Disclaimer: I don't own Nintendo, Mario and all of the characters from the Mario and Paper Mario series games. I don't own anything, really.
Authors Notes: Thank you for all of your reviews:) I'm glad that all of you liked my story. The yoshi infants and Toadette will be in this chapter but some characters from the Mario games won't make an appearance in this fan fic.
Surferljb: Of course you can't wait. But the female partners and Peach won't flirt with Mario in this chapter but they might in one of the future chapters.
crystal7: Of course you're looking forward to what Mario and friends get up to in the party but the yoshi infants will think of lots of ideas to get inside the castle in this chapter. And I bet you're looking forward to the next chapter. I'm glad you want me to continue my story and I bet you're looking forward to other chapters of my fan fic:D
After this Author's note, here is the next chapter of this fan fic for your enjoyment!
Chapter 3: Everyone's here!
Everyone who was invited was assembled at outside Princess Peach's castle. Luigi was having a lovely conversation with Princess Daisy, Toad and Toadette were talking to each other as well, Yoshi, a friend of Mario's from the other Mario games like the Mario kart series, Mario Golf series, Mario Tennis series and many more was running around, chasing the butterflies and Mario was looking around to see if any of his old and recent partners arrived yet.
Hmm…I wonder if any of my old and recent partners arrived yet. Maybe, I should look around again. Mario thought to himself. He was looking around until he heard a voice that shouted, "Hey, Mario!" He looked around again until he noticed a figure that is coming towards him.
"Goombario!" Mario exclaimed, happily. "Nice to see you again!"
"Nice to see you too! How are things back at your home?" Goombario asked.
"Really good and it's always the same. Bowser's still at it, always kidnapping Princess Peach." Mario said.
"Really?" Goombario asked, again.
"Yeah!" The plumber answered. "Any ways since you're here, where are the rest?"
"Oh! The rest? I think they're not here yet." Goombario replied.
"I think you spoke too soon. Look, there is one of our friends now." Mario told him.
A koopa troopa and a pink bob-omb came over to where Mario and Goombario were.
"Hi, Mario and Goombario! Haven't seen you two for ages, haven't I?" the pink bob-omb greeted.
"Of course, you haven't but it's nice to see you any way." Mario replied.
"Yeah, like what he said!" Goombario agreed.
"Um… hi, Mario and Goombario! Pleasure meeting you again!" the koopa troopa greeted.
"Good to see you too!" the goomba replied.
"Yeah!" the red-clad plumber agreed. "So anyway, since some of you are here, that leaves…"
When Mario was about to finish his speech, a mysterious figure appeared in front of him!
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" the red-clad plumber screamed.
The mysterious figure turned out to be Bow, a boo princess and one of Mario's old partners.
"B…b…Bow! Y…y…yo…you nearly scared me to death!" Mario said in a frightened tone.
"Of course I scared you! That what boos do! And boos are ghosts, anyway. It will be weird if boos don't frighten people." Bow replied.
"I see, but please don't do that again." the plumber told her.
"Okay, I won't." Bow said with a sad face.
Meanwhile, the yoshi infants were hiding behind a fountain near Peach's castle.
"Can we stop hiding behind the fountain? I'm bored." The green yoshi complained.
"No because if we stop hiding, Sushie might notice us and take us back to Yoshi's Village." Red yoshi told him.
"Aww… no fair." Green yoshi said in a whining tone.
"I know it's not fair." Red yoshi agreed.
"Uh… guys, I think I have an idea. How about we wait until everyone goes inside this building and we'll find another way to go inside." suggested Blue yoshi.
"That's a great idea!" Red yoshi replied.
"But what will happen if this idea won't work?" Green yoshi said in a worried tone.
"Then we'll have to think of another way inside the castle." The red yoshi told the green yoshi.
Meanwhile, Mario and some of his friends were waiting for the other partners to show up.
"Where are the rest?" Bombette asked.
"I don't know." Kooper said.
"Yeah." Goombario agreed. "Where do you think the others are, Mario?"
"I'm not sure but they should be here any second." Mario answered.
"Um… speaking of 'they should be here', I think I see one of them coming this way." Kooper told him.
Another partner which is a cheep cheep came over to where Mario, Goombario, Kooper and Bombette were.
"Hello, all of you! Am I late?" The cheep cheep greeted.
"You're not late but at least you're here." Mario replied with a smile.
"Yeah!" The other partners agreed.
"Hello, everyone!" a voice exclaimed.
Mario and some of his partners turned around to see a paratroopa with wings, still holding his mailbag.
"Hi, Parakarry! Glad to see you here! Did you deliver all the invitations to everyone?" The plumber asked.
"Yes, I did." Parakarry answered.
"Hey, Parakarry! What are you doing here?" Goombario asked.
"Oops! Sorry, everyone. I didn't tell all of you that I'm invited to the party. I wanted to keep this a secret for a surprise for all of you. But Mario knows why I'm here, anyway. He told me that I'm invited, isn't it Mario?" Parakarry replied.
"Yes." Mario replied back.
"Yo! Everyone! What's up?" A voice shouted.
Mario and some of his friends turned around to face another partner who was a Lakitu.
"Hi, Lakilester! Glad you could make it!" Mario greeted to his friend.
"Yeah!" The other partners agreed.
"…sigh… can't you guys call me Spike for once!" The lakitu shouted.
"Whatever." Mario replied back.
"Yeah, like what Mario said." Goombario agreed.
"So anyway since nearly all of you were here, that leaves Watt who didn't arrive yet and also the rest of the partners." The red-clad plumber replied.
"Who are the rest of the partners, anyway?" The goomba asked.
"You'll soon find out when they come." Mario answered.
"Oh." Goombario said.
"Um… hi, everyone!" A voice shouted.
Mario and his pals turned around to face another partner who is coming towards them.
"Um… hi, everyone! Am I late?" Watt asked.
"Yep. You're late." Mario answered.
"Oh no, I'm late! I'm late for the party! What am I going to do!" Watt exclaimed in a worried tone.
Mario and his friends were laughing their heads off. Watt looked at them with a puzzled face.
"Um… Mario, what's so funny?" Watt asked.
Mario and his partners were still laughing.
"Just kidding! You're not really late for the party." Mario laughed.
"I'm not!" Watt said in a surprised tone.
"Of course, you're not! The party didn't even start yet!" Mario replied with a smile.
"Phew! I thought I'm late for the party." Watt said.
"Mario, when is the party going to start, anyway?" Sushie asked.
"It will start when we're told to go inside the castle." The red-clad plumber told her.
"Oh, I see." Sushie said.
"Hey, Bro!" Another voice called out.
The plumber and his old partners turned around to face a figure wearing a green sweater and blue overalls and a green cap on his head that has a green 'L' on it, coming to them.
"Luigi! Why did you come over here for?" Mario asked.
"I've came here just to see what you have been up to." Luigi answered.
"I see, so why you're not with Princess Daisy?" Mario asked his brother.
"Because I told her to wait for me until I come back to talk to her." Luigi replied.
"Oh." The red-clad plumber said.
"Everyone! May I have your attention please!" Another voice cried.
Mario, Luigi and Mario's old partners came over to where the voice was coming from. The voice was coming from Toadette who was a female toad who was first appeared in Mario Kart: Double Dash! Toadette was holding a brown clipboard with loads of paper on it and she was also holding a pen in her hand. Everyone was crowding around her.
"Now, that I have your attention, I called you all here because I have to count every single one of you to see who's here and who's not here. So we have… Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Daisy, Birdo, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Goombario, Kooper, Bombette…" Toadette spoke up.
"Can't ya hurry up with this!" A voice shouted, interrupting Toadette's speech.
Everyone turned around to face Wario, Mario's rival and Waluigi, Luigi's rival who were at the back of the crowd. Everyone was staring at them with an angry look.
"Hey! Why are you guys looking at us like that!" Wario exclaimed. "We didn't say anything!"
Everyone looked back at Toadette, continuing to listen to her.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, we have… Mario, where was I up to?" Toadette asked.
"You were up to Bombette." Mario told her.
"Thank you, Mario. As I was saying, we got… Bombette, Parakarry, Bow, Watt, Sushie…" Toadette spoke again.
"Today!" Another voice exclaimed.
Everyone turned around again to face Wario and Waluigi. Everybody was staring at them with an angrier look.
"Hey! It's not me who said it!" Waluigi shouted. "Look at somebody else!"
Mario sighed. He went away from the crowd and walked towards Wario and Waluigi.
"…sigh… why not I take you both to the post office and I'll tell Parakarry to mail you two someplace else?" Mario suggested.
"No! Anything but that!" Wario and Waluigi both exclaimed in a horrified tone.
"Then both of you better shut up and let Toadette finish off counting everyone who were here." Mario told them.
He went back to Luigi and his old partners who were in the crowd. Toadette continued to count everyone.
"Now, where was I up to? Ah, yes. We got… Mario, where was I up to again?" Toadette asked the plumber.
"You're up to Sushie." Mario told her.
"Thanks, Mario. So we have… Sushie, Lakilester, Goombella… um… Mario, have you seen Goombella around here?" Toadette asked.
Mario looked around him. He couldn't see Goombella in the crowd.
"Nope. I haven't seen her." The plumber told her.
"I see. So we've got… Koops… is he here, Mario?" Toadette asked again.
The red-clad plumber looked around him. He couldn't see Koops anywhere as well.
"Nope. He's not here either." Mario told her.
"Hmm… that's odd. He should be here by now." Toadette replied with a puzzled look. "Anyway we have… Flurrie…"
Toadette looked around her. Flurrie was nowhere to be seen.
"Hmm… she's not here as well. So anyways we've got… Yoshi…" Toadette replied, continuing to count everyone who was here.
She once again looked around her. Yoshi hasn't arrived yet.
"Hmm… he's not here also. We have… Vivian…" Toadette replied.
She again looked around her. Vivian isn't here yet as well.
"Hmm… very odd. She hasn't arrived yet also. Anyway we have… Bobbery…" Toadette said.
She looked all over the place for Bobbery. Bobbery hasn't showed up yet.
"He's not here either. Hmm… how odd. So we've got… Ms. Mowz…" Toadette replied again.
She once more looked everywhere but there was no sign of Ms. Mowz.
"She hasn't arrived here yet also. Mario, do you think that all of them were late?" Toadette asked.
"They might have but I'm not sure, really." The plumber answered.
"Hmm… you might be right. So anyway we have… Wario and Waluigi. So, that's it." Toadette said.
"But you've forgotten to mention yourself, Toad, Princess Peach and Toadsworth." Mario told her.
"I haven't. I'm only mentioning the ones who should be here. Anyway, me, Peach, Toad and Toadsworth live in the castle." Toadette replied.
"I see so we're going inside the castle now?" the red-clad plumber asked.
"Yep." Toadette replied, looking at the clipboard. She then looked at everyone. "Alright everyone! Now that I finished counting every single one of you, please follow me to the castle."
Everybody started to walk and they followed Toadette. Toadette went to the double doors of the castle and opened it. She then let Mario and the others inside first and she went in as well. The castle double doors shut behind them.
Meanwhile, the yoshi infants were still hiding behind the fountain near Peach's castle.
"Has everyone gone in yet?" Green yoshi asked.
The red yoshi went to one of the sides of the fountain and looked around to see if anyone is still outside.
"Yep. Now that everybody went inside that building, we'll go inside it." Red yoshi replied.
"But how?" Blue yoshi said.
"Hmm… How about we find a window that is part of the castle and we'll find a way to get through it." Red yoshi told the other yoshis.
"That sounds like a great idea but how are we going to get through the window?" Green yoshi said with a puzzled face.
"Hey! How about we get something hard and we threw it at the window." Blue yoshi suggested.
"… I think that's crazy. Throwing something hard to break the window, we'll get caught for that. And if we try to get through the window when it's broken, we'll get hurt by the glass." Red yoshi replied.
"How do you know?" Purple yoshi said.
"Well, it really hurts if we did try to get through the window." Red yoshi told him.
"So, how are we going to get inside the building?" Yellow yoshi asked.
"How about we find the back door." Suggested purple yoshi.
"I think we have to get inside the castle before we can use the back door." Red yoshi told him.
"Oh, so we can't get inside the castle, huh?" Blue yoshi said.
"I think we can, if we could think of another idea." Red yoshi replied.
"How about we try getting through the window by breaking it?" Suggested yellow yoshi.
"I already told the blue yoshi that this idea won't work!" Red yoshi exclaimed.
"But we have to try that, we have no choice but using that idea if we want to go inside the castle and have fun." replied the green yoshi.
"I agree with him, anyway. I can't think of any ideas right now." Purple yoshi agreed.
"Yeah!" Yellow yoshi agreed also.
"Okay, let's do this idea whatever we like it or not." Red yoshi spoke up.
So, the yoshi kids split up to find something hard to throw at the window. Red yoshi found a flower from a bush, yellow yoshi found a rose from another bush; purple yoshi put his hand in the water from the fountain and found something hard.
"Hey, guys! I found something!" Purple yoshi exclaimed.
The other yoshis turned around to face a purple yoshi holding something in his hand. They went to him.
"What did you find?" Red yoshi asked.
"I found a round rock at the bottom of the water from a fountain." Purple yoshi told the other yoshis.
"You found that! Why is a rock doing at the bottom of the water?" Red yoshi asked again.
"I don't know but that's the only thing I found that is hard." Purple yoshi replied.
"Okay, so let's use it!" Red yoshi shouted.
"Yeah!" The other yoshi kids agreed.
So, the yoshis went near the castle and they walked to one of the windows. Purple yoshi grabbed hold of the rock and threw it at the window. It broke into pieces.
"Come on, let's get through the window!" Red yoshi exclaimed.
"Do we have to?" Green yoshi said in a whining tone.
"Yes! We have to get through whatever we like it or not!" Red yoshi told him.
"But we'll get caught!" Blue yoshi replied in a frightened tone.
"It doesn't matter if we get caught." Red yoshi said.
"But…" Blue yoshi said in a worried tone.
"Come on, we'll have to do it if we want to have fun." Red yoshi told him.
"Okay…" the other yoshis said with a sad face.
So, the red yoshi stepped back and ran to the window and jumped over it, avoiding the broken glass of the window. The other yoshi kids did the same. The yoshi infants are now inside Peach's castle.
"Phew! I thought I was a goner." Blue yoshi replied.
"Shhhhhh! Be quiet or we'll get kicked out!" Red yoshi whispered.
"Okay." Blue yoshi said.
"Hey, guys! Look! Everyone inside the castle doesn't know we're here!" Purple yoshi exclaimed, happily.
"I know but let's keep quiet." Red yoshi told the other yoshis.
"But what will happen if they notice us, will we get caught?" Yellow yoshi said in a worried tone.
"No, or maybe we will." Red yoshi told him.
To be continued…
Author's notes: Do you like the chapter? I know this chapter is a little longer than the first chapter and I bet you're really looking forward to the next one:) So please review!