Woohoo! An update! Okay, so I know that I said I would have this up like a month ago, but there's actually a good reason for that. One, I was graduating. :) Hooray for me! Two, I had it all done, and then didn't like how it was going. So I edited and re-edited and even though I'm still not completely satisfied, I think it's good enough to post. So enjoy and sorry about the wait. I'll admit that I do have the next chapter almost done, but I won't make another promise in case I can't follow through.

I don't own anything Mario.

Chapter 11- The Giant

Daisy was unsure about what was happening to her until she looked down seeing her visibly frightened boyfriend shrinking before her. She was about to reach out hoping to help him before she figured out that he wasn't shrinking, she was growing. A fact that became apparent when she was nearly eye level with the block Luigi had hit earlier. However, rather than panic, she felt excited. She turned to look at herself and figured she had to be a least ten feet tall, maybe taller. She couldn't help but think how amazing it would be to play basketball like this. They would have to raise the goal for her, and even then she could dunk it.

She giggled softly to herself before she started to question it. How in the world did she suddenly grow this big? That's when she realized it had to have been the mushroom. She couldn't get the look of awe off her face as she turned back to Luigi.

"Luigi, this is amazing! That mushroom was like the 'Eat Me' cakes in Alice in Wonderland." She marveled.

She never really put much stock into Alice since the idea of falling down a rabbit hole was completely absurd. She decided in retrospect, a drainpipe really wasn't any better.

"So then where's the 'Drink Me' bottle?" He asked nervously.

She rolled her eyes before laughing at him. "Luigi, are you scared of me?"

He stood back up slowly shaking his head. However, she could see from the blush on his face that he was. She laughed again making his cheeks flame harder. It was always so much fun messing with him.

"So I guess you got the better vantage point you were wanting." He pointed out.

Daisy blinked surprised realizing that he was right. She should be able to see for miles. She looked off towards the end of the platform. To her delight, there was a land mass not too far away. She squinted a little, certain that she was seeing towers rising in the distance as well.

"Land Ho!" She hollered pointing excitedly.

Luigi turned around eagerly. "Really?" He asked as he tried to see what she was seeing.

"Yeah, let's go!" She cheered before running off in the direction she pointed out.

She found that the gaps between the bridges weren't nearly as nerve-wracking in her new size. She didn't admit it to Luigi, but she had actually been afraid when they jumped to escape the fish. Even though she wanted to believe it would work, she had doubted their ability to get up there safely. Which obviously she had been right since she didn't make it. If it wasn't for Luigi she would have been fish food.

That got her to thinking about his miraculous jump. She was completely jealous that he had sailed up to the top ledge so effortlessly. After all, she was the athletic one. How was he able to jump higher than her?

"Daisy, wait up!" Luigi hollered from behind.

She finally stopped turning to look at him several yards back. She felt a little guilty not intending to leave him in the dust. She should have realized that with her new height, she would be able to cover distance faster than him. However, it wasn't until she watched him that she realized her size wasn't the only problem.

"You don't have to stop and judge every gap." She pointed out.

She saw his cheeks flair up embarrassed, but it didn't stop him from forming a complete stop at the next opening, evaluating the distance to the other side, and then jump. All he ended up doing was jumping higher than necessary instead of jumping farther. She could feel herself wince a little as he barely reached the edge.

"Sorry we're not all giant." He panted finally reaching her.

"You don't have to be." She argued. "You can obviously make the jump. Keep going and let your momentum carry you across."

He screwed up his face. "I'm fine, thank you."

She sighed before starting her walk again. Although this time she was much slower so she wasn't waiting on Luigi to catch up. She knew that he had a cautious nature, but this seemed a little overboard even to her. She couldn't help but think back on earlier when his eyes lit up considering that they hadn't been missing for that long. She didn't have the heart to confess what she thought. She figured it was the ride through the pipe that sucked away the time. Of course, he could be right since she was just guessing.

"How far away did you say it was?" Luigi asked coming up right beside her.

"It's not that far now. Probably another twenty minutes." She pointed into the distance.

Luigi squinted trying to see what she was seeing and nodded when he was satisfied with her assessment. They started walking in silence again until Daisy got to wondering about something.

"Hey Luigi, do you think we're the only ones here?" She asked innocently.

"What do you mean?" He asked while preparing for another jump.

"Well besides the fish and the squid, we really haven't seen anything else. And we definitely haven't seen any people." She pointed out.

He stopped realization dawning on him. "You're right. This whole world could be completely devoid of civilization. How are we going to get home now? What are we going to do for food and shelter? I dropped out of boy scouts after the first week!"

"Luigi, Sweetie, calm down!" Daisy tried to soothe. "I didn't mean to freak you out, I was just thinking out loud."

"Well yeah, but you've brought up some very good points. I hadn't even considered the possibility of us dying here." He panicked.

"We won't die. Besides I can definitely see towers, so there has to be some sort of civilization." She pointed out.

"Really?" He asked hopefully.

She nodded. She let out a small giggle as he released a sigh of relief. She loved Luigi to death, but he had a tendency to over think things. Luckily, they had finally reached the edge of the bridge and she gleefully ran to the end and jumped down onto solid land.

"See I told you we would do it!" She cheered turning around to see Luigi's reaction. He seemed just as happy until his eyes started to bug out.

"D-Daisy. B-behind you." He pointed out.

She looked confused and involuntarily took a step backwards. She felt something bump up against her ankle and jumped in surprise. However, when she came back down, she fell all the way down to the ground.

"Hey watch where you're going!"

Daisy looked around her surprised to see a little two-foot tall brown mushroom thing that walked on two feet and had eyes and a mouth. She gasped in surprise as the thing started to walk away grumbling to itself.

"Daisy, are you okay?" Luigi asked running up to her side.

He offered her a hand up and she took it automatically before something dawned on her.

"Hey! I'm your size again!" She cried disappointedly.

Luigi laughed. "Yeah it happened after that…thing hit you. What was that anyways?" He asked confused looking off in the direction it left.

"I don't know, but it could have been nicer." She grumbled.

Luigi, however, was still looking off in the direction it left.

"You don't think that those are the civilized species of this world, do you?" Luigi asked worriedly.

Daisy thought about it for a minute. "I suppose it could be. I mean, it was a walking, talking mushroom."

Daisy could see that Luigi was getting more unnerved about the creature. She started rubbing his arm soothingly.

"Luigi, breathe. It'll be okay. It's not going to hurt anything." She tried to calm him down, but she could see he was only getting worked up more.

"Are you even listening to yourself? How in the world can you be so calm about something that shouldn't walk or talk but is doing it anyways?"

Daisy was about to respond before she stopped and thought about it. Luigi did have every right to be questioning something like this. Why wasn't she as bothered by it? For whatever reason, everything they had seen seemed so familiar to her. Almost like she read about it in a book or something similar.

"I'm just a lot more accepting of the impossible than you." She finally shrugged.

He raised an eyebrow skeptically. "Really? You're not even a little troubled by anything we've seen?"

"Nope." Daisy shook her head. "Hell, a witch could fly by on a broomstick and I'd be okay with it."

She heard Luigi snort, but she was too busy deciding where to go next. Now that she was no longer giant-size, everything was looking different. At most she figured they were on some sort of beach from all of the sand piled around them, but it seemed to be stretching endlessly before them. Finally, she decided on the direction they should take.

"Come on, let's go this way." She called over her shoulder.

Luigi didn't argue even if he was still hesitant. Daisy soon found that this wasn't just a beach though. There were endless sand dunes, the sun seemed to be growing hotter, and every once in awhile she would pass a pyramid. They were definitely in a desert.

"A desert…next to an ocean? This world…doesn't make any sense!" Luigi panted after several long minutes of walking.

"I thought there are some deserts next to an ocean or a sea or something." Daisy commented as she tested the sand in front of her.

They had found out not too far back that there were patches of quicksand in this desert when Luigi walked straight into one. Luckily with his incredible jumping ability he was able to get himself out of it.

"Yeah but that's all saltwater. The water we just left was freshwater." He argued.

"How do you know that?" Daisy asked while she continued to lead.

"Because I…I was…breathing it. I don't know, it's hard to explain."

Daisy turned around to see that he was really bothered by the other night.

"Luigi." She started but stopped when she saw what was behind him.

She gasped at the smiling cactus-like creature that was creeping up on him.

"Okay Luigi, don't freak or anything, but you're being followed." She calmly explained.

He froze before turning out slowly. He jumped and ran over beside her.

"W-What is that? And why is it so creepy looking?"

Daisy tried to keep herself from laughing. He was right though. It did have a sort of psychotic smile.

"I don't know, but I'm guessing we don't want to touch those spikes." She pointed out.

Luigi agreed and soon they were running across the desert again. However, they soon found out that this place was full of the cactus creatures. Daisy wasn't too worried by them though since they moved so slow. It was just a pain in the butt getting around them.

"Did we lose that one?" Daisy asked Luigi after their fifth encounter.

Luigi turned around, but instantly turned back his face looking ashen.

"What? Do we have a cactus army back there?" She teased.

"Do you remember you're witch comment from earlier?" He asked nervously.

"What about how it wouldn't surprise me?" Daisy clarified confused as to why he would bring it up.

"Yeah, s-so even if it's a UFO, you still wouldn't be affected?"

Daisy rolled her eyes. "The metaphor wasn't important, my point was just…"

What he was saying suddenly hit her. She looked behind them and saw it. There was an actual alien spaceship hovering in the air behind them.

"Run faster!" She yelled before turning on the jets.

Luigi didn't even argue with her as they sprinted across the desert. However, no matter how fast they went, it was still keeping up with them. Daisy had to admit that the UFO did have her a little unnerved. The spaceship was getting closer, and Daisy could see it was about to shoot some sort of strange laser out of the bottom of it. Daisy had just made another leap over a quicksand pit when she found the ground sailing below her. She turned around to see that the beam from the laser was pulling her up towards the ship. She desperately struggled to get free as Luigi started to become smaller and smaller.

"Daisy!" Luigi called up to her.

Before she could answer him, she was trapped within the flying metal contraption. She instantly dropped on the platinum floor painfully. However, that didn't stop her from jumping back up and pounding away at the walls and the floor. She couldn't be separated from Luigi now, he needed her. And deep down she knew that she needed him just as much. However, everything she did was in vain. Frustrated she sank to her knees. At that exact moment a holographic image appeared above her head. She looked up surprised and upset to see a purple alien leering at her.

"Struggling is pointless, Princess. Now that I have you Sarasaland shall be mine!" He sneered.

"Dude, I honestly have no idea what you're talking about so let me go, or you'll regret it!" Daisy screamed.

He laughed. "You don't scare me, Princess, and after our wedding tomorrow you'll never feel the need to threaten me again."

Daisy flinched in disgust. "Wedding? Like hell!"

"I'm afraid you have no choice."

Just like that the image disappeared leaving Daisy alone in the room once again. Her thoughts were swirling all over the place. Princess? Sarasaland? Wedding? She didn't understand anything that was going on. She finally sat down on the floor pulling her knees into her chest. She would give anything to have Luigi there with her. Her only wish at the moment was for him to find her as quickly as possible.

Dun, dun, dun... Yeah so I brought Tantanga into the picture. And for those of you who are wondering about our hero in red, he's going to make his dramatic entrance very soon. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review. :)