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Chapter Two
"So you can transform yourself?" Peach asked as they walked, mainly to distract herself from thoughts of Bowser jumping out from behind the bushes to grab her and carry her away.
Anna nodded. "Yes, but only certain things. I can only do a human, a rock, a butterfly, and a fish."
"And the human looks like me?" Peach asked.
"Sort of. Blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone who didn't know you well might be fooled." Anna was silent for a moment. "Would you like to see?" She asked shyly.
"Sure." Said Peach. She had been a bit curious about magic since she had met Anna, but the Magikoopa seemed to do quite well in life without making much use of it.
"Here goes!" Anna closed her eyes, and pop! the magikoopa was gone. In her place stood a girl about Peach's height, with golden hair and bright blue eyes. The robes had gone from Anna's usual white to a light orange color. "What do you think?" Anna asked.
"I'm impressed." Said Peach. "Is it hard to do?" She asked.
"Well, Kamek always said if you're going to learn a spell, you should learn to do it well, and with little effort. That's how I learned magic."
"So this is easy then?"
"Pretty much." They walked on, Anna still in human from.
"Stop!" Someone commanded. From the bushes came an assortment of what could only be Bowser's minions. Two sledge brothers, three koopas (two red-shelled and on blue), a goomba, and a bob-omb.
"You're coming with us, you two." One of the koopas spoke.
"Yeah," said one of the sledge brothers, "Princess and-Princess?" He looked at the two of them in confusion. "What the?"
"One's the Magikoopa, remember?" Said the other sledge brother. "She's in disguise."
"Kammy wants both anyway." Said the goomba.
"Tie them up so they can't escape!" Ordered the blue-shelled koopa.
Peach and Anna were quickly bound, and marched away by the odd group.
Great, thought Peach grimly, not again. And this time Anna's been dragged into it as well. Anna seemed only slightly worried though, Peach noted.
"How do we tell which is which?" One of the red-shelled koopas asked.
"Starve them." Grunted one of the sledge brothers. "The Magikoopa will drop her illusion."
"Eventually." Added the other. "In the mean time, watch to see if one acts improperly for a princess."
"Right." Said the goomba.
The group marched for hours and hours before finally stopping to rest. Then they had dinner, a stew that smelled wonderful to Anna and Peach, who were very hungry from their long march.
Nobody offered them any food.
"Anna?" Peach asked as their captors finished eating and drifted off to sleep.
"What?"
"Will that work? I mean you dropping your illusion?"
"Not that easily." Anna replied with a yawn. "Like I said, Kamek made sure I could do the spells I knew at a moment's notice, and made certain I could hold them."
"Oh, okay." Peach lay awake deep into the night, staring at the stars, and wishing Bowser would just leave her alone.
At long last, she drifted off to sleep.