(This is a story about female muscle growth. It is based on characters from the Super Mario series of video games, but does not follow the canon whatsoever. It is completely for fun, and for fans of female muscle. Note: For all intents and purposes of this story, Daisy lives in a kingdom neighboring the Mushroom Kingdom.)
It was yet another idyllic day in the Mushroom Kingdom. The iconic princess of the castle, Peach, gazed out the window pondering what to do today. “You know… Bowser hasn’t kidnapped me in quite some time, nearly a whole month.” she thought to herself. Honestly, she was almost looking forward to a good kidnapping. Peach quite enjoyed the travel involved and loved seeing all sorts of wonderful and mysterious landscapes. Unfortunately, hanging out with Bowser was downright boring, even more so than an average day at the Mushroom Kingdom. She would love to go traveling on her own, but it would never be allowed. What if someone who was actually devious were to kidnap her? While the Princess had some basic healing magic, and could smack people with her frying pan/golf club/tennis racket, she ultimately had very little in the ways of self defense.
Then a thought crossed her mind. What if she got stronger? Like, physically stronger. Daisy was allowed to travel wherever she wanted since she could pack a mean punch. Peach imagined herself journeying across the land, helping out damsels in distress like herself. Hell, what if she got stronger than Mario? Then maybe she’d have to go save him someday! She smiled at the thought of encountering a toad in a castle informing her that “her plumber is in another castle”.
With that thought Peach got up and decided to consult her trusty butler and all around assistant, Toadsworth. As always, the old man had some information on the matter “Well, you’re not naturally very adept with offensive magic, so you’d need to build up your physical strength… Probably in the royal gym. Are you sure you want to do this? It’s not very ladylike…” he tried to dissuade her, but the princess insisted that she become the strongest in the land, and wanted the best possible workout for fast results.
Toadsworth had the royal kitchen whip up some milkshakes made from a fairly rare breed of super mushrooms made entirely of ultra condensed protein. Simply called Super-Protein Mushrooms, these would allow the princess’ body to quickly recover from her workout and build up super-dense, super-powerful muscles. With three Super-Protein Shakes on platter, the sagely toad brought the princess to the royal gym, a fully stocked Olympic level facility that were used by virtually nobody. On the walls were very simple instructions for an optimal workout, with each exercise clearly explained. It was almost as if the gym was designed for even the ditsiest of princesses to build up their entire bodies with maximum efficiency.
Peach made her way over to the dumbbells to begin her workout when the doorbell suddenly rang and Toadsworth excused himself to answer it. Outside of the castle was none other than Princess Daisy, who had jogged over in her tennis outfit with racket in hand. The Toad explained to the dark haired princess that Peach was currently strength training in the royal gym. Daisy responded by giggling, finding the idea of Peach pumping iron to be ridiculous. Not wanting to be rude, the Toad led Daisy towards the gym. En route Daisy grabbed and quickly downed one of the Super-Protein shakes, thanking the Toad for a refreshment since she had jogged all the way over.
Peach was shakily curling a 5 pound dumbbell when her company had arrived. She practically dropped the weight when she saw it was Daisy, her athletic rival. What was Daisy doing here? Peach could have sworn that tennis was on Thursdays. Then it dawned on her, today was Tuesday. Bowser hadn’t kidnapped her in nearly a month, and with nothing to do around the castle the days seemed to bleed together. Peach sighed quietly and greeted the brunette.
“Hey Daisy” she said with a tinge of embarrassment in her voice.
“I didn’t know you pumped iron” Daisy stated, teasingly.
The blonde nervously scratched the back of her head “Oh, I literally just started.. I’m not too good at it yet” a nervous sweat broke out on her forehead.
“Hmm, well we’re supposed to play tennis but this looks like fun. Mind if I join?” Daisy asked.
At risk of being rude, Peach had no option but to oblige. “O-of course. ” Peach responded.
“I’ve never worked out before either, but getting stronger does sound like fun!” Daisy exclaimed and got right into it.
Peach picked up her dumbbells again and began curling them with great effort. Her arms visible shook as she very slowly completed repetitions
“Looks a little light, don’tcha think Peachy”? Daisy asked with a semi-taunting demeanor.
Peach’s face went from bright pink to burning red as she felt a tinge of anger towards the other princess.
The brown haired princess grabbed a pair of 5 lb dumbbells and effortlessly curled them a few times. She even grabbed a third one and started juggling them! Daisy turned around and asked Toadsworth “You’re supposed to be challenged when working out, right?”
The butler simply nodded in response.
“Hmmm” Daisy tossed the five pounders aside and grabbed some 25 lb weights. These gave the brunette a little more trouble, but she still completed a full set without much effort. Unsure if she should continue increasing the weight, Daisy decided to simply move on to the other exercises and maybe come back to this one later.
After Daisy put down the 25 lb weights, Peach bent down to pick them up in an effort to not be outdone. The blonde princess struggled immensely to even move the dumbbells off the ground, and was unable to properly attempt curling them.
Peach needed a break, she sat down the floor and stared at the ceiling. Why did Daisy have to come and embarrass her so much? Granted, Peach was always the much more popular, prettier princess that captured a thousand toads’ hearts. She didn’t mind Daisy being stronger, after all she did always have much more power in tennis and golf, she just felt helpless watching her rival-friend lift five times the weight she did.
Seeing the princess despair, Toadsworth walked over with the two remaining shakes “need a refreshment, princess?” he asked, offering her a drink. As nice as a drink sounded, Peach wanted to look tough “No thanks” she responded, against her better judgment.
“Yo Toads! Over here, gimme a pick me up!” Daisy called out as she was squatting 150 lbs. Not wanting to break her workout tempo, the princess had the butler feed her the shake while she continued squatting. “Mmm, I feel refreshed already! Can you slap on another pair of 25’ers?” T
he butler obliged and added 50 pounds to Daisy’s squat rack, which did little to challenge the brown haired princess.
“Check it out!” she exclaimed as she completed repetitions using only one leg.
Peach continued to rest as Daisy completed the full pantheon of exercises. Honestly, Peach didn’t need to rest, but she wanted Daisy to leave so she could work out in peace. Hoping Daisy was satisfied, Peach approached the squat rack decided to leave it at the other princess’s weight. The blonde got under the bar, but was unable to stand up with the weight on her shoulders. After squirming for nearly a minute, she gave up and slowly took off all weights, leaving the bare 50 pound bar. Meanwhile, Daisy gulped down the final Super-Protein shake and decided to restart the entire workout regiment, since she barely felt tired. Toadsworth shook his head at the situation and left to have the kitchen make more shakes.
As she struggled to complete full squats with 50 lbs on her shoulders, Peach looked over and almost toppled over as she saw Daisy was easily curling a 50 pound weight with one arm. Peach’s stomach churned with anxiety. She struggled to support with her entire body what Daisy could smoothly lift with one arm. The image of Daisy moving that much metal was cartoonish given the size of her slender arms and the girth of the weights. After completing ten repetitions Peach almost collapsed, but managed to shakily step away from the squat rack and sit down again.
Daisy was already anxiously awaiting to squat again and hurriedly walked over “I’ll show you how it’s done!” she exclaimed, piling on metal plate after metal plate.
Peach did a double take, 250 lbs on each side, combined with a 50 lb bar made that 550 pounds. Before she knew it Daisy was already doing repetitions with little effort. “Watch this!” she yelled out, crouching down and lept over a foot into the air with the weight on her shoulders. As her feet crashed onto the ground the entire floor shook. “Ooops” she exclaimed insincerely and immediately resumed doing full perfect form repetitions at a breakneck pace.
Peach fell onto her back and stared at the ceiling. Surely Daisy’s fun had to come to an end soon. After ten minutes or so had passed, Daisy had already finished the entire regiment again. Just as she finished, Toadsworth reappeared with two more Super-Protein shakes. Daisy ran over and eagerly grabbed one.
Toadsworth tried to object “Ma’am, these two shakes contain all of the Super-Protein mushrooms we had left… Peach needs them…”
Daisy winked at the butler and gulped her drink down. “Not now Toadsworth!” she exclaimed. “One more round!” she yelled out running back to the dumbbells.
Just like with the squat rack, Peach had prematurely assumed Daisy would leave, so the blonde continued her workout. She approached the bench press and managed to remove the majority of the weight Daisy had on it. All that remained was a 50 lb plate on each side, which combined with the 50 lb bar made a total of 150 lbs, 1/4th of what Daisy had on it. With tremendous effort, Peach managed to lift the bar off of the rack, and it instantly fell down onto her chest. She managed to squeal for help, and both Daisy and Toadsworth quickly ran over.
The brunette grabbed the bar with her right hand and effortlessly picked it up. “You gotta be careful Peachy, leave the heavy ones to me!” Daisy exclaimed, proudly holding the bar high in the air. Toadsworth tended to Peach, who luckily wasn’t hurt badly.
“Though… I guess this isn’t too heavy for me!” after taking a few steps back, Daisy held the bar high above her head and began spinning it extremely quickly “I’m a helicopter!” she yelled out with childlike delight. (Luckily the clamps on each end of the bar held tight) Peach collapsed onto the floor again.
After using every weight and machine in the gym a third time, Daisy jogged over to Toadsworth and snatched the last of the Super-Protein Shakes and gulped it down. Toadsworth tried to object, but Daisy gave him a miniscule, effortless, playful push that almost knocked him over.
Before heading out, Daisy yelled out to Peach “Thanks for opening my eyes to the world of weight training Peachy! I’m going to come over tomorrow and get even stronger OK?”
Peach managed to sit up and nodded. “Just… feel free to come over whenever”.
While Peach detested the idea of Daisy getting even stronger, fear of being rude overrode her pride. Plus, Peach hoped that Daisy would simply work out in the morning and leave, letting Peach use the gym on her own accord without feeling too inadequate.
“Thanks! I can’t wait to see what I can do tomorrow! And the day after that! Imagine me in a year!” Daisy yelled out, flexing her right arm, which thankfully was still as stick-sized as ever. The brunette promptly left, and Peach decided she needed to end today’s workout session, and go to sleep, despite having only done three exercises.
Never had the princess slept in this late. After an hour had past beyond her usual wake up time, Toadsworth finally acted as a personal alarm clock. Peach’s body ached all over, a feeling she had never really experienced before.
“Well Princess, normally I’d whip up a meal with Protein Mushrooms, but the market was completely sold out this morning.” the butler Toad explained “I’ll have the kitchen make something tasty, you go get massaged and pampered by the Toadettes”.
Peach nodded and Toadsworth left to prepare breakfast. The princess undressed and examined her body in the mirror. She was still thin, pale and frail with slight curves. A form that was attractive enough to the common man, but not what Peach was looking for. Upon closer inspection, a look of horror spread on Peach’s face. For the first time in her life, a moderately sized unsightly pimple had formed on her forehead. She began furiously poking it, which seemed to only exaxerbate the problem. Peach promptly stopped and tried to think this through logically. “Well, since I’m working out now my body must be under a lot of stress, but it’ll be worth it soon… I hope” She flexed her right arm, and a familiar tiny bulge rose, but she began to tremble from being sore and quickly gave up. “Hmmph. Well, Daisy is awfully strong without any muscles. Maybe us princesses get stronger without building muscles?” Peach hoped for the best and made her way to the royal spa for a much needed massage.
The Toadettes quickly took Peach in and lead her over to the massage area. While the spa was mostly used by the royal family, employees and friends of the castle were welcome to it as well. As she made her way over to the massage tables, Peach was not prepared for what awaited her. Already being worked on one of the tables was Daisy, whose back was now rippling with muscles.
“D-d-daisy?” Peach managed to greet the other princess.
Daisy turned over and sat up facing the princess. Since only females were allowed past this point, the brunette was completely naked. Peach’s jaw almost dropped. Small pecs were pushing up Daisy’s perfectly shaped and unnaturally perky breasts (which Peach swore were larger as well). Her shoulders were rounded and noticeable. A small vein snaked down each arm, from which a small but noticeable bicep emerged, even at rest. Behind her neck were some noticeable traps which pushed out with little effort. Her midsection was guarded by a chiseled six-pack complete with matching obliques, all laid above her well cut Adonis belt. It was hard to see from Daisy’s position, but powerful quads bulged out of her legs.
“Thanks for the work Toadette, I’ll have to come in tomorrow, that full beauty package was really something else” Daisy exclaimed admiring her now perfectly manicured and painted nails, which caused her sinewy forearms to twitch with every little motion. The Toadette dismissed herself so the two princesses could have some privacy.
Daisy noticed the other princess admiring her new form, and a huge grin spread across her face “Hey there Peachy, looks like your workout works really well” she said flexing her right arm as a lemon shaped bicep rose up.
Peach instinctively rose her hand towards the other girl’s arm, but stopped herself.
“Go on, have a feel!” Daisy exclaimed, straightening her arm and contracting it with more effort, making it appear even more formidable than before. Peach lightly squeezed the brunette’s bicep, it felt like rock covered in smooth skin.
“Come on, try to dent it!” Daisy challenged, to which Peach couldn’t help but contest. The blonde squeezed, but Daisy’s arm barely budged; worse yet, Peach’s forearms began to tremble and she had to give up.
“Is that all you’ve got?” Daisy teased, flexing up her left arm and re-contracting both for added emphasis.
Peach uttered an audible “Hmmph” and grabbed a bicep with each hand, trying to pull the brunette down. Daisy chuckled, raising her arms up, to which Peach had no choice but to follow. This gave Daisy had a fun idea. The brown haired girl slowly stood up, lifting Peach up with her. Peach’s entire body started to shake from the mere action of trying to hang on. Daisy then grabbed the blonde with both hands and started doing bicep curls with the other girl. “You know, I JUST worked out, but I feel like I have unlimited energy!” Daisy said with a massive grin on her face.
Peach couldn’t help but feel up Daisy’s biceps growing and shrinking with every repetition, seemingly getting harder and harder as her muscle tissue worked. The blonde princess blushed, even though she considered herself mostly straight, she couldn’t help but admit that Daisy was downright sexy.
After growing bored of playing with Peach, Daisy put the princess down. “You know, you should spend some more time here in the spa..” Daisy stated, mockingly poking Peach’s forehead pimple.
Peach’s face flushed red with embarrassment at the comment. While the fiasco of yesterday gave Peach her first pimple, Daisy’s complexion was positively radiant. The brunette always had great skin for a human, but it never quite glowed like Peach’s.
“And you really should do something with those nails..” Daisy continued, gently picking up Peach’s hands, examining them thoroughly while comparing with her own. For the first time in her life Peach’s fingers were rough with callouses that formed from her attempts to weight train, and trembled with weakness; meanwhile Daisy’s were soft as a silk with surprising strength and unparalleled confidence behind them. Peach’s nails were jagged, brittle and broken from weight lifting, and her nail polish was chipped from negligence; Daisy’s nails were long, sturdy and perfectly colored.
“And they say I’m the tomboy” Daisy mused, “Well, I’m going to become super strong and come to the spa every day, so I can be super beautiful as well” she declared, giving Peach a wink. Even their forearms contrasted wildly. Peach’s were thin, frail and her skin was scratchy from damage; Daisy’s were easily three times as muscular, firm and silky smooth.
Content with examining Peach’s finer features, Daisy leaped off the table and started to get dressed. With just her bra and panties on, Daisy’s curiosity kicked in again “Are you sure you worked out Peach?” The brunette walked over “Make a muscle” she commanded.
Peach sheepishly looked down in shame and flexed her puny, trembling arm. Daisy gave it a light squeeze and could feel Peach’s arm crushing with miniscule effort. Seeing Peach wince with pain, she stopped. Peach stood up straight and gasped.
“Looks like I’m taller too!” Daisy exclaimed proudly. While the two had always been exactly the same height, Peach now only came up to Daisy’s nose. Daisy giggled and patted Peach on the head in a patronizing fashion. “Gotta get dressed Peachy-poo” she said and turned towards her clothes, only to be stopped by Peach lightly grabbing her arm from behind.
Daisy turned around “what’s up princess?” she asked the blonde
Peach nervously explained “one last thing…” and ran her fingers down Daisy’s abs; they were like granite, smooth and hard.
“Pretty cool, huh?” Daisy stated, grinning before flexing them for emphasis. “Gimme a punch!” she commanded.
Peach obeyed and lightly jabbed the brunette’s abdomen, it was like a brick wall.
“What was that? I said gimme a punch!” Daisy mockingly commanded.
Peach responded by mustering up all of her strength and punching Daisy’s abs as hard as possible; this resulted in a loud smacking noise and Peach crying out in pain as her fingers crumpled against Daisy’s might.
“Careful Peachy, I’m rock solid!” Daisy taunted, flexing her abs again, making each abdominal protrude out every so slightly more than before. “Come on, you gotta at least dent me! Use those legs that plumbers lust over.” Daisy challenged again.
Peach took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and kneed Daisy’s midsection as hard as she could. The brunette barely moved at all and Peach fell down in pain, it was as if she just drove her knee into a brick wall.
Daisy let out a cheerful sigh and scooped up Peach in her arms. After gently placing her on the massage table, she noticed that Peach was blushing profusely. “Peachy… Aww, you like my muscles?” Daisy asked in a sing-song voice while she flexed up her arms again.
Peach reached up and felt Daisy’s arms again. The blonde wasn’t sure if she was jealous, aroused, or both.
“I think you’ll like this trick” Daisy winked, unhooked her bra, put her hands behind her head, and flexed her pecs repeatedly, making her perfect breasts dance in unison.
Peach couldn’t help but stare, with her mouth wide open.
“And yes babe, they definitely did grow, it’s not your imagination” Daisy informed Peach, seemingly reading her mind. Daisy then turned around to show off her back. Peach ran her fingers as Daisy performed a full lat spread and double bicep pose.
“I’m also way more flexible than I’ve ever been” Daisy exclaimed, reaching down past her feet, intentionally exposing her magnificent bottom. With every slight movement Daisy’s perfectly round bottom hopped in unison. While Peach’s butt was small, soft and flat, Daisy’s posterior protruded proudly while appearing (and undoubtedly was) hard as steel. Beneath her butt were some powerful looking hamstrings, which lay above perfectly shaped diamond calves.
“Well, I’m not quite super flexible yet… Give me a few days, I’m working on it!” Daisy said, as she got up and started to get dressed for real.
“Well, it was fun Peachy-poo. Don’t worry, your love for me will be our little secret. Plus I like the attention anyways” Daisy winked and patted Peach on the head again, before giving her a kiss on the forehead. Peach blushed again in response. “I’ve gotta head home and cook up some delicious Super-Protein Mushroom meals! A growing girl’s gotta eat, so I bought as many of those mushrooms as I possibly could really early this morning. You know, I’ve had so much energy that I barely even slept last night. I ended up reading a bunch to work out my brain as well. I got through the first 3 volumes of the Mushroom Kingdom Complete Encyclopedia Anthology! Anywho, see-ya tomorrow!” and with that Daisy blew the dumbfounded blonde a kiss and walked off; her perfect butt bounced with each stride.
After sitting there dumbfounded for a solid five minutes, a Toadette finally broke Peach from her trance-like state. “Ready for that massage to help with your soreness? Plus you could really use a facial, and a manicure, and a pedicure…” the Toadette quickly interrupted herself “No offense of course!”
Peach shook her head “No, not now, I need to catch up to Daisy!” and with that, Peach jumped off the massage table and ran towards the royal gym.
The gym was in total disarray. Daisy had simply used the weights and tossed them aside when she was finished. She also didn’t take off any of the weight on the bars of the Olympic bars used for bench pressing and the likes. Peach walked over to the dumbbells, today she had to get through the whole regiment at least once, hopefully twice. Glancing down, she noticed that only the 100 ponders, the heaviest dumbbells in the gym, weren’t on the rack. Peach gulped and picked up her trusty 5 lb weights. The princess had severely underestimated just how sore she was, and felt immense pain after a mere two repetitions in each arm. “I have to beat Daisy…” Peach fought through the pain and managed to complete 10 reps before her body forced her to drop the weights.
Satisfied that she worked her biceps to exhaustion, Peach made her way over to the squat rack. Daisy had left all of the weight she used, which was far, far too much for Peach to fathom using. Despite her best efforts, Peach was unable to remove a single 100 pound weight from the squat bar. After realizing just how much 100 pounds alone weighed, she counted just how much weight was on the rack: 1,000 pounds plus the 50 pound bar. Peach collapsed to the ground in frustration. The princess felt jealous and betrayed on a cosmic level. She should be the one lifting heavier weights and building impressive muscles. Instead she felt weaker than she did yesterday, and uglier too! Besides, Daisy was already strong, what did she need to get even stronger for? It’s not like Bowser ever kidnapped her anyways. Peach felt like she was living in a nightmare. If only she hadn’t opened the Pandora’s box of showing Daisy weight training. If only she wasn’t so ditsy and remembered that Tuesday was tennis day. If only she drank those protein shakes, maybe they could have made a difference. Peach couldn’t help but cry for a fair amount of time.
After feeling a bit better emotionally, the princess decided she still needed to work out her legs. Unfortunately Daisy had left so much weight on everything that it was hopeless to use them. She made her way over to the treadmill. It looked like Daisy used this too. “Well, Daisy may be a lot stronger than me, but running is running…” she said to herself, activating the treadmill, telling it to keep whatever settings were used last. The machine started off slow, but Peach still had difficulty keeping up since her legs were so sore from yesterday’s squatting fiasco. Suddenly the machine began to simultaneously increase in speed and inclination. Peach struggled immensely to remain on the center of the belt. A few short moments passed and the treadmill went higher and faster than Peach had ever set it on, and Peach found herself falling closer and closer to the belt’s edge. She was too far from the control panel to stop, and the machine was continuing to grow faster. Peach had to literally jump off the machine before it flung her off. The princess crashed to the ground and looked on with horror as the machine soon reached its maximum speed and inclination. She managed to get up and slowly approached the treadmill from the side. Before turning it off, she read the panel: 25 miles per hour (maximum speed) 30 percent incline (maximum inclination) and 99 minutes nonstop last used (the machine stopped counting after 99 minutes). A cold-sweat broke out on Peach’s forehead as she tried to fathom the extent of Daisy’s physical prowess. She turned off the machine, decided she was too sore to do anything (plus she couldn’t move any of the weights Daisy left behind) and dragged herself to bed.
Just like the day before, Peach slept in late and had to be awoken by Toadsworth. “Toads… I can’t.. move…” the princess managed to mouth out, her entire body felt like it was on fire.
“Oh dear.” the butler exclaimed as he scooped the princess into his arms and carried her to her private room in the royal infirmary. Peach dozed off in the toad’s arms and awoke in her luxurious private hospital bed a few hours later.
The Toadette nurse assigned to her room noticed that Peach had finally woken up. “Careful princess, try to not move too much” the nurse warned her.
“What’s wrong with me” the princess asked in an almost dreamlike daze.
“Well, I’m going to be honest, you overexerted yourself in the gym yesterday and have caused a pretty severe strain on all of your muscles.” the nurse explained.
Peach was a little confused “I thought you were supposed to strain your muscles to make them grow?”
The nurse shook her head lightly “While that’s true, if you strain them too much you’ll damage them. Basically princess, you need lets of bed-rest for well over a week, and need to avoid the gym for a month”.
Peach gasped out loud “but how can I catch up…” she cut herself off, she didn’t want it to be public knowledge that she was envious of Daisy. Defeated, the princess sighed and tried to relax.
To be continued..!