Hey guys! This is my first fanfic! Well, it's not exactly my first, I've written several others, but this is the first I have ever uploaded. Either way, I'm still new to this fanfiction thing, so there WILL be mistakes here and there. Any advice would me much appreciated :)

I have a few important things to say before you start reading, however if you'd like you can just skip onto the story:

This story takes place several years after the anime. Kirby is just barely a teen, probably about 11 in human years. However, since I haven't seen the anime in years (and even then I never got to watch the whole series) any places from the anime may be highly inaccurate, and any characters I include from the anime may be out of character. Please feel free to correct me if I get something wrong. Also, I'm not good with accents or describing things, so until I improve I'm going to keep these as simple as possible.

And now, on to the story!

Kirby (c) HAL Laboratory, Inc/Nintendo

Prologue

Ever hear of the planet Pop Star? Well, up until now, I sure haven't. In fact, if it weren't for this strange meteor shower, I would have never discovered it.

So, I was just cruising through the galaxy with my marvelous mismatched wings: the right is feathered, snowy white. The left, draconic, very dark gray, in fact almost black. Don't ask why they're like that, I don't even know myself. Anyways, I was searching for a good place to rest, when some flaming meteors suddenly appeared out of nowhere - like, literally out of nowhere - and before I could even process what the freak was going on, one of the smaller ones rammed my feathered wing, and I went spiraling out of control as I passed out.

Hours later, I wake up in a lush green forest with... a talking apple tree. Yeah, that spooked me quite badly at first, especially since the tree seemed rather angry at me. Of course, I was rather confused. I mean, I have never seen this tree in my life! But then I caught a glimpse of singed leaves and feathers lying just at his roots. That's when the events came flooding back to me: mysterious meteor shower, burnt and possibly broken feathered wing, everything going black... I apologized several times as I recounted my tale, or what I could remember of it. Luckily the tree seemed to believe me. He introduced himself as the ruler of Green Greens, Whispy Woods, and suggested I have my wing checked out. Only problem is I had no idea where I was, and therefore had no idea where the closest village was.

It was at this time that someone who looked surprisingly like me popped up out of nowhere. Whoever it was saw me and freaked out as if he'd never seen another of his kind before, and literally tripped running towards us. Whispy introduced the pink puffball as Kirby, before noticing the similarities between us. Besides our color and slight height difference, and the fact that I had wings while Kirby did not, we looked exactly alike. We concluded that we must be of the same species, which rather shocked me since I haven't seen anyone of my species in years.

Oh, right! I never introduced myself, have I? Well, my name is Shard. I am a purple puff wearing red shoes with gray stripes, and have mismatched wings, as I had said earlier. Wanna know what else is mismatched? My eyes. The right is a lovely shade of blue. The same shade as those blue birds with long tail feathers that look as if they have eyes on the tips. The left... is a deep crimson red. Kinda like blood. I've been told it's quite intimidating.

Back on topic, the pink puffball looked concerned as he checked over my injured wing. He poked it quite hard in one particularly burnt spot, where a small bit of bone was showing, and I shriek in pain. He concluded it was definitely broken and that I should have it checked out. I rolled my eyes in a 'Yeah, so I've been told' manner. His big smile unnerved me for a moment, and before I could react, I was being dragged (carefully, thank goodness) towards what Kirby said was 'Cappy Town.' What the heck was a Cappy? I was about to ask when we somehow arrived in no time flat.

Before I knew it, I was lying in the hospital, my feathered wing expertly bandaged up. Strange how the nurse knew how to bandage a wing, considering the mushroom-like creatures didn't seem to have any of their own. When I had asked, they said something about this guy called Meta Knight. I soon regretted asking who the heck this 'Meta Knight' was, as Kirby sat there in the room with me ALL NIGHT talking about this masked puffball with a cape that turns into a pair of wings. I tried to be friendly with the puffball, as I really wanted some peace, but this guy was persistent! Though I do have to admit, he sure did help keep my mind off the pain.

Thankfully, my wing wasn't severely damaged, and I was discharged the following morning. That day was quite hectic. At least to me it was.