Chapter two my dudes! Its longer, not sure how much longer, but its def longer, chapter three is written and edited but I intend to add things in first. Should be up by Friday at the latest guys, anyway enjoy the improved, version of chapter two. Hope it shows how much I've grown as a writer since i started this all those years ago...

Mario and Luigi walked up to the bridge leading into Princess Peach's castle, they were wearing their jackets over their overalls," too bad Yoshi couldn't come with us," Luigi whined.

"Stop complaining Luigi, Peach isn't gonna want a dinosaur in her castle, he could ruin her carpets!" Mario replied to him.

"We house trained him though!" Luigi defended.

"I didn't mean like that ya mook. He forgets to wipe his shoes all the time, remember?" Mario said, pushing his brother on the shoulder lightly.

"Oh, now you're just making excuses Mario," Luigi said annoyed

"Shut up your face!" Mario yelled angrily at this statement, they stopped arguing when they reached the double doors leading inside the castle. The doors were open and two guards stood on either side, holding spears.

"Mario," one guard said, nodding to him, a completely expressionless look on his face.

"Green Mario," the second guard said, nodding in the same way.

Luigi groaned in frustration, "it's not green Mario, it's Luigi," he said exasperatedly.

"Forgive me, Luigi, I'll not make the same mistake twice," the guard said emotionlessly as everything else that came from his mouth.

"It's cool, it happens a lot," Luigi said with a sigh.

"I'm sure it does."

"Excuse me?" Luigi asked surprised and a little offended by this, who did this guard think he was?! He helped save the princess as much as Mario did.

"Ya know you guys have great poker faces, come on Luigi let's get going." Mario said walking passed them into the castle, Luigi sighed, following close behind his brother as he shook his head in annoyance.

"Did you hear what that guy said to me?" Luigi said as he began complaining.

"Yeah good thing I got you away from him you were about to say something stupid to him."

"Well, he'd deserve it, the way he was talking to me."

"Hey look a sign, it points this way, best follow it right Luigi?"

"Did you hear anything I just said?"

"Of course, I did bro, I'm just tired of hearing about it."

Luigi stops walking and gives him a blunt look at this comment, "are you Serious?"

"Yeah, now come on bro we're missing the party!" Mario called to him, not missing a step in his stride. Luigi rolled his eyes as he followed him. The signs led them to a ballroom filled with dozens of lords and ladies all conversing in separate groups. Only two or three couples were on the floor dancing with one another, even those few were doing a slow elegant dance.

"Wow, um, bro, this place is fancy, I think we should have rented suits," Luigi said, his self-consciousness showing in his voice.

"Nonsense bro we're the hero's here!" He put his hands-on Luigi's shoulders, looking him in the eyes with conviction, "this is our party, Luigi, we can dress however we like, they aren't gonna judge us."

"Well, Luigi sighed, I doubt it but whatever, let's get in there and have fun," he said, forcing a smile as he started walking into the ballroom only to be stopped as Mario put his arm out in front of him.

"Uh no," Mario said with a blunt expression.

"What do you mean Mario?" Luigi asked, confused and surprised.

"Luigi, we're here to talk the princess into giving us that permit thingie so we can get a Christmas tree."

"But Mario, it's a party!" Luigi whined motioning with his hands to the ballroom full of people.

"Oh, for linguini's sake, fine," Mario relented as he rubbed his temples in frustration.

"Yes!" Luigi said, pumping his fist as he started to run in but was stopped by mario.

Mario grabbed Luigi by the strap of his overalls and pulled him a little closer so they were face to face, "but the objective comes first bro, mission first, fun later."

Luigi rolled his eyes, "fine."

Mario let go of him and walked into the ballroom, "let's go find the princess."

"Whatever."

The two brothers walked through the ballroom passing dozens of staring eyes, disapproval in all of them.

"Uh, bro we're being stared at right now," Luigi said uncomfortably

"I know, ignore it, they don't know who we are, so don't take it personally," they continued walking through the room, Mario was looking to and fro for the Princess. Luigi was doing the same until Suddenly he saw Princess Daisy sitting in a chair. Her elbow is on a table, on the table is a large plate full of food, she looked bored and absolutely miserable as she tried to eat her sorrows away. Luigi looked over to Mario and then to Princess Daisy, he smiled as he quietly snuck off to go see her. "Luigi!" He flinched as he looked back at Mario. "What are you doing? Come on!"

Luigi furrowed his eyebrows and waved him off, "oh put a sock in it ya bossy bum!" He then continued on his way over to the Princess.

Mario glared at him but didn't pursue him, he shook his head, "mamamia, this guy", looks like I'M the one talking to the princess about the permit!" He grumbled about how he had to do everything himself and how useless luigi was. He continued on in his search for the princess. Suddenly he saw Princess Peach standing over by a table full of food, two lords were there talking to her. Mario smiled and strode over to the trio, head held high with confidence. "Princess!"

She looked over to him, taking her eyes off the lords to Mario and smiled at him as he came over. "Mario it's great to see you, are you enjoying yourself so far?"

"Yeah, I'm having a great time, by the way, I've gotta talk to you about something," He noticed the two lords giving him dirty looks but decided to ignore it, for now.

"Well I'm all ears, Mario say what's on your mind." She said, giving him her full attention.

"Walk with me, will you?" He motioned behind him with his thumb pointing behind him, a smile on his face.

She smiled at this, and nodded, "Oh, well of course Mario," she began to walk away with him when one of the lords spoke up.

"Excuse me, sir Mario," he said in a condescending tone, disgust in his eyes he clearly felt he was above him despite having saved the princess numerous times before

"Put a cork in it, I don't have time for you right now." Mario snapped rudely, waving him off, he know he had nothing of value to say, so why bother listening to his nonsense?

The lord looked to the other and then both of them looked at Peach, "Princess are you going to let him talk to us in this manner?"

"Yes," she then followed Mario leaving the lords dumbfounded, she smiled warmly at them both.

Luigi walked over to Princess Daisy and sat down beside her, she looked over at him and proceeded to look him up and down, but not in an interested way, she looked bored.

"Decided to sneak in, I see."

"What? Oh! No, no see, I'm Mario's brother Luigi!" He said, pulling at his straps a big smile on his face, he was important and he knew it and wanted her to know it too.

She merely raised an eyebrow at this, unimpressed "Luigi? Mario's brother is green Mario, you aren't his brother," she replied in a bored tone.

Luigi stared at her to see if she was serious, she definitely was. He felt angry, he didn't know who spread the rumor he was Green Mario but good god did he wish he could get his hands around that person's neck. He forced a laugh at Daisy's comment, trying not to seem upset, "no. His brother's name is not Green Mario, everyone thinks that but it's not true, it's Luigi."

"Then how come I've never seen you before?"

He looked at her taken aback, she had never seen her before? He literally saw her last week at one of Mario's parties! She was standing three feet away from him! And he was staring at her for like three hours without blinking, he could have sworn she noticed. "You haven't? I've seen you before."

Daisy stared at him as she stood up, "okay you're a creep so I'm going to just find a guard and have you thrown out. "

"No, wait! I swear I'm really Mario's brother!"

"Uh huh, tell it to the guards," Daisy says as she walked off.

"Crap!" Luigi looked around frantically as he tried to think of something, he ran after Princess Daisy and grabbed her, "please stop and listen to me, you can't get a guard, I'm really Luigi! Just tr—"

He stopped talking as she whipped around and socked him in the nose. Luigi fell on his bum holding his nose. "OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"

"Don't put your hands on me," she then turned and continued walking.

Luigi sighed as he stood up, holding his nose. He stopped for a moment, "wait, the guards know me, they can prove I'm who I really am! Mamamia I wish I thought of that sooner. Ouch…" he then followed Daisy in a subtle manner trying to avoid provoking her again.

She walked right up to a guard and began talking to him, he couldn't hear every exact word but knew what was going on, she pointed at Luigi and the guard looked over to him and talked to her. She looked at Luigi and back to the guard and they talked a bit more, Daisy and the guard walked over to him no doubt to question him.

"Green Mario, is it true that your name is Luigi?"

He sighed, rolling his eyes, if he were near a wall he would bang his head on it in frustration. "Yes."

"Oh. Well there you go Princess; his name is in fact, Luigi. He bowed to her and went back to his post."

Daisy stared at Luigi a moment before talking, "well, don't rub this in but…. I'm sorry for calling you an imposter."

"Really? That's what you're sorry for? What about my nose?!"

"I'm not sorry for that, you deserved it."

"How?!"

"You put your hands on me. You don't do that to a lady, especially a Princess."

Luigi sighed as he touched his nose again only to flinch away in pain, Daisy stared at him unsympathetically.

"So, you said you've seen me before, tell me where."

Luigi looks back at her silently for a moment, "I saw you last week at one of Mario's parties."

"I see, well I'm surprised I never saw you considering the way you dress."

"Yeah well Mario dresses the same, we're not lords as you may have already figured out."

"I did, why did you even come to talk to me in the first place?"

"Well, I'll be honest, I thought you were pretty."

She sighed and rolled her eyes at this, "I thought so."

"Well can I have a dance, princess?"

"No, I don't dance with commoners."

"But I saved the princess!"

"Don't care, have a good night Luigi." She then walked off.

"So, can my brother and I get permits to cut some trees down?" Mario asked Peach as they walked together.

"No. Mario frowned annoyed at this and was about to tell her he saved her every fucking friday with no pay beyond cake, and she owed him since it wasn't his job, he merely volunteered when she continued speaking. However I will give you and the rest of the kingdom permission to decorate my trees and put presents under all the trees."

"I'll take it!"

"Good choice Mario. Now I assume we put name tags on them?"

"Of course we do and there's a lot of other stuff to do, fruitcake and so much more!"

A slow dance played and Peach took Mario's hand in a firm grip.

"Dance with me and tell me more about this Christmas of yours."

"I don't really know how to dance princess," he said with a sheepish grin

"I'll teach you, try not to step on my feet though it's a pet peeve of mine."

"I make no promises."

She would have been dragging him onto the floor if he wasn't barely keeping pace with her, once on the floor, she positions his hands where they need to be. One on her back and the other in her hand. "You lead."

"I'm gonna step on your feet princess."

"For your sake, I hope not, now calm down and start slow, I'll walk you through the first dance, don't step on my feet. Now what you are going to do is step forward, and not step on my feet while doing so."

"Mario did so."

"Then we step to the right. Back, left, now twirl me, you know what that means right?"

"Of course, I do, I'm not a mook princess," he then starts walking them both around in circles.

"Mario, this is not what I meant. Stop it." Peach said, unamused. She looked at him as if he were a filthy commoner at this moment and Mario had to take a double take, he'd never seen Peach look down on anyone before!

Mario stopped, "fine then what did you mean?"

Peach sighs, rolling her eyes, she puts a hand to her head, oh my fucking god… Mario looked away uncomfortably, he felt like a filthy commoner. It was one thing when the snobby lords did it, but when Peach- someone he knew for a fact was anything but a snob did it, it was kind of uncomfortable. "Okay Mario, don't move unless I move you, she pushed his hand off her back and lifted his arm up and twirled under it, that is what I meant."

"Oh."

"Do you have it down now? "

"Of course, I do, princess, I have a photographic memory after all!"

"Good then let's begin with a real dance now and don't step on my feet."

Mario nodded and began leading the dance the way he had been taught to do so.

"So, when should we begin preparation for this Christmas?" Peach asked, all judgment in her eyes gone now, she smiled warmly down at him.

"Tomorrow morning, Christmas is on the twenty-fifth so we gotta get started right away."

"Okay, tell me, Mario, is it true you have a Yoshi for a pet?"

"Yeah, I left him at home, why do you ask?"

"Yoshi's are well mannered people, I'd love you to bring him in for me to meet next time."

"Really? Okay then well, Luigi's gonna be happy to hear that- wait, people? Seriously?"

"Yes, they are people like you and me, not animals, having one as a 'pet' is equal to having a slave."

He looked at her in horror at this, oh, mamamia princess, I'm sorry I had no idea."

"Don't be, slavery is legal in the Mushroom Kingdom."

"Oh…. Well um… okay then…."wait until i tell Luigi, he thought

"Oh by the way, where is Luigi?"

"Talking to Princess Daisy."

"He's taken a fancy to her?"

"Yep, the mook abandoned me to go see her."

"Oh, well he's in for some disappointment, she's never accepted a suiter before and certainly won't take a commoner."

"Well good, that's what he gets for getting distracted."

"So how am I doing princess?"

"Dance wise? Horribly sloppy, but that's okay, it's your first time after all. "

"Mario!"

Mario looks around hearing Luigi calling, "Luigi? Where is he?"

"I think he's over– OUCH!" Mario had stepped on her foot.

"Oh, sorry Princess I didn't mean to– Mario grunted as he struggled to control himself as Peach stomped on his foot with the heel of her shoe."

"I told you not to step on my feet," her face contorted into anger as she said this.

"Err, calm down Princess, it was an accident," Mario says, wincing.

"Be more careful please."

"Right, sorry about that princess."

Luigi looked to the dance floor to see Mario, he found Mario and Peach dancing together, he looked around and saw a noblewoman talking to a lord. He smiled as he walked over and took her hand, "may I have this dance?"

"No," she pulled her hand away and glared at him, the lord did also but Luigi ignored him and looked around for another lady. Luigi asked every lady he could find near the floor but was rejected by them all.

"Oh, mamamia there's gotta be someone I can take to the floor," he noticed Toadsworth and smiled, he walked over and patted him on the back, "Toadsworth! How are you?"

"Green Mario my boy, good to see you, err what exactly do you want?"

"First off, it's Luigi and second would you like to dance with me?"

"Good heavens boy are you mad?"

"No, but I can't get a dance partner."

"Did you ask any of the maids?"

"Maids? Oh no, I didn't I'll go ask–"

"Oh, alright if you insist, Linguini."

"It's Luigi and I think I'll ask a maid or–"

"Nonsense I will be your partner Lucina, why I haven't danced since the party of seventeen BC, it'll be good to get the old hips moving."

"Oh, mamamia, my name is Luigi!" Luigi whined as he was pulled to the dance floor by Toadsworth. Toadsworth pulled Luigi down to his level and got him positioned to waltz.

Luigi saw Mario and led the dance over to them, "Mario!"

Mario looked over at them and smiled amused, soon he was laughing hysterically.

"BWAHAHAHHAHA! Wow, Luigi, I never knew you were attracted to old men!"

"Shut-up Mario, I couldn't get any other partner", Luigi growled.

"Why did you even come onto the dance floor then?" Peach asksed, through her own giggles,, not laughing as hard as Mario but still clearly amused at his expense.

"Because I needed to get to Mario!" Luigi snapped defensively, blushing in embarrassment.

"Well, here I am bro what's up?"

"Did you get that permit thingie?"

"No, but I got something similar."

"What?"

"You, Mario and the rest of the kingdom have permission to decorate my trees for Christmas." Peach said happily and a big excited smile on her face, clearly looking forward to christmas

"Princess if I may, don't you think that is a waste of time?" Toadsworth asked skeptically.

Peach gave a forced laugh at this, trying to be polite, "yes, but it will also be fun Toadsworth."

"Fun isn't productive Princess. There's plenty of other things that you could do tomorrow other than decorating trees!" Toadsworth scolded her giving her a stern look

Peach let out a loud aggressive groan at this, "Luigi why did you pick Toadsworth as your partner?!" Peach gripped in annoyance.

"I didn't have a chance to change my mind, I swear. What the- he's asleep!" He found Toadsworth drooling on him so he threw him to the ground, "yuck!"

The song ended and everyone left the dance floor, "well thank you, Princess, I had a fun night. But I must be going now," Mario said as he broke apart from Princess Peach.

"Please, call me Peach, we're friends after all."

"Heh, yeah I suppose so, well I'll see you bright and early to start decorating them trees."

"Yes, I will be ready to begin at eight."

"Eight? Mamamia you're excited for this aren't you?"

"Yes, now go home and get some rest, oh and bring Yoshi with you too!"

"Right I'll be sure to um... Peach," he had happily forgotten about Yoshi and her bringing him up was uncomfortable, she nodded in approval with a smile.

He smiled back at her a moment before turning around, "Come on Luigi," Mario said as he walked away.

"Finally." He started to walk away but Peach grabbed his wrist. "You need to take Toadsworth to bed Luigi."

"But Peach I—"

"I said Mario could call me by my first name, not you, take Toadsworth to bed please Luigi."

Luigi sighed as he begrudgingly picked Toadsworth up and took him to bed, it took him a moment to realize what she called him, "wait a second you called me by my name! No one remembers my name, Princess!"

Peach smiled amused, "I was kidding Luigi, we're friends too, calling me by my name is acceptable."

"Oh well good, I'll just leave Toadsworth here, and go home so I can get some–"

"No, you still need to do that Luigi."

"Oh… fine."