Chapter
5
To Dry
Dry1
Desert
After a while of traveling on Pleasant Path (no bad-guys this time) they arrive at the mushroom kingdom. They notice that the writer, Michael, is gone. Luigi is very relived by this bit of information. Mario sensing what Luigi is thinking says, “You may be happy that Michael has gone away, but we might have been able to find out where the next castle is. Also because these toads are so stupid, if we ask them about the castle’s whereabouts, then they will say something completely off of the topic. For example ‘where is the next castle?’ ‘If you ever get hurt then go to a toad house’. They are so fricken annoying!”
Then they see someone who is not a toad. It is a person. Mario and Luigi run over to the only sane person besides them. “Michael! Please help us!” Mario yells. The person turns to look at them and it is not Michael. “Who are you?” Luigi asks.
“I am Elliot.”
“You’re not the writer.”
“No, but I am his best friend.”
“But Michael is not here, is he?”
“No.”
“THANK YOU LORD!” Luigi yells.
“I agree with you bro.” Mario says. “He’s a jerk! ‘I cannot give you that kind of information, find it out yourself you lazy bum’. Even though I am a lazy bum people shouldn’t say it out loud to me. If he were here I would give him a piece of my mind.”
“I wouldn’t do that to Michael if I were you. He might turn you into a frog or something.” Luigi says.
Elliot whips out a cell-phone and started dialing. “Hello. Hi Michael this is Elliot.” Elliot started talking. “Yeah, the plumbers insulted you. No, not Luigi, Mario. You’re gonna WHAT?! Oh… That’s evil. Ok bye.” Elliot hangs up. “Your gonna be in big trouble now!”
All of them hear a weird popping noise. Nothing happened. At least that’s what they thought. Mario looks down and realizes that he is thin, not fat.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’M THIN! PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME! CALL MICHAEL BACK
AND TELL HIM TO TURN ME BACK TO
“Sorry, but Michael said he’d turn you back in half an hour.
“PLEASE MAKE HIM TURN ME BACK! I HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR!”
“Sorry.”
“Come on Elliot. Please tell Michael to turn him back.” Luigi asks Elliot.
“Oh fine.” Elliot whips out the phone and presses redial. “Hi. This is Elliot again. Um, well… Mario is going psycho. I think he is trying to kill himself.” Elliot stops talking to look over at Mario, who is trying to drown himself. “So please change him back. You will? Thank you. Bye.” Elliot hangs up and the weird popping noise happens again. Mario looks down sees that he is fat again. He hugs his flab.
After Mario regains himself, he asks, “Well can you at least tell us where the next castle is?”
“Yes, I will because I’m nice. Go to Dry Dry1 Desert.”
“
“Yup.
The Mario
brothers catch the train in the south part of the town and are off to
“What’s that?” Luigi asks.
“Don’t know. But that music is reeeeally annoying. What’s that in the distance!”
“It’s a mountain Mario. Don’t you even know what a mountain is? You may not have one, but inside my head, there is something called a brain. You probably don’t have one. If you do then use it for at least once in your life.”
“I know perfectly well what a mountain is. I was building dramatic tension you twit!”
Anyway, the Mario Bros are heading towards another castle. But there are many more to come. The train stops at the entrance to the mountain. The bros get out.
“Well. This is
it.” Mario says, “Once we get over the mountain then, we will reach