PART 12: Kawasaki
Kirby, caught off guard by the unexpected appearance of Kawasaki, didn't have enough time to guard as Kawasaki smashed him in between his dual frying pans. Kirby cried out as the pans, somehow incredibly hot, burned the skin on his arms. Kawasaki struck at Kirby again and again with his frying pans, blood flying every which way with every blow. Kirby tried to stand again and attempted to deliver a punch, but Kawasaki knocked him out of the way with one of the pans, sizzling Kirby's skin and sending him flying into a table.
Spiders scurried away as Kirby rolled away from Kawasaki leaped onto the table with a crash. Kawasaki charged at Kirby, swinging his double frying pans. Kirby rolled under the pans and delivered a powerful uppercut at Kawasaki, who quickly blocked with one of his pans, and smashed Kirby with the other. There was another sizzling sound as Kirby was sent flying into another table.
Kirby's vision became disorientated... he could see three of everything, including three Kawasakis. Kirby jumped at one of the Kawasakis, swinging his fists. Suddenly, the real Kawasaki smacked Kirby with his frying pans, knocking him against another wall. Kirby grabbed onto this wall by reflex, and jumped at Kawasaki, who smashed Kirby in between his frying pans and held him there.
There was a sizzling sound and smoke began to come from inbetween the pans. Kirby could feel the skin on his arms parting as the heat from the pans burned through his flesh...he desperately struggled to escape, and eventually squeezed free of the pans and fell to the ground, the flesh on his arms ripped, burned, and smoking. Kirby's sight became more disorientated...he now saw five Kawasakis, and he couldn't move his arms to fight back. The real Kawasaki swung at him again, burning the side of Kirby's face and sending him flying into a wall. Kirby fell to the ground again, unable to stand back up. Kawasaki leaped at him with both pans out, ready to strike. Desperately, Kirby rolled away from Kawasaki as he landed and Kawasaki swung his pans at Kirby in a rush. Desperately, Kirby tried to roll away again, but Kawasaki was moving faster than he was and Kirby couldn't use his arms to stop his attacks.
As Kawasaki smashed Kirby with both his frying pans, something fell from behind the medallion. It was the doll of him Tiff had made... As both it and Kirby lay on the ground, Kirby noticed it in more detail than before... it had been roughly sewn together in a way that made it resemble Frankenstien. The stitches could be seen on it in that fashion. It's facial expression was interesting... made of black buttons, the expression was a smile that could only be described as sad joy. The different pieces of it, seperated by the stitches, were of different shades of pink. Regardless of all this, this was Kirby's greatest treasure....worth even more to him than his own life. Ignoring the burns on his arms, Kirby reached for it weakly.
Kawasaki appeared over him and stepped on the doll. Kirby watched from on the stone floor as one of the buttons rolled out from under Kawasaki's foot and spun around in a circle, eventually stopping at Kirby's face. Kirby stared at it for a few moments, his expression completely blank. Kawasaki lifted his pan to strike Kirby, but Kirby paid no attention, but instead he stared at the button blankly.
Kawasaki swung his pans at Kirby, but his attacks were quickly halted....Kawasaki stared in shock...the pans had frozen in midair, and now stood, floating, three inches from Kirby's head. Kirby hadn't moved an inch. As Kawasaki stared, Kirby suddenly began to move again. Keeping his face down, Kirby rose to his feet, inch by inch...the process felt like it was taking hours.
As soon as Kirby was on his feet, he looked at Kawasaki in the eye, and Kawasaki looked back. The medallion around Kirby's neck had turned a shade of pure white, and Kawasaki could see something in Kirby's eyes that he couldn't quite make out....
Suddenly, it hit him. Kirby was glaring at him like Meta Knight, his face contorted with utter, supressed fury. Kirby did not make a sound, but Kawasaki could swear he could feel the rage radiating from Kirby's body.
"No more nightmares." Kirby said, his voice both menacing and calm at the same time. "No more tears. No more worries." Kirby grabbed Kawasaki with one arm and lifted him high into the air like Kawasaki was nothing.
"No more fears." he said, his voice now more menacing and more calm than ever. Kirby slammed into Kawasaki with his fists over and over again, rapidly across his enemy's face.
"You betrayed us. You tried to kill me." Kirby snarled as he smacked Kawasaki around like a punching bag. "YOU DESTROYED THE LAST THING I HAD LEFT!"
Kirby had only felt this way one before....and his feelings were filled with rage...pure, unsupressed rage...he had felt the same thing when he had presumed Meta Knight as dead, something he had presumed quickly. He had always been optimistic, but now...he was beginning to find trusting anyone impossible. Kawasaki cringed as Kirby lifted his fist, ready to finish him off. Kirby swung.
"No. I am better than you." Kirby said calmly, stopping an inch from Kawasaki's face. He threw Kawasaki to the ground and stared at him menacingly. "Leave now." Kawasaki stared at Kirby for a few moments, and then glared at him.
Kawasaki pulled out both pans and jumped at Kirby, ready to strike again. There was a loud "whoosh" as Kawasaki swung, followed by an "CLANG" as Kirby grabbed them both at the same time and threw one of them back at Kawasaki.
"I am as calm and collected as the very grass." Kirby said, his eyes closed and his voice once again menacing but calm. "You can not defeat me." Kirby held the other pan in his hand and opened his eyes, glaring at Kawasaki. Kawasaki ran at Kirby, screaming, and there was the sound of metal hitting metal as Kirby deflected Kawasaki's blows with the other pan.
"Give up, traitor." Kirby said, now fully menacing. Kawasaki backed off as Kirby held the pan in his hands without wincing, which meant that either Kirby had suddenly become invulnerable or he was simply ignoring it. Either way, that was enough for Kawasaki, who immediately bolted out of the room, yelling something as he ran.
The medallion on Kirby's waist turned a normal color, and Kirby's hand began to smoke. Quickly, Kirby threw the pan to the ground and walked over to the other side of the ancient dining room. Tiff's doll of him was laying flat on the ground, a few buttons missing from it's face and it's arm missing from it's body. Quietly, Kirby picked up the pieces.
He was interrupted by the noise of thousands of small feet moving towards him. Quickly, Kirby placed the pieces of the doll on the ground just as hundreds of Waddle Doos, like Waddle Dees but with one eye, which they could shoot beam attacks out of, and Biosparks, who Kirby had already faced. Quickly, Kirby prepared to fight, realizing the frying pan was on the other side of the room.
As the Waddle Doos jumped toward the cieling and swung above him, using thier beams like grappling hooks, and the Biosparks threw thier small swords, Kirby grabbed onto the legs of one of the swinging Waddle Doos. He flipped off of there like an acrobat, knocking another Waddle out of the air in the process. Quickly, Kirby landed, inhaled, and swallowed a Waddle Doo, and after a few seconds, he transformed into Beam Kirby, now with a colorful jester's hat on his head.
Two beams appeared from Kirby's hands and Kirby sent the attack at another Waddle Doo. It grabbed him like a grappling hook, and Kirby turned around, throwing the Waddle Doo and the beam into another Waddle Doo, destroying them both. Kirby rolled around another Waddle Doo, grabbed it, and threw it at some approaching Biosparks. Kirby created another beam and grappled to the cieling, swinging along the beam like it was a vine right into another Waddle Doo. The Waddle Doo he hit landed on some of the others, and Kirby dropped from the ground and sliced them with another beam. A Biospark grabbed him and threw him at the cieling, and Kirby quickly shot a beam upwards. Then, he fired another beam at the ground, and it attached to it. Kirby let go of the beam holding him to the cieling, and he fell to the ground. Quickly, Kirby ran at the walls, using the beam as a support, began to walk around them as if defying gravity. The beam spun with him, slicing apart enemies as he ran. He fired another beam at the cieling and pulled the one on the floor back toward him. Kirby grappled to the cieling and fired another beam nearby him. Using this, he bounced towards the ground like a bungee jumper, and as soon as he landed on the ground, he held himself and the beams in place. Everything jumped at him as he bounced back towards the cieling again, and they all fell into an enormous piles. Kirby retracted both beams and landed on the pile. Skillfully, he rolled around two Waddle Doos and a table, blasted a Biospark with a beam, and grabbed the pan off the ground.
He threw his hat to the ground and his beam ability disappeared with it. Kirby inhaled the pan and swallowed it. After a few seconds, he transformed into Cook Kirby, chef hat and all. As the piles of enemies and the rest of the enemies got to thier feet and jumped at Kirby, there was a flash of light, and an enormous cooking pot materialized out of thin air. Every enemy froze into a form of suspended animation, unaffected by gravity and completely unmoving. Kirby climbed to the top of the golden cooking pot, brought out two pans, and smacked them together in a "Dinner's Ready" fashion. The water in the pot began to stir around immediately, and soon, every enemy in sight flew into it as if being sucked into a black hole.
The pot could carry as much as it needed, and would instantly change every enemy in front of it's user into nutritious, health-restoring food. After it was used, it would vanish completely, and the ability would be lost.
When the last enemy was sucked into the enormous cooking pot, Kirby materialized a spoon out of nowhere and began to stir the contents. The pot began to bubble suddenly, and Kirby watched as it spit out tons of food, of all types, shapes and sizes. Kirby smiled as the pot vanished completely, it's work done. The chef's hat vanished with it.
Kirby laid the food on a table and walked into a nearby room, which turned out to be a kitchen. Clearing spider webs out of the way, he came across a small closet. Opening it (and releasing a ton of dust in the process, which caused Kirby to sneeze), he found a broom. He pulled it from inside the closet (accidently destroying a spider web in the process, which made Kirby sad, so he apoligized to the spider), and as soon as he touched it, a flowery apron appeared around his waist. Kirby smiled and walked back into the dining room, which he began to dust off.
It didn't take him long, for soon, the tables and floor were clear of spider webs. Satisfied, Kirby picked up the pieces of the doll again and sat on the table. He sat in front of the food, and began to eat the spoils of his victory.
And he had a long way to go, and so little time to go there.