Author's note:Thank you for the reviews! I'm glad to get any amount of encouraging reviews. Well, the plot thickens in this chapter as a "Princess Toadstool" receives a mysterious and threatening letter. Was this letter meant for Peach, or Daisy?
Chapter Two!
Mortal Partners
"Okay, is everyone ready for the first race?" Goomba asked, Lakitu flying overhead. "No. Those two are still fighting." Luigi pointed at Peach and Daisy, who were fighting. "Um, Princess....." Goomba began, tapping Peach on the shoulder. "Princess Peach?" No response. "Peach!" Still no response. "HEY, YOU STUPID BRAT-PRINCESSES!" Goomba shouted at the top of his lungs. Peach and Daisy froze. "Heh....s-sorry, but, uh, everyone was really eager to start the race and....uh.....I-it was Luigi!!" Goomba dashed off.
Everyone got in their karts. "Um, Miss Daisy--" Lakitu began. "IT'S PRINCESS DAISY!!" Daisy snapped. "Uh....y-yeah.....Um, I recommend that you hold on to the handle bar." Lakitu finished. "Hmph. NObody tells ME what to do." Daisy informed Lakitu. "Just THINK, someone telling the ALL-mighty PRINCESS of SARASALAND what to--EIIIII!" The race had begun and Peach had taken off a top speed. "Daisy, don't be a jerk." The other princess hissed. "Don't tell me what to do!" Daisy snapped. "Well, if you want to win," Peach began, glaring. "you'll have to cooperate." Daisy frowned. She grabbed a mushroom from the Item Box and dropped it infront of the tire. The tire ran over it and the kart sped up. Peach ran the kart over the dash pads. A shell hit the back tire, throwing the kart up-side down. Peach and Daisy let out screams. Daisy grabbed a Heart from the Item Box and set it infront of the kart. The Heart split up and began twirling around the kart. "SWITCH!" Peach shouted. She and Daisy switched places.
Daisy wasn't too good at driving. It was her first time driving a kart, so maybe she shouldn't have joined. Daisy made a quick turn and succeeded in Mini-Turbo! They got a burst of speed. Peach hurled a Red Shell at Koopatroopa and Paratroopa. The two Koopas flipped. Daisy made a sharp turn again, causing Peach to nearly fall off. Peach placed a banana on the road. Mario tossed a Green Shell backwards at the Princesses. Daisy quickly moved the kart out of the way. "How many more laps?" Daisy asked, very nervous. "Two." Peach informed her, tossing a Fake Item Box. Baby Luigi and Baby Mario ran into the Fake Item Box and Peach cried out with victory. Daisy couldn't halp but grin. "SWITCH!" She shouted. She and Peach jumped and switched places. Daisy threw a Red Shell at the Mario Brothers and they flipped. Daisy laughed. She grabbed Triple Mushrooms and placed a mushroom infront of the front left tire. They went zooming off. She dropped two mushrooms infront of the two front tires and they went even faster.
"One lap left!" Lakitu told them. Daisy smiled. She was getting the hang of this. She dropped a Fake Item Box behind them and then grabbed a Red Shell. She waited until Toad and Toadette were within sight, then hurled the Red Shell in their direction. It hit the back of their kart and the two shrooms flipped. Peach and Daisy passed them by. They were in 1st place! Daisy dropped a banana behind them and Mario and Luigi slipped on it. The Toadstool Sisters wouldn't have to worry about them for a while. "Half a lap." Daisy murmured to herself, dropping a Fake Item Box behind them. She grabbed another mushroom and the two sisters zoomed off. Peach drove the kart over the dash panels. "SWITCH!" She commanded. The two Princesses switched places and Daisy continued driving them over the dash panels. Peach threw a Green Shell behind them, eliminating the Shrooms for a while. Daisy Drove over the black and white checkered line on the road. Daisy blinked. "Oh yeah! All right! Lucky me!" Peach cried out, blowing kisses. Daisy couldn't believe it. They had won! "Yahoo!" She shouted, waving. "Whoo!" She closed her eyes briefly and listened to the cheering. They were cheering and they were cheering for HER!
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"Great job, everyone!" Goomba praised them. "Except you eight, who came in 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th. You STANK!" He pointed out Yoshi, Birdo, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Waluigi, Wario, Koopa and Paratroopa. Bowser grumbled under his breath, "I'll get those stupid Princesses." "Okay, everyone," Goomba began. "board the plane! Our next stop is 'Peach Beach'! It won't take long!" Everyone rushed on to the plane, the 6 people at the top in the first-class seating. Peach sighed contently. "Stewardess! Where's my wine?" She demanded. Daisy shot her an irritated glance. "Should you REALLY be DRINKING wine?" She grumbled, not really looking for an answer. "I'm a PRINCESS, so I can do whatever I want." Peach replied, sticking her nose in the air. "In that case, STEWARDESS! BRING ME SOME WINE, TOO!" Daisy shouted.
The Stewardess--Candy Kong--grumbled as she gave Peach and Daisy they wine glasses. "Y'know, champagne is really more of a celebration drink." Daisy mused. "Just drink the damned wine!" Candy said, walking away. Toadette waited until Candy went back into wherever-the-stewards-and-stewardesses-go-when-they're-not-serving-someone before she rang the Steward bell. Candy went banging through the door. "WHAT?!" She screamed. Toadette flinched. "Erm, I....I just want some mushroom juice." She said innocently, giving Candy her cutest look. Candy cracked a smile and walked off to get Toadette some mushroom juice. "Man. I wish I could do that." Daisy commented. "You're a PRINCESS! You don't have to." Mario said. "Harumph!" Daisy stuck her nose into the air as she said this and sipped her wine.
"Now landing on Peach Beach!" Goomba anounced over the intercom. Daisy drank the last of her wine and ran down the steps and exited the plane. She breathed in the fresh air. "Ahhhhhh!" She sighed. This weather was making her optimistic. "And after the last race, maybe we can do some swimming!" Goomba raised his eye brows. "I don't think that'll be happening." He said. "Damn." Daisy grumbled, heading towards the starting line. She stood on the back platform. Peach jumped into the front of the kart. "Everyone ready?" Goomba asked. Everyone nodded. "NO! We certainly ARE NOT!" Shouted a voice. "Huh? What's wrong?" Goomba looked over to see Parakarry. "It's t-TERRIBLE! It's HORRID! It's FRIGHTENING!" Parakarry shouted. He tossed Peach the letter. "Why me?" Peach asked. "Because it's adressed to Princess Toadstool." Parakarry replied.
"Dear Princess Toadstool,
Surely you remember me. I met you during the beginning of the race. I'm watching you, Princess. You will soon be mine, mine, MINE! Bwahahahahahaha! You do not need to know who I am, you just need to know that I know where you are. I may be closer than you expect. Soon you will be in my claws I will no longer have to worry about you and your Kingdom, because it will be in my grasp! Heh....heh....ha.....AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Peach looked worried. "Nobody calls me Princess Toadstool anymore. Hmmm....Except...." She glanced at Daisy. "HEY!" Daisy shouted. "I stopped calling you that a while back. I call you Peach now, 'member?!" Peach tossed her hair. "WELL, I'm just saying that it COULD have been you." She said. "Shut up, you two! This is going nowhere!" Goomba commanded. "If someone threatened one of us, even if it were someone as useless as MARIO--" "Hey! I'm not useless!" Mario protested. Goomba ignored him and continued. "--we need to take procautions. But we still need to continue the race. Everyone ready?" Paragoombas and other Paracharacters hovered around the race track, ready with shells in case anyone tried to attack. "These are your precautions?" Daisy grumbled. "Three...." Lakitu said. "Parakarry made the letter sound worse than it is." Daisy mumbled. "Two...." "Can't this bloody race just START?" Daisy glanced behind her. "One..." "Hmmm....I'm kind of hungry. When we finish this race, maybe---" "GO!!" Lakitu shouted. "AAAACK!!" Daisy screamed as Peach zoomed off.
"Dork." Peach muttered under her breath. Daisy glared. She thought about pulling Peach's hair, but she didn't dare let go of the handle bar. She was a Princess, not a dare devil. Daisy grabbed an item from the item box and hurled the shell over her shoulder at Yoshi and Birdo. Yoshi drove out of the way of the shell before it could hit them. Daisy glared at the green dinosaur and grabbed a banana. She readied to drop it, but all of the sudden a Spiny Shell appeared infront of her face. It hovered there for a moment, as if looking the yellow-clad princess over. Then, it it the back of the kart and exploded. Daisy let out a loud shriek. She lost her grip on the handle bar and nearly fell off, but she grabbed hold of the back platform just in time. Peach dragged her along. "Noooo!" Daisy screetched. Peach easily dodged the Cataquacks as she drove by. Daisy pulled herself up onto the platform and grabbed a Heart. "Peach, what place are we in?" She asked, placing the Heart. "Sixth." Peach replied. "And it's all your fault! You should've TOLD me you saw a Spiny Shell! I could've out-manuevered it!" "No, you couldn't of!" Daisy snapped. "So quit'cher whining. We're in fifth place now, anyway. We passed up Toad and Toadette." She grabbed a Triple Mushroom from the Item Box.
Juggling the Triple Mushrooms, Daisy waited until the people in fourth--Koopa and Paratroopa--were infront of them. Then Daisy placed a Mushroom under the tire and they sped up. The kart rammed into the Parawing and Koopa's Item flew into the air. Peach caught the Triple Shell. Daisy used another Mushroom and the Bloom Coach hit the Red Fire Kart, causing Mario's Item to drop down onto the course. Daisy used her thrid mushroom and passed up Yoshi and Birdo. *Wait...." Daisy thought, confused. *....If Birdo and Yoshi are in second, then who's in third?* She shrugged and turned around to face the Koopa King Kart. Daisy yelped and nearly fell off. She grabbed a shell from the Item Box and hurled it at Bowser and Bowser Jr. They dodged the shell and hurled a Bowser Shell at the Bloom Coach. "SWITCH!" Peach shouted. Daisy switched to the driver and dodged the gigantic shell at the last moment. "Boswer must've been the one who fired that Spiny Shell!" Daisy gasped. Peach grabbed a banana and dropped it behind her. The Hearts could take one more hit, then they would disappear.
Daisy dodged a Cataquack and Peach hit another with a shell. A green Cataquack grabbed the Koopa King and threw it into the air, causing Bowser to be dragged as his son drove. Daisy grinned. Peach grabbed a Fake Item Box and dropped it behind the kart. The Koopa King slid on the banana that Peach had dropped and spun out. Daisy had been having so much fun, that she hadn't realized that she was now entering the Final Lap. In fact, she didn't learn of this until she checked her dash board after the first Cataquack attack of the Final Lap. Peach hurled a shell at a red Cataquack and it flipped upside down. Then, they passed the finish line!
Chapter Two!
Mortal Partners
"Okay, is everyone ready for the first race?" Goomba asked, Lakitu flying overhead. "No. Those two are still fighting." Luigi pointed at Peach and Daisy, who were fighting. "Um, Princess....." Goomba began, tapping Peach on the shoulder. "Princess Peach?" No response. "Peach!" Still no response. "HEY, YOU STUPID BRAT-PRINCESSES!" Goomba shouted at the top of his lungs. Peach and Daisy froze. "Heh....s-sorry, but, uh, everyone was really eager to start the race and....uh.....I-it was Luigi!!" Goomba dashed off.
Everyone got in their karts. "Um, Miss Daisy--" Lakitu began. "IT'S PRINCESS DAISY!!" Daisy snapped. "Uh....y-yeah.....Um, I recommend that you hold on to the handle bar." Lakitu finished. "Hmph. NObody tells ME what to do." Daisy informed Lakitu. "Just THINK, someone telling the ALL-mighty PRINCESS of SARASALAND what to--EIIIII!" The race had begun and Peach had taken off a top speed. "Daisy, don't be a jerk." The other princess hissed. "Don't tell me what to do!" Daisy snapped. "Well, if you want to win," Peach began, glaring. "you'll have to cooperate." Daisy frowned. She grabbed a mushroom from the Item Box and dropped it infront of the tire. The tire ran over it and the kart sped up. Peach ran the kart over the dash pads. A shell hit the back tire, throwing the kart up-side down. Peach and Daisy let out screams. Daisy grabbed a Heart from the Item Box and set it infront of the kart. The Heart split up and began twirling around the kart. "SWITCH!" Peach shouted. She and Daisy switched places.
Daisy wasn't too good at driving. It was her first time driving a kart, so maybe she shouldn't have joined. Daisy made a quick turn and succeeded in Mini-Turbo! They got a burst of speed. Peach hurled a Red Shell at Koopatroopa and Paratroopa. The two Koopas flipped. Daisy made a sharp turn again, causing Peach to nearly fall off. Peach placed a banana on the road. Mario tossed a Green Shell backwards at the Princesses. Daisy quickly moved the kart out of the way. "How many more laps?" Daisy asked, very nervous. "Two." Peach informed her, tossing a Fake Item Box. Baby Luigi and Baby Mario ran into the Fake Item Box and Peach cried out with victory. Daisy couldn't halp but grin. "SWITCH!" She shouted. She and Peach jumped and switched places. Daisy threw a Red Shell at the Mario Brothers and they flipped. Daisy laughed. She grabbed Triple Mushrooms and placed a mushroom infront of the front left tire. They went zooming off. She dropped two mushrooms infront of the two front tires and they went even faster.
"One lap left!" Lakitu told them. Daisy smiled. She was getting the hang of this. She dropped a Fake Item Box behind them and then grabbed a Red Shell. She waited until Toad and Toadette were within sight, then hurled the Red Shell in their direction. It hit the back of their kart and the two shrooms flipped. Peach and Daisy passed them by. They were in 1st place! Daisy dropped a banana behind them and Mario and Luigi slipped on it. The Toadstool Sisters wouldn't have to worry about them for a while. "Half a lap." Daisy murmured to herself, dropping a Fake Item Box behind them. She grabbed another mushroom and the two sisters zoomed off. Peach drove the kart over the dash panels. "SWITCH!" She commanded. The two Princesses switched places and Daisy continued driving them over the dash panels. Peach threw a Green Shell behind them, eliminating the Shrooms for a while. Daisy Drove over the black and white checkered line on the road. Daisy blinked. "Oh yeah! All right! Lucky me!" Peach cried out, blowing kisses. Daisy couldn't believe it. They had won! "Yahoo!" She shouted, waving. "Whoo!" She closed her eyes briefly and listened to the cheering. They were cheering and they were cheering for HER!
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"Great job, everyone!" Goomba praised them. "Except you eight, who came in 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th. You STANK!" He pointed out Yoshi, Birdo, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Waluigi, Wario, Koopa and Paratroopa. Bowser grumbled under his breath, "I'll get those stupid Princesses." "Okay, everyone," Goomba began. "board the plane! Our next stop is 'Peach Beach'! It won't take long!" Everyone rushed on to the plane, the 6 people at the top in the first-class seating. Peach sighed contently. "Stewardess! Where's my wine?" She demanded. Daisy shot her an irritated glance. "Should you REALLY be DRINKING wine?" She grumbled, not really looking for an answer. "I'm a PRINCESS, so I can do whatever I want." Peach replied, sticking her nose in the air. "In that case, STEWARDESS! BRING ME SOME WINE, TOO!" Daisy shouted.
The Stewardess--Candy Kong--grumbled as she gave Peach and Daisy they wine glasses. "Y'know, champagne is really more of a celebration drink." Daisy mused. "Just drink the damned wine!" Candy said, walking away. Toadette waited until Candy went back into wherever-the-stewards-and-stewardesses-go-when-they're-not-serving-someone before she rang the Steward bell. Candy went banging through the door. "WHAT?!" She screamed. Toadette flinched. "Erm, I....I just want some mushroom juice." She said innocently, giving Candy her cutest look. Candy cracked a smile and walked off to get Toadette some mushroom juice. "Man. I wish I could do that." Daisy commented. "You're a PRINCESS! You don't have to." Mario said. "Harumph!" Daisy stuck her nose into the air as she said this and sipped her wine.
"Now landing on Peach Beach!" Goomba anounced over the intercom. Daisy drank the last of her wine and ran down the steps and exited the plane. She breathed in the fresh air. "Ahhhhhh!" She sighed. This weather was making her optimistic. "And after the last race, maybe we can do some swimming!" Goomba raised his eye brows. "I don't think that'll be happening." He said. "Damn." Daisy grumbled, heading towards the starting line. She stood on the back platform. Peach jumped into the front of the kart. "Everyone ready?" Goomba asked. Everyone nodded. "NO! We certainly ARE NOT!" Shouted a voice. "Huh? What's wrong?" Goomba looked over to see Parakarry. "It's t-TERRIBLE! It's HORRID! It's FRIGHTENING!" Parakarry shouted. He tossed Peach the letter. "Why me?" Peach asked. "Because it's adressed to Princess Toadstool." Parakarry replied.
"Dear Princess Toadstool,
Surely you remember me. I met you during the beginning of the race. I'm watching you, Princess. You will soon be mine, mine, MINE! Bwahahahahahaha! You do not need to know who I am, you just need to know that I know where you are. I may be closer than you expect. Soon you will be in my claws I will no longer have to worry about you and your Kingdom, because it will be in my grasp! Heh....heh....ha.....AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Peach looked worried. "Nobody calls me Princess Toadstool anymore. Hmmm....Except...." She glanced at Daisy. "HEY!" Daisy shouted. "I stopped calling you that a while back. I call you Peach now, 'member?!" Peach tossed her hair. "WELL, I'm just saying that it COULD have been you." She said. "Shut up, you two! This is going nowhere!" Goomba commanded. "If someone threatened one of us, even if it were someone as useless as MARIO--" "Hey! I'm not useless!" Mario protested. Goomba ignored him and continued. "--we need to take procautions. But we still need to continue the race. Everyone ready?" Paragoombas and other Paracharacters hovered around the race track, ready with shells in case anyone tried to attack. "These are your precautions?" Daisy grumbled. "Three...." Lakitu said. "Parakarry made the letter sound worse than it is." Daisy mumbled. "Two...." "Can't this bloody race just START?" Daisy glanced behind her. "One..." "Hmmm....I'm kind of hungry. When we finish this race, maybe---" "GO!!" Lakitu shouted. "AAAACK!!" Daisy screamed as Peach zoomed off.
"Dork." Peach muttered under her breath. Daisy glared. She thought about pulling Peach's hair, but she didn't dare let go of the handle bar. She was a Princess, not a dare devil. Daisy grabbed an item from the item box and hurled the shell over her shoulder at Yoshi and Birdo. Yoshi drove out of the way of the shell before it could hit them. Daisy glared at the green dinosaur and grabbed a banana. She readied to drop it, but all of the sudden a Spiny Shell appeared infront of her face. It hovered there for a moment, as if looking the yellow-clad princess over. Then, it it the back of the kart and exploded. Daisy let out a loud shriek. She lost her grip on the handle bar and nearly fell off, but she grabbed hold of the back platform just in time. Peach dragged her along. "Noooo!" Daisy screetched. Peach easily dodged the Cataquacks as she drove by. Daisy pulled herself up onto the platform and grabbed a Heart. "Peach, what place are we in?" She asked, placing the Heart. "Sixth." Peach replied. "And it's all your fault! You should've TOLD me you saw a Spiny Shell! I could've out-manuevered it!" "No, you couldn't of!" Daisy snapped. "So quit'cher whining. We're in fifth place now, anyway. We passed up Toad and Toadette." She grabbed a Triple Mushroom from the Item Box.
Juggling the Triple Mushrooms, Daisy waited until the people in fourth--Koopa and Paratroopa--were infront of them. Then Daisy placed a Mushroom under the tire and they sped up. The kart rammed into the Parawing and Koopa's Item flew into the air. Peach caught the Triple Shell. Daisy used another Mushroom and the Bloom Coach hit the Red Fire Kart, causing Mario's Item to drop down onto the course. Daisy used her thrid mushroom and passed up Yoshi and Birdo. *Wait...." Daisy thought, confused. *....If Birdo and Yoshi are in second, then who's in third?* She shrugged and turned around to face the Koopa King Kart. Daisy yelped and nearly fell off. She grabbed a shell from the Item Box and hurled it at Bowser and Bowser Jr. They dodged the shell and hurled a Bowser Shell at the Bloom Coach. "SWITCH!" Peach shouted. Daisy switched to the driver and dodged the gigantic shell at the last moment. "Boswer must've been the one who fired that Spiny Shell!" Daisy gasped. Peach grabbed a banana and dropped it behind her. The Hearts could take one more hit, then they would disappear.
Daisy dodged a Cataquack and Peach hit another with a shell. A green Cataquack grabbed the Koopa King and threw it into the air, causing Bowser to be dragged as his son drove. Daisy grinned. Peach grabbed a Fake Item Box and dropped it behind the kart. The Koopa King slid on the banana that Peach had dropped and spun out. Daisy had been having so much fun, that she hadn't realized that she was now entering the Final Lap. In fact, she didn't learn of this until she checked her dash board after the first Cataquack attack of the Final Lap. Peach hurled a shell at a red Cataquack and it flipped upside down. Then, they passed the finish line!
