Hoshi no Yume
Book 1; Coming Storm
Chapter 20
the Green Winged Angel

"… and so, we're here." Kirby finished explaining, his green eyes glowing softly. Arthur nodded, his eyes also emerald green.

"The Sparkling Stars, gone, and I never knew." The elder Batamon said regretfully, his eyes flickering dark violet. The female older Batamon that was bandaging Kimi-Ko looked up, her orange eyes full of warmth.

"Art, it's not your fault. Neither is it yours, Kirby. Stop putting yourself down." She said, blowing a few dull red strands out of her face. She moved onto Knuckles Joe, taking fresh bandages and cleaning the small scrapes that he had.

Arthur sighed, pulling his large silver sword out and polishing it.

"Wow. That's a cool looking sword, Arthur-Dono." Aluin said, pointing at it. The elder Batamon's eyes turned blue, and a small smile perched itself on his face.

"Thank you, Aluin. It's one of my favorites." He said, holding it in the light. Kirby pulled his own sword out, and showed it to Arthur.

His eyebrows flew upward. "I haven't seen that sword in a while. Where'd you get it?"

"Dad gave it me."

A chuckle. "Cepheus gave it to you? Makes sense. He was never one for swordsmanship."

"Maybe that's cause you got him up at five in the morning to train every day until he was 19." the female Batamon said, smiling in amusement. Arthur shrugged.

"Falspar liked it. So it wasn't a complete waste." He chuckled, his eyes glowing pink.

"Okay, that's it." Kimi-Ko stood up, her hair flaring. "For the past few days, Kirby's eyes have been changing color and it's freaking me out. Now yours do too! What gives?"

Kirby blinked, his eyes changing to brown. "My eyes change color?"

Arthur chuckled, grabbing a piece of paper and a pen. "It's quite simple. We; meaning Kirby, Nuka, and I, are all descendants of Galactica. I hope you've heard of him."

"The Comet Rider guy?" Joe asked, toying with his necklace.

"Interesting definition." The elder Batamon raised an eyebrow. "But yes, we are distantly related to him."

He wrote something on the paper. "Some of his descendants… both good, and evil (meanwhile on the Forbidden Island, Meta Knight sneezed) have a bit of a… mutation, so to speak."

He held up the paper, revealing a list. "One of these mutations is eyes that change color. Galactica himself created this one, since he wore a mask most of the time and no one could tell what he was feeling."

"Blue is happy, Green is thought, Purple is embarrassment and sometimes confusion, Brown is pain and also sometimes confusion, Gold is sensing something, Black is unconsciousness and extreme pain/worried, and White is shock and excitement." He listed off, pointing to each color in turn.

"Red." Kirby looked up, his eyes black. "What's red?"

Arthur's face fell. "Red… more often it's crimson, but… Kirby, why are you asking this?"

"Just a question."

"… Crimson is demonic intentions, and dull Red is anger."

"I only saw Arthur with Red eyes once, and that was when he… well…" the female Batamon said, sitting at the table next to Nuka.

"It's okay, Morgan. If Kirby trusts these kids, then I do too." Arthur said, pulling his white coat off and hanging it up.

"It was when Art got his wings." Morgan said quietly, her orange eyes worried.

"Wait a second, did you just say wings?" Kimi asked, and looked at Arthur. Her jaw dropped.

On the elder Batamon's back were two large, emerald colored angel wings.

"By the Star Rod…" Joe said, his blue eyes wide. "I never knew Batamon could grow wings!"

"Most can't. It's a gene that even the Galactica family is losing. Star Rod, it skipped a couple generations to get to me." Arthur said, sitting back down and folding his wings behind his back.

"By the time Nuka or Kirby have children, it'll probably be gone for good." He continued, his eyes sad.

"Wow, depressing much?" Joe muttered, toying with his necklace. Arthur shook his head.

"Yes, so never mind that!" the elder Batamon said, his eyes bright white. "Kirby, you said your sixth sense was telling you to come here?"

Kirby nodded, his eyes flashing gold. "Yeah. But there's no Star Tower on the map. So far, all the Sparkling Stars have been near their towers. So why would it tell me to come here?"

"Five together equal the power of one, but one alone cannot hold." Morgan said, walking into another room.

"… what?" Kirby looked at his grandfather, confused.

Arthur chuckled. "Morgan studied the Sparkling Stars for a LONG time. If there's anyone in Dreamland and the Rainbow Sea that knows anything about the Stars, it's her."

Morgan came back into the room, her orange eyes excited. In her arms were maps, papers, and a book. She dropped all these on the table, and spread out one of the maps.

On it was a rough sketch of Dreamland, but all the towns were written in an odd language. She pointed to the Flouting Islands, and Kirby noticed there was a star on the island.

"What in the stars…" he muttered, his eyes green and brown.

"Roughly 3000 Star Circles ago, there was a Star Tower on this very island." Morgan said, pulling another map from the pile. She spread it on top of the first map.

This map seemed more recent, as it was written in Dreamian. The older female pointed to the Flouting Island, and this time there was no Star. "Around that time, there was a earthquake, and the volcano erupted. I believe that may have either destroyed the tower and Sparkling Star, or buried it underground."

"Whoa, whoa… are you saying that one of the Sparkling Stars was destroyed?" Kirby said, his eyes bright white.

"Or buried." Joe pointed out.

"Okay, so what are the chances of a VOLANO not destroying something barely the size of my fist?" the younger Batamon said, his eyes green.

"I'm sure it's just buried." Morgan said, smiling broadly.

"Proof?"

"Maybe that Dreamland hasn't lost all of its crops?"

"There was that crop shortage a while ago…"

Morgan shook her head no. "Five together equal the power of one, but one alone cannot hold."

"What the heck does that mean?" Kimi asked, her arms crossed.

"Ooh! Ooh, I know!" Aluin jumped out of his seat. "Five Sparkling Stars equal the power of one Star Rod, but only one Sparkling Star can't hold the seal on the Dark Lord!"

"I like you. Well informed boy." Morgan smiled, pulling another map out. "It's a proverb. A Star/Planet requires one or two Star Rods to sustain itself. We, instead of one Star Rod, have Five Sparkling Stars. Those sustain Dreamland, while the second backup Star Rod is somewhere in Dusty Dunes."

"If something happens to one of the Sparkling Stars, all of them fail." She continued, spreading the third map on top of the others. This one was a simple outline of Dreamland, with no towns or rivers or anything on it. Five Stars were printed on it, and lines connected all of them. At the center of the map was a rough sketch of a fountain, and all the lines reconnected there.

Morgan pointed to the lines, smiling. "Behold the shape of the galaxy." All eyes, minus Arthur's, widened.

The Five Sparkling Star Towers formed a rough lopsided star around the Rainbow Resort.

"Holy Star Rod…"

"Wow…"

"How come I never noticed that?"

"Whoa, that's kinda cool."

"My plan; we take a small team underground and search for the Sparkling Star." Morgan said, taking a map of the Flouting Island out. She unfolded it, and laid it out on the table.

"Kirby, Arthur, and I are going. Kimi-Ko, you'd better stay here with Aluin and Nuka." She continued.

"What, why?!" Kimi's hair flared up.

"Because you might ignite the volcano again. Aluin and Nuka are too young to go, and I don't want to have to worry about them in the maze."

"… oh. So I'm stuck babysitting?" the lioness's violet eyes flickered like fire. "Fine by me!"

"I'll stay with Kimi-Chan, just in case." Joe said, raising his hand.

"No, you'd better come with us." Morgan said, shaking her head. "We'll need a heavy hitter."

Kimi mouthed a "thank you".

"Gooey, why don't you stay here?" Arthur said, pulling his coat on.

"I think he'd better come with." Kirby said, pointing to his blob-ish friend. "He knows a lot about these things."

"True." Gooey said, his gold eyes shimmering.

"Alright, that gives us five people… probably a good idea." Morgan said, gathering the maps and other things and walking back out of the room.

"Five Stars, five points, five rings, five elements, five guardians, and five tribes! Five is a very lucky number!"Aluin said, smiling.

"Something tells me we're gonna need all the luck we can get." Kirby said, looking out the window.

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