Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story. That right goes to their respective owners.

A/N: Well, I never thought I'd be starting yet another story. And to think it'd be a novelization for a game that is probably about 20 years old or more. I always had a soft spot for this game, and there doesn't seem to be a complete novelization, I decided to give it a go. Of course, Yoshi's Story isn't quite known for a deep story, so some liberties will be taken. Hopefully I don't overdo it. Also gotta watch the ratings; can't get too crazy here, right?

AU: This story is set a while after Yoshi's Island and has no connection to the sequels.

Without any further ado, I bring you:

Yoshi's Story: The Outcasts

Page 0: Party Preparation

Far out in the tropical sea, there existed a large, lush and colourful island. Stationed far away from the main continents, the island was very isolated. This island was the home of the multi coloured dinosaur species known as the yoshis.

The yoshis were a carefree, happy species. They lived at the far west of the island, having established a large village in which they spent all days living the laid back tropical life by day, and partying wildly during the night. The yoshis were also a very peaceful species with their main diets consisting of mainly sweet tasting fruits.

Most of these fruits came from the very magical Super Happy Tree, an odd looking plant that not only sprouted many different delicious fruits, but also the incredibly rare heart fruit. A heart fruit could turn the saddest into the happiest on the island in one gulp. And as with its magical properties, the Super Happy Tree would never ever run out of its fruit.

Today's party preparations were more special than any other day of the month. Today was the Full Moon Celebration. That day of the month was always seen as a big party day for the bright light the full moon provided during the night. Every Yoshi was happy while they prepared, anticipating another energetic party with new music, dances and other fun ways of living life to its fullest.

Well, not all yoshis.

Sitting at the top of a village hut roof was one sole yoshi, looking down at the other brightly coloured yoshis with a silent sigh. This yoshi wasn't like the other. He was called 'the colourless yoshi'. He was the only white yoshi in the village.

While an easy-going species, the yoshis found the lone white yoshi to be a strange thing. Some even thought he was an ill omen. But most of the adult yoshis still did their best to treat him well. But many of the younger yoshis, particularly those who were close to the white yoshi's age, tended to tease him more.

This didn't mean the white yoshi was completely without friends, however, for he spotted a light blue yoshi running towards him down at the ground. The light blue yoshi skid to a stop when he spotted the white yoshi at the roof and waved up towards him cheerfully to get his attention.

"Albin!" the light blue yoshi hollered with excitement, "I've been looking all over for ya!"

The white yoshi smiled, happy to see a friend. "Watcha want, Cerule?" he asked the light blue yoshi back in an equally, although forced, cheery tone.

"I need help with this new song I'm trying to make up and I'm tryin' to find a good dance for it!"

Albin looked up from Cerule and towards the vast fields outside the village he was looking over before his friend had showed up. "I dunno if I can help. Was… day dreaming a little…" he trailed off.

"Oh don't be a sulky-pulky!" Cerule exclaimed cheerfully. "Full Moon Celebration's tonight and I wanna make it extra special!"

Albin giggled and looked down at Cerule. He stood up and hopped from rooftop to rooftop until he was on a roof low enough to jump down and break the fall with a flutter jump without any risk of accidental injury. Heights weren't something he was afraid of. Something he had in common with Cerule, except that he had an easier time getting up to those high places by jumping while Cerule would have to climb.

"What kind of special you have in mind?" he asked.

Cerule put his hand under his mouth and rubbed it as he glanced up thoughtfully. "Ya know, like… something really cool. I wanna show I can come up with something fun that'll be talked about."

"Lemme guess, you're gonna involve me in it?" Albin asked with a sly, playful look on his face.

"Maaaaaybe?" Cerule answered back with a playful grin.

Albin's smile faded and he glanced away. "I dunno about that…"

"Oh come on! You've never been to a Full Moon Celebration before!" Cerule argued. "You always shy away from big events!"

Shuffling his heels on the ground, Albin looked down thoughtfully. Despite doing his best to ignore it, he didn't like when the other yoshis gave him those weird and wary looks. His parents were a light blue and light green yoshi, so why couldn't he have gotten either of those colours? Or maybe it had something to do with him having hatched during the full moon?

"Hey." Cerule tapped him on the shoulder to get him to snap out of his thoughts. "Ignore what the others say about you, okay?" he comforted him. "You're still my friend, and I think you're a funny guy once you turn that pouty snouty into a happy… uh… ehm…apple-lee?" He shrugged with a goofy expression on his face.

Albin laughed. "Well, that helped a bit," he then said, feeling a little better.

Cerule gave him a cheerful double thumbs up. "Great! So ya up for it?" Albin nodded. "Woo, we sure gonna put on a good show then, right?"

"What you have in mind?" Albin asked, tilting his head.

"Well… I've been working on a song, but it needs some good dancing to it. And you can do some good jumps, right?"

Albin shrugged. "Sure. Where we gonna practice? If we stick around here we might get roped into helping other yoshis out with preparing the party."

"We could sneak outside," Cerule suggested.

Albin looked towards the nearest palisade. The yoshi village had a long wooden palisade that ran around the large village. Inside was always safe, but the outside areas were also considered safe to be around day time. There were barely any dangerous creatures out at day and probably not at night either. Young yoshis weren't allowed to go outside without an adult accompanying them.

"I dunno," Albin said reluctantly. "What if your older sister finds out?"

"Nah, Blouise is busy helping out with the decorations right now," Cerule promptly replied.

Albin fidgeted a little. "Well, I guess we could try sneaking out, then," he then agreed.

Cerule did a small jump in joy. "Awesome! This's gonna be the best Full Moon Celebration ever!" he cheered excitedly before they both headed to the nearest unsupervised part of the palisade. Most yoshis were busy with the preparations, after all.

oOoOo

Far, far away from the yoshi's village, there was a large castle on a solitary island not far from the island itself. The small island the castle resided on was much, much smaller than the island the yoshis lived on, and the castle itself had a dark, uninviting design to it. Not that the latter part mattered to the yoshis on their island; they barely knew of the dark castle's existence. After all, any area past the green fields outside the village were strictly off limits.

At this time of the day, there was currently a lot of racket going on inside the castle.

"But I dun wanna do studies noooow!" a small spike shelled turtle complained loudly. The young koopa picked up a book and chucked it out of the nearest window.

A mere moment after the book had flown out of the rocky square window, it flew back in gently surrounded with a light blue aura around it. The book sailed across the room and landed in the yellow hands of a much older koopa, only this one did not possess a shell, but wore a light blue robe and a matching, pointy wizard hat. Gripping the book tightly, the magikoopa set down his magic wand on his lectern and used his free hand to adjust his glasses that were so thick it was difficult to see his eyes behind them.

"Young prince Bowser," the magikoopa spoke with a firm patient voice. "It is very important to study so you can sharpen your mind."

A very young Bowser let out a loud defiant growl and grabbed hold of another, thinner book. "Why amn't I da king already?" He tossed it at his teacher who swiftly caught the object with his levitation spell. "I dun need studyin' when my future subjects can do that for me, Kamek!"

Kamek sighed in defeat and sat down on his chair. He slumped down over the lectern in exasperation. There were no limits to how spoiled that little brat was. And to think he was the future king according to the koopa prophecy. But this one had been so temperamental and snotty it took all of Kamek's patience not to snap. He was his caretaker, after all. It was a duty he was bound to.

"Well, I'm bored with dis!" Bowser then spat out, hopping off his bench. "Now's my royal playtime anyways," he declared with a nasty grin as he went towards the door.

Kamek didn't object when the young koopa prince strutted out of the lecture room. He knew that he was going to receive a fireball to his face if he raised his voice any more times in a succession. He didn't want to risk the possibility of his valuable books of knowledge be burnt to a crisp. Robes and pointy hats he had plenty of replacements of.

The magikoopa stood up and started to pick up the other thrown books that ill-mannered child had thrown about. He did appreciate the young Bowser's level of wickedness. That trait would be good to threaten the other kingdoms into submission. But even Kamek knew that brute force wasn't the only thing one would need to succeed. A quick thinking mind and sharp wit would be needed as well, but Bowser only wanted to flaunt around like a spoiled child.

After he had organized the books neatly in the bookcase, he looked out of the window. He looked towards the direction of where the yoshi village was located and narrowed his eyes. He searched for his spyglass and peeked through it to get a closer look at those despicably happy creatures. Kamek grit his teeth as he watched them, for memories of the last encounter Bowser and he had had with them started to stir up. It was because of these dastardly dinosaurs that Bowser had gotten so much nastier than before. But at least he and Kamek had their hatred towards those yoshis in common.

He stopped looking through his spyglass and folded it. He clenched his fist when he thought about how they had spoiled his plan to rid those repugnant plumbers that would once become a thorn in his master's side. That whole incident had almost cost them an entire castle, and he had vowed that he wouldn't try to alter fate nor gaze into the future for quite some time.

But that was that. Despite his grudge against those multi coloured dinos, he saw little point in meddling with them for now. But so help him if they would hold any more of those loud nightly parties with those firework shows.

oOoOo

Out in the green fields outside the yoshi village, Cerule and Albin were practicing their moves they would do on the night's celebration.

"No, no, no! Not like that!" Cerule yelled after Albin had ended up landing face down. "The third jump's just supposed to be a normal jump we both do with an aerial high five!"

Albin got up and dusted off his tummy. "Sorry. It's hard to memorize everything at such a short notice."

Cerule smiled. "It's alright. There's quite some time before the sun starts settin' so we have time to pull it off."

The white yoshi forced a smile back at his friend, and clenched his fists with determination. "Alright, I can do this! The refrain is tricky, but if we can pull it off, it'll be one heck of a show, right?"

"Yeah!" the light blue yoshi cheered with an excited jump. "It'll be song to remember! We could turn the dance into a game too. Like… games of happiness?"

Albin stretched his legs to ready himself for another repetition of Cerule's made up song. It was cheery and helped him clear his thoughts.

"CERULE!"

Both yoshis froze when they heard the loud yell from behind them. They simultaneously looked over their shoulders to see a very angry blue yoshi stomping towards them. A red and a purple yoshi was following her. Albin quickly shrank behind Cerule's back.

Cerule himself tried to step back, but bumped into the white yoshi currently hiding behind him. He nervously waved at the blue yoshi. "H-hi, sis," he greeted sheepishly, "H'how you d-doing?"

"How long have you been playing with that colourless yoshi outside the village?" Blouise sternly asked him.

Cerule gulped and saw the other two yoshis flanking her. "We weren't playing, we were just-"

"He put you up to this, didn't he?" the red yoshi spat out in a harsh tone, pointing an accusing finger at Albin. Albin trembled as he was trying to hide behind Cerule.

"Stop it, Reddic, he didn't," Cerule said back. "I dragged him out here! We were going to practice for a song for tonight!"

Blouise rolled her eyes and grabbed Cerule's arm. "That's enough outta you, buster!" She began to pull him with her. "We're going back home and hope to the stars that we don't get in trouble for this!"

"Ow, sis! Stop, you're pulling too hard!" Cerule complained as he was dragged away by the blue yoshi.

Now that Albin was without a hiding place, he started to back away from the approaching red yoshi. Out of all the yoshi's his age, Reddic was the one who disliked him the most. He was often at the receiving end of Reddic's teasing. He tried to circle around the angry red yoshi while he was backing off and make a break for the village, but when he made the dash he felt Reddic's strong hand grab him at the back of his neck.

"Oh, no you don't, Squeaky!" he growled as he tossed Albin on his back. Before the white yoshi could stand up, Reddic put his foot on his chest to keep him down. "See what you did? You got li'l Cerule into trouble again."

"Come on, Reddic, why even bother with him," the purple yoshi told him, grabbing his free hand.

"Later, Fiola, I'm just going to make sure this little colourless loser knows his place!" he reassured her.

Albin struggled weakly under Reddic's shoe. "Leave me alone, you big jerk."

Reddic flashed a grin- "You know, maybe I should do you a favour and give you some colour."

"What do you mean?" Albin questioned before Reddic stepped off him and quickly grabbed him by the neck. Reddic then heaved him up to a stand and twisted one of Albin's arms to keep him restrained. "Ow, stop it!"

Reddic then tripped Albin down face first and dragged him along the grass for a short distance. He then pulled the white yoshi up again and shoved him down on to his back. "There, now you've got some proper colours!" he boasted as he dusted off his hands with a satisfied grin.

Albin sat up and clutched his chest in pain. He had gotten several grass stains on his chest. "You're a jerk!" he cried at him, his voice strained from the slight burning pain on his front side.

"And you're just a li'l weakling!" Reddic spat back as he towered over Albin. "A little crybaby."

Albin closed his eyes as hard as he could. He didn't want to give Reddic the pleasure of seeing him cry. But he could already feel his eyes drying up and before he knew it he could feel some tears trickling down his cheeks.

"Haha, look he's already crying!" Reddic laughed, pointing down at him.

Fiola sighed and shook her head. "Look, Reddie, let's just go back now, okay? I don't wanna be grounded from the party if my parents find out."

"Yeah, yeah," Reddic agreed begrudgingly. He walked back towards the village with Fiola holding his hand.

Albin slowly picked himself up. He glared at the two yoshis that left and wiped his tears. He was still sniffling from his now stuffed nose. He knew he'd stand no chance against that stupid red yoshi anyways; he was really, really strong amongst the children. He had beaten quite a few strength records already and was so full of himself of it.

He saw Reddic look over his shoulder, sporting a smug grin. "You better not be around for the Full Moon Celebration! How about you just sit out here and stare at the moon like you always do instead?" He laughed for a short while before Fiola pinched his cheek.

Albin bit his lip and pouted. He wiped a few more tears off his face and tried to get himself to stop crying.

Once Reddic and Fiola were out of sight, Albin started to amble towards the village. Trying to keep himself at high spirits, he hummed the song Cerule had been working on. But even though he tried, the song just came out as too sombre, no matter how much he tried to cheer himself up. His parents would no doubt find out of Cerule's and his little adventure and he would probably be grounded or a few days after.