In Another Castle

[labelleizzy]

Princess Peach gazed out across the landscape, her keen eyesight picking out Mario's progress through the mazes that, taken altogether in their many levels, comprised her father's kingdom.

Gold coins sparkled as Mario collected them, and the red flashes of moving mushrooms or green slides of skittering tortoise shells indicated his path as he approached another goal.

Even from her distant perch in the highest tower of the home she'd been raised in, she could see the speech bubble that emerged at the entrance to that worthless pile of rocks, one of countless decoys scattered throughout her father's domain. "Sorry, Mario, our princess is in another castle!"

Peach snorted in disgust as she finished packing her camping backpack, and pulled the last of her camouflage gear over her head.

Unrolling the rope ladder that would take her down the far side of the tower, away from the guards and toward the misty hills that meant freedom, she strapped the pack more securely on her back and muttered,

"To hell with being a prize at the end of someone else's adventures!"

She swung her leg over the windowsill and was gone.




This has been my Week Three entry for therealljidol, and the prompt was "In Another Castle".

Beta-readings done by wrenb, and chipchat !

Please go read and enjoy my colleagues' entries here. To vote for my entry, link will be *here* once it's posted.

Thank you for reading!

Comments

[watching-ships.livejournal.com]

i really enjoyed this. great twist on the game's story.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! If I wrote more Adventures of Princess Peach, Professional Badass, would you read?

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

HA!!! YES!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*grin* thanks!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Nice turn around!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*grinning* thanks very much! That's a great thing to hear.

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

woohoo! Peach is a self rescuing princess!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. *grin*

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

I hope she gets a chance to have a few adventures of her own.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

I sort of like the idea of her going to rescue Zelda...

[whipchick.livejournal.com]

Glad she takes control!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Grin... Me too!
Thanks.

[i-17bingo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with Peach on that one. And wouldn't it be fun if she kept escaping from the castle whenever Mario arrived because she didn't want to put up with his crap?

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think Peach would be a fun character to play with.
Teenage Peach is one part of the story, and then Mario's been chasing her for HOW LONG now?
Heh. Middle-aged Peach is tired of Mario's baloney.

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

YES, YES, YES!!! SO much WIN!!!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*grin*

THANK YOU!!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I want to keep this here so I remember: Disney princesses playing D&D