Disclaimer: Kirby and all respective characters blah blah blah….
Onyx: Well, somebody's getting lazy here…
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It was the Christmas afternoon, also known as the 25 of December. Bun, Kirby, and their friends Iroo and Hohhe were playing with Bun's new soccer ball. Fumu was sitting against a nearby tree reading a thick book about marine life that she had received from Meta Knight.
"Oi! Nee-chan! Take a look!"
"Hmmm?" Fumu looked up from her book just in time to feel a sudden sting of coldness on her face. Blinking, she shook her head before raising her head even higher, and gasped.
Thick, dark gray clouds were rolling across the horizon, and with them, came a chilly wind that swept past, raising goose bumps on their arms. Very quickly after, small, white flecks drifted down from the sky.
"Snow?" Fumu cried, before quickly tucking her book under her arm, and raced over to Kirby, who was staring up at the dark clouds and the snowflakes drifting down. Grabbing his paw, she turned to Bun. "C'mon! It's getting cold!"
Bun frowned slightly, before waving good-bye to Hohhe and Iroo, then ran after his sister. "Hey! Wait up!"
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"What was with the hurry?" Bun asked, as they walked through the corridors of the castle, heading towards their family's apartment. "What's snow gonna do to you?"
Fumu heaved an impatient sigh. "First of all, snow in a southern country isn't normal. Second of all, every time that snow has fallen before, something bad happened, remember? The first time it was a demon beast, the second time it was the pengis."
Her brother frowned. "That's true. But we can just have Kirby take care of it. Right, Kaabii?"
"Poya!" the little puff next to him chirped happily.
"I know, but I don't want to take any chances- Oh! Hello, Meta Naito Kyou!" Fumu cut herself off at the sight of the masked puffball, who was standing on a balcony, watching the snow fall with grassy green eyes.
"Fumu, Bun," he turned, then greeted them with a nod. "Kirby."
"Meta Knight, do you know why snow's falling again?" Fumu wasted no time in asking him, to which the puffball only shrugged.
"I have a hunch."
"Do you think Dedede is behind this?"
Lately, the king has been more quiet than usual. It wouldn't have been a surprise for Fumu if he has been plotting some scheme.
"No."
"No? Why not?"
"To repeat myself, it's not healthy to always accuse His Majesty whenever something happens." Meta Knight replied easily.
"That doesn't answer my question," Fumu huffed.
The knight chuckled. "Perhaps it doesn't. But I believe that you have nothing to worry about." He returned to watching the snowflakes, or, more accurately, searching for something.
Kirby followed his gaze and could have sworn he saw a two pairs of glowing eyes watching from the hills around the town. Two pairs of glowing eyes. One blood-red, one celestial amber.
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"Nee-chan, seriously! If Meta Knight says that there's nothing to worry about, there's nothing to worry about!" Bun protested after listening to the thirtieth round of his sister complaining about how Meta Knight's getting old and how he doesn't care about the town anymore and how Dedede's fat and that he never pays attention to her…..
Wait…..
"But still! Something's got to be up! Can you think of a time when there was a change in the weather and a something-or-other did not come to make trouble?" Fumu persisted. Next to her, Kirby abruptly fell over from the sheer amount of repetition.
"See? Even Kirby thinks so," Bun grumbled as he dragged the puff back upright. "I'm telling you, there's nothing to be worrying about!" With that, he starts sprinting towards the nearest exit of the castle.
"Oi! Where are you going?"
"Outside, duh!"
Fumu heaved an annoyed sigh. "Boys. Always too lazy to help. You'll help me, right, Kirby?" No answer. "Kirby?"
She spun around in a circle. "Where'd he go?"
He was gone.
To be continued…