Chapter
8
Mario
enters the castle first. He looks around the room again and there is nothing,
once again. “I think that we’re about to walk right into a trap”.
“Whatever.
That’s what you said last time and nothing happened in the first room. What do
you thinks gona happen? Do you think that when I step on the tile directly in
front of my will activate a switch that releases a deadly trap such as huge
swinging scythes that come down from the ceiling and try do decapitate us? Look
I’ll show you.” Luigi takes a step on the tile in front of him. The tile
sinks into the ground. “Uh-oh.” Luigi says. All of a sudden, giant scythes
drop from the ceiling, and start swinging. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
The Marios (Mario and Luigi’s last name is “Mario”) scream in unison.
“RUN AWAY!!!” Luigi and Mario try to run for the next room. Keyword: try.
Luigi trips. “Mario, listen very carefully to me… HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!” He
screams just as a giant scythe is about to slice him in two.
“I’m coming Luigi!” Mario runs towards Luigi but also trips and slams into the scythe coming towards Luigi. The sheer weight of Mario’s body bends the scythe to the left. That scythe then barley misses Luigi and chops off another scythe blade which rockets to a wall, bounces off, cuts of another scythe blade. Then the newly cut blade hits a wall, and comes straight towards Mario. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” He screams. He ducks, but not in time. The scythe blade slices his hat in two. The blade keeps rocketing around the room, bouncing off the stone walls. The blade then hits an odd colored stone. Then sparks and electrical wires shoot out from the odd colored stone. You see, that odd colored stone was hiding the electrical system for the scythes. It takes electricity to power the scythes to go back and forth. So when the scythe hit the control panel, it deactivated the trap.
Luigi gets up and thinks to himself, “Okay. That was weird.” He then notices Mario on the ground, crying. “What’s wrong Mario?” Luigi looks over Mario. Mario is holding the two pieces of his hat.
“Why. Why did this happen?” Mario says with tears in his eyes. “We traveled on so many adventures together. I took care of you. And this is how you repay me!? Why me? Why did you do this?” He finishes. All of a sudden he stands up and stops crying. “Luckily, I have a spare.” He pulls another hat out of his pocket and puts it on his head.
“Mario, you are an idiot. You were crying over a stupid hat?!
“It was very special to me.”
“Okay. Now that you are over your little ‘emotional moment’… LET’S GET GOING ALREADY!”
After an hour and thirteen minutes and 27 seconds, (I like to be precise) they reach the boss door. Mario makes toward the door, but once again, Luigi pushes him out of the way and runs in the door. But the moment Luigi steps into the boss room a huge wind blows from the right side of the room and hurls Luigi to the left side of the room. Luigi smashes into the wall and slides down it. He slides into quicksand and sinks until only his head remains above the surface. “ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!” Luigi yells.
Mario enters the room. He looks around. It’s different then the first castle. There is a straight walkway of stone in front of him. On either side of him are quicksand pits. Luigi is to the left of Mario. There is a door at the end of the walkway. All of a sudden, that door opens and out comes Bowser!
“Wait a second. You fell into a pit of lava, yet you’re standing in front of me right now! How is that possible!?”
Then for the first time, the big lizard/dragon/turtle speaks. “Well, I’m part dragon. Dragons are immune to lava. So the lava didn’t even hurt me. Now I have you trapped!”
Mario then thinks, “Um, why did he say ‘Now I have your trapped’? It’s not like I’m a wuss and I’m going to run away or anything. He could have just said ‘I have you now!’ instead of what he just said. It sounds a lot better.”
Bowser continues talking, “Now all what I have to do is push that switch behind you to trap you.” Bowser starts walking with slow, heavy steps. He starts to move past Mario but then, Mario gets an idea. When Bowser is to the side of Mario, he turns towards him and pushes him into the quicksand. “NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Foiled again!” Bowser yells as he sinks into the quicksand.
Mario thinks to himself, “He, he, he. Bowser’s not that smart. But how is Luigi going to escape from the quicksand?” As if an answer to Mario question, (I say that a lot, don’t I?) Luigi is thrown out of the quick sand. Then a bag is thrown out of the quicksand from the right. The string binding the bag opens and out pops… a toad.
“Thank you for rescuing me, but our princess is in another castle.”
“NOOOOOOOOOO!” NOT AGAIN!”
“Thank you for rescuing me, but our princess is in another castle.”
But this time Mario doesn’t hesitate. He immediately punches the toad square in the face. The toad rolls back five feet, and then gets up immediately. He runs back to Mario saying, “Thank you for rescuing me, but our princess is in another castle.”
“SAY YOUR PRAYERS TOAD!!!” Mario screams. He picks up the toad and throws it into the quicksand. “Ha!” Mario yells as he watches the toad sink, “Take that!” The toad sinks all the way in the quicksand. Then it pops back out.
“Thank you for rescuing me, but our princess is in another castle.”
“ARRRRRRRRRRGH!” Mario screams.
Luigi smiles, and then turns to Mario. “Hey Mario, see if you can make a field goal!”
“I getcha.”
Luigi grabs the toad and holds him down, just like holding a foot ball down on the ground. Mario takes ten and a half (he he he) steps back and runs full force towards the toad.
“Thank you for rescuing me, but o”
KICK! The toad flies through the air. It smashes into the wall above the door Bowser came out of. Unfortunately, the toad hit a weak spot in the foundation. The castle starts rumbling. “LET’S GET OUT OF HERE!” Luigi yells. They run to the water room which I didn’t tell about because I am lazy and it is too hard to tell the whole traveling through the castle. They jump in the water and swim to the exit, dodging falling rocks. They jump out of the water, miraculously dry, and run out of the falling castle. They turn around and watch the castle collapse.
Mario looks on the ground and picks up a big slab of rock and holds it above his head.
“What are you doing Mario?”
“Waiting.”
“For what?”
“You’ll see.”
Out of the rubble pops the toad. The toad runs towards the Mario brothers and is about to say his line. But Mario throws the big slab and hits the toad square in the face. The toad gets knocked out.
“Well, let’s go back to
The Mario Brothers get
directions,