Quick author's note:
Thanks, Nando the RPS King for the reviews! It's good to know somebody likes this story.
And Pyro Flare: Yes! I've always wantedthe internet! From now on, you'll have to pay your $29.25 to me, and me alone! Mwahahahaha!
... or not.
On with the story-
Luigi hurried down the street, dodging through several backyards, to get to Yoshi's house.
He regretted not being able to spy on the purple shy-guy today, but it couldn't be helped. Luigi sighed, "Well, I guess tomorrow is better than nothing…" he looked up, "Ah, here we go. Yoshi's house."
The green dino's house was a one-story bachelor pad surrounded by prehistoric-looking greenery, (and a good many fruit trees). From the mailbox flew three, white balloons with green spots, and festively colored eggs lined the walkway to the door.
Luigi hopped cheerfully from one stepping-stone to the next, quickly forgetting his obsession with the purple shy-guy in the excitement of going to a birthday party.
He knocked on the egg-shaped door and waited expectantly. Moment's passed, and he heard the clopping of Yoshis running. To Luigi's surprise, the door was opened by twenty-six sugar-hyped baby Yoshis!
"Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!" They all chorused, surrounding Luigi and push/pulling him into the house.
"Hey everybody! Woah, easy on the overalls!" Luigi exclaimed as they continued pushing/pulling him down the hall. One of the baby Yoshis climbed onto Luigi's head and tossed his hat off into the crowd, "Hey! Be careful with that!"
Finally, they reached the game room/living room/ party room. Streamers hung everywhere, and miniature Yoshi eggs were all over the place; obviously, the baby Yoshis had done the decorating.
There were several other non-Yoshi guests in the room; Birdo was trying to make a pyramid of eggs next to the karaoke machine, Diddy Kong hung from a particularly thick swath of streamers, and several koopa troopas were playing pin-the-tail on Baby Bowser.
"Owch! Stop it! Stop it!" the unfortunate koopa-kid shouted, running for his life from the Koopa troopa with the pin.
"Wow! This is great!" Luigi said, happily accepting a six-scoop ice cream cone from one of the baby Yoshis, "But where's Yoshi?"
All the baby Yoshis, understanding his question, chorused, "Yo-yoshi, YOSHI!" and raced off through the door to the kitchen. Seconds later, they returned pushing/pulling Yoshi with them.
"Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!" Yoshi protested, probably meaning something to the extent of, "Hey, you're tickling me!" or, "What a great ride!" but, judging from the smell of burning pastry emanating from the kitchen, he most likely meant, "Stop! I have to get the cake out of the oven before it burns!"
"Hi, Yoshi!" Luigi waved as Yoshi dashed back into the kitchen to rescue the cake.
"YOSHI!" Yoshi called a greeting back to Luigi.
"Maybe I should go and help." Luigi ate one of the scoops of ice cream left on his cone in one gulp before strolling into the kitchen. However, Yoshi had managed just fine by himself, and had already stacked the four enormous cake layers on top of each other. The table was hardly big enough to hold the gigantic baked confection; the top layer was only inches from the ceiling.
"Yoshi-shi yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi handed Luigi a Super Soaker.
"Wha…?" Luigi looked at the water gun. It felt like it held something other than water… Yoshi passed several more of the water guns to the baby Yoshis and guests.
"Yoshi!" he pointed at the cake with the Super Soaker and fired. Instead of water, frosting shot out onto the cake! All the others with frosting-filled water guns followed suit, covering the cake with icing in a matter of seconds. Each gun fired a different color, from green, to neon pink. Once the cake was completely coated with a myriad of shockingly bright colors; the baby Yoshis started firing frosting into each other's mouths.
Luigi emptied his water gun into the mouth of a red Yoshi. The little dino was like a bottomless pit; it sucked down all the sugar-infused icing left in Luigi's gun and went off to find more.
Three candles were stuck into the cake and lit, and the lights were turned out so everyone could sing 'Happy Birthday'. Strangely, everyone sang in Yoshi language; even Luigi. It actually wasn't too hard; after all, it was just the same words over and over again.
Yoshi yoshi, yoshi.
Yoshi yoshi YOshi.
Yoshi YOSHI yo-yoshi…
Yoshi yo-shi, YO-SHI!
Instead of blowing out the candles, Yoshi swallowed them. Whole. He didn't seem to be affected by the small flame and molten wax, however, and everyone cheered, wishing him many happy dinners, and all those other things Yoshis love.
The lights flicked on, and Baby Bowser jumped onto the counter, brandishing an oversized fork and knife, "LET'S EAT!" he roared in his tiny, Bowser voice just before diving headlong into the cake.
A feeding frenzy soon ensued; and the entire cake vanished in a record seven minutes and thirty-two seconds.
Luigi dusted cake crumbs out of his mustache and licked off his fork, "That was the best cake ever!" He glanced at Baby Bowser, who would probably have drowned in frosting if the others hadn't eaten him out so quickly. The koopa had just polished off his sixth slice, and was groaning slightly, lying stretched out on the ground to digest.
"Yoshi, yoshi!" Yoshi announced. It was time for presents!
Suddenly, Luigi felt his stomach turn over; and it wasn't because he had eaten four slices of cake right after six scoops of ice cream. He had forgotten to get Yoshi a present! What could he do? He sat, nervously considering his options as the other guests presented Yoshi with their gifts.
Diddy Kong had brought Yoshi a big bunch of bananas, Birdo gave him a special, multi-colored rock, and the Baby Yoshis, in a joint effort, had drawn a big picture of Yoshi surrounded by mounds and mounds of food.
Baby Bowser, when it was his turn, stood up and announced, "In honor of your whatever-it-is year as a tiny-brained dinosaur, I wrote you this song."
He then picked up the microphone attached to the karaoke machine and began rapping:
Yoshi eats a lot of food,
'Cause he's a big green dino-dude.
Uh- uh, yeah- yeah- yeah- yeah.
He tried to eat my dad one day,
And he got punched and flew away!
Uh- uh, yeah baby! Peace out!
No one applauded.
Baby Bowser frowned, "What?" he growled before stalking off to make himself sick eating ice cream.
An idea popped into Luigi's head; he could sing Yoshi a birthday song! Of course, he would have to make it up on the spot, but whatever he did would easily top Baby Bowser's offensive rapping.
He stood up and cleared his throat, "Um, I have a song too. I made it special for you, pal."
Yoshi's eyes brightened, and he leaned forward expectantly.
Luigi picked up the microphone and turned the volume up. He swallowed nervously, glancing out the big picture window as if to find some inspiration for his song. During his brief glance, he saw, walking down the street, big plate of spaghetti balanced atop a yellow, polka-dot party hat, none other than-
"THE PURPLE SHY-GUY!" Luigi screeched into the microphone and pointed out the window. The plate glass window shattered into a zillion pieces because of the ear piercing sound, and there was an extreme power surge that caused all the lights to malfunction within a mile of Yoshi's house. A horrible crack, followed by the earthquake-like shaking of the house suggested that the very foundation of Yoshi's home had disintegrated because of the hyper-sonic-level noise; and the walls began to collapse.
"Yoshi! Yoshi! Yoshi!" The Baby Yoshis all ran panicked in every direction, followed closely by Diddy Kong, Birdo, and the koopa troopas.
Baby Bowser leaped onto the couch screaming, "Yeah, baby! Bring down the house!"
The entire building came down about their ears in a final, wood-splintering crash.
Luigi coughed as the dust settled. When the air finally cleared, the purple shy-guy was nowhere to be seen.
"Um, oops." Luigi looked around at the mass of rubble that used to be a house. He walked over to Yoshi and put a hand on his shoulder, "Er, I'm really, really sorry about that, Yoshi…"
The green dino looked up at him with big, sad eyes. After a moment, his expression changed, and he looked at Luigi with big, angry eyes. You could almost see the flames burning behind them.
"Yoshi!" he said and turned his back on Luigi.
"Yoshi… please don't be like that…" Luigi pleaded. He got down on his knees, despite the splintery rubble, "Can you ever forgive me?"
Yoshi turned back around. He looked angrily at Luigi for a minute, then smiled, "Yoshi, yo-yoshi shi-yo." Meaning something like, "Don't worry, I hardly use the house, except for guests. I was thinking about redecorating anyway." He added, "Yoshi- yoshi yoshi." and grinned.
Before Luigi had time to interpret what he said, Yoshi stuck out his tongue and swallowed Luigi whole!
Gulp! - Pop!
Out came a large egg containing Luigi.
"Yoshi-shi yoshi." ("Now we're even.") he said, and skipped off to build a lean-to near some of his fruit trees.
It took Luigi a good twenty minutes to break out of the egg. He got free just in time to see Baby Bowser emerge from a pile of roof shingles.
"Ugh…" the young koopa-kid shook himself, "That was the best party ever! I'm gonna remember this for the rest of my life! I can't wait to tell Dad! He'll be so jealous!"
Baby Bowser ran down the street, and off into the distance.
"Well, I guess I'd better be getting home." The green clad plumber straightened his overalls, waved at Yoshi, (who had finished his lean-to and was snacking on bananas), and jogged down the street towards his house.
