Part One: The Mysterious Man, Kumoro Izumaka!! Who is he?
The door that the gang entered took them into a portal that led them to a beautiful sunny forest. Mario, Kiki and Bowser had landed rather uncomfortably on the terrain of the forest. They were all a bit dazed out after the landing.
"Uh . . . mama mia . . . . "
"uhhhhh . . . . . ." TAT
"Grr...now that's what I call hard landing! You little losers alright?" asked the slightly sympathetic Bowser.
Mario got up and looked at the wonderful scenery. He couldn't help but sigh in pleasure as he finally found sunlight after a whole week in darkness. Kiki liked the sunlight too and started to sing a little. Bowser couldn't help but say,
"How pathetic..."
Then all of a sudden, the gang heard a cry for help. They saw a strange man in a black kimono-like outfit taking a white bunny rabbit captive.
"Please sir, let me go! I'm gonna be late for a very important date! I'm begging you, please let me go!" The White Rabbit had pleaded.
The man continued to walk off with the Rabbit. Luckily our heroes hid behind the trees so they wouldn't be spotted. Bowser looks at the man and says,
"Wow, a guy in a dress walking off with a white rabbit crying in agony."
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"Some people have all the luck."TAT
Mario couldn't stand seeing the Rabbit in agony any longer. So he dashed for the man, rammed him on the back like Luigi's Green Missile, and freed the white rabbit. The man got up and looked behind him to notice the mustacheoed plumber that had just rammed him.
"Hmph! So, you must be the one my Mistress had warned me about. I'm warning you Red, give me back that Rabbit, or you will be very sorry!" the man had threatened to him.
Mario did nothing but just growl, and clench his fists a bit tighter. The man was not pleased at all by his decision, and said,
"If that's the way you want it...then I have no choice."
The man snapped his fingers, and a whole bunch of familiar creatures were by his side. It was Bowser's entire Koopa Troop!! Bowser suddenly comes into the scene with Kiki and he roared...
"H-HEY!! What the heck do you think you're doing with MY minions?"
The man had chuckled a bit and said,
"Hmph, who said they were your minions? These creatures of the forest are under our control. You are nothing but prey to them."
Bowser was completely furious and said,
"YOU LITTLE TWERP, YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!!"
The man then yelled,
"SIEZE THESE PATHETIC LOWLIFES!!"
The many Goombas & Koopas then came charging after the the trio and their new Rabbit friend.
"Ahh!! Help me! Don't let them get me!"
Bowser then growls and said,
"If it'll get you to shut up, we'll do it!!"
The man then disappears to let them take care of the gang. However, Mario and Bowser were talented fighters, so they took out many minions, one by one. However, even with all of the Goombas, Koopas, and Hammer Bros they took out, more just kept on spawning out. Mario and Bowser were starting to grow a little tired of all the enemies popping out.
"*pant* *pant* you can't be serious!! How on Earth did that man in a dumb dress get all my minions into this?!"
They were eventually too pooped to fight anymore and they both collapsed. Kiki was really worried and tried to wake them up, but to no avail. Then she looked around to see that they were completely surrounded. She was really scared now, but she tried to contain herself from screaming.
However, as she was, she started to glow brightly. This light scared the heck out of the Koopa Klan. But since they got too close to the gang, Kiki really got too scared for her own good and screamed. What she hadn't realized was that she accidently unleashed a mighty force of light that instantly took out every single Koopa Klan minion in the area. Once Kiki opened her eyes, she realized that every Koopa was gone!
Mario and Bowser had woken up afterwards, shocked to see that every single Minion they saw earliar had just vanished in thin-air! Bowser looked at Mario and asked,
"Um, where you the one who took out all the minions?"
Mario wasn't really too sure. Then they both looked at Kiki who noticed that Mario and Bowser had woken up. Bowser then snorts and says,
"NAH AH!! NO WAY!! THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I WILL BELIEVE SOME PUNY LITTLE TWERP TOOK OUT THOSE MINIONS ALL BY HERSELF!!"
Kiki didn't really know what he meant but she hugged both Mario and Bowser either way. The li'l White Rabbit was hiding inside a tree bark and emerged asking,
"um . . . . are they all gone?"
Bowser snorted and said,
"Yeah they're all gone. You can come out now."
They White Rabbit had jumped out of the hole and approached the gang.
"Oh thank you two ever so much for saving me! For a moment there I thought I'd become rabbit food for those turtle things!"
Mario and Bowser looked at each other, then Bowser turned his head around and said,
"Oh pa-leeze! We didn't do it to save you! Those traitorous li'l Koopas had to be taught a lesson in pain!"
Mario told the rabbit to kindly ignore that, then asked him for his name, and where they were at.
"Oh, me? Well um, my name is Bobby, Bobby Rabbit. And you two are in the Forest of Radiance! Pretty cool huh?"
Bowser had a sweat drop on his head and said,
"Uhh, I'm more into dank, dark, lava filled dungeons. So Mr. Rabbit 'er whatever, what was with that pajama wearin' weirdo anyway, taking my minions and all the like?"
Bobby sighed and said,
"Oh, I'm not too sure about it myself. But from what we've seen, that man had come to our beloved forest and had poisoned it with those awful little creatures! He has already captured all of my friends, and I was about to be his next course, that is, until you three came and saved me."
Mario then asked who the man was. Bobby had said,
"That man goes by the name of Kumoro Izumaka. I don't know too much about him, but he is said to be apart of this so-called gang called the Kumija Force. He just suddenly showed up out of nowhere and had put a strange curse on our beloved Tree of Radiance. Now our forest is full of those nasty critters, and if this ha-loopa keeps up, who knows what's in store for our beautiful forest!"
The rabbit then grabbed on Mario's shirt and begged,
"Please kind people! I beg of you all! Please save our beloved forest from that mad man! Only you two are capable of such a feat!"
Mario then tipped his hat and said,
"Okkie-Dokkie!"
Bowser then shoved Mario to the side and said,
"What's in it for us?"
The Rabbit then said,
"Well, if you save our forest, we'll be glad to offer you our special monument, the Crystal Gem of Radiance!"
Bowser then said,
"A Crystal Gem you say? Hmmmmm, well then, what'er we doing just standing here? Let's get-a move on!!"
The Rabbit jumped for joy and hugged the gang.
"Oh thank you! Thank you ever so much!! You don't know how much this means to me!!"
Bowser then growled and said,
"If you wish to be kept un-burnt, get off of us right now!!"
"Oh, heheh. Sorry. Anyway, I'll be glad to take you over to the great Tree of Radiance, which is where we can get this whole problem solved."
Then the trio had left for the Great Tree of Memories!!
To be Continued...