Man, things have been sure interesting lately. Especially with the whole Dream Seeker incident last month. Yeah, I can't believe it too. I've been staying in Dreamland for about a month now. Time sure seems to fly by when you're busy fighting monsters and making new friends. Speaking of friends, I've been hanging out with them a lot more than usual. That incident from before made me realize that I must cherish my time with my friends as it all could be taken away one day if I'm not careful.

Though, during the times I spend with my friends, I learned a few interesting things about them. For example, I learned that Tuff is really into sports. I mean, it wasn't hard to figure out, but it is nice that he shared that information. Next, my newest friend, Katherine is staying at the local inn in Cappy Town. She has some relatives that owns the inn. I've never payed it a visit before until now. It's quite nice as it has a Japanese theme to it.

Finally, I have a suspicion that Honey might have a crush on Spikehead. The little Cappy sure likes to spend her company with that mischief boy. Ha, young love. That's something you think you would only see in the movies. Maybe I will find love too one day when I return home. Not that I'm looking for immediately, but it is a nice thought.

Toby's POV

It is evening as the sun is slowly settling down over the horizon. Right now, I am currently walking alongside with Tuff in the halls of Castle Dedede. We are on our way to see if Tiff would like to play hide and seek with us.

"Have you ever wondered if there's pirates out there in the sea?" Tuff asks as we walk.

"Well, maybe a few times, but I'm not entirely sure if there are." I responded. "Why do you ask?"

"Nothing. It's just that every time I go visit the beach, I sometimes think about boats. Do you think it might be cool to be a pirate?"

"I don't think so. I think I prefer the ninja life instead."

"What's a ninja?"

'Seriously, how many other things they never heard of before?' I thought. 'First snow, now ninjas?'

"Ninjas are very skilled fighters. They train to master a martial art known as Jujitsu." I explain. "It's a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses either a short weapon or none."

"Wow, that's sounds so cool!" Tuff marveled. "Do you know Jujitsu?"

"No, but I think Meta Knight might knows some. I mean, there had to be a real ninja during the Monster War."

Before we could continue the conversation, we found the blonde that we've been looking for.

"Hey, Tiff." I greeted.

"Me and Kirby were wondering if you would like to play hide and seek with us." Tuff offers.

"I can't, I'm going out." Tiff said.

"Out? But it's dangerous to go out at this time."

"Well, me and Kirby have gone out at night many times! So I'm fine with going out by myself!"

"Whoa, no need to get defensive all of sudden, Tiffy." I said before noticing something. "Say, are you wearing... perfume?"

Tuff takes a whiff of the scent we barely noticed.

"Hey, why do you have mom's fancy perfume on, Tiff?" Tuff asks.

"That's private."

With that, Tiff walks away from us. Leaving us confused.

"Come on, Kirby." Tuff whispered. "Let's go follow her to make sure she is okay."

I raise a brow in amusement. I can see the mischief in that boy's smile.

'I know I shouldn't go intrude in on Tiff's business, but I'm too curious to back out. Besides, it does seem a little suspicious that she is wearing perfume all of sudden.'

"Alright, but if we are going to spy on her, then we might as well go all out."

"What do you mean?"

I smirk. "Oh, I have an idea."

A part of me is shaming me for prying in on my friend's business, but another part of me says to ignore that other part and go do what I want. In which I decided to follow.

"This is so cool." Tuff whispered.

"Shh! Keep it down, Tuff." I replied.

If you are wondering what we are doing, well, we are currently floating overhead of our suspect known as Tiff. I am in my Ghost Kirby form as we are invisible. Tuff is hanging by a rope that I'm holding. We've followed the blonde all the way to the coast. The same place where me and Dyna Blade's chick, Sentry hung out before.

'Why did she come all the way out here?'

"Hey, Kirby. This almost feels like being secret agents." He said excitedly. "Look, she stopped."

True to his words, Tiff apparently made it to where she wanted to go. She then pulls out a golden seashell out of her pack she brought with her.

"Writing a letter on a seashell is pretty weird." We hear her say to herself. "Maybe it was just a joke."

Splash!

"Well, hello there!"

We were greeted by a new arrival. An aquatic arrival to be specific.

"Kine?" I whispered.

It was indeed Kine the Sunfish. I've only met the fish once WAY back when I fought Blocky the rock monster.

"I'm so happy that you're here!" He says happily.

"Huh?" Tiff said obviously confused.

"I wasn't sure if you'd found the letter I wrote in that shell, of if you did, you'd be able to read it."

For some reason, that made Tiff go completely stiff as she drops the apparent sea letter.

'So it was Kine that made Tiff come out here. Though, what did he wrote that made her react like this?'

Kine continues. "Oh, but I would have written a million letters if I thought I get the chance to meet you."

"Does this mean you're Kine?" Tiff demanded after regaining her composer.

"The one and only."

Tiff sighs slightly. "A fish who can write."

'I know what you mean, Tiff. How does one even write with fins and no hands?'

"A lot of fish are very educated because we spend so much time is schools." Kine explains.

It took every fiber of my being to not facepalm. I couldn't tell if that pun was on purpose . I sense Tuff was feeling the same way underneath me.

"Well, here I am. What do you want to meet me for?" Tiff asks.

"I swim by this spot almost everyday, and I've seen you collect seashell on the beach. You seem very interested in the ocean."

"Collecting shells is my hobby, and I do love marine biology."

"Y-You love?!"

Kine suddenly dives down and swims around in excitement. He comes back up with energy.

"I knew you and me would have a lot of things in common, Tiff, and that's why I'd like for you to be my girlfriend!"

That shocked both me and Tiff.

Tiff: "ME AS YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!"

Me: "WHAT?!"

I lost concentration and drop our invisible camouflage. I also dropped Tuff down to the ground, but he was too busy laughing his guts out to care.

"Yeah, Tiff, and he could be your gill-friend!" Tuff laughs hysterically.

Tiff spots us both.

"Alright! Why are you two here?!" She yells.

"When you left, I knew something was fishy, but I didn't know it was this fishy!"

'Oh, Galaxia, please end the puns!'

"Tiff, I could give you personalized swimming lessons and you could live here in the sea." Kine offers.

That once again shocks Tiff as she stumbles back.

"What's wrong, Tiff? Have you ever heard of 'The Little Mermaid'?"

'First of all, that's a thing here? Second, it's suppose to be the beautiful mermaid that looks for love. Not a fucking big-lipped, delusional sunfish!'

"Kine, don't you know you're a fish, right?" Tiff questions.

"Of course I know I'm a fish. What's your point, Tiffy?"

'Tiffy?! I call her that!'

Tiff stands back up before taking a deep breath, then exhaling.

"See that, those are my lungs working, Kine, but they don't work very well underwater." Tiff sighs. "We're both from very different worlds, so we both don't breath the same way."

"Butw e both have hearts and mine tells me that we are meant to be together."

Tiff groans in frustration.

"Why don't you give him a chance and go on a date with him, Tiff?" Tuff jokes. "He might be the only guy who likes you."

I stare at Tuff in surprise before narrowing my eyes.

"This isn't funny, Tuff." I said in a serious tone.

"He's right." Tiff agrees before turning to Kine. "Look, Kine. I can't live in the ocean and you can't live on land. So forget it!"

"Huh?" Kine said in confusion... and a bit of sadness.

'Get friend-zoned, buddy!' I blinked. 'Whoa... Where that come from?'

"Nice meeting you."

Tiff turns around and runs off to the direction of home. Tuff turns to Kine.

"My sister is right, Kine. Too bad you're not a lungfish." He turns around and too runs off. "Let's go, Kirby!"

It was just me and Kine as we watch the duo go off into the distance.

"Kine, I could tell you're a nice guy." I sigh. "However, you shouldn't just immediately declare some girl to be your girlfriend because you feel she should be. Relationships takes time to grow."

'Not to mention, as mature as she is for her age, she is not going on a date with some random guy off the streets. Let alone a fish.'

Kine just sags sadly.

"I'm sure you'll find your other half one day. Don't give up, dude."

With that, I turn around and flew away towards my home. I thought Tiff would want some alone time after this shocking evening.

"-and then, she ran off all the way back home."

When I got home, I find Miku sitting on one of the lawn chairs outside reading a manga. When she asks how my day was, I told her everything of what happened this evening. It is night as we watch the stars shine in the sky.

"I do agree that she shouldn't go out with Kine. However, it is kind of cute if you think about it." She commented.

"Please~" I roll my eyes. "That delusional fish doesn't love her, he just loves the idea of having a girlfriend. He just doesn't know it yet."

Miku raises a brow.

"You seem pretty defensive over this, Toby. You're not... jealous, are you?"

"What? Of course not! I'm just looking out for Tiff is all."

Miku smirks. "I don't know. You've been spending most of your time with her out of everyone else the most. Not to mention, you sometimes call her 'Tiffy'."

I groan. "Look, I really like Tiff, but not like that! Besides, I'm 17-years-old while she is like... 12 maybe? Either way, it wouldn't work out if I did find a relationship here in Dreamland. I'll be heading straight back home when I finally defeat Nightmare. That, or die trying anyway."

"I guess you do have a point, but you never know. Things could happen when you least expect it."

"Whatever you say." I shrug before getting up. "Well, I'm turning in. Goodnight, Miku."

"Goodnight, Toby." She replies.

The next morning, after getting a breakfast ramen from Kawasaki, I decided to head over to Castle Dedede again to check up on Tiff. A kinda feel bad for the blonde. When she received that goofy fish's letter, she must of felt pleased to have some sort of admirer. Only to be down-struck when she found the identity of said admirer. Not to mention, that comment Tuff said yesterday.

He might be the only guy who likes you.

That's not true, Tuff. I'm sure there are other boys who likes the little blonde. I mean, I like her. To a certain degree that is. You know, age barrier and all? Well... maybe if she was older-

"Hey, Kirby? What's up?"

My thought bubble was interrupted by Tuff, who is walking besides me in the castle hallway.

"O-Oh! Nothing!" I said shaking my head. "J-Just think of what's better, hot dogs or hamburgers?"

"Well, I like hamburgers better in my opinion, but you can think about that later. You said you wanted to talk to Tiff?"

I nodded. "Yeah. I just wanted to check up on her. You said you know where she is, right?"

"Yup. She's just reading in the castle's library. It's actually right around the corner."

True to his words, the room of knowledge was indeed around the corner. As we go through the entrance, I see Tiff is reading book. Though, from quick observation, it's a book on... marine life?

"Hey, Tiff!" Tuff greeted his sibling. "We've been looking all over for you."

Tiff notices us and quickly closes the book she was reading for some reason.

"Wow, that fish was wacky. His brain must be water-logged if he likes you."

I give the boy a sideways glare. Did he really had to bring up the subject so bluntly?

"Actually, I think that fish is really interesting." Tiff said

"What?/Huh?" Me and Tuff said.

"He may be little scaly, but he is very polite and a really good letter writer too."

'Polite? He was very keen on having you abandon your home just to live with him.'

"But, Tiff, he's a whole different kind of species." Tuff points out.

Tiff takes the book and climbs up a ladder.

"That's true, but we do have biological similarities and a talking fish is unusual."

'What about a talking tree, or bird, or hamster, or every freaking other species we came across for the past month?!'

"You mean you would go out on a date with Kine if he is living out on land?!" I ask.

Tiff puts the book away and slides down the ladder.

"Well, we both know that is definitely not going to happen, but a fish who shows that much initiative must be worth getting acquainted with."

'Oh, well that's good. She just wants to be friends with Kine. That's alright with me.'

(Light Laughter)

Great, I know that sound of laughing anywhere. We all turn to see King Dedede and Escargoon at the doorway with a few Waddle Dee guards. Though, we were all surprised to see Kine the Sunfish himself getting carted into the room in a glass fish tank. On the side of the tank is a mega horn.

"Well, here I am for our first date, Tiffy!" Kine said happily.

'WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING HERE?! AND DON'T CAll HER "TIFFY"!'

"Kine?!" Tiff exclaims. "How did you-"

Dedede interrupts with his laughter.

"I thought it would be nice of me to play Cupid and bring together a full on fish and cutie-pie together." Dedede said. "I know folks say that opposites attract, but I didn't think it would be this opposite."

"It's the world's first surf'n turf relationship." Escargoon adds.

"You're a lucky, girl. This guy's a great catch."

"Thanks again, your highness." Kine spoke.

With that, both goons leave the library to the rest of us in a fit of mocking laughter. There was an awkward silence as we all look at each other. Though, Tuff was the first to speak.

"Well, Tiff, you said if he was living on the land he would be worth getting acquainted with, remember?" Tuff smiles cheekily.

Though, Tiff did not find it funny.

"Oh, get real. First of all, he is still living in water. Second of all, he's still a fish!"

Kine sighs sadly at this.

"Come on, Tiff. Kine went through a whole lot of trouble to come and see you." Tuff tries to reason to my surprise. "The least you could do is just show him around what's on land."

I sigh irritably. "While I don't want to admit it, but he does have a point, Tiff."

'I suppose there is nothing wrong with going sightseeing.'

"What do you want to see, Kine?" Tuff asks the fish.

"I want to see everything!" Kine answers enthusiastically. "I'm sure there are a lot of things on land I need to learn if I'm going to be living here for now on."

"Like predators for one thing." I quietly mutter to myself.

"Okay, we better get going right away!" Tuff turns to me. "Come on, Kirby. You and me can help wheel Kine around Cappy Town!"

"Yeah, sure thing, Tuff." I reply as politely as I could.

I glance at Tiff and I see that she isn't looking forward to the whole idea.

'Well, this is one way of spending our morning.'

If things couldn't be more annoying for my blonde friend, it did as we gain the attention of many Cappies in Cappy Town. They surround us as they look at the side attraction known as Kine.

"A fine example of the species of Navarchus Piscem." Professor Curio comments.

A random farmer Cappy looks at Tiff.

"Is this one of them science fair projects, Tiff?" He asks in a southern accent.

"No, it's not her project, it's her date." Tuff butts in.

That surprises the farmer and the other Cappies.

"Big mouth!" Tiff insults Tuff.

But Tuff wasn't finished. "You see, Kine here got a crush on my sister. So he came here on land to go out on a date."

"A sightseeing trip to clarify." I try to defuse the unwanted situation, but failed.

"Well... at least it's better than dating a great white shark or a barracuda." The Cappy said rather unsure of the predicament.

"I say these two make a rather charming couple." Curio adds.

"We are not a couple." Tiff said annoyed.

"Chill out, Tiff." Tuff hushes her before turning to the crowd. "Okay! Clear the way! We got a date on the road!

I roll my eyes as me, Fololo, and Falala start pulling Kine's tank. The mini monsters decided to help us out with the ordeal. Anyway, a few minutes later, our group are going down a road. Kine takes in the view.

"I never knew the land could be this amazing as the sea, but it is!" The fish said fascinated.

Just then, we come across a huge field of colorful flowers. That made Kine even more excited.

"What are those plants with the bright colors called?"

"Flowers." Tiff answers.

"You know what? We've got something like them in the ocean, but we call them Coral."

"We know." I roll my eyes at the known answer.

Kine looks at Tiff. "At first, I was worried that the land would be too strange for me, but the land's just like back home in the sea!"

"They're different, Kine." Tiff points out.

"They're a little different maybe, but when you visit the ocean, you'll see how much the land and ocean both have in common."

"You're just saying that."

Kine then swims up and hangs over his tank.

"No I am not, Tiffy!"

'Stop calling her that you overgrown sushi roll!' I blink. 'Once again, why am I so bothered by this?'

"Kine, you and I don't have anything in common!" Tiff yells getting tired of Kine's affections.

Kine just sinks down in sadness by that. Tuff on the other hand laughs.

"What happened about all that stuff you said about biological similarities?"

Tiff blinks before sighing. Her word thrown against her it seems.

"Oh, boy." I also sigh.

It is around noon as we've been going around showing Kine some of the good sights here in Dreamland. The trip perks up the sunfish again as he seems to forget about earlier. Right now, we made a stop on top of a hill as the our crew are tired from pulling the tank around. Well, Tuff and the mini monsters are tired. I'm fine as I've trained with heavier weights than this.

"Everything is so beautiful here. I really love it on land, Tiffy." Kine said looking at the view.

I just grit my non-existing teeth in irritation as I lean on the tank at the front.

"More than the sea?" Tiff questions.

"Well, I certainly hope so cause I'm going to live the rest of my life on land!"

Tiff frowns. "You don't know how tough it is out here."

I point to our tired out friends. "She's right. Just look at our friends."

"W-We... We just gotta... catch our breath." Tuff waves.

"See what we mean?" Tiff said. "If it's hard for them to breath, it's going to be harder for you."

"Don't worry, Tiffy. I'll endure anything if it means being here with you." Kine replies.

I swear my eyes just flashed red for a moment.

"Kine, this thing just isn't gonna-"

Tiff pauses as Kine looks off into the distance. We turn to see a very young Cappy couple walking down the street while holding hands. Kine turns to Tiff.

"Tiffy, let's you and me hold hands."

Kine swims forward, but ends up faceplanting on the glass.

"Uh, you don't have hands." Tiff said surprised by the sudden action.

"Oh, please?"

Kine swims back and continues to repeat the process again. I just glare at the idiotic sea animal.

'This moron isn't going to let Tiff go, isn't he? I need to put an end to this.'

Just then, I've gotten an idea. An awful idea. A wonderful awful idea.

'Alright, Kine. You said you would endure anything just to be with Tiff? Well, let's see how committed you really are.'

I look down at the front wheels of Kine's tank. There are two rocks we used to keep the tank from rolling down the hill we were on.

"Bon voyage, Kine." I said quietly.

When the so-called couple wasn't looking, I kicked the rocks out of the way. Just as planned, Kine's final headbutt against the glass made his ride jerk forward and start rolling down the hill. Tiff sees this and tries to stop the cart, but lacks the strength to hold on loses her grip.

"Oh, no! Kine!" She shouts.

Said Kine is currently screaming in panic as he speeds his way down the hill at a fast rate.

"He's going to crash!" Falala points.

"Come on. We got to go save him." I said playing along.

We all ran down in the direction of where the runaway tank went to. Soon enough, we found it, but we were too late. The glass is already smashed as water flowed onto the street. Though, there was no sign of Kine.

"Where is he?" Tuff asks.

Crash!

We all heard a commotion nearby. It was coming from Kawasaki's restaurant.

"Uh, oh! That's not good!"

"Come on!" Tiff commanded.

We all ran inside the building and into the kitchen. Resting on a cutting board and out of breath is the sunfish himself. However, my daily orange boss known as Kawasaki is standing over the fish with a butcher knife raised and ready to start chopping.

"Wait! That's not sushi! That's Tiff's boyfriend!" Tuff said stopping the chef.

"Huh? Her... boyfriend?" Kawasaki asks confused.

Tiff sighs as she facepalms.

"Don't ask." She said.

Once everyone has calmed down, we went outside where we start filling up Kine's new tank. Kawasaki was nice enough to lend us one of his cooking pots to use temporarily.

"See how dangerous it is out here?" Tiff said as she pours another bucket of water.

"You're lucky, you must have nine lives." Tuff adds.

"Ugh... I guess that means I'm part catfish." Kine said as he tries to regain his strength.

'Oh my, Galaxia. No more fish puns, please.'

"I tried to warn you that it is impossible to live on land." Tiff said.

"Yeah, you sure won't be so lucky next time." I said faking my concern.

Screech!

As if Galaxia herself wants to prove my point, a loud screech sounds off. We all look up to see none other than Dyna Blade herself.

"Gah! Dyna Blade is diving for dinner!" Tuff shouts in panic.

"And Kine is on the menu!" Tiff joins.

Before we could do anything, Dyna Blade gracefully swoops down and snatches the sunfish. At least mama bird didn't cause any damages to the buildings this time.

"Here we go again." I said.

Well, I will admit. My little plan might of escalated quite a bit. I honestly wasn't expecting this whole turn of event. Anyway, after Dyna Blade took away Kine, he was lucky enough to wiggle out of her grasp and land right into Mayor Len's house. Probably both at the right and wrong time because Kine ended up landing right into Len's bathtub just when he was about to bathe.

After explaining to Mayor Len, and paying Kawasaki for a new cooking pot with my money, we took the unlucky fish down to the river. Right now, Kine is just splashing around in the nice cool creek.

"Is life on land this exciting as it is today, Tiffy?" Kine asks happily.

'Kinda wish Dyna Blade still kept you, Kine.'

"Unfortunately not." Tiff answers.

"Well, I guess it's just me. Ever since I've left the sea, I keep getting into trouble."

"That's cause fish should stay in water where you belong!" Tuff said as he is finally tired of all this crap we've been through. "You're never going to survive on land. No fish can."

Kine looks down.

"You think it's crazy for someone who's from the sea to live on land, don't you, Tiff?"

"I do." Tiff sighs.

"Then the King's crazy too since he's from the land and he wants to live in the sea."

That got all of our attention. Dedede wants to live in the sea? Now, that's completely random.

"What are you talking about?" I question.

"I'm not sure, Kirby. King Dedede wouldn't help me unless I gave him directions."

"So, Dedede built you a tank to come onto land after you gave him directions." Tuff recounts.

"Where does Dedede want to go?" Tiff presses.

"Dedede wanted to go to a secret spot called the Rainbow Coral Reef." Kine answers.

This doesn't sound good. Whenever Dedede wants to develop something, it usually involves destroying the environment. He needs to be stopped.

"Come on, let's get back to the castle."

"You guys go on ahead!" I said running off. "I'm going to head back home and get Miku! We'll meet you at the beach!"

About a half hour later, we are swimming to the location of the Rainbow Coral Reef. So, it turns out that King Dedede tricked Kine into telling the location of the reef so he could tear it down and build an underwater castle. Why he would want one, I don't know. For now though, we need to stop his plan and save the reef. So many marine animals will be homeless from what Kine told me.

Me and Miku are wearing snorkels while Tiff, Tuff, and surprisingly Meta Knight are inside some sort of submarine. It looks like a barrel with fins and a propeller.

'All this would be nice if we hadn't had to go on a mission.'

After swimming for some time, we finally made it to the reef. Well, what's left of it anyway. I see King Dedede and Escargoon inside their own submarine as they continue tearing down the reef with a pair of metal claws.

'There he is. Now all we need to do is stealthily-'

"You tricked me so you could destroy the Rainbow Coral Reef!"

Nevermind for stealth. The idiot sunfish goes right ahead and charges straight at the goons. Kine ends up being smacked away by the claws. That's when Dedede notices the rest of us.

"What's going on, Escargoon?" Dedede questions. "What's that puny little goofball doing down here?"

"I bet Kirby and those crummy kids want to stop you from tearing down the coral reef." The snail said.

"No way."

Me and Miku take up battle stances as we make our way to the sub.

"You ain't going to get in my way, Kirby. Neither will you, Miku." Dedede said confidently before pressing a button.

The fat King launches a torpedo right at us. We were able to dodge the projectile, but our friends weren't lucky as they got shot instead. With their sub in ruins, Tiff and Tuff struggle to get to the surface. As for Meta Knight, he's nowhere to be seen.

'Oh, no!'

Before I could react, Kine comes swimming by.

"I'm coming, Tiffy!"

Kine goes over to Tiff and makes a big bubble for her and Tuff. I would sigh in relief if I wasn't wearing a snorkel. I turn back to the goons in anger. Miku though goes to tend the others.

"We missed." Escargoon said.

"Well, fire again!" Dedede commands.

They shoot another torpedo at me. I took off the my mask and began inhaling. Soon enough, I swallowed the whole thing down my gut.

"Go, Kirby!" I hear Tiff and Tuff cheer in the background.

I flash a bright light as I transform into my new form. I am now wearing a blue Link hat. It has a white rim and a pompom at the top of the hat.

'I am now Bomb Kirby.'

"What is that?" Dedede demands.

"I don't know, Sire, but I don't like the looks of it." Escargoon said nervously.

As he should be nervous as I close my eyes and focus my powers. Soon, I summon a set of mines in my hands. That made the goons go white.

"Oh, this won't end well!"

"Well, what are you waiting for?! Get us out of here!"

I didn't give them the chance as I throw the mines at their sub and explode on contact. The blast was strong enough launch the duos all the way up to the surface. I follow them and too emerge above water. The goons are perched on top of the badly damaged sub.

"Had a blast, Dedede?!" I yelled out smugly.

The fatso looks at me in pure anger as his face turns red.

"First you get rid of my country club! Now, you stop me from having my underwater castle! You really are becoming a thorn in my behind, Kirby!"

"Consider it as payback for my treehouse and starship."

Before Dedede could say anything else, a pack of great white sharks appeared out of nowhere as they surround the goons. This scared the absolute crap out of them as they literally start running above water with the angry sharks following after them.

"Why would he build another castle?" I ask myself. "He'll end up just paying even more expenses. I guess he didn't think that through."

Splash~

Just then, my friends emerge to the surface with me.

"Guys, are you all alright?" I ask as I swim to them.

"We're fine, but what about Dedede." Tiff said.

"Don't worry about him. He's been taken care of. Though, let's get back to land."

"You don't have to tell us twice." Miku sighs."I think I had enough of danger for today, thank you."

When we made it back the mainland, we are all just resting up a bit. Man, I always wanted to go deep see diving, but never thought that I would do it on another planet. Not to mention, I'm pretty happy that I've finally got the chance to try out my Bomb Kirby form. I mean, I know I may not be able to use it often since I don't have access to explosive or even gun powder, but it was sure awesome while it lasted.

"Kirby, I want to say thank you for your help in saving the Rainbow Coral Reef." Kine says to me. "If it wasn't for you, King Dedede would of made destroyed it entirely."

I shrug. "Hey, it's what I do. Fight monsters and foiling Dedede's selfish schemes."

Kine turns to Tiff.

"I also wanted to say that I'm sorry for causing a lot of trouble for you and your friends today."

"I'm sorry that things didn't go the way you wanted." Tiff said feeling sorry for the sunfish. "But you're a really special fish and I'm glad that I've meet you, Kine."

"I'll always remember the day we spent for the rest of my life, Tiffy."

'Sigh... you know what? I'll let it go this once. He deserves it.'

"Take care of yourself, Kine." Tiff waves.

"Take care of yourself too." Kine replies sadly as he starts swimming away.

As I watch the sunfish go, I couldn't help but feel guilty. Yes, that goofball may have pushed it a little bit and wouldn't take no for an answer, but in the end, he's just another person who wants to be loved. And I only made it even difficult.

'I know I'm going to regret it, but it's the right thing to do.'

"Kine, wait!" I shouted.

Kine stops and comes over to me.

"Yes, Kirby?"

I look at the others.

"Could you all gives us a minute?"

All three look at each other confused, but complied as they move a few feet away from us.

"What's this about, Kirby?" Kine asks.

I sigh. "Look, Kine... I have a confession to make."

"What do you mean?"

"I... I was the one that made your tank roll down the hill earlier today."

Kine gasps. "What? Why would you do that, Kirby?"

I look back to make absolute sure that the others were out of earshot.

"I did it because... I was jealous."

This surprises the sunfish.

"Huh, you were jealous?"

"Yes. You see, Tiff means a lot to me as she has always been there for me ever since I've came to Dreamland. When you came around and just started calling her your girlfriend all of a sudden, that just made me very protective of her. While I do believe you deserve someone to be with like everyone else, you have to admit that maybe you were forcing the relationship between you two a little too much."

Kine looks down in thought.

"You know, I think I can see what you mean. I was so focused about us being together that I didn't take Tiff's feelings to account."

I raise a brow.

"You didn't call her 'Tiffy'?"

Kine looks back at me.

"Well, you do seem so irritated when I say that. I kinda noticed it awhile back."

I smile sheepishly. "Yeah, I call her that sometimes. So when I heard you saying it, it kinda increased my jealousy meter."

We both chuckle at that.

"Listen, Kine, just because Tiff doesn't have any feelings for you, it doesn't mean you can't be friends with her. Plus, it's not like you can't see her again. You said she always comes to the beach to collect seashells, so that means you can always go and just say 'hi'."

"Huh... I have't thought about it like that." Kine said. "Thanks, Kirby."

"No problem. Also, who knows? You'll find some lucky gal to be your girlfriend one day. As the saying goes, 'There are plenty of fishes in the sea.'."

"You know what? You're right, Kirby. Thank you for talking to me about this." He smiles.

"So... does this mean we're cool?" I ask hopefully.

"Yes, Kirby. We're cool."

We get close enough to do our own fist-bump. I'm glad that we've patch things up with each other.

_Author's Notes:_

Hello, everyone. It's me, The EnderPony Master.

I hope you guys liked the chapter. I know the whole jealousy thing was random, but I thought "Why not?". Also, I know I could of put in more effort into the whole battle scene with Dedede's submarine, but I honestly couldn't think much for that kind of situation. I wanted to try some other ways to fight the villians than how it originally went in the anime.

Anyway, what is the relationship between Toby and Tiff? What other adventures will await in the future? Do you guys think it might be weird for Toby to have slight feelings for the young blonde? Find out next time on "Toby Right Back At Ya!".