The Primary Rejoined...
Hey guyzos! I'm back on a brand new mission! Well, a few things first. Casiana1, you weren't annoying me. It was the one who was sucking up to Ivyna who was a pest. I heard it already, I don't need re-assertion. Jeebs, that's annoying. I had said it was an AU and still somebody tells me that 'clans' aren't necessarily right. If you didn't get to read 'Dear Readers', that's cuz "good ole" ff admin took it down when so many OTHER authors have a story or chapter that's solely an author's note. Anyways, ON WITH THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I forgot to do this. I do not own Kirby and all related characters, including 'Black Kirby'. Donokbe is property of dragonking112's and used with permission. The clan idea is mine, but is permitted to be used. Go for it. Blah, blah, blah.
Recap...
King DeDeDe decided to have a tournament. Strife and Meta Knight fought, the former winning. Now, he and Kirby are prepared to fight.
Strife Versus Kirby... FIGHT!
With the sound of the bell, Strife rushed at Kirby. Kirby, having taken the capsule which transformed him Star Shield Kirby, blocked the blow with the obvious. The Star on the front of the shield began glowing with every hit Strife launched.
The merc caught on, so he took out a few throwing knives and leapt into the air. Kirby looked around in confusion. He looked up to see where his opponent had gone. And he found him. Baring down on the puffball, and already beginning to throw blades. Kirby's shield, while powerful, was also very heavy. Kirby hadn't quite managed to lift it over his head.
He jumped to the right, the shield shrinking down to bracelet-size, the ONLY way he could move it. And that wouldn't have been enough to block all the blades. Even leaping didn't give him enough. A few daggers scraped him, while one actually punctured his skin. It wasn't deep, but it still hurt. Kirby looked at his landing adversary with anger.
Strife just smiled. He pulled out a broadsword almost as big as he was (he's not much taller than Meta Knight), and darted forward. Kirby's shield quickly grew back to its normal size in time to block the blow. The Star on the shield began glowing with more intense energy. Finally, it exploded with energy and a blast shot from it, dead into Strife.
The Cloud clanner cursed mentally. He should've been aware of this. He had faced others like Kirby before. FAR too often. He still managed to recover quickly, and formulated a strategy. Strife pulled out his broadsword and charged. Kirby pulled out his shield again, prepared to take the shock of the blow.
However, the Cloud clanner wasn't stupid. At the last second, he jumped, pulled out a few more daggers, and tossed 'em all down dead at Kirby. The Star clanner didn't realize it until too late. One of the knives embedded itself deeply in Kirby's hand. Another, in his foot. Strife was trying to make sure that he got in a few blows, and didn't have time to aim. He set the blades on his back to spin as he came down, like a helicopter. He turned around, so his back was towards Kirby.
The young Star Warrior dodged out of the way, rolling as fast as he could. When he got back up, Strife was already pulling out another sword from his back. Kirby was getting worn out by this point, what with all the rolling and shocks he's been taking.
Strife had known this, of course, and so, he charged again. Black Kirby, out on the stands, with Donokbe, knew something was wrong. Strife should've been trying to knock him out of the ring, or knock him out cold, but the knives signified he wasn't interested in a simple victory. So they rushed over to the edges of the ring, about to help Kirby, when the cage shot up. On each corner was a King DeDeDe bust.
"He thinks of everything. Crud!" Donokbe shouted, stamping the ground.
"Why don't we burst through there?" Black asked.
"We can't Black. If we do, we'd have to use a serious blast to blow up this cage. And that would probably knock out Kirby, giving Strife the opportunity to kill him," Donokbe explained.
"Meta Knight's out. Blade Knight and Sword Knight are with him. We can't blow up the gate. Kirby's royally screwed, isn't he?" Black stated, gravely.
"Unless the cage comes down, I'm sure he is," Donokbe replied.
Strife smiled. He didn't usually care for Cage Matches, but, hey, whatever works, right? He began slashing away at the pink puffball with increased determination.
A though occured to Donokbe. He had been developing several new copy abilities. Including...
Donokbe ran home as fast as possible.
"Hey! What'll we do about Kirby?" Black Kirby shouted.
"I'll get to him! Just try anything you can to get in!" Donokbe shouted.
"Great. I have to watch Kirby get the crap beaten out of him. Oh. Happy day," Black Kirby growled, sitting down.
Well, Kirby didn't really have much concern for B's "discomfort", even if he knew about it. He was currently getting thrashed by the blader. His face was almost completely bloody, his feet were sticking a bit because the blood. The only thing that wasn't bloody was the shield and his eyes. Lucky thing, too.
Strife lifted up his giant (to them) broadsword and swung it down with everything he had. Kirby lifted up his shield, fully extended, and it took about 80 percent of the blow. The other 20 percent was enough to knock Kirby into the sides of the cage. He just sat up, due to lack of energy, and couldn't stand. The Force pitied him and gave him a break. Strife tossed another knife at him, and when it hit the shield, a huge blast shot from it, incinerating the knife and crashing into Strife.
The shield gains energy from every blow dealt to it, able to shoot a blast at the owner's will. Kirby, being so beaten, couldn't command it at this point. However, the shield had gathered too much energy for it to hold. So, naturally, it threw out a shot to remove all energy it had stored up dead into whatever was in its path. And Strife happened to be the really unlucky person.
He slammed into the cage, almost out cold, but he managed to get back up, then fall back down, then sit up, trying to recover.
Nightmare Enterprises...
"Well, boss. Looks like the merc could use some help. Don't you agree?" Customer Service asked.
"You are correct in your assumption. Kirby and Meta Knight thought they had beaten me. I'm back, with a VENGEANCE!" Nightmare shouted.
"What should we send?" Customer Service asked.
"Fire him some Dark Matter," Nightmare said, disappearing.
"Sure thing, boss," Customer Service replied, pushing a button.
A bubble, similar to what Kirby had faced at first when fighting Nightmare in 'Nightmare in Dream Land', appeared. It spun around for a few seconds while Customer Service gave it its instructions. It then zoomed off at high-speeds toward Popstar.
Tournament Arena...
Strife and Kirby were sitting down, breathing heavily while glaring daggers at each other. That's when the bit of Dark Matter shot into the sword master.
"The... power...," he breathed out, changing.
His mask, before, was white. Now, it was black. His green eyes became red with slits in them. His armor became more jagged and twisted. His shoulder pads turned a dark purple and his boots turned black with red slots. Dark blue stars glowed on various places, occasionally changing position. The sun pattern of blades strapped to his back changed as well. They all curved, making a spikish, fire-type style look instead. The broadsword he held in his hand became more jagged, resembling a sawblade.
"Now, Kirby, you die!" he shouted, his voice demonic and twisted, sounding like several voices, instead of just one.
"Aww... COME ON!" Kirby pleaded.
"We were once called Strife. Now, we are Wrath!" the newly-dubbed Wrath roared.
"Naturally," Kirby muttered, holding up the shield.
"Now that we exist, we must carry out our mission!" Wrath shouted, charging towards Kirby with his sawblade thrust out like a lance.
"Oh spit," Kirby cursed, his eyes widened in fright.
"Meet my blade, the Vexxor!" Wrath shouted, slicing down the might sawblade on Kirby's shield.
The force from the Vexxor shook Kirby's very soul. The shield's star began glowing again, to the radiance it was before. It shot out another massive blast, which almost hit Wrath. However, he pulled out all his swords, spinning them to deflect the blast. It blasted one of the generators, causing a small explosion.
Kirby was badly beaten. He was bleeding, bruised, with broken bones. He felt like he was 'bout to die. Now, his final possible savior, the shield's Star Nova, as he dubbed it, didn't work. To say the least, he was fucked. Royally.
Donokbe ran into the circle around the main stage, panting. He then pulled out a capsule and popped it in his mouth. It took a year to fully discover all the copy abilities to make this combo, but it was definitely worth it. Ghost Donokbe was out and about. The main difference was that he was white where he was light brown (torso and most of his ears, along with his arms), grey where he was originally brown (ear tips), and his feet were gone in favor of a smoky ecto-tail.
"You'll never escape from me, straw hat!" he shouted, mimicking Chaser.
"Oh, shut up and get us in there, goofball," Black Kirby said, slapping Donokbe on the back of the head.
Donokbe grabbed Black Kirby's hand and went intangible. They leapt through the field and became tangible. Donokbe spat out the capsule and became normal.
He then pulled out two more capsules and threw one to Black Kirby. The Nightmare clanner swallowed it, becoming Nightmare Sword Black Kirby. Energy, known as Night Matter formed a cape on his back, gloves on his arms and boots on his feet. Naturally, he had a sword as well. It had a bit of the Night Matter as the hilt.
Donokbe became Rainbow Knight Donokbe. He had armor, a small sword and a mini-shield. The armor was white, while the sword was silver, and the shield was switching between the colors of the rainbow.
"La Viva La Vi Bohem, ars sucker!" Donokbe shouted, randomly, slicing down at Wrath.
Wrath merely slid to the side, smirking gloatingly. He then thrust out Vexxor, which narrowly missed RK Donokbe. NS Black Kirby shot a blast which knocked Wrath into the cage. He stood up, smoking. The Dark Matter warrior shook his head, then looked up. His eyes widened.
"NO!" he shouted.
RK Donokbe and NS Black Kirby ran over to SS Kirby and each grabbed a seperate hand, trying to pull him up. Oddly enough, something else, infinitely better, happened. They all glowed and disappeared. In their place stood a might warrior. He was about 3 feet, tall for a Star Warrior.
He had the same slab-like platelets (allowing maximum movement) that Donokbe had, although it was Multi-Chromatic, minus the Rainbow symbol on his chest. His left arm had an orb-shaped piece of machinery that wasn't very large. In his right arm, he held a small white cylinder, about an inch in diameter. His helmet resembled an overturned music note, although the part curving off was larger.
This... was the Tri-Knight. A fusion of Star Shield Kirby, Nightmare Sword Black Kirby, and Rainbow Knight Donokbe. And with the damage done to a third of his being, he wasn't happy.
BADUM! BADUM! BADUM!