Me and Luigi had a good night sleep. I woke up, maybe abou 6am. Luigi was still sleeping as usual. But I decided to to wake him up yet.

I sat down to look at the sun rise. That's when I decided. I pulled out a pad and pen from my backpack and started writing. This is when I started writing my diaries. I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote. I wrote for about 2 hours. Then I saw Luigi waking up. I hid what I was writing. I didn't want him to know about it.

"Hey," he said. "So, we better get a move on to Zone 5."

"Yeah," I said.

And we started walking. Man, was that map misleading. It made it look like a few steps away. It took 6 days to get there. By the 3rd day I could hardly feel my legs anymore.

The other problem was the further south we went, the colder it was getting. On the night of the 4th day, me and Luigi sat huddled around a fire.

"Mamamario. I''m ferrrrrreeeeeezing!"

"I can sasasaseeeee that."

At that moment, our problem got worst. It started snowing.

"Oh Mario! We can't survive in the snow. All we have on is our overalls!"

"Don't fret Luigi, nor you Mario."

"Uh, hey Toad," I said.

"I've been watching you, and see that you are very cold. If you look in your backpacks you'll find 2 new winter jackets."

Luigi practicly ripped up his bag to get hia jacket out.

"Thank you Toad!" he screamed. "Now while your at it, do you think you could transport us straight to Zone 5?"

"I'm sorry Luigi. I would if I could, but Bowser spell over this land prevents me from doing so."

The next day was even worst. It snowed all day long like a terrible blizzard. We made through it though, but only thanks to more help from Toad. My the end of the day, our caps were replaced by touques, our white gloves replaced by winter gloves, our overalls replaced by snow pants, and our shoes replaced by boots. The snow thankfuly stopped by night, and we had a cold, but ok, sleep.

On our 6th day, the snow had stopped falling. It wasn't as cold as before, and seeing everything covered in snow was cool. It was afternoon, and Luigi was watching the map closely.

"Ok, yes. I think we're almost...1, 2, 3. YES! We're finally inside Zone 5!"

"Thank goodness," I sighed in relief.

We continued walking. The ground infront of us went down like a snow slide, leading into an undeground cave. For what my have been the first time ever, Luigi went down it first. We slid down for about a minute. On the way we killed about 5 troopa-koopas that were climbing up the slide. We landed in a small pool of water.

"WOO! That was great! Let's do it again!" screamed Luigi.

"Are you nuts!" I said.

There were a couple of coins above us, so we caught them and went on our way. We were undeground now, something that was not all the unfamiliar with me. We got out of the water, and saw a pipe coming down from the roof. A piranha plant out of it. Luckily, a troopa-koopa was coming our way too. Luigi kicked it, kill the plant.

"You know, doing this sometimes gets really boring and repetitive," said Luigi.

"I know," I said.

We walked past the pipe, and saw the ground was divided it 2. On way going up, on way going down.

"Which way should we go," said Luigi.

"Well, I've always thought we've had more luck up then down, so, up."

We jumped to the ground above. We walked deeper and deeper into the cave, not knowing where it would lead us. Finally, the path ended. There was a stone wall ahead of us, but above us was a hole that lead outside.

But neither me or Luigi could jump high enough to get out, so I climbed on Luigi's shoulders. I stuck out my hand to try to pull myself outside, but suddenly where I had put my hand, a pink block appeared.

"What the..." I said. I tried punching it, but that just made it giggle up and down. Luigi grabbed on to it's edges, and climbed on top the mysterious block. He jumped on it, and then went flying into the air until I couldn't even see him anymore.

I didn't know what just happened, but I knew I had plenty of lives to spare, so I climbed on it, and jumped. The thig bounced like a trampoline, and sent me flying up too. Up through the sky, up above the clouds, until I stopped, standing on the clouds.

"Hi there" said Luigi.

"So, this was another one of Toad's secret coins above the clouds, huh?"

We walked along the clouds, catching dozens of coins. Me and my brother shoved a oushed to get to the coins, up it was all in good fun. Me and Luigi were both adults. I was 29, and he was 25, but somehow, the Mushroom World had a way to feel so childish and fun.

The chain of coins ended, and the was a pipe that would lead us back down. The order of things was restored, as I went down first, and Luigi second.

We went through, and fell down on a snowy land below. We saw an entrance to the cave behind us, and open plain ahead of us.

"So, which way should we go this time," said Luigi.

"I dunno, let's just keep walking forward."

So we did. And we kept walking until we couldn't even see the entrance to the cave anymore. But soon we thought it was all for nothing, before there was a huge cliff infront of us.

"Well, guess we'll have to turn back," said Luigi.

"Wait, hold on. Look at this. This cliff is filled with bumps and holes just like a Rock Climbing Wall. I think this was made purposely to climb."

So we did climb. And it took a lot of energy out of both of us. Luigi seemed pretty mad that I made him do this.

"'No, let's not go in the cave. Let's just keep walking here!' Way to go Mario."

"Oh shut up, we're almost there!"

And we were. With one last pull, both us us made it to the top. The was another snow slide ahead of us, and Luigi looked thrilled.

"Wow. This totally makes up for having to climb that."

We slid down, and we couldn't control where we were going. We sled down it another entrance of the cave, but the slide kept going. Then the slide ended, and we land on a pipe that hand a piranha plant on it, making has both go small.

"OUCH!" I screamed. But just then, the plant shot out a fireball which hit Luigi. It killed him. I saw his dead body, and saw it slowly disappearing so he would come back to life somewhere else.

"Oh no," I said like it was a minor annoyance. It's strange how seeing my own brother die didn't even affect me. It's just that we've both seen each other die so many time, and I knew he'd come back. If that were his last life, of course I'd be sad. But it wasn't, so I just kept going.

I kept walking, and there was a pipe above me. I jumped in it. I came out, and it was no longer snowy, or even cold. Things looked normal again, and I was boiling in all my winter clothes. I changed out of them, and put on my regular clothes. I checked the map, and I was out of Zone 5.

I couldn't go further until Luigi came back though. In about half an hour, he came out of the warp pipe.

"Oh God it's hot here," was the first thing he said. He got out out his winter clothes too. We headed east and got past Zone 6 without any problems.

Once we got out of there, we went north. It was only about a 5 minute walk until we got to the bridge. Across the Oxi River, we could see the King's Palace. We were about to cross it, when Luigi noticed a Small Mushroon house. We decided we better got in to see it.

We walked in, but saw nothing. I was going to leave, but Luigi thought of looking in their cupboards. He opened one, and sure enough, there was a leaf.

"Yes! I finally have a leaf that I can use to turn into a racoon! I better save this, so I find the perfect time to fly."

We walked out, and crossed the bridge. Then I saw something I never expected to see. A Hammer Brother! These were Koopas that threw hammers at me. But he shouldn't of been outside a Danger Zone.

"Hey, what are you doing here!" I asked. But he didn't answer. He just started throwing hammers at me.

"Give it up Mario, you know these things can't talk! He's obviously here to keep us from getting in the castle."

We both went forward to try and attack him, but it wasn't easy. He was standing on a row of blocks, and kept throwing hammers at us.

Luigi jumped back dodging on of his hammers. I rolled under him, punched the block he was standing on, and killed him.

Now that that was over, we stepped forward to the huge castle doors. I didn't know what to do, so I knocked on the door, and waited for an answer...