Chapter 15: Yellow Toad's Loneliness/Tower of the Wing Cap
"What's this about this loneliness I'm having?" Yellow Toad said.
"You'll see. Also I had to change my mind about including secret stars. I think this one should deserve to be here. So without further ado, let us continue." I said.
"We're getting closer to the princess!" Toad said. "I can smell that cake already."
"Boy, cake! Can I have some!" Toadette said.
"Sure thing, Toadette." Toad said. "But just don't eat the whole thing in one bite."
Toad and Toadette laughed together.
"And the princess...I can't imagine what she's going through right now. I just hope she's safe..." Toad said.
"Oh, don't worry." Toadette said. "Once you save her, you'll earn yourself a nice kiss on the mushroom hat."
"I've never had anyone give me a nice kiss on my mushroom hat before." Toad blushes. "But we're not like that. We're friends, alright?"
"You're lucky to have someone like her, Toad." Yellow Toad frowned.
"What's wrong, Yellow?" Toad said.
"You've always been the luckiest Toad around. There's a reason why I'm not very popular as you. It's no matter how hard I try to be as cool as you, I just can't. I'm often rather clumsy and a cowardly person. I'm socially awkward and barely had any friends. It's why I never had a girlfriend, like you did before." Yellow Toad said.
"Hey, at least you have me around, Yellow." Toadette said.
"Yup, I do." Yellow Toad said.
"I did have a girlfriend once. Her name was Honey Toad. She was my last girlfriend before she moved in the Mushroom Kingdom. She had a yellow mushroom cap with orange spots, red hair, a yellow dress, a gold vest, and brown shoes. The two of us dated for a while. But there were some issues. I had a struggle with getting a job. I had many jobs in the past before becoming Peach's assistant and got fired for all of them. She then dumped me because I quote "can't keep a job"." Toad said.
"Gee, that's rough." Toadette said.
"Yeah, I know. But when the other Toads came in to help run the palace as a job, we rediscovered the Mushroom Kingdom by accident and that's how we found the princess in the castle." Toad said.
Yellow Toad starts crying more, feeling lonely that he never had love.
"Listen, Yellow, sorry that you didn't have your own princess to save. But I know that your girl is out there somewhere. You just haven't found her yet." Toad said.
"Hey, I'm right here, boy." Toadette said to Yellow Toad.
"Well, we had a lot of adventures in the past, and there was the one where we were captains. Well, actually I was Captain Toad. Toadette came along, too. You had to come there. Anyway I was sent there to save her from Wingo, the bird that grabbed the star. I succeeded and so did Toadette. We were still good friends. We laughed and we talked a bit longer as we walked home. I even told her about you and she said she wanted to meet you sometime." Toad said.
"Wow, do you think she'll like me?" Yellow Toad asked.
"Maybe. Who knows? After all, she's kinda different." Toad said.
"Heh heh. Yeah!" Yellow Toad laughed.
"Hey, as a matter a fact, I did! Let's head down to the basement." Toadette said.
Yellow Toad noticed a spotlight on the sun image on the floor.
"Uh, guys? Was that light always there?" Yellow Toad asked.
"No, it wasn't. Let's check it out." Toad said.
"What if it's dangerous?" Toadette asked.
"Relax, little Toad! What could go wrong?" Toad said.
Toad walked down the stairs and onto the sun image. He knew it had to mean something. So she tried running around in circles, ground-pounding on it, and even tried looking at the symbol for perhaps a hint. But nothing happened.
"Oh, c'mon! This has got to mean something!" Toad said. He then looked up in frustration. But when he looked up at the ceiling he started to notice himself fading.
"Huh? Wha!" Toad said as he faded.
"TOAD!" Yellow Toad and Toadette tried to grab him before he disappeared, but it was too late.
"Noooo! Toad!" Yellow Toad was sad and he saw the light.
"Don't go into the light, Yellow! Don't go into the light!" Toadette was begging Yellow Toad not to go into the light, but it was too late. Yellow Toad saw the light and faded as well. Toadette accidentally looked too and was the last to disappear.
"Noooo..." Toadette disappeared.
Tower of the Wing Cap
Toad opened his eyes to see nothing but sky as far as the eye can see.
"Are we...dead?" Toad said. He looked up to by surprise, notice wings on his cap.
"I'm flying!" Toad said. He looked to his right to see Yellow Toad and Toadette also with wings.
"Let's fly!" Toad told them.
The three Toads had fun flying all over the place, almost forgetting their mission. But they failed to notice their wings about to disappear. They disappeared. Yellow Toad and Toadette fell out of the sky while Toad fell on top of a switch on top of a tower.
"Aaaaaah!" Yellow Toad and Toadette fell out of the sky.
"Ow! Are you serious?! This thing has a time limit?" Toad said. "Yellow? Toadette?"
Toad jumped off the tower when he saw them falling. They landed back in the castle.
"Ha ha!" Toad said. "That was fun. Now back to adventure!"
"Yeah!" Yellow Toad and Toadette cheered.