Here's one last chapter for today.
Enjoy! ;)
Chapter 11: Melty Molten Mountains
Mario and Yoshi told Luigi everything that happened. Mario also told both green machines about his adventure in Dusky Doomed Dale, which impressed Yoshi. After all of those explanations, Luigi came into conclusions:
"So there is a new villain named Rashay that kidnapped the princess and is also making the moon crash into the Kingdom… That is seriously not good!"
"Yeah, but at least it's not Bowser's doing." Mario said.
"Well, not that we talked a lot, we should head back to Bob-omb Village and search for more Power Stars, Mario Bros." Yoshi directed them to the village entrance.
"Yes. Let's do this." Mario replied.
They went back into Bob-omb Village to search for the next course. Soon, Yoshi spotted a sign which said 'CAUTION!' and was showing lava at the bottom. There was a path leading to another place; Yoshi was sure that he found the next course.
"Guys! I think I've found it!" he called.
The Mario Bros went to where Yoshi was and they stood next to the course's entrance.
"Uh, 'CAUTION!'? That doesn't sound very safe…" Luigi read the sign and stutters.
"Don't worry too much, Luigi. We both ventured through dangerous locations before. Besides, we're together now." Mario encouraged.
"Okey! I'll do my best!"
The trio went to the path leading them to the next course.
This course, Melty Molten Mountains was part lava, part ice, very much like Freezeflame Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy. There were fire and ice based enemies for each area. The trio checked their Star mission list, hoping the missions aren't too dangerous.
Star 1: Clamber up the Volcano
They guessed that this first Star was on the lava side, since it said volcano. So they followed the upper path in the lava area and eventually passed by a Molten Freezie, who instead of an ice blizzard, it shot a fire blizzard that could burn our heroes. They avoided the Molten Freezie and jumped to an opening located above it.
They arrived at the volcano where the Star was. To reach it, there were series of spinning platforms leading to the top of the volcano as well as some lower platforms on the lava.
With some precise platforming, the trio spotted a cave entrance where the Star was at the distance. They went inside to claim their prize.
Star 2: Frosty Veers
This time, the next Star was at the ice area, inside of an ice cavern. They made their way into the ice area, and it was not as bad as the lava area, except for the Freezie sending an ice blizzard. Fortunately, they avoided it with ease and entered the cavern.
Then, they realized they had to go down an icy narrow slide just like the many slides they came across in their previous adventures, like The Princess's Secret Slide and the slides from Cool, Cool Mountain and Tall, Tall Mountain.
With precise maneuvering and what they learned from their previous slides, the trio managed to reach the end of the slide without falling and saw the Star waiting for them.
Star 3: Hot-Cold Puzzle
At first, they were confused at this mission's name, so they decided to wander around to find some sort of puzzle in this area. Remember that they were still at the ice area. Soon, they noticed a staircase going up located at their right.
They went up the stairs and once they arrived at another portion of the area, they ground pounded a patch of ice in the ground to get to the bottom. At the end of the underground path, they found an area with eight panels on the ground; some of them were frozen and the others weren't. The trio supposed that they found the puzzle area. There was a closed door probably leading to the Star.
Taking a closer look at the panels, they noticed that some of them had red tiles and the others had blue tiles.
"Hmm, I think I'm starting to put the pieces together… I suppose we should freeze the blue panels and unfreeze the red ones. Maybe that's how that door will open." Mario guessed.
"But, how are we going to freeze and unfreeze these panels?" Luigi asked. "Besides, I don't see any Power Ups anywhere."
"I could try to use my Power Flower ability for the unfreezing part, but I didn't spot any Power Flowers either." Yoshi said.
"Hey, good thing I brought those with me!" Mario beamed as he pulls out a Fire Flower and an Ice Flower out of his pocket!
"Bro! Just when did you keep them with you?" Luigi was surprised.
"I saved some Fire and Ice Flowers in case we would need them, because I always know that if Peach invites us for something at her castle, obviously the same thing happens again if you know what I mean." Mario said.
"Oh, right. I get what you mean. Well, let's use the Power Ups, then!"
"Okey-Dokey!"
Mario absorbs the Fire Flower while Luigi absorbs the Ice Flower, and both turned into Fire Mario and Ice Luigi respectively. Using their powers, Fire Mario unfroze the red panels and Ice Luigi froze the blue panels. Eventually, the closed door opens up, leading them to the next puzzle room.
For the next one, the four panels had spikes underneath them, and there were bombs and snowballs rolling down. The heroes this time had to make the bombs fall into the spikes and let the snowballs proceed into the holes on the walls by once again freezing and unfreezing the panels.
When all of the snowballs were inside the holes on the walls, the Power Star showed up.
Star 4: Search the Silver Stars
The very second Silver Star hunting mission. Luckily, they were only scattered over the platforms in the lava area. The trio had to watch out for the Molten Freezies again while going for the Silver Stars. The Silver Stars were all located at the edge of the lava area.
Once all of the 5 Silver Stars were collected, they all merged into a Power Star.
Star 5: Glacial Red Coins
All of the red coins were scattered in the ice area. They searched up and down around the ice area while dealing with the enemies in this area like Spindrifts, which were the most common. The coins were all placed on top of ice blocks arranged like a small fort.
After all of the 8 red coins were collected, the Star showed up at the middle of the main frozen lake.
Star 6: Beat the Blarggs
For the last mission, they had to defeat the Ice and Fire Blarggs, enemies seen in the Yoshi's Island games. Their locations were in the area's largest pools of lava and water. The Ice Blargg was of course in the water pool and the Fire Blargg in the lava pool.
However, to defeat them, the trio had to use the opposite element for each Blargg; they must use fire to defeat the ice one and ice to defeat the fire one.
Despite that, this mission was probably the easiest one. After both Blarggs were defeated, with Fire Mario defeating the Ice Blargg and Ice Luigi defeating the Fire Blargg, the Star showed up at the part where both the lava and ice areas meet.
To be continued…
Well then, tomorrow is when my collage classes start. I'm a little bit nervous... But I should be able to write more by afternoon only. Until then! Please review.
