Mario in Felarya, Part 7

If you guy's don't know what Felarya is, I'd suggest you find out.

Crisis, Anna, and Felarya © Karbo
Scala © Blazbaros
Coura and Phlell © ChaosEmerald2 (yeah, that's the one guy that came here, made two posts, then dissappeared)
Mario and all related characters © Nintendo.

I'll be posting the updates to the story in this first post. Comment and Critique please! I want to see this through!

Mario in Felarya

Chapter 1: The Vision.

It was a peaceful day in the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario had just beaten Bowser’s latest scheme to take over the universe with the stolen Grand Stars. The plumber walked out to Flower Fields and leaned up against a tree to take a nap. He slowly drifted off to sleep.

Mario found himself in some sort of jungle.
Is this a jungle on Yoshi’s Island? Mario thought to himself as he looked around. Just then, he heard a sound. It sounded like a snake.
A very large snake.
Mario braced himself knowing snakes were difficult to outrun, so he didn’t even bother trying. A tree came crashing down next to him. Mario turned around and was shocked at what he saw. A giant woman with blonde hair, at least one hundred feet tall came out of the jungle. But there was something strange about her. She had the body of a snake from the waist down with teal scales and a yellow underbelly. The most astonishing part for Mario was that she wasn’t wearing anything.
This is definitely NOT Yoshi’s Island! Mario thought to himself as he started to run. He looked over his shoulder to see the creature’s gigantic hand moving towards him. Mario picked up his pace, but to no avail. He was snatched up and lifted high into the air being turned upside down. When he looked towards the ground, he was terrified at what he saw below him. The woman was dangling him above her wide open mouth. Mario screamed and flailed as he felt her grip loosen. He was dropped into the cavernous abyss screaming in terror, though he swore he heard his name being called…

Mario shot bolt upright screaming in a cold sweat, Toad standing next to him.
“Mario! Are you okay? You were thrashing and moaning in your sleep!” Toad said, sounding quite concerned.
“Huff…huff…Yes Toad…Nothing more than a bad dream…The only weird thing was, Bowser was not even involved like he normally is in my nightmares.” Mario replied.
“Well, we don’t have time for dreams! Professor Gadd wants you over at his lab immediately! He said it was urgent.” Toad explained. Now Professor Elvin Gadd was a bit kooky at times inventing normally trivial things, but when he said something was urgent, Mario always wanted to be there, seeing as something would normally go wrong.
“Okay Toad. Thanks for the heads up.” Mario said getting up. “I’ll get over there pronto.” He walked off in the direction of the castle.

E. Gadd was waiting for Mario at the door of the castle when he got there.
“At last you’re here!” Gadd said anxiously. “I need you and Luigi for something!”
“What is it this time professor? Another time machine?” Mario joked remembering the last “big experiment” that Gadd had cooked up, which sent Mario and Luigi spiraling into another adventure spanning time and space.
“No, no! It’s nothing I made, but rather an investigation of an unnatural anomaly! You see, I detected a strange form of energy this morning, and I need you and Luigi to check it out. According to the scans, it appears to be a portal of some kind.” Gadd explained.
“Right. Well, where’s Luigi?” Mario asked looking around.
“Right here.” Luigi said stepping out from behind the corner. “Hey bro. How’s life?”
“Fine and dandy. Did Gadd explain to you what happened?”
“I was actually the first to know. Then he told the princess and everyone else in the castle.” Luigi explained.
“Wonderful. So I’m assuming she’ll want to come with us?”
“Exactly.” Princess Peach said walking down the foyer stairs in her vacation dress.
“I won’t let you go alone princess!” Toadsworth, Peach’s stalwart ward called after her, running down the stairs as fast as his tiny little legs could carry him.
“So we have a full party pretty much.” Mario said. “We may as well bring Yoshi. He may be a help to us if we‘re going through that portal.”
“Yoshi!” the green dinosaur called as he ran up to Mario and jumped on him.
“Okay okay Yoshi! Get off!” Mario said as Yoshi bounced up and down on him. Yoshi stopped and walked up to Peach, who daintily patted him on the head.
“Now you’ll need some protection from any possible radioactive energies from the portal.” Gadd said. “That’s why I suggest you take a plane.”
“What do you mean ‘you’ professor?” Luigi asked, quite puzzled.
“Oh heavens no! I’m not going along. I’m way too old for these sorts of things!”
“Fine. But we’ll leave tomorrow morning.” Peach said. “That should be enough time to keep Bowser from getting word of this.”

<u>Meanwhile…</u>

Bowser sat stewing in his throne room. He couldn’t believe that Mario had trounced him again. He was so close this time, but even with the power of the Grand Stars, it just wasn’t enough to beat that pesky plumber.
“GRAAAAAAAGH! WHY DO I ALWAYS LOSE TO MARIO!?” Bowser roared.
Okay, did I say stewing? I meant raging.
“Maybe he cheats.” Bowser Jr. said sitting in his miniature throne.
“Please Junior, daddy’s trying to think here.” Bowser said turning away from his son and waving his hand at him. Just then, Kamek came bursting though the door on his broomstick.
“Your Surliness! Urgent news!” The Magikoopa said.
“What is it now Kamek!?” Bowser yelled in reply. “I am NOT in the mood for any stupid news!”
“But sir, you’ll want to hear this! Ludwig detected some strange energy this morning!”
“So!? Probably some volcano erupting!”
“No! When we sent Larry to spy on Mushroom Castle, he overheard that it was a portal! Mario and his friends are going there tomorrow morning!”
“A portal? To where?” Bowser asked, calming down and seeming interested.
“Well…I’m not sure. Larry didn’t hear anything about where it goes.”
“Grah, it doesn’t matter. Maybe it could lead to valuable resources that the Koopa Kingdom is running short on. Prep the Doomships! We’ll go after Mario into that portal and attack when he least expects it, then gather all the resources we need!”
“Uh…dad? Won’t that defeat the purpose of getting the resources?” Bower Jr. stated.
“Bah, who asked you! Now prep your ship!”
“Yes dad…” Bowser Jr. said getting up and walking out the door.
“Heh heh heh…Mario won’t know what hit him…” Bowser chuckled to himself as he walked out the door.

Chapter 2: Into the Unknown

“So who’s all coming again?” Mario asked Luigi as everyone walked up to Peach’s private airliner. “And why are we taking a plane?”
“I’ll answer your questions in order, Mario. First, You and I are coming because we’re the most experienced adventurers here. Peach and Daisy are coming because Peach wanted to go, and she wanted to bring Daisy. Yoshi is coming because we may need him. Toadsworth is coming because Peach is coming. Toad and Toadette are always willing to go on a trip, so they wanted to come. And second, Gadd’s readings say that the portal is in the sky, and out over Water Land.”
“I get’cha.” Mario said walking up the stairs into the plane. “But who’s driving?” Mario said walking up to the cockpit. He opened the door to see Wario and Waluigi. “WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!?” Mario shouted in surprise.
“Well, we heard about some portal…” Wario began.
“Not like we were eavesdropping,” Waluigi quickly stated.
“Get on with it…” Mario said impatiently.
“And we figured that there may be treasure on the other side!” Wario finished. “And you know my motto, ‘Where there is treasure, there is Wario!’”
“Right…But I’d figure that you two slime balls would stow away rather than pilot.”
“Well, Peach needed a pilot, and there was high pay involved…” Waluigi said.
“Don’t say anything more. I just hope you two can fly a plane.” Mario said walking out the door of the cockpit.
“Can we fly a plane! HA! …How do you fly a plane?” Wario asked Waluigi.
“Uhh…Push the big autopilot button!” Waluigi said pointing to the button. Wario slammed on it with his forehead.
“Let’s-a go!” He bellowed as the plane left the runway.

“King Dad!” Larry cried from the lookout station on Kastle Koopa. “Mario’s plane just left!”
“Good! Get to your Doomshp Larry!” Bowser called up to him. Larry slid down a pole, took a pulley and a zip line, and jumped on his ship. “ALL SHIPS LAUNCH!!!” With that command, all 9 Doomships left the hangar and headed towards Water Land.

A few minutes later, the Doomship armada had caught up to the plane, but remained unnoticed.
Then Bowser’s hasty side kicked in.
“Bah! Why should I need to wait till we get in that portal to attack Mario!? We could just blast him out of the sky right now!”
“But Dad-” Bowser Jr. started, but Bowser shut off the incoming intercom.
“Target that plane! ALL CANNONS, <b>FIRE!</b>“ Bowser shouted over the intercom. Without hesitation, the Koopalings typed in the coordinates and fired their cannons.

Wario was relaxing watching the clouds go by when he heard the plane’s radar beep.
“Oh what now?” Wario said looking at the radar. He saw nine large objects and hundreds of small dots. “WAH!” Wario slammed his hand down on the dashboard, hitting the intercom button by accident. “WE’RE UNDER ATTACK!”

There was a frenzy in the cabin as Mario and Co. heard what Wario had said.
“Attack?” Mario asked as he looked out the window. Just as he did, one of the Doomships pulled up to the window, Lemmy making a face at him from his cockpit. “Bowser…” Mario said running up to the cockpit. He slammed the door open and saw Wario and Waluigi huddled up in a corner. He sighed as he sat down, grabbed the controls, and pushed the manual override button. Luigi came running in.
“Bro! You can’t fly a plane yourself! You need a co-pilot!” Luigi said sitting down and taking the co-pilot controls.
“Thanks for the hand then.” Mario said watching the radar and swerving to avoid the Bullet Bills that Bowser and the Koopalings were firing at them. The portal came into view. It was a periwinkle color with purple and blue swirls in it.
“There! That portal’s our only hope!” Luigi said pointing to it.
“Huh. Irony has it that that’s why we came out here.” Mario chuckled as they drew closer.

“Koopalings! Pull back!” Bowser ordered when he saw the portal. “We’ll catch them later.” But just then, bolts of lightning shot out of the portal hitting all ten aircrafts. “What!?”

“The controls aren’t responding!” Mario shouted trying to turn the plane.
“We’ve lost all power!” Luigi cried. Wario and Waluigi just sat in the corner bawling.
“WE’RE GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!” Wario screamed, but then noticed something. “Why aren’t we falling?”
“The portal seems to be…sucking us in?” Mario said noticing the same phenomenon. As the plane and the Doomships were all sucked in, there was a bright flash and everyone lost consciousness…

Chapter 3: A Crisis Situation

Mario woke up in some sort of jungle, his clothes torn and covered in dirt. The trees and plant life were much larger than normal, but the birds and other animals seemed normal size. He looked to his right to see Peach lying on the ground unconscious about 10 feet away from him.
“Peach!” Mario called to her as he stood up and walked over to her. He rolled her over on her back and checked her pulse. Still alive. Good. He thought to himself. Peach opened her eyes.
“Mario? Wh-what happened? Where are we?” Peach asked, still a little dazed.
“I’m not sure. I think that this is what was on the other side of that portal…” Mario looked around. He then helped Peach up and the two started walking. After they had gone 10 yards or so, both of them stopped dead in their tracks when they heard a sound. It sounded like hissing.
From a very large snake.
Why does this all seem so familiar?Mario thought. Just then, a tree came crashing down, and a giant woman about 100 feet tall came out of the jungle…not wearing anything. Now under normal circumstances, Mario could have found the woman attractive, but these were no ordinary circumstances. And on top of that, Mario didn’t even know what she was. She was human from the waist up, but from the waist down, she had the body of a snake, with teal scaled back and sides, and a yellow scaled underbelly. She had teal eyes matching her scales and the same yellow blonde hair as Peach, but hers was much larger. “Oh…no…” Mario said realizing why the situation was so familiar. “Peach! We need to get out of here NOW!” Mario said grabbing her hand and starting to run, but Peach pulled her hand away.
“Mario! How could you? This woman…snake…thing…could very well be perfectly civilized.” Peach said walking towards the creature.
“Peach! This is a VERY bad idea!” Mario said. The woman then seemed to roar, stretching her arms up in the air.

Crisis yawned after her 5 minute trek from the Giant Tree. She rubbed her eyes.
Hmm…I wonder what I can find for breakfast… she thought. Then she heard a voice.
“Hello!” the voice called. It seemed feminine. Crisis looked down to see a woman in a pink dress and blonde hair, wearing a crown and white gloves. There was also a little man standing not too far away wearing tattered blue overalls, a red long sleeve, white gloves, and a red cap with an M on it. He had brown hair and a big black bushy mustache.
“Oh!” Crisis said in surprise, seeing that her search was over. “Who are you two? My name is Crisis. I‘m what you humans would call a naga.” she said with her most sincere smile.
“My name is Princess Peach. Me and my friend Mario here are from the Mushroom Kingdom.” the woman said gesturing to the man. “Could you please tell us where we are?”
“You’re in Felarya. It’s a wonderful paradise full of lush fields, forests, and jungles, but it is quite dangerous for two people your size.”
“Oh? Why would that be?” Peach asked.
“Allow me to demonstrate!” Crisis said lunging at the tiny princess. Peach didn’t have enough time to react, much less attempt an escape.
“Wh-what!? Put me down!” Peach screamed. “MARIOOOOOO! HELP!’ With that cry Mario snapped back into his senses.
“Peach!” Mario yelled as he jumped at Crisis. The naga simply slapped him out of the air. Crisis giggled.
“Hmmhmm. Let’s see if your taste holds true to you name!” Crisis said raising Peach high into the air and licking her lips.
“What!? NO! You don’t want to eat me!” Peach began to cry.
“Oh, but I do! You look so cute and tasty!” Crisis said opening her mouth. Peach looked down just to see the cavernous abyss.
“NO! MARIOOOO!” Peach cried feeling Crisis’s grip loosen. Crisis dropped her. Just as Peach was about to fall into her mouth, Mario jumped into the air and pushed Peach out of the way, then kicked Crisis’s top jaw incisors, knocking the naga down.
“Oh, a fighter. I like those!” Crisis said getting up and lunging at Mario. He rolled to dodge and hit Crisis with a Firebrand. “Ouch! That hurt!” Crisis whined rubbing the burn.
“Then reconsider eating us!” Mario said charging another Firebrand.
“Okay…” Crisis said. She wrapped her tail around Mario. “or not!”
“What!?” Mario said surprised. “You slimy-” but he was interrupted by Crisis throwing him in her mouth, swishing him around for a few moments, then swallowing him. Peach watched in horror as a lump traveled down Crisis’s throat, then disappeared into her body.
“Mmm!” Crisis said tracing the path of the helpless plumber. She then turned her attention to Peach. “Your turn!” Peach tried to run, but to no avail. Crisis quickly caught her and dangled her in front of her face and giggled. “Y’know, you’re kinda cute!” she said before throwing Peach into her mouth as she screamed, then swallowed her.

Peach was struck by a prang of terror as she slid down Crisis’s esophagus, yet she couldn’t help but be awestruck at the same time by the noises that surrounded her. She could hear the naga’s heart beating, the sound of her inhaling and exhaling. Her awestruck feeling died as soon as she felt the muscles of Crisis’s esophagus relax around her feet. She screamed and landed with a squishy thud, shaking from shock and terror.
I’ve just been EATEN! Peach thought to herself taking in her new environment. “Mario?” she called out.
“I’m here!” Mario called back. He grabbed Peach’s hand and pulled her up against the stomach wall. “Stay away from the center! That’s where the acid’s gathering!”
“Oh Mario, what do we do?” Peach said beginning to cry.
“I…I’m not sure. Her stomach seems to be fireproof, so I’m just about clueless.”
“Oh, Mario, we’re going to die in here!” Peach said between sobs.
“No we’re not. I’ve still got one or two ideas up my sleeve…or rather…” Mario took off his hat. “under my hat!” He pulled a Red Star from the hat and turned into Flying Mario. “Going up!” Mario said grabbing Peach’s hand and flying to the top of their fleshy prison as fast as possible.

Crisis was heading back to the Giant Tree full and happy.
“Eh? What’s going on?” She said as she felt something coming up her throat. She clutched her neck and bent over. “ACK!” She started coughing.

“Here we go!” Mario said seeing Crisis’s uvula. They shot out her mouth and hit the ground hard. Crisis fell over gagging, gripping her throat. Mario stood up slowly. “I told you to reconsider eating us…” Crisis gasped for air.
“How…in the…world…did…you…do that…?” she said between gasps.
“Well, I’ll tell you a little story about it as long as you don’t decide to eat us again.” Mario said. Crisis finally got her breath back.
“Okay, I love stories, but they have to be good ones.” she said, laying on her belly looking at the plumber intently.
“Well, it all started out in a city called Brooklyn…” Mario started.

1 hour later…

“…so with the help of the Lumas, the black hole was reversed and the universe was saved thanks to their valiant effort.” Mario continued. “Then yesterday we caught news of a portal, and headed there this morning. Unfortunately, so did Bowser. So he and his seven brats ambushed our plane this morning and we just barely made it through the portal, and here we are.”
“Wow. I never would have guessed that you had been on that many adventures.” Crisis said getting up. “And that was one good story! Now after knowing all that you have been through, I can see why you wouldn’t want to be eaten again.” Crisis said. “Tell ya what: I’m not going to eat you. In fact, I’m going to introduce you to some of my other friends! Don’t worry, they won’t eat you as long as you’re with me.”
“Great. But have you seen any of my friends? Or our plane for that matter?” Mario asked her.
“No I haven’t. For all we know, they could have been eaten by someone else by now.”
“Then there’s no time to lose! Please Crisis, could you help us find them?” Peach pleaded.
“Sure! I’d be glad to help! But do you mind if we stop for a bite on the way?” Crisis asked.
“Just as long as we’re not part of it.” Mario joked.
“Well then, let’s go!” Crisis said as she picked them up, put them on her shoulder, and slithered off into the jungle.

Chapter 4: Coura or Courage

Luigi was wandering through the jungle, scared half to death because he was all alone.
“Wh-wh-where am I?” Luigi asked himself. He tried recalling the events that had taken place that morning. “Let’s see…we were going to go investigate that portal…but before we got there, we were attacked by Bowser’s airships…oh, this isn’t helping!” He looked around and saw a cave. “Well, maybe I can just lie low here until I can get a hold of myself.” He walked over to the cave when he heard a hissing noise. “WAH!” He jumped and started backing into the cave. Realizing how dark the cave was getting, Luigi tried to calm himself. He started humming the song that E. Gadd had always been playing on his radio in his lab, as he had done when Mario was kidnapped and he had to infiltrate a mansion of ghosts. As the noise died off, Luigi’s hum died as well. “Phew… That was close.” He continued to back up until he tripped on a ledge. However, the fall was softer than he thought. “Eh?” He got back up and felt the ledge. “Probably a thick patch of moss…” he said trying to calm himself. He pulled out his flashlight and turned it on calmly. That feeling was immediately replaced by terror when he looked up.
Teeth.
He tried to run, but the mouth shut, leaving him scared nearly to a heart attack, and trapped.

Coura Keln Velna walked through her dream blissfully. She looked around and knew the dream quite well, and what would happen.
“The day everything went wrong…” Coura murmured. She was in her old sorceress’ academy, in Black Magic class. She looked over and saw her friend point to the teacher, then make a gagging gesture. Coura giggled.
“Ms. Velna, do you have something to add?” the teacher asked. Coura gulped.
“N-no sir!” she replied, almost in the tone of a soldier addressing a higher officer.
“Then why don’t you come up here and show us how to properly make a portal?”
“Yes sir!” Coura said getting out of her desk.

Luigi was filled with panic as the giant tongue smacked him into the back of the creature’s throat. He tried to grasp for the uvula, but was sucked down too far by the esophageal muscles. He screamed as his head was sucked down the throat.

Coura walked up to the teacher’s desk and started to mix some chemicals seeming nearly haphazard. As soon as she was done, she poured the concoction on the floor.
“Good Ms. Velna, now make a portal.” the teacher said. As soon as he did, she felt a queasy feeling in her stomach.

A prang of terror shot through Luigi as the muscles of the esophagus relaxed around him. He yelped as he landed with a splash in a puddle of nullified acid.
“Wh-what just happened?” Luigi asked, hoping that this was some sort of bad dream. Seeing that it wasn’t, he began to kick and punch the walls around him, hoping to get whatever it was’ attention.

Coura couldn’t even speak. She bent over feeling movement in her stomach like she had swallowed a rat. She ran out the door and into the hallway, much to the teacher’s displeasure.
“What’s going on!? Th-this isn’t normally how this dream goes!” Coura said to herself as she ran down the hall. She tripped and fell down the stairs…

Luigi felt an abrupt shift in motion, like the world was shifted 90 degrees. He fell over and got back up quickly. Realizing whatever had swallowed him was now active, he decided to let out his loudest scream he could, and since he had done plenty in the ghost infested mansion, he was quite good at it.
“HEEEEEEEEEEELP!”

Coura shot bolt upright from her sleep and looked around, glad that she wasn’t in the academy infirmary.
“It was only a dream…” she sighed, then heard a scream that seemed to reverberate through her whole body.
“Heeeeeeeeeeelp!”
“Huh? Who’s there?” Coura asked looking around.

Luigi was glad that his scream didn’t go unheard, but slightly surprised that the voice that responded was feminine.
“Down here! I’m not sure if it was intentional, but you’ve swallowed me!”
“What!?” the voice responded, sounding shocked.
“Yeah! C-could you please help me get out?”
“Oh my gosh, I’m terribly sorry! I’ll get you out right away!” the voice said, then murmured, “Where’d I put the blasted epicad?”
Epicad? Oh boy… Luigi thought. He knew full well what the person was trying to do.
“I’d suggest you brace yourself!” the voice called. A clear liquid began running down into the chamber and the stomach gave one heaving lurch. Before he knew it, Luigi was on the cave floor, covered in saliva and digestive juices.
“Mama…mia…” Luigi said, still trying to get his bearings. He looked up and saw a girl, about 110 feet tall, looking down at him through large navy blue eyes. She looked about the age of 16, and was wearing a sort of dark blue futuristic combat dress, a golden utility belt with several pockets for items, and a metal bracelet with weird markings on it. A pair of blue leather boots, a pair of matching gloves, and a golden staff were piled in one corner of the cave. She had hair that matched the color of her eyes, which was about shoulder length.
“Are you okay?” the girl asked bending over him.
“Y-yeah…I’m fine…wh-who…or what are you…?” Luigi asked, still dazed. The girl giggled.
“My name is Coura. Coura Keln Velna.” she said with a smile. “And believe it or not, I’m a human, just like you.”
“My name is Luigi, Luigi Mario. But if you’re a normal human, why…how…your height…” Luigi tried to ask, short for words at the current situation.
“Well, it’s a long story, but I’d be glad to tell you.” Coura said, switching her position to a cross legged sit. “You see, I come from an alternate Earth dimension that is farther in the future than yours.”
“Wait…Earth? I was born there, but I don’t live there now.” Luigi said. “Oh, sorry to interrupt.”
“No no, it’s fine, but…if you don’t live on Earth, where do you live?” Coura asked, tilting her head slightly.
“Well, I live in another world called the Mushroom Kingdom.” Luigi said. Coura giggled.
“I’m sorry, but…that’s a bit of a silly name.”
“You get used to it. Anyway, me and my brother Mario constantly have to fend off the plans of the evil King Bowser Koopa. But it’s no big deal. So you were saying?”
“Um…oh! Right! I was in Black Magic class studying on how to make trans-dimensional portals. I had to do a demonstration, and I had apparently pronounced one word wrong when opening the portal, so it imploded on itself right after I got sucked in. I was sent here, and ballooned up to 20 times my own size.” Coura explained. She seemed to have the tale memorized.
“Wow…that’s kind of sad…” Luigi said.
“Well, I’ve gotten used to living here. I’ve been here for about 2 years now.”
“Where is here anyway?” Luigi asked.
“I’m not too sure, but it’s called Felarya. The scary thing is, most normal humans like you are considered a snack around here by the local predators.”
“S-snack?” Luigi said, his teeth starting to chatter.
“Don’t worry, I’m not one of those walking stomachs out there! I’m still perfectly civilized, despite my height.”
“S-so…what are the local predators around here anyway?” Luigi asked, starting to calm down a bit.
“Mostly nagas, dridders, dryads, mermaids, and a few fairies too.”
“What? But I thought mermaids and fairies were nice creatures! I don’t know what the other things are, but they sound pretty nasty.”
“Well, the mermaids and fairies you’ve heard about are, but these ones are normally out for a snack. The mermaids here are actually my size while the fairies can change theirs. Nagas are half human, half snake, dridders are half human, half spider and-”
“Oh, I’ll show him a dridder honey!” a voice said from outside the cave. Before either of them could react, Luigi was pulled out of the cave by a web screaming.
“COURA! HEEEEELP!”
“Luigi! Oh, don’t worry, I’m coming!” Coura said as she jumped to her feet, grabbed her staff, and ran out of the cave entrance.

The dridder walked along at a leisurely pace on her eight legs.
“Luigi huh? I love Italian food!” the dridder laughed. She brushed away her long brown hair from her face. Luigi looked up at her from where he was stuck to her arm. He scanned her being, immediately noticing two things, one, that she was naked, and two, that where her legs should have been, there was the abdomen of a spider.
“B-believe me lady, y-you don’t want to eat me! I taste terrible! My friend Coura can vouch for that!”
“Sorry sweetie, but I gotta eat, no matter how bad the food tastes!” the dridder said licking her lips.
“Put him down!” a voice called out from behind them, each word sounding like its own sentence. The dridder turned to see Coura standing there, staff drawn, and pointed at her.
“Careful honey, toys like that can be dangerous for little girls like you.” the dridder said in a cocky tone.
“I’m not saying it again. Put him down, and nobody gets hurt.” Coura said, an obvious tone of rage in her voice.
“Oh, him?” the dridder said lifting the arm Luigi was stuck to. “Sorry, but he’s mine.”
“You’re just asking for it aren’t you? Let my friend go NOW.” Coura said, her voice getting a more firey tone.
“Okay, I’ll let him go.” the dridder said. Coura kept the staff pointed at her. Before she could react however, the dridder shot a web from her mouth onto Luigi and gulped him down. “Into my stomach that is!” Coura snapped. She hated seeing her friends eaten like this. It had happened to her friend John 117 awhile back, but he was well armed with guns and plasma grenades, and killed the dridder from the inside, but Coura didn’t know what Luigi had up his sleeve, if anything. She charged the dridder full force, but she just shot a web at Coura and stuck her to a tree.
“Sorry sweetheart, but you won’t get your way with a temper like that!” the dridder laughed as she began to walk away.

Luigi landed in the dridder’s stomach with a squish.
Not again… Luigi thought getting up. I’m stuck in another stomach, except this person…or thing wants to keep me here. As much of a pacifist as I am, I’m going to have to get out using force! He pulled a Fire Flower from his cap and his overalls turned green and his hat and shirt turned white. “Time to turn up the heat!” Luigi said as a green flame appeared in his hand.

The dridder hummed calmly feeling full and happy and…warm?
“Wh-what’s going on!? Th-this heat…in my stomach…AUGH!” the dridder shrieked as she burst into green flame. Coura just stuck there awestruck wondering what happened. Luigi broke out of the smoldering remains of the dridder.
“And THAT’S why we don’t play with fire!” Luigi said pointing at the carcass.
“Luigi…but…how?” Coura stuttered finally breaking out of the web.
“Fire Flower. Gives the holder the ability to shoot flames from their hands. Only found in the Mushroom Kingdom.” Luigi said with a smirk.
“That was AMAZING!” Coura said as she picked up Luigi and hugged him. Then both of them froze when they heard yelling and shouts.
Female shouts.
“That sounds like…DAISY!” Luigi said his eyes going wide.
“Daisy? Who’s that?”
“She’s a good friend of mine who came with me here, along with my brother and a bunch of our friends. And by the sound of it, she’s in big trouble!”
“Well hold on, we’ll go help her!” Coura said putting Luigi on her shoulder. She walked off into the jungle in the direction of Daisy’s yelling.

Chapter 5: Petal Pains

Daisy walked through a patch of lilies at a brisk pace, taking in the pleasant aroma of the flowers that surrounded her.
“For some strange world, this place is pretty nice!” Daisy said lying down among the lilies. “The only thing that has me confused is: where is everyone else? I remember a bright flash, then waking up in this forest. If the plane had crashed, why were we spread so far? Oh, who cares. I’ll just relax a bit, then I’ll go looking for the others. I mean, what could possibly be so dangerous in a patch of lilies? A bee? I’m so scared.” Daisy shut her eyes and put her arms behind her head.

Phlell jumped from lily to lily in one of her favorite flower beds.
Gurgle…
“Ugh, now I’m hungry.” the fairy said as she held her groaning stomach.
Gurgle…
“Oh, shut up! I’ll find food soon.” Phlell continued to jump the flowers when she saw a girl with brown hair wearing a yellow dress lying among the flowers. “Bingo.” Phlell whispered to herself. “She doesn’t seem to be from around here, or she wouldn’t be relaxing, meaning that this should be easy…” Phlell flew over to the girl. “Hello!”

Daisy opened her eyes to see a fairy about 2 inches tall with shoulder length emerald green hair and eyes with antlers sprouting from her temples wearing a makeshift bikini made of leaves hovering above her head.
“Oh, hello!” Daisy said sitting up. “Wow, a real fairy.” Daisy said holding out her finger for the fairy to land on. She accepted the gesture and landed on Daisy’s finger.
“Who are you?” the fairy asked.
“My name is Daisy. Who are you?” Daisy said politely.
“My name is Phlell. What are you doing out here?” Daisy sighed at the question.
“I’m not too sure. My friends and I were going to go check out some portal back home when we were attacked by my boyfriend’s brother’s enemy. We rushed into the portal, and there was a flash…then I don’t remember a thing. I just woke up a few yards from here.”
“Wow, that’s a pretty strange story. Kinda sad too.” Phlell said rubbing her right arm.
“The worst part of it was that I don’t know where anyone else is.”
“You may want to get started looking then. Felarya’s a dangerous place.”
“Felarya? Is that where I am? I’ve never heard of it.”
“That’s because the portal you were investigating was a trans-dimensional portal. You may not believe it, but you’re in a whole nother dimension!”
“Wow…wait, you said that this place can be dangerous…how?”
“This place is packed with preds. You have nagas, dridders, dryads, mermaids…the whole sort.”
“That’s weird. I’ve heard of nagas and dryads before in mythology, but never dridders. And I thought mermaids were nice creatures.”
“The ones you know are, but the ones here aren’t.” Phlell said. “Oh, there’s one more I forgot to mention.” she said jumping of Daisy’s finger.
“What’s that?” Daisy said standing up.
“Fairies.” Phlell said growing to Daisy’s height.
“Wha-? Y-you can’t be serious!” Daisy said backing away.
“I am completely serious. Though I like to play with my food first, so I’ll give you a fighting chance.” Phlell said. Daisy’s expression went from terror to serious as she threw a punch into Phlell’s jaw. “What the heck!? Do you work out or something?”
“I keep myself well defended.” Daisy said wagging her finger.
“Good. I like fighters!” Phlell said decking Daisy. She kicked Phlell off and stood up. She ripped off her dress to reveal her sports gear.
“Crystal SMASH!” Daisy shouted, jumping up and pounding the ground. Phlell didn’t have time to react as crystals shot out of the ground and knocked her over, sending her flying into a tree.
“Ouch…dang it…you’re good, but you’ve had your fun…” Phlell said getting up. She then began to grow.
“Oh man…” Daisy whined as Phlell stopped her growth at 100 feet.
“C’mere you!” Phlell said stooping down and snatching up Daisy.
“Let me go! This way messed up!” Daisy shouted, squirming in an attempt to escape.
“Sorry Daisy, but I gotta eat something, don’t I?”
“Yeah, but not me!”
“But you’re right here! Why go through the trouble to try and find someone else?” Phlell began raising Daisy higher into the air.
“This is no fair! You tricked me!” Daisy screamed in protest.
“True, but that’s somehow how I hunt.” Phlell opened her mouth letting Daisy see into the fleshy abyss below.
“Oh come on! You wouldn’t do this!”
“I would, and I have thousands of times before. Goodbye Daisy! It was nice knowing you!” Phlell said as she loosened her grip.
“Noooo!” Daisy screamed as she was dropped. Phlell’s mouth rushed up around her and she made a grab for the tongue. She clung to the saliva coated piece of flesh for dear life. “This is nuts! Let me out!” Daisy said as she attempted to climb the tongue, only slipping further down. Phlell readjusted and rolled Daisy around on her tongue a little bit, Daisy screaming the whole time. Phlell finally got bored and flicked her tongue back. Daisy hit the back of her mouth with a smack, but she reached and grabbed Phlell’s uvula.
“Ack!” Phlell gripped her throat and fell to her knees, gulping down air to try to dislodge Daisy. I hate it when my prey does this… Phlell thought.
“Great, I’ve only got one option now.” Daisy said as she looked up at her salvation. She braced herself and yanked the uvula as hard as she could. However, she lost her grip in the process, and was sucked down Phlell’s throat.

Coura walked into the patch of flowers with Luigi on her shoulder to see Phlell on her knees gasping. She ran over to her friend.
“Phlell!? Phlell, are you okay?” Coura said putting her hands on Phlell’s shoulders.
“I’m…fine…I…think…” Phlell said between gasps.
“Have you seen a girl in a yellow dress with brown hair lately?” Coura asked.
“I just….hrk!” Phlell doubled over, clutching her stomach.
“Phlell!” Coura said, holding on to her friend. Phlell just looked up at Coura…and vomited on her chest. “AUGH! Phlell! Give me some warning next-huh?” Coura looked down at her chest to see a girl in the regurgitated mess. Coura picked her up and gingerly put her on her palm.
“Daisy!?” Luigi said, in pure shock. He ran down Coura’s arm and to her.
“L-Luigi? Ugh…that was disgusting!” Daisy said, getting over the fact she had nearly been eaten rather quickly.
“Hey, don’t worry. It happened to me too, though it was accidental.” Luigi said. Coura blushed at the statement.
“So…you two know each other?” Phlell asked wiping her mouth off.
“He’s the guy I mentioned earlier.” Daisy said.
“My name’s Luigi. It would have been a bit nicer to meet you if you hadn’t just thrown up my friend just now.”
“Heh heh…A girl’s gotta eat, doesn’t she?” Phlell said blushing.
“Yeah, but it would be nicer if you didn’t eat us or our friends.” Daisy said standing up. “Oh, I guess I should know who’s palm I’m standing on. My name is Daisy.”
“I’m Coura. It’s nice to meet you.” Coura said, a tone of shyness in her voice.
“Likewise.” Daisy said, sitting back down next to Luigi.
“My name is Phlell, if you didn’t gather that from what Coura said.” Phlell said, looking slightly embarrassed.
“All introductions aside, how do we find the rest of our friends?” Luigi asked looking up at Coura.
“Well, I have a friend named Anna. She lives at the Giant Tree, along with a bunch of other preds. But if you guys are with me and Phlell, they won’t hurt you.” Coura said. “Anna should be able to track your friends since she knows a lot about technology and is a skilled huntress.”
“The other predators make me nervous, but…let’s try it. If what you’re telling us is true, then we should have nothing to worry about.” Luigi said.
“Then let’s go!” Phlell said starting off in the direction of the Giant Tree. Coura put Luigi and Daisy on her head and walked after Phlell.

Chapter 6: Flames of a Feather

Bowser sat on a log waiting for his son to return.
“Maybe I shouldn’t have send Jr. to scout out alone. For all I know, this place could honestly be dangerous. Bah! Who am I kidding? Jr. can handle himself! He’s nearly a full grown Koopa prince! He’ll be fine!” Bowser said to himself. He was getting bored, so he decided to get off the log he was sitting on and whittle it with his claws. A half hour past, and Bowser had nearly completed a statue of himself when Bowser Jr. came running into the clearing.
“Dad! Dad run!” Jr. said bolting past his father. Bowser grabbed him by the neckerchief he always wore.
“Hold up there son! What’s got you all riled up?” he asked setting his son down.
“Papa! It was scary! There was this giant snake lady! She jumped out at me and I ran!”
“Snake lady! Ha! That’s pretty cute Jr.! There’s no such thing as a-” but he was interrupted by a naga coming into the clearing. She was young, towering 69 feet above Bowser and Jr. She looked in her 20’s in human standards, had long fiery red hair, glistening green eyes, and had the body of a copperhead from the hips down, and like most other nagas, wore nothing.
“There you are!” she cooed. “Oh! And a bigger one too!”
“Hey lady! What’s the big idea chasing my son!?” Bowser bellowed up at the naga.
“Well, I was looking for someone to talk to, and now there’s two of you!” she said happily.
“T-talk? Gosh, you had me scared half to death there!” Bowser Jr. replied.
“I suppose it was a bit rude of me to chase you without you knowing who I am. My name is Scala.” the naga said, wiping a strand of hair from away from her eye.
“I am King Bowser Koopa! Leader of the Koopa Kingdom!” Bowser laughed, seeing that the creature wasn’t hostile.
“And I’m Bowser Jr. Nice to meet’cha!” Bowser Jr. said happily, stepping out from behind Bowser’s back and holding his hand out. Scala bent down and put her index finger in his hand to shake.
“So…you’re a king?” Scala asked cocking an eyebrow
“And a dang powerful one at that!” Bowser said heartily.
“Then that must make you a prince.” she said looking down at Bowser Jr.
“Yeah, but my older brother Ludwig will probably get the throne.”
“Don’t worry, you’ll be king someday!” Scala said, trying to comfort the little Koopa.
“Listen, we came here for resources, but me and Jr. here were separated from my other kids and our fleet. Do you think you can….ugh…help us?” Bowser asked hesitantly.
“Hmm…I suppose…” Scala said, but seemed uninterested. She coiled her tail around Bowser in a flash and lifted him up to her face, hanging him upside down.
“HEY! WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA!?” Bowser yelled loudly.
“Or, I could have a snack right now!” Scala said poking Bowser in the gut.
“DAD!” Bowser Jr. shouted.
“Nobody makes a meal of me!” Bowser said, breathing fire in Scala’s face. She dropped him.
“OUCH! Grr…why you little…!” she shot fire from her fingertips right at Bowser, who quickly ducked into his shell.
“What the heck are you!?” Bowser yelled, retreating from his shell and shooting a fireball at Scala.
“I’m a fire naga! Live with it!” Scala said, grabbing Bowser quickly and tossing him in her mouth.
“DAD! NO!!!” Bowser Jr. began to cry. Scala spit the tyrant out.
“Augh! You taste TERRIBLE!” Scala said wiping her tongue in an attempt to get rid of the awful flavor. Jr. ran over to his dad.
“Dad! Dad, you okay!?” Jr. asked panicking.
“Blargh. That was the most disgusting thing that’s happened to me in my life…” Bowser said, getting up, wiping saliva from his face.
“Yep, you’re fine.” Jr. said, all worry leaving his voice. Scala’s tail wrapped around him. “AH!”
“JR!” Bowser shouted, then he pointed at Scala and mumbled a few words. 4 black balls of energy bound by a circle of lightning that flashed white and purple appeared above her head, then lowered, tightening around her forehead.
“Ack! What is this thing!?” Scala shouted trying to pull off the band. She dropped Jr.
“Shut up and listen!” Bowser shouted. Scala snapped to attention as her pupils shrank.
“Yes master?” Scala said in a monotone voice. Bowser chuckled.
“You seem to be strong enough! Build me a castle! And a big one at that!” Bowser demanded.
“Yes master…” Scala said deadly.
“Oh, but first, do you have any friends to help with the project?” Bowser inquired.
“Yes.”
“Good. Take me to some of them!” Bowser said. Scala picked them up and placed them on her shoulder.
“As you wish master…” Scala said, slithering off into the jungle.
“Oh this is gonna be good…” Bowser snickered rubbing his hands together.

Chapter 7: Mechanical Meets Maniacal and Magical

Ludwig and Kamek were taking some observations on the surrounding wildlife in the forest.
“Very interestink…” Ludwig said rubbing his chin. “Zis plantlife zeems to be larger zan normal, but all ze animals zeem to be normal zize!”
“Could it be that this place is inhabited by large organizms?” Kamek suggested.
“Zat eez a very good possibility…but it zeems razer illogical…”
“True, but think about it. We’re on the other side of some portal, with no clue what--or who--lives here. For all we know, we may be the smallest intelligent life forms here!”
“Let’s just hope not…” Ludwig said looking into the jungles, feeling that they were being watched.

Anna carefully slithered through the jungle, being careful not to make any noise, especially since she had heard talking nearby.
“I gotta find breakfast soon or I’m going to starve…” Anna mumbled. “I just hope those humans I heard aren’t too far away…” She looked through some trees to see two humanoid figures taking observations nearby. “Bingo.” She whispered, then quickly covered her mouth.
“Vat was zat?” the shorter of the two asked. He looked in her direction, but missed her completely. Anna didn’t know what to think of the little creature. He looked like a mutated turtle with a spiked shell, walked on two legs, had one tooth sticking out in the front center of his mouth, and poofy blue hair that reminded her of Beethoven, someone she had heard about when she was a human. The other one seemed to be turtle like as well, but he wore a long blue robe, a pointed hat, and one way spectacles that had big black frames. His face was beak-like, and he had two teeth sticking out like fangs.
“What the heck are those…?” Anna said. Feeling her stomach walls grind together, she decided thatt they weren’t human and just eat.

“Kamek, I svare ve are beink vatched!” Ludwig said to the mage.
“I’ve been getting that feeling as well. She’s been there for a few minutes now.” Kamek said. He heard a small feminine gasp from the jungle. Brandishing his wand, he turned in the direction of the noise and said “You can come out now.” Ludwig was expecting a small human girl hiding there, but was shocked at what came out instead. A woman in her early twenties with the body of a blue snake with a yellow underbelly came out of the jungle. She had shoulder length pink hair, piercing yellow eyes, and was surprisingly wearing nothing.
“Vat in ze world are you!?” Ludwig shouted, jumping back behind Kamek.
“Typical response. I’ll give you a bit of a lesson then. My name is Anna, and I’m a naga, half human half snake, but I wasn’t always this way, though I suppose I should be lucky to be alive. I used to be a normal human mechanic, but that’s besides the point. You two are…?”
“I am Kamek, head Magikoopa of King Bowser’s army. And, this is his eldest son, Ludwig von Koopa.” Kamek replied with some authority in his voice.
“Good. I want to know what I’m eating, seeing as I‘ve never seen a ‘koopa‘ before.” Anna replied, putting her hands on her hips.
“E-eat!?” Ludwig squeaked. He began to run, but it was to no avail. Anna scooped him up and grabbed Kamek as well.
“I think I’ll start with the chubby one first.” Anna said, lifting Ludwig higher into the air.
“V-vait! Stop! I-I’ll do anything you vant!” Ludwig stammered, trying to break free.
“Can you turn me into a human again?” Anna said cocking an eyebrow, but it was Kamek who answered.
“Actually, I could look into it.” he said nonchalantly.
“Is that so? How’d you do that?“ Anna asked.
“Well, I kinda need to be put down to use my magic honey.” Kamek said in a matter of fact tone.
“Okay, but if either of you two try to run, I’ll gulp both of you down with no regrets.” Anna said putting the Koopas down. Ludwig was glued where he was by Anna’s threat. Kamek pulled out a big red book from his robe.
“A spell to turn a reptile into a human…hmm…” Kamek mumbled, flipping through the book. “Aha! Here it is!” Kamek said smacking his finger down onto the page. “Okay, you’re going to need to lie down on your stomach so I can reach your forehead.” Anna complied, full of excitement. She was finally going to be a human again! Kamek drew a symbol on her forehead with a charcoal pen he always carried and stepped back. He mumbled a few words, and Anna began to glow. There was a flash, and where Anna had once been laying, there was a human with Anna’s same characteristics, only the average height of a woman, and she was wearing a grey T-shirt stained with oil, blue jeans, and white running shoes. She slowly got to her feet and looked at her hands.
“H-how…?” she stuttered, still confused after the flash. After realizing what had happened to her, and that she was human again, she jumped on Kamek and hugged him. Hard. “Oh thank you thank you thank you!” She then realized what she was doing. She jumped back and brushed herself off. “Erm…well…thanks…” she said scratching the back of her head.
“Don’t mention it, but we need to find Ludwig’s siblings, as well as his father.” Kamek said looking around.
“Well…I have my equipment back at the Giant…Tree…” Anna’s voice trailed off. “OH DANGIT!” she said slapping herself in the forehead.
“Vat’s ze problem?” Ludwig asked, relived that the threat of being eaten was over.
“The Giant Tree is home to a BUNCH of predators, my ‘friend’ Crisis chief among them. She eats humans like I used to smoke.” Anna said wagging her finger.
“Well, I’ve lived a good life.” Kamek said walking up to Anna. “I’ll give it a go.”
“Are you MAD man!?” Ludwig said, grabbing Kamek and shaking him. “Ve could EASLIY be killed!”
“I know that, but if we stay here, we have a higher chance of getting killed, where as if we go to the Giant Tree that Anna mentioned, we have a chance of them recognizing her and no harm will come to us at all.” Ludwig let him go.
“…I’ll go viz ze tree zen.” Ludwig said.
“Good. Then let’s get going. It’s a 5 minute slither from here as a naga, but as a human, I’d say about a 10 minute hike.” Anna said walking into the jungle. Kamek followed, with Ludwig close behind him.
“I just hope zis plan vorks…” Ludwig wimpered.

This post has been edited by Black Boo on Jan 5 2009, 07:33 PM

Hm.

Pretty good, I don't know what more to say. It will be nice to see the next chapter.

Thanx for the one reply.

And why I put "most astonishing" is because Mario hasn't been exposed to that kind of stuff that much/abruptly.

But thanks! I'll have the next chapter done soon.

Hey, a question for all of you! Should the Koopalings play a major role in this? Like actually go with Bowser? The way I have it planned now, they go with, but I'm not to entirely sure.

This post has been edited by Black Boo on Dec 21 2008, 02:03 PM

:PP

I don't know what to say about fanfics, I usually dislike them just because they're... well, fanfics.

But this one's sort of okay. I can't wait to read what's on the other side on the portal and what was with Mario's dream.

Chapter 3 m'boy, chapter 3.

In the meantime, chapter 2's up!

Best advice you can ever get for creative writing:

"Show, don't tell."

Your story is primarily dialogue so far, so this recommendation may be a little hard to apply, but as for the short spurts of descriptive writing you have, I think you need to work on showing, and not telling. It's a common mistake a lot of writers have.

Don't tell me that the trees looked beautiful on that summer day (as an example), tell me why, how, etc. Tell me how they seemed to dance, and how the wind seemed to sing a soft, playful duet with the branches; how the red and orange leaves spiraled down to the ground like fiery ballerinas, and so on and so forth. Just telling me that the day is pretty isn't enough.

You see what I'm getting at?

Ah, yeah, thanks.

Don't worry, chapter 3 or so will get more descriptive, and you'll wish I hadn't.

she isn't really telling you to be more descriptive as much as she is telling you to describe in a different way

I get ya. Personification and stuff. Yeah. I got it. Thanks.

I'll do chapter 3 tomorrow and stuff.

Looks good so far! Sound slike it's gonna have something to do with Ancient Greece and Medusa.

Anyways, it does need a little more detail, but if you want to go in depth with detail, add Pictures.

I've got a bet for all of you! If someone can figure out who the snake-girl (naga) was in chapter 1, I'll give you a referance. Just a test.

And to make you feel better, I'm not starting till tomorrow.

Personification and descriptive imagery aren't the only way to "show, not tell;" they're merely implements used to. If that's all you use, though, it gets pretty boring. You gotta vary your techniques and master them. Forcing analogies and metaphors is just as bad as not using it at all.

What "show, not tell" means that you can't tell your readers that something is the way it is (i.e. beautiful, wonderful, horrible, nice, generous, etc.). They have to come to that conclusion from what you write. They should read your work, and (to continue my earlier example), know and deduce that the trees blowing in the summer winder were beautiful. They should be able to tell from your writing, so you don't have to tell them it is; they already know.

Oh, and I should get off of Medaf's account, sorry.

This post has been edited by Mr. Aforcer on Dec 21 2008, 08:50 PM

Oh, okay, NOW I get it. Heh heh...yeah...

And you had me thinking you actually were Meda there for a bit Mrs. A!

Huh

Mrs A

Naww, I'm just using his computer at his house, and sometimes I feel bad logging off his account just to make one or two posts, because when he gets back on his computer, he doesn't realize he's been logged off. It can be a little confusing at times.

But that's what makes it fun! :P

Going to start on chapter 3: "A Crisis Situation"

You'll get the joke when you read the chapter.

Aww...I'll be gone for 6-8 hours guys. I'll post the chapter when I can get reconnected to the internet.

Okeyday! Part 3's up!

Guys, can I get some comments on chapter 3 please? I won't start 4 until I do...or until I figure something out. :P