PART 3: Valley of Kabu

Meta Knight was leaving.

"WHAT? Why are you going? Where are you going?" Tuff yelled when he found him. Meta stared at him for a few moments.

"Did you see that darkness?" he replied. "That was no ordinary fog....I must find out what has happened to that planet."

"You're going there? Now? But what if something goes wrong?" Tiff asked.

"Poyo!" Kirby agreed. Meta did not respond. Followed by Sword and Blade, he got into the Halberd.

"I shall see you soon." Meta assured them as the ship began to fly into the air.

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One day later...

On the deck of the Halberd, Meta Knight and crew were halfway to Super Star. Meta was more worried than ever...he had just lost contact with another planet nearby it. It was as if the fog was alive... finding planets and eating them like they were merely dinner.

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Meanwhile, in DeDeDe's castle...

"This place is so...boring." King DeDeDe moaned. "With 'Holy Nightmare' gone, nothing exciting ever happens here anymore."

"You could go beat up some Waddle Dees." Escargoon suggested.

"What do you take me for? I'm not that mean." King DeDeDe replied. Escargoon rolled his eyes, and DeDeDe pulled out his hammer and knocked him out of the castle like a golf ball.

"See? You're much funner to beat up than Waddle Dees! HAHAHA!!!!" DeDeDe laughed.

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Kirby tossed and turned in his bed that night. He was dreaming, but the unusual thing was that he was dreaming a nightmare. This had never happened before.

He dreamt that he was lost on an unfamilar planet. He didn't see light, or dark, and there was no sounds...no smells... only the feeling of death and woe hanging in the ear. It was niether cold nor hot, but this feeling made Kirby shiver. Kirby looked at the sky, and saw an onimous black thundercloud blot out the sun. The cloud got lower, and lower...and opened an enormous red eye... Kirby tried to run, but he didn't move. He was literally frozen to the ground. Slowly, Kirby's entire body turned to ice.. he tried to escape, flailing his arms uselessly. A tear rolled down his cheek.

He was frozen like that, one arm sticking in the air as his face was filled with fear, the tear frozen with it.

Kirby awoke in a cold sweat and fell off the tree, rolling down the hill. He hit the bottom and shivered. It really was cold. Shivering, he began to walk toward the forest... he needed to see someone.

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Kirby entered the clearing that led to the wisest living thing in all of Dreamland... Kabu. An enormous, ancient, talking stone face, Kabu was unbelievably wise and unbiased, always ready to tell Dreamland's people what they needed, not wanted, to hear.

Kirby walked over to Kabu and bowed, as a sign of respect. Kabu opened his enormous stone eyes, and Kirby told him about his dream.

"The Black Fog worries you, it seems." Kabu said, in a deep voice. "Nightmares may haunt your sleep, but the Fountain of Dreams is not broken. Rather, your worries have kept you from being happy, and your sadness leads to nightmares."

Kirby sighed and asked Kabu about the prediction.

"So the prediction worries you as well... Mabel is correct, Kirby. Someone will betray us, and it may lead to the destruction of our world." Kabu replied.

Kirby asked if it would be him.

"That, I do not know. But when Fate and Destiny mingle, the path they choose for you, you must not stray away from."

Finally, Kirby asked what had happened to Kawasaki and what the Black Fog was.

"Dedede bought Kawasaki, and without a cook, he was forced to close his restraunt. Kawasaki works for Dedede now. As for the black fog, it is something I have not seen before." Kabu said.

Kirby realized that Kabu had told him things that worried him even more. Kirby decided he wouldn't sleep that night... he had someone else to visit. Kirby ran from the clearing, and Kabu closed his enormous stone eyes once again.

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Curio stood on the roof of his shop with an enormous telescope. He aimed it at the stars and looked into it. He could just make out the heart-shaped planet, Ripple Star, far out on the other side of the solar system. He didn't see the black fog.

"Curious. Very curious." he muttered, as he looked around the planet for any sign of it. He could also just make out the Halberd in the distance, although he couldn't make out who was riding it. Even though it was obvious. That's when he saw it... the black fog was coming towards the Halberd... getting ready to strike.

"Oh my..."

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"POYO?" Kirby yelled as he entered the forest. He was looking for Whispy, who wasn't always easy to find. Sometimes, he felt like he was walking in circles. Having an idea, Kirby ran towards a tree and took a deep breath of air. He sucked up the very leaves off of it, and swallowed them. He would use that tree as a mark, so he could find out if he was going in circles or not. He walked on, shivering in the night air. He hoped Meta Knight was safe...