Sweey: Well, as many of you know, I've FINALLY finished the Past of the Masked Knight. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you do. My best work… which needs a lot of editing. :3 It's sequel will be even greater. :) Anyways, I've got a lesser lengthy road ahead of me with this story. :D and plenty of action coming your way. It's a slow start, but it's gonna get really good and solid here within the next few updates. I was bored outta my mind so I resided to watching Kirby Right Back at ya Fright to the Finish. :3 Then I decided I was being too lazy… though I did enjoy spending some time with my favorite masked knight. ^_^ So with that said, I've really been wanting to write this story. I have some epic ideas for it and came up with this epic character….. yeah, well, enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 1 The Book
The soft, golden beams of the sun shot out from behind the horizon as the sun stretched and greeted the waking world. The crisp, morning air encased the village in the valley and dew beaded on the grass and a nearby spider web that had been weaved secretly during the night onto the front porch of the local sheriff's home. A clear, blue sky extended high over the small village of Pupuland, seemingly going on for ever.
Fumu blinked the tears out of her eyes that had entered her eyes as she looked up into the sea of sky while she walked towards the village. Today, she was going to the library to see if she could find a new book to read.
The soft patter of her feet resounded through the empty building and her eyes and nose was filled with the endless shelves full of books and their distinct smell of knowledge.
Her fingers poked at a few titles that she found interesting but as she flipped through their many pages, she lost interest. She had read them all before. Eventually, her determined search brought her to a dusty shelf full of old books that smelled musty from the long time they had not been read. She carefully pulled out one and blew off the dust. It exploded into a musty cloud and she coughed a moment, waving the dust away until it settled before her eyes looked down to read the title of the book.
"The Lightning Knight," she recited softly. She wasn't really much of a fantasy reader but she had read her share of titles, Pappy Pottey and The Lord of the Jewels being a few of them, so she cracked the old book open.
Gradually, her eyes became fixed on the words, darting back and forth as the story began to unfold. She smiled several minutes later as she finished the third chapter.
Smiling at the librarian, she handed the book to him and he looked at it in surprise, "I didn't even know we had this book! This is one of my favorite stories! Excellent read! Enjoy!" He said cheerfully as he placed it back in Fumu's hands. "Be sure and read it fast! I'll be looking forward to rereading that title!"
Fumu smiled and waved, "Of course! See you later!"
She walked out of the village and searched for a good place to read. She found one beneath her favorite tree that overlooked the village and had a view of Castle Dedede high upon the cliff where it perched.
Sighing blissfully Fumu opened the book again and immediately was taken to the strange world of the old book. As she reached the seventeenth chapter, her brother Bun accompanied by some of the local children and Kirby arrived.
"Hey sis, watchya doin'?" Bun asked as he linked his hands behind his head.
"Well I think it's obvious if you looked!" That was the answer Bun had expected, instead, Fumu smiled excitedly at him, "I'm reading this amazing story! It's about a boy and right now, he's in the midst of a storm looking for his master, Galen the Gallant."
"Is it as good as Pappy Pottey?" Honey asked timidly.
"Better!" Fumu replied delightedly.
"Better than Pappy Pottey?" Iroo repeated in disbelief, "Will you read it out loud to us?"
"I don't want to start over, so I'll just tell you what happened at the beginning of the story," Fumu said. She waited till the others nodded, "Alright, there's a boy, but his name is never mentioned despite the fact he's the main character. So the boy becomes a shadow, or apprentice, to Galen the Gallant."
"What's an apprentice?" Bun asked.
"Poyo," Kirby agreed quietly that he too didn't know.
Fumu grinned, "It's a young person who goes and lives with someone to learn how to do a trade from a master. Like say if I wanted to be an archeologist, I would ask to be Curio's apprentice. Shadow is the word for it in this story."
Bun and the others nodded as the understood the analogy.
"So anyways, after a bit of apprenticeship to Galen the Gallant, he and the boy go on a trip. Then they get attacked by a dark lord called Sir Norman who believes that if he can destroy all the blind, deaf, and mute, he can make the world a better place. Galen the Gallant wouldn't stand idlely and let him do it, so Sir Norman ambushed him and his apprentice and young shadow during a terrible storm. Now, the boy is searching desperately for his master," Fumu explained.
The other children waited anxiously for her to begin reading.
"The wind was swirling around him as he ran blindly through the stinging rain. He stopped and turned around, only to find that bastard Sir Norman standing behind him."
"The man let out a terrible laugh and lifted up his bloody ax, but the boy wasn't about to go down without a fight. He lifted up his knife and thrust it in a stab and it sunk deep into the belly of the evil Sir Norman."
"Suddenly," the children jumped as Fumu recited the word, "A beam of lightning struck the knife sending electricity coursing through both of their veins, the sheer force of it knocked both off their feet. The boy turned in pain; none of his senses were working. He couldn't see, hear, or feel anything around him. Then all went black as he fell into an unconscious state."
Everyone sat waited restlessly as Fumu turned the page, "Chapter eighteen: The Tragedy. The boy shot up. His senses had returned to him, all but one that is."
"He could see nothing but white everywhere he looked. Empty white space, like when your eyes are closed and you see a flash of lightning. He felt around him and made out the shape of a table. He knew now that he was not in an empty white room. He was blind."
Bun and the others gasped.
"The boy turned around at the sound of a gentle voice. It was Galen the Gallant."
"As Galen the Gallant breathed his last, he handed the boy a slip of paper and told him to give it to the king. So the boy did."
"The king seemed saddened by the note, but whatever Galen the Gallant had said, required him to give the boy new armor: A helmet with designs engraved into it that resembled that of lightning. The king told him that he was now the new knight of the kingdom and handed him a cane made of copper. The boy laughed and as he did, lightning shot through it! Thus the boy became known as the Lightning Knight and he went through the galaxies saving the weak and guiding the blind. When war broke out, the Lightning Knight joined the Star Warriors in a fight against the Dark Lord Nightmare and his Dark Army. Since then, no one knows where he is. Some people claim that he has appeared to them, disguised as a blind beggar, others claim that he had helped them through a secret peril, leaving a bag of a hundred copper and gold coins on the window sill the day that they were going to loose everything to debt. Though so many claim to have seen him, no one is really sure which stories are true. Maybe they all are. Maybe none of them are. One thing for sure:
The moment you rain a tear
When your life crumbles,
The Lightning Knight is sure to appear,
The day the thunder rumbles.
Fumu closed the book, "That's the end." She was obviously very startled by the end of the text.
"So, the Lightning Knight is real?" Bun asked finally.
"Maybe, we better go ask Meta Knight," Fumu decided.
They found the masked knight in the far tower of Castle Dedede. He was pouring over a book, obviously very occupied with it.
"Sir Meta Knight!" Fumu exclaimed breathlessly as she waved the book in the air, "Who is the Lightning Knight?"
The two cappies could have sworn that one of the masked knight's glowing, yellow eyes twitch.
"What? Where did you hear about him?" He asked.
"In this," Fumu replied, thrusting the book in his hands.
Meta Knight's eyes darted across the pages as he scanned the book, "This is close to the true story."
Fumu and Bun exchanged glances, "So he's real?"
"Yes, in every aspect. Though he's a little less of a Santa Claus than the author has suggested," Sir Meta Knight enlightened the two.
"So, was he really a Star Warrior?" Fumu wondered.
"Did you go into battles with him?" Bun begged to know.
"No and yes," Sir Meta Knight replied as he handed the book to Fumu, "The Lightning Knight was more of a solitude type. He worked alone most of the time, randomly appearing to help us when we were in need. He got the name the Lightning Knight because of his ability to control electricity through his copper cane. Though no one has ever come to know his true name…" The old knight paused then added, "Well, no one that's alive."
With that being said, the two trotted off down to the village to relay the news, but stopped in their tracks as they heard a tapping sound.
Tap. Tap. T-tap. Tap.
A glint of copper flashed in their eyes as a blind beggar walked past them. There was a yellow cloth wrapped around his eyes and he wore the same hat that the rice harvesters wore. His round body was a shade of pastille green and his sesame-shaped feet were a yellow-orange. He immediately brought one person into mind.
"The Lightning Knight," Fumu and Bun gasped in delighted awe in chorus.
Sweey: Well, that's the first chapter. Any questions, comments, advice, corrections, etc. Throw it at me in a review! ^_^ I'll gladly answer.
