Luigi charged once more at the green reptile. He ducked under punches and leapt over kicks. He slid left and right, avoiding the tail swipes of his foe. To give the taller brother his due, he was doing VERY well.
But not well enough. The dinosaur king had been attacking Luigi in a sort of ryhthm. Luigi grew accustomed to blocking and dodging in this ryhthm, but suddenly, the Dinosaur king broke his beat and attacked him with two consecutive punches. And headbutted him in the stomache. Luigi had the wind knocked out of him.
"Haha! Nothing! Wait. I let the other one out of my site-"
BAM!
Mario had nailed him, right of the side of his face, with his shoe.
"Jump kick!"
The fire burning above grew more intenses, as did the battle below.
The koopa even took off his shell and kicked it at the Dinosaur king but of course, the attack did no good.
The five combatants, locked in the epic battle, were too busy fighting to notice that the rafters were beginning to fall...
"Take that!" cried Luigi, firing a green fireball at the king.
"Raaauuugghhhhh!!!" roared the fierce creature slashing luigi across the shoulder.
Green, red, pink, and orange sparks flew from the bodies of our heroes. Their energy was being sapped by the constant use of the fireflowers.
Suddenly, without warning, the rafters fell to the floor! The room was catching fire!
The dinosaur king, evidently having thought ahead, wrapped his tail around a switch, and pulled.
The floor opened up beneath him and he dissapeared into the darkness.
"He's getting away!" cried Mario.
The four companions jumped in after him, expecting to hit a floor, but instead just...fell.
Soon, three of the four had fallen far enough down to see the Dinosaur king.
"You!" he cried, half in anger, half in alarm. "You can't possibly seriously think that you could beat me, freefalling down to the lowest level of the castle, where, even if you succeed, you'll be killed anyway!"
"We couldn't tell we would be freefalling, Genius! We couldn't see a floor!"
The two fought, hand to hand, still falling, for almost ten minutes. Mario wall kicked, wall jumped, threw fireballs, ricocheting around the long shaft.
"Oh Mario. You might want to look down."
Mario looked down.
They were falling straight into a huge pit of lava.
"Are you insane!? We'll all be killed!"
"Ha! You will, due to you primitive human physiology..."
He swished his multi-purpose tail around.
"I however, have evolution on MY side!
The dinosaur king plummeted dangerously close to the pit, but lashed out his tale at the last moment, catching a bar, and swinging like a monkey, to safety.
"Let's see YOU do that!"
Mario thought. He thought harder and faster than he ever had before. He looked up and saw Luigi and the Koopa. He looked down and saw almost certain death. He had an idea!
"Luigi!"
"What?"
"I'm going to wall-jump, and I want you to catch me! Then I want YOU to wall jump and grab the Koopa!"
"What good will that do!?" cried Luigi frantically!
"JUST DO IT!"
Luigi did what he was told, though he knew it wouldn't help.
Mario kicked off the wall, and grabbed luigi by the hand. Luigi did the same, grabbing hold of the Koopa.
They were almost no higher at all.
But...
They could see peach, who had fallen slower than the others, due to her small size and wind resisting clothes!
"Grab her hand!" cried Mario.
The koopa stretched out his arm and took the princess by the hand!
"Open the parasol!"
Peach quickly did as told. Suddenly, their descent slowed.
"Whew!" all four of them sighed with relief.
The "chain" of heroes drifted slowly down and steered to safety.
The dinosaur king was furious.
"You may have evolution on your side, but we have human ingenuity on ours!" Luigi taunted.
"Walk softly and carry a Super Scope."