The darkness fled away from Ripple Star! We... did it!

As we exited the castle, the queen, fairies and other Ripple residents thanked us. And we had to say good-bye to Ribbon now that her homeworld is back to normal...

We took one of their flying saucers and flew out to the horizons above. We waved back at Ribbon. Except Dedede- who was in tears.

When we exited, the Queen had an evil look on her face...

Cloudy Park

It's good to be back home after that long, tiring journey. However, I wasn't relaxing at all- I put all of my thoughts and inspirations into crayon doodlings. I was drawing Project K-4, which is the name of the credits for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. I was really making progress. I had to write down the names of significant people beyond the 4th Walls who I learned from my studies.

Next were the drawings. I sketched everything that was in my mind with a pencil. My artwork has gotten even better than last time… I could hardly believe that I could be improving throughout all this time…

Now I have to look for my crayons. Hmmm... where did I put them? I look around the room.

I look at the window to my left and saw something strange. "Huh?"

The sky looks dark... very dark. The atmosphere was very heavy all of a sudden.

What?! Can it be? How?! I thought… I thought that Kirby and the rest of us took care of him!

CRASH! Dark Matter's eyeball minions break their way through the window, breaking it and intruding my fortress. Three of them came in. And then fifty more. I screamed and run away, but I was eventually ambushed.

"Help! Anyone!" the dark spheres devoured me...

Where am I?

I saw Kirby who was looking around lost in a void of darkness.

"Kirby!"

"Poyo!"

I run to Kirby with fear in my eyes. I had no idea what was going on. I felt as if I was being dragged away from him…

"AAAH! Kirby!"

Kirby hurries to my rescue, but I suddenly disappeared. Once again, I was devoured by the darkness. But… this may be the last time I ever get to see Dream Land again…

..

.

I open my eyes…

I'm surrounded by the same warm, comforting darkness. It was sure to control my mind in no time. However, something bright was shining over there… What is it?

I gasp. It's the crystal! Or at least… a vision of it. I look at the crystal as it began to be devoured by the darkness. It was breaking apart! This put all our honest work to nothing… why couldn't the crystal save all of us from Dark Matter?

Then it hit me. The last words I ever said before I lost my consciousness forever,

"We must haven't gotten all the crystal shards…"