Daisy lay back down and closed her eyes, but it was not to be a restful sleep either. She started having dreams of her passed life again, except this time was not the pleasant dreams of her and Bowser.
This time was back before the peace talks between the two countries began to take place. There were fires burning all around te mushroom kingdom, people screaming because of the rampages Bowser's people would take through the kingdom and the mushroom king standing on the top balcony of the castle watching it all happen with a sickly wild smile on his face.
Queen Rose had always been after the king to make peace with the koopas. (Even though she didn't like them anymore than he did) she was voicing her opinion to the mushroom king on that very balcony, "Why can't you just have peace between you and the koopa king? Why must you fight all the time?"
The king turned back to Rose, "Those evil monsters have no place in the mushroom kingdom! But they seem to believe they do!"
Rose walked over to beside the king where he stood observing their slowly crumbling kingdom, before she said, "Is this the kingdom you wish to leave behind for Peach and Daisy?"
The mushroom king growled at Rose, "I wouldn't expect you to understand! You're just a woman! You couldn't possibly understand what it takes to be in my position." as he attempted to walk out passed Rose.
But before he could make it through the doo, Rose sharply spun around, "That's right I don't. But I do know you're turning into what you despise! You'd swear you were the Koopa King!"
This made the mushroom king very angry. His temper flared and before he knew it, he had pinned Rose against the brick wall and slapped her in the face.
Just as his hand connected with her face, Daisy walked in. She couldn't believe her father would do that to her mother. "Daddy! Stop!" Daisy screamed.
"Daisy! Daisy wake up!" Fiona said as she was gently shaking Daisy awake.
Daisy's heart was pounding so hard as she remembered the crack of her father's hand making contact with her mother's face. She caught her breath when she realized that it was only a dream and that she was safely inside the Hollow.
"I was having a terrible dream!" she breathed.
"Yeah we got that!" Thompson sarcastically added when he looked up from his book.
Fiona shot Thompson a nasty look before she asked what the dream was about. "It might help if you talked about it." Fiona kindly suggested.
Daisy just nodded before she gulped and told Fiona what the dream was about.
When Thompson heard the story, he rolled his eyes, slammed his book on the wooden table, turned to Daisy and Fiona in the corner of the Hollow, "So your dad used to beat your mum! Who cares! It's time you got over it princess!"
Daisy gasped when she heard him say the word princess, she knew it was just a figure of speech but it was still far too close to the truth.
Fiona knew Thompson had upset Daisy, so she turned back to him, "Don't you have chores to do or something?"
"Yeah. Anything's better than listening to you girls talk about bad dreams." and Thompson left through the door out into the beautiful sunny day.
Fiona then turned back to Daisy, "I'm sorry about him! he's not usually like this."
Thompson was watching Daisy and Fiona talk through the small opening in the Hollow that passed as a window. He was thinking, wow, how could someone like that be such a royal pain in the butt with her dreams. She must have had a troubled life where ever she came from.
"What were you doing in the woods anyway?" Fiona asked to make conversation as Daisy was helping tidy up the Hollow.
"Running away." Daisy muttered.
Fiona and Thompson were no strangers to running away as they, a turtle and a Fox were in a forest where turtles and foxes had been extinct for years. But Fiona loved hearing the stories or reasons why a person would run away from their homes and families.
"IF you don't mind me asking, what are you running away from?" Fiona curiously asked.
Daisy sighed, "My father and my mother don't like the choice of man I've fallen in love with." conveniently leaving out the small important fact that Bowser was a Koopa.
"Forgive me for seeming nosy but why are you in the forest instead of with the one you love?" Fiona only asked that because if it was her, she would have run away with the one she loved instead of hiding in the woods.
"Uh the last time I saw Bowser, we said some very hurtful things to each other." Daisy found it very odd that she was spilling her guts to a total stranger when she knew absolutely nothing about Fiona and Thompson. So she asked Fiona what the story behind her and Thompson was.
"Well Daisy, I've lived in the Hollow all of my life. I am the last remaining fox in the forest."
"And Thompson? How did you meet him?" Daisy asked as she was admiring Fiona's pretty red fur. Even though she had a tinge of grey in her fur she was still one very pretty fox.
Fiona chuckled when she remembered the story of how she met the turtle. "Well Daisy, it's funny you should ask that. He came to the hollow the same way you did." Fiona went on to tell the princess how when Thompson was very young, her husband found him alone in the woods and brought him home to raise as their own. "After my husband died, Thompson was all I had left."
"What happened to your husband?" Daisy asked curiously.
Then Daisy got the worst news possible, Fiona's husband was killed by The Koopa's on one of their viscous rampages through the forest.
Daisy felt so bad for Fiona, "I am so sorry Fiona."
"It's alright Daisy, it was along time ago! But that was one of the main reasons why I never leave the Hollow, I don't want to make the same mistake that my husband did, trust a Koopa."