Yoshi was sleeping on several pieces of hardened, magma rock. He slowly opened his eyes, and picked up his head, to see that there were several red-colored Torkoals looking at him. Tilting his head to the right, he asked, "Are you...perhaps...members of the Torkoal species?"

The Torkoals all nodded, and one of them approached Yoshi. "You don't come from here, do you?"

Yoshi nodded. "Yeah. But you see, it's a huge explanation to why I have come this far from Yoshi Island to-" He stopped as he glanced to the right. "Sluggy? Sluggy, is that you?"

Sluggy the Slugma slugged over towards Yoshi, smiling. "Yoshi, you are okay! Thank goodness, I was getting worried," He mused as he got close to Yoshi and looked up at him.

Yoshi smiled, and he let out a sigh of relief. "Well, it's great to know that you're all right and safe, Sluggy." He looked at the Torkoals. "Sorry to be rushing, but where are we, anyway?"

A female Torkoal stepped up to Yoshi. "You are in the Torkoal Village, a small and humble village built upon the hot magma that has hardened over many years ago. Nearby is the fifth and final volcano of the Lethal Lava Volcano premises." She throughly explained.

Yoshi's jaw dropped. Rubbing the back of his head, he then asked, "Well, how do me and Sluggy get to the volcano, and how do we get though there?"

The Torkoals all looked at each other, and nodded. They then started to push Yoshi and Sluggy out from the dome-shaped shelter and towards the village, where they would show Yoshi how to become his Fire form again.

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Meanwhile, far away from the Lethal Lava Volcano area but elsewhere on the ever-expanding continent of Dinosaur Land, King Morton Koopa and his large Koopa army have left the Pterodactyl Pillars, and are heading straight towards the wide, grassy terrain of the Stegosaurus Plains.

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Yoshi was running across the Torkoal village. He felt his feet being burned every step he took on the hot, magma-hardened ground. Yoshi then jumped over a long stretch of slow-moving lava, and he landed on the other side, turning to the left. Yoshi then stopped in front of a set of rotating fireballs. Yoshi took a step forward, but he got burned by the rotating fireballs and jumped into the air, holding his behind as it was lit aflame. Yoshi then hopped past the rotating fireballs, and he turned around on the right, noticing several red oval-shaped orbs, their heads lit on fire. They spit out fireballs at Yoshi, who swallows them in with his long, red tongue. Yoshi then grabs the fire orbs and swallows them, spitting out the remains, which are hard as stone and dark blue. Yoshi smirks, but he is burned by a fireball, causing him to run faster, his foot being on fire. Yoshi then trips over a rock and falls into the hot lava, screaming in pain as his body burns all over. Yoshi climbs out, but he realizes that the flames are on him, and he spins around screaming as the flames start to spread.

Sluggy, on the other hand, is practicing his fire-type attacks, firing his Flamethrower attacks at the Torkoals' embers. Sluggy then jumps into the lava and ducks an Overheat attack from one of the Torkoals, and retaliates with a Fire Spin attack, trapping the Torkoals in a fiery tornado. Yoshi comes running by, and he gets caught in the Fire Spin, burning even more as the flames become more intense. Yoshi closes his eyes,and he jumps through the Fire Spin attack, and starts rolling on the ground, putting out the flames all over his body. Yoshi sighs of relief as he looks at himself in a nearby mirror, his green body all blackened by the flames. Yoshi shakes the soot off of him, and he notices that Sluggy is still unleashing Fire Spin. Yoshi snaps his fingers, and he grabs the flames forming the fiery tornado, eating them and subdues the hot flames in his stomach, allowing his body temperature to get used to the heat increase. Yoshi then jumps into the lava, and he safely reemerges, his body being burned, but not as much as before. Yoshi, however, knows this, and he immediately hops out, shaking his body to rid of the flames. Yoshi then calls out at Sluggy, and Sluggy stops using Fire Spin, slugging back onto the magma-hardened ground from the smooth magma. Sluggy appears next to Yoshi, and the two friends both watch as the fiery tornado stops, the Torkoals all perfectly safe.

Sluggy clears his throat, stating, "So, Torkoals, how was that?" He asked with a smile.

The Torkoals all smiled. The leader of the fire-type turtle Pokemon then stood up and proclaimed, "You two are ready for the final volcano. May luck look over you all."

Yoshi and Sluggy both smiled, waving goodbye to the Torkoals as they headed off into the red magma sea (with Yoshi riding on top of Sluggy, of course), and towards the fifth and final active volcano of the Lethal Lava Volcano territory.