Hi! This is the first chapter, and it's much longer than the prologue, like I promised. The italicised sentences are thoughts. Oh, and just to clarify that this story involves a love triangle, in case you were wondering.
I'd like to thank PokemonForever9000 for favouriting and following my story, and Destine Star and the 95th rida for following it as well.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, everything belongs to Nintendo.
Daisy was strolling around her castle, picking flowers for her beloved Dad. Her mother had died when she was young, and she couldn't remember her. It was Dad who had raised her, Dad who had loved her and cared for her.
As she was collecting some roses, she felt a jolt within her, as if she was being pulled out of her own body.
"Am I dying?" she thought in fright.
She could see herself paralysed as her soul was ascending into space. She could see her castle, the Mushroom Kingdom, the whole world, and then, nothing but the stars.
After what she supposed were a few hours, she finally landed somewhere. But something didn't feel right. For a start, she was way too tall, and her dress was blue. She didn't like that colour much. For Daisy, it represented misery.
She found a mirror in the place and screamed. What had happened to her? Where was her auburn hair? Who was... this person in the mirror?
A tall, pale, platinum blonde girl stared back at her from the mirror. She looked like a space version of Peach, her best friend and cousin.
"Who am I?" said Daisy to herself.
She explored the observatory and looked through the telescope.
"Cool!" she said out loud. She could see Earth, the stars, and all the planets she'd learnt about in school!
After a while she turned around to see hundreds of stars staring at her.
"What is this place?" she thought. "Stars with eyes? What will I see next?"
They started speaking in an unintelligible language.
"I'm sorry, what are you saying?"
The stars looked at each other. They clearly thought she was a madwoman. Wait... could they speak English?
"Hello? Can you speak English?"
They nodded.
"Um, okay... I know this is going to sound crazy, but... I'm Princess Daisy of Sarasaland. I live in the Mushroom Kingdom with my Dad. I don't know why I look like this, or why I'm here."
One of the stars started to speak. "What are you on about?"
"Please, just tell me who I am! I'm so confused, please!"
The star spoke to Daisy as if she was a two year old. "You are Rosalina, and this is your observatory. You are the adoptive mother of the Lumas, that's us, and we are baby stars. You mind us until we grow up. If you want to know more about your life, there's a book here that you wrote based on it."
"And where is this book?"
"In the library. Follow me."
Daisy had never been so excited to read a book.
"Here it is."
Daisy opened up the book. Sure enough, there was a picture of "herself" on nearly every page. It was a rather depressing story, in her opinion. At the moment, it seemed the only thing herself and Rosalina (wherever she was now) had in common was a dead mother.
"What happened to the rest of Rosalina's, I mean my, family?"
"You're over a hundred years old. Presumably they're dead too."
"A hundred years old?" shouted Daisy. Ugh, she hated her new voice! "But how come I'm not wrinkled and old?"
"Yeah, it's a mystery to me too... I guess you're just immortal."
"Whoa!"
It was going to take her a long, long time to get used to this. She hoped she could go back home some time.
"Wow," thought Rosalina. "This place... it looks so... different. And so do I."
She looked around her. She assumed she was in the castle gardens. There were flowers of many different varieties: roses, violets, peonies, daisies, you name it. The castle itself was enormous, but it wasn't particularly nice. Whoever designed the exterior didn't have much taste.
"Daisy!" called a male voice. Who was it? A friend? A brother? A guard? Dad? And who was he calling?
"It's probably "my" dad calling his wife."
She stayed in the garden a little longer. Eventually a man came out.
"Daisy! Dinner's ready!"
Oh, so her name was Daisy.
"Daisy? Why are you staring at me? Is there something on my face?"
"Uh, no... it's nothing."
"Are you sure?"
Rosalina (or Daisy, as she was now) nodded.
The dinner was delicious. It consisted of vol-au-vent for starters, followed by roast duck and salad, and pudding for desert. It was nice to have someone make her a meal for once. No one had done that for her in a hundred years.
"Is there something up Daisy? You're very quiet..."
"No. Just tired."
After dinner she went up to her bedroom, wherever it was. How many rooms did this place have? Finally she found a room painted in orange. This had to be hers, surely? Whoever the real Daisy was, she was obsessed with the colour. Even her hair was orange!
She took a good long look in the mirror. She didn't like her appearance at all. She was tall, but nowhere near her original height. Her hair was styled weirdly. She looked a bit bratty, with her big blue eyes and eyebrows that always looked cross. And the dress was an atrocity! It was too frilly, too bright, too everything!
Rosalina decided to do a bit of research on herself on the computer next to her. She discovered a lot about her new identity. She was a tomboy who boasted when she won and threw a tantrum when she lost. She was cheerful and sassy. She didn't like the sound of her at all.
She had a boyfriend called Luigi and a best friend called Princess Peach. She looked them up just in case she came across them. She didn't intend to stay here for too long, just for a week or so. This was just to be safe, so people wouldn't realise she was an impostor.
Luigi was Italian. He was a coward who helped his twin Mario in saving Peach from a monster called Bowser. He was kind hearted and loved his brother dearly. She looked up images of the two brothers.
Wait a minute, were Luigi and herself a couple? But they sounded like polar opposites!
Then she searched Peach. She reminded her of herself looks-wise, except she looked more real, more alive, she couldn't explain it. She was kind and well mannered, loved baking, was constantly kidnapped by Bowser and Mario was her hero and boyfriend. She was best friends with herself. Phew, she seemed like a nice person!
She was rather looking forward to tomorrow.
"I have to cook for you?"
"Well, we are only babies...oh, and you have to read to us every night, and you have to play with us, and..."
"Are you kidding me? I'm a princess, not a slave!"
"Well, you're Rosalina now. When in Rome, you do as the Romans do."
Daisy didn't like this particular Luma at all. He was so cocky and arrogant. She assumed he was the oldest. At least the other Lumas were kind of sweet...
She had never cooked in her life. All she wanted to do was break the observatory window and go home, but she had no choice.
She ended up burning the "pizzas" she made. "Oh well," she thought. "They were terrible to begin with, anyway. They're gonna eat them, like it or lump it!"
There were a lot of unfinished meals left for her to dump, and hundreds of plates and cups to wash.
At about eight o'clock the Lumas crowded round her, asking for a story.
"Okay, okay! What about this one, The Silly Old Star. Oh wow, how fascinating..." She started reading the book. Thank goodness it was short!
Although the research helped, Rosalina was struggling to act like Daisy. Apparently, she woke up way too early, judging from the looks her Dad gave her. Also, she didn't eat her breakfast fast enough. Dad had noticed that too.
Maybe she should talk to Peach today? She was interested to see what her best friend was like. She hadn't had a human friend in years! But where was her castle? She could use the GPS on her phone. She had tried it out the night before and was fascinated.
After about two hours, she finally reached Peach's magnificent castle. She knocked and Peach came out.
"Hi Daisy! Wasn't expecting to see you today! Something up?"
She remembered what way she had to act.
"No!" she shouted. "Oh dear, that sounded weird."
Peach gave her a strange look. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah yeah yeah! Woohoo! Hi I'm Daisy!" She was starting to regret coming here. "Wanna play football in the garden?"
Peach said in a questioning tone that they had a proper football pitch. They never, ever played in the garden. This wasn't going well at all.
The unsuspecting Peach (she hoped) took her to the pitch and they started playing. Unfortunately, Rosalina wasn't used to football and made many blunders.
"I know something's up, Daisy."
"Um, uh, I have a limp..." she answered, faking a sore foot. "I thought I was fine but I'm not... that's why I'm in such an odd mood... I'm so sorry."
"Aw, you poor thing! We'd better get you inside."
Rosalina felt like crying. She couldn't pull this off. She was a terrible actress.
In case you're wondering why there's no romance (even though I put that down as the genre), that'll come in the next chapter. Please review!
