Darkness-Aura:

It would seem that my attempt at such a story has been successful, I am glad, 3 reviews, in just a day. Well, here comes the moment, you've all been waiting for, the competition between the girls and Mario, who has no clue! Will he sort things out? Or will he fall victim to the ways of jealous women? Only a few ways to find out, read this, or skim it! (Don't skim it!) Anyway…here we go!

Chapter Two: So…this is what it's like.

Vivian was having a good time with herself, in just a matter of moments she would be at Mario's house, and just as Beldam has told her, a relationship must grow, not be spurred out of pure randomness. Which means that she would have to do what everyone would do when it came to love, build a relationship! She guessed she had done almost 85 of this on their travels at least, so it couldn't possibly be hard. As these thoughts went through her mind, she noticed a house a sitting among a small hill, with a mailbox next to it.

"That must be Mario's house! Great! I finally arrived!" Vivian exclaimed, and with such a realization fresh within her mind, she rushed towards his house, getting ready to greet the man of her affections…but unfortunately, there was conflict! As soon as she had reached a little ways past the mail box, she bumped into three other people! Thus, causing a cycle of people being knocked about.

"Ouch!" Shouted a soft sounding and yet familiar voice,

"I say!" Shouting another,

"Oh ma Gosh!" shouted last a younger sounding voice, and Vivian hearing her own grunt of pain as she hit the floor, slightly dazed.

"Vivian? What are you doing here?" As the voice asked it came up to her, and thus, it was none other than Goombella!

"Oh….I was just visiting….Mario."

"Oh yeah? Me too!" Replied Goombella, slightly crestfallen, as though she didn't expect anyone else to be here.

"Oh yeah? Well that's good. Vivian Replied, looking to her left, she noticed a cloud looking women, who kind of looked like Flurrie, but it was hard to tell…and the next one was none other than Peach herself!

"Flurrie, Peach?" Vivian asked innocently.

"Eh? Oh, you must be one of Mario's friends! I remember you guys; you saved me from the Shadow Queen!" Peach gushed, clasping her hands.

"Oh yeah…it was really nothing!" Replied all three of the girls, whom soon exchanged a few weird confused looks.

"So, what are you guys doing here?" Peach asked, guessing they weren't trying something suspicious.

"We came to visit Mario!" They all replied in unison, or at least, somewhat in unison, Vivian was quieter than Goombella or Flurrie, so I didn't seem all too powerful.

" Oh…really? Wow…." Drat! Thought Peach jealously, she could read their eyes, and she knew what they were all after, her precious Mario! She had too, at all cost, out due them in all their attempts!

Hm…Thought Vivian, These girls might be here for Mario too…I better play fair then, Beldam taught me that love is no competition!

Goombella wasn't one to be jealous, but she has read about these kinds of situations before, and she knew what these girls were after, and she wasn't going to let them have him!

Well! This sure turned out to be a social situation hadn't it? Thought Flurrie heatedly, I suppose I will just have to do my best to out do them all! Without fail! And with all of these thoughts in the air, competition was set without a flag, and it was going to be rough!

Glaring at each other heatedly, except Vivian, because her eyes were hidden, and you couldn't really tell, no one made a move, that is until Mario noticed the girls outside of his home, glaring at each other as though they were enemies, with a start, he opened the door and made a gesture of attention grabbing, as if asking what they were doing here.

"Mario!" they all shouted in unison, as they ran up to him and all tried to push the other out of the way in order to get to Mario, Mario not knowing what was going on, began to tip on his leg and scream in fright, flailing his arms.

"Ouff!" Vivian grunted as she was thrown from the mad dash to get to Mario first, frowning at Mario's discomfort, Vivian knew there was only one thing to do, she would have to hide him for awhile! Disappearing into the ground, she reappeared behind Mario and grabbed him under, much to the surprise and dismay of the rest of the girls who were very much annoyed.

"Hey, where did he go?" Asked Goombella,

"Mario! No! Not again!" Peach wept.

"Mario? Oh my…what a predicament, how will I get him now?" Flurrie pondered.

Not exactly knowing where he is, Mario blinked in the familiar purple darkness. Remembering the veil as a cover up from one of Vivian's powers, he sat up and looked around seeing a frown on Vivian's face. Not knowing what to say, Mario put on a questioning look.

"Sorry Mario, but I didn't want you to get hurt from the others anxiousness."

Mario nodded in approval and made a gesture to ask why she had come to visit him instead of Vise Versa.

"Oh…why am I here? To see you of course…I gotten….sick of being without you." Vivian's normal blush turned red instead of pink, showing her embarrassment.

Mario would have said more, but it was then that there was a voice above the hole they were hiding in, and soon enough, a gloved hand reached down, and grabbed the both of them!

Flailing his arms as he was pulled out by Peach, Mario gasped as he was thrown onto the floor, along with a dazed Vivian, who became immobilized from the shock of being forcefully pulled out of her own hiding spell.

"Ugh…" She grunted.

"Oh!" Gasped Mario, worriedly, he picked up Vivian and walked over to his room with her, causing most of the others to growl with disapproval and heated jealousy, soon enough, Mario reemerged from the room, closing the door behind him, and looked to the others with a looked with a face of disapproval, causing the others to hang their heads.

He probably hates me now…Thought Goombella worriedly, Shuffling her feet, she walked over to a chair and sat down, waiting to find the right time to explain her self, those who followed the same actions were Peach and Flurrie, who also shared the same dismays and worried faces.

Raising a hand, Mario asked why they have arrived on his doorstep, and why exactly they had acted the way they did today.

Looking up from her dismayed position, Goombella was the first to answer Mario's questions.

"Well, Mario, I'll give you a very good explanation for what exactly we are doing here!"

Mario nods.

"All right….it would seem that, by some twist of fate, we have all decided to visit you on the same day…with some…goals to keep. Since this matter cannot be solved peacefully, based on all our ambitions, I would ask that…if it isn't too much trouble, that you would allow us to take care of the problem in our own ways, which means that we will have to ask you to let us stay here for awhile." Goombella finished her sentence and sat down expectantly, the others, Peach and Flurrie, nodded in approval.

"Yes, I agree, can we Mario?" Peach asked.

"Yes, just until we….do something about this predicament?"

With a rub of his chin, Mario decided that it was ok, Luigi, he informed, was off dating Daisy, whom he suddenly became interested in lately.

"Yes! Thanks Mario!" they said in unison.

"You welcome!" He replied.

The others gasped and Vivian suddenly opened the door quickly at the sound of Mario's voice.

"Eh?" Mario asked.

"You talked!" Vivian exclaimed excitedly.

Question marks Appeared over his head.

"Oh drat, it must have been a one time sort of thing…" Peach answered for them.

"Oh….how disappointing." Sighed Flurrie.

And so the day went on as expected for any amount of guest, preparations and situation rearranging, things like beds, personal belongings and other important necessity's that were brought to important care and attention. Soon enough Mario was helping Flurrie put some of the last new things in her guest room, along with some perfumes and other things she had wanted to bring for some reason, Mario suspected there to be foul play, even though they had been friends for almost a year and a half now, he couldn't help but check the weird liquid of smells and fancies, but to his dismay, the potion of smelling liquid, was suffocating to him.

"Gack!" He choked.

With a start, all of the girls, including Peach, whom was thought to be out shopping a few moments ago, sprang into the room at the first sound of Mario's discomfort, and asked what happened, but not before looking at each other weirdly, Vivian was holding a book called "Love for the not so smart", Goombella was wearing what looked like Lemon slices on her eyes, and a mask the color of purple, which startled some a little, Peach was holding what looked like a new Magnum shroom launcher, with a bunch of poison ness shrooms in it, which she quickly hid behind her back, and Flurrie, well she was feeling guilty for not hiding the choking perfume she was going to try and get the others to smell.

"Oh no Mario! That's tear gas!" Dropping her book Vivian took the bottle, and threw Mario outside of the room, then disappeared with it, leaving the others to stare, mouths agape for a while.

"Ok, then…." Peach concluded.

"Yep, I should have known she was the selfless type, tear gas is killer on the senses…" Goombella stated.

"Hey…it wasn't my fault, I didn't mean to get the little Darling, Mario to choke on it!" Flurrie pouted.

"Well, who did you mean it for then?" Peach asked suspiciously, slowly reaching her hand behind her back, should something be confirmed.

"Well…"

Just as the lying was about to begin, the TV had an urgent news bulletin, which grabbed everyone's attention, including Mario, whom recovered from the tear gas.

"This just in, there appears to be some kind of Shadow girl, whom claims she wants to get rid of some Tear gas, and doesn't know what to do with it, for some reason, she seems to be claiming that she was simply finding somewhere to put it, after having some one of her friends attacked by it, authorities have stated that she was going to be escorted to a facility for these types of chemicals, but before any of this containment could take place, a Koopa by the name of Radix tackled the poor shadow girl, and caused the whole thing to spread in the news station! ….wait, now the shadow girl is gone? What the heck is going down here? Is this terrorism? More on this story later folks!"

Staring at the Television Blakely, Mario began to put his mouth back into a closed position, and decided to remain calm. Turning to the others, whom eyes were bulging, which didn't help at all really, Mario decided to wait for Vivian's return, which was prompt, for a dark hole appeared in the ceiling, and thus…happened to be right over the red clad super hero.

Thud!

"Gah! I'm a terrorist! Someone give me a warrant for arrest!" Panicked Vivian.

The others looked at themselves, not knowing how to handle the situation for a moment, fortunately though, Goombella took charge of Damage control, and decided that Mario should take some rest, and that the others should take some time to figure out a proper way to handle the way they were going to go about living in the house for the next few days.

Sitting around a coffee table each of the girls waited for someone to make a move, each of them eyeing each other plenty of suspicion in their minds. After a few more moments of staring, Goombella, knowing what each girl was after, decided that it was time to let them all know what the other was after, as to keep from causing chaos.

"Alright…enough with the innocent acts guys, I know, and you all probably know as well, what we are after here." Goombella spoken up.

"What do you mean Goombella?" Vivian asked, completely oblivious,

"Yes, what do you mean, what we are all after?" Peach asked, with a bit of anger.

"Heh, don't be dumb you fools! Mario! I know you all want him to be yours, and you can't wait to just fight over him!" Goombella revealed.

Blushing, Flurrie rebutted. "Am not!"

"Oh yeah…and I suppose you are here for just a friendly hello, eh?" Peach asked.

"Dang you Peach!" Flurrie Fumed, and just as they were about to fight each other to the death, Mario, who appeared to be sleep walking, went passed them, grabbed some water, and went back to bed, all while they were both about to kill one another.

"Hmmm…we don't want to upset Mario…do we?" Vivian asked them.

"No...We don't, right guys?" Goombella asked, expecting an agreement. As supposed, they nodded.

"So how about this then…we will have a competition, no cheating, no tricks, just a fair heart to heart battle, Hm?" Goombella suggested.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt!" Vivian agreed.

"Sure…" Peach added,

"Why not?" Flurrie said last.

"Ok, good, problem solved….so to seal the deal, we will shake on it, ok?"

With a nod, they all held out their hands, and agreed on playing fair….or at least that's what they thought.

Heh…yhea right! I'm going to cheat! Peach thought as they shook,

Hmmm…pfft, forget this…I'm going to win at all costs…even cheating ones! Flurrie plotted,

Nah, I'm just going to cross my fingers…in my mind. Goombella double crossed.

I hope all goes well….maybe someday…I might win his heart. Thought lastly, the innocent Vivian, unknowing that she would have to survive the others foul play. Well….so this is what it's like….Vivian thought further, to finally be ever so closer to true love!

Chapter End.

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