Light and Dark

Disclaimer: *points to other stories*

A/N: This is just a note for responses and vital info.

GuessingFan: Good try, but sadly, it wasn't correct. I used Google Translate to translate what was said. However, I did check if it was correct, and the statement you came up with came up. The correct response is "You awful bitch! If I ever find you, I will tear you limb from limb!" I'll give you a cookie for trying, since you are the only who's really trying here.

Yumestarforever: Sure! If you do intend to post the translated story on this site, just give me credit for the OCs I am using and will use in this story. Then again, I trust that you will. And it's great you like this story, helps my confidence a great bit!

Metanaito-kyou: You sure weren't expecting that were ya? I ain't exactly "valedictorian", though hell, wish I was! And thanks for that; again, this helps confidence!

This chapter will have the most references, including a tweak on a few Steven Universe statements, and a few things similar to the end of the "Jailbreak" episode. I'm not plagiarizing; I put that out there as a bit of a warning. So, yeah, keep that in mind.

9/16/16- I did a couple edits on this story. I saw a little error I needed to correct.

Chapter 5: Sierra Makes Her Move

"I have to make my move, now! With that little drink of power just looking into his memories, I can only imagine the power when I fuse with him!" The Angel of Darkness began cackling as she started flying. "Yes, yes! I can see it now! An ultimate monster, with power too intense for one being! An entire Galaxy under my bidding! And no little brat of Light to ruin it. But what to do as for a plan..." Sierra thought for a minute, raking her fingers in her inky black hair. A frustrated scowl ran across her face.

"Nothing. I have no clue what I should do. Dammit, do I hate that!" She growled. She landed down on the cobblestone street of Cappytown with a light thud. Surveying her surroundings, Sierra saw that there was nothing that caught her eyes. Except one thing.

An Cappy man was wandering about with a garbage bin, paying no heed to the shadowy woman stepping ever so silently and swiftly towards him in the darkness of the night. A faint whooshing sound was heard. He looked around in the darkness, spying nothing within range. The faint illumination the dying streetlamps were giving him made the scene only more foreboding and ominous. But, being of an oblivious and genial race, he paid no heed to the subtle warning signs.

Then another whoosh was heard and the Cappy man tensed up. He let go of the bin, wandering away from it and looking around. He was completely unaware that he was backing into Sierra, who he couldn't see in the darkness of the night. Her long arms wrapped around the Cappy where his neck would be, and over his mouth, so he could not scream. Oddly enough, the man was too frightened to scream. Sierra came close to where the Cappy's ear would be, and whispered:

"I need your body." She whispered with a leering smile. The Cappy was shouting, but it was muffled, so nothing could be made out. Sierra had a sick, psychotic looking smirk on her face. And from the looks of it... nothing good will come from it.

Unfortunately, however, this is only just the beginning...

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Later on; much later on, about 11:35 a.m, Tiff and Kirby were about to leave the castle. Callie had requested they get some spaghetti ingredients from the grocery store. They were walking down from the castle to Cappytown. Kirby had been spending a lot of time invested at the castle since the months he, Tiff, Tuff, and King Dedede were stranded in Tennessee when Victoria and Callie were still human. Kirby loved this newer, gentler side of the king. Sometimes the penguin never heard the end of it, but the gesture from the little Puffal was sweet, nonetheless.

But, as they were walking, Kirby bumped into a Cappy man. "Hiiiiii!" Spoke the cheerful toddler. The Cappy turned the children's way like a ghostly marionette, and glared at the two kids. His eyes were dead white, much to the opposite of the kind coal black eyes of the normally genial natured Cappies. He turned away again, walking off, leaving the two kids quite bemused.

"Huh. That was... odd. And very suspicious too, don't you think, Kirby?" Tiff asked. "Uh huh Tiff poyo. Kaabi t'ink it su'picious." Kirby replied. "Yeah. It was almost like he was being... controlled. We should go back to the castle. This sounds very important!" "But what about tah spag-ah-hetti?" "This is more important than food, Kirby. Come on!" With a frown, Kirby followed Tiff back to the castle.

When they came inside, nothing out of the ordinary was happening, though when they went into the throne room, they didn't see King Dedede. They immediately dismissed it, as if it were nothing; Dedede could've been in the dining hall waiting on Callie to finish cooking. Who knows. The kids looked around to find Skyla, as she had been in the throne room, looking through the five out of six journals in her possession. Since Escargoon gave her Journal 4, she managed to get almost all of the notes about the "Man of Light and Dark" or "Devil's Advocate". She just needed Journal 5 to complete the puzzle. However, she had no sort of clues as to where it is and it was about to drive her to insanity!

The two kids walked towards female Star Warrior. They looked at her with a bit of confusion because her mask was askew on the left side of her face and Journal 3 was on the right side, held on her head as an unorthodox way of marking a page in the bergundy leather spined book.

"Um, Skyla? Why is Journal 3 on one side of your head, and your mask on the other?" "Ugh, quid, malum sit*?! I am trying to work!" "Whoa, sorry, Skyla. We were just coming in because something's wrong." Tiff replied calmly. Skyla, realizing how badly she embarrassed herself, took Journal 3 off her head and adjusted her mask back on her face.

"My apologies. I am just... ugh, very stressed out. NOVA forbid, this puzzle is impossible to figure out without all of the journals. Wait, weren't you two supposed to get spaghetti ingredients for Callie? Why did you come back?"

"That's what we were just getting to. We were on our way to the store when we saw a Cappy man walking around. He turned towards us and glared. And the strangest thing though: his eyes were a deathly white! The complete opposite of the Cappies' coal black eyes."

"Yeah yeah, poyo! It was scawwy too!" Kirby added, bouncing up and down like the juvenile child he was.

"That seems bad... how was he moving? Was it slow, like a marionette?" "Well it was slow. But I don't know what you mean by 'slow like a marionette'. It was like a ghost, to better put it." Skyla's face paled behind her mask. She folded part of a page in the journal she was reading and shut the bergundy leather book.

"That is very bad. Sierra must be going ahead and setting her plans into motion. We can't let her in the castle if she's using Cappies bodies as vessels to hide herself from the oblivious folk of the town, and the unsuspecting denizens of the castle. Oh, speak of the devil, we don't even know where the others are besides Callie and my brother!" Skyla spoke with a worried tone to her voice. Tiff was surprised that one of the calmer people she knew was overreacting; quite heavily, the girl might add. Then again, it could be, again, because of how stressed out the female knight was.

"Calm down a little bit, Skyla. Let's think for a second. Callie is cooking, and King Dedede is probably waiting for Callie to finish. Tuff's probably with Spikehead and Iro, Kirby's with me, Meta Knight is probably training with Sword and Blade. It's going to be alright. Right?" Tiff asked. Skyla nodded. "Right. Right. It's probably just that. Right." She replied with a tone of nervousness.

However, they were unaware they were being eavesdropped; by King Dedede, nonetheless! Hearing Tiff say that he was in the dining hall waiting on Callie to finish cooking was offensive. Though that sounded nice at the same time, it was still rude regardless. He rubbed a reddened cheek with his gloved hand, muttering something about his size under his breath. It looked as though he wanted to go over there; he definately had something on his mind. Unfortunately, he didn't have the will to muster, and walked off.

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King Dedede kept walking around. Why he didn't want to tell Skyla and those kids what he needed to tell them, was beyond him. Actually, it wasn't, and in his mind, he was berating himself severely because of it. He walked into his bedroom and towards a dresser drawer. Opening one of the drawers, he pulled out, strangely enough, a little bergundy colored leather book. Flipping it over, it showed a golden star with the number 4 written on it. He slammed his fist on the dresser drawer, with an angry scowl on his beak.

"Why couldn't I just tell her?! Here I am sitting here with the final piece of this fucking puzzle IN MY ROOM FOR CRYING THE FUCK OUT LOUD! And I'm too afraid to give it to her. Why? Hell, I haven't read much out of this damn thing til this crap started. What am I so afraid of, as to why I can't just give the damn thing to Skyla for?" Picking the journal up, he walked over to his bed and sat down on the edge and took his little beanie-crown off. He buried his face in his hands.

"Is this called having a conscious? I guess before I met Victoria, I never really understood that. Even when Nightmare was around, I had some weird thing in my chest. I guess it's guilt. Now I'm feeling a load of that, not even helping Skyla with this final puzzle piece. What should I do...? NOVA above, if you can hear me, what should I do?" Picking up his head from his hands, now staring at Journal 5, he silently debated what he should do.

Little does he know... he hasn't got much time to make a decision...

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Hardly any light shined through the darkened room, besides the faint red-orange glow of candlelight. There were eight candles in all. Farrah and Meta Knight were the only ones in the room. Farrah's body shone with a faint white aurora of light. It was quite enchanting.

A chalk rune was drawn on the floor, with an eight pointed star. In the points, they had eight symbols that were in one page of Journal 2. A nineth symbol was hidden somewhere else, for that symbol was torn out of the page when Meta Knight came across the page one of the times he read it. He copied the drawing from the page; which is how the rune is on the floor now. The candles were right at the tips of the star points, as to give it more light and power for the spell.

"What is all this? And it smells very sweet in here!" Farrah said. "This is a rune spell. I am experimenting to find out a spell that can severely weaken Sierra. Drain her of the dark energy she accumulated, so to speak. And, now that you mention it, it does smell of red velvet cake, doesn't it. Heh, never noticed that till now. But, I digress. We cannot afford to waste any time." Meta Knight said with a dismissive wave of his hand.

"Wait, though," Farrah said as she picked up a piece of paper. It had the rune on it, but a question mark in the middle of the star. "How can you do the spell without the final symbol? It won't be as effective." Meta Knight's eyes widened behind his steel mask in horror and realization.

"Great NOVA above, you are right! I should've known. This spell is no good without the final symbol." Then Meta Knight knelt down, moving his mask up a little bit, and blew out the candles.

"We had better go see how Skyla's progressing," Meta Knight spoke. "If she has found most of the pieces of the puzzle, that will help us come up with a way to get her weakened. But all arrows point to that we have to fuse you both again at the same place you were fused together more than 3000 years ago."

"If it's the only choice... then I'll go along with this." "Good. Now let's go." And they left out of the room. They walked around for a moment, but Farrah stopped abruptly in the middle of the hallway.

"Farrah, what's wrong?" Meta Knight asked. "She's coming..." "What?" "Sierra's coming. She's coming and it won't be long before she arrives here." "How can you tell? Can you sense her?" "Yes. It's how I've been able to strike at her if she attempts a sneak attack. We need to warn them!" "Right! Let's hurry!" And the two began running as quick as they could.

But a deafening question remains: will the two carry their warning out in time?

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When they came in, Meta Knight and Farrah appeared panicked and out of breath. About the same time, King Dedede came in, relatively calmer than the two, but still out of breath. He was about to say something, but Meta Knight spoke first.

"She's coming! Sierra's coming!" Meta Knight said, scared beyond belief, which was a shock to Skyla, Tiff, and Kirby. "Wait, you're saying Sierra is coming? How? It doesn't seem like she would be trying to attack so soon. She isn't strong enough to attack. Right?" Skyla asked, a tone of increasing nervousness in her voice. "I thought so too, Miss Skyla. But that doesn't appear to be the case. I sense that she is coming."

"I got something important to say too, ya know!?" King Dedede yelled out. "Well spit it out! Hurry!" Skyla shouted out, hurried, with her voice dripping with fear. "Well, Skyla, I-"

KABOOM!

The sound reverberated through the castle as if someone shot a gun. The group's blood chilled, realizing what's happening:

The castle is under attack!

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Cackling evilly, the now undisguised Sierra fired another arrow at the castle. One of her Midnight Arrows was what caused the explosion earlier, only it was fired at the wall bordering the castle. "Hmm, what should I do? Fire another arrow?" Cackling again, Sierra drew her bow back, firing an arrow at one of the castle windows.

Those that were inside the throne room yelped in surprise when an arrow fused with Dark energy crashed through the fragile glass window. Farrah's silver eyes dimmed in fear. "It's Sierra. It has to be Sierra..." "Tiff, go get Callie! We need everyone we can get!" Meta Knight commanded. Tiff nodded, then ran to the kitchen to get Callie.

Sword and Blade came bursting through the door suddenly. It startled the already on edge group. Tuff yelled in response and threw one of the journals, hitting Blade on the helmet.

"It's just us! Calm down." Sword said. "How can we calm down?! Sierra's making her move! We need everyone outside! Now!" Skyla replied. "Skyla, Sword and Blade answer to me. When Callie comes in, we'll be heading out to attack; we can't let Sierra harm Farrah in her current state." Meta Knight spoke in his most stoic and serious voice. Tiff eventually came back with Callie, who already had Azura Slicer in her hand.

"Are we ready to do this? I figured we'd have to wait longer." Callie said, narrowing her eyes in a glare. "We have no choice. We had better do this with no error. No doubt Sierra will try to go either for Farrah or myself mostly in the battle. We will go out first, distract her so that you may get into position. Sword and Blade will hide in the bushes, and attack first when a she has an opening. Callie will hide in the trees. Kirby will be with Skyla, attacking in the air with the Archer Ability. Farrah?"

"Right, Sir Meta Knight." Farrah said, knowing what Meta Knight wanted. She summoned an arrow with her Light energy, and gave it to Kirby to inhale. The child inhaled the arrow and became Archer Kirby. When that occurred, they heard shouting from outside.

"FARRAH! COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE! YOU CANNOT DELAY THE INEVITABLE!" They heard Sierra shout from the outside. Meta Knight turned towards Farrah, Skyla, and Archer Kirby and nodded. They nodded back and started walking towards the outside.

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The group saw Sierra standing with a wicked grin plastered on her face. She was holding her jet black bow, ready to attack. Farrah, although she didn't look it with her grim and serious expression, she was terrified. She didn't expect Sierra to be so reckless and attack so soon. Then it hit her! The nightmare! It was an attempt to siphon Dark energy from Meta Knight's negative thoughts. How much of a drink did that give Sierra?! She shouldn't be attacking so soon. Right? Farrah thought, dismayed and scared.

"Well then, took you long enough. Shall we begin?" Sierra asked tauntingly. "Or do you need more time, weaklings?" "We refuse to submit. Let's begin." And, they started battling. Sierra attacked first, drawing her bow back to fire an Arrow of Darkness. It was aimed at Meta Knight, but he deflected it with Galaxia. She fired three more arrows, backing up as she did so. Meta Knight rolled to dodge the attacks.

Farrah was the next to attack, firing three Light Arrows at Sierra. One arrow stuck into Sierra's left arm. However, it didn't phaze the Angel of Darkness. It forced her to start flying, unaware, there were two Star Warriors in her airspace. She eventually ran into Skyla and Kirby. Kirby fired an arrow at Sierra, then followed up with three more. Two struck her chest. That really made her mad.

Using a dark tendril, she slapped Kirby off the Warp Star back down to Popstar. Luckily for Kirby, the Warp Star flew down below the little Puffal and caught him. He floated back towards Sierra, who was engaged in combat with Skyla. The elder Star Warrior used her fiery sword, Blaza, to summon a Sword Beam of fire that clipped Sierra's right wing.

However, this attack proved to turn the whole battle for the worst. Sierra's dark gray eyes glowed, turning completely black as she glared a death glare at the group. The onyx in her right hand started sparkling with Dark energy. She released a shock wave of Dark energy that knocked the group off balance. Her eyes remained glowing as Sierra starting creating extreme cataclysm with her enraged state.

After 34 minutes of battle, the tables had turned for the worst for the heroes. Meta Knight and Farrah were the only ones still fighting, but Meta Knight was severely injured already. He was covered in cuts with the ruby red blood staining the ground because of his injuries. A large gash was right on his head where Sierra had used one of her whip-like dark tendrils to slap Meta Knight away from her. However, that proved to be in vain, as the knight was still standing. Half his mask was sliced off his face, leaving the right side of his face exposed.

Sierra smirked with sick glee. The dark onyx in her palm started crackling, eventually releasing a pulse of energy that enveloped Meta Knight. He howled in pain, much to the group's horror. They regrouped around Farrah, unable to do anything but watch as Sierra's attack finally ended and Meta Knight fell to the ground.

"Ha ha! See? Resistance is futile. Even with seven fighting me, I cannot lose! You have no choice but to give in to my desires." Sierra said, cackling with both amusement and arrogance. "Alright. What do you want, demon?" Meta Knight asked bitterly. Sierra knelt down in front of Meta Knight, cleavage showing as she did so. "Oh, my dear handsome Star Warrior in shining armor. What I want... is you!" She replied with a wicked grin. "What?!" "I want you to fuse with me. To join me. You are the key to this whole thing! You are much too strong for these... pitiful creatures."

"Medakni..." Kirby squeaked weakly. "Don't do it poyo..." Meta Knight stared at Sierra, then at the group. He walked towards Kirby. He revealed the Pendulum Amulet hidden behind the remaining half of his mask.

You're making a mistake, Meta Knight! Don't do it! The Pendulum Amulet screamed in Meta Knight's mind.

Just trust me. I have a plan. Sierra will spare the group. I will make sure of it. I won't need you or Galaxia where I am going.

Meta...

Just trust me. Share your knowledge with Kirby. Give him the powers you gave me. Parting is such sweet sorrow, my friend. Goodbye...

Meta Knight removed the Pendulum Amulet from his body. He sheathed Galaxia and set the sword down in front of Kirby. "Medakni?"

"Goodbye, Kirby. Goodbye everyone. I shall see you all again... someday." Meta Knight said, turning back towards Sierra. He narrowed his eyes at Sierra and raised his arm out. A wicked smile grew on her face as she took his hand. The group gasped, and the look on Kirby and Skyla's faces were looks of horror. Sierra led Meta Knight in a dance similar to the dance Farrah led him on. A distinct difference though, was that Sierra kissed Meta Knight on the mouth. His eyes widened in disgust and surprise and he didn't return the kiss. Then, a light began to form around the two and they phased into each other.

The light surged for about ten minutes, until, just as the form was about to appear, it began changing. A pair of bat wings appeared in the middle of the transformation, and that was what caused the whole thing to unravel.

"What is happening to me?!" The fusion spoke in a distorted mix of Sierra and Meta Knight's voices. Nine tails started sprouting on the fusion. A small pair of wings appeared on the fusion. The legs and arms of the fusion grew to equal length. Then, the light subsided and the being was revealed.

It was about 12 feet tall. Its nine tails were two feet taller than the fusion itself. Black and blue markings covered the monstrous arms and legs. The fusion's fingernails were long and sharp, much like razor blades. One of its wings was a bat wing. The other was an angel wing. Sierra's three dark onyxes still remained on the fusion's stomach, right hand, and right thigh, only, they were about the same size as Meta Knight once was. The fusion had wild dark blue and black hair that was strewn around wildly. To top it all off, the fusion had four eyes. On the top set of eyes, one eye was dark gray and the other was amber yellow. On the bottom set of eyes, it was the other way around. They stared down at the group of six with an intimidating glare, moving independently like chameleon eyes. The group grimaced, some, like Kirby, whimpered in response.

Using its right hand, the fusion summoned a Dark energy tendril, cackling in a distorted mix of Meta Knight and Sierra's voices. Suddenly, the tendril turned into a chain, grabbing its right hand. "Huh?!" Then another chain appeared and took the left hand. "What?!" Then more chains appeared. They grabbed its legs and its torso. The fusion lumbered towards the group as close as it could, but it kept being pulled back.

"What... are you... ugh, doing?!" It asked itself in Sierra's voice. The fusion started chuckling. "I refuse to submit to you. I am not your prisoner. You are my prisoner. And I will never let you GO!" Then the fusion started dragging itself away towards Whispy Woods. "Medakni!" Kirby yelled, tears welling up in the child's eyes. The eventually followed the fusion to the dark hellhole that Sierra formed.

"Let's stay here inside this miserable void together!" And the fusion was sucked into the dark hole. Kirby ran towards it, reaching his small paw towards the hole.

"MEDAKNI!"

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A/N: Things just got gravely serious... Special thanks to Metanaito-kyou for helping me out of my writer's block. Another * thing, another translate thing. Cookies to whoever gets this right. Reads and reviews are appriciated. See you next time!