Mable: Chapter Four is here! I don't own Kirby, Enjoy!
Rise of the Dark Matter
Chapter Four: The water planet
All the days held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold
speak to me
The sun was bright but not nearly as hot as Rock Star was while the party walked down the seaside. The ocean was vast, but very beautiful with its shining waters and bright blue sky. Ribbon floated in an anxious pattern of swerving, "We should come up to a river that branches into the forest. We need to follow it as a shortcut through the forest. Then we…" Fumu stopped her, "Calm down Ribbon. We're going as fast as we can and we've already beaten any time I thought we were going to have." The fairy flew down to her level, "What do you mean?" The girl explained, "Since we've been traveling from daylight planet to daylight planet it wouldn't seem it, but we never actually slept last night."
Ribbon looked up at the sun, "you're right… It'll be sunset soon by judging where the sun is in the sky. I f we get to where the portal is we could spend a few hours to rest." She was very concerned about Kirby but also worried of her friends' health. Marx stretched his wings, "A few minutes to rest would be nice. It's like we've been walking and fighting forever. I'd probably be dead if it wasn't for that janitor closet." A few weird looks, "What janitor closet?" Fumu asked suspiciously. "Well Kawasaki was busy and everything so I took a break in the closet." Now Meta Knight spoke, his eyes turning pinkish, "So while Kawasaki was slaving away in the kitchen you ran off to sleep in the closet?"
"Well when you put it that way it sounds bad." Marx muttered before falling into silence. Eventually the river came into view and they ended up wading in the river through a lush forest with trees that stretched higher up then even Whispy. The river had sandy mud on the bottom that Dedede sunk far into, "Why am I the only one sinking?" He cried in frustration as Marx started to laugh, "It's cause you're fat." The king swung his hammer at the purple one who merely jumped up out of the river and flew up out of his reach.
The river started to get deeper and the gang had to walk along the side instead of in it. Then there was a few waterfalls they had to scale down and around to get through the forest that eventually turned back into beach. The sand was golden and the sky was starting to turn an orange yellow color, "The sun is already setting." Ribbon said with concern, "Have we wasted that much time?" Meta Knight shook his head, "No. I'm sure it was late when we arrived here. We've only been on this planet for a few hours." The words were little comfort to the fairy that seemed to be even more worried than before.
Once they hit a certain point on the beach Ribbon stopped, "The portal is that way." She pointed out into the ocean. Sword looked out to where she pointed, "I thought you said it was on the beach." She nodded, "It is. But it's not this beach. It's on another shore in that direction." Everyone attempted to see whatever sort of shore could be out there, but it was too far too see. "We'll have to take a boat of some kind, we can't swim out into the sea in a random direction." Meta Knight looked back and could see the forest in the distance behind them. "The trees we passed were big enough that we might be able to carve some sort of large canoes that we can use to cross to the other shore."
Since nobody else could come up with another plan this one was used and the group went back, sought out a tree that had fallen over recently but wasn't yet rotten, and carved three canoes using the swords and rocks. Once back to the coast they were able to launch the canoes into the ocean. Ribbon, Marx, and Fumu were in the front canoe. Dedede was behind them in the middle canoe with Waddle Doo. It the back was Meta Knight and Sword Knight. The sky was growing darker with gray rain clouds that would be ready to burst open at any second and pour water down upon them.
Instead something else happened. It started with a small nudge against the first canoe that rocked Marx, Fumu, and Ribbon back and forth, "What was that?" The blond asked alarmed as she looked at the dark water. The male behind her shrugged, "Maybe it's just a wave." He said as he tried to manipulate the paddle again with his wing. There was another nudge that was only slightly rougher and the canoe wobbled back and forth more than before, "Maybe we should paddle faster." Marx said slowly as he also looked through the water. Ribbon looked down in front of the canoe where she sat and gasped audibly while holding the power Crystal tighter.
Another hit, not a nudge but a hard hit by something large that practically tipped the wooden canoe over. With a cry Fumu almost was thrown out only to be pulled back in by Marx who was trying to keep from panicking, "What in the hell is going on?" he cried out he tried to move around Fumu so she would be in the back where it would be harder to be thrown out. Something large swam under the canoe and Marx's eyes grew to the size of saucers as he simply stared, "Oh my- Guys, there's something in the water!" The large thing swam underneath Dedede and Waddle Doo and went straight to the canoe in the back where in hit it hard. The canoe's wobbling was steadied by Meta Knight and Sword who stood and leveled it out.
The thing swam towards the front, a dorsal fin started to appear out of the water, "It's a shark!" Dedede screamed. The thing revealed itself as being Acro, the water dwelling creature that had been possessed by Dark Matter before. Dedede cried out again, "It's that shark that attacked us before." Even though she was being tossed around in the canoe again Fumu retaliated, "It's not a shark, it's a whale!" The King didn't back down, "It's got that fin thing on its head!" she waited until Acro moved away to attack the back canoe before speaking, "Sharks aren't the only creatures with dorsal fins!" Marx chimed in, "Maybe it's a dolphin." Finally Meta Knight, whose canoe was being thrashed around, spoke up, "it doesn't matter right now! We have to stop it!"
With a sudden idea Dedede got up, "I know. This is my special hammer that's inside is mechanical and electrical for extra power. If I hit it," He tore off the front section of wood to reveal the electrical parts underneath, "Like this then it might get electrocuted." To get Acro to move away from his boat, Sword impaled the animal with his sword. As Acro went under Dedede he was hit with the hammer and electrocuted. Acro disappeared under the water and suddenly a black mist started to come from where he disappeared that grouped together. A large eyeball opened on the front opened and looked at the fairy holding the Crystal. It jolted forward at the same time as Meta Knight who stabbed it in the eyeball.
It fled after that, disappearing into the sky as fast as it had appeared. Marx was first to speak, "What was that?" he asked as the blue knight flew back over and landed in his and Sword's canoe. "Dark Matter, it's starting to follow us because we're growing closer to our destination." Meta Knight said as he started to use the makeshift paddle to move the canoe faster. Marx sighed, "I've got this bad feeling that this is the beginning Fumu." Fumu nodded, "Me too." They looked ahead as they started to paddle again at the shore that started to appear in the distance.
It was almost ironic how as soon as they were on the beach the rain started pouring down upon them. Dedede, being stubborn as usual, collapsed on the beach and refused to move, "We said 'break' not 'we'll keep going after fighting with a shark.' I'm not moving anywhere." Ribbon was still worried about her planet and Kirby but decided to keep her promise and didn't press the others on any farther. After pulling his canoe on shore Meta Knight spoke, "we need to make a shelter for the rain." He was interrupted by Marx who tipped his own canoe over, "forget that, I'm getting under this thing and crashing." The knight watched him manage to somehow fit under the overturned canoe, "Alright."
Dedede didn't want to climb under his canoe and instead lay on the ground. He noticed Ribbon flying in circles even while the others were resting, "Why are you still up?" The fairy looked a little scared, "I still feel the Dark Matter nearby…" Waddle Doo looked out from under the canoe, "What's going on?" Ribbon visibly shivered and Dedede just spoke, "Nothing." Then rolled over to go to sleep. Waddle Doo looked at Ribbon for a few seconds before slowly climbing back under the canoe.
Mable: Once again the next chapter will be up as fast as I can type it. Chapter Five up soon! I hope you enjoyed!