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

[tonithegreat.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice and succinctly done! I like this a lot.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I wanted to challenge myself to write *short* and to write fiction this time.

[elledanger.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I like the twist at the end! Nice!

[resonant.livejournal.com]

I like this.

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

Lovely!! Way to go Peach !! Good work!

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Ha! Take that, Mario!

[i-love-freddie.livejournal.com]

Heh this brings back memories. Nice twist there!

[rensong.livejournal.com]

If LJ had a "like" button like Facebook, it would totally be getting clicked right now. Bravo, Princess Peach!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I enjoyed writing this.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This was such fun to craft.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Yay, and thank you!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee, I know, right?

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*grin* thanks!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for saying so! I struggled momentarily between doing this kind of self-saving Peach, doing a prompt based on my life, or doing a kind of formal essay about alternative ways to be a feminist princess.

I think this was a solid choice.

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

*bows*

well, thank you!!

*grin*

[basric.livejournal.com]

Good for Princess Peach. Don't wait to be saved save yourself. Well done.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I maaaay have read too many fractured fairy tales in my 20's.

*grin*

[kandigurl.livejournal.com]

Excellent way to flip Peach around! :)

[jadefalcon01.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, babe!

[tatdatcm.livejournal.com]

I like the opposing POV. Well done.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

thank you very much!

[seakittym.livejournal.com]

I love it! I played the heck out of Mario 2 (the dokidoki panic rip-off) where Peach used her skirt to float around, and that's pretty much what I'm picturing her doing after deciding she can be her own hero.