Friends, People, Mushroom Kingdomers... lend me your ears! XDD

This chapter sees the arrival of many guests from the Mushroom Kingdom.

Chapter 4: Mushroom Galore

In less than an hour, all of the guests from the Mushroom Kingdom had arrived. Mario had arranged one hell of a party if only from the Mushroom Kingdom.

Yoshi was next to arrive, greeting Mario with a wave and a hug. Yoshi had joined Mario on his adventures through the Mushroom Kingdom when he was only an infant, and had a brother-like bond.

Vivian was next to arrive, she was a sweet girl, and after giving Mario a hug, joined the rest of the party.

Goombario was next, having journeyed across the Mushroom Kingdom with a team of archaeologists, researching the past of the area surrounding Princess Peach's Kingdom. Goombario was quick to greet Mario, and even quicker to find some food.

Next was some of the old crew Mario used to play golf with; Azalea, Charlie, Grace, Maple, Mark and Plum, each wearing golf attire and carrying a bag of clubs, intent to play golf if they got the chance.

Next up was Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, after greating Mario in a mighty bear hug, Donkey and Diddy Kong ran down to where the festivities were, in search of foodstuffs. However, Mario was left in the dirt for a good few minutes, while a Hero of Time laughed as Mario attempted to recover from his near-death-hug-experience.

Wherever Yoshi went, Birdo was bound to follow. She came in, and greeted the recuperated Mario.

Sadly, the next two guests were not quite as pleasant. Wario and Waluigi stepped into the party scene, looking around. They just walked by Mario (except for Wario's passing of gas… which Mario assumed was a 'hello').

Mallo and Geno were next, greeting Mario after a long time of not communicating. Mallow was doing well, after finding out he was a prince, and the end of Mario's adventure (Super Mario RPG), he assumed his position in the kingdom. Geno was also doing fairly well, and had no complaints, so Mario was pleased, and so were they, as Geno ran off to where a few people were arm wrestling, and Mallow floated into the air, and watched from above.

There were two different arm wrestling matches going on at this point; Kooper against Koops, and Zelda against Wario.

Koops was holding his own against Kooper, but Kooper having been a rather active member of Koopa village opposed to Koops who wasn't quite as social, ended up winning the match after a long stalemate. The two shook, and nodded, becoming fast friends.

The other match was between Zelda and Wario. Wario, while being husky and overweight, had noticeable muscle on him, and enough pride to make a politician sick; Whereas Zelda was just calm, and slender, a staple of your average Hylian Princess.

This match was started because of a comment Wario had made, that Zelda needed to have Link do everything for her, because… "You Zelda's have a knack of being in distress quite a bit, so it wouldn't surprise me if yer' little arms couldn't lift a book."

Zelda had then stated, "Oh, you might be right, but just to prove it to everyone else, why don't we arm wrestle like the two Koopas over there?" This match had started mid-way into Kooper and Koops's arm wrestle, and was over before theirs ended.

Wario stuck his arm out over a table, and pounded his elbow into it with a thud, trying to intimidate the princess. The princess just slowly lowered her arm into position on the table, after slowly seating herself.

As they both joined hands, Wario asked, "Ya' ready, Princess?"

Zelda gave a slight smile, and nodded.

Then with that, it started… and finished.

Zelda had flung Wario's ready arm straight down into the table with a loud bang, with enough sudden force, that he actually fell off his chair.

Zelda had then stood up, and walked over to Wario, placing the heel of one of her boots on his chest. "Oh, did I forget to remind you, I'm not like most princesses."

After saying that, she slowly raised her foot off of him, letting the tip of her boot tap his nose; Leaving his pride broken just as much as his chances of having a non-jagged moustache.

Madame Flurry had arrived with the young yoshi, Mario; that had hatched during Mario's time as The Great Gonzales. They both said Hello, Madame Flurry giving Mario a strong kiss on the cheek, and the yoshi shaking his hand afterwards.

Goombella arrived next, by herself, after having been on an important dig on the island Mario had been shipwrecked on in the adventure for The Thousand-Year Door. Goombella jumped and hugged Mario, and gave him a delayed birthday present. It was an antique stone-carved star that she had acquired on one of her digs. No ancient mysteries or world threatening magic, just a nice decoration.

Lady Bow arrived next, surprisingly, without her butler. She quickly gave Mario a hug, but never once dropping her blase` expression, however that couldn't hide the joy in her voice. After approaching the party, several loud smacks could be heard, and a long legged, purple-wearing man falling into the water.

Admiral Bobbery arrived next, with a hearty laugh and the scent of salt about him. He gave Mario a good handshake, then proceeded to ask if he had any of a specific soda. Mario replied and pointed him out to Link and Ilia who would know where it was.

Mario wasn't sitting around all this time though… he was helping cook!

Mario, Peach, and Rosalina were busy manning, prepping, and cooking in the small area one could call a kitchen. Mario wasn't going to mingle himself until at least one round of food was done, and that was far from. However, he worked diligently, preparing food as fast as he could, without sacrificing quality.

Sushi arrived next with Lakilester, and Ms. Mowz in tow, and said their hellos from afar, as Sushi didn't want to go anywhere near a hot oven or range, and Lakilester was flying. Ms. Mowz was riding on Sushi, so getting close would involve moving Sushi, which she really couldn't do.

Bombette and Watt were next, and marked the end of Mario's marked list of people he knew was coming. Bombette was so excited to see Mario, she accidentally went off and slightly singed one of the cuffs at the end of Luigi's pant legs.

Watt tried giving Mario a hug, but decided against it at the last moment, as Mario was holding a frying pan, and humans are made up mostly of water. It wouldn't have ended well for Mario, in any way you look at it. So Watt just gave a gracious smile as he said hello the plumbers.

However, there was one more pair that was to arrive for the plumbers from the Mario's universe.

Two strangers had begun their approach, but Mario hadn't paid much attention to it, until he could make out the appearance of one of them.

Blue skin…

In tow, was a rather fetching woman, with long flowing hair, and kind ever gracious looks.

Even though Mario had never seen these two in his life, he knew who they were.

"Tippi? …err-a, Lady Timpani, Blumeire?" Mario asked, actually stepping out from behind the fire pit he was cooking in to personally see these two.

"It's been awhile." Blumeire said, smiling. He seemed to be quite a nice guy when he wasn't possessed by some evil book, and in his sorrow, trying to destroying all worlds.

"Please Mario, call me Tippi, part of me is still Tippi inside after all, so whatever you wish to call me is fine." Lady Timpani, or Tippi, said, smiling as she saw Mario, finally in her human form.

"It is-a so great to see-a you two, what happened after the sealing of the void?" Mario asked, recalling stopping the evil plans of Count Bleck, and the disappearance of these two.

"It is a long story, we will discuss it when you're not burning food." Lady Timpani said, giggling, as she pointed to the range Mario was at, which was now on fire.

"Mama Mia! Good idea!" Mario called out, running back to the range, and using some of his ice powers to chill the fire… and partially freeze the range.

With that, all the intended guests from the Mushroom Kingdom, plus two, had arrived.

However, the current guests were already finding ways of raising hell.

Midna, after arriving, saw Link and Ilia in the distance, and decided to torment her old friend. She slowly turned into a shadow, and crept into his. Then, slowly materializing behind him, she grabbed a nearby cooler Link had just filled with ice, lifted it up over his head, and slowly poured its contents out on him.

He was shocked… then freezing, he jolted up, and turned around, and was shocked when he saw the culprit. "M-Midna?"

"You said something this time!" Midna replied, dropping the empty cooler. "I must say it's nice seeing a girl and her wolf reunited again."

"Midna?" Ilia asked, having jolted away after ice fell down all over Link. She slowly stood up, walking back over to the other two. "You're the one that accompanied Link on his adventure?"

"Tee Hee, he told you a lot didn't he?" Midna said, smiling, then looking at Link. "Looks like he'll have some explaining to do from me, then again, I doubt there isn't much I don't already know."

"You always were quick-witted." Link said, chuckling, half of it out of humor, the other half out of embarrassment due to the fact he'd just been stealthily attacked by one of his best friends.

"You've got that right, and don't forget it." Midna said, before turning to look at Ilia. "You know what …I think me and you should have some girl-time later. So we can talk without any boys listening in." She added, gesturing to Link.

"That sounds like fun." Ilia said, teasing Link indirectly. "Maybe we can plot all sorts of dastardly things behind Link's back!"

Link started laughing, however, he knew that a team of those two should rightfully be feared. "Dear Goddesses… Send the lightning."

During this time, away from the horrors that may or may not be plotted upon him in the future, Luigi was sitting in the tent, looking at all the games in the tent. Luigi was slightly upset that they did not carry his game, Paper Luigi, which featured him attempting to save Princess Éclair.

However, while Luigi was putting a game back, he saw Wario.

Normally, this would not be a big issue, but due to the events yesterday that involved a Toad with more enough to love that she could divide it up and love a whole neighborhood for a century, he was reminded of horrible images.

He slowly tucked his knees close to his chest, rocking back in forth in the fetal position, and began to suck his thumb; trying to quell the thoughts of powerchair-crippling and eye-burning obesity.