(OK, here's chapter 4, finally... Written just tonight... Once again, I don't own any of these characters, however, Yoshiko, Yoshimi, and Yoshihiro are of my own invention! Stay tuned... I might have more... and might write a "Prologue to Paper Mario" and an epilogue to this game, some time in the future! ^.^ I like doing this, hee hee...)
Nimbus Land
The woman was almost there, she just had to send her partner up first to make sure that no one else was around.
"Dodo," she whispered. "Come here please!"
No one came.
"DODO!" she whispered louder. "Come here!"
Still no answer.
"Dodo!" she said in a regular voice. "Get over here!"
Still nothing
Valentina sighed in despair, and finally yelled: "DODO, GET YOUR STUPID FEATHERY SELF OVER HERE THIS MINUTE!!!!!"
Still, he didn't come.
"DODO?! Will I have to DRAG you out from WHEREVER you are?! GET OVER HERE! Or you might not live to regret it!!!"
Finally, the big, fat, black bird, Dodo came. "Turn that brain of yours on, if you have one," she muttered. "Now, Dodo, get over there and tell me if any Nimbus jerks are out there!"
Dodo did as he was told, and came back shaking his head.
"No one out there? Good! Let's go up to the castle then!"
Before they entered, Valentina, the tall, evil, big-busted, purple-skinned woman with a green parrot on her head to apparently cover the fact she'd lost her all hair stared up at the castle. It had been awhile since she last came
Ever since she was young, Valentina had always dreamed of being a queen. She daydreamed what it would be like to be royalty and have people actually obeying you when you order them around! Later on, Valentina began looking into how she might single-handedly take over a kingdom. At first she considered taking over Mushlandia, but seeing King Bowser's obvious failure to be able to beat a certain plumber, Valentina thought maybe she should try a place that wasn't protected by any Italian plumbers named Mario or Luigi
So, she chose Nimbus Land!
The first thing she did was get rid of the future ruler, Prince Mallow, when he was about two years old. Since the Nimbus people were all too trusting of anyone, Valentina had been allowed to go and play with the little prince outside. But instead of playing, Valentina and Dodo had kidnapped him and flown off. Dodo was carrying the basket the little crying prince was in, but had accidently dropped it somewhere over the Tadpole Pond area.
Ever since, Valentina had been trying to search for the prince, wondering if he'd survived the fall or not. She couldn't find anything, but, you never know
She'd just assume he wouldn't come back.
Which would allow her plan to work just fine
Valentina and Dodo sneaked into the castle by a back entrance, trying to keep out of sight of everyone. Finally, they found their destination: the throne room!
"Um, can we help you?" Queen Nimbus asked once she caught sight of their weird-looking visitor. "Miss?"
"Oh, um, just I just wanted the chance to get to meet some wonderful royalty" Valentina stuttered, "and to, uh, become one, myself?"
"Eh?" King Nimbus looked at her confused. "What are you?"
Before the King could finish his question, a strange thing happened Through the window in the throne room, they could all see the nearby Barrel Volcano. There, in broad daylight, a very visible thing shot into Barrel Volcano.
A star??
Valentina couldn't explain it, but at seeing that, she suddenly felt a HUGE rush of power, while King and Queen Nimbus felt a demise in theirs
The evil woman snapped from her daze. "Dodo! DODO! Come show King and Queen Nimbus to their new quarters!"
"New quarters?!" King Nimbus seemed shock. "What on earth are you"
"Quiet!" she snapped. "Dodo! Get over here! DODO! GET OVER HERE OR I WILL GIVE YOU A BEATING YOU WON'T SOON FORGET!!!!! DODO!!!!!!"
Only after those threats did Dodo FINALLY come. After the king and queen were safely locked up, Valentina stared out the window, laughing to herself. "O ho ho ho! Who wins this, eh?"
Dodo just stared
"Dodo, you are quite important for my next plan!"
Dodo was still just staring
"Dodo! Listen to me! I will tell the Nimbus people that you are Prince Mallow! I'm sure those idiots will believe it and you are to say that you want me as your queen wait a sec, you can't talk, but anyway I'LL RULE OVER NIMBUS LAND! Queen Valentina O ho ho! Nothing will stop me now!!!"
Meanwhile, King and Queen Nimbus, who were locked up in a room not that far from the throne room, had their own worries.
"Funny that that woman only dared face us once that star crashed into the mountain" the King observed.
"Maybe" Queen Nimbus shrugged. "Well, all we can do is wait"
"She looks just like the woman we suspect took little Mallow, doesn't she?" The King sighed, and sat against the wall, staring at nothing in particular. "Oh If he's still out there Please let Mallow find his way home"
Barrel Volcano
"Don't need a map, eh?"
"Shut up, Black, just SHUT UP"
"It's hot! And I'm hungry!"
"You shut up too!"
"My make-up's running! BAD!"
"My head hurts"
"SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU!"
Axem Yellow stopped to spin his ax. There were only three things he hated: being jumped on, going for an hour without food, and being lost in a volcano.
He was suffering from those last two things right now
Axem Red, their leader, stopped to face the others. "Be quiet! I know we're lost! But, blame that on the Blade, OK?! The Blade dropped us in the wrong place!"
"Where did Smithy assign us?" Axem Pink asked.
"Monstro Town. Instead that stupid hunk of metal dropped us here"
"Not good, dudes! I think my shades are melting!" Axem Black was blowing on them, in a vain attempt to try to save his sunglasses. "Dude! This ain't good!"
"Stop saying dude' every too seconds," Axem Green muttered.
"Okay, man!"
"That's not much better!" Green sighed in despair.
"What, man?"
"Nevermind"
Red rolled his eyes. "Continue forward, men!"
"HEY!" Pink shouted. "I'm not a"
"Ok, continue, men and"
"Shut up!" Yellow interupted. "Guys, see that?"
"I'm not a"
"I get the point!" Yellow waved Pink off, and pointed to something near the wall. "That thing it looks like a star"
"Ooh! Pretty!" Pink was all starry-eyed, literally
Red shoved her out of the way to get a better look. "Eh? This is odd Maybe we should keep it, just in case"
Pink nodded her agreement. "And if anyone tries to challenge us" The Axem Rangers began their motto
"We fight for evil!"
"We live for disorder!"
"We like what we do!"
"We struggle for chaos!"
"We are"
"THE AXEM RANGERS!"
"Undefeatable champions of evil!" Red finished. "I'll bet even that clod Mario couldn't beat us!"
Mushroom Kingdom (for the last time, I promise!!)
He'd been assigned here, this peaceful place with walking mushrooms
Walking mushrooms? Mack thought with a shudder. Creepy
Walking mushrooms, both male and female, dressed in clothes, running their own kingdom
Too weird!!
Not like Mack was any more normal, though He was a weapon. A sword. Smaller and weaker than his friend and fellow gang member, Exor, but still worth reckoning with.
Naturually, these Mushroom Mutants' eyed him suspiciously while he bounced up to their castle, but, hey, no one stopped him so why bother?
Taking over the castle was easy Everyone ran in fear the moment they saw Mack and his Shysters. Brave people I wish every city we broke into was this easy to take over!
Once in the castle, Mack and his Shysters simply hung around the throne room, with this shooting star they'd found.
"It's pretty!" a Shyster exclaimed. "Good décor, right?"
"Yeah," Mack agreed. "Geez, where is everyone?! They won't even be here for the takeover party I was going to hold"
The Chancellor, who had just seen Mario off a little earlier, cowered in the corner. "Oh, no," he muttered, "I hope Mario comes and gets rid of these awful things—soon!"
Yo'ster Isle
"GO, YOSHI! BEAT THAT OL' BOSHI!"
"No way! He can't beat Oops, never mind"
"I lost again?! ARGH!" Boshi the blue Yoshi banged his head against a tree. "I used to be so good"
"Need practice," Yoshi scoffed. "Tell me when you want a rematch!"
"I wanna race too!"
"Me too!"
"Sure, you guys can," Yoshi told his friends Yoshiko and Yoshihiro, "Winner takes all! Hee hee hee"
"Cookies?" Yoshiko eagerly asked.
"Well, sure"
"I have a better idea!" Boshi sneered. "Why don't we set EVERYTHING on this race!!"
"Boshi, what do you"
"WHOEVER WINS GETS TO CONTROL THE RACES! Until they get beaten!"
"Fair, I think," Yoshi agreed. "Yoshiko? Yoshihiro?"
"Sure!"
"Why not?"
"Ok, good," Boshi grinned evilly, let's start the races Who will act as announcer?"
"I will!" A young female Yoshi, Yoshimi, piped up.
"OK! Then, you tell us when"
"Ready, set GO! And the four are off! Yoshi's in the lead, Boshi in second with Yoshiko Oops, now Yoshihiro, in third Now Boshi's in fir No, Yoshi Wow! This'll be close And the winner is BOSHI! By about a half a second!"
Yoshi gasped. "Good race what do you win.?"
"Heh, simple. ONE ON ONE RACES FROM NOW ON!"
"WHAT?!" Yoshi exclaimed. "Boshi! That's not fair!"
"So beat me again," Boshi taunted.
Yoshi tried, and tried but he couldn't
"Don't feel bad," Yoshihiro tried to console him. "It's no big deal"
"Yes it is!" Yoshi moaned. "I wish I could run faster"