Yoshi's Story: The Lost City
Disclaimer: I do not own the Yoshi Franchise, nor do I hold claim to any element of it.
Warning: if you are a stickler for details DO NO READ THIS FANFIC! This fanfic uses some concepts that usually aren't related to the Yoshi franchise, and will probably annoy some people because I know it would annoy me if I got halfway through a story that was nothing like the actual game it's from and someone didn't tell me.
Anyway now that that's over, lets get on with the story
Epilogue
Legend Tells of a Yoshi that lived long ago, that was barred by neither lock nor wall. He was a strange Yoshi endowed with powers of speed and strength, the like of which had never been seen before. This Yoshi served the Grand Ecco for years until the Destruction of the Pyra High City and the Stone Palace. One year after the completion of the stone palace, and the coronation of Grand Ecco Yoshita, a curse was laid upon the very ground on which the high city stood, turning it all to desert, and all who touched the sand would be turned into sandstone and doomed to stand there as a monument of warning to all others until the day the curse would be lifted. It is rumored that he still rests there inside his Egg, waiting to be reawakened by a Yoshi worthy to carry the title of Grand Ecco.
This is his story, the story of a ghost Yoshi.
Time: Noon, Day 31, twelfth month from the new year, year 1 under Ecco Yoshita's rule.
Location: Pyra Grasslands, Yoshi's Island.
A single Gray Yoshi sat on his back staring up at the sky watching the clouds fly past. He loved the clouds... he saw them so seldom out on the grasslands. They seemed so mysterious... so changeable...
Suddenly a voice pulled him from his thoughts
"Spectra! Spectra! C'mon you big gray bum, where are you hiding?"
A small smile spread across Spectra's face
"Cyndel..."
He quickly ducked deeper into the grass and began to make his way around her to get between his new visitor and the causeway.
"C'mon Spectra... don't make me have to hunt you down again, you know this isn't fair"
"No, but its incredibly fun!"
He quickly ghosted himself and sunk down below the level of the ground.
"A-hah! That's where you'r- oh come on that is so cheap, c'mon Spectra, stop fooling around..."
Spectra reached his destination, and positioned himself for a jump; she was almost where he wanted her...
"Fine... if you don't want me to find you I'll simply just not tell you the message I have for you fr-OOF!"
She turned to walk back to the causeway as she spoke, but before she could finish, a grayish blur leapt up from under the ground and tackled her.
"HAH! I win..."
"Yes, you win, now get offa me"
Spectra climbed to his feet, brushed himself off, and proceeded to help Cyndel up.
"So what'd you come all the way out here to tell me?"
"Yoshita Needs you back at the palace as soon as possible, he thinks Mecha Castle might launch another attack on us soon..."
"You think they'd learn after the Butt-kicking they got last time they tried."
"Yeah go figure..."
Both Yoshis walked to the causeway and picked up the leaf boards they had left at the curb. Spectra took one last look up at the clouds before stepping into the air currents of the causeway.
Time: Morning, Day 1, first month from the new year, year 2 Formerly under Ecco Yoshita's rule.
Location: Formerly Pyra Grasslands, Now Pyra Desert, Yoshi's Island.
Spectra looked around him at the once Beautiful Glass and Onyx spires of the Stone Palace… everything seemed peaceful and calm, like time had suddenly stood still. But no color could be seen except tan and gray… Spectra reached out to touch a wall and felt its roughness under his hands. This had once been a smooth marble pillar, now rough and brittle sandstone. He looked around him at the sandstone statues of every Yoshi that inhabited the Stone Palace. The jewel of the Grand Ecco was the only thing that remained unchanged except him, But why him? Why hadn't he been turned to stone along with his sister and friends? Spectra cried out in frustration.
"Why them and not me?"
He looked out into the courtyard to see a small sandstone ball suspended in midair between two young Yoshis.
"Why them? Why the ignorant and innocent? They're not the ones that fought you!"
Spectra pulled his leaf board from its rack on the wall, only to find it turned to sandstone as well.
"So, Havoc, Did you do this to just this city? Or tell me… did you kill them all?"
Spectra took another look out the window. The once busy causeway was now littered with statues of Yoshis on Leaf Boards floating only a few feet from the surface. Sand covered the ground, not a single trace of grass could be seen in the whole city.
"There is no way I'm going to make it out of this city alive."
Suddenly an idea came to him. He grabbed the Grand Ecco's and jewel darted from the room and headed for the entrance at the front of the Palace. If there truly were people left alive then eventually they would find out what happened, maybe the spell that had been cast on the city wouldn't affect them. He ran to the main square of the city and towards the fountain at its center. He quickly made his way to the top of the fountain and entered his egg, still clutching the jewel. The jewel began to glow, lighting up the cramped space inside the egg. Suddenly the jewel went out and Spectra sighed.
"Well that's one idea down"
He exited his egg and prepared himself to jump down when suddenly the jewel flashed again, then melted into the fountain. Spectra froze… Suddenly, a blinding light erupted from the fountain.
"What the…"
Then everything went black.
