Chapter 4: Castle or Mines?

Bushes and trees flew and crunched everywhere as Parakarry and his friends navigated through the forests. Mario kept his eyes open for rabid piranhas while Flick broke out so many puns I'd have to make this chapter 100 time larger to fit just a fraction of them.

Pretty soon, the group stopped in front of a fork in the path. A sign hung in the middle, pointing left for Chrysanthemum castle and right for a place none of them had known, Mining Mines.

"Let's go to the mines!" Mario said.

"I thought we were going to the castle!" Daisy said. "Besides, the castle will be much more interesting than some old mines."

Mario put his hands to his ears. "Nobody cares about what you think." He said tauntingly.

Daisy huffed and stomped her foot. "Luigi does."

"Of course I do!" Luigi defended.

"Doesn't matter to me, because they both speak adventure." Kooper whispered to Parakarry as they watch Mario and Daisy quarrel.

"Do I get a say in this?" asked Flick.

"No!" Everyone shouted.

Flick's face dropped. "Man, I hate being an OC." He muttered.

Parakarry sighed and raised his hands. "Look, we're not going to get anywhere just standing here. I say we leave it to Goombario."

Everyone looked at Goombario, who looked quite nervous. Yep, peer pressure ain't pleasant.

"Um, ah, er, um, errr..." Goombario muttered, glancing in every direction. Then a lightbulb illuminated over his head. "Aha!" He exclaimed. "I believe I shall approach this matter..." He paused for dramatic effect. "...Scientifically."

Parakarry muttered something negative.

Goombario took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Eeny, meeny miney, mo." He started singing. "Catch a snow leopard by the toe. If he hollers, you...give him a biscuit. And..." Goombario opened his eyes, having forgotten the lyrics. "...er...oh, LEFT!"

Everyone stared at him. A swarm of crickets chirped loudly in the background.

"This is idiotic." Parakarry facepalmed. "Let's just go to the castle."

So, another paragraph later, since the author was too lazy to come up with another trekking explanation, Parakarry and his friends stopped in front of an old, tall, moss-covered castle.
"The castle!" Kooper, Daisy, Mario and Luigi exclaimed together. The tower was very elegant in it's old-fashioned way, blah,blah, blah, who gives three $#!ts about an old castle anyway?

"Such beauty." Mario said. "Now we shall visit the mines."

Another long-description-I-won't-bother-to-come-up-with-later, Parakarry and his friends cut through the shrubbery and reached a clearing shaped into a canyon, strewn with crumbling buildings and rusty machinery around the pits.

"Boy, this place sure has gotten beaten down." Kooper noted.

"How do you know?" Mario asked.

Kooper laughed. "I used to work here during my breaks at Mushroom Archaeology University. This place used to worked on by the local Yoshi's. You can still see the pits that they used to mine in."

Yeah, but now everything was rusty, overgrown, dirty and just plain icky.

"And that's why we don't let this stupid narrator narrate most stories." Wario suddenly said. He heard an evil growl behind him and paled. "Flick's right behind me,isn't he?"

"Oh, you know it!" Flick said angrily. He swung his boomerang at full speed, sending Wario flying across the Mushroom Kingdom and then bouncing to god knows where, yelling: "SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" the entire time.

Thanks Flick!

"Anytime, Zacko!" Flick said cheerfully.

Well, back to the story, everyone seemed to enjoy examining the mines, but Parakarry found the place a little scary.

"How the hell can you read my thoughts?" Parakarry asked to the sky, where the narrator usually is. Unfortunately for Parakarry, I can't exist in video and am currently narrating in a very comfortable apartment somewhere in a country halfway across the world. Suckers!

Later that day, Mario and the rest of the guys met up with Parakarry at Yoshi Village, watching the sun set across the ocean. Luigi and Daisy had gone to the beach, making out, Flick presumed.

"I think the mines and the castle deserve a restoration." Mario said.

"Definetly." Kooper agreed.

"Y...yeah, I guess." Parakarry said nervously. He still wasn't keen on the mines.

"Shut up, Narrator." Parakarry muttered.

End of Chapter IV.