Chapter One
The Shadow Yoshi
Scat was a yoshi who lived in a little borough by himself on the side of a small hill. Scat was a green yoshi who had an unusually large tongue compared to most yoshis (13.8 feet instead of of the usual 11.2.) It was around midnight while Scat lay curled up in a ball snoring softly to himself when a growl woke him from his sleep. Scat squealed, hugged his knees and scooted into a corner. His eyes darted back and forth nervously. Scat heard the growl again- it was his stomach. Scat sighed with relief and wiped his brow.
"Scat hungy!" snorted Scat as he got up and climbed from his hole. "Me is going to the apple field to get a yummy hungy," sung Scat as he walked along a twisting trail. after a few turns Scat came to a goomba waddling along the same trail as he. "Ooh, a yummy," Scat said as he licked his lips.
"No! I have a wife and three kids! Please no., I didn't know it could all end this quickly!" sobbed the goomba.
"Scat a veggie-tarrian, me no eats meat," said Scat. "Actually, you do look kinda yum yummy, maybe I'll just-" the goomba was gone before Scat could finish his sentence. "Wanna be fweinds?" Scat yelled to the goomba who had already ran away. "Hmm," Scat thought to himself as he continued on his way, "Scat just wanted to be fweinds." Soon Scat arrived at the apple field where he approached a tree and crunched into a delicious, Juicy apple when he noticed a snout sticking out from in between the branches of the apple tree. Scat yelped and jumped back just before a soft wind blew a branch out of the way to reveal a beautiful pink Yoshi. The pink yoshi grunted, shot out her tongue, and grabbed an apple with the wormlike, saliva covered rope. The apple shot into her mouth to never be seen again. Scat was slightly annoyed because he had been saving that apple for last as it had been the most delicious looking. The pink yoshi shot out her tongue to retrieve another apple from the tree and ate it. The yoshi repeated this process six more times and then laid an egg, as most yoshis do when they have eaten a total of eight apples. The egg cracked open to reveal a fireflower, which the pink yoshi gingerly picked up on her tongue and quickly threw it into a crate that sat next to her. She snorted and picked up the crate, which she brought to a new apple tree to start the process over again.
Scat sat down on the ground and stared at the pink yoshi, curious about why she was collecting power-ups and also welcoming an excuse to look at the cute girl yoshi. Scat couldn't help but notice a faint discoloration in her eyes, they were slightly red. Not the sleepy eyed red but something else. Scat thought for a moment until he came to a conclusion; she was infested by shadow bugs! When shadow bugs infest a living thing they gain full control over that thing. Shadow bugs are evil and work only for king bowser himself! Scat, extremely disturbed by what he had seen, dashed away, so scared his tongue was shaking. Shadow bug infested yoshis can be very vicious. Scat shivered and ran further away for several miles. soon he approached a thick overgrowth of trees where he happened upon a shy guy. The shy guy held his hands up in alarm and began to back away from Scat. The shy guy continued so until he inspected Scat's eyes, (which were there normal blue color,) and then settled back down again. "Where ya go 'in in such a hurry?" asked the shy guy "ye look like ya 've seen a ghost!"
"Scat saw a scary pink yoshi, me was scared, me runned fawr away 'cause of the scary," replied Scat as he pointed a shaky finger towards where he had come. The shy guy looked frightened but not surprised.
"Looks like we got ourselves the same problem." said the shy guy.
"You mean dat you saw tha scary to?" asked Scat, surprised.
"I didn't see the same one you saw. mine wasn't pink, it was blue" answered the shy guy, subconsciously picking at the dirt with a twig.
"Theiws more then one!" squealed Scat, his eyes wide in terror.
"It appears so."