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With a roar half eagle screech and part lion roar, the mighty being leapt into the sky to chase its injured prey.
"We can't just stand here, we must help our lord!" Sword exclaimed.
"What do you suggest? Remember what he said, we can't harm it." Fumu dully pointed out.
"That's a trick question in itself, out lord always talks in riddles." Blade continued.
"As I said, what do you suggest? We don't have much time before… you know." Fumu cried out in frustration.
"We just need to harm it with nature, get it somewhere where nature will do the rest." Sword finished.
"And what do you suggest?" Fumu snapped impatiently.
"Well…"
The Shadou shot through the sky like a bullet the size of a mountain. Its vast wings seemed to cover the sun itself, sending a shadow onto the land. Meta Knight saw it coming and quickly folded his wings close, diving through the air just as the creature skimmed over head, talons searing the wind itself.
It gave a hellish scream of rage, bloodshot eye (the flaw was it only had one eye!) searching for the winged knight that had escaped it one time to many. Meta Knight saw his destination, the mountains, in his sight. Quickly he soared toward it, with the Shadou searching for him in the wrong direction. Even though they can take the forms of intelligent beings, they never are themselves.
After soaring at a good pace toward the mountains for around a good ten minutes, the giant creature turned and saw Meta Knight. Angry from being tricked again, it roared and screeched, shooting like a meteor through the sky. Easily, he dodged under the lion claws that struck the wind in its search. Slowly he lured the Shadou toward the mountains.
"I can see right through his plans! Come on, that race car of his is just inside the castle. We will need it if we are to help him out." Sword and Blade scrambled toward the castle with the others close behind.
"So, you expect me to believe that Meta Knight is being attacked by a creature the size of the sky for no apparent reason? You really try to stretch your luck, puffball." Tokkori rolled his eyes and continued to watch TV.
"Poyo poyo poy! Poyo!" Kirby desperately cried out, the door wide open and waving his stubby arm at the sky. Tokkori utterly ignored him.
"Shut it creampuff." He growled, watching the screen.
"Poy! Poyo poyo wook poy!" He grabbed Tokkori's wing and shoved him outside, pointing at the sky.
"Fine fine fine, just let me watch my sho- HOLY S***!"
Like lightning, Sword, Blade, Fumu, and Bun raced across the country, there aim was what Meta Knight had already saw; an avalanche ready to fall in the mountains.
"How come Meta Knight always has such good luck with nature and we're always stuck in the mud for about an hour before the luck shines on us?" Fumu grumbled as she noticed Meta Knight was the one in danger but he was also the one who had the ingenious idea of the avalanche.
"Just play along, we're used to it." Blade answered, stepping on the gas harder.
Before they knew it, the crazy fast race car had them at the very bottom of the mountains.
"Ok, we walk from here on." Sword said. She carefully stepped out and onto the rocky ground. All four of them looked up at their target so far above with growing doubt.
"I can't believe you just went ahead and ate some of my feathers, you dimwit! I'll be bald on my back for weeks!" Tokkori screamed in rage as he rode upon Feather Kirby's back. His Indian headband blowing flat against his head/body in the wind.
"Poyo poyo poy poyo." Kirby explained in the wind.
"Yeah, yeah I understand every word you say, no doubt."
"Poyo!" Kirby cried happily.
"Thanks for the lift, Dynablade!" Fumu cried happily, clutching the iron hard feathers in her fingers.
"Anytime. I could never forget the deeds you have done for me and my hatchling." She answered in a beautiful voice like wind chimes twinkling in the evening breeze.
"Whoa! You can talk?" Bun almost fell off her back.
"Of course."
"Oh my god! Roast dinner just talked!" Blade screamed before, with a shove from Fumu, he shut his mouth.
Ignoring his comment, she continued; "I do not want that creature claiming the skies for its own! These are my lands it's in. I will stop at nothing to get rid of it. If I must, I shall summon the Lighting of the Sky myself to curse it from the sky."
"Lighting of the Sky? You mean lightning?" Bun asked.
"Chicken in the sky can make roast dinner!" Sword screamed.
Now all he had to do was wait. The avalanche was just below him. When the Shadou decides to land he shall let it go by kicking the 'set off' boulder in front of him. Only problem is to get it to land underneath the avalanche. But he knew that the others would help him with that, for without knowing it, Dynablade was the perfect thing to make the land. Nothing would want to fight Dynablade herself, she who is immune to all death in one tries like the Shadou, in her own territory of air.
Just as expected, Dynablade cornered the being. Wing span against wing span, Dynablade was four times as large. Frightened, the Shadou screamed a warning at Dynablade, unaware that it would be unable to kill the monster bird if it did damage. Building up courage, the Shadou did nothing but attack Dynablade herself.
Of course, Dynablade dropped her passengers on a ledge before commencing the battle that would scar the skies for years to come.
Metal armor against soft feathers and fur, nature against talon and claw, beak clashed wing, blood flew in all directions, and Dynablade was untouched. But then, in one terrible strike, the Shadou burned Dynablade with a Curse of Shadows. Screaming in rage and pain, Dynablade called upon lightning to strike the Shadou from the sky.
Light blinded the seven, for Kirby and Tokkori arrived a little while ago. A huge flash and lightning cracked, thundering down from the heavens and striking the Shadou. Falling from the sky with the terrible smell of burning flesh, the Shadou crashed onto the ground below Meta Knight. The being was dead, yes, but the Shadou was not. Leaking from the giant body, shadows in the form of coiling snakes formed on the ground, spreading out, and then clumping together to become much larger.
It formed another lion eagle creature, but this time, it was much, much more threatening. The feathers that rippled on the eagle part formed scales, a deep maroon red. Its fur was twisted together, massed in clumps, messed with in every way you could find possible. One of its wings was fleshless, made of entirely bones. Its one eye was clouded and shadowy. One leg was torn and blood leaked onto the ground. Bun nearly fainted on the spot;
"Z-z-zombie m-monster."
Quickly, without another thought, Meta Knight kicked the boulder with all his might. It shuddered once, before it fell. It fell and crashed onto the eagle creature's wounded leg. With an angry eye it turned and fixed its cold gaze on Meta Knight. But then, the avalanche fell.
That one boulder triggered thousands and thousands of huge, sharp boulders to thunder down the side of the mountain. The Shadou's one eye widened as the avalanche came directly upon it, and then, it vanished under the mass. With one last scream from the depths of hell that made all of the gathered, even Dynablade's, skin prickle. Then, it was gone.
Meta Knight glided over to the others. He landed and folded his wings quickly, for he noticed Tokkori who was watching with crazed awe, and he told them of what he knew about Nightmare returning. As they talked, so far below in the valley at the total bottom of the mountains, rocks piled high from the monstrous avalanche rested after long waiting for that day.
Deep, buried in the mass of boulders and rocks, with shards piercing its flesh, a griffin lay. The mighty creature only had one eye.
That one eye opened.
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Well, that might be another cliffhanger; soon the actual story will really begin! (I know, right!) So yeah, if you're wondering, Shadous don't die very easily. And only immortal beings like Dynablade can inflict damage on them directly without dying.
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