It was a cool morning when Mario went out to Island Delfino's newsstand to get the daily newspaper. "Ahhhh…now where's that Mushroom Times?" he asked himself. That's when he spotted………….
the Island Delfino's famous…coffee shop! (Hehe I tricked you didn't I? You thought it was going to be Daisy's big headline right?) Mario's eyes popped right out as he dashed to the coffee shop. Mario purchased a blueberry muffin along with some coffee. As he was eating, his eyes met a nearby newspaper that someone was reading. Here's what it said: HEADLINE NEWS!
Princess Saves girl and fixes roller coaster!
Princess Daisy a well-known princess, has recently saved a noki girl from Pinna Park's famous roller coaster. The roller coaster happened to have broken down as usual and Daisy risked her royal life to rescue the girl from a roller coaster that was approximately 20 feet high. "She's a very brave princess!" says a local pianta woman…
Mario quickly finished his meal and ran back to the hotel to tell Peach what he had seen.
"Awww…how come I'm never in the newspaper although I'm a princess too!" she whined.
"That's because you've never done anything to help save others by risking your life." Mario said crossly.
After Peach stopped whining, they went to Daisy and told her about how she'd been in the newspaper.
"Wow!" "Cool!" Daisy replied.
Later that morning the gang decided to go to Bianco Hills for some relaxation.
"What so good about that place?" Peach said glumly.
"I thought you had a blast the last time we went there!" Mario said confused.
"Whatever, but I heard you can ride on lily pads!" Daisy cheered.
"Woohoo!" she cheered again.
After a while they reached the front of Bianco Hills.
"At least there isn't any graffiti." Mario sighed.
Daisy slide down the down wetting her clothes and sprang onto the high rope. Doiiing!
"Hey everybody!" Daisy waved to below.
Mario hopped onto the lower rope and sprang up on the high rope, joining Daisy.
"I think I'll stay down here." Peach said backing up.
"Oh no you don't!" Mario said pulling her up beside him.
"Agggggghhhhh!" Peach yelped.
Peach suddenly got dizzy from the heights and if she lost her balance then she'll fall down into the water below and get soaked. Then Peach started to tip over but Mario caught her just in time.
"Let's head on down." Mario said to Daisy.
"Nah, I'll stay up here if you don't mind." Daisy replied turning towards the lake.
Peach, Mario, Toadsworth, the snifits, and the toads followed Daisy while staying on the ground. At last they reached the lake where Daisy immediately bounced off the rope and landed on the bridge.
"That was fun!" she exclaimed.
"Alright everybody, let's get into our bathing suits!" Toadsworth ordered.
Daisy changed into a two-piece bathing suit that had the shorts for a bottom. Peach just wore a pink two-piece as well.
"Wow, yours is soooo pretty!" Peach stared at Daisy's swimsuit.
Daisy's swimsuit was carefully made with the finest swim fabric around.
"Duh 'cause it's made from the 'Princess Swim Wear' brand." Daisy rolled her eyes.
"I thought those things inside that shop cost about 1000 golden coins for one of the cheapest swim fabrics!" Peach said.
"Yeah it DOES cost about 1000 golden coins for the cheapest swim fabric, however the one I bought was the most expensive swim fabric and the newest style too for a mere price of 100000 golden coins." Daisy answered.
Peach's eyes popped out at the amount of coins Daisy had to pay for. She didn't even have half of that!
"Aren't you supposed to be bankrupted if you spent that much on just a swimsuit?" Peach asked.
"Of course not!" "That was only a penny compared to my other accessories like that rare piece of pearl that sometimes glowed pink, purple, yellow, or gray." Daisy replied.
Peach had seen that pearl before and insisted that Daisy sell it to her for 100 coins.
"No way!" Daisy had said. "That cost me 2000000000 golden coins!"
If you don't even have 50,000 golden coins, how do you manage to keep your castle?" Daisy eyed Peach suspiciously.
"The property tax was at least 20,000 golden coins." Daisy exclaimed.
"…AND, when you bought your castle that was 100000000 golden coins!" Daisy pointed out.
"Plus, you don't even go to work!" Daisy pointed at Peach.
"Alright, alright you caught me." Peach said giving up.
There wasn't any use trying to hide her biggest secret from Daisy.
"I am using the left over money from my parents' inheritance." Peach sniffed.
"AH-HA!" Daisy said. "I knew a lazy girl like you couldn't possibly get money on trees like that!"
"How do YOU get your money?" Peach suspiciously asked Daisy.
"Me?" Daisy questioned.
"Well I get 600000 golden coins from my job at 'The Royal Questionnaire', 22000 golden coins from people who try to bribe me into doing something for them, 10000 golden coins from princes and other guys who want to marry me, 4000 golden coins from my interest at the bank, another 2000 golden coins that I get from my other bank interest, 300000 coins from my birthday money every year, 500000 coins for starring in movies, 200 coins from money found on the streets, and about 140000 coins that are donated from other people." Daisy managed to say.
"Are you ladies done yet?" Mario and Toadsworth questioned from outside.
"You bet!" Daisy shouted.
In three minutes everybody was on the bridge that Daisy landed on.
"Ok, it's free play." Toadsworth said.
Daisy dove into the cold lake water. Peach carefully looked for a lily pad and started to step in the water when she stopped. She just remembered that she couldn't swim!
"Oh, I almost forgot." Mario apologized while taking out some arm floaties for Peach.
"Here you go." He handed them to her.
Peach walked into the water and started to "swim" towards the lily pad that was in the deep end. When she finally reached it she got on and started to use her hands as oars to steer the lily pad to shore. When she got to the middle of the lake the lily pad started to break into pieces.
"Oh my!" Peach exclaimed.
Then the lily pad broke and sank to the bottom leaving Peach in the water. Meanwhile Daisy was swimming towards another lily pad and quickly pushing it to shore.
"Want to take a lily pad ride?" she questioned.
Toadsworth and Mario looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"Okay, we'll come." They replied.
"Don't forget me!" FLUDD said.
They all hopped on the lily pad without Peach who was still in the water.
"Help!" Peach yelped.
"You'll be fine out there on your own." Mario shouted.
FLUDD started to spray water and the lily pad took off.
"Woohoo!" Daisy yelled.
After awhile the lily pad started to break like the one Peach was on.
"Oh dear!" Toadsworth said.
He didn't want to get wet. Daisy quickly looked around and spotted a water spider.
"Ah-ha!" she declared.
"These water spiders are very bouncy!" she said as she hopped onto the spider.
Boing! Daisy was at least 20 feet in the air.
"Come on up!" she shouted to down below.
Mario used FLUDD to hover over and he too jumped on the spider. Boing! Soon Mario was also in the air.
"Oh my…I don't think I can do this!" Toadsworth cried.
Inside his head, a little voice was saying,
"If you don't want to get wet…"
"Okay, okay, I'll do it!" Toadsworth said out of nowhere.
The old toad reached for the spider and helped himself onto it.
"I made it!" he said with joy.
"Now how will I get to land?" he wondered.
"Jump Toadsworth!" Daisy said as she landed on the bridge.
"Oh dear." Toadsworth said again.
Then he took a deep breath and jumped.
"Waaaaaahhhhhh!" Toadsworth soared over to the bridge to join Daisy and Mario.
"Let's get wet now!" Mario and Daisy chanted.
They ran over to the top of the windmill and dove off the edge to the other side of the windmill. Soon Peach and Toadsworth heard a loud "SPLASH!" Peach calmly "swam" over to the really deep end to find Daisy climbing onto a cave entrance with Mario behind her.
"What's in there?" Peach asked herself. Daisy tried to squeeze through the cave's metal bars but they were too narrow.
"Awww…now we'll never find out what's in there!" Daisy said as she stomped her bare foot.
Mario tried using FLUDD to blast open the bars but the spray was too weak. Peach joined them trying to push open the bars hoping that they'll bend. No use at all.
"Darn it!" Mario said disappointedly.
They tried to take their eyes off the cave but all of them were very curious about what was in there.
"I wish we could find out." Peach sighed.
Although she was nervous about what was in there, she also really wanted to find out.
Mario suddenly stood up and said, "Shouldn't we tell Toadsworth that we're here?"
"I'm mean, you know how worried he gets when we don't come back for a long time." Mario declared.
"True, but I don't think he cares anymore after what happened at Gelato Beach." Peach murmured sadly.
"Yeah but he might be worried about Princess Daisy since she's a princess too you know." Mario replied.
"ME? He totally knows that I can take care of myself!" Daisy declared.
"Well thanks anyways, Mario." Daisy said.
After a moment of silence everyone swam back to shore. Even Peach "swam" with them.
"My, my, where you all been?" Toadsworth questioned.
"Yeah, we were getting worried about you guys!" Toadmush said.
Lester 'Shroom nodded in agreement.
"We found this really cool and mysterious cave back there." Daisy said as she pointed to the windmill.
"The bars were too narrow and strong so we couldn't get in." Mario continued.
"We were very curious about what was in there." Peach added.
"Hmmmm…quite a mystery but we'll just have to move on." Toadsworth said without a care about the mysterious cave.
Daisy, Mario, and Peach followed him sadly as they still wondered about what was in the cave. Suddenly Daisy perked up as if she remembered something.
"Hey you guys!" she said to Mario and Peach.
"Want to see if Petey's up there sleeping?" she asked.
Mario stood blankly while memories rushed to his head. He remembered how he got stuck in Petey's goop when he had awakened him.
"Uhhh…Princess Daisy, are you sure about this?" Mario asked, scared.
"Sure, then we can shoot those puffy pig things at him and wake him up! Then we'll ruuuuuuunn!" Daisy said bravely.
That was exactly what Mario was hoping to avoid in Bianco Hills.
"Come on!" Daisy motioned to them.
"Wait up!" Mario shouted.
However it was too late for Daisy was already halfway up the mini mountain to Petey's sleeping place.
"Oh why me!" Mario sniffed.
Peach was very surprised for she had never seen Mario cry before.
"Are you alright?" she asked Mario.
Mario realized that Peach saw him crying.
"Uh yeah." Mario said holding back tears.
"Let's go join Daisy now." Peach said taking off.
Mario followed uneasily. He really didn't want to go but how would he explain to Daisy? After all, guys aren't afraid of anything…
"Here we are!" Daisy said joyfully.
"…And…there's Petey!" Daisy pointed at the snoozing piranha plant.
A pink-balloonie-pig thing stuck to FLUDD's spray hole.
"Ready, aim, fire!" Daisy shouted.
FLUDD sprayed a jet of water and the balloonie-thingy whizzed towards Petey. Splat! It hit Petey but he didn't wake up.
"Whew!" thought Mario.
"Again, again!" Peach demanded.
She thought it was fun how the pink-piggy-thingies whizzed through the air and popped. They repeated the process and Peach giggled.
"Tee hee!" Peach said.
Daisy rolled her eyes and did the "cuckoo" sign at her. Meanwhile Toadsworth was looking for Mario and the rest of the people.
"I swear I just saw them a second ago." He said to himself.
"OH MASTER MARIO, PRINCESSES!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.
No answer.
"OH MASTER MARIO, PRINCESSES!" he tried again.
No answer. FLUDD who happened to have super sonic hearing piped up and announced, "Isn't that the old guy?"
Peach stop giggling and helped Mario take his hands off his eyes.
"It's just FLUDD, Mario." She said gently.
Mario cautiously opened his eyes and looked around. When he realized that the coast was clear, he stood up straight and tall (although he wasn't very tall). Toadsworth's voice was clearly heard when everyone was quiet and when annoying Peach stopped giggling.
"We're coming!" they all shouted down the hill.
By the time they got down it was sunset.
"Oh I wish we could stay up there." Peach sighed. "It would have been so pretty."
"You think everything's pretty." Daisy glared at Peach.
"Let's gooooo ladies!" Toadsworth ordered.
Peach took one last look at Bianco Hills and continued to walk with the rest of the group.