~Mushroom Kingdom~
"But, Chancellor, why won't you let me go shop at Seaside Town? I won't be alone; Daisy's going with me!" Princess Peach Toadstool was getting angry.
"You know why," he answered. "If that rumor that Bowser is up to no good is true, we all know that you somehow end up in the middle of it."
"Maybe so," she answered, "But I've kinda gotten used to the idea that he's going to be kidnapping me for the rest of my life!"
The Chancellor sighed. "I'm sorry you've gotten used to that, but still, you never know just what he's going to do with you. I get very worried about your future, Peach, and I think the only way to keep you safer is for you to live at my castle for some time, at least until the danger has passed."
"What!" she exclaimed. "Chancellor, the danger never passes! Why, if I could, I..."
"That is quite enough," he answered. "Princess Toadstool, you're staying with me and not going anywhere today, so we won't argue anymore. Understood?"
"Yes, sir," she muttered. "Looks like I'm going to have to break that shopping appointment with Daisy... Can't I at least go to the Pipe House to see if Mario's there? That's not at all far from Mushroom Kingdom."
"Oh... I do not think..." then seeing her disappointed face," I... I... suppose so."
"Huzzah!" she answered. "I'll be back in time for supper, okay?!" and then she left.
Once outside, she casually caught sight of an old frog with a young fluffy white thing that had a pink curlicue on his head. The old frog gave him a piece of paper and said, "Here is the shopping list, Mallow. Be sure to get everything on it and, hmm, I suppose you may get a few goodies that you want."
"All right!" the puffball, whose name was apparently Mallow, was very excited. "All the candy the money left over will buy! Thank you, Grandpa!" Then he ran, top speed, to the store.
Peach chuckled, remembering how many times the Chancellor had let her go to that store to buy candy when she was little. How cute, she thought, and how happy that kid looks! Sure wish I were always that happy.
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~En Route to Tadpole Pond~
Mallow Tadpole could not believe it! Grandpa had let him buy candy at the store! Honestly, Mallow thought as he headed back home to Tadpole Pond, I'm going to have to think up some special way to thank Grandpa.
Mallow knew that his Grandpa, Frogfucius, loved eating crickets (they were like candy to him) and thought that a Cricket Pie would be just the thing to get him. However, he knew he couldn't get it as a complete surprise; a Cricket Pie was very expensive, one Rare Frog Coin, and it would take Mallow weeks to save up for one. Grandpa, however, was the designer of the Rare Frog Coin, which meant he had more than plenty of them, so Mallow would just say he needed one for a surprise he wanted to get Grandpa.
I am such a little genius, Mallow thought to himself. I just hope Grandpa will lend me one!
Once he got home, Mallow told Frogfucius that he wanted a Rare Frog Coin to get him a special gift. Frogfucius said yes, and then dug a Rare Frog Coin out of his trunk."There you are, Mallow, my boy. Just be sure not to lose it, okay?"
"I won't," Mallow promised. "Thank you, Grandpa!"
Mallow ran off on the track that led to Mushroom Kingdom, which he knew very well. On the way, he just happened to see to two Sky Troopas fighting over which one was the one that their leader, King Bowser, liked the most.
"He likes me most," the first one said, "Because I almost beat Mario once!"
"That may be true," the second one said, "But he said that he was gonna take that Princess personally, this time! He said, 'I'm not gonna have you cretins mess me up this time!' Hey, I wonder… He called us 'cretins'... Do you know what that means?"
"No," his colleague answered. "Guess we oughtta find out, huh?"
"Yeah, let's go," and they both left.
It means a stupid creature, Mallow thought, and that perfectly describes you Sky Troopas! And then an awful thought came to his mind. Oh, no! Bowser's thinking of kidnapping Princess Toadstool again?! I feel so sorry for her! She'll never get a break from him at this rate. Wish I could do something to help, but I don't really think anyone would listen to me. Still, I wonder why King Bowser won't give up...
Thinking these thoughts, as well as others, Mallow continued down the road.
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~Bowser's Keep~
"Alright, listen up, everybody, we, I mean... I, have a mission to do. SO SHUT UP!!!!! NOW!!!!!!"
Bowser certainly was peaceable, wasn't he?
His troops, no matter how loyal they were, could be very annoying with their talking. This time was no exception.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Well, they finally heeded what he was saying! All his troops, the Goombas, Sky Troopas, Terrapins, Magikoopas, and others, quit talking and turned to their leader.
"Finally!" Bowser exclaimed. "You need to be ashamed of yourselves! You cretins aren't worthy of being Koopa Troopers until you learn to do two things- shut up and listen!!"
"We're sorry, King Bowser!" a Terrapin said.
"Then prove it!" Bowser continued. "I, as you know, am going to kidnap Princess Peach Toadstool..."
"Again?" a Goomba asked. "But, Bowser, that never works..."
"DON'T INTTERUPT ME!!!!!!!!" Bowser shouted, "That's King Bowser to you, mushroom head!! And my kidnapping will work this time! I'll take out Mario once and for all!"
One Magikoopa whispered to another one, "Think King Bowser's getting delusions again?"
"Probably," the other whispered back. "Mario'll beat him this time, I'm sure of it. He's probably suspecting something right now!!"
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~Mario's Pad~
"So, there'a really is'a threat, then?" Mario asked Princess Toadstool.
"I guess so," Peach answered. "I mean, the Chancellor's always worried about something or other, usually me, so I'm more used to that now than I am to the idea that Bowser will be kidnapping me for the rest of my days!"
"Seems like he'a will, doesn't it? What do you think might'a stop him from'a kidnapping you?"
"I don't know. Sure wish I did, though!" She sighed. "I'll bet the only way for that to happen is for some prince to come along, sweep me off my feet, and then marry me and take me to some far away kingdom that Bowser has never heard of, thus he couldn't get there... but of course the Chancellor won't even let me think of marriage for about three or four more years!" She sighed again. "I love the Chancellor and really respect him, don't get me wrong there, but he can... well..."
Mario grinned. "Can'a be a pain, huh?"
"Frankly speaking, yes, he can." She laughed. "I'm so mean, aren't I?"
"Not'a really," Mario answered. "You should have heard some of the things Luigi and I said to each other when'a we were your age! It'a was a lot worse!"
"You two spoke badly of each other?! That's hard to imagine!"
"Not'a for us!"
She smiled, suddenly realizing that it was normal to get in little arguments, like she and the Chancellor did. Ever since her parents and siblings had died in a terrible plague, she knew the Chancellor was overprotective of her. She was the only member of the royal Toadstool family of Mushlandia who was left. "Thanks for your help, Mario!" Then she paused for a moment, and said, " You know, this is completely off the subject, but, I was wondering, you know how all those lovely flowers are in your yard? Well, I was wondering if you would let me pick some for the Chancellor?..."
"Sure," he answered.
"Thank you!" She ran outside.
But she had only been outside a few seconds when she suddenly screeched, "Mario! HELP!!!!!!"
Immediately wondering what was wrong, Mario rushed out and saw something that was awful, more awful than anything he had ever seen in a long time.
He saw nothing.
Bowser had come and snatched the Princess.
Again.
Mario sped off, alone, toward Bowser's Keep.
But someone else was on his way, too...
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~The Star Road~
Hundreds of feet above the world, something big was happening.
No, not "big"; "big" is an understatement. Huge is more like it. No, bigger than that, even! Something tremendous!
Just what is happening to this place? Well, here, at the Star Road, the place that plays an integral role in assisting wishes to come true, two of the guardians saw a very ominous object. It looked vaguely like a sword. A huge sword.
"What the...? Where did that come from?!" Guardian Number One asked.
"I do not know," Guardian Number Two answered. "It is rather far away, I think, so I don't know if it is to be a cause for concern, but do you think, as I do, that we should warn the boss?"
"Yeah, we should... Oh, no!! It is coming closer! It may just hit the Road!!!!" "IT'S GOING TO..... LOOK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!"
WHAM!!!! BOOM!!!!!!! CRAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!
Translation?
The sword had been much closer than they had thought. And not only did it hit the Star Road, it totally annihilated it.
The Star Road had been destroyed.
The Star Road had been destroyed.
DESTROYED.
No, Guardian Number Two thought, Not just destroyed. Mangled, pulverized, smashed, wrecked, shattered, hundreds of dreams and wishes down the drain. The pieces of the Road down on the ground, on earth, where they may never be recovered.
"What are we to do?" a frantic Number One asked.
"The boss is holding a meeting, so come on!" Number Five called.
Once they got to the place where the meeting was to be held, the boss immediately told them what had to be done.
"This is a very risky job," he said, "But one of you must do this mission: go down to the earth and retrieve the Star Pieces- the broken pieces of the Star Road. Are there any volunteers?"
Many voices rang out, but Number Two was first.
"Guardian Number Two," their boss said, "I chose you to go to the earth to retrieve the Star Pieces. You must leave immediately, for time is of the essence."
"I will," Number Two answered, "You may count on me, sir!"
"See you later, Two," Number One said. "Hope nothing else goes wrong!"
"I would not count on it!" Two answered.
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~Moleville~
"Come on, Mite, I cain't wait for you all day!" Dyna the mole was getting exasperated with her baby brother.
Mite just stared up at her, then tried to take another step, and ended up falling. But to Dyna's great surprise, and delight, he didn't break out crying.
"Well, congratulations, Mite, ya finally learned how to not cry!"
"Hey, Dyna!" Dyna turned to see her best friend Dettie, the daughter of "The Fireworks Guy", as everyone called him, running up to her. "Hey, Dyna!" Dettie called again, "Where ya goin'?"
"The mine!" Dyna answered. "Wanna come?"
"You mean your Ma and Pa let you go in the mine by yourself?!" Dettie was very surprised. "Mine don't! One o' 'em always has to go with me!"
Dyna hesitated. "Well, Ma and Pa doan' let me go by myself, I just do! I saw this scary-lookin' fella with a purple outfit and lotsa bombs go into the mine this mornin', and I wanted to see 'im up close."
"Oh, I saw 'im, too!" Dettie said. "Yeah, I'll go with ya, Dyna!"
"Thank you!" Dyna answered, then they went in. Dyna strapped Mite to her back so he wouldn't slow them down.
They hadn't been in there too long when Dyna heard a strange sound, almost like a rocket. "Huh...?"
Dettie heard it, too. "What the...?"
KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It crashed into the mountain. A thing, a shiny, five-pointed thing.
A star.
The falling star caused an avalanche, an avalanche that Dettie managed to escape, but Dyna and Mite were trapped, with nowhere to go.
"Help! Dettie!" Dyna shouted, and Mite burst into tears.
"Dyna!" Dettie called. "Dyna, are you or Mite hurt?"
"N-no," a frightened Dyna answered, "But we're really scared an' we're trapped! Go get my Pa! He'll know what to do!"
"I will! Jest hang on!" With that Dettie hurried out of the mine, to inform the villagers that there were two children trapped in the mines.
To be continued...
(I'll edit the format of this one later)
"But, Chancellor, why won't you let me go shop at Seaside Town? I won't be alone; Daisy's going with me!" Princess Peach Toadstool was getting angry.
"You know why," he answered. "If that rumor that Bowser is up to no good is true, we all know that you somehow end up in the middle of it."
"Maybe so," she answered, "But I've kinda gotten used to the idea that he's going to be kidnapping me for the rest of my life!"
The Chancellor sighed. "I'm sorry you've gotten used to that, but still, you never know just what he's going to do with you. I get very worried about your future, Peach, and I think the only way to keep you safer is for you to live at my castle for some time, at least until the danger has passed."
"What!" she exclaimed. "Chancellor, the danger never passes! Why, if I could, I..."
"That is quite enough," he answered. "Princess Toadstool, you're staying with me and not going anywhere today, so we won't argue anymore. Understood?"
"Yes, sir," she muttered. "Looks like I'm going to have to break that shopping appointment with Daisy... Can't I at least go to the Pipe House to see if Mario's there? That's not at all far from Mushroom Kingdom."
"Oh... I do not think..." then seeing her disappointed face," I... I... suppose so."
"Huzzah!" she answered. "I'll be back in time for supper, okay?!" and then she left.
Once outside, she casually caught sight of an old frog with a young fluffy white thing that had a pink curlicue on his head. The old frog gave him a piece of paper and said, "Here is the shopping list, Mallow. Be sure to get everything on it and, hmm, I suppose you may get a few goodies that you want."
"All right!" the puffball, whose name was apparently Mallow, was very excited. "All the candy the money left over will buy! Thank you, Grandpa!" Then he ran, top speed, to the store.
Peach chuckled, remembering how many times the Chancellor had let her go to that store to buy candy when she was little. How cute, she thought, and how happy that kid looks! Sure wish I were always that happy.
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~En Route to Tadpole Pond~
Mallow Tadpole could not believe it! Grandpa had let him buy candy at the store! Honestly, Mallow thought as he headed back home to Tadpole Pond, I'm going to have to think up some special way to thank Grandpa.
Mallow knew that his Grandpa, Frogfucius, loved eating crickets (they were like candy to him) and thought that a Cricket Pie would be just the thing to get him. However, he knew he couldn't get it as a complete surprise; a Cricket Pie was very expensive, one Rare Frog Coin, and it would take Mallow weeks to save up for one. Grandpa, however, was the designer of the Rare Frog Coin, which meant he had more than plenty of them, so Mallow would just say he needed one for a surprise he wanted to get Grandpa.
I am such a little genius, Mallow thought to himself. I just hope Grandpa will lend me one!
Once he got home, Mallow told Frogfucius that he wanted a Rare Frog Coin to get him a special gift. Frogfucius said yes, and then dug a Rare Frog Coin out of his trunk."There you are, Mallow, my boy. Just be sure not to lose it, okay?"
"I won't," Mallow promised. "Thank you, Grandpa!"
Mallow ran off on the track that led to Mushroom Kingdom, which he knew very well. On the way, he just happened to see to two Sky Troopas fighting over which one was the one that their leader, King Bowser, liked the most.
"He likes me most," the first one said, "Because I almost beat Mario once!"
"That may be true," the second one said, "But he said that he was gonna take that Princess personally, this time! He said, 'I'm not gonna have you cretins mess me up this time!' Hey, I wonder… He called us 'cretins'... Do you know what that means?"
"No," his colleague answered. "Guess we oughtta find out, huh?"
"Yeah, let's go," and they both left.
It means a stupid creature, Mallow thought, and that perfectly describes you Sky Troopas! And then an awful thought came to his mind. Oh, no! Bowser's thinking of kidnapping Princess Toadstool again?! I feel so sorry for her! She'll never get a break from him at this rate. Wish I could do something to help, but I don't really think anyone would listen to me. Still, I wonder why King Bowser won't give up...
Thinking these thoughts, as well as others, Mallow continued down the road.
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~Bowser's Keep~
"Alright, listen up, everybody, we, I mean... I, have a mission to do. SO SHUT UP!!!!! NOW!!!!!!"
Bowser certainly was peaceable, wasn't he?
His troops, no matter how loyal they were, could be very annoying with their talking. This time was no exception.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Well, they finally heeded what he was saying! All his troops, the Goombas, Sky Troopas, Terrapins, Magikoopas, and others, quit talking and turned to their leader.
"Finally!" Bowser exclaimed. "You need to be ashamed of yourselves! You cretins aren't worthy of being Koopa Troopers until you learn to do two things- shut up and listen!!"
"We're sorry, King Bowser!" a Terrapin said.
"Then prove it!" Bowser continued. "I, as you know, am going to kidnap Princess Peach Toadstool..."
"Again?" a Goomba asked. "But, Bowser, that never works..."
"DON'T INTTERUPT ME!!!!!!!!" Bowser shouted, "That's King Bowser to you, mushroom head!! And my kidnapping will work this time! I'll take out Mario once and for all!"
One Magikoopa whispered to another one, "Think King Bowser's getting delusions again?"
"Probably," the other whispered back. "Mario'll beat him this time, I'm sure of it. He's probably suspecting something right now!!"
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~Mario's Pad~
"So, there'a really is'a threat, then?" Mario asked Princess Toadstool.
"I guess so," Peach answered. "I mean, the Chancellor's always worried about something or other, usually me, so I'm more used to that now than I am to the idea that Bowser will be kidnapping me for the rest of my days!"
"Seems like he'a will, doesn't it? What do you think might'a stop him from'a kidnapping you?"
"I don't know. Sure wish I did, though!" She sighed. "I'll bet the only way for that to happen is for some prince to come along, sweep me off my feet, and then marry me and take me to some far away kingdom that Bowser has never heard of, thus he couldn't get there... but of course the Chancellor won't even let me think of marriage for about three or four more years!" She sighed again. "I love the Chancellor and really respect him, don't get me wrong there, but he can... well..."
Mario grinned. "Can'a be a pain, huh?"
"Frankly speaking, yes, he can." She laughed. "I'm so mean, aren't I?"
"Not'a really," Mario answered. "You should have heard some of the things Luigi and I said to each other when'a we were your age! It'a was a lot worse!"
"You two spoke badly of each other?! That's hard to imagine!"
"Not'a for us!"
She smiled, suddenly realizing that it was normal to get in little arguments, like she and the Chancellor did. Ever since her parents and siblings had died in a terrible plague, she knew the Chancellor was overprotective of her. She was the only member of the royal Toadstool family of Mushlandia who was left. "Thanks for your help, Mario!" Then she paused for a moment, and said, " You know, this is completely off the subject, but, I was wondering, you know how all those lovely flowers are in your yard? Well, I was wondering if you would let me pick some for the Chancellor?..."
"Sure," he answered.
"Thank you!" She ran outside.
But she had only been outside a few seconds when she suddenly screeched, "Mario! HELP!!!!!!"
Immediately wondering what was wrong, Mario rushed out and saw something that was awful, more awful than anything he had ever seen in a long time.
He saw nothing.
Bowser had come and snatched the Princess.
Again.
Mario sped off, alone, toward Bowser's Keep.
But someone else was on his way, too...
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~The Star Road~
Hundreds of feet above the world, something big was happening.
No, not "big"; "big" is an understatement. Huge is more like it. No, bigger than that, even! Something tremendous!
Just what is happening to this place? Well, here, at the Star Road, the place that plays an integral role in assisting wishes to come true, two of the guardians saw a very ominous object. It looked vaguely like a sword. A huge sword.
"What the...? Where did that come from?!" Guardian Number One asked.
"I do not know," Guardian Number Two answered. "It is rather far away, I think, so I don't know if it is to be a cause for concern, but do you think, as I do, that we should warn the boss?"
"Yeah, we should... Oh, no!! It is coming closer! It may just hit the Road!!!!" "IT'S GOING TO..... LOOK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!"
WHAM!!!! BOOM!!!!!!! CRAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!
Translation?
The sword had been much closer than they had thought. And not only did it hit the Star Road, it totally annihilated it.
The Star Road had been destroyed.
The Star Road had been destroyed.
DESTROYED.
No, Guardian Number Two thought, Not just destroyed. Mangled, pulverized, smashed, wrecked, shattered, hundreds of dreams and wishes down the drain. The pieces of the Road down on the ground, on earth, where they may never be recovered.
"What are we to do?" a frantic Number One asked.
"The boss is holding a meeting, so come on!" Number Five called.
Once they got to the place where the meeting was to be held, the boss immediately told them what had to be done.
"This is a very risky job," he said, "But one of you must do this mission: go down to the earth and retrieve the Star Pieces- the broken pieces of the Star Road. Are there any volunteers?"
Many voices rang out, but Number Two was first.
"Guardian Number Two," their boss said, "I chose you to go to the earth to retrieve the Star Pieces. You must leave immediately, for time is of the essence."
"I will," Number Two answered, "You may count on me, sir!"
"See you later, Two," Number One said. "Hope nothing else goes wrong!"
"I would not count on it!" Two answered.
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~Moleville~
"Come on, Mite, I cain't wait for you all day!" Dyna the mole was getting exasperated with her baby brother.
Mite just stared up at her, then tried to take another step, and ended up falling. But to Dyna's great surprise, and delight, he didn't break out crying.
"Well, congratulations, Mite, ya finally learned how to not cry!"
"Hey, Dyna!" Dyna turned to see her best friend Dettie, the daughter of "The Fireworks Guy", as everyone called him, running up to her. "Hey, Dyna!" Dettie called again, "Where ya goin'?"
"The mine!" Dyna answered. "Wanna come?"
"You mean your Ma and Pa let you go in the mine by yourself?!" Dettie was very surprised. "Mine don't! One o' 'em always has to go with me!"
Dyna hesitated. "Well, Ma and Pa doan' let me go by myself, I just do! I saw this scary-lookin' fella with a purple outfit and lotsa bombs go into the mine this mornin', and I wanted to see 'im up close."
"Oh, I saw 'im, too!" Dettie said. "Yeah, I'll go with ya, Dyna!"
"Thank you!" Dyna answered, then they went in. Dyna strapped Mite to her back so he wouldn't slow them down.
They hadn't been in there too long when Dyna heard a strange sound, almost like a rocket. "Huh...?"
Dettie heard it, too. "What the...?"
KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It crashed into the mountain. A thing, a shiny, five-pointed thing.
A star.
The falling star caused an avalanche, an avalanche that Dettie managed to escape, but Dyna and Mite were trapped, with nowhere to go.
"Help! Dettie!" Dyna shouted, and Mite burst into tears.
"Dyna!" Dettie called. "Dyna, are you or Mite hurt?"
"N-no," a frightened Dyna answered, "But we're really scared an' we're trapped! Go get my Pa! He'll know what to do!"
"I will! Jest hang on!" With that Dettie hurried out of the mine, to inform the villagers that there were two children trapped in the mines.
To be continued...
(I'll edit the format of this one later)