Unknowing of this fact, Peach got out of her ship and walked into a cave.
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Meanwhile, Daisy was trying to get back to her shack, when she accidentily boarded the wrong bus! "What do you MEAN, 'this bus only goes to Southern Mario Land'?!" Daisy demanded to the Bus Driver. "I mean exactly what I said." The bus driver told her. "Isn't this the 833?!" Daisy asked, getting a headache. "This is the 832, Miss." The bus driver told her. Daisy's eye twitched. She got off the bus at Peach Beach. She was walking along the docks when a Koopa Kid pushed her into the water.
"Hey!" Daisy shouted, spitting the water out of her mouth. Suddenly, a whale rose out of the water below her. It sprayed water out of its blowhole and Daisy went flying off. She landed right infront of the entrance to a cave. "Ahhhhh......!" Daisy cried as she tried to sit up. She had landed on a rock! She rubbed her back. "Ouuuuuuch....." She complained, finally standing up. She walked into the cave. She saw Captain Bowser about to hurt Koopa Troopa! "That's mean!" Daisy shouted. "He doesn't have a sword!" Captain Bowser laughed. "And just what are you going to do about it?!" He demanded. "Nothing, I guess." Daisy shrugged and turned her back to the Koopa Captain. She was headed for the exit, when--
"You!" A voice shouted. A girl in pink wearing a captain's hat came rushing past her. Daisy fell. "Hey! I wish people would stop pushing me!" She shouted at the female Pirate captain. Then, it hit her. "That pink dress...." Daisy whispered as she watched the captain defeat Captain Bowser. "The way she runs......that hair....that voice.....P-PEACH!" Daisy jumped up and pointed and accusing finger at Peach.
"I'm....." Peach murmured, a tear in her eye. "This is silly, Peach! It's childish! This is something that everyone would expect ME to do!" Daisy pointed out to her sister. Peach took a step back, pushed past Daisy and ran out of the dark, dank cave. Daisy said nothing. She was wondering how she was going to get off of this island. Then, she got an idea. "Hey, Peach! I noticed that you have a ship." Daisy shouted after her sister, running out of the cave. "I've got nothing to do, so why don't I help you in your traveling?"
Peach paused, deep in thought. She rested her head in her right hand as she always did when she was thinking. "Okay, Daisy." She finally agreed. "Put this on." Peach handed Daisy a yellow version of her pirate outfit. "Why?" Daisy grumbled as she boarded the ship. She entered one of the cabins and put on her Pirate facade. Why was she helping Peach?
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Meanwhile, Luigi was pounding on Daisy's door. "I tell you, I saw her leaving Bowser's Palace!" Luigi told Mario, who had a doubtful look on his face. "So, now both Peach and Daisy are missing. Great." He commented. "Daisy isn't missing!" Luigi said. "She's just off on her own! She always does that!" "Anyway, we need to find out where Peach is." Mario reminded his brother. "I bet you're still convinced that it was Daisy." Luigi grumbled. "Yeah, and seeing her come out of Bowser's Palace made me even MORE suspicious!" Mario snapped. "Let's just forget it. What are we going to do?! Put up signs?! We need to get into Bowser's Palace!" Luigi sighed in annoyance. This argument was going nowhere. "Okay. Let's go, then." He agreed, getting a headache. So, they headed towards Bowser's Palace.
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"You know," Daisy began as she steered the ship towards Eastern Mario Land. "your birthday is coming up, Peach." Peach nodded. Then, she grinned. "So, you started calling me Peach again, have you?" She inquired. Daisy glared. "Damn. You got me there." She grumbled. "You still wish that we weren't sisters, huh?" Peach asked, smirking. "I never said that." Daisy pointed out. "The Mario Brothers are probably banging on my door right now, demanded if I kidnapped you, AGAIN!" Peach shook her head. "They're not stupid." She told Daisy. "I guess you're right." Daisy sighed. "But, they're annoying at some points."
Peach chuckled suddenly. "True, but once didn't you say you had a crush on Luigi?" She asked. Daisy whirled around and glared, her face red. "I said NO such thing!" She snapped. "Oh, yes you did! I stole your journal one day!" Peach told her. "Dear Diary," Peach quoted. "I have a crush on Luigi!" Daisy tackled Peach. "You little bratty, spoiled.....!!" Daisy screamed as she and Peach wrestled. "Anyway......" Daisy sighed, standing up and dusting off her dress. "are you coming back for your birthday? The Mario Kart races and Volly Ball is coming up." Peach grinned. "You haven't ever played either of them." She reminded Daisy. "Hush! I managed to convince Mario to let in a few other characters. Toadette's going to be there, Birdo, Paratroopa, Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi." Daisy told Peach. "And I also convinced him to let me work on some Karts and courses and new, speacial items."
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Mario kicked down Bowser's door, where Bowser was teaching his son, Bowser Jr., how to breath fire. "Beware Bow--" Bowser Jr. breathed fire on Mario, charring him. "--ser." Luigi spotted a fireball flower. He jumped for it, but Bowser charred him to a crisp. Suddenly, cages dropped from the ceiling and locked up the Mario Bros.! Bowser laughed. "NOW who is going to save the Mushroom Kingdom? Bwahahahaha!" He laughed. Bowser Jr. joined in, laughing impishly. "He's right! What are we going to do? Without us, the Mushroom Kingdom is doomed!" Mario said, gripping the bars tightly.
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Daisy was sitting on a crate playing her CD player. "Don't grieve, the Sailor Eyes. This is about you in the Sailor Wind!" She sang. "This song knows the path of the star!" Peach sang. "This is so fun!" Daisy nodded in agreement. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a Bob-omb flew and landed in the ship! The ship blew up, sending Peach and Daisy flying into the air. That was when everything went black.
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Toad was sitting on the train to Sarasaland. "Daisy probably got tired of being nice and moved back to Sarasaland." He said. Then, Toadette got on the train. "Hi! What are you doing here?" She asked Toad. "I thought I'd go see if Daisy was in Sarasaland." Toad explained. "Huh. I got the same idea." Toadette revealed. She plopped down in the seat across from Toad. "Too bad Daisy never got to be in the Grand Mushroom Prix." Toad said. "Yeah, well," Toadette began. "that's because she and Peach have never gotten along with eachother very well." Then the train conductor shouted over the intercom. "Next and last stop, SARASALAND!" He shouted.