Super Mario: New Hero Horizons

Chapter 7: M.J's Training: The Types of Kata And Control!

 -Super Mario-

New Hero Horizons

Chapter 7:

M.J's Training:

The Types of Kata and Control

Somewhere in the forest. Smoke was peeking from the cracks of space that the trees left. Jr. stood in front of a tattered up M.J who was huffing while leaning over. Behind and around him were scorch and blast marks engraved into the dirt.

"You done yet?" Jr. asked.

"Heck No! I'm ready for whatever else you got for me!" He exclaimed.

"Good, but that's all for one-on-one combat today."

"Whaaat? Come on, already?"

"Already? We've been at it since 6:00 A.M this morning. It's been eight hours."

"Whatever, so what are we gonna do now?" Jr. led M.J to another spot in the forest. This was a nice spot with a small waterfall nearby a hill where the two stood. Jr. had prepared a picnic blanket with a basket and some plates and glasses as well as utensils sitting on the blanket.

"Uhh, we're having a picnic?" M.J asked, confused as Jr. walked over to the picnic setting.

"YYYep, a good old fashioned picnic." He said sitting down criss-crossing.

"Seriously? I thought we came all the way out here for you to train me, not to have some little girl's picnic." Jr. waved his hand up and down signaling M.J to come over. He reluctantly complied after rolling his eyes and head. He walked over to the opposite side of the blanket from where Jr. was sitting and plopped down criss-cross.

"Sooo...What're we eating?" M.J asked. Jr. leaned over and opened up the basket and took out a piece of paper.

"We're eating paper?"

"Here, take a look." Jr. said, holding his arm out for M.J to take the paper. He did and looked at it. "Nothing." The paper read.

"What!? there's nothing in there? Then what was the point of getting this whole thing ready?"

"To get your hopes up." Jr. said.

"Get my hopes up? Well you succeeded I guess, but why?" He asked.

"Because, I wanted you to see what a nice good picnic looks like. Because it's probably the last time you're gonna see one for about 5 months." Jr. explained.

"What're you talking about, I can just go home and make my own picnic."

"That's where you're wrong 'bud, you see this forest isn't just your everyday run of the mill forest. It's commonly called the Lost Dark Woods. The reason for that is self explanatory.

"What do you mean?"

"These woods are impossible to navigate without a map. And the only map we have is at the top of the Volcan Mountain. A mountain located in the woods that's only able to be scaled by someone who's at least proficient in Fire Technique."

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!" M.J yelled causing trees to shake and birds to fly.

"And here I was getting all worked up for some awesome cool super great training only to have that all ruined because my idiot sensei lost the only map we had." M.J said, sitting down and rocking back and forth holding his legs up close to his chest in a corner.

"Lost it? Oh no no no don't get confused. I put the map up there willingly." Jr. said with his arms crossed and his eyes closed as he now stood and spoke with pride.