Kai's RPG Adventure
Chapter 29: We're done (I think…)
An explosion shot from where Rukar's blast hit Kai. Smoke covered the room.
"KAI!!!" Toad, Zero, and Hazel shouted.
The smoke cleared. Kai had is eyes closed in fear and his arms up as if he wanted to block the attack. He opened his eyes and realized that he was fine.
"What happened?" Kai asked. "Did the attack hit me?"
"How is it possible?" Zero thought. "That was the exact same blast I saw hit both Master Neo and Maria. They were both turned to stone, but Kai is alright."
"Kai, how do you feel?" Toad asked.
"I'm fine, I think," Kai said.
"How come my curse didn't affect you?!" Rukar shouted. "No normal person should be that powerful!"
Rukar continued to fire blasts at Kai. Every blast disappeared right before it hit him, as if they were hitting an invisible wall.
"I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!" Rukar shouted angrily.
Rukar charged up a huge blast. He shot it toward Kai. Kai took out his blade.
"Have a taste of your own medicine!" Kai shouted.
Kai swung his blade toward Rukar's attack. A blue light surrounded the blast. The attack then shot back toward Rukar. The attack hit Rukar and it caused a huge explosion. Rukar then fell to the ground. His staff flew out of his hand. He then turned to stone. Kai and his friends walked up to him.
"It's ironic," Zero said. "The man who turned people into stone got turned into stone himself."
Kai tapped Rukar. His body then turned into dust. Kai jumped back.
"What did you do?!" Hazel shouted.
"I broke his body," Kai said. "I'm guessing that he's dead now."
"What gave you that idea?" Toad asked sarcastically.
"It doesn't matter now," Hazel said. "We did it! We finally stopped Rukar once and for all!"
"Mario should be back to normal now," Toad said happily.
"Master Neo and Maria should be back to normal as well," Zero said. "My quest is finally over."
"My brother should be fine as well," Hazel said.
"And I can finally return home," Kai said.
They began to leave. Hazel stopped for a second. She then looked back.
"What are you doing?" Kai asked.
"Maybe we should take his staff with us," Hazel said. "We might need it."
"That's a good i…" Zero began.
Just then, a huge black bird swooped past them. It grabbed Rukar's staff and flew away.
"What was that?" Kai asked.
"I don't know?" Toad said.
"I think I've seen that bird before," Hazel said. "I think that it's in one of my books. I'll check it out when we get back on the ship."
"Ok," Kai said. "Let's get going."
They left the room. Later that day, they reached the outside. They walked toward the ship. In front of the ship was the man from Magica Island.
"What are you doing here?" Kai asked.
"That's a secret," the man said. "It seems like you defeated your foe."
"That's right," Zero said. "But how did you know?"
"That also is a secret," the man said. "I have some important information for you. Head to the Mushroom Kingdom. You'll find something very surprising there."
"We were just on our way there," Toad said. "But what do you mea…"
"That is a secret," the man said. He hopped aboard a small boat that was hidden behind the S.S. Mushroom. He then sailed away.
"That guy is strange," Kai said. "I just wish we knew his name so we wouldn't have to keep calling him 'that guy'."
"Let's get going," Zero said. "Off to the Mushroom Kingdom."
They boarded the S.S. Mushroom. The ship set sail for the Mushroom Kingdom. A couple of hours later, they were still on sea. Hazel was reading a book, Zero was meditating, Toad was steering the ship, and Kai was deep in thought.
"What did he mean?" Kai thought. "Maybe there's a link between what that guy said and what Crystal told me."
"Kai, what are you thinking about?" Hazel asked as she looked up from her book toward Kai.
"I'm thinking about what that guy said," Kai answered. "He said that there would be something very surprising back at the Mushroom Kingdom. What did he mean? And what was with that huge bird back at the ruins? I have so many questions."
"It's rare to see you so deep in thought," Toad said. "When that happens, it's serious."
"There's only one way to find out about this stuff," Hazel said. "We just have to go to the Mushroom Kingdom just like we already planned. Toad told me that there's a huge library there. Maybe I can find a book that has that bird in it."
"Alright, let's go!" Kai shouted.
The following morning, they docked at the same port Kai and Toad left from at the beginning of their journey.
"Home, sweet home!" Toad exclaimed. "It feels good to be back!"
"Let's go see Toadsworth and Princess Peach," Kai said.
"Alright," Zero said.
They eventually reached Mushroom city. Every mushroom-person in Mushroom city greeted them as they passed.
"You seem popular here, Kai," Zero said.
"Toad and I saved their town from Bowser and his goons once," Kai said. "They used to hate me."
They entered the castle. In the throne room was Princess Peach and Toadsworth.
"You're back," Toadsworth said. "I'm guessing that you completed your mission."
"We wouldn't have done it without our new friends," Toad said.
"So how's Mario doing?" Kai asked.
"Let's check," Princess Peach said. "We put him in the castle's hospital."
Later, they entered an infirmary. Inside there was another Mushroom person in a doctor's suit. He was in front of a bed with something under the sheets.
"How's Mario doing?" Toadsworth asked.
The doctor pulled the covers. Everyone looked surprised. Mario was under the sheets, but he was still stone.
"But that's impossible!" Toad exclaimed. "We stopped Rukar!"
"If he's still cursed, then everyone else is as well," Zero said.
"I thought that the curse would be lifted if we defeated whoever cast the curse," Hazel said.
"This must've been what that strange guy meant," Kai said.
"But what do we do now?" Hazel asked.
"For now, you can stay here in the castle until you figure out your next move," Princess Peach said. "We'll have some of the butlers prepare your rooms. Toad, you can stay in your normal room."
The following morning, Kai, Zero, and Toad were eating breakfast with the servants and guards at a large table.
"Where's Hazel?" Kai asked.
"She said that she wanted to check out the castle's library this morning," Zero answered.
"She's probably looking for that strange bird from Dark Island," Toad said.
Hazel then walked into the dining room. She sat down next to Kai.
"How'd it go?" Kai asked.
"I've got nothing!" Hazel shouted. "I've looked at every single book in that library! There is nothing on that bird!"
"How did you read all 1000 of those books this morning?" Toad asked. "It's only 7:00!"
"I said that I would be in the library this morning," Hazel said. "I've been in there since 3:00 this morning."
"Once again, how did you read all 1000 of those books in 4 hours?!" Toad exclaimed.
"I'm a fast reader," Hazel answered.
"We've got to think about this from a different point," Zero said. "Not everything can be found in a book. Master Zero once told me that you could never find every last bit of information in the world from one source. Let's find information elsewhere."
"Information on a bird can be found in nature," Toad said. "We could go to Kongo Jungle."
"Where's that?" Kai asked.
"It's just beyond the fortress we were in when we first met, Kai," Toad answered.
"I really doubt that we'll find that one bird in a jungle," Hazel said.
"It's our only lead," Toad said.
"Let's go!" Kai shouted.
Later that afternoon, they entered a vast jungle. They had backpacks filled with camping gear. They were looking in the trees. That night, they set up camp. They sat around a campfire.
"We haven't seen a single bird that looked like the one from Darkness Island," Hazel said.
"Rome wasn't built in a day, Hazel," Kai said.
"What's 'Rome'?" Toad asked.
"It's an old city from my world," Kai said. "It was a city of idiots who threw people into a stadium to be eaten by lions."
"Kai, your world is filled with morons," Zero said.
"I've got a question," Hazel said. "Why didn't we just use the Seeking Feather?"
"I've tried," Toad said. "It's like that bird isn't affected by the Seeking Feather."
"I guess we just have to continue looking in this jungle," Kai said. "We'll give it one more day, then we'll call it quits."
They continued to talk as they sat around the campfire. In the trees, a parrot was watching them. It eventually flew off. In the morning, Kai and his friends packed everything up and continued through the jungle. After a couple of hours, Kai looked to his left. He saw a chimp with a red shirt and red hat on.
"Look, a monkey!" Kai exclaimed.
"We're looking for a bird, not a monkey," Zero said.
"I know, but this monkey's wearing clothes!" Kai exclaimed.
Toad, Zero, and Hazel walked up to Kai. They saw the monkey as well.
"Why is a monkey wearing clothes?" Hazel asked.
"That chimp looks familiar," Toad said.
"Whatever we do, we'd be best not to approach…" Zero began.
It was too late, Kai began to walk up to the chimp.
"Kai, what are you doing?!" Zero shouted.
"I'm getting a closer look at the monkey," Kai answered.
Kai walked a bit more forward. Suddenly, he fell into a pitfall trap.
"KAI!" Zero, Toad, and Hazel shouted as they ran forward.
They all fell into a different pitfall trap.
"Something tells me that this was a trap," Zero said.
Suddenly, they here monkey noises.
"What's going on?" Zero asked.
"I don't… wait a minute!" Toad shouted. "I still have my communicator!"
Toad pressed a button on his communicator. He then handed Hazel and Zero communicators as well.
The monkey noises slowly changed into an understandable language.
"We caught them!" a deep voice said.
"I bet that K. Rool sent them here," another voice said.
"He usually sends Kremlins," a light voice said. "Three of these four guys are humans."
"Who is K. Rool?" Zero asked.
"I don't know," Kai said from behind them.
They turned around and saw Kai.
"How'd you get into this hole?" Toad asked.
"I dug a tunnel from my hole to this hole," Kai said.
"Now that all four of us are here, maybe we can lift one of us to where we can see what's going on," Toad said.
They then stood on each other's shoulders. Toad was on top. He looked over the hole. On the ground above them was the chimp from earlier; a girl chimp with a white shirt, blue overalls, a beanie hat, and blonde pigtails; an orange orangutan with overalls; a gorilla with a white shirt, black belt, a blue vest, and a red hat; and a gorilla with a red tie that says "DK" on it.
"Now I recognize these monkeys," Toad said. "They are the DK crew."
"Who is the DK crew?" Kai asked.
"The DK crew are the protectors of Kongo Jungle," Toad said. "They are all somehow related to one another, so they can get together easily."
"Why are they attacking us?" Hazel asked.
"Maybe it's because we just barged in here without telling anyone," Zero said.
"If we just tell them the truth, we can be on our way," Kai said.
"There's one problem," Zero said. "We're still in this hole."
"We can use my Warpstar," Kai said.
Kai then took out a star-shaped keychain. He held it high into the air, and it began to glow. Suddenly, the Warpstar shot from the sky toward the hole they were in. Kai hopped on top of it.
"Now, Zero do you have any rope?" Kai asked.
Outside of the hole, the DK crew was still wondering what to do next. Suddenly, Kai rose from the hole on his Warpstar. A rope was tied on the Warpstar. Zero, Toad, and Hazel were hanging onto the rope. Once they were out, Zero, Toad, and Hazel dropped to the ground. Kai remained on the Warpstar.
"They got out!" the boy chimp shouted.
"We're not bad-guys!" Kai exclaimed. "We're just here looking for a certain bird!"
The gorilla with the tie took out a gun made out of wood. He then took aim at Kai and shot coconuts at him. The coconuts hit the Warpstar, and Kai and the Warpstar fell to the ground. Kai got up and drew his sword.
"I guess we'll have to do this the hard way," Kai said.
Kai ran forward. The Gorilla then punched him so hard that Kai was launched back through two trees. He got up.
"He must work-out a lot," Kai said.
Zero charged for the other gorilla. That gorilla grabbed the ground. He then pulled up a huge chunk of the earth. He then threw it toward Zero. It hit, but Zero was replaced with a log. Zero jumped right behind this gorilla. He then drew his katanas. The gorilla then grabbed his legs and threw him toward Kai, who just got back up. When Zero crashed into Kai, they flew through another tree.
"This gorilla is just as strong," Zero said.
"Can you please get off of me?" Kai asked.
Meanwhile, Hazel battled the orangutan. Hazel swung her hammer. The orangutan expanded his body. When Hazel hit the orangutan, it bounced everywhere. Eventually it bounced back to Hazel, who was pushed back toward Kai and Zero. Kai ended up underneath both Zero and Hazel.
"Why does this keep happening to me?!" Kai exclaimed.
Toad battled the two chimps. One had a wooden jetpack on. It flew around while the other one fought on the ground. Toad tried to blast the one in the air with fire spells, but every shot missed. The one on the ground hit Toad with her pigtails. The one in the air took out two wooden-pistols. While Toad was still stumbling from the earlier hit, the chimp in the air shot peanuts out of the pistols. The peanuts shot Toad back toward Kai, Zero, and Hazel. When Toad crashed into them, Kai, once again, ended up on the bottom.
"That's it!" Kai shouted. "This is where I draw the line!"
Kai took out his bomb-rocks. He threw one at the jetpack of the chimp in the air. The rock hit and destroyed part of the jetpack. This chimp then crashed into the other one. Hazel then ran in front of the orangutan and drew her hammer. The orangutan expanded. She then hit the orangutan toward the two gorillas. The orangutan hit, and all three of them crashed into a tree.
The gorilla with the tie then got up and ran toward Kai. Kai drew his sword and ran toward the gorilla.
"STOP!" an old voice shouted.
Kai and the gorilla stopped in their tracks. They look in the direction from which the voice came from and saw an old gorilla with a cane.
"Fighting for no good reason?!" the old gorilla shouted. "That is just idiotic! Back in my day, we only fought because of something important, like captured girls or caged friends."
He then took his cane and smacked Kai and the gorilla on their heads. He then pointed his cane at Kai.
"Who the heck are you?" the old gorilla asked.
"I'm Kai, sir," Kai answered.
"Why are you here, Kai?" the old gorilla then asked.
"We're looking for a certain bird," Kai said. "We hoped that we could find it here in the jungle."
"So I'm guessing that these other two humans and that mushroom-headed person are here for the same reason," the old gorilla said.
"We have names, you know," Toad said angrily.
"Watch your attitude when you're talking to an old Kong like me," the old gorilla said as he smacked Toad on the head with his cane. "Now tell me your names."
"It's polite to give your own name first," Zero said.
"I'm Cranky Kong," the old gorilla said. "And the idiot with the tie is my son, Donkey Kong."
"I'm Diddy Kong," the boy chimp said.
"My name's Tiny Kong," the girl chimp said.
"I'm Lanky Kong," the orangutan said.
"And I'm Chunky," the second gorilla said.
"I'll say 'it's good to meet you' when my shoulder heals," Zero said. "I'm Zero."
"I'm Toad," Toad said.
"And I'm Hazel," Hazel said.
"Now that we know each others' names, how about you four tell me everything about this 'bird' your looking for," Cranky said.
For 30 minutes, Kai and his friends explained the whole story to the Kongs.
"…And that's why we're here," Kai finished.
"I think that I know where to find your bird," Cranky said.
"Really?!" Kai asked happily.
"It's not a live bird, but it's a picture of the bird," Cranky answered. "There's a carving of it in the ancient ruins around here."
"Is a carving going to be enough?" Hazel asked.
"It's our only lead," Kai said. "Let's go!"
"Follow me," Cranky said. "I'll lead the way."
Cranky slowly walked in one direction. Everyone else followed him.
To be continued…
