A/N: Power-ups, what if they had minds of their own? This is the aim of the story right here. Have FUN!
I do not own Mario and anything except for OCs and plot! Nintendo owns this Italian plumber.
"Ugh, what the heck is this stuff?" a red koopa paratroopa asked, he along with two other paratroopas were dumping the contents of a black cauldron down the side of a cliff that was next to Bowser's castle. "It smells!"
"I don't know," a green one said. "And I don't really want to know, especially with what Kamek does inside his lab."
"Should we really be dumping whatever is inside here down the mountain? I mean we could just pour it into the lava..."
The two looked at each other. "Naaaaahhhhhh." they both said.
The green concoction oozed its way down the mountain before settling down at the base below. However, it just so happened that a single Fire Flower was growing at the base of the mountain and the ooze settled all around it. The ooze seeped into the ground and eventually into the flower.
The flower started to glow white, and a blinding light engulfed the entire mountain base.
When the light died down, no longer was a flower there...
But a human.
It was like a burning sensation. I was known to burn things, but for it to happen to me, it was...strange to say the least. I wonder if this what other creatures feel when they try and touch me, but then again, it's their fault for touching the pretty red flower.
When the burning stopped, I sighed in relief. I put a hand to my head as I opened my eyes and took in my surroundings...wait.
Wait, WHAT!
I'm a flower, I'm not supposed to have hands, let alone a head, eyes, or even a human body! What the hell is going on?!
From initial observations, I found that I was of the female variant of the human. The long reddish-orange hair mostly gave it away, and the weird squishy things on my chest, which I knew were not on males. I was dressed in a white shirt, red jacket and green skirt. I also had some kind of brown work-shoes on as well as some black fingerless gloves.
After spending a good amount of time looking at myself (which I thought was way too long) I tried to stand on my legs. I then spent another eternity trying to stand and walk, but I was able to master what was supposed to be a simple thing...after falling for a couple dozen times.
I looked back to where I was originally rooted, I couldn't remember how I ended up here in the first place, and I was a bit hesitant from moving away from where I lived for a good five years or so.
But then again, if I was given the ability to walk then I'm supposed to be somewhere else. Needed perhaps?
I was jarred from my thoughts when I heard something rustling from a nearby bush. I turned and saw a turtle-like creature with spikes on its back emerge from the bush. It looked at me and then charged me.
Instinctively, I raised my hand and, to my surprise, it caught fire.
The creature was surprised as well, and it skidded to a complete stop. Something clicked inside of me and I decided to take the advantage I had.
"Piss off." I said to it.
The creature turned tail and ran back into the forest, leaving me alone once again. "I guess I still have my fire properties." I thought.
I took a closer look at my flaming hand, the flames weren't hurting me, nor burning my gloves. It was more of a tickling sensation than anything. Now I didn't want to go around with my hand constantly on fire, but the solution came as soon as I thought of it. As soon as I thought of how to put the fire out, the flame went out.
I turned my attention away from my hand and to the forest ahead of me.
"Let's do this."
"Honestly, can't he make someone else but us to dispose his trash?"
"Apparently he can't, considering he's making us dump ANOTHER cauldron down the mountain."
The same three Paratroopas were pouring the orange colored contents out of the large pot.
"At least it doesn't smell bad this time," the third said. "I'd take this over kitchen duty any day."
"Why? Kitchen duty is literally the easiest job."
"It's not when you have to take out the garbage. It reeks, bro."
"Point taken."
Once again, the ooze flowed down the mountain, but this time it flowed over two ? blocks. At first nothing happened, but then the blocks turned from their normal yellow color to white and started to glow.
My courage was starting to falter slightly as I progressed through the forest. It was dark, deathly silent, and nothing looked friendly. Luckily nothing decided to attack me like how the spiked turtle did earlier, maybe he told all of his friends to stay clear of me, which I was fine with. On the other hand, a small part of me wanted threats to come to me. I don't know why, but it wanted to fight. Personally, I don't fight directly unless I'm threatened, but maybe the fighting spirit had to with me not being a flower anymore or something...
...wait a sec...that turtle...
THAT LIL' SHIT PISSED ON ME A COUPLE DAYS AGO!
I literally burst into flames as I stormed through the forest, not caring I was charring the ground and burning anything that stood within a five foot radius of me. He'd better wish he was fireproof or else...
Suddenly a flash of light caught my attention. My flames died down, but weren't completely out as a precaution. I made my way to where I saw the flash of light and I was surprised at what I saw.
Two more humans.
The first one had brown skin and wore a blue helmet that resembled a bird's head. She wore a blue sleeveless vest, a white top, brown pants, and black boots. But what stood out was the long, bright yellow cape on her back. I also noticed she looked pretty fit, with defined muscles and abs and whatnot. Is it getting hot in here...?
The second was considerably larger than the former, heck maybe even larger than me. She wore an orange hoodie with the hood up, black yoga pants, and black and white sneakers. And...holy cow does she have balls in her clothes or what? I mean, I had no idea those squishy things could be THAT big and neither the backside either...is that normal? She also had two brown braided pigtails coming out of her hood.
I was able to pull my gaze off the female and turned away to compose myself, my face completely red. So many impure thoughts flooded my 'new' mind to the point of borderline insanity. How did I know it was improper? When you're a flower in the middle of nowhere, you see some...stuff, and you can't look away from it or stop listening to it. (Luckily I have the ability to do so now, thank goodness)
I heard someone yawn and I turned back to find the second female waking up. She finished her yawn and was rubbing her eyes. Though I noticed I couldn't really see them under a tuff of hair.
"Is it morning already?" she said. "But I wanted a couple more minutes of sleep..."
She blinked and saw me. "Hi!"
"Hi..." I said back.
"You lost, hon?" she asked. "You don't look like you belong here."
"Me?! What about you? I just came upon you lying here!"
"I live in a block around here, and-" she stopped. "Wait a second, I'm not in my block..." she looked down and noticed her...squishies. "Ooh! Squishy! They're like pillows."
"Block? What do you mean?"
She looked up and looked around. "Um, oh, there!" she pointed to two brown cubes that an arm's length from her. "The left one my block!"
"You live in...there?"
"I'm a mushroom! A Mega Mushroom to be exact, well, used to be that is," she continued. "My other roomie was a Cape Feather, lived in the next block over."
"So I assume that's her?" I pointed to the other person.
"Most likely, so where are you from?"
"I lived outside the forest, I used to be a Fire Flower."
"How was your block?"
"I-I grew out of the ground...I never lived in a block."
"Huh, weird. I thought all Fire Flowers came from blocks, strange," she said while tapping her head in thought. "At least that's what my older sister said."
I'm supposed to come from a block? If I was, why wasn't I in one in the first place? Why am I in the ground in the first place? I shook my head, questions like that could be answered later.
"Anyways, name's Mellow. Capey here is Celina. What's your name?" the woman asked.
I blinked. "I...don't have one, like I said I was a flower, a name isn't really important to me back then."
"But how did anyone know what to call you?"
"Maybe because no one else was around me that's why-oomph!"
I was suddenly scooped up by the larger woman and was placed in a bone-crushing hug. It also didn't help I was also SUFFOCATING at the same time by her...you know.
"Aww you poor lil' thing! All alone with no one to talk to, you must be so lonely," she said as she swung me around. "Don't worry, I'll be your first friend, maybe Celina too when she wakes up!"
I didn't hear much because I was close to passing out from the lack of air. Luckily, she noticed I was dying and let me go. I fell to the ground, panting and gasping for air.
"Omigosh, I'm sorry!"
"Don't 'wheeze' worry 'wheeze' you meant 'wheeze' good."
At that moment, the other female, Celina, slowly got up. "Ugh, Mellow, can you keep it down. You know I can't sleep with your yapping and-" she looked at us. "Who the hell are you two?"
"Hi Celina!" Mellow said. "Have a nice nap?"
"Hold on...Mellow? What in..." she looked around. "What-what is going on and what am I?!"
"Weeeelllllll, I don't know, but we're humans now and so is this girl over here." Mellow said.
"W-what?!" Celina sputtered. "We just don't TURN into other things Mellow! That's not possible!"
"Um it can be, since I'm not a mushroom anymore, and you're not a feather."
"Why are you so CALM about this?!"
"Uh, my name is 'Mellow' what do you expect?" she turned to me while Celina continued to rant." Don't mind Celina, she can be a little cranky."
"I think she's reacting appropriately to the current situation, Mel. I don't think she's overreacting." I said.
Mellow ignored me and continued, "Anyways, I think we should get you a name. Since I'd rather not call you, well, 'you' all the time."
I tapped my chin in thought. "Does Fhana sound good?"
"Fhana...that sounds like a nice name. How'd you come up with it?"
"I heard it once back when I was a flower. I thought it sounded nice."
"Ok, nice to me you...Fhana." Mellow said with a smile.
We turned back to Celina, who was still ranting. "-and further more...you two weren't listening to me the entire time, were you?"
"Nope. Aaaaaannd, this is our new bestie, Fhana the Fire Flower!"
She picked me up once again and held me like a toy. I was a good foot or so off the ground. "Please put me down."
"I still don't understand how you two are not completely freaking out over this." Celina said.
"I kinda did when I first found out, but I just rolled with it." I said as I was put back onto the ground. "Besides, it was getting a little lonely in my spot."
"Single block? Yeah, I heard it gets lonely without some company."
"Um, Fhara didn't live in a block. She grew out of the ground." Mellow said.
"Flower Flowers can grow naturally? Huh, didn't know that."
"Can we stop talking about how I did not grow up in a block, thank you." I said. "Why is it such a big deal?"
Mellow and Celina looked at each other before turning back to me. "We don't actually know for sure...all we know is that Fire Flowers were put in blocks for a good reason."
I could tell they were hiding something, but I decided not to press it for now. "You know, I think we need to find a place to sleep. Since we're not whatever we were before, and actual living beings."
"But where are we going to go? I doubt we know a place close to here." Celina said.
"Can you fly and look around?" Mellow asked. "I pretty sure you can do that."
"Fly? Don't I can do that..."
"You should be able to, after I still have access to my fire powers." I said as I conjured a small fireball and hurled it at a rock. It bounced off the rock and incinerated a nearby bush. "Huh, didn't expect to do that."
"Ok...do I need a running start?"
"Try without first."
Celina nodded and bent her knees. A second later she rocketed upwards and out of our sight.
"Wow." Mellow said. "Did she take off or jump really high?"
"Both?" I answered as I took notice of the small impressions left after her takeoff.
After getting over the initial shock of taking off, Celina soared through the night sky. She felt alive in the air, almost ecstatic in fact. After a couple minutes of flying through the darkness, she remembered what she was supposed to do and sought out a place for the three to crash.
She hovered in place as she scanned the area and caught sight of a small village that was beside a castle.
"Hm, took me a couple minutes to get here by flying...might take us all night to get here," she thought.
She rocketed back to where the other two were and landed with a crash.
"Ok, I'm back and-" she looked around and noticed her impact made a small crater and that her two friends were on their backs.
"Next time, come in a bit softer." Fhara said as she sat up.
"Sorry, anyways, I found a village we could stay at, but it might be a walk to get there."
"I think I have idea how we get there faster." Mellow said as she got to her feet.
"No, you are not riding me."
"No silly! We are going to run there! And by run, I mean I run and carry Fhara and you fly. Where is village?"
"West of here-" she stopped. "Hold on-what?"
"Wait, wha-"
In a flash, Mellow scooped up Fhara and bolted in the direction Celina said. The sound of trees breaking could be faintly heard.
"Huh, neat." Celina said as she took to the skies again.
A/N: This is probably the few stories which I actually put time and effort into. Hope you like it, and leave a review if you want.
Till next time,
-D.W