Yes this is the true first chapter to my fanfic and I thank all who reviewed this fic despite only having a prologue out at the time. I forgot to put a disclaimer into the last chapter so I'll do so now.
I do not, nor do I claim to own any characters in these stories except for my Ocs of which at the end of the chapter I will tell you which ones are mine and which characters belong to their respective owners. The characters other than my Oc's belong to their respective series and owners.
I believe that's how you do a disclaimer but if not just say and I'll change it in my next chapter. Anyway onto chapter 1 of Kirby: Ancient Ruin Adventure! Hope you enjoy.
Note: I believe that in Kirby's universe (or galaxy) the characters speak Japanese hence there will be the occasional Japanese word however I am keeping character names in English in order for them to be recognised easier. I will be using Japanese horonofics such as san and tono to make a feel of Japanese dialogue and also as it becomes a humorous character developing subject in the next chapter. I hope none of you get confused as a result of this and I apologise if you do.
Kirby: Ancient Ruin Adventure!
Chapter 1: Rumours spread! The reasons for adventure.
A drowsy mushroom creature waddled up to the large doors of the library as the sun began to peak above the horizon. The creature of which we will refer to as a cappy brought one of her stubby hands towards her face and began to rub her heavy eyes, letting out a loud yawn whilst doing so. Grumbling she did a slight hop towards the door and moved her pale yellow hands outwards to turn the door handle opening the entrance to the building.
"Curse that darn racket, it woke me right after I had finally managed to get too sleep." The cappy mumbled as she remembered the noises from last night which woke her.
She hopped into the building, and continued to hop and grumble "Must have been a couple of hoodlum kids."
She hopped straight to her desk, checking to see if everything was normal when she saw a brown, beaten book with no title. This puzzled the middle aged cappy, librarian as she had made sure too place all the books on their shelves yesterday. She became even more puzzled as she began to examine the book as she was sure she had never seen the book. While for most this wouldn't be a surprise but this was not a very big library and the librarian had made sure to memorise each of the books in stock.
"Is this a new book?" The cappy thought as she proceeded to open the book. Her eyes lazily scanned the books contents when, all of a sudden they blurted open wide awake. The librarian's now wide awake eyes scanned the pages with great focus and speed.
"I-It can't be." the cappy stuttered aloud in shock as her hands began shaking along with the book.
It wasn't too long into the day that the rumours began to spread like wild fire on a planet made mostly of oil. Over the years there had been many questions as to what lay deep within the darker, unexplored reaches of Whispy Wood's Forest. Many believed Whispy Woods knew but he would claim he did not know a thing however many people believed this was a lie in order to cover things up. Many people had theories on what was in the forest and many rumours spread all over the place but none could be confirmed. As no one dared enter the darker forest, no one wanted to try and enter the Hollow Woods as it came to be known as despite being a forest but I guess hollow woods sounds better than hollow forest. The reason for this was because someone did enter that very forest, but he never came back.
The rumours today were bustling as odd and bizarre looking villagers all gathered around the library gossiping insanely. Loud chattering and bickering chimed into the air without a pattern to it. A tune of eccentric madness as they all waited in anticipation. They were waiting for those large brimmed doors to open once again.
The librarian was standing near her desk as a dark red crow with a stern white beak and small glasses resting on the top of its head sat at her desk, his black bagged eyes scanning the pages of the book. Nearby, standing next to the old crow was a young female poppy bros junior wearing a yellow floppy hat with a bronze coloured bell on the end. She wore a yellow dress stopping just at her ankles (or where you could presume the ankles to be on the legless poppy bros) with a pink rim. Like all poppy's she had legless feet and armless hands which were usually hidden away in their sleeves or pockets. Her brown locks of short hair just showed, escaping slightly from the cover of the hat as she hopped on the spot from one purple shoed foot to another.
The crow cleared its throat with a slight cough and looked up towards the librarian with an intense and serious gaze.
"Ah, yes Iru-sensei, have you found something?" the cappy asked.
The professor cleared his throat and said with a tone of anger
"Kinoko-san I'm insulted that you could think that this book was written by my dear friend." This startled and hurt the librarian and she stepped back from shock.
"But it says on the first page his name that does suggest he is involved somehow." The Librarian stuttered.
"Involvement, as if, these are a bunch of meaningless scribbles." The old crow said his voice quiet yet also filled with anger.
"Wha-what, no there was defiantly something in there, I'm sure." The Librarian stuttered once again, her voice shaking as she raised her hands up to her face in a protesting manner.
The professor continued his assault of words until the professor's assistant spoke "Sensei."
The dark red bird turned towards his assistant and replied with a curt nod "Yes, Ume-san."
"Are those you're reading glasses on your head?" Ume asked as she pointed to the said object that lay atop the birds head. The winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous, vertebrate animal stopped squawking and tilted its head towards Ume. Then the said animal's eyes peered upwards as one of its wings rose up and lifted the spectacles with a feather.
Dropping the reading instrument onto its beak near its eyes, the crow tilted its head towards the book on the desk before raising its head, looking in the direction of the cowering middle-aged cappy and saying apologetically "Oh, what do you know it appears I didn't have my glasses on, my bad."
A vein bulged on the librarians forehead and hers pupils dilapidated "What do you mean 'sorry' you were biting my head off just a second ago for a mistake that didn't happen." The enraged woman yelled.
"Now, now let's be calm about this shall we." said the crow with growing concern.
"Sure, like how you were calm with it all earlier." The cappy yelled, this time with a raised fist. Ume looked on with a nervous sweat drop as the librarian with a menacing aura around her approached the now squawking with fear professor.
"Uh, w-w-w-w-wait a minute Kinoko-san, ah!" The crow stuttered nervously when out of the corner of his eye he noticed something on the pages of the still opened book.
A look of shock came over the birds face as he yelled with surprise "This is Takahiro's book".
Ume was startled and the envelopment of anger around Miss Kinoko instantly vanished.
"Th-that true, sir?" The Popopo village librarian asked.
The old pop star citizen nodded in confirmation.
"Really Sensei?" asked Ume who had since stopped hopping.
"Yes, after all," Professor Iru began as he began to clear his throat out "It has his name right here".
The croucar received a quick blow to the head from the librarian as Ume tumbled over head first in surprise. The old crow squawked as he rubbed his feathered head with his feathered wings "What was that for?" whined the professor.
"Anyone could write his name down, find some concrete evidence already." Miss Kinoko fumed.
"Alright, alright let's see here." mumbled the bird as he began scanning the pages of the rustic book.
It was quiet for a while with the only sounds being the murmurs of anticipation coming from outside the small building and the frequent turning of pages from the book. The crows glasses gleamed as the light from a nearby window shone down onto them. The crow turned a page only to soon turn it back to the previous page. The croucar hummed a quick and simple tune to himself as he scanned the pages once more before giving a curt nod.
"Yes this is his journal alright."
"Are you sure this time Sensei?" Ume asked as she stood on tiptoes glancing over the short red birds shoulder at the book.
"Yes, there are many indications such as writing style and punctuation but the icing on the cake was these three pages." The professor announced. This piqued the two girl's interest and so they edged near to the desk, staring down at the open book.
"So what do those three pages contain sir?" The librarian asked.
"Descriptions of an object, dear." The old red bird said as he pushed his spectacles closer to his face.
"Of what sir?" The poppy bros girl asked as she got close enough to read the battered book.
"A rock". This instantly made the two girls jerk back.
"Three pages on a rock, that's ridiculous!" The Librarian yelled.
"Well Takahiro-san always did love rocks" The croucar began to explain calmly "he was the only person I've ever known who could describe them with such passion, grain by grain and comprehend all the mineral components. I doubt anyone in Popopo village aside from him could know such knowledge."
Ume with a look of excitement on her face asked "So does this mean?"
"Yes, this is my good friends' journal of his adventures through Hollow Woods!"
Not far from Popopo village, pinpointed on the opposite side of Whispy Wood's Forest, through large bronze gates that shimmered as the sun's gentle glow touched them, was a large, towering mountain. The earthen mountain with its encumbering terrain stood over Popopo village quietly. The top of the mountain was a whole different story though. For perched on the top was a small, castle made of fine wealthy materials.
This castle was designed with an entrance like a giant gaping monster, with barred gates like sharp, pointed fangs and windows like deep, demonic eye holes. A blue dome sat on top of the castle as a crown on a king which works well with its owner. The owner of this castle was none other than the King of the peaceful Dreamland, or so he claims.
This apparent King happened to be a large, overweight blue penguin with yellow flipper like hands and feet. Often this king would strut around his castle garbed in his fine, red robe and furry, red hat carrying his huge brown hammer over his shoulder as his various servants followed tending to his every demand.
Today was like any other day however with one major difference. The king sat on his wide seated throne with a glum, tired face, clear evidence that he was bored. The King tapped the arm of his posh chair as he sighed, his eyes scanning the room.
"Darn it all, why is there nothing for me to do around here?" The penguin grumbled in a loud, Texas thick accented voice "at this rate even having to hang out with that annoying pink blob again would be better than this." The king sighed once more as he remembered his recent adventure, teaming up with his hated foe and his friends to thwart the plans of the incarnation of darkness.
Now you may be wondering who our current focused on character is referring to. You see this selfish bully is known as King Dedede and the pink blob he speaks of is none other than our hero Kirby. Now our King here has always been jealous of Kirby for his powers and popularity and as such has developed a hatred and rivalry to our innocent dreamland citizen. There are times when the king would pull nasty pranks or even attack Kirby but there are times when this blue brute would be willing to lend the puffball a hand like the recent adventure that took place not so long ago. The tyrant protests that he did not have fun but it was very evident that he did enjoy it.
Now back to our person of royalty as he sat at the end of the quiet lonely room. His head was resting on his palm, his palm was attached to his arm, his arm was attached to his elbow, and his elbow was resting on his thrones arm which was attached to the throne. As he sat in such a position his mind began to wander and unheard of sounds became apparent.
Far from the room, all the way in his grand kitchen a sound brimmed from the sink. The dripping of water from the sink became clear as water droplets fell and fell and fell some more. King Dedede could hear them falling and in his mind he pictured the image of the droplets falling and falling and fall-
"Someone had better find something for me to do or I'm gonna start clobbering this place with my hammer!" King Dedede boomed as he rose up from his throne, arms up in the air. Just then a red, round shaped creature with small eyes and no mouth came through the open hallway rushing towards the furious penguin.
"No kimi, urgent news from Popopo town sir." shouted the round creature known as a waddle dee as he bowed quickly. This perked the raging penguin's attention.
"Go on." The portly king mumbled with a slight nod.
"It was just announced that the journal of Takahiro Ayumu Gorou, the citizen who entered the Hollow Woods eight years ago has been found." the loyal servant said with haste. The King turned round his back facing the waddle dee as he remained silent.
The waddle dee became unsettled by this and asked "Heika is there something wrong"?
The king turned round smiling with amazing grace as stars twinkled round his face "So is that all you came here to mention my lovely loyal servant".
The horror that overcame the poor round creatures face was so immense and shocking that one could not begin to describe with any other words than 'the waddle dee was scared'. The waddle dee was scared as common sense blurted out to him to run but just as he turned round ready to peg it to the open hallway a yellow hand gripped round his head/body.
The creature was spun round to face his superior who had a grin on his face that not even the Cheshire cat could accomplish.
The little dee's eyes enlarged and watered as a sinister Texas accented voice whispered "Now wherever are you running off too?"
The pitiful blob was sweating profusely as he told himself that his time of fate was about to come.
At this exact moment a spiked black ball with eyes hovered into the grand chambers "Pardon me Heika, but I thought it would be best if I came here to inform you of some rumours spreading through the village."
King Dedede's head peeked out from behind the suffering waddle dee and asked with irritation "Yeah, what is it."
"Due to the discovery of Takahiro-san's journal many rumours have begun to spread on what possible things could lie in Hollow Woods." the spiked ball known as a gordo said with calm, politeness.
A vein bulged as the king's grip tightened around his servant as he grumbled "and some random peasant's journal should concern me how?"
The slightly startled gordo nodded his head, regained his composure and continued "Well there is one heavily supported rumour of a great fortune lying deep inside an old ruin that lies within the Hollow Woods."
The king was angry enough to breathe fire out of his mouth but the sudden words of fortune made his mind tingle. The penguin's demonic grin softened into a greedier grin as he chucked the waddle dee over his shoulder.
"Is that so, servant?" Dedede asked with a sly tone as the waddle dee crashed into the wall behind him and slowly slumped to the ground. The gordo winced at the sound of the crash imagining the waddle dee's pain.
"Yes Heika, they say even Takahiro-san's friend said this." The gordo replied as he peered behind the wide king out of concern for the injured waddle dee. The King soon snickered to himself but as it went on it soon burst into a laugh of loud guffaws. The waddle dee got up slowly rubbing his rather injured forehead when the king's orders shook the chamber.
"Alright you two amass a few of my soldiers for tomorrow," King Dedede declared with his heavily accented and naturally loud voice "we're going treasure hunting in Hollow Woods!"
King Dedede and Kirby both belong to Nintendo (not sure which part of it exactly so I'll say Nintendo in general). The creatures Cappys, Poppy bros juniours, Croucars, Waddle Dees and Gordos also belong to Nintendo. The Waddle dee and Gordo featured are just generic characters anyone can use.
Professor Iru, Miss Kinoko (librarian), Takahiro Ayumu Gorou (even though he has yet to appear) and Ume are my Ocs. MINE!
Well I hope you enjoyed. While I do believe the majority of you will be familiar with Japanese horonfics such as san, sama and tono I will explain the less commonly heard of horonofics.
'Sensei' is often heard of but doesn't necessarily mean that whoever calls that person a sensei is his or her student. Sensei is used to refer to people in a high authoritive position such as teachers, politicians and professors.
'No kimi' is an equivalent to saying 'milord'.
'Heika' is used for royalty but translates as 'Majesty' or when used on its own rather than as a horronofic stands for 'your Majesty'.
I'll try and get out chapter 2 when I can but I'm quite busy with other matters so I may just get it in by two weeks but don't be surprised if I don't. As always review if you want too although constructive criticism would be much appreciated especially concerning my to and too's as I keep getting them confused.