Paper Mario TCS: Chapter 1

Summary of the previous chapter: Mario and Luigi were invited to princess peaches party. Minutes after they arrived a flash of light shown through the sky. Mario and Luigi went to investigate, to their surprise there was a clocked figure hovering over a little toad girl. Mario dashed to the rescue only to be blasted off one with the girl and Luigi...

part 1: enchanted forest

“Hey M.r?” Said a voice “are you ok?”

Mario woke up with suddenly, panicked. “Who are you?” He asked looking around frantically.

“I’m Susie.” She replied with a bit of pride.

Mario immediately jumped up noticing that Luigi wasn’t there. “Where’s Luigi!?” He are checking around the place.

“You mean the green one?” She replied, getting a slight nod from Mario. “Oh, he went to get some water. That was… about… maybe 2-3 hours ago?” Pointing to the right.

Instead of replying or coming up with a plan, Mario ran off to the direction Susie pointed. “Hey wait up!!!” Susie yelled as she chased after him.

Mario leaped past trees at a  fast pace not stopping to relax. Once he got to a darker part of the forest Mario stop to catch his breath. He heard a twig snap nearby as he finally got to sit down. He jumped up looking around seeing what will come out. Susie popped out behind a small group of trees toppling over as she appeared.

“oh it’s just you…” he said with a breath of relief “I really thought you were something else.”

“It’s fine” she replied getting up off the ground. “I completely would have done that.”

“Hey Susie do you think that Luigi went in there?” Mario asked pointing to the direction where the forest gets darker.

“Uh…” she started as she looked around the area. “There is  a 78% chance of him going here due to the foot steps and the broken plants.”

Mario starred blankly, surprised that such a young girl could possibly have known that. He shook his head and faced the forest and glanced at each other. They both nodded and headed closer into the darker part of the forest…