Sometimes I wonder why, instead of writing Kirby fanfiction with original characters, why not just perhaps make my own book series.

I mean half of this story is honestly wholly original.

Then I remember the last time I tried to write a book series, I fell off a twenty story building.

Ten more chapterssssssssss.

New chapter every day, I will see you on August 7th for the ending.

Chapter 7: Watching & Watch-ing?

You should know what a watch is. It's fairly simple technique where you take an elongated look at a person/area. Wait, were you thinking of the other watch? Oh, oh, sorry, I'll explain that one, yes.

Ahem, a watch is a tool you can put on a shelf, or wear it on your wrist. It tells time, perhaps sets off an alarm, or in some cases reveals critical information involving- oh, hang on a minute I almost spoiled the entire story, silly me!

Well well, I suppose it's time to get back to the little story isn't it?

Haha.

Well it isn't, but I'll indulge anyway.

Surely she had seen some sort of forest animal, yes. Or rather it was an illusion caused by the sun. But these things had been moving, yes, they had and still bene moving to this moment. Or rather, they probably did sleep, but they were moving in the morning.

Madison was standing on a wooden fixture which lay outside of a door sort of like a stage. I believe they call it a porch. This particularly peculiar pinewood porch, had been her place for a while. Inside was a building where they slept. It was very, very, odd because noises were heard at night, like chirps.

They were distant however.

By there was one thing that caught her eye. You see, her place of sleeping was by a window. A small window, which she could look out. She couldn't really sleep that night out of being rather uncomfortable in the new place.

So she looked out the window, still mostly in the bed. There was nothing for a bit, and she was getting rather tired. But, just as she was drifting off she noticed something. Something yellow. Sort of glowing in the dark behind one of those trees.

Whatever this was seemed familiar, like she had seen it before. Sort of Déjà vu a they called it. The thing didn't make large movements, mind you, but little movements like peaking out behind a tree. The movements were rather subtle, but still noticeable. Madison had been looking at this for the next thirty minutes before they glowing eyes stopped.

She went to bed.

But now something else had caught her attention. Sort of drawing her to it almost. Like a pull you could say. You see, there was this rather peculiar looking building Madison had noticed. It was made of a wooden material, or at least they called it wooden, whilst the others buildings certainty weren't.

But what was in that building?

Madison was absentmindedly looking at the building and couldn't help but feel… what was the word…

"Maddie, you've been standing here for seven minutes, is something the matter?"

Not now!

Madison turned over to her mother like she was in the military, "Nothing is the matter, I'm doing quite swell." she said rather quietly.

Her mother laughed, "You're not that good at fibbing, you do realize?"

"No."

"…"

"…"

"Have a good day Maddie."

How could she possibly have a good day when there were too many questions? What were those things, and more importantly, or perhaps less importantly, but around the same level of importance, what was in that building?

She couldn't check it out, no, there was a certain rule that everyone had to follow. Specifically, that if you did enter that specific building, and if you were found would receive some sort of penalty.

Something about the rule was off however, Madison had noticed it when she first heard it. She couldn't put her finger on it though. The wording was off. It said, 'If you were found you would receive some sort of penalty'.

This sounded slightly wrong somehow. Like… it was a… whatchamacallit?

She didn't quite have the word, it was like a hole found in the rules, a sort of way to bend them to fit a certain meaning, one not realized by the creators of the rule.

She could do this, but there was a problem.

She would have to not get caught.

But there were too many others.

You see, it had been about a day, perhaps a day and a half, and other people had been brought in. This peculiar pack of people, were all adults, and all seeming to be of various importance. She hadn't caught their names of course, no, she didn't ask, it's rude to ask.

But one of them would be a problem which would less to getting caught. Because they were watching.

Watching for no apparent reasons other than watching. Like they were keeping something in that building safe, sort of like a security door for a security door, if that security door was a person. How could she not get caught? How….

How….

Madison looked to the left of the porch. There was a creature, which had been called harmless by the others. Harmless meaning not able to hurt according to them. It was a small one with red wings, having black dots on it. She then go a strange idea, one that truth be told sounded very idiotic.

She remembered, when they had confirmed the hostility of the creatures, the security door person hadn't been there. Perhaps if she could somehow bring it over there, it could cause a distraction? But how was the question. What could possibly…

…

The creature flew onto her hand, right specifically.

…

She wanted to scream, but that wasn't appropriate.

…

She got an idea.

…

She treaded carefully down the steps on the porch, as so the creature didn't fly away. The path was like dirt, except sort of paved dirt, a darker variant, but a straight shot nontheless. Every step she made was at a snails pace, if she knew what a snail was. The creature was climbing in her skin, making her cringe inwardly every second. It began to climb up her arm, which was getting rather tired to be honest.

She was about three quarters of the way there, when she felt the creature crawl back onto her hand, and she released a deep breath continuing to walk. She was around ten feet away and saw the guard. He had hair around his nose and chin, a sort of beard you could say.

She walked closer and his attention turned over to her with a confused look. With her arm held out, she got closer until she was maybe a couple feet away. He then engaged dialogue. "Can I help y' with something? "he asked in a strange accent.

Madison said nothing as she just stood there like a finicky statue. She moved her arm towards the man, and waited patiently for something to happen. The man raised an eyebrow. "You doing something with the ladybug."

Oh that was it, a ladybug. Odd name, yet somehow fitting. "Uh…" Madison started. "Please relay information about the… ladybug." She said.

"I don't know, it'sa native species to this planet."

Madison replied quickly, and quickly said, "Can you go get someone to tell me more, I have a lack of activities in comparison to previous times."

"Well…"

Please do, please do, please do, please do-

"Okay, just wait here and don't touch anything." The man said getting up and walking to an irrelevant place, as the building was important.

This feels wrong.

Madison looked at the door, and like any child would, did the opposite of what an adult would do. As she entered the building, it was a very different atmosphere. Sort of like a hotel lobby, with a single door directly in front of her. Nobody else seemed to be in there. The door inside the building seemed to be locked, but there was an odd device by the side.

Like a number pad on a keyboard, except without the numbers, it was near the wall with a screen near the top that most likely displayed numbers. A combination lock…

She certainly wasn't getting in.

She was about to walk out, but something caught her attention. It was a sound. It was very quiet, yet still noticeable. "Poy…" is what it sounded like. Madison approached the door again.

"Is there a person there?" she whispered.

The voice replied. "Poyo?"

"What's a poyo?" Madison asked.

"Poy, poyo poy." The voice replied.

"…"

"…"

"I'm need to be in a specific spot, but I'll come back later, uh… what's your name?"

"Kabi!" the voice said proudly.

"Okay Kabi…" Madison walked outside and stood in the position she did previously. She felt a sense of whimsy, like she had actually done something, but it was probably a fluke. The security man came back with nobody, but he looked like he knew something.

But strangely Madison didn't care. As he walked up to her and he told her some information her mind was buzzing. Once he finished and asked her if she needed anything else, she responded,

"Poyo." She then realized what she said. "I mean, yes, thank you ever so good sir." She replied. "I shall be going now." And she left.

Adeline was in Dedede's castle. The castle wasn't interesting at the moment, it being about the middle of the day, a few Waddle Dees stood in the hallways, along with the occasional Waddle Doo, but other than that nothing stood out.

She had been constantly looking at the watch, waiting for something to happen, yet nothing did. The previous call had put her on edge, and she hadn't accomplished much today, though she never really did. Maybe she just needed to talk to someone, so she headed into the throne room where King Dedede sat.

She opened the door and King Dedede was there staring at the ceiling, looking to be daydreaming. "Hm…" Dedede muttered to himself as Adeline walked up, waving her hand in his face. Dedede looked over to her. "Oh, you." He said snapping back into reality. "What's happening?"

"Oh you know, just stuff." Adeline responded.

"You sure about that?" Dedede asked.

Adeline hesitated for a moment. "Uh, actually there's this thing I want to ask you about…"

Dedede paused. "You ain't about to ask me where babies come from are you?"

"No, no, I just want to talk, that's all." Adeline clarified. "You see, you know that thing that appeared outside of your castle today?"

Dedede sighed. "Yeah, you were there, and I was there, why?" Adeline help up her hand, and showed Dedede the watch, and he leaned forward with a confused expression. After a moment, he went back to his typical sitting position. "Adeline, come with me for a moment." Dedede stood up from his throne.

"Huh?" Adeline asked. Dedede put his hands on his throne, and pushed it to the side revealing the wall behind his throne. Dedede pushed the wall, revealing a door and asked Adeline to come in. Adeline walked in, and found herself in a high tech room, with multiple Waddle Dee in chairs with monitors in front of them. The door slammed behind them, and Dedede looked at Adeline.

"Adeline, I think I may have a nickel-" Dedede laughed. "A nickel, what does that even mean?" he then regained his composure. "I may have a smidgen of an idea of what that watch may be." Dedede turned towards a large screen that was in the center of the room, and Adeline did the same.

It showed what appeared to be a full view of the planet from orbit. Dedede smiled. "Behold, the D3-Satelite!" he announced. "It launched a month ago, and it's top secret, so you can't tell nobody." He told Adeline. "Anyway, take a look at this here footage."

The screen faded to black, then a loading bar appeared.

"Any second now." Dedede said.

The bar was at ten percent.

"It's getting closer." said the king.

The bar was at eleven percent.

"Any… minute now." Dedede sighed.

Twelve percent.

"Ugh." Dedede muttered. "Okay, long story short, after you brought Popcorn here, I was informed that a spaceship apparently was set to land that very night." Dedede looked at the screen which was thirteen percent done. "But we couldn't find it." He sighed. "BUT, I'm pretty sure that that-there watch you have on is a clue."

"So…"

"So, take it off, so we can analyze it, dummy." He finished.

But before she could take it off, the door they came in opened. It took a bit, but Bandanna Waddle Dee eventually came in. "King- king Dedede…" he looked very out of breath. "Oh hey Adeline." he said. "Uh, King… there was a… a building… it… I think it's the…" Bandanna Dee looked at the loading bar. "Wow, that's slow."

"Tell me about it." Dedede replied.

"Anyways, there was… a weird building in the forest, uh, they're saying Poyo-"

"Who's saying poyo?" Dedede asked.

Bandanna Dee responded. "Pop-" Bandanna Dee looked at Dedede for a moment before saying, "Popcorn is saying poyo."

Dedede started. "Okay, wait, tell me more about that building-"

Adeline interrupted. "But weren't we just talking about the watch-"

"What watch?" Bandanna Dee asked. He looked at Adeline's arm. "Wait when did you get-"

"Never mind that-"

"Let me finish please, as I was-"

"y'all need to let me spe-"

"We were letting you speak, you were just-"

"I didn't mean to interrupt, but th-"

"Why is it so important-"

"Because it w-"

"What are you talking about-"

"It wasn't there befor-"

"What wasn't there?"

"That's what I was getting t-"

"But what ab-"

"Ok, hang on a minute!" Dedede yelled, stopping the other two from speaking. "Bandanna Dee, you go first!" Adeline looked at Dedede as he said this, and got an odd feeling in her arm.

"Okay, so I was on the training mission, yeah?"

"Yep." Dedede replied.

"So Popcorn suddenly started running, and I mean like RUNNING, until there was this building they ran into."

"Yep." As they were doing this Adeline tried to pull off the watch again. She failed unfortunately, and…

And…

And…

Adeline left?

"So then they said poyo or something like that, and then we quickly came back here with the trainees."

Dedede nodded. "Now Adeline, you speak." Dedede said.

"Well…" Adeline started. "I think we should take a visit to that building." She suddenly replied.

"Huh?"

"The building, let's head there in…" Adeline paused and didn't move, like at all. "…lets all head there tomorrow."

"Okay?" Dedede questioned, sort of weirded out. "You feeling alright?"

"Actually." Adeline began to walk out of the room. "Never better great king." She walked out of the room, as Bandanna Dee and Dedede were rather confused about what just happened.

Dedede grunted inquisitively. "Since when does she call me great king?" Dedede put his hands on his hips. "Something ain't right."

"Maybe she picked it up from me?" Bandanna Dee suggested. "Though it sounds odd coming from her mouth."

"Yeah…" Dedede replied. "By the way, have you seen Meta Knight recently, I haven't seen him online lately."

"Online?"

"Answer the question please." Dedede replied, dodging the question.

"Well not really, but wherever he is, I'm sure he's perfectly safe and in no danger whatsoever."

"Dedede sighed. "Well atleast I know he's in danger now."

"What?"

"It's called foresight, don't worry about it."

"…"

"…"

"Okay I think we need a good ending to this conversation."

"Uh… well how about we just…"

And thus the conversation ended.

I had severe writer's block on this chapter until I realized I'm having writer's block on a fic with a Kirby theme.

So I wrote some other fanfic, and now I'm gonna finish this once and for all! Next chapter tommorow at 10!

Am.

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