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001. Beginnings.
Fawful sat on a rock in a field. It was a relatively featureless plain, surrounded on all sides by the oddly cylindrical hills that were so common in the Mushroom Kingdom, and the only things of interest were the occasional bump in the ground and a few rocks.
A goomba stood on the ground near the rock, and he and Fawful had been conversing for a while. The goomba hadn't bothered to tell Fawful his name and Fawful didn't care enough to ask.
"So how did you come to work for Cackletta, anyway?" the Goomba asked.
Fawful shrugged. "My memory is not entirely with clarity. I was but a small child when I first had the joining of the great Cackletta."
The goomba continued watching Fawful, waiting for him to tell the tale. Fawful sighed and decided to indulge him.
"I had the age of perhaps three or four years. I was being living in the woods and Cackletta was finding me. She took the one who is me and had giving me clothes and shelter and many sandwiches and I had the becoming of her loyal toady."
"So why were you living in the woods?"
"I am not knowing."
"Where were your parents during all this?"
Fawful scratched his head. "Parents?"
"Don't you have any?"
"I am supposing not," Fawful said.
The goomba shook the upper part of its body as though shaking its head. "That's kind of sad."
"I am not thinking so," Fawful adjusted his glasses. "Are not parents in existing for the sake of punishing and the 'have going to your room' and the making of one eat spinach?"
The goomba shrugged. "Not as such, but…"
"I am not caring," Fawful said. "I had the having Cackletta. The great Cackletta possessed superiority over all parents."
The goomba opened his mouth to speak, but noticed something in the sky.
"There's a Magikoopa heading this way," he said.
Fawful looked up and smiled. "Rururu I have popularity! Be excusing me."
Fawful then proceeded to fire his rockets and fly away in the opposite direction of the approaching Magikoopa.