Up in the next area, they could see some red toy cars with pictures of Goombas and Koopas moving around and were capable of hurting Chopper and dealing 2 damage. The Motobugs and Buzz Bombers could deal some heavy damage against Chopper and Vivian too. The Motobug could do at least 3 damage to Chopper, while the Buzz Bomber could do 2. They were definitely not enemies they wanted to fight.
"There's so much around here. I never knew toy cars actually move on their own." Chopper gaped. "Hey, wait a second! Vivian! You can listen to what creatures have to say, right? Well… Maybe you can listen to what these cars have to say. They're moving, and maybe they have something interesting to say."
"I don't think I can do that," Vivian frowned. "My powers are only useful with living beings, not toys. We can just fight the enemies here, if you want. After that, we'll just move on. I think I might be seeing a bridge up ahead anyway."
"OK, good idea!" Chopper nodded and jumped. They turned to the enemies and Chopper began to use his Beam attacks on them while Vivian burned the toy cars with her fire attacks. Motobugs, and Buzz Bombers were defeated in no time with their attacks.
"Phew, that sure was a fight, huh? Well at least I leveled up! Now I got myself 15 FP now!" Chopper smiled as they moved on toward the next area, where they had to cross a bridge. They looked up at the sky to see some orange toy rocket balloons being fired upward. Apparently some Koopas were using them to get onto the toy bridge, which were made of puzzle pieces. They got in their shells to attack, but were kicked away and punched away by the two heroes.
"So now these Koopas are using them? I never would've thought of that..." Chopper trailed. "I think I can slip through this bridge because of the small spaces there are. It shouldn't be so hard. I think that there might be something down there."
"Let's take a look," Vivian suggested as Chopper turned sideways and slipped through the bridge to find a chest. He was relieved that no bottomless pits were around, or else things wouldn't turn out too well. He ended up finding a Toy Key inside.
"A Toy Key? Now this is odd for a key..."
"I guess we're going to need it for a gate, I presume?" Vivian wondered. Chopper shrugged and took the spring by the beginning of the bridge to go back up. This time they crossed the bridge to the next pathway to an area with a toy grinding rail going around a pillar. There was also a rail going up the pillar, where there was a paper airplane panel to get over to the ledge ahead.
"Whoa… All right, this shouldn't be hard. I can do this!" Chopper walked over to the grinding rail, but a Paratroopa came down toward him and hit him, knocking him down. Vivian was able to use a Shade Fist on the enemy to burn it and defeat it.
"There we go! Now let's see what's up ahead. Hopefully it'll be something nice." Vivian hoped as Chopper jumped on the toy rail and began to grind around it. Once he got right by the rail going north, he jumped off the rail and onto that one to get on the pillar.
"OK, time to fly over!" Chopper transformed into an airplane flew over to the other side. There was a locked gate, so that meant that the Toy Key probably needed to be used, so he pulled it out. But since Vivian didn't see the whole key, she looked at it.
"So that key is a toy too?" Vivian gawked. "It feels like a lot of things here are toys…except for those Paratroopas, Motobugs, and Buzzbombers. There ARE Toy Goombas, just to let you know also."
They found another gate up ahead in a small are and saw a teddy bear. A white, cute teddy bear with a blue bow-tie.
"What the heck? It's just a teddy bear... And it's even blocking the way!"
"That's actually a cute teddy bear!" Vivian smiled.
"Well, this place IS full a toys... No surprise seeing a teddy bear."
"Why don't we take a look at it?"
"OK, let's take a look," Chopper walked over to the Teddy Bear, and when he touched it, its cute smiled changed to a demonic smile. "What in the world?! What's with the smile?!"
"Hee hee hee hee… You clearly seem to think that cute things are harmless if you came here." the Teddy Bear hissed. "You will go no farther, and from this moment on… You will slowly die a horrible death from cuteness!"
"What? That thing is REALLY disturbing." Chopper gaped as a bunch of Teddy Bears came into the room and pushed Chopper and Vivian back. It was a whole mob of Teddy Bears! Cuteness galore! ...Although, these teddies probably want them dead.
"These Teddy Bears are pushing us back!" Vivian cried. "We need to find a way to get them away from us!"
"I got this!" Chopper used his hammer to whack away all of the Teddy Bears in order to reach the white one, but once they got to it, it summoned four other Teddy Bears to help fight. These had 2 HP, unlike the white one, which had 10 HP.
Tattle: That's a White Teddy Bear. Aw! It looks so cute! …But it looks so creepy at the same time! Max HP is 10. Attack is 3. Defense is 0. It'll just ram into you or just try to confuse you with cuteness. It's really ADORABLE! I wish I was where you are right now. It looks so cute!
"All right, I'll start by taking out all of these regular Teddy Bears," Chopper charged up a Beam attack and fired the ball of energy at all of the Teddy Bears, defeating all of them except for the white one.
"All right, I'm up now," Vivian sank into the shadows and used her Shade Fist on the White Teddy Bear when she rose up, burning the enemy as well. The Teddy Bear charged at Chopper, but it took damage from the burn after hitting Chopper, which knocked away his power and dealt 3 damage to him.
"Oof! That did hurt… But that's not stopping me from fighting back!" Chopper stomped on the Teddy Bear and then Vivian used a Shade Fist afterward. The White Teddy Bear laughed at them before giving them puppy dog eyes.
"Oh no, that's not working on me," Chopper frowned as he guarded the attack. However, Vivian was unfortunate to fall for its cuteness. "Vivian! Don't let it confuse you! It's just going to confuse you!"
"But it's so cu… Oh, you're right, Chopper." Vivian blinked. "That thing can't stop me. I think it's going to be defeated anyway. It only has 1 HP left. That burn will get rid of it, so we shouldn't need to worry."
And it was indeed true. The Teddy Bear took damage from being burnt and was defeated, giving Chopper and Vivian 16 Star Points. This made the white Teddy Bear and the rest of them flee from them, screaming in fear. The White Teddy Bear ended up dropping a Toy Key that Chopper caught, who used it to open up the gate ahead. They ended up seeing the Toy Castle up ahead, which looked pretty big. Balloons could be seen flying up from the castle and there was a pool right by them.
"Whoa..."
"Wow, look at this place! It's a big Toy Castle!" Vivian gaped. "Maybe we can find where the Crystal Star is in that castle. We're bound to find SOMETHING here!"
"Then we might as well check inside of that castle!" Chopper declared. They headed up to the big toy door and headed in to see a medium-sized room with stairs going up to another floor. "Hold on a minute, let me look at the map real quick. I think we can find where it is with it."
Chopper pulled out the map to see where the Crystal Star was. Vivian couldn't help but take a look for herself.
"That really IS the map," Vivian gaped. "I don't know how you got a hold of that, but you're pretty luck to have it with you. We need to go somewhere that's a little close to the castle, but I don't think it looks reachable right now. There's gotta be something we can use!"
"Hmmm…" Chopper pondered as he looked around before he saw in one room a bunch of blocks stacked up together. Sadly, that didn't appear to be helpful in any way. They simply walked around the castle to see if there was anybody there. Unfortunately, there was no one.
"It's pretty quiet in a castle like this..." Vivian trailed.
"Yeah, I would expect this place to have a little more...life to it," Chopper agreed.
They walked up the stairs and into a hallway. However, there was a bunch of blocks that flew back and forth in the hallway, so Vivian had to pull Chopper into the shadows when a block came toward them. After that, Chopper walked into a door that was right by the door ahead, which was locked. They found a statue of a king made of blocks. Beside the statue was a teddy bear.
"I hope that bear doesn't move. If it does, then we're in for some trouble." Chopper hoped as he looked at the brown teddy bear.
"Come over here, Chopper. There's something interesting on here. You should seriously take a look on here. C'mon!" Vivian grabbed Chopper's hand to pull him over to the statue.
"All right, I'll read it," Chopper sighed as the two began to read the writings on the statue.
To the King of Toy Kingdom. We couldn't stop her! Her power…it's just too strong! We were too weak, my king. She…and her husband attacked our kingdom and only three of us are left standing. The four heroes are nowhere to be found, and we saw a strange masked person and his apprentice walk by asking what happened. They were searching for the king and queen who caused this. Your Highness, we can't risk their three daughters coming here. They possess powerful magic that will destroy us. We must leave now before more darkness comes…and before he comes. I'm sorry we've failed you, Your Majesty.
"A king and queen and their three daughters attacked a place like this?" Chopper gawked. "Hmmm… I don't really know anything on this, I'm afraid. I don't know anything about history. Only my buddy Flyer does."
"Hmmm… I may have heard something like this, but I don't exactly remember, sadly." Vivian pondered. "I wish I could, because I would be able to help you know about this. I guess sometimes I can't remember everything... Let's go find that Crystal Star, OK?"
"OK, good idea," they left the room and headed over to the door to the right to head off to the balcony. They noticed a toy catapult was built right by them. This suddenly gave Chopper an idea. A risky idea, that is.
"Do I REALLY want to use this? Maybe this thing can actually help us and get us over to the Crystal Star."
"Well let's try," Vivian suggested as she got the catapult ready while Chopper got on, and once she fired it, Chopper was sent flying toward another location. Vivian, looking a little worried, began to slowly sink into the shadows.
"Maybe those writings did have something I might have been involved in..."
Boss chapter's next! If you don't know what a boss chapter is, I might as well explain for those who haven't read the first Paper Chopper story. It's the chapter where the boss is fought. Simply put. And no, there's no other partner joining Chopper and Vivian in this chapter, unlike the first story. I don't mind it either. :P
So get ready for a boss fight!
