Hey you people! Guess what! I STOPPED BEING A BLOB AND WROTE A NEW STORY…..but you figured that out already….ahem. Now…..*puts on stupid award show announcer voice and holds up notecard* THE PEOPLE HAVE VOTED AAAAAANNNNNDDDDDD...Peach in Wonderland is the winner! Now, I'm gonna rant about something (don't worry, it's nothing offensive….unless you're really sensitive to things that don't matter that much) so if you don't want to hear that just skip this next paragraph. Gracias. (btw, I only know the Spanish that I learned from Dora. Like, how to count to ten and stuff.)
LET THE RANTING BEGIN! Ok, I was writing a story already called Isle Delfino, and I got the idea to put it on here, but I wanted to let you guys vote against some of my other ideas. Peach in Wonderland wasn't actually my idea, but it was given to me to use. Just putting that out there so the idea contributor doesn't come to my house with pitchforks and torches wanting to kill me in the night. Anyway, the thing is, I got a Wii U for Christmas. It's great and all, but you can't play Gamecube games on it like I had been with the Wii. When writing Isle Delfino I used locations in Super Mario Sunshine, which, as most of you know, is a Gamecube game. I played the game while writing the story, so Peach and the gang had a point of view for the readers that made it seem like they were actually there. For instance, it wasn't like "Oh, I'm Princess Peach, and I'm at Ricco Harbor. I walked to a boat, because the author automatically knows that there is gonna be a boat at Ricco Harbor." No, it was like: "Daisy yelled a greeting and ran past a couple of Piantas who were working on a boat to her friend who was standing on the shore to the east." Or "Yoshi turned a corner and ran past a fruit stand, stopping to gaze at the watermelon being sold by an orange pianta in a blue shirt." My reason for this was I wanted my readers to play Super Mario Sunshine while reading, and moving Mario around where Peach and her friends went; a reenactment of the story if you will. I wanted them to be like, "Hey, there really is an orange pianta in a blue shirt selling watermelons" or "There really are a couple piantas working on a boat right here." However, since I can't play Gamecube Games anymore, either the story will not be as detailed, or it will end halfway through. Understand my dilemma? Well, ranting is over, but if you happen to have any advice please pm me. Anyway, behold: Peach in Wonderland!
*Note: this is going by the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, not the movies. (even though I love love LOVE the Tim Burton version.) So if you've only seen the movies, there may be some scenes you don't recognize. Just try to follow along.
Peach groaned and smoothed her skirt down over her legs. The metal bench she was sitting on sure was cold that day. The Garden looked slightly boring today, of course, EVERYTHING is boring if you have been listening- or half listening in Peach's case- to Toadsworth give a lecture on proper princess Etiquette. Why do I have to learn all this again? She asked herself. I've known this since I was old enough to use a pacifier! But I also knew how to drive karts then…. "Princess? Princess, are you listening?" Toadsworth asked, startling Peach back from her thoughts. "Uh…of course, Toadsworth." She said, nodding. "Quite, quite." Muttered the old Toad, returning to his lecture. A couple minutes later, a Monty Mole ran past the bench Peach was sitting on. He glanced at the wristwatch he was wearing and gasped. "Aw crap! I'm late!" the mole hurriedly jumped down a nearby warp pipe and disappeared. Peach did not find that strange in the least, considering the fact that Monty Moles talked anyway, and Peach had seen far stranger things wear watches. However, Peach felt the urge to follow the mole. After all, anything was more exciting than listening to Toadsworth rant about which side of a plate a fork went on.
"Uh…Excuse me….Toadsworth?" Peach said tentatively. "Yes, Princess?" Toadsworth said, looking up from page 208 of his book on How to answer the telephone politely. "May I run to the bathroom please?" Peach asked sweetly. Toadsworth nodded. "Yes. Just remember what I read to you from How to pee like a Princess. Always make sure your-" "Yeah yeah yeah. I got it. Be back in a minute." Peach ran off down the path towards the castle, following the Mole down the Warp pipe he had jumped into. Peach should have thought about it more carefully, before jumping down a pipe, but she does It every day. Normally the inside of a warp pipe was a green tunnel with doors to different places within the Mushroom world, but this one was very different.
This was a tunnel that was filled with dirt and cobwebs, making the princess sneeze. All the doors looked unused for ages, and it wasn't well lit like other pipe interiors. Boy, this sure is al long pipe, or I'm falling very slowly, because I have plenty of time to look around. Is that a jar of marmalade? Peach thought as she tumbled head over heels down the pipe. Finally, the pipe ended and peach hit the floor of a room, knocking the breath out of her. She sat up and looked around, gasping for air. What she saw was more shocking than the Secrets of fantastic penmanship.
To be continued…