Thought this chapter up in my math class on the 12th. Instead of taking notes I wrote this through math and the rest in science class. The teacher thought I was taking detailed notes to which I said "yeah totally! (You wish)" Great way to make chapters huh? I was listening to Map of Your Head, I Belong to You, and Thoughts of a Dying Atheist all by Muse. I am a softmore who likes Muse and things like that so deal with it. But sorry for being late but I just HAD to finish Falling into Disaster. Then I had tons of HW and I still have math to do yet. Question does it make me like weird if I develop bonds with my characters? Because I almost cried when I had to have Lance's own brother shoot him so that he wouldn't turn into one of them.

Sword and Blade stepped in front of me defensively blocking me from his view which seemed to aggravate him. I was glad that they did that because now that his gaze was off of me I could finally have a bit of time to cure myself from the shock that overtook me. So he was alive. And he was sending me mental messages not from the dead but from the comfort of his own home. Though it may not seem like it that was a lot to take in."Kirby killed you. I saw it. H-how?" Tiff was still stunned by Nightmare's sudden appearance.

"Blade. We have to destroy the delivery system." Sword breathed to Blade who in turn nodded in obvious agreement.

"Where is this planet?" Nightmares voice questioned still trying to see past the two knights.

"This is Dreamland. To be more specific some place called Cappy town." The man on the screen replied.

Now what? He knew. Stay fight get dragged back and possibly die? Ditch the planet and go to another like last time I feared I would be found? That second option was out of the question. I could never just ditch the cappies like that. The other planet that was a different story. I took half a step back mostly on instinct as a smile spread across Nightmare's face.

"Send Shadow." Nightmare ordered.

"Yes sir."

"I'll be coming for you." Nightmare said just before the screen went black and the delivery system lit up like a firework.

Just before the screen blackened I caught something that I hoped that only I caught. Why? I guess that I was just paranoid about every little detail and how Tiff could easily piece things together given the time to think. Though what could That do? What could anyone get out of it? What I caught was that smile. Not a smirk. A smile. When the machine stopped a tall dark creature with no details rose up. Shadow... We rose our blades as Dedede watched the creature in wonder. It leaped into the shadow that swept across most of the room thus disappearing. Light. We needed light to get rid of the darkness to make it reappear. As long as it was in it's little or more like dynamically changing shadow world we couldn't hurt it... Unless... Uh where was Kirby when you needed him? Eating?

"Where did it go?" Tiff questioned looking around frantically.

"Quick! Turn on every light and stay out of darkened areas!" I ordered.

They did so while Dedede sat on his throne mumbling something about not paying for something that he didn't order. I glanced around once. Shadow would attack soon. Especially since it's shadow space was limited now. I'd have to show itself to go to a different location and this time we'd know where it was right away. Some dark matter flew out of one of the remaining darkened locations. Sword ducked to my relief. The dark orbs hit the wall behind him. The dark shadow like orbs disappeared like smoke. There you are Shadow. I was about to make a move when the dark mass shot out of it's darkened location and ducked into the hallway outside of the throne room. I took a peek outside of the room and backed up. Too much darkness. Shadow would cream us if we tried to fight it in that. Dedede just sat and watched like his lazy self.

"Shadow's getting away." Tiff said in alarm. "We need to go and get it before-."

"There is no way I'm going out there. It's too dark. We'd need some type of light source if we want to leave." I explained. "Or Kirby."

"Kirby?" Tiff questioned.

"If he could suck up the dark matter then he could enter the shadows and fight it." I elaborated.

"But that doesn't help our current situation." Blade pointed out.

"What about Nightmare?" Sword reminded.

"Oh right. Then there's that too." I said more to myself. "...We need to defeat Shadow before nightfall. So I guess a risk-"

I stopped as all of the lights went out.

"Looks like Shadow found the circuit breaker... Run." I said calmly.

We took off down the hall leaving King Dedede behind. Apparently he thought that he was safe from this thing. Big mistake there. He would learn that soon enough if we couldn't get rid of it in time. Nothing happened for a time as we raced to get out of the castle. Or a balcony. whichever came first. We just needed to get out into the sun so the thing would show itself. I slid to a stop hearing Blade call out in pain. Fast little sucker. We were really getting killed lately. I slashed at the orb of dark matter that came at me deflecting it to a wall.

"Tiff. Go get Kirby." I ordered.

With a nod she continued to dash on. Shadow rose quickly to slash at Sword before sinking back down even quicker. Sword blocked the attack but just barely and he almost fell back due to the weight of the attack and well the condition that he was currently in. He was really struggling. He wasn't fit to fight right now.

"Sword. Go and get out of here now." I ordered.

He looked at me. Confused? Thinking I was nuts? Probably. Blade dove out of the way of Shadows next attack, which just nicked his armor.

"You are in no condition to fight right now. Now go!" I elaborated before I deflected another few orbs as they came at me.

"Do you really expect me to just-" Sword started ducking as more of that dark matter flew at him. "ditch and not fight when Nightmare gets here?-"

"Sword you will do as I say! Now go before I toss you down the hall myself!"

"I won't. Not now." He said defiantly.

That idiot. I was looking out for Him. If he died here I would never forgive myself. I jumped back evading shadows attacks. Block jump block jump. The thing really wanted to see me bleed. At this rate we won't be able to last much longer. I scanned the area around us. Where are you going to attack this time Shadow? We took a few steps down the dark hall searching for any sign of it's next attack. Shadow rose and slashed at an unexpecting Blade. There. I drove my blade into the dynamically changing shape of the dark mass. It screeched a high pitched screech to the point where the other two knights had to cover their ears. Shadow sunk back down, my blade raking through it as it did so. Well good news was we wounded it. Sort of. Blade took a breath and we scanned the darkness once again. Come on Tiff. Hurry. More orbs of that dark matter were fired. My blade was ready to deflect them.

"Kirby! Inhale!" We heard Tiff call out.

The dark orbs were thrown off their course and into Kirby's awaiting mouth. About time. Kirby's body turned as black as Shadows. Shadow fired orbs of dark matter at Kirby. Kirby leaped out of the way and sunk into the darkness. Right into the world of shadows that Shadow called home. Shadow was about to be beaten right in it's own environment. This battle was all Kirby now. Tiff seemed a little stressed but I guess that was to be expected. We could neither hear nor see the battle. The stray orbs that flew out of the darkness was the only clue that let people know that there was a battle going on. About ten to twenty minutes later Kirby reemerged from the shadows quickly dropping the ability. He was a little beat up but otherwise he came back victorious. As the three came over to congratulate the little puff ball I strode off down the hall in search of the circuit breaker. It didn't take too long to find it. Just a little bit longer than I had hoped it would. I flipped all of the lights back on and started back up and soon back out of the castle. I looked up to the bright blue sky. The sun was warm and shining brilliantly. It felt nice to be in the light after that whole darkness attacking you thing. I thought for a moment... What... what was I forgetting? I looked back to the large castle which cast an even larger shadow that reached for the land below it. It made me shiver. A dark icy embrace that was very unwilling to let go. Brr. Was I sure that I wanted to renter? Ugh. I had to. Whatever I was forgetting... It was in there. I stood there for another minute and walked back in. Looks like I finally lost the two knights. Well that was on the upside right? Oh duh! The delivery machine. I had to destroy it. It had to be destroyed now before it was too late. Nightmare had already started to use it to his advantage by sending Shadow. Such a high ranking beast defeated by Kirby. A baby. Wonder what he thought of that. I picked up my pace as much as my wing would let me. I entered the throne room. Oh come on. Dedede still sat there but this time he had seemed to have agreed on something with the man that was on the screen.

"Just send it! Just send it!" Dedede cried out in his usual impatient rage.

The machine lit up again. Ugh. Couldn't I ever catch a break? Of course not. I was Meta Knight. Always have to be ready for a fight and on the top of my game no matter what. Right? I exited before he took notice of me. I dashed down the hall despite the painful protesting my wing gave me. I looked out onto the courtyard from one of the many balconies. There. Kirby was playing with Tuff like nothing had even happened. Tiff stood talking to Sword and Blade. They seemed to be discussing something of great importance. I leaped down without thinking wincing when I landed. Stupid move. They looked at me and I spoke before they could.

"We have a problem. Dedede ordered another beast already."

"What? What did he order?" Tiff questioned.

"Not sure. I left before I could see. Now I need Kirby to take care of whatever it is while I go for the machine. Sword, Blade. You both need to help Kirby with this."

The two nodded. As if on cue there was a blast and a creature about the size of a dog. It looked like a rabbit in many ways but it had tentacles coming from it's back. It's eyes were closed and it's ears were pricking to any sound even the sound of falling leaves. It had sparks of electricity coming off of it's fur. It's rather light colored fur was like a blurr as it dashed across the courtyard and leaped over the craters with some difficulty. It's claws tore into the already destroyed earth. It's claws were short but they were sharp. Good luck. I thought as I left them to fight the creature. I raced through the castle halls. I felt more pain in my wing as I ran and soon a warm liquid soaking the bandages that held the wing into place. Great. Just what I needed. More blood loss. All of this was just an endless cycle until he was finally stopped for good.

Not my best work but the next will be better. So who wants Nightmare to come now? Those who want Nightmare Review NIGHTMARE26. Those who want something else to happen I'd be glad to hear it. Oh and Muse rules!