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Welcome to Glitzville

"PRINCESS! WAKE UP! YOU'RE LATE!"

Peach looked groggily up at her grandpa. "Late... for what?" Toadsworth looked at her skeptically. "You're paying a royal visit to Glitzville to check on how things have gone over the past month remember? Where's you're list of escorts." Peach looked blankly at him. "Oh ummmm about that, see-"
"You mean to tell me, you haven't even made you're list of excorts yet?"
"Well, I was going to but then-"
"NO BUTS! Hurry up and make it!"

Peach crawled out of bed and out in the hall to her study. She took out a peice of her usual pink paper with gold outlines. She quickly scribbled down some names.

Desired Escorts:
-Maria
-Sophie
-Sam
-Toadbert
-Pete

Maria is a toadette with a brunette ponytail and light blue spots on her head. She has a white shirt and a light blue skirt. Sophie is a goomba with a pink dress. Sam is a young orange yoshi with red hair. Toadbert- well yeah. Pete is a koopa with a blue shell and sunglasses (hint hint, it's King K, Jolene mentions his name is KP Pete).

Peach gave it to her secretary, Toadabella. She called all the names on the list. "Well, only Maria, Sam, and Pete can make it. Is that alright?"
"Oh yes, that's fine."
"I would go get dressed if I was you Princess, you'll be late!"
"Oh, fine."

Peach walked into her room and put on her crown, a white short sleve blouse, her blue crystal snowflake necklace, her silk pink skirt that flips out at the end a little bit, and some sandals. She put five little clips on the top of her head to old her hair back and put it in a ponytail. Then she walked out of the castle to meet her escorts.

"Maria! Sam! Pete! How are you guys? How's school at Toadstool High?"

Peach was 17 at the time, and she went to Toadstool High. These three were her friends, all Juniors as well. Maria was quiet, but smart and persistant. Sam was outspoken, but calm and cool. King K was wild and crazy, but in a fun way. They were quite a unique group. None of them had ever met Mario and Luigi, or have even heard of them.

"It's... well boring, but what else IS school?" said Sam grinning.
"Yeah true" sad Peach
"Well, are we all ready to go?" asked Maria.
They all nodded and went to the Castle Limo's. The four went to Rogueport and got in the hot air balloon.

When they got to Glitzville, they walked around in awe. It had come to life so fast. The Glitz Pit's opening day was tomorrow, The Juice Bar was open and thriving, as was the item shop. Peach looked at her Palm-Piolot SP.

TO DO IN GLITZVILLE
-Check on residents:
--Queen Sarah
--Brooke Saunders
--Charlie Taylor
--Dubba McDerman
--Hoggsworth Pinkleton
--Armelle Harrison
--Tonya Peterson
--Morgan Raleigh
--Randy Milton
--Harvey Milton

-Check on buisnesses:
--Glitz Pit's construction
--Milton Item Shoppe
--Troy's Juice Bar
--Glitz Pit's opening

-Relax:
--Go to the Juice Bar and have a Pina Colada (virgin, of course)
--Buy something at the souvenir shop
--Stay a night and sleep in until the Glitz Pit opening

"OK, well, let's get started then!" said Maria.

They walked over to the highly decorated summer house and rang the doorbell. Queen Sarah answered. "Oh, Peach it's good to see you! What's the occasion?"

"Well, I've been sent to check on Glitzville's uh- progress I guess you would say" said Peach. Sam piped in, "Oh, by the way Your Highness, could we spend the night here? We have to supervise the Glitz Pit opening tomorrow."

"Oh, that would be no problem, young yoshi. And as for the citizens, I can tell you a bit.

"I've been doing fine, having things shipped here from my castle in Sugar Kingdom. Those three sisters seem to having a blast next door, they seem to be WAY excited for the Glitz Pit opening, maybe they want to meet some of the burly fighters. Their mother just had a baby boy. Hoggsworth started a Hot Dog Stand, and he brought in his nephew Andrew Hoggle to work in it. That girl from Poshley Heights, uh Morgan was it? Yes, she seems to have made friends with Armelle, that foriegn girl. Harvey and Chloe Milton are hanging out with that shy man Charlie's daughter, Jessie. All though, not ALL things are good here. Randy Milton was caught trying to steal money from Troy's Juice Bar, so people have been avoiding their shop. Hoggsworth and Charlie got in sort of a scuffle with Dubba McDerman, that guy is trouble with a capital R. Basically the whole city is suspicius of the Milton's, but Harvey and Chloe seem to have fit in a bit. When asked questions about how him AND his brother got there he just says, 'Oh, it just worked out that way.' That's about all that's going on though."

"OK, thanks Sarah" said Peach. She pressed the "Done" button on her PalmPiolot SP and a little check mark appeared by the Queen's name. They left and knocked on a stylish looking house with many flowers. It was the house of the Saunders sisters. Tracey answered.

"Oh, hi! You're like, the princess right? Yeah, you totally are! What can I do for ya?"

"We're just checkin up on Glitzville. How are you three doing?" said Sam.

"Oh, we're good. Brooke is mega-excited for the Glitz Pit opening. Although it may not look like it, she's a major fighting fan. Jolene is having fun too, she is friends with that cute couple from the Crystal Kingdom, Armelle and Sanji. I'm more of a home-body, but Queen Sarah and I share recepies and garden tricks all the time. I'm the one that planted all those flowers."

"OK, great! Well it was nice meeting you, but I've gotta go. See you at the Glitz Pit opening tomorrow" said Peach.

They went all along the list, everyone was doing fine. Morgan said she saw Randy trying to sneak in Armelle and Sanji's house, but she caught him. Charlie's daughter was excited to make two new friends, but he doesn't trust those Miltons. Troy and his Juice Bar were doing great, MANY regulars. The Glitz Pit was putting its finishing touches on the lobby, and Peach met the owner, Jack Burris. He was very nice, and VERY in to fighting. Finnaly the only places left to check were the Milton's and Milton Item Shoppe. As it so happened, all four Miltons lived above the Item Shop. Pete went in first and looked around. The others followed.

"Ummm hello?" said Peach.

"Excuse us, is anyone home?" asked Maria loudly.

"YO, PRINCESS IN DA HIZZOUSE!" shouted Pete.

Chloe walked in and said cheerfully, "Oh- we're so sorry. What can I do for you?"

"Well, in case you didn't know, I'm Princess Peach. I've come here to check up on Glitzville and the Glitz Pit. And you are..."

"Oh how rude of me, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Chloe Milton. My brother Harvey is taking a nap, he stayed up all night last night at the Glitz Pit, watching it all being put together. Grandpa is in the basement, making orders on his phone. Randy is... out."

"Oh... ok. Well, have things been going well? Good buisness?"

"Oh well- I guess. We've been pretty good. We're still just starting up so, its kinda hard to attract buisness" said Chloe nervously.

"Really?" said Sam. "I find that hard to believe. The Juice Bar and the Hot Dog stand both have been booming with buisness."

"Oh well.. I don't really know..." Chloe was looking more nervous by the second.

"Well- OK then. I heard Randy has been caught stealing AND trying to break into someone's house. Are these true?"

"Well I don't know about the house, but yes... I'm afraid Randy did steal. We are running low see, because of the slow buisness. Randy... sometimes does things without thinking."

"I see. Well, I suppose I can let you off with just a warning.. this time," said Peach, "don't let it happen again though."

"Wait a sec," Maria said, "You don't know about the house getting broken into? That's seems very odd. Most of the other citizens seem to know all about it. Didn't he tell you where he went? Didn't he tell you're brother or grandfather?"

"Well, I guess not. I just... I don't..." Chloe's voice trailed off. "OH, YOU JUST SHUT UP, OK?" she yelled. She ran off up stairs.

The four looked at eachother.

"What a weirdo" said Peach.

"Yeah, seriously. Remind me NOT to shop here" said Maria. "Well, whatever. They seem to have adjusted well... well not really, but whatever. They've adjusted anyway."

"Yeah," agreed Pete, "Let's just go back to Sarah's house."

Peach nodded and they walked out. She took out her palm piolot and quickly started to delete "Buy something at the souvenir shop" but she left it. Something was weird about those Miltons, and she was gonna find out what.

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