As evil and goodness began
to take form, the struggle between the two entities began to intensify
before a cataclysmic event occurred in the form of a blinding white light.
This explosion of the forces was so drastic and so extreme that the remnants
of the battle could still be seen today in the form of the starry universe.
These infinite stars, so concentrated with the purity of Love, was the very
birthplace of the protectors of the galaxies and thus the sacred STAR
SPIRITS were born.
Many a years had passed in
a sense that it would seem infinite. Something grand was forming during this
time, something that would alter the course of the universe forever. Seven
of some of the strongest Star Spirits were collaborating on the creation of
something that could only be described as a miracle. Pouring their hearts
and souls into their creation, the Star Spirits were building a road of
seven immensely powerful stars around an empty spot in the universe. The
construction of this "STAR ROAD" was to be the Star Spirits pride
and joy, the epitome of love and an everlasting symbol of all that is good
and righteous.
No one knows exactly who,
or what, or how the EARTH was created... but does it really matter? For the
planet was created in love. Much to the delight of the Star Spirits, this
new world grew within the center of their very own Star Road for they now
understood that this was to be the home of many creatures that they could
love, nurture, and protect. This was DESTINY… this was FATE… as this was
all planned before there was even a before. Love was soon to have a home.
Unfortunately, all was not
perfect in Earth's conception. Once Evil and darkness got wind of
Love's creation, it became jealous and enraged and used all its power and
energy to place a powerful curse upon the world. One of earth's
creatures known as the HUMAN RACE, was destined to do many a glorious things
during their time in the universe. Yet what darkness saw and knew, was
that their destiny also held an inherent corruption in the ways of evil, as
Hatred was a powerful quality in all those who had the ability to think.
Evil planted thousands of eggs that were to grow as the humans anger and
hatred grew. Once the intolerances amongst the humans reached beyond the
point of no return, it would be then of their own accord that the eggs would
hatch and the beings known as the KOOPAS would enslave the world.
The Star Spirits fought
long and hard to reverse the KOOPAHARIAN CURSE, but it was too late, for the
humans future sins were so powerful that it leaked into the past. While the
Star Spirits couldn't reverse the spell, they could combat it. Using all
their wits, they cleverly split the earth into two dimensions on the one
earth, separating the eggs from the world that was to house the human race,
protecting them from the Devil's own Koopaharian race. In rivalry of the
eggs planted by evil, the Star Spirits planted mushrooms all throughout the
new world that would absorb all the humans love in the hope that it might
counteract the Koopaharian eggs that absorbed hate and prevent the eggs from
ever even hatching. The ancient Star Spirits truly thought that their
smart thinking had saved earth from a hellish fate and ensured Love's
victory over the timeless battle between good and evil.
While seemingly the Star
Spirit's plan had worked, several serious and unexpected repercussions had
occurred. It was true that there was two separate dimensions, but the split
had also created a gray area in between known as the Sub-Conscious or merely
“SUB-CON”. Perhaps the most inexplicable of all, the Star Spirit's
powerful good intentions had seeped into the earth's soil of the cursed eggs
and transformed what was once barren and empty lands into a fairy tale
universe that's beauty and magic was matched only by some of it's more scary
and freakish parts. The soil, rich with the essence of Love, had absorbed
into the mushrooms the Star Spirits planted, causing the twitch of life to
awaken in the fungus.
As time past on the one
Earth, many creatures came and went during the vast history of its origin.
Dreading the day of if or when the curse of the Koopa would come true, the
Star Spirits for over a billion years combined their strength to alter
destiny and to give life some kind of protection against the terrible
creatures of darkness. Their prayers were finally answered in the form of a
prophecy of hope that destiny bestowed upon the worlds....
Two earthly brothers would be born into one world and would be raised in
another, whom both would one day return to their homeland as the chosen
warriors against the Koopas. These twin brothers alone had the power to stop
the Koopaharian Curse, but if they ever so much as dared succumb to the
seductive powers of hate... Love would forever be destroyed and Evil would
have finally won.
Not understanding the exact meaning of the prophecy, the Star Spirits came
to the conclusion that when the time was right… all would make sense.
The days came when the
evolution of the human race began, much to the anxiety of the Star Spirits.
Watching both dimensions closely during this mysterious time, the Star
Spirits became shocked as they witnessed not only the human race spring into
life, but the magical mushrooms they had planted millennium's ago had also
grown souls as they evolved into a new lifeform. In fact, evolution
looked kindly upon all the creatures in the MUSHROOM WORLD. Even some
species of dinosaur that were long extinct in the HUMAN WORLD, evolved into
peaceful, happy and loving creatures known as the YOSHI. Millions of
years passed as they watched the two world's inhabitants grow their own
separate ways on the earth, each world unknowing of the others existence.
While human beings always had a sadistic streak within them, the Star
Spirits were amazed at how peaceful the MUSHROOM PEOPLE and all creatures in
the Mushroom World coexisted with one another and with nature, in complete
harmony.
Over the centuries, guilt
thrust its ugly head over the sacred Star Spirits as they realized the plan
that was once conceived to protect one world might have in fact doomed
another's as their eyes were opened to just how powerful the human's hate
was.
The sacred Star Spirits
finally made sense of the prophecy destiny had given the earth so long
ago. For over thousands of years in the history of both dimensions,
human beings had occasionally and accidentally warped over into the Mushroom
World through concentrated magic left behind during the great split of the
worlds those billions of years ago. While worried at first that these
“WARP ZONES” would soon be common knowledge to the humans as well as the
future Koopas, the Star Spirits uncovered that there was only three warp
zones that actually led to either dimension and the chances of purposefully
finding any of the three was remote, if not impossible. But these gateways
between the Mushroom and the Human Worlds was exactly what could enable the
prophecy of the two heroes whom could one day save the universe. The humans
who entered the Mushroom World were welcomed into the population. They
learned to adapt to every nuance of the Mushroom People's civilization and
as new generations of humans lived on in their world so too did their
newfound personas.
The Star Spirits watched
the Mushroom World closely for any sign of the eggs hatching. With all
that was going on in the Human World, it wouldn't take long for hate to give
the eggs the nutrients they needed to hatch. As the population in both
worlds grew, societies in both worlds became more and more complex; it was
becoming much more drastic that the Star Spirits make contact with the
mushroom people and warn them of the secret threat that they were oblivious
to. Being that there was no way at that time for any spirit being seen in
the physical world, the seven Star Spirits collaborated on yet another
miracle to help the creatures that the loved so very much. Born from
the earth, the Star Spirits conceived a human being from that of a giant
toadstool in the most beautiful of all the countries. This child was to be
the Prophet to whom the Star Spirits would give special abilities. Blessed
by the world as the Saint ANGELINA TOADSTOOL, the child was embraced by the
Mushroom People upon her discovery, hailing the birth of a human being from
that of a mushroom a sign from the stars.
Years past as the prophet
and her abilities grew, but the Star Spirits compassionately waited until
she showed signs of a maturity ready to handle the terrible and gruesome
burden of being an outlet for warnings of unspeakable evil. On her
twentieth birthday, the first vision of the far future had hit her and hit
her hard. This nightmare of blood and carnage made her pass out from the
horror the future had in store, for Angelina saw extreme amounts of pain and
suffering. She saw the Mushroom People cowering before that of a spiky
shelled dragon with blood red eyes, orange flaming hair, and the crown of
the devil, who sat atop a throne fastened of bones and mutilated flesh.
Angelina saw evil… a then unknown concept in the Mushroom World.
Traumatized by these
insights, and not fully understanding exactly what was happening to her,
Angelina took off, leaving her followers and disappeared into the cool night
air to travel the world. Her journeys took her to almost every land in the
Mushroom World as she encountered many strange creatures and odd societies.
Along the way she painted in nearby caves every single vision that plagued
her heart. The visions drove her crazy as ten years passed with every single
night bringing the same visions of the future haunting her. She felt
isolated from the normal world as she saw things that no one else had ever
seen before nor could they ever understand. She was isolated that is, until
one fateful night that gave her a single ray of hope amongst all the
darkness.
Her travels had wandered
into that of the YOSHI'S ISLAND. Alone, out in the cold rainy night and
shivering, she wandered into a nearby cave and began frantically painting on
the stone wall one of her terrible insights. Sobbing because of the
emotional wreck of a woman she had become the past decade, she collapsed to
the floor not understanding what was happening to her, nor comprehending why
she was being tortured with such wretched nightmares. Suddenly, a comforting
hand touched her shoulder, as she looked up to behold the sight of a single
green Yoshi looking fondly down at her as she cowered, crying, on the dirty
floor. Taking her hand, the green Yoshi led her outside and through
the jungles to a clearing where many different colored Yoshies were huddled
while playing and laughing with one another. Standing her next to the fire,
the green Yoshi rounded up its tribe as they formed a large circle around
the crackling flames. Every one of them held another's hand as they included
Angelina in whatever ceremony they were about to practice. Suddenly music
filled her ears as all of the Yoshies used their heavenly voices to sing the
most beautiful song she had ever heard in her life. The happy song caused a
whimper inside of Angelina, as she felt herself smiling for the first time
in ten years.
The Yoshies and Angelina
sang around the fire for hours, until the last ember of the flames went out.
As she slept with the primitive tribe under the starry night sky, for the
first time in years she dreamt not of evil, but of something quite beautiful
and good. In her dreams she saw the vision of two twins, one tall and one
short, each sibling possessing a unique cap… One red with the letter 'M'
stitched on and the other green with the letter 'L'. In the dream she
saw that these two noble souls had the power to save the universe, as they
alone would posses the courage and the strength necessary to fight against
the spawn of the devil. She saw how hard and how admirable the twin's
hearts were, as it was true that they would experience much pain and
hardship in their life time, yet not once would, or could, evil ever really
tear them down.
Waking up at the sound of
birds, the prophet Angelina found herself alone, the tribe of Yoshies long
gone. All the pain and misery she had felt those long years were gone for
she now knew that those visions were not that of a curse but of a blessing.
Angelina was to warn the world that one day evil would strike fear into
their hearts. But more importantly she was to give the world the message of
HOPE… and that hope is what she would spend practically her entire life
trying to convey to the world.
As Angelina stared at the
spot where the fire had blazed all night long as she and the Yoshies had
sung beautiful songs… a tear trickled down her face. This was not a tear
of despair mind you, but rather a tear of pure happiness at an experience
that deeply changed her life. As the tear fell to the ground, it
planted the seed of happiness that would later grow to bear the fruit of the
warm emotion and be the heart of Yoshi's Island. This plant, known simply as
the "SUPER HAPPY TREE", would stand as the marker of perfect joy
that was felt by one of the most tortured souls at that time.
After years of wanderings,
Angelina had returned to her homeland where she was once again hailed upon
by her many followers. So happy were they at the return of the human born
from the mushroom, that Angelina was instantly crowned the metaphoric
"Queen of all the Lands", as even the small kingdoms of the
Mushroom World bowed to the prophet. Angelina immediately preached to the
people of all that her dreams had shown her, and while scared initially,
Angelina promised the people that two brothers born of the Mushroom World
and raised in another world, would one day return to fight the great evil
that would plague them. Her return and the messages she gave, brought forth
much faith that her birth truly was a sign of something grand.
Watching their precious
Angelina Toadstool suffer those many years was the hardest thing the Star
Spirits had ever done, but it was the only way they could make their
presence known to the girl. Although it had been difficult to watch her in
pain for so long, her figuring out the messages by herself was key in
letting her mind open up so that the Star Spirits could speak to her
directly. One night in her bedroom, within a modest cottage, Angelina looked
outside her window, gazing at the many stars, giving thanks to whatever
power had given her such gifts. To her surprise, she saw the seven
Star Spirits shine down to her, embracing her as their daughter. They told
Angelina everything… about the Star Road… about the creation of the
world… about the cursed eggs… about the prophecies… and why she
herself was chosen to spread the messages. They talked for years, yet it was
only a single night in reality. The following morning, her focus clear, her
understandings confirmed… she set out on a life's mission to make the
power of the Stars known. Her followers quickly agreed to whatever deeds she
may want accomplished as she promised them that life would be that much
better in the future if they made the past as magnificent as they could.
Twenty long years went by
as the construction of a giant temple reaching to the Star Road was
completed. This grand structure was built on the very spot Angelina herself
was born as fruit of a mushroom. This temple to the stars was crowned as the
blessed STAR HAVEN by Angelina, and soon, on her 50th birthday, the Star
Spirits she raved about would make contact with the Mushroom World in the
most beautiful of ways.
During the years the Star
Haven was being constructed, Angelina had been busy doing many things… She
painted huge, beautiful portraits of all her prophecies and wrote hundreds
of poems dealing with her dreams. She even married a brilliant
philosopher and started a family, giving birth to a gorgeous daughter.
But what really took up her time was her own construction of a magic wand
that would act as a key in letting the Star Spirits enter the world at last.
This wand would be set atop the highest tower of the Star Haven and as long
as the rod sat atop the Mushroom World, forever could the Star Spirits come
down to the earth.
On the morning of
Angelina's 50th birthday, she sat alone in the highest tower of the Star
Haven praying to Star Spirits, giving them gratitude of the very gift she
once dreaded but now loved with all her heart. Setting the finished STAR ROD
atop an elaborate marble star that towered over two stone altars, Angelina
thought at last her life's work was complete....
.....and at that very instant, darkness entered the room.
No one knows exactly who
killed Angelina the day of her 50th birthday but rumors ensued that seven
demons wearing the laughing PHANTO mask set out to destroy the hope she gave
to the world. Her bloody and tortured body was not found until that same
night, as she had told everyone throughout the lands that at dawn the time
would come to behold the Star Spirits. Everyone collapsed to their knees at
seeing their Queen murdered and it would seem that evil's discouragement had
worked.
When word of mouth of her
murder echoed throughout the lands, everyone gathered at the Star Haven.
It was then that the glorious temple began glowing a bright white and the
Star Spirits made their first cross over into the physical world. Sad
were they at losing the child all seven of them had created… but all was
not lost. By merely showing their presence, everyone could see that
Angelina had succeeded in connecting the Mushroom World to the spirits she
had spent most of her life raving about. The Star Spirits tried comforting
the people with a promise that Angelina could never really ever die, as her
soul now was one with the illustrious Star Road.
The entities then begged
the Mushroom World to forgive them for trapping them in a world that was to
be cursed in the future. As a way to atone for their mistakes, they
promised to grant wishes to any creature so long as it was unselfish and
thoughtful. They told the people that they were originally going to
cross over into the physical world that day to give thanks to Angelina for
all the good she had done in the world and in the universe. They were to
tell her that she had done everything she humanly could do and as gratitude,
the Star Spirits were to give her a heavenly present of 120 magic stars that
would forever protect her. Yet, being that she died before having the
chance to receive her present, the Star Spirits instead bequeathed it to
Angelina's widowed husband and now motherless daughter. To this day,
the 120 TOADSTOOL POWER STARS have been passed down generation upon
generation in the Toadstool family line.
Thousands of years passed
since the day the great prophet and first Queen of the Mushroom World passed
on, yet her teachings and messages remained as fresh as the day they
sprouted.
It was toward the turn of
the 19th Century that the event dreaded since before earth's creation was to
occur and, like prophesied, it would forever change the Mushroom World. The
millions of Koopaharian eggs hatched under the blood red sky of fall…
Their birth alone caused earthquakes, floodings, tornadoes, hurricanes,
fires and every known natural disaster on the planet. When their hatchings
were complete, it was said that every creature of every land had skipped a
heartbeat. The new Koopa race consisted of many a different species whose
allegiance lied with the devil.
As the new race grew, so to
did their appetite for destruction. Over the next hundred years, Mushroom
People, humans, Yoshies and many more would go missing during the deepest,
darkest hours of the night. These kidnappings by the Koopa were not more
than that of a spider capturing its prey, for what followed was sacrificial
slaughterings to the all mighty EGG OF EVIL. Not all of the eggs hatched
that infamous day from hell the Koopaharian eggs hatched, for what could be
found in the fiery pits of the DARK LAND was one large, glowing, lava filled
egg that remained unhatched, surrounded by the seven smaller KOOPALING eggs.
As did the mushroom people pray to the Star Spirits, so too did the Koopas
pray to the monster egg. Hate was constantly feeding this sac of maniacal
monstrosity as the days, months and years rolled by.
At the start of the 20th
Century, under leadership of a giant and powerful frog-like Koopa named WART
whom was known for his powers of the psyche, led the Koopaharians on their
first full scale attack against the Mushroom World. Being peaceful and not
having knowledge of either the skills of defense or offense, the civilized
creatures of the world were getting massacred at the hands of the all to
well masters of death. As there was not an official King of the Mushroom
World… the tradition of the family of Toadstool, still known for their
wisdom, gave leadership during these dark times. The great PATHEON TOADSTOOL
worked extensively with his best friend and confidant, the aspiring
philosopher 'mushroom person' TOADSWORTH, to save the Mushroom World before
it was too late. The history of the two's friendship went all the way back
to their ancestors where Angelina Toadstool's husband studied philosophy
with the forefathers of Toadsworth. Together with the help of the 120
Toadstool Stars, the many lands of the Mushroom World united and with their
combined strength defeated the Koopas in what was an earth shattering final
battle in the fiery flames of the Dark Land.
With the Koopas temporarily
defeated, the Mushroom World celebrated… but they knew that a dark shadow
was still looming over their heads, about to hatch at any moment. To protect
themselves from any future attacks, hundreds of countries with their
monarchs decided to unite together as one. This union of the lands was
always there to begin with, but with the first of many wars against the
Koopas under way, the people agreed it was time for this union to become
stronger...
...and so the great MUSHROOM KINGDOM was born a hundred years ago.
Patheon Toadstool, the once metaphoric king of the Mushroom World, was now
the official ruler; the chancellor now his best friend Toadsworth. While
some lands denounced the annex with the Mushroom Kingdom, such as the
beautiful kingdoms of SARASALAND founded by humans, everyone still
co-existed with one another peacefully. During the next 50 years, the King
and the Chancellor succeeded in their mission to bring peace and prosperity
to the Mushroom Kingdom, but it wouldn’t last long before the Koopas
became all too powerful and the Mushroom World as they knew it would be
doomed.
In the Human World there
was CHAOS! After one brutal War of the World, there was yet another
one even more horrid than the last. These World Wars brought much darkness
into the human destiny as unspeakable evils, motivated by hate, corrupted
the humans past the point of no return and that is when "It"
happened. In the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth month, amongst the shadow
of a solar eclipse, explosions rocked the Mushroom World. Volcanoes
erupted throughout the dimension, as the lava that seeped from Hell's mouth
destroyed many of the magical lands in the Mushroom World. This spiteful
lava that left much land in ruins was now claimed in the name of the Koopa.
When the eruptions were over, many innocents were dead…
...and it was through the death in both dimensions that the chosen one of
Evil hatched from its egg, ready to carry out the Devil’s bidding.
This evil dragon created in
Satan's form, bore the horns of the devil… its eyes were that of blood
red… its body was encased in a spiky turtle like shell … and it's hair
was like that of fire... the very figure that at one time tortured Angelina
Toadstool’s dreams. The Koopas may have lost the one battle against
the Mushroom Kingdom years ago, but with the birth of their prince BOWSER,
Armageddon was sure to ensue.
Selecting the most powerful
sorcerer at that time, Wart had ordered a single MagiKoopa named KAMEK to
protect and nurture the child's evil at all costs. Kamek was to take the
baby Bowser to hide in an isolated castle on Yoshi's Island where no one
could ever harm the prince of darkness at his one and only vulnerable time.
With the future king of all
evil born, one would think the Mushroom People would have been trembling and
living with constant fear, yet the Mushroom People never forgot the promises
that the sainted Angelina Toadstool had foretold. She had promised a
hope that the Mushroom People to that day still held in their hearts. But
while the Mushroom People never lost sight of that hope, up above in the
temple of the Star Haven, the seven Star Spirits were worried beyond belief.
The great battle of good versus evil would be nearing an end soon with the
Koopaharian eggs hatched and their leader newly born. The Star Spirits asked
the people of the Mushroom World to pray for the birth of the destined
twins. Now, more than ever, was the union of Love's souls essential to their
survival.
On the eve of the
anniversary of Angelina Toadstool's birth and death, all of the planets in
the galaxy lined up and throughout the heavens did a shower of shooting
stars rain upon the Mushroom World. These shooting stars origins reached
from beyond the edges of the universe and was sent by destiny itself. All
the good creatures in the world could hear what sounded like soft music
during the star showers, relaxing and putting the world at ease, for they
knew that at last the age old prophecy of hope was coming true. The heroic
twins were to be born that night and with a red and green shooting star
striking the highest tower of the Star Haven, two babies bearing the red and
green caps were laid upon the stone altars that cowered beneath the Star
Rod. Accompanied by the twins, was a new and powerful Star Spirit who was
sent by Fate to protect the twins during their journey through the
universe...
... As well as to issue a powerful warning spoken by Fortune, that had the
potential to alter the entire universe.
This new Star Spirit, who
would later be known as the great GENO, took it upon himself to be the
guardian of the magical Star Road. For the message spoken from Fortune’s
own lips was that any individual soul who possessed both the seven Star Road
Stars as well as the 120 Toadstool Power Stars, would forever become
INVINCIBLE. While seductive in nature this concept is, the universe itself
would be destroyed by such an overwhelming occurrence... and the past,
present and future would be erased from existence.
As the lone spirit warrior
waited for the STORK OF DESTINY to arrive and carry the twins to their newly
chosen parents, the seven Star Spirits all suddenly appeared to bless the
child that they had anticipated for countless lifetimes. Together the Star
Spirits searched the twins destiny for an appropriate name that would
perfectly complement their future selves. As they concentrated, the names
had finally hit them like lightening as the baby with the red cap would be
named MARIO and the baby with the green cap would be named LUIGI. Why these
names spoke to them the Star Spirits they did not know; but with their new
found identity, the Stork of Destiny arrived atop the tower of the Star
Haven.
As the original seven Star
Spirits, plus one, watched as the stork began its long journey to deliver
the twins to their fate, it was a moment of complete relief mixed with
unfathomable anxiety.
In
these two children’s lifetime, the epic battle between...
LIGHTNESS and DARKNESS
GOOD AND EVIL...
RIGHT and WRONG...
LOVE and HATE...
...Would all boil down to a cataclysmic conclusion.
