Chapter 30: POV Meta Knight II (the end)

I decided to do another POV Meta Knight, because today, March 23, is Meta Knight's birthday! Happy birthday to the greatest fictional character to ever exist, and my hero.

It's the last day of the school year. It's lunch time. Our table is much more crowded than usual. On the last week, students can sit wherever they want. This past week I brought my clan-mates, Lucas brought his brother, Lucario brought his son, Joker brought some friends, but Dark Pit and Ridley claim that there is no one that likes them, nor anyone they like, therefore they have no one to sit at the table with us. On the very last day of the school year, it's also the very first day of the summer, so the cafeteria is flooded not only with video game characters, but also characters from books, movies, plays, animes, comics, YouTube videos, and even celebrities from the real world, all here for the Brawlhalla Summer Academy It is crowded, and when I say crowded, I mean tables are jammed crowded and the lunch line is going out of the door crowded.

Lunch is going well, and loud. This is the last day Lucas has to be vegan. He and his brother are joking about it. Those two are practically the same person. The only way to tell them apart is that Claus has a metal arm, while Lucas doesn't, and Lucas has the number 37 printed on the back of all of his shirts. I watch the two of them sit next to each other. When they talk, it's like they isolate themselves from the world, and they're the only ones they can see. Their bond is beautiful.

The lunch bell rings, everyone says farewell to one another, and we meet up with our dorms. When we get back to the Kirby dorm, all of the students are packing. I help my clan gather all of their stuff off the roof, then head down to my room. It's practically empty. The other knights' stuff is all in bags. No controllers or chips are lying around the room. Their beds are made. The closet is empty, besides a single replacement mask. It feels weird. It feels weird every year. I walk out of the dorm. I notice something on the door. Rules?!

Kirby Dormitory Rules:

One mustn't touch the crown.

No fighting with your edgy doppelganger.

Meta Knight's mask is not a toy.

Dangerous Dinner isn't edible.

No flying indoors.

No eating your roommates.

"Spin Off Fridays" violate multiple campus rules and are hereby banned.

Do not turn people into yarn.

No murder.

No dictatorship.

No cheesecake theft.

No forming gangs.

Don't destroy planets.

Thank you!

Excuse me? NANI

I run to tell everyone at my lunch table, but they're also in the middle of campus to tell me something, too.

"Guys," I say. "My dorm just got-"

"Rules?", Green asks, excited.

"Yeah…"

"Everyone's did…", Lucario mutters. "Mine says that you can't kidnap your own children."

"What?", I ask. "Mine says Dangerous Dinner is not a meal or something."

"Mine just completely roasts everyone," Green says. "It basically says that we need to get a life and stop obsessing over which idol is better, but it's obviously Callie."

"I don't know who made them," Joker says. "But the Persona rules state that 'If you never see it coming, look harder.'"

"That doesn't make any sense, but mine was distorted," Ridley adds. " It says 'The young people were sticking to each other.' followed by the letters 'GT ' and a Lenny Face."

"GT probably means Google Translate," I say. "Your rules were Google Translated!"

"Mine is the best. It says 'No one is a stain. All people are beautiful, treat everyone the way you would want to be treated.'" Dark Pit sighs.

We get Lucas to share the news. He loves it. So does his brother. He particularly likes the Google Translated Metroid rules. If you include Claus, there's eight of us talking. Claus is so much like Lucas that if you look at the group and you know that we are a group, he'll blend right in. The thought of the school year ending comes back to me. All of the students leave. All of the fighters move to cabins sorted by game genre.

Later that day, I'm sitting in my room reading Fullmetal Alchemist. Manga is a relatively new interest of mine. I got into it because some of my friends liked it. Anyway, I'm reading FMA when the period bell rings. Dinner. I teleport to the cafeteria. First one there! Everyone eventually arrives at the table. It's quiet. Students and fighters look at eachother. Claus and Lucas are hitting each other with PK Love, both wearing Franklin Badges, causing the energy to go back and forth repeatedly. I somehow get hit with one… It hurts. Physically. My mask falls off again, but I don't care. Everyone has seen my face by now, I've given up trying to hide it. I just pick it back up and continue eating. That battle made me surprisingly chill. It undid the chill on everyone else.

You see, after that battle happened, it gave us a lot of attention, especially Lucas. Lucas has social anxiety. That did not end well. Also, Bowser Jr. started a trend of people singing the Dragon Tales theme song whenever they see us. I admit it was kind of funny at first, like "haha, Dark Dragon" or whatever, but that was in January. It's June now and people still do that. IF I HEAR THAT SONG ONE MORE-

The bell rings. Everyone parts. I notice Dark Pit is confronted by his goddess. I can't help but watch. And listen.

"Do you promise to recycle without me?"

"Yeah."

"Will you only use eco-friendly soap?"

"Yeah."

"Will you only leave plugs in for thirty minutes or less?"

"Yeah."

"Will you compost ALL food scraps?"

"Yeah."

"Will you avoid single-use plastic?"

"Yeah."

Viridi goes on and on about "being green" or whatever. She makes the angel raise his right hand and swear he will do these things. He does not look amused, but he agrees. The Kid Icarus characters head back to their dorm. I go to mine.

It's sad back there. Kirby is hugging Bandana Dee, crying. Magolor joins the hug. I have to admit, the three of them are adorable. My clan-mates are singing Be Back Soon from the musical "Oliver!" to me. First it was Dragon Tales, now this? They're clearly trying to draw my attention. I'm nice. I don't ignore them.

"So long fare thee well pip pip cheerio-"

I cut them off. "Be back soon."

My knights nod at me. We hang out with each other. Eventually the entire dorm is chillin' together. It feels good, all of us together. We talk, play-fight, read fanfics, tell jokes, watch YouTube, and just all around have fun. The day eventually ends. The final bell rings. The bell that rings at the end of every year. It rings Lifelight. It sounds beautiful. Beautiful and sad. I know the notes by heart. I hear them in my head.

G

E

D

D

I hum along while everyone else, even Dedede, cries. The year is over.

The next day I wake up in a room alone. No one is there besides me. I get out of bed, get ready, and do other morning stuff. Alone. By myself. The bell for breakfast rings. I teleport there. When everyone arrives, I know I'm not alone. Friendship. The idea of a lunch table. Lucas is eating more meat and milk than a creepy baby doll. The summer has started.

Later that day, it's time to get "sorted" into cabins based off of genre. The platformer dorm sucks. Mario. Everything there is Mario. Mario this, Mario that. I sigh. This summer is going to be very, very long. I'm out, people.

The end.