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Rising Stars

Peach took a deep breath. Her and her teammates were standing on the stage, waiting for the Goomba Bros. She looked around. Many people had gathered for this first day of fighting, they made her nervous.

"OK guys," said Sam "this is our first match against some pushovers. We can do this ok? Let's go!"

"Yeah, we can totally take them" said Maria.

Suddenly five small brown creatures hopped up on stage. One was darker than the others, he seemed to be the leader. There were four others, two normal, one spiked and one winged.

Jack Burrus walked on stage, looking proud of the audience he managed to muster. He looked at Peach.

"Fearsome Five, are you ready?" he asked. Peach nodded.

"Goomba Bros. ready?" he said. The darker-lead goomba nodded solemnly, giving peach an awful glare.

"OK, ready audience?" There was a lot of cheering after this, the crowd went nuts cheering. They quieted down a bit. "OK... 3!"

"2!" shouted the crowd.

"1!" the screamed even louder

Jack waved his arm down. "Let's Fight!"

The Goomba Bros. instantly took action. The leader turned to the others. "OK," he said, "Attack Formation Delta"

"Quick!" shouted Ben. "Now's our chance!"

OK, Peach thought. This is it. She grabbed one hand with the other and held them in a praying position. Instantly, stars flew in from above, smacking into the goombas. Pete let out a cheer, all the goomba's fainted. All that was left was the leader.

"He isn't any ordinary goomba!" said Maria, her book open. "He looks a bit like this here. A "Dark Goomba." They have twice the attack, 3 more defense and 20 HP! Wow, this guy is TOUGH. Looks like simple attacks won't help us much. We better think of something else."

But while Maria was talking, the dark goomba had jumped and headbonked Ben. "YEEEOUUUCCHH! That smarts! Why you little cheap..." Ben yelled. Sam acted quickly though. He flew in the air and came down in a Ground Pound, hitting the Dark Goomba multiple times. Even that didn't do anything.

"Guys!" shouted Peach. "This is the perfect oportunity to try out our Special Move, Beam. Lets try it ok?"

Pete threw out his star peice in the air. Suddenly, it hovered in a spot and started glowing yellow. The others followed suit. Peach flipped hers in the air, and in the same way it hovered, but a little above Pete's. Her's glowed green. Maria and Sam's glowed purple and green respectively. The only one missing was Ben's.

Ben was on the ground, which he hated. While the others were preparing their special, Ben tried to keep darky here busy. However, he knocked Ben down to the ground. "Oh, no!" shouted Peach. She ran over, and kneeled by him.

"I'll be fine" he said. "Here" said Ben, giving Peach his star peice. "Take this."

Peach hesitated then threw Ben's peice at the four fifths of a star hovering in the air. Sam and Pete were dealing with the Dark Goomba. Ben's glowed blue, competing the star. It looked like this:

Pink
Green Blue
Purple Yellow

Then the star started spinning. It shot out a thin white beam of light, which spun and twirled in the air like a confused shooting star. Then it found its target, It sped into the dark goomba, making him fall over, unconcious.

"Winners!" shouted Jack. The crowd cheered.

"Give it up everybody! The Fearsome Five!"

The team stood together and waved, jumping up and down, at the crowd, which was so loud, you could barely hear Jack say "I feel bad for their next opponents, that star move is vicious! Well, good-bye for now!"

Peach and her friends quickly walked off the stage, waving and smiling at the crowd.

When they got back to the temporary-castle, they spoke of their match. "Congradulations guys," said Maria. "We did it!"

"Yeah we did!" said Sam. "But seriously, we need a better strategy. We were almost toast with those guys. Let's come up with something."

"Good idea," said Peach. She was thinking the same thing. Peach clapped her hands. "Waiter? Prepare a feast for us. We've got some work ahead of us."

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