Chapter 11 – That Stubborn Tree!

Woods of Wisdom - Coo's Forest

At some point in time, we got deeper inside the forest. There were so many trees that we couldn't see the sun anymore. It kinda looked like it was nighttime already, with how some parts of the forest were glowing from nowhere. The whole atmosphere really gave me the creeps.

"Poyo?" Kirby tapped my arm.

"Huh? Oh yeah. I'm okay, Kirby. It's just kinda creepy in here."

"Y-Yeah. Wh-What A-Amitie j-just s-said." Ringo stuttered. She looked terrified and was shivering with fear as she was hiding behind Arle.

"Hey, Adeleine. Where are we exactly?" I asked.

"We're in Coo's Forest, a very dense forest covered with nothing but trees."

"Coo's Forest? So somebody owns this forest?"

"Yeah, our friend Coo. He's an owl that lives here."

"An owl, huh? That makes sense." Raffina said.

"Right? Totally makes sense that an owl would own an entire forest." Arle said.

"Y-Yeah. A-A c-creepy one." Ringo stuttered.

"Oh, will you grow up, Ringo? You're acting like a 5-year-old."

"B-But this place is scary!"

"Y-Yeah. Really scary!" I didn't notice it before, but Ribbon was hiding behind Ringo. Acting just as terrified.

"Ribbon, you've faced WAY more scary things than this forest." Adeleine said.

"I know, but this place still scares me!"

Adeleine sighed in annoyance, probably giving up on the whole thing.

As we continued walking, we heard flapping noises coming from above. We looked up to see a purple owl flying above us heading in the opposite direction from us. It looked like it was in a hurry or something.

"Hey, Coo!" Adeleine yelled out to it.

"Poyo!" Kirby did the same.

"Hm? Ah! If it isn't Kirby and friends. And some visitors as well."

Wow. The owl can talk. Neat-o!

"These girls are from a different world. They came to help us with the jelly blob problem."

"Really now? Such great news."

"Guys, this is Coo the Owl. The one I told you about earlier."

"I see." I said. "Well, it's nice to meet you, Coo. My name's Amitie."

"I'm Raffina, Ami's friend and classmate."

"I'm Arle. And the scared girl behind me is Ringo."

"H-Hi th-there." Ringo stuttered.

"It's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm actually glad I ran into your little party."

"Really? How so?" Raffina asked.

"Well you see, ever since those jelly blobs started falling, the forest guardian, Whispy Woods, has been going on a rampage."

"Ugh. Whispy, again?" Adeleine complained.

"Yes, but this time he seems a bit off, now having glowing green eyes and a green aura around him. And I feel that those jelly blobs are to blame."

"Glowing green eyes? Green aura? Could a puyo really be the cause of that?" I asked.

"Didn't one of Kirby's friends say people have been possessed by a strange power?" Raffina asked.

"I remember." Arle said. "But I don't ever recall puyos possessing people. It's so unlike them."

"W-Well, if they are possessing this Whispy Woods guy, then I don't want to go near him!" Ringo shouted.

"What?! Come on, Ringo!" I yelled.

"It's nine of us against one guy!" Arle yelled.

"Stop being a chicken for once!" Raffina yelled.

"B-But…"

"Uh, guys." Adeleine said. "I should tell you…Whispy's a tree."

"A TREE?!" The four of us shouted.

"Well, then that just makes you look pathetic, Ringo." I said.

"Sh-Shut up! I am NOT pathetic! I can take on a tree and beat it with my eyes closed!"

"Can you really?" Arle asked.

"I. AM. POSITIVE!"

"Alright. Is everyone else in?" I asked.

"I'm in, Amitie!" Raffina cheered.

"Me too!" Arle cheered.

"No objections here. Right, Ribbon?" Adeleine asked her.

"W-Well…if it's just Whispy, then I shouldn't that scared." She replied.

Bandana-Dee and Gooey each gave their own little signal that they're ready to go.

"Ready, little buddy?" I said to Kirby, who was next to me."

"Poyo!"

"Alrighty then. Hey Coo, can you take us to where Whispy is?"

"Of course. He's right this way. Follow me."

Coo flew off ahead and we followed right behind him to face off against The Guardian of the Forest, Whispy Woods.


As we made our way there, the atmosphere around us got more ominous and creepy. The green aura Coo was talking about was getting brighter as we got closer to where Whispy was supposed to be. Eventually, we reached the end of the path. And were standing in front of a huge tree. Supposedly, the Guardian of the Forest.

"Well, here he is. This is Whispy Woods." Coo said.

Then all of a sudden, the tree shook on its own a little and then a face appeared on the front of it. With the same glowing green eyes Coo mentioned earlier.

"W-Wow. You weren't kidding when you said he had glowing green eyes and a green aura around him." Adeleine said.

"He actually looks more threating than usual." Ribbon added.

"Poyo…"

"W-Well, that's good to know. I-I'm just gonna go hide behind that other tree over there. S-See ya." Ringo said as she tried to run away, but Arle grabbed her by her shirt and held on to it tight.

"I thought you said you said you could take on a tree and beat it with your eyes closed, Ringo." Arle said.

"Yeah, A tree! I didn't say THIS tree! This thing looks like it wants to kill us!"

"It's probably whatever's controlling him." I said as I turned to face the tree.

"Uh, hey. Excuse me, M-Mr. Whispy, uh sir. We would like to know why you're causing trouble in the forest, and if you could stop."

"RAAAWWWGGGHH!" The tree did a roar so powerful that it almost blew my hat away.

"Figured it wouldn't be that easy."

"So what do we do, Ami?" Raffina asked.

"Well, Raffina…the only thing we can do."

"You mean…"

"Oh, I mean."

Raffina gave me an eager smile and I did the same. I then looked at the others and they were eager as well…expect Ringo, of course. But she knew she didn't have a choice, so she went along with it. I then faced Whispy once again with Raffina on my left side and Kirby on my right.

"Alright, Whispy! If you want to do this the hard way, then so be it! Let's…"

"RAAAWWWGGGHH!"

"PUYO BATTLE!" We all shouted, ready to fight against the Guardian of the Forest.


BOSS: Vs. Whispy Woods


Not long after, multitudes of puyos fell down. Enough for all of us to set off a 4-chain. We each started gathering puyos and flinging them onto our own tower. But as we were doing so, however, Whispy started shanking again and a bunch of giant red apples fell from his branches. They were heading towards us, catching us off-guard, and they knocked over everyone's tower of puyos, making us start over.

"H-Hey! That's cheating!" I shouted.

But Whispy didn't care, as he was now shooting giant cloud puffs at us. We got out the way, but that attack ended up destroying all the puyos that was there.

"The puyos!" Arle shouted.

"What do we do? We can't build up!" Ringo said.

"Every time we do, Whispy will just attack us." Raffina added.

"And with the number of attacks he has, he'll just keep doing it." Adeline stated.

This is harder than I thought. I never would have thought that a tree would have this many ways to fight us. If only there was a way to build up a chain while avoiding his sudden attacks. It would help by a long shot! But how?

I then felt a tug on my arm. And looked over to see Kirby standing next to me.

"Poyo. Poyo."

"Huh? What's that, Kirby?"

"Poyo poyo, p-poyo. Poyo poyo."

"You mean I build the chain and send the power to you? Is that possible?"

"Poyo poyo poyo. Poyo."

"So that way they'll be fewer people, therefore easier to dodge attacks?"

"Poyo!"

"That…could work."

"Can it really?" Arle asked.

"We have to try, right? Let's have four out front and five in the back sending power."

"Poyo!"

"Alright, Kirby. I'll be sending power to you, okay?"

"Poyo poyo!"

"I'll be out front with him, Ami!" Raffina said.

"Right! Gotcha, Raffina!"

Gooey waved his tongue around, saying he'll be in front as well.

"I'll go too. Cause I think Ringo's too scared to do it." Arle said.

"Fair enough."

As the group of four stood out in front, the rest of us stood back so we could have enough room to build. As more puyos came down, we started building again. Whispy noticed this and begun attacking again. This time, with what looked like his roots.

"Guys, look out!" I shouted.

And just like that, all four of them dodged the attack. Whispy then dropped more giant apples and sent them our way. And like the first time, all four dodged them. Kirby's plan was actually working! I couldn't believe it, but it actually was!

We were almost done with each of our setups, and then soon after we set off our chains.

"Ready, you guys? Here it comes." I said.

As each puyo wall began to shrink, the four out front started feeling some power as we started sending it to them. As the 5th set of puyos popped, they had enough to attack.

Out of nowhere, Kirby gained another weird hat. This time it looked like a crown with electricity flowing from it. Then suddenly, a small ball of electricity formed around him. It looked pretty cool from my point of view.

"PLASMA ARROW!"

"NEIGE!"

"FIRE!"

I looked over at Gooey to see that…he was basically on fire! He then jumped up high and turned into a fireball, absorbing Kirby's electricity and Arle's fireballs and charged at Whispy with Raffina. Both making direct hits, knocking Whispy out.

"Woah! That was amazing!" Ringo said.

"I never knew Gooey could do that!" Adeleine said.

"Me neither. It's kinda strange and cool at the same time." Ribbon said.

"Keep it up, you guys!" I cheered.

"Right, Amitie!" Raffina and Arle replied.

"Poyo!"

Gooey formed his tongue to form a thumbs up, which again…was pretty impressive."

"RAAAWWWGGGHH!"

Whispy had come to and grew angry. He then started shaking again, but this time he unrooted himself and jumped high into the air. He eventually landed, splitting the group of four into two groups of two. He even grew bigger in size!

"W-Woah!" I shouted.

"That's not good! THAT IS NOT GOOD AT ALL!" Ringo began panicking.

"Has Whispy ever done that before?!" I asked Adeleine.

"No, not at all! It must be the weird power that's possessing him!"

"I see. Then we'll just have to make do with this situation. You and I will supply Kirby and Raffina. Guys, you go help Arle and Gooey."

"R-Right, Amitie!" Ribbon said.

Bandana-Dee gave a slight nod, then the two of them dragged Ringo, who was frozen in fear, off with them.

"Ready?" I asked Adeleine.

"Yep!"

We both ran over to Kirby and Raffina's side of Whispy and started building while as more puyos rained down.

Whispy had started shaking once again and the leaves on his branches began rumbling. We were prepared for more apples to rain down, but what did rain down weren't apples. Instead, they were these blue metal balls with two big eyes and 8 silver spikes. They bounced pretty high when they landed and were heading for me and Adeleine.

"Watch out!" Adeleine shouted before swatting them away with her paintbrush. Some of them actually hit Whispy, too.

"Wow. Th-Thanks, Adeleine." I said.

"What were those things?" Raffina asked.

"Those were Gordos. They're indestructible and really hurt you if you touch their spikes. Even though they don't do anything."

"Wow. That sounds painful."

"Trust me, it is."

"You guys okay over there?" I asked.

"Yeah, we're okay!" Arle shouted. "Bandana-Dee blocked those things for us!"

"Great!"

We went back to building our puyo towers and we were ready to set off. We built it bigger this time so that hopefully this next attack will K.O. Whispy fully this time.

Both mine and Adeleine's tower combined made a 9-chain, and the power was sent over to Kirby and Raffina.

"PLASMA LASER!"

"DECHARGE!"

Both attacks managed to hit Whispy, along with Arle's Jugemu spell and another crazy attack from Gooey, where he floated up and shot a really powerful laser from his body.

It KO'd Whispy again. We thought it was done…

"RAAAWWWGGGHH!"

…but he came to seconds later and the green aura around him became intense. He unrooted himself again and jumped high into the air. We had no idea where he went. But then we heard more rumbling and saw a new mountain-like hill appear from the ground in front of us. Whispy soon landed on the hill and it too had the same intense green aura.

"RAAAWWWGGGHH!"

"Damn, this tree is stubborn!" Raffina yelled.

"I know! He never knows when to quit!" Adeleine yelled.

"Then we don't have a choice now, do we?" Arle asked me. "We've got to hit him with our strongest power!"

"Right! I'm on it!" I said as the five of us power suppliers stepped back to get some room.

As we started building an even bigger tower, giant vine-like roots came from the ground. Poking out from random places and even almost stabbing some of us, but we all managed to dodge the attacks.

The five of us finished our towers and set them off at the same time, totaling a massive 20-chain. The power from all that fused with the power the four out front already had and were fully powered up.

"BAYOEN!"

"PLASMA WAVE!"

Gooey turned into a fireball again, but this time he absorbed the previous two spells. So now he was surrounded with Kirby's electro-ball and four miniature versions of Arle's Bayoen! I didn't think it could get crazier than that, but them Gooey turned to me and waved his tongue for something.

"W-Wait, seriously?! You want Raffina to kick you?!"

"Gooey, are you sure about that?!" Raffina asked.

Gooey formed his tongue into a fist, giving me his answer.

"H-He said it's okay…"

"W-Well…if Gooey's okay with it…hey Ribbon, can I get a lift?"

"S-Sure, Raffina."

As Ribbon started carrying Raffina, Whispy began attacking again. Sending more vines at us, only this time it looked like they were trying to grab us.

"HURRY, RAFFINA!" I shouted.

"Right! Here I go… CEIL ARK!" Raffina kicked Gooey as hard as she could and sent him flying towards Whispy. Destroying the vines that were heading for us, and heading for the tree himself.

The explosion it caused made a whole bunch of smoke, but we were able to see Whispy being flown off from the hill and back on the original spot where we first encountered him. He shrank down to his normal size and slumped down a bit forming a tear from his left eye, which along with his right one, had stopped glowing and the green aura around him had disappeared.

We…we won the battle.


We were all breathing heavily as the battle was exhausting. But it was also really fun as well. Never in my life have I ever played Puyo Puyo like that! It was so exhilarating!

"Wow…That was some battle!" Arle said.

"I know right?! I never thought a tree of all things would give me such a work-out! It felt great!" Raffina said.

"Yeah, you guys did great!" I said.

"All thanks to you, Ami!"

"What do you mean? The whole power sending thing was Kirby's idea."

"True, but you played it so cool. Almost like you've done it before." Ringo said.

"Really?"

"Poyo Poyo!"

"Thanks, you guys. That really means a lot." I started blushing a bit.

"I must say, I'm impressed." Coo said. I guess he was watching the whole time. "I've never seen that kind fighting before. What is it, if you don't mind me asking."

"It's a game we call Puyo Puyo. We play it a lot back in our world."

"I see. Well, it looks like that game of yours managed to calm Whispy down."

We all looked at Whispy again, still with the one tear coming from his eye. Then something fell out of his branches and landed next to him.

"Woah. What is that?" I asked.

"It looks…almost like a puyo." Arle said.

It did look like a puyo. A green one to be exact. But this one was a bit…off. Instead of being squishy, it looked like it was made of some type of crystal. And it had green fire around it. For whatever reason, I decided to touch it. But the flames didn't hurt…like at all.

Just what the heck is this thing?

"Do you think it was that thing that was possessing Whispy Woods?" Ribbon asked.

"Maybe. I'm not too sure." I answered.

"Do you think Magolor would know what this is, Adeleine?" Ringo asked her.

"It's possible. He has been everywhere at this point. Maybe we should take to him."

"But what about Whispy? Is he going to be okay?" Raffina asked.

"Oh, he'll be fine. He'll probably be fully recovered in a couple of hours." Coo claimed.

"Okay then. Let's get this thing back to the Lor Starcutter." I said. "It was really nice to meet you, Coo."

"Same to you, Amitie. Thank you girls again for ridding the forest of these jelly blobs."

We waved Coo goodbye as we all headed out of the forest. All while I was carrying this weird crystal puyo thing.

Th-This thing's kinda heavy.

A/N: Wow. What a battle, huh? Probably the most threating Whispy Woods has ever been, am I right? (Well, maybe when he was turned into Clanky Woods).

That's all I have to say. Feel free to review, favorite, and/or follow the story. Next chapter coming soon. Until then, thanks for reading.