Murphy's Laws. Or Sod's Laws for all my fellow English chaps of course ;)
Written because I have other stuff I should be working on, I just don't want to. I'm not sure if this has been done before in the Kirby fandom, but I'm sure they'll forgive me if it has.
Disclaimer: Not mine, at all. If I did own Meta Knight, he would certainly have his wings in Hoshi no Kaabi.
My HC for Meta Knight is that he was a little less reserved before Jecra and Garlude died. Besides, who doesn't love a little Meta Knight Sass. Jecra for me is more comic relief than Meta Knight, and Garlude for me seems like she would be a bit of a worrier about her two boys.
EDIT 17th Nov 2017 – Editing grammar, possibly adding a chapter or two because I re-fell in love with this grumpy ass blueberry.
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Chapter 1: If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid
"This is ridiculous" Meta Knight drawled.
"It is not!" Jecra's indignant cry rang out around the trio's make shift hiding spot. Garlude quickly turned from peering around the edge of the boulder cluster they were crouched behind and smacked the purple warrior on the back of the head.
"Shh! We are hiding Jecra!" She manages to growl and whisper at the same time. Sometimes Jecra and Meta Knight try and work out how she does it when they can't sleep. It's one of those great universal mysteries Meta Knight likes to read about.
Satisfied that the moron would be quieter, Garlude returns to her watch.
After pausing for a moment to make certain the scary-when-angry woman wouldn't immediately turn around and smack him again, Jecra allows some time to scowl at the way Meta Knight manages to look smug even through his mask, "It will work." Jecra's confidence would not be squashed by his, admittedly badass, midget companion.
Meta Knight fails to stop the sigh, "It's just a myth Jecra, they don't really do it." He pauses, before sighing again in resignation, albeit with a dash of poorly contained humour. "But, if you're really set on it, don't complain to me the next time we pass through a town and you can't afford a drink." Smug level: Intense.
"After this, you are going to owe me that drink." The taller warrior huffed at the Knight, pulling out a gold coin before leaping up onto the boulder currently shielding them from enemy sight. The sight of several hundred, small rodent-like demon beasts, met him as they turned to gaze up at him, astonished at his sudden appearance. The beasts were small, weak, and undeniably stupid, but their numbers were not something to shake a stick at.
The area went deathly quiet in the moment of sudden shock and Jecra uses it to thrust his hand into the air, thousands of eyes following the gesture in bewilderment.
"LOOK!" Jecra exclaims, the blasting sunlight gleaming off the small reflective coin. "SHINY!"
Garlude's splutters of disbelief were drowned out by a collective entranced "OOH~" from the demons. Before they could regain their, rather small, thoughts. Jecra hurled the coin off the nearby cliff with one last, confidently shouted, "FETCH!"
Another, briefer, bout of baffled silence rattled through the area; well, except for Garlude's mumbles of dubiousness growing in volume. Then, as one. The demons scrambled after the coin in a mad dash, throwing themselves clear off the cliff's edge in their utter enthralment of getting the shiny object.
Those that hadn't heard Jecra or seen the coin, followed their brethren off the edge out of pure instinct until not one was left.
Leaving three, very, gob-smacked star warriors.
"I-I can't believe that worked" Jecra mumbled, Meta Knight and Garlude could only stare at the recently vacated cliff-top in weary disbelief. Regaining composure in a desperate scramble, the shield bearing warrior rounded on Meta Knight, "HA! I told you that it would work! Lemmings always jump off cliffs!"
Meta Knight and Garlude couldn't even spare him a glance, still eyeing the expanse before them as Jecra laughed his way back to their make shift camp. Confidence rolling off him in obnoxiously loud waves.
"I-I thought that was just a myth." Garlude managed weakly, voice cracking under the strain of what she had just witnessed.
Meta Knight sighed for the third time in as many minutes, "We're never going to hear the end of this."
AN - I'm not even sorry
