Paper Mario 1 and a half

Chapter 2

"So, I guess I have the Iron Gloves. But, I'm still wondering what is wrong with the pipe. Better ask Bow…" thought Mario.

Without wasting time, Mario punched the platform with his new gloves and the platform shook. It sped over the other obstacles and back to the start. The second Mario arrived at the beginning, the thorn monster's voice boomed out, "Mario, it is time to do the dual! Lose and…you die. Win and you live. It is as simple as that. Get ready to learn the power of a true goomba."

Mario said in a surprised tone, "Wait, 'the power of a true goomba'! That means you must be a type of goomba!

"Yes, but that doesn't matter now, since I got this other Goomba with a blue hat…"

"Goombario!"

"Yes, and he is in the cage behind you. BUT, that doesn't matter now, for you are about to be Martoast!"

"You think that, but I am always one…step…ahead….."

Mario then jumps at the thorn monster and punches to send him flying into a thorn wall. Of course, getting slashed with large thorns filled with sharp spikes would cause blood, so of course the goomba monster was bleeding.

Without thinking, Mario did a long jump onto the cage and climbed to the top. After punching many times, the cage at last shattered. However, they were falling towards the thorns filled with acid!

"Mario! Please help me!" yelled Goombario.

Mario snatched Goombario, and as they were falling towards the acid thorns, Mario smashed a nearby spiky rock to form some kind of skateboard. Mario did a flip in midair and landed on top of it, they soared across the thorns, going to the elevator on the other side of this place, but an unfortunate event happened as they were soaring. A thorn hit Goombario, sending him flying off of the board…and towards the thorns! There was this cool slow motion part as a sacrifice was made.

"Goombario!" Mario yelled.

"Mario!" Goombario yelled. They were trying to hold hands, but couldn't.

Goombario was inching towards the thorns, closer and closer, until at last, he touched it. His body was becoming crisp, and he was losing 1 HP every second.

"Mario…you…were…such…a…great…person. I…am…glad…I…was…your…fan. Mario, you…are…..the…..best. I………l……..i……..k………e…………..y…………o ………….u………………d………..u……………d……….e………….."

"GOOMBARIO!" Mario screamed as loud as he could in a shaken voice.

"S……….o…………………l…..o….n…..g, ….M……a……r…..i…..o…………."

It was official. Goombario was dead.

"NNNNNOOOOOOO!" Mario screamed. He busted into tears instantly as soon as only Goombario's hat was sticking out of the thorns. Why, why hadn't he protect Goombario, Mario thought, and why hadn't he said goodbye. That's it! It was all of that…that freaking inhuman…oooooh, he couldn't describe how much hatred was towards that thorn monster. Mario would kick his butt (it would be the "A" word, but then the rating would have to go up to "T") and send him to hell (what, the Harry Potter books had "hell" in them, and they were still rated "E") for all of the things that monster did.

Mario went up the elevator and waited for the thorn monster to come. As soon as it did, he sliced a major cut through his face, sending blood everywhere. He kept doing it, until the monster was withered up from the large blood loss.

"Geez! What is wrong with you?"

"You killed my friend, so I will kill you!" said Mario in a very pissed tone.

Mario slammed him into the block that held the Iron Gloves, repeatedly punched him, and slammed him into the thorn floor. He was dead in a couple of seconds.

As Mario jumped onto the block, he was taken back to the entrance. After Bow was back to Mario (the thorns disappeared when the thorn monster died), she asked, "Why do you look so angry?"

"I don't want to talk about it. I want to KILL something!" yelled Mario. He butt-slammed the platform for what was a whomping 30 minutes.

"Do you feel a little bit better?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"So, tell me what happened."

"Well, Goombario died because a thorn smacked him off of the stone we were riding and onto the spiky floor."

Bow was startled, but she said, "Don't worry! Luckily, I found a passage behind the place I was stuck to the wall!"

"Really!"

"Yeah!"

So Mario ran to the slide, pulled it off of the place, and moved it to the entrance and the slide stretched to the wall where the passage was. After the thorns grabbed both pieces, they took turns going on the slide until both were in the opening in the wall.

"So, where does this lead?"

"No clue!"

As they walked, crawled, and jumped over obstacles, they came to a slimy staircase. Once they walked down to the bottom, they saw 2 torches and a sign in the middle.

"Mario, what does that sign say?"

"Let me read…"

Those who want to continue must use the power of hard metal on the ancient pressing tools.

"Mario, I understand the first part, but what did it mean by 'ancient pressing tool'?

"I know this one, Bow! The ol' classic way of doing things was to smash a switch. Simple enough!"

Mario smashed the switch below the torch to light it, and then the same with the other one. The Wall with the sign swung open, revealing what looked like a shrine.

"You know, why don't I have Fire powers anymore?"

"Maybe you need a Fire Flower to power you up!"

"Yeah…"

Anyway, Mario walked into the new room to see a room with a rectangle ledge. Mario hopped on to find a…Life Shroom!

"Mario, look at the sign!"

Use this legendary Shroom to bring back the dead. Just go to the Dead's Shroomyard and insert the Shroom onto the tombstone to revive that person.

"Sweet!"

"Mario, look!"

She was pointing to a warp.

"We can leave!"

So Mario grabbed the Life Shroom and entered the warp. There quest is getting shorter!