Mario Adventure
Fanfiction by LavaLizard
Super Mario Bros and it's related material are copyright of Nintendo.
Chapter 1: The Capture
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The castle tower loomed high into the black and starry expanse of the night sky, it's white bricks illuminated by the glow of a full moon. Inside her room at the very top, Peach, princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, slept peacefully on her elaborate pink bed, wrapped up in her soft blanket, covered in a pink flower pattern.
At the castle gate, on either side of the closed drawbridge, two mushroom hatted guards, each about four feet tall, struggled with all their strength not to dose off as the soothing sound of crickets in the night attempted with great success to serenade them to sleep. As one of the guards poked himself with his spear to regain awareness, his ears caught a faint sound in the distance past the loud crickets.
A rumbling.
"You hear that?" he asked quietly, as not to annoy anyone trying to sleep, as he strained to see out into the distant blackness.
"Hear what?" the other guard asked, trying to ignore the loud chirping.
"That rumbling!"
"...holy crap!" the guard screamed quietly when he finally heard it.
The two mushroom men stared silently into the black fields, twinkling with fireflies, straining to see what was causing the approaching rumble.
"What do you think it is?" the guard on the left asked asked.
The other guard didn't say anything for a few seconds. "...is that...?"
"Huh?"
"LOOK!!!!" the guard shrieked as he pointed to what looked like a large area of fireflies in the distance.
"What? I just see fireflies out there."
"THOSE AREN'T FIREFLIES!!! IT'S AN ARMY!!!!!"
The left guard's eyes widened as he realized the 'fireflies' were actually torches lighting the way for an army of at least 200 soldiers. "Oh man..."
"Why didn't guards on the tower sound the alarm?!" The right guard said as he looked up past the huge stone wall of the castle to view the main tower. It was hard to see in the dark from this distance, but with the assistance of the full moon he could see a guard slumped over the edge of the wall around the top of the tower. "URGH! They're asleep!!"
"I'll try to get they're attention!" The left guard said. "ATTACK!!!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!!"
Thud.
The guard who was slumped over the wall lay in heap on the grass, having been so startled when he awoke that he flew over the edge.
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Chaos arrose in the castle as the deep metallic booms of the huge warning bell reverberated through the stone halls, mushroom people running everywhere in thier night clothes scrambling to prepare for war.
"PRINCESS!!!!" The chancellor screamed as he slammed open the door to her room. Before he could speak he was knocked back as a heavy vase smashed him in the head with a loud crack, causing him to fall over in a daze.
"Never come in while a lady is dressing." Princess Peach said in an offended tone as she slipped on the fancy pink dress she usually wore.
"Please forgive me, your highness!" the chancellor begged as he regained ballance, rubbing a large, throbbing lump on his forehead. "We must get you to a secure location!"
"I refuse." Peach declared. "I will defend the kingdom along side the knights." She walked over to the window to see what was causing the uproar. From the high tower window she could see a large area of shimmering torches about half a mile away, approaching at high speed.
The chancellor pleaded with the princess to go to the special bunker designed to protect royalty during battle, but the determined princess ignored him while she prepared her special bow and Fire Flower arrows.
Outside, the drawbridge guards knelt on either side of a bowl of insence surrounded by candles and prayed that they wouldn't be killed imediately when the army arrived, while the tower guard struggled to move after his 30 foot fall. Through the increasingly loud rumble, creaking wagon wheels and shouting vioces could be heard as the army aproached. Their prayer complete, the bridge guards blew out the candles, stomped out the insence, picked up thier spears and prepared for battle... prepared for death.
Atop the right lookout tower, a mushroom guard with a telescope looked out over the fields while another shone a searchlight into the distance.
"BOWSER!" The one with the telescope shouted as the infamous turtle-like beast came into the scope's focus. The name, known all too well, echoed throughout the castle.
"Bowser again..." Peach said, looking out her tower window.
The chancellor wiped sweat from his forhead. "Please, your highness! We must get you to the shelter! We mustn't let Bowser kidnap you again! This time you may never return!"
Peach sighed and looked at the small mushroom man with green spots on his hat. "You know the shelter is useless against Bowser. He'll just torture and kill people till I come out." She set the bow and arrows down on the bed. "I'll surrender myself peacefully. I don't want anyone to get hurt."
"Nonsense!" the chancellor wailed. "We CAN defeat his army! We'll win this time!"
"Chancellor..." Peach said, silencing the mushroom, "Send someone to summon Mario and Luigi, the famous plumbers who saved me last time this happened. They can get me back again, I know it."
"..." said the chancellor.
Peach suddenly struck a fighting pose and made a threatening expression towards the window and the army visible outside. "Don't worry, I'll keep him occupied long enough for Mario to get there. He'll regret he picked THIS princess to mess with!"
The chancellor pondered knocking the princess unconscious and carrying her to the shelter, but dismissed the thought and bowed. "Very well, highness. I shall send a messenger right away!"
In the weapon storage room, a young knight-in-training named Toad franticly grabbed a spear from the wall and ran stumbling out the door to catch up with the other guards. The warning bell hadn't woken him and if another guard hadn't tripped and landed on him, he'd have slept untill the enemies were inside the castle! As he ran down the hall he attempted to put on some armor over his pajamas, but got it stuck on his head. Before he could stop running to get it on properly he ran into something at full speed and flew to the floor like a rag doll.
The chancellor moaned in agony and clutched an injured rib after being struck down as he reached the bottom of the stairs leading to Peach's tower.
Toad dug his way out from under the armor and spear and looked to see what he hit. He gasped when he saw the chancellor dieing a few feet away. "Oh God! Chancellor!" he wailed, tears flying. He slipped around on the marble floor trying to get up, wearing socks but no shoes, and eventually just crawled over his fallen superior. "Are you okay?! I'm so sorry!!"
The chancellor wheezed, having the wind knocked out of him completely. "Uough... you... damn clumsy fool..."
Toad's tears flowed faster at the chancellor's words.
"Urgh... M...Mario... Go find the great plumber Mario... Tell him to save Princess Peach..."
Adrenaline filled Toad's chest. "B-but... we're gonna protect her highness! Bowser hasn't gotten her yet!"
"Just do it! It's a direct order from her highness!" the chancellor shouted as he rolled over cluthcing his side in pain.
Toad franticly slipped around in his socks on the slippery floor again, and finally got to his feet. "Yes sir!" he said with a salute, then ran full speed back down the hall to the yoshi stables.
The guard watching the castle's back door suddenly found himself flying through the air before landing in a mud puddle. He hadn't heard Toad's approach because his socks provided stealthy silence as he ran through the castle's tunnels. Toad shoved him aside and ran for his designated yoshi. The small yellow dinosaur was sharing a midnight snack of hay with two other yoshis, a red and a blue. He grabbed the little dinosaur's reigns and hopped onto it's saddle.
"Go Sunnie, go!" Toad said, slapping it's behind. The next thing he knew he was laying on the grass.
Sunnie rubbed her sore rump and scowled at the humaniod fungus laying behind her.
Toad growled and scrambled to his feet, the door guard watching from the mud. "This is important, Sunnie! The Princess' life depends on us!" He hopped back onto the saddle. "Let's go!" He said, skipping the slap this time. Sunnie looked at him reluctantly but took off at a run towards Mario's house.
Telescopes were no longer needed to see the aproaching army. The bridge guards could clearly see the army, only few hundred feet away. At least 50 large yoshi-drawn catapults, all loaded with boulders or barrels of gunpowder were at the back of the group, and infront of them were another 50 wagons loaded with Koopa soldiers, all armed and battle-ready. And at the very front of the triangular formation was the glorious cariage containing the Koopa king, Bowser. The large, spike-shelled turtle sat atop his giant throne of fine red velvet lined with gold, and on either side of him were two massive gold torches, thier billowing flames illuminating his magnificent carriage. Behind him were two statues of former Koopa kings, thier golden spikes and fangs shimmering in the light from the torches. The royal carriage was drawn by a team of 5 rare black yoshis, and 5 equally rare and expensive white yoshis, arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The finest training had the yoshi's feet moving together in perfect synchronization as they marched their king towards Mushroom Castle.
Finally the army came to a stop before the castle. The two bridge guards stood motionless. Not even thier hearts moved. The knights atop the castle wall drew their arrows back in preparation. Behind the wall, hidden catapults were loaded and ready to fire. Silence consumed the torchlit scene.
The sound of rattling armor was loud from Mushroom castle as bowser stood up from his throne and raised a fist.
"GIVE ME THE PRINCESS!" he bellowed louder than any normal-sized person could.
"NEVER!" the captain of the Mushroom knights shouted back from atop the wall in his comparatively tiny voice.
"I'LL GIVE YOU ONLY ONE WARNING." Bowser boomed. In a sudden motion he pointed to one of the catapults loaded with a gunpowder barrel, his heavy steel bracelets clattering. The driver pulled a lever, and the huge arm whipped upwards, launching the barrel into the right lookout tower. It exploded in a thundering fireball, blowing off the tower and part of the wall. Rocks and debris rained down on the bridge guards, followed by the smoking body of a knight who was stationed on that tower. The castle gasped in terror.
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Through the dark plains, only slightly visible because of the moon, Toad drove his yoshi as fast as it would go, his loose pajama shirt flapping behind him as he sped towards the home of the legendary Mario. What an honor it will be to meet him, he thought. Suddenly a distant rumble not unlike thunder came from the direction of the castle. He looked back to see the sky glow dim orange, making the sillouhette of the castle visible for a moment before it faded out. He stared in fearful awe.
Sunnie turned an eye back, slightly worried as well. Toad returned his eyes ahead and tightened his grip on the reigns. "We must hurry, Sunnie! Hurry!" The small dinosaur sped up it's pace and dashed into the night.
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Bowser grinned a grin of thick, razor-sharp fangs.
"NO!" Peach screamed as she watched from her tower, fighting the chancellor's gripping hands trying to pull her away.
"PRINCESS!!!!!" the chancellor cried, desperate to save her.
"QUIET!" Peach shouted, punching the chancellor to the floor. "I have to do this."
The chancellor lay in silent shock on the soft red carpet.
"YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS." Bowser warned, signalling the army to get ready.
The captain of the Mushroom knights raised his arm. "Ready...! Aim...!"
"STOP!" A high-pitched voiced called from above. All looked up to see the mushroom princess leaning out her window. "Stop fighting!"
"Princess?" the knight captain said quietly.
"Bowser! Cease your attack!" Peach called to the Koopa king, "I surrender!"
"WHAT?!" the castle screamed in unison.
Bowser cackled to himself. "Heheheh, I see you realize it's pointless to try and stop me." He sat back in his huge throne and smiled. "Very well then, come on down and I'll leave the kingdom in peace."
Peach vanished from the window. The bridge guards pulled levers on either side of the closed drawbridge, and with a massive creak, the huge wooden bridge lowered, the supporting chains rattling loudly until it thumped to the ground. Peach emerged and walked across the bridge towards Bowser's giant carriage, the guards kneeling as she passed.
Bowser smiled as Peach stopped at the front of his yoshi team and signalled his troops to cease her. Five small turtle-like creatures with spears descended on the princess, forcing her into a prison carriage. Peach peered through the bars and pondered her fate.
"Heh! That was easier than I expected." Bowser chuckled. "TO THE CASTLE!"
The rumble of wagons was again loud as the army wheeled thier yoshi teams around to face the opposite direction, and on Bowser's signal the huge triangle formation of soldiers and wagons went into an uproar of victorious shouting and rumbling wheels as they whipped their yoshis into action, and the massive army soon vasished into the shadows from which they came.
The chancellor struggled to hold himself up to the window in Peach's room, his broken rib and various bruises making hard to stand. "Princess..."
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End of part 1.
Fanfiction by LavaLizard
Super Mario Bros and it's related material are copyright of Nintendo.
Chapter 1: The Capture
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The castle tower loomed high into the black and starry expanse of the night sky, it's white bricks illuminated by the glow of a full moon. Inside her room at the very top, Peach, princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, slept peacefully on her elaborate pink bed, wrapped up in her soft blanket, covered in a pink flower pattern.
At the castle gate, on either side of the closed drawbridge, two mushroom hatted guards, each about four feet tall, struggled with all their strength not to dose off as the soothing sound of crickets in the night attempted with great success to serenade them to sleep. As one of the guards poked himself with his spear to regain awareness, his ears caught a faint sound in the distance past the loud crickets.
A rumbling.
"You hear that?" he asked quietly, as not to annoy anyone trying to sleep, as he strained to see out into the distant blackness.
"Hear what?" the other guard asked, trying to ignore the loud chirping.
"That rumbling!"
"...holy crap!" the guard screamed quietly when he finally heard it.
The two mushroom men stared silently into the black fields, twinkling with fireflies, straining to see what was causing the approaching rumble.
"What do you think it is?" the guard on the left asked asked.
The other guard didn't say anything for a few seconds. "...is that...?"
"Huh?"
"LOOK!!!!" the guard shrieked as he pointed to what looked like a large area of fireflies in the distance.
"What? I just see fireflies out there."
"THOSE AREN'T FIREFLIES!!! IT'S AN ARMY!!!!!"
The left guard's eyes widened as he realized the 'fireflies' were actually torches lighting the way for an army of at least 200 soldiers. "Oh man..."
"Why didn't guards on the tower sound the alarm?!" The right guard said as he looked up past the huge stone wall of the castle to view the main tower. It was hard to see in the dark from this distance, but with the assistance of the full moon he could see a guard slumped over the edge of the wall around the top of the tower. "URGH! They're asleep!!"
"I'll try to get they're attention!" The left guard said. "ATTACK!!!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!!"
Thud.
The guard who was slumped over the wall lay in heap on the grass, having been so startled when he awoke that he flew over the edge.
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Chaos arrose in the castle as the deep metallic booms of the huge warning bell reverberated through the stone halls, mushroom people running everywhere in thier night clothes scrambling to prepare for war.
"PRINCESS!!!!" The chancellor screamed as he slammed open the door to her room. Before he could speak he was knocked back as a heavy vase smashed him in the head with a loud crack, causing him to fall over in a daze.
"Never come in while a lady is dressing." Princess Peach said in an offended tone as she slipped on the fancy pink dress she usually wore.
"Please forgive me, your highness!" the chancellor begged as he regained ballance, rubbing a large, throbbing lump on his forehead. "We must get you to a secure location!"
"I refuse." Peach declared. "I will defend the kingdom along side the knights." She walked over to the window to see what was causing the uproar. From the high tower window she could see a large area of shimmering torches about half a mile away, approaching at high speed.
The chancellor pleaded with the princess to go to the special bunker designed to protect royalty during battle, but the determined princess ignored him while she prepared her special bow and Fire Flower arrows.
Outside, the drawbridge guards knelt on either side of a bowl of insence surrounded by candles and prayed that they wouldn't be killed imediately when the army arrived, while the tower guard struggled to move after his 30 foot fall. Through the increasingly loud rumble, creaking wagon wheels and shouting vioces could be heard as the army aproached. Their prayer complete, the bridge guards blew out the candles, stomped out the insence, picked up thier spears and prepared for battle... prepared for death.
Atop the right lookout tower, a mushroom guard with a telescope looked out over the fields while another shone a searchlight into the distance.
"BOWSER!" The one with the telescope shouted as the infamous turtle-like beast came into the scope's focus. The name, known all too well, echoed throughout the castle.
"Bowser again..." Peach said, looking out her tower window.
The chancellor wiped sweat from his forhead. "Please, your highness! We must get you to the shelter! We mustn't let Bowser kidnap you again! This time you may never return!"
Peach sighed and looked at the small mushroom man with green spots on his hat. "You know the shelter is useless against Bowser. He'll just torture and kill people till I come out." She set the bow and arrows down on the bed. "I'll surrender myself peacefully. I don't want anyone to get hurt."
"Nonsense!" the chancellor wailed. "We CAN defeat his army! We'll win this time!"
"Chancellor..." Peach said, silencing the mushroom, "Send someone to summon Mario and Luigi, the famous plumbers who saved me last time this happened. They can get me back again, I know it."
"..." said the chancellor.
Peach suddenly struck a fighting pose and made a threatening expression towards the window and the army visible outside. "Don't worry, I'll keep him occupied long enough for Mario to get there. He'll regret he picked THIS princess to mess with!"
The chancellor pondered knocking the princess unconscious and carrying her to the shelter, but dismissed the thought and bowed. "Very well, highness. I shall send a messenger right away!"
In the weapon storage room, a young knight-in-training named Toad franticly grabbed a spear from the wall and ran stumbling out the door to catch up with the other guards. The warning bell hadn't woken him and if another guard hadn't tripped and landed on him, he'd have slept untill the enemies were inside the castle! As he ran down the hall he attempted to put on some armor over his pajamas, but got it stuck on his head. Before he could stop running to get it on properly he ran into something at full speed and flew to the floor like a rag doll.
The chancellor moaned in agony and clutched an injured rib after being struck down as he reached the bottom of the stairs leading to Peach's tower.
Toad dug his way out from under the armor and spear and looked to see what he hit. He gasped when he saw the chancellor dieing a few feet away. "Oh God! Chancellor!" he wailed, tears flying. He slipped around on the marble floor trying to get up, wearing socks but no shoes, and eventually just crawled over his fallen superior. "Are you okay?! I'm so sorry!!"
The chancellor wheezed, having the wind knocked out of him completely. "Uough... you... damn clumsy fool..."
Toad's tears flowed faster at the chancellor's words.
"Urgh... M...Mario... Go find the great plumber Mario... Tell him to save Princess Peach..."
Adrenaline filled Toad's chest. "B-but... we're gonna protect her highness! Bowser hasn't gotten her yet!"
"Just do it! It's a direct order from her highness!" the chancellor shouted as he rolled over cluthcing his side in pain.
Toad franticly slipped around in his socks on the slippery floor again, and finally got to his feet. "Yes sir!" he said with a salute, then ran full speed back down the hall to the yoshi stables.
The guard watching the castle's back door suddenly found himself flying through the air before landing in a mud puddle. He hadn't heard Toad's approach because his socks provided stealthy silence as he ran through the castle's tunnels. Toad shoved him aside and ran for his designated yoshi. The small yellow dinosaur was sharing a midnight snack of hay with two other yoshis, a red and a blue. He grabbed the little dinosaur's reigns and hopped onto it's saddle.
"Go Sunnie, go!" Toad said, slapping it's behind. The next thing he knew he was laying on the grass.
Sunnie rubbed her sore rump and scowled at the humaniod fungus laying behind her.
Toad growled and scrambled to his feet, the door guard watching from the mud. "This is important, Sunnie! The Princess' life depends on us!" He hopped back onto the saddle. "Let's go!" He said, skipping the slap this time. Sunnie looked at him reluctantly but took off at a run towards Mario's house.
Telescopes were no longer needed to see the aproaching army. The bridge guards could clearly see the army, only few hundred feet away. At least 50 large yoshi-drawn catapults, all loaded with boulders or barrels of gunpowder were at the back of the group, and infront of them were another 50 wagons loaded with Koopa soldiers, all armed and battle-ready. And at the very front of the triangular formation was the glorious cariage containing the Koopa king, Bowser. The large, spike-shelled turtle sat atop his giant throne of fine red velvet lined with gold, and on either side of him were two massive gold torches, thier billowing flames illuminating his magnificent carriage. Behind him were two statues of former Koopa kings, thier golden spikes and fangs shimmering in the light from the torches. The royal carriage was drawn by a team of 5 rare black yoshis, and 5 equally rare and expensive white yoshis, arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The finest training had the yoshi's feet moving together in perfect synchronization as they marched their king towards Mushroom Castle.
Finally the army came to a stop before the castle. The two bridge guards stood motionless. Not even thier hearts moved. The knights atop the castle wall drew their arrows back in preparation. Behind the wall, hidden catapults were loaded and ready to fire. Silence consumed the torchlit scene.
The sound of rattling armor was loud from Mushroom castle as bowser stood up from his throne and raised a fist.
"GIVE ME THE PRINCESS!" he bellowed louder than any normal-sized person could.
"NEVER!" the captain of the Mushroom knights shouted back from atop the wall in his comparatively tiny voice.
"I'LL GIVE YOU ONLY ONE WARNING." Bowser boomed. In a sudden motion he pointed to one of the catapults loaded with a gunpowder barrel, his heavy steel bracelets clattering. The driver pulled a lever, and the huge arm whipped upwards, launching the barrel into the right lookout tower. It exploded in a thundering fireball, blowing off the tower and part of the wall. Rocks and debris rained down on the bridge guards, followed by the smoking body of a knight who was stationed on that tower. The castle gasped in terror.
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Through the dark plains, only slightly visible because of the moon, Toad drove his yoshi as fast as it would go, his loose pajama shirt flapping behind him as he sped towards the home of the legendary Mario. What an honor it will be to meet him, he thought. Suddenly a distant rumble not unlike thunder came from the direction of the castle. He looked back to see the sky glow dim orange, making the sillouhette of the castle visible for a moment before it faded out. He stared in fearful awe.
Sunnie turned an eye back, slightly worried as well. Toad returned his eyes ahead and tightened his grip on the reigns. "We must hurry, Sunnie! Hurry!" The small dinosaur sped up it's pace and dashed into the night.
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Bowser grinned a grin of thick, razor-sharp fangs.
"NO!" Peach screamed as she watched from her tower, fighting the chancellor's gripping hands trying to pull her away.
"PRINCESS!!!!!" the chancellor cried, desperate to save her.
"QUIET!" Peach shouted, punching the chancellor to the floor. "I have to do this."
The chancellor lay in silent shock on the soft red carpet.
"YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS." Bowser warned, signalling the army to get ready.
The captain of the Mushroom knights raised his arm. "Ready...! Aim...!"
"STOP!" A high-pitched voiced called from above. All looked up to see the mushroom princess leaning out her window. "Stop fighting!"
"Princess?" the knight captain said quietly.
"Bowser! Cease your attack!" Peach called to the Koopa king, "I surrender!"
"WHAT?!" the castle screamed in unison.
Bowser cackled to himself. "Heheheh, I see you realize it's pointless to try and stop me." He sat back in his huge throne and smiled. "Very well then, come on down and I'll leave the kingdom in peace."
Peach vanished from the window. The bridge guards pulled levers on either side of the closed drawbridge, and with a massive creak, the huge wooden bridge lowered, the supporting chains rattling loudly until it thumped to the ground. Peach emerged and walked across the bridge towards Bowser's giant carriage, the guards kneeling as she passed.
Bowser smiled as Peach stopped at the front of his yoshi team and signalled his troops to cease her. Five small turtle-like creatures with spears descended on the princess, forcing her into a prison carriage. Peach peered through the bars and pondered her fate.
"Heh! That was easier than I expected." Bowser chuckled. "TO THE CASTLE!"
The rumble of wagons was again loud as the army wheeled thier yoshi teams around to face the opposite direction, and on Bowser's signal the huge triangle formation of soldiers and wagons went into an uproar of victorious shouting and rumbling wheels as they whipped their yoshis into action, and the massive army soon vasished into the shadows from which they came.
The chancellor struggled to hold himself up to the window in Peach's room, his broken rib and various bruises making hard to stand. "Princess..."
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End of part 1.
