No Such Thing

Chapter 9- First Official Day

Alright, in this particular chapter, it should be the easiest for my to write so far. It's going to be the Koopalings first official day, not counting their arrival at Peach's Castle. Basically, there's going to be some character development going on here.

I do want to apologize about this story moving somewhat slowly. Fortunately, that's gonna change very soon, then we would have a lot of action again, especially when the Koopalings, Mario and the gang start their search for Bowser.

Don't worry, that's not all what's going to happen in part 9, but I'm not telling you right now! Wait until the end!

~KF

8:00 A.M.

Young Lawrence Koopa was immune to the sunlight in the window that desired to make him rise out of his sleep. He and the crew returned around three in the morning, after flying back to the castle for approximately eight hours. Because of that information alone, it contributed to the fact that the second youngest child of Bowser not waking up at the time.

Little did he know that five hour asleep was about to approach an end.

Knock knock.

In spite of the double-knock on the door, it did not enough to make Larry's eyes open, even after a second attempt of knocking. Not only that, but it also proved that the one with the blue-mohawk was still tired, especially since he for some reason had trouble sleeping on Bowser's airship. One could guess that it was either excitement or nervousness, due to the information they discovered the day before. If he was awake at the current moment, he could recall that the only ones who were able to take a nap were Luigi, Peach, Wendy, and Jr., yet Toadette was close.

"Prince Lawrence, breakfast is ready in the dining room."

The Toad's servant voice wasn't too loud, nor too soft. It was just enough to wake the Koopa up. Taking a few moments to look around and stretch, he took a glance on his door. Finally getting out of bed, he stepped towards the door to unlock it.

Said Toad servant wouldn't have blamed him, had he slept longer. "He is taking this rather well. I don't know if I would've slept at all if this happened to one of my parents... Then again, I don't know if he slept on the way over here yesterday..."

Upon seeing the Koopaling's face, he took a step aside. "Breakfast is waiting in the dining room. I'll lead you the way."

He gasped in his mind, as he was confused quite a bit. "He was actually nice... back at dad's castle, the Koopas would be annoyed getting us up half the time... Maybe they are concerned about us after all... Well, they do have a caring princess, and she wants them to behave the same way, even if they don't want to..."

Not far from Larry, his older brother Roy was eyeing him and the Toad servant, with another one that was accompanying himself as they both wandered down the hall. He had a similar reaction. "It's not hard to see that things are different here when it comes to servants waking up royalties... I bet even if we wanted to sleep more, they probably would have left us alone, unlike back at home, where pop's minions would basically force to get up after knocking eighteen billion times. That's one thing I do not miss..."

His thoughts were interrupted when a third Toad was walking to another guest room, which temporarily belonged to sixteen year old Lemmy. The younger, yet taller sibling could have sworn that his knock was slightly softer than the servant who knocked on his door, further proving his point. But, what made him surprised was when an answer came sooner than expected.

"...Oh, yeah..." He then remembered. "He's the hyper one... I've been so... worked up about all this, I've almost forgot my own brother's personality... Speaking of, I'm also just now noticing that Lemmy hasn't shown his hyperactive, immature side much... Well, I couldn't blame him. Since that... incident happened one should be anything but happy. If anything, he would be hyper in a bad way for once. But, Lemmy's not known for having negative reactions... That would be me... Well, he does have his normal moments at times. This is just one of him. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if he starts goofing off in front of everybody after breakfast..."

By the time the pink-headed male reached the dining room, Ludwig and Morton were already there, not counting Larry. They arranged their seating as if they were back at their own castle. Thus, he, Larry, and now Lemmy decided to follow along.

"The rest of your siblings would be here shortly." The Toad servant who guided Lemmy told them with a nod as he, as well as the other two left the dining room. The door closing, Morton had the nerve to be the first one to open up his mouth after being silent the second he entered the room.

"...Am I the only one who finds it strange that Peach's Toads are being so nice to us?" He started. "Back at the castle, those minions act like they don't give two craps if we still wanted to sleep. It can be really annoying sometimes, especially if you wake up with a headache-"

"No one wants to you ranting first thing in the morning, Morton, let alone talking..." Ludwig rolled his eyes, rolling his clawed fingers through his blue hair. "But, I'm actually not astonished by it. This is Peach's castle, you know... And plus, they're showing that their sorry for what happened to father as well..."

"That's not hard to understand..." Larry responded. "If they can be nice, you know Peach can. Therefore, it proves that Peach isn't lying that she wants to help..." He saw Morton lifting a finger. "Not saying that she shouldn't be easily trusted. If anyone, it should be Mario."

"There you go, bringing him up again, Larry." Roy shook his head in slight frustration. "I'm just surprised that I'm at least tolerating him..."

"Aw, come on, Roy." It was Lemmy's turn to intervene. "Mario's not that bad. Maybe if he still thinks that we don't trust him, he would throw a party and bake a cake for us!"

Awkward silence.

"...What? Mario likes to had fun, too..."

"And thus, he is doing it again..." Roy said in his mind, rolling his eyes behind his glasses.

Ignoring him, Ludwig continued. "Well, I think Mario has shown how much he cares about father and us altogether, if he hasn't already before the search happened at the castle. Yet,... it would take me a while to like him if I'm going to used to him. He's most likely thinking about us as we speak if he's already awakened..."

The double doors to the dining room opened once more, and entered Iggy and Wendy, prior to two more Toads closing them.

"Can you believe that they were not being rude when they were waking us up?" Wendy questioned them. "Maybe it wouldn't take long getting used to living in this castle for who knows how long."

"I don't know, Wendy..." Iggy sighed taking a seat beside Lemmy. "Even... when we save him, the castle still has to be rebuilt... Who knows how long that would take..."

"With that being said, we would be staying here for a while." Ludwig confirmed. "So, we'd better get used to the atmosphere while we still can... But, after we save father and the castle stands tall once more, everything would be back to the way it was so we won't have to worry much."

"...Mario, you may want to come to the front door..."

The italian plumber was also on the ground floor, prior to being asked by Luigi to walk to the front door. Apparently, something, or someone important was waiting on the outside of Peach's castle, as Mario could tell by the shocking look on the taller sibling's face. Yet, he couldn't tell if it was bad or not. Nonetheless, it had only made him more curious.

It didn't take him long at all to find the answer, once he seen the source of Luigi's reaction. Ignoring the forming paparazzi outside the castle gate, he found himself to having almost the same reaction his brother had.

"...Yoshi!?"

Peach and Toadsworth were there as well, the former deciding to be the first one to speak. "He told me that he wanted to discuss something important that happened in his home world, Mario."

"Does it have anything to do with what happened in the Dark Lands?"

"He wouldn't say." Yoshi was letting Peach do all the talking for him. "I guess he doesn't want to say this right now in case the paparazzi hears him. Let's go to the dining room and we shall move on from there."

Bowser Junior was the last member of the family to join the brown table with his older siblings. Taking the seat next to Morton and across from Larry, he was already wanting to start a conversation. "Did you know-..."

All nodding their heads, Jr. could tell that his question was answered before it was even finished.

The Yellow Toad was still in the doorway. "We are still waiting for Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Toadsworth. Once they have arrived, the chefs will serve breakfast.

That meant that Toad, Toadette, Yellow Toad, and Blue Toad were already in the room, which explained the reason why Junior was whispering. And ever since they showed up, the conversation between some of the other Koopalings was forced to a halt.

However, that did not mean that they couldn't think, such as Wendy in particular. Nevertheless, she was thinking of a different topic. In this case, how good, or how perfect will her first breakfast in Peach's castle will be, being the picky eater she is. "...If my meal isn't perfect enough for me, I would let them slide since this is they're very first time serving us... I don't even know what we're having today... Come to think of it, I don't think we've had anything to think at all ever since we came here, due to all this stuff going on... I just wanna know how did Larry, Morton, Roy, or Junior didn't complain one time about it... So, this is new to us..." She thought. "So for now, if their food is at least tolerable, I'll deal with it... I hate to be harsh on them on the first day..."

The double doors opened one last time before the first meal of the day was going to be served. As expected, in came the Mario Bros., the princess, and Toadsworth. What was unexpected was that a familiar green dinosaur was tagging along.

"Yoshi!?" It was the first time they've spoken since four of the mushroom people entered.

The well-known hero was surprised himself that he was eyeing the Koopalings in the dining room hence why his mouth was wide-opened. It told the eight, plus the floor who were at the large table that he had not heard about the Koopalings coming to Peach's castle at all. Of course, the last thing he predicted was them coming to the Mushroom Kingdom of all places. Regardless, if he were to break it down, it would come to his realization that they had no choice but to do so.

"Wha...? What are you all doing here? ...Mario!?" His head swiftly turned towards him, before glancing at the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom.

"...SAY, WHAT!?"

That was the general reaction the group had, not too long after breakfast was finally in front of them. The Koopalings didn't even get the chance to even think about how good the food actually was to them. They were having french toast, which happened to be Wendy's favorite breakfast dish, so she didn't even had a single complain to make.

Any possible upcoming ones were thrown out the window upon hearing the news.

"Woah, woah, wait a minute, Yoshi!" Toadette held her right hand out to take a moment to take the green animal's words in. "You're telling me that you've came all the way here from Dinosaur Land to tell us that you actually saw Dry Bowser attacking a forest in attempt to find the Koopa Kids after they'd escaped from the now burned down home!?"

"Yeah, I had no choice but to..." He stopped for a brief moment. "Hold on a sec, that's why they're here?" One could infer that everyone allowed Yoshi to go first to explain his presence in the Mushroom Land. It was finally confirmed that it did linked to the night Bowser was taken over by his skeletal form after all.

"... ... ..." Toadsworth was at a lost for words at first. "...The only positive thing I can say about this matter is that now we know where their father is... Unless he is either on his way, or already out of Dinosaur Land... We need to act fast if we're gonna find them..."

As for the Koopalings, thanks to their jaws dropping greatly, it was easy to tell that they were more astonished that everyone else in the room. They didn't even know what to think about the situation.

"If he's out of Dinosaur Land, who knows what land he would attack next? Sarassaland? Kongo Jungle?" Yellow Toad thought out loud. "If he's in either of those places, we don't have much time to waste. At any moment, he could just randomly come in this direction."

"We have to word those kingdoms, and the others about Bowser." Mario promptly responded. "It's probably on the news right now."

"Me and a few of my servants shall write letters as a warning about his approach." Peach told everyone with a worried look in her eyes.

Aw, come on, it was pretty obvious that Yoshi was the mystery character from chapter 7, and Dinosaur Land was the land Dry Bowser was going. Well, at least we have a new character in the mix. But, I don't think it was enough to make up for the lack of action this story has... But like I said in the introduction, it should change soon.

Questions:

1. What land do you think Dry Bowser will go after next, and why?

2. From what you saw in this chapter, do you think some, or all the Koopalings trust Mario?