A/N: Okay, so this is a long chapter. In it shows the trio at Mushroom kingdoms' reaction to Fawn's disappearance. It starts when they left her alone to get a 'gift'. You'll find out about that if you didn't already. And a new group of characters that've been dying to get introduced finally appear ;) MORE OCS YAYYY! Jk, jk XD

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Chapter 8: Afterward

Peach

I walked with Cult and Mario outside the room. We all stood outside the door. We all knew what the problem was, even though we hadn't specifically said it. This situation was very awkward.

"It's not that big a deal, you know," Cult finally said, annoyed. "Seriously, people outside my village are such assholes to women."

"I know..." I said, almost feeling guilty on behalf of society. I spoke my words carefully. "But it's the way it is. No other races have their females...um...show that, so we can't either. It's just to...different, for everyone else to accept, and then it seems...well, wrong to not cover ourselves like everyone else just naturally does. Please understand."

Cult sighed. "Yeah, yeah. Everyone's nice at our village, but I guess that can't be said about everyone else." He turned to Mario and glared at him. "Don't ever stare at her like that again. You get one time, cuz it might be a little shocking at first. But don't let me catch you staring again."

Mario blushed deeply and grew nervous. "Right-a. Sorry!"

I felt a little bad for Mario. I knew he didn't mean to stare, he'd never do that to me. It just caught him by surprise. But, I couldn't blame Cult for being a protective father, especially in this situation.

Cult nodded and turned to me. "Well, we gonna get her that bra or what?"

I nodded. "Yeah...I'll get her one of mine. I guess uh...tell me if you think it'll fit."

He nodded and I somewhat awkwardly said, "Well...I'll show you to my room."

I began to walk and Mario and Cult followed me, and we all walked to my room. After a little walking we made it to a pale pink door.

"Well, here's my room," I said, all of us stopping in front of it. I opened it.

My floor and walls had the same color scheme as the castle, with a pink, king sized bed, a white dresser, a walk in closet, a white nightstand, and two pink plush chairs.

I walked over to my dresser as Cult and Mario stood around awkwardly, not sure what to do.

"Make yourselves comfortable," I said without looking, beginning to go through my drawer.

I heard them walk over to the chairs and sit down. I continued to search through my clothing until I found what I was looking for.

I turned around, holding one of my old bras, and walked next to the sitting Cult. "So...do you think this would work?"

He examined it before frowning. "Nope. Sorry, that one's to small."

I frowned and went back to the dresser, putting the bra back in its place, and searching for another.

"So..." I called back, curious of something. "I guess they don't make these in your village."

"Nope," Cult replied. "There was obviously never any need to until she hit puberty, so no one really needed to know how to make one." He chuckled and said, "There was a point where I tried to get her to wrap them up, but even I'll admit that was cruel, she didn't need it. No one ever commented."

I nodded in understanding. Koopas had their shells, Shy Guys had their robes, and Toadette's just weren't big enough, so bras were only invented for...well, pretty much me and Daisy.

I got one of my new ones and brought it to him. "Okay, this has to work."

He examined it before shrugging. "Yeah, should be fine."

I smiled and said, "Okay good. Now, let's get back to Fawn. It was rude of us to leave her."

Cult chuckled and said, "Yeah, but I think we all agreed we should do this without her. Seems a little awkward. Besides, she probably hadn't noticed we're gone. That girl can really space out."

Mario and I chuckled as well. "So we've noticed."

And so the two stood up, and we were on our way.

As we walked back, Cult turned to Mario and said, "Um...sorry. I know it wasn't your fault, but I-"

Mario shook his head and said, "I-a understand."

Cult grinned and said, "Thanks." He then turned to me and said, "And thank you Princess, for letting us stay here."

I waved my hand and said, "Oh, it's no problem. We're friends now!"

Cult smiled and looked away. "Yeah...thanks for that too, I think Fawn's happy about that."

I smile as we reached the door, bra in hand. "Fawn, we've got the..."

I trailed off when I noticed Fawn wasn't in the room.

"Fawn?" I called out.

Cult started pacing around, looking for her. "Fawn? Fawny?" He called, looking around the small room for her. "Where are you?"

He bent to check under the sofas, and came back up with a slightly worried expression on her face.

"Oh damn...she tends to wander sometimes."

I frowned before saying, "I'm sure she hasn't gotten far. We can find her, I'll have the Toads look too," as reassuringly as possible.

He shook his head. "No, we need to find her ourselves. Remember, we can't let anyone find out about her."

I nodded. "Oh, right."

"Well-a don't worry! We-a can find-a her!" Mario piped in.

Cult nodded. "Right. Come on, we gotta hurry!"

At his confirmation, we all rushed out of the room to search for Fawn.

Mario

Finding the poor girl was not as easy as we thought it'd be. We searched all over the castle, and then we eventually expanded and started searching through the city. Eventually, people asked us what we were looking for, and we decided we needed help finding her. So we decided that, although we were trying not to push Fawn in to stardom, we told the people that we were looking for her. The only information we disclosed was that she was a human girl and needed to be found. That was all they needed to know to look for her.

In a short period of time, one person who was told to search by Peach, told another person about Fawn, who would then tell another person, until the entire city was out searching for Fawn. It had been hours since she we lost her, and she still hadn't been found, despite the hustling of the townsfolk to find her.

That poor girl...she's probably lost somewhere remote, scared. This is awful, it won't do! We need to rescue her!

I was searching in a random district when a Toad approached me. "Mario! Mario!" he called, running.

I turned to him. "What-a is it?"

He stopped and panted at my side, and asked in a panicked fashion, "Peach is okay, right!?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Yes-a. Why?"

"I think I might know where Fawn is!"

My eyes widened. "Really!?"

He nodded. "Yeah! I tried telling you a lot earlier, actually, but none of the guards would let me talk to you. And when I found out you were searching outside the castle, it took me forever to find you!"

"Well-a where is she!?"

His face lost some enthusiasm. "Well...at around two or three, I saw a Clown Copter in the sky that no one else seemed to notice. I thought Peach was kidnapped again, but maybe..."

My eyes widened. "Bowser got-a her!"

How did I not think of it sooner!? Bowser, and his evil ways, he always finds a way to ruin everything good! I don't know how he found out about her, but he did. The fiend kidnapped that poor girl! There's no time to lose, I have to hurry!

I thanked him quickly before dashing off to find Peach and Cult.

"Go get 'em Mario!" The Toad called after me.

I ran through the streets of Toad Town, looking everywhere for Peach and Cult, so that I could tell them what happened. Thankfully, I found them together, near the castle.

"Cult-a! Peach-a!" I called.

They turned around and saw my determined expression, drawing hope from it.

"Did you find her?" Cult asked quickly, almost desperately.

I shook my head and said, "No. But-a I know-a where she is-a."

His and Peach's face grew hopeful. "Where!?" they both asked.

My face grew grim. "Bowser's castle."

Upon my words, their faces grew grim too. Cult's especially.

"What...how? How!?" Cult asked, very worried.

"Mario, how could this be?" Peach asked worriedly.

"A Toad told-a me. He-a said that-a he saw a Clown-a Copter in the sky at two or-a so. That's-a when we lost her! Bowser must've got her!"

"What...that...that bastard! I'll kill him!" Cult said, furiously.

"But how could Bowser know about Fawn?" Peach asked, trying to be rational.

I shook my head and said, "I-a don't-a know, who-a ever knows with-a Bowser? He's evil-a, he finds a way-a to screw everything up-a!"

"Well, what are we waiting for!? Let's go over there and rip his head off!" Cult yelled. He was very angry, understandably.

"Now hold on," Peach reasoned, placing her hands on both our shoulders. "Now, we don't know anything. It will just waste more time if we go over there and it turns out to be false information. Maybe the Toad was mistaken. Maybe it's a coincidence. We need to wait and see."

"Well what do you say we do then!?" Cult asked, still driven.

"I say we contact Darklands first, see what they can tell us. We might as well."

I rubbed my mustache in thought. That did seem more practical than just charging in, although it's less flashy. My Peach, always keeping a level head.

"I agree-a with you," I confirmed.

Cult stared at us, still with an angry look on his face, before huffing. "I guess."

I nodded before exclaiming, "Quickly! Let's-a go!"

We all began to run to the castle. We burst through the doors and Peach led the way. We followed her through the halls of the castle until we came upon a metallic door that was painted white. She pushed it open, and we walked in to a lab with several computers lying around, and a giant screen on the wall.

There were only two Toads in the room. They turned to us, and one of them said, "Princess! Mario! What are you guys doing here? Shouldn't you all be searching for that human girl?"

So even they know, despite being shut up in here. "We found new information on her. Patch us to Darklands," Peach answered coolly.

This shocked them as the other Toad said, "What? Why would you-"

"I'll explain later, just do it please," Peach responded, quickly.

The two Toads looked at each other before shrugging and doing as told. They both ran to their computers and started pressing buttons.

One of them said, "Request for live chat sent."

"What does that mean!?" Cult asked.

"It means we sent the request to speak with them. They'll come up on the big screen," Peach replied calmly, pointing to the big screen. "For now we wait."

Cult grunted, not to happy about waiting. I wasn't either.

We waited, staring at the screen, and eventually it flickered to life.

Kamek

I sat in my office, trying my best to finish all the paperwork I was given. Of course, just when it looked like I was about to finish, a servant came in and dropped another pile of papers on my desk. Apparently the meeting Bower had with the Firelands didn't go well, so the head governor is filing a petition. Which means mountains of paperwork.

I sighed tiredly and continued to work. I thought it couldn't get worse, until the new nanny I hired for the Koopalings ran in.

"I'm done!" she screeched.

I looked up from my work, tiredly glancing at her. "Done with what...?"

"This job! I'm done, I quit, I can't take it!"

I continued to absently stare at her, before my eyes widened with realization.

"Oh, please no, just keep working for a little longer!" I pleaded.

She shook her head violently and said. "No. No! Just no, I can't with those kids..."

"Aren't you supposed to be an expert nanny!?" I said, trying to bait her in.

It didn't work. "I work with kids. Those...those aren't kids," she said vehemently. "They're monsters."

"Please ma'am, we'll raise your pay, and-"

"No!" she said stubbornly. "I refuse! I will not work with those things! They don't listen, they whine, they attack me, and they destroy everything! I can't do it. I quit, and that's final!"

"Ma'am-"

"Good day!" she said crisply before walking out of my office and slamming the door.

I groaned. Ugh...damn. She only lasted, what, a day? This is bad...none of the Koopalings are going anywhere, for at least a few days. And it takes forever to find a nanny for them, they're infamous! No one will take the job, and I don't have that kind of time! And I can't leave them alone, they'll wreak utter havoc upon the castle! What do I do? I sighed. Why can't I get some good news?

At this thought, that Jimmy boy came bustling in. "Kamek, sir!"

I sighed. "What is it Jimmy?" I grew worried and asked, "Did something grow wrong with the girl? The date's still on, right?"

He nodded. "Yes sir, everything's still fine with that."

"Then why are you here?"

He nervously said, "Well...the Mushroom Kingdom has requested a live chat meeting, sir."

My eyes widened. "Damn!" I swore, knowing what this meant. "You got yourself spotted on top of it all, didn't you!?"

He shook his head rapidly. "N-no sir! I was stealthy as can be! I don't know how they could've found out..."

I sighed and paused to think. "Maybe they're calling about something else..." he said hopefully.

"Don't be dumb!" I hissed. "Why else would they call!? They know we have her!"

He silenced and I considered my options.

Damn...I can't just ignore them, because them they'll definitely know. They may not have any concrete proof, and are just going off a hunch...a good hunch, albeit. Bowser is rather infamous for this kind of thing. So I'll have to talk to them and try to play it cool.

I sighed. Is this girl worth it? I'm almost positive Bowser won't take any sort of interest in her, and we're not even sure if she's got any real information.

"Has she revealed any information to you?" I asked.

Jimmy shook his head. "Not much...all I know is that her name is Fawn, and Tina found out she came from some village called Forest Village."

I frowned. Fawn, huh? Interesting name, but it doesn't mean anything, I don't think. I've never heard of that village, either. Although Bowser may find important information while they're eating, she really may not be helpful to us at all, from the looks of it...

I sighed and decided I'd decide as I went. "Okay, I'm going. You're dismissed," I said, standing.

He nodded and scuttled out. I dusted myself off and proceeded to make my way to the communications room in the castle.

As I was walking through the halls, though, I saw Bowser walking slowly in to his room. Bowser! Maybe he knows something about her! Or maybe even likes her! I rushed to him and asked, "Bowser! How was your date?"

But he ignored my question and growled, pushing past me and entering his room, slamming the door.

I sighed. Well, he didn't like her, or find out anything...maybe I really should just give her up.

With that in mind now, I continued my way to the conference. But I heard the sound of his door creak open. I turned to see him peeking out through the crack.

"It was okay..." he said softly, before shutting the door.

I stared at the door for a bit longer, before my face grew a smile. I knew Bowser, and that reaction was the best I could've possibly asked for. I could tell just from that that he liked her, at least somewhat, but didn't want to admit it.

Well...looks like I am keeping her.

I continued my way to the communications room, determined to hold on to the one girl besides Peach in years that Bowser hasn't shut out upright.

Cult

I glared at the blank screen, just waiting for the face to pop up whose ass I've gotta kick.

Argh...how dare they take Fawn!? My little girl! I'll freaking kill them! Even though anger was washing over me, guilt was too. Damn...why'd I leave her for such a stupid reason!? All by herself! She didn't need a damn bra, it's still the same here as back home! I'll just kick anyone's ass who tries anything! And I'm about to do the same to this little bastard, Bowser!

The screen flickered on after what felt like forever, and an old Magikoopa sat in a chair in front of the screen.

"Good day Peach. Why have you requested a live chat meeting?" he said smoothly.

I don't want to talk to that lying old coot, I want to see Bowser! "Where's Bowser!?" I asked angrily.

He turned to look at me on his screen, seemingly surprised. "Well, I don't believe we've met. Anyway, Bowser is busy at the moment, so I, his chief advisor, am here to speak on his behalf."

The slippery little devil's to much of a wuss to even show his face! Now I'll really kill him! I was about to speak, but I felt a hand clamp on to my shoulder. It was Mario, who shook his head and gestured toward Peach. She, unlike me, looked calm, even now.

"This is a new friend of mine, Cult," she said in a deadpan tone. "But that is beside the point." I understood what Mario was telling me. I was to angry, and should leave this to Peach. It angered me, but I knew he was right, so I shut up.

"What would that be?" That innocent tone is fake, damn it.

"I believe you may've done something you shouldn't have."

"Like?"

"Like kidnap someone. We made a new friend, but she's gone missing. You wouldn't happen to know where she is, would you?"

"I'm afraid not Princess. It's rude to assume," he said, feigning insult in a mocking tone.

She also feigned a sarcastic sympathetic tone. "I'm so sorry, I don't know why I would be suspicious of you. But...are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

"I could describe her if you like."

"...If you want."

"Well, she's got long black hair, has a very light tan, bright hazel eyes...she comes from a place called Forest Village, would you happen to have seen anyone of any race that fits that criteria?"

"I'm sorry princess, but we don't have this girl-"

"She's also a human…" Peach added. Why is she disclosing that!?

Kamek at least looked surprised. "Wow, a human!? That's interesting…we probably would've kidnapped her if I'd seen her! But alas, we do not have Fawn. But I will keep an eye out."

We all stopped and glared at Kamek, all of us catching his slip up.

Peach narrowed her eyes and said, "I never mentioned her name...that's it though."

Kamek seemed to stare at us confused, before shock and realization crossed his face.

"Um...uh..." he stammered. I'm the corner of my eye, I saw his hand move. The screen suddenly went black.

"Get back here you old coot so I can kill you!" I screamed at the blank screen. My anger only increased once it was confirmed that he did have her.

"Cult, settle down!" Peach said, kindly but sternly.

I was walking toward the door. "No! I will not! The first thing that happens to my daughter when she walks outside is her kidnapping! I won't calm down until I've got Fawn back, and a boot up Bowser's ass!"

I continued to walk until Mario blocked my path. "I-a can't let you do that-a."

"Move, plumber!" I said angrily.

"No. You're-a not thinking clearly-a. Knowing Bowser, he-a already has-a his troops and-a traps guarding the way-a to his castle. It's-a night now, it's-a to dangerous to go-a unprepared. Especially in-a the dark-a."

I sort of growled at him. "Well, what am I supposed to do!?"

"You wait," Peach interjected. "I told you already you can sleep here. We'll get our sleep, and leave at dawn to make our way to Fawn."

I frowned, not liking the idea of leaving my daughter with some monster king overnight. Peach noticed this, and said, "Don't worry, even when he kidnapped Mario, he didn't treat him to badly. I can guarantee he won't do anything to hurt her.

I groaned, knowing that they were right if that was true. They know all of Bowser's tricks...I obviously don't. It'd be dumb to go unprepared, at night, without them. But Fawn...argh, damn it! I don't want to, but I have to wait. Otherwise I can't do anything.

"Argh...fine!" I exclaimed.

Peach put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Thank you, Cult. I know how hard this is, and I'm sorry this happened. I know how much trouble this world is..."

I shook my head. "No, it's not your fault. Fawn was having a good time, she wanted to leave the village. We just needed to rescue her, so she can continue to feel like that...thanks for being rational. You worked that geezer real well!"

Peach smiled and shrugged. "Well…I figured if I gave him enough information, he'd slip up. It was risky, but it worked. We got taught how to do that in politics."

"Well, it was bad ass! Oh, and thanks for giving me a room for the night."

She smiled. "I'll have a maid show you to your room, okay? Follow me for now. Mario, I'll get you a room too."

Peach began to walk away, with Mario following. I was about to follow too, before I turned to glare at the still blank screen. Just wait for me Fawn...I'll save you, I promise.

Ludwig

"Come on you guys! Where do you think Larry went? Or Roy? Or Junior? Do you think they're having fun? Do you think they're on an adventure? It sounds fun, wanna go, you guys think I should go, and would you like to come with me, I'd like the com-"

"OMS shut up!" Wendy yelled, effectively censoring Morton's insufferable ranting. "You're totally distracting me from my beautification, I need to look good always!"

I had stopped with the inquiry of why she insists upon possessing such a vacuous vocabulary, despite the fact that it's insubstantiality vexes me to no end upon hearing it. It still seems preposterous to use such superficial words, going so far as to transfigure three words in to three letters.

"Why do you need to always use so much makeup? Do you find it fun? I don't see how you could find it fun. It seems really boring to me. Plus I think that you don't really need it. Is it because you're self-conscious? Do you think you're ugly because of-"

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Wendy screeched in that high voice.

It's always been such displeasure to hear her deprecate in her high pitched voice over her vapid affairs. I sympathized for Morton, as he has shown the merit of intelligence. He just suffers from the hindrance of excessive speech, preventing me from fully sympathizing, out of irritation that is similar to that of Wendy's towards him.

"Will you BOTH shut up!?" Iggy yelled. "I'm thinking..." He added, whispering.

"About what?" Morton asked. "A new invention? What is it like? What does it do?"

"Well, I was thinking about that, yeah. But maybe I should start a side project, and see if I can't find a way to see that mouth of yours shut!" Iggy said, cackling.

Iggy was always an interesting one, always rather queer since birth. His intelligence is only matched by mine, which has guaranteed him my respect. However, it has always discontented me that he has taken a rather different approach in cultivating his intelligence. While I have always been more interested in the fine arts, he is more interested in creating and inventing. I still have supported him through it, none the less, as I do respect his intelligence and aptitude in his field. Although his mad tendencies have always been a concern for all of us.

"Wow, you can do that!?" Lemmy exclaimed, joining the conversation upon a bouncy ball. "Well, knowing you, you'd find a way Iggy!"

He smiled and nodded. "Thank you Lemmy, I promise you'll be my second hand when I'm king." His statement surprised me, as I was the heir, but he was most likely subjected to another fantasy he was entertaining at the moment.

Lemmy was, bless his heart, not the brightest child. Perhaps it's simply his naïveté he's always possessed, never seeming to grow out of his child like curiosity and trust. But, as well as his child like wonder, he possesses a childlike contentment and philanthropy. This, in this family, can be rather refreshing. I'd go so far as to say he's misplaced here, not that he seems to mind.

We were congregated in this room today because our nanny had decided to relinquish her position as such, due to her inability to tolerate my siblings' passionate personalities. We were told to wait in this room until further notice by a guard, not that all of my siblings would subject to such a direction. Bowser Jr. and Roy left to wreak havoc most likely, something about them that I could never fully comprehend, while Larry took off to partake in his devious ways.

I couldn't blame the maid, of course. However, consistently being subjugated to having a nanny against my will has always irked me, as I've never needed one, especially not then when I was seventeen.

Kamek walked briskly in the room, appearing to be cross. "You brats drove out ANOTHER one!?"

"It's not our faults they aren't cool!" Morton rationalized. "They never are! The nanny are always dumb and boring and usually it's Roy's fault, or Junior's, or-"

"Shut up, Morton!" Kamek interrupted irately. "I don't care if it was your fault or not, or if the nanny's are interesting, I care about getting you all to behave!"

I spoke my grievances in reply. "I do believe you haven't considered my age and nature, and would advise you to consider against belittling me in such ways by having me monitored by a nanny."

He turned to me now. "Well, you like to practice your music when you're alone. We've tried to get you to stop that, or at least play a little softer, but you don't listen, and everyone gets distracted because of it. So don't you count yourself out of this, because you're a disruption too! Just like all your siblings!"

I sighed. Why must this castle be congested so with such classless oafs?

He looked around and must've had realized three of our siblings were absent. He rubbed his temples. "Where's Roy, Junior, and Larry?"

"Like, who cares? Probs just bugging some guards or something," Wendy answered, not looking away from her mirror as she applied her makeup.

Kamek groaned. "Of course they are...okay, you five. Go to your rooms, and stay there. Now."

Wendy shut her mirror and stored her makeup kit in her purse. "Whatevs, I gotta catch my show." She giggled and said, "I like, totally can't wait to hear how Tomas react to Rachel's little 'declaration'." With that, she retired to her dorm.

Iggy nodded, and said, "Oh, I was so tired of dealing with you people. I need to get back to my lab! You all are trying to steal my ideas, and I can't have that! It's copyrighted!" With his sudden fit of paranoia he suffers from sporadically, he dashed out of the room.

Morton, however, was not as pliable as the others. "What!? No fair! I wanted to stay down here and talk to every-"

"You'll get your chance to tomorrow with the new nanny," Kamek said exasperatedly. "Until then, shut it." That statement surprised. My, that was much prompter then I anticipated.

Lemmy grew excited. "A new nanny? Wow, super cool! What's the new nanny like?"

Kamek, instead of responding immediately, froze for a moment before saying, "Uh...you'll find out tomorrow." Ah, he must be fibbing in order to not stir my siblings with the prospect of being free of the restrictions of a nanny tomorrow.

"Well then...I'd better find the others. Go to your rooms, now!" Kamek ordered before hurrying out.

Morton turned to Lemmy and I, excited. "Wow you guys, a new nanny! What do you think the new one will be like?"

"Yeah! I bet we'll have lots of fun together, though!" Lemmy said cheerily.

I inwardly sighed. How have they not come to the epiphany that they always react in such a manner to each new nanny, only for each one to not meet their expectations? I will never know...but it's not a necessary topic of thought. More importantly, I would like to get to my room to compose. I am rather exasperated from this tomfoolery.

I shook my head and said, "I'm sure the new nanny shall be everything you please," to them both, before making my way to my room. I sincerely doubt Kamek will truly have a new nanny tomorrow.

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