The boy and the Kingdom
Chapter 1: Down the pipe
Note: I don't own Mario, Nintendo is lucky enough for that, but I do however, own my two OC's Alex and Princess Sandra. YA HEAR THAT! THEIR MINE! ALL MINE! Ahem Excuse me…
--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ----------------------
14 year old Alex stood at the entrance of the forest. His blonde spikey hair flapped in the crisp autumn wind. His orange backpack slung over his shoulder. His black hoodie was zipped over his red basketball jersey. Today he was aiming for a mission inside that forest. "Okay Alex, you can do this…." He said to himself. He closed his eyes and sighed. When he opened them again, he began to trek thru the forest. Now Alex liked to explore the woods, it was his favorite place to relax. But, at the edge of the forest was an old house, it had been abandoned for many years and it always gave Alex the creeps. You see, one of his class mates hid a baseball in there and dared Alex to go in and get it. Alex wanted to refuse, but he knew what would happen. He'd be called a coward and he'd never hear the end of it. Most of all, being called a coward was the one thing that made him mad. His hike thru the forest gave him a chance to reflect on his current objective. "Why am I doing this?" He asked himself. "Because I'm gonna be called a coward and I'd never live it down…" He sighed as he hopped across some stones sticking out of a river.
He jumped off the last rock and onto the other side of the river. The old house was only 2 minuets away, it was not too late to turn around, but no, Alex had to focus on the task ahead. After walking down the leaf covered path. He came to a huge hill. He followed the path up the hill and there it was, the creepy old house he was searching for. "Okay, here we go" He said to himself as he went up to the house. The boards on that once barricaded the door, where now gone, signaling that his friend had indeed been there. He slowly opened the door, he found himself inside a large living room. Most of the furniture was covered by white sheets. He had time to wonder about that later, now he needed to find that baseball. He pulled out his flashlight and began to search the 2nd floor. Everything about this house scared him, but he gulped and pushed his fears aside. He searched all the rooms. No baseball to be found. He then searched throughout the 1st floor. Still nothing. "Maybe he's tricking me" Alex then looked at the furniture covered in the white sheets. "Maybe he hid it underneath the white sheets." He said to himself as he began to pull off the sheets. Sure enough, he found the baseball hiding under a sheet on a table. "Bingo!" He cried in happiness
Alex had his prize, now to get out. He was about to leave when he noticed one door he never opened. Curiosity had got the best of him, and went to investigate. He noticed the locks on the door had rusted so bad that they turned to dust as he opened the door. The room had nothing but one piece of furniture covered by a white sheet. Alex gulped. He closed his eyes as he pulled the white sheet off the object. What he found was a giant rusted pipe the green paint had faded underneath the rust. "Wow, that thing is huge!" He said in amazement. He shined his flashlight down the hole in the pipe. It seemed to go on for miles. His sweaty hands caused the flashlight to slip out of his hand and into the dark depths of the pipe. "Aw, c'mon!" Alex shouted in exasperation.
Alex looked into the pipe. He had to stand on his tippy toes in order to lean halfway thru the pipe. The light from the flashlight slowly faded into the dark abyss. But as fate would have it. The baseball slid out of his pocket and onto the ground, behind his foot. He was just getting down when his foot meet with the baseball. His foot slipped on the ball and jerked Alex forward into the pipe. His weight caused him to hit the pipe, flip over the edge and dive headfirst into the darkness. Alex was right; it DID go on for miles. "HELP ME!" Was all he could scream as he plunged into the darkness.
But worlds away, in a whole new world, where turtles could fly, and Mushrooms caused you to grow to huge proportions. Was a Kingdom, The Mushroom Kingdom. But all was not well, because a giant turtle by the name of Bowser was attacking the kingdom in his hovercraft. Fortunately, the local heroes of the Kingdom, Mario and Luigi had chased Bowser out. But they continued to follow as Bowser attempted to get away. "WILL YOU TWO JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?" Bowser shouted from his hovercraft. But they didn't listen. Instead, they began to throw giant hammers at him, until one got caught in the engine, and the Hovercraft began to descend. The two brothers just high fived each other, and made their way back to the small town in the distance.
Meanwhile, a green pipe appeared in a large meadow not far away. And form the pipe, out came Alex. The pipe spat Alex out and onto the ground. Alex opened his eyes to see he was no longer inside the house. "Where am I?" He asked himself as he looked around. He noticed something in the sky, it looked like a spec, but it came closer, and closer towards him. It was heading right for him. He ran for his life out of harms way. Only to see a giant turtle and a hovercraft come crashing down on the pipe from which he had come from. Alex slowly crept towards the crash site. The turtle known as Bowser, was out cold. And the strange hover vehicle was a wreck, and the pipe… Completely destroyed. He had no way to go back the way he came. He looked into the distance and saw a small town. He was about to head down there to see if he could get some answers as to where he was, when suddenly without warning. KABOOM .The hovercraft exploded, sending Bowser and poor Alex in different directions. Alex had landed not to far away from the town. His vision was blurred up and all he could see was incoherent blobs coming toward him, that was the last thin he saw before he drifted into unconsciousness. They were really the locals from the town and ran over to see if he was alright. They were small people who wore mushroom hats on their heads. "What do we do?" One of them asked. "I don't know" Another said. "We don't normally see people come falling from the sky." They all thought for a moment. "Wait, why don't we take this boy over to Princess Peach?" One of them suggested. They all nodded and agreed. Since they were small, it took quite a few them to take his limp body over to a shimmering white castle in the distance. The home of the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach.