Chapter Four

Violet breathed heavily, preparing herself. The Boom booms didn't look that difficult to beat. They were just weird enemies with large fists. They began to run at Violet and Mario, swinging their arms.

"Now!" Mario called out and did a running start, hopping onto a boom boom's head, dazing it. "You do the same thing! Hurry! A couple are behind ya!"

Violet spun around and sure around, they were crouching down, ready to pounce onto her. Violet leapt up and instead of hitting on one, with both of her feet, she hit both of them on the head. Knocking them back and dazing them for a moment. "It seems like there's a lot Mario! Should I just use my sketchbook and paintbrush to-" Violet didn't get a chance to complete her sentence. A boom boom had hit her, knocking her to the ground.

"Violet!" Mario called out. "Are you okay?" He rushed over to her as swiftly as he could, helping her up. "You gotta pay attention around certain enemies." Mario then went back to bounding across their heads some more, defeating a few. Violet mimicked him to the best of her ability, while multitasking to draw a power-up. The ice flower. Watching as it appeared, she used it to power herself up.

Instantly, her appearance morphed once again. She sported a ponytail again, but now her dress consisted of purple at the hems, and a nice baby blue for the rest of her dress. Making a smug grin on her face, Violet began to shoot ice balls out of her hands, inevitably freezing any boom boom who dared to get close to her.

"Yeah! Take that! And you! Take that!" she cried out. To help her make this go faster, Mario lifted up each frozen boom boom, sliding them away so they broke into pieces. Soon, all of them were completely gone. Defeated.

Mario high-fived Violet. "Nice job, Violet! You did good, kiddo," he gave her a soft smile as he patted her on the back. "I wonder how you get all of your art to come to life?" he wondered as they strutted off towards the flagpole. Violet shrugged in reply.

"Eh, I don't really know either. It's just something that's been passed down from my family for generations. My mom once told me," she did a voice to imitate her mother, "that the Gods of the Rainbow Kingdom had put a spell on it that gives it ability to make anything come to life." She discarded the voice, going back to her normal one, to keep explaining. "Anyways, she told me that it's oh-so powerful that only royalty can handle it, but I doubt it," she laughed a bit.

Mario laughed a bit as well. "I see. That's pretty interesting. Does it ever run out of ink?"

Violet shrugged. "Don't know actually. Forgot to ask my parents about that."

Little did they know, someone was observing them like a hawk. It was Magikoopa. Hidden in the bushes, glaring at the pair. As soon as Mario and Violet were out of sight, he took a shortcut to Bowser's castle to avoid being seen.

Bowser was sitting on his throne again, eating some cake made by Peach. He had released her just so she could make him cake. Peach felt the urge to just escape as soon as the cage was open, but knew that Bowser would just hold her hostage in the cage again. So, she had to obey him and make his stupid treat. Oh well, at least it was nice to be out of that cage for awhile. Until the cake was done, and that was back to the cage for her.

"This cake is absolutely scrumptious, my queen!" Bowser complimented her. Peach rolled her eyes, but made she he didn't catch it.

"You're welcome," she mumbled, crossing her arms and staring at the floor of her cage again. She wanted nothing to do with Bowser, she didn't wanna think about him or even look at him. She spaced out for awhile. That is, until her cage started shaking. She gasped in surprise, clutching onto the bars.

"Princess! Hey! Take my plate for me will ya?" Bowser demanded, opening the cage and giving her a plate that was filled with cake crumbs. Peach sighed, leaving her cage and heading towards the kitchen. Her heels clacking against the stone floor.

'Lazy bum,' Peach thought in her mind.

"Master Bowser! Master Bowser!" Magikoopa shouted out as he flew into the room. Bowser sighed a bit.

"What is it, minion?"

"All the boom booms have been defeated! None of them captured Mario or Princess Violet! And it's mainly because of Princess Violet."

"Huh? Is she now? Hmm, how so?"

"Well, it seems that she has a magical sketchbook and paintbrush that manipulates reality, and lets her draw anything she wants, and it'll come to life!" Magikoopa explained, holding his broom. "She uses it to help Mario and to take down our army!"

Bowser laughed darkly. "Mhm…I see. Well, the only solutions are to capture her, or to capture her book and paintbrush so she'll be useless! MUHAHAHAHA!" Bowser roared with laughter, extending his arms out to the sky. "That way, that puny plumber won't stand a chance against my difficult obstacles I have in store, and he'll have no one, or princess, to help him!"

Magikoopa laughed with Bowser. "Ahahaha, yes! Good idea! Do you want me to send anybody out?"

Bowser thought for a moment, then shook his head no. "No. We wait first. He and Princess Violet are not that far in. Let's wait until hmmm…they arrive at the Winter Land. That place is a bit closer to my castle. While they're there, I want you to snoop in and wait until the princess gets out her artsy stuff. Next, you come in and swoop her off her feet, and have a couple shy guys take it from her!"

Meanwhile, Peach was eavesdropping on all of this, getting angrier by the second. Man, Bowser would do anything to just get rid of Mario and marry her. Walking to a calendar, she examined it. Her heart sank a little bit. In just a few weeks, she would be forced to marry Bowser if Mario didn't arrive in time or was defeated. And with their latest plan to stop Violet, it seemed very likely.

"No, I shouldn't let this happen. I must warn them immediately," she talked to herself. Peeking out the window to check if Bowser and Magikoopa were still distracted, which they were, Peach crept off, grabbing some paper and a pencil, then went off into a bathroom.

Coming in and sitting on the floor, Peach started writing her letter, her hands shaking a bit from the adrenaline.

Mario,

I have to warn you of something. It is very urgent. Please read carefully.

As I was in the kitchen, I overheard Bowser and one of his minions talking. It turns out, they're planning to capture Violet's sketchbook and magical paintbrush. Maybe they'll capture her too. This is so Bowser can implant his difficult obstacles for you and stall you. Do everything in your power to prevent this from happening. Keep an eye on Violet, don't let her out of your sight. Make sure you teach her, if you haven't already, how to defend herself before she or her stuff gets taken. I love you so much.

Princess Peach.

P.S. I have included 10 1-Ups for you.

Finishing up, Peach reached in her pocket and pulled out ten 1-Ups. Pulling out an envelope also, she folded the paper with care, placing it inside along with the 1-Ups.

"I hope this can get to him," she whispered.