They entered a long hallway lit up by chandeliers and natural sunlight. At one end of the hallway was the top of a stairwell, with descending spiral stairs. The opposite end had a big red door. The door oozed with boss energy. Gamer and Minnie headed that way.
By the halfway point, the chandeliers started to snuff out one by one. It started at the boss door and each went dark towards the stairwell. A wild, old hag's cackle pierced the air. Daunting organ music played and cued Gamer into the boss music trope. The chandeliers were then relit, but with blue flames.
"Well, well, well, look who thinks they can waltz right into one of Lord Shellie's domains? You are just like that palooka, Marco!" the crackling voice reverberated through the hall.
"Who's that? I dare you to show yourself," Gamer challenged, even if it'd be a smart villain's move not to reveal themselves.
"Here I am!" the shellie mage revealed themselves. She rode on a broom like a witch, wielded a wand like a witch, and wore a blue pointy hat and a blue, flowing dress like a witch. The shellie mage, compared to Minnie, appeared more mature. Gamer based this on her considerable bosom. Of course; big boobs were infamously known as the source of magic.
"That's Cammy! One of the elder shellies," Minnie pointed dramatically.
"Elder shellies?" Gamer examined Cammy. The crackled voice and matured body gave that impression, but Cammy didn't seem all that much older compared to Minnie.
"She's over one hundred years old."
"One hundred?!" Gamer gawked. "How old are you?!"
"Thirty!" Minnie smiled.
"Well, well, well, a shellie without a shell..." Cammy began the villain's dialogue, but Gamer interjected.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard the spiel! I need that wand to change the shroomans back to normal. I've overcome your castle, so don't make this difficult," Gamer tried to persuade the old lady.
"Oh, please, you can't even reach me. Try as you might, stupid stinkum!" Cammy taunted.
"Nobody calls me stinkum and gets away with it!" Gamer's thin veneer of patience broke. He charged at the mage.
"I'll strike you both down and add you to my collection!"
Cammy waved her wand and aimed it towards Gamer. It fired out a magic bolt that shimmered with different colors and geometric shapes. It splashed the ground in front of Gamer, seemingly missing. However, in a puff of smoke, the solid stone slab transformed into a pool of lava. Gamer stepped into the pool as he crumbled forward on the ground past the pool. The searing pain of magma burning into his foot was but a moment, as he felt his enlarged form shrink to normal size. The effects of the red cap were gone, but so was the pain of stepping into lava. Gamer gawked at his unscathed foot.
"Curse you!" Cammy wiggled in frustration. "Just like that nitwit Marco, the red cap saved your life! Drat, shoot, cripes!"
Gamer booked the fact that power ups gave you freebies when hit. Not only that, but the wand's spells don't just change living things. Gamer stood up, and now in his reverted form, Cammy never looked so far away. She circled above and blasted her wand downwards at Gamer and Minnie. Her aim could use some work. The geometric bolts were waylaid by shoddy swings and horrible kiting. They would hit the walls and floor. However, it transformed the chunks of bricks into a number of things; the evil flytraps, coins, blushrooms, shellies, and smaller or bigger bricks to trip everybody. Even if she missed, her constant barrage of backup in enemies kept Gamer and Minnie too busy to deal with her.
"We need a plan," Minnie dove out of the way from a flytrap's bite.
"I know! I'm..." Gamer kicked a shellie away, but then a blushroom enveloped his entire upper body with its mouth. Its eyes rolled back in pleasure. Gamer yelled from within, "God! Dammit!"
"Behehe!" Cammy cackled and lounged on her broom. "Look at my wonderful magic. Nobody compares to my skills. Maybe I'll let you live if you beg for your lives. Maybe..."
Minnie ran up behind the blushroom attached to Gamer and rubbed its 'butt cheeks'. The blushroom let out a winded coo, and released Gamer in the process. Cammy snorted, and then fired her wand at them. Gamer grabbed the cheeks of the blushroom and hoisted it up in front of him. When the magic bolt hit it, the blushroom reverted back to a block. Like the shroomans, it remained floating in midair.
Cammy yelled, "Hey! Quit that! I'll take you out with a one-two spank!"
Cammy shot at Gamer. Yet a counter was already set in motion. Minnie tripped a shellie in Gamer's direction, and he launched it up. It intercepted the magic bolt and turned into a block. Cammy became irate and started blasting all over. Gamer and Minnie worked in conjunction to set up and wallop enemies into position. Before long, they had three rows of blocks leading up. They were almost to Cammy's level. There were no more spawned enemies, and thus nobody to help Cammy.
"Confound it! I'll just change them back!" Cammy took aim at the blocks. However, Minnie was already scaling them. She was moments from leaping at Cammy. The mage turned her wand onto the shell-less shellie, "You poster child of failure! You're done for!"
"I'm not defective!" Minnie declared and jumped at the mage. Cammy's wand fired and hit Minnie. Before she transformed, she smiled and said, "I'm a distraction!"
Minnie transformed into a block. Her final words confused Cammy, but immediately became clear. Gamer had been right on Minnie's trail. He used the final block he needed, Minnie, to reach Cammy. Gamer hooked his fingers together and front flipped off Minnie. He brought a double axe handle smash right onto the shellie mage. The impact knocked Cammy from her perch and she crashed into the floor.
The wand fell below, but Gamer grabbed onto the broom so as not to fall. It kept him aloft. Block Minnie giggled, "Nice work!"
Gamer gave her a thumbs up. Below, Cammy crawled towards her wand. As her fingers crossed it, Gamer swooped by on the flying broom and snatched it up. He swerved the broom next to Cammy like a crazy taxi driver and lorded over the quibbling mage. Gamer kneeled next to her and pinched her cheek. She whined, but Gamer didn't let go, "Tell me how to use this wand."
"Why should I? Without my help, you'll never save your friend or the blasted shroomans. You'll forever be at my mercy. Grovel, boy, and know that I have total control over you! I'm the VIP!" Cammy cackled.
"Naw!" Gamer denied.
The word instilled confusion in the mage, "Wh...what? You can't just 'naw' my threats!"
"Nuh-uh!" Gamer added.
Gamer's bombastic behavior scared Cammy, "Y-you dangerous dolt! You can't follow-up a naw with a nuh-uh! That's preposterous! Inconceivable! Your reckless, wanton, irresponsible words are mad! Have you no shame?!"
Gamer didn't immediately reply, and Cammy feared his next response. This man gave no quarter, "Yo mama!"
The ruthless disrespect made Cammy cry out, "Okay! Okay! You have to focus on the ruby! Just, please, have mercy!"
Gamer narrowed his eyes and listened to the instructions. It didn't take much. The ruby at the end of the wand illuminated like a glowstick.
"Eek!" Cammy covered her face. The flare of light must have scared her. Gamer harnessed a new excitement, elated to cast magic like a goddamn wizard, and pointed the wand at Minnie. The wand abided his will and a surge of magic burst forth. It fired a geometric bolt towards Minnie. When it hit, she reverted to her normal self. She screamed while falling, and landed on the hunched up Cammy.
"Welcome back," Gamer greeted.
"Yay! I have my body back!" Minnie jumped in victory. She leapt against Gamer and hugged him.
Cammy was defeated.