Light and Dark
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Chapter 2: A New Danger With New Allies
While the rain poured down on Meta Knight's head, he continued on to the castle with Farrah in his arms. As large as she was, it was easy to carry her because of the fact she was virtually weightless. A soft aura radiated from her slowly dimming body. Many thoughts passed in his head as he carried the Angel of Light to the castle.
How did she wind up here? What happened that caused her to be hurt so badly? Whatever it is, it must not be taken lightly as an opponent.
I know who attacked her, Meta. The Pendulum Amulet suddenly droned. Meta Knight couldn't set Farrah down in the rain, but it was a good thing he was under a tree at the moment. It helped keep a bit of the rain off their heads. Setting Farrah down against the tree trunk, Meta Knight glanced at the Pendulum Amulet and started to focus.
Who attacked her, then?
I believe who attacked the Angel of Light is none other than the Angel of Darkness.
"Sierra...? Hmmm... It is very plausible... we'll have to interrogate Farrah when she awakens. For now, I'll get her to the castle. It's a good thing we are almost there, anyway."
And Meta Knight picked Farrah up off of the ground and carried her to the castle.
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Callie, Tiff, and Victoria were looking outside through one of the many windows in the castle. The storm finally started pouring down rain furiously. It had been more than fifteen minutes since Meta Knight left the castle because of his stroll. The sound of thunder boomed as the rain poured down. Then suddenly, the doors of the castle burst open, revealing a pale, winged human like figure barely levitating. Though, that was not the case. This being was being carried, and when they set the angel down, the person who was carrying her was revealed to be none other than Meta Knight, who was soaked so bad, the contact to the air was causing him to freeze, though he hid that pretty well.
"Meta Knight! Where the hell have you been?!" Callie asked angrily with concern in her voice. "Never mind that! This woman is hurt bad, we have to get her into a bed to let her heal. I exhausted myself carrying her." He half-lied. "I'll get the Waddle Dees to help out. Dry her off, will ya, I don't want the rain water ruining the beds." King Dedede said as he went to go get the Waddle Dees. "I am not an idiot, Sire, I have something for this. Meta Knight said, narrowing his eyes in annoyance. He went to a nearby laundry basket and raided the warm towels. At that same time, King Dedede came back with more than thirty Waddle Dees.
"Are you really gonna use those towels? Those are my finer ones..." "Does it matter at the moment? I will place the towels in the bed you'll set her in." "But, Sir Meta Knight, I'm confused." Tiff suddenly spoke. "Why is that, Tiff?" "Well... I understand this angel-like woman is hurt, but why are you being so protective of her? Do you know her?" With a smirk hidden behind his mask, Meta Knight answered Tiff's question with a question of his own. "Does the Angel of Light sound familiar to you?" He asked, eyes turning pink when he saw the young girl's reaction.
"The Angel of Light?! Farrah?! How did she come here?!" Tiff asked with an expression of pure shock on her face. "I do not know that at the moment, but we will ask once she awakens. It is extremely unlikely for her to lose her memory of what happened; I caught her before she sustained even more severe injuries than she already has to deal with right now. Now, let's hurry." And they ran to the bedrooms; the little orange Waddle Dees carrying her along with ease. It would remind one how ants would carry their food on their backs, or even their own kind after their colony was washed away in a storm. It wasn't long before they reached the room they were going to have Farrah sleep in for the night.
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There was deathly still silence in the room as Callie and Meta Knight kept watch over Farrah. Despite being half-ethereal, the damage on Farrah's body was as visible as the light radiating from her body. A black wispy substance oozed from her wounds. Suddenly, Farrah began stirring in the bed as the light coming from her body grew brighter. She started levitating as her eyes started to open. They were a gorgeous silvery color, like a full moon in a partly cloudy sky.
"Thank you." Farrah said as she descended back to the bed. "Noble Star Warrior, I cannot thank you enough." "Your thanks is all I need, for now. I must ask some questions though." Meta Knight explained. Farrah nodded in cooperation. "First things first, who attacked you?" "My sister, Sierra." "Why were you here on Pop Star to fight?" "Pop Star is where it all began more than two thousand years ago. Our conflict started here, for this is one of the fewest spots in the Galaxy where the Dark had touched until Nightmare came along. We were also fused into Athenia here." Then Farrah's left wing twitched, accidentally hitting Callie in the back.
"That is all I will ask for now. Thank you, Farrah." Meta Knight said, bowing his head. The two walked out of the room.
"So, what now? Callie asked. "I will ask Farrah more questions in the morning. For now, we just have to get some rest. Everything will be answered in time... but... I wonder though..." "Wonder what?" "I sense something coming... something that isn't good..." Then Meta Knight wrapped himself in his cape before walking off with Callie following him.
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The Star Warrior kept on flying. She was almost to Dreamland. It had been about three days since she set off on her mission. When she saw that the Angels had unfused and started fighting in Dreamland, she knew one thing for sure: the denizens of Dreamland were in danger, especially the local Star Warriors. She had her ship on autopilot as she was reading out of one of the aged journals in her possession. Her sky blue eyes scanned the pages as she looked for the one she needed. When she found it, her eyes changed color to an amber yellow, the exact same color as Meta Knight's eyes. She marked the page and closed the journal, knowing she would need to use the journal later. It was a good time to stop reading as well; she was almost to Cappytown. She needed to land near the castle, and she made her way over. The Star Warrior landed without a problem. Cappies who saw the mysterious ship land formed a crowd and approached it out of curiosity.
"Ugh, Cappies. And it seems these are the most brainless of the mushroom sheeple I have ever seen." The Star Warrior murmured in annoyance. She picked up a few objects, including her sword, her journals, and a few technological devices and special tools. She placed them into her Dimensional Cape, opening the door to the ship, much to the Cappies' awe, since it wasn't a normal starship. It was much larger than a normal starship, for one example. It looked much different, as it had a strange yet highly aerodynamic design; it looked like a cross between an airplane and a four corner star. The mysterious Star Warrior walked out of her ship with a cold and distant look in her sky blue eyes.
"Excuse me, Sir? Are you looking for something? Or someone?" Mayor Ren asked. "First and foremost, sir, I am not a man. But yes, I am looking for someone. Sir Meta Knight." Replied the Star Warrior. Her voice had an accent that was like Meta Knight's. However, her Spanish accent had a bit of a tone that made her seem like she bore a British accent.
"Well, Sir Meta Knight is usually at the castle over there, ma'am. But, may I ask, what is your name?" "You will know soon enough. I have no time to waste." Then suddenly, she used her cape to teleport her to the castle, leaving the ship near the trail.
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It was another ordinary day at the castle, aside from the events that happened just last night. While the denizens of the castle continued with their normal routine, Meta Knight was in the room Farrah laid in the night before. He continued to interrogate her on what happened, though he seems to have enough information to give him an idea on what happened.
"So, let me paraphrase what happened. The fusion, Athenia, split apart in the Governing Plane because you and your sister started to conflict each other once more, and that is what caused you to originally start fighting again, so you went back to where the whole conflict begun, and that was here, in Dreamland? You fought to the point the both of you nearly exhausted your powers, and when you intended to finish each other off, your attacks sent you to the entrance of Whispy Woods, and your sister in the direction of Green Greens, which is to the northwest. Is that the basis of what happened?"
"Yes, exactly! You are a great listener." "Well, observation is a key to finding out many weaknesses. I've read about legends like this in an aged journal I have found in the ruins of my childhood home," Then a sigh escaped from the knight's mouth. "I do not wish to talk about that." "I would figure so, Sir Meta Knight." Farrah replied with a kind and sincere smile on her face. Just seeing Farrah, one would know that she is a pure spirit. The kindness and purity that radiated from Farrah is her light. It saddened Meta Knight on the inside that Farrah's older sister was a being of pure evil. He would never know what that was like, but he did have an older sibling; a sister, in fact, but she was almost twenty years of age when he was born. He wondered if his sister was still alive sometimes; it had been more than 900 years since he last saw her, and he knew she was a Star Warrior too, so there was no doubt she fought in the war. All things aside, he thought she was dead. The thought of that saddened him, which was the reason why he detested the fact that Farrah and Sierra fought, though there is nothing to be done on that. Casting those thoughts aside, he began to leave the room.
"Where are you going?" Farrah asked. "I am just going to go to the throne room. You are healing well, all things considered with how serious your wounds were, but it is safer for you to remain in this room, for now. Is that understood?" Meta Knight asked. Farrah nodded sternly in response. His eyes flashed a brighter yellow color before he left the room.
As Meta Knight walked down the halls of the castle to his own chambers, Tiff, Tuff, and Victoria stopped him.
"What do you need, children? I am very busy at the moment." He explained. "Our apologies, Sir Meta Knight, but there's a lady Star Warrior who is looking for you." "Another Star Warrior? Well, I'll go see. Thank you for informing me." Then they walked back to the throne room. They saw another Star Warrior with a dark purple cloak and Dimensional Cape covering her whole body. She was an inch and a half taller than Meta Knight and had sky blue eyes.
"Meta... long time, no see..." The Star Warrior said, tone of voice softening. Her eyes changed to a pale pink color. "I am sorry, Miss, but I don't recall ever meeting you." "Do you have a small golden heart shaped locket with chain that is long enough to wrap around your wrist like a charm bracelet?" The mysterious Star Warrior asked. Meta Knight's eyes widened and turned orange in surprise. "Yes, actually. It is the one reminder that tells me I had a close friend as part of my family," Then he walked up to the woman and let a small locket with the woman's exact description fall from his glove. He opened the locket, revealing two young navy blue Puffals. One had silver eyes with a faint glow of blue, while the other also had silver eyes. However, this one had no particular glow. The Puffal child on the right was Meta Knight when he was the same age as Kirby. The Puffal on the left was his older sister.
"Meta, don't you recognize me? Even a little?" The woman asked. "I might if you would take the cloak off, ma'am." Meta Knight said with a bit of impudence. The Star Warrior cast her cloak aside and folded it into her Dimensional Cape. It was revealed that she had navy blue skin like Meta Knight, and her armor was very similar to his own, only it was a black, red, and orange color, and her boots were a dark purple. Her mask would have been exactly like Meta Knight's if it weren't for one specific detail: the flame-like pattern on the mask. The v-shaped visor in the mask was the same size and everything. When Meta Knight showed no signs of remembering or acknowledgement of any sort, she removed her mask without hesitation. The woman's face looked exactly like that of the teenage Puffal girl in the locket.
"Do you remember me now, Little Brother?" The Star Warrior asked. Meta Knight's eyes widened again, but they turned to a dark blue; possibly a sign of shock and happiness. "... Skyla...?! I don't understand... how- why are you here?! This is wonderful! But why are you here?" "I came to warn you. There is a great danger, and it has a lot to do with the fact that Athenia unfused." Skyla said as she put her mask back on her face.
"So that old legend Sir Meta Knight told us is true, Lady Skyla Knight?" Tuff asked. "Child, first of all, no need for formalities, just call me Skyla. Second of all, yes, the legend is true. The second part is written in Journal 3. Allow me to read it.
"If Athenia were to split into her two halves, War is inevitable. If Sierra were to win the War, all life as we know it in this Galaxy will be nothing more. If Farrah were to win, peace would reign eternally until The Cursed Evil rises anew. There is one person, a Star Warrior, who could bring these halves together once more..." Then Skyla shut the journal.
"Sierra is possibly one of this world's greatest threats. She is even stronger than Nightmare himself, and, I know one of her deadliest secrets. She will inspirit those like Dark Matter to feed off of their negative memories, and, the stronger the person and their memories are, the more powerful she becomes. There are ways to stop her, but in order to find those ways, I have to find all six of these journals. I have three, but we need the others." "I have Journal 2, so we have four Journals, actually. But how are the legends going to help us?" "They will help much more than you realize, Meta. I'll let you read over the pages with the legend excerpts; I have them marked." "Thank you." Then the two walked off to read the journals. The group had gained two new allies, but they knew allies and the basic knowledge alone wasn't going to work.
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Sierra wandered the fields while the shadows of the night were prevalent. She loved the night, and preferred it more than the wretched sun that shines over her goody-two-shoes little sister. She wandered for a while, feeding off of the darkness in the air.
"When I find that brat, she will pay for what she had done to me!" Then she saw Whispy Woods nearby. With the night still young, and the darkness in that area...
To her, this was going to be good fun...
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A/N: Longest chapter so far! I'm happy thanks to kibyknightchu for following me, favoriting me, and favoriting my story, Meta Knight's Curse! Rock on to you! And I wish you good luck with your stuff.
The mystery Star Warrior is Meta Knight's older sister, Skyla. I'll tell where I got an idea for her from. Also, I noticed that the journals were a Gravity Falls reference. There will be references from that show, and a couple from Steven Universe, and some of those are statements.
Enough of me rambling, I apologize for that. Reads and Reviews are appreciated, and I shall "see" y'all later :3