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Boss Fight #1: Petey Piranha
Petey was the first one to make a move, he swung his massive head.
"Woah!" Steven yelped as he jumped out of range of the massive plants head. Mario, Luigi, and Connie also jumped out of the way. Petey growled and lunged at Mario and Luigi.
"Ack!" Luigi yelled. Steven quickly jumped over and summoned his shield. A pink sphere formed around Mario, Luigi, and Steven.
"Woah!" Mario said starry eyed. "What it this?"
"It's my shield. We're safe in here." Steven said proudly. Petey kept furiously slapping the bubble with his leaf arms. Petey was growing more and more angry, he then noticed only three in the bubble, he looked over and saw Connie by herself. Connie's pupils shrunk in terror.
"Run, Connie!" Steven yelled. Connie didn't hesitate. She took off in a random direction. Petey grinned a sinister smile, he took off after Connie on his stubby legs. Steven looked back at Mario and Luigi. "C'mon guys, we have to go after them!" Mario and Luigi nodded. Steven made the bubble disappear and the three took off after them.
"I see them up there!" Luigi said, pointing up a nearby hill.
"C'mon, Connie's in danger!" Mario said. The three ran up the hill and saw Connie tangle up in a bunch of vines. There was a bump on her forehead, she must've been hit with something and got knocked out. The three ran up to her.
"Oh no, Connie!" Steven said. "Connie, are you okay?" Steven attempted to wake her up. Her eyes started to flutter open. "Connie! You're okay!" Her eyes opened wide with panic.
"Steven, guys, you need to get out of here!"
"Why?"
"Because, he's-" Connie got cut off by a loud thud. The three turned around and saw a towering figure behind them. "right behind you."
"Mama mia!" Mario said. "Luigi, get out your Hammer!"
"Okay, bro!" The bros pulled out their hammers. "Do you have a weapon, Steven?" Luigi asked. Steven nodded. He formed a pink shield.
"Just keep Petey away from Connie." Mario said.
"Gotcha, bro." Luigi said. Petey roared in their faces. The three narrowed their eyes.
"We have to save my friends!" Steven said. "We need to get him to vomit them back up!"
Mario and Luigi both swung their hammers and hit Petey in the head. Petey was knocked back a few feet. Petey spit out a few piranha spores, and when they hit, they became piranha plants.
"Woah!" Steven yelled. "They're like miniature versions of him! Now we can't get close."
"We don't have too, Steven." Luigi said. "Watch this, Mario, hammer Time!"
"Yahoo!" Mario yelled. Luigi and Mario both threw their hammers at Petey, their hammers boomeranged back to the bros. Petey growled even more. Petey jammed his plant arms into the ground. Petey grinned really big. When Petey took his arms out of the ground, the two piranha plants he made were now his arms.
"That's not fair!" Steven whined. Petey's arms were snapping and lunging at the three.
"When did he learn that he could do that?" Luigi asked.
"I don't know!" Mario said. "Just try to get rid of them!" Mario, Luigi and Steven ran at Petey. Petey's arms shot fireballs at them. Mario and Luigi jumped and dodged them with ease, Steven, on the other hand, jumped over one and face planted hard on the grass. He looked up and saw another fireball heading toward him. His reflexes put his shield in front of his face, the fireball disappeared when it hit the pink shield. Mario and Luigi got distracted when he heard the fireball hit something.
"Mama mia, Steven!" Mario called. Before the plumber could turn around, Petey's arms mouth grabbed Mario's shirt collar and lifted him in the air. Luigi suffered the same. Both bros were in the clutches of Petey Piranha.
"Mama mia!" Luigi yelled.
"Steven, help us!" Mario called.
Petey shook the bros vigorously until their hammers fell outta their hands and on the grass. Steven groggily got up amd saw the bros in trouble.
"Oh no!" Steven thought. "What do I do?" He frantically thought of an idea. Until, it hit him. His shield. Steven grinned confidently. He pulled his arm back far, and threw his shield like a boomerang.
"Great idea, Steven!" Mario yelled. The shield curved and cut off both of Petey's arms and went back to Steven. The arms released the Bros and the bros grabbed their hammers. Petey's arms turned gray and disintegrated. Petey roared in pain.
Mario and Luigi swung their hammers and hit Petey in the head. Petey stumbled backwards and got a lack of balance. He was stumbling back and forth, the blow to the head made him feel dizzy.
"Steven, throw your shield at his feet to make him fall!" Luigi yelled. Steven nodded. Steven threw his shield at Petey's feet and made the massive plant fall on his back.
"Mario, hammer time, again!" Luigi said. Mario nodded. The bros jumped in the air and slammed their hammers into Petey's stomach.
"BLARGH!" Petey screamed. Petey spit up 4 gems. Steven ran and caught them. Petey's body slowly disintegrated. Petey's ashes went back up to the portal he came from. The portal disappeared. The vines holding Connie disappeared too.
"Connie!" Steven yelled. Both of them hugged. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, Steven." Connie smiled. She noticed 4 gems in Stevens hand. "Oh! You got the gems!"
Mario and Luigi walked over.
"So, your friends are rocks?" Mario asked, confused.
"Yeah, are you feeling okay?" Luigi asked. Steven giggled.
"It's a long story, guys. C'mon, I'll explain when we get back to the temple." Steven led everyone back to the warp pad.
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Oh boy, our first boss fight! I mean, it was obviously gonna be Petey after last chapter. The next one will be 2-3 chapters from now. See y'all next time, n00bsl3yR, signing off.