CHAPTER TWELVE
"Turn the adventure offffff…" Dedede complained.
They had all been walking for about 2 hours so far. They were quite far away from the town. Dedede however, had begun to complain.
"I'm so tiiiiired and huuuungry and thiiiirsty…" He whined.
"I…I don't wanna whine or nothin'…" Kirby admitted. "But I'm pretty hungry too…"
"All right, all right." The kid said as they sat down in a clearing in Wispy Woods. "We'll have ourselves some lunch."
Tiff and Tuff put their pouches on the ground while Meta Knight simply sat on a tree stump. He hadn't brought anything except a toothbrush and toothpaste. Knuckle Joe had brought a little duffel bag, and the kid had brought along a backpack, which he placed on the ground next to Kirby, who was sitting on his suitcase. Dedede had brought a trunk.
Yes. A trunk.
Guess what was in the trunk?
"You brought a HAIR DRYER?!?" Kirby asked as the king opened it up.
"Industrial strength. And I can't live without it!" Dedede snapped.
"You don't have hair." Kirby pointed out. "Or…or DO you?"
"EWWWWWWWW!!!" The kid shouted.
"Hey, everyone's got their problems I reckon." Dedede said. "Hey wait…I didn't pack no food…"
He looked at Tiff and Tuff. They shrugged. "Don't look at ME." Tuff said. "I thought YOU brought it…" Tiff said. "I thought YOU did." Tuff said in response.
"Uh…Meta-Knight?" Kirby asked.
"…" Meta Knight held up his toothbrush and toothpaste.
"Uh, I didn't pack any food either, kiddies." Knuckle Joe said. "I've just got the bare essentials…"
"AAA!!!" Dedede and Kirby howled, clutching each other. "WE'RE GONNA STARVE TO DEATH!"
"Oh stop whining!" The kid said. "Luckily for you dipsticks, I packed some stuff that'll help…"
He pulled out two fishing rods and a small box from his backpack. "Ta-da!" He said. "Kirby, Dedede, here you go." He handed them to the two whiners. "There's a river nearby, can you hear it?"
Kirby picked his head up and let go of Dedede, listening.
…
…trickle, trickle…
"Yeah, I hear it."
"Good. That means fish. The box has bait, so bring back some fish for lunch while we go look for berries." Knuckle Joe said.
"I shall go with them." Meta Knight said. "To be sure they do not EAT all of the fish they catch."
"I would never-" Kirby began.
But a harsh red glare from Meta Knight shut him up.
"Okay, you can come with us, I reckon." Dedede said. "But I'm a-bringin' my hammer."
"Why?" Nick asked.
LATER…
"YOU F—KIN' FISH! TAKE THAT AND THAT AND THAT!"
Dedede had quickly lost all of his patience while fishing. He raised his hammer up and brought it down with each word. "WHY-WON'T-YOU-BE-CAUGHT-BY-ME!?!"
Meanwhile, Kirby was simply sitting on a rock in front of the small river as it trickled down between the many trees of Wispy Woods. He was singing lightly.
"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn't hafta wait so loooong…" TUG. "And wo-what? Ooh, I gotta bite!" He tugged it up, and a HUGE fish flew off the hook, right onto the bank.
"Oh wow! It's huge!" Kirby realized. "I'll be eating well tonight!"
Meta Knight was sitting on the edge of the stream, skinning his fish that he had caught. There was a fairly large pile near him. They had no idea how he was managing to CATCH the fish, and it was probably a good idea.
"WE'LL be eating well. This is for everyone, remember?" He spoke up.
"Oh, right, right…" Kirby realized. "Hey Dedede, any-"
He stopped before he could finish his sentence. Dedede was sobbing, beating his fists on the ground and wailing about how he couldn't catch any fish.
"Uh…let me see your fishing rod." Kirby asked, walking over. As he walked over to Dedede…
WHAM!
Meta Knight went flying across the river, slamming heard-first into a tree. He groaned and collapsed on the ground, unconscious. Kirby and Dedede looked up at what had struck him…
A large creature stood there, grinning at them. It was none other than Bonkers, a hammer-wielding monkey. He had purple armor on, and a little purple helmet. He had large muscles, big thick feet, and large hands, almost as large as his hammer. Interestingly enough, they saw he had a strange-looking tattoo on his arm that resembled a circle with spikes inside of it, like a mouth almost.
"Oh, not you." Kirby groaned.
"Who's this joker again? Bunkers?"
"BONKERS, a—wipe!" Bonkers snarled.
"You swear too much! Don't you know if you swear too much your mouth will fall off?" Kirby said.
Bonkers flipped Kirby a VERY rude sign and then grabbed the small pile of fish Meta Knight had acquired. "I'll be takin' and eatin' THESE." He said, stuffing them into his mouth.
"Our fish!" Dedede shouted.
"You jerk!" Kirby yelled. "Dedede…let's get him!"
"Right." Dedede growled, arching his hammer up. "Nobody ruins MY lunch and gets away with it!"
Bonkers began snickering as Dedede and Kirby rushed at him. He swung his hammer, but the two ducked to each side, and then ran right at him. Bonkers jumped up onto a tree branch, then jumped right down, bringing his hammer down hard on Kirby, who let out a "POYO" of pain. Bonkers laughed and kept whacking him.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha! This is more fun than stickin' a banana in-"
Suddenly a hammer hit HIM over the head. He groaned angrily as everything started ringing and he turned around to see Dedede holding his hammer at the ready. "I reckon y'all need to be taught some manners!" Dedede snarled, rushing forward. Bonkers growled and rushed at him. The two began to trade blows, while Kirby slowly got out from the crater he'd been pounded into.
He looked around. There HAD to be a weapon or something he could swallow to use as a weapon…wait…Galaxia! Meta Knight's weapon!
Sucking it up, Kirby felt a charge go through him. Galaxia re-appeared in midair and he grabbed it as his body glowed slightly. "BONKERS!" He yelled. Bonkers whacked Dedede away hard and turned around. "What, you little pink piece of s—t?"
"DON'T SWEAR!!!" Kirby yelled, slicing the air. A huge energy wave whizzed through it. It struck Bonkers head on, and he went flying through the air, over Wispy Woods, to land in some far off place. Kirby did his little victory dance, then walked over to Dedede, helping him up. The penguin looked…well, PROUD of Kirby.
"Reckon y'all did a number on him." Dedede said. "But…what we gonna do for L-well, it's Dinner now…all we got is that one fish…"
Kirby looked back at where Meta Knight was. "He seemed to know how to catch fish…let's try and wake him up…"
SOON…
"Well, this is enough berries." Tiff said. Tuff put down the basket of fruit.
"And it's a good thing I managed to score some apples." The kid said, holding up a small bag of apples he'd picked.
"I wonder how Kirby's doin' with Dedede and Meta Knight?" Knuckle Joe asked as he started the fire up.
"Hey guys!" Kirby said, coming out from the woods into the clearing they were in. He was holding a few HUGE fishes over his head. "Dinner's served!"
"Nice fish…" Nick complimented. "Wait…where are Dedede and Meta Knight?"
"This guy's HEAVY." Dedede said, carrying Meta Knight into the clearing. "I can't believe he got hit so hard he got all conked out…that darn Bonkers ate most of our fish, but at least I caught some more when I figured out how to use the right bait."
"Oh, what did you use?" Tiff asked.
"You know, a little of this…little of that…" Dedede said, shrugging.
A WHILE EARLIER.
"Oh God! Oh God no! Oh God, oh God no!" Rick the Hamster screamed as he clung to the fishing string as the fish snapped at him from below.
PRESENT…
"Uh…let's eat!" Kirby said. "But there's only three, so we'll divide each fish in half, I guess." He took out Galaxia and began cutting.
The kid smiled. Kirby was learning…