Whoa, we're down to the penultimate round, and I can't believe it! Episode 7 has the approaching final games. Let the game commence!
Episode 7
Intelligent, spot on, and clever. All of these words could have described the player who left in last night's surprising execution. Goombella was one of the most advantaged players in our game, and though she had made it more than halfway into the competition, she was still beat. Someone was smarter than her, and that person will ultimately win the game. The game narrows dangerously close to its finish, and we'll soon see just which player is indeed the most intelligent of them all. We'll also see which player has been the most crafty, sly, and deceptive of them all, having fooled everyone in this game from the very start.
Who is the Mole?
Wario
Surname: Garlimo
Birthday: September 29
Occupation: Moneylender/Explorer
Yoshi
Surname: Dino
Birthday: April 13
Occupation: Fruiterer/Waiter
Vivian
Surname: Shadens
Birthday: October 4
Occupation: Visual Display Artist
Luvbi
Surname: Nimbis
Birthday: May 5
Occupation: Harpist/Oracle
Wario: WHOO. Can you believe this? I can hardly believe it myself, where I am in "The Mole". I didn't even need any exemptions to each this point either. I failed an offer for one, and rejected the other. And look where I am now: the final four.
Luvbi: I must say, I'm a bit surprised in myself that I passed the quiz with a -1. No. Highly surprised. Either the person named Goombella was a terrible scorer, which I doubt, or I did exceedingly well. Let's find out from this episode.
Yoshi: Goombella was my biggest threat in this game. If I were to have gone into the final three against her, there'd be no chance for victory. With her gone, we all stand a bigger chance to win. Maybe I can do this.
Vivian: Really, really nervous at the point of this game, because there's going to be a final three. The weakest player will be kicked out, and I'm really scared that this might be my end. I really have to step up my game, and see what I can do now.
The boat moved its way across the ocean, to a location that went partially off of Isle Delfino's map. The island resort had served for the players' home for nearly three weeks. Now, with just a few days to go, everyone was on their edge, alert, and everyone had their suspects. Two people would fall short of the ultimate victory at the end of this vacation. One would be the happy victor. And one would be revealed as the Mole.
"Om nom." Yoshi was in the hallway, looking out at the sea and eating a blue-green apple.
Could it be Yoshi? Ambitious and clever, he has the attitude and ability to hide anything from everyone around him. In Episode 5, he ate a mushroom out of the allotted time limit, breaking the rules of the game and costing money from the team pot.
"Well, I'm officially sea-bothered." Wario walked out of his room cabin, looking a bit dizzy.
How about Wario? His boastful demeanor has disguised most of who he really is, and he has been the subject of many controversies. In Episode 5, he blatantly touched a simple camera on a table, enabling him to win an exemption and cost money from the team pot.
"We've had worse sleeping quarters," said Luvbi truthfully, using a towel to dry her hair.
How about Luvbi? Reserved and playing on her own terms, she has managed to make swift moves in the game that have made others suspicious since the very first episode. In Bag Savers, she was able to choose an exemption-winning role in her second mission, based solely on the fact that three durians were hanging above her in a restaurant. A lucky guess, or more than that?
"I guess it's all right in here," Vivain said contently, looking out the nearest window to her.
And how about Vivian? The quietest of the players in the game, she grew her way to somehow make it to the final four of the group. But how did she do it? In Episode 4, her attempt to answer questions while aboard the roller coaster was inadequate, hindered by screams and silences on both her rounds. But was it natural fear, or a decoy of her own?
"Four suspects," said McHallyboo, sitting at the dinner table and facing a video camera. "Four people who all without a doubt have had their suspicious moments. But which one of them is it? Who is...the Mole?" As the camera man walked away, the players went up to him.
"Television coverage," Yoshi said, watching the camera man leave. "Wow. We're popular now."
"So," Luvbi questioned the host with interest, "Where are we traveling? Is our game on this boat?"
"A place called...Delfino Square," said McHallyboo, looking at a map of Isle Delfino. He handed it to Vivian, who looked at it curiously.
"Delfino Square?" Wario retorted. "There's no such place! What are you talking about, McHallyboo?"
"Traditionally, there isn't," said McHallyboo, "but it exists off the usual map of Isle Delfino, you see. Delfino Square will be our next location. Our stop will be approximately in...thirty-five good minutes?"
"Yeah, I can already see something rising," said Vivian, looking closer at the land that emerged from the direction they were heading. It resembled Delfino Plaza, but a definite portion smaller than their familiar location. Something rose into the air, two planks extending up as the players looked in curiosity at the small town before them.
"It's in the middle of nowhere," Yoshi said, interested.
"We're in the middle of nowhere," Luvbi said, as they drifted closer to the unknown land.
The small town appeared and served almost like a port: a few boats were already docked at the miniature plaza, having carried passengers to and fro from other lands and elsewhere. On the left of the town, the players saw quietness, but on their right, a bustling marketplace was readily visible as Piantas shopped endlessly. As the boat carrying all four players approached towards Delfino Square's land, the large drawbridge that blocked their way separated and began rising up at a steady rate.
The players looked up in wonder above them as their boat sailed right into a water passage, a passage that went through the center of the square and out another end of the plaza. The boat came to a steady and smooth halt, and the doors opened immediately. One by one, the players stepped out to their left, all too eager and uncertain of what they had in store.
"Looks kinda empty," grumbled Wario. " I hope we're in store for at least some fun here at this place."
"You're not even in town yet." McHallyboo had already found his way onto the patch of greenish-yellow colored land, and stood before the players with a smile-holding look on his face.
"Well, and then there were four," the host told them. "Congratulations to you all for making it this far! The only thing holding you back from the final episode is this certain, event-filled round. Consider this penultimate episode a test: to see if you are worthy enough to make it to the final three." All four players nodded in reply.
"For your next game, you will be split into groups of two," McHallyboo said to them. "Two of you who would want to participate in a game with this object, and two would want to participate in a game with this one." In one hand, he held a pink boxing glove, and in the other, a dull-appearing cucumber. All players looked at each of the host's outstretched hands with perplexity.
"Food or boxing?" said Vivian
"Eat, or fight?" thought Yoshi.
"Or, let's just choose an object, and face our fates," Luvbi decided. "We have very little knowledge of what these objects mean anyway."
"I'd go for food obviously, but," Yoshi said carefully, "there's always a trick with these kind of stuff."
"They could have opposite meanings," Wario considered, thinking. "So maybe I should go for food instead, isn't that right?"
"But what if boxing is actually difficult?" Vivian worried.
Luvbi: We definitely didn't know if there was reverse psychology in play or not. Wario and Yoshi were more physically fit and strong so they had to go for the physical mission, while Luvbi and I wanted to go for more mental roles.
"Let's put ourselves in roles, shall we?" Luvbi commanded.
"How?" Vivian asked.
"How about, one male and one female each," Luvbi said. "We'll guarantee that either of you, Yoshi or Wario, will end up in the physical-prone mission."
"How do you even know there's going to be a physical mission?" Yoshi asked her. "A boxing glove doesn't have to mean fighting."
"A cucumber doesn't have to mean food?" Wario wondered.
"I haven't a clue, but let's try this," Luvbi said. "I'll go for the...cucumber."
"I guess I'm going for...boxing," Vivian said, slightly with hesitancy. They faced the two males
Wario: So there was a boxing glove, and a cucumber. Me, and Yoshi. Who were you obviously going to pair each object with?
""Maybe they want me to go for cucumber cause they know I'm a food person," Yoshi thought, "and they want Wario to go with the glove cause he is a physically-strong person."
"Or perhaps it's a double whammy," Vivian considered. "Maybe they expect us to assign different roles and make everything harder. If we keep everything as it's...'intented'... we might get better results."
"So, you're putting me with the boxing glove?" Wario said, raising an eyebrow. "It seems too obvious for me to do such a thing. I mean-"
"Yeah, let's settle it," said Luvbi. As Yoshi went to join Luvbi's side, Wario went to join Vivian.
"So Luvbi and Yoshi for the cucumber, and Wario and Vivian for the boxing glove?" McHallyboo said, as they nodded.
"Yoshi and Luvbi, follow me this way." The host turned around, as the two of them followed him down the now-flattened drawbridge to the West side of the square. The closer they got to their next location, the louder the sound of bustling shoppers became.
The sidewalk of Delfino Square was right beside the open sea, and as traders and buyers from all around came from across the ocean, they parked their boats right aside the square's wall and did their business of commerce and selling. As Yoshi and Luvbi walked into this special sidewalk, they found themselves among civilians and shoppers who ran amuck. A marketplace was being run and a plethora of stands littered before them.
"Whoa, this place is crazy McHallyboo," said Yoshi. They backed away from a Pianta woman, carrying three ripe durians in a sack.
"At least we know we're gonna have a game involving food now," Luvbi said, still covering her ears.
"This is the market place of Delfino square!" the host said, his voice shouting above everyone else. "Your next challenge is worth a potential 20,000 coins, and you can earn it by playing a series of games in this marketplace. For every game you succeed in, 5,000 coins will be earned for the team pot." He turned and pointed them to the stands that made up the marketplace before them.
"Take a good luck," McHallyboo said. "Here, you will find various food and objects. This is your first game: you have just fifteen minutes to put as many objects as you want into your basket as possible. Your goal is to reach a price value, that in the end, falls only between an interval of one-hundred to one-hundred fifteed coins." Luvbi looked at the two stands behind him with strange looks.
"But there are price tags on everywhere," she said. "This will be easy."
"But here's the catch," said the host, and he pulled out two of the same objects from his front coat pockets. They were sunglasses, but their lens were of extensive size and tinted a peculiar red color.
"Put these on immediately," he said, handing each of them a pair. They did so, and as Yoshi looked at Luvbi, he let out a chuckle.
"You look funny," he blurted.
"Ditto, look at you," Luvbi said back, trying not to smile.
"With these sunglasses, the text color of each price tag will be invisible to you," the host explained. "Turn around." As they did, the two players saw that instead of seeing numbers on the signs above each stand, all they could see was a blank slate of white.
Yoshi: The numbers were all blank. Everything was shielded from us. This was probably going to be one of our hardest games.
"After twenty minutes, find me, and I will count your basket value," said the host. "Remember, you must reach a value between 100 coins and 115 coins, no more or less. Oh, and keep your glasses on! Otherwise, you'll be breaking the rules. Good luck. Twenty minutes." He walked away, giving the left-behind players a feeling of being lost.
"Grab onto me," Luvbi said, holding onto her partner's arm. "I feel dizzy already."
McHallyboo lead the other two players up a slanted, large pathway, causing the two of them to huff with tiredness and confusion. It lead straight to Delfino Square's center, or rather, its signature location of importance as the two of them came face to face with a large statue of a Pianta.
"Wow, this town has a terrible layout," Wario couldn't help commenting. "What would you say, McHallyboo?"
"It wasn't exactly meant to be bipedal-friendly," McHallyboo said cleverly, "if you know what I mean."
"Who's...that?" Vivian wondered out loud. As the host walked up to an individual standing in front of the statue, the players stared, seeing a character of short stature in a white undershirt and pink-colored accessories. The players could see that the Pianta-like face that the person presented to them was nothing else but a mask, complete with a tree-sprout that protruded straight out of its head. The person's outfit would have been in full completion, had it not been for the host stealing one of his gloves at the beginning of the game.
"Meet Il Piantissimo," said McHallyboo. "He will be our guest for your next mission."
"Greetings!" Piantissimo greeted back. Even with a mask on, they could tell that he was smiling.
"Really?" Wario said with a heavy groan. "Him?" Vivian sighed as well.
Wario: We were going to battle THIS guy? Out of all people. I knew who he was, and that he wasn't going to be an easy competitor.
Vivian: I knew that I should have went with the other team of people. At the same time, I was happy that Wario was on my side for this challenge.
"You will all face against Piantissimo in a series of duels, most of them physical, in order to win a potential 20,000 coins for the team pot," McHallyboo explained. "Each game that you win will add 5,000 coins for the team pot, and if you don't win one, then the money for that duel will be lost." The players nodded, still feeling uneasy.
"Don't worry: each game will be modified so that you will all stand a fair chance in succeeding against Mr. Piantissimo here," said McHallyboo, patting the back of the guest.
"Otherwise, it'd be quite a shame and bore watching me win each one," the athlete added. The players rolled their eyes in unison.
"The first two duels will be one-on-one games, with one person battling Piantissimo at a time each," McHallyboo explained even more. "Your third game against Piantissimo will involve the two of you in order to beat him. Are you ready to hear your first match contents?" All three players nodded.
"The next game will involve a barrage of punches," said the host, and Vivian immediately stepped back, leaving Wario standing up front. Wario had a face of surprise yet certainty on his face, and even though they couldn't make it, out, they knew that Piantissimo had a smile on his face as well behind his poorly-constructed mask of incognito.
"Where do we go first?" Luvbi wondered, holding a basket she had picked up from the ground.
"See that?" said Yoshi, pointing to a stand with mangoes. "Mangoes are cheap, and it'll be easier to estimate with cheaper objects. Let's start there." The two vision-impaired players walked up to the lady at the stand, frightening her the tiniest bit as they approached the stand full of mango fruits.
"Hallo!" said Yoshi, looking at the blank price tag. "We'd like some mangoes for dinner tonight."
"Oh, that's heavenly!" replied the please Pianta. "How many would you like?"
"We'll take an amount of...umm," Luvbi began, glancing over at her partner for an answer.
Luvbi: I felt so blind in many ways. Every move had the potential to be wrong. It was a sickening feeling, and the red tint was making me more disoriented.
"Ten mangoes?" Yoshi said. Luvbi nodded.
"Yes, ten mangoes," Luvbi said. As the lady began placing ten oranges in a separate bag, Luvbi seemed satisfied.
"Hey, how much coins do you think ten mangoes are?" Yoshi hissed to Luvbi.
"Unsure...perhaps like, ten or fifteen coins in total?" she replied. "I'm not a food person."
"Mangoes are cheap, and pineapples and watermelons are the big prices ones," Yoshi confirmed, and turned to see something else. "Like...there." They both saw a stand three spots away from them: pineapples were on its table, and the Pianta owning the stand was shuffling a pile of coins in his hands with pleasure.
"So wait, shouldn't we keep track of how much money we're using?" Luvbi said. "I will be the one to do it." She took out her all-important journal from her pocket, and within it, she spotted the same pen she had been using for the past three days.
"Perfecto, let me do it too," Yoshi said, taking out his own journal. "Mangoes: Ten coins. If we write down all our estimates, we'll be spot on."
"Then we will finish this with ease," Luvbi said, as she took the bag from the Pianta lady. "Perfecto indeed." They both moved on, scaring another slightly-alarmed food stand owner as they went up to him.
A certain area was elaborately set up for the first game of the Delfino matches, as two opponents got ready to face each other. A dirt path cut through the row of buildings on the right side of the plaza, where the market place was located. The dirt walkway was like a hidden path, and at one end, Wario stood tall, a semi-glare on his face. All the way on the other side, Piantissimo stood tall as well, back arched. Between them, a plethora of crates had been littered throughout the walkway, blocking both of their views and preventing each other from progressing forwards.
"Boxes," Vivian said, her voice in a mixture of certainty yet anxiousness.
"Welcome to the first game of the Delfino Duels!" shouted McHallyboo, and both Wario and his opponent looked up. He was upon the building, an equal distance away from both game participants.
"This before you is the first of your three games," the host explained. "When I say go, both of you must make it as fast as you can to the center of this narrow path. Boxes will obstruct you, but you must make it past them. In the middle of this path is a flag, marked the color white. The first person to grab this flag, hold it up in the air, and then yell 'Delfino Plaza' will be the victor of this duel. This is the Crate Race!"
Wario: When I heard "boxes will obstruct you", I laughed. I had literally fought to the sudden death breaking boxes in the other game last episode, and for this challenge, I had to make it past a measly twenty feet of mud walkway.
"Seems easy enough," Wario said to Vivian behind him. "Grab a flag and yell out. I got this." Vivian nodded.
"For this game, Piantissimo will lose his gloves," the host said, holding up both personal weapons of the individual. Piantissimo looked down at his own hands, scoffing and shrugging with unconcern.
"Are you both ready?" called out McHallyboo, holding up a green flag of his own. As he lifted it into the air slowly, he sharply brought it back down, waving it at the same time.
"GO!" Both players immediately darted into the narrow arena, literally disappearing into a crate of boxes. As Wario leaped forwards to barge into one, he discovered that some of the crates had wheels on the bottom of them, as he fell face-forwards into the mud.
"My...my eyes!" he shouted, as Vivian winced.
Wario: My first instinct was to just barge through the course easily. But by pushing forwards like that, a stupid, hidden wheel-floored crate went into motion. I was pretty much blind when I fell into the mud.
"Pears," Luvbi said, looking at the stand before her. "Pears are cheaper than mangoes, is that true?"
"Depends, maybe," Yoshi said, leaning his chin on the table. "Actually, I'm not sure. But let's just assume that they are." Luvbi frowned.
"You're no help," Luvbi said, looking at the fruit before her. With a shrug, she grabbed ten of them and put them on the stand, then immediately took out her journal from under her arm.
"Then I guess these are...eight coins," Luvbi wrote down, as Yoshi did the same. "If the ten mangoes were ten coins, it must be lower..." The Pianta handed Luvbi the bag, as she put it into her basket.
"Hey," Luvbi said suddenly, a smile on her face. "Why don't you start carrying the basket now?
"Why?" Yoshi said, turning around.
"It'll get heavier, and its custom for the male to do all the heavy stuff," she said in an overworked voice. "I'm doing all the accounting work anyway."
"Oh, come on, it won't be getting that heavy," Yoshi said in a voice of reluctance.
"Exactly," she said, handing him the bag with a smile. Yoshi sighed, taking it with a defeated grin.
"Thirty seconds in!" shouted McHallyboo, as Wario used his hands to guide him up back on his feet. On the other side, Piantissimo had already gotten past the pile of single-filed boxes on the ground and was faced with an entire wall full of stacked crates.
"Intimidating, but easy," Piantissimo said, as he began to pound furiously on the bottom crate in order to break his way through. Wario used the clean side of his cap to wipe his eyes, and with a clearer face, he walked up to his own wall of crates blocking his way. With a single arm drawback, he pounded into the bottom crate, cracking it nearly in two.
"Now THIS is more like it!" he exclaimed in a tone of triumph, repeating the action again and again and breaking his wall of boxes.
Vivian: Piantissimo had speed, but Wario had strength. I was definitely excited to see how it would turn out because there were balancing forces and weaknesses.
"Almost there!" shouted out Piantissimo, but he wasn't almost there. As he struggled to break his barrier, Wario made one more plow with his fist and broke through, but in the process, fell into the mud once again.
Wario: I didn't expect it to be THAT terrible. I felt like I was walking down one of those annoying slip-n-slide toys. The only difference, this one was fifty-feet long.
"Out of the way!" a Pianta shouted, dashing right passed Yoshi as he clung on to his basket carefully.
"Geez," Yoshi said, looking after him. "Delfino Square isn't a race track."
"That's funny," said Luvbi, writing something into her journal. It was close to approaching fifteen minutes, and Luvbi and Yoshi were making it out of their seventh stand, walking away as they both looked into their basket.
"Okay," said Luvbi, as they placed two purchased pineapples into their basket. "Those pineapples were our seventh fruit."
"What's our total fruit value now?" Yoshi asked.
"The fruits we now have add up to a value of...71 coins," she said, reading from her journal.
"Make sure the math is correct," Yoshi told her, looking down at his basket. "I can't keep track anymore with this basket in my hands."
Yoshi: Luvbi was the only one in charge now for the fruit values. She could have been writing anything in her journal. It was a perfect sabotage chance.
"I'm pretty sure it's correct," Luvbi said, putting her pen away. "I have every price written down next to each fruit value. So if anything, I shouldn't have anything wrong."
"All right," said Yoshi, looking around for their next stand. "Where to now?"
"How about the oranges?" Luvbi suggested. They both made their way to their eighth stand.
As soon as Wario got to the very mid-center of the slippery path, he came upon a row of five objects: five sparkling, multi-colored wrapped gift boxes that made him stare in confusion.
"What do you see?" Vivian called out.
"There are...presents," Wario said in a confused voice, then in a louder voice said, "What the heck are Christmas gifts doing in the middle of this game?"
"Presents?" Vivian repeated. "That's strange...but open them! The flag is probably inside one of them!"
"Where else could it be?" Wario wondered. He ran up to the present in the center of the row and picked it up, just as Piantissimo's figure emerged from the wall of boxes on the other side, slipping through a crack.
"Present boxes?" he said, voice in the same exclamation of confusion. Wario punched directly into the box he was holding, holding it up with his other hand. He then proceeded to use his hand to search its insides. As he realized there was nothing inside, Piantissimo was already stomping continuously on another present box.
"Grr, it must be in this one," he said, picking up another box.
"Melons! Your favorite," Luvbi said, dropping them off into Yoshi's basket.
"If this basket wasn't so...heavy...I'd be jumping for joy," Yoshi muttered, his face strained.
"Hush, don't fret," Luvbi said, hushing him. "We have a lot of time." She looked up at a clock, on a mini-tower behind them, and her eyes went wide.
"Or maybe we don't," she corrected herself. "Three minutes."
"What's our fruit value at this point?" said Yoshi, struggling to hold their loaded basket.
"95 coins," Luvbi said bluntly, using her pen to write it down.
"We need around ten more coins to be safe," Yoshi said to her. "We need between one-hundred and one-hundred fifteen coins in total to win." He pointed to a final stand, full of cherries.
"There," he said. "A cherry bunch is more expensive than usual and should cost around five coins. We'll take two for ten."
"Are you sure?" Luvbi said, adjusting her red sunglasses. "Delfino Square is a very odd place with different values. We don't know anything."
"No, look," said Yoshi, as they both turned to see the sign. The Pianta had apparently gone on a demand for more income, and was making a new sign in a different black marker than everyone around him.
Cherry Bunches: 5 coins each
As they went up to the cheery stand, they had just two minutes left till game's finish.
"Darn," said Piantissimo, seeing an empty smashed box before him with no flag inside, as he moved on to another one. Wario was on his second box as well, and as he finally opened it, he looked inside of it with alarm to see there it was absent of a flag.
"None?" he exclaimed, just as Piantissimo had opened his second box to it absent of a flag as well. A lone present was located an equal distance between them.
"That's it!" Wario shouted, leaping to get it. Piantissimo beat him to it, but Wario tugged it from his arms, gaining it in possession. Picking it up, he threw his box right at the wall besides him, as it seemed to smash and transform into an aura of flying debris. Wario ducked, then looked around at the splinter and gift wrapping that had gathered around him.
"Hey...no, is it?" Right at his feet was a white flag, its fabric glistening right up back at him. Wario picked it up, feeling shocked and surprised as he held a grin.
"This is it!" Wario said. "I won! The white flag!" He looked at Piantissimo, who seemed to be holding his breath. From behind him, Vivian was yelling something.
"Yell it!" Vivian shouted. "Say it!"
"What?" Wario yelled, bewildered at Vivian's words. But just at that moment, Piantissimo had power-walked to the unaware player, and with a swift movement, swiped the important-object right out of Wario's hand before he could react.
"Delfino Plaza!" Piantissimo shouted, his voice proud and arm stretched into the air with the flag in his hand. Wario's eyes fell upon his opponent, at first confused, then a second later with a look of stunned realization.
"Here!" called out Luvbi, as Yoshi hurriedly brought a basket up to a certain stand at the end of the marketplace. McHallyboo was standing behind it, and he examined the basket with a meticulous look.
"Good work," the host said to them. "You had fifty-nine seconds remaining. Nicely done." Luvbi and Yoshi looked relieved.
"All right, so," Luvbi started, as the host began pulling each object one by one. "How much does this all cost?"
Luvbi: I had a slight gut feeling that we might have gotten it. Even though we didn't double-check the math in the end, I was sure we got somewhere close.
Yoshi: My biggest fear was that we had under-priced our total money value, because we didn't get as much time in the end as we wanted.
"Your goal was to reach a value between one hundred coins and one-hundred fifteen coins," McHallyboo said slowly. "You got..." Both Yoshi and Luvbi held their breaths.
"One-hundred and sixty-eight coins," the host finished. "Fifty-three coins over-limit."
"Wut," said Yoshi, face blank. Luvbi flipped immediately back to her journal, still bewildered.
Yoshi: I had no idea how we ended up shooting so high in the end. It was embarrassing for both of us.
Luvbi: The game seemed almost impossible in the first place, so I wasn't put down at all when we failed.
"You did a rather terrible job on that one," McHallyboo said honestly, "but you still have two more tasks to complete. Now if you excuse me, I must now explain the rules for an underwater voyage." He went off, leaving the other two in wonder of what else was happening at the moment.
"Didn't you remember?" Vivian said to Wario, who had already made his way back to the path's start. "You had to yell, 'Delfino Plaza' when you got the flag. That was the only way to win."
"What! I was running my butt off in that game," Wario said, his voice mad as he continued to wipe the mud off from his hat. "I got it all, except for two unimportant words. This stinks."
Wario: Really now? How was I supposed to remember such a measly rule like that while in the midst of mud and item-destroying? Vivian didn't understand anything. If she played this game, she probably would've forgotten that little rule too.
Vivian: There was just one important rule that Wario had to remember, and he forgot it at the end. I'm not sure if he did it on purpose or not, but I didn't want to blame him if it really was an accident. I'd feel bad.
"Well, still," Vivian started, but Wario just turned his back to her.
"I can't wait to see you play your own game," Wario said, wiping the remaining mud off his shoes and shaking his head.
Wario: It was all still a game. I was making new enemies.
McHallyboo appeared before them, jogging to their location.
"I am back, my apologies" he announced. "As I had said before, this first duel was a loss for you both. Wario, you were close, but were missing the all-important words that had to be spoken in order to seal that victory. No five-thousand coins, but your next game still awaits! Vivian, you must play this game." Piantissimo came to join them from the other side, appearing more than pleased.
"What's next?" asked Vivian, her voice showing a little bit of fear.
"The next duel will involve...something very vital for survival," McHallyboo began, holding up a large cylinder-like object made of metal. As she realized what it was by the label of "O2" on its side, she stood motionless, feeling dread. Wario only snorted, and Piantissimo was smiling even more than McHallyboo was.
Hey! Hope you're all enjoying your Winter break so far ^^ This month in general has been so busy yet rewarding. Snow and egg nog never felt so good.
Episode 7! What will come for these four players as this episode starts off?
I just wanted to imput something from the last execution: Goombella was my brother's personal suspect since the very beginning of the game. I had the pleasure of showing him last chapter's results, and got a pretty good reaction out from him from that, hehe :)
Oh, and it's almost New Years! As a gift for everyone, you can check out my own personal Christmas present song cover on my profile page, somewhere near the top. It's pretty terrifying so...don't judge me x.x Ahaha. But it's my little spread of late holiday cheer ^^
Stay tuned for the second part! And happy 2011 everyone!
