Chapter 8

"You guys are crazy. I'm leaving." Kirby announced,

"Yeah, me too." Cloud added.

"Well, if your going that means I'm going." Leone stated.

The group left the tower and decided they would walk through the night. The terrain was lush with forest life and filled with excitement. But, everything that glitters isn't gold, but that one lady that's buying the stairway to heaven sure thinks so.

Nearing dawn they came to an open field. Walking through it they say a figure at the opposite tree line. It was a hunched over brown animal with only pants and crazy eyes.

"Ohhh! Ooh! I now what it is!" Kirby ranted.

"What is it then?" Leone asked.

"I've read about them… They call it, the Crash Booma-dacoot." Kirby explained.

            The creature began wildly making funny noises and spinning around at great speeds, followed by some crazy floating mask. It closed in, closer, closer… BOOM!

A shotgun shell hit the ground, smoke seared from the nozzle of Leone's 10 gauge.

"Now why'd you do that?" Kirby asked Furiously.

"Yeah, why did you do that?" Cloud asked.

"It was attacking… wasn't it?" Leone responded.

"Oh well, let's continue, it was an annoying thing anyway." Cloud said dryly.

            And so they did, they continued to walk endlessly, that is until the stopped at the gate of… CENTRAL DOME!!!

"Hey, how'd we get here?" Cloud asked.

"I dunno, lets go inside and get your car back." Kirby said.

"This is weird." Leone added.

They looked at the large steel gate, and with some pushing and shoving, they managed to open it too. Inside was nothing like they had anticipated…

            A GIANT GAMEBOARD!!!

"What the heck?" Cloud and Leone gasped in unison.

"OOOOOOH! I WANNA PLAY!" Kirby glowed with delight.

Suddenly a four-foot tall blue hedgehog thing popped out right in front of the group. A second later, a short Italian with a red hat.

"You wanna play Sonic Shuffle?" The hedgehog asked.

"No, play Mario Party, it's much better!" The Italian noted,

"No it's not!" Sonic shouted.

"Yes it is!" The Italian screamed.

"Take This!" The hedgehog 'spindashed' into the Italian's stomach.

 "Good, but not good enough!" The Italian shot little fireballs and pelted the blue hog.

Soon there was an all out fight between the two of them.

"I got dibs on the Nintendo Character!" Kirby shouted.

"Your only saying that because you were on SNES." Cloud stated.

"Yeah, so?

"Excuse me guys." Leone asked the two fighting copyright characters, "Do you know where the car impounding station is?" 

"Um… I think it's five blocks after the 2nd force-jewel." Sonic informed them.

"ok, thanks." Cloud, Leone and Kirby began to walk around the game board looking for the building.

"Hey, it's my turn!" Kirby yelled at Cloud.

"We're not playing, we're looking for our car!" Cloud informed him.

"Well I'm playing," Kirby announced as he rolled a large set of dice. "Wahoo! 9 spaces!"

A robotic voice announced MINI-GAME. And the room went black. When the lights returned Cloud was on a large rope and Leone and Kirby were on boats underneath it. The voice echoed, "Shoot Cloud off and win!"

Cloud looked nervous, "Wait you guys aren't going to actually…" KA-BOOM!

 Kirby's cannon let looses a cannonball spiraling towards Cloud, he quickly dodged and began to run for the other end of the rope. Leone then fired, 'whish' right past cloud's head.

"Now I've got you! MWHAHAHAHA!" Kirby shot directly at cloud and knocked him clear of the rope into the water below. The room went black, the light returned and they were back on the game board.

"I WIN, I WIN!" Kirby rejoiced.

"OOOW, my side!" Cloud limped with pain.

"Let's just find that car of yours now…" Leone advised.