Return of Moltar?

Mario and Yoshi quietly walked down the passageway, looking for signs of whatever attacked Leo and the others, but to no prevail. They came to a large door, which Mario cautiously entered. It was completely overflowing with lava, and what looked like many different stone lily pads floating around, occasionally bumping into each other. Mario wondered vaguely how the stone didn't melt. The room smelled very strongly of charcoal and the only light source was the radiant lava itself. The minute Mario entered the doorway it closed, with Yoshi still on the other side.

"Mario!" Yoshi yelled, though you could hear him only faintly seeing as though the door was extremely thick.

"Try to find a way in!" Mario yelled.

"Okay!" Yoshi agreed, and Mario could hear him faint thumping upon the door.

"He won't get through, that door isssss indestructible." A hissing voice said, seemingly seeping up from the lava.

"That voice." Mario whispered, "Moltar!"

"Yesssss, excellent, is that puny little brain of yoursssss isssss truly paying off?" Moltar laughed, jumping out of the lava, landing on a lily pad. He was in the form that looked like one big Goomba.

"Moltar you scum! Give me the ruby Gemereld." Mario yelled.

"Ha! No thanksssss!" Moltar hissed.

"Then I'll take it!" Mario yelled, using his utmost jumping ability to carefully but quickly hop pad from pad at Moltar ending on the pad behind him, then jumped, connecting with his head.

"Ow! I forgot the ssssstupid Goomba gave you thossssse bootsssss!" Moltar screamed in rage.

"Got that straight! You're not feeling so sure of yourself now are ya? " Mario yelled, bounding at Moltar again, but this time Moltar moved out of the way, diving into the lava.

"Where am I? Am I here? Or over here? When will I come out? And where?" Moltar hissed.

"Stop playing games and show your-"Mario started before Moltar burst out from under the pad Mario was on, flipping it over, Mario barely jumped off in time, landing on a different pad. When he spun around he found that Moltar must have dived under the lava.

"You're a sly one Mario, too sly. Massssster will be pleasssssed with me once you are dead, and I will be hisssss sssssecond in command!" Moltar hissed.

All around Mario a misty haze started to rise, making the entire room like a sauna.

"I see! You're going to dehydrate me? Well I think not!" Mario laughed pulling out a canteen, putting to his mouth, but gasped when nothing came out, "What the? It must have all evaporated already!"

"Hahahahaha! Mario you are too ssssstupid!" Moltar laughed.

"Shut up! Who's this master of yours?" Mario panted.

"That doesn't matter, you being dead does! Getting warm?" Moltar laughed.

"No!" Mario Yelled stubbornly, yet he knew if this kept up, he would lose. His shoes were heating up under him, causing him to slightly hop from one foot to another.

"Ha! You're weakening! I can smell it!" Moltar hissed.

"Smell it? Now you're not making any sense!" Mario asked.

"Well, thisssss game isssss getting boring, I'll gladly end it now!" Moltar laughed.

"Really?" Mario asked sarcastically, not noticing a small amount of mini Moltar's climbing behind him, which formed into a normal sized goomba, made from lava, its soulless eyes dead set on Mario's back.

"Let'ssssss jussssst sssssay I have a feeling!" Moltar hissed.

Right as the mini Moltar jumped at Mario, he swung around and smacked it with his Hammer, sending it directly into the door, melting it from its spot. Almost instantly two things happened. One thing was an instant rush of breezy air rushing into the room, making Mario, whose head was glistening with sweat, undergo a quite pleasing feeling. The second thing was Yoshi rushing in and almost falling into the lava, instead skidding to a stop.

"Yoshi watch out! He's in the lava! Get out!" Mario yelled, using his last unevaporated strength to jump back to the entrance, hopping on Yoshi, "Run!"

Behind them Moltar was screaming with fury, Mario saw A shining Light for a second and realized Moltar must be using the power of the Gemereld. Moltar seemed to just absorb all the lava in the room, then flowed at them, like a massive tsunami with eyes. They both would have been incinerated if it wasn't for Yoshi, who ran the moment he realized what was happening.

"You're both mine!" Said a Hissing voice from all around them as Yoshi sped up the slanted path. Moltar was behind them, slowly gaining. Mario looked behind him, observing Moltar, his eyes narrowed and he turned his head back, leaning forward to Yoshi's ear.

"Yoshi listen, when we reach the entrance I need you to get out as fast as you can, I have a plan." Mario explained.

"What's this plan?!" Yoshi asked.

"I'm going to grab the Gemereld." Mario said.

"What? But it's inside Moltar, how are you suppos-wait…No! You'll melt!" Yoshi argued.

"Too late!" Mario yelled jumping off Yoshi, who was moving too fast to stop himself from flying over the quicksand, and into the dirt past it.

Mario spun around to face the wave with an unwavering look on his face; he looked straight into Moltar's eyes, and then jumped directly into the wave. There was a few seconds of silence as Yoshi watched Mario seemingly commit suicide.

"What? I didn't think Mario wasssss that ssssstup-"Started Moltar but stopped dead as a glowing light inside him expanded and there was a globe shuddering detonation.

A small fried object hit the ground at speeds unknown, and one could barely recognize it as Mario, a small ruby clutched in his hand.

"Mario!" Yoshi yelled in disbelief, "You're alive!"

Yoshi dug around in his saddle bags and yanked out a piece of happy fruit, and shoved it down Mario's throat. Mario coughed to some extent, then the ash seemed to just fall off his body and clothes.

"Wow that was one heck of a ride!" Mario laughed, yet he couldn't seem to stop, he was too happy that he survived, "This is great, I did it, I really did!"

"Alright Mario!" Yoshi cheered.

"More like alright Yoshi; if it wasn't for you I'd be extra crispy right now." Mario thanked.

"Yeah well!' Yoshi said, embarrassingly, "That was a big risk."

Mario thought for a second, the smile on his face turning into a frown, and said, "There's one thing bothering me though."

"What?" Yoshi asked, pulling Mario off the ground.

"Raz said only I could touch the Gemereld, how come Moltar could?"

"Um, well we just have to ask him!" Yoshi laughed.

"Yeah, let's just get out of here." Mario sighed.

"Agreed!" Yoshi laughed.

"Um…where do we go?" Mario asked.

"This way!" Yoshi sighed, yanking Mario on to his back and walking on.

None of them seemed to notice the tiny red goomba mope off in the opposite direction.

Luigi wandered into the mansion, a dank smell hit his nose, and he was oblivious to Gilbert and Boomer following after him.

"Hey Luigi, this way!" Boomer said pointing up a staircase, tapping Luigi's shoulder.

"AH!" Luigi yelled, "Don't do that!"

"Who's there?" A gruff voice yelled, a flashlight beam shining from a hallway to their left.

The three of them dived behind a sofa, just as an Aqua Co. member walked into the room.

"I heard someone, Alaster is that you?" Gruff voice asked, flashlight shining all over the place.

Suddenly his flashlight seemed to sputter in his hands, "Ow!" He cried dropping it making it break. There was darkness everywhere and gruff voice moved over to the sofa, "Alaster this isn't funny man, get out here!"

"Gilbert listen, I need you to go over and trap that guy in an egg!" Luigi whispered.

"Ok!" Gilbert responded, creeping around behind gruff voice and quickly eating him, turning him into an egg, which Luigi promptly threw out the window.

"Up here!" Boomer whispered, having already floated up the stairs.

Luigi and Gilbert climbed up the stairs and throwing open the main doors and found them selves in a room where many ghosts floated, in bubbles, above everything.

After popping all of the bubbles and receiving their thanks most of the boos vanished but a few remained.

"Thanks Boomer baby!" A slightly green tinted Boo with flowers on her head thanked Boomer, "Are you? Mario!"

"Err, no I'm his brother Luigi!" Luigi explained.

"Oh, I'm bow! This is my butler, Bootler!" Bow thanked, pointing at and elderly boo behind her.

"We are trying to get this gold jewel, I heard you have it?" Luigi asked.

"I did, but those blue suited scoundrels took it!" Bow sighed.

"We have to get it back!" Bootler cried.

"Agreed, but how?" Luigi wondered, but his wondering was caught short as a flashlight beam flashed up at them.

"Hey! Who's up there! Alaster said nobody's allo-Hey my flashlight! What the!" The Aqua Co. member asked as the beam disappeared, "Hey what's that? Oh my god! Get away!"

They heard a short snarl, then the sound of something falling, then something being dragged across the ground.

Luigi turned to look at the four people behind him, Bow and Boomer both seemed paler, Bootler, whose bad hearing didn't seem to notice, But Gilbert was quivering plainly, "Wh-wh-wh-what was th-th-th-that?"

"I don't know, but we have to be brave." Luigi whispered, "Just stay calm."

"It's the dream wolves." Bow whispered, "They've been after the mansion for a while now."

"Wolves?" Luigi asked.

"Yes, they're taking advantage of the circumstances, here follow me!" Bow Said moving a wardrobe over to reveal a small tunnel. They crawled down the tunnel and into an undersized room, but big enough to hold them.

"The Dream wolves are normal wolves, which have to power to enter dreams, they can read your dreams, your memory's, your mind, they find your worst fear, then assume it's shape." Bow explained.

"Dear me! Did someone say Dream wolves?" Bootler asked.

"Quiet Bootler!" Boomer shushed as they heard sniffing from down the tunnel.

"Garr!" Something growled at the other end.

"Garr?" Luigi silently whispered.

"I'm going to get it!" Gilbert whispered aiming an egg down the tunnel and flinging it, Seconds later they heard a yipping sound and a thump.

"Nice shot Gilbert!" Bow encouraged, floating over and dragging the wolf down the tunnel and in the small amount of light emitting from Bow, Boomer, and Bootler Luigi could see the wolf's features. It was a grizzly dull green, patches of its fur fallen off, pointy yellow teeth peeked out from its maw.

"That thing is butt ugly!" Gilbert whispered.

Luigi could suddenly sense the Gold Gemereld moving from under them.

"Quick! Bow! The Jewel is under us! Can you check it out?" Luigi asked.

"Okay, I'll take you with me! Group hug!" Bow laughed holding on to everyone and plummeting through the ground, invisible.

Under them was a horrific sight, an Aqua Co. member was slumped against a wall, clutching a glowing gold jewel. Two other members were on the ground, one looked as though it when through a blender, his clothes shredded. Three Dream wolves had him cornered.

Luigi broke free from Bow and jumped at the wolves, hitting each of them in turn on the head. All three slumped to the ground.

"Who are you?" The Aqua Co. member asked.

"Um, I'm a new recruit! Why don't you hand that jewel over?" Luigi lied.

"No you aren't!" The member yelled, "Get away!"

Suddenly the jewel glowed even brighter and there was a flash, and nothing was left of the Aqua Member but ashes. The Gemereld fell lifelessly to the ground.

"Well, at least he didn't suffer." Bootler said.

Luigi walked up to the Gemereld and was about to pick it up when a ruthless growl stopped him. Whirling around he saw one of the wolves, the largest one, staring at him. The other two were growling at the others.

Luigi found himself staring into the wolves eyes; he couldn't pull his eyes away. He was barely aware of Bow yelling to look away. His ears had a dim buzzing in them, and he felt as though everything was spiraling down.

Mario! That's my toy! Give it back!

The wolf knew it was too late for Luigi, and started walking slowly towards him, fangs bared.

Mario! Where are you going? Can I come? Why not?

The wolf was practically on top of him, its fangs inching closer to his throat.

In the background the others were fighting both the other wolves.

Mario mail! It's for you, like always! Yeah from peach!

Luigi hardly felt the wolf get smacked off him, and became normal again, after being smacked back forth by a paper fan for a few seconds.

"Ow!" Luigi grumbled.

"Dude, you were totally out of it!" Gilbert explained.

"Yeah, I had these memory's" Luigi explained.

"I'd rather not hear about it, we have some company!" Bow said pointing at some more wolves that appeared, of them he recognized as the one that tried to eat him, the gold Gemereld in his mouth, it glowed brightly, and as Luigi watched the wolf seemed to be getting bigger, and he realized it was standing on his hind legs, it's hands now clutching the Gemereld, but he brought the Gemereld to his mouth and swallowed the jewel entirely.

"I am Loupgarou!" The wolf growled.

(A.N: That's pronounced Loop-garu! Cookie to anyone who knows what that means!)

"You can talk?" Bow asked!"

"Obviously!" Loupgarou Snarled.

"That can't be good!" Gilbert whispered.

"In my new form I'm undefeatable!" Loupgarou Yelled, the mansion shuddered and you could sense the raw power coming from him.

"This is definitely not good!" Gilbert whispered.

"But, I can't have any competition!" Loupgarou snarled grabbing both his companions with his paws, and throwing both of them through the roof."

"Did I mention this wasn't good?" Gilbert whispered.

"Will you shut up?" Luigi whispered back.

"Sorry."

"Now perish under my power!" Loupgarou roared rushing at Luigi.

Luigi jumped out of the way and swung his hammer striking Loupgarou in the face, but he kept going and crashed into Bootler, who disappeared just in time, taking a struggling bow with him.

"Ow! Crash and burn!" Boomer snickered, but stopped when Loupgarou turned on him, snarling, and slashed at him, but went right through him as he turned invisible at just the right time. His claws pummeled the ground breaking through it completely, causing them all to plummet into the underground store. Luigi jumped at Loupgarou thumping him on his forehead, but was smacked by his ham-sized palm and flown into the wall, leaving cracks and splinters in it. Gilbert aimed his egg, tossing it into Loupgarou's eye, who screamed and mashed Gilbert into the floor, grinding him with his paw. Luigi recovered from the blow, smashed his hammer as hard as he could into the back of Loupgarou's paw. He bellowed with fury and raised his paw for a devastating blow to Luigi, when Boomer appeared in front of him.

"BOOOOOOOOO!" Boomer screamed, doing his gigantic ghost thing.

"AHHHH!" Loupgarou yelled falling back on the ground.

Gilbert took advantage of Loupgarou being on the ground and jumped above him, hip dropping him over and over again. Loupgarou rolled over and stood up, both fists clenched and above his head, and brought them down on Luigi, smashing only the ground, seeing as Luigi dodged out of the way and jumped up. Luigi flew through the air, and connected with Loupgarou's muzzle; unfortunately he brought his paw up and pushed Luigi into his mouth.

"No!" Gilbert shouted.

"Mario, um, I mean Luigi!" Boomer yelled.

"Hahahahaha! Your friend is food for me now! And you both are next!" Loupgarou roared, taking a step, but he suddenly clenched his stomach, taking a few steps back, he opened his mouth to say something, but it was as though he was choking. Suddenly Luigi came splurging out, covered in wolf drool and slobber, clutching a gold jewel. Loupgarou screamed as he shrunk down to a normal wolf size, then eyeing Luigi, Boomer and Gilbert, dashed up the stairs and out of the room, yipping. Bootler and Bow reappeared in front of them, Bow looked very annoyed.

"Are you guys ok?" Bow asked, looking from each of them.

"Yeah, where were you?" Boomer asked.

"I would have been fighting with you if Bootler would have let me!" Bow said angrily.

"Lady Bow, I couldn't allow you to get hurt!" Bootler replied.

"I'm a ghost, it wouldn't have mattered!" Bow said.

"Well, Gilbert and I have to go!" Luigi replied.

"Do you?" Bow asked, "Ok, see you Luigi! I'd go with you, but," Bow laughed, pointing at Bootler.

"That's ok! Your mansion needs you!" Gilbert replied.

"Yeah, in fact, Boomer! Why don't you go with Luigi?" Bow asked.

"Go? Well if it's ok with you and Gilbert." Boomer replied.

"Yeah, you can come." Gilbert said.

"Let's go!" Luigi replied.

They ran out of the mansion, to find that heavy rain was pouring down on them.

"Hey the dome left!" Gilbert shouted.

"Yeah, but why was it there in the first place?" Luigi asked.

"I don't know!" Boomer replied.

"Whatever, let's go find that pipe!" Luigi yelled, running down the path.

Toad walked down a dark bridge, every step he took caused a piece of bridge behind him to crumble off. At the end of the bridge he came to a glowing white jewel, and he suddenly realized Fade was next to him. Fade took a step and grabbed the Gemereld, which instantly flashed, Exploding, and Toad was flung into the darkness.

Toad woke up screaming, his bed damp from sweat, before he realized where he was. He was in a small timber hut, some medical cabinets in the corner; another bed across from him was holding Fade, who was still asleep. Two penguins hurried into the hut.

"Are you ok?" one of them squeaked.

"Um, y-y-y-yeah, I think so." Toad asked.

"Hi, I'm Ronald." The other penguin said.

"And I'm Donald!' The one with the squeaky voice said.

"Hi, d-d-d-did you save m-m-me?" Toad stuttered.

"No, that was Herringway!" Ronald replied.

"Yeah he found you on the ground, you were out cold! He brought you and your friend," Donald jerked a wing at Fade, "To us!" Donald explained.

"R-r-r-really?" Toad stammered laying back down on his bed.

"Yeah, you should thank him when your friend wakes up." Ronald said waddling over to a medical cabinet and pulling out some hot cocoa, then waddling back to Toad.

"Drink that!" Donald demanded, pointing at the cocoa, "It will warm you up."

"Th-th-th-thanks" Toad shivered, grabbing the cocoa and took a taste." Wow that feels a lot better!"

"He told you!" Ronald said.

"Hmmmmm!" Fade moaned, rolling in his bed, "Ah!" He shouted abruptly hopping off his bed.

"Fade are you okay?" Toad asked, hopping from his own bed.

"Y-y-y-yeah! I'm just r-r-r-really cold." Fade stuttered.

"Here drink this!" Toad said, handing the cocoa to Fade, who drank it all swiftly, "Feeling better?"

"Yeah! That cocoa works miracles!" Fade laughed, "Now we just have to find the Crystal Gemereld!"

"Crystal? Herringway had a crystal, but he mailed it to his cousin!" Ronald piped up.

"Mailed it? Why?" Toad asked.

"Go ask him yourself!" Donald said, pointing out of the hut.

"Ok thanks!" Fade said, pulling toad on his back, and trotting out of the hut.

"Can you believe them?" Ronald asked.

"Yeah, no tip!" Donald whined, putting the cocoa away.

Outside Fade and Toad realized they must have been out for awhile, because it was several hours later. They could actually see the stars, though dimly through all the rain and snowfall. In front of them was a ice-covered lake, a few penguins were ice-skating. They both wondered how they didn't freeze to the spot. Some houses had smoke billowing from the chimneys. Toad and Fade walked up to the first house, a sign saying the mayor, was on it. The next house said, "Herringway! The detective of tomorrow "on it.

"This must be the place!" Fade said, knocking at the door.

"Who is it?"

"Um, we need to talk to you!" Toad yelled.

"…" There was silence, "Come in!"

Entering the house, they found it wasn't too different from the hut, just bigger, no medical cabinets, and some bookshelves. Herringway was sitting on a chair, a book in his wing, pipe in his mouth.

"Who are you?" He asked, setting his book down.

"I'm Toad, and this is Fade, we heard from a reliable source that you had a Crystal?" Toad asked.

"Why yes, yes I did." Herringway replied, "Why? Was it yours?"

"Well, not exactly." Toad said.

"I sent it to my cousin!" Herringway explained.

"Darn!"

"Well actually I didn't." Herringway confessed.

"You didn't? Then why did you say that?" Fade asked.

"To keep it from being stolen my boy!" Herringway laughed.

"Who would steal it?" Toad asked.

"Well, all those greedy penguins out there!" Herringway replied, "Its right here!" Herringway reached down under his chair and pulled out a glowing white jewel, The Crystal Gemereld.

"There it is, can I hold it?" Toad asked.

"Sure, I think I can trust you!" Herringway responded.

Toad took hold of the Gemereld and looked at it.

"Could, do you think, can I have this?" Toad asked, raising the crystal up.

"Hmm, I don't know. Why do you ne-"But at that moment there was a knock on Herringway's door, and Ronald burst in, followed closely by Donald.

"Herringway! A snowstorm is coming! Just thought we'd warn ya!" Ronald yelled.

"And we have to take these two back to their cabin!" Donald squeaked grabbing Toad and Fade, dragging them out of the room.

"It's ok! Just take it!" Herringway yelled, as Toad was yanked from the house.

"Thanks!"

Back at the hut Toad and fade sat down on their respected beds.

"So, once this snowstorm passes, we just have to head back, I wonder if the others are having it this easy!" Toad laughed.

"Somehow I don't think they are." Fade replied laying back on his bed, "I'm taking a nap."

"Me too." Toad agreed setting the Gemereld under his mattress.

-----In the middle of the night-----

The moonlight was the only brightness illuminating the small hut Toad was in. The only sound heard in the cabin was the rapid drops of rainfall and wind speed and snowfall, and the steady breathing of Fade and Toad.

The door to the hut slowly creaked open, and a waddling figure walked into the hut, it waddled to Toad's bed and snuck a wing under Toad's bed, pulling out a glowing Crystal.

"Heh heh heh!" It giggled, and then dashed out the room.

-----In the morning-----

"IT'S GONE!"

"What is?" Fade asked.

"The Gemereld!"

"WHAT!"

"What happened?" Ronald yelled, rushing into the hut.

"Did someone steal the crystal?" Donald.

"How did you know about that?" Fade asked, rounding on Donald.

"Um, don't hurt me! Herringway told us about it!" Donald cried.

"Yeah! He's a detective! He could help you find it!" Ronald exclaimed.

"Alright let's go." Fade said, running outside, into the rain and snow.

-----At Herringway's house-----

"Herringway!" Donald shouted, bursting into the house.

"What? What is it?" He asked grumpily, setting his book down again.

"There's a thief about! It's a mystery!" Toad explained.

"Already? It's the crystal isn't it?" Herringway sighed, "Ronald has anyone left the town?"

"No, everyone's staying because of the approaching snowstorm." Ronald replied.

"I see…which leaves me to believe…the thief is in the room!" Herringway exclaimed, rushing over to lock the door.

"Hmm…what do you remember last Toad?" Herringway asked.

"Well, during the night I heard a laugh." Toad answered.

"Ah-ha! What kind of laugh?"

"Um, well, it was a laugh, what do you mean?"

"Come on! Work with me boy! A whoop? Giggle? Heeheehee?"

"A giggle, without doubt a giggle!"

"I see, well I need to hear everyone's laugh!" Herringway announced.

"What?" Ronald shouted.

"Do you have a problem with that Ronald?" Herringway asked.

"Yeah, it's stupid!"

"I agree." Fade said.

"Hmm…I have the thief!" Herringway yelled.

"Who?" Toad asked.

"It was…you!" Herringway yelled, pointing at Fade.

"What?" Fade gasped.

"…Seriously, that was funny, but who's the thief?" Toad asked.

"Fade!" Herringway said.

"It's so simple!" Ronald exclaimed.

"No…it was Ronald." Donald sighed, holding up the crystal.

"Ah! You stole that from me!" Ronald yelled.

"After you already stole it!" Donald growled, tossing the Gemereld to Toad, who caught it.

"Um…so!" Ronald yelled, "They didn't tip us!"

"Arrg!" Toad yelled, tackling Ronald, "Call the police!"

"Ok!" Fade yelled, rushing to the door, unlocking it, and then running out.

"Get off me!" Ronald yelled, struggling to push Toad off him, as some police penguin's rushed in and handcuffed him.

"Thank you officers!" Herringway said.

"Ok now we have it!" Fade cried, pulling toad on him, "Let's go!"

"Don't get caught in the snowstorm!" Donald called.

"We won't!" Toad yelled back walking out the door, "We can't climb the mountain again."

"No, we have to walk to the harbor and sail back!" Fade explained.

"Alrighty!" Toad cheerfully laughed, pocketing the Gemereld.

Bloomba found himself being dragged, rather roughly, through the stanky humid corridors of chomp cave. A blindfold had been wrapped around his head, but he could tell Xoshi was also being dragged behind him, Suddenly his blindfold was ripped off, also roughly, and he was shoved into a moist, sludgy cave, that reeked of things…well you don't want to know.

"Ugh!" Bloomba grimaced landing only inches away from a puddle of fluid, then got up, just as Xoshi was tossed in.

"I thought you said King Chomp couldn't talk!" Bloomba accused.

"He can't, well, he couldn't, and he wasn't nearly that big before!" Xoshi replied, sitting down on a filthy bench.

"Well what happened?" Bloomba asked.

"Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the Gemereld!" Xoshi thought as the bench he was sitting on snapped under his weight, "Ow!"

"Wait…I have a plan!" Bloomba whispered leaning in near Xoshi.

"I'm listening!" Xoshi replied, leaning in also his eye's widened, "Uh-huh…ok…pure genius!"

-----A few minutes later-----

"Um…sir, I had an accident." Xoshi said walking up to the bars, and pointing to an egg on the ground.

"Eww! Well, bring it up here!" The guard demanded.

Xoshi shakily walked up to the egg and picked up the egg, which was strangely heavier then normal then brought it to the guard, who opened the door.

"Arrg!" Bloomba yelled Head bonking the guard, "That's what you get for not looking by your feet!"

The guard fell down splitting the egg which contained another egg. Xoshi quickly disposed of the other guard by hip dropping him.

"Ok let's go!" Bloomba yelled, jumping on Xoshi, who streaked down the hallway like a bullet bill.

It took awhile, but they finally managed to find the throne room, where the king was asleep, snoozing peacefully. His guards were also asleep, some Chuckola Cola by their feet. Xoshi sneaked over to them and out them both into eggs. Then they slowly crept up to the huge mass that was the king, and Xoshi silently cried, "Look, his crown."

In the center of the king's crown was a glowing blue jewel, which shined even more brightly as Bloomba approached.

"It's the Sapphire Gemereld." Xoshi whispered in awe.

"Yeah, and it's mine now!" Bloomba laughed silently, hopping up on King Chomp's chain and hopping from one to another, before Xoshi could say stop. As he arrived at King Chomp's head, he walked across the top to the crown when King Chomp's eye opened, and the pupil moved up towards Bloomba, who didn't notice any of this.

"Bloomba! Watch out!" Xoshi yelled.

"Huh? Why?" Bloomba wondered.

"How dare you! I'll swallow you whole!" The king raged Moving his head down, then thrusting it back up, straight into the ceiling.

"Ahh!" Bloomba cried, whose spike stuck in the ceiling.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" The king laughed, lowering his head again.

"No!" Xoshi yelled, taking careful aim, and then tossing it at Bloomba, hitting him and removing him from the stone, right as The king smashed again, this time bursting through the roof, and landing outside in the pouring rain, a gaping hole above them letting the pouring rain in.

"Oh great!" Bloomba whined, "How are we supposed to beat him?"

"I don't know! I didn't expect this!" Xoshi mumbled, "If we can get that stinking crown off him!"

"Let's go then, we aren't getting anywhere here. How are we supposed to get out?" Bloomba asked.

"Over there," Xoshi shouted pointing at some roots from a large upturned tree, which was hanging down from the hole.

"Ok." Bloomba agreed jumping on Xoshi's back.

They slowly climbed awkwardly up the roots, and dirt kept falling into Bloomba eyes, who whined in protest. When they reached the solid ground of the island they saw King chomp rampaging in the distance, bellowing in rage. He suddenly turned, spotted them, and then barreling down upon them. Xoshi grabbed Bloomba then yanked him away from the massive head of the king, which smashed into the ground, dirt and wet sand spraying everywhere.

"We have to knock that crown off!" Xoshi shouted, wiping his eyes of sand.

"Yeah, I got an idea! Throw me up there! I'll knock it off!" Bloomba explained.

"Ok!" Xoshi agreed, swallowing Bloomba then making him in an egg, which he threw. Only problem was he didn't expect The King to have moved, so the egg was overshot, and landing in a palm tree. The king, now even angrier then before, charged at Xoshi, who ran away but was caught up in the spray of sand and quickly fell over, unable to see from sand in his eyes. Bloomba, who just broke out from the egg and fell from the tree rushed over to Xoshi and helped him up.

"This is useless; He's just too big and strong!" He yelled.

"Don't say that! There is no defeat! Only victory! We just have to think." Xoshi replied.

"Move!"

Both of them dodged as King Chomp came down for another earth shattering blow. Xoshi pulled out another egg and tossed it, but it over shot again, heading towards Bloomba. Bloomba, thinking quick, Whipped off his hat and head bonked the egg back, this time it hit the crown dead on, yet amazingly, it didn't fall, only tilted.

"Darn!" Bloomba yelled.

"Ha! Is that all? Your puny attempts are worthless! CHOMPS! STAND HUT! DESTROY THE ENEMY!" King Chomp roared, whipping his chain against the ground. In a matter of seconds, hundreds of chomps snaked their way out of the ground, and started a huge frenzy of biting mouths, barking, and the occasional Meow. Unfortunately, in the midst of the chomps, King Chomp was confused and failed to spot Xoshi and Bloomba, who had both crawled on the end of King's chain.

"Stop! STOP! Where are they? ARRRRRRR! Come out and fight me!" King yelled, looking around.

None of the chomps managed to see the egg zoom towards Kings Crown, nor did any of them see it knock the crown from King's head. What they did see was the crown hit the ground and King shrink rapidly.

"What! Impossible? No! No! This isn't even com-bark! Woof! Arf! Arf!" King yelled, growing increasingly smaller, until he was only the size of a full grown chomp.

Bloomba quickly grabbed the crown and, with Xoshi's help, pried the Gemereld from it, and then both of them disappeared.

"That was too close!" Xoshi panted.

"Yeah, um, how do we get out of here?" Bloomba asked.

"I don't know!" Xoshi replied, looking left and right franticly.

They were in the little amount of woods left on Chomp Island, hiding behind a tree, wet shrubs, leaves and bark all around them, ahead, 499 angry chomps, and one very angry King. Behind, more wood. Quickly deciding the wood were better then the chomps, they both barreled through the forest, away from the chomps. They ran until the came across a hole, and they could hear rushing water down it, then again, they could hear rushing water all around them.

"Should we jump?" Bloomba asked, sneaking a peek behind him.

"Yeah, its better then mister bark a lot back there, besides, I think this leads down to the sewers, and they'll lead to Yoshi Island." Xoshi said, wiping water from his eyes in attempt to see better, but to no prevail.

"Ok, Jeranomo!" Bloomba yelled dragging Xoshi down into the dark, damp, dinky pits of the sewers.

"Ok, Can you climb it?" Boshi asked, pointing up the cloud building.

"Well I'll try!" Dave grumbled.

Dave and Boshi were both trying to scale the back of the cloud palace, after failing to open the door again. Dave was climbing the wall with, surprisingly enough, almost no difficulty.

"Man, this is easy!" He called, looking down at Boshi.

"Well, you said you had a ladder?" Boshi asked, seeing Dave reached the top.

"Yeah!" Dave laughed, ducking into his shell, the coming out with what looked like a small, brown koopa shell.

"What's that?" Boshi asked, shielding his eyes from the sun.

"It's the latest in Koopa technology! A Koopa Kapsule!" Dave shouted dropping the shell at Boshi who caught it.

"What do I do with it?" Boshi asked, inspecting the shell.

"Um, I think you just have to press the shell down." Dave explained, "Now hurry up!"

"Ok, ok." Boshi sighed, and then pushed the shell down.

The Kapsule, which started glowing, dropped out of Boshi's hands. The minute it hit the ground it made a small noise, like a bell, then just turned into smoke.

"Ok..." Boshi wondered as the smoke just wafted there.

All of a sudden, the smoke started twisting itself into the shape of a ladder, which then condensed into a real, wooden ladder, which was just tall enough to reach the top.

"I'm, um, Impressed." Boshi said, cautiously climbing the ladder.

"You better be, that was my only Kapsule left!" Dave yelled, stomping over to the middle of the roof.

"Now what do we do?" Boshi asked, walking next to Dave.

"Um…we have to get inside there." Dave thought.

"I know, back off!" Boshi said, scooting Dave off to the side then jumping up.

"Don't do that you'll make too muc-"But it was too late, as Boshi had already hip dropped the ceiling, breaking through it, and crashing onto the ground. Dave hopped through the hole behind him, "Nice one…" He sneered.

"Shut up." Boshi grumbled, standing up and brushing himself off.

"I thought I made it clear I didn't want you here!" Bellowed a voice from above, a voice belonging to Yosunastrom, "Now I have to fix the ceiling!"

Dave and Boshi looked up to see Yosunastrom; He was dark grey with anger, examining the hole in the ceiling, "Great, just great." He muttered.

"Um, sorry." Boshi apologized.

"Hey!" Dave whispered, nudging Boshi, "Stick to the plan."

"Well sorry, he is kind of my god ya know!" Boshi whispered back, before raising his voice and turning to look at Yosunastrom, "I just wanted to know, please tell me, why you unleash this storm upon us?" Boshi asked.

"Err, I told you Th…oh…alright, but only once, so listen up!" Yosunastrom sighed, floating down to him, patches of gray fading to white.

"A long, long time ago, a brave Yoshi, by the name of…I think it was…it's been so long…ah, yes, it was Tsuyoshi. He was the son of the village elder. The Yoshi Island was running low on water, and facing drought. They knew that if something wasn't done, the super happy tree might dry up. The elder told his son, in order for the jungle and crops to survive they needed rain, and in order for rain they needed magic. He told Tsuyoshi the he needed to travel to the volcano, in search of his old babysitter, who was a Magikoopa, by the name of…um…well…oh! Kamek! " Dave gasped suddenly, "See, Kamek had been banned from the village because of dark arts. Tsuyoshi braved the jungle, and survived the volcano, and found his babysitter, he told her of the predicament. She was a cunning old hag, who used the trust of Tsuyoshi to her advantage. Instead of making rain she created me, and cursed Yoshi Island, but, see, she created me with one flaw, I'm very tired a lot, but this crystal has given me power!" Yosunastrom said, and while telling he didn't seem to notice how Dave had snuck behind him, and grabbed the Emerald Gemereld from the pedestal which it rested.

"Hey! NOOOO!" Yosunastrom screamed, as he saw Dave rush out of the place, Gemereld in hand, Boshi right behind him.

Outside Dave and Boshi rushed towards the pipe, but when they got to it the Gemereld suddenly flew out of Dave's hands, they turned to se Yosunastrom, the Gemereld swirling and floating around in his body. Yosunastrom was Dark grey, with red eyes, and he looked furious. Other cloud puffs were flying towards him, making him bigger, except they were all different colors. It kind of made him look like a mass of colorful cotton balls.

"HAHAHA! You think you could escape me!" Yosunastrom laughed, "I would have let you live, but now you've really made me mad!" He sucked in a cluster of air and blew it at Dave and Boshi, blowing them back and to the ground. Before they could get up he breathed in, and sucked them towards him. As they were about to be eaten, he blew again, blowing them into the cloud palace. He started inhale, but Boshi threw an egg at him, striking him in the eye.

"We can't keep this up, he's too powerful!" Boshi grumbled.

"Well, then think of a plan brainless!" Dave yelled.

Yosunastrom rose above them and inhaled an even bigger breath, then released a violent flow of winds. The current of air was moving at such extreme speeds, not only could Boshi and Dave not hear each other, but they couldn't stand without being blown down, and they were in pain because the wind speed seemed as though it was daggers, slicing into them.

"Ah! This is so-Ow-crappy, I cant-eep-stand it much-ouch-longer!" Dave yelled.

"What?" Boshi yelled struggling against the winds.

"I said-Ah!" Dave began, but was swept off his feet, fortunately for Dave; Boshi had whipped his tongue and caught a hold of Dave's foot. Unfortunately for both of them, when Boshi lashed out with his tongue, he lost his foothold and tumbled with Dave. They rolled for a short time until they reached the extent of the air stream, which is at the border of the cloud they were on. Looking over at Yosunastrom Boshi noticed his eyes were screwed up in focus. He carefully snuck a glance off the edge of the storm, and saw a sizzling desert.

"Look, we are above dry dry desert!" Boshi exclaimed, "If we could get the Gemereld we could jump off!"

"Well great! Now then…how do we get the freaking Gemereld?" Dave yelled sarcastically.

"Ok, that is it! I'm tired of your mouthing off! I'm trying to help; I don't see you doing anything!" Boshi yelled, pushing Dave.

"Don't push me!" Dave replied pushing Boshi.

"Stop being a brat!" Boshi yelled shoving Dave.

"How dare you!" Dave yelled tackling Boshi. Sadly there wasn't much room for them to hit the ground, so they plummeted down into the desert, and off the cloud. Before they hit the ground Boshi grabbed Dave and put him on his back, and as they were only feet away Boshi performed his flutter jump, and they landed gently on the ground.

"Great, great, we'll never get the Gemereld now!" Boshi complained.

"Yeah, we'd need to fly there!" Dave sneered, "Wait that's it! Follow me!" Dave cried, heading off into the desert.

"This better work out." Boshi grumbled.

Bowser woke up groggily, and scratched his head, he groaned when the events that took place came flooding back. Sitting up he found himself in a jail cell. Looking through the bars and into the cell across from him he saw his clown copter, wreaked, and a Koopa guard, who was standing a considerable distance from the cell. Roshi was in a cell across from him, and to the left. In the cell in front of him and to the right there was a large Koopa, who Bowser vaguely thought he recognized.

"Hey, little man, If you let me out of here, I'll make it worth your while!" Bowser said.

"Um, No can do Bowser, Uh, I'm supposed to guard you and the Yoshi." The Guard said.

"Him, well for disgracing the name of the Bowser Empire, I shall call you Tinkerbelle!" Bowser growled, and Roshi snickered a little.

"…" Tinkerbelle stood silently.

"Arrg!" Bowser snarled ramming the bars.

"You're not gonna get through." Tinkerbelle stated.

"I dare you to come closer you little sneak! I'll kill ya! Your gonna wish your daddy never kissed your mommy!" Bowser yelled ramming the bars again.

"He won't respond, he's as solid as the shell on his back." The Koopa in the other cell replied.

"Who are you? I recognize you!" Bowser asked, ceasing from ramming the bars and instead turning towards the koopa.

"You should, how is my son doing?" The koopa asked, grinning.

"Your son? Wait…Koopa You old dog! It is you!" Bowser yelled.

"Who?" Roshi asked.

"This Koopa here is none other then the legendary, Koopa the Quick!" Bowser stated, "He almost bested Mario in A few races."

"Really?" Roshi asked.

"Yeah, and he's also the real father of my son, Dave the Koopa." Bowser explained, eyeing the guard, "And…he…ARRG! I'M NOT TO BE COOPED UP HERE!" Bowser Yelled, ramming the bars again.

"…" Koopa said, "Anyway…my son Dave was my pride and joy, but something terrible happened."

"What?" Roshi said loudly, so Koopa could hear him over Bowser's yelling.

"It happened in my last race with Mario. In Little Big World. I told Dave to stay on the mountain, but he disobeyed and sneaked to watch me race Mario. It was the end of the race, and Mario had beaten me, by a hair, and I was walking towards him, to shake his hand, when I tripped on a rock, slamming into Mario who was about to fall off," Koopa took a breath, then continued, "Now, I wasn't about to let the only person who ever beat me in a race die, regardless of who he was, so I grabbed him to pull him away form the cliff, but the momentum flung me off instead. My guess is that Dave must have thought we got into a fist-fight and Mario threw off the edge. It was lucky I landed on a Mushroom, but I was captured by the rebellion because I stumbled into their base. I've been here ever since. Dave wandered all around until he found my will, which read that he shall now be under the custody of Lord Bowser. Bowser and me were old Golf buddies."

"Wow…" Roshi sighed, "Bowser, for star's sake, Stop it!"

Bowser kept going though, until he fell asleep on the bars.

-----During the night----

Bowser awoke to yelling and panic, pushing himself from the bars and rubbing his eyes, he noticed Roshi and Koopa were also both up. Suddenly two blue shelled Koopas came in, dragging a Magikoopa with them, who was, without doubt, the cause of the yelling.

"Kamek?" Bowser asked in disbelief.

"My lord smelliness! They've broken my wand! Those cost hundreds!" Kamek screeched, being tossed in the cell across form Bowser, next to the broken clown copter.

"Shut up!" One of the guards said, closing the door and walking out.

"Perfect, just perfect, our only chance for salvation and it's gone." Roshi sighed.

"Grr, I'm going back to bed." Bowser grumbled, getting to sleep.

-----Even later during the night-----

"Psst! Bowser get up!" Roshi whispered.

"Huh? What? Who? When?" Bowser asked groggily.

"We're escaping, me, Kamek, And Koopa. Now!" Roshi whispered.

"But how?" Bowser asked, coming back to his senses, "How?"

"Well, Roshi here snagged the keys with his tongue, then trapped Tinkerbelle in and egg, and released us!" Koopa explained, as Roshi unlocked the door.

"Alright, but we can't go until we get the Gemereld." Bowser grumbled.

"Let's go" Kamek said, hopping on her broom.

They stalked down the dark hallways, Koopa in the front, using his speed and a great scout, while Roshi carried a torch. They passed by Dozens of doors, and from the snores and talking in them, it was obvious they were rebel's rooms.

"I didn't even know my castle had these rooms." Bowser mumbled.

"I did, "Kamek said darkly, "They used to be the torture chambers."

"And you didn't tell me? How could you!" Bowser snarled, turning on Kamek.

"Sssh!" Roshi hissed.

"I didn't want you torturing everyone!" Kamek said.

"Listen hag! I'll torture who I want! When I want!" Bowser said, a little too loudly.

"Hey! Who's out there its light's ou-"Started a Yellow shelled koopa, who opened the door, right into Bowser's face, "AHHHHHHHH Bowser's loose!"

"Run!" Yelled Koopa, Rushing down the hallway, and into the grand hall.

Despite their best efforts, Bowser and the others were quickly surrounded. There were hundreds of green-shelled in the front lines; behind them were lines of blues, reds and, yellows, Along with the sound of wings from all of the Parakoopas. Suddenly the crowd parted, and a rough looking green-shelled koopa stepped into the clearing. He was wearing an epaulette (One of those thing's general's wear on their shoulders, you know) and he had a patch on one eye. He was followed by a red shelled parakoopas.

"It's the scum, Bowser." The Parakoopa said.

"Aye." Patch face said.

"What should we do?" Parakoopa asked.

"Well, the wee little Yoshi lad can be set free, and we'd be willing to allow the Legendary koopa the quick on our side, And Bowser and his Lassie will go back to the cell's," patch face said, "oh, and call down, wee lad mike!"

"Yes sir!" Parakoopa saluted, flying away.

A few minutes later a red-shelled koopa scurried forward, stumbling next to Patchy, quickly standing up and asking, "Sir! You called for me?"

"Aye, no need to be scared, lad. I've come to realize I need the wee little stone ye have?" Patchy laughed, patting Mike on the shoulder.

"Oh! Right here!" Mike said, pulling a purple jewel from his shell, and handing it to Patchy.

"Thanks, ye be excused!" Patchy said, "Ok, now listen up! My name be Captain Renaldo, I be the leader of this rebellion! This here be the most magica-""We know what it is!" Bowser snarled, cutting into Renaldo's sentence. "Aye, well that shortens this up a bit! HAR HAR HAR! Anyway, this will make the entire koopa army, super powerful!"

With that, Renaldo clutched the Gemereld to his chest, and slowly, his shell became gold instead of green. Then, with relative ease, he tossed the Gemereld into the air, and it flashed brightly, before being snatched out of the air by Kamek.

"Ah! Stop that hag!" Renaldo yelled, looking into to the sky, before being plowed over by Bowser. Roshi ate a blue shelled Koopa, and flew up again, helping Kamek, who had somehow used the power of the Gemereld to make another Wand. Koopa the Quick ran from koopa to koopa, hitting all he could on the back of the head. Soon enough the only conscious rebel koopa in the room was Renaldo, who was cornered in the middle of the room.

"Aye! This isn't looking good for me!" Renaldo muttered, fending off another one of Roshi's eggs.

"Give it up Renaldo, your beaten." Bowser snarled, taking a step closer to Renaldo.

"Aye leave me be!"

"Let's go Bowser, He isn't worth it." Roshi growled.

"Bowser me and Kamek decided we are coming with you!" Koopa said, walking toward the exit.

"Let's go…" Bowser muttered, leaving Renaldo slumped against the wall.

When the reached the big doors at the other side of the room, hopping carefully over all of the shells that littered the ground, there was a shout.

"Aye wee ladies, have some of this!" Renaldo yelled, kicking one shell in front of him, which hit another, which hit two others which hit four others, which resulted in a chain of shells whirling all over the place. Sure enough everyone, including Renaldo, now lay on the ground, bumps on their legs, a few stray shells still rolled around.

"Are you insane!?" Kamek yelled, being the only one unstruck.

"Lassie, you think I'll let you go!" Renaldo muttered, climbing to his feet, pulling a gold whistle from his shell, and then blowing it. Minutes later, hundreds of Gold shelled Koopas and Parakoopas flooded out. Though before they could see the actual number of koopas they scramble to their feet and ran out the door.

Peach was currently discussing plans for escaping with Daisy.

"Ok, Ok, when the food person comes in…I'll whack him across the head, and then we will take the keys and run!" Daisy suggested.

"Yeah, but he can't be the only guard around…" Peach sighed.

"Planning an escape huh girls?" Raz said, floating into the room.

"What? Huh? No nothing!" Daisy said, standing up.

"It doesn't matter. You'll be gone soon anyways; my brother is coming to visit!" Raz chuckled, but scowled when he mentioned his brother.

"Don't like you brother?" Peach asked.

"Shut up girl!" Raz growled, "That is none of your concern!"

"Whoa! Looks like we found a hot spot!" Daisy laughed.

"Quiet!" Raz snarled, "Once the Gemerelds get here, you'll learn where your place is!"

Raz floated up and left the room laughing.

"Learn are place? What's he playing at?" Peach asked, scratching her head.