"The mushroom kingdom is waging war." The king Koopa said to his son Bowser.

Bowser was confused by this because after they had worked so hard to create peace amongst the two kingdoms, why would they do this now? "Why father?"

"Because it seems your friend Daisy has disappeared and in the Mushroom King's mind, he thinks we have her."

Daisy disappeared? Bowser thought as his heart started to beat rapidly. Bowser knew that the last time he saw her they had fought and she probably thought that he didn't care for her anymore. Which was not the truth at all, he cared about her a great deal, he loved her. He also loved his country, there was only one way to save both the woman he loved, and his country, and that would be to go out and find her.

When he told his idea to the king, he thought it was absolutely preposterous, "My son, you don't even know where the princess is."

"Isn't that the whole idea of looking for her? Go to war with the mushroom king if you may but I'm going to look for her!" and Bowser left the great stone thrown room to start planning the search. Of course, his father was right, he had no idea on where Daisy was but he still had to try.

* * *

Daisy was out walking in the woods, it was the first time she had done so since she arrived at the Hollow. It was a bright and sunny day out so the trees didn't look near as scary as they did that first time. The sun was shining through the trees making the shade of brown in the tree bark stand out making everything look three dimensional. Daisy had a sense of peace being on the path in the woods by herself. But that sense of peace was soon to be disrupted when from behind her, she heard leaves crackling as if some one was walking on them.

She didn't pay any attention because she came to find earlier that there were other animals besides Fiona and Thompson who worked in the forest so it was probably one of them. It wasn't until she felt a hand fall on her shoulder that she really became frightened. She ripped the hand off her shoulder and ran as fast as she could.

The person ran after her, "Daisy, Stop. I'm sorry for scaring you." and of course it was only Thompson.

She felt pretty silly for being scared like that. Daisy stopped running, and felt her cheeks go a bright shade of red. "I'm sorry Thom. You just frightened me."

"Which I've already apologized for." he smirked.

Daisy giggled then she remembered the conversation she had over heard between him and Fiona about how he thought she was annoying and a pain in the butt. That made her wonder what he wanted, "Did Fiona send you?" as her eyes lowered away from his brown eyes to the forest floor.

"No, Fiona didn't send me. I was on my way back to the hollow from working when I saw you walking by yourself." he explained.

"Oh." Daisy said as they both started walking down the path she had taken and Daisy being a tomboy and the type of girl to speak her mind, she blurted, "You're actually walking with me? I thought you found me annoying and to be a pain in the butt?"

"What?" Thompson was confused because he had only said that to Fiona, how would she know that?

"I heard you and Fiona talking last night."

Oh crap! Thompson thought, "You did?" he said.

"Yes I did! So why are you walking with me? Are you just waiting to see how annoying I get today?" and Daisy stormed away from Thompson leaving him there dumbfounded.

Daisy was walking through the woods with tears coming from her green eyes as she was thinking about how confused she was. She cared about Thompson, which was a mystery amongst itself because she found Thompson rude and conceited. However, she still loved Bowser even after the way they had ended things. She just didn't know what to feel as she sat down on a log not far away from the path.

Tears once again came down her cheeks when she heard Thompson's voice, "Can I explain what happened now?"

Daisy looked up to see Thom's green form standing above her. Daisy's creamy white hand wiped away her tears as she nodded her head. Thompson sat down beside her on the same log. At first he didn't know what to say or do and then it came to him, "Look Daisy, don't cry. You misunderstood what I said to Fiona. Yes I think you are annoying and a pain in the butt sometimes but as are a lot of people."

"What's your point Thompson?" as she covered her face with her hand trying very hard not to cry again.

"If you'd stop interrupting me, I'll tell you." his green hand took her hand away from her face and then lifted her chin to make her look him in the eye.

"Daisy, I know I don't show it, but you've gotten to me Princess! Now I'm not saying I love you or anything, but I do care deeply about you."

Daisy didn't say anything. She just looked into his deep brown eyes to see if he was lying. The look he had in his eyes was full of warmth, compassion and absolute truth. That made her believe that he wasn't lying and she threw her arms around him and told him that she felt the same way.

* * *

Bowser was getting very discouraged as he and his search part had searched every where and yet they had not found hyde nor hair of Daisy.

"Maybe it's time we called off the search. It's been three weeks your highness." the green and yellow Koopa told Bowser.

Bowser could not believe what he was hearing. "No I will not believe that. and you can't either." Bowser paused to look at a map of the places they've searched before he continued, "Now we've searched every where, except the black forest!" as he pointed at the map with his clawed finger.

"But sir, no koopa has been in there since the days of the rampages. Your father forbid it!" the same green and yellow koopa explained.

Bowser growled, "Who cares what my father says. I'm going in there myself!"

"But sir!"

Bowser rawred, his nose flared and his eyes went blood shot, "do not test me!" The green koopa knew not to fight with Bowser because when Bowser had an idea in his head, there was no changing his mind because he knew in his heart that Daisy was in the forest and that's where he was going to be as well.