Curio's Curious Discovery
I snuck out of the kitchen, making sure there was no one in the hallways before I made my way to the balcony, making sure the pie I had baked would not slip from my grasp. I had made it just in time.
The Waddle Dee's horns were unnecessarily loud as I stood on the balcony directly above Escargoon, Sword, Blade, Meta Knight, Tiff, Tuff, Sire Ebrum and Lady Like, "Here ye, here ye citizens of dream land all rise and salute his most miserly, and righteous monarchy, the 17,052 ruler in his line, his highness, King Dedede!"
I resisted the urge throw the pie right then and there, but I didn't have a clear shot yet. Tiff glanced up at me, to make sure I was there. I gave her a thumbs up. I had let Tiff and Tuff in on my little prank, so they knew to step back. I would have pelted them with blueberry glop too, but I figured I owed them one for letting me into the castle and not calling the guards when they knew I was up to.
I then got a good look at Dedede. He was wearing so much faux gold that I thought I might get blinded… or vomit… or both…
On his head he wore a ridiculous gold hat with three spikes on it that kind of reminded me of something that I had seen from World of Warcraft. That might shield off some of the pie, but it would still be pretty messy.
Escargoon gave him the microphone and cleared him throat. Wait for it, I kept telling myself, All in due time
"My unworthy subjects,"
I'll show you unworthy
"I'm tickled turquoise to see so many of you good-for-nothins come to kiss up to your king,"
I was thinking more of a dark blue…
Dedede glanced down at where there were supposed to be Cappys. All he saw were empty stands. I almost dropped the pie and kept myself from laughing.
"Where's my crowd?!" he blurted, and grabbed Escargoon, "There's nobody here!"
"Sorry sire I did what I could but you're about as popular as prickly heat,"
Ebrum and his wife were laughing, "When it comes to the legitimacy rule, your subjects object,"
"It was the Cappy Clan that founded Cappy Town, not the Dedede's," Tiff noted,
"Just cause some clown claims he's got a right to be king doesn't mean he does." Tuff continued
Dedede growled , "There's only one ruler in Cappy Town and that's me! King Dedede!!!"
This was my moment, "I beg to differ!" and I let the pie fall. I could see it happening in slow motion as Dedede's look of horror was covered up with rotted blueberries. I almost fell off the balcony myself I was laughing so hard. Dedede looked up to were I was, his face steaming with rage. However, he didn't see the culprit as I had ducked back into the castle and ran for it. Luckily, I came over to hang out with Tiff and Tuff so often that I knew my way out. Soon I was in the village, waiting to meet up with the two.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and spun around to see Tiff, Tuff and Kirby behind me, "I knew we'd find you somewhere around here,"
"Ha! That was great! Totally worth standing there for the past 10 minutes!" Tuff laughed
"Poyo!" Kirby seemed to agree, but he wasn't there, so Ididn't really see what he could be so happy about
I grinned, "Did I get any on the knights?"
"Why?"
"…Secondary target…" I said innocently
Tiff shook her head at me, "Why are you out to get them?"
"They need loosening up. They are too formal,"
"On account of the fact that… oh, I don't know they're knights?" Tiff scowled at me, "Now, are you going to help Mr. Curio and me out?"
I sighed, "Fine, I guess I owe you for letting me in and not snitching on me," that was the price I had to pay for my fun. Tiff and Mr. Curio were doing some weird archaeological dig or something and Tiff wanted Tuff, Kirby and I to tag along.
We had been in Kabu Canyon for about an hour, yet nothing had happened. Tuff had made a sandcastle and was playing on it with Kirby. I was sitting on a ledge, shooting practice targets. I was getting better, I had been at it for a few weeks, and the only reason I hadn't given up on it yet was because it was my only form of entertainment besides terrorizing the occupants of castle Dedede.
I heard Tiff talking to Curio, "Hey, Mr. Curio, d'you think this stuff will teach us about the history of the Cappy's?"
"Well, I'm learning about as much as if I had stayed home and watched Channel Dedede," I called down to them, "Are we done yet?"
"No! How can you not be enjoying yourself? This stuff is really interesting!" Tiff shouted back, "Come down! You might find something you like!"
"No doubt the artifacts we've found here confirm my theories about the beginnings of Cappy civilization!" Mr. Curio explained, looking at a shattered rock through a magnifying glass.
"A rock?" I asked blankly
"An arrowhead," he explained
"We have about 400 of those in Peru's museum,"
Tiff shoved one into my hand, "Well then, when you go back home, this'll be an arrowhead from another planet,"
"… Is that supposed to make me find this interesting?"
"You are the single most ignorant, annoying, smart-mouthed person I've ever met!" she said, pulling a camera out of her bag to snap a picture of the arrowhead.
"Don't forget lazy!" I laughed
Tiff glared at me, but turned back to Mr. Curio. While no one was looking, I slipped the arrowhead into my pocket. I watched as she held the camera to her face and tried to focus it, "Stay still. Wait… focus…."
Crunch!
Tiff fell through the dirt. For the second time that day, I couldn't control my laughter. Tears came to my eyes as I ran over to Tiff, my chest still heaving from laughter. I held out my arm and helped her up, "What was that?"
Tiff and Kirby were dancing around, laughing and pointing, "Haha! She fell for it! She fell for it!"
"Kirby! Go back home is you're gonna goof off!" she bagan chasing after them, her camera grasped in her hand as if she was going to hit them over the head with it.
"Who wants to waste time digging up lots of old junk?! We wanna have fun!"
"And you say I'm crazy for not having the time of my life," I said to her
"They're artifacts! Not junk!" Mr. Curio exclaimed
"It's artifactual junk," I corrected
"That's not ever a word!"
"Well it is now!"
"These artifacts provide clues to our where ancestors came from and how they lived,"
"My ancestors were British that came over from Europe and worked as the owners of textile mills. And I didn't have to dig up a single artifact to know that!" I retorted.
Mr. Curio looked like he was about to strangle me, but then he realized that I had a bow and a dozen sharp arrows, and he had a spade.
The both of us heard a thump and Tuff laughing. It didn't take Dedede to guess what had happened.
"Déjà vu,"
We walked over to where Tiff was covered in dirt and looked completely livid, "Having you for a brother is the pits!" she stabbed her trowel into the ground. It hit something that gave off a metallic clang.
"Huh?" she pounded her shovel into the ground again. More clanging.
"Woah, what's going on?" Tuff asked, surprised
"Mr. Curio, what is this?"
Curio suddenly looked very uncomfortable. It was so much fun watching him squirm, and I didn't even have to do anything, "Er… um… what sound? I didn't hear it?"
"Someone's going a bit deaf…" I said in a sing-song voice
Tiff began digging frantically, trying to get at whatever was below the dirt, "Well? Help me!" she got Tuff a shovel and threw a pick at Kirby, I caught the shovel that she handed me, but didn't do much with it.
After almost 20 minutes of digging, Tuff was laying on the ground, exhausted, Tiff was still digging, and Curio was silently freaking out behind me.
"Woah! Look at that!" Tiff finally shouted I went over to look and dropped my shovel, "Oh my god- Tiff you dug up a dead guy!" I shook her hand, "Pleasure working with you,"
"Poyo…" even Kirby seemed mystified at the crypt
"This must be the burial sight of the ancient Cappy King!" Tiff took a picture of the casket
"Or it could be an old corpse that was brutally murdered here and by digging up the body, you've unleashed a thousand demons that will haunt your soul FOREVER!!!"
Everyone stared
"You wouldn't last a minute with decent cable TV…"
"Well, whatever it is, we discovered it!" she looked thrilled, "I can't wait to tell everybody!" she ran off skipping like she had just won the lottery, Tuff and Kirby following. I trudged along behind them. I'll do a lot of things that would probably get me in juvenile prison and/or an asylum, but I am notabout to wreck an old dead dude's grave.
"You mean there's an old Cappy King stuck in that stone box?" Kawasaki asked. Tiff seemed to have rounded up the entire village and they were all gathered like rats around the tomb.
"That's right!" Tiff said, I could tell she was bursting with excitement. I on the other hand, was sitting a good distance away from the thing. I hate to say this, but I really don't like dead people. Creepy beyond comparison. Like I was going to tell Tiff I was scared of dead people though. I would never hear the end of it.
"This is iron clad evidence that the Cappy Clan really did set up Cappy Town way back when!" Bookem said, also marveling at the tomb.
"…demons…" I grumbled
"Mr. Curio said so and this discovery proves it for sure!" Tiff gestured to Mr. Curio, who had the same nervous look that he had on before.
"Meaning King Dedede ain't really the king! He's nothin' but a big liar," Gengu noted
"And you are just now figuring this out?"
As if on cue, Dedede's jeep sped to a halt, causing everyone to scatter, "Hey! Move it or lose it yall!"
I knocked an arrow to my bow and was aiming it at the penguin's tires but I couldn't get a clear shot because he kept swerving, "Stop moving so I can shoot you!" I shouted
Surprisingly, he stopped, I shot the arrow, but it landed about a foot off so that all I managed to do was freak out Kawasaki a bit when the arrow landed right next to him.
"So, y'all show up when some ol' box gets dug up but you're no shows of my correlation anniversary?" Dedede fumed
"That's about right," I replied, "did you like the pie I made for you?"
Dedede turned red with rage and pointed the bazooka at me. In response, I pointed an arrow in between his eyes. Not so much threatening but it was all I could use, "You shoot me, I'll shoot you!" I called down to him. Quickly, I hopped down from my ledge and onto the hood of his car, "Where's your gun now?" My bow was still trained on his face, "Now, listen to the little girl and shut the hell up!"
"Thank you Lynn. And to you Dedede," Tiff scowled, "who needs a bogus king when we discovered a real Cappy rular?"
"You incinulatin' that I'm a phony?"
"This is tomb we dug up belongs to a Cappy king! Everyone knows for sure who really aught to rule Cappy Town!"
"That's hogwash! My clan took charge of these pots way before the first Cappy showed up in Dreamland!"
"If you're so sure, why don't you open that godforsaken box and we can watch as you get buried in dusty old rotted bones!" I yelled, "I hope they're haunted,"
"Alrighty. I'm willin' to go break open this stupid old box!" He pulled out a mallet that seemed to have materialized out of this air and hopped out of the car.
With one fell swing, Dedede knocked the lid off of the casket. Everyone gathered around to take a look at what I would assume would be a creepy looking skeleton that would probably give me nightmares later. Oh, god I had no idea how wrong I was.
I covered my eyes, "Holy crap! It really is a demon!"
In a way, I wasn't joking. In the coffin was a skeleton resembling a large penguin with a crown and old mallet.
"Tha- that can't be right!" Tiff stammered, astonished
"I'm going to go home now and gauge my eyes out with a spoon…" I said, grinding my teeth
Escargoon shoved his way to the front of the mob and saw the owner of the coffin, "Whaddya know? That skeleton's a dead ringer for king Dedede,"
"No way, the living thing is way uglier,"
"This means there wasn't a Cappy king in the good old days," Kawasaki said, disappointed
"There wasn't no good old days neither," Bookem agreed
"This makes my day!" Dedede said triumphantly, he and Escargoon laughed evilly
"This can't be right!" Tiff yelled at them
"You already said that," I sighed, "We know, even I can figure it out for myself,"
"There's no doubt about it, and the artifacts prove it girly!"
Despite the impulse to get as far away from the bones as possible, I scrutinized them closely and ran my fingers over them, "Hey Tiff!" I shouted, "These are fa-," but I didn't get much farther, because Escargoom grabbed a handful of my hair and yanked hard, "Owowow! Leggo! Damnit! Let… GO!"
"Only if you shut up!" the snail growled
"Ok, ok. Just let go!" I glared daggers at him as he slowly let go of my hair, "Stupid snail…" I muttered under my breath
"It's a cappytivating discovery," Escargoon mused, obviously trying to cover up my previous shout, "Very excellent work Curio,"
"We I um… um… uh…" the old man seemed to be at a loss for words
"And just to show you how magnificent I am, you Cappy's can help yourself to all the trinkets and treasures around here," Dedede announced
"Why? Did your ancestors use fake gold as well?" I laughed
Of course, no one listened to me (like they ever do, might I remind you of the TV broadcast I made last chapter?), all they cared about was getting rich. They scattered to go find a spot and get to work.
"I don't get it Mr. Curio, does this mean the Cappy Clan didn't really build Cappy civilization like you told us or not?" Tiff asked
"Um.. er… well um… it light of these remains in would appear that my theory was em… mistaken,"
"Stutter much," I asked skeptically, "An entire line of Dededes put together wouldn't have the brain power to start a civilization!"
I could practically see the steam rising off of his face, "You callin me a liar brat?!"
"As a matter of fact I am!"
To make it short and sweet, Dedede chased me around with the mallet for about 5 minutes before wearing himself out and leaned against the side of the casket, panting.
Our little argument was interrupted by Kawasaki calling out, "Hey! I found something! It's an old fashioned Halloween mask!"
"It's probably fake! Check for bar codes!" I shouted over to him. More and more people began finding creepy, twisted, Dedede- centric artifacts.
"This is like a nightmare I had once, except this is so much worse,"
Dedede began doing a creepy waltz with the skeleton, "Help yourselves to whatever catches your fancy! It's a gift from the Dedede Clan!" he began singing
Mr. Curio sighed glumly and walked away, leaving Tiff, Tuff, Kirby and I to stand there in disbelief. I kind of wanted to tell him that the bones were fake (two years of high school biomedical science were good for something) but I also wanted to see how it would play out. Also, if I just spilled it to everyone now, I would have to wait until Dedede ordered another monster before I had any fun.
"Please don't let this get you down Mr. Curio," Tiff pleaded as we sat in Curio's shop
The old man paid no attention though, and ran a dust rag over some ridiculously old vase
"… you can always make new theories on Cappy history and I bet some of them could even turn out to be right," she tried
"Seriously, you're acting like just because this discovery didn't work out, it's the end of the world," I agreed, "Half the stuff I think probably isn't right and you don't see me acting all depressed over it!"
Curio remained silent.
"Besides, remember what you always say, 'The most important thing isn't to show you're theory's right, but to dig all the way to the truth,'" Tiff said.
"And that you can't have a decent saying without it having some overused pun," I joked
"Now we all know the truth thanks to your work,"
Curio but the vase down
"Oh my god! He moved!"
And then sat back down
"… Never mind…"
"I appreciate that Tiff," he said
Tiff, Tuff and Kirby gasped and got these really long smiles. I stepped away from them nervously.
"Maybe something good did come out of all of this. I mean, fellow Cappies are more interested in our history now and I still have plenty of work to do," He walked over to us and placed the case on a shelf.
"That's right!" Tuff agreed
"Poyo!"
Curio reached into his pocket and pulled out the arrowhead that he had found today, "Thank you for all of your help," He gave the arrowhead to Tiff how gasped and looked at it as if it was a puppy or something
"You go on now," Curio said to us, "I've got something to do," his tone was sharp, which kind of made us jump.
"Ok, whatever. See ya later!" I walked out before the rest of them, leaving the three just standing there for a minute before following me.
I sat with the Ebrum family at their dinner table. A few weeks or so after I had fallen out of the sky and into Dreamland, Lady Like, Tiff's mom, seemed to begin to worry about my getting enough to eat since I didn't have a house or job or anything. So, once or twice a week, they invited me for dinner. Let me tell you, I wasn't complaining. That lady is a freakin AMAZING cook.
Tiff was sitting on the couch and, once I had finished and taken my plate up, I joined her, "What's up? You didn't eat like, anything,"
"She's brooding about those things she found in the dirt," Lady Like explained
"It is kind of weird," Tuff said, "the junk they found before was from the Cappies, now just like that, stuff from Dedede's clan shows up,"
I wanted to hit Tuff over the head with something. Honestly, Could these people be so dense that they didn't see what was going on right under their nonexistent noses.
"And then Curio verified that it was all authentic," Sir Ebrum noted
I couldn't take it any more. Grinding my teeth to keep from breaking something, I walked to the door, "Thanks for dinner. I appreciated it," and walked out, almost slamming the door.
I was halfway down the hall before I heard the door shut behind me. I turned to see Tiff halfheartedly jogging to catch up with me.
"So, any bright ideas?" I asked, adjusting the bow slung across my back
"There's something I want to check out," she said a bit darkly, "Come on,"
We reached Curio's shop and saw a light from a flashlight waving around.
"I wonder who that is?" I said sarcastically, swinging my head in Tiff's direction. The girl was staring at her mouth wide open. Curio was attempting to drag a cart down the road to where the dig sight currently was. I knocked an arrow and gestured with my head for Tiff to follow me.
In Kabu canyon, we followed Curio into a tunnel that I swore hadn't been there this moring. The old man set lights out and began digging a spot for whatever was in the cart.
"What's he doing?" Tiff whispered
"If you'll use your eyes, you can see!" I said, pointing.
Tiff gasped as Mr. Curio pulled out a large stone carving of Dedede and shoved it into the hole.
"That douch bag!" I spat, glaring
Tiff pulled out her camera and quickly took pictures of the scene.
Tiff and I shoved our way through the crowd to watch chaos unfold. Tuff came up to us, "Where ya been! Mr. Curio found something real big! Look!" he pointed at the ugliest stone caving of Dedede yet. He still looked uncomfortable, and for that I was glad.
"That's one of Dedede's old ancestors all right! I'd bet my badge on it,"
"No way! It's too skinny!" I shouted back, the fuse of my temper burning out quickly
Tiff snapped as well, "Mr. Curio, let's talk," she growled, and led him away from the crowd. I followed of course, because I just love sticking around for these things.
"What's wrong? Where are you taking Mr. Curio?" Tuff asked, Kirby following
"Oh, have we got a story for you," I laughed bitterly
"What do you want to talk to me about Tiff?" he asked. Tiff said nothing, but held out the pictures that she had taken last night. He gasped and dropped one, which Tuff picked up, "Mr. C!"
"That statues a forgery. Mr. Curio buried it here last night!"
"Along with his dignity and self-respect,"
Tuff and Kirby glared
"Why would you do it Mr. Curio?" Tiff asked, her eyes pleading
He groaned, but didn't give a straight answer.
"Well then, I suggest you stop finding all of these artifacts or else I can guarantee that will get these pictures to the public," I threatened
He old man cringed underneath all of our stares.
"Keep the pictures and let us know," she said sadly, and the three ran off. I gave him one final glare and followed the kids. Unfortunately, Escargoon came around the corner leering at us, "Well, it seems as if you've found our little secret. And let's make sure it stays our secret," I shot and arrow at him, but it landed way off target, "Damnit! What is wrong with this stupid thing!" We backed up until we ran into Dedede, who was holding his mallet menacingly, "You're in the wrong place at the wrong time," They backed us up against a wall. I tried to slip out the side but Dedede caught my by a wrist.
"Let me go!" I screamed, and kicked him in the stomach. Of course, this did nothing because of all the belly fat he had, "I swear, I'm going to kill you and dance on your grave!"
Of course, we ended up tied up, gagged, and thrown in an unused room.
"Time to make your big speech Curio. Make sure the story you tell isn't true" laughed Escargoon
"Jus' like we rehearsed it," the two started laughing evilly
Mr. Curio looked over at us, as if debating on whether to let us go or to be a spineless coward and not do anything. I was shooting him the death glare as if to tell him what was going to tell him what was going to happen if he didn't let us go.
Of course, he left us.
We wriggled around for about 5 minutes before giving up on the ropes. I spotted my quiver of arrows a few feet from us and I began stretching my foot out to try to snare the strap. My foot hooked the strap and I pulled it up to my fingers, which were poking out of the bottom of the ropes. I sand as low as I could in my ropes to that my entire hand was poking through. I attempted to saw through the ropes with the sharp end of the arrows. I gave up after I broke like, 4 arrows with this method and sat there, thinking. Something poked me in the side. It was the arrow Tiff had given me. I dug my hand into my pocket and pulled it out. After about 7 minutes of sawing away, my ropes were untied and had ungagged everyone. But before I could start to get at their ropes, I heard a voice behind me, "Perhaps I can be of assistance?"
"Hello Meta Knight," I smirked, "Come to join this party, or do you just want to watch me struggle with the ropes?"
In response, he unsheathed his sword and cut through the ropes. Tiff, stood and rubbed her wrists, "Thank you Meta Knight," she caught and annoyed glare from me, "Thanks Lynn," I helped Tuff up, "Shall we go spoil Dedede's day?"
We walked out onto a ledge overlooking the crowd of people. We heard Dedede yelling, "It's those photos that are phony!" It doesn't take a genius to tell that Curio had showed them the pictures
"There's only one phony here and that's Dedede!" Tiff shouted
"Bu-bu-but how'd you twerps escape?!" Dedede shouted
Meta Knight appeared, holding the rope that he had used to tie us up, "You've done a low down thing your highness. Holding these kids captive because they wanted the truth,"
"Kids?" I muttered, looking up at him, "Do I look like a kid to you?"
"No, you are something much worse,"
I shrugged, "I can live with that,"
Everyone turned to Dedede and and glared at him with utmost hate
"Why do you deserve to be our king after you threatened Mr. Curio and lied to us all?!" Tiff shouted angrily
The crowd was in an uproar, and Dedede was getting even angrier, "You all can't toss me out like chewed up chewin' gum! I got a secret weapon!" He made an exaggerated gesture at his rock- self, "The Dedede stone!"
"… What was that supposed to do?" I stared laughing, "Ooooooh it's a rock! I'm terrified!" I had a huge Cheshire cat style grin on my face.
That's when the stone started growing. Everyone scattered as the stone grew to abnormal size and crashed through the room where the vile thing had originally been discovered. We grabbed Kirby and ran for our lives, "Stupid! Stupid ugly living rocks!"
The stone had finished growing and was now a 50 foot resemblance to Dedede. It's eyes were glowing white as it let out a roar that caused us all to clap our hands over our ears.
"Hey! Look!" Tuff pointed to the Dedede Stone's head. Sitting on it were Dedede and Escargoon, laughing their oversized heads off.
"Where's the TNT when you need it?!" I groaned
I don't know how, but we were able to hear Dedede from up on top of the rock, "Hey, Dedede Stone! Why don't we go crushify all those crummy Cappies!"
The monster complied. Everywere it stepped, a new crater was formed.
"Hey, where's Mr. Curio?" Tiff asked, looking around for him. We finally found him, pressed against the side of a wall, pickaxe in hand.
"Oh, please don't tell me he's going to try to destroy that thing with a pickaxe," I rolled my eyes
He ran up to the Dedede Stone, who almost crushed him into a yellow smear all over the dirt
"Mr. Curio!" Tiff called and came running to the old man. But the foot came down again and she lost he balance.
"Tiff!" Tuff shouted
"Poyo!"
I looked up, "Oh shit…" I whispered when I saw an immense foot feet from crushing us into putty, "Not exactly my ideal way to die…"
Dedede laughed, "One small step for me. Stop on em'!"
The stone came down on us. I was ready to feel all my bones crack and break under the pressure of a thousand tons of rock. The sensation never came.
I peeked from between my fingers to see Meta Knight holding up the foot with his sword, "Run," he murmured. I grabbed Tiff's wrist and I pulled her out of the way of a giant foot.
I laughed in relief, "Did I ever mention how much I love that guy?"
Tiff stared at me, mouth agape, but Tuff wasted no time, "Kirby! Suck up that Dedede Stone on the double!"
No matter how much the little puffball inhaled, nothing seemed to happen except that it put Meta Knight under more strain. He stopped, breathing heavily, "Poyo… (gasp) poyo…"
"Come on!" Tiff shouted
"Don't give up!" Tuff added
"Don't kill yourself!" yelled
Kirby tried again, but to no avail. However, Mr. Curio ran up to the Dedede Stone with his pickaxr again, "If Kirby can't stop you then I will!" he struck the stone's foot with the pickaxe.
"Curio, you trying to pick a fight? Hahaha!" Dedede shouted down the Cappy.
The shards from the Dedede Stone spiraled through the air and were inhaled by Kirby. He spun into the air and adopted a hat that kind of looked like a samurai hat and turned a brownish green.
"…How'd that happen?" I asked
"It's the shard. When Mr. Curio struck the Dedede Stone," Tiff explained
"He's Stone Kirby!" Mr Curio exclaimed
"You're all finally catching on…"
Kirby bounced off of the side of the canyon and then off of the Dedede Stone. Somehow, this managed to knock the monster over, with Dedede and Escargoon still on it, much to my pleasure. Meta Knight put away his sword as the monster fell over onto its back. Now, it looked like one of those dolls that walk by themselves, even when tipped over, their legs still move.
"Way to go, Kirby!" Tuff shouted, jumping into the air
"Poyo! Poyo!" Kirby chirped, but, of course, the stupid rock could,'t figure out how to die and pulled itself back up. It picked up Kirby and began to squish him in between his hands.
"Oh no!" Tiff cried, but right beside her were Dedede and Escargoon, who were cheering on the monster. I picked up a stone and walked up behind them, "I have just about had it with you two!" I growled. I rose the stone above my head. They cowered in fear… from a 14 year old… but hey, it's a 14 year old with a rock. For your information there are a lot of violent things a 14 year old can do with a rock.
I threw the rock down. Hell no I wasn't going to kill them. I don't kill, I just scare. It landed on Dedede's feet and he howled in pain.
"Well, now that that's finished," I sighed, dusting off my hands, "Kabu! Send the Warp Star!" I shouted
Nothing happened, I was just attracting unwanted stares from everyone.
"…Uh… Tiff! Tell Kabu to send the Warp Star!"
Tiff complied, and off in the distance, we could hear Kabu, "Warp Star!" and the sound of the Warp Star speeding towards us.
Kirby somehow managed to get out of the Dedede Stone's grasp and jumped towards the Warp Star. He fell short, and went plummeting towards the ground. His ride caught up with him right as he was about 3 feet from crashing into the earth.
Kirby flew around the Dedede Stone like an annoying fly, and the monster made jerky swipes at it, but Kirby was too fast. Kirby flew high into the air and changed into an actual stone. I big, pink, fat stone with to black lines for eyes. The Warp Star couldn't hold Kirby up, so it dropped him. Right onto the Dedede Stone. He went all the way through it. In one end and out the… erm… other…
The Dedede Stone cracked and crumbled all around us thousands of pounds of bricks were falling around us.
"Yeah uh… guys?" I said, snapping Tiff and Tuff out of their victory dance, "If you don't want to get like, crushed by the raining bricks, we might want to oh, I dunno, MOVE?!"
We got to a higher ledge, out of the way of the falling debris, and I watched, amused, as Dedede and Escargoon were buried in falling bricks, "Now, if only they could stay buried,"
"But they won't" Tuff agreed
Kirby had returned to normal and was standing happily on top of the pile of bricks. He seemed oblivious that he had just toppled the moving equivalent to a mountain.
"So, should we dig them out Mr. Curio?" Tiff asked
"They can dig themselves out!" he spat, "I'm through digging up fakes, especially dangerous ones. I'd rather stick to real artifacts that reveal true history. If that's ok with you,"
"What kind of question is that? You already know the answer!"
Tiff nodded
"Hey, maybe me and Kirby can give you a hand sometime Mr. Curio," Tuff said
Tiff and I laughed, "You and Kirby?"
Tuff looked nervous, "Uh… unless there's more important stuff like playing games," he laughed, "Kirby! Let's get going! We don't wanna miss dinner!"
Kirby floated up to join us, and right as he landed next to us, I saw Meta Knight, looking all mysterious and crap in front of us. He watched us for a bit, then, with a swish of his long and annoying cape that I just wanted to step on, he left.
-Later that night-
"Hey Lynn!" Tiff called up to me. I jerked awake and looked down from my try groggily, "Wazzamatter?"
"I wanted to ask you something," Tiff said, smirking a bit, "about Meta Knight,"
"I will not play matchmaker for you,"
"That's not it. It's about you and Meta Knight,"
I almost fell off of the tree limb I was on, "I will give you a 30 second head start before I come down there and give you a serious beating!"
"Don't deny it. May I remind you of the 'Did I ever mention how much I love that guy' comment you made earlier today?"
"Man, I love anyone who saves me from being crushed under a giant foot," I explained, "Seriously, that has got to be the #1 worst way to die,"
"Well, fine," Tiff reluctantly agreed, "But what about your comments about how sexy his voice is?"
I felt a red flush creep into my cheeks, "And you're telling me it's not? I'm only telling the truth! That doesn't mean I love the guy!"
Tiff could see she was needling me, but she kept talking, even under the possibility of me wringing her neck, "Is that why you always tease me about liking him? Because you won't admit that you do?"
I jumped down from the tree, walked over to Tiff, who was now looking more and more like a scared rabbit. I squeezed the back of her neck, which caused her to cringe, "Let go! I hate when people do that! Lynn, I'm serious!"
"Then take back everything you said," I said in a eerily calm voice, "that it was just a huge lie to annoy me and you're getting revenge for every time I tease and/or make a snide remark in your direction,"
"Ok! OK!! I take it back! I was lying! I was LYING!!!"
I let go of her neck, and she rubbed it, sighing, "You're crazy,"
"Why thank you! I plan on being the Mad Hatter for Halloween!"
"… Mad Hatter?"
I rolled my eyes, "You have GOT to be kidding me…"
Well, the ending I just decided to put in because I got a review about a MetaxLynn pairing, and I decided that I might do one, but it wouldn't be anything serious.