Mario Concept with a side of Fiction

 

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   "This is a warp point.  My powers use paintings like this to bring us somewhere else; whatever's in the painting.  They both stared forward at the mountain, the cannons, the falling debris, the craters dotting the landscape.  Link thought the placed looked a little like the Death Mountain province, but doubted it was.  Mario grabbed Link's wrist and stepped into the painting.
    The chain chomp saw them.  Link shoved his way in front of Mario and threw his shield up.  WHAP.  Link was thrown back a great distance; his shield was thrown further.  The onyx giant hunched in front of Mario let out a loud roaring bark.  Just as it jumped again, Mario sprung up into the sky and landed behind it.  The chomp looked confounded, easily confused.  Very dumb.  Link pulled his bow from its resting place and grabbed an arrow, threaded it, pulled it back, and it launched itself into the eye of the black beast.
    Mario had seen a chomp of this kind before and knew knew there was nothing they could do to dispatch it, so he simply ran and yelled at Link to do the same.  The beast gave chase to Link, partially blinded, but eventually reached the end of its long chain.  Link brought his bow back up with thoughts of finishing it off.
    "You'd best not waste your arrows.  It's futile, what you're thinking.  A beast like this can't be killed, only contained.  Curse the King for bringing this chain chomp to life."
    Link said nothing.
    "At any rate, we're one step closer to the Bomb Lord.  He rules these lands.  You'll have to take him on in combat if we wish to have control over the bob-ombs.  That is the only way he'll call a truce with us.  You'll have to do it because you're the one with the bombs.  He will pick you, and not me."
    "Alright," Link spoke.
    This place was a battlefield; two unknown factions firing cannons at each other over great distances.  Swiss-cheese clouds lined the sky and the sun shone down through the plentiful holes.  The mountain in the distance was illuminated, and a modest castle could be seen resting upon its peak.  Staring off, Mario's mind wandered off to when he was brought to this kingdom as a child for his training.

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