we left off with a creepy snail.

haha.

Now, this is the chapter that makes me have to rate this T, just to be safe...

(EDIT: I'm going on a road trip, one-two months, internet might be bad at wherever I'm staying, so if I don't update, I have an excuse :3)

(I don't own any of these characters except Kitty)

CHAPTER FOUR

Captured By The King

P.O.V Meta Knight

I heard Kitty's scream, and ran back up to the kitchen, but when I got there, all that was there was a small note with the seal of Dedede.

'I have taken your little friend, now come find me if you want her back!' The note said.

I gasped in rage, and tore up the note, then I picked up the Halberd intercom and said, "attention Blade and Sword! King Dedede and Escargoon have kidnapped Kitty! I'm going to find her!"

"And we're going with you," I turned around to see who had spoken, it was Sword and Blade!

"It's gonna be dangerous," I warned.

"Can't be more dangerous then when we helped Kirby deal with that Yin Yarn fellow," Sword told me.

"I guess not, but Dedede will be expecting us," I told them about the note.

"Who cares, let's get a move on and save Kitty!" Blade cheered.

So we dashed outside towards Dedede castle.

The trek didn't take very long, considering the Halberd was landed outside for repairs.

The complication was that the second they stepped in the door, traps sprung and cages landed over top of them.

A raspy laugh slithered through the air and pierced my eardrums.

"You've fallen into my trap, Meta... Now watch your friends die before your eyes, while you live on in the horror of it!" The raspy voice laughed manically, and robotic claws reached into the cages and plucked Sword and Blade right out.

I tried to save them, but Escargoon the snail wheeled out a large glass tank with Kitty inside it!

The shock of seeing her in the state she was in almost made me drop Galaxia, her eyes were closed, and her hair messy, her ice blue face was stained red with blood from a gash above her left eye, and her foot was twisted at an awkward angle.

The robotic claws dropped Sword and Blade inside with a thud.

They rushed over to Kitty and tried to stop the bleeding, Sword moved her foot back the way it was supposed to be.

I turned back to Dedede, who had come out of the shadows and was sitting in his throne, "you creep! Let Kitty, Sword and Blade go!" I yelled with all my might.

Dedede chuckled, "I'll let them go, if you surrender yourself to me and agree to do whatever kind of torture I have waiting for you," Dedede said with a mad grin.

I looked at Kitty's face, and knew that if I didn't accept, we'd all die.

"I accept, but you have to leave Kitty, Sword and Blade in peace for the rest of their lives!" I held my voice strong.

"Sounds good to me!" Dedede said, then snapped his fingers, and Escargoon brought over another glass box, "step inside, Meta," Escargoon said.

"I need to talk to Kitty!" I said.

"Sire?" Escargoon looked at Dedede, "go ahead, let them chat," Dedede said.

The robotic claw picked me up by my cape and dropped me rather painfully in the glass cage, "Sword, Blade, make sure Kitty is safe, and Kitty..." I paused, and a tear slid down my face, luckily for my dignity, not far enough to be seen with my mask on.

"In case I never see you again... I love you..." Another tear slid down my cheek.

Kitty's eyes opened just the teensiest bit, "I... Love... You... Too..." She struggled to say the words, but I could hear what she said, and it made more tears stream down my face.

Kitty's eyes closed again, and I felt rage for Dedede course through my body, "I've changed my mind," I said.

"What?" Escargoon looked surprised.

"I challenge your best sword fighter to a duel," I said simply.

"Ok, but if I win, you AND your friends have to stay here with me!" Dedede pressed a button, and I was lifted out of the cage, and a giant monster came out of a hole in the floor, it was holding a massive sword.

But I looked at Sword and Blade taking care of Kitty, and I knew I had to win.

The start horn sounded, and I used my wings to fly onto the monster's head.

I stabbed at it with my sword, but the most it did was dent it here and there.

The fight went on for about fifteen minutes, and I was so tired I felt like I could just fall over, I had a few close calls with the monster's sword.

I saw a glint of red on the monster's back, and I realized it was a machine!

And from living on the Halberd my whole life after I had gone to the Star Warrior's Academy, I also knew that if I managed to hit that spot, the robot would blow up!

I summoned all my remaining energy and flew up high, once I was at the ceiling, I swooped into a Meta Condor Dive, and hit the monster splat bang in that one little weakness!

The gears inside of it clanked, and it collapsed into a pile of rubble.

I ran over to the glass cage and smashed it open with Galaxia, Sword, Blade and I grabbed Kitty and ran out to the Halberd, we climbed in and Sword ran for the control room, as Blade and I were bringing Kitty into a room with better light, I heard the engine rumble to life as Sword took off.

I sent Blade to get the medical kit, and she rushed off, Kitty opened her eyes and said, "I was gonna tell you... That I loved you... But then Dedede-" I put my finger to her lips, telling her to be quiet, "shh, I was gonna tell you too..." I told her.

"So, what now?" She asked me, but as I was about to reply, Blade rushed back in with bandages and other medical things.

I quickly got to work fixing up Kitty, I had to put so many bandages on her head I nearly cried, she just looked so innocent lying there...

How could Dedede be this cruel?

Once Kitty was covered in bandages, I finally felt satisfied that she would be safe, because her eyes opened wide and she took a big breath of air.

"So Kitty, you feeling any better?" I asked her, and her reply melted my heart, "I'm always fine when I'm around you, Mety," she said, with a silly glint in her eyes and her usual smile.

Blade giggled and whispered into a walky-talky something about 'the bat is in the nest!' (Again, unless you're Sword or Blade, offensive to me, and again, I am not a bat.)

Blade listened to the walky-talky, I could only hear static, but Blade giggled and ran off.

"Do you think you can walk?" I asked Kitty.

"I think so," Kitty's eyes burned with the same defiance I had seen when she was in that tree.

I helped her up and let her lean on me as she limped up to the bedroom, which was obviously more comfortable then the floor.

When she lay down, she closed her eyes again, and I think she fell asleep, I wouldn't blame her, she had a stressful day, I could do with some sleep too, so I curled up on the floor and sooner then you could say 'Metamato' I was asleep.

P.O.V Kitty

Meta DID like me! It was like a dream come true, except for the being kidnapped by Dedede part...

But like a fairy tale, my knight in shining armor came to save me!

And in this case, he really was a knight, and he did wear armor.

Sleep hit me very quickly and all night I dreamed of my future with Meta...

this chapter was kinda violent...

sorry about that, but I felt like it was necessary to make it dramatic :3

anyways...

kk baiz :3