Super Mario and the Elements of Harmony

The heroes went outside of Professor Frankly’s house and into the streets of Rogueport.  Mario, holding the magical map, knew the location of one of the Star Spirits.  Of course, he actually didn’t need to look at the map at all, because he knew where all of the enemies’ locations were.  Mario told the others, “The first Star Spirit should-a be at Hooktail Castle.”

“Oh, are we going to have to fight Hooktail again?” Goombella asked.

“Wait, who’s Hooktail?” Spike asked.

Goombella answered the young dragon, “Hooktail is a large dragon who used to be a pet of the Shadow Queen.  Hooktail was also the guardian of the first Crystal Star that we captured to unlock the Thousand Year Door and defeat the Shadow Queen.”

“Whoa, a dragon?  Awesome!” Spike exclaimed.

Mario led the way to the sewers of Rogueport in order to take the pipe to Petal Meadows, which was just outside where Hooktail Castle was.  Twilight, Spike, Mario, Yoshi, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and finally Goombella went down into the pipe to get into the sewers.  They took a hallway to the right, leading to an area of water with two floating, moving platforms leading to yet another pipe.  One at a time, they went across and into the pipe, leading to Petal Meadows.

The pipe sent them out to a flowery field, where the petals danced around as the wind blew.  They could see the castle just off to the distance.

“Hey, should we a-go to Petalburg to a-get Koops?” Mario asked Goombella, referring to the koopa who tagged along on the last adventure Mario had on this island.  Petalburg was a while passed the castle.

“I don’t think he’d come along,” Goombella replied.  “He ended up marrying his girlfriend Koopie Koo, and they actually have two young kids now.”

That was news to Mario.  “I always a-thought he was a-gay,” Mario replied.  He saw Goombella glaring at him for his rudeness.  “Not that there is anything a-wrong with that.”  Goombella smiled and rolled her eyes.

The heroes walked over to yet another pipe that led to the castle which was in the distance behind them.  Mario went in first, and he appeared in the distance in front of the castle.  The others followed him one at a time.

Upon walking into the castle grounds, Spike looked up at the magnificent building.  “Wow, I guess this is how all dragons live,” he said enviously.

They walked across the fixed wooden bridge to get inside the castle.  The doors were all unlocked due to Mario’s previous time in the castle.  As the heroes walked through the many rooms, and going up the many stairs, they came to a room full of the bones of dead koopas.  Spike had a disgusted look as he looked at the dried out bones of the previous creatures that tried to come and slay the dragon that lived here.  “Hehe!  Look at this guy,” Pinkie Pie shouted while picking up a skull that looked like it was smiling.  Suddenly, however, Pinkie through the skull against the ground, shattering it, due to seeing a red koopa skeleton standing right beside her.

“How dare you disturb Hooktail’s sleep?” the red bones said to the heroes.

Pinkie Pie jumped back with a shocked expression and let out a scream.  “It talks!”

“Prepare to meet your DOOM!” yelled out the red bones.  Dozens of dull bone skeletons fell from the roof.  They were all alive and started to try to push the heroes out the doors.  The heroes fought back, smashing the skeletons and making their way to the door that the red skeleton was now guarding.  Rainbow picked up skeletons and threw them against others.  Pinkie pulled her party canon out of nowhere and starting shooting confetti and the skeletons.  Twilight zapped a few with her magic while Spike and Mario punched others.  Yoshi tried to eat one but spit it out at the disgusting taste.  Meanwhile, Fluttershy kept apologizing to all of the shattered skeletons.

Mario made his way to the red skeleton and touched him.  Instantly, all of the other ones ran out of the room, and the red skeleton prepared himself for battle.  “You’ll go no further, and from this moment on you’ll be nothing but bones,” the red bones said while holding up his fist.  “This is where you die.”

Mario shattered the bones with one kick to the chest.  “Well, a-that was easy,” Mario said.  The heroes moved on, making their way up the castle towards the top, where the big red dragon was most likely sleeping.

The heroes opened a large door, leading to bridge that connected with the tower where Hooktail was.  They dodged a few swoop downs by paratroopas as they made their way across the bridge.  One final paratroopa stood in their way.  As he swooped down to hit them, Rainbow flew and grabbed him and threw him down to the ground nearly fifty metres down.  She watched as he hit the floor hard, losing his shell.  Rainbow’s face showed that she clearly did not mean to throw him that hard, but they had to move on.

They walked up the long, winding staircase that went around and up the tower of the castle.  At the top, Mario still had lots of energy, but that was because of riding Yoshi the whole way up.  Spike, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie all fell down at the top due to being tired from the high climb.  Rainbow flew up the side of the tower and also had energy to spare.  After the tired heroes gathered enough energy, they went into the large doors, leading to the upper chamber of Hooktail.

Sleeping on top of a mountain of gold and jewels, the large red dragon slept soundly.  The snoring was nearly loud enough to wake the dead.  Rainbow flew up towards the sleeping dragon.  “Oh, Rainbow, please me careful,” Twilight pleaded.

Rainbow went into the face of the dragon and yelled out, “Hey!  Wake up and give us back our Star Spirit!”  Rainbow then kicked her in the nose, causing the giant dragon to scream into the face of the pegasus, whose mane blew back due to the force of the scream.  “Wow, do you even brush?” Rainbow asked while nearly gagging due to the horrid smell from the dragon’s mouth.

Hooktail whipped her tail around and hit Rainbow, sending the mare to hit the wall and lose another life.  Hooktail then blew fire at the others, burning them all and causing each of them to also lose a life, except for Spike, who was still standing as the fire blew all around him but did not harm him.  “Hey guys, we can just ask her for the-” Spike tried to say before her was interrupted by Twilight sending a beam of magic into the dragon’s chest.  The dragon paused for a second, and then laughed at the tickle that the magic gave her.

Jumped and did a ground pound on the dragon’s toe, causing her to hold it and wince from the pain.  She spit out more fire at Mario, but this time he dodged it.

“Um… We could just ask her for the Star Spirit back,” Fluttershy suggested to Rainbow.

“Yeah, that’ll work,” Rainbow said sarcastically as she took to flight and started to fly around the dragon quickly to make her dizzy.  Hooktail spun around and around as she followed the rainbow-maned pegasus.  Hooktail had to pause as she started to stumble, but she didn’t end up failing.  All that did was cause her to scream once again.

Spike walked over to Fluttershy and whispered his plan in her ear.  Fluttershy agreed and allowed him to jump on her back.  She bravely took to flight with the little purple dragon on her back and went to face the dragon.  The others stared in amazement as they saw the bravery of the shy yellow pegasus.

“Excuse me, Hooktail, but my friend would like to speak to you,” Fluttershy quietly said.

“What do you want?” the dragon replied.

“Whoa, you can talk?” Spike asked.

“Of course I can talk.  Why did you disturb my sleep?” she asked.

“Well, um, we are looking for a card with a star on it.  Have you seen it?” Fluttershy asked.

“What?  This?” Hooktail asked while pulling out the card with Mamar on it and giving it to Spike.  “Some ugly dude gave it to me.  I don’t even care about it.  It isn’t even shiny.  Take it and let me sleep.”

Spike grabbed the card and thanked the dragon, who fell back asleep.  They brought the card down to Mario, who was in shock, along with the others.

“Wait a minute, all we had to do was ask?” Rainbow shouted out.

“Um, yeah,” Fluttershy replied with a smile.

Mario came over and touched the card, freeing Mamar, who thanked the heroes by saying, “Thank you all so very much.  Discord has really created chaos here.  I wish you all the best of luck.”

The heroes said goodbye to the Star Spirit, who flew out the window and into the sky to go back to Star Haven.  The second Star Spirit was found, but five remained in order to unlock the Thousand Year Door, where Discord was waiting with either Applejack or Rarity.   Where their final friend was being held was beyond the heroes’ knowledge, but they had to take one task at a time.  The next star was most likely in The Big Tree in Boggly Woods, and that was where the heroes were going to go next.