"Woo-hoo! That last chapter was the longest I have ever done!" I cheered.
"It wouldn't have been that long since you had a long conversation with Mario's arch-enemy." Toad told me.
"He left. He'll be back in the next Bowser chapter. Anyways, Yellow Toad's gonna get rescued!" I said.
"I can't wait!" Yellow Toad said.
"Me neither." I said. "Enjoy."
Toad and Toadette went over to the locked door. Toad tried to put the key into the lock, but it would not go in.
"Huh?" Toad said, confused.
"What's the matter?" Toadette asked.
"The key won't fit. This can't be the right door." Toad said.
"Where could that other door possibly be by now?" Toadette asked.
"Hey, we didn't get into these old wooden doors. Maybe the door is in there." Toad said.
The two Toads went through the wooden door. They ended up in a small hallway with two ways to go. One was a long hallway with a Boo on it. The other was a downwards staircase leading to another locked door.
"Eek! Why is there a Boo in here?" Toadette said, frightened.
"Hehehehe! Enter if you dare!" The Boo said as he floated down the hallway and went through the door at the end.
Toad slowly crept into the hallway.
"Hey, Toad. I found another door. Toad?"
But Toad wasn't listening, he was more focused on the door at the end of the hallway.
"Toadette, I think you should stay back for this one.." Toad told her.
"What?" Toadette said.
"I sense something strange back there. Something that probably would scare you. I'll be right back." Toad said.
"Okay." Toadette said.
Toad slowly crept down the hallway until he got to the door. He closed his eyes and opened it slowly, expecting to see something truly terrifying. When he got in and opened his eyes...it was just a small courtyard with a large fountain and writing on it saying "Yellow was here" or was it "Eternal Star"? Toad couldn't exactly make it out.
"Hmm...where could Yellow be?" Toad said. A Boo approached him, scaring him. "Boo!"
Toad screamed. "Aaah!"
Toad immediately punched the Boo behind him, releasing a small cage.
"Wha?" Toad looked at the cage. He tried to grab it, but it started to suck him in.
"Whaaa!" Toad disappeared.
Big Boo's Haunt
Toad landed on some grates, breathing heavily from that terrifying moment. He looked up to see that he was surrounded by large bars, and in front of him, was a huge haunted house. Toad realized he was inside the cage and shivered thinking about it.
"Don't be scared, Toad. You're no coward! You can do this! Just believe in yourself!" Toad said to himself.
Toad started to go into the leftmost door. All he could see in there was a grand piano which looked rather old and dusty.
"Hmm...I haven't seen any of these pianos before...but I still have time for a little session." Toad said.
Toad sits down in front of the piano and stretches his fingers.
"Okay, look out, ghost house! Sit back, relax, and listen to this music!" Toad said.
Toad started to play a few notes of the Toad House theme from Super Mario Brothers 3. Everything seems fine at first, but Toad started to hear growling. Something then kicked Toad off his seat.
"Hey, what gives?!" Toad said.
Toad's annoyed face turned into a scared one as the piano turned around, and opened to reveal a mouth with sharp teeth.
"Raaaaawr!" The mad piano roared.
"Yaaaaah!" Toad screamed as he quickly dashed out of the room into the next before the Mad Piano could eat him and hyperventilated from that jumpscare.
"Oh man! Note to self: Don't trust anything in this place!" Toad said.
"Hey." said a strange voice.
Toad couldn't find where that voice was coming from, but it seemed to be in the direction of a nearby book shelf.
"You look stressed. Why don't you sit down and read a nice story or two?" The voice asked Toad.
"Uh...no thanks. I don't have time. I've got to find my princess." Toad said.
Soon, the book came out of the shelf and started talking to him in a sinister voice.
"No, I insist. Read me!" The book said.
"Aaaah! I'd rather play Mario games!" Toad said as he ran out the room as quickly as possible and slammed the door before the book could eat him. He then ran into the next room.
"Is everything in this house possessed?!" Toad said.
Toad looked in front of him to see a large blue eyeball staring right at him. It's name was Mr. I.
"What are you staring at?" Toad said.
Mr. I didn't say a thing.
"A staring contest, eh? Alright, I'll give you a staring contest!" Toad said.
Toad started to run around Mr. I in circles while still staring at it. Mr. I tried to keep up.
"That's right. Keep your eye on the running Toad." Toad said.
Mr. I eventually got so dizzy that it disappeared.
"Wow, that actually killed him...Bowser's new minions are weird." Toad said.
Toad just walked out of the room and went into the next one. In this room, he ran across a bridge just like the one back in Whomp's Fortress where it collapsed as he ran across. When he got to the end he met an encounter with a Boo.
"Ehehehe!" Boo laughed.
Toad without hesitation punches the Boo and it defeats them. But afterwards he heard a creepy voice.
"Ghosts don't DIE! Heh heh heh, could you get out of here alive?" said a creepy voice.
Toad could not help but shiver in fear and walk out of the room. But that led him to another room, where he had to creep against the wall to avoid falling, and while dodging some annoying Boos. It was tedious, but it was no problem for the Mushroom Retainer. After get out of that room, Toad ran out of some more rooms.
"Well, I'm just gonna check upstairs." Toad said.
Toad went upstairs to find a new set of rooms to check. Most of them were dead ends, but the last room had a door that Toad wall jumped to get into. When he reached the top, he unexpectedly found a painting of the Toad in yellow.
"Yellow!" Toad said.
Toad immediately jumped into the painting. When he got in there, he was met with some weird merry go round music and could hear someone cackling.
"Where...am I?" Toad said.
"Eee hee hee!" Someone cackled.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Toad said.
Toad read a sign in front of him.
"Big Boo's Haunt
Eee hee hee...there are no exits. You may as well wander in here forever...listen carefully. Can you hear me? If you find me, then you're history. Eee hee hee.."
Toad had to go through this maze of the doors to find the guy who's laughing. It took him forever, and the laugh along with the music was slowly driving him to insanity. Eventually Toad finally made it to the hideout.
"Finally! Where are you, creep?" Toad said.
It was eerily quiet in the room. It was mostly mirrors. Toad walked slowly towards his reflection. Once he got to the mirror, he noticed something strange going on with his reflection. "Wha?"
His reflection started to get taller and thinner, it's clothes turned yellow, and the red spotted mushroom cap changed into yellow.
"Yellow Toad?!" Toad said.
Next to the reflection appeared a large Boo with a crown. in which Toad could only see the mirror.
"You!" Toad pointed at the King Boo.
"Eee hee hee! I am King Boo, the spookiest of all spirits! I locked up the wimpy yellow mushroom headed guy. And I'll do the same to you! Eee hee hee! Since I'm a ghost, I can turn invisible in the mirror's reflection. You'll have to attack me from behind to defeat me." The King Boo said.
"Another moron who tells me how to defeat them." Toad facepalmed.
"Whatever! You'll die of fright before that ever happens anyway! After all, you'll only see me in the mirror. Soon you'll be one of us! Eee hee hee!" King Boo said.
The fight was just a total joke to Toad, as he didn't even need the mirror to attack King Boo, as he could still see his shadow. After a few hits, the ghostly king was defeated.
"Grr! You may have won this time, Toad, but you can never really kill a ghost! We'll be back one day to extract our revenge! Just you wait! See you again! Eee hee hee." King Boo said.
With that, Yellow Toad's key appeared in front of Toad.
"Don't worry, Yellow! You're coming out!" Toad grabbed the key and was teleported back to the castle's character door room where he was greeted by Toadette.
"Toad! You're back! Nice to see you safe and sound! So what was it like in there? Any spooky stories you could make up from what you saw in there?" Toadette asked.
"Well, Toadette, I'd rather not talk about it. It was scarier than any other ghost house we encountered back in New Super Mario Brothers. And you don't want to know what I saw in there..." Toad said.
"Oh...I'm sorry you had to go through that." Toadette said.
"It's OK. It was worth it cause look at what I got." Toad said.
Toad takes out the key he got at Big Boo's Haunt and Toadette was thrilled.
"Yay! Yellow!" Toadette said.
Toad unlocked the yellow door with a Yellow Toad emblem on it.
"Aw yeah! I'm finally free, thanks to you, Toad!" Yellow Toad said. "I'd never thought I'd see the light of day again!"
"There, there, Yellow! It's all in a day's work! I'd never leave you behind. You're my buddy. We stick together no matter what." Toad said.
"Oh, Yellow..." Toadette said, in a lovely tone.
"Toadette, it's been so long! I missed you!" Yellow Toad hugged.
"Aw, come on, the yellow guy gets rescued before me?!" Blue Toad said, still on the other side of the door.
"Blue, do you want to get out of here or what? Just be patient. Alright, guys. Let's go!" Toad cheered.
"Alright!" Yellow Toad cheered.
"Yahoo!" Toadette cheered.
