Lost Amongst Lava (Open)

[The Vision]

"Hnngh!" Luigi grumbled. He hated being tossed around like a little child. But then, lava started spewing out of the walls, and the floor was vanishing quickly under a pool of sheer heat. Luigi immediately stopped complaining and held on tighter.

The woman that had tossed him over her shoulder was now climbing up the mountain wall, using picks and bolts to make slow but steady progress up the cliff.

It wasn't fast enough.

Luigi scowled and grabbed his new ally by the shoulder, along with the first guy he had fallen on top of.

"Letse-go!" he shouted, smiling wide.

He crouched to gain momentum, then shot up straight into the air. At the highest point of the jump, he was horizontal to the ground. At this point, he used the power of the stars to spin cosmically fast, then let go of his allies, throwing them both higher into the air like a sling. Finally, he used a double jump to catch a wall, then blasted off of it with a wall jump. The wall he kicked off of crumbled and collapsed, sprinkling the fast-rising lava with rocks. In mid-air, he caught his allies, who were fearfully shouting something. Luigi grunted and span again, blasting his new allies higher still.

But now he had no double jumps left.

Falling, no wall nearby, Luigi started falling towards the lava, and cried out, "Mamma miaaaaa!"

Suddenly, he noticed two stalagmites shaped like a giant V. Not thinking anything in particular, he stuck out the only extra limb he had, his Bros. Hammer. Luckily, the head of the hammer jammed itself in the the V, (Hehe) and Luigi held on for dear life as the lava got dangerously close. Sweating, he pulled himself up. He supported his weight on the rock formation and picked up his hammer. And, betting everything on it, he made on last leap for the cliff.

He was just a bit too short.

Luigi wasn't certain if he had any extra lives yet. He hadn't seen a 1-Up Mushroom since he got here, so probably none. But not like this! The game wouldn't be over just like this!

Luigi suddenly stopped falling.

There was something holding his hand like a vice. It was the spiky-haired man he had fallen on.

"Hold on!" the man shouted.

"Yeh-hey!" Luigi laughed in relief.

The person with the eyepatch helped Luigi up as well. When he clambered onto the top of the cliff, he sighed in relief as the others panted. The man with the spiky hair chuckled.

"Alright, greenie," he mumbled, "That was good."

Luigi jumped onto his feet, crying, "Yaho!" He then started chanting, "Go Weegee, go Weegee, go Weegee..." as he danced a very strange dance. He was only interrupted by the loud roar again.

"WAOH," he screamed.

"What the hell is that?" the woman remarked.

"I think it's the dragon I attacked."

"..."

"..."

"You attacked a dragon?"

"I killed it. Or... I thought I did."

"Ehh titulo sempre Machianelli Coolatta!" Luigi snapped.

"I couldn't check for a dead body because it fell into lava," the man snapped back.

Luigi shuddered. Even Bowser barely came back as a skeleton after falling into lava. And what could be more powerful than the Koopa King?... Actually, quite a bit. But that was besides the point.

If the dragon was still alive...

Luigi collapsed onto the ground and started weeping loudly. Two streams of tears shot out from his eyes and sprayed all over the ground.

Another roar echoed through the cliffs. Luigi cried, "WAOH!" and jumped onto his feet. The woman prepared herself for fighting. "It's getting closer."

A third roar, even louder. Luigi shuddered in his boots, teeth chattering, arms like half-cooked linguini as he lifted his hammer.