I stare down the narrow tunnel as if it were a disease. "Is there something down there?" I ask impatiently. "Just wait, Troy!" Sherbet called back. I must have forgotten to introduce myself. I'm Troy and I am a green Yoshi. Yoshis are dinosaur like creatures but much smaller. Yoshis usually live at Dinosaur Island, in tribes, like me. My tribe holds other Yoshis, such as: Sherbet, Tashi, Chief, Berry, Jet, Shelly, Kiki, Rash, Scorpio, and I. But we are all different colors. As I said, I am green; my best friend, Sherbet, is orange. He's also a worrywart. Now back to the story. Where was I? Oh! The tunnel. Finally, my orange friend popped out. But where was the food? "You forgot to get food, didn't you?" I yelled. "Oh no… It's just that… Well…" Sherbet stammered. I stared angrily like a chief at his soldiers. This one wasn't doing his duty. He began to move left and right. I could tell he was panicking. He stared at his blue shoes for a quick second. "Er… I tripped and uh… Some scary wigglers were chasing me and… I uh dropped my food…" Sherbet mumbled, still dancing in panic. "You know we have do find food for the sick leader Scorpio! Why lie? Do you want him to die?" I asked calmly.

"Er… No its… I love my leader but… I'm not lying…"

"I know you are. You do it every time."

"Not this time…"

"You were just scared, weren't you?"

"No, no… Er… Yes… NO! No…"

I shook my head. What a wimp! I thought.

I sneezed quietly. Why so quietly? Chief was approaching. Chief is a black Yoshi who is so strict that it even makes a grown Yoshi cry. Chief isn't our leader, though. He's Scorpio's assistant. Scorpio is our leader, which is weird because he's less strict. Chief silently passed us, looking for mistakes… or so I think. I held my breath. It was hard pretending you are looking for food. "When you look for food, you DO NOT sit in one place," Chief cooed. He had a rather beautiful voice, even though he uses it to scream. "I hope you at least got SOME food. Scorpio's got a mighty fever runnin'." Chief was about to yell. He was to quiet when he said those words. "DO YOU HERE ME?! GET SOME FOOD YOU DARNED IDIOTS! YOU'RE ACTING IF YOU WERE DUMB (dumb also means deaf, which is "cowboy language")!" I was right. He did that quite often. Yelling was his specialty. "I have some food. How about you, Sherbet?" I snickered. Big mistake. "DO YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY TO PICK ON YOUNGER YOSHIS, TROY?" Chief yelled in my ear… or ear hole… something like that.

"Sherbet is older than me."

"Still don't pick on him."

"I was asking him a question."

"And I'm a fairy princess, don't lie to me!"

I couldn't say anything there. "Listen you two; I want you to come with me. We must check on our leader, Scorpio." Chief seemed to have forgotten about what happened earlier… or two seconds ago. As we followed him up the winding road to Scorpio Castle (which used to be Flare Castle), I noticed an annoyed look on Chief's face. Either it was because of me, or because of Scorpio. Did I tell you that Chief is jealous of our leader, Scorpio? Well he is. Ever since Chief was little, he wanted to be a leader, king, prince, or head-yoshi. But because Scorpio was royal blood, he was crowned leader. Chief even trained for it and he didn't become leader! Chief secretly curses at Scorpio for his horrible choices. I'd agree with Chief, but I'm in love with Flare, Scorpio's mother who died of a disease. I wonder if diseases pass in the royal blood. All of the royal Yoshis have died from disease. I hope Scorpio doesn't have a disease and just a fever.

"Open the doors, nincompoops!" Chief grumbled. The doors slowly creaked open. I stared at the doors wide-eyed. I'm usually on the outside of the small castle like cave. "Humph. "Castle" Scorpio. This is a darned cave!" Chief mumbled as he stepped inside with us. "I want you two to go to your rooms. I'll check on the leader", Chief murmured. Before we could get to our rooms, I bumped into Jet; a light blue Yoshi that is the same age as me. I also have a crush on her. Too bad she's a guard for Scorpio Castle. "Hello Troy-ers! Like my nickname? It's wonderful to have nicknames, huh?" She giggled. "Well, back to my job. Guarding here, guarding there, guarding, guarding, everywhere!" She hummed. She was so pretty… "Hey! Troy? Hello?" Sherbet snapped in front of my face. "What?!" I growled as I woke up. "Why am I in my bed?"

"No time to explain!"

"Why not?"

"Because we have an emergency!"

I rubbed my swollen eyes. Emergency? Now? Was the leader already dead? I slowly followed Sherbet, who was scampering one way and another to find Scorpio's office. I was drowsy still. Was he expecting me to be fast? As we headed for what we thought was Scorpio's office, we were dragged by someone.