The Primmer - Chapter 2
To The Mushroom Kingdom
(Mario, Luigi, etc. copyright Nintendo. Quinn Mario is copyright me).
Quinn Mario awoke to find his head throbbing in pain. He felt his arms around two other arms as he was dragged along a grassy surface. His vision was limited, for the attack from before had hit near his body, and his head. When the two persons dragging him stopped, Quinn saw before him a figure blocking the view of an ocean. Quinn lowered his head, trying to re-focus on where he was and what had happened. He felt as if he was on a drug of some sort, as his vision was blurred in strange transcending colors, but his wondering was cut short when the figure in front of him lifted his head up in his hands, and began speaking in another language. Quinn couldn't help but look at the strange being before him, and wondering where he exactly was. "Husrew luftrs." Commanded the being, shaking Quinn's head. His head rolled on his neck to face to sky, where Quinn again remembered no more.
Quinn awoke in a bed of some sort. He felt his bed rocking upon a shaky surface. "Maybe I'm in a ship?" thought Quinn to himself, as he sat up in his bed. He looked around in his new accommodations. His room was built out of wood with no windows. Few comforts were compiled in the room; only a bed, a table with a chair, and a bathroom. Nothing else. The room was quite small; with only a few steps, you could make it to the door of the room. Quinn searched for his Journal, which he left in his pocket, but it was gone. In fact, his entire supply of food and electronics were gone. Quinn now stood up from his bed, feeling hopeless. How could he finish his mission now if he didn't have his equipment and food? Franticly, Quinn bolted for the door. The door opened when he approached it, and Quinn ran out of the room and into a hallway.
"Woah woah woah, slow down!" shouted a mushroom about half of Quinn's size. He ran up to Quinn's side, and extended his hand. "Before you go anywhere, at least give me a chance to introduce myself! I'm Kinopio V, latest descendent of the line of royal Kinopio's in The Mushroom Kingdom." Smiled Kinopio, still offering his hand. Quinn shook it, looking at the little mushroom questioningly. "That's where we're going, The Mushroom Kingdom?" asked Quinn, a little amused by the name. "You got it. Not one being on this planet.besides the Koopa's of course, would go out into the world without visiting The Mushroom Kingdom first. You can think of us as the good guys." Replied Kinopio, now seemingly trying to urge Quinn to walk with him. Quinn however, didn't budge. "Where are my supplies?" asked Quinn urgently. "That's where I wanted to take you." Said Kinopio, as he led Quinn down the wood/steel-like hallway. "We took your supplies for our safety, after hearing about numerous deaths of our people by you humans." Said the mushroom. "These group of humans called themselves the 'Men of Laguarde.' They wanted to." ".find a boy by the name of Leon Laviand." Quinn said Quietly, finishing Kinopio's sentence. "How did you know?" asked the mushroom, looking at Quinn in amazement. "I'm also on a mission to find Leon, but for a different purpose: I am from the 'Men of Laviand.'" Answered Quinn. "Say, where did you direct the Men of Laguarde to find Leon anyways?"
"Hold off your questions until later; we have arrived at the room with your supplies." Said Kinopio, as he motioned Quinn to enter with him into another room. The room was fully dark, save for a single beam of light flashing down onto a table centered in the room. A window was seen in the back, but it seemed to be covered by something dark in substance. Quinn walked to the table and saw his supplies, including his food and his Journal. Quinn picked them up suspiciously, trying to find any tricks the mushrooms may of put into it. "We checked through your supplies, and your all green." Said Kinopio. "The Men of Laguarde had some weird war-like gear on, so we didn't allow them to pass through Mushroom security." Quinn nodded, understanding. "Now Quinn, you should head off to bed. We'll be arriving at TMK late tomorrow morning, so get your rest for tonight." Stated Kinopio, smiling at him. "Why, what's tonight?" asked Quinn. "You'll see." Answered the mushroom, as he led Quinn out of the room and back into his sleeping quarters.
Quinn awoke to loud music thumping through the walls of his room. He looked out the window, and noticed that the sun was starting to set. He slowly got out of bed, straightening his sheets and walking toward his door. He put his ear up to the door. Loud thumping to strange, exotic music was heard behind it, and as he turned the doorknob, a knock on the door made Quinn jump. "Hello? Thrino?" came the voice form the other side. "Eh, this isn't.Thrino. You've got the wrong room." Answered Quinn. "Well, you know which room he's in?" asked the voice. "Uhh.don't know." Answered Quinn, feeling a bit uneasy. "That's helpful. Let me in, will ya?" grumbled the voice, now pounding at the door. "What's the point? This isn't Thrino's room!" shouted Quinn, now getting a bit fustrated. "Ya, you're another one's of those human's looking for that boy." Said the voice, with a hint of sarcasm. "Aggressive folk they are too, endlessly trying to push the Mushroom senate to issue a search for him. However since we've figured out they're allied-". The voice was interuppted once Quinn finally opened the door. He was surprised to see a female mushroom, about twice as short as him wearing a long, pink kimono-like robe. "Um, excuse me for my dress, heh." Laughed the mushroom. "So, you're one of those humans too? Figures." "Well, erm, no actually." Answered Quinn, motioning her to come in. "Well, good then. It'd be nice to know what another human is doing in our kingdom. We don't get very many these days." She said as she sat down in a chair across from Quinn's bed. Quinn closed the door and then sat on his bed.
"Oh, my name's Uregael." Said Uregael. "I'm the master of the arcades! I can beat anything and everything. After beating Thrino that is." She smiled. "Well, from where I come from, arcades have evolved into virtual reality. But anyway, I let you in because you were talking about other humans looking for a boy. Do you mind if I ask some questions?" asked Quinn, pulling out his Journal. "For what time is left, sure" answered Uregael. "First, how did you." Quinn was interupted by another Mushroom knocking on the door. Quinn opened the door and found a male Mushroom looking at him. "Not another one." the mushroom mumbled to himself. "Thrino! Where was your room? I couldn't find it!" Uregael said as she ran across the room to the doorway, hugging Thrino. "It was C-228, not B-228. All well, might as well get going now." Concluded Thrino as he and Uregael walked down a hallway, turned a corner and vanished. Quinn looked outside his door, taking off his barette in the process. "This," he said, looking at the barette, "is what's convincing these people I'm one of them." Quinn put the barette into his coat pocket and tried to decide on what to do next. He looked outside his door, to the Mushrooms sitting in the hallway, talking in some form of communication. Quinn thought to himself, "I've had enough of war for one day, why can't I have some fun myself?" Quinn put on his black cape/jacket, locked the door, and walked down the hallway in front of him.
Mushrooms were everywhere. They were in the hallways, in the arcade rooms, in the bedrooms. It was packed, and Quinn barely managed to walk through the hallway he was going down. Some Mushrooms looked at him queerly, some ignored him, some spoke to him in their funny language. Quinn reached an intersection, but continued to go straight. He reached a stair well, climbed it, and found himself on the top of what he thought he was on the entire time: a battleship. The outer hull was in a silvery metallic metal and stained with markings which Quinn could not understand. He walked over to a decending staircase, but nearly got blown over it by a strong gust of wind. He held onto the railing until the gust ended, when he landed onto the staircase. "Geez." Quinn muttered to himself as he finally decended the stairs. He walked over to the western edge of the enormous ship and leaned his back onto a wall of a guardspost. Quinn now faced the ocean and its beautiful sunset, relieved that he was by himself and not with a bunch of turtles or mushrooms. He closed his eyes to try to take in the events that had so far transpired. What a day it had been! He traveled from Mars to Callisto to delta warp through The Primmer, only to be ambushed by the Laguarde's. He still made it safely to the parallel Earth, though in pain. He fell asleep for a couple hours, then found himself in (what he believed) the middle of an illegal Mushroom slave trade operation. There, he met the leader of the operation, dubbed Roy Koopa. Then, other mushrooms attacked the operation, which left Quinn unconsounces. Now here he was, aboard an alien ship headed to The Mushroom Kingdom, where ever that was. Quinn shrugged to himself. He no longer cared to work on his mission that day. The now gentle sea breeze was making Quinn sleepy.
********"If you can understand me, then you're on your way." The figure said as Quinn puzzled over its appearance. A bright white fog covered the true identity of the individual, but Quinn still swore he had seen figures like the one that stood feet away from him before. "Your journey starts in TMK, or The Mushroom Kingdom." The figure continued, "You shall be trained by the saviors of this planet. However, before all of this is over." "Sorry, but didn't I see you, or one of you, on Europa?" interupped Quinn, anxious to gain knowledge of the figure. He recently recalled the attack of aliens upon Europa, destroying the Laviand monarchy. This figure closely resembled those aliens. "That question will be answered later." replyed the figure. "Before your training in TMK, a counsel representing every nation of this world will take place. The main discussion will be the threat of a king named King Bowser Koopa." Said the figure. "However, for your safety, that's not the important point. A being that calls himself Palunto will invite you to 'the greater part of our kingdom.' You must deny this invitation at all costs. It would certainly lead to your death." Concluded the figure as it began to disappear. Quinn shook his head. "Wait, who are you?" he asked. The figure then spread its arms from side to side, and the fog seemed to lift. For a brief moment, Quinn caught a glimpse of the figure's dark green eyes and skin. In a booming female voice, the figure said "Jamila Yoshi has spoken."********
Quinn awoke to a beeping sound coming from his pants pocket. He was still leaning against the metallic wall, with his arms and legs stiff from sleep. What was worse, he could barely see a thing, as it was nightfall. Quinn struggled to find of the source of the beeping, which he later found out that it was his electronic journal. A bright flashing light flashed onto the screen, hurting Quinn's eyes because of the darkness surrounding him. He pressed a button, and a face popped up onto the screen. Quinn regonized the face immediately, thanks to the face's nearly bald head and white goatee. "Well well, we meet again Quinn." Laughed the face. "So we do Cain." replyed Quinn, smirking at the screen. "Sorry about the lack of messages; the ambush from the Laguarde raid left some considerable damage to the delta warp. Because of that, I had to stay behind for a while." Said Cain. "However, I have finally used the delta warp after much repair and ended up.in the Valley of Bowser. Not a pleasant place to be. I wish we could choose our landing location instead of landing somewhere randomly." Said Cain. Quinn said nothing. He knew that Bowser was the enemy, but to see Cain go though all this trouble just to find him was depressing. " I excaped the Valley of Bowser and managed to hitch a ride aboard one of Kinopio's vessels. We will both arrive at TMK at 10:00 AM sharp. It's 1:16 AM right now, so you should get some sleep for the big day ahead." Said Cain. "Will do." Replied Quinn. "Now, if I am correct, Yoshi's Island should be a couple of miles in front of you right now. According to legend, the great Yoshi used to live there, and every nation used to trade with them, save the Koopa's. Those were the good days. Now, travelers fail to give me information on why tourists levels there have dropped 60% over the past couple of months." Said Cain, shaking his head. "Look through your binoculars to see the island." Quinn got out his mini-binoculars from his pocket and observed the island. The ocean around the island seemed to be a brighter blue than the ocean Quinn now traveled in, and the trees there also made the island look like it was cut off from civilization. Quinn sighed in relaxation. "Earth didn't look this beautiful before it got destroyed." Commented Quinn. "I know." Replyed Cain. "She is a beauty. Well, I'll let you go so you can get some shut eye. I'll see you in the morning."
To be continued.
To The Mushroom Kingdom
(Mario, Luigi, etc. copyright Nintendo. Quinn Mario is copyright me).
Quinn Mario awoke to find his head throbbing in pain. He felt his arms around two other arms as he was dragged along a grassy surface. His vision was limited, for the attack from before had hit near his body, and his head. When the two persons dragging him stopped, Quinn saw before him a figure blocking the view of an ocean. Quinn lowered his head, trying to re-focus on where he was and what had happened. He felt as if he was on a drug of some sort, as his vision was blurred in strange transcending colors, but his wondering was cut short when the figure in front of him lifted his head up in his hands, and began speaking in another language. Quinn couldn't help but look at the strange being before him, and wondering where he exactly was. "Husrew luftrs." Commanded the being, shaking Quinn's head. His head rolled on his neck to face to sky, where Quinn again remembered no more.
Quinn awoke in a bed of some sort. He felt his bed rocking upon a shaky surface. "Maybe I'm in a ship?" thought Quinn to himself, as he sat up in his bed. He looked around in his new accommodations. His room was built out of wood with no windows. Few comforts were compiled in the room; only a bed, a table with a chair, and a bathroom. Nothing else. The room was quite small; with only a few steps, you could make it to the door of the room. Quinn searched for his Journal, which he left in his pocket, but it was gone. In fact, his entire supply of food and electronics were gone. Quinn now stood up from his bed, feeling hopeless. How could he finish his mission now if he didn't have his equipment and food? Franticly, Quinn bolted for the door. The door opened when he approached it, and Quinn ran out of the room and into a hallway.
"Woah woah woah, slow down!" shouted a mushroom about half of Quinn's size. He ran up to Quinn's side, and extended his hand. "Before you go anywhere, at least give me a chance to introduce myself! I'm Kinopio V, latest descendent of the line of royal Kinopio's in The Mushroom Kingdom." Smiled Kinopio, still offering his hand. Quinn shook it, looking at the little mushroom questioningly. "That's where we're going, The Mushroom Kingdom?" asked Quinn, a little amused by the name. "You got it. Not one being on this planet.besides the Koopa's of course, would go out into the world without visiting The Mushroom Kingdom first. You can think of us as the good guys." Replied Kinopio, now seemingly trying to urge Quinn to walk with him. Quinn however, didn't budge. "Where are my supplies?" asked Quinn urgently. "That's where I wanted to take you." Said Kinopio, as he led Quinn down the wood/steel-like hallway. "We took your supplies for our safety, after hearing about numerous deaths of our people by you humans." Said the mushroom. "These group of humans called themselves the 'Men of Laguarde.' They wanted to." ".find a boy by the name of Leon Laviand." Quinn said Quietly, finishing Kinopio's sentence. "How did you know?" asked the mushroom, looking at Quinn in amazement. "I'm also on a mission to find Leon, but for a different purpose: I am from the 'Men of Laviand.'" Answered Quinn. "Say, where did you direct the Men of Laguarde to find Leon anyways?"
"Hold off your questions until later; we have arrived at the room with your supplies." Said Kinopio, as he motioned Quinn to enter with him into another room. The room was fully dark, save for a single beam of light flashing down onto a table centered in the room. A window was seen in the back, but it seemed to be covered by something dark in substance. Quinn walked to the table and saw his supplies, including his food and his Journal. Quinn picked them up suspiciously, trying to find any tricks the mushrooms may of put into it. "We checked through your supplies, and your all green." Said Kinopio. "The Men of Laguarde had some weird war-like gear on, so we didn't allow them to pass through Mushroom security." Quinn nodded, understanding. "Now Quinn, you should head off to bed. We'll be arriving at TMK late tomorrow morning, so get your rest for tonight." Stated Kinopio, smiling at him. "Why, what's tonight?" asked Quinn. "You'll see." Answered the mushroom, as he led Quinn out of the room and back into his sleeping quarters.
Quinn awoke to loud music thumping through the walls of his room. He looked out the window, and noticed that the sun was starting to set. He slowly got out of bed, straightening his sheets and walking toward his door. He put his ear up to the door. Loud thumping to strange, exotic music was heard behind it, and as he turned the doorknob, a knock on the door made Quinn jump. "Hello? Thrino?" came the voice form the other side. "Eh, this isn't.Thrino. You've got the wrong room." Answered Quinn. "Well, you know which room he's in?" asked the voice. "Uhh.don't know." Answered Quinn, feeling a bit uneasy. "That's helpful. Let me in, will ya?" grumbled the voice, now pounding at the door. "What's the point? This isn't Thrino's room!" shouted Quinn, now getting a bit fustrated. "Ya, you're another one's of those human's looking for that boy." Said the voice, with a hint of sarcasm. "Aggressive folk they are too, endlessly trying to push the Mushroom senate to issue a search for him. However since we've figured out they're allied-". The voice was interuppted once Quinn finally opened the door. He was surprised to see a female mushroom, about twice as short as him wearing a long, pink kimono-like robe. "Um, excuse me for my dress, heh." Laughed the mushroom. "So, you're one of those humans too? Figures." "Well, erm, no actually." Answered Quinn, motioning her to come in. "Well, good then. It'd be nice to know what another human is doing in our kingdom. We don't get very many these days." She said as she sat down in a chair across from Quinn's bed. Quinn closed the door and then sat on his bed.
"Oh, my name's Uregael." Said Uregael. "I'm the master of the arcades! I can beat anything and everything. After beating Thrino that is." She smiled. "Well, from where I come from, arcades have evolved into virtual reality. But anyway, I let you in because you were talking about other humans looking for a boy. Do you mind if I ask some questions?" asked Quinn, pulling out his Journal. "For what time is left, sure" answered Uregael. "First, how did you." Quinn was interupted by another Mushroom knocking on the door. Quinn opened the door and found a male Mushroom looking at him. "Not another one." the mushroom mumbled to himself. "Thrino! Where was your room? I couldn't find it!" Uregael said as she ran across the room to the doorway, hugging Thrino. "It was C-228, not B-228. All well, might as well get going now." Concluded Thrino as he and Uregael walked down a hallway, turned a corner and vanished. Quinn looked outside his door, taking off his barette in the process. "This," he said, looking at the barette, "is what's convincing these people I'm one of them." Quinn put the barette into his coat pocket and tried to decide on what to do next. He looked outside his door, to the Mushrooms sitting in the hallway, talking in some form of communication. Quinn thought to himself, "I've had enough of war for one day, why can't I have some fun myself?" Quinn put on his black cape/jacket, locked the door, and walked down the hallway in front of him.
Mushrooms were everywhere. They were in the hallways, in the arcade rooms, in the bedrooms. It was packed, and Quinn barely managed to walk through the hallway he was going down. Some Mushrooms looked at him queerly, some ignored him, some spoke to him in their funny language. Quinn reached an intersection, but continued to go straight. He reached a stair well, climbed it, and found himself on the top of what he thought he was on the entire time: a battleship. The outer hull was in a silvery metallic metal and stained with markings which Quinn could not understand. He walked over to a decending staircase, but nearly got blown over it by a strong gust of wind. He held onto the railing until the gust ended, when he landed onto the staircase. "Geez." Quinn muttered to himself as he finally decended the stairs. He walked over to the western edge of the enormous ship and leaned his back onto a wall of a guardspost. Quinn now faced the ocean and its beautiful sunset, relieved that he was by himself and not with a bunch of turtles or mushrooms. He closed his eyes to try to take in the events that had so far transpired. What a day it had been! He traveled from Mars to Callisto to delta warp through The Primmer, only to be ambushed by the Laguarde's. He still made it safely to the parallel Earth, though in pain. He fell asleep for a couple hours, then found himself in (what he believed) the middle of an illegal Mushroom slave trade operation. There, he met the leader of the operation, dubbed Roy Koopa. Then, other mushrooms attacked the operation, which left Quinn unconsounces. Now here he was, aboard an alien ship headed to The Mushroom Kingdom, where ever that was. Quinn shrugged to himself. He no longer cared to work on his mission that day. The now gentle sea breeze was making Quinn sleepy.
********"If you can understand me, then you're on your way." The figure said as Quinn puzzled over its appearance. A bright white fog covered the true identity of the individual, but Quinn still swore he had seen figures like the one that stood feet away from him before. "Your journey starts in TMK, or The Mushroom Kingdom." The figure continued, "You shall be trained by the saviors of this planet. However, before all of this is over." "Sorry, but didn't I see you, or one of you, on Europa?" interupped Quinn, anxious to gain knowledge of the figure. He recently recalled the attack of aliens upon Europa, destroying the Laviand monarchy. This figure closely resembled those aliens. "That question will be answered later." replyed the figure. "Before your training in TMK, a counsel representing every nation of this world will take place. The main discussion will be the threat of a king named King Bowser Koopa." Said the figure. "However, for your safety, that's not the important point. A being that calls himself Palunto will invite you to 'the greater part of our kingdom.' You must deny this invitation at all costs. It would certainly lead to your death." Concluded the figure as it began to disappear. Quinn shook his head. "Wait, who are you?" he asked. The figure then spread its arms from side to side, and the fog seemed to lift. For a brief moment, Quinn caught a glimpse of the figure's dark green eyes and skin. In a booming female voice, the figure said "Jamila Yoshi has spoken."********
Quinn awoke to a beeping sound coming from his pants pocket. He was still leaning against the metallic wall, with his arms and legs stiff from sleep. What was worse, he could barely see a thing, as it was nightfall. Quinn struggled to find of the source of the beeping, which he later found out that it was his electronic journal. A bright flashing light flashed onto the screen, hurting Quinn's eyes because of the darkness surrounding him. He pressed a button, and a face popped up onto the screen. Quinn regonized the face immediately, thanks to the face's nearly bald head and white goatee. "Well well, we meet again Quinn." Laughed the face. "So we do Cain." replyed Quinn, smirking at the screen. "Sorry about the lack of messages; the ambush from the Laguarde raid left some considerable damage to the delta warp. Because of that, I had to stay behind for a while." Said Cain. "However, I have finally used the delta warp after much repair and ended up.in the Valley of Bowser. Not a pleasant place to be. I wish we could choose our landing location instead of landing somewhere randomly." Said Cain. Quinn said nothing. He knew that Bowser was the enemy, but to see Cain go though all this trouble just to find him was depressing. " I excaped the Valley of Bowser and managed to hitch a ride aboard one of Kinopio's vessels. We will both arrive at TMK at 10:00 AM sharp. It's 1:16 AM right now, so you should get some sleep for the big day ahead." Said Cain. "Will do." Replied Quinn. "Now, if I am correct, Yoshi's Island should be a couple of miles in front of you right now. According to legend, the great Yoshi used to live there, and every nation used to trade with them, save the Koopa's. Those were the good days. Now, travelers fail to give me information on why tourists levels there have dropped 60% over the past couple of months." Said Cain, shaking his head. "Look through your binoculars to see the island." Quinn got out his mini-binoculars from his pocket and observed the island. The ocean around the island seemed to be a brighter blue than the ocean Quinn now traveled in, and the trees there also made the island look like it was cut off from civilization. Quinn sighed in relaxation. "Earth didn't look this beautiful before it got destroyed." Commented Quinn. "I know." Replyed Cain. "She is a beauty. Well, I'll let you go so you can get some shut eye. I'll see you in the morning."
To be continued.