This chapter is a bit confusing, even for me. If you do understand it
though, let me know. This chapter was much more confusing before I edited
it over and over again. No little jokes this chapter or after, I have a
headache.
Chapter Ten: Build Up, to the Past.
Three months of training have passed; Yoshi seemed to be improving greatly. At first he would go home from training every day with bumps, bruises, and small cuts. This continued on for the first two or three weeks, much to the dismay of Yoshi's siblings and friends. He did however become stronger, faster, and a quicker thinker than he used to be. He was also becoming less and less injured during the training sessions. One day right before the start of training, while following Yosher out of the training building for running practice, he was surprised to see that they did not go to the beach, instead they went deep into the lush green jungle, they stopped when they came to a clearing. Yosher sat down on a large rock with a long flat surface. He sat at one end and signaled Yoshi to sit on the other end.
"Why have we come here Sir?" Yoshi asked a bit concerned, why had they come here, was this a new training exercise.
".Yoshi." Yosher spoke in a quiet tone, his face was not as serious as it ussualy was for Yosher the teacher, but wasn't as kind as Yosher the cook. ".Today their will be no training, today is the end of the first half of your training, you have improved much more quickly than I was expecting," Yoshi was confused, it was rare for Yosher the teacher to ever compliment him on how he performed, and even if he did, he followed with an insult to even it out. "For this one day I want you to refer to me not as Master Yosher or Sir, just as Yosh-. Cough *Cough* .Sorry I mean Yosher
"But what are we doing Yosher?" Yoshi asked a bit desperate to find out what was going on.
"Today Yoshi, we are going to have a conversation about each other and our motives, lets start off with a somewhat easy question before moving to the complicated one, ahem, do you remember your parents?" Although to most people would expect Yoshi or any of his siblings to be sad if asked such a question, they actually were not, they never got to know their parents, they drowned before they were born, when the land was turned into a story book by Baby Bowser, most of its friendly inhabitants were turned paper thin, Yoshi's parents were swimming in the ocean when the land was converted, and being paper thin it is nearly impossible to swim, the two Yoshis bodies were never found. Yoshi was curious on how did this have to do with the motives of training.
"No, I do not remember my parents, do you remember yours?" Yoshi answered and asked, emotion not seeming to affect him.
"Yes Yoshi I do remember my parents," Yosher spoke a little, about his parents "My father was named.Yoshen and my mother was named Yoseea," Yosher seemed to speak a bit slowly, as if seeming to pick out his words carefully, "but.when I was young my father was killed one night, while he was keeping watch at a volcano, there were reported robbers in the area and he was keeping watch. Unfortunately, the volcano erupted and well, I never heard from my father again." Yosher thought of a next question, he had to make a build up to his coming tale; otherwise it may be too hard to understand. He had to take things one-step at a time.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Yoshi said.
"Don't worry," Yosher said changing the subject, "now for the next question, why am I training you?" Yoshi had thought of what he should tell Yosher, the truth was too confusing to explain, not even he could do it without someone to help explain it for him. He was able to tell the chief, but that was when the incident was still fresh in his mind, and the way he would tell what happened would probably sound like he was making it up off the top of his head. Yoshi decided to give a more simple answer.
"I am training for a tournament being held up North." Yoshi stated, hoping Yosher would change to another question.
"That is not what I asked you, why do you want to be trained?" Yosher appeared to not have bought Yoshi's story. Why did Yoshi fight? Was it to protect someone, just because it was right, to prove someone wrong, or maybe even just for the heck of it?
"Are you fighting to win money?"
"No"
"Then explain"
"Well maybe in a way I am, if I win, they may help supply the island with goods."
"Does the Island need the goods?"
"No I guess not." Yoshi then had a flashback to three months ago.
FLASH BACK
"The money the kingdom receives will probably go into the Royal Bank because nobody needs it,..probably spend it on something that is ABSOLUTELY USSLESS!!!!".
END FLASH BACK.
For the first time, Yoshi felt guilty on his own on how he acted towards Princess Peach, before now he only felt worry of what the consequences would be if he returned, but now it was guilt. It was true that the Mushroom kingdom could do fine on its own without the prize money, but Yoshi realized, so could his home island.
"Are you fighting for deserved respect?"
"What does he mean respect?" Yoshi thought, "it is not possible that he knows about the night in the castle."
"Well perhaps I am."
"Ahhh, I see, well are you fighting to protect the ones you care for?"
"You mean like my siblings? Well, in a way yes." Yoshi was indeed fighting to protect not just his brothers and sisters but everyone, as were the other past competitors in the Smash Brothers tournament who fought against the Master Hand and stop whatever plans he had.
"Well Yoshi, then from who?
"Huh?"
"From whom are you protecting your siblings from?" It made sense now! Those questions were just warm ups to this one, to catch him off guard so Yoshi would now have to tell Yosher the real story of what happened two years ago. But would Yosher believe him, or did he already know. Yoshi's thoughts seemed to all collide at once. How did he know? Does he even know? The night Yoshi got back from the tournament, he told only the yoshi Chief, to see if he knew anything about it. Did the Chief tell Yosher about this? If so, for what reason. If not, then how did Yosher know there was some kind of threat from the last tournament and possibly in this one as well?
"Well?" Yosher asked getting a little impatient.
Yoshi took a deep breath and revealed his answer: A question
"Yosher, who are you?"
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I wonder, does anyone actually like this story? I may be contradicting myself a bit by asking for reviews now when one chapter ago I said it may be still early. I guess I'm just impatient. There a first version to this note was loaded about an hour ago, but I changed it. If you read it, disregard it. My headache is better now. Well if I get two reviews, I'll put up the next chapter a.s.a.p. instead of two days from now.
More to come soon
Chapter Ten: Build Up, to the Past.
Three months of training have passed; Yoshi seemed to be improving greatly. At first he would go home from training every day with bumps, bruises, and small cuts. This continued on for the first two or three weeks, much to the dismay of Yoshi's siblings and friends. He did however become stronger, faster, and a quicker thinker than he used to be. He was also becoming less and less injured during the training sessions. One day right before the start of training, while following Yosher out of the training building for running practice, he was surprised to see that they did not go to the beach, instead they went deep into the lush green jungle, they stopped when they came to a clearing. Yosher sat down on a large rock with a long flat surface. He sat at one end and signaled Yoshi to sit on the other end.
"Why have we come here Sir?" Yoshi asked a bit concerned, why had they come here, was this a new training exercise.
".Yoshi." Yosher spoke in a quiet tone, his face was not as serious as it ussualy was for Yosher the teacher, but wasn't as kind as Yosher the cook. ".Today their will be no training, today is the end of the first half of your training, you have improved much more quickly than I was expecting," Yoshi was confused, it was rare for Yosher the teacher to ever compliment him on how he performed, and even if he did, he followed with an insult to even it out. "For this one day I want you to refer to me not as Master Yosher or Sir, just as Yosh-. Cough *Cough* .Sorry I mean Yosher
"But what are we doing Yosher?" Yoshi asked a bit desperate to find out what was going on.
"Today Yoshi, we are going to have a conversation about each other and our motives, lets start off with a somewhat easy question before moving to the complicated one, ahem, do you remember your parents?" Although to most people would expect Yoshi or any of his siblings to be sad if asked such a question, they actually were not, they never got to know their parents, they drowned before they were born, when the land was turned into a story book by Baby Bowser, most of its friendly inhabitants were turned paper thin, Yoshi's parents were swimming in the ocean when the land was converted, and being paper thin it is nearly impossible to swim, the two Yoshis bodies were never found. Yoshi was curious on how did this have to do with the motives of training.
"No, I do not remember my parents, do you remember yours?" Yoshi answered and asked, emotion not seeming to affect him.
"Yes Yoshi I do remember my parents," Yosher spoke a little, about his parents "My father was named.Yoshen and my mother was named Yoseea," Yosher seemed to speak a bit slowly, as if seeming to pick out his words carefully, "but.when I was young my father was killed one night, while he was keeping watch at a volcano, there were reported robbers in the area and he was keeping watch. Unfortunately, the volcano erupted and well, I never heard from my father again." Yosher thought of a next question, he had to make a build up to his coming tale; otherwise it may be too hard to understand. He had to take things one-step at a time.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Yoshi said.
"Don't worry," Yosher said changing the subject, "now for the next question, why am I training you?" Yoshi had thought of what he should tell Yosher, the truth was too confusing to explain, not even he could do it without someone to help explain it for him. He was able to tell the chief, but that was when the incident was still fresh in his mind, and the way he would tell what happened would probably sound like he was making it up off the top of his head. Yoshi decided to give a more simple answer.
"I am training for a tournament being held up North." Yoshi stated, hoping Yosher would change to another question.
"That is not what I asked you, why do you want to be trained?" Yosher appeared to not have bought Yoshi's story. Why did Yoshi fight? Was it to protect someone, just because it was right, to prove someone wrong, or maybe even just for the heck of it?
"Are you fighting to win money?"
"No"
"Then explain"
"Well maybe in a way I am, if I win, they may help supply the island with goods."
"Does the Island need the goods?"
"No I guess not." Yoshi then had a flashback to three months ago.
FLASH BACK
"The money the kingdom receives will probably go into the Royal Bank because nobody needs it,..probably spend it on something that is ABSOLUTELY USSLESS!!!!".
END FLASH BACK.
For the first time, Yoshi felt guilty on his own on how he acted towards Princess Peach, before now he only felt worry of what the consequences would be if he returned, but now it was guilt. It was true that the Mushroom kingdom could do fine on its own without the prize money, but Yoshi realized, so could his home island.
"Are you fighting for deserved respect?"
"What does he mean respect?" Yoshi thought, "it is not possible that he knows about the night in the castle."
"Well perhaps I am."
"Ahhh, I see, well are you fighting to protect the ones you care for?"
"You mean like my siblings? Well, in a way yes." Yoshi was indeed fighting to protect not just his brothers and sisters but everyone, as were the other past competitors in the Smash Brothers tournament who fought against the Master Hand and stop whatever plans he had.
"Well Yoshi, then from who?
"Huh?"
"From whom are you protecting your siblings from?" It made sense now! Those questions were just warm ups to this one, to catch him off guard so Yoshi would now have to tell Yosher the real story of what happened two years ago. But would Yosher believe him, or did he already know. Yoshi's thoughts seemed to all collide at once. How did he know? Does he even know? The night Yoshi got back from the tournament, he told only the yoshi Chief, to see if he knew anything about it. Did the Chief tell Yosher about this? If so, for what reason. If not, then how did Yosher know there was some kind of threat from the last tournament and possibly in this one as well?
"Well?" Yosher asked getting a little impatient.
Yoshi took a deep breath and revealed his answer: A question
"Yosher, who are you?"
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I wonder, does anyone actually like this story? I may be contradicting myself a bit by asking for reviews now when one chapter ago I said it may be still early. I guess I'm just impatient. There a first version to this note was loaded about an hour ago, but I changed it. If you read it, disregard it. My headache is better now. Well if I get two reviews, I'll put up the next chapter a.s.a.p. instead of two days from now.
More to come soon