Star's Allies

Chapter 1 - Engaging Entrance

Kirby jumped the castle walls, and quickly stormed up to the throne room with no hindrances at all. A quick hop and skip into the throne doors, and Kirby entered the massive chamber. A few pillars here and there stood about; a king certainly did have their own tastes, which was surprisingly literal for King Dedede as a large pile of an exact amount of food (he did learn to not steal everything his country had for breakfast, lunch, and dinner) was stacked not so carefully right in front of the throne.

Lucky for Kirby, it seemed like Dedede was having his lunch, but it seemed like he didn't notice the puffball entering the property. "Hey, King D, you have a spare room? It seems like a Dark Matter copycat was roaming around earlier, and I was hoping we could sleep together for a night or so," Kirby started in a casual tone. However, things did not seem as usual as Kirby thought. As the King turned to look at Kirby, the first thing noticable about him was his dark, purple eyes. Those eyes connected to the king's, and in an instant, the king's rage flew towards Kirby. Through some sort of additive; an unidentified substance; the king had managed to become more absurd by growing massive, gargantuan arms that spanned from one pillar to another. The royal coat had ripped, along with some of his clothes, but the change was done. With no powers at reach, Kirby was starting to increasingly panic at the sight of this situation.

"Well. This isn't certainly on my agenda. Goodb-" Kirby turned to leave, who was promptly cut off by the swinging arms. Even scarier was that the king had managed to stay silent throughout the whole event. It was like his mind was out of the loop, its train of thought stopped indefinitely. Kirby managed a jump and started to float as fast as the pink ball could. Kirby really did not want to get caught by this monstrosity. As they continued their dance, not one soul noticed the small black eye watching them.

"Ohnonononono-" Kirby was currently being chased by the king and his giant hands. It wasn't very fun, to say the least. Sure, Kirby has managed to avoid getting crushed or smushed into the wall, but the king wasn't letting up. The energy usually found when attacks are made were too hard to reach, and Kirby was quite sure he did not want to get crushed by the King's feet when trying to inhale the stars. A sudden thought came to Kirby as the puffball ran away from the King.

Wait, where that hammer that Dedede usually has…?

Noticing a main way of attack, Kirby scoured his surroundings whilst dodging the particularly obvious attacks coming at him, and found the hammer laying against the throne. With a swift run, hop and flop, Kirby quickly inhaled and turned the hammer into his own. A small headband popped into existence with the now much smaller hammer, and Kirby finally had a reliable way of attacking the king. A quick pound was executed on one of the fingers of the king, and that was all it took to turn the king from a menacing threat to tearing his lungs out with a cry of fresh pain. As the king tucked his hands in, Kirby made use of the opportunity to strike, yelling a small cry of his own as he turned the heat on the hammer and boldly knocked the King's chin flying out the throne room with the king itself, into one of the pillars in the room.

The king screeched and proceeded to slam down into the floor, breaking it and bringing the fight one floor down. Of course, Kirby noticed the chance right away, and went for the attack straight on the head of the penguin. A quick slam later, King Dedede finally blocked one of the puffball's attacks, sending Kirby flying himself to the pile of food that had fallen down with them. Kirby inhaled everything in that pile; even the throne itself! With a mouth quite full, Kirby spat back at the King, who was unprepared at the massive star coming full-force upon his body.

Three chilling monotone words came from the king.

"Don't oppose us."

All celebratory expressions from Kirby's face dropped as the king said these words; ones that didn't sound like his voice at all. Following that declaration, the king smashed the floor with his wrists, and broke a pillar into a large club, which he began to swing around. The fight just got much more intense.

Questions rang through Kirby's head as he dashed through a small opening between the attacks the king threw at him, such as 'Who is us?' and 'Had the king been overtaken by another entity?' Another opening, Kirby saw, was the back of Dedede. It has most certainly not been watched, as the monstrosity had no time to turn quick enough to attack violently in that direction. Kirby groaned at the prospect that he had to hope for dear life that he doesn't let go and that enough damage was dealt in order to rid the king of this extreme buff condition he got. Committed, Kirby swung himself below the king is a quick slide and hopped on the King's back. Dedede definitely noticed something hanging on his back, as the king began shaking his entire body furiously in order to try and shake Kirby off.

Right. So now, the fun part.

Kirby lit the hammer on fire again, and began bashing against the King's head, hanging on to the coat as best as the puffball could with its stubby arms.

"GRAAAAAAGH!"

"Yes, it'll be over, just— hold still!" Kirby exclaimed as the hammer swung down on its target, an instant hit provided that Kirby kept holding on.

Kirby was quite dizzy at this point; the king kept trying to bash his newfound passenger off, which meant throwing himself, back-side, to the wall, or shaking so violently that Kirby managed to get thrown up and down multiple times. One such time actually saw King Dedede succeeding in getting Kirby off him, and began doing a celebratory pose, but Kirby quickly slammed his hammer against the king's back, forcing the king to take the blow and drop to the ground. This allowed Kirby to go back on and started hammering away at fast as the puffball's stubby arms could, until Kirby lost grip on the article of clothing again.

Another hit, another yell; it had been a long fight, and Kirby wanted some rest. Luckily, that hit was also the finishing blow, landing the king into an unconscious state with his arms slowly returning to normal. Kirby stopped himself for a second, jumping off Dedede's back and looked at the king's slumped position. With that, the puffball sat down on the throne room floor, out of breath from clinging to the king's coat.

"Finally... I can rest now... yaaaaaay..." Kirby tilted back, laying on the ground himself, and allowed himself a small nap. As he settled down, he thought he heard a small voice. The voice rang out quickly, yet so faint that Kirby didn't manage to catch it. Kirby turned to what he believed to be the source of the voice, but whoever it was disappeared as soon as the fight was over. Kirby, not caring at this point, went back and tried to get some rest. Another mistake, as from King Dedede crawled a small, black heart, unmoving outside its host, yet still pulsing with dark matter.

…

This wasn't here before.

Kirby notated his surroundings. A mass of black void in all directions. No voice. No color. Nothing. It was completely and utterly null.

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Something's wrong.

Magolor journeyed to the castle, since he didn't know where Meta Knight is and Kirby is missing.

"Ooh, a giant beanstalk. I really need to move forward on that other project some time… maybe I should build a giant portable aquifer so that this piece of flora can stay preserved…" He was also getting distracted by the new landmarks of Dreamland since his last visit.

As such, night dawned on the reformed villain quick, as he began to search for shelter. And then he spotted a small house by the Dreamstalk. "That'll have to do," the magician said, mostly talking to himself. As Magolor approached the door, he began to notice the amount of webbing covering the house itself. It looked as if it hadn't been touched for a long time, at least from the outside. While it did give some chills to Magolor, he stepped in front of the door and gave it a knock.

No one responded.

Another knock, and a pull of a knob. It looked like it was sealed tight, either with the same webbing or some sort of lock in place. With no other choice as he didn't want to risk it outside, he teleported past the door-

Straight into a web.

Magolor tried blasting his way out to no avail; it seemed like the webs were strong enough to contain most of the magic power in the attack. He was going to have to brute-force his way out, which he wasn't certain would work, considering his skillset depended on magic. As his limbs stayed in their own positions, entangled by the magical web, he wondered if he'd just wandered into a trap.

That line of thought was quickly quashed when a shadow-like figure moved in the background. Is it intelligent? "Hey, can you free me? I'm sort of stuck, here. Uh. Hello?" No response came. Great.

The creature began approaching, and with the moonlight peering through the cracks of the window did Magolor finally see what he was dealing with. A giant spider-like insect, with six glowing purple eyes and a giant mouth with it, along with some sort of shiny armor on its back. Magolor visibly gulped as he began to wrack his mind trying to figure out what the best possible option would be.

With no warning and complete silence, the spider jumped at him, to which Magolor responded by teleporting out of the house. The web was still somehow stuck to him, as if it latched on to his soul. He was literally handicapped in this battle, with no hands to begin attack sequences. With no time to think as the insect burst out from the roof, Magolor tried firing a shot without the use of his hands.

"Oh come on, work already!" Magolor thought, as he closed his eyes and began to focus. The spider didn't try to give him time to prepare, so he dodged and swiftly danced around the spider quick enough to allow for one single shot to be fired— it wasn't accurate, either. Magolor has to wing his shot so that this one shot that smack the spider to oblivion. And a great idea came to him. What if he let the spider get to him? It would certainly give him a no-miss shot, as well as hitting the spider hard enough to do most of the job. With no time left as the spider turned to face Magolor, he fired his shot into a portal. And so he waited for the perfect time. Come on just a tiny bit further, advance further, just a slight bit more-

The spider pounced, and perfectly mid-air was where Magolor wanted his target to be. He opened another portal below the spider, right by its abdomen-

It's weak spot.

Suddenly, Magolor had a worrying thought run through his head.

It's going to blow a hole straight through it. The attack is too strong…!

Magolor was so terrified at the sight of the amount of power the attack had that he managed to lessen the power of the attack by placing a set of portals in front of his attack, redirecting it to hit the spider from the side-

It managed to fling the spider so hard that it smacked the side if the Dreamstalk. A slight yet visible purple mist lifted, and the spider slowly transformed into an unconscious Taranza. Magolor still felt bad for the guy, considering that in the end he turned out to be a normal person corrupted by some patches of the dark energy he noticed.

Magolor carried the spider back into the house and onto a hammock despite being tired himself, to which he was surprised at how clean the house seemed now, minus the glaring hole on the roof. Done with the events today has brought him, he laid down on half of Taranza's hammock to try gain some rest.

…

But he can't sleep. Something was flaring way too bright when he closed his eyes; especially on the ground. Magolor opened his eyes, and stared at where the disturbance is-

It was a miniature black heart. It was pulsing. It was also crackling and cracking at its seams.

Fear overtook reason, as Magolor, in a timely fashion, blasted the heart out of the house in time before it exploded inside, blowing up in a cloud of dense black mist right by the front door. Thankfully, the mist was gone a moment after, and finally then did Magolor pass out.

Taranza woke up groggily, as if he had been hit with the full force of Sectonia's gem, crushing him down. He looked around his surroundings, faintly remembering the fight last night… wait.

An image popped into his mind. The perspective of the image was… questionable at best with six eyes, and yet he was clearly fighting some tied-up weirdo outside his house. While he had no idea of why he was fighting some random stranger, he tried to dig deeper as to why he lost some memory at a specific point in time-

Oh.

OH.

The memory came on full-force, as he succumbed to the painful memories he still did not want to remember, and transforming into… the giant spider. Ah. "Hh… should not have gotten lost in the past…" Taranza turned his head back to his hammock, as he noticed a sleeping figure in it. He approached the figure, and was surprised when the figure was the stranger he fought yesterday. Getting ready to kick him out, he then remembered that this guy actually saved him from whatever curse he was put into.

"I think I should thank him." Taranza tapped Magolor on the shoulder, hoping to wake the stranger up.

"Nghh…?" Magolor turned his body to the right and fell down from the hammock with a resounding 'thud' as Taranza tried to hold his snickers and hide his grin. "O-oh. Oho. You've must've been.. heh.. the guy who fought me yesterday, right?" Taranza spoke, though not without a hint of laughter echoing right behind his every word. Magolor faced him with a blank stare, before actually compiling the data presented to him. "Well, er… I was, yeah. Look, my name's Magolor, and I started being friends with Kirby about a few years ago. Have you seen him around?" Taranza looked at Magolor; this guy knew Kirby? "Kirby? Well, last I heard, Kirby's usually in his house. I'm surprised that you haven't checked it yourself, actually."

"I did," came the blunt response.

"Oh. Well, you needed some help finding Kirby? I know a guy or two who can help you with that… see the castle over at that hill?" Taranza pointed to the castle from his window. "Well, that castle has a friend of mine that usually knows where Kirby is." Magolor, who already knew this, simply kept quiet and accepted the spider's answer. Looks like he is definitely going to the castle now. "Alright, thanks, uh…?" Magolor stopped himself, as Taranza replied, "Taranza. It's Taranza."

"Er… alright, Taranza. Thanks for your help. I'll be off now. Watch yourself, alright?" Magolor thanked the spider and started to head outside, but not with a small "Wait!" from Taranza.

"I'd like to come with you to the castle! Look, I have not met Kirby in a while, and I'd appreciate meeting with him again. Mind if I join you?"

Magolor didn't even hesitate to spout out his answer: a 'yes'. Taranza grinned at the magician and both of them started to walk together, with Magolor accompanied by Taranza as they set off towards the castle on the hill.

Arriving at their destination some time later, Magolor and Taranza stared at the drawbridge that wasn't opening. At all. Thus, both of them opted for alternatives, with Taranza bouncing himself up with a makeshift trampoline and Magolor simply floating up and over the castle walls.

"It's really, really quiet now." Taranza commented, as they walked on the castle's corridors. "You're right," Magolor frowned. "It does seem too quiet."

As they scoured for the Waddle Dees that usually work in the area, Taranza happened to notice the two story hole that King Dedede managed to break past, as well as Kirby. Gaping at the sight, Taranza shouted at Magolor to come and see what he had found. "Magolor, come look! Our dear friend Kirby is dead!"

"He what!?"

Kirby's head was pounding as he managed to fight off whatever the voided mind showed the puffball. Well, it more or less just ended on its own. Noticing two blurry figures standing over him, Kirby's vision slowly came back, which revealed that Magolor and Taranza was looking over him for any injuries.

"Why would you tell me he's dead!?"

"It's a joke, calm down!"

"What are you two doing here? I thought you'd left, Magolor?" The voice attracted the attention of the two individuals arguing in front of him.

"I did, yeah, but I came back." Magolor offhandedly commented. "Well, it's good to see you back, Taranza. You too, Magolor." Taranza smiled at that, and went back on spotting injuries for both Kirby and Dedede, who was still unconscious, even after an amount of time laying there.

Magolor beamed at Kirby's comment. The mood was quickly ruined by Taranza asking Magolor to try and wake up Dedede. As such, Magokor went and tried to wake the king up. His face changed as his slaps did no effect to the king's sleep. He tried a harder slap. And an even harder one. By then Magolor was scowling at how the King still won't wake up. So, he went for route two. As he prepared his attack, Taranza managed another slap to the king's forehead.

In that second, the king stirred slightly, looking from Taranza to Magolor as he spun his hands. Words came from his mouth, as a lightshow happened in front of him.

"Wh-what ish goin' on….?"

"Eh!? Wait no, hold on-"

BOOM!

Magolor sent a bomb to the king's face, which flung Dedede into the air. "Oi, what the hell!?" came his response. Taranza was already on peals of laughter as the king flopped on the ground, unprepared for the sudden explosion. "You blew your magic at my face!" the king exclaimed, now fully standing. Kirby smirked slightly at that, and turned his head to the ensuing scene.

Magolor was holding his hands up in a defensive position, cowering slightly as the king stood up and berated the magician. Kirby thought a chuckle escaped Magolor himself, as he backed off slightly from the king.

"I'm sorry, I've said it multiple times, now stop chasing me!"

The four gather around, as the reunion was cut short. More sombre moods set in their faces, as Kirby began to explain what had happened to Dedede. Right in the middle of the conversation, Dedede set his hands down on the impromptu meeting table and said out loud, "Ya' know, I got smacked by a black 'art before I smashed my castle down."

"I saw a black heart come out of Taranza here too, right after I put him to sleep," Magolor inputs. "Really?" Taranza questioned, to which Magolor responded with a nod. "Oh. So the black heart is the culprit of this possessive nature?"

"Well, It would seem so," Kirby pitched in, whilst eating an apple from King Dedede's stash. " 'old on a sec. If Mag'lor saw Taranza spit out the 'art, where did mine go?" Things went silent for quite a while, until Kirby just puts on a smile.

"We don't have to worry about that! If it's gone, it's gone. It probably shattered like what Magolor said."

"Ever so carefree, aren't ya?" Taranza commented, giving a smile of his own. "Well, what's the plan now?"

Everyone turned to Kirby as the pink round ball contemplated the issue at hand. "How about we try and find the source by eradicating the heart from other people?" Kirby offered. "I don't know the locations, though…"

"Oh! I know the places, clear as day! I see one in a forest, one in the hands of a ship, another in a cluster of some sort, one in a knight's possession, and…" Magolor rambled on and on about the locations of these hearts. "How about it? Is this a solid plan, then?"

All other three at the table nodded at him, and Magolor pumped his hands up in the air. Returning to a much business-style approach, Magolor stated, "Well, we should probably get supplies first, then we head out. I really need to fix Lor when I get the chance…"

"Lor?" Taranza tilted his head. " 'is starship," King Dedede answered, and then turned his head back to Magolor, also confused. " 'old up, how did you crash? Again?"

"Some pink energy shot out and struck the hull and the main mast; there was nothing to keep it afloat with the amount of sheer damage it sustained. I'll need to find the energy spheres again to fix it…" Magolor rambling turned to murmurs as he plans on fixing his ship. Taranza, completely out of the loop in that line of conversation, turned to Kirby and began discussing methods of transport.

"I mean, I could make a giant web slingshot…"

"I am not going to get shot out of a slingshot again; the last time we did that, I became a bullet!"

…

There is rumbling in the distance.

Dedede, who was closest to the source of the sound, informed the group (albeit filled with uninformative things). "Wait… what's tha' soun'? I hea' som' sort'a faint rum'ling…"

Taranza and Kirby turned silent, along with Magolor, who was still calculating where to find his energy spheres. A few moments passed. "...yeah. There is rumbling. Anyone know what that is?" Taranza confirmed, as the shaking grew louder.

Unfortunately, no one ever taught Taranza the lesson of jinxing themselves.

The wall above Dedede crashed down on the king, as Marx, of all people, came bursting into the scene. "Hey hey hey! So-" A round ball of web was thrown at Marx. Marx dodged it. "Oi! Don't aim at me yet! I'm here to-" A pulse of magic, along with a star came to Marx. "Oh, bother." Marx dashed through the attacks, flew in an extreme speed towards Kirby, giving no one time to react for what happened next.

Marx's face tore in half, as a black hole opened, sucking poor Kirby in, who had no chance of escape due to the close proximity between the two. The others, who ran for their lives ("Are you kidding me!?" came Taranza's voice) did not get the chance to follow Kirby in, as the hole closed as fast as it came, with Marx returning back to normal.

"Thanks for the gift, losers!"

And the demon flew far out of the area.

Silence passed between the three remaining individuals. Magolor stared wide-eyed, while Taranza did much the same. King Dedede, however, chose that moment to exclaim a not so friendly word. Kirby was kidnapped. "Ah, dammit. I didn't even know he's even alive. From what Kirby told me, he died in outer space…"

Magolor turned to the others, and asked, "Did any of you happened to take a look at his face? There may a sign that he was corrupted."

"Nope," came Dedede's answer, "He talked loud and clea', unlike me; plus, I think we were also busy runnin' from whateva' attack that was."

"I see. We need to get Kirby back then?"

Dedede shrugged. "For all I know, he cou'd be anywhea', and the longa' we try to se'rch for him, the longer we waste our time trying to end the black 'arts."

Taranza slammed his six hands to the ground. "I could've done something; I had web, so naturally I would've been able to hook Kirby to something!"

"Well, we had no time to react at that moment. Anyways, Kirby's gone now, and we don't even know where to find him."

" 'ow about we make finding Kirby our first priority? In tha' meantime, 'oll of us can go exterminate the black 'arts."

"Alright. Agreed upon, Taranza?"

Taranza turned his head, and raised his posture back up, hands now no longer touching the floor. "Yep. Sure. Let's go."

"All set, then. Dedede, you want to come?" Magolor offered.

"Eh, sure. The waddle dees can repair the castle whils' I'm gone." King Dedede stopped for a moment. "Speaking of that, where's all the waddles dees?"

Magolor cocked his head, and spoke, "Well, I haven't encountered them. I haven't even encountered hostiles, either."

"Good news for us then, we don't need to handle getting attacked out of nowhere." Taranza commented.

"Right, let's head out." With that, Magolor turned to the door, and left. He was followed by Taranza, who sped up to catch up to him. King Dedede stood there, and turned back to his remaining food pile, as he began to find a sack to carry a lot of food.

…

"...we left Dedede."

"Probably shouldn't have left right away, huh?"

King Dedede, Food Addict

Well known for his hunger and appetite, this king has managed to become extremely strong with food, gaining muscles and power from the whispers of the Jamba Heart. Full of energy from both sources of power, he jumps around and swings on the pillars of the castle using his massive, oversized arms. Of course, he's still just a fat penguin.

Taranza EX, Crawling Terror

The servant for his long time friend and queen, Sectonia, has succumbed to the powers of the Jamba Heart through the memories of his old friend. Taking a form of a large, crawling spider, his agility and power is amplified, making him a terrible foe to battle against. A shiny, sleek carapace covers his backside, making him immune to attacks from the back. The only points of attacks are his side or his underside. Perhaps why his form looks like a spider is due to his emotion and attitude at the current time, as well as his secret obsession: webbing everything together with delicate care and knowledge, as a gift to the mad queen.

AN:

That concludes chapter 1. Progress!

The boss info's are listed as bosses appear in the fic, similar to Kirby games.

Kirb has been kidnapped!

Also, the part where Kirby went deep in the null void? Yeah, that'll be explained; don't worry about it.

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