Authors Note: Thank you for all of the reviews and favs and all that awesome stuff! You guys are keeping me motivated to keep going at this strange little story. :D

Side Note: Kirby and all of his friends and Kirby64 are owned by Nintendo and Hal.

Chapter 3: The Ultimate Solution

His sweet and sunny disposition shone through the scarlet darkness that surrounded him. His charming eyes, ocean deep and blue, that swooned of twinkling midnight stars became wide with joy.

The thought of how to solve everything had finally occurred to him.

He was about to run up to Ribbon and quite possibly... could it really work?

...A hug? He would... Give her a hug.

Yes of course.

Every story ended that way, a sign of affection could defeat any evil possession, a flawless quick solution he deemed it.

And with that in mind the pink puffball of a hero ran up to his dear friend. Only getting three steps in before-

He fell...

Eyes closed.

Clutching his chest in pain and dancing into the darkness that soon encapsulated him. It started as a twinkling chime, and then he could hear a soothing yet equally taunting tune echoing in the nothingness.

And there he rested.

"KIRBY!" Adeleine, King Dedede, and even Waddle Dee, whose voice seemed nonexistent, all screamed his name and ran from the safety of the entrance into the darkness and taking their place by his side.

They had all watched as Kirby stood there dumbly, running right at his enemy and taking a large black crystal right in the side. Then he fell.

The impact was like no other he'd had before.

He was really hurt. Small bruises covering him here and there with black scratches across his once pink, now pale grey, form. Tears began to well up in their eyes, it was depressing sight to see.

The demon that had stolen fragments of Ribbon's appearance floated in place idly. Now not even a crinkle of sadness graced her angelic, yet demonic face.

Seeing them cry.

Now they knew her- No...his pain. Now they knew what it was like to have nothing. Left with an unsatisfied need for all to be re-born under his command.

They could feel the pain of Zero and all Dark Matter that followed it through such a bleak life of meaningless nothing. It went meaningless no more when the pink menace had fallen.

A smirk sitting proudly on the demon's face.

And that was it. That was all it took to win. To begin the impending destruction of all that was ever-

"AHHHH!" King Dedede screamed as he smacked the demon fairy back with his hammer, catching the creature off guard.

Behind him Waddle Dee held a parasol that Adeleine had painted for him to fight with. Admittedly it was not the best weapon but it was the first thing the, stressed out, painter could think of for him.

Standing behind the two, Adeleine was busy trying to paint a 1UP. Something that would, on any other circumstance, take her quite a while. Having to articulate this item's distinct and exact details, which could be impossible for any novice artist to even try at getting right, had they attempted to bring the item into their own world from a canvas such as she was doing.

If she could paint that one item then Kirby could be revived. At the moment it was their 'get out of the end of the universe from being destroyed free card'. And it was all up to her to get it right.

"You think ya can just posses one of our friends an then... Try an kill another! HY-AH!" The penguin King smacked the demon again accompanied by Waddle Dee, flapping his parasol up and down- causing water to shake out of it, sadly not aiding Dedede in the fight much at all.

It was at first a wonder how the beast didn't die after the strong hits Dedede had thrown upon it, since it did only have one Hp left a few minutes ago.

The answer was simple when they noticed that it was in a stage of transformation. Morphing into a much worse form than before.

The King sighed, "Aw what the heck! Is all of this... fur nothin'?" The King grabbed Waddle Dee's arm and ran towards Kirby and Adeleine. "Hurry it up will ya Addy!" His tone, a mesh of confusion and irritation, seemingly at her for the moment.

"I'm trying my best! Your Highness!" Tears began stinging at her eyes again, ready to produce waterfalls, yet at the same time she was to ready to spit venom at the penguin King. She took a moment to try and calm herself down. Then spoke once more, "A few more minutes, okay?"

By now the form of Ribbon was completely gone. All that remained was some grotesque form of what could be assumed to be Zero-Three.

All that had once only been thought of to be a myth was now rising from the depths of an unknown dark underworld.

Seeping more deadly green ooze than could thought to be imagined. An unholy black darkness took the place of it's once white form. It's giant bloody eye swollen and seeming ready to burst from it's place. It now had two satanic horns of a red mixture with black vines on them.

"What in the name of the great star warrior is that thing!" Adeleine quit painting for a second only for Waddle Dee to remind her to continue.

The beast let out a haunting roar, which was strikingly odd since it never seemed to have a voice in any other instance. Though, perhaps it was simply a mirror of the chanting that was now laced within the air, merely serving as a distraction for the now hard at work trio.

At first it seemed at though the King and Waddle Dee would have to fight this final battle as a duo whilst Adeleine kept at the painting.

Just then, a bright twinkling light shone from Zero's bulging eye. Bubbling and spewing bits of darkness.

Through it all, the light continued shining.

Bonus Authors Note: I hope it wasn't too confusing with all of the video game physics I blended into the story like the Hp system and the way Kirby lost a life. It's all just based on K64 game play so just let me know if it's too confusing or if I made it sound weird.