New Story! not that anyone seems to know or care...

I really do appreciate reviews, or I would If I would ever get any. I'm sorry if that sounds selfish, but I really feel like no one cares about me or my stories.

Disclaimer: I do not own Mario, Luigi Daisy or Peach, They are owned by Nintendo.

"Why are we staying here?" Peach whispered fiercely to Mario as the two unpacked their bags.

"Oh come on Peach, a huge island isn't surrounded by hurricanes and whirlpools form nothing, besides the people are friendly. I want it to be an adventure this summer, and the easiest way to start an adventure is to fly a plane into a hurricane. You never know what will happen next!" Mario answered.

"I agree with Mario on that one!" Daisy called from the next room. "You might find a place where dinosaurs are still alive, be rescued by two people who are either half fish or made of fire,"

"Okay but-" Peach tried to intervene, but Daisy wasn't done yet.

"You could get transported to a whole new world and help a raccoon to make boats and stuff, ooh or you could get eaten by a giant monster who swallows the sea and spits it out again while her sister picks the men of your ship with her seven heads, and-"

"Don't you die in that scenario?" Luigi cut in from the other room with Daisy. "There are way too many ways to die. You could get eaten and die, be thrown through the air and die, or drown and die, get eaten by the dinosaurs and die, get eaten by sharks and die, maybe before you drowned-in that case you're already dead!"

"Yeah yeah yeah there's an awful lot of ways to die, we get it." Daisy retorted. "Don't worry Peachy, everything will be fine and dandy just you wait."

"So this is your first time on the island?" Asked Tammy at the breakfast table. "That almost never happens, where pretty isolated."

"Yeah we arrived here last night." Mario explained. The party had arrived late the night before Tammy had let them stay in a cottage she had rented out. All four of them were too tired to unpack at the time, and hit the hay. The young teen seemed somewhat lonely, and enjoyed the foursome's company.

"Well, then, I guess I have to tell you how things run here before we go out to get breakfast." Tammy said.

"Tell away," Luigi replied.

"So the usual things are illegal, and you can't go within the castle gates unless there is a public or private invitation. The beach to the right of the front of the castle in infested with giant lobsters so don't go over there. The beach way out in front of the castle isn't a beach it's a port so don't go there. The beach to the left of the front of the castle tends to be super crowded so don't go there. Don't leave town, it's just boring farmlands, and beyond that the rancid woods, and that's pretty much it for the rules."

"I like this girl!" Daisy hooted, "Quick and to the point. Now lets go shop for breakfast!"

"But I still have questions," Peach started. "Many many questions."

"I'll answer them on the way." Tammy said. She was already slipping out the door. Mario started to heave himself out of his chair when Tammy's head poked around the door as it opened a crack suddenly. He fell back in his chair, startled.

"Oh and if the dragons attack, just run around and scream. You know, like you do." She said, and disappeared as suddenly as she had reappeared.

For a moment no one moved or spoke. Even Daisy was still as they all tried to process what exactly Tammy had said. Finally, Peach cleared her throat.

"Well, lets go find out what that meant, shall we?"

The foursome of newbies followed Tammy through the marketplace. She twisted and turned between the crowds from stall to stall, picking up food to restock her stock with goodies. By the time any of the foursome could reach her, Tammy was gone, off to the next stall. It was like trying to catch a kangaroo who's conscious thought you were going end the world starting with that particular marsupial's soul.

Mario watched Tammy the same way he would if he was Meowrio, a predator stalking his prey. Although in all his hunts along side his bro and fiance, never had his target moved so sporadically. Only a huge throng of people kept Tammy from weaving as wildly as she did earlier, but she did surge through the crowd quite effectively. It took some time until Tammy was satisfied with her view of the main event. Mario and his posse finally caught up with her near the heart of a throng of booing hissing pedestrians.

"About time," She said annoyed.

You didn't exactly make it easy to keep up with you," Luigi retorted.

. "No, I meant it's about time they executed him." Tammy said, pointing to the center of all the attention. A young boy who looked about fifteen years old knelt before a guillotine. A person in a uniform with clear authority burned a withering gaze into the teen's back.

"That dirty boy has been pillaging the marketplace for so long and hard they had to call in the Knights to capture him."

"Knights?" Mario asked.

"They protect the people from the dragons." Tammy explained, although she raised more questions then answers.

"And they are finally doing their job." Yelled another man from Tammy's side.

"How is executing this kid protecting you from the Dragons?" Peach asked.

"He's a spy, that's how." A woman at Peach's side hissed.

"As cool as that sounds, how in the world would that happen?" Daisy asked. "Communication, is all that spys are about, yet how would a dragon communicate with this boy?"

"You never know, but those beasts are not natural." The same woman spat. "They can breathe fire, cause cancer, control people's minds and their dung has the absolute worst smell ever."

"Wait, there's how can they cause cancer?" Peach asked. "

I don't know, but it happened to my sister." The woman said bitterly. " Every time those ravenous reptiles raided and ransacked the town, one would visit her. For a whole month it invaded my sisters home. It when she told me about it, she said she thought it was concerned. When I was with that dragon, there was no evidence of the 'knowing' eyes she had told of.

"What did you do?" Peach asked, keeping her eyes on the stage as a bag was slipped over the boy's head.

The woman snorted. "I told the Knights. They had had other people visited by dragons during raids before. Folks other than my sister whose minds had been altered by those overgrown lizards, and some of them hadn't been. All of them had developed life threatening conditions. My sister was diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer. No thanks to those brutes and their ally here." her voice was laced with hatred and disgust.

"But you even have proof of spy activity!" Mario argued, his panic growing as the guillotine was raised.

"We don't need proof." Tammy replied. "We must be as safe as possible from those demons."

"No!" Daisy cried as the rope slipped through the executioners' hands…

and the whole stand was blown to pieces; from the impact of something quite large.

A large burgundy dragon had flattened the execution stage. It was easily the size of the structure where Mario and friends had stayed the night, and It's scales gleamed menacingly in the sunlight. In a huge front tallon it firmly gripped the boy. A tail five horse lengths long swept the ground behind it.

The massive animal reared and roared, and that's when the sky imploded.