Well, even though tenth review by Strong Bad seemed to be a joke, it is
still a review, so I will put up the next chapter. A warning, at the end, I
will be begging for reviews again, but this time I have a more justified
reason than impatience. Also there is a quote in here from one of my
favorite games. If you find it and know where it is from, uhhhh you get an
imaginary cookie, yeah. If you cant find it, but want to know what it is
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Chapter 15: Kongo Jungle.
Yoshi had been walking for about an hour, he did eventually come upon a jungle, so it did appear he was going in the right direction. He eventually came to a waterfall, and over it was a very wide log bridge, almost like a dam. Yoshi picked up a sizeable rock and threw it onto the bridge to see if it was sturdy enough, which it was. Yoshi then jumped onto it, the logs were actually very sturdy and looked like it was made to hold a lot of weight. The waterfall was pretty wide, and the water fell a long distance off the cliff. Below the ledge was a barrel floating in mid air, which was rather strange. With large eyes, Yoshi scanned the area looking for what might be D.K.'s house. And there it was, hanging over the river on a ledge made of logs just a little ways up stream. As he began to look for a way to get to it he heard a blast that sounded similar to a canon firing. A half second later, two small objects burst through one of the logs a few feet away from Yoshi. He notices the objects had some kind of fur on them. They also had arms and legs, Yoshi could see they wore little ties and they seemed very familiar. The objects turned around and they turned out to look like little apes, and not only that, they looked nearly exactly like D.K.! The first looked like an exact replica of D.K., while the other had gray fur and a blue tie. They both looked at Yoshi before speaking.
"Hey, who are you? You're trespassing in our territory!" They're voices sounded like D.K.'s would if he had just breathed in helium, which made Yoshi chuckle at the sound of their voices.
"You think this is funny, now we have to show you the power of the Mini Kongs!" The Mini Kongs then jumped above Yoshi with their fists in the air, as they came down Yoshi rolled to the side to avoid them, he then lashed out his tail, which would normally go for someone's feet but since the Kongs were so small it hit their midsection instead. Both Kongs were thrown to the side but got back on their feet. The gray Kong rushed at Yoshi, and was met by Yoshi's hard head. This sent the gray Kong flying off the platform. The remaining Kong decided to try a different approach, instead of charging, he leapt high into the air. Yoshi saw this and responded by quickly jumping slightly higher than the small Kong. When he was slightly above him, he slammed his head forward onto the small Kong's. This sent the Kong zooming down, strait into the log floor, which he broke through and fell down the waterfall. Yoshi checked to make sure there were no more tiny kings hiding anywhere. When he was sure that the apes he dispatched were the only ones around, he sat and thought of ways that he could get to D.K.'s house.
The house was out of his jumping distance and the only way to the house were by swinging on the vines that were in the trees, and those were also out of his jumping distance.
He thought until sunset when he finally had an idea. Didn't the Mini Kongs burst through the floor, how did they do that? He looked down through the first hole in the log from which they came. Something was moving back and forth between the ends of the log bridge, when he looked over the side, a floating barrel came into view. It was moving from side to side. Maybe there is some way he could utilize this to shoot him towards the vines where he could swing to the house. He realized if he was wrong, he could free fall to the bottom of the waterfall. But what choice did he have. He waited until the barrel was directly below him and he hopped off. He landed in the barrel with a thunk sound. He looked up and could see it was still moving. He looked around the inside of the barrel to find a small red button. Perhaps this would shoot him out. He watched through the top of the barrel to make sure that he wouldn't hit the log bridge on accident. When the bridge was clear and he could see the orange sky, he pressed the button. A loud boom was heard and Yoshi was shot out of the barrel like a canon. As Yoshi flew through the air he could see the vines, one of which he was lucky enough to grab. Yoshi then proceeded to swing his way across the vines to D.K.'s home.
Soon enough Yoshi did reach the house elevated over a very rapidly moving river, and he landed on a platform to the left side of the house. Yoshi looked around for anything that could be the token he needed. He saw something sparkle in the reflection of the setting sun on the third farthest platform from him. Just as Yoshi decided to investigate, something large crashed onto the platform with the coin. As Yoshi looked at the giant, words of dismay came to his mouth.
"Oh hell no!"
For before him was a giant hulking ape that looked exactly like D.K. only this one was bigger, much bigger. The Giant D.K. spotted Yoshi and leapt into the air and on to the platform that was next to Yoshi. Yoshi held his ground, which happened to be his only option. The Giant D.K. let out loud roar and picked up the somewhat large house over his head. Then it roared.
"ME CRUSH YOU, CRUSH YOU TO GOO!!" then it the house high over its head preparing to keep his word on what he said. Just as he was about to crush him, a creaking sound was heard, both Yoshi and the giant D.K. stood still, then the platform Giant D.K. was on seemed to collapse under the weight of him and the house. Giant D.K. fell into the rapidly moving river and the house crashed on top of him, submerging him.
Yoshi let out a sigh of relief but was instantly brought back the situation, the house was being carried quickly on the river towards the platform he was standing on, Yoshi ran towards the approaching house jumped on its roof as it collided into and destroyed the platform he was on which simultaneously tore a hole into the house. Yoshi kept running on the roof of the rapidly sinking house, which happened to also be heading towards the waterfall. Just as Yoshi reached the end of the roof, he jumped just as the house submerged into the river, Yoshi then held out his hand and caught the end of the log platform, and then pulled himself up onto it.
"Gah, Gah, Gah." Yoshi gasped for air. "I gasp never gasp want to gasp do that gasp again!" After resting for a couple minutes he remembered what he needed to do and looked for the coin, he instantly saw its white shine and picked it up. He took out his map and preceded to scratch off the gray area, which revealed a room that had a pedestal on it, the pedestal supported what looked like a large triangle with an empty shape of a triangle in the center. Yoshi pondered where had he ever seen or heard about that triangle, then it slowly came to him. That symbol in the last tournament the competitor Link used it to represent himself as his symbol, well now Yoshi knew who he may meet there but there was one problem, Link resided in a different dimension, how was he supposed to get there?
Yoshi was extremely agitated at this problem and decided to just take a walk through the jungle, Yoshi jumped off the platform and onto the dirt shore.
After walking through the jungle for some time, Yoshi was still absolutely clueless on how to get to his next destination. Yoshi remembered something. What did the Wharf say before he entered the portal? "If you get lost, we will get you back on track." It was his only reliable hope. Yoshi closed his eyes and ran through the jungle, hoping that he doesn't run off a cliff. About fifteen seconds of running, something collided with Yoshi's head.
"OW ow ow ow!" Yoshi yelled holding his head. After most of the pain subsided Yoshi looked at what he had run into. It was a big rock, but closer examination showed that the rock had a different shade of gray then the rest of the rock. Curious, Yoshi knocked on the normal looking part of the rock. Normal. Then he knocked on the shaded area of the rock, it gave an empty echo, probably hollow! Yoshi then punched the rock as hard as he could.
"Ow ow ow ow!" Only resulting in him hurting his hand. Yoshi thought, he remembered what Yosher told him about being able to charge up there smash attacks to more powerful states. Yoshi then remembered the mega smash specials, but didn't want to risk any injury, so decided to try the charged up smash attack. Yoshi stood in front of the rock brought his head back, closed his eyes, tensed his muscles, and threw his head forward with all the force he could muster. The wall seemed to explode from the attack and indeed the rock was indeed hollow.
Yoshi had suffered hardly any pain, he had a hard head and was one of his main appendages to use while fought so his head was perhaps more painful then a regular punch or kick.
Yoshi looked into the rock it was small, probably a little bigger than D.K. or Bowser, then he saw a stairwell leading down.
"Well there isn't really anything else I can do." he said and began descending the stairwell.
Do review, I still haven't heard on what anyone thinks on all of part-one in general. Would you give it a 7.0? Perhaps an 8.0/10? I'm asking because I don't know. And thanks to anyone who has already reviewed.
Now on a serious note, I am running out of pre-made chapters, so things may slow down after the next chapter. I am currently two chapters ahead, but it is beginning to become a little difficult to write full heartedly. It becomes a lot easier to write if I can get good reviews, not saying that the ones I currently have are bad but think of it like this. I'm a car, the reviews are like gasoline, the more gasoline I have the farther I go (write). The better grades the gasoline (reviews) are, the faster (more determination) I can get to my destination. If I go to long without good gasoline, I slow down (determination decreases). The main reason for me asking this is that the school year is coming, and that will take about 80% of my efforts and determination out of this, so I am trying to get the pre- made chapters done ASAP, so I don't have to worry about getting it finished. Sorry for taking you're time away with this dribble, bottom line is: reviews fill my determination. Thanks for reading this. Next chapter will be posted either:
A: Friday night.
Or
B: When I get TWO 2 reviews.
Chapter 15: Kongo Jungle.
Yoshi had been walking for about an hour, he did eventually come upon a jungle, so it did appear he was going in the right direction. He eventually came to a waterfall, and over it was a very wide log bridge, almost like a dam. Yoshi picked up a sizeable rock and threw it onto the bridge to see if it was sturdy enough, which it was. Yoshi then jumped onto it, the logs were actually very sturdy and looked like it was made to hold a lot of weight. The waterfall was pretty wide, and the water fell a long distance off the cliff. Below the ledge was a barrel floating in mid air, which was rather strange. With large eyes, Yoshi scanned the area looking for what might be D.K.'s house. And there it was, hanging over the river on a ledge made of logs just a little ways up stream. As he began to look for a way to get to it he heard a blast that sounded similar to a canon firing. A half second later, two small objects burst through one of the logs a few feet away from Yoshi. He notices the objects had some kind of fur on them. They also had arms and legs, Yoshi could see they wore little ties and they seemed very familiar. The objects turned around and they turned out to look like little apes, and not only that, they looked nearly exactly like D.K.! The first looked like an exact replica of D.K., while the other had gray fur and a blue tie. They both looked at Yoshi before speaking.
"Hey, who are you? You're trespassing in our territory!" They're voices sounded like D.K.'s would if he had just breathed in helium, which made Yoshi chuckle at the sound of their voices.
"You think this is funny, now we have to show you the power of the Mini Kongs!" The Mini Kongs then jumped above Yoshi with their fists in the air, as they came down Yoshi rolled to the side to avoid them, he then lashed out his tail, which would normally go for someone's feet but since the Kongs were so small it hit their midsection instead. Both Kongs were thrown to the side but got back on their feet. The gray Kong rushed at Yoshi, and was met by Yoshi's hard head. This sent the gray Kong flying off the platform. The remaining Kong decided to try a different approach, instead of charging, he leapt high into the air. Yoshi saw this and responded by quickly jumping slightly higher than the small Kong. When he was slightly above him, he slammed his head forward onto the small Kong's. This sent the Kong zooming down, strait into the log floor, which he broke through and fell down the waterfall. Yoshi checked to make sure there were no more tiny kings hiding anywhere. When he was sure that the apes he dispatched were the only ones around, he sat and thought of ways that he could get to D.K.'s house.
The house was out of his jumping distance and the only way to the house were by swinging on the vines that were in the trees, and those were also out of his jumping distance.
He thought until sunset when he finally had an idea. Didn't the Mini Kongs burst through the floor, how did they do that? He looked down through the first hole in the log from which they came. Something was moving back and forth between the ends of the log bridge, when he looked over the side, a floating barrel came into view. It was moving from side to side. Maybe there is some way he could utilize this to shoot him towards the vines where he could swing to the house. He realized if he was wrong, he could free fall to the bottom of the waterfall. But what choice did he have. He waited until the barrel was directly below him and he hopped off. He landed in the barrel with a thunk sound. He looked up and could see it was still moving. He looked around the inside of the barrel to find a small red button. Perhaps this would shoot him out. He watched through the top of the barrel to make sure that he wouldn't hit the log bridge on accident. When the bridge was clear and he could see the orange sky, he pressed the button. A loud boom was heard and Yoshi was shot out of the barrel like a canon. As Yoshi flew through the air he could see the vines, one of which he was lucky enough to grab. Yoshi then proceeded to swing his way across the vines to D.K.'s home.
Soon enough Yoshi did reach the house elevated over a very rapidly moving river, and he landed on a platform to the left side of the house. Yoshi looked around for anything that could be the token he needed. He saw something sparkle in the reflection of the setting sun on the third farthest platform from him. Just as Yoshi decided to investigate, something large crashed onto the platform with the coin. As Yoshi looked at the giant, words of dismay came to his mouth.
"Oh hell no!"
For before him was a giant hulking ape that looked exactly like D.K. only this one was bigger, much bigger. The Giant D.K. spotted Yoshi and leapt into the air and on to the platform that was next to Yoshi. Yoshi held his ground, which happened to be his only option. The Giant D.K. let out loud roar and picked up the somewhat large house over his head. Then it roared.
"ME CRUSH YOU, CRUSH YOU TO GOO!!" then it the house high over its head preparing to keep his word on what he said. Just as he was about to crush him, a creaking sound was heard, both Yoshi and the giant D.K. stood still, then the platform Giant D.K. was on seemed to collapse under the weight of him and the house. Giant D.K. fell into the rapidly moving river and the house crashed on top of him, submerging him.
Yoshi let out a sigh of relief but was instantly brought back the situation, the house was being carried quickly on the river towards the platform he was standing on, Yoshi ran towards the approaching house jumped on its roof as it collided into and destroyed the platform he was on which simultaneously tore a hole into the house. Yoshi kept running on the roof of the rapidly sinking house, which happened to also be heading towards the waterfall. Just as Yoshi reached the end of the roof, he jumped just as the house submerged into the river, Yoshi then held out his hand and caught the end of the log platform, and then pulled himself up onto it.
"Gah, Gah, Gah." Yoshi gasped for air. "I gasp never gasp want to gasp do that gasp again!" After resting for a couple minutes he remembered what he needed to do and looked for the coin, he instantly saw its white shine and picked it up. He took out his map and preceded to scratch off the gray area, which revealed a room that had a pedestal on it, the pedestal supported what looked like a large triangle with an empty shape of a triangle in the center. Yoshi pondered where had he ever seen or heard about that triangle, then it slowly came to him. That symbol in the last tournament the competitor Link used it to represent himself as his symbol, well now Yoshi knew who he may meet there but there was one problem, Link resided in a different dimension, how was he supposed to get there?
Yoshi was extremely agitated at this problem and decided to just take a walk through the jungle, Yoshi jumped off the platform and onto the dirt shore.
After walking through the jungle for some time, Yoshi was still absolutely clueless on how to get to his next destination. Yoshi remembered something. What did the Wharf say before he entered the portal? "If you get lost, we will get you back on track." It was his only reliable hope. Yoshi closed his eyes and ran through the jungle, hoping that he doesn't run off a cliff. About fifteen seconds of running, something collided with Yoshi's head.
"OW ow ow ow!" Yoshi yelled holding his head. After most of the pain subsided Yoshi looked at what he had run into. It was a big rock, but closer examination showed that the rock had a different shade of gray then the rest of the rock. Curious, Yoshi knocked on the normal looking part of the rock. Normal. Then he knocked on the shaded area of the rock, it gave an empty echo, probably hollow! Yoshi then punched the rock as hard as he could.
"Ow ow ow ow!" Only resulting in him hurting his hand. Yoshi thought, he remembered what Yosher told him about being able to charge up there smash attacks to more powerful states. Yoshi then remembered the mega smash specials, but didn't want to risk any injury, so decided to try the charged up smash attack. Yoshi stood in front of the rock brought his head back, closed his eyes, tensed his muscles, and threw his head forward with all the force he could muster. The wall seemed to explode from the attack and indeed the rock was indeed hollow.
Yoshi had suffered hardly any pain, he had a hard head and was one of his main appendages to use while fought so his head was perhaps more painful then a regular punch or kick.
Yoshi looked into the rock it was small, probably a little bigger than D.K. or Bowser, then he saw a stairwell leading down.
"Well there isn't really anything else I can do." he said and began descending the stairwell.
Do review, I still haven't heard on what anyone thinks on all of part-one in general. Would you give it a 7.0? Perhaps an 8.0/10? I'm asking because I don't know. And thanks to anyone who has already reviewed.
Now on a serious note, I am running out of pre-made chapters, so things may slow down after the next chapter. I am currently two chapters ahead, but it is beginning to become a little difficult to write full heartedly. It becomes a lot easier to write if I can get good reviews, not saying that the ones I currently have are bad but think of it like this. I'm a car, the reviews are like gasoline, the more gasoline I have the farther I go (write). The better grades the gasoline (reviews) are, the faster (more determination) I can get to my destination. If I go to long without good gasoline, I slow down (determination decreases). The main reason for me asking this is that the school year is coming, and that will take about 80% of my efforts and determination out of this, so I am trying to get the pre- made chapters done ASAP, so I don't have to worry about getting it finished. Sorry for taking you're time away with this dribble, bottom line is: reviews fill my determination. Thanks for reading this. Next chapter will be posted either:
A: Friday night.
Or
B: When I get TWO 2 reviews.