I'm going to try and upload a chapter every few days to a week. This will be a long series before Mario is found (or not!) anyways, keep reading, and review for better chapters!

After a three hour trip overseas to Rogueport, we finally arrived at the brutal merchant town. Trash and paper littered the entire place, I looked at Luigi, we were both wondering the same thing. Why would the Princess be in THIS place?

As we were exiting the boat, we heared a loud scream. Looking over to the source, I saw a young Goomba girl, she was being attacked by a gang of burly men. They all had rounded bodies and they had Xs on their shirts. They were persuing the girl for something, yelling at her.

"Allright, spill, kid, why were you asking questions about the Crystal Stars?" The largest guy said.

"I know absolutely nothing, bub! Leave me alone!" Shouted the Goomba.

Luigi ran over to the gang, I followed behind him. The Goomba immediatly dove behind us.

"Ha! You think that hiding behind a couple of guys will stop us?" Said the large guy.

He ran at Luigi and jumped in the air, attempting to tackle Luigi. Luigi sidestepped, nearrowly avoiding the attack. I dove out of the way to protect myself, grabbing the Goomba to protect her. The man swung his fists around me, hitting me several times in the arm and chest. I belted him in the face, which caused him to fall backward. I ran up to him and kicked him in the ribs and he let out a loud groan. He touched a button on his watch, all of a sudden, dozens of his grunts surrounded us.

"PUNISH THEM!"

The grunts all began to tackle us at once. I found a way out of the carnage with Luigi and the Goomba. We soundly made our way out of the area without the people noticing. We continued running through the town until we were sure we lost them.

"Are you guys okay?" Luigi asked.

"Yeah." I replied, panting like a dog on a hot summer day.

"Thanks, you guys." Said the goomba.

"You're Welcome." I said, "Who were those guys back there?"

"I don't know." Said the Goomba. "I was asking questions for a homework assignment for my college on the Crystal Stars when these guys cornered me."

Just then, we heard a cool english voice from behind us that made everyone jump.

"Master Luigi? What are you doing here? And who, pray tell, are these strangers?"

"Hello, Toadsworth." Said Luigi, "Mario is missing, so I am filling in for him, this kid here is tagging along with me. We saved this goomba from a gang of strangers who were attacking her. What's your name?"

"Goombella." She said.

"Heavens, Mario is missing? Then who will save the Princess?"

"She got kidnapped again?" Luigi screamed.

"Bowser claims up and down it wasn't him this time, Master Luigi! Who could have done this?"

While they were all talking, I saw two Piantas cornering and beating on some civilians.

"... what do you think, Ethan?"

"What?" I said.

"Do you think we should see Goombella's professor about the treasure map?" Asked Luigi.

"Yeah, we can't decipher this ancient writing." Added Goombella.

"I think it's a good idea." I said.

"Jolly good, then. You chaps go and decipher the map, I will check around town to see if anyone knows about the Princess' dissapearance. OH, I HOPE SHE'S ALL RIGHT! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!" He walked away in tears.

We made our way over to the house that resided Professor Frankly, Goombella's superior.

"Who's there?" Said the old Goomba.

"It's me, Professor!" Shouted Goombella. "I have a map I would like you to decipher. These are my friends who saved me from a gang."

"Nice to meet you. Let me at that map of yours."

We spent about an hour looking at the map, listening to Frankly talk about the legendary treasure that resides in the Thousand Year Door. He talked about a town that sank into the earth after a huge earthquake and the gold and jewels kept in its treasury. He also droned about the seven Crystal Stars that must be found before the door can be opened. They were spread out throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, and they could only be found by holding the map up to the door to reveal their locations.

"The door is said to be hidden in a secret room somewhere in the sewers." Proffessor Frankly said.

"Then that is where we're headed." I said with confidence.

After a while of searching, we found a grate we could open and jump through to get into the sewers.

The sewers turned out to be different then what I imagined. They didn't smell that much, in fact, it looked like there was a town down there for a while. We spent several hours scouring the area for any sight of the Thousand Year Door.

"Hey guys, come and look at this." Said Goombella.

Luigi, Professor Frankly and I went over to where Goombella was to see what she had found. She found a high ledge, and we could see an old archway on the other side.

"Professor Frankly and I can't reach." Said Goombella.

I had an idea.

"Hey, Luigi, do you think you could reach it with a jump? You could grab onto the ledge and pull us up." I sugested.

Luigi nodded and leaped into the air. I was amazed with the height he could jump, I knew that would be usefull down the road.

Luigi grabbed my arm and hoisted me up. He then grabbed my legs and lowered me town to pull Goombella and Frankly up on the ledge. We went through the doorway to find a magnificent chamber, the entire room was a bright limestone, with a pedestal in the middle. There was a burgandy door with several designs, including seven star shapes.

"Hold the map up on the pedestal to get the first star's location." Said Professor Frankly.

I stepped up onto the pedestal and took out the map. I held it up into the air. Immediately, I saw a huge beam of light emit from the map. I looked at the map, and saw a castle appear on the right side of the map, in the mountains over a large valley near of Rougeport. I showed the map to Professor Frankly, asking him where the area was.

"Petalburg. Just east of here. It is about a two day hike from here." Said Professor Frankly.

"Alright, we leave tomarrow morning." Said Luigi.

Longer than the first chapter! You will see some transformations in a few chapters, just like I promised.

Just let me clear a few things up.

This series of stories will be the games, without Mario, and with my own plot twists, so that even if you are familiar with the games, you won't know what will happen next.

SPOILER: The end of this series will intorduce a surprising new bad guy. I GUARUNTEE you will love him, and hate him at the same time.

Anyways, CH. 3 will be up in a few days, I will try and maintain this as best I can, doing edits and such regularly.

Review, favourite, and I'll see you all next chapter!