Over by Christmas Village, Tipral teleported in the center of the village. He noticed that there were some Koopas wearing antlers on their head. One of them had a red nose, that's for sure. He could even hear some of the people being happy inside of the houses. Well, ones that were awake.
"Ugh… I can hear how happy those people are." Tipral grumbled, turning away from one of the houses with some kids laughing. "Now's not the time to worry about that, though. Dark should be here sooner or later."
"Hey, who's that guy over there?" Koopolph gaped at the sight of Tipral. "Whoa! He reminds me of that kid we saw earlier!"
"Excuse me?" Tipral turned around toward the Koopas, gripping his Dark Star Scepter. "Are you talking to ME?!"
"Uhhh… Yeah. Why are you so angry?"
Tipral aimed his scepter at him. "I would be careful if I were you… I hold the most powerful weapon in the whole universe and in every single dimension. So if you try to mess with me, you're most likely going to be dead."
"Hey! I was just…" Koopolph stopped when he saw Tipral raise his scepter. "Ummmmm… Never mind! You can move on!"
He lowered his scepter, but he didn't nod at him. He just gave him a disdainful look. "Good. If you try to say anything else to me, I swear that I'll destroy you. I managed to harm someone else here that'll surely work in my favor. Now where is Dark Doom? I've been waiting for him for a while!"
Tipral looked up at the tree and its beauty. Although, he wasn't so happy with it. With a snap of his finger, he struck the tree with Star Magic, setting it on fire and burning it down to nothing.
"This tree doesn't belong here. In fact, I don't like this village all together."
"All right, I'm here, Tipral," Tipral stopped when he saw Dark appear right in front of him with his cape. "Sorry I took so long. I had to speak with Nastasia with a couple of important things."
"Such as…?"
"Well, let's just say she needed me to fill out something for a meeting. She always wants to set up some little meetings for some things… I don't know, maybe it's just for some interview, but whatever."
"What about O'Chunks and Mimi?" Tipral raised an eyebrow.
"Nastasia is making him write a 1,000 page essay, while Mimi… Well, I don't know what she did. She told me to tell Nastasia that she messed up bad against the heroes. So, I'm going to bet that she lost to them."
"Fine, I'll let Nastasia take care of them. Now, I know that there's something around here…or rather, someone." Tipral looked at the glowing scepter.
"Are you sure about this, Tipral? Is it necessary for us to find these two people?"
"The Dark Prognosticus clearly states that we'll have the upper hand against the heroes if we find these two," Tipral explained. However, he happened to notice both Shade and the Necromancer fluttering to the ground with their wings. "Hmmmmmm? It's those two again…"
"Who?"
"Look over there," Tipral pointed to Shade, whose identity couldn't be seen with the hood on and the Necromancer, who looked pretty much the same ever since they fought him.
"You faced them before? In fact, who are they?"
Unfortunately, the two happened to spot both Tipral and Dark and they immediately went up to them.
"Well well well! If it isn't Tipral! I'm surprised that you decided to go off on your own instead of going with those stupid heroes…" Shade growled. "I thought that snowman would've finished them, but I guess not."
"And who are you two supposed to be?" Dark asked.
"Hmmmmmm… For some reason, I see a bit of a resemblance between you…" the Necromancer pondered as he looked at Shade and Dark. "Yes… I think there is a resemblance."
"Resemblance? What the heck are you talking about?! There's no resemblance between him and I!"
"Yes… There is. Dark… You might remember me." Shade brought his hood down and revealed his face. "It's your 'brother', Shade."
Dark seemed a bit surprised. "What are YOU doing here? Didn't you leave? In fact, why are you in that cloak and holding some sort of wand?"
"Oh, how he learned to become a master of dark magic is rather interesting! Share the details to him, master!" the Necromancer grinned.
"Dark… Remember when I said that I would go get my own army? Well, it turns out that I did! I freed some monsters down in The Underwhere and the swore their loyalty to me! Now, I have a gigantic army of the undead on my side! What do you have? An army of aliens. You see… You cannot kill the undead. That's a problem with your army. Also… You cannot get some advanced weaponry without MY help!"
"Hmmmmmm… He's right. Things have gone a bit downhill when you left. …But that doesn't mean I need you anymore."
"And how I got to master dark magic… You might be a bit surprised!" Shade smirked. "Remember Ash Field back on Viti?"
"You mean that place where I battled Chopper and his friends?" Dark recalled. "Yeah..."
"I happened to find a book on dark magic buried there! I studied it, and I managed to master its magic! And now look at me!"
"I couldn't care less how you learned your dark magic. I suggest you leave before…" Tipral heard a couple of voices. He noticed the heroes walking into the village. "Crud! Those stupid heroes are here! We can't stay here forever!"
"Grrrr! Fine, we'll be leaving then! Let's go, Necromancer!" Shade flew off, with the Necromancer following him.
"So where are we going now, master?" the Necromancer asked.
"Back to our home. I'm getting sick of this place anyway…"
Tipral and Dark jumped into two trash cans, trying their best to keep themselves hidden from the heroes. However, Tipral peeked a little bit from the trash can to see what was going on.
"Man… I can't believe we already got the Pure Heart!" Blade said in surprise. "Although, it wasn't really a great thing to witness…"
"Yes, we know that, Blade," Chopper sighed as he looked at the flower. "I still don't understand what she meant by saving my moth… What did she mean? Moth? Mother?"
"I doth feel sorry that she had to endeth her life… But I think it's time we movest on. She wouldst wanted us to do that anyway."
"Yeah... I guess so." Sonic said.
After they left the village, Tipral got out of the trash can and clenched his fist in anger. "Luvbi… I thought she was gone after she sacrificed her life to become a Pure Heart?! How is she still alive?!"
"That girl? Uhhh… I don't know what you mean."
"Oh, forget it. That's not what we're here for anyway." Tipral listened carefully and heard another voice.
"Guys… G-Guys… Don't l-leave me h-here…"
Bingo. That was exactly what Tipral was looking for. Behind one of the houses, they could see a plumber shivering in the cold. He looked terrible, that's for sure. Who was it, you ask? Well, he is none other than…
"Ah, I've been looking for you…Luigi!"
"T-Tipral?! What are YOU doing here?!" Luigi yelped, cowering in fear.
"I have my reasons for looking for you, you know…" Tipral said as he gripped his scepter. "You'll definitely be helpful on our side, you know. And don't even think that you can escape either!"
"I'll try!" Luigi jumped over Tipral, but he managed to keep his arms and legs still with the power of the Dark Star Scepter.
"See? There's no escape!"
"So, this is one of the people you've been looking for?" Dark asked as he walked up to the green plumber. "Why does he remind me of the red plumber that we saw earlier?"
"You mean m-my bro? Don't even try to hurt him, 'cause he's going to trounce you!" Luigi retorted.
"How about you do it instead, because THAT would be a bit more interesting," Tipral said as Dark walked up to the plumber. "Dark, you take care of him while I find the other."
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Dark asked.
"You'll see," as Tipral walked off, Dark grinned at Luigi.
"Oh no..." Luigi gulped as Dark touched his moon crescent on his head, and it started to glow.
While he did that, Tipral pulled out a certain golden sword that he was holding on to this whole time. It looked just like…Meta Knight's sword? Even then, he needed to get him here as well.
"I know just what to do," Tipral waved his scepter and shot at the ground. Meta Knight was suddenly teleported right in front of Tipral and held by some dark hands that rose from the ground.
"Wh-What?! What's going on?!" he barked. "What are you doing here?!"
"What am I doing here? Looking for you, of course!" Tipral growled. He pulled Galaxia out and showed it to him. "Were you looking for this?"
Meta Knight's eyes widened. "G-Galaxia?! How on earth did you find THAT?!"
"I was holding onto it this whole time! …But I'm not going to give it to you just yet. Oh, I'll give it to you, but you'll have to wait."
"Tipral, I'm finished. What do you want me to do now?" Dark asked, walking over to Tipral.
"You finished with him? Well, we'll have him go out to find the heroes, that's what! …But now I want you to get him too."
"What do you plan on doing with me?" Meta Knight asked.
"You'll see!" Tipral nodded. He noticed his scepter was rumbling a bit, so he touched the dark star on it to find Fawful's big grin.
"I have the readying now, Tipral! The heroes will finally taste Fawful's fury yet again!"
"You want to go out now? Ugh… Fine. You can go after the heroes too if you wish. Just don't screw around, though. O'Chunks and Mimi failed before, so I don't want you to mess up either."
"I have no failing! You can have the counting of Fawful!"
"All right, then," Tipral closed communications with him while Dark walked up to the trapped Meta Knight.
"This won't hurt a bit!" Dark grinned as he placed his finger on his moon crescent thing on his head. "…Or maybe it MIGHT hurt a bit!"
What would happened to Meta Knight and Luigi was something the heroes would never find out.
…Or would they?
Flipside Tower-
As the heroes walked out of the white door, a white crystal heart appeared on top of the door, showing that they have finished this world.
"All right, eleven Pure Hearts down, nine more to go," Chopper smiled as he held the snow white Pure Heart in his hands. "Although… This one kind of reminds me of when you were a Pure Heart, Luvbi."
"Yea... It doth..." Luvbi realized.
"And we're finally out somewhere where it's not below 32 degrees!" Blade sighed in relief as he stretched. "It's about time we got to relax!"
"Uhhh… I wouldn't say that, Blade…" Sonic trailed. "We still have a Pure Heart to place in its Heart Pillar."
"And we need to take Luvbi back to her parents too…" Chopper said as he turned to Luvbi. "Right?"
"Nay! I dost not want to go back to Mother and Father!" Luvbi retorted. "I'd rather stayeth with thee instead of them! They art so overprotective over me, and I'd rather be with the boy I love!"
"Wh-What?! But they'd be worried if you never came back! I don't want them to get worried!"
Before he could continued to speak, something fell on his head. A wand with a crystal ball on it appeared and landed right beside him. Out of curiosity, he picked it up and looked at it. It had a rainbow glow to it, to his surprise.
"This rainbow color… I don't know why, but it kind of reminds me of…Tippi."
"Poyo? (But why did it fall from the sky?)" Kirby asked.
"I'm not too sure… Maybe we should show this to Merlon. He might know what it is." Chopper carried the wand over to the elevator and headed over to Merlon's house, along with everyone else.
Merlon's house-
Merlon was reading through the Light Prognosticus before the heroes came into his house. "Ah, young ones! You've returned! How was your trip through the tenth world?"
"Uhhhh… It was all right." Sonic explained. "We managed to find the Pure Heart from a spirit named Crysta."
"Crysta? You mean one of the Tribe of Ancients that lived as a spirit?!" Merlon gasped. "I would've never guessed that she'd be there! How was she doing?"
Chopper's face definitely showed that something bad happened. "Oh, I see… Well, not all spirits live forever… What a shame that she had to go."
"Yeah, it kind of stinks, if you think about it," Blade agreed.
"And who is this beautiful angelic girl here?"
Luvbi blushed. "Oh, thank thee for noticing my cuteness and beauty! Mine given name is Luvbi. I'm the daughter of Queen Jaydes and King Grambi."
"So your parents rule the aftergame?"
"Thou art correct!" Luvbi confirmed. "So thou shouldst be on thy best behavior and givest me respect, or else thou mayest be in some big trouble in the aftergame!"
"Ummmmm… Yes... I will keep that in mind. Anyway… You'll find the eleventh Heart Pillar somewhere near the third Heart Pillar. I was recently told by Nolrem that the next door will be up at Flopside Tower."
"Flopside Tower? We gotta go over there now?" Blade frowned.
"I know it may be a long way over there, but it's not too bad. Trust me."
"Before we go… Do you have any idea what this is?" Chopper pulled the wand out that he found on the ground of Flipside Tower and showed it to Merlon. "We found this earlier and we have no idea what it is…"
"Hmmmmm…" Merlon took the wand from him and began to look at it carefully. "I'm not quite sure if I can get a good reading on this. I really don't know where it came from. It's something quite new to me…"
He returned it to Chopper. "However, I'm sure you'll be able to find out sooner or later. I believe this does hold a great power…"
"All right, I guess we'll bring the Pure Heart to its Heart Pillar…" Chopper trailed as he turned to his friends. "Let's go, guys. We have a Heart Pillar to find."
Flipside Outskirts, B1-
"Poyo, (This is where we needed to use Slim in order to get to the third Heart Pillar,)" Kirby explained as they all walked out of the pipe. They noticed a little doorway was being surrounded in fire.
"Ah, so that's where we need to go in order to find the Heart Pillar!" Blade pointed out as he pointed at the doorway. "Go on, Kirby! Let it rip!"
Kirby shrugged and used Crystaline's power to get rid of the flames on the doorway. How it worked, I have no freaking clue, but it opened the doorway in 3-D for Chopper to walk through.
"Here I go!" Chopper flipped into 3-D and walked through the doorway. The Heart Pillar was all the way to the left, which wasn't so surprising.
"So, Chopper… What didst thou do when thou cameth hither to a Heart Pillar?" Luvbi asked, startling Chopper a bit.
"Hey! Who said you could follow me here?!" Chopper yelped.
"Well, I wanted to see what happens when thou inserts a Pure Heart in the Heart Pillar!" Luvbi pouted as she followed Chopper over to the Heart Pillar.
"Look… THIS is what you do." Chopper pulled the snow white Pure Heart out and tossed it into the Heart Pillar. A snow white clock appeared around the pillar as the heart went in. They knew something interesting was going to happen up at Flopside Tower.
A dark green door was drawn there.
"Hmmmmm… Well, we all should make our way up there. The next door should be up at Flopside Tower…"
Flopside Tower-
They were all surprised when they saw a dark green door all the way to the left of the tower. That meant that they all had to take a longer walk over there instead of having the door right next to them after coming out of the elevator.
"All right… Are you SURE you want to come into this world with us, Luvbi?" Chopper asked.
"Yea, verily. I doth wish to do so!"
"Fine... I guess you can..."
At this point, everyone was groaning.
"Poyo? (Why does she have to come with us? She's horrible!)" Kirby whined.
"I don't want to hear her insulting us again…" Sonic groaned.
"Now we're in a deep pile of yogurt…" Blade face palmed.
Mario: Mama mia…
"Yea, I know thou verily wanteth me gone, but I want to stayeth with Chopper!" Luvbi said, turning to the group. "So I suggest thou dost not getest me in a bad mood, peasants, because I will tell Mother about what thou hast done to me."
"Crud... That's going to be a problem." Blade thought. "Well, will she really listen to you?"
"Of course! Mother listened to me when yon hideous, dark being had come at my behest!"
"Actually, she made you apologize to him..." Chopper corrected.
"Really? Ha HA! She'll probably believe us more!"
Mario: Let's just go through the door.
Everyone agreed and made their way into the eleventh door, or rather, the first door of Flopside.
Our heroes were once again forced to take Luvbi with them through the first door of Flopside Tower. Everyone wasn't happy with it, especially since they were getting tired of her personality. They would usually hear stuff from, "Oh, Chopper! Mayhap we will findeth a romantic place to stayeth at!" and to others, she would be, "Why art thou slowing us down! Go faster yon peasants!" Hopefully things would change when they walk through the door up ahead. As for the wand… What was it really?
...They forgot Luigi. THIS could be a problem...