Here we have it, the final chapter!

Enjoy! ;)


Final Chapter: Returning to Dream Land

"Ugh…" Arusu groaned, as everyone regained consciousness after the long fall. "Well, that went well…"

"Nnngh…" Eight groaned. "Uh… Where are we?"

The best way to describe the area they were standing right now is that it is some sort of flat area with numerous flashy spacey effects and a ground made of bizarre blue smoke, and one could even see a portal leading to Planet Popstar slowly drifting by in the background.

"I don't know…" Solo mused as he stood up. "But I guess we're lucky to have landed on something solid instead of an endless void."

"True."

Kirby would look up at the sky, saddened. "Magolor…" he sniffled.

"Hey, Kirby…" Meta Knight walked up to him. "Tell us… why are you even trying to talk him out of it?"

"Yeah!" Dedede threw in. "Don't you remember what happened last time with Marx and what he did to you?"

"Yes, I do remember that he also betrayed me like Magolor did to us…" Kirby replied with a serious tone. "But unlike Marx… I and all of us actually got to know more about Magolor and where he came from! Think about it!"

"He…actually has a point!" Bandana Waddle Dee pointed out. "None of us knew exactly who Marx is and where did he come from!"

"Mmhmm, he just showed up out of nowhere and made the sun and the moon fight each other before seeking me out, and then that whole Milky Way Wishes fiasco ensued. But trust me, my friends. I just know that it's just the Master Crown doing all this and Magolor isn't truly evil. I can feel it in my heart!"

"So you're all still standing, huh…" just then, Magolor's voice came as he floated down towards them.

"Speak of the devil…" Dedede trailed off.

"Figured as much that you wouldn't fall that easily. However… if it means me having to deal with you by myself…" Magolor summons four orbs of darkness and makes them spin in place around him. "…then this place will definitely be your grave!"

"Magolor, don't…" Kirby begged. "We don't have to fight!"

And when Kirby said this, the Master Crown pulsated on Magolor's head as he sneered, "When are you going to shut up about this, puffball?! If you won't, then you will die… since I have no tolerance for cowards! Any last words?"

"Magolor… is this what you really want? To use your new powers to enslave the ones you used to be friends with? Not to mention drag all the innocent ones from across the multiverse into this when they have no reason to be part of it?" Kirby questioned, as this armor-piercing question made Magolor's rage pause for a moment. "What you're doing to yourself isn't right! You're just going to make everyone suffer, and they don't deserve this! Please, just listen to me! But most importantly… listen to your heart!"

Magolor kept his gaze fixed on Kirby for a second or two… "Shut up…" but it didn't take long for his anger to rise up again as the Master Crown pulsated again, and then he launched the orbs directly at Kirby, but they were blocked by the Loyal Bodyguards' shields just in time. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" Magolor yelled. "I have NO heart, and I have NO friends! I'll kill all of you!"

"Looks like fighting really is our only option." Eleven said while glancing at Kirby. "Ready, Kirby?"

[BGM: Under My Control – Kirby's Return to Dream Land]

Kirby looked over at Magolor, then he took a deep breath and nodded without fear. "Ready." he stood ready to fight along with the rest. "For the multiverse… and for Magolor." he thought.

Summoning more dark orbs, Magolor quickly launched them at the group as they dodged while Solo slid underneath the orbs and delivered an upward sword thrust on Magolor as a critical hit noise was heard, and then Arusu jumped up and delivered a Gigasmash to knock him back, immediately followed up by Kirby aerial spin kicking him in the face. Magolor responded by backhanding Kirby away before teleporting away from Meta Knight's Shuttle Loop, then he would suddenly summon purple spikes from the ground that nearly impaled Bandana Waddle Dee as he sighed in relief and proceeded to quickly throw spears at Magolor, but he would chuckle evilly and snap his fingers to make the spears turn around and go for Bandana Waddle Dee, only for Dedede to suddenly jump in front of him and suck up the spears to spit them back at Magolor.

Magolor would quickly teleport away and reappear at the background, where he fired spinning fire at Bandana Waddle Dee and Dedede to knock them away before going for the rest, forcing them to dodge as Arusu quickly launched a Kafrizz to cancel out the last fire shot, then Eleven fired a Zapple at Magolor but he teleported away again and reappeared back at the foreground. Then, he opened up a rift as several Sphere Doomers flew out of it in a spiral path and directly at the group, but Eight would obliterate all of them with a Lightning Storm while also striking Magolor for good measure and knock him back.

"Urk… Not bad…" Magolor groaned. "But now it's time to get serious!" he declared and then suddenly opened up a giant black hole-like rift that managed to suck in Kirby, taking him into a dimension of literally pure pain where he got zapped repeatedly before being thrown back out, but his whole body was now charred and with burn marks all over.

"Oooh, I do NOT want to know what happened in there…" Solo winced and then Magolor positioned himself a few feet before them and fired a massive laser at them, but Dedede got in the way while pulling out his Masked Dedede Hammer 2.0 and fire a laser from it to counter Magolor's laser, all the while Meta Knight flew over to the magician and Drill Rushed him and forced him to cancel the laser attack while Bandana Waddle Dee jumped up and threw a lot of spears down at him along with Solo using Gigasword on him. Afterwards, Eight rushed over to Kirby to patch him up with a Fullheal while Eleven attempted to blow Magolor up repeatedly with Boom… but he teleported away as usual.

"You all think you're so smart, huh?" he teased. "Then try to outsmart me with this!" he puts his hands in front of him, forming a star-shaped Super Shield.

"Hey! Now that's not fair!" Dedede growled. "That's cheating!"

"And you all fighting against me at once isn't? Let's make things even, then!" he uses his powers to open up five rifts and out of them each came out a Blade Knight, a Hot Head, a Waddle Doo, a Chilly, and a Bonkers… except that they were their Super variations, causing Magolor's eye to shoot wide in realization. "Wait… OH, CRAP!"

Too late; before he knew it, Kirby and the Loyal Bodyguards immediately took out their respective Super enemies to gain their Super Abilities again. "Hey, thanks for the free Super Abilities!" Arusu grinned.

"Darn it… Well, whatever! I won't let you break my shield!" Magolor then proceeded to teleport rapidly around the arena… but unfortunately, this was a trick that Eleven had already seen before, leading him to smirk.

"Oh, where have I seen this before?" he teased and unleashed Flare Beam, making the electric orb move around until Magolor reappeared right into it, electrocuting him and destroying one of the shield's points.

"GAH!" he yelled, before growling as he formed more dark orbs around him and shot them out at the quintet, only for Kirby to destroy them with his Ultra Sword. "Impossible!"

"Sick on him, guys!" Eleven commanded as his comrades nodded, before they all unleashed their Super Abilities' powers to break the rest of Magolor's shield.

"NO!"

"My turn!" Kirby smirked, jumping up to Magolor and twirling his sword around before swinging it down… but Magolor would block the swing.

"I…WILL…NOT…LOSE!" Magolor grunted during the power struggle.

"Come on, Kirby! You can do it!" Bandana Waddle Dee cheered on.

"HaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Kirby yelled as he eventually won the power struggle… and hits Magolor.

[BGM End]

Magolor gagged by the attack… but oh no, Kirby wasn't done yet; he did another slash on him with the meat cleaver. And another with Galaxia. One more with the shinai. And for the cherry on top… Kirby made the Ultra Sword grow enormously huge, and with a war cry, he swung it down at Magolor and cut through him. Kirby then lands back on the ground, strikes a pose, and does another badass sword twirl before announcing:

"Game. Set. Match."

BOOM.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Magolor screamed in agony as he was engulfed by small explosions, until a bigger one came in and annihilated him completely.

"Is it…over?" Bandana Waddle Dee wondered, as the rest also wondered the same.

*PULSE…*

…But unfortunately, they were far from being right because all of a sudden, a loud pulse noise came as the Master Crown appeared before them, having somehow been revived.

*PULSE…*

Another pulse came, and eventually…

[BGM: CROWNED – Kirby's Return to Dream Land]

Dark purple smoke burst out of the Crown as some sort of ghostly matter accumulates on it, and after a flash, the matter arranged itself into a frightening ungodly beast with larger horns that pointed downwards, wings, black fingertips on the hands… but most importantly, there was a white mouth below the eyes that is constantly smiling creepily, and that a red eye that strikingly resembles Zero's eye would occasionally pop up from the middle of it. The Master Crown has done it; it completely assumed total control of Magolor, mutating him into a unstable, empty husk that is a manifestation of the Crown itself: Magolor Soul.

"Wh…What is THAT?!" Eight asked in shock, he and his comrades with mouths agape.

"I've… never seen anything like it…" Solo breathed.

Meanwhile, the Kirby cast wasn't as surprised as them. "Another eldritch abomination… I should have expected that." Meta Knight muttered. "Stand your ground, everyone! I have a feeling this battle is going to be tougher now!"

With a roar, Magolor Soul clapped his hands together, sending out a shockwave into the entire battlefield that caused Kirby and the Loyal Bodyguards' Super Abilities to be removed instantly. Then, he would conjure random enemies and juggle them for a bit before tossing them at lethal velocity at the group, forcing them to dodge and take out the enemies. However, Kirby was the only one not fighting them off, as he was more focused on Magolor's frightening new form.

"Magolor… What has happened to you…?!" he thought horrified, and once again tried calling out to Magolor, "Magolor! Can you hear me?! Please tell me you can now!"

"H-… Help-…" and suddenly, Magolor's voice echoed out from within Magolor Soul.

"Huh?" Kirby's eyes perked up, as he was the only one who heard the voice since the others were busy dealing with the enemies. "Magolor…?"

"Help… me…" Magolor spoke again. "I can't… stop… myself…" a small pause. "Please… stop… my body… yourselves… m-my friends…" and then, no more words from him came out.

Kirby was left touched by this. "Magolor…" he whispered. "I knew it! The Crown was controlling him all this time!" he thought with a smile.

"Oi! Kirby!" Dedede called out after he and the rest finished taking out the enemies. "What're you standing there slacking off for?"

"I wasn't slacking off!" Kirby retorted. "Guys, listen to me! I just heard Magolor's voice from… from that!"

The others' eyes perked up. "You have?" Solo asked. "What did he say?"

"He was calling for help… And he wants-… no. He's begging us to stop him because he can't control his body anymore, as he basically became a prisoner of the Master Crown."

"Wow… He really just said that?" Bandana Waddle Dee asked.

"Yes, he did. And he even referred us as…his friends."

"Oh…" Meta knight blinked in surprise. "So you were right after all, Kirby…"

"Then the Master Crown really was controlling Magolor this entire time… but does this mean that all those sour words he spat out at us was just the Crown's mind speaking through him?" Eleven guessed.

"Exactly! And now…" Kirby glared over at Magolor Soul. "It's our job to finally save not just the whole multiverse, but Magolor…our friend, too."

"Right. Let's take down that dastardly crown!" Arusu proclaimed, and thus everyone got ready for this definitive final battle.

Magolor Soul gave out a sinister laugh as he made several rifts appear around the group as they quickly moved out of the way, right as massive spikes shot out of the rifts before they disappeared, and once they did, Meta Knight would immediately ram into him with Mach Tornado, but then he teleported behind the swordsman and slammed him to the ground, then he quickly fired dark orbs at Eight but he blocked them with his shield.

"Time for you to see the light!" Eleven declared, unleashing Quadraslash on Magolor Soul as he cried in pain, but he recovered and traveled into a rift before exiting through another in an attempt to ram into Eleven, but Dedede had gotten in the way and blocked with his Masked Dedede Hammer 2.0 as he along with Kirby would attack Magolor Soul together, keeping him busy while Bandana Waddle Dee threw some spears at him. Unfortunately, Magolor Soul would knock Kirby and Dedede away and swiftly catch the spears thrown at him, clenching his fist to snap them in half as Bandana Waddle Dee gasped in surprise, then Magolor Soul teleported away to the background where he drew a stencil, in which its solid parts would launch to the foreground as walls of pain that slammed onto an unsuspecting Bandana Waddle Dee, sending him flying.

Meanwhile, the others managed to avoid the stencil attack and then Eleven fired a Kaboom at Magolor Soul before pulling out his greatsword weapon and using Unbridled Blade on the beast… but he suddenly took out two black swords that resembled the Ultra Sword and clashed them with Eleven's blade, and the force of a double swing made him slide back a bit as Magolor Soul then went for a singular sword swing directly at the Luminary Hero, but he parried the attack and used Frost Fangs to trap the beast in ice and then delivered a Gigacrash to knock him away, followed up by Arusu jumping up and slashing him down, then Eight would charge at him and unleash Gigaslash on him, knocking him back.

Magolor Soul recovered and saw Dedede aiming his Masked Dedede Hammer 2.0 and firing a flamethrower at him, but he countered and overpowered it by sending out his own version of Monster Flame, before sending out more of those fiery dragons at the others as they dodged them, but one of them singed Dedede on the right cheek, making him wince as Magolor Soul teleported over and punched Dedede to disarm him as the beast smirked at him, but the king brought back his old hammer and swung it on his face and then delivered a hammer uppercut to make him go flying. He recovered again and flew back down towards Dedede with another smirk, but he would get swooped away by a Kaswoosh spell from Solo and then Kirby floated above the beast and turned into his Stone form in order to slam on top of his head while Meta Knight flew up to his face and slashed at him, but he suddenly charged up electric energy around him and thus electrocuting Kirby and Meta Knight to knock them down, then he proceeded to fly around the arena in a similar vein to the Flare Beam's attack in an attempt to ram into the others, unaware of Eight jumping up to use Dragon Soul on him. Except… that Magolor Soul would immediately cancel the attack and smirk, quickly teleporting out of Eight's trajectory before reappearing behind him and punching him to the ground.

Eleven came in and unleashed a Big Banga on Magolor Soul, but he teleported out of the way in time and then smacked Eleven away before dodging a Sizzle from Arusu, then he blocked some spear attacks from Bandana Waddle Dee before he backhanded him away, and then Magolor Soul would teleport above the group while bringing out a giant hammer reminiscent of the Grand Hammer, only that it was covered in ice, and slammed it into the ground to create large icicles that rained down on them and immobilized them on ice. The now helpless group then watched as Magolor Soul created a rift and fired a dark beam into it, and then several rifts popped up above the group… which would mean that the beam was going to split apart and come out from these rifts, and that will no doubt finish the group off.

All they could do was stare at the rifts in horror, wondering if that'll be the end of them… but they were completely unaware of Kirby breaking himself free from the ice as he smirked, and then he would use his Burn move to melt the rest of the ice and free everyone else right as the multiple beams shot out of the rifts, engulfing no one. As a result, Magolor Soul looked over at the group in shock… and then Kirby stepped up in front of them while he had his Final Smash aura.

"Magolor… I'll get you out of your prison." he said and ran over to Magolor Soul, unleashing Ultra Sword on him… but as a last resort, he brought back his two massive swords to clash with Kirby's Ultra Sword. "Here we go again…" Kirby grunted as they struggled.

"Hurry, we gotta help him out!" Meta Knight said.

Dedede brought out a Gordo. "I got this." he smirked and swung it over to Magolor Soul, hitting him on contact as he yelped in pain.

"Thanks, Dedede!" Kirby nodded. "Here goes!" acting quickly, Kirby parried Magolor Soul's swords and slashed through him multiple times, before finishing off with one final slash through him.

[BGM End]

Magolor Soul lets out a dying screech as his whole form began to disintegrate and collapse, until it suddenly revealed an unconscious Magolor in his original form from within it and still with the Master Crown on. Thankfully, this powerful body snatching artifact shattered in two almost instantly… but then Magolor would mysteriously vanish into light.

"Magolor!" Kirby called out to him, but no answer. Magolor was gone, with no traces of him left behind. "Oh, I hope I didn't go overboard…" he thought worriedly as he collapsed on his feet to the floor, closing his eyes and praying. "Please… Be safe, Magolor." after that, Kirby stood back up and turned to face his friends with a smile. "…We've won, guys."


[BGM: Each to His Own World – Kirby's Return to Dream Land]

While Kirby and friends did manage to defeat the Master Crown, thus freeing Magolor from its control and saving the multiverse from an enslaving fate… they were unfortunately left stranded in the parallel dimension they found themselves in. And to make matters even worse… the whole place suddenly rumbled as the dimension began to slowly break and fall apart, due to having no other sufficient amount of energy left to maintain it, much like all of the Another Dimension stretches the group had gone through. As the group witnessed the portal to Planet Popstar directly in front of them slowly shrink, the floor would glow brightly before also slowly collapsing directly below their feet, as they instinctively backed up to where there was still solid ground, even though it won't last long.

But then, just as when things seemed dire and hopeless for them… the Landias and the Lor Starcutter, the latter being back to its normal colors, suddenly came in flying from the distance towards the group, who were left helplessly floating once all of the floor was gone, and one by one, the Landias whisked them off right as the purple wall came in and engulfed the area they were on.

Kirby was lying unconscious on Eleven's lap, until the Hero gently shook him awake. Once Kirby woke up, his eyes immediately met Eleven, as he gave him a reassuring nod that everything was fine for them and the others, as Kirby looked around to see them all riding their Landias and flying away from the advancing purple wall. Eventually, the Lor Starcutter would fly alongside them and shoot a beam from out of its emblem to the shrinking portal, making it bigger again as everyone and the ship immediately flew into it, and it closed just in time as the purple wall devoured the entire dimension.

We now cut to a view of the sky of the peaceful Dream Land, with the camera panning down to show an unconscious Kirby on a hill as a butterfly flew over and landed just a few inches below his mouth. This small touch from the butterfly was enough to have consciousness return to Kirby as he slowly opened his eyes, and seeing that he was actually back home, he instantly sprung up back on his feet and scared the butterfly away. Then, the camera would zoom out and reveal Bandana Waddle Dee, Meta Knight, and the Loyal Bodyguards also lying unconscious next to Kirby, before they would also wake up one by one, looking around surprised that they all made it back to Dream Land so suddenly. But wait… What about Dedede?

Well, turns out that they found the portly king just right in front of them… with his head comically stuck into the ground. They wondered how the heck did he end up stuck that way while he struggled to pull himself out, and once he did, he was left with a white flower on top of his tuque, and the same butterfly from earlier came back to land on it. While Kirby just gave out a big smile, Bandana Waddle Dee, Meta Knight and the Loyal Bodyguards were laughing at the silly sight in front of them before they stood back up and Bandana Waddle Dee ran up to Dedede, happy to see his king alright. Just then, some shadows passed by the group, catching their attention as they looked up to see that these shadows belonged to the Landias, who gave them one last friendly look before they flew by the Lor Starcutter as it did a U-turn and took off with the dragons into another portal leading back to Another Dimension that showed up in the sky, then it closed.

Being very grateful for their help in returning them back to Dream Land, the group happily waved goodbye to where the portal once stood. Now that Popstar and Gamble Galaxy are free of any threats for the time being, the Loyal Bodyguards' vacation could finally start…


Several days later, on the Loyal Bodyguards' last day of vacation…

[BGM: Highest Star – Hoshi no Kaabii]

Evening fell on Dream Land, and that was the time for the Loyal Bodyguards to leave, on the exact same spot that they arrived. On that specific spot, we can see the Kirby cast handing the Loyal Bodyguards several Copy Essences; with those containing the exact Copy Abilities they used during their journey. Behind the Loyal Bodyguards, there was a portal that Kirby had opened up with his Crystal Shard, and that portal would take them back to their universe.

"Here you go." Kirby said. "These Copy Essences aren't just a souvenir or a memento of our adventure; they'll allow you to use my Copy Abilities at any place and any time! Just touch the glass portion of it to gain and discard the Copy Ability of your choice! Simple as that!"

"Consider these as our gift to you." Meta Knight added.

"Wow, you guys…" Eleven breathed, he and his comrades looking at the Copy Essences in awe before smiling at the Kirby cast. "This is the absolute best gift you've given to us!"

"Heh, heh! Glad y'all liked it!" Dedede laughed heartly. "Make sure you take good care of 'em!"

Bandana Waddle Dee walked up to the Loyal Bodyguards with a tear on his eye. "I don't want you guys to go…" he sniffled. "We've been through so much together!"

"We know, and we really had fun during this vacation. But again… we don't belong in this universe." Solo replied while shaking his head.

"But, if it makes you feel better…" Eight smiled, kneeling down to Bandana Waddle Dee and patting his head. "Just like how we've been visiting the Mushroom World, we'll come back here one day for a visit!"

Bandana Waddle Dee's eyes sparkled. "Oh, yes! Please do that!" he chirped, making the Loyal Bodyguards chuckle.

"Well, I guess we're all set." Arusu said as his comrades nodded, then they would wave goodbye to the Kirby cast as they waved back.

"Goodbye!" Kirby exclaimed. "Come visit us anytime!"

And with that, the Loyal Bodyguards walked into the portal and it closed, leaving only the Kirby cast standing with smiles on their faces as the scene slowly fades out to black.

The End


Not going to lie; I was heavily inspired by Juno Songs's lyrics of Under My Control/CROWNED on YouTube to come up with Magolor's lines both on the first and second phases, in order to show everyone that the Master Crown really was the real antagonist of Return to Dream Land, and Magolor only sought it out due to his greed and lust for power, and he thinks that the Crown was under his control but in reality it was the opposite, as he didn't know that the Crown can instantly take over its wearer and, depending of the body, can also speak through them (a case of body snatching, to be more precise). And considering that the Master Crown is tied to Zero and its progenitor, Void (as confirmed in Kirby Star Allies via one of Void Termina's attacks), both beings unable to feel happiness and make friends, it is highly possible that the Master Crown tried to break Magolor's friendship with Kirby and others by using Magolor's body so they could just leave it alone and go on to achieve its goal, only for Kirby to stop it by not giving up on true friendship.

Whew... but enough with all this lore, so let's go back to the main topic. I was originally going to include an epilogue of sorts (and it was going to be quite a long one), but since I haven't finished a story in this saga without an epilogue since Prince Trifle Galaxy, I decided to scrap it even if it would leave the final chapter short as a result. Either way, I really hope that you enjoyed this story! Out of all stories I wrote in this saga, I think this is the one I had the most fun with mainly due to the lighthearted theme of the Kirby franchise, which can really offer some good laughs when things aren't too serious.

Because there's no epilogue this time, I guess it's up entirely to me to hint the next story. Well... the next one will be quite special: it's going to be a prequel story that takes place before all the other stories in the saga (yes, even before the first story, Princess Jewel 64), which will introduce two new franchises that not many people are familiar with. If you've read my previous stories of this saga and paid good attention to them, then you might have a clue to what these franchises will be.

Thank you so much for reading this until the end, and I hope you'll look forward to the next story! Fairy out! ;D