So like I said last time, this is my favorite world in the game and I can't wait to write it. Let's get going.
"So we have a normal field, a sugar land, a mountain range and now a jungle," Kirby said once the group reached the next island. "This place is weird,"
"Doesn't Popstar have all of those things?" Adeleine pointed out. "Several in some cases,"
"...fair enough," Kirby said sheepishly.
"Um, should we get going?" Owen asked.
"Watch out!" Owen cried. For some reason, there was a giant spiked tower in the middle of the jungle.
"I think I see one of those sun stone things!" Adeleine called out.
"Don't squirm so much!" Ribbon chastised her. The little fairy had been carrying the artist whenever flying was needed.
"Sorry Ribbon," Adeleine apologized.
"I got it!" Kirby called out as he held up the sun stone. However, by doing so, he forgot to keep flying and slammed into a spiked pole. "Ow…."
"Not another one!" Owen whined when the group was confronted with a haunted house.
"Again, evil space weirdos," Kirby pointed out.
"Again, different!" Owen snapped.
"Relax, Owen. You can handle it," Kirby said, changing tactics.
"If you say so daddy," Owen said. He still looked unsure as he followed Kirby inside.
"Watch out!" Adeleine exclaimed. A suit of armor suddenly came to life and slammed it's weapon down. Everyone quickly jumped out of the way.
"Take this!" Kirby said as he started to suck up the suit of armor.
"What! No!" A ghost cried as he tried to escape the armor, only to get caught in Kirby's stream and sucked up as well.
"Seems like the ghosts are mad we defeated them last time," Kirby said once he had finished.
"And is this a good thing?" Ribbon asked nervously.
"No! No it is not!" Owen exclaimed before Kirby could even get a word in. Instead, he chose to keep walking and suck up any more suits of armor that had ghosts in them, grabbing a sun stone on the way.
"Which one is real?" Ribbon asked. The group had been confronted with a set of four doors. Based on what they had dealt with in the ghost house, they realized one was most likely the real one. However, they had no way to tell outside of random guessing. Or at least that's what they thought.
"I wonder if these ghosts like sunlight…" Kirby said as he looked at a large curtain blocking a window. The others quickly saw the idea. Kirby made his way up to the window, sucking up the curtain and the windows themselves, which not only got him a sun stone, but got rid of three of the doors.
"Nice work, daddy!" Owen cheered.
"That was some smart thinking, Kirby," Ribbon said as she gave Kirby a kiss on the cheek, causing him to start blushing.
"Thanks…" Kirby said sheepishly.
"Give us back the door!" Adeleine ordered. A ghost that looked like the ones from earlier, albeit much bigger and wearing a crown, had draped a cape over the exit door and made it disappear.
"How about no?" The ghost said. "Seeing as you sucked up all my subjects, by the orders of King Foorlowber, I will destroy you here and now!" With a laugh, he possessed the closest thing to him, a vase and tried to charge Kirby. He dodged and sucked up the vase.
"Sorry, your highness, but I need to get through and if we have to do it the hard way, so be it!" Kirby said with a proud grin.
"Yeah, you better give us back that door!" Owen said, backing up his father.
"Ha! I have only begun!" King Foorlowber said as he moved onto another object. This time, it was cuckoo clock.
"That one is kinda funny," Ribbon said quietly. The king had replaced the bird and was seemingly controlling it from there. Once again, Kirby was able to suck up the object, but not the ghost.
"Stand still!" Kirby and King Foorlowber snapped at the same time. This time, the king went for a picture that was hanging on the wall. This time, he attacked Ribbon, Adeleine, and Owen.
"Why is he going after us!?" Ribbon exclaimed.
"Because Kirby can't get him without risking getting one of us," Adeleine realized.
"Hang on!" Owen said. Using his mini warp star, he was able to quickly get himself and both girls out of the way, letting Kirby suck up the painting. Once again, however, King Foorlowber got free.
"Clearly, you are stronger then I thought! But this should be the end of you!" The ghost king cackled as he possessed a piano.
"Why does it have a mouth?!" Owen asked.
"Because he's a ghost and made it creepy," Kirby pointed out. This time, when he sucked up the piano, he finally got the king.
"What's with the fire snakes?" Adeleine asked. Some snake statues were launching fireballs at the group.
"Clearly, whoever used to use these temples took some measures to protect it," Kirby guessed.
"But why are they attacking us?" Owen asked. "We're heroes!"
"They didn't know about us, I guess," Kirby said with a shrug. Owen seemed to accept that and continued to try and dodge the fireballs.
"Before you start, we are sick of seeing you as well," Kirby said, stopping Taranza right on the edge.
"So can we have our friends back so we never have to speak to each other again?" Owen asked.
"As wonderful of an arrangement as that would be, I was ordered by her majesty to bring the heroes of the Lower World to her and that is what I intend to do," Taranza said.
"So in that case, you ever gonna fight us yourself, you coward?" Kirby taunted.
"Oh! Burn!" Owen said as he and Kirby high fived.
"COWARD!?" Taranza exclaimed. "That is it! I am going to give you a death you deserve!" With that, he fired a magic blast at a serpent statue and then flew off, causing it to break, revealing a mostly metallic snake, who quickly started attacking.
"I've heard of this thing before!" Adeleine revealed. "It's name is Coily Rattler and it was designed to be a guardian,"
"How do we defeat it?" Owen asked, ready for a brawl.
"You need to aim for its head. It's the only part of its body that doesn't have armor," Adeleine said as she made a painting of Kracko and used it to rain lightning down on the snake guardian. Coily was well deserved of his role as a guardian as he was tough. He could spit fire, hit people with his tail or body, charge from the ceiling, and even fire rocks from the background. However, after Owen landed a powerful blast, his body broke apart, but before anyone could cheer, he reformed himself and roared.
"I think we made him mad," Kirby said nervously, Sure enough, the snake roared and its attack pattern swiftly changed. Now, he coiled around the platform when he wanted to move to the background, he split himself into pieces and fired them at the group, formed into a flaming ring and moved across the platform and roll across the stage along with his other attacks. However, despite all of that and the fact they could hit his head to do damage, the heroes were able to beat him. However, Taranza was nowhere to be found.
"You know, when he got all mad about being called a coward, I thought he was going to fight us," Owen said.
"Yeah, he got so mad," Ribbon agreed.
"He's hiding something. I can feel it," Kirby said.
Taranza is in so much denial right now. Everyone can see it.