I: Yoshi's Island
Salac walked down the road, looking at
his feet. He kicked a rock across the ground, freeing it from
the Earth. Flame and Chirp walked beside him. He looked
up and smiled at the familiar sites of Yoshi's Island. How long
ago, was it, that this was his home, the old port his own?
Salac
was a young Pichu. His tale was tinted yellow and brown and his
ears had black strictly at the tops, since, at age 14, he was nearly
a Pikachu. He had become a street preacher.
Flame was a
warrior of Dreamland, a hothead to be exact. Chirp had a
falcon's appearance. She wasx a year younger than Salac.
Salac
looked out at the seas, rememberring his past. The ocean breeze
was great, as it was when his role in the war began.
Flash
back
The ocean breeze hit Salac's skin, and the spring sun
cheered im. It was a good day. The rough, exhausting
winter was behind them, and this young Pichu walked happily.
The threats of war didn't bother him much, but he did not know
Bowser's goals. He was intending to bring back the power from
the past. He rememberred his first encounter with Mario, and it
resembled what was happening now. Still, Salac walked
cheerfully that day with Kelsey and Egg.
Egg was a young Yoshi who
always wore a cap. Kelsey, being a Deku Scrub, was on of the
few non-Yoshi residents of the island.
Salac
smiled and did a jump to let out some energy. He was happy. He
rememberred Luke 10: 21; rememberred that Jesus had revelled that the
message was for the sinners; rememberred that this man, of all the
people in the world, was the Messiah. He sang aloud the song of
the Yoshi clan and beckonned his friends to join in. It was one
of the rare occasions that they agreed to sing.
"Now, like
the buffalos,
we roam;
Love becomes are only
true home.
But
I've seen darkness
truly be light;
victory might still
be in
sight.
Every which way
you look,
someone gives
another
book,
but you just love Him
and you'll be saved
and know,
the road to
truth isn't always paved."
That song would
resemble Salac's life. Salac's name would resemble it as well.
In the poor times of his life, in the bitter moments, he would have
the sweet love to and from God. Maybe being named after the
berry was fate, or perhaps not, but it was strange. In the
distance, Salac spotted smoke. It was coming from shore.
"Guys,
look!" Salac called. The attack on Yoshi's Island had
begun.
Far off, in a different dimention- the Dreamland,
formerly known as Subcon- Flame flew over the desert terrain.
Why had he been spared. The
sword had been at his throat.
His fate was to die. The legendary knight that had taken on
seven armed koopas and killed them without a sword was gone to
death. But the koopa who held the sword didn't kill Flame.
the koopa who held the sword set it down, as Bowser watched.
The koopa who held the sword had whisperred, "Jesus loves
you," before going to face his death. The koopa who held
the sword... loved. Flame landed his warpstar, causing allot of
dust to fly up. There, on the Vegitable Valley'sterrain, he
prayed.
"Lord,
Living God of Isreal,glory to your ame... I love you Lord; I will
until dthe end of time... but... why is this so hard. Lord,
please help me turn my head to you and not see their judgemental
faces... please. help me..."
Flame had always been given a
straight path through life. He was to succeed and go down with
a bang. Every member of the dream armies fought because they
were skilled. Now what? Was he not to fight, not to raise
his sword? It sounded rediculous, preposterous, and yet... he
loved the Lord... he loved... Jesus had been accused of having
a demon. Should it be any different for Flame?
The Sparkling
Stars were bright over Flame's head He thought for a moment of
what could have happenned if Kirby had not fought to get those back.
Everyone would have starved! Did that excuse the murders he
commited. Flame stood their, looking at the stars. Jesus
had never fought, and souls were more important than lives... Flame
could not kill.
The Yoshi's were con fined inside the
church for protection against the oncoming danger. Bowser
wanted the Kamek power, but how were they to know that. What
Salac had spotted had alarmed the whole town. He had seen ships
engaged in war. The cheepcheeps were fighting blue pikmin
as Piers lead the attack. The old Fort was wanted.
Kelsey
walked up to Salac and sat down. They joked for a while.
"At
least your not thinking about pukish green," Salac teased her,
knowing her greatest weakness.
"Stop!" Kelsey commanded,
coverring her ears. Salac smiled mischieviously as e watched
his friend.
"Stop what? Sayiong..."
"Don't
say it."
"What's the difference if I say it I
know..."
"Lalalalala..."
Kelsey at latst
unplugged her ears, only to hear Salac quickly add, "pukish
green," with a smile.
They waited in the Church for quite
some time. After a while the minister gave a sermon. He
invited others to come p and give their own sermons. Nobody
moved because nobody cared. Salac cared. He cautiously go
up and walked to the front of the room. All eyes focussed on
him. Salac paused for a moment, and then smiled.
"What
do you think of when you think of Jesus?" he asked. "It
seems allot of us think of rules. I have been guilty about
thinking this way. But who is Jesus?
"What if I told
you that most of what you're thinking right now is of the Devil?
What if Jesus came up and said, 'Be irresponsible!'? What if he
already did?
"Jesus was awesome. He came up, and after
lecture after lecture of hearing, 'Listen to your parents,' he says
the Messiah, the Son of God, came to draw a sword! He hung out with
prostitutes! He hung out with sinners! He forgave the man
on he cross, being crucified beside him, who was doubtfully baptised,
and who committed a sin worthy of death!! At the end of his
life, this manrepents, and he gets the Kingdom, while the Pharisees
and scholars who tried so hard to obey the rules lose!
"The
Pharisees weren't much different from people today. They
preached the law with something else. They preached
responsibility for your actions. They preached doing well in
school. They preached laws. Then, the Messiah came.
Most of you probably thank him for your life and are done.
Well, the Messiah comes, and He challenges this. He looks at
all their flattering words, and says that the fools get this
Kingdom. Every other Philosopher teaches education, but not
Jesus. Not this Messiah. This Messiah comes up, and sees
the meditation. he sees the rules, and gives us a pharse we
throw around quite a bit, freedom from sins.
"What dioes this
mean? Do we know what it means to be free from sins? It
means We are free from the dull ongoing lectures that held us captive
for so long, that all rebuked us, that all unyeildingly sent us into
the dull, listlessness of society, as we looked for 'inner peace.'
Maybe Jesus didn't preach inner peace. Maybe he preached joyous
revelling in the spirit. Maybe he came to save the fools over
the wise. And this man is the Messiah!! Jesus Christ, of
all the people in the world, is the messiah!! Do we even
realize who he is?! Rediculous, preposterous,
BEAUTIFUL!!!"
They listenned to Salac talk. They were
amazed. One person said it was just the rebelion in teen years,
but there was a problem with that: Salac had Scripture.
The
thunderous bangs of rockets sounded that following morning.
People grew afraid, relizing the Danger that might await. After
two hours, there was marching accompanied by triumphant cheers.
The koopas had won. People peeked nervously out the Church
windows. It happenned so fast. The doors openned with a
bang, and people drew back fearfully. The army of koopas made a
path for their General to come through. General Andross, a
former scientist for the Nintendo Heroes Army, or NHA,
advanced.
Andross had been exiled from the NHA due to
experimentation on Magikoopas. Now, his regected idea was the
goal of the war. Perhaps he thought he could get both revenge
and new power when he joined Bowser. Perhaps he was paying his
debt for his revival. Andross looked at them coolly. "You
are to leave," he stated trying to hold back the faint smile
that was appearing on his lips. With joy, he added, "You
will go to one of the two warp pipes. No expense will be
accepted for help at the port."
They
walked out of the Church. Salac could here crying in the
distance. His head held a silent prayer.
"Do you think
we'll see eachother again?" he heard Kelsey ask. She and
he both knew the answer was "no." She was the progeny
of Hyrule. Her parents would go back to her home land.
His parents would follow Egg's parents into the warp pipe to Kongo
Jungle in an effort to find Mario.
"You'll see eachother
again," a fox's voice stated, but when Kelsey and Salac looked,
there was no one there.
At last the warp pipes came into veiw.
Kelsey embraced Salac. "Goodbye," she
whisperred.
"Good bye," Salac replied. He was
crying a bit. Everyone was. After going through the warp
pipe, things might never be the same again.
Salac began to sing
the song of the Yoshi Clan, and others followed...
"Now, like
the buffalos,
we roam;
Love becomes are only
true home.
But
I've seen darkness
truly be light;
victory might still
be in
sight..."
Bible Passage
Jesus said a parabol:
A wealthy man threw a
dinner party. He had sent invitations, and when everything was
ready, he sends a servant to go get everyone. The servant goes,
and they all make excuses: business deals, marriages, and other
reasons that seem to make snse. The servant tells this to the
host, who is furious.
"Go out into the streets and alleys of
town and bring in the poor, the cripled, the blind and the lame."
When the house is still not full, the host says, "Go out to the
roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house may
be full!" Preposterous! That's rediculous! And
this parabol is talking about the Church, as it is meant to be!!
BEAUTIFUL!!!
What chaos there must have been- criminals,
prostitutes, blind lame, crippled, losers, homeless, alcoholics, drug
user -and all in the Church!! Why have we changed direction to
judgement from general love and acceptance? Why do we forget
that Jesus's therories were so strange, he was accused of being a
demon? I love the Lord, Living God of Isreal!!
