Daisy awoke from her sleep with tears in her eyes and the words trust me ringing in her ears. Daisy dried her tears from her eyes and looked at around at where she had slept for those few hours.
It had changed a lot since she had shut her eyes, because before you could barely see anything as the light was barely strong enough to make it through the trees. But now, the sun was so bright that Daisy could see the various colours of the bark on every single tree in the forest, and the beads of dew on each blade of green grass.
To Daisy it was beautiful, it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. But it only reminded her of the beautiful days by the river with Bowser and especially that dream she just had.
So before she could start crying again, she thought it would be best if she just kept moving.
So she got up from her place beneath the tree, dusted herself off and continued walking through the trees.
Daisy thought for sure at this time of day, someone at the castle would be finding her note underneath the jewels and frantically going to the Queen.
She was right too because at that very moment, Queen Rose was reading the letter and already was in a panic because why would Daisy run away? She had everything she had ever wanted. Then one thought came into her mind, she went to see the koopa.
Daisy had thought about going back to Bowser, but after everything she said to him the last time she saw him, she didn't think he would want to see her.
No one could really blame her for thinking that way because she practically accused Bowser of only being her friend because of the agreement between the two kings.
About five times during her journey through those woods, she considered going back into the Dark lands and to her darling Bowser. But each time she made up a silly excuse why she couldn't and each time she just kept going.
Then the journey for her began to get scary in the woods, because it was now night fall and she couldn't see properly though the trees.
So to her, everything in the woods looked like things weren't. Like the trees looked like viscous animals with sharp teeth, and when she stepped on dry leaves or twigs on the forest floor, it sounded like someone was behind her, stalking her through the trees.
He heart started to beat enormously fast, her skin started to feel clammy and then she started to run.
Then, as if by rude coincidence, she got her foot caught in a root that was sticking out of the ground, then she fell to the ground, hitting her head on a roc as she went.
This caused her to be knocked unconscious and then she lay on that path in the forest. Until the next morning, an unexpected visitor came walking down that same path.
The traveler saw the princess laying there in the path and him being of tender heart, knew it was night right to leave some one who was possibly injured to fend for themselves.
So the traveler crouched down to get a better look at her to see the extent of her injuries. Not only did he see the huge gash in her head from the rock, but he also saw her beauty.
He couldn't just leave her lying there bleeding, so he gently picked her up and began to carry her back through the woods from the direction he came from.
(Daisy's dream)
"Bowser? What are you doing?" Daisy giggled as Bowser had his paws over her eyes and was leading her in a strange but yet familiar direction.
Bowser chuckled, "You'll see."
Daisy being the impatient tomboy was really curious to know what Bowser was up to, but since she knew that Bowser was like a rock when it came to getting any knowledge or information from him, she thought it best if she didn't bug him anymore. She just let the thirteen year old koopa do what he was going to do.
A few minutes later, Bowser took his paws down from her eyes and said, "Okay, my princess. You may open your eyes now."
When Daisy did open her eyes, she came to realize why that place seemed so familiar even with her eyes shut. This place was the same place he had taken her to so many times, it was the spot by the river.
Except this time, underneath the two trees, there was a red checkered blanket and what looked like a brown wicker basket.
Daisy looked at Bowser, "What's all this for?" she asked.
Bowser smiled after he chuckled, "Well ya see Daisy, I knew your birthday was last week and since I couldn't be there then, I thought it would be nice if I did something for you now."
(Back to reality)
"Who is she?" the traveler's companion asked the traveler when Daisy was lying in a strange bed, in a strange house with her head bandaged.
She was slowly starting to come out of her unconscious state when she heard the traveler say, "I don't know. I found her on the path in the forest. She was bleeding, I couldn't leave her there."
Daisy opened her eyes when she heard the voices, she saw the two figures standing there.
The one looked like a red tailed fox in a black cape, and the other, the one who found her on the path, was very tall, green skin and a dark brown shell.
Daisy had never seen people like that so you can imagine how scared she was.
"Where am i?" Daisy demanded to know as she sat up in bed.
The two creatures turned to look at her, the fox, who was a female came towards her, "You're at the hollow! WE found you injured on the path."
"Who are you?" Daisy asked when she realized that these animals had no intention of harming her.
The fox said, "Well, I'm Fiona Fox and the turtle over there is Thompson, but I think you can call him Tom."
The turtle just grunted what sounded like yes as he exited the hollow.
Then Fiona looked back at Daisy and asked, "Now that you know who we are, who are you?"
Daisy thought about telling the fox who she was but then she remembered that she was running away from being a princess, so she just told Fiona, "I'm Daisy."
"That's all? Just Daisy?"
Daisy just nodded, "Yep! Me by myself."
Fiona knew right away that Daisy was in fact lying, but she also knew what it was like not to want to tell people where she was from, so she didn't press the matter. She just left Daisy to rest as she was still recovering from a pretty serious head injury.