The Stew
By N.J.
Toad rushed into the kitchen and gasped when he noticed the letter. It was from the Royal Cook.
Dear Princess,
I QUIT!!!!
Signed, the Royal Cook
Toad couldn't believe it. Today was the royal banquet and highly respected people would be coming. If there was no food.....Toad decided to cook the meal. He had no idea how to cook but he had too. He found a frozen turkey and put it in the oven. While it was cooking he tried peeling potatoes. He sniffed the air. The turkey was burning. He rushed to the oven, opened it, and flames burst out. Toad ducked and grabbed a fire extingusher.
Later, Toad had completed....absolutely nothing. The turkey was burned, no, the turkey was in cinders, he cut his fingers when trying to peel potatoes with a knife, and accidently put the egg shells and wrotten milk in the pie. It was in vain. He tried to make something one more time. He looked around for something. Nothing. THERE WAS NOTHING THERE!
He ran out of the castle and into the forrest. He grabbed all the mushrooms he could, green ones and red ones. He didn't notice the purple one he grabbed. He picked up berries, and other edible plants. He went to town and bought all kinds of things. He rushed back to the castle.
Far off, in Bowser's Keep, Bowser stared at his plate.
"What kind of junk is this?!?!" Chef Torte and his assisant looked at each other and Torte replied,
"Food."
"Food! You call this food?!"
"Yes. It looks like food to me. How about you assistant?"
"Well, it was Torte's idea."
"What? It was not you zilly fool!"
"It was your idea to make that slop!" Bowser pounded his fist on the table.
"Listen you creeps! I need something edible to eat! Now, go and get something to eat!" Torte and his assistant hurried off to Mushroom Kingdom, to see what food they could steal.
Meanwhile, Toad was working like a slave. He hustled about saying to himself,
"Got to make a stew, got to make a stew, got to make a stew.....I don't know how to make a stew!" He didn't care. He just had to make a stew.
He rushed into the kitchen and searched for a kettle. He found one. Now, if it only hadn't had all that rust, cracks, and spider webs in it it would be fine. He searched again.
This time, he found one. Slightly larger. He began throwing everything in there. First, a package of bread, still in the package, a pound of beef, (it was an oxen tail actually), berries, they looked a little rotten, milk, sour, everything. He put it on the stove and heated it up to 1000* F. (That's....got to be hot).
Meanwhile, Torte and his assistant had just had an incounter with the Mario Bros. While his assistant was walking away with about a couple dozen bruises, Torte called out,
"You tink your tough eh? Well.....well....well.....I'm tough to! So dere!" Mario called out,
"Nice come back!" Torte ran to catch up with his assitant.
"Come on Torte. Let's go."
"Now, zink. Zink of somewhere we could get a decent meal."
"The castle! Mushroom Palace!"
"Zat's a good idea! I'm glad I zought of it!"
"Yeah, but I thought I though...."
"No time for zat now! Let's go!" They hurried to the castle and managed to sneak in. They noticed Peach and some of her Royal guests. They slipped past them, into the kitchen.
Toad was throwing stuff in there. Every kind of food you can imagine. Even kinds of food you don't want to imagine. Then it came down to the mushrooms. He put them in. Red, red, red, red, red, green, green, green, green, purple, red, red, red, red, etc. He didn't notice the purple one. (Purple means poison.) Torte and his assistant peeked in through the opened door and saw Toad working on the stew. They looked at each other and nodded there heads. They crept in and banged Toad on the head with there iron skillet. (Torte's valubule possesion). Toad was knocked senseless, and the two Koopas grabbed the stew and ran off.
Peach and her guests were sitting at the table. Toad walked in, (with a rather large knott on his head I might add), and laughed uneasily.
"Princess, guests. Dinner will be, I mean, uh, well. How can I put this? There will be no di...." Toad stopped. There was still the cinders of the turkey, the half peeled potatoes, and the wrotten pie. That would have to do. So it turned out Peach's party was a crash, Toad got a severe tounge lashing, and....what happened to Bowser? Well, when Torte and his assistant brought him the stew, he slurped it down, (without spoon our straw), and then.....passed out. He lay in the hospital for four weeks because of mushroom poisoning. Torte and his assistant were thrown in prison. I guess there really wasn't a happy ending, but you can't always expect one, now can you?
The End