Chapter 9 Don't You Remember?

Meta Knight opened the door. It was dark and there was nothing for a moment, but then he could feel it, the pull darkness on his heart. This was a cursed place.

Meta Knight entered the room cautiously.

The room was like the inside of a catholic church, only it wasn't light that was pouring in through the stain glass windows, it was a purple mist, damp and cold.

It was all so familer and it felt like home to him, he hated himself for this feeling.

"I've been waiting for you." a dark voice whispered.

Meta Knight's heart stopped the moment he heard it.

Tuff and Kirby ran as fast as they could, but the monster was still gaining on them.

"Come Kirby! You have to transform into something." Tuff looked around franticly for something to give Kirby.

Kirby wimpered.

"Aha!" Tuff smiled pulling off his shoe."Here! turn into uh, Shoe Kirby!"

Kirby ate the shoe but he just about choked on it.

The monster turned the cornor, roaring in triumph.

"Get it Kirby!" Tuff demanded.

Kirby coughed until the shoe came up and went flying into the monsters eye.

"Uh, Kirby."

"Poyo?"

"RUN!"

Meta Knight turned slowly.

A fangy grin greeted him.

"Welcome, my friend."

Meta Knight cletched his sword handle, "I am not your friend!"

"So be it." he said calmly, continuing to leark in the shadows,"So, my little Star Warrior, why have you come to me?"

"I haven't come to you I have come to save Tiff."

"Ah, yes, of course. So I'm guessing you haven't come for her."

Meta Knight looked in the direction Nightmare was pointing as it was lit with purple torches.

A pale, black haired, women hung by chains from the wall. She was beaten, and her cloths tattered. Their was no life lit in her eyes at all. All in all she looked dead.

"Pisces!" Meta Knight pulled out his sword and pointed it at Nightmare,"RELEASE HER!"

"As you wish." he said snapping his fingers.

The chain disappeared and she fell.

Meta ran to catch her but a purple wall came up in front of him.

Pisces stood on her own. Even though she was moving she still looked dead.

"Pisces.."

Pisces star wand appeared in her hand and without warning she attacked Meta Knight with a dark magic blast that sent him flying across the room.

"Pisces," he said, slowly standing to his feet,"it's me Meta Knight. Don't you remember me?"

She attacked again.

"No she doesn't remember, you see when you lost her I found her. I tried to possess her, but she wasn't willing to let me, but when I told I was going to destroy you she made a deal with me."

Meta Knights eyes enlarged, "What do you mean?"

"She told me that she would allow me to possess her if I would promise not to kill you. And so far I have kept my word."

"Then why did you send Yamikage?"

"HA HA HA HA! Yamikage is a fool! I knew he wouldn't be able to defeat you! I just sent him as the messenger boy." Nightmare replied, "I said I wouldn't destroy you but I never said she wouldn't."

The Monster wasn't far behind them now.

"We've got to hide!" Tuff screamed, glancing back at the monster persuing them.

"Poyo ! Poyo!" Kirby said, pointing.

Tuff looked, "A door! Come on!"

The two turned a cornor and made a break for it

"She would never destroy me!" Meta Knight protested.

"I beg to differ." Nightmare grinned

Pisces moved her hand in various motions then cast a spell.

A purple black hole appeared in front of Meta Knight threatening to suck him.

Meta Knight ran with all his might as it pulled him backward.

He looked at Pisces for a moment, her hands were in a praying position, eyes closed and deep in consentration.

The force of the hole was becoming stronger and stronger until it seemed running was no use.

"OUT OF THE WAY!" Tuff cried, running in a door with the monster crashing through the wall right behind them.

Kirby, who was in front of Tuff, lost his blance and tripped over his big feet and fell, tripping Tuff and sending him flying right into Pisces.

The black hole vanished.

Nightmare growled, "You moron!"
Nightmare waved his hand and the monster began to disintigrate.

Tuff staggered to his feet,"Sorry, lady, I was just-"

Pisces picked him up with magic and threw him before he could say another word.

He fell right in front of Meta Knight,"Tuff! What are you doing here!"

"I was being chased." Tuff answered.

Meta Knight saw Pisces raise her star wand out of the cornor of his eye.

"LOOK OUT!" he shouted, grabbing Tuff and Kirby saving them from a black explosion.

"MWAHAHAHA!" Nightmare laughed, "Don't worry about them, I'll take good care of them."

Nightmare snapped his fingers and Kirby and Tuff disappeared.

"NO!" Meta Knight said, trying to save them before they vanished.

But it was to late, they were gone.

Nightmare waved his hand and he himself disappeared along with the rest of the room.

Everything was void for a moment, then they were in another room.

Large spike walls rose up on each side of him until it shapped a meduim sized rectangle.

Everyone was gone. It was just him and Pisces.

His heart sped up as the reality of what he had to do hit him.

Pisces started the battle off, she formed her fingers into a triangle, slided a finger across her left hand, then her right, then held her hand up. A dark blizzard shot out at him in a swirling motion, pushing him back, back toward the spikes.

He couldn't kill her!

Meta Knight jumped, kicking her down then jumping back trying his best to fend her off but not destroy her.

Pisces drew a dragon with her fingers then held both index fingers up, flames burned on eather side of him appearing as if they were on a lit trail.

Meta Knight pulled out his sword made a circle motion with it then brought it straight down. A mighty wind blew, blowing out the flames.

Pisces raised her wand and sent stars at him.

Meta Knight hit them with his sword making them disappear.

With each attack she used, her fingers moved fast casting spell, after spell.

Meta Knight hoped she would tire but she didn't.

Suddenly she stopped using spells. She raised her wand and cut threw the air with it turning it into a sword.

Pisces flew through the air and hit him with it.

Luckily his armor protected him.

She turned it back into a wand, then closed her eyes and she duplacated herself.

Meta Knight looked around him confused. He attacked the duplicates making some disappear.

The real Pisces hit him with her wand sending him flying, making him almost impaled.

His body had a huge red line across it and he was bleeding relentlessly.

Pisces began to raise her wand again.

"WAIT!"

She stopped.

"I wont fight you!"

She lowered her wand.

"Pisces, It's me, Meta Knight."

She glared.

"Please don't do this. Don't you remember? Don't you remember the happiness we shared? Don't you remember that feeling we had through the sorrow, the pain, the heartache, the heart break and through the darkness that surrounded us?"

With each word he stepped toward her slowly and she stepped back.

"Please, Pisces."

She didn't move.

"Don't you remember us?"

For the first time since he had seen her she spoke.

"I-I-I-"

Her face twisted in pain as if she was hurt.

She began to cry "Meta Knight..."

Her eyes went red then she disappeared.

"Pisces?" he looked around, "PISCES!"