Moving on

chapter 2: the storm raiders

Inside the castle Tiff and Tuff had been looking around for people who had gotten injured in the bombing before Kirby distracted the airship. "Luckily Kirby seems to be distracting it enough to stop it's bombing." Tuff had said at one point to which Tiff had replied "Hopefully that will last long enough for us to vacate the castle."

Up in the sky Kirby was having to doge all arrangements of projectile weapons. Kirby had tried to fly around the thing to find some sort of opening, some small weakness he could exploit but had found none. This was indeed a very curious airship. He was suddenly struck by an idea to help, he would try to suck up one of the many bombs and missiles flying about. He looked around to find the nearest one, he saw it to his right only about 100 feet away and closing fast, he sucked it right in and almost instantly turned into Bomb Kirby. He flew in close and started to lob bombs relentlessly against the hull.

After getting people out of the castle Tiff and Tuff decided to do a head count. "105..106...107 and...that's all sis." Tuff had called out over the concerned voices of the assistants and servants gathered. "Yeah we even got the King and Escargoon out." Tiff replied as she came closer to him she thought on this for awhile. "WAIT we forgot to get Meta Knight out of there!" Tiff suddenly shouted and started to run for the drawbridge, "Tiff wait the whole place is unsound. What if another bomb hits!" but she was already gone.

Kirby had ran out of Ideas a long time ago. Bombs hadn't worked when it changed its weaponry to something different he tried that to. Everything that he tried to do was held off by a force field and he couldn't figure out a way around it. It can't be completely impenetrable, he had thought. After a long fight he was starting to believe it actually was.

How would Meta Knight fight this battle Kirby thought. Kirby had no idea how he would fight this opponent, he knew it was to big to suck up and was to resistant to attack. After contemplating his next move he suddenly saw a huge bomb falling straight down alarmingly fast. He knew he had to stop it so with gusto sped off to stop the bomb somehow, he at the time had no Idea. All of a sudden he remembered the battle with Blocky, he had used his weight to suck him up, It might just work again.

As Kirby approached the ground it became apparent that the intended strike zone was Dedede's castle. He got underneath the bomb and began to inhale the bomb moved faster towards him and eventually went in his mouth. With a burst of extreme power he became crash Kirby and began ascending to see if this new power would do anything the the enemy.

The crowed gasped and yelled with horror as the bomb fell, they did not see the pink hero trying to save them. All they saw was the bomb falling right towards King Dedede's castle. "When is that little pink meddler going to show up Escargoon, ain't he supposed to be the hero to these people!" shouted King Dedede "I don't know sire but why do you care you hate Kirby anyways." replied Escargoon. "Yeah I know but if he doesn't get here soon my castle will be completely destroyed along with us." King Dedede replied with an air that said "no objections" to Escargoon.

As the bomb got closer the citizens where pretty sure that Kirby couldn't make it in time. But right before they lost hope completely the bomb disappeared and was replaced by a blinding light and a deafening crash. Some were afraid to look for fear of what might of happened, but after a few seconds it was clear the bomb didn't fall. The Kappy's, the castle servants even King Dedede and Escargoon where overjoyed to see that Kirby had in fact been up there fighting the battle the whole time.

"Meta Knight...Meta Knight where are you!?" Tiff called over and over again. As she was about to give up the search and move to the next place she heard a noise like someone struggling to make any sound. She turned towards the sound and saw a pile of ruble with a hand sticking half way out. She immediately Knew this was Meta Knight and started to dig him out.

"Meta Knight what happened how did you get stuck?" Tiff asked "I was on patrol with sword and blade when I heard a loud noise coming from this direction. I rushed over here after telling sword and blade to stay put and the wall just crumbled. If you hadn't come here I would be dead thank you." as Meta Knight explained the situation Tiff was overcome with relief that it wasn't something more serious.

"Alright I thought something really bad might of happened when we didn't see you when we evacuated the castle." after Tiff got done talking Meta Knight looked away in shame, he had heard the castle being bombed and felt ashamed that he couldn't have helped get the people out of it. Tiff noticed his silence and questioned him. "Meta Knight are you alright?" but just before he could answer there was a humongous crashing noise in the sky and a bright light

Kirby had made it back up to the air ship and was charging straight at it as he approached it he let loose the enormous amount of energy he attained all in one burst. The resulting light could be seen clearly in space and the noise was enough to blow the citizens of Kappy town off their feet. As the energy left Kirby he was temporarily blinded and when his vision returned he saw the air ship was badly damaged but still intact. After a few moments of silence suddenly a voice spoke form somewhere.

"So you really are as strong as they say star warrior. We wanted to pay a visit you may call us the storm riders." seemingly out of nowhere three figures emerged from the ship slowly. "I hope you have insurance for the damage done to our ship." as Kirby looked more closely at the figures he noticed that they each wore one color. Red, blue and yellow, he briefly pondered this until he noticed that they were starting to talk again. "We are the rulers of lightning, fire and ice we wanted to give you a test." the red one presumably the ruler of fire said. "But we aren't going to tell you what it is you'll have to figure it out on your own."

with that they disappeared back in their ship and turned around. Before they left a small rope dropped into the castle and grabbed something. Kirby couldn't tell what it was and the ship was moving to fast to catch up. As Kirby descended he saw Tiff and Tuff waving at him. He flew over to them and Tiff explained what had happened in four words "META KNIGHT'S GONE KIRBY!"

aouthers note I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter. It is by no means rushed in my opinion because I do this when I feel like doing. Any way remember to read and review.