When they left the village, they noticed Twilight Trail had a lot of Hyper Goombas. These Goombas were green with purple feet, and they could raise their attack up by 6. Not only that, but they had to be aware of Hyper Spiky Goombas and Hyper Paragoombas.
Twilight Trail was a little bit calmer than Twilight Town because there were no pigs, and there were no people around to accuse Chopper. It was kind of small, but they could see the trees in the background, which meant there was a forest somewhere along the trail. They also noticed a brown, wooden shed near them as well.
"Wow… Look at this place. It's beautiful, I must admit. But I think I see something in that shed. Let's take a look." Chopper walked into the small shed and when he came out of it, he was holding a Black Key.
"What's that? …Wait, I think I may have seen a key like that before." Vivian realized as she took the key from Chopper and looked at it. "Five months ago! …I saw one in this place called Pirate's Grotto. I don't remember what it unlocks, but I think you get some kind of ability with it."
"Really? No one here has seen me with this key before..." the pale green boy trailed as the Shadow Siren returned the key to Chopper.
Scrub began to shiver. Not because he was cold, but because he was a little scared of this place. "I wish we didn't have to come to such a really creepy place… I hope that monster who's doing all of this isn't freaky either."
"Poyo. (Oh, don't worry! I think everything's going to be just fine. We haven't seen anything REALLY creepy.)" Kirby noticed a dead tree by the pathway ahead covered in grass with a red, scary-looking face. "…Poyo. (…Except for that.)"
Chopper walked over to the tree and he whacked it with his hammer. "Nope, nothing in here!"
Suddenly, a cutter fell on his head and bounced off him and hit the ground. He looked down at it, a little confused, but he ate it and got a yellow cap with eyes and wings that resembled a duck. Also, there was a yellow blade on his head that he could use to cut things.
Well there was some grass in the way of the pathway, so he threw the cutter on his helmet at the grass to cut it, allowing them to move on. He caught the cutter and put it away before continuing on ahead.
They found some Hyper Goombas around the area, but with some quick stomping, fire punching, ground pounding, and cartwheeling, they were able to beat the Hyper Goombas. But there wasn't much in the area except for a Brick Block that gave a couple of coins.
"Just a couple of coins... Nothing special."
They found a pig in the next area and also a branch that had been knocked down. Actually, it was there for a long time, because nobody even tried to move it before. The bad thing was that there was a key on the other side of the branch.
"Oh, that's just great… We can't get the key now. ...Wait, let me try something!" Chopper threw his cutter at the branch and cut it in half, but it still didn't move, so there was absolutely no point in doing that whatsoever.
"I think we need something to bring the key over here. It's like we need some kind of vacuum to do the trick." Vivian noted. A thought came into Kirby before he used his Inhale to bring the key over. Before he could eat the key, he grabbed it.
"Poyo! (See? Problem solved!)" Kirby smiled. "Poyo. (I think we should go back to Twilight Town and use this on the locked door in the shop. I think it's a GREAT idea to do that anyway!)"
"Good idea, Kirby," Chopper agreed.
Twilight Town, inside the shop-
When they made it back into the shop in Twilight Town, Kirby pulled out the key and used it to unlock the door into a room with a couple of useful items. There happened to be a small, brown chest and also a Black Chest in the center of the room.
"Whoa! We hit the jackpot here! A Jammin' Jelly, a Boo's Sheet, a Life Shroom, and two chests? MAN, we're lucky to be here!" Scrub grinned as he opened the small chest and found a Defend Plus badge.
"A Defend Plus Badge?" Vivian gaped.
"Hey, Contadre! I think this might be helpful! You can take less damage with this thing." Scrub informed as he tossed it over to Chopper and then looked at the Black Chest. "All right! Now let's see what's in here!"
"Wait! Don't!" Before Chopper could do anything, the Black Chest began to wiggle a little, making everybody jump up in fright.
"Hold up! Hey! Who's there? I just heard a voice!" the Black Chest chirped. "There's no way people could be here! It's unlikely!"
"A talking chest? Contadre! Why is there something stuck inside here?!" Scrub gaped. "…But I have NO idea what or who the heck this thing is."
"I've met these chests before," Chopper recalled. "It was...kinda funny."
"What? You've seen a chest like this before?" the Black Chest gasped. "Get outta here! I know what you're going to be saying. 'You're bad like those other chests!' No no no! I'm not like all those other chests, I promise! Look at my eyes. Tell me I'm lying. I'm not, seriously! Just get me out of here! Please don't make me beg!"
"If I get you out of there, you're going to curse me. I saw two of your 'friends, and they did that kind of thing. It's getting really stupid now, so don't even ask me to open it for you. I know it's a trick."
"...What? Come on. You know how ridiculous you sound. I'm practically laughing in here. You think I'm going to curse you when I come out? CURSE you? I did plan on doing something to you, but it's not much of a curse... But it's a new ability that allows you to go to special places... Doesn't that sound nice?"
"Yeah, that does sound nice, but you're just going to go all 'Whee hee hee hee hee hee' and stuff. I mean, it's SO obvious!"
"Come on, just find the key and open the chest, OK? I know it's somewhere around here, but I can't go look for it, because I'm in a chest. So pretty, pretty please?"
"OK, fine…" Chopper sighed as he pulled out the Black Key.
"Oh! Thank goodness! You're going to let me out! Oh, happy day!" the chest began to cheer happily, but once Chopper unlocked the door, the cheering stopped, making the chest cackled.
"WHEE HEE! FOOOOOLS!"
The Black Chest opened and the background changed to blue when Chopper was sucked in.
"What were you expecting? Did you think a sweet little girl would pop out? Now I shall give you the mightiest curse of them all! The cursiest curse ever! Fear my terrible power! You will suffer my curse! BE CUUUUUUUURSED!"
There were a couple of flashes and Chopper was once again...cursed.
"Whee hee hee hee hee! Now you're cursed, loser! And that's how you'll stay! You won't be able to walk around with this curse! That's how awful it is! Now show me the curse so I can laugh all the more! Press and hold R and rotate the control stick! You will become a tube!"
"Sure thing!" Chopper turned sideways and began to spin around and rolled up in a tube. "Well... This is a bit awkward..."
"Whee hee hee hee hee! Your pathetic misery thrills me to the core! Just look at yourself! Oh, I'll bet people are going to be laughing at you! Press B to return to normal! You better not forget that! So long, suckers! Whee hee hee hee hee!"
The background crumpled up and it was tossed back into the chest, with Chopper returning back to his friends. Now with this tube ability, they all backtracked back to the tree, where Chopper rolled up in a tube and went under the branch.
His friends were in the tube with him, so they came out of the tube as well. The real problem ahead was a huge bush.
"There are so many bushes around here…" Vivian sighed as Chopper pulled his cutter blade out and threw it at the bush, cutting it down. They saw a green pipe right by them and smiled.
"Good! Now where does that pipe lead?" Scrub looked at the background, where they could see a pipe leading into the woods. When they went into the woods, the ground was purple. Not only that, but there were Crazee Dayzees around too. The trees and grass were a dark color because of how close they were getting to the steeple.
"Poyo! (Whoa! Talk about evil here! Look at this place! …At least there's an opening for us to slip through.)" Kirby mentioned as they turned sideways to go over to the pathway north and began to move to their left. There were other Dayzees around too. There were gray ones that were usually asleep called Lazee Dayzees.
Going to the next area of the woods, they found a golden Dayzee called an Amazee Dayzee running around. This made Chopper jump up a little, knowing that they could give a lot of Star Points.
"Amazee Dayzees! Quick! Catch 'em!" Chopper snuck up behind one and the Dayzee saw him and quickly ran away. Knowing about them, they had exactly 20 HP and 1 Defense. However, the only thing he wanted to watch out for was its Attack Power. It could do 20 damage if it planned on attacking, but it's usually rare. Unfortunately, Chopper wasn't able to catch it.
But they did get something else instead. The Hammer Throw badge was in a red ? box, which was definitely helpful for Chopper, especially when it came to enemies high above.
"I'm sure this should help me," Chopper smirked as he put the badge away. There wasn't much else around the area except a tree. Kirby tried to inhale it, but he ended up tearing a piece of the tree off, revealing a doorway into it…and into the background.
"Poyo! (Interesting! We're finding A LOT here!)" Kirby smiled.
"Yeah, I know. This is really nice!" Chopper agreed.
They went into the next area of the woods through the background to find another path and a round area with nothing around except for a dark spot in the middle. Kirby inhaled the dark spot and a wooden X was revealed, so Chopper used his Spin Jump and went down the hole. In the background, a rock was sitting there, and since he went into the background, he pushed it.
"It's been a while since I got to push something! Very nice!" Chopper smiled as he continued to push the rock.
Vivian noticed the rock near her moving forward, revealing a hole. She then looked over at Chopper, who began to pant a little after that push.
"CHOPPER! COME BACK HERE! A HOLE WAS REVEALED WHEN HE PUSHED THE ROCK!" Vivian yelled. Chopper could hear her and went down the hole in the background to come over to them.
"I don't understand how you could move a rock," Scrub gawked. "It just doesn't make sense, right Contadre?"
"I know it doesn't, but it's logic, right? Let's not worry about it." Chopper jumped into the hole to come out of the other side of the pathway, but he found a Hyper Cleft, which were pretty dangerous when their attack was raised up by 6.
"Uh oh… Not these Clefts! I HATE Clefts! Well, there's only one solution…" Chopper used his Quake Hammer attack and flipped the Hyper Cleft over, allowing Kirby to use his Cartwheel to finish it.
Once they were done, Vivian could feel some dark power near them, which didn't make her feel good in the slightest. "Chopper… We're really close now. I can feel the dark power around here getting bigger."
"Really? Oh, that's not good… We better go find this monster right now and take care of him! Let's move!" Chopper quickly rushed over to the Dark Steeple, with Scrub and Kirby following him.
"Oh… I have a bad feeling about this." Vivian said worriedly as she followed the three through the woods and to the evil steeple.
Nothing really special in this chapter, unfortunately. But we'll see two optional bosses next chapter! ...Though we'll probably be fighting one. I think the next part will be MUCH better.
Oh, and the Lazee Dayzees are indeed a pun on "lazy". :P