Chapter 2:
The Rise Of The Fire King
Winterheat Town
Mario and the others jumped out of the pipe and when they did they all landed right into some snow Trixie makes a snow ball and throws it right at Goombling's face who looked not amused " I wish I had hands."
Mario says " Come on you two we need to find The Mirror Shard."
They both nod when they walk through the town cold ice wind blows across their faces as they look at all the houses they were all boarded up with wood, There were also some missing posters on the walls of some of the buildings and there was nobody around...everything was silent in the town Trixie said " Whoa this place is like a ghost town."
Mario nodded " Yeah where is everyone? This place is so empty."
" So you haven't heard?" A voice from the alley said.
They all turn around quickly to see three figures reveal them selfs they were an Ice Bro, a Ice Puff and a Ice Piranha Plant. Mario saw the look in their eyes he knew what that look was. It was fear the Ice Bro shaking said " S-So... You really don't know?"
Trixie asked confused " What do you mean? What happened here?"
The Ice Puff sighs and turns to the Ice Piranha Plant. The Ice Piranha Plant was wearing a pink scarf that had a yellow locket on as well. " Should I tell them?"
The Ice Piranha Plant nodded the Ice Puff turned back to Mario and the others " You see...Everything here has changed...But here out in the open isn't aa good place to explain this we need to go somewhere safe."
They all had confused faces Mario asked " What do you mean by that?"
The Ice Bro sighed " Look just we can't tell you here...He'll find out then were doomed"
Mario and his friends look at each other and nodded " Ok so where are we going?"
The Ice Puff showed them to a abandoned house that looked much older then the other and gave a knock and a voice whispered " What's the password?"
" Ahem...Princess Saven."
A window to the left opened up Goombling asked " Wait were not going through the door?"
The Ice Piranha Plant replied " No...Acording to Freezy he thought it would be better."
They all climb through the window to see lot's of others there. There were ,Ice Puffs,Ice Bros, And Embers. One of the Embers said " Hey who are they?!"
A says " Yeah what if there spys!? Working for the King ya know?!"
The Ice Piranha Plant sighed " Look...We saw them come through the pipe and they were pretty confused what happened to Winterheat Town so we agreed to tell them what happened..."
The Ember sighed " Fine Savannah..."
Savannah looked down sadly " You see our King here he isn't the nicest guy...A few months ago he thought Ice was lower to him and fire should be treated better...Others started going missing but gladly some of the others didn't agree that fire was more important then ice so they left him...But then what happened yesterday...Was the most terrible thing we found out...We went into his castle to find out where the others went...But what we saw was horrible...We saw him absorb an Ember's fire! The Ember kept screaming for help b-but...Then it stopped... he looked so weak...He was unable to even spark up even a little light...This is so horrible I want this to stop! The only thing that's keeping me happy through out this is my Boyfriend Flamzy...He's protecting others from him."
Trixie then gave Savannah a hug " THAT'S SOOOO SAAADDDD! Wait...You have a Boyfriend? AWWWW ROMANCE!"
Goombling gave her a comforting smile " Hey no worries we'll stop this."
Saying that gave shocked to all of them except Mario and Trixie. " WAIT WHAT!?"
" ARE YOU GUYS NUTS!?"
" YOUR GAME WILL END!"
"Welp hope you guys enjoyed your life."
" GEEZE WHAT'S WITH YOU GUYS!?"
"Um..Guys..?"
" NOT NOW SAVANNAH!"
" G-guys...?"
" LOOK I GET IT YOU WANT TO HELP BUT YOU'LL GET YOUR GAME ENDED!"
The Ice Puff sighed " There's not even a point...We should just accept our new life living in fear..."
Goombling shouted " You can't do that!"
He responded " What do you expect us to do?!"
" We can't stand up to him he is way to powerful! We'll just fail...He doesn't care about what he is doing...He cares about nobody but himself...Anyway why did you even come here...? After all it's better if you just go..."
Mario look at them to see their faces full of fear,sadness and anger. Mario then said " But you can't keep living like this. I believe there is hope for this place and that is if you stand up and fight."
The Ice Puff was about to say something but was interrupted by Savannah's yelling " GUYS!"
Everyone yelled at the same time " WHAT!?"
She lifted up a Big Blue Feather and sadly looked at it " It's Flamzy's feather...I found it while we taking these guys back here...W-What if something horrible happened to him!I CAN'T LOSE HIM!"
She sobbed wiping the tears away with her leaf hands Mario walked over to her " Hey don't cry...Me and my friends will find him for you."
Savannah gave a gentle smile " T-thank you..."
She handed over the Big Blue Feather to Mario she says " Give this to him when you see him..He mostly wears knight armour after all he's my knight in shining armour.."
Trixie lifts her sheet hands up to her face and says " AWWWWWWWWWW! SOOOOOO CUUUTTTEEE! SHE LOVES HER BOYFRIEND SO MUCH! ROMANCE IS SO AWESOME AND LOVELY!"
Goombling rolled his eyes at Trixie " Well shouldn't we get going then?"
Both Mario and Trixie say " Oh right."
They climb out the window to begin the search for Flamzy.
Trixie asks " So where should we start?"
Mario responds " Well...Uhh..."
Goombling rolled his eyes " You don't know do you?"
Mario gave a nervous laugh. But then they heard some voices " Where do you think it is?"
" Don't ask me idiot!"
" The Queen is gonna freak out if we don't find it before The Red Guy!"
Goombling groaned " Greeeaaattt those guys are here too..."
Trixie gave an confused face " Wait who?"
" Minions of Queen Shama..."
Trixie asked confused by the respond " Who?"
Goombling sighed " She's the one who shattered The Mirror Of Balance."
" Ohhhh." Trixie said finally understanding.
Mario says " They must be looking for The Mirror Shard."
" No duh." Goombling said sarcasticly
They look down the alley to spot Heef and Cra but not Tatty Mario thought Where could Tatty be? Maybe he didn't come along with them...
Trixie asks " So...What should we do guys?"
Mario suggested " Maybe we can avoid fighting them."
Goombling nodded " Yes good idea."
They walk past the alley but then they heard aloud crash from one of the abandon buildings Mario,Goombling and Trixie go to investigate. Mario bashes onto the door to open it with his hammer it fell down with a loud crash Goombling sarcasticly said " Well that's totally not gonna give us away."
Mario looked around in the house to see it was full of broken furniture and the wooden floors had big holes in them cobwebs covered the ceiling of the house. The objects in the house was covered in dust and they looked over at the stairs they looked slightly broken they were mostly covered in dust as well but it looked like someone used it recently. Which confused Mario he thought Could whoever made that crash sound be a survivor or maybe a foe?
He was snapped out of his thought when he looked up to see Goombling and Trixie already climbing the stairs and followed after them they looked to see four figures. One of them was an Ice Snifit and the other three figures were Ice Piranha Plants and the Ice Snifit was sitting on one of their heads thinking and the others were looking around making a mess. Mario yelled " Hey!"
That caught there attention they all turn to face Mario and his friends. The Ice Snifit gave a sigh " Well...This is a Ice..Suprise right girls?"
The three Ice Piranha Plants gave happy grins showing there sharp teeth. One of them asked " WHAT ARE YOU WEIRDOS DOING HERE? MY SISTERS AND SNIFIT FRIEND ARE LOOKING FOR STUFF."
Mario asked " Like supplies?"
The one that the Ice Snifit was sitting on said " UM..NO SOMETHING SPECIAL THAT'S HERE IN THIS TOWN KNOWN AS WINTERHEAT TOWN...WE LOOK FOR IT FOR SNIFIT FRIEND."
" SNIFIT FRIEND IT'S NOT HERE WHERE SHOULD WE LOOK NEXT?"
The Ice Snifit sighed " It's fine let's leave..."
Mario suggested " Wait maybe we can help you."
The Ice Snifit looked back at him and then looked forward again " No...Were fine were all Ice..."
Before The Ice Snifit left he said " Oh...By the way you three were looking for a Fire Snake named Flamzy correct?"
Goombling suprised asked " Wait how do you know that?"
" I have my ways...But it slipped my mind the cool way."
The Ice Piranha Plants giggle at The Ice Snifit's puns. While Mario and Goombling just facepalm in which Goombling had to use his foot due to having no hands. Trixie was laughing a bit at the puns. Goombling groaned " Just tell us what you know."
" Ahem puns aside...We saw him head towards King Flazera's Castle well have an Ice time"
Mario said " Thank you for the help."
The Ice Snifit turned back to him and says " You're welcome...By the way the name's Blizz and these girls are The Ice Plant Sisters."
He ran down the stairs with The Three Sisters following behind him. Trixie giggled " Wow he tells funny puns."
Mario and Goombling just blankly stare at Trixie she gave them a confused look " What? His puns are funny."
Goombling rolled his eyes " So what do we do now? Should we tell Savannah about this information?"
Mario nodded they run down the stairs as well exiting the build. But they didn't see Blizz and The Ice Plant Sisters watching them from a alley. Blizz growled " Ugh! Why did we have to run into them...Pretending to be nice to them...But we will have to fight them soon...After all I think I now have an idea where that Mirror Shard is."
He looked over at a castle that looked really far away from the Town one of The Ice Plant Sisters said " SNIFIT FRIEND? YOU SURE WE HAVE TO FIGHT TO DO THIS?"
Blizz sighed " You know we need The Mirror Shards."
" YOU GOT IT SNIFIT FRIEND! WE'LL FIGHT TO THE END OF TIME WITH YOU!"
Blizz chuckled " That's Ice to hear girls we better get ahead start to The Castle after all we can't let them get The Mirror Shard first."
" AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!" The Three Ice Plant Sisters give off aloud laugh but then two of them look at the one on the left and say " Sis...Your crazy laugh is a bit off key."
" Oh sorry..."
