Kirby and his friends continued on into Red Canyon. The landscape was dry and unforgiving, the sun's rays weren't helping the situation at all.
Kirby noticed a nearby Rocky and inhaled it. With the Stone ability the rocks no longer dug into his feet. The group decided to stop for a moment and catch their breath, then they heard a rumbling noise.
"Kirby, now is not the time to be thinking about food." Coo scolded.
"Not Kirby, poyo."
"Pardon?"
A boulder was falling towards them down a cliff. They started to run out of the boulder's path, but Kirby tripped in front.
"KIRBY!" Rick and Coo shouted. The boulder had most likely…squished him.
"Why Coo why?! He was so young! He had so many meals ahead of him!" Rick wailed.
Suddenly the boulder cracked apart, revealing Kirby completely unharmed. His Stone ability had protected him.
"Oh, Kirby! We thought you had expired!" Rick and Coo grabbed Kirby, trapping him in a group hug. Kirby stood in place with a bewildered expression before hugging them back. He didn't understand why they were so panicked, but it didn't matter because he was getting a free hug.
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The three continued on their way without any more accidents. They noticed something green in the distance. An oasis! They rushed towards the oasis, hoping it wasn't a mirage. They stepped into the small forest of green and noticed a clearing. Kirby stepped into the middle, only to narrowly avoid being body slammed my a ninja-like being.
"It's Waiu…" Coo murmured.
"Who?" Rick questioned.
"Waiu. He's a famed ninja around here. I've heard tales of his ambushes and thievery."
Waiu picked himself up and flipped into the air, then rocketing towards Kirby. Kirby was thrown into a tree by the force of the kick.
"Hey Kirby, let's try combining abilities." Rick helped him up. Kirby understood.
Kirby leaped onto Rick's back, the hamster suddenly turned into a giant rock. Kirby rolled Rick around by balancing on top of his rock form and barreled towards the ninja. Waiu was completely flattened. After a few moments, he stood up then vanished in a puff of smoke. He was gone leaving behind a brown sack.
Rick untied the sack to reveal a very dehydrated ocean sunfish.
"Kine!" Rick quickly tossed him into the oasis water. Kine took a deep breath of water and panted.
"Kine, how long were you in there?" Coo asked.
"I don't know. A long time." Kine breathed.
"Okay, new team rule. No one is getting left behind from this point onward." The purple owl declared.
"Now how are we going to get him onto land?" Coo pondered.
Rick suddenly pulled out several empty plastic bottles from his fur.
"Simple. We'll fill up these bottles and give some water to Kine when he get's dehydrated again."
"I don't want to be kidnapped again! I don't want to be sushi!" Kine shouted.
"If your with Kirby, this shouldn't ever happen again." The owl comforted Kine.
The quartet continued onward through the canyon. Kine hopped behind the rest. He was slow, but he could survive a while onto land even without the water bottles.
They noticed a familiar block structure in the distance. Kirby inhaled a Sparky and obtained the Spark ability. Kiby and Rick combined abilities to create a giant spark beam that destroyed the block formation.
Kirby walked through the wreckage and retrieved the fifth Rainbow Drop.
The group headed on their way, climbing a treacherous mountain. They reached the top and sat down, thinking they deserved a rest.
Suddenly they were stopped by two cosmic beings.
"I am Mr. Bright." A being resembling the sun said.
"And I am Mr. Shine." The crescent moon being said.
"We rule both the night and day! This leaves no time for you Kirby! Be gone!"
"That's just rude." Kine whispered.
Mr. Bright sent a fiery beam towards them. The team quickly dodged as the flames flew over their heads. Then, Mr. Shine tried to ram them. The two astral beings switched positions, with Mr. Shine in the air and Mr. Bright on the ground.
Mr. Shine rained several small stars onto their heads. Kirby inhaled one to gain the Cutter ability. Kirby threw the cutter in Mr. Bright's direction, striking him. They switched positions. Kirby continued to attack whoever was at ground level until both rose into the air.
The sun and moon began to circle each other, leaving only a small shadowy patch with sunlight everywhere else. Kirby motioned for everyone to dive into the shadows. A second later, everywhere there was sunlight lit up into a fiery inferno. Kirby threw his cutter up into the air, hitting both Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright.
The two beings scowled at Kirby before ascending back into the sky.
"Did…did you just fight the sun and the moon?" Was all Rick could say.
Kirby shrugged and held the Rainbow Drop over his head revealing the next Rainbow Bridge.
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Fumu paced back and forth in the town library.
"Where is Kirby? Shouldn't he be back by now? What if something happened to him?" she thought frantically for the past few days.
"Sis, if you keep it up you'll wear your footprints into the floor." Bun called from across the room. "So stop worrying."
"Stop worrying? Stop Worrying?!" Fumu stomped over to her brother. "How can you not worry?! We've been kicked out of the castle with no way inside, Dedede was in a coma the last time we saw him, that cloud over the castle is getting bigger with every passing hour, Meta Knight hasn't shown up in days, and we have no idea if Kirby is alive!" She shouted in Bun's face.
Bun's response was to put the comic book he was reading down and look directly in Fumu's eyes.
"I don't know about the rest of that stuff, but I'm not worried about Kirby because I know him. He defeated Nightmare, and whatever he's doing now I'm sure he's handling it."
Fumu was taken aback by her brother's sudden change in attitude. She had been worrying for days, thinking he might have gotten distracted or walked directly into danger without a care. Bun had faith in Kirby the whole time she had been pacing around. Was he growing up a little?
Fumu sat down next to Bun and sighed.
"I know… it's just…I can't help but wonder what would happen if something actually got to him."
"You mean if he had lost the fight to Nightmare?"
"Yes, something like that."
The thought chilled Fumu to the bone. Imagining if something had defeated Kirby. If Kirby was no longer apart of their lives. No longer apart of the town. Thinking about the looks of disbelief and shock from the residents, even Dedede.
She knew that despite Dedede's insistence that he couldn't stand being within a mile of Kirby, he really cared. That time when Dedede thought Kirby had exploded proved that. He said he needed Kirby to be his enemy.
Speaking of Dedede, she wondered what had happened to him. Dare she think it, but she was actually a bit concerned for the bumbling king. She hated not knowing anything on a certain subject.
"Bun?"
"Hmm?" Bun looked up from his comic book.
"What do you think happened to Dedede?" She tip-toed around the question carefully. She didn't want him to think she wasn't smart anymore just because she didn't know the answer to one question.
"He might be possessed." Bun answered, completely serious.
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"Bun, PLEASE tell me your joking." Fumu crossed her arms. She might have considered it a small possibility if the Demon Beasts were still around, but now?
"You've been reading too many of those comic books. Read something intellectual for a change like I do."
Bun rolled his eyes. "I'm just saying, it sounds very similar to a story I heard once."
"Was this story by any chance something you read from one of those paranormal magazines you pick up at the store?"
"…Maybe, but it could be true!"
"Mhmm, and maybe Dedede is only one of the many victims of this evil possession."
"You know, I think I liked it better when you were just pacing. You didn't make fun of what I read when you were doing that."
"Ugh, you're so ungrateful to my sisterly advice!" Fumu stood up and stomped off to the non-fiction section of the library.
Bun rolled his eyes again. Finished with his comic book, he headed to the paranormal section and sat down to read.
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Kirby and his trio of animal friends had crossed the Rainbow Bridge and were in the Rainbow Island of Cloudy Park.
They stepped onto the soft white clouds, not used to such a feeling.
"Hey, I just thought of something." Rick said suddenly. "Clouds are actually just water right?"
"Yes, I can breathe up here without problems." Kine said.
"No, I mean…how have we not fallen through the clouds by gravity and physics?"
Kirby's only response was to shrug and continue on his way.
He bounced happily through the clouds without a care in the world. Then he tripped on something. How can one trip on a cloud? Rick, Coo, and Kine tugged Kirby, who was stuck in the cloud headfirst, freeing him.
They looked at the offending object, only to see a familiar block.
Kirby used his cutter on his hat to break through the blocks and pulled out a chest. Kirby opened the chest to reveal the sixth Rainbow Drop.
The rest of the trip through Cloudy Park was a breeze. They had little to no trouble out of any of the residents, and the clouds had many shortcuts. Suddenly, Kirby tripped over something again. Kirby peered down only to see a giant eye staring back at him.
Kirby jumped back and the eyeball sprung out of the clouds. It was Kracko Jr. back for revenge. Right now he was in his weakened form until he becomes Kracko again.
Kracko Jr. sent small shock waves towards Kirby. He quickly dodged them and threw his cutter blade at Kracko Jr., wounding him. Then it suddenly exploded.
Rick clapped. "Well, that was quick. Now we can go and-"
Then Kracko emerged, in his full cloud form with yellow spikes sticking out. He fired a star laser beam towards Kirby. He dodged and threw his cutter blade. Kracko flew higher into the clouds, striking Kirby with a lightning bolt. Coo grabbed Kirby and flew up to the cloud cyclops.
Kirby threw his cutter blade once more and struck Kracko down. Kracko then retreated into the clouds, letting them pass.
Kirby held the Rainbow Drop up to the light, revealing the next and last Rainbow Island. Kirby's town was the seventh Rainbow Island all along.
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Now it was Gooey who was pacing around the library in a quiet panic.
He couldn't let the town share the same fate as so many other places, but what could he do? He was just a blob. A sad, sad little blob.
"Hey Gooey, what are you up too?"
"It'snotmyfault! Oh, Bun. It's just you." Gooey sighed in relief. "What are you reading?"
"It's a book about paranormal activity. My sister thought it was dumb. Wanna look?"
Gooey hopped over to Bun, only to feel extremely uncomfortable looking at the book contented with such horrors.
"Isn't it creepy? There are residents from other planets that say they've been possessed before, going into long comas and their bodies start mutating or something."
"Mutating how?" Gooey was almost afraid to ask.
"They grow extra eyes in certain places, extra mouths, pretty much extra body parts."
"Ewww… that's gross."
"The strangest part is that after they wake up from the possession, all the mutations are gone. They've never been able to prove the possessions were true, even though there were pictures."
"If there were pictures then why wasn't that enough proof?" Gooey asked.
"My sister says that anyone can edit a picture to make it look real. She would go crazy if I was actually right about something instead of her for once."
Gooey sort of knew how it felt. His family never listened to him either. Never listened to his thoughts or opinions on something. That's why he doesn't really share his opinions with anyone anymore.
However, Bun's family actually loved and cared for him. They would never kick Bun out for choosing a job he wanted and loved instead of their preferred choice. Gooey longed for such a family…
A dark rumble was heard from the castle. Fumu, Bun, and Gooey looked out the window to see the castle completely transformed into a place that reeked of something evil. Then they saw someone walking down the street with a determined expression.
"Kirby!"
Author's Note:Another chapter done! We're getting so close to the end. Not the end of the fanfiction mind you, but this story arc. I really love how I wrote Bun in this chapter. I see him as the type that would love the paranormal and geek out over it. (I do the same thing, but with aliens and cryptids.) Where is the last Rainbow Drop? What's happened to Dedede? Is Gooey hiding something? And where is Meta Knight? Who is the final boss? Why am I asking you all these questions?