Paper Mario one and a half

Chapter 4

"You know, I am still wondering why this place is so unguarded. I mean, there is usually something to make our quest harder, you know what I mean?" explained Mario.

"Well, it can't be much longer, since all we have to do is revive a lost friend with our mushroom!" responded Bow.

After their small talk, Mario, Bow, and Kolorado walked to the gate, and Kolorado used his hook to get everyone over the gate. After some work, he lodged the hook back in, and the 3 members continued their walk to the middle of the graveyard. Once they did, Mario exclaimed, "Ohhh, I just remembered! What if Goombario's body isn't here, because it seems unlikely how it could've been teleported here so soon!"

"You know, same thing I've been wondering. I think we should just look around until we have read every tombstone." Said Bow.

The 3 members looked at every tombstone, but none of them held Goombario's stone! After spending a long, hard 20 minutes, they gave up, and just instead started to focus on the unusually large one. Maybe there was something special hidden here…

"Somehow, Bow and Kolorado, I doubt that this would be all of the bodies, considering how often deaths happen. There is just something peculiar about this stone! Kolorado, dig with a shovel! Me and Bow will help dig with our hands!"

And following their orders, they started to dig in front of the large tombstone that had the name of the person scratched out. After quite some time, the dirt finally started to narrow, and the dirt was removed, revealing a large hole! They hopped in the hole, and dropped for quite a while until they were in some sort of underground dungeon. The trio walked forward, used Kolorado's hook to swing over the gap, and all approached the large stone with writing. It read:

Lying beyond this tombstone awaits guaranteed death,

No matter whether you are looking right or left.

Behind this stone writing lies the living dead,

Where they will suck your souls to be fed.

To get past this stone, the legendary hero must show the thing,

But know the failures will meet sharp fangs.

"I say, old boy! This magnificent writing speaks of a treasure that is bound to lie behind it! Mario, show it the thing!"

"Gee, Kolorado, I would LOVE to show the thing, but I have NO CLUE WHAT I AM SUPPOSED TO SHOW!"

"Mario, maybe the Life Shroom is the thing!"

"Well Bow, it is worth a shot!"

So Mario walked up, walked in front of it, and put the Life Shroom on the nearby pedestal. The thing glowed red, and a voice boomed: This is not the item of which we speak! You now will experience a full death! And after that, a Dry Bones and a Mossy Bones suddenly appeared from the air!

Mario: 30 HP

Bow: 55 HP

Kolorado: 25 HP

VS.

Dry Bones: 10 HP

Mossy Bones: 15 HP

Mario uses Jump on Dry Bones! 7 damage!

Bow uses Smack on Dry Bones! 5 damage!

Kolorado uses Shell Attack on Mossy Bones! 4 damage!

Mossy Bones uses Vine Suction on Mario! Mario takes 8 damage, and MB recovers 8 HP!

Mario: 22 HP

Bow: 55 HP

Kolorado: 25 HP

VS.

Dry Bones: DEAD

Mossy Bones: 15 HP

Mario uses Reveal! The statuses are now revealed!

Mossy Bones

HP: 15/15

FP: 3/5

ATTACK: 8

DEF: 0

Bow uses Smack, while Kolorado uses Shell Attack! 10 damage total!

Mossy Bones

HP: 5/15

FP: 3/5

ATTACK: 8

DEF: 0

Mossy Bones uses Poison Spit! 10 damage to all people, and they all take an additional 1 damage!

Mario: 11/30 HP POISON

Bow: 44/55 HP POISON

Kolorado: 14/25 HP POISON

Mossy Bones

HP: 5/15

FP: 0/5 (-3)

ATTACK: 8

DEF: 0

The team finishes off the Mossy Bones. Level up for Mario only! HP has been recovered for everyone.

MARIO

LEVEL: 2

HP: 35/35 (+5)

ATTACK: 10 (+2)

DEF: 2 (+1)

EXP: 15/10 (+15)

COINS: 20 (+20)

BOW
LEVEL: 2

HP: 55/55

ATTACK: 6

DEF: 1

EXP: 26/30 (+15)

COINS: 37 (+20)

KOLORADO
LEVEL: 2

HP: 25/25

ATTACK: 4

DEF: 2

EXP: 29/30 (+15)

COINS: 30 (+20)

Mario said after the battle, "Whew, what a long and tiring battle!"

Bow said in a surprised tone, "Look what the enemies dropped! It is a necklace with a large skull in the middle!"

Mario picked it up and showed it to the stone. The stone glowed, and exploded, leaving nothing but rubble behind! The trio walked over the rubble and into a newer, much larger room filled with metal and hard-looking stuff.

"Holy! This looks a little extreme!" exclaimed Mario.

"Well, we might be able to work together, Mario! Right, Kolorado?"

"I agree with Mario, it DOES look a little extreme. But hey, this is why I'm an archeologist!"

So they moved to the left end of the ledge they were on to find a dangling rope in front of them. Kolorado whipped out his hook and threw it on the rope so they could cross one at a time to the other side, where there was a metal platform.

Once everyone was across, they walked up the very steep metal slope with the help of a bar and the hook, and at the top of that, they were at a circular thing. They were on a circular metal grating platform around the metal post. Kind of like a O around a O. Anyway, they walked around until they found a ladder, which they climbed.

Continuing the odd climb, they came to another circular platform. They crossed the nearby bridge to a flat piece of land. Kolorado looked up, and found a bar on the highest part of the circular tower thing. He threw the hook at the bar, and everyone slowly went up the rope by half walking, half ducking. At the top, Kolorado dislodged the rope and they continued across the bridge, but this time leading to the wall. They followed it to an opening in the wall.

They went inside to find a strange glow coming from downwards and a bit ahead. They walked forward, and kept doing it until they reached the ledge, which showed below a pit of lava!

Using some cool hook skills, Kolorado made it where the rope went right above the lava and made the hook attach to a nearby heavy-looking rock. They climbed down the rope, but once all 3 were on the rope, the rock let go, releasing the hook, making the rope fall! But luckily, it attached to a small vine.

"Whew!" said all 3.

Suddenly, the vine ripped, and the hook and the team of 3 toppled into the lava! In 3 seconds, 3 skeletons emerged from the surface!

Under the lava…

"Hey, we are still alive! I guess hitting the bottom caused 3 dead Dry Bones to go to the surface! You know, I think these bones were fa-" stopped Mario.

"Hey, Mario! This was a trick to make us leave! It was all a tr-" stopped Bow.

"Guess what? Guess what this supposively lava is? It is-" stopped Kolorado.

All 3 returned to the surface so they could continue speaking. And because it felt good, everyone dived back in to speak. Kolorado said, "This lava is really watery spaghetti sauce with some chili peppers!"

After everyone ate some of the "lava", they emerged and swam to the other side, and onto the ground, panting a bit.

They walked around the corner to view a house at the end of a bridge lying over spikes! Near the house was a water hose pouring water, so they both picked it up and washed off. However, picking it up was a mistake, for suddenly the hose pointed to the spikes and shot a lot of water out at once! The water level was slowly rising and the spikes were getting submerged!

Desperate for their life, all 3 pounded on the door to the house and broke it open. They put it back up with some difficulty, and once they were at the foot of the stairs, there was a little bit of water coming out from under the walls! They dashed up the stairs when the water was 3 inches so far in the house, after destroying the very bottom wood. The house looked like it would fall over any second! They ran up stories until they were at the top floor, the fifth, with the water already 12 feet high! Just 38 more feet and they will drown!

Luckily, there was a roller coaster cart on some tracks near the wall. They hopped in and waited. After waiting for 5 minutes, a capsule suddenly began to close, with the water already 43 feet, which means it was already 3 feet high in the floor they were on now, meaning it was only 1 foot away from drowning them. Finally, the capsule closed right when water started to pour in the capsule, making a small bit of water in the roller coaster cart.

With the aid of the cart, the thing finally snapped on and it started to move very slowly and it started to slowly speed up. Once it was through the wall, they saw the track go 60 feet down, RIGHT BELOW THE SPIKES! It shot down very quickly and the cart switched upright once the track stopped going down, inches from the spikes! The cart traveled a bit, and went over a switch.

Suddenly, the water drained very, very fast, making it look almost dry! They finally entered the alcove in the wall, went upwards up a steep cliff, and at last rolled in front of a tombstone and stopped. The tombstone had the word "GOOMBARIO" printed in gold letters.

Well, Chapter 4 is FINALLY done! Thanks for the reviews, and await for Chapter 5!