Paper Mario 64: Life of the Party
GOOMBARIO
"Goombario, do you honestly think that Mario is actually gonna come to a small place like Goomba village?" Goombaria asked her older brother.
"Of course! Goomba village isn't THAT small!" Goombario said confidently.
The Goomba family was eating dinner at the dinner table, where the children always argued over the same thing…Mario.
"Goombario, the place only has ONE family living here, and ONE toad house. I THINK THAT WE'RE PRETTY TINY!" Goombaria shouted across the table.
"Kids, kids, settle down now." Goompa said calmly.
"Is size going to stop Mario from coming here, Goombaria? I don't think it is! Mario won't underestimate this place in a million years!" Goombario snapped, ignoring his grandfather's plea.
"Goombario, Goombaria, that's enough." Gooma scolded her son and daughter, annoyed by their constant bickering. "We've been having this argument at the table for over a week now. Isn't it about time to come to a conclusion?"
"Exactly what I was heading to, mom!" Goombario sat up in his chair. "And that is: MARIO WILL COME HERE NO MATTER WHAT!"
"He won't! This place is too tiny for him! Besides, he's so busy saving Mushroom Kingdom all of the time!" Goombaria stated her conclusion, ending it with her sticking her tongue out.
"You're so stupid, Goombaria!" Goombario got out of his chair and went outside.
"WAAAH! MOM, GOOMBARIO CALLED ME STUPID!!" Goombaria shouted before Goombario left the house, slamming the door behind him.
He walked around the small area to walk within. Goomba village WAS going to expand a long time ago, but ever since wild Goombas started appearing in the area not far from the village, it was far too dangerous to just start building homes. Besides, who else would live in the homes? More Toads for their Toad Houses? No way.
"Mario WILL come here one day. He will." Goombario whispered to himself, looking up at the sky.
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KOOPER
It was a very sunny day in Koopa village, where everyone just wanted to head inside (excluding Kolorado's Wife, who was far too angry at her husband to be enjoying the weather.)
"Hey, Kooper!" One Koopa shouted over to his friend.
"Oh, hey Koopo." The blue-shelled Koopa said to his best friend. "What's up?"
"I heard that these weird black creatures were just coming out of that forest behind your house. A cousin of mine, Koopaulie, said he was taking a walk in that small forest, and he saw one! It almost took away his shell, too!"
"Whoa, really? But isn't Koopaulie your cousin that made up all those crazy stories about the wild Bob-Ombs attacking Koopa Village a few months ago? Everyone was really angry at him for that."
"Oh…right." Koopo nodded his head in sad agreement.
"I'm gonna head inside for a bit. See you later, Koopo." Kooper waved goodbye to his friend as he headed inside of his home. "Wow, today's a scorcher." He got in his hammock and listened to the radio, where a peaceful song played throughout his house.
I wish I could go on some sort of awesome adventure like Professor Kolorado. He always goes somewhere new in the Mushroom Kingdom, unlike me. I'm always stuck in Koopa village. It's a nice place, but it can get so boring. I just want an adventure…
"BREAKING NEWS," The radio spoke up. "STRANGE BLACK CREATURES ARE HEADED TOWARDS KOOPA VILLAGE!"
"WHAT? Koopaulie wasn't lying?" Kooper fell out of his hammock and looked outside his back window. Indeed, there were black dots in the distance. "This doesn't look too good."
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BOMBETTE
What good am I? I only explode in people's business…literally.
The sad, pink Bob-Omb walked solemnly from her previous home, a small house near Koopa Village. She headed up the stairs out of the Koopa Village area.
Again, I blew up another tree, my sister's vegetable garden, and even half of my house! I'm just a nuisance.
Bombette was so gloomy that she didn't notice that she was going right instead of left, meaning that she was heading towards Koopa Bros. Fortress.
It was getting dark as Bombette continued to head towards the Fortress without even knowing it, but she stopped in front of a sign.
"Intruders, Turn Around!"
"What? Why would Toad Town have this sign here? Maybe they want bad people to stay out or something…oh well." Bombette sighed and continued walking…
"HEY! YOU! BOB-OMB!" A hoarse voice from the sky shouted. Bombette turned around and saw a Koopa with wings fly right down at her!
"GO AWAY!" Bombette exploded on the Koopa, who fell backwards and went into a river. "That's what you get for messing around with me!"
The Koopa's head came out of the water, spit out some water, and gave Bombette an evil stare. Then, it gave a terrible cry. The sound was so hoarse and ear piercing that Bombette was getting dizzy. The cry stopped after an everlasting minute, and as Bombette was sighing in relief, she felt weightless…and as she looked down at her feet, they weren't touching the ground anymore. She was flying in mid-air?
"Take that Bob-Omb to the bosses! They'll keep her with their other slaves!" He screeched.
Bombette then realized that she wasn't flying, but two other flying Koopas were kidnapping her!
"Let me go! Leave me alone you creeps!" Bombette screamed loudly. Of course the Koopas wouldn't listen, and they took her away, to Koopa Bros. Fortress.
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PARAKARRY
"WHAAAAT? You lost the letters?" Pamela, the beautiful Paratroopa at the post office, was shocked at what Parakarry had told her.
However, Parakarry was too lost in Pamela's beauty. Her long, curly brunette hair tied in a ponytail, her green eyes, and her beautiful wings that flapped behind her green shell…
"PARAKARRY, are you listening to me?" Pamela asked impatiently.
"Oh, r-r-r-right, s-s-s-s-sorry!" Parakarry stuttered in embarrassment. Pamela exhaled.
"You know, you could get into big trouble because of this." Pamela stated. "But I won't tell anyone if you do me a big favor."
"F-f-f-f-favor? L-l-l-l-like what?"
"Well, yesterday I was supposed to fly all the way to Mt. Rugged to get these three letters from a friend of mine. You see, his wing is broken so he can't fly all the way to the post office to hand it to us. But it totally slipped my mind! So, could you go to him and get the letters?" Pamela asked Parakarry.
"S-s-s-s-sure! You can count on m-m-me!" Parakarry nodded his head nervously.
"That's wonderful, Parakarry!" Pamela grinned happily. "Now, my friend's name is Parapat the Paratroopa. He's right at the train station at Mt. Rugged."
"Yup, I know where that is!" Parakarry said, putting on his goggles. "I know that place like an open book!"
"That's great! Don't let me down!" Pamela gave Parakarry a final grin before Parakarry left the post office.
"I won't let her down, no way, no way, no way!" Parakarry kept repeating as he took off into the air and into the direction of Mt. Rugged.
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LADY BOW
"Lady Bow," Bootler knocked on Bow's bedroom door. "What are you doing in there? You've been in there for days!"
"Go away, Bootler! You just made me lose my concentration!" Bow snapped from the other side of the door.
"But, Lady Bow, everyone in the mansion has been worried sick about you! Are you feeling all right?" Bootler kept knocking.
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT GOING AWAY?" Bow shouted even louder from the other side of the door. This startled Bootler.
"Yes, my Lady." Bootler sighed and floated away from the door.
"Doesn't he ever learn to leave a young lady alone?" Bow asked herself. She was sketching plans…plans to reach Tubba Blubba. "Yesterday, that cursed monster Tubba Blubba ate one of my closest friends, Booella! She was my best friend since I was a baby boo! Tubba Blubba will pay for this!"
For days now, Tubba Blubba had come down from his fortress to Gusty Gulch to eat his favorite food: Boo's.
Everyday, someone was a new victim, and each victim getting eaten was making Bow fill with rage and more anger.
"How about this one," Bow held up her drawing of an attack towards Tubba Blubba. "We all create fake Boos to lure in Tubba Blubba into a booby trap, like in the novels! Once he falls into our trap, we can force him to release the Boo's he has eaten!" Bow was proud of her strategy…but then she thought of something. "But Tubba Blubba is invincible! He could break the trap and just eat us all up…"
Bow was silent, until she crumpled up the paper and threw it into the trash can, which was overflowing with crumpled papers.
"THAT'S IT! We'll never be able to defeat Tubba Blubba! If he's invincible, then how would we even defeat him?" Bow rubbed her temples and began pacing around in her room.
The clock was ticking…time was running out…another Boo could've been eaten by now…
Bow shook her head, ridding of that last thought.
She then remembered Booella…a conversation a long, long time ago…
"Bow! Guess what I learned today?" Booella came up to her friend.
"What?" Bow asked. That's when Booella poked her in the side, where Bow jerked away and started to squeal and giggle madly. "What…was that for?" Bow asked between giggles.
"That's a weak spot that you have! When you poke someone in their weaker spots, they react differently! Everyone has a weak spot somewhere!"
"No kidding! Even powerful people, like that evil King Bowser and that good guy, Mario?" Bow asked Booella.
"Yup! They may not even realize it, but they have it somewhere!"
"That's neat! I should find Bootler's weak spot and see how he reacts!" Bow giggled madly as she flew into her mansion, Booella following her inside.
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They were young Boo's…so much fun…
"Weak spot…a WEAK SPOT!" Bow then stopped pacing and grabbed a piece of paper. "This plan may be risky, but it just might work!"
The pencil in Bow's hand was flying across the paper, and after minutes of writing and sketching, Bow looked at her strategic masterpiece.
She had to take out her fan and laugh at how great the plan was.
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WATT
"C'mon, light up already!" Gus banged his fist onto the lantern, where Watt was tired of being ordered to light up.
"Why should I? I, um, don't feel like it!" Watt snapped back through the lantern. Her voice was barely heard because of how loud the fist smacked against the lantern.
"If you don't light up then I'll dump you in a bucket of water!" Gus yelled at the light.
"So, you want light, huh? Well then, I'll give you, um, light!!" Watt lit up as brightly as she could, and it nearly blinded Gus.
"KYAAAAGGHHH! MY EYES! I CAN'T SEE!" Gus dropped the lantern to the ground, a crack forming in the lantern.
"Oh my goodness! That crack is, um, gonna grow if I keep, um, smacking the lantern against the floor!" Watt tried to fly up with the lantern's weight, but because it was pretty heavy, she only exhausted herself.
"WHERE…WHERE ARE YOU…YOU…YOU PEST!" Gus asked furiously, rummaging around for the lantern in the bright light.
"My…my energy is, um, fading!" Watt panted. The light of the room was decreasing as she still used her energy to attempt to lift the lantern, which was of no use.
"There! You little pest!" Gus stomped towards the lantern and lifted it up roughly. "Look what you did, you were about to break it! Do you know what could've happened if you would've broken this?"
"I would've made an, um, escape out of this creepy place!" Watt stated loudly.
"But this is your home! Don't forget that you were born in the darkness of this room! Shy Guy's Toy Box is still undiscovered in Toad Town, so even if you DID escape, you wouldn't know where to go! GEE HYEHYEHYEHYEEEEEE!" Gus chuckled evilly.
"I…I will find a place where I, um, belong! I will!" Watt hissed.
But…deep down inside…she was losing hope…
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SUSHIE
Yoshi's Island never got better. The sun was shining; the breeze was perfect…but the Yoshi children running around Yoshi Village wasn't pleasing Sushie one bit.
"Hey! Settle down! Do you want to cause a ruckus?" Sushie scolded two fighting Yoshi boys.
"But we're only playing Mario!" An orange Yoshi boy exclaimed.
"Yeah, we're not REALLY hurting each other!" The blue Yoshi boy stated.
"Still, watch the volume of your voices, boys!" Sushie scolded the two.
"Yes, Sushie." They both sighed.
"Good." Sushie flopped over to a large tree and leaned against it. "Won't they ever learn?"
"SUSHIIIEEEE!" A yellow Yoshi girl ran over to Sushie. "The boys are trying to go into the jungle again!"
"WHAAAAT? I JUST TOLD THIS TO THEM THE OTHER DAY!" Sushie got up and flopped over to the entrance of the jungle, where a group of Yoshi boys were about to go. She spread her fins out to block the entrance.
"S-Sushie!" One boy gulped.
"And where do you think you're going, boys?" Sushie asked them sternly.
"T-t-taking a walk." One boy lied.
"IN THE JUNGLE, RIGHT?" Sushie yelled.
"SORRY, SORRY! WE'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN! PROMISE! PROMISE!" They all said and ran off into their homes. Sushie sighed and turned to the little Yoshi girl.
"Thanks for yelling at them, Sushie." The girl smiled in relief.
"Don't mention it. I just wonder how those boys can behave. You're the most behaved child in Yoshi's village, Mina." Sushie stated to the little Yoshi girl. She nodded.
"Yeah, my brother and his friends are so obnoxious its silly!" Mina glared at where the Yoshi boys were about to head.
"But don't worry, soon they'll have some more sense knocked into them." Sushie stated.
"Yeah! You can belly flop on them! Or maybe even squirt them a couple of times!" Mina chuckled.
"MIIIINNNAAA! SUPPER'S READDY!" Mina's mother called from her home.
"I'm coming, mommy!" Mina hollered back to the house. "See you later, Sushie!" Mina ran into her home to eat her supper.
"What a cutie pie." Sushie smiled.
"Hey, Sushie." An adult Yoshi came over to the Cheep-cheep.
"What is it?"
"Were you yelling just a minute ago?"
"Yeah."
"Well keep it down, will you? Sometimes you're so obnoxious its silly!" The Yoshi stormed away back into his home. Sushie blinked, flopped over to the tree, and sighed.
"I hate Mondays."
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LAKILESTER
"Lakiliam, have you seen Lakilester anywhere?" A distressed Lakilulu asked her neighbor.
"I saw him pacing around about an hour ago, but he left." Lakiliam replied.
"Ohh, he's been acting strange lately. I wonder what he's up to." Lakilulu flew around on her pink cloud, trying to find her Lakilester.
…
"That's one cool name! I like that!" Lakilester was pondering his thoughts in Flower Fields, trying to find a cooler name to fit his personality. He smiled for a while, but as he continued thinking about his MAIN problem, the smile was fading.
"I still haven't told Lakilulu about me being with Huff N' Puff. I mean, once that Puff machine is built and ready to put dark clouds in the skies of Flower Fields, she'll surely know that I was apart of that scheme." Lakilester sighed. "But it's not like I WANTED to join Huff N' Puff…I'm a Lakitu, we're SUPPOSED to do bad things. But I wasn't meant to be born badly; I just want to live a life with Lakilulu. She IS my girlfriend, after all."
"LAKILESTER!" He heard Lakilulu's voice holler from above.
"Here she comes…calling me by my stupid real name." Lakilester groaned.
"There you are, Lakilester! I've been searching for you everywhere!" Lakilulu clung onto his arm.
"Settle down, Lakilulu! I'm fine! I was just taking a walk, man!" Lakilester blushed. "Oh, yeah, and don't call me Lakilester! I found a cooler name!"
"Oh, but what's wrong with Lakilester? I like it just how it is."
"Never mind that! It's now Spike! Spike. Yeah…Spike."
"Spike? It sounds too rowdy for you! Lakilester suits you just fine." Lakilulu clung onto Lakilester even tighter now.
"G-get off, Lakilulu! Your clenching is painful, man!"
"Sorry, Lakilester." Lakilulu let go of her boyfriend's arm.
"Spike!" Lakilester corrected her. Lakilulu didn't say anything, but then sighed after a short pause.
"You haven't been acting like yourself recently. Is something troubling you? If there is something, just tell me!" Lakilulu was about to cling onto him again, but stopped herself.
"It's nothing, Lakilulu." He stated. "I just need to walk around a bit."
"Oh…all right then." Lakilulu said sadly as she flew off on her pink cloud. Lakilester looked up at the sky to see her fly away.
"And that'll probably be the last time she'll fly off on a sunny day…" He sighed soberly.
"Hey, Lakilester! The boss wants to see us! Our Puff machine is just about done now!" A Lakitu called over.
"Sure. I'll be there in a second. Oh, and call me Spike from now on."
"Spike, huh? That's pretty cool!"
"Isn't it?" Lakilester stated in pride.
Sorry, Lakilulu…
TO BE CONTINUED…
HEY THERE PEOPLES!
This is my first Mario fic!
I LOVE PAPER MARIO 64!!!!
I just wanted you to know that.
I did this story because I wanted there to be stories of the party members, like before the events of Paper Mario, during, and maybe after, too!
There will be ONE party member pairing, but I won't say what that is!
Please keep reading, and pop in a review if you can!
Stay tuned for chapter two, too!
BYE!
-da Panda