All right everybody its time for a new chapter. Unfortunately I apologize
if this chapter seems a bit...lacking, sorry. A reviewer told me that Yoshi
isn't struggling enough, yes it is true that there hasn't been any serious
action against any hard opponents, I will explain at the end of the
chapter.
Chapter 16: The Underground Maze
Yoshi eventually reached the bottom of the stairs and found a door leading to a narrow hallway; the hallway's ceiling walls and floor were made of stone bricks. It was damp and the air smelled of mold and grime and the only light was the orange flame of the candles on the hallway walls. Yoshi walked forward and the area became more lighted. Just as he came to the area where the light seemed strongest. What he saw was an extremely large round room. The ceiling was far up and the ground was far down, Yoshi could see there was water on the ground but only a foot deep. Then Yoshi saw many many floating platforms, some of them had some slouched over humanoids standing on them, Yoshi decided to take a closer look.
Yoshi jumped onto one of the far platforms were there was one of the humanoids; he landed behind it with Yoshi's back facing the opposite wall from where he had jumped. He tapped on the humanoids back.
"Uhhh, pardon me could you tell me where I am?" Yoshi asked. The humanoid turned around to reveal what looked like an orange zombie with holes for a mouth and the two eyes!
"Holy Shit!!" Yoshi screamed out of pure surprise and horror. The zombie being then let out an unnatural roar and tackled Yoshi, causing them both fall off the small platform. Yoshi kicked off the.thing in mid air and continued to fall, he was expecting to hit the wet ground but instead landed on the lip of the entrance to another hallway. He saw the zombie thing continue to fall to the bottom of the room. Yoshi looked into the hallway his only choice. He walked down the hallway, which was also rock but had very little light and wooden support beams and the rocks formation seemed like it was more underground like and natural. Yoshi didn't walk long and came to a dead end.
"Crap." He said in a moaning fashion. Then all of a sudden the floor broke from under him. Yoshi fell about ten feet before hitting ground, he landed on his feet but it still hurt, he sat on the ground and examined the room. The floor was stone, and so were the walls, but in the center of the room was a sword with a purple handle and hand guard. The sword appeared to be stuck in stone. As Yoshi continued to examine it the sword began to vibrate. Just then the walls and ceiling disappeared, and it seemed like the floor was a platform in a swirling vortex of purple and blue. Then the sword broke out from the stone. It flew high into the air, and someone caught it. The person who caught the sword landed opposite of Yoshi, he was blond haired and had pointy ears, and wore a very light purple elf hat and tunic, and white pants with brown gloves and boots. Yoshi recognized him to be Link, one of the smashers in the last tournament. But the last time he saw Link; he was wearing a green tunic, not a bright purple one. Yoshi relaxed at the sight of the hero.
"Hey Link, are you testing too?" Yoshi asked
"..whoever you are I will not allow you to get the triforce!"
"What are you talking about, and what's a tri-fork?"
"I will not fall to the likes of you!" Link then threw his boomerang at Yoshi, Yoshi dodged it as it approached him, and again as it returned. Link used his hook shot and the chain wrapped around Yoshi's arm, then Link threw Link to the opposite side of the platform. After colliding with the ground and recovering Link charged at Yoshi, and just as he reached him, Yoshi jumped up and a little over Links head, then Yoshi kicked out with both of his feet into Links back, and surprisingly sent Link flying off the platform. As Yoshi watched Link disappear into the vortex the room began to look normal. How come that fight was so easy? Last time Yoshi and Link fought Link came out the victor, but this time it was hardly anything. Yoshi decided to figure this out later and went into the nearest hallway. The hallway was slanted upward and the walls appeared like a natural underground rock formation. Yoshi could see ahead of him thanks to the candles. Unfortunately, he saw many of those zombie things all in a nice little row.
"I don't have the time to fight these freaks!" Yoshi said aloud, then he turned into an egg and rolled forward, plowing through them. Yoshi broke out of his egg upon hitting the end of the tunnel. He looked up and could see an edge to another hallway, so he jumped and flutter jumped as high as he could to the next floor level. He landed and ran forward, a second later he came to another room similar to the one with the sword in it. And there it was again, in the center of the room was the same sword in the stone from earlier. Yoshi did not want to go through another fight with another Link look alike. He looked at the floor, he was still in the hallway for its floor pattern was different from the rooms. Maybe if he could get through the room without touching the floor, it may not cause another Link to come by. Yoshi took a few steps back, rushed and jumped off the last inch of the hallway flooring and flutter jumped across the room. He landed on the floor of the hallway opposite of which he came, and the sword appeared undisturbed. Yoshi let out a sigh of relief and went down the hallway to a wide hallway, he saw two purple things that had giant heads, with green eyes, and many legs, and also saw this tube like green slime thing. One of the purple things shot a rock out of its tube like mouth, which barely missed Yoshi.
"What kind of hell hole is this?!" Yoshi yelled becoming irritated. He then picked up and threw the rock back at the one of the purple things, and conjured an egg and threw it at the other, taking both out of commission. The pillar of slime then crawled towards Yoshi, but was met by a charged smash attack by Yoshi, which sent it a bit of a ways back. The slime thing then just lay there. Yoshi then continued down the path until he reached another high ledge over his head. Which he had to flutter jump to reach, he then went down another long hallway, and came to another room similar to the first two with the swords in them, only this one had instead of having a sword had three triangles floating over the stone one on top of the other two. Yoshi recognized this, he took out his map and looked compared the two, identical. Yoshi examined the floating triangles closer and saw in the center hole the gray token he needed. He reached out and gently took it. He looked for the next gray box, then once again scratched the coin against the surface.
The picture in the box looked like the interior to a spaceship of some sort. Yoshi looked to the side and could see a door open on its own. He then stepped through it to find himself once again outside. What was strange that he was no longer in the jungle where he started, instead he was in an area that looked to be the ruins of a great temple, what was stranger was that the area he was on seemed to be floating in the air! Yoshi heard a feminine voice from behind him.
"What have you done?" Yoshi turned to see another elf like humanoid, this one was a female that had golden hair, a pink dress like a princess, a purple sash that had many pictures on it, and faint pink gloves.
"Huh? I didn't do anything."
"Do not lie, you have defiled the tri-force and destroyed one of the guardians!"
"Look I don't know anything about these guardians or this tri-fork thing." "This cannot go unaccounted for, as punishment I shall banish you to the dark realms." With that the elf person lifted her arms into the air, which turned bright green, and opened both her palms at Yoshi. A bright green beam shot out from her hands, which hit Yoshi dead on. Yoshi felt himself become lighter as he disappeared from sight.
Once again I apologize if this chapter, well, sucked. Now concerning where Yoshi was struggling, there are two reasons why he hasn't needed to fight extremely hard. One is a reason will be revealed as the story continues (and no, it is not because he became super strong from Yosher's training) the other reason is that if I were to pull out as much action as I could, the tournament fights may just seem like repeats of the adventure. I am not one of those authors that make one character far superior than the rest in every category. But I assure you, things WILL become hard for Yoshi, just not right now. No need to review if you did not enjoy the chapter, but reviewing is still appreciated. The next chapter I am having a bit of writer's block with so I cannot set an exact date for when it will come out, sorry.
Chapter 16: The Underground Maze
Yoshi eventually reached the bottom of the stairs and found a door leading to a narrow hallway; the hallway's ceiling walls and floor were made of stone bricks. It was damp and the air smelled of mold and grime and the only light was the orange flame of the candles on the hallway walls. Yoshi walked forward and the area became more lighted. Just as he came to the area where the light seemed strongest. What he saw was an extremely large round room. The ceiling was far up and the ground was far down, Yoshi could see there was water on the ground but only a foot deep. Then Yoshi saw many many floating platforms, some of them had some slouched over humanoids standing on them, Yoshi decided to take a closer look.
Yoshi jumped onto one of the far platforms were there was one of the humanoids; he landed behind it with Yoshi's back facing the opposite wall from where he had jumped. He tapped on the humanoids back.
"Uhhh, pardon me could you tell me where I am?" Yoshi asked. The humanoid turned around to reveal what looked like an orange zombie with holes for a mouth and the two eyes!
"Holy Shit!!" Yoshi screamed out of pure surprise and horror. The zombie being then let out an unnatural roar and tackled Yoshi, causing them both fall off the small platform. Yoshi kicked off the.thing in mid air and continued to fall, he was expecting to hit the wet ground but instead landed on the lip of the entrance to another hallway. He saw the zombie thing continue to fall to the bottom of the room. Yoshi looked into the hallway his only choice. He walked down the hallway, which was also rock but had very little light and wooden support beams and the rocks formation seemed like it was more underground like and natural. Yoshi didn't walk long and came to a dead end.
"Crap." He said in a moaning fashion. Then all of a sudden the floor broke from under him. Yoshi fell about ten feet before hitting ground, he landed on his feet but it still hurt, he sat on the ground and examined the room. The floor was stone, and so were the walls, but in the center of the room was a sword with a purple handle and hand guard. The sword appeared to be stuck in stone. As Yoshi continued to examine it the sword began to vibrate. Just then the walls and ceiling disappeared, and it seemed like the floor was a platform in a swirling vortex of purple and blue. Then the sword broke out from the stone. It flew high into the air, and someone caught it. The person who caught the sword landed opposite of Yoshi, he was blond haired and had pointy ears, and wore a very light purple elf hat and tunic, and white pants with brown gloves and boots. Yoshi recognized him to be Link, one of the smashers in the last tournament. But the last time he saw Link; he was wearing a green tunic, not a bright purple one. Yoshi relaxed at the sight of the hero.
"Hey Link, are you testing too?" Yoshi asked
"..whoever you are I will not allow you to get the triforce!"
"What are you talking about, and what's a tri-fork?"
"I will not fall to the likes of you!" Link then threw his boomerang at Yoshi, Yoshi dodged it as it approached him, and again as it returned. Link used his hook shot and the chain wrapped around Yoshi's arm, then Link threw Link to the opposite side of the platform. After colliding with the ground and recovering Link charged at Yoshi, and just as he reached him, Yoshi jumped up and a little over Links head, then Yoshi kicked out with both of his feet into Links back, and surprisingly sent Link flying off the platform. As Yoshi watched Link disappear into the vortex the room began to look normal. How come that fight was so easy? Last time Yoshi and Link fought Link came out the victor, but this time it was hardly anything. Yoshi decided to figure this out later and went into the nearest hallway. The hallway was slanted upward and the walls appeared like a natural underground rock formation. Yoshi could see ahead of him thanks to the candles. Unfortunately, he saw many of those zombie things all in a nice little row.
"I don't have the time to fight these freaks!" Yoshi said aloud, then he turned into an egg and rolled forward, plowing through them. Yoshi broke out of his egg upon hitting the end of the tunnel. He looked up and could see an edge to another hallway, so he jumped and flutter jumped as high as he could to the next floor level. He landed and ran forward, a second later he came to another room similar to the one with the sword in it. And there it was again, in the center of the room was the same sword in the stone from earlier. Yoshi did not want to go through another fight with another Link look alike. He looked at the floor, he was still in the hallway for its floor pattern was different from the rooms. Maybe if he could get through the room without touching the floor, it may not cause another Link to come by. Yoshi took a few steps back, rushed and jumped off the last inch of the hallway flooring and flutter jumped across the room. He landed on the floor of the hallway opposite of which he came, and the sword appeared undisturbed. Yoshi let out a sigh of relief and went down the hallway to a wide hallway, he saw two purple things that had giant heads, with green eyes, and many legs, and also saw this tube like green slime thing. One of the purple things shot a rock out of its tube like mouth, which barely missed Yoshi.
"What kind of hell hole is this?!" Yoshi yelled becoming irritated. He then picked up and threw the rock back at the one of the purple things, and conjured an egg and threw it at the other, taking both out of commission. The pillar of slime then crawled towards Yoshi, but was met by a charged smash attack by Yoshi, which sent it a bit of a ways back. The slime thing then just lay there. Yoshi then continued down the path until he reached another high ledge over his head. Which he had to flutter jump to reach, he then went down another long hallway, and came to another room similar to the first two with the swords in them, only this one had instead of having a sword had three triangles floating over the stone one on top of the other two. Yoshi recognized this, he took out his map and looked compared the two, identical. Yoshi examined the floating triangles closer and saw in the center hole the gray token he needed. He reached out and gently took it. He looked for the next gray box, then once again scratched the coin against the surface.
The picture in the box looked like the interior to a spaceship of some sort. Yoshi looked to the side and could see a door open on its own. He then stepped through it to find himself once again outside. What was strange that he was no longer in the jungle where he started, instead he was in an area that looked to be the ruins of a great temple, what was stranger was that the area he was on seemed to be floating in the air! Yoshi heard a feminine voice from behind him.
"What have you done?" Yoshi turned to see another elf like humanoid, this one was a female that had golden hair, a pink dress like a princess, a purple sash that had many pictures on it, and faint pink gloves.
"Huh? I didn't do anything."
"Do not lie, you have defiled the tri-force and destroyed one of the guardians!"
"Look I don't know anything about these guardians or this tri-fork thing." "This cannot go unaccounted for, as punishment I shall banish you to the dark realms." With that the elf person lifted her arms into the air, which turned bright green, and opened both her palms at Yoshi. A bright green beam shot out from her hands, which hit Yoshi dead on. Yoshi felt himself become lighter as he disappeared from sight.
Once again I apologize if this chapter, well, sucked. Now concerning where Yoshi was struggling, there are two reasons why he hasn't needed to fight extremely hard. One is a reason will be revealed as the story continues (and no, it is not because he became super strong from Yosher's training) the other reason is that if I were to pull out as much action as I could, the tournament fights may just seem like repeats of the adventure. I am not one of those authors that make one character far superior than the rest in every category. But I assure you, things WILL become hard for Yoshi, just not right now. No need to review if you did not enjoy the chapter, but reviewing is still appreciated. The next chapter I am having a bit of writer's block with so I cannot set an exact date for when it will come out, sorry.