With Captain Falcon as a new party member, Starlight led her party out of the stadium and to the mountainside near the shore where Anna was stationed.
"Alright, I'm just going to get more supplies, if you want to come with me then it's fine," said Starlight. Surprisingly, both Mario and Ember stepped forward. "Anyone else?" asked Starlight. The others shook their head. "Alright then, let's go," said Starlight. Mario and Ember followed her into Anna's shop where she was sitting behind the counter.
"Starlight!" gasped Anna.
"Hey Anna, long time no see," Starlight chuckled.
"I thought you would never come back," said Anna.
"Well here I am," said Starlight.
"Here you are indeed," said Anna. "And I see you've brought a new friend,"
"Oh right, Anna this is Ember, one of my friends," said Starlight.
"Heya," said Ember.
"Hello indeed Mrs. Ember, I'm Anna the shop owner," said Anna. "So what can I help you with today Starlight?"
"We need to restock on some items," said Starlight.
"Ah yes, good timing cause I just got my hands on a special bundle offer," said Anna. She went to the back of the shop and came back with a large brown basket. "This bundle comes with one spirit, a revival doll, some food, two Maxim Tomatoes, one special flag, and some snacks for your spirits," said Anna. "Only for 500 gold coins,"
"Ok what spirit?" asked Starlight.
"Hal Emmerich," answered Anna. "You can use his spirit to hack into any piece of technology, pretty useful I should say,"
"Ok and what exactly is a revival doll?" asked Mario.
"It's one of those dolls that turned your friend from a spirit to a living being," said Anna. "Here this is it," Anna held up a small doll of a pony fish hybrid. It had cream yellow colored scales that ended in sky blue colored fin. It had small transparent pink wings on it's back and a red necklace with shells. A large fin sat on the back of it's head with a small antenna on top of it's head.
"I don't recognize it," said Starlight.
"The bundle was originally 1,000 gold coins, so it's technically on sale for 500 gold coins," said Anna.
"I don't know," said Mario.
"It's a limited time offer that ends in 1 hour," said Anna. Mario, Ember, and Starlight looked at each other and nodded.
"Sold," said Starlight pushing 500 gold coins in front of her.
'I knew you would take it," said Anna. She put the doll back into the basket and pushed it forward as she took the coins.
"Hey you wouldn't happen to have any crystals do you?" asked Ember.
"Seriously?" asked Starlight.
"What?" asked Ember.
"Oh well actually lucky for you I just got stocked up yesterday so I have plenty," said Anna. "Wait here," Anna ran into the back room an came back with a large box of of crystals, gems, and other forms of jewelry.
"Wow, how much is it?" asked Ember.
"5,000 gold coins," answered Anna. Ember looked at Starlight and Mario with a wide grin on her face. Starlight looked into her bag and saw she was missing 1,000. She looked at Mario with a nervous look. "From the looks of it, you seem to be quite short, but no worries, I'll put it on your tab," said Anna.
"Really?" asked Starlight.
"Yeah no worries," said Anna.
"Oh thank you Anna," said Starlight. "I promise I'll pay you back later,"
"Sure thing," said Anna. Starlight gave her the remaining 4,000 coins and walked out with the box of gems and basket.
"Took you long enough," snorted Bowser.
"Sorry, we had some payment problems," apologized Starlight.
"Who's that for?" asked Captain Falcon pointing to the box of crystals.
"For me," said Ember. She pulled out a large green crystal and popped it into her mouth. Mario looked at her with a disgusted look on his face.
"It's a dragon thing," said Starlight.
"Ok?" said Mario.
"Anyway can we go now?" asked Spike.
"Yes," let's keep moving," said Starlight as she put the basket into her bag. Everyone rose to their feet and followed Starlight as she led them back up to the hill. "So according to the map up, if we continue going up and turn left there should be a small lake nearby," said Starlight. She continued to follow the map and eventually came across a large lake with large rocks sticking out of the water and a small piece of land at the top corner of the lake. "This must be it," said Starlight.
"But how do we cross?" asked Cadence.
"There's a boat but we can't drive," said Link. Suddenly Kirby ran up and began digging inside of Starlight's bag.
"Whoa Kirby what are you doing?" asked Starlight. After some more digging around, Kirby pulled out the album containing the spirits and opened it. Starlight watched as he flipped to the page with the Kapp'n spirit.
"Poyo," said Kirby pointing to the sticker.
'What you want me to use this?" asked Starlight.
"Poyo," Kirby said happily. Starlight looked at Mario who only shrugged back at her. Starlight took a deep breath and pulled the spirit out of the album.
"Kapp'n here what can I do for ya folks?" asked the spirit.
"Do you think you can drive this boat?" asked Starlight.
"Sure thing, missy," said Kapp'n. "Unfortunately, I can't carry all of y'all," said Kapp'n.
"How many can you carry?" asked Lucario.
"3," answered Kapp'n "I assume, y'all want to go to that island yes?" Starlight looked towards the island and nodded. "Very well find your three and hop on board," Starlight and her party huddled around and began discussing. After some time, they eventually agreed that Starlight, Spike, and Captain Falcon would go. Once they decided, they hopped onto the boat and Kapp'n began steering the boat in the direction of the island. "I gotta tell ya missy, I'm impressed with how far y'all came," said Kapp'n. "Normally I wouldn't think that anybody would have the guts to stand up to someone like Galeem, but y'all proved me wrong," Spike and Falcon looked at Starlight who was looking down blushing.
"Thanks," said Starlight.
"Whoa," said Kapp'n as he stopped the boat.
"Whoa why'd you stop?" asked Spike.
'We got company y'all," said Kapp'n They poked their heads out to see a yellow Inkling standing on a piece of land blocking their path.
"Oh great another fighter?" asked Starlight.
"Nope that's a puppet," said Falcon.
"Alright, who's the spirit?" asked Starlight.
"Hey I know you!" said the Inkling pointing at Spike.
"What you do?" asked Spike.
"Yeah," said the Inkling. The spirit slowly appeared from behind. Starlight squinted to get a closer look and saw that the spirit closely resembled the revival doll that came with the bundle.
"Wait, aren't you Princess Skystar from Mt. Eris?" asked Spike.
"Yep that's me!" cheered the Inkling.
"Wait you know her?" asked Starlight.
"Yeah, she helped us when the Storm King attacked Canterlot," answered Spike. "I didn't know you were here too,"
"Yeah, it's so good to see you again," said Skystar.
"Ok, it's nice you guys are catching up but can we cross?" asked Falcon.
"Well Skystar, can we?" asked Spike. "Please?"
"Aww I would love to, but I can't or else I'm gonna get so grounded," said Skystar.
"By who?" asked Spike.
"By Lord Galeem of course!" cheered Skystar. "But if you can beat me in a battle I'll let you pass," Spike looked at Starlight with a nervous look.
"That damn bastards controlling her too eh," growled Starlight. "I'm so going to kick his ass when I see him,"
"Hey Star, mind if I give it a shot?" asked Falcon.
"Go ahead," said Starlight.
"Hey Cap, can you steer the boat near the rock, so I can jump off?" asked Falcon. Kapp'n hesitated but eventually let Falcon off on the piece of land, the Inkling was standing on.
"So you're my opponent huh?" asked the Inkling.
"You bet," said Falcon giving her a thumbs up.
"Well then let's do this," said Skystar. "Oh by the way, if I hurt you I'm sorry,"
Falcon smirked as he thrust out his arm and waved her over, "Come on, show me your moves!"
"Ok then," Skystar cheered smiling. The two stared each other down before they charged at each other.