Chapter four

The following morning was quite similar to the previous one, the sun was shining brightly, the late summer breeze was blowing gently, and everything was calm and peaceful.

"Banjo!" Kazooie was standing above Banjo again, hopefully he wouldn't head butt her again.

Banjo opened his eyes, this was his least favourite part of the day, when Kazooie woke him up from his sleep. "Kazooie, do you enjoy waking me up like this?" She just smiled and nodded. "Wouldn't give this up for anything" Banjo than sat up, Kazooie jumped off his bed, standing next to it. "So what's the plan for today, sleepyhead?" Banjo didn't have any ideas, he was hoping kazooie had something in mind. "What do YOU want to do?" Kazooie's expression went from exited to disappointed, Banjo didn't understand what just happened. "What's wrong, are you… mad at me?" Kazooie shook her head, she then took a few seconds to think about what she should say. "Ummm, I'm not sure what we should do, we've been pretty much everywhere in spiral mountain, and the isle of hags, so we don't really have many options" Banjo slipped his feet out of the bed, then stood up, after stretching, he looked at Kazooie. "Your overthinking this, let's just go up to grunty's lair and see if anything new is happening" he put is backpack on and stretched again.

"Anything new, huh? I'll be surprised if a new flower grew on Mumbo's Mountain!" Kazooie joked, but it was slightly true, the second grunty lost her final fight against the two of them, everyone settled down, except for Mumbo, Kazooie, and himself, they still couldn't live without the sense of adventure, it was mostly Kazooies l fault Banjo was like this, because she was a bird, she always wanted to be outside.

The lair was in bad shape, most of the decorations were shredded, the roof was leaking, and the walls were covered with thick vegetation. "This place has definitely seen better days, right?" Banjo looked around, she was right, this place was at one point, a relatively nice castle, but nobody had been looking after it ever since Banjo and herself defeated gruntilda for the first time.

She looked at Banjo briefly, he had changed a lot since then, but the one thing that didn't change about him was his attitude, he was still a major sweetheart, he was willingly get his hands dirty for random strangers, if it was a good cause, he was in, but he went the extra mile for people he knew, then there was the way he treated her… when she screwed up the landing the day before, he grabbed her and shielded her from the ground, when gruntilda kidnapped her, Banjo roughed the old hag up and set kazooie free, Banjo was a golden boy, never passed up the opportunity to do what was right, and she… she didn't know what she felt about that, it was like she was important to him, and he never expected anything back from her, he did what he did because… he cared about her.

"Im gonna need some help here Kazooie" this was were she would walk him up a slope, it was the only way he could get up to the next room. She stuck her legs out the bottom of the bag, then she stuck her head and wings out from the top, she proceeded to walk up the slippery slope. "Thanks Kazooie" she crawled back into the bag, it felt nice being able to help. "So where are we going anyways, there's nothing left for us to see anywhere"

"I don't know, I just wanted to see this place again, it's really weird, but that adventure made us better friends" he was right in a way, over that adventure, banjo realized how much she meant to him, the only reason she knew this was because he told her after that ordeal, it was an awkward conversation, but it all cleared up when he said there friendship was a lot stronger than Gruntilda was, and that's why the could beat her. Banjo kept walking, he passed by all the world warps and walked all the way to grunty's first attempt at quizzing them to defeat, he walked across the faded bored games tiles and made his way to the final room. "It seems like it's been ages since we've been up here" Kazooie agreed, it was years ago that the two of them stormed up her and knocked the old hag out of the sky, and now that she was never coming back, everything on that mountain was all theirs.

Banjo walked into the machine room, the place Gruntilda planned to take his little sisters youth, but something was different, one of the walls was a different shade than the others, it looked almost like a… "Banjo, is that a doorway?" He walked a little closer. "It looks like one, I wonder what's…" Kazooie shot a grenade egg at the panel, banjo fell backwards with a 'Waaaaah!' And what was behind it was something Kazooie had been begging for "KAZOOIE?!?" Banjo cried with fear. "That scared the… everything out of me" kazooie felt a little bad for now warning him before doing what she did, but she didn't regret it. "Banjo, look at what's in there!" He stood up with Kazooie's help, and to his amazement, he saw a whole new room, with a warp pad and a sign that read 'Gruntys Retreat'. "Wait… how long has that been there?" Banjo tried to think, could that have been there since before there first adventure? "So… you wanna check that out?" Kazooie was curious if anything, to think that there was one more world warp that they never even knew about. "Yeah, kinda… but what if it's a trap?" Kazooie snickered, it was a legitimate question, it was completely possibly. "Banjo, you give grunty too much credit, she wouldn't have made a trap just to hide it behind a brick wall inside her MAIN room, it puts to much on the line"

She had a point, he stepped closer to the pad, the room was decorated with palm trees and sand… odd for Gruntilda, it didn't look like a pigsty. He stepped closer, he was still being cautious, he took the last step onto the pad, what they saw on the other side was quite beautiful.

The place they appeared in was an island, nothing large, but it might have taken ten minutes to walk round the coast, there were small, oddly shaped mountains jetting out of the centre, the mountains had a small mass of bubbling water around them, the sand was a nice, orangey colour, and the waves were relatively large. "Wow, this is really, really nice" kazooie didn't need to say it to make it apparent.

But sadly, the peace was ruined by the sound of crying, there was a small, blue figure standing at the foot of the mountain, it looked relatively scared. "What's a jinjo doing here?" Kazooie asked, it didn't make sense, maybe it just got here the hard way, either way it needed help.

"Let's go over there and see what's wrong" before kazooie could warn him, he ran towards the water and stepped in. "Yaaaowwwwwew" it was hot, really hot, Banjos feet felt raw. "Maybe that's why the little thing is crying" kazooie let out a slight chuckle, she immediately felt bad. "Are you ok Banjo, it sounds like it hurt a lot?" He shook his head. "I'm gonna live, but that hurt more than I expected it to" he slowly got up, he thought about how they were going to get over there, then he got an idea. "Hey kazooie, I'm going to need th backpack for a second" she jumped out, asking no questions.

Banjo jumped into the bag, head sticking out the top, he then hopped across the water, Jamjars had taught him how to do this during there adventure to save bring bottles back to life. When Banjo got to the mountain, the Jinjo stopped crying and looked at him. "Agghhh! Please don't eat me mister, I don't taste to good" it covered it's face, then it started to cry some more. "Don't worry, I don't eat jinjos, I eat honey" the little creature uncovered it's face, then it took a deep breath. "That's a relief, I thought I was going to be something else's lunch" Banjo hoped he wasn't that scary, the Jinjo looked across the water and noticed kazooie, she was sitting on a rock, looking out at the ocean. "Wait… your Banjo, I've heard a lot about you and your friend, are you here to rescue me?" Banjo nodded. "Wow that's great, is that your friend over there?" Banjo looked at kazooie, she was a lot more relaxed then he expected her to be. "Yep, that's kazooie over there" the Jinjo giggled. "I like her, she's pretty" Banjo didn't know how to respond to that, what was he supposed to say, should he agree? "She's… she's just a friend, I don't pay attention to that kinda thing" he gestured for the Jinjo to get into the backpack, after he had the Jinjo on his back, he had to find a way to get on the other side of the hot spring, he walked around the mountain, nothing he could use to get across, he noticed a tree on the other side of the hot spring. "Hey kazooie, I could use a hand over here" she heard him calling her over, she walked towards the water and responded with.

"No can do, I have wings, not hands" Banjo groaned. "You know exactly what I mean Kazooie, could you take down that tree?" She looked at it, there was only one way to bring it down, she shot a grenade egg at it, causing it to tip over, making a bridge to safety. "Thanks Kazooie" "No problem Banjo" he ran across the tree, when he got to the other side, the Jinjo jumped out of his backpack. "Thanks a bunch, I wish I had a way to repay you for your kindness, but I didn't bring anything valuable with me" kazooie was about to make a remark about working for no reward when Banjo said. "Don't worry about that, we're glad to help" the Jinjo beamed. "Well, I've got places to go, thanks Banjo!" He then ran off. "Why do you do stuff like that, what do you gain from helping people without a reward?" Kazooie was curious, maybe there was something new to learn about him. "Well, I feel that you should treat people nicely, unless there a complete jerk" Kazooie started thinking "but… Banjo, I'm a complete jerk to you sometimes, why are you so nice to me?" Banjo struggled to answer, it was kinda cute. "Well… Kazooie, it's- it's s different with you, you're my best friend, and-and I know you try not to be… the way you sometimes are" now she felt bad, he was embarrassed, she put to much pressure on him. "It's ok Banjo, I understand, your just being friendly" he was looking down, kind of like he was hiding his face. "Yeah, I'm just… being friendly with you" she jumped into his backpack, he was acting weird, maybe it had something to do with the new place they discovered.

Banjo started walking towards the coast, he had thoughts flying into his head. 'What's going on with me?' 'I'm acting weird, does she think I'm weird?' 'Why do I care if she thinks I'm weird' 'Why does it fell like my heart so empty?' 'I feel so…exposed, it's like I'm naked or something'. "Hey Banjo, watch out for the…" Kazooie was to late, Banjo walked straight into a tree. "Ohhhhhhh, that's gonna leave a mark" Banjo went black, he just wanted this to be a really, really screwed up dream.

Thanks for reading this chapter

Maybe we'll see something new next time, might take a little bit to get there, but I'm not going anywhere, at least I don't think I'm going anywhere, it's all up to the gods of primary education, I guess.

I'm not funny…