After finishing Tale of a Traveler, I started working on KPotS, but I after writing the third chapter, I almost paused my work to write this.
Sugestion: read Tale of a Traveler before reading this if you haven't read it yet. (It isn't necessary, thought.)
I do NOT own the Kirby series.
Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time...
Once upon a time, on a shiny planet called Popstar, there was a kingdom in the sky, called Floralia. This kingdom consisted on six floating islands. Each of them completely unique and different.
The lowest island was called Fine Fields, it was a beautiful and pacific prairie, filled with flowers and vivid colors. Above it was Lollipop Land, one of sweetest places, with its famous toy factory and the mysterious circus tent, also an old art gallery, yet no one visit it. The third lowest island was Old Odyssey, a vast canyon and a high mountain, home of the Waddle Dee Express and the ski center. Above it was Wild World, a jungle, filled with many temples of the ancient floralian civilization. The second highest, Endless Explosion, is a chain of active volcanoes, yet the creatures from there adapted very easy. The highest island was Royal Road, the capital of Floralia, home of the royal family. It consisted on a giant fortress. Only the royal family and their personal lived there.
The actual royal family consisted on the queen herself and her teenager daughter, Princess Sectonia. Both of them were divine ladies, specially the princess. They were also very kind. Yet the queen had started to get a bit sick, Floralia will need a new ruler pretty soon, but this isn't where the story starts.
On one of the towers of the castle, a new habitant had born. A little boy was sleeping calmy on his mother's hands. Both parents were happy.
"He looks a lot like you. My little son is as handsome as his father." said a woman.
She had silver straight long hair, brown skin and purple eyes. She wore a lavender dress with a yellow trimming, a pink scarf tied on the back, a pair of gloves color yellow with the wrists color pink.
"My dear, how should we call him?" asked the woman.
"Hm... This a tough decision. But, what if we call him Taranza?" a man asked.
He had dark brown skin, white hair and white eyes. He wore a top hat and a cape, both red; a white vest with golden buttons; a red bow tie; and three pairs of white gloves.
"Taranza... I like it!" said the woman.
Then they heard some one knock the door. The man opened the door and saw the queen and the princess.
"Your majesty." he said as he and his wife bowed at them.
"Oh... is not necessary to be so formal." the queen said "We're only just going to see your little baby."
"Is the baby a boy or a girl?" asked Princess Sectonia.
"It's a boy." said the woman.
"How cute!" the princess said "And what is his name?"
"Taranza" answered both parents.
Everything was like a fairytale, until one the day, Taranza's mother started to have a weird behavior and then disappeared. The last time someone saw her was in Endless Explosion. Many people thought that she died by the lava, yet no one found no proofs. But that question didn't matter, the real question was why did she ran away? Why would she left her husband and her baby? No one knew.
Taranza's father was so devastated. But he knew he most continue his life, so he rose his son alone. He was actually a good father. He taught many stuff to his son and played with him.
Taranza's favorite activity with his father was watching him play with his puppets. He loved how does those little wooden toys seemed to gain life, like if it was magic. He actually asked to his father to show him how to do it. With the time he became a master.
One day the queen died and an adult Princess Sectonia became the new queen. Few weeks later Taranza's father got sick and died as well. Taranza, even thought he stilled a kid, decided to follow his father steps and served the royal family. With the time he befriended Queen Sectonia.
They were good friends. They know each other perfectly and shared few secrets. She taught him some magic tricks. The queen and her servant were inseparable.
(Taranza's POV)
Queen Sectonia was really excited today. She said that she got a special surprise for me. I closed my eyes and followed her voice.
"Ok, 3, 2, 1, open them!" said the queen.
And I opened my eyes and found a beautiful garden with great variety of flowers, trees and plants. There was a small pond that reflected the moonlight. The air was so fresh and pure. It was so calm. On the center of everything was a table and two chairs. On the table was a tea pot, cups and many desserts. It was like a fairytale. The place was so divine that I ended speechless.
"Isn't it divine?" asked the queen.
I nodded in response.
"Your reaction reminds me mine when my mother showed me this place for fist time." she giggled.
"It truly is amazing." I said.
"Did you ever hear the legend of the secret island?" she asked.
"Yes, I did. Don't tell that this is the..."
"Secret island, yes, it is. This is a secret place that only the royal family knew. This place is called Eternal Dream."
"Why did your family keep it as a secret?"
"This is because of the water, this water gives eternal beauty and power, if the people discover this, they will kill themselves for it. This is the duty of the royal family to keep this as a secret."
"Then why did you tell me this now?"
"Because, you know, you're like part of my family. And only few, who are trusted by my family, can know. So do you want some tea?"
"Sure"
I never thought that the queen did trust me so much. It made me feel glad. And I promised her to never reveal this place to no one.
One day a group of antrs found a golden mirror floating in the sky. The Queen and I went to investigate. The mirror was magnificent, it got two golden bird wings. The queen examine it carefully and then stood at her reflection. She stared at it for a while until she said "Taranza, bring it to the castle." And I, with my web spell, brought the mirror to the palace.
The queen started to act pretty weird since the mirror went to the castle. She had been staring at the mirror everyday. She started to presume her beauty. She had been getting more distant to me. She was cruel with the habitants of her kingdom and even her personal, including me. So mean that most of the personal left. I was the only one left.
I got in charge of most of the labors of the palace, cleaning, cooking and do the laundry. I suffered everyday, but I still working because I'm loyal to her majesty.
After a day of hard work, I decided to take a short walk through Fine Fields. Then I noticed that a group of sky fairies.
"Ok, ready?" one of my them said.
"Ready." other one said and tossed a giant seed to the land below the island.
"With that thing the hero of the lower world would come to our rescue, soon Queen Sectonia's dictatorship will end, we will be free once more!"
I got shock, I floated to Royal Road to advertise the queen.
"So they are planing to stop me, their great queen?!" she said.
"Yes, your highness." I said.
"Very well then, Taranza, I got a work for you..."
A/N: Kirby Triple Deluxe is my second favorite Kirby game so far (my favorite is Kirby Super Star Ultra) one of the reasons is that it is like a fairytale. There is even a narrator at the end of the story mode. One of my favorite stages is stage 3-5 (Hipernova and the three Waddle Dees).