The Legend Of Ravadus: ~Chapter 1: The Boo, The Koopa and The Stolen Treasure~

It was an early monday, the time was around 7 am. It had only been 3 days since the King of Ravadus had issued a search for Lambert and the missing artifact. The treasure was a valid symbol of Ravadus and was kept hidden from the rest of the world at the fear of it falling into the wrong hands. Our tale starts with the center of our current main character, Blaze. Blaze was a templar knight that served as the king's bodyguard. He was a Fire Bro, a type of koopa that specialized in shooting fire out of their mouths. Blaze was not only able to shoot fire out of his mouth but also able to do alot of other things with it as well. He wanted to take place in the search since Lamvert was his closest friend and was curious as to why he would take the Ravadus Royal Family Treasure. Blaze had just made it to the Mushroom Kingdom, the place that he was going to start his search. The people of Ravadus had suspected that Lambert would have been prelonged dead, Blaze knew that his friend had to be alive somewhere. Looking around the outskirts of the kingdom he slowly made his way in, it was an early morning so there weren't that many people out at this time. Blaze made his way to the inn first to speak with the clerk. As he entered the inn the clerk was sitting at his desk reading, Blaze rubbing the back of his helmet before he approched the clerk and taking out a picture.

Blaze: Sorry to bother you kind sir...but have you seen this person? He went missing and I need to locate him.

The clerk looked at the photo and shaked his head no, Blaze nodded to the clerk and made his way out of the inn. Blaze looked around as he could see that the sun had slowly risen into the sky after awhile, he could spot some kids playing around the area. A smile slowly spreads across his face as he slowly started to make his way around town, showing different people around town the picture, each one saying they have never seen the person before. After about 30 mins of asking and getting a no answer, Blaze made his way over to a fountian and sat on the edge of it.

Blaze: Man...I don't think he came to this town at all...no one has claim to have seen him or anyone that looks like him.

Blaze lets off a small sigh as a small girl runs past him, the girl stops as she took a small glance at the photo as she passed.

Girl: Oh, I know that person.

Blaze: *quickly looks in her direction as he opens his eyes widely* You mean you've seen the person in his photo?

Girl: *she nods to him* Yes I do, I was going to go see him before I had to go to school. I can show you where he is.

Blaze: Oh could you? I would like that very much.

The girl turns and started to make her way along the outskirts of town, Blaze being rather confused at the moment followed after the girl. After about 10 mins the girl makes her way over to what looks like a tree, with a hole in it. Blaze was wondering why a tree would be way out here. The girl makes her way close to the tree and jumps into the hole, disappearing from sight. Blaze sees this happen as he runs to the hole and looks down it, he leans far enough to the point he falls down a hidden Warp Pipe inside of the tree. He finalyl arrives at the bottom as he lands on his head, feeling dizzy at the moment his eyes finally focus as he spots the girl a few feet from where he is, the girl skips over to him and helps him turn right side up.

Girl: You need to be more careful you know? You could hurt yourself. *giggles*

Blaze rubs the back of his head as he smiles a little bit. The girl turns and makes her way to what looks like the entrance to an old factory, the double doors appeared to be closed and yet the keypad on the side still worked, the girl walks over to the keypad and punches in a few numbers as the doors open, she turns and makes her way over to Blaze, looking up at him.

Girl: I have to get to school in a few...can you give this to him? *she hands him a piece of paper with a drawing on it*

Blaze: Eh...sure thing.

The girl smiles to Blaze before turning and walking over to where the warp pipe is, she leaps up through it and disappears from sight. Blaze blinks a few times as he watches her leave, he looks at the open doors and makes his way towards the factory entrance. As he walked down the abandon hallways he had almost forgot about the paper he was holding, stopping for a few seconds he looks at the paper and blinks. There appeared to be a drawing of what looked like a jet black boo with silver eyes holding a small black mirror, Blaze gazed at the drawing as he reconized the mirror in the picture, it was the missing treasure that they had been looking for. Blaze turns his gaze back on the boo as he stares at it for a second, bringing the drawing close to his face he noticed that right under the boo was a name.

Blaze: Booey? That's an odd name...is that the name of this ghost? If that is the case...why does it have that mirror...?

Blaze brings the picture even closer to his face as he stares closely at the boo's eyes.

Blaze: It's eyes are silver...like Lambert's...wait...this ghost...is it Lambert? If so...then...then he really did die.

Blaze stumbles a little bit as he leans back againist the wall, slowly sliding down the side of it as he takes a moment to catch his breath. Despite this fact, Blaze refused to think that his friend had died unless he saw it with his own eyes. He took a few moments to gather himself before he slowly stood up, holding onto the drawing he started to slowly make his way down the hallway. He never did care to much for dark places but it was the only lead he had to go on if he wanted to find Lambert, as well as the treasure. Blaze continued to wonder around the factory, though he felt like he was mainly going around in circles, after awhile he finally stumbles upon what seems like a testing chamber of some kind. Blaze figured this would be a good place to take a break after all that wondering around he had done, making his way over to what looked like a bench he flops down on it and leans his head back againist the wall, he was tuckered out from all the walking and wondered if there really was anything in this deserted factory.

Blaze: I wonder if there is really anything here, I've wondered around for maybe an hour and have found nothing.

Blaze was about to dose off just as he hears a small whistle like sound, turning his head towards the doorway he sees a series of purple clouds slowly float into the room, each one of the clouds slowly made it's way over to him, Blaze stares at the purple clouds as they started to slowly assume form. Yellow eyes started to form in the center of the purple clouds as the clouds finally started to take form which turned out to be Dark Boos. The Boos laughed and cackled loudly to themselves, the circled around Blaze, casuing the bench he was sitting on to slowly lift up off of the ground and hover around the room, Blaze held onto the bench so as not to fall off of it. Blaze could feel the room spin around and around out of control as the Boos spun the bench around, after awhile a voice could be heard from the doorway casuing the Boos to grind to a halt and drop the bench. Blaze rubs the top of his helmet as he slowly rose his head up to look towards the doorway along with the Dark Boos. A black mirror slowly floated into the room, as the mirror got closer a transparent being could be seen holding the mirror, it continued to get closer and at the same time it became more and more visible. Blaze stared back at the being as it had finally come into view, it appeared to be a boo similar to the Dark Boos, except it was a jet black color with silver eyes. Blaze's mouth quivered a little bit as he looked down at the picture of the black boo, then slowly looked back at the black boo floating infront of him.

Blaze: L...L...Lambert...is that you?

The black boo just continued to stare back at Blaze as it didn't utter a single word nor made a single jester, it just continued to stare back at Blaze with those cold silver eyes.