First story. Hope you enjoy.
I don't own anything relating to Kirby. Ownership goes to their respective owners (Nintendo, Hal, etc) AKA not me
Kirby was a pink puffball with two stubby arms and feet. He had bright blue eyes and an ability to inhale things to gain their power.
He was falling down a hole for what seemed to be hours. He couldn't inhale, his special ability seemed to go away before this adventure.
Kirby didn't think not being able to inhale things would effect what he was doing. Nonetheless, his mentor, Meta Knight decided to give Kirby a sword.
Kirby wished he kept the sword. He ended up forgetting it at home, it was an odd shape for a house but he liked it. It was a dome shape and Meta Knight would sometimes get him up early for training.
Meta Knight wore a metallic mask with bright yellow eyes shining through a V shaped slit in his mask. He looked similar to a blue Kirby with stubby arms and feet, but wore a dark blue cape and black pauldrons. His weapon would be Galaxia, a golden sword with three golden spikes out the side of the it. Thats how he remembered his mentor.
Kirby always wondered why Meta Knight was so secretive about his past, or anything. He always hid stuff from him! Now was not the time to think about that though, because the ground was coming up, fast!
CRASH
...
It echoed through the caves.
...
Kirby started to open his eyes, disbelief struck him, the fall didn't hurt! He saw rainbow lights dancing across the walls, but then stop as soon as his eyes were open, "Where the pretty lights come from?" Kirby thought to himself. Kirby looked at himself. He had a few bruises but that didn't bother him, what bothered him is that a cut he got several days ago had a bandage on it. There was blood around him, it must have been his cuts opening that he received while journeying, They had bandaged with blood on them too! He wondered why none of his bones were broken or at least sprained or fragmented. Kirby had his gear with him before he fell, but it was in his campsite.
Kirby groaned and frowned, he had no food, no water and nothing to help him survive.
So he got up and looked for light that the hole must have coming out, but all he could see was darkness.
There was no light, he could only see his arms length in front of him, not far, but enough for Kirby to observe himself.
Kirby wandered around the area, feeling around for something, anything, but he only found rock, and a... a...
"DOOR!", Kirby's voice echoed through the area he was in. He accidentally shouted out in the middle of a cave! Normally, Kirby would have scolded himself for doing such a thing, but he didn't know what was out there, and his excitement could barely be contained!
The door creaked loudly, louder than the door on his house, and that was alarming. A thought came to Kirby,
"How old is here poyo?"
Kirby pondered, thought, but couldn't for the life of him figure it out. He was no archaeologist, so he wasn't surprised he couldn't figure it out, but he knew it must be very old.
He finished opening the door and his eyes were assaulted with light!
"It can't be a cave from one of my past adventures, only one of them fell like that, but it wasn't this dark, and scary and..."
So Kirby looked around in curiosity, fear, and a bit of excitement and his eyes fell on something, or someone he didn't want to run into here.
"Oh no no no no no, NO! That's a lot of not friends and I don't have any weapons!" Kirby thought to himself, but then realized none of them were moving; they were statues. Kirby found this strange that there would be statues down here, especially of who they were, enemies he had fought in the past!
Kirby walked up to a large statue in the large chamber and examined it. It was a life-sized replica of King Dedede! He had his mallet, his hat, coat and his intimidating way of standing. Whoever made these clearly had talent.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
"What was noise?" Kirby asked himself, expecting to get an answer.
TAP.
"Show you!" Kirby squeaked. He wasn't good at language or communicating, but Kirby hoped it would suffice.
Something landed on Kirby.
"AAAAH! MONSTER! HELP ME PO-YOOOO!" Kirby screeched.
"It's just a bug, calm down!"
Kirby shook around and it flew off his face.
"Thank y-" Kirby stopped. "THAT WASN'T MY VOICE!" Kirby's mind was racing, So, he went full speed back to where he came from, his landing place.
Creeeeeak.
The door was closed. Kirby hoped that the creature didn't hear the door. He waited for a long time, making sure whatever it was would be gone.
Creeeak.
Kirby was in the chamber again. If the creature was there it didn't seem to fight, and Kirby assumed he was just being unfair to assume it was malicious.
"H-Hello poyo?" Kirby stammered out... No response. "Hello?" Kirby said louder... No response. Maybe the creature got bored and was somewhere else. This saddened Kirby. He might have scared off what would be his only friend down here!
Kirby saw the rainbow lights from earlier, through a tunnel! He followed as swiftly as possible, nearly crashing into the statues.
"HELLO?" Kirby yelled, hoping it would grab the creature's attention.
The rainbow lights stopped. Kirby was now shrouded in darkness, and he couldn't even see himself, but there was a light up ahead, so Kirby started walking towards it, bumping into walls as he went. Then he stopped, and stared. There was a figure in the light, completely shadowing him to Kirby, only his silhouette was visible. He examined what he could make out, which was the other's hat. It curved down beside the figure and ended with a fuzzy ball on the end. Was that a Noddy up there?
"Hii?" Kirby yelled up to the figure, waiting for a response. The only thing he got was a hard object, probably a rock, to the top of him. It must have fell.
A while later Kirby woke. He looked like he just had a nightmare, He probably had a throbbing headache. He sat up, amused at the rainbow colors on the walls, only for them to disappear moments later. I made them disappear. Kirby probably thought his mind was playing tricks on him, or he truly did see rainbows, not that it mattered. He looked around confused, observing all that he could.
"Did he not remember?" poked at the back of my head, he had a concussion, did he also get amnesia? Now was not the time for that, because its time to try and make it look like I wasn't an enemy. So I looked at myself, I was all dusty and ragged, but my clothes didn't look anything less than new. I had a cap that ended in a ball and a red bow-tie, I usually wore a blue and red jester hat with a pattern of circles on one side and triangles on the other. I had to hide it, and now I had to hide MY red bow-tie. This saddened me greatly that I couldn't wear my favorite clothes, but I have to endure. I have to make friends with pinkie, and not induce unfavorable emotions, for now at least. I HAD TO GO WITHOUT MY BALL!
"Hey there buddy, you okay?" I asked the pink puffball, while feigning concern.
Kirby looked right up at me, and I looked right into his eyes, he was scared. I walked up to him and looked him up and down, With a grin, not remembering I have very sharp fangs, causing Kirby to be even more scared of me. He was peeping and squeaking in fear, until I asked
"Whats making you so afraid? Why are you so scared?" I asked the puffball.
"Scary, poyo!" Kirby pointed at my fangs.
"Oh, sorry little guy, I forgot. What's your name?" I didn't need to ask this, I already knew! Though, its a good idea to not let him know I know him.
Kirby looked to be in thought, Deep thought.
"Well, do you remember what I am?"
"Noddy poyo!"
"Well call me Nodds alright?" Ugh. What a stupid name.
"Nodds poyo!" Kirby seemed happy at the nickname, I guess I did something right.
"Why you no sleep poyo?"
"Don't be concerned about me, you should be concerned about yourself! Look at you!"
So he did. Kirby was shocked to see how bandaged he was, how dusty, just about how he looked, and look up at me, hopeful that I would know what happened.
"What were you doing down here?" I tried my best to look sad. I heard a lot of poyos so I can only imagine, no, I know how he feels.
"Well, you can follow me while you try to get your memories in order again, alright little buddy?" I tried my best to try to be happy, It was hard but I tried. I didn't feel happy in such a long time, but I didn't need to be the best at faking, which I was, but I hadn't felt happiness in such a long long time.
"POYO POYO POYO!" One big grin plastered on Kirby's face. Success.
"Do you consider me your friend?" I asked Kirby while we walked down endless stone corridors.
"Friend poyo!"
"A yes then?" Kirby grinned as wide as he could. I would do the same but it would probably frighten him how wide my mouth could go, so I just did a small smile.
"Here we are!" I proudly announced. "I only have one bed so we will be in the same room!"
Kirby's stomach groaned. He must want food, and I was right "Nodds have food poyo?"
"Yeah I have food, what do you want me to call you?" I asked Kirby, smirking. "How about Kirby?" He looked happy as could be! "Alright, Kirby, come with me into our room!" I opened the door, it was a challenge because well, I had no arms. Which was another reason I decided to impersonate a Noddy.
The room was dark, the only thing lighting it up was a candle, but I had more, I always found more. There was a single bed in a corner, a fridge that was powered by magic, a table and a few chairs. The next room over was the bathroom which had a toilet that worked well enough, another candle, a bath, mirror, and cabinet, most of it worked off magic. After all we were in magic ruins.
"What would you like Kirby?" I opened the fridge. I did my best to replenish the items inside daily, so starving to death would be hard to do.
"Watermelon poyo!"
"Watermelon? Alright. Just sit down there buddy," I motioned with my hat. "I'll get it ready for you soon!" I bit the watermelon, trying to get the best hold I could, frightening Kirby, probably because it was about as big as him. He was probably wondering how I could lift such a thing with just my fangs but I succeeded in placing it on the table, me looking like a bloodthirsty monster, but I did it. I released my fangs from the melon and there we two sizable chunks taken out, where my fangs were. Kirby looked relieved, probably because I didn't get hurt. He was scared earlier because he didn't want me to get hurt carrying the melon. How cute.
"Does Nodds want melon too?" I turned around to face Kirby.
"Yeah I'll have some watermelon with you!" I said as excited as a Noddy could possibly get.
The only issue with my disguise at the moment was my fangs, Noddys usually don't have fangs. My skin was a close enough tone to a normal Noddy, mine being purple, but a Noddys' being pink. but my eyes were big and purple, Noddys' never had purple eyes. The dust, luckily, had covered me masking the colors.
I carved a piece out for me, from the melon using my fangs again, It wasn't hard, my fangs being sharp enough to do such a thing. "Well I have my piece now how about you?"
"I have rest poyo?"
"Sure thing Kirby!" Kirby cheered, looking like a child dancing through flowers, he was happy as could be, he finally got food.
Kirby just took bits out of the red, juicy bits. He probably didn't know he could just gulp the whole thing, but that didn't matter, He trusted me.
I just took chunks out of my piece of melon, right into the red and out the green, my fangs making it ever easier, and much more unsettling. I was covered in its juices by the time I was done, probably looking like I devoured a Waddle Dee. Kirby didn't seem to notice as he was eating the rest of the melon.
"I'll see you later Kirby, I'm going to have a bath!" I called out. There was another room to the left of the bathroom, the washing room. I had it locked so that Kirby wouldn't notice my favorite hat, bow-tie, and ball.
I didn't take my hat off as I bathed, kill two birds with one stone right? The water became a nice pink color, almost red.
Knock Knock Knock.
Kirby was at the door. "Just a minute Kirby! I'm almost done!"
Click. Creaaaak.
"I don't know how to bathe poyo, could Nodds help Kirby?" Kirby was embarrassed. "Sure thing!" I answered, almost too quickly.
"Thank you Nodds." I turned the faucet, put in something called 'bubble bath' I thought Kirby might like it. I trying my best not to pierce the bottle, and told Kirby to get in. He did as told and got in the bubbly water.
"Now you just relax, maybe rub some water on yourself to get clean alright?"
"Poyo."
I left the door open as I left, and got in the only bed. It was purple like me, and had a nice blue pillow.
I was almost asleep by the time Kirby got out of his bath, he was all drippy and bubbly. "Now you take the towel, and dry yourself." I yawned out, all this bath stuff was hard for me but not too hard for Kirby.
Kirby got in bed with me, he being closest to the wall. I gave him a cap similar to mine, blue and ending with a fuzzy ball. I ended up sleeping with a blue cap ending in a white fuzzy ball, and my brown shoes.
"Nodds? How do you get to sleep? Its odd that a Noddy would still be up poyo!"
"Close your eyes Kirby, It doesn't matter right now, but since you insist I'll tell you. Just go to sleep when I'm done okay?" There was a poyo of agreement before I began my story.
"You know the Fountain of Dreams and the Dream Rod? It protects the citizens of Dreamland from nightmares and gives them dreams, right?" "Poyo! Dreams!" "Well, I don't get dreams." I looked over at Kirby. He was shocked, He looked like he was on the verge of tears. "I get nightmares Kirby. Nightmares." I let out some fake tears, Kirby hugged me getting the tears on him too. I tried my best to give him some affection: I nibbled on his arm. Kirby giggled. It must have tickled. I got to sleep long after Kirby was in his own 'Dreamland' I laugh at the pun. I got to sleep soon after.
I was awoken by Kirby struggling. As much as I wanted to bite and attack I knew I had to stop Kirby in an effort of 'friendliness' "HEY KIRBY!" My voice echoed off the walls, waking Kirby up.
"Nodds! I had bad dream!"
"You too?" I lied. I had no dreams last night. "Tell me about it."
"I was in darkness and I couldn't find my friends poyo!"
"Doesn't sound too much different than now, Kirby." I said flatly. Kirby was surprised at what I said.
"But I have you Nodds! You friend poyo!" Kirby blurted out.
"Oh thanks Kirby, I only have you." I added. Now was the best time to see if I can put on my clothes before Kirby remembers too much.
Creaaak
I go into the washing room. I unlocked it the previous night, in preparations for now. I put on my favorite red bow-tie and close the door with me in the hallway. Kirby is behind me, I'm facing away from Kirby.
"Hows this look on me?" I said enthusiastically, and it was genuine.
"Nodds look good!"
"Aw, thanks Kirby." I replied, very happy with this new information. I could wear my red bow-tie! My happiness was soon lost when the door to the room was broken right through by a Bonkers! He slammed through the door with his big hammer and purple get-up and came charging at us! Kirby ran away as fast as possible, leaving me to fight the Bonkers or lose the living area!
I dodged backwards, as the Bonker's hammer came slamming at the position I was previously in. I jumped on the Bonker's weapon arm and starting biting mercilessly. I was covered in blood as the flesh was torn away. The Bonkers was shaking around in a desperate attempt to shake me off, while screaming, only to put him in more pain, causing him to drop the hammer! I got punched off his arm, making my stomach ache, but the Bonkers was weakened! I dropped the chunk of flesh I had in my mouth and charged at Bonkers. He was trying to get into where Kirby fled, but I had a permanent solution. I jumped at the Bonker's head, Opening my mouth and closing it on the back of its neck, right where the spine was.
CRUNCH. This sound pleased me, knowing the battle was over!
Kirby must've heard the sound too, as he came out very slowly and cautiously while looking at the corpse. He looked shocked to see it, and even more shocked to see how I did it! I had no way to say I didn't just kill something, as I was covered in blood, had my eyes narrowed, and had flesh stuck to my fangs. I tried my hardest not to grin and cackle at what I just did. I succeeded in not showing my joy in killing something, but the satisfaction was still there.
"Nodds... What you do?" Kirby was as pale as a sheet. I decided not to respond.
"Nodds..."
"I think you can see what I did quite clearly." I opened my mouth to show the blood and this scared Kirby further. "Whats the matter?"
"Nodds you killed it."
"Oh. Right. You've seen corpses before though, right?" A giggle escaped my mouth, it was small, but Kirby must have heard it. "Kirby, come here."
Kirby was close to me. "Ask away."
"Why did you kill it?"
"It was putting my only house, me and you in danger."
"Why did you giggle?"
"I'd prefer not to answer that."
"Is Nodds your real name?"
"I didn't have one before you came, if that's what you are asking." Lie. I was also subconsciously chewing on the flesh that had been left in my mouth. It wasn't bad. I leaned against Kirby and muttered "Hug."
Kirby leaned against me and hugged, I couldn't, doing the nibbling thing might be a bit weird too, after I just killed Bonkers.
"It'll be okay Kirby, you are alive and so am I. If you wanted to try and make friends with the intruder you should've tried. It's too late now though. A corpse doesn't make a good friend." Another giggle escaped my lips.
"A-Are you actually a Noddy?" Kirby asked.
I made a face that was between sad and slightly offended, It seemed to work and Kirby asked a different question.
"H-How do you know how to s-speak?"
"I lived in a town, I was taught there. No-one thought I was a real Noddy, in truth, I wished I wasn't one." I replied softly. Kirby finally stopped hugging me. I don't think I could've tolerated that any longer.
"Do you have friends poyo?"
"You." I replied, bluntly. "Do you have friends Kirby?"
"Ya I have friends."
"Mind to list a few?"
"I'd like to not think poyo."
"Do you consider me a friend?" Kirby had a blank stare.
"Y-yes." Kirby was stuttering.
"Then what's my name Kirby?" He went even paler. Thoughts boomed in my head
"He forgot my name? Stuttering? He's afraid of me, doesn't think I'm a friend but is only complying because hes scared of me."
"Kirby, do you think I'm your friend or an enemy?"
"F-friend..." Kirby was crying.
"If I hadn't taken you into my home would you still consider me a friend or enemy Kirby."
"I s-said f-friend N-Nodd-ds..."
"Okay, Kirby, don't cry. You go to the table and I'll clean up. You don't have to help if you don't want to buddy."
"T-t-thank you N-N-N-Nodds." I heard Kirby plop down on the chair. Now to deal with the corpse and blood. I bit into the Bonker's foot earning a squelch. I started dragging the corpse outside the house, past Kirby. He was looking away with his paws on his head. There was a trail of blood that led past the table, and out the door frame. I made sure to kick it's other arm until I earned a crunch. It didn't take too many kicks but I was delighted at the morbid sounds.
"Nodds, how to get the l-liquid out?" I wore a grin. A big grin. I knew I couldn't just lick the blood up and be done with it, because Kirby was here.
I went into the bathroom and got a mop, and I had the handle grasped between my teeth. "Kirby, I know you don't want to do this but could you mop up the liquid? I don't want to do this sideways."
"O-okay Nodds." Each time Kirby started mopping up the blood he soon stopped, shuddering.
"Kirby what's wrong?" My devious grin gone, replaced with a soft stare.
"This don't feel right Nodds." Kirby had a downcast look on his face.
"Kirby, what's done is done, we can't change that." I looked at Kirby. "You don't have to do it, I could, as you saw me hold it."
"N-No Nodds, I can do this." Kirby glanced at the blood.
"I know you can Kirby!" I cheered, but then whispered "I'm going to clean myself."
"Thanks N-Nodds."
Click. The door was locked. I put in the bubble mixture, accidentally puncturing the top, that was the last bottle. turn the tap with my fangs and try to relax. I wriggle a bit to try and get the blood off of my clothes and skin, It works and the bath water went from clear to a nice crimson color.
Knock-knock-knock. "Nodds?"
"Yes, Kirby?" I asked "Whats wrong?"
"I need help poyo!"
"Alright, I'll be out soon!" What could Kirby need?
Click. Creeeeeeak
"Alright Kirby what do you need help with?
"I need help wash clothes poyo." I froze. Hopefully he didn't see my real clothes.
"Okay-y-y-y just let me see what you need."
Click. Whrrrrrr
"Kirby wasn't that room locked?"
"No poyo, unlock." Right. I unlocked it to put my bow-tie on.
"Kirby do you want to try and find the surface?" Kirby's eyes lit up all starry-like.
"Poyo poyo poyo poyo!" Kirby jumped at me for a hug.
"Okay Kirby calm down, We can't explore without light now can we?" I could, I can see in the dark, but Kirby?
"Okay Poyo."
I was starting to not hate the puffball as much as I was before, But I know that he would jump if I got something too suspicious or maybe even mention my name, Marx. But maybe he wouldn't be so assuming, but his friends?
I went under the bed and got a lantern, a candle and the closest thing to fire I could get, a match. I had all these things from the surface, to survive until heat died down. I had hid everything in this room, or, before it would be a cave. I gave Kirby the items.
"Kirby, put the candle in the lantern." Plop. "Now we need to light it."
"Light?" Kirby got excited.
"Just take the match and put it on one of my f- teeth." Kirby got nervous. He knew I meant fangs, and he saw what I did earlier with them.
"O-Okay." Kirby's paw was so close I could bite it. But I need to endure through this physical interaction.
"Now press it against the... fang and pull down fast."
"Fire poyo!" Kirby was excited again.
"Now just put the fire on the top of the candle." Nod. Nod. Soon the lantern was up and functioning! Then I remembered where the corpse was. We would see it twice, on the way out and in.
"Explore poyo?" Kirby tilted his head.
"Yes we can explore now." I glanced at him. Kirby was cheering.
Out the door frame, past the corpse and left, down a hallway. I stopped so I would be behind Kirby, so I could think without disturbance.
"Why didn't you just let him die when Bonkers attacked Marx? Do you care about the puffball? No. Don't get hopeful too early, he only knows 'Nodds' cares about his friendship, so don't mess it up Marx!" Brushing the thought away a memory hit him. It was the battle between Kirby and I!
"TAKE THIS STAR WARRIOR!"I laughed maniacally. I was right behind the puffball. I shot arrows out of my wings, which connected to me by a golden arch, with two claws on each. The wings start ascending, at the top is a heart right when it reaches my wings' highest point, it starts descending back down into a much more sharpened heart, looking more like a spade. My wings had crystals going in and out of existence below this, shaped like hexagons. They were the colors of the rainbow. The arrows started flying out of the crystals and into a surprised Kirby. They ripped at his flesh and went on for a good few seconds, The puffball screaming in the pain as one of my arrows got stuck in him. They don't last long when still, as it exploded in to energy, shocking the puffball and causing bleeding out of his arrow-shaped hole. "HAHAHA! Kirby your efforts are futile! Popstar will be mine!" And then I got a hammer swung right onto my face, and it stung.
"Rainbow poyo!" Kirby assumed the place was making the rainbow so he kept walking, not looking back to find a blank glare from the supposed Noddy. He also had his wings out with an arrow about to released when-
Zroooo- "POYOOOOOOOooOOoOoOO!?" The arrow was released and shot Kirby right in his foot, and got stuck. The puffball then got electrocuted. This shot Nodds back into reality, causing him to withdraw his wings and started sprinting to Kirby with immense concern on his face.
"KIRBY YOU ALRIGHT!?" Kirby obviously didn't expect his friend, Nodds to run up to him and scream at him but he whimpered back a "Help!" and pointed at his foot.
"Can you walk Kirby!?" Kirby tried to get up but his muscles did nothing, he was immediately leeched of his energy. "N-no Poyo." He cried out to Nodds.
"Since I have to get you home somehow, and you can't move... You are NOT going to like this." Kirby looked at his friend to see what he was doing. He couldn't see but he felt a very very SHARP PAIN in his side. "NODDS BITE KIRBY?"
"Sorry buddy!" Nodds was very muffled, with a puffball in his mouth.
Crunch. Crunch. The sound of his friend breaking the Bonker's bones more than he already did, stepping without a care.
"Nod-" Kirby was interrupted because Nodds threw him into the bed, from the door frame! He saw his friend open the door into the bathroom to come out with a med-kit between his fangs. Kirby looking at the fangs, noticed there was blood on them. Using the last of his energy felt where the pain was. Two deep holes. He winced when he found this.
Nodds used his fangs to open the med-kit and get out a bottle and some kind of cloth. Kirby didn't know what Nodds was doing, he usually used food to heal! But then again how will food heal the punctures?
"Kirby I need you to hold still as I do this." Kirby nodded. "Very still, it will hurt." Kirby figured out why Nodds said this because as soon as the liquid hit his wounds it stung, and it stung bad. But Nodds knows what he is doing, so stay still! Stay still!
He thought "STAY STILL STAY STILL STAY STILL" But let out a loud scream in pain.
"Kirby calm down please! I'm not done yet!" There was a ripping sound, the cloth. It had didn't have blood on where it was cut, to Kirby's surprise, but then looked at Nodd's fangs, which were clean and shiny. He licked the blood off? That must be horrible tasting! Kirby guessed Nodds really didn't want blood on me! Nodds wrapped the cloth around Kirby's foot, and around where he bit.
"Go to sleep Kirby." Nodds whispered in a soothing tone. There was water hitting my face, it was tears? Nodds was crying! "Nodds I okay now no need to cry!" and he pulled Nodds in for a hug. Or at least, tried. "Nodds I can't hug!" Nodds pulled in and rested next to Kirby. "Hug." he whispered. A smile grew on my face. "Hug." I whispered back. "Nodds?"
"Mm?"
"What shoot me?"
"I don't know Kirby, I haven't seen that before."
There was a door where the other one was bashed in before. It was locked, so I looked around the room for my answer, I didn't find one, but I found what was in the room. There was a chest on the other side of the room, I can't get to it, but Nodds might. "Nodds? What is chest doing over there?"
"What chest?"
"On other side!" I felt weight shift on the bed, Nodds must have seen it! I was so excited that N- his thought halted when he heard
CRUNCH.
"Nodds what was that?" Concern grew.
"I bit the lock off." I knew Nodds was a good biter but that's very scary. "Nodds bite well, how?"
"I don't want to say." Glancing at Nodds' face gave him all the information he needed.
"Nodds don't want to open up to Kirby because story makes you sad?"
"No Kirby, I just use my fangs so often in combat."
"What you mean?"
"I kill things, Kirby."
"Why you not kill me?" It tickled his mind. Why did Noddy not kill him?
"You talked to me before you even saw me, Unlike many. I also pitied that you got hit with a falling rock."
"Poyo."
"Will you go to sleep before pain strikes again?" What did Nodds mean? My wounds already ache so does that mean it will ache harder?
"Nodds what mean?"
"It'll hurt more later."
"P-P-POYO?"
Nodds was back in bed with Kirby, and he managed to get the blanket over both of them.
"Do I frighten you Kirby?" Why did he ask this?
"Just unsettling poyo."
"Oh." Kirby could hear the sadness in his voice, he must have hurt his friend's feelings!
"I'm s-sorry poyo! I didn't mean it!"
"No, it's okay Kirby... Just go to sleep." Kirby still heard the twinge of sadness. He was not letting his friend go to sleep sad!
"Not okay poyo! You sad! Hug."
"Hug." Kirby didn't hear the sadness now! It must have worked! So he giggled for a bit, Nodds joined in with his own giggle, it was unsettling as well, but Kirby kept giggling as to not disappoint his friend!
"Loves you poyo."
"Thanks Kirby. You too." Kirby felt his eyes closing, as much as he wanted to spend the rest of his rest giggling with his friend he knew he needed rest. He couldn't move after all!
"You sleep too poyo?"
...
"Sleep too Nodds?"
"I'll try, just for you."
"For me?"
"Yes. For you Kirby." Kirby had to stay awake to see if his friend would go to sleep!
A few minutes later his friend was what seemed to be sleeping, with his eyes half open but they looked strange. They were... they looked like when he was attacking Bonkers! They were all narrowed! "NODDS!" Accidentally yelling into one of his friends ear, earning Kirby a long and intimidating hiss. "N-N-Nodds! You eyes narrow like in Bonkers fight!"
"Sorry Kirby."
"Nightmare?"
"Yes Kirby. It was a nightmare." A nightmare! Like last rest when he couldn't get to his friends!
"Tell?" squeaked the pink puffball.
"You don't need to hear it. You would get all worried and not get to sleep."
"Still tell?"
"Fine." There was a sigh. "It was about my past alright?"
"Tell about past?"
"I was different, I couldn't get to sleep well, even though I was a Noddy. I had fangs and looked different so I never had any friends. I didn't know how you felt when you talked about your nightmare."
"Poy-o?" Now Kirby was a bit more concerned. If he had no friends then... "Nodds have enemies instead?"
"Yes Kirby, I had enemies back then. I didn't kill them I just took a bit of them with me."
"You bit them poyo?"
"Yes. I made sure they didn't hurt me again." Kirby noticed a change in voice, there was a bit of malice?
"What you do to them?"
"What they did to me."
"They didn't bite you poyo?"
"No, I was neglected, never noticed, and when I was I was bullied. The other Noddies, while conscious, would tell sight-seers that I was dangerous and to mock him."
"They didn't though right?"
"You are too innocent."
"They mocked me, some even hurt me physically, threw things, so I got back at the doers and the influences. While they were sleeping I would come and bite them. They never knew who did it, but still blamed it on the strange guy around town. Never sleeps, must be him!"
"You away from bad people and now with good right? You think Kirby friend?"
"I'm not fully away from the bad, but with you, my friend, I have good close to me."
"We both sleep?"
"Yes Kirby, now rest before your injuries spike."
"Nodds, I no rest until I have answer! Who is harming you!"
"It's no issue to you. It's only in my head and I fear telling you this would give you nightmares like mine as well."
"Kirby strong poyo! Kirby sleep now."
"M- Nodds will also sleep with Kirby too."
"Look at that loser over there! He's dangerous! He always scares us and we can't scare him back because we are always sleeping! He never sleeps and we need your help to get back at him!" Huh? A Noddy screaming at Kirby? Kirby looked at himself, he was not himself, but Nodds!
"That's not very nice!" Kirby spoke back.
"Shut up you idiot!" Kirby felt something hit him... A tomato? It was rotten.
"That hurts my feeling you jerk!" Kirby called back at him.
"Go to hell you miserable freak!" Whoa. Kirby never had to deal with insults like this before. He decided to go back to the place his senses told him home was.
Creak.
He was inside! Now to look at himself... He was Nodds! Nodds was right about Kirby experiencing the same thing. He felt horrible from those insults, and didn't seem to know how Nodds moves on from that, so he thought about it. Then he realized that he knew where that Noddy sleeps. A sadistic feeling crawled up his spine. But this was Kirby! He shouldn't do that to anyone... Right?
Squelch. Kirby hoped this was just a fake memory told by Nodds to get him to sleep right? What was he tasting? He looked down and nearly threw up! He had bitten the Noddy on the foot, and was licking the blood off his fangs! Nodds fangs? It didn't matter, because it all tasted too real!
"Kir..y" Was that a voice he heard? Was he about to found out biting into someone's flesh!?
"Kirbyy? You having a nightmare?" He looked at his face and saw his tongue moving. "Oh Kirbyy, you bite someone~?" Kirby's eyes opened slowly... and then his mouth started moving... "YES AND YES." Kirby stated bluntly.
"I knew I shouldn't have had you listen to my story Kirby, but how was it? The experience of being me?" I stated, curiously. It was a lie to cover up my fangs but he bought it and made it feel real.
"The story fake right?" Kirby was worried.
"No." This looked to have hit Kirby like a bag of bricks.
"The Noddy called me an idiot and a freak, and to go to hell?"
"I remember that, then I decided to get revenge by going over to his resting spot and-"
"Biting his foot?"
"Yes."
"The liquid that came out tasted weird and metallic. Nodds, what was it?"
"Blood." Kirby went pale in the face when the Noddy next to him said this.
"Its the stuff that came out of your holes and into the bandages." Observing Kirby, It seems that all the bandages but the two recently applied fell off.
Kirby tried to move but then a groan crawled its way out of his mouth.
"I see what you m-mean about pain Nodds!"
"Stay there. I'll get you something to eat, what would you like?" I smirked. "Anything you want?"
"Uh, three apple and two cherry p-poyo?"
"Sure thing buddy."
"W-wait Nodds, don't use you fangs?" Kirby looked like he was about to face palm, but I stopped him and said "Okay, I know how. Just close your eyes, go under the cover and don't open them until I say so okay? I'm trusting you here."
Kirby slipped under the covers with his eyes closed and went poyo.
I opened the fridge and summoned my wings, and picked up three apples, two cherries. I placed them on my head and withdrew my wings again. "You can come up now Kirby!" Kirby came up from the covers and opened his eyes and was amazed to see me balancing his meal, a large one, just on my head, and I was dancing and jumping towards him, not dropping a single one. Kneeling next to Kirby so he could eat.
"How you do Nodds? Amazing!"
"No fangs used either." Kirby's face lit up when he realized I got it on my head and danced around without using my fangs."
"Thanks Kirby."
"No thank you Nodds! You amazing!" This time I let myself grin larger. Not big enough to be scary but enough to show joy.