It was late at night. Yoshi was on the balcony of the second floor of the small red-roofed, blue-colored Inn, looking out in the horizon of the large Ankylosaurus Desert. Dr. Hoshi comes behind Yoshi, tapping him on the shoulder.
Yoshi turns around to face Dr. Hoshi. "Yeah, doc? What is it?"
Dr. Hoshi sighed, appearing next to Yoshi and looking out at the horizon. "Well, Yoshi, it's going to be a long and dangerous road ahead. I won't be able to help you out this time, because I have some personal... "things"... to take care of." He looked at Yoshi. "You think you'll be able to handle the desert by yourself?"
Yoshi nodded, having a determined look on his face. "Yeah! All that trekking we did from your place in the desert will be able to help me out here. And plus..." He quickly glanced out at the desert. "If I am to rescue Peppy and save Dinosaur Land, I'm going to have to go great distances to reach him...and that's only by going through the desert."
Dr. Hoshi looked down at the sand on the ground, and looked back up at Yoshi. He patted his green Yoshisaurus friend on the back. "Come on, Yoshi, let's go inside. You'll need all of the rest you can get."
Yoshi nodded, smiling. "Right, doc. Thanks for all your help."
Dr. Hoshi chuckled. "No problem, Yoshi, old boy, no problem." With that said, the two Yoshisauruses went back into the Inn, closing the balcony door behind them.
Peppy let out a sigh, looking at the interior of King Morton's gigantic and heavily guarded castle from inside his small cage. He closed his eyes, and muttered quietly to himself, "I sure hope Yoshi doesn't take too much of his free sweet time to come and get me. I don't want to be trapped in here forever..."
It was morning in the small Ankylosaurus Village. The sun rose in the horizon, blazing as it climbed up higher into the sky. Despite this, none of the Ankylosaurus citizens came out from their homes. However, a young, eager Ankylosaurus girl ran out of her house and towards the Inn, bursting through the door and rushing to Geppy, who was cleaning a glass.
"Geppy! Geppy!" The Ankylosaurus girl cried out, 'Do you know where Yoshi is?"
Geppy shrugged, as he resumed cleaning the glass he was holding. "I'm sorry, missy, but Yoshi already left several minutes ago. You missed him."
The young Ankylosaurus girl let out a sigh of disappointment, sitting on the stool and sighing. The elder Ankylosaurus woman approached the young girl and padded her on the back, surprising her.
"Don't worry, young one - I'm sure Yoshi will be all right and come back," The elder Ankylosaurus woman assured, smiling but then frowning, looking down at her feet. "Though if he doesn't manage to get through the treacherous desert path towards the sacred pyramid of King Ankylosaurus..."
Dr. Hoshi shook his head, his arms folded as he sat on a stool nearby. "Yoshi's all right. He'll be able to clear through the desert easy." He looked up at the three Ankylosaurus smiling, and his right eye winked.
The elder Ankylosaurus woman, the young Ankylosaurus girl, and Geppy all worriedly looked at each other, and then looking cautiously at Dr. Hoshi, not too sure about his predicament.
Yoshi is running down on the sandy path from the Ankylosaurus Village, heading down the treacherous desert route to the pyramid of King Ankylosaurus. "I have to keep going forward...I won't rest until Peppy is safe from harm's way..."