-Chapter 14- -Epilogue-

An alarm woke him from his sleep, it wasn't loud but it was enough. He slowly peeped open his golden eye. The Halcandran sat up from his pure white bed. His dream …was silent to say the least. Magolor didn't really dream of anything honestly. All he saw was darkness… that was it. A few hours had passed; it only seemed like five minutes in the dream. He sat up to realize his regal outfit was nice and blue again, no longer charred from Landia's fire. His cape had become white like snow, the Lor must have given him a new outfit in his sleep. A white door slid open across the room. Magolor slowly got up from his bed, walking over to the exit.

Magolor was still pretty shocked he hadn't had any serious nightmares let alone even get to sleep. He just came from Hell and back, you would think he would get up screaming and try to gouge his own eyes out. But no, it seemed like nothing happened recently at all!

Then again, why should I be asking for Nightmares? Magolor thought to himself. He began to enter the elevator down the hall. I'll probably have enough of them to last me a life time later on! He stood inside the grey elevator, it was a circular space. There was a blue star painted on the floor. He smiled under his white scarf. Magolor was pretty proud of the upgrades he made to the ship, especially the paint job. The Lor Starcutter was bland and wooden before he upgraded it.

The elevator reached the top, door opening to the white control room. The elevator faded away around Magolor, he turned around to the control panel around him. The buzzing, bright lights under the wide screen monitor. The monitor said they had reached their destination. Already? Magolor was so deep in sleep he didn't even know when they landed.

Speaking of destination, the Lor never told Magolor where they were going. In fact, all it showed him was a white planet with a small, yellow moon orbiting it. Lor also said it was in a different dimension, meaning it was far away from Halcandra.

In the middle of the control panel, a small light appeared. It materialized a blue strap, with a white device on the middle. It had little dials and buttons on the bottom of the screen. The white light then directed itself at Magolor's face. The intensity of ray became strong, blinding almost. A gush of information was sent into Magolor's mind, the force was enough to knock Magolor over with a THUD!

Magolor groaned, holding his head as he rose. The ribbon wrapped itself around Magolor left mitten, right around the middle since he didn't have wrists. Oddly enough, Magolor knew how to work the entire wrist band as soon as he took a look at it; Like he had owned it all his life.

It's like the Lor implanted the information into my mind! That's awesome! Magolor knew there were powers that the Lor kept hidden. He finally got to experience one of them firsthand. He pressed one of the white buttons.

"Lor, where did you take me?" He asked. No response. Magolor sighed. "You can at least try and talk to me you know…"

Suddenly a white light began to glow right where the exit of Ship normally was. An opening appeared, compelling Magolor to walk through it. Magolor was scared out of his mind, what if the Lor sent him to an inhabitable planet and left him there to die.

Oh come on! Magolor scolded himself. The Lor wouldn't do that! If that was the case it wouldn't have come to me in the first place! He clapped his face a few times, preparing himself for the worst. "Here goes!" The Halcandran held his hands out in front of him; he began dashing toward the opening. The light became closer and closer, until it engulfed him.

He expected to incinerated, burned, beaten to death, crushed, something! But instead he felt a harsh cold sensation as his face hit the ground. It was just so cold!

"AHHH! C-c-c-c-c-cold! Freezing cold! AH!" Magolor squealed. Waddling around in whatever he landed on. He couldn't taste it thankfully due to his scarf. Magolor came to an abrupt stop from flailing and lifted up his head up. His eyes widened.

The sky was a faint bluish grey; under it was a winter wonderland. The pure white snow had sparkles of rainbow snowflakes and gorgeous crystals scattered everywhere. Sometimes blue brick roads could be visible along with (oddly) bright, purple flowers around the edges of them. The temperature was chilling, but it felt soothing to Magolor. Most likely cause he was used to the Heat of Halcandra or the inferno. He got up slowly, staring around him.

"Lor….Lor what is this place?" Magolor picked up the pure snow from the ground. "Its…its beautiful!" His band made a beeping sound, the screen began to type in some words.

Shiver Star

Shiver Star? Something clicked in Magolor's mind. "This planet is really close to Popstar!"

Kirby hasn't been here for years…

"How do you know?" Maoglor asked wearily.

You didn't read too much about the Dark Matter invasions did you?

The Lor got him there. Magolor really hadn't. "Heheh, you got me there!"

Kirby doesn't go space traveling that often. There is actually a low chance he will come back here. The Lor is right, Kirby rarely (if ever) returns to any planets he has visited on his free time.

"So now what?"

Look in the distance…

Magolor looked through the hills, a brightly colored building was in the distance. It looked a lot like a shopping mall. "I see… a type of mall!"

There's no one in it. The dominant inhabitants of this planet left long ago.

"Why?"

It is unknown why they left…or where they went.

"So it's all mine?"

That is…if you can clear out the other living creatures inside.

"How am I gonna do that?"

Did you already forget the powers you absorbed from the Master Crown?

Magolor opened his hand. He concentrated on creating an energy ball, moments passed. Nothing. Magolor sighed with disappointment and let his hand drop. The band started beeping and typing in rainbow colors.

Don't give up so easily! You must be patient. Soon, your powers will become like second nature!

Magolor couldn't help but smile under his scarf. The Lor was so encouraging to him. He raised his hand again, Magolor couldn't give up. He managed to stay strong in the inferno, he can stay strong and learn his new powers. He tried so hard to imagine, to see the energy ball. Nothing. The band beeped again, now the words the Lor was sending were wavy and mysterious.

Try and bring out the limitless power that flows within you. Let the power seep into where you want it to appear. Bend the power to your will and allow your soul and mind to flow with it. The only limits to your power are you and your body, Magolor.

"It wasn't this complicated when the crown was on my head."

That was because the Master Crown was doing this for you, bringing your thoughts to life. But now you must do that on your own.

"So rather than automatic, I have to switch to manual. Fantastic." Magolor said unenthusiasticly. He started to feel some strange current from inside of him, flowing into his hand. Blue sparks began appearing, before a large blue energy ball emitted from his hand.

"WHOA! Amazing!" Magolor cried as his hand vibrated under the strong energy. So powerful, that when Magolor let his concentration slip, the ball exploded in his face. He fell onto the snow, he rose up laughing though. The band started to beep.

Be careful now! Stay concentrated. While your power is limitless, it can put a strain on your body. It also has the potential to kill you, so don't go…'crazy.'

Magolor chuckled. "Yeah, lesson learned!" Magolor started to walk to the Mall in the distance…unsure what was waiting for him.

When Meta Knight said "tell him everything", he got more than what he expected. The first thing Marx did of all things was actually apologize to Meta knight for being jerk a while ago. That is unlike him in every aspect of his character. Marx also explained everything from Marx Soul to his adventures with Magolor in the inferno. And he was telling the WHOLE truth, this was mostly because Marx didn't want to get "cut" like Galacta knight; to put it nicely.

They remained on the deck of the Halberd while everyone else was already cleaning. Zero's body had fallen into Orange Ocean and part of the water had been tainted by Zero Two's dark blood. A bloody hole was where Zero's blood red eye should have been. King Dedede ordered the remaining soldiers not go near the water, or drink from it.

Meta looked like a navy blue Kirby with ghostly white eyes. His armor and mask were gone and all that remained was his golden sword Galaxia. He held a hot pink diamond in his hand, it was all that remained of Galacta Knight. He sat on the edge of the deck next to Marx, who had retracted his wings. His jester hat was soggy and damp, but Marx didn't seem to mind too much. He had band aids on his face, and few more scratches from Zero Two's shards. Marx looked down at the clouds below, his large eyes filled with sorrow and regret. The whole story was actually a little bit painful to tell, he missed Magolor quite a bit. Marx felt like maybe he should have done more for his friend or maybe even gone with him. Who knows where the Lor Starcutter took him, or if Marx will ever see Magolor again.

"I'm surprised you forgave me after all I said to you. After all I did to this planet." Marx began solemnly.

"I can forgive, but I can never forget." Meta responded quietly, turning to Marx. "I want to thank you for helping us all. I know it wasn't necessarily for us, but I am grateful."

"Er…yeah sure." They got up, walking toward the middle of the deck. All of the Kirbys had decided to clean and repair the holes in the ship. (Pink) Kirby, Yellow Kirby, Sailor Dee and Bandana Dee had just finished putting in a new window for the control room when they spotted Meta Knight and Marx. They leaped down to greet the two.

"Sir Meta Knight! Yellow would like to-" Bandana was interrupted by screaming from a walkie talkie. Meta pulled the device from behind him.

"Your majesty, what is wrong?" He said seriously.

"It's-Its Zero! He's alive! Its-"King Dedede screamed before the Halberd began to rustle. In front of the ship came Zero Two, beaten to a pulp, flying around sporadically and blindly. Moaning in pain and panic, the white creature began flying off into the atmosphere.

"What the hell?" Marx exclaimed. Everyone stared in disbelief, as the creature fled the planet, struggling.

Damn it! Meta Knight thought as his eye glinted red for a second. If only the army wasn't crippled, we could have very well finished Zero off.

The King came on a warp star on the side of the ship. The star placed him right by the group before shattering.

"It was real sudden, we didn't even see it coming!" The King was panting franticly. "What are we going to do?"

Meta Knight cringed, the army and the Halberd were both a mess. "We are all in no condition to fight, we must recover quickly before we can give a chase. How many casualties are there your majesty?" The King gulped, he pulled out a clip board. Sweat was dripping down his face onto the paper. His other waddle dees did the counting for him, and he was really happy he didn't count it himself.

"Out of the 50,000 soldiers, we have 30,829 casualties, NOT counting deaths."

"What about with deaths?" Bandana and Marx asked at the same time. They looked at each other before looking back at the king. Now the King looked pale.

"With deaths…42,038!" King Dedede said wildly dropping the clipboard on the wooden floor. Everyone's face went pale as snow. Sailor Dee dropped to the floor and began to shed enough tears to overflow the ocean below. Who knows how many waddle dees that could have been! Bandana and Kirby patted his back in a futile attempt to comfort him.

That only leaves 7,962 members of the army in alive and in good condition. Meta Knight growled in frustration. Clenching his fists, sometimes this knight just didn't know his own strength. The pink gem in his hand began to crack under the pressure. Until the gem just couldn't take it anymore, it exploded with a disturbing sound. Made the entire group jump at the disturbance.

Everyone looked toward Meta Knight, who cursed from the pain of the gem shards impaling his hand. His red blood was dripping on the ground.

"Sir Meta Knight!" Sailor and Bandana Dee squealed at the same time.

"The heck did you do?" the king with confusion.

The shards evaporated into a gas, now there was a pink dust surrounding Meta Knight, spiraling faster and faster. Somehow squeezing him, Meta Knight fidgeted and groaned. Now it was becoming stifling, the dust seeped into every pore of his body, creeping its way into his very soul. It was a horrendous scorching sensation inside of him, like something was forcefully fusing its way into him. Something Meta Knight's soul wanted to reject, but couldn't. Meta dropped to his hands once the pain stopped and the dust disappeared. Kirby immediately rushed to his side, patting his back in an attempt to wake him up.

"I'm fine Kirby." Meta said calmly. He got up from the ground, his eyes were dark pink. Just the color made everyone jolt with fear. The eyes slowly faded back white.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Marx asked wearily.

"Yes, but I feel some new power within me." Meta pulled out his sword, it was engulfed in flames and electricity. He smirked. The sight was astounding to everyone, it was pretty dang scary too. Meta saw everyone's anxiety and put his sword away. Yellow Kirby stepped toward the unmasked knight and pulled from behind him a long flowing black cape.

"We thought you could use this, since you lost your cape captain." Sailor Dee said happily.

"Thank you." Meta knight smiled. The cape actually shortened itself to Meta Knight's size.

Marx's eyes widened as Meta Knight wrapped the cape around him. "That's Nightmare's cape!"

"What!" King Dedede shouted.

But rather than pull the cloak off, Meta knight grinned. He absorbed the powers of Galacta Knight and obtained the cape of Nightmare. Who wouldn't be happy? The cape was actually quite comfy too. Seeing that Meta Knight was not going to take it off, Marx let the issue go.

"Anyways," Marx unfolded his wings. "I have someone to go find."

"You're leaving?" Bandana was surprised. He actually enjoyed Marx's company…oddly.

"I can't stay here, I have business to take care of. Maybe I'll come back in a few years."

"Thanks!" a high, childish voice said. Marx turned to see it came from Kirby. The pink one had a weary smile on his face.

Marx groaned. Setting his hate aside, he said begrudgingly. "You're welcome." The jester flapped his wings, taking off to the skies and disappearing above the clouds.

"Good luck Marx." Meta knight said as he watched the beautiful sunset reappear.

"So what do we do now?" The King walked up to the captain.

"Continue cleaning. I will be down in a little while to assist." Meta responded. The king had no objections to that surprisingly.

"Everyone come on!" King Dedede motioned the others to leave the deck.

Meta Knight continued to look at the serene view of Orange Ocean. But the sense of unease would not cease, it may never leave him. This isn't over. He thought jadedly.

He sat in the dimly lit room, breathing heavy. The room had blue zigzag lines on the top and bottom with stars and pink square. Magolor sat on the edge of an aquarium tank, feeding the fishes inside. The tank had rocks, seaweed and blue pebbles at the bottom. The fish were small and orange, very few with different colors.

Magolor got some dirt on him fighting those wild creatures in the abandoned mall. They were all pretty hostile, biting him, throwing rocks and spears at him. Magolor had to put up his blue star shield a few times. What kind of abandoned mall has cannons, weights with one eye and man-eating frogs hiding in the most random places! Magolor had enough trying to clear these kritters out.

His wrist band began beeping. Magolor groaned as the word typed.

Are you taking a break? The Lor asked.

"You could say that." Magolor responded groggily

Don't tell me you want to give up….

"How did you know?"

We're starting to grow a bond. I can sense your feelings through this band I gave you.

"So you can read my mind through my feelings?"

Yes.

"Cool, but that's not helping me very much." Magolor said blankly.

Look at it like this, you're not anywhere near as close to death as you were on Halcandra.

"True." Magolor rose up, he was tired and exhausted. "I could go back and sleep, how did Kirby deal with this?"

Years of adventuring from since birth.

"Oh…yeah I guess."

Surprised you're bothered by this. You worked nonstop in a factory most of your life.

"Yeah, but I wasn't fighting multiple monsters at once!" Magolor sighed.

Can you come back to the entrance?

"What? Hell no! Those monsters somehow reappear after I leave a room, I don't think I can make it!"

Then you might as well keep going.

"UGH! Lor!" Magolor sighed in aggravation.

Fine…wait a second.

The band began glowing white as did Magolor, brighter and brighter. Magolor closed his eyes as he felt the ground disappear underneath him. It was a few seconds before he felt a surface again. He opened his eyes to see the white control room of the Lor Starcutter.

Magolor…The large monitor in room wrote…

"Yeah?"

Have you ever wanted to space travel?

"DO I!" Magolor's childhood dreams were now coming into full swing. His golden eyes shined bright with glee.

I see you have gotten the hang of a decent amount of your powers. You might just be able to defend yourself while exploring.

Magolor's was jumping up and down, this was something he always wanted to do. But a hint of sadness pinched him. He stopped jumping, he was going space traveling…alone. Not with his parents, not with Aureole, not with Marx. No one.

You feel alone…the few that you became close to are not here.

"They're gone." Magolor quivered as he said that.

Uncertain fates are always the worst ones…

"I wanna find them, but I'm not allowed to go back Halcandra. And I can't even begin to try and find Marx." He started shed tears, tears that he has always wanted to shed for a long time.

It is fine if you want to cry. Sometimes tears are necessary.

The halcandran started to bawl then, The tears he couldn't release at the factories, tears he couldn't release fully in the inferno. Finally a moment to shed all tears locked away in his soul for so long. He was alone in almost everything he did, and he was alone now. Every time he came close to finally having a long life companion he either screwed it up of fate did it for him.

But then he thought, would Aureole want him to cry, would Marx? Would his parents? No. He instantly shut himself up, wiping the tears from his face. They all made sacrifices for Magolor, his parents did what they could to give him a home. Aureole managed to keep him sane all those years in the factory. Marx managed to do all those things together and help him stay alive in the inferno. Even if he was alone, he had people who supported him. People he could never forget, he knew they supported him even when Magolor couldn't see them. Supporting him, even when they were far away, even when they have passed away., It would be selfish to complain of being alone.

You shouldn't keep things bottled in you know. The Lor typed, noticing Magolor had abruptly stopped crying.

"I shouldn't. But I don't need to cry. I shouldn't cry after what people in my life have done for me. " Magolor said in a low, reassuring tone. They would all want me to live out my dreams. He said in his mind. I got away from Halcandra, I escaped the flames. I can live doing what I want, when I want, and how I want to.

Well then in that case, why don't we get started? The Lor typed in. I have a planet in mind. The ship showed a planet shaped like a red heart with a sort of smiley face. Ripple Star is quite similar to Pop Star.

"Alright, Ripple Star is first then!" Magolor said happily. His face became bright and delighted.

The first of many... Typed the Lor Starcutter.

Magolor smiled warmly under his white scarf; perhaps he wasn't alone after all. Magolor teleported himself toward the control panel, he was getting better at that at least! He pressed the large green button in the middle.

"Will we come back to Shiver Star?" Magolor asked. "I kinda like it here!"

Of course! You can call it our "base of operations" or "home base."

"Good, thanks Lor!" Magolor grinned wider than he ever did in his life.

Outside the Lor Starcutter lifted itself from the snow. Flapping its blue ores and turning toward the sky. After a few seconds it dashed away at warp speed from the frigid surface of Shiver Star, blazing toward the skies. The ship and its captain traveled through the stars ready to dive into the known and unknown parts of the Gamble Galaxy. Will they travel to other galaxies? Will Magolor ever see Aureole or Marx ever again? Only time can tell us of such special events, time and time alone.

-End of Chapter 14-

Or should we say…

-THE END…?-

Author's final Note:

Thus ends...Through the Flames of Revenge. Concluding my First Fan Fiction, I like it actually. Most people like it and say I was in character for the most part . My only issue was my grammar and spelling on the occasions. Now a sequel, that is a maybe. If it does end up being created, it may come out in the late fall. Everything is still up in the air about it.

Some fun facts: This was supposed to be done since the end of March, but school and state tests delayed my ability to finish until the end of May. During some action scenes like Chapters 5, 6, 8, 10, and 13. I played some video game boss music while writing. Mostly from Kirby's Return to Dreamland, Metroid Prime 2 and 3, NiGHTS into dreams and Sonic Rush. Galacta Knight wasn't supposed to be part of the story originally! But after comparing a story map of him in or not in the story and recommendation from some friends, he got in. This story would have ended very differently if Galacta Knight didn't come when he did.

I would like to thank the fans of the story for being patient with me, you guys are the best. I get pretty excited when I see a review you know! I love writing for fun and getting feed back. Even if my chapter just brightened up someone's day! It good to know I made some one feel good, somewhere out there in this strange and gloomy world.

Until my next story,

-DragoonMach5