Chapter 20 – Reflected Assault

Reflected Volcano Maze - Mustard Mountain

Going through that mirror reminded me of when me and the other girls went through that portal to come to Dream Land a couple days ago. I was a little dizzy, but the trip through was even prettier than the last time. It was all crystal clear. Like I was actually looking into a mirror or something.

We eventually were shot out of the other end of the mirror realized that we were in yet another lava world. Only this one was a lot calmer than the other two we were in. the volcanos weren't active, the lava didn't move, and one thing that stood out was there were structures that broke the area into different branching pathways. Some had lava pouring from the brown rock walls and floors while others led into caves and even old abandoned temples. It was pretty interesting to look at, too say the least.

"W-Woah…wh-where are we, Amitie?" Lidelle asked me.

"I'm…not really sure, Lidelle. Hey, Bandana-Dee. You know what this place is?"

Bandana-Dee wrote on his board while looking around the place, then turned to show us what he wrote.

"This is Mustard Mountain. An area in a place called the Mirror World. Back in Dream Land are magic mirrors that take us to the 9 different areas here. They correspond to the area they're on. In this case, the mirror we found took us here. Thought I didn't there was one on Star Lavadom as well."

"So this is basically another world?"

"In a way, yes."

"I see."

"So how are we supposed to find Raffina and the others?" Lidelle asked.

"The areas here are literally giant mazes. So we just choose a path and hope we get lucky."

"Th-That doesn't sound reassuring at all!" Lidelle started panicking.

"Don't worry, Lidelle. We'll make it out of here and find the others in no time flat." I said.

"R-Really?"

"You betcha!"

"…"

"…Th-Thanks, Amitie." Lidelle said after she managed to calm down. The three of us then started walking through this volcanic maze known as Mustard Mountain. We did end up going in circles a couple of times, but those were because of some insane puzzles that we couldn't figure out at first, but eventually did. And they would take us to different paths. I was hopeful that they were the right paths, but there was no way to tell if some of them were right or not. About an hour and a half in, I noticed that Lidelle was staring at me. That's when she asked me something.

"Hey, Amitie. Was part of your hair always light-pink?"

"N-No, it wasn't. While we were on a different lava world, everyone pointed out that my hair had changed. I also got this weird new outfit on, too. I honestly have no idea how or why these changes happened. So we were on our way to a place called Another Dimension to hopefully figure it out. But that's when…"

"…You ran into your clone, right?"

"Yeah, we did. She trapped us all into a portal and me and Bandana-Dee ended up on that other planet, where we found you."

"Wow. That sounds horrible."

Bandana-Dee then got Lidelle's attention as he wrote on his board.

"Hey, Lidelle. How did you end up on that other planet?" He wrote.

"Um…well…I…honestly don't really know. The last thing I remember was encountering this scary spider-looking guy. I tried talking to him, but I was so afraid that I ran off. And then…something happened, I don't what, but then I was on that scary planet."

"I see." I said.

"By the way, that scary spider-looking guy is a friend of ours. His name is Taranza and was probably trying to help you."

"A-A friend? Aw, geez. Now I feel really bad for running away from him."

"It's okay, Lidelle. Once we get out of here and find the others, you could apologize to him and everything will be fine." I said.

"Y-Yeah. You're right, Amitie. Thank you for that."

"You're welcome, Lidelle." I said with a smile. Cheering up Lidelle was always a daily thing of mine. I don't really mind it, though. Seeing her cute smile always cheers me up when I'm down. Of course, when I tell her that, she blushes like crazy. Making her even cuter.

*giggle* She's just like a little sister. Despite us being the same age.


After about 30 more minutes, we reached this one narrow path with what looked like a bright light at the end of it.

"Is that…the exit?" I asked Bandana-Dee.

"It could be. Although I'm not really sure at this point." He wrote.

"But it doesn't look like we can go back either." Lidelle said.

"Well, then…looks like we don't have a choice. Come on, you guys!" I shouted as I ran towards the light.

"W-Wait for me, Amitie!" Lidelle shouted as she and Bandana-Dee ran after me.

When we went through the light, we ended up in this crystalized colosseum with clouds all over. Some of these clouds even had other mirrors sitting on top of them.

"Woah…what is this place?" I asked.

"It's really pretty." Lidelle said.

"I know, right? I'm just glad this isn't a lava world for once. I'm getting so tired of them."

"I honestly don't want to see any more lava for the rest of my life."

"Ditto." I said. Then we both giggled a bit. That's when Bandana-Dee got our attention as he pointed to something in the distance. We walked up to it to get a better look at it and saw that it was a giant golden mirror with wings on each side and stars on each corner. It also had a crown on top of it, and it was sparkling really bright.

"Could…could this thing take us back to the others?" Lidelle asked.

"I'm…not really sure, Lidelle. But we really don't have any other choices, huh Bandana-Dee?"

Bandana-Dee shook his head no, confirming my thoughts.

"Well, okay then. Let's go…"

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

"Huh? Who said that?" I asked. Then I noticed that a magic circle appear under me. Due to past experiences, I knew what this meant. So I quickly moved out the way before a giant silver sword appeared from the ground. Several more circles appeared under me, and I dodged them all before the silver swords appeared from those as well.

"HEY! WHO'S DOING THAT?!" I shouted.

As I said that, a black twisty thingy appeared in front of us. It eventually revealed a dark gray person wearing bright red sabatons, black shoulder plates, and armored plates on the gloves he was wearing. I also noticed that he had bat-like wings that were torn up badly and his mask had some scrapes on it. But most noticeably was that fact he had a giant scar on the left side of the mask, which showed his pale yellow eyes that have an orange glow to them. His silver sword has seven branches of blades and has a blue sapphire embedded in its hilt. This guy looked all-too-powerful. It sent a huge chill down my spine.

"H-Hey…B-Bandana-Dee. W-Who is this guy?" I asked nervously.

Bandana-Dee was panicking a bit but still managed to write down a response to my question.

"That's Dark Meta Knight! He's a mirrored version of a swordsman named Meta Knight! He's extremely powerful with his sword and can even use mirror attacks!"

"Aw, crud…" I said with some fear inside me. Lidelle didn't say anything because she was hiding behind me with extreme fear.

"You're Amitie, aren't you?" Dark Meta Knight asked me.

"Y-Yeah, I-I am. H-How do you know my name?"

"I've heard legends of you and that Red Puyo Hat of yours. To think something as worthless as a hat could hold so much power. No wonder it ditched you and stole your identity."

"W-Wait! You know about my hat?!"

"Yes, I do. And I suppose you want to know as well, am I right?"

"Y-Yeah. I do want to know."

"I see…alright. I'll tell you…" Dark Meta Knight said. But then he pulled his silver sword out and pointed it at me in a threating way. "…But first, you must prove yourself to me that I'm not wasting my time on you invaders! BATTLE ME, AMITIE! ONE ON ONE!"

"B-Battle you?!" I said in pure shock. I thought about this sudden requirement for a bit, not sure of what to do next. I figured that if I do this and somehow beat him, we could get out of this place and find the others. I didn't want to think of what would happen if I lose, cause I know it's a huge possibility.

"Okay. I'll do it." I said.

"Hmph. Like you had a choice." Dark Meta Knight said.

"Hey, Bandana-Dee. Would you protect Lidelle for me please?"

Bandana-Dee gave a small nod and took Lidelle to the back of the area with him.

"G-Good luck, Amitie." Lidelle said. I gave her a thumbs up and went back to the confrontation at hand.

"Alright…I'm ready when you are. Let's…"

"PUYO BATTLE!" We both shouted as I started another one on one battle that could possibly end my life…

…again.


BOSS: Vs. Dark Meta Knight


A group of puyos rained down from the bright cloudy sky in front of us. I started grabbing some and threw them into the right stack of colors to build up a chain to attack. I made it to a satisfying 5-chain before I set it off. As it did, I prepared to cast my first spell…

"FLAME!"

…But nothing happened.

"Huh?! What the heck?!" I shouted. The puyo wall was shrinking with every puyo being popped. So I tried again.

"FLAME!"

"CYCLOWHIRL!"

"FAERIE…fire?!"

"…Wha…WHAT HAPPENED?! WHERE DID MY MAGIC SPELLS GO?!"

"AMITIE! LOOK OUT!" Lidelle shouted at me.

I looked over to see that Dark Meta Knight had spawned three more giant silver swords pointed in my direction. They each had light blue fire around them and were extra sharp from before.

"TRIPLE THRUST!" He said before shooting all three of them at me. The first one landed in front of me. The second one landed behind me. I was now stuck in between two swords as the third one was about to strike me.

This is it. This is the end of me…AGAIN!

As I sat there and accepted my fate, I got this sudden urge. A weird and unexplainable urge…to try and block it with my hand. The same hand that had my green wristband. I couldn't fight against it, so I had my hand up as the sword came hurling towards me. I expected to have my hand bleeding like crazy and I would be screaming in pain…but…

*PING*

"Huh?"

I saw that the giant sword was on top of my hand…but it didn't hurt. I felt no pain from a giant sword piercing my left hand. I thought it was weird, but then it got weirder.

The sword then started disappearing from my hand and started to enter my wristband. It glowed a bit while it changed colors from green to a turquoise color. It got me thinking of something, so I plucked a hair from the light-pink spot of my head and saw that it was also turquoise.

"W-Woah…wh-what just happened?" I asked myself.

"Now is not the time to ask questions, Amitie. The battle continues!" Dark Meta Knight said to me.

"R-Right. Let's go, then!"

I grabbed more puyos and started rebuilding my chain. I made it into a 7-chain just in case nothing happened again. Both me and Dark Meta Knight released our chains and started gaining power from the puyos. My wristband started glowing the same turquoise color from before as I felt a new power come to me.

"METEOR EDGE!" Dark Meta Knight released his attack.

"REFLECT FORCE!" I shouted. Then a bunch of mirror-like objects came out of my left hand and deflected the attack. Not only that, but it also did damage to the dark swordsman.

"Woah! What was that?! What did I just do?!" I asked myself.

"BLADE BURST!" A second attack was released by Dark Meta Knight. Four mirrors had appeared on each side of me. I knew more giant swords were about to come out of them…

"MIRROR BODY!"

…So I then started splitting into five, forming a vertical line upwards. Then went straight towards Dark Meta Knight using the same technique, which also did damage to him. And while he was stunned…

"MIRROR CUT!"

…I swung my left hand downward, making the sound of a mirror being broken as I slammed Dark Meta Knight to the ground below. After not moving for a few seconds, I knew that I had beaten Dark Meta Knight in a puyo battle…with these strange new powers.

What…just happened?


"Grr…I lost. But at least you realized your true power. This battle was not a waste of time after all."

"My…true power? What do you mean by that?" I asked.

"You'll find that out on your own soon enough. You still have much to learn about them. As well as your Red Puyo Hat. But until then, you three are allowed to use this Dimensional Mirror to get back to Dream Land."

"B-But…"

But before I could say anything else, Dark Meta Knight disappeared into that twisty thingy from before and he was nowhere to be seen.

"I hope we get to battle again, Amitie. Next time will be a real fight." Was the last thing I heard from him.

I then stared at the wristband on my left arm. It was still turquoise, and so was that one part of my hair. I had no idea what these powers are or how I got them, but they did help me win that puyo battle.

But still, maybe Magolor knows something about all this.

"AMITIE!" I heard Lidelle's voice as she and Bandana-Dee ran towards me. "AMITIE! WHAT WAS THAT?! WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! JUST WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"

"I…I don't know, Lidelle. But at least it's over for now."

"Dark Meta Knight said that this Dimensional Mirror thing can take us back to Dream Land. Should we go?" Bandana-Dee wrote on his board.

"Yeah. I mean it's the only way we could go at this point."

"O-Okay, Amitie." Lidelle stuttered.

The three of us then jumped into the mirror and entered yet another portal to who knows where. Hopefully, this time it'll take us to our friends.


"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*

"Ow. My head. I'm really getting sick and tired of portals." I said to myself as I stood up and rubbed my head in pain.

"AMITIE!"

"Huh? Hey, guys!" I cheered once I saw Arle, Ringo, Raffina, Misuki, Kirby, Adeleine, Ribbon, and the others running up to me. With some of them giving me a hug.

"We finally found you, Ami! We've been looking all over for you!" Raffina cheered.

"And it looks like you found Lidelle, too!" Arle added.

"S-So it is true. E-Everyone is here." Lidelle said as she took a look around the Lor Starcutter.

"So you were with Amitie the whole time, Dee?" Adeleine asked him.

"Yeah. Me and Amitie somehow ended up on Star Lavadom, where we found Lidelle. Then the three of us went through Mustard Mountain to get to the Mirror World." Bandana-Dee wrote.

"You guys were all the way in Star Lavadom?!"

"Where's Star Lavadom?" Misuki asked.

"It's a completely different planet in our world!"

"A DIFFERENT PLANET?!" Arle, Ringo, Raffina, and Misuki shouted.

"Yeah, we weren't lucky at all when it came to that portal. Where did you guys end up?" I asked.

"We only got sent back to Green Greens. That copy of yours must've wanted to get rid of you personally." Adeleine said.

"But how did Bandana-Dee end up being with you?" Ribbon asked.

"Not sure. I think I grabbed on to him without realizing it and accidentally brought him with me."

"Well, in the end, that pretty much saved you a bunch." Adeleine said.

"Yeah, I guess. But still, sorry for dragging you with me, Bandana-Dee."

"It's okay, Amitie. I was glad to help you out." He wrote.

"By the way, Amitie. How come that part of your hair's a different color now?" Ringo asked.

"Yeah. First, it was light-pink and now it's turquoise." Arle added.

"Oh. About that. While we were in the Mirror world, I fought against this guy named Dark Meta Knight and during that and during that my hair and even my wristband changed colors. My old spells were gone and I was now using attacks that shot mini mirrors and made copies of me."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a bit, Amitie. Are you saying you FOUGHT Dark Meta Knight?! AND WON?!" Adeleine asked me.

"Yeah, I was shocked too. The guy looked and was pretty tough. Though in the end, he did say something about my Red Puyo Hat. And about how I realized my true power or something."

"Old powers are gone…new attacks are mirror-based…it sounds so familiar." Magolor said.

"So you do know something, Magolor?"

"Well…I'm not too sure. I'll have to do some research on it. In the meantime, maybe we should all take a break. There was no way we were doing to do this in one day, anyway."

"Yeah, you're right, Magolor." Adeleine said.

"Aw…but I wanted to squish more puyos and use their powers to destroy my enemies." Marx said.

*BONK*

"Ow! I swear to Nova, if you keep doing that…"

"Keep acting like how you are now and you're gonna need more than Nova's power when I'm through with you." Adeleine said in a threating way.

Wow, she really does not like Marx.

"Anyway, I'm to take a quick nap." I said.

"Yeah, you definitely earned it, Ami." Raffina said.

"Poyo!"

I laid on the same bed I woke up in from the time I was almost dead and tried to sleep for a bit, but couldn't. I had way too many thoughts in my mind. Not with just what happened to me these last few days, but with what's going to happen to me next. I mean, I already nearly died, lost my spells, and got sent to a different planet. I know it's bad luck to think of these things…

But what else is going to happen to me?

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Nothing really to say here. Tomorrow I'm starting a new story for the other series I write for. So it'll be that and this story for a good while. Feel free to review, favorite, and/or follow the story. Thanks for reading. Later.