Chapter 3

As the sun rose in Dreamland, Hopper opened his yellow eye to see that his caretaker was still asleep, the baby frikathorn felt hungry as he hopped out of bed and went outside, looking for some food. He lifted his head in the air and sniffed, he smelled the scent of a watermelon patch nearby and hopped his way over. His tummy grumbled as Hopper saw all the watermelons that he could eat, but then he thought, since Kirby was caring for him and looking after him till his wing gets better, he decided to split the watermelon in half so that Kirby can also eat the juicy watermelon. With the force of his claws on his bunny ears, he chopped the fruit in half, and picked it up with his claw ears, Hopper then hopped all the way back to Kirby's home.

Hopper saw the pink puffball out of his house seeking for him, he made a jitter as he hopped as quickly as he could, trying his best not to drop the watermelon that was cut in half.

Kirby sighed in relief as he saw Hopper coming to him, but his blue eyes sparkled as he noticed the watermelon on top of Hopper's ears. "Poyo! Poy poyo!" he thanked as Hopper gave him his half of the watermelon. He started to take a bite of it as Hopper started to eat his.

Then an idea flew into the frikathorn's head, he took another bite of his half, and spat out a seed, which flung and hit Kirby with a tiny "boof". Hopper started to laugh.

The pink child started to laugh too, he did the same thing as Hopper did and spat a watermelon seed back at him. At first, they took turns spitting the seeds at each other, but a few minutes later, it turned into a seed war. They kept on shooting each other with each and every seed that came into their mouths, but as they did their final shot, they both got each other at the same time. At first, it was a chuckle, then a chortle, and then they started to crack up until they couldn't breath.

Both, Kirby and Hopper had won the watermelon seed war, and a stomach ache from laughing so hard as well.

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A few weeks had passed by, Hopper's wing was cured, but he still couldn't fly. He jumped of of the branch and flapped his wings as hard as he could, but he collapsed as Kirby and the Ebrum children were watching.

Tiff giggled as Hopper got up on his bird feet. "It's okay, not everyone succeeds on their first try."

Hopper smiled, thanking Tiff for a boost of confidence. He then hopped over to Kirby and made some noises as if he trying to tell him something. He flapped his wings as he hopped around.

In a quick flash, Kirby knew that he wanted him to teach the young frikathorn how to fly. He then breathed in a bunch of air and in a few seconds he was a balloon.

The baby frikathorn copied Kirby and flapped his wings as fast as could, he was high up in the air but he still held in his breath.

"Don't forget to breath while you're up there!" Tuff called out.

Still holding in his breath, Hopper finally puffed the air out of his chest and collapsed to the ground, falling tail first. He felt ok, but he was so close to flying completly. Hopper then knew that he's going to need a lot of practice.