As I've said, these are basically just snippets based off some of DL3's levels.
Part of the Grass Lands were covered in red flowers, which stretched as far as the eye could see. Gooey nearly trampled on one of them, but Kirby managed to pull him back. "Gooey, wait!"
"Hm?"
"Look, the flowers have faces on them!" Kirby pointed out. Gooey tried to focus on one of them, it swayed quietly with a worried expression.
"Hey!" a voice called out. There was a larger tulip at the end of the field, it waved one of its leaves in order to get the duo's attention. "Please don't crush us, just go around us instead!"
"But how?" Gooey asked while crouching to one of the flowers' level. "There's so many out here, I dunno if we CAN go around."
"...Why don't we just hover over them?" Kirby suggested.
"Oh yeah!" Gooey said in realization. "That way, we won't hurt any of 'em."
Kirby inflated himself and hovered over the flowers. Gooey thought about using his fins for a moment, but he didn't want Lord Zero to find out that he was still alive. He would probably kill him the moment he noticed him.
With that in mind, Gooey inhaled as much air as he could and tried to hover like Kirby. It was difficult hovering like this, he nervously looked down at the flowers as he tried to stay afloat. As he kept floating, he struggled to hold his breath. When he could no longer do so, he landed face-first onto the ground. The flowers flinched, but none of them appeared to be harmed.
Kirby exhaled and landed in front of the bigger flower. "All right, I think we should be good, now."
"Great," Gooey said wearily as he sat up. He scooted over to where the big flower was, who actually looked quite happy. "Thank you for listening, usually some careless fool likes to stumble around and hurt us."
Just then, a light came out of the flower. Gooey grabbed the light and took a closer look at it. It would morph between a yellow star and a pink heart. It gave off a comforting warmth, and yet it burned Gooey's skin after a little while. The Dark Matter recoiled as he dropped the light and started licking his burns.
"What IS that thing?" Kirby asked the flower as he picked up the light. Unlike Gooey, it didn't bother him no matter how long he held it for.
"I think it's called a Heart Star," the flower replied. "I don't know much about it, but I hear that they can repel darkness if enough of them are collected."
"If we gather enough, do you think we can take down Lord Zero?" Gooey asked.
"Oh, that's a good idea!" Kirby said excitedly. "We'll still stop by and help people, but we'll just have to collect as many of these as we can find!"
The duo parted ways with the flower as they moved forward. Although they weren't too sure how to collect the Heart Stars, they were more than willing to help those that were in need.
Further away from the Grass Lands of Dream Land were the islands of Ripple Field. Kirby and Gooey had collected 7 Heart Stars up to this point.
Gooey managed to borrow a parasol from a creature earlier while Kirby had found Kine waiting for him in the water. He was able to get through even the strongest currents on this island, which Gooey had trouble doing himself.
Eventually, the group made it to a quiet little island, inhabited by an egg-shaped creature holding a parasol on its head. It had a bored expression on its face.
"What's wrong?" Kirby asked. The creature glanced at him for a moment, but it looked away and continued to ignore him.
"Lemme try something," Gooey said as he scooted over to the creature. He held his parasol up as high as he could and started to spin it around. The creature was curious, but it looked away from Gooey after a while.
Kirby and Gooey looked at each other with uncertainty, neither of them were sure what they were doing wrong.
"How about you let me do something?" Kine suggested. He brought Gooey into his mouth and hopped in front of the creature. A parasol quickly opened outside of the fish's mouth and spun quickly, which caused the creature to laugh. It laughed so hard that it fell onto its side, Gooey crawled out of Kine's mouth to see what had happened.
"Are you OK?" Kirby asked as he helped the creature stand back up. It nodded as it started to spin its parasol around in a similar way that Gooey did. A Heart Star came out of its body.
"I think they'll be fine," Gooey said as he hopped out of Kine's mouth. Kirby nodded in agreement as he took the Heart Star. The group had made plenty of progress, but they were happy to know that the creature was going to be fine.
Further away from Ripple Field was a dry area called Sand Canyon. As far as the Heart Stars the duo collected went, the number had increased from 7 to 16.
Kirby, Gooey, and Chuchu climbed through a large tower. Gooey had a bruise on his face from startling Chuchu earlier, a mistake he was never going to make again. Though ever since they entered the tower, Chuchu seemed to be a bit more agitated than usual.
"Can't you slow down?" Kirby asked as he and Gooey tried to keep up. Chuchu shook her head. "Sorry, guys. I gotta make sure Nyupun's OK."
"What are they doing in the desert?"
"They said they wanted to do some exploring before all of this," Chuchu explained. "I can't say I blame them, but I just wanna make sure they're not all dried out or possessed."
"We could always get Gooey to lick them," Kirby teased, which earned him a glare from Gooey. "I'd rather not!"
The tower was incredibly dusty, and there were stone heads floating around everywhere. Chuchu was able to climb the walls with her arms while Kirby and Gooey were able to float. Eventually, the group made it to the top of the tower.
The group could see the entire Sand Canyon from here. They could see all kinds of buildings and structures, including a black pyramid and some pink clouds in the distance. Sitting at the edge of the tower was a familiar yellow octopus, who admired the view from the tower.
"Nyupun!" Chuchu called out, which gained the attention of her friend. Nyupun ran towards Chuchu and hugged her excitedly. "I wasn't expecting to find you out here!"
"That's cause I'm helping Kirby get rid of the darkness," Chuchu replied. "Or something along those lines..."
Nyupun's face lit up in realization as they looked at Kirby. "Oh, you're trying to get rid of that black cloud up there, aren't you?"
"Yep," Kirby replied. "We gotta get rid of it before Gooey's creator takes over Popstar."
"That thing created Gooey?" Nyupun asked curiously before shaking their head. "You know what? That doesn't matter right now. I know it isn't much. But if you're off to save Popstar again, then I'll be more than happy to cheer you on."
A Heart Star came out of Nyupun, which Kirby was happy to collect. They were one step closer to defeating Zero.
The clouds that had been seen earlier were an entirely different area called Cloudy Park, the number of Heart Stars collected was now up to 24.
During this adventure, the duo would sometimes run into others that had been possessed by Gooey's siblings. Thankfully, they would go back to their old selves once said siblings were defeated. This was all thanks to the Heart Stars that Kirby and Gooey collected. However, fighting everyone wasn't an easy task.
...Unfortunately, one of the ones who got possessed was the human girl, Ado.
Just as she had done before, she could paint creatures on her canvas and bring them to life. But unlike the docile creatures Kirby and Gooey had seen, Ado would paint larger creatures, which attacked the duo for her. She would paint a dragon, an angler fish, a sun, a moon, and then Kracko. Once all of these paintings were defeated, Ado charged at the duo while she swung her brush wildly like a sword.
"Knock it off!" Gooey yelled as Ado chased him around the clouds. "Your gonna hurt someone!"
"Isn't that the point!?" Ado yelled angrily. Kirby had a cloud in his mouth, he seemed to be waiting for the duo to get closer to him. When he finally had his chance, he spat the cloud at Ado and knocked her out...Given how tough other creatures were in this world, he could see how easy it was to knock out a human.
Gooey stopped running, he moved closer to Ado and examined her. As he did, the Heart Stars that the duo gathered hovered over her. The sibling, as well as Lord Zero's influence, had left her body, along with whatever dark influence was left in Cloudy Park.
"Do you think she'll be OK?" Kirby asked. Gooey backed away from her and nodded. "She'll be fine."
"Good, because it looks like the last place we'll need to get to is Iceberg."
The last place, already? Gooey hadn't thought about it too much. But now that he was this close to fighting Lord Zero, it was a lot to take in.
A Dark Matter's purpose was to serve their creator, or at least that's what Gooey was told before he was banished. And now, he was one of the ones that was going to stop his creator. But could he really do such a thing? Could he really stop Zero from taking over Popstar? And what if Lord Zero died, instead? What will happen to Gooey? Or his brother? Or even his siblings? Could a Dark Matter serve their purpose if they had no creator?
"Gooey!" Kirby called out. "We gotta go!"
Gooey took one last look at the sky before he followed Kirby again. Regardless of the questions he had, he gave Kirby his word that he would help defeat Lord Zero. He wasn't sure what would happen after his creator was defeated, but Gooey's purpose right now was to serve Kirby. He was going to help him, no matter the cost.