Chapter
16
Hide
and Go Seek
As the Mario brothers walk into the jungle, Luigi turns to Mario and
says, “MARIO! YOU DID IT AGAIN!”
“No I didn’t. I was going to say no, but you
were making the kill sign, so I knew that you wanted to do this. This time, I
thought of you when I made my decision.”
“YOU IDIOT! I MADE THE GET KILLED SIGN, NOT THE
KILL SIGN!”
“OH NOW YOU TELL ME!”
Mario expresses his anger by kicking a nearby try,
and to his great surprise, a yellow Yoshi drops out of it.
“What the!”
“Wow thanks. Me and my friends were playing hide
and go seek and I thought this tree would make a good hiding place, so a climbed
up it and waiting in a branch. The tagger didn’t come so I got tired and feel
asleep. Thank you for waking me up, and I have to go home now.”
Without a word, the yellow Yoshi leaves the forest.
“Wow, nice work Mario.” Luigi says. “That’s
two down and three to go.”
The Mario brothers continue through the jungle and
after a while, hear a faint crying. The crying is coming from behind some rare
bushes, called Jewels Eye. The reason it is called this because the berries the
Jewels Eye produce look exactly like Rubies, Sapphires, every kind of jewel.
Counterfeiters use the fake jewels to con people. So instinctively, Mario
pockets quite of few of these berries.
Luigi carefully makes his way through the Jewels
Eye, careful not to damage it. Mario however, just rips them out as he walks by.
“Well now, you are quite the environmentalist
aren’t you?” Luigi says angrily through gritted teeth.
But oddly enough, the moment the uprooted Jewels
Eye hits the ground, it poofs and is magically restored to its roots.
“Well now.” Mario says. “That’s just gotta
be the darndest thin I ever seen.”
Mario and Luigi continue moving through the Jewels
Eye and finally come upon the red Yoshi. The red Yoshi stops crying and looks up
at the brothers.
“Thank you! I was playing Hide and g-.”
“Yeah, yeah. We know about the Hide and Go seek
part. What happened to you?” Mario asks.
“Well, I saw this pretty bush and went towards
it, but all of a sudden, this monster pushed me into this clearing.”
“Monster? What monster?” Luigi asks.
“The one you’re standing on.”
Luigi lifts his foot to see a squired thing that
looked like a huge square caterpillar. It is squished and its insides are
everywhere.
“Oh. That’s just plain nasty.”
“Well, thank you for rescuing me! I’m off to
the village!”
The Yoshi leaves. The Mario Brothers continue into
the jungle and hear a faint crying. The crying is coming from a warp tube at the
top of a small cliff. At the base of the cliff is a spinning flower, just big
enough for someone to stand on it.
“WOW!” Luigi exclaims. “This is a very rare
plant called the Spinning Wind. If you stand on it, it will float you up high.
If you stand on it we will be able to reach the cliff!”
“Are plants hobby for you or something?”
“Well, after using mushrooms and Fire Flowers, I
got interested.”
Luigi gets on the flower first and is transported
to the top of the cliff. Mario follows. Once they are both up there, they go in
the warp tube. It is pitch black inside.
“It’s pitch black in here!” Luigi exclaims.
“Don’t restate the obvious!”
“But how are we going to see?”
“Ummm… Look over there! There’s a small beam
of light!”
“How is that going to help us see?”
Mario pulls out a handful of Jewels Eye berries and
holds them in the light. The whole place lights up. To the Brothers shock (they
get shocked a lot, don’t they?) a yellow Yoshi is standing right beside them.
“Thank you for rescuing me! I found this cool
spinning flower and jumped on it and ended up here! I’m going home!”
The Yoshi leaves.
“Only one more to go!” Luigi exclaims.
The Mario brothers get out of the tube and continue
on. Shortly later (8:43 minutes) the brothers find the last Yoshi. It is sitting
in the clearing in front of them. They would walk up to him, except the fact the
two piranha plants were standing next to it holding disrupters (VERY high
powered guns).
“How are you going to get this one?” Luigi
asks.
Mario thinks for a while, then says, “Hold on
just a second.”
Mario walks up to the piranha plants and shows them
what appears to be a picture. The piranha plants start laughing VERY hard. The
veins on the piranha plants start to rupture, then explode. The blue Yoshi
starts talking to Mario, which is obviously the whole, “Thank you for rescuing
me” thing. The blue Yoshi then dashes back off to the village. Mario then
returns to Luigi.
“What did you show them that made them laugh that
hard?”
“A picture of you at the Christmas party.”
“Oh… WHAAAT!?!?!?”
“Never mind.”
The Mario brothers go back to the village and hear
that the village elder wants to see them. So they go to the village elder.
“I thank you for rescuing those baby Yoshis.”
“You’re welcome.” Luigi replies.
“For that, I will help you get across the lava
pit.”
“Yeah,” Mario says, “all you have to do is
jump in the pit. Your fat will no doubt get clogged and then we can easily get
acro-.”
WHACK!
“Once again, I apologize.”
“Here, take this seed. It is a Spinning Wind.
Plant it at the base of the pit and use it to get across.”
The Mario brothers leave and go to the pit. They do
as the elder instructed and use it to get across. Then they walk into the
volcano…