Toad's Big Adventure!
CHAPTER ONE
Toad looked up from his sleep. He'd been out quite a while, but something had awakened him. Wait! There is was again!
"Rawr! Rawr!"
"Bowser! You interrupted my sleep! You should be ashamed of yourself!"
"Rawr-brawr-rawr-rawr-brawr!"
"Don't use that tone with me! Begone before I throw a mushroom at you!"
"Rawr-rawr-rawr-brawr!"
"BOWSER!" Toad exploded, hurling several mushrooms at Bowser. He screamed out and ran off. "Hmm! That's what he gets for treating me like--"
Suddenly, a large explosion sounded along with numerous screams. It was coming from the castle! And the screams were from...Bowser?
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU WRETCHED BEAST!!!" a shrill voice exploded. It was Bowser's mother. Toad grinned and hid behind a pipe to spy on Bowser, whose mother was running at him from behind. Toad giggled as Bowser was pinned down and beaten by his mother. "HOW DARE YOU YELL AT ME LIKE THAT! YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED TO USE THAT TONE WITH ME!" she screamed while beating him with a dinosaur-sized broom. Toad rolled on his back and laughed. Wait until Mario heard about this!
Suddenly, it stopped. Bowser's mother had heard Toad's laughter!
"WHO'S THERE?" she screamed. Toad jumped into the pipe as quickly as he could, but Bowser's mother saw him! She jumped in afterward, causing a major change. Some sort of wormhole developed, plunging them both into a magical in-between world. Toad cried out and hid behind the first thing he saw, but Bowser's mother caused a massive earthquake, uprooting anything within the nearest mile. Toad cried out nervously. "WHERE ARE WE?"
"I don't know! Why are you trying to kill me?" Toad cried out.
"I just wanted to know who you were. Great! We're trapped here because of a misunderstanding. Just wonderful!" Bowser's mother said angrily, stomping around the area, uprooting more rocks and twigs.
"Stop! You're destroying out home!"
"Who are you?" Toad and Bowser's mother asked together.
"I am the leader of the gnome people. My name is Flipsy, and you are destroying what is left of our world," he cried out, appearing on the top of an uprooted trunk.
"What's left? Did something happen here before we arrived?" Toad asked.
"Yes! A giant volcano erupted below here in Abrasville. Many of my people were killed, and now you are destroying their temporary housing. Please, stop your stomping, dear Madam!" Flipsy begged. Bowser's mother nodded.
"I apologize. I was just angry, is all."
"As are we," Flipsy whispered. He sighed heavily and sat on the log. "We are all very, very hungry, but the volcano has temporarily ended our scarce food supply. It was the Season of Great Snows before the volcano erupted. Now, the Great Snows are gone, but nothing remains in its place. We will surely die if nothing is done," he sighed once again. "The world you came from, did it have the same thing happen to it?"
"No, not at all," Toad replied. "Why do you ask?"
"Your world can provide us with the food we so desperately need! Please, take some of my people there at once!"
"We can't, Flipsy," Toad said sadly. "We just got here, but we don't know how to go home. The pipe we jumped into is not here."
"But you must help us! You have aided in destroying our world, so you must help my people!" Flipsy yelled, standing and jumping at every syllable.
"But we don't know how!" Toad exclaimed.
"Then find a way! I'll put my best warriors with you if you just try!" Flipsy begged. Toad looked to Bowser's mother.
"I'll go," Toad whispered. Flipsy clapped and giggled.
"I'll be back. Wait here!"
Bowser's mother watched as Flipsy ran off into the distance. She then looked to Toad.
"We must escape! If we don't find a way out, they will surely kill us!" she whispered frantically. Toad thought for a moment, then agreed. In his mind, he knew that they could send food down the pipe once they returned, but Flipsy's men could hold them back. So, Toad and Bowser's mother ran as quickly as they could in the opposite direction of Flipsy in a hope to discover a way home before it was too late. ----