Chapter 3
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As Tiff and the others showed her aournd Renee
nodiced the many statues of King Dedede that stood on every
mantle in the castle.
"Boy your king sure is stuck on himself," she said
as she examined one of the statues.
"Yeah we know," Tiff said giving a helpless gesture.
"but he's the king and we can't tell him what he can and can't
do."
"Hmmm.." was all the other girl said to that.
They passed by the kings throne room a minute later.
"Hold it a moment," Renee said suddenly.
The others stopped and looked back at her. "What is
is Renee?" Tuff asked.
The girl out a finger to her lips. "Shhh," she
hissed. "listen."
They fell silent and listened. They heard voices
coming from King Dedede's throne room. Angry voices. "Sounds
like King Dedede and Escargoon are upset about something,"
Lololo said.
"I wonder what," Tiff said.
"Let's find out,' Renee said.
She reached up and opend the door slightly. They
all peaked inside.
The kids saw King Dedede and Escargoon talking to
the Nightmare Enterprises sales guy. Actually they were yelling
at him in angry voices.
"What do you mean you can't sent me no more
monsters?!" Dedede demanded angrily.
"Sorry King," the Sales Guy said giving a
helpless gesture. "but I'm under strick orders not to send you
anymore monsters."
"Is this because he doesn't pay his bills?"
Escargoon asked.
"No, it's for a different reason this time,"
the sales guy said laughing evilly.
"And that is----?" Dedede asked.
"Oh, you'll find out soon enough." was the
only answere he got.
Then the screan blinked out and the sales guy
disappeared.
Dedede shouted something very unpleasant at
the blank screan (But I'm not sayin' what, because it's a kids
fan fic '.')
The kids quietly closed the door and began to
walk away. "Boy, I've never seen King Dedede so mad before,"
Tuff said.
"I've never heard King Dedede say anything
like that before," Tiff added.
Suddenly the throne room door burst open and
the kids saw King Dedede and Escargoon run by. The strange thing
was King Dedede's eyes were red and was trying to mash the snail
with his mallet.
"Ahh!!" Escargoon screamed as they ran by.
"get away from me!"
"Roar!" King Dedede growled as he tried to
smash the snail.
Escargoon ran around a corner with the
penguin following after him. When they were gone Renee said,
"What's wrong with them?"
The others shrugged. "I don't know," Tiff
said. "King Dedede and Escargoon usually act like that for one
reason or another."
"I bet he's blaming Escargoon for not being
able to order anymore monsters," Lololo said.
"Maybe,'' Tiff said. "but it doesn't
matter as long as they don't bother us."
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Meta Knight was on his way to the garden when
he saw King Dedede run by chasing after Escargoon who looked
totally frightened.
Since that happened often he didn't pay any
attention to it even though the kings eyes were red and he was
making loud roaring sounds.
Meta Knight headed down the hall and saw the
kids walking by. He nodiced they had a girl with them he had
never seen before. I wonder who she is, he thought walking
closer to them.
The kids stopped when they nodiced him
walking up to them slowly.
"Who's this?" the strange girl asked
pointing at him.
"This is Meta Knight," Tiff said.
Renee smiled at the blue puff ball. "I'm
Renee nice to meet you Sir. Meta Knight," she said.
"Pleased to meet you too," he replied.
"but just call me Meta Knight. Sir Meta Knight makes me feal
old."
"Okay Meta Knight," Renee said with a
smile. "it sounds better that way anyway."
"Um will you excuse me, please," he said
suddenly.
"Sure," the kids said.
"Thank you," He said.
He then walked away. Tiff nodiced he
seemed to be walking a little quickly like he wanted to get away
from them as quickly as possible. She wondered what was wrong.
Renee also nodiced as well as the
others. "Does he usually act that way?" she asked the others.
Tiff shook her head. "No, he's usually
pretty friendly to new people."
Renee crossed her arms. "I bet he's
going through something," she said.
The others looked at her their
expressions quizical.
"What do you mean?" Tiff inquired.
"It's kind of easy to see," the other
girl answered. "not just by the way he's acting either. I can
tell by looking at his eyes. He misses someone. He's grieving."
"Grieving? Meta Knight?" Tuff asked.
Renee nodded. 'That's the only
explanation," she said.
Tuff began to laugh. "That's the
funnyest thing I've ever heard! Wahahahaha!" He fell on his
belly and began to pound on the ground in laughter.
"It's not funny, Tuff,'' Lololo said
angrily.
"Yeah cut it out," Lalala siad anoyed.
Tiff was thinking. Could he be
grieving about that person he told me about last night, she
thought. I think I'll ask him about it.
She turned to her friends. "Can you
excuse me a moment," she said. "Tuff could you and the others
show Renee around by yourselves."
"Sure Tiff," Tuff said sounding
happy to show the other girl around by himself.
"Thanks," Tiff said before she ran
off.
Tiff fell in step behind the Star
Warrior who didn't seem aware that she was following him. She
had decided to follow him and not talk to him until he nodiced
he instead of just going right up to him and asking, "Are you
grieving about someone?"
As he passed by the throne room
she saw him suddenly go tense. Not wanting him to see her she
quickly his behind a statue and watched as he turned and looked
directly into the throne room.
What's he doing? she thought as
she watched him.
She saw him draw his sword. She
gasped and ducked her head behindd the statue. Still curiouse
she poked her head back out and saw him charge into the throne
room. Tiff, wanting to know what was the matter with him, ran up
to the doors and folloed him inside. The doors shut behind her
by themselves.
Tiff gasped and the sudden sound.
She senced somethind eerie in the air as she backed away from
the door. She heard a sound behind her and looked over her
shoulder.
She saw Meta Knight
attacking......no one!
"Meta Knight?" she said
uncertainly.
He looked over his shoulder at
her. 'Tiff!" he shouted. "what are you doing in here?"
"What are you doing?" she asked
avoiding the question.
"Get out of here Tiff!" he
shouted.
"Why?" she asked taking a step
toward him.
Meta Knight saw the shadow appear
behind her. "Tiff look out!" he shouted. "behind you!"
Tiff looked behind her. A dark
red sword appeared out of the shadow. "Tiff!" he screamed
rushing up to her. "get away!"
Tiff screamed but didn't move.
Meta Knight jumped at the shadow pushing her away.
"Run!" he shouted. "get out of
here while you still can!"
Tiff got to her feet and ran to
the doors. The shadow went after her and Meta Knight ran after
it. Tiff grabbed the door knobs and tried to open them. They
were locked!
"Tiff ! Look out!" Meta Knight
shouted.
Tiff ducked and Meta Knight used
Sword Beam on the heavy oak doors reducing them to splinters.
Tiff ran out of the throne room shouting. "Monster! There's a
monster loose in the castle!"
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Meta Knght saw the monster,shadow, race after the
girl down the hall. He didn't know who this creature was, bu t
he knew he had to stop it before it was too late.
He ran after the shadow noteing how swiftly it moved
and he was startled when he realized it moved almost exactly
like him!
After a moment he lost track of the shadow and became
worried. I have to find the kids before it does! he thought. He
quickly ran to his room and when he opened the door he found
Sword and Blade lounging around.
"Sword! Blade!" he shouted rushing into the room.
Startled the two tried to quickly get to their
feet. Sword succeded but Blade landed flat on his face. Sword
saluted the Star Warrior.
"Hello Meta Knight," he said. " I didn't-er- we
weren't goofing off um.... we were just uh......."
"I am not here about that," the Star Warrior
interrupted. "theres is a monster loose in the castle. We have
to find the kids before it does," he grabbed their hands, "come
on!"
He ran like a demon out of the room dragging his
followers along with him at high speeds.
"Meta Knight slow down!" Sword shouted panting.
"No! We must hurry!" Meta Knight said increasing
his speed instead of decreasing it.
Suddenly about ten Waddle Dees appeared
blocking their path. "Out f our way! Let us pass," Meta Knight
ordered.
The Waddle Dees just stood there pointing
their spears at the knights. All of their eyes were blood red.
"What's wrong with them?" Sword asked backing away from the
little creatures.
"The monster! It is controlling them," Meta
Knight said drawing his sword. "it doesn't want us to find the
kids before it does."
"What are we going to do?" Sword asked.
Meta Knight said. "This!" and he charged at
the Waddle Dees.
The little red and cream creatures ran this
way and that as the Star Warrior dashed through them without
changing his speed. When they were all gone (They had run away
from him as quickly as possible) he turned to Sword and Blade
and once again headed to their destination. The castle garden.
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"A monster!" Tuff exclaimed.
Tiff panted from running from the throne room to the
garden without stopping then said. "Yes. It attacked me and the
only reason I'm still alive is because Meta Knight fought it
off."
"A monster!" Lololo exclaimed.
"That's horrible," Lalala said.
"Tiff," Tuff said.
"Yeah?" Tiff inquird looking at her little brother.
"Do you think that monster's responcible for King
Dedede's strange behavior?" he asked.
Tiff thought that over then gasped. "I bet it is!"
she said.
"And if it is," Renee put in. "we'd better get out
of here before it comes after us."
Tiff nodded. "I think we should," she agreed. "it
must be after Kirby."
Suddenly a shadow appeared behind Tiff holding a
dark red sword.
"Umm T-tiff," Tuff said pointing.
"Tiff look out!" shouted a voice.
"Tiff turned just in time to see Meta Knight attack
the thing behind her.
"It's found us!" she screamed.
Meta Knight turned to her and the other kids who
all just stood there with their mouths hanging wide open. "Run!
Get out of here!" he ordered.
"But...'Tuff began wanting to be brave.
"Get out of here kids!" he shouted his eyes
flashing red then green. "We'll hold it off. Now get out of
here!"
The kids ran. Tiff held tightly to Kirby's
little hand as they went.
"All right men," Meta Knight said turning to
Sword and Blade who stood behind them with their swords drawn.
"don't let it leave the castle."
The two knights nodded. "Right," they said in
one voice.
The three then began to attack the shadow,
but, no matter how hard how hard they tried to hit it with all
they had their swords seemed to go right through it like it
wasn't even there.
Suddenly something flashed through the Star
Warriors mind. It was a memory..........about the shadow.
Meta Knight turned to Sword and Blade "It
is too strong we have to run," he said.
Sword and Blade looked at him like he was
crazy.
"But Meta Knight-----" Sword began.
"We have to run! NOW!" he interrupted.
He then turned toward the direction the
kids had taken and ran with Sword and Blade close behind him.
The shadow melted into a dark mist on
the ground and went after them never loosing it's prey.
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Meta Knight, Sword , and Blade found the children in Kabu
Canyon. They were standing in front of the rock and trying to
get it to tell them about this new monster.
"Kabu who is this monster and how do we get rid of him?"
Tiff asked looking up at the big stone tiki.
For some reason the big stone kept on saying, "It is a
shadow from the past. Only the one who conquired it before can
beat it."
"That's no answere!" Tuff shouted at the stone.
"Kids!" Meta Knight called when he saw they were all
safe.
The children turned.
"Hi Meta Knight," Tuff said waving at the Star Warrior.
"I thought you were at the castle beating the monster."
"What are you doing here?" he demanded. "I told you to
run." He sounded angry.
"Tiff said we had to see Kabu about this," Lololo
explained.
"Yeah, but, he's not telling us anything we need,"
Lalala finished.
"We have no time for this," Meta Knight said. "we
have to get out of here before it finds us."
"Come on," Sword said begining to usher the kids
along. "let's go."
The group quickly ran down the path into Kabu
Canyon. The path that led them away from King Dedede's kingdom.
"This is like a hike through the woods," said tuff
striding along.
He began to sing "I like to hike! I like to hike!"
"Great," said Tiff holding her head. "now we're
stuck listening to that the whole time."
Renee giggled but said nothing.
After walking for about an hour they stopped to
rest. Meta Knight stood a little ways from the others staring at
the locket and fealing his mask thoughtfully. He realized during
the years he'd lived at the castle he had never taken off his
mask in front of anyone. In fact he hadn't even taken it off in
front of Sword and Blade (Except maybe his bathroom mirror after
he took a shower^.^). What was he afraid of? And why was he
thinking about this now?
"Tuff stop it!" he suddenly heard Tiff order.
The Star Warrior looked over towards the five
children.
Tuff was pulling on Tiffs pony tail and grinning
like an idiot.
Tiff looked over at the Star Warrior. "Meta
Knight, Please tell Tuff to stop it," Tiff said her eyes
pleading as she tried to get her pony tail away from her
brother's grasp.
"Tuff please," Meta Knight said.
"Aww, why do I have to?" the boy asked. "I'm
havin, fun."
"Because it is mean and I told you not to,"
Meta Knight said staring at Tuff with his gentle yellow eyes.
Tuff groaned but he did stop.
Meta Knight turned his attention to Sword and
Blade who were just sitting there doing nothing (Lazy daisies).
"I need to talk to you," he said to them.
Sword and Blade looked at each other. They had a
feeling they were going to be in trouble. Big trouble.
They were right.
"Sword and Blade," Meta Knight said staring them
both right in the face until they began to feal nervous.
"Yes Meta Knight," they said in unison.
"I would like to Know why you two keep pushing
everything on me," he said.
"What do you mean?" Sword asked.
"You know what I mean," the Star Warrior said a
bit grouchily. "either one of you could have told Tuff to leave
Tiff alone but you left it all on me. Why is it always left on
me?" the Star Warrior looked like he was going to cry.
Sword was surprised at this strange
behavior."Err..........um....." he stammered.
"............Sorry," Blade spoke up quickle.
"..............won't do it again."
Sword looked at his friend relieved.
"Fine then," Meta Knight said getting control
of himself quickly and turning away from the two knights."now I
think we had better be on our way or that thing might find us."
Everyone got to their feet and resumed
walking. For some reason this time Meta Knight wouldn't let them
rest this time not even after they walked for four or five
hours, but, no one complained not with Tuff keeping them
entertained by pretending he was in a desert and way dying of
thirst.
Just when Sword was about to suggest that
they take a break Meta Knight came to a sudden stop and the
knight almost walked into him.
Sword was about to ask why they had
suddenly stopped Meta Knight put out his hand to keep silent.
The Star Warrior took out his sword and
slwoly began to walk ahead. "Stay here," he hissed to the others
without looking back at them. "and do not say or do anything."
Everyone watched in silence as the Star
Warrior walked cautiusly toward a rock over hang about tem yards
ahead of them.
Tiff tried to see what Meta Knight had
senced but she couldn't she could only feal a sinister presence
ahead.
A silence hung in the air as Meta Knight
quickly and quietly snuck toward the rock over hang.
Suddenly a loud noise made him look up.
The shadow head now taken on a shape..........the shape was of
him! It's red eyes locked with Meta Knights' yellow ones. It
landed right in front of him its' sword drawn and glowing with a
sinister light.
Suddenly it all came to him. The
dream. The shadow. Everything about this creature it all came
flooding back and a name came out of his mouth in an echoy
whisper. "Dark Knight."
"Dark Knight?" Tiff said looking at
Sword and Blade. "who is he?"
The two knights shrugged and turned
their attention back to the two knights. "We'll find out soon, "
Sword said.
But Dark Knight didn't speak he
just went right after the blue Star Warrior furiously slashing
at him with his dark red sword.
"Meta Knight!" Sword shouted as he
and Blade pulled out their friend.
They started to rush forward to
help.
"No! Stay back!" Meta Knight
shouted.
The two stoped and watched
helplessly as the two fought furiously, but, it seemed that Meta
Knight was loosing. The Star Warrior could sence it as well,
but, he couldn't let Dark Knight win. Not this time.
Dark Knight slashed at Meta Knights
mask chipping it. Meta Knight countered and cut a deep gash in
Dark Knights. The monster them jumped into the air and landed
behind the Star Warrior.
"Meta Knight behind you!" Tiff
shouted.
"Huh?" Meta Knight said turning just
in time to see Dark Knight jump at him.
Before he could think the monster was on
him trying to get it his face with the dark blade. It reminded
the Star Warrior of when Wolf Wrath had ambushed him.
Meta Knight kicked Dark Knight hard fell
off of him but then quickly got back on it's feet.
As they fought Meta Knight didn't realize
that they were getting dangerusly close to the edge of the cliff
and the dark fall beyond.
Suddenly Dark Knight slashed hard a Meta
Knight who backed up to avoid the blow upon doing so he fell off
the cliff and into space!
"Meta Knight!" he heard Tiff scream as
he fell.
As he fell his mind turned to
everything he had ever lived through. Now it was going to end
and he just couldn't believe he was going to die this way.
He bounced off rocks and once grabbed
a plant growing out of the rocks. He hung there for a moment and
tried to climb onto the ledge. The plant uprooted and he fell
again.
Finally he hit the bottom and he felt
a terrible pain shoot through him and then a bright light and
then everything went black.
Authors note: So how do you like this chapter? This
chapter is the most exciting so far.And this story is mine all
MINE! If anything is confusing fear not it will all be explained
in a later chapter. Good bye until them Poyo!
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As Tiff and the others showed her aournd Renee
nodiced the many statues of King Dedede that stood on every
mantle in the castle.
"Boy your king sure is stuck on himself," she said
as she examined one of the statues.
"Yeah we know," Tiff said giving a helpless gesture.
"but he's the king and we can't tell him what he can and can't
do."
"Hmmm.." was all the other girl said to that.
They passed by the kings throne room a minute later.
"Hold it a moment," Renee said suddenly.
The others stopped and looked back at her. "What is
is Renee?" Tuff asked.
The girl out a finger to her lips. "Shhh," she
hissed. "listen."
They fell silent and listened. They heard voices
coming from King Dedede's throne room. Angry voices. "Sounds
like King Dedede and Escargoon are upset about something,"
Lololo said.
"I wonder what," Tiff said.
"Let's find out,' Renee said.
She reached up and opend the door slightly. They
all peaked inside.
The kids saw King Dedede and Escargoon talking to
the Nightmare Enterprises sales guy. Actually they were yelling
at him in angry voices.
"What do you mean you can't sent me no more
monsters?!" Dedede demanded angrily.
"Sorry King," the Sales Guy said giving a
helpless gesture. "but I'm under strick orders not to send you
anymore monsters."
"Is this because he doesn't pay his bills?"
Escargoon asked.
"No, it's for a different reason this time,"
the sales guy said laughing evilly.
"And that is----?" Dedede asked.
"Oh, you'll find out soon enough." was the
only answere he got.
Then the screan blinked out and the sales guy
disappeared.
Dedede shouted something very unpleasant at
the blank screan (But I'm not sayin' what, because it's a kids
fan fic '.')
The kids quietly closed the door and began to
walk away. "Boy, I've never seen King Dedede so mad before,"
Tuff said.
"I've never heard King Dedede say anything
like that before," Tiff added.
Suddenly the throne room door burst open and
the kids saw King Dedede and Escargoon run by. The strange thing
was King Dedede's eyes were red and was trying to mash the snail
with his mallet.
"Ahh!!" Escargoon screamed as they ran by.
"get away from me!"
"Roar!" King Dedede growled as he tried to
smash the snail.
Escargoon ran around a corner with the
penguin following after him. When they were gone Renee said,
"What's wrong with them?"
The others shrugged. "I don't know," Tiff
said. "King Dedede and Escargoon usually act like that for one
reason or another."
"I bet he's blaming Escargoon for not being
able to order anymore monsters," Lololo said.
"Maybe,'' Tiff said. "but it doesn't
matter as long as they don't bother us."
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Meta Knight was on his way to the garden when
he saw King Dedede run by chasing after Escargoon who looked
totally frightened.
Since that happened often he didn't pay any
attention to it even though the kings eyes were red and he was
making loud roaring sounds.
Meta Knight headed down the hall and saw the
kids walking by. He nodiced they had a girl with them he had
never seen before. I wonder who she is, he thought walking
closer to them.
The kids stopped when they nodiced him
walking up to them slowly.
"Who's this?" the strange girl asked
pointing at him.
"This is Meta Knight," Tiff said.
Renee smiled at the blue puff ball. "I'm
Renee nice to meet you Sir. Meta Knight," she said.
"Pleased to meet you too," he replied.
"but just call me Meta Knight. Sir Meta Knight makes me feal
old."
"Okay Meta Knight," Renee said with a
smile. "it sounds better that way anyway."
"Um will you excuse me, please," he said
suddenly.
"Sure," the kids said.
"Thank you," He said.
He then walked away. Tiff nodiced he
seemed to be walking a little quickly like he wanted to get away
from them as quickly as possible. She wondered what was wrong.
Renee also nodiced as well as the
others. "Does he usually act that way?" she asked the others.
Tiff shook her head. "No, he's usually
pretty friendly to new people."
Renee crossed her arms. "I bet he's
going through something," she said.
The others looked at her their
expressions quizical.
"What do you mean?" Tiff inquired.
"It's kind of easy to see," the other
girl answered. "not just by the way he's acting either. I can
tell by looking at his eyes. He misses someone. He's grieving."
"Grieving? Meta Knight?" Tuff asked.
Renee nodded. 'That's the only
explanation," she said.
Tuff began to laugh. "That's the
funnyest thing I've ever heard! Wahahahaha!" He fell on his
belly and began to pound on the ground in laughter.
"It's not funny, Tuff,'' Lololo said
angrily.
"Yeah cut it out," Lalala siad anoyed.
Tiff was thinking. Could he be
grieving about that person he told me about last night, she
thought. I think I'll ask him about it.
She turned to her friends. "Can you
excuse me a moment," she said. "Tuff could you and the others
show Renee around by yourselves."
"Sure Tiff," Tuff said sounding
happy to show the other girl around by himself.
"Thanks," Tiff said before she ran
off.
Tiff fell in step behind the Star
Warrior who didn't seem aware that she was following him. She
had decided to follow him and not talk to him until he nodiced
he instead of just going right up to him and asking, "Are you
grieving about someone?"
As he passed by the throne room
she saw him suddenly go tense. Not wanting him to see her she
quickly his behind a statue and watched as he turned and looked
directly into the throne room.
What's he doing? she thought as
she watched him.
She saw him draw his sword. She
gasped and ducked her head behindd the statue. Still curiouse
she poked her head back out and saw him charge into the throne
room. Tiff, wanting to know what was the matter with him, ran up
to the doors and folloed him inside. The doors shut behind her
by themselves.
Tiff gasped and the sudden sound.
She senced somethind eerie in the air as she backed away from
the door. She heard a sound behind her and looked over her
shoulder.
She saw Meta Knight
attacking......no one!
"Meta Knight?" she said
uncertainly.
He looked over his shoulder at
her. 'Tiff!" he shouted. "what are you doing in here?"
"What are you doing?" she asked
avoiding the question.
"Get out of here Tiff!" he
shouted.
"Why?" she asked taking a step
toward him.
Meta Knight saw the shadow appear
behind her. "Tiff look out!" he shouted. "behind you!"
Tiff looked behind her. A dark
red sword appeared out of the shadow. "Tiff!" he screamed
rushing up to her. "get away!"
Tiff screamed but didn't move.
Meta Knight jumped at the shadow pushing her away.
"Run!" he shouted. "get out of
here while you still can!"
Tiff got to her feet and ran to
the doors. The shadow went after her and Meta Knight ran after
it. Tiff grabbed the door knobs and tried to open them. They
were locked!
"Tiff ! Look out!" Meta Knight
shouted.
Tiff ducked and Meta Knight used
Sword Beam on the heavy oak doors reducing them to splinters.
Tiff ran out of the throne room shouting. "Monster! There's a
monster loose in the castle!"
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Meta Knght saw the monster,shadow, race after the
girl down the hall. He didn't know who this creature was, bu t
he knew he had to stop it before it was too late.
He ran after the shadow noteing how swiftly it moved
and he was startled when he realized it moved almost exactly
like him!
After a moment he lost track of the shadow and became
worried. I have to find the kids before it does! he thought. He
quickly ran to his room and when he opened the door he found
Sword and Blade lounging around.
"Sword! Blade!" he shouted rushing into the room.
Startled the two tried to quickly get to their
feet. Sword succeded but Blade landed flat on his face. Sword
saluted the Star Warrior.
"Hello Meta Knight," he said. " I didn't-er- we
weren't goofing off um.... we were just uh......."
"I am not here about that," the Star Warrior
interrupted. "theres is a monster loose in the castle. We have
to find the kids before it does," he grabbed their hands, "come
on!"
He ran like a demon out of the room dragging his
followers along with him at high speeds.
"Meta Knight slow down!" Sword shouted panting.
"No! We must hurry!" Meta Knight said increasing
his speed instead of decreasing it.
Suddenly about ten Waddle Dees appeared
blocking their path. "Out f our way! Let us pass," Meta Knight
ordered.
The Waddle Dees just stood there pointing
their spears at the knights. All of their eyes were blood red.
"What's wrong with them?" Sword asked backing away from the
little creatures.
"The monster! It is controlling them," Meta
Knight said drawing his sword. "it doesn't want us to find the
kids before it does."
"What are we going to do?" Sword asked.
Meta Knight said. "This!" and he charged at
the Waddle Dees.
The little red and cream creatures ran this
way and that as the Star Warrior dashed through them without
changing his speed. When they were all gone (They had run away
from him as quickly as possible) he turned to Sword and Blade
and once again headed to their destination. The castle garden.
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"A monster!" Tuff exclaimed.
Tiff panted from running from the throne room to the
garden without stopping then said. "Yes. It attacked me and the
only reason I'm still alive is because Meta Knight fought it
off."
"A monster!" Lololo exclaimed.
"That's horrible," Lalala said.
"Tiff," Tuff said.
"Yeah?" Tiff inquird looking at her little brother.
"Do you think that monster's responcible for King
Dedede's strange behavior?" he asked.
Tiff thought that over then gasped. "I bet it is!"
she said.
"And if it is," Renee put in. "we'd better get out
of here before it comes after us."
Tiff nodded. "I think we should," she agreed. "it
must be after Kirby."
Suddenly a shadow appeared behind Tiff holding a
dark red sword.
"Umm T-tiff," Tuff said pointing.
"Tiff look out!" shouted a voice.
"Tiff turned just in time to see Meta Knight attack
the thing behind her.
"It's found us!" she screamed.
Meta Knight turned to her and the other kids who
all just stood there with their mouths hanging wide open. "Run!
Get out of here!" he ordered.
"But...'Tuff began wanting to be brave.
"Get out of here kids!" he shouted his eyes
flashing red then green. "We'll hold it off. Now get out of
here!"
The kids ran. Tiff held tightly to Kirby's
little hand as they went.
"All right men," Meta Knight said turning to
Sword and Blade who stood behind them with their swords drawn.
"don't let it leave the castle."
The two knights nodded. "Right," they said in
one voice.
The three then began to attack the shadow,
but, no matter how hard how hard they tried to hit it with all
they had their swords seemed to go right through it like it
wasn't even there.
Suddenly something flashed through the Star
Warriors mind. It was a memory..........about the shadow.
Meta Knight turned to Sword and Blade "It
is too strong we have to run," he said.
Sword and Blade looked at him like he was
crazy.
"But Meta Knight-----" Sword began.
"We have to run! NOW!" he interrupted.
He then turned toward the direction the
kids had taken and ran with Sword and Blade close behind him.
The shadow melted into a dark mist on
the ground and went after them never loosing it's prey.
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Meta Knight, Sword , and Blade found the children in Kabu
Canyon. They were standing in front of the rock and trying to
get it to tell them about this new monster.
"Kabu who is this monster and how do we get rid of him?"
Tiff asked looking up at the big stone tiki.
For some reason the big stone kept on saying, "It is a
shadow from the past. Only the one who conquired it before can
beat it."
"That's no answere!" Tuff shouted at the stone.
"Kids!" Meta Knight called when he saw they were all
safe.
The children turned.
"Hi Meta Knight," Tuff said waving at the Star Warrior.
"I thought you were at the castle beating the monster."
"What are you doing here?" he demanded. "I told you to
run." He sounded angry.
"Tiff said we had to see Kabu about this," Lololo
explained.
"Yeah, but, he's not telling us anything we need,"
Lalala finished.
"We have no time for this," Meta Knight said. "we
have to get out of here before it finds us."
"Come on," Sword said begining to usher the kids
along. "let's go."
The group quickly ran down the path into Kabu
Canyon. The path that led them away from King Dedede's kingdom.
"This is like a hike through the woods," said tuff
striding along.
He began to sing "I like to hike! I like to hike!"
"Great," said Tiff holding her head. "now we're
stuck listening to that the whole time."
Renee giggled but said nothing.
After walking for about an hour they stopped to
rest. Meta Knight stood a little ways from the others staring at
the locket and fealing his mask thoughtfully. He realized during
the years he'd lived at the castle he had never taken off his
mask in front of anyone. In fact he hadn't even taken it off in
front of Sword and Blade (Except maybe his bathroom mirror after
he took a shower^.^). What was he afraid of? And why was he
thinking about this now?
"Tuff stop it!" he suddenly heard Tiff order.
The Star Warrior looked over towards the five
children.
Tuff was pulling on Tiffs pony tail and grinning
like an idiot.
Tiff looked over at the Star Warrior. "Meta
Knight, Please tell Tuff to stop it," Tiff said her eyes
pleading as she tried to get her pony tail away from her
brother's grasp.
"Tuff please," Meta Knight said.
"Aww, why do I have to?" the boy asked. "I'm
havin, fun."
"Because it is mean and I told you not to,"
Meta Knight said staring at Tuff with his gentle yellow eyes.
Tuff groaned but he did stop.
Meta Knight turned his attention to Sword and
Blade who were just sitting there doing nothing (Lazy daisies).
"I need to talk to you," he said to them.
Sword and Blade looked at each other. They had a
feeling they were going to be in trouble. Big trouble.
They were right.
"Sword and Blade," Meta Knight said staring them
both right in the face until they began to feal nervous.
"Yes Meta Knight," they said in unison.
"I would like to Know why you two keep pushing
everything on me," he said.
"What do you mean?" Sword asked.
"You know what I mean," the Star Warrior said a
bit grouchily. "either one of you could have told Tuff to leave
Tiff alone but you left it all on me. Why is it always left on
me?" the Star Warrior looked like he was going to cry.
Sword was surprised at this strange
behavior."Err..........um....." he stammered.
"............Sorry," Blade spoke up quickle.
"..............won't do it again."
Sword looked at his friend relieved.
"Fine then," Meta Knight said getting control
of himself quickly and turning away from the two knights."now I
think we had better be on our way or that thing might find us."
Everyone got to their feet and resumed
walking. For some reason this time Meta Knight wouldn't let them
rest this time not even after they walked for four or five
hours, but, no one complained not with Tuff keeping them
entertained by pretending he was in a desert and way dying of
thirst.
Just when Sword was about to suggest that
they take a break Meta Knight came to a sudden stop and the
knight almost walked into him.
Sword was about to ask why they had
suddenly stopped Meta Knight put out his hand to keep silent.
The Star Warrior took out his sword and
slwoly began to walk ahead. "Stay here," he hissed to the others
without looking back at them. "and do not say or do anything."
Everyone watched in silence as the Star
Warrior walked cautiusly toward a rock over hang about tem yards
ahead of them.
Tiff tried to see what Meta Knight had
senced but she couldn't she could only feal a sinister presence
ahead.
A silence hung in the air as Meta Knight
quickly and quietly snuck toward the rock over hang.
Suddenly a loud noise made him look up.
The shadow head now taken on a shape..........the shape was of
him! It's red eyes locked with Meta Knights' yellow ones. It
landed right in front of him its' sword drawn and glowing with a
sinister light.
Suddenly it all came to him. The
dream. The shadow. Everything about this creature it all came
flooding back and a name came out of his mouth in an echoy
whisper. "Dark Knight."
"Dark Knight?" Tiff said looking at
Sword and Blade. "who is he?"
The two knights shrugged and turned
their attention back to the two knights. "We'll find out soon, "
Sword said.
But Dark Knight didn't speak he
just went right after the blue Star Warrior furiously slashing
at him with his dark red sword.
"Meta Knight!" Sword shouted as he
and Blade pulled out their friend.
They started to rush forward to
help.
"No! Stay back!" Meta Knight
shouted.
The two stoped and watched
helplessly as the two fought furiously, but, it seemed that Meta
Knight was loosing. The Star Warrior could sence it as well,
but, he couldn't let Dark Knight win. Not this time.
Dark Knight slashed at Meta Knights
mask chipping it. Meta Knight countered and cut a deep gash in
Dark Knights. The monster them jumped into the air and landed
behind the Star Warrior.
"Meta Knight behind you!" Tiff
shouted.
"Huh?" Meta Knight said turning just
in time to see Dark Knight jump at him.
Before he could think the monster was on
him trying to get it his face with the dark blade. It reminded
the Star Warrior of when Wolf Wrath had ambushed him.
Meta Knight kicked Dark Knight hard fell
off of him but then quickly got back on it's feet.
As they fought Meta Knight didn't realize
that they were getting dangerusly close to the edge of the cliff
and the dark fall beyond.
Suddenly Dark Knight slashed hard a Meta
Knight who backed up to avoid the blow upon doing so he fell off
the cliff and into space!
"Meta Knight!" he heard Tiff scream as
he fell.
As he fell his mind turned to
everything he had ever lived through. Now it was going to end
and he just couldn't believe he was going to die this way.
He bounced off rocks and once grabbed
a plant growing out of the rocks. He hung there for a moment and
tried to climb onto the ledge. The plant uprooted and he fell
again.
Finally he hit the bottom and he felt
a terrible pain shoot through him and then a bright light and
then everything went black.
Authors note: So how do you like this chapter? This
chapter is the most exciting so far.And this story is mine all
MINE! If anything is confusing fear not it will all be explained
in a later chapter. Good bye until them Poyo!