CHAPTER 10-1
-A Terrible Cold-
As the background began to get drawn and colored, you could see that this whole place was filled with snow. The ground itself was filled with snow, and even the ground below seemed to be a bit blue. There were a couple of trees that looked kind of like Christmas trees, except they've got snow on the leaves. The sky itself was a dark blue color, showing the nice beauty of a winter day. Even the snowflakes looked incredibly pretty.
When the white door appeared, Kirby, Sonic, Blade and Mario walked out of it and looked at their surroundings.
"Whoa… This is certainly an interesting world we've come up to." Sonic began to shiver. "Aw, man… This place is also pretty cold! I know I got this fur on me, but it's still pretty dang cold out here!"
"Mario's lucky to be wearing those overalls," Blade stated as he looked at Mario, who sweat dropped.
Kirby raised his arm and let a couple of snowflakes fall on his hand. "Poyo! (This is really nice! These snowflakes look so nice and sparkly! They're… They're the nicest snowflakes I've ever seen!)"
"I have no idea what you just said… Chopper, think you can tell us what Kirby just said?" Blade looked around, but he didn't see Chopper around. "Uhh… Chopper? You there, buddy?"
Chopper had come out of the door, with Luvbi on his tail. She seemed very excited, while he was not having too much fun. Unfortunately, he ended up tripping and falling onto the snow.
"Huh? Snow!" Chopper gawked, slowly standing up.
Luvbi had gotten a look at this place and smiled. "This world doth be so pretty!"
"Well, I can't deny that," Sonic said.
"I didst not ask thee, Knave."
"Man, I can't believe we have to put up with her again…" Blade groaned, while Sonic frowned.
"I kinda wish she was nicer too..." Chopper trailed. "Well, at least she's a real Nimbi now."
"So… Do you think we should stroll on ahead?" Sonic asked.
"Yea, verily. We should." Luvbi fluttered up to Chopper with a cute smile. "So, my sweet prince. Art thou going to maketh sure I'm safe?"
"Well, apparently your father wants to make sure you're safe and back at home in one piece…" Chopper trailed.
Kirby looked over at the trees and listened to the music. "Poyo? (Chopper… Why am I suddenly hearing Christmas music around here?)"
"Christmas music? …Oh, yeah. I do hear it." Chopper realizing, soon jumping past the others and hurrying on ahead, with love-struck Luvbi following him.
Mario: So, she loves him?
"Yeah, apparently she's in love with Chopper," Sonic explained, groaning. "Although, Chopper doesn't seem to love her back. We've seen him crying after being kissed by her."
Mario: That's...surprising.
"Poyo, (We better get moving, then,)" Kirby hurried on ahead, trying to catch up to Chopper. Apparently the enemies around this world were snow-based, so fire would actually do a lot of damage to some enemies. They noticed that there were a couple of snowmen holding snowballs on the flat, snowy ground.
"What do ya know? We've got snowmen here!" Sonic smirked as he saw Chopper bump into one of the snowmen.
"If these guys are cold enemies, then I suppose that fire should do more damage to them," Blade jumped over to the Snowman that was holding a snowball in its stick hand and struck it from behind with a fire slash.
Mario: I see it now!
Mario jumped on top of one of the Snowmen and performed a stylish move as he jumped off. The Snowman was still alive, but when Sonic performed a Homing Attack on it, it was finished.
"Whew! Now that was pretty nice!" the blue hedgehog smirked as he made a pose.
"Thy poses art not going to maketh thee seemeth cool, Knave," Luvbi said with an irritated look.
"The name's Sonic, all right?" Sonic corrected. "Sonic with a S."
Luvbi ignored him and hugged her prince. "Thou dost not have to worry, my sweet prince. Thy servants won't be interfering with our relationship."
Chopper ignored her and tossed a fireball at a Snowman right up ahead, melting it entirely. He noticed up on the trees that some snow was falling off.
Mario: Watch out for falling snow!
"My prince doth already seemeth to know that, yon hairy creature. Thou dost not have to remind him."
At this point, Mario was getting a bit irritated. He simply walked away from the princess and looked at the slope going down to a door up ahead. A couple of Snowmen were walking up the slope, so he simply began to slide down in order to take care of all of the Snowmen in his path.
Mario: Let's-a go!
Everyone else slid down the slippery path and entered through the door, leading them into another area. This time, they saw a bunch of ice people in Eskimo jackets called Snowmos. Of course, they enjoy hiding behind small snow forts and throw snowballs at the people in their path.
"Poyo? (Who the heck are those guys?)" Kirby asked.
"I believe those are Snowmos," Chopper pondered as he took a look at the light blue hooded people who had ice swords. "Yup. They're certainly not good guys. Although, they enjoy throwing snowballs, apparently."
"Then why don't you melt their forts?" suggested Blade.
"I guess I should," Chopper tossed a fireball at one of the forts, melting it entirely, leaving one of the Snowmos open. With another fireball, he was able to knock the enemy out.
"Such bravery!" Luvbi swooned, irritating Chopper a bit as he went up to the taller fort. With a flaming kick, he managed to knock the fort over easily and send the two Snowmos to the snowy ground.
"May I?" Blade asked.
"Go for it," Chopper nodded, stepping out of Blade's way. The ninja drew his katana and attacked the two Snowmos with it, defeating. He even knocked an ice pillar holding up another fort, sending it to the ground, along with the Snowmos.
"Ha! Take that, you stupid people!"
"Err… Good work, Blade!" Chopper commented as Kirby inhaled a Snowmo and spat it out at the other, disintegrating them into white smoke. They moved on ahead over by another tree.
"Say, Chopper or Mario… Have you tried hitting any of those trees?" Sonic asked.
"Ermmmm… I haven't tried yet, but I might as well try now." Chopper whacked at the tree with his hammer, making a badge fall from it. It looked like it resembled a dizzy person, to Kirby's surprise.
"Poyo? (What's this?)" he picked up the badge and looked at it. "Poyo. (I think it's a dizzy badge. Could I use this, Chopper?)"
"Why are you asking me if you could use it? You don't need to ask anyone to equip anything! …Although anyone can use that badge, I think you should hold on to it, since you DID pick it up."
"Poyo! (OK!)" Kirby equipped the Dizzy badge. With it, he could make an enemy dizzy for a couple of seconds after he attacks it, which is kind of nice, considering that some enemies will have some stronger Attack Power.
Once he was done with that, they noticed up ahead that there was a small pit of deep snow. Chopper was the first to jump into the deep snow, but he noticed that his speed was hindered as well.
"Huh? What's going on? Why am I slowing down from this snow?" Chopper tried to move through it, but he couldn't get himself out. "Uhhhh... Can someone help me?!"
Mario: Just get out of it slowly!
"I tried to, but it's not working!" Chopper tried to slowly get his feet out, but it didn't work. "This is almost like quicksand…but worse!"
"How is it worse than quicksand?" Blade gawked. "I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't die from being stuck in the snow. …Unless you end up freezing, or else you'd be dead."
"Don't try to scareth my sweet prince!" Luvbi snapped, turning to him. "He dost not have to worry when I'm around! So, keepth thy words to thyself, smelly cat!"
"Smelly?" Blade smelled his armpit for a second and frowned. "I'm not exactly 'smelly', you brat. I mean-"
"Ehhhhh… I think it's best if we don't get in any arguments." Sonic groaned, face palming. "Look, I'll try to find a way to get Chopper out. You guys just try to stay a bit far from me."
Everyone moved back and Sonic began to perform his Whirlwind ability. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to pull Chopper out of the snow. "Dang… Looks like that's not gonna work! And here I thought I'd be able to do it."
"Well, there's gotta be something!" Chopper frowned.
"Poyo… (Chopper… This is SNOW we're talking about here…)" Kirby trailed, obviously knowing what to do. "Poyo... (Maybe you should realize that fire can MELT the snow…)"
Chopper was speechless for a couple of seconds. "Oh… I completely forgot about that. All right."
His hands began to glow a flaming aura as he placed them on the snow. The deep snow began to melt away and turn into water. Chopper jumped out and made his way over to a ? Block, which contained a Mushroom.
"A Mushroom? Already?" Blade was a bit surprised as he cut it into five with his katana. After they finished the Mushroom, they noticed a slope going up to a door ahead. There was also a Snowman blocking the way, along with a hat that resembled Frosty the Snowman's hat.
"Hey, look! A hat!" Chopper picked up the hat and dumped all of the snow left in it. "Who would've thought a hat would be here?"
"I doth not wish to ask how it got hither…" Luvbi trailed.
"Poyo! (Hey! Maybe if we put it on that Snowman's head, he'll turn into Frosty the Snowman!)" Kirby suggested. "Poyo? (You guys all know who Frosty the Snowman is, right?)"
"Of course I know who he is," Chopper nodded. "I've read a book about him before. Although… I do believe that he's just a myth. You know, magic isn't real in the real world, right?"
"Poyo… (Chopper… You realize that some of us DO use magic…)" Kirby said with an irritated look. "Poyo! (Heck! Dimentio used magic! Your fireballs are considered to be magic too!)"
"Oh, you have a point there. I guess I'll give it a try." Chopper placed the hat on top of the Snowman's head. Surprisingly, a pipe appeared in his mouth and it also had the googly eyes of what Frosty had himself.
"Hey! I'm alive!" Frosty said in surprise as he looked at himself. "Happy birthday—WHOA!"
Blade's katana began to glow a flaming aura as he used it to melt Frosty. Everyone suddenly gaped in horror at the sight of the melted Frosty.
"Blade! Why did you do that?!" Sonic asked while looking a bit puzzled.
"Guys… It was a trap!" Blade announced. Everyone simply face palmed at him. "No, really! I mean, how the HELL could Frosty exist like that?! Hell, where did that hat come from anyway?!"
"I honestly have no idea…" Chopper trailed, moving on ahead. Unfortunately, because the slope was on some snow, he ended up sliding down easily. "Dang it! I hate it when I can easily slip!"
Mario: I think I can get up there!
Mario performed his Triple Jump to get on top of the slope where the door was. A blue ! Switch was right by him for him to kick, making a little platform appear for everyone else to get up.
"Poyo, (I could have simply floated up there,)" Kirby brought up as he floated up to the door without any problems.
With all six of them by the door, they headed through into an area that had a steep, icy slope going down. It seemed to lead down beneath this whole place, though. But, nevertheless, they were going to take this way.
"Man, this sure reminds me of Ice Cap for some reason…" Sonic trailed as he looked down the icy slope. "And for some reason… I like that! I really like places that remind me of home!"
"Let us just movest on…" Luvbi groaned.
"You don't seem so happy…" Blade said with a blank look.
"It's because I hath to travel with yon servants…" Everyone knew for sure that she was somewhat annoyed with everyone. "If thou art verily servants, then why art thou not doing all of the labor?"
Mario: Excuse me?
"Didst I tell thee to speaketh to me, hairy man?" Luvbi glared, but her expression change and she simply stuck her nose up in the air as she turned away from the group. "Hmph! It makest me sick that I have to travel with such annoying people!"
"Then why the heck are you traveling with us in the first place?" Sonic asked. "After all we've done to help you and your world, this is how you repay us?"
Mario: Yeah! Why are you so bratty?
"Besides, even if we need to make sure you're all right, I'm pretty sure that your mother and father would want you to be on your best behavior," Blade explained. "Usually, when someone causes trouble, we carry a little tape recorder just in case we're having some problems!"
"The only reason why I'm with thee is because I want to spendeth time with my sweet prince," As she turned to Chopper, her bratty, stuck-up attitude changed to her sweet side. "I doth apologize for how I was acting, my sweet prince! I didn't mean to maketh thee scared! Dost thou forgiveth me?"
"Poyo? (How come she always acts like a brat to us while with Chopper, she acts all sweet and innocent? Is that her side where she acts like she's in love, or is that her normal personality?)"
Chopper seemed to inch away from Luvbi in fear, but he ended up falling over and sliding down the icy slope on accident.
"Well... There he goes..." Sonic trailed.
"Wait for me, my sweet prince!" Luvbi called out, following her knight in shining armor down the slide.
"Poyo, (I think we should follow them,)" Kirby began to slide down after Chopper and Luvbi, which followed up with Sonic, Blade and then Mario. Because of the ice, they were going down faster than the slide in the Sweet Kingdom.
"Man, we're going FAST!" Sonic shouted. "Woo-hoo!"
As soon as they reached the bottom of the cave, they noticed that the ground wasn't as thick as it used to be. Below the ground was some icy cold water, and boy, is it cold. Probably so cold it might seem like lava…except colder.
Mario: This doesn't feel safe…
"You're right Mario, it's not so safe," Chopper said as he slowly got up. He noticed that there was a small little bridge with a couple of Snowmos throwing snowballs at them. Chopper decided to inhale one and spit it out at one of them, knocking them to the ground.
"Poyo! (Let me test out my new badge!)" Kirby got on Carrie and jumped on top of the Snowmo Chopper just hit. It caused the enemy to get a bit dizzy before getting trounced by Mario's feet.
Mario: Oh yeah!
They went down a small little slope on the icy bridge and simply jumped over a little gap with water down below to go to the next door. They didn't bother to say anything as they headed through.
"Poyo, (This looks dangerous,)" Kirby noticed a couple of icy platforms floating in the cold water up ahead. They appeared to be sinkable if you stood on them long enough.
"All right, I suppose I'll go first," Chopper jumped onto the first ice platform. "Don't worry, guys. I can swim in the water, so if I ever fall off, I'm probably not going to drown. …Although, I can't necessarily drown underwater."
"I always wondered why Chopper, Kirby and Mario can survive underwater while we can't…" Blade trailed.
Chopper took a couple of steps over by the edge of the platform, but because it was ice, he ended up slipping in falling into the ice cold water.
"AGGGHHHHH!" Chopper's skin turned to a light blue color as he began to struggle getting out of the water. "It's fr-freezing!"
"My sweet prince!" Luvbi gasped, looking a bit worried as he saw Chopper freezing in the water. "Art thou all right?!"
"N-No! I-I'm NOT all right!" his skin began to change to a grayish color, like he was suffering from frostbite. "S-S-Someone g-get me out of th-the w-water! J-Just d-don't g-go in h-here!"
He brought his hand out, begging to be pulled out of the water. Mario jumped onto the icy platform and pulled him out. They all noticed how horrible Chopper looked with his skin looking a bit grayish.
Mario: What happened to you?!
"I… I don't know…" Chopper shivered. "I just… I can barely move…"
"Oh, no!" Luvbi fluttered straight over to Chopper and looked at him. "Thou… Thou art sick!"
"Whoa… He's not lookin' too good." Sonic frowned as he jumped on the platform. "We better get off of these platforms before we end up becoming just like Chopper! Really, guys… It's for the best."
They all crossed over the icy platforms, with Luvbi carrying Chopper over to the water. When she placed him on the icy ground, she looked at her sick boyfriend's dull face for the moment.
"Canst thou move?" Luvbi asked.
"I'll… I'll try." Chopper was slowly moving on the ice, but when he tried stopping, he was starting to slide over back to the icy water. Luvbi pulled him away before he could get in a worse condition.
"Poyo, (I think it's best for Chopper to stay back,)" Kirby suggested as he inhaled a Snowman and spat it out. "Poyo. (You're definitely NOT in a good condition to fight against these guys.)"
"No, Kirby… I… I can do just fine." Chopper slowly made his way over to one of the Snowmen and tried to punch it. But, since he felt incredibly weak from the icy water, it didn't do a thing.
"This is your attack? Something as dangerous as that?" the Snowman gawked as it threw a snowball at his face. "Look, if you're going to fight us, then you better fight in a better condition! …If not, then we'll just end your sufferin'!"
Blade immediately drew his katana and took care of the Snowman with a fire slash, melting it in one hit. However, Chopper still wasn't feeling good even after getting hit by a snowball. It didn't make him feel worse, but he started to rub his forehead.
"Why do these waters have to be so cold?" he moaned, almost falling over, only to have Luvbi catch him.
"My sweet prince! Thou must stay up! Thou can't die!" Luvbi cried as she tried to help him walk.
"It's… It's OK, Luvbi…" Chopper replied in pain. "I… I can keep going. Don't worry about me, please… I'll live."
"Well, you certainly can't walk on your own, Chopper…" Sonic trailed, looking at the young boy. "We seriously need to get you to a doctor or something. We don't want you to perish."
"Dude… There aren't any doctors here!" Blade frowned as he walked over to a pipe by the wall ahead. "Huh… I never would've expected there to be a pipe here. Strange, if you ask me."
They all took the pipe up out of the cave, where they could see the beautiful blue sky and the trees covered in some snow. This area was small, but there was a small hill going up to a door. A light blue Shy Guy was making a large snowball and rolling it down the hill with ease.
"Poyo? (A Shy Guy? Here?)" Kirby gawked. "Poyo? (Now why would there be a Shy Guy in this place anyway? It's just so strange…)"
"I… I don't know…" Chopper wheezed, still being held by Luvbi. "B-But I think I can handle him."
"Nay! Thou hast to stay hither!" unfortunately, Luvbi was ignored by Chopper. He slowly staggered past the group and slowly tossed a fireball at the large snowball. Surprisingly, it melted before it could hit them.
"Uh oh…" the Shy Guy gulped as it tried to escape from the group. Unfortunately, it was finished when Sonic struck it with a Homing Attack. A ? Block was right by the door up the hill as well, which was surprising.
Kirby was the first to hit the block, making a Super Shroom pop out and land on the snowy ground. Blade immediately drew his katana and sliced it up into five pieces for all five of them.
"Art thou feeling much better now, my sweet prince?" Luvbi asked as Chopper ate his piece of the Super Shroom.
"That barely did anything…" Chopper coughed. "I don't think Mushrooms cure me at all… They just heal my HP."
"Well, then we have to find something that'll work," Sonic stated. "Should we go back to Flipside and contact Merlon about this? Or maybe we should just try to find a doctor around here? It's kind of tough…"
Mario: All we can do is move on.
Since there was nothing else to do, they simply moved on through the door. This new area was flat and kind of small compared to the other areas. But it looked big enough to have a little fight…if that's even a good thing.
"I don't see anything interesting around here…" Blade trailed as he took a couple of steps. "I wonder why this whole area is so flat and quiet… Is it like a wasteland or something? …Or even…a ghost town?"
"Ghost town… That…reminds me of when I went…to a ghost town two years ago." Chopper coughed.
"Chopper!" Luvbi looked over at Chopper and leaned close to him. "Please don't speaketh now… Thou art not feeling so well. Thou must needeth some rest, my prince…"
"No... I'm fine..."
"So Tipral was right! Yer all 'ere!"
"Oh, no… Don't tell me who I think it is…" Blade groaned, smacking his forehead as O'Chunks came down on the snowy ground, getting rid of both doors that happened to be on the ground as well.
"O… O'Chunks!" Chopper moaned.
"Yeh all thought I'd be a goody-goody after Dimentio left, did yeh? Well guess again, yeh little pieces of paper!" O'Chunks began to cackle before looking at the heroes – who gave him irritated looks.
O'Chunks paused for a minute and looked at the group, noticing that there were only four. "'Ey… Wait a second… Where did Chopra go? I swear he'd be with all of yeh… Unless 'e…died? I swear by me chin hairs that I 'eard 'im."
"Chopper's over there, if you must know," Sonic pointed behind him, where Chopper was being wrapped in a blue blanket by Luvbi – who got the blanket from the red-capped hero Mario.
"Eh? Who's that girl with 'im? She reminds me of a marshmallow!"
Luvbi looked up at O'Chunks with a glare. "And who art thou to have the right to speaketh to me like that?! Thou shouldst realize that I'm the daughter of the king of The Underwhere and queen of The Underwhere! And if thou art saying thou art chunky, well thinkest again!"
"…Whuh? Wait, 'ow dare yeh call me 'unchunky'! I 'ave every right teh be chunky, yeh little brat!"
"See? Even O'Chunks agrees!" Blade pointed out.
"Poyo, (Although, O'Chunks never seems to give up when fighting us for some reason,)" Kirby said with an irritated look while he looked at the big, bearded warrior.
"Look, O'Chunks… We know you're not going to win this fight…" Sonic groaned, shaking his head while face palming. "Name one times that you actually BEAT us. Just… Just name one time."
"Errrr…" O'Chunks pondered before stomping the ground angrily. "I don't need yer yappin' yeh stupid heroes! Now yer all goin' teh witness the full power of me chunky butt! HARGH!"
O'Chunks started off by charging straight at Kirby, Sonic, Blade and Mario. However, he ended up missing them, but the bad news was that he was moving directly toward Chopper.
"Uh oh…" Blade gulped as Chopper was flown all the way to the left, taking some serious damage.
"My sweet prince!" Luvbi cried as she fluttered over to him. She saw Chopper slowly getting up and getting into a fighting stance as if he's ready to fight against O'Chunks.
"D-Don't worry… I… I can do this…" Chopper moaned.
"But thou art sick! Thou can't fight in this condition!"
"Y-Yes I can…" Chopper tossed a fireball straight at O'Chunks. The fireball didn't seem to go as fast, so it was easy for the bearded warrior to simply jump and avoid it instead of taking the heat.
"Chopper, you really need to sit this one out," Blade suggested as he jumped over O'Chunks's fist and slashed him with his katana. "You're not in any good shape to fight him."
"I… I know I can still fight. Just trust me!"
"Poyo! (No, Chopper! Just stay back from this fight!)" Kirby retorted. "Poyo! (If you end up fighting, you're probably going to get in a worse condition! Just stay with Luvbi, all right?!)"
Chopper paused for a minute and looked at the ground. "I just don't want you guys to get any serious injuries…"
"You're the sick person here," Sonic pointed out. "I don't think we'd want you getting hurt either, so just let us get to work on O'Chunks. Seriously, I don't want to hear you acting like this again."
"Please, my sweet prince… Canst thou just please stay hither with me? I doth not wanteth thee to get hurt…" from what Chopper could see, tears were coming down Luvbi's face. And usually, when a girl gets upset and starts to cry, most to the time he feels sympathetic toward them.
"…All right, I'll just stay back and let them beat the snot out of O'Chunks," Chopper sat on the snowy ground and wrapped the blanket around him.
"Poyo, (Now that he's sitting out of this, let's fight this guy,)" Kirby jumped onto Carrie and jumped on top of O'Chunks's head, making him dizzy thanks to the Dizzy Badge he has on him.
"Ack! What in me mum's desert was that?!" O'Chunks gawked as he was dazed, allowing Mario to bring his hammer down upon him, dealing some tough damage to him.
"Guys… Also… From what I'm seeing…" Chopper looked at O'Chunks health bar. "He's got 110 HP and an Attack of 9. That's…pretty much it, apparently."
"Thanks for the info, Chopper," Sonic gave him a thumbs up before attacking O'Chunks with a Homing Attack, knocking him back to the ground. When he was about to strike him again, the bearded warrior immediately got up and grabbed Sonic by the legs, swinging him around and releasing him to make him fly all over the place.
"Gra ha ha ha! Now there's a flyin' animal!" O'Chunks cackled as he began to do another foolish dance.
"Dude… That's technically animal abuse there." Blade pointed out as he tossed Hommissile straight at O'Chunks, sending him flying across the area. When the bearded warrior got up, Blade jumped toward him and slashed him with his katana. "You know you're going to lose. If one person can beat you, then so can four people."
"Well I've gotten much stronger, if yeh wanted teh know!" O'Chunks knocked Blade back with a powerful punch. "I am the brawn o' the minions, after all!"
"Poyo, (You're more like the stupid one of the group,)" Kirby snickered as O'Chunks jumped into the air. He came down on the ground with massive force, knocking Kirby up into the air. When he landed, he inhaled one of the yellow stars that appeared after O'Chunks stomped and spat it back at the bearded warrior for some tough damage.
"Whoa… Why am I so dizzy?" he asked as his eyes began to spin around, allowing Mario to jump on him and perform a stylish move. Unfortunately, O'Chunks managed to grab a hold of Mario's legs and swing him around. Upon letting him go, the red plumber began to fly all over the place.
Mario: Mama mia!
"That's right, Maria! Yeh better cry like that!" O'Chunks turned to Kirby and picked up a large snowball. He chucked it directly at the pink puffball, getting him stuck in the snowball and heading straight toward Chopper and Luvbi.
"Poyo! (Chopper! Watch out!)" Kirby cried.
Chopper raised his hand in front of the snowball and tried to shoot a fireball at it. He managed to hit it, but it didn't do him any good when the snowball rolled over him. It was lucky not to get Luvbi.
"My prince! Art… Art thou all right?" Luvbi asked with a worried look as she fluttered over to the sick hero. "Please, Chopper… Get up…"
"I'm…cough…fine…" Chopper coughed slowly getting up and putting the blanket around him. "I feel so cold… It's like the inside of my head is freezing right now. It's so bad…"
"I'm here for thee, my prince," Luvbi replied.
O'Chunks took notice of the "couple" and slightly frowned. "Man… Seein' that girl comfortin' 'im makes me think about confessin' to that lass..."
"Uhhh… Are you there, O'Chunks?" Sonic asked, waving his arm in front of his face. "What are you doing?"
O'Chunks blinked a couple of times and looked down at Sonic with a growl. "Oh, yeah! I gotta take yeh down!"
O'Chunks kicked Sonic to the ground with a simple kick, followed by picking up a snowball and throwing it toward the blue hedgehog. Kirby, however, managed to inhaled the snowball and spit it back at O'Chunks, making him shiver from the attack.
"Time fer me teh use me gas!" O'Chunks pulled out a can of beans and opened it. He dumped all of the beans in his mouth and tossed the can away before looking a bit constipated.
"What…is he doing…?" Blade gawked.
"Poyo… (I don't think it's going to be nice…)" Kirby mumbled.
"Time teh get even chunkier!" O'Chunks rocketed himself up in the air with his gas and came down toward the group. Oh, and did I mention that his fart shot fire, too? Yeah, I bet you weren't expecting that!
"Now's our chance to attack!" Blade shouted as he struck O'Chunks with a fire slash. Mario left the bearded warrior weakened when he performed a Ground Pound on his butt.
As soon as O'Chunks pulled himself out of the ground, he made Mario trip, using his leg, but was soon stunned when Kirby jumped on him with Carrie. This left him completely open for one last finishing attack.
"All right, Chunky! Looks like it's time to finish this!" Sonic grinned, getting into a Spin Dash.
"…Is that the best you can come up with?" Blade gawked.
Sonic paused for a minute and looked at Blade with an annoyed look. "Come on, Blade… Don't ruin it! I wanna make this a cool moment! Not one where someone has to make a comment!"
"Poyo, (That was a pun you just made,)" Kirby pointed out.
Despite not knowing what Kirby just said, Sonic simply ignored the pink puffball and curled up in a ball again. Once he struck the bearded warrior in the stomach, it was all over for O'Chunks…for now.
"URK! YEH GOT ME!" O'Chunks knelt down on the ground in pain and looked up at the four heroes that gave him one heck of a beating. He was covered in a bunch of bruises, that it wasn't even funny.
"So… I guess yeh all were right… I can't take yeh all on at once…"
"See? Now he gets it!" Blade shouted as Chopper slowly made his way over to O'Chunks, along with Luvbi.
"Well, O'Chunks…cough… At least you're not in as bad as a condition that I'm in…" Chopper's coughs seemed to be freezing for some odd reason. It could most likely be because of the terrible cold that he's suffering from.
O'Chunks sweat dropped as he got up. "Listen, can yeh just cut me a little slack fer today? 'Tis cold out 'ere, an' I don't know 'ow long I can handle the heat."
"We don't want to hurt you anymore…" Blade trailed. "If you let us go, then we'll be just fine."
"Fine… But next time we meet, I'm not gonna go easy on yeh all! Especially yeh, Chopra! Yeh better watch out, next time! For now… CHUNKS AWAY!"
After waving goodbye, O'Chunks rocketed up into the air with his farting powers, leaving mostly everyone with grimaced expression. But, nevertheless, they moved on to the door up ahead that led into a small area with an icy pond and a couple of icy platforms to help them across to the Star Block.
"We art finally done hither!" Luvbi sighed in relief and looked at Chopper. "I doth hope we can findeth a doctor for thee… I doth not want thee to be in this kind of condition…"
"I'll… I'll live." Chopper wheezed as he slowly walked over to the edge. Luvbi was sweet enough to get him over the icy water without any problems. The others, on the other hand, had to jump on the platforms to get to the other side.
"How come you couldn't carry us over here?" Blade asked.
"Blade, Chopper's not in a good condition. I think you should cut her a little slack…" suggested Sonic.
"Oh, all right…"
Chopper slowly made his way over to the Star Block and managed to punch it with all of his might before falling to the ground. Everyone else was obviously worried about it.
END OF CHAPTER
After witnessing the icy cold water, Kirby, Sonic, Blade and Mario were starting to be a bit cautious around the icy water. They didn't want to end up like what Chopper was right now. Is Chopper's sickness just some kind of cold? Or is it even just frostbite? Luvbi was unsure of this, but she kept close to Chopper to make sure he was safe. "I will maketh sure that thou art OK, my sweet prince," Upon hearing these words, it sounded like Luvbi really cared about Chopper. But what was more important in his mind was to find the Pure Heart…wherever it may be.
Oh, boy... Chopper's suffering from some terrible cold (although, we're not ENTIRELY sure what it is just yet). I wonder how he'll fair with everything else in this cold world. And as for the others... That Dizzy Badge is quite helpful for Kirby, since he can make enemies dizzy for a couple of seconds. Very, very helpful item indeed.
So... You're probably asking me if we'll ever find a doctor in this world. Well, I'm not going to answer that JUST yet. We'll see in the next chapter, though.