Yoshi and Sluggy both headed through the populated town on Fire Island, pushing aside the pedestrian Fire Pokemon as they headed to the Torkoal shopkeeper's shop. The two Cobrats slithered quietly as they followed close behind. Yoshi glanced to his right to see two Magmortas fighting each other in the arena where he formerly fought, before entering the red, magma-hardened dome-shaped house. Yoshi and Sluggy went through the red curtains, to see the Torkoal shopkeeper peering at the pair.
"So, what brings you fine gentlemen to my shop?" He asked with a grin, eying Sluggy suspiciously. "Say, aren't you that Slugma whose parents..."
Sluggy closed his eyes and let out a sigh. "Yes, I am. I don't really want to mention it again..." He said with a frown, looking down at the red magma-hardened ground.
The Torkoal shopkeeper shrugged, and he turned his attention to Yoshi. "So, what brings you back so sudden, green Yoshisaurus?" He asked curiously.
Yoshi looked at Sluggy, and turned to the Torkoal shopkeeper. "Listen, Mr. Torkoal...we have something very important to do at the Lethal Lava Volcano."
The Torkoal shopkeeper growled, fumes coming out from his black-gray shell. "What do you want there? Is there something you're keeping from me...?"
He hissed angrily, stomping closer to Yoshi.
Yoshi gulped, but Sluggy stepped in. "Hey, we don't have time for arguments! Just give us your permission and the key to get to the Lethal Lava Volcano!"
The Torkoal shopkeeper, however, would not believe this. "Lies! You've come to take advantage of me! Why you..." He bellowed angrily and fired a powerful burst of Fire Blast at Yoshi. Yoshi screamed, but Sluggy retaliated with Fire Spin, the two flame attacks intensely heating up the shop. As the two fire-type Pokemon continued unleashing their fiery attacks, it was then that an explosion occurred, knocking the Torkoal shopkeeper, Yoshi, and Sluggy all down on the red, magma-hardened ground, the flames stopping. Yoshi got up, dusting himself and looking up, much to his dismay, to see the two Cobrats staring right at him, hissing.
"Well, well, it seems that you aren't doing anything important," The second Cobrat stated, slithering towards Yoshi and whacking him across the face with a whip from his tail, "Then you won't mind if we "toy" around with you!"
The first Cobrat hissed, and he lunged at Yoshi, wrapping his red, scaly body all over Yoshi, squeezing the green Yoshisaurus's green body. Yoshi screamed as he struggled to get free, but had no success, as the second Cobrat continued hacking him in the face with the tail.
The Torkoal shopkeeper and Sluggy both got up and moaned in pain, shaking their heads and turning around, gasping as they watched Yoshi getting beaten up. Looking at each other, and nodding in agreement, the Torkoal shopkeeper and Sluggy both unleashed Fire Spin at the same time, the flames surrounding the two Cobrats and Yoshi. The separate red-and-yellow flames of the Torkoal shopkeeper's Fire Spin and the red-and-orange flames of Sluggy's Fire Spin both formed into a large, fiery tornado, which severely burned Yoshi and the two Cobrats. Yoshi screamed in pain as he felt the heat increase his body's temperature, while the Cobrat squeezing Yoshi let go and slithered around within the fiery tornado, screaming in pain. The second Cobrat gulped, and he then dug into the ground, tunneling out of the fiery tornado. Yoshi got up to his feet and smashed his head onto the first Cobrat, knocking him out unconscious. Yoshi then called out to Sluggy and the Torkoal shopkeeper, both of the Fire-type Pokemon stopping their Fire Spin attacks. As the fiery tornado broke off, Yoshi let out a sigh of relief, and he picked up the unconscious body of the first Cobrat and tossed him down the hole the second Cobrat dug into.
The Torkoal shopkeeper let out a sigh. "Don't tell me...hard times are coming again..." He muttered sadly, looking at Sluggy and Yoshi, "Why didn't you warn me that you two were having trouble from the many enemies of Fire island?"
Sluggy growled, head-butting the Torkoal shopkeeper straight. "Duh! That's what we have been trying to tell you!" He snapped, fuming as he felt his body temperature rising.
The Torkoal shopkeeper shook his head to stop the pain of the injury, and he looked at Sluggy. "Well, forgive me if I didn't believe you and your Yoshisaurus in the first place." He sighed, and looked up at the ceiling of the magma-hardened dome, glancing back down at Sluggy and Yoshi, and finally stating after seconds of silence, "If you want to go to the Lethal Lava Volcano that badly, then I won't stop you." He turned around and started walking towards the northwestern direction.
Yoshi and Sluggy looked at each other warily, glancing back forwards as the Torkoal shopkeeper returned with a red, fiery key.
"Here. Swim within the hot, bubbling lava to reach the first volcano," The Torkoal shopkeeper instructed both Sluggy and Yoshi as he gave Yoshi the key, "Once you reach the magma-hardened ground, insert this into the large, green door, and then you'll be able to enter into the Lethal Lava Volcano."
Yoshi nodded, and he placed the red, fiery key within his small, red pad. He looked at his hands, and murmured as they were red from the burnings that he received while holding the red, fiery key.
The Torkoal shopkeeper was silent for a few more brief seconds, and he then stated, "But try not to let anyone get suspicious of you. :Leave as early as possible," He cleared out to Sluggy, adding, "I don't even want to think what would happen to you two if you get caught. So please, be careful."
Yoshi and Sluggy looked at each other, smiled, and turned at the Torkoal shopkeeper, nodding in unison. "We'll do our best, Mr. Torkoal! Thank you!" They bowed in respect towards the Torkoal shopkeeper, and Yoshi ran out of the magma-hardened shop, with Sluggy slugging from behind.
The Torkoal shopkeeper only sighed, and he headed towards the southern direction, entering his own, private room. "I hope those two succeed, even if impending doom awaits them..." He quietly muttered to himself as he went through the red curtains and went to sleep, closing his shop.
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On the outskirts of Fire Island, the two burned Cobrats grumble about their defeat at the Torkoal shopkeeper's shop. They knew that, under no circumstances and under King Morton Koopa's orders, they had to defeat the green Yoshisaurus at all cost. Even if it meant the possibility of death.
"Damn Fire-type Pokemon... if they had not interrupted into battle, we would have succeeded," The first Cobrat stated to his brother, spiting out ash.
The second Cobrat nodded in agreement. "Yes...it seems that the Yoshisaurus has a few surprises of his own. However, they won't be enough for what we have in store for him within the Lethal Lava Volcano..." He chuckled evilly as he looked up at the red, fiery sky, which thick, yellow ash coming from one of the many red volcanoes.
