Okay guys this is the first Fanfic I have ever written so PLEASE don't be too harsh on me. Okay before you read this you should know a few things

This is a story based off my O.C Shelly. Shelly's Parents are Yoshi and Birdo and YES this means that I believe Birdo is Female. So Please RESPECT MY OPINION and do NOT "attack" me telling me that Birdo is male, this is my Opinion and I ask that you respect it.

Most of this story I have already written (57 pages as of right now) so I probably won't change too much of the story line I just want to see how my story holds up as is, so please don't think I don't care about the tips and suggestions you guys give me, I really do care. As I get further in the story I may ask for suggestions just not right now. Alright on with the story I hope you all enjoy it.

My Parents I'm constantly told were pretty famous in their earlier years and to be Perfectly honest, I haven't seen any hint that it's ever changed.
My Father is Yoshi….yeah just Yoshi, the Yoshi who's been helping the Mario Bros. save the Kingdom for many years.

My Mother is Birdo, yeah the so called Enemy working for a creature by the name of Wart in the Dream land known as Subcon. But made a positive name for herself in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Personally people always ask me, how it feels to be the child of two of the Mushroom Kingdom's few heroes? To be honest the feelings change depending on the area I happen to be at the time.

I was hatched and raised on Yoshi's Island, my Father's home island. Which had always Boggled me, Yoshi's Island is the island my Father's island or something? Anyway a Yoshi and a Birdo together, strange combination right? I mean yeah they're both Dinosaur species but they couldn't look any different. So with that combination you'd expect me to be some half Yoshi half Birdo hybrid right? Actually to be perfectly honest, I look like a completely normal Yoshi through and through. Which doesn't seem to bother my Mother much as she always tells me that I may have inherited my Father's species appearance but I Definitely inherited her good looks. In fact my Mother is the one who named me. Which in a place like Yoshi's Island made perfect sense, considering basically ALL Yoshis on the Island have the name Yoshi (or having their color part of their name example -Purple Yoshi -Red Yoshi- you get the point) and since inherit wise I was BOTH Yoshi and Birdo so they decided that I would have a name reflecting both my brethren I descended from. Which is when I was given my name…..
Shelly
Which could reflect Yoshi eggs…or the fact that when my Mother was younger some of her friends would refer to her as Shelly, so almost being named after my Mother but with another meaning as well.

But yeah at first glance I'm a normal Yoshi, however spending a good portion of my life on our home island I couldn't help but pick up a few things that made me reconsider how "Normal" I am. As you'd expect Yoshi's Island has Many Yoshi's living on the island and I couldn't help but notice that ALL Yoshi's had a specific color pattern depending on their color, Pink Yoshis having Yellow shoes, Yellow Yoshis having Green shoes, you get the point. But I'm not like that. I have obvious Hot Pink skin and Light GREEN shoes and THAT according to my observation AND a few hints given to me by several people I've encountered, ISN'T NORMAL. But that isn't everything….

As I said before I was hatched on Yoshi's Island. The day my Mother revealed to my Father that they were soon going to be parents, of course my Father was happy at the thought. However my Mother despite already knowing before my Father was much more excited. She carried my egg around and kept it close to her at all times. Showing it (well me) off to everyone she encountered until my Father EVENTUALLY persuaded my Mother that she leave my egg in the nest, to prevent risk of damage. Several weeks went by and I finally hatched, at first sight I didn't really see anything about their reaction suggesting they found me to be Odd, but then again They're my Parents HOW could they see ANYTHING wrong their own offspring. Being a Yoshi unlike a human child, I could walk (well a little wobbly at first) immediately after hatching. This is a question that many people ask me, upon hatching I was immediate in the Yoshi language being a Yoshi myself however despite what many people would expect I was immediate in Birdo language too, I just couldn't speak it for obvious reasons. I remember that my Mother would constantly gush on how adorable my voice was. Most people always question me on how despite being a Yoshi how I could understand a foreign language such as my Mother's at such a fast pace? I guess it was a maternal thing, despite being in an egg for several weeks I still had some sense of my surroundings including my Parents' voices despite not being hatched. So my Mother's voice AND Language was familiar to me when I hatched. Several days went by and my Parents eventually decided that they wanted to pay a visit back to the Mushroom Kingdom to see their Friends. They hadn't left the island for while, being busy taking care of me while I was still an egg and preparing for my arrival. Upon arriving in the Mushroom Kingdom I was astonished on how much different it was from my home island and excited at seeing creatures that WEREN'T a Yoshi or Birdo. My Parents revealed me to their friends including the Mario Bros. and Princess Peach herself. They Especially Princess Peach (Well Queen Peach now) seemed to take a liking towards me. By the way, King Mario and Queen Peach have two children, Princess Angela and Prince Ilario. And Luigi and Daisy are the Matriarchy Sarasaland so they are known as King Luigi and Queen Daisy, they have daughter named Princess Azalea. Every time we visit the Castle I hang out with Angela, Ilario and Azalea. Ilario is a lot like me neither of us talk very much unless we're with a group of people that we know well. He's also very self-conscious about himself, just as I am, so as you'd expect we get along pretty well. Ilario always tells me how great it feels to have someone he can relate to, I have to admit I agree as well it's nice to have someone who shares a similar problem as you that way you're not alone when dealing with it.

We'd spend several days at the Kingdom before finally going home, however the older I got the more often we visited there. I even made a few friends outside my Parent's' friends, including Dash (a Green Spotted Toad) Parry (a ParaTroopa) and Koop (the Koopa Troopa), according to my Parents two of the few good ParaTroopas and Koopa Troopas in the Kingdom as most of them were working under Bowser. I was told Never to mention him while at home. So typically I kept his name to myself unless I was in the company of my Friends, we didn't see the harm in calling someone by their name, however my Parents seemed to be afraid. As I grew older and our visits to the Kingdom more frequent. Most visits were for my Parents to compete in sporting events such as Tennis and Golf. I never really saw much fun in Golf, However I do feel I'm a pretty decent Tennis Player. I even had the nerve to ask Father if I could participate with him and Mother in the next tournament. My Father seemed optimistic (which he usually is all the time anyway, so maybe that wasn't really a reason to get my hopes up) however in the end my Mother told me I was too young and told me I would have to wait a few years until I grew stronger. But in reality I felt that wasn't really the reason for her not wanting me to play. Despite my Mother's competitive nature and sureness of my ability I couldn't help but feel that she didn't want me to participate NOT because I was Too Young but she didn't want me possibly getting hurt at an event (Physically AND Mentally). That's a Mother for you. But anyway despite me not liking to admit it my Mother DID have a right for worry…. But before I get to that at this point as our visits became more frequent I constantly was bugged by a strong sense of guilt as I knew I was keeping a secret from my Parents. Everyone knows I speak Yoshi in fact when accompanying my Parents that's the ONLY language I speak. However what my Parents DON'T know is that I've become QUITE fluent in English too, in fact EVERY TIME I'm not with my Parents I'm ALWAYS speaking in English. Actually I've actually grown to like talking in English MORE than my own native tongue and THAT'S what bummed me, I was afraid to reveal to my Parents that I could speak English I don't EVEN know if my FATHER can speak English, but I've always had this overwhelming fear that my Parents ESPECIALLY my Father would be angry with me for abandoning my native tongue to speak in English. But at the moment I had even BIGGER frustrations on mind, frustrations that never seem to leave me alone for a second.

Yeah earlier I mentioned how my Mother had her reasons for being worried, it all goes back to the day that I hatched. The day I hatched was the happiest day of my Parents' lives, or at least that's what they ALWAYS tell me, when I question my existence, which has been happening quite a lot lately. Anyways the moment that I hatched my Parents immediately started teaching me about the world and how to do things I would need to survive. Keeping up with my Parents was no problem. I was pretty speedy for my age, at least that's what my Mother told me, however she tended to stay farther behind my Father, so she could make sure I didn't get separated from them. Unfortunately after this the Easy part was over. When we reached our destination, is when I learned of what would soon be the hardship of my life. Upon arriving at the forest which was covered in fruit, most commonly Honeydew melons which is one of my Personal favorites, but seeing as Every Yoshi on the island is absolutely fond of them I'm not Particularly special in that department. Anyway my Father had wasted NO time on showing me the first lesson of gathering food, as his trademark tongue easily pulled fruit from the heights of the trees. Mother not being Yoshi simply watched and enjoyed observing me as I curiously watched my Father grab several fruits from the trees. Finally it was my turn, to repeat what I had been taught, however to my dismay and to the shock of my Parents…I COULDN'T do it. I sat there shocked and confused on how I was unable to perform a seemingly simple task that ALL Yoshis didn't even have to THINK of how to do. I attempted several more times until my Mother coaxed me over so we could eat and of course I felt degraded in front of my Parents. Of course neither of them showed any sign of anger or displeasure, in fact both of them assured me that I had nothing to be ashamed of. However that thought would soon be forgotten by me as the days went by as I was shocked to find that not ONLY could I NOT use my tongue I also COULDN'T FLUTTER JUMP….ANOTHER of a Yoshis' SIGNATURE moves, a move that was ESSENTIAL to my safety if I were alone. I tried NUMEROUS times, I even got up EARLY in the morning to practice Hoping….PRAYING that my hard work and dedication would pay off, but just as with my Tongue training it ALSO ended fruitlessly. From that point on I could safely say I was probably the most unhappy Yoshi ANYONE had seen and considering that my Father was almost NEVER seen unhappy, that was saying a lot. My Mother had become extremely concerned with my well-being that she had been the one who had suggested the continuous visits to the Mushroom Kingdom, a place where I wouldn't be CONSTANT reminded of my disgraceful Shortcomings. As I grew older none of these shortcoming improved, in fact by the time I was 12 years old, I almost told myself constantly that I was NEVER going to amount to anything. But on the bright side I did have Friends that I looked forward to seeing every weekend when we'd go to the Mushroom Kingdom to either keep my mind off my dark cloud OR Mother and Father participating in a event. However I hadn't COMPLETELY given up hope yet. Two days later after returning back home, as my Parents were still Asleep….

I had theory

Silently sneaking past my sleeping Parents I wandered off into the Forest. The run took a little more than an hour when I finally arrive at Blargg's Pit, a place I had Never been in. And That was ONLY because I was Forbidden to come here, as many dangers were present here, creatures AND obstacles alike. I knew I was risking BIG punishment if I got caught here, however if I had ANY hope of FINALLY accomplishing using my Tongue AND a Flutter Jump I had to test my theory. As I wandered deeper into the forest area, I came across a caterpillar-like creature. I had seen these several times before but not at such a close distance as my Parents fully aware of my "disability" made sure I was kept a distance away. At first I had no particular idea, in fact I felt nervous so nervous that my legs were trembling. As the Wiggler came closer I stood in place, my theory was that if I was faced with some kind of danger my instincts would take over and I would be able to overcome my "handicap" however as the Wiggler drew closer I eventually became aware that my theory wasn't going to work so before the Wiggler had a chance to see me I made an attempt to climb a tree. However to my frustration as I reached the closest branch, my weight snapped the branch and I fell out of the tree and landed on something cushiony, I looked down and to my Horror I had landed on the Wiggler's HEAD! And within seconds the Wiggler had gone from calm and yellow, to red and Raging Mad, panicking I ran as fast as my legs would carry me. Unfortunately rage had made the Wiggler THAT much faster and to make it worse I had NO idea where I was heading. I had NEVER explored ANY part of this location and to my Dismay the trail came to a fairly large ditch. With the Wiggler catching up fast, I knew that I had only ONE chance I HAD to FlutterJump. Holding my breath and with nowhere else to go I struggled to gain a little more speed as I came closer to the edge of the ground. As soon as I saw the edge, I squeezed my eyes tightly shut as I got ready to jump. However I suddenly felt my left foot catch something, it had been a uprooted tree root, stumbling I felt my feet leave the ground and with that jump I struggled to kick my legs in a Flutter. But to my horror I plummeted down to the ground below I felt my body crash onto the ground below. I was stunned for a second, but as I heard the Wiggler's stampeding feet drawing closer. I struggled to pull myself up and with that attempt a sharp pain in my left ankle. At this point I felt a deep sense of hopelessness this was it, I had…

Failed
….failed myself
…..failed…my parents

With that last thought I thought no more…

Sorry Cliffhanger guys, hope you enjoyed the first chapter ^.^ . I'll try to post a new chapter, every week or every other week depending on how busy I am. Thank You Everyone!

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Story and O.C such as Shelly, Dash, Ilario, Angela, Azalea, Koop, Parry, Surge, Lilli, Karrie and Phoenix are Property of me MCGoldYoshi.

For people who are interested I have fan art of my O.C's on my Deviantart profile, my name is the same as it is here.