Chapter 10: Memories

Everything I can see was white. I opened my eyes and found that I was floating in nothingness. There weren't no stars, nor planets, basically a void. The only thing I can see were the white sky and some wooden blocks with different shapes and colors. How did I end here? Why did I end here? What happened before I ended here? Who I am?... All those questions were on my head, I can't remember anything. I didn't even remember my own name. Then few blocks float infront of me. Ironically those together made a shape of a boat. Suddenly a word came to my mind, Lor. That word sounded familiar to me, but I didn't know why. Then I remembered another word, Starcutter.

"Lor... Starcutter?" I thought aloud "It kinda sounds very familiar." And then I remembered that time I first found it.

"Lor Starcutter? It sounds like my name Magolor." Magolor...that's my name!. I was starting to remembering. I remembered all those days hiding in the ruins of Egg Engines, when I explored Halcandra's Volcanoes, when I repaired the Lor and started my travel, all those planets, all those stories and legends... I remembered Landia, Planet Popstar, Dreamland, the crash, the crown and, and Kirby... I remembered Kirby and how did I betrayed him and his friends, and when they defeated me, but am I alive? Well... It didn't seemed that I was dead at all. But how did I survived?

I had been here for few weeks, may be months, even years... I didn't know. For some reason I didn't need to eat or drink. Yet I still needed to sleep, but every time I wanted to sleep I always ended having the same nightmare, the events from the past. Those events were haunting me every moment since I got trapped here. I wished I could only just leave them in the past, but all that guilt wouldn't leave my head. I wished that at least I could had apologized to Kirby.

In one point, I started to play with those blocks, that for some reason they don't separate from each other unless I separate them by myself, quite weird. But I didn't cared about how does it work, by the way. I actually liked to play with them and made wonderful constructions. I was getting better doing this each time. See my finished works actually made me almost forget all that guilt, almost.

I had woke up. I was in the Lor Starcutter, on my bed, wearing my pajamas.I looked around the room."So all that was a dream." I said to myself. I got up from my bed and went to the bathroom room. After taking a shower and putting on my clothes, I went to the kitchen where, to my surprise, were Kirby and his friends.

"Good morning Magolor." said Kirby, eating cereal, smiling happily. Then the other ones salute me as well.

"What do you want for breakfast?" asked Bandana Waddle Dee, preparing more pancakes.

"Um... Thanks, but I'm not hungry" I said.

"Again eatin' a midnight snack, Magolor?" asked Dedede, swallowing some pancakes "Did ya had another nightmare?"

"Actually yes, I got a really horrible nightmare." I stated.

"Do you want to tell us what happened?" asked Meta Knight politely, who had a coffee mug on his hand. I simply nodded and started explaining what had happened, starting with the day when I took them to Halcandra.

"... And I ended trap in a void." I concluded.

"Wow, what a horrible nightmare." said Kirby "But I don't think you would betray us, Magolor."

And then all my surroundings changed, we were on top of Haldera. The Master Crown laid on my hands. And the guys were staring at me. Kirby was crying. And the other three looked very angry.

"This is how ya repaid us?" said Dedede.

"This is how you repaid Kirby?" said Bandana Dee, comforting Kirby.

"You had use all of us for your evil plan. You TRAITOR!" said Meta Knight.

"M-M-Magolor... I t-thought you were g-good, but I-I was c-completely wrong." said Kirby "Y-you are a MONSTER!

"Kirby..." I said.

"Get away from me! I don't want to see you! I-I HATE you!" He cried.

Then all my surroundings changed. I was on that planet were my battle with Kirby took place. Yet instead of fighting, I was watching them fight another... me. When Kirby made his final slash I saw him. A horrible creature with black skin that looked like goo. With pointy fingers, and hexagons on its wrists. He was wearing a silver crown that attached all his entire body and was connected to a pair of wings. He had white eyes and a big grin, that inside revealed a red eye. That creature was me.

I saw the entire battle and how Kirby ended it. He stabbed the gemstone with his sword. Then the entire scene paralyzed and shattered. I was in a dark place. Claws were grabbing my body and ears. Hexagons were on my wrists. Eight blue eyes were staring at me, judging me. A pair of them got closer and revealed a small version of Landia, then the other three step closer as well. All of them were charging a shot and fired at me, but one second before the attack could touch me, the surroundings changed once more. I was on a big room with walls color blue and red, both adorned by hexagons that looked like shattered pieces of a mirror, golden gears and stars. The floor was a high pitched black. Hanging on the ceiling was a golden mobile with the Lor Starcutter, the Master Crown and a blue gear. Also a sun and a crescent moon, a clockwork of the stars, and a beach ball. There were four doors, two of them locked. One was decorated with golden gears and the other with red hearts and bows. The ones that weren't locked were similar to each other. Both were made of wooden shapes of different colors, actually both mirror each other. The only diffence was that the top center block from each door had a different drawing, one got a yellow star and the other a golden crown. Inside one of the doors was Kirby, who looked really worried, like if he was looking for someone else and on the other one was the Master Crown on a pedestal, I bet that if I got closer I can hear it say "take me!". I was quite confused about this, what am I supposed to do?

"Choose Magolor... this is your decision..." a voice said "But be careful, one will end your life..."

I was about to take one of the doors and suddenly I woke up. I still inside this void, all that was a crazy dream. I glanced at the wooden blocks and started stacking them. When I finished, the building look really familiar, it looked like a small gate from a castle. Then I noticed something, that I somehow recreated the door from my dream. Every single block was on its exact place in that dream, except for one, the top center. Next I turned around looking for another block and found a single wooden block in one of the faces was a drawing of a crown and on its opposite face was a star. I placed t with the crown picture facing me and the gate shone and revealed the Master Crown on a pedestal. I removed it and the portal disappeared, then I place it again, but this time with the star facing me and I saw a really worried Kirby. Then I remove it and the portal disappeared. I stared at the block and placed it one last time. And the portal opened. I passed throught it, yet I wasn't with Kirby or the crown. I was in a playground, or I think. Few kids were staring at me."Um...excuse us, but where did you came from?" one of them said. "Actually I don't know either." I answered. After an awkward silence all of them left. I turned around and noticed that I was in Egg Engines, Halcandra. I then saw the different areas of the playground. The swings were all broken and the slides were rusty, the seesaws weren't working properly. I was on the sand box. I saw a group of kids with upset faces, this was apparently the only playground in Halcandra. I stared there watching their parents take their children and left to their homes. I then decided to leave as well. I went to a small house. It had old walls and a hole on the ceiling, there was only one room that contains a pile of pillows and a blanket, a small box and few dusty books. That was my old house. I laid on the pile of windows and stare at the beautiful starry sky. I remembere those children been taken by their parents. I wish I could have met my parents. I tilted my body to my left and noticed some thing, there were pictures on floor. I got up and took them. All those were photos of me, when I was a baby. I kept the memory when the orphanage owner gave them to me before closing. Some of them also showed my parents. This pictures meant a lot for me. They were the only proof that states that I once had parents. I didn't know why didn't I take them to the Lor Starcutter. I place them between the pages of an old book, that is titled as "The Legends of Halcandra", in that booked showed few details about Halcandra's greatest artifacts, like the clockworks of the stars, an ancient vessel, and the... crown. I suddenly closed the book and got back to the bed.

During the entire night I was unable of sleep. I cannot stop thinking in those kids. At one point, I just gave up and went to the playground. I noticed that nearby it was a pile of metallic pieces. Then an idea came to me. I went back to home and got some paper and a pencil. Tonight will be a really busy night.

On the next day, few kids were passing nearby the place and noticed someting, the place had changed, the slides, the swings, everything was renewed. I was there too, sleeping on a bench. I felt someone poking my head. I opened my eyes and saw a little girl."Thank you!" she said and left with her friends to swings. I felt a nice feeling, like a feeling of satisfaction, I was happy. I had never filled so happy since I stole the...crown. And that memory came back to my head, all that guilt, all that pain.

I had surely made one of the most stupid decisions, I was heading to find Landia. With the book on my hands, floating throught Dangerous Dinner to the summit of Mt. Haldera. What I wasn't expecting was, no only just find Landia on the feet of the volcano, but also the Lor Starcutter parked right next to them. I thought that the Lor was trapped in that dimension. How does it end up here? And were Landia waiting for me? Why would they be waiting for me? Are they waiting for me to arrive to kill me? I was about to leave until they noticed my presence. One of them stepped closer. I was paralyzed in fear. I closed my eyes, ready to get the blow that will end with my life. I waited, but nothing happened. I opened my eyes. Landia were just staring at me, the four dragons. Like if they were waiting for something, may be the perfect moment or may be something else. I gazed at the eyes of the closest one. They didn't show any sign of anger or hatred, they showed instead a neutral feeling. They weren't mad, nor happy, not even worried. They were neutral. I bow infront of them and said "I-I sorry Landia, I know that my past actions weren't right and I really sorry to caused all that trouble." I looked up at them and saw a smile on their faces."Are you forgiving me?" I asked. They nodded."So everything it's OK now?" And they shooked their heads. And then looked at the Lor."Are you vanishing me?" They shook their heads."No? What do you want?" They looked at the vessel again. Then I understood."Are you letting me keep the Lor?" They nodded."Thanks Landia."

I entered to the Lor, everything was on its place. I went to the computer that suddenly turned on. On the screen were words that said "Welcome Magolor"

"Lor... I'm glad of see you again." I said. Then I heard someone typing, I turned around and there was no one else. I turned back to the screen and it said "I glad to see you too, my captain."

"Lor, y-you're... talking to me!" I said stupefied "The rumor was truth, you have your own mind! So that's how you came here, you drove yourself!"

"You guessed right!" And a video showed up on the screen. The dimension was shattering. Kirby and his comrades were floating in panic. Then something catched them. They were Landia. The Lor was by their side and reopened the portal and they all escaped. So that was what have happened when I left. Then I remembered when I used the Lor to stop them.

"Lor... I apologize for making you fight, I lost the entire control of my consciousness."

"You don't need to apologize with me" the screen said and then showed a small dome on a grassland, where certain familiar face went out of it."You need to apologize with him."

Indeed, it was right, I need to apologized to Kirby. I started to set the coordenates.

I said "Next destination, DreamLand, Planet Popstar!"

A/N: In a posting of Miiverse was stated that after the events of RtDL, Magolor ended up in a dimension beyond space and time, if you don't believe me, that's also stated at the Kirby Wiki. When I first read that I imagine a void, as you can see. Originally I thought in making the Lor go and search for him, but I decided to make him use blocks to form an exit, cause in that posting said that he found an exit. And also to made a way to started with his ability of constructing amusement parks, that also explained why I made him repair a playground.

Appearantly that room of that dream recalls the events of another story, who had use it before, huh?

And why did I made Landia only forgive Magolor without giving him a ground? Well... when I thought about Landia, Halcandra's protector, I imagine it powerful and fair, but also clever, comprehensive and kind to the ones it most protect.

Wow, what a long autor note.