Wheee! Meh started my next story much sooner than I expected. For those of you who don't know, my name is Selphie Louise, lord of birds, brownies, and socks, and I'll be your author for the remainder of the story. Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times... Psyche!
Okay, so, in the case that you don't know me already that more than likely means that you haven't read my previous Mario stories. Before reading this story, it is strongly suggested that you go back and read those stories in this order: The First Adventure, The Next Friend Found, and my most recently completed one, Extended Family. I would also like to take this time to say that if you don't like self-insertion fics, do not read this and tell me I suck. Also, if you decided to flame me, at least have the balls to sign in.
Now, on with the fic!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything Mario-ified. The only things in this story that I absolutely, 100 do own are Jessie, Ian, Nicole, and Martin. I'd also like to take this time to say to any past readers, I told you before that this story on would probably give a bit more cameo to the original charas, and I meant it, as you will soon see. suddenly hears thunder Hmm... interesting... thunderstorm... anyway. Read on!
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Chapter 1: Yeah...
"It's time again..."
A large hulking figure stood in a high room of his castle, looking out a window at the kingdom below. A smaller figure was standing behind him. I ain't gonna make any bones about it. The big one was none other than Bowser and the little figure his cohort, Baby Bowser.
"We're ready to strike once more," Bowser said. "Get ready... You make the first move."
"Yes, sir!" Baby Bowser said enthusiastically. He turned and scurried out of the room.
Bowser looked out across the kingdom. He couldn't see it, but he knew where he was looking. "Two Marios or three, one royal or two..." He glared in the direction of the Pipe House. "...Victory will be mine this time..."
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"Vacations kind of suck," Jessie said as she and Martin trudged to school one morning in April. "They make you get all lazy, and then you don't want to go back to school..."
"Very true," Martin agreed. He'd settled into his new Mushroom Kingdom lifestyle and living with his brothers and sister. Their spring break had just been completed and they were none too happy about returning to Toadstool High. "But it would have helped if it hadn't been rainy and crap all week, and now that we're going to be stuck inside it's sunny."
Jessie looked up at the sky. "GET WITH THE PROGRAM, WEATHER DUDE!" she shouted. "RAIN WHEN WE'RE INSIDE, SUN WHEN WE'RE OUT! CAPICE?"
"Of course, shouting at said weather dude probably won't help our case," Martin said as they reached the front door to their school.
"Yeah, but it sure makes me feel better..." Jessie answered. When they got to their lockers they said hi to Nicole and Ian.
"Is there a reason they put the vacation on the rainy week instead of the sunny?" Nicole asked, leaning on her locker. Martin took her books, even though her locker had been repaired for many months.
"Yes, apparently we've angered the weather dude," Martin answered grinning at Jessie.
"Makes me feel better," she reminded him, rolling her eyes exasperatedly.
"Hey, gave me an excuse to sleep till noon. I ain't complainin'," Ian said shutting his locker. They all started walking toward their classes. "Well, of to the torture chamber," he said, stopping at the intersecting hallway where they split up.
"Yea, thither shall I forth to the class of the bard," Jessie said with a flourish.
"Yeah, we're just gonna go do the news and stuff," Nicole said unimportantly.
"See ya later," Martin said, he and Nicole walking toward Mr. Yidderan's class, ever walking ever closer to each other. Jessie and Ian stared off after them.
"When do you think they're gonna admit they like each other and get it over with?" Jessie asked.
"No clue," Ian answered. They both headed off to their own classes.
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"Any chance they're gonna admit they like each other any time soon?" Peach asked Mario.
"I honestly don't know," Mario answered. He and Peach were sitting on a couch in the sitting room of Peach's castle. For lack of anything else to do, they were halfway watching Luigi and Daisy, who were sitting on the other side of the room deep in a lively conversation. The Mario brothers- the older ones anyway- didn't have any work to do that day. Apparently there was no broken plumbing in Toadstool Town or its surrounding area. So they spent the day with their friends, the princesses.
Well... Peach and Mario were already an item, so we'll not call them friends anymore. Peach, in fact, was leaning on Mario in a cuddly sort of manner. There wasn't a heck of a lot to do but watch Luigi and Daisy clearly falling for each other, as Mario made apparent enough, "Is there anything to do but watch them falling?"
Peach shook her head but the n she stopped her eyes lit up with an evil sort of glint. She looked over at Mario. "I've got an idea," she said with a sideways glance at the two clueless people on the other side of the room. Mario cocked an eyebrow. Peach turned in the couch to face him. Then she tilted her head in the direction of Luigi and Daisy.
Mario nodded his head in understanding, his eyes attaining the same mischievous glint as Peach's, and mouthed the word, "How?" Peach leaned over and whispered in his ear. Mario smirked. "That's underhanded, Peach."
"It's for their own good," she answered, smirking as well. They looked over at Luigi and Daisy, blissfully unaware of the plot being formulated to get them even closer. Peach cleared her throat and called across the room, "Anyone want something to drink?"
"Oh, I'd like some water," Daisy said.
"Water," Luigi answered, and they were back into their conversation. Peach rolled her eyes and beckoned one of the mushroom servants. She whispered something to the servant and sent him off to get their drinks. Several minutes later, he returned with a tray full of drinks. He brought Peach and Mario theirs first and then crossed the room to Luigi and Daisy.
"Your water," he said to Luigi, handing the plumber a glass of ice water. "And your water." He reached for the remaining water on the tray, but he "accidentally" knocked it over, all over Daisy.
"Aik!" she squealed as the wetness spilled down her front. "Ooh! Cold!"
"Here, let me help!" Luigi offered, grabbing a napkin without thinking and starting to dab at her front... if you know what I mean. Everyone realized what he was doing at the same time. Mario and Peach were hard put to keep from bursting out laughing. "Er..." Luigi said withdrawing his hand.
"I-I'm just gonna go find a bathroom to dry off in," Daisy said. "It's only water, afterall." She got up and hurried out of the room. Luigi sat on the sofa across from Mario and Peach, his face beet red.
Out in the hallway, Daisy was heading toward the nearest bathroom. However, it was occupied by one of the servants ("occupied," Peach the devious little princess...) She kept going and only found a bathroom that she could use nearly on the other side of the castle.
Back in the sitting room, another servant came in and walked to Peach. "Your highness," he said. "One of the bathrooms is going haywire. Do you think we might borrow the plumbers?"
"I don't know," Peach said looking over at Mario. "Mario, do you mind doing this? Please? For me?" she gave him the puppy dog eyes.
"Eh..." Mario sighed in exasperation as though unable to resist the puppy dog eyes. "Come on, Weege. It'll be faster with both of us." They both got up and left the room.
When she was sure they were out of earshot, Peach winked at the servants. "Good job, guys."
The servant led Mario and Luigi through the castle to the "broken" bathroom. Finally they reached a windowless bathroom nearly on the other side of the castle. "Thanks," Mario said to the servant as he left. He opened the door a bit. "After you, Weege." Luigi looked at Mario suspiciously before opening the door wider and taking a half step inside.
"Luigi!" Mario heard Daisy exclaim.
"Daisy!" Luigi also exclaimed. He went to make a quick exit from the bathroom, but Mario caught him and shoved him back in, closing and locking the door. "Mario! Let me out of here!" Luigi pounded on the door. Peach came walking down the hallway at this time. She heard the banging sounds on the door.
"I take it to mean they're both inside now?" she asked.
"Oh yeah..."
Inside the bathroom Luigi had stopped pounding on the door. Daisy was standing on the other side of the bathroom somewhat horror struck. Had she just been locked in a bathroom with Luigi? "Okay... So... Any ideas how we get outta here?" Luigi asked finally turning away from the door and suddenly looking awfully pale.
"Er... not exactly," Daisy said nervously. "I've never been trapped in a bathroom before, so I never really thought about how I would break out of one." Luigi gave a nervous laugh, which turned into a slight sobby whimper. "Maybe if we wait long enough they'll just let us out."
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About an hour later, Daisy was sitting down on the toilet seat with one elbow on her knee and her chin cupped in her hand. Luigi now leaned against the door, his arms folded across his chest. He happened to look up. "Hey!" he said, uncrossing his arms and stepping away from the door. "Has that been up there the whole time?" he asked, pointing to a window near the ceiling.
Daisy looked up and saw the window as well. "Well, I don't think it would have simply popped in there out of nowhere," she said jumping out of her seat smiling. "Can we climb through it, d'you think?" she asked.
"Well, we're still on the first floor, so I'd say it's a safe bet," Luigi said. He rubbed his hands together as he prepared to jump. Daisy ducked as he sprung at the window, knocking it open. "Ha ha!" he jumped up again, grabbing onto the sill and getting ready to climb out.
"Uh, Luigi?" Daisy called from the floor.
"Oh," Luigi said, remembering that she couldn't jump like him. He dropped back into the bathroom and rubbed his chin. "Hmm... what if I lifted you up there and let you climb out first. Then I can jump up and get out."
"We can try that," Daisy said. The bathtub was underneath the window, so Luigi crouched down inside it. Daisy stepped up and climbed on the edge of the tub. Then Luigi grabbed her around the legs and stood up, trying to lift her above his head to the windowsill.
"Can you reach?" he asked, straining under her weight. She reached up as far as she could.
"No, it's a little too high," she answered. Luigi grunted and tried to lift her up higher, by holding her around the lower legs.
"Now can you?" he asked through a mouthful of dress.
"Couple more inches..." she said, reaching.
"Urg!" Luigi groaned, grabbing her almost around the ankles and pushed her up all the way over his head, she now standing on his shoulders. "Now?"
"Yes!" she answered, but then squeaked as she slipped a little, falling down to sitting on his shoulders.
"Aaugh!" Luigi screamed as he got an inside look at Daisy's dress. He flailed a bit and tripped over the edge of the tub. Daisy shrieked as she grabbed for the shower curtain to keep them from falling. This kept them from falling out of the tub, but they still collapsed into the bottom of the tub, hitting the shower faucet and turning on uberly cold water.
"Aaaaaaugh!" they both screamed as the cold water hit them. Luigi was fighting to get out of Daisy's dress and finally escaped to a mouthful of cold water. "Daisy," he said, blinking water out of his eyes. "Can you please turn that off?"
Daisy nodded her head, which was closest to the showerhead, and reached back over her head, turning off the water. A little late, considering they were both already soaked in the icy water. "Okay, new plan," she said, shivering as she squeezed some of the excess wetness from her hair. "How about you jump up to the windowsill and then pull me up to you?"
"It's worth a try," Luigi conceded. He climbed out of the tub and dried his feet on the mat. Then he leapt up to the window and climbed onto the sill. Daisy climbed up on the edge of the tub and both reached out for each other's hand. When finally their fingers interlocked, Luigi pulled with all his might, but was having trouble. Finally, Daisy jumped as high as she could and flew up to the windowsill. Unfortunately, the sudden inertia made Luigi fall off the windowsill, and since he was holding her hand, she went with him. They both landed on the ground in the bushes several yards from the front door to the castle.
Daisy was lying on top of Luigi at this point. "Ooh... that hurt..." she said. They tried to disentangle themselves from the bushes and get off of each other. "Wait- just..." they instructed as they tried to get out of the predicament. However, this only served to get them more entangled, and Daisy could no longer support herself and her full weight fell on Luigi, her face falling into his. Both their eyes widened in surprise when this happened, their lips pressed together from the fall... but then from freewill. They kissed each other and then Daisy pushed herself up off of Luigi again and fell out of the bushes. Luigi followed a half second later and they were sitting on the front lawn, drenched with water and covered in leaves and dirt.
They looked down at themselves and just cracked up laughing. It wasn't entirely funny, but they cracked up. Luigi happened to look up, and who should be standing on the front walk but Jessie, Ian, Nicole, and Martin, staring at the spectacle in confusion. The four shook their heads, Jessie summing it up, "Yeah..." as they entered the castle. Of course, this only made the two lovers laugh even harder as they pressed their lips together again.
From an upstairs window in the library, Peach and Mario watched the entire scene. "Well," Mario said, stepping away from the window and facing Peach. "That was most certainly more interesting than watching them pretend not to like each other."
"Vastly," Peach agreed. She looked down at Luigi kissing Daisy. "You don't kiss me like that very often," she pouted.
"Oh, you want more kissing?" Mario asked. He grabbed her around the waist, dipped her backwards and kissed her, Peach smiling wide. The door creaked open and the four kids walked in, hoping to be able to do their homework in the library. Unfortunately, they ran into yet another romance scene. They shook their heads and left again.
"Yeah..." Jessie said as she closed the door behind them.
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Yay! First chapter! I'm so excited because I'll actually be able to move this story along uberly faster than the previous one because... SCHOOL IS ALMOST OUT FOR THE SUMMER! crosses fingers and chants, "June 11th! June 11th! June 11th!" Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this. This was only the first chapter. More action will come later. Till then, read and review. Loves ya all! Buh-byes!