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A bit away from Toad Town...
Mario comes crashing down into a tree which breaks his landing.
But Mario was kinda stuck on the tree so he starts shaking himself to get free from the tree so he can get down from it.
Mario falls down as he got loose and falls to the ground and lands onto his feet and he notices confetti fall from the tree.
Mario looks at the confetti confused.
Since when did confetti fall from trees like this?
Mario shakes his head and looks around. Notices Olly isn't around anywhere.
Mario looks around confused on where he is.
Mario decides to look around if Olly had fallen down anywhere close by.
Mario looking past the tree he sees a familiar hand glow on the floor.
It was a Magic Circle it was next to a tree that looks close to falling down.
Maybe Olly had fallen over there.
Mario goes to activate the Magic Circle but...Nothing happens.
Mario looks confused. Why isn't anything happening? Mario thought for a moment.
Maybe it had to do with Olly?
Everytime he used the Magic Circle Olly was close by.
Where could Olly be then?
He notices another area that he didn't explore and goes over there. Mario looks around at the area not looking where he was going.
"WAIT!" A voice yelled out.
Mario stopped and noticed he almost fell down a giant hole in the ground. It wasn't a normal hole that you would see someone dig it was hole that looked like someone teared apart a piece of the floor's reality.
"You can't float like me Mario. So be careful anyway that huge hole there I have an idea how to fix it. Here catch this." The voice that yelled out to him was Olly.
Then a bag was thrown into Mario's direction and he catches it. This bag was shiny and had some sort rainbowish shine to it.
"Look I know this might sound strange or weird but...I need you to whack trees or flowers to get confetti from them. It's your only hope of fixing that path."
Mario looked back to the trees and remembered when he got out of the trees some confetti fell out of them. If that didn't happen he would think that Olly had hit his head a bit to hard when they came crashing down.
"So just collect confetti and fix the path. But after you do that I need some help again...This is really embarrassing..."
Mario listening to Olly's instrutions he walks over to the tree and holds his hammer and gives it a whack and as Olly said confetti falls out of the tree and onto the ground.
Mario looked confused at how there could be just confetti hiding in the trees but he opened the bag and puts the confetti inside it.
He looks at the flowers and holding his hammer high he gives them a whack and confetti comes out of the flowers to leaving Mario even more confuse. Trees maybe but flowers? It really doesn't make any sense.
Mario sighs and opens up the confetti bag to put the flower's confetti inside it and decides to whack some of trees to get more of the confetti.
After putting the tree's confetti inside of it the bag was full up and he couldn't put anymore inside of it.
He walks back over to where the giant hole was and Olly spoke up again. "Ah! You're back I assume you got enough confetti right?"
Mario gives of an affirming noise. "Good! Now just grab the confetti from the bag and throw it onto the hole. Then the confetti should start patching up the hole."
Mario thinking what Olly said was strange but the whole confetti being in trees and flowers was also strange but he grabbed some of the confetti from the bag and throws it onto the hole and to his suprise the confetti started sticking to the hole.
Mario throws another handful of confetti and it does the same thing.
He throws another handful and after he does the confetti let's off a glow and the hole and confetti have vanish and all that was left was a normal pathway of grass.
"It sounds like you did it Mario. Great job now uh...You can save me from this embarrassing predicament..."
Mario walked over the newly formed path to see Olly but his head was stuck in the ground.
"Sorry you had to see me like this Mario it's really embarrassing for a King to have his head stuck like this. This is even more embarrassing then the time I thought being stuck in a wall was me being stuck in some sort of in between dimension." Olly said waving his arms and begs around being stuck in the ground.
Mario grabs Olly by his legs and starts to pull him free from the ground. Once he was pulled free from the ground he went flying upwards and lands right onto of Mario.
"Sorry Mario as The Origami King I thank you for the rescue and Olivia said you were that Princess's hero right? You really do have a talent for rescuing royalty!" Olly said.
The mention of the Princess made Mario remember what was going on. With the whole Olly's Sister causing all of this. The folding of the Princess and some of Bowser's Minions and even Bowser himself.
And not only that she took the castle somewhere as well. Olly pokes Mario which snaps him out of his thoughts. "But we should really get going now Mario we got get out where ever we are."
Mario nods agreeing with Olly as he heads back over to where the Magic Circle was and he tries to activate it again and it works and Olly cheers. "The thousand fold arms are very useful aren't they Mario? Without them I would still be stuck in that wall and my Sister might have folded you into origami."
Mario thought about the name Olly had just called it. It was called the thousand fold arms. It seems that these Magic Circles require Olly to be present or close to him for it to work. Mario grips his hands together and smacks the tree and it falls down to the ground with a crash.
Olly claps. "Amazing Mario you're doing really well."
Mario walks along the log with Olly following behind him. As the both of them went futher into the forest.
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Mario and Olly are passing through the forest as something catches Olly's eye. " Mario look over there!"
Olly points over where Peach's Castle used to be. "Olivia really did pull it out of the ground and take the castle away!"
Mario looked over in the mountains and saw Peach's Castle was now onto the a volcano in the distance.
"Olivia! She can't do this! I'm going to stop her after it's my duty as her brother." Olly announces upset by the situation.
"Oh uh...Mario I noticed a green hat fall down when we were trying to escape and it kinda looked like your one did you have a sibling or something who wore it?"
Mario remembered Luigi was in the castle when it was taken and gave him a nod.
"Oh no! I hope your sibling is ok. We should grab the hat when we get back there and look around to see if their around there." Mario nods to Olly's idea hoping to quickly get there to see if Luigi is ok.
Mario and Olly get further into the woods but...There were quite voices speaking...
Someone's here...
Who is it?
Someone with a mustache.
It's a flat paper person...
Is the mustache also paper?
Looks almost like Grandsappy!
Mario and Olly were confused by the whispers they were hearing but they couldn't see anyone around.
Mario covers up more of the holes with confetti but he notices he was almost out of confetti and goes over to a tree and whacks it and confetti falls down from the tree. The whispers gasp at this action.
How can he just do that?!
He's just...Hitting stuff.
Nice hammer.
Just whacking things, huh?
Not very green of him...
Mario decides to ignore the voices while Olly looks around confused trying to figure out who is whispering.
Continuing to wander through the forest they notice a cliff and in the distance was a large spring shining brightly.
Mario looks at the tree close to the cliff and it had a vine hanging from the tree and Mario gives it a pull and a shriveled up flower falls from the sky and lands in the spring and it comes out the spring completely bloomed.
Mario and Olly look at each other confused.
"Hey Mario pull on it again."
Mario pulls on it again then boombox falls from the sky looking a bit broken it falls into the spring and comes out completely new.
Mario was even more confused how did the spring fix a boombox when it should of made it worse.
Mario pulls on it again then out of the sky Birdo falls from it not looking really well and she falls into the water and comes out completely new and happy and she runs off somewhere into the forest.
After all the pulls the log stuck in some vines comes crashing down and crashes into a higher ledge.
"That was pretty weird I must admit." Olly said confused on what just happened.
Mario heads over to the log and uses it to help him get onto the higher ledge.
And on the higher ledge Mario saw a shiny pod hanging from a tree and it had a vine coming out of it.
Mario heads over to it and gives the vine a pull but it snaps once he tried to pull it.
Oh snap!
Saw that coming!
Heehee!
The whispers said after the vine snapped off the shiny pod.
Mario annoyed decides to hit the tree with his hammer and then a glowing triangle falls out of the tree.
It floats over to underneath the shiny pod and a Magic Circle is formed.
Mario having an idea walks over to the Magic Circle and activates the thousand fold arms and grabs the last bit of the vine that remained on the shiny pod a gives it a pull.
The pod opens up and some confetti falls out of the pod and something falls out of it to it looked like a seed but it was shriveled.
Mario thought he could use this in the spring and maybe that would fix up that seed.
Mario then picked up the seed. As he and Olly continue down the path but it looked a bit foggy and hard to see.
But they needed to keep going if they wanted to get out of there and this forest that keeps whispering to them.
So the both of them head into the foggy area.
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