CHAPTER 13-2
-Meeting King Sunday-
"Well, here we are… This is King Sunday's castle! Just look at this wonderful place! I'm sure even SunMoonFlower would even like it!" Arcaine explained as the heroes looked at the small room they were in after walking through the entrance. The inside of the castle was apparently a golden yellow color, which kind of matches the sun a little bit. There were even some portraits on the wall with a sun king and even the sun itself. For some reason, they all believed that King Sunday was obsessed with, well, the sun.
"Ugh… For some reason, I feel that this 'SunMoonFlower' thing is actually not real and you're just making up…" Chopper groaned as he smacked his forehead. Arcaine's eyes widened and he turned around to Chopper.
"How could you say something like that when I actually saw the monster with my very own eyes?" Arcaine gaped. "This thing was over ten feet tall and could literally fall on top of you! One thing for sure is that…it doesn't fear our kind. It's not afraid to attack us, which is why I must destroy it and show everyone that I've slain the beast!"
"…We're not buying it," Blade stated. "The only reason why we brought you with us is because we're looking for an ancient item called the Pure Heart. We need that if we're going to save the universe."
"Well, YOU people care the ones coming with me…but enough about that," Arcaine walked up to two armored yellow guards holding swords and shields. "Fellow guards… I must speak to King Sunday! I've brought my partners here with me, and they sure remind me of a Squigley!"
"HEY!"
"Errmmmm… Look, are you here to speak to us about that whole 'SunMoonFlower' business?" one of the Sun Knights asked with an irritated look on his face. "What is this? The fifth time you came here about this?"
"Wait, does everyone know about this whole SunMoonFlower thing?" Luigi asked.
"Yeah, he's been telling us for years," the other Sun Knight nodded. "He's been warning us about this whole 'SunMoonFlower' thing so much, that we stopped caring. Hey, don't get me wrong. We were a bit scared…at first. But when we realized it didn't come, we stopped caring."
"Oh… Well that's something I'm not too surprised about…" Sonic trailed. "Anyway, we brought this guy with us because the Mayor said it was the only way we could go speak to King Sunday. We just want to speak to him about the Pure heart."
"The Pure Heart? Could it be…?" both Sun Knights turned to each other and began to have a little discussion. "Only the heroes of the prophecy know about the Pure Heart! And…these guys are it?"
"Yeah, my thoughts exactly," the second Sun Knight whispered back. "How can these guys be the heroes? I thought they would be more…muscular and less hairy and not have stubby little feet… I'm not buying this…"
"Poyo? (What on earth are they talking about?)" Kirby asked, only to receive a shrug from the rest of the group (well, everyone else shrugged when Chopper shrugged, since he can only understand Kirby).
"Hmmmmmmm… I think I might have a little idea!" a light bulb appeared right over the first Sun Knight's head. "How about we give them a little test? You know, a way to prove that they're the heroes!"
"Well, if you two are simply going to talk about random issues, then I might as well get going," Arcaine pushed the two Sun Knights out of his way, making them fall over on the ground anime style.
Mario: Aren't you going to stop him?
"Nah… It's not worth chasing Arcaine." the first Sun Knight responded with a shake of his head. "He doesn't really destroy anything. I'm pretty sure King Sunday will take perfect care of him…when he reaches his throne room, of course."
"Oh… Well, can you let us through?" Luigi asked as he walked up to the guards, only to make the guards aim their swords at him. "UWWAAAAAAH! D-Don't p-point those th-things at m-m-me!"
"I'm sorry, but we cannot allow you into the hallway," the second Sun Knight stated. "HOWEVER… We'll cut you a little deal. In order to prove yourself as the heroes, you must do a little…deed."
"And what is this 'deed' that you speak of?" Chopper asked while tilting his head and crossing his arms. "Does it involve us going into the bathroom and unclogging a toilet? 'Cause that's not something for me. However, Mario and Luigi can do that."
"Errr… Well, it DOES involve going into the sewers." the first Sun Knight brought a red curtain down by the door and a pipe was revealed to be behind. "Tell you guys what: if you manage to find a sword sharpener that we accidentally dropped in the toilet and flushed, then we'll believe you're the heroes and let you through."
"Poyo? (So basically, Arcaine gets to move on without anyone's permission while we have to do something?)" Kirby frowned. "Poyo! (This is why inequality is horrible! We heroes don't really get much for what we do!)"
"How come King Sunday didn't send you knights into the sewers to retrieve it?" Timpani asked.
"Errmmm… This is just between you guys and us…" both Sun Knights inched closer and began to whisper. "But we don't want to get ourselves dirty in the sewers. They're NASTY, I tell you! And… Well, King Sunday thought that it was stolen. So… Yeah. There's your story."
"Ummmmmm… OK. Cool story, bro." Blade said with a blank look. "So, about going through that door, huh?"
"I don't think we have another choice, Blade," Blumiere pointed out as Blade sweat dropped. "They're not going to let us through if we don't go into the sewers. And if we try to fight them, we're just going to cause more trouble!"
Mario: I can handle going into the sewers!
Mario jumped on top of the pipe and made his way down into the sewers. Everyone else sighed as they jumped on the pipe and allowed themselves to go down the pipe one at a time with their bodies becoming pixilated as they went down.
Castle sewers-
"Ugh… I don't like the smell down here…" Chopper gagged as they were right near some disgusting green sewage. "I know I don't have a nose, but it's still pretty bad down here…"
"Well, I guess we should start going," Luigi took a couple of steps down the small slope and stepped in the sewage. He wasn't floating in it, but it was up to his feet, which wasn't really good. It was worse for Chopper and Kirby because they're a lot shorter than everyone else!
"Maybe I could try to go through here with my Wheel ability…" Chopper became a wheel and began to roll through the sewage. There wasn't much except for some large star blocks that he destroyed, but he ended up stopping when the water got deeper. What was worse was that he bumped into a Blooper, making him lose his Wheel ability.
"Well that stunk…"
"Poyo, (Well I guess that's what happens when you try to go into the water with your Wheel ability,)" Kirby said as he jumped into the water. They noticed a little pipe sticking out of the wall, but the current coming out of it seemed to push them away.
"I think there might be a switch around here," Luigi said as he got out of the sewage and looked around. He noticed up above on the ceiling that there was a red ! Switch. It was too high for the others to get to, but not for Luigi.
Mario: Go ahead and hit that, Luigi!
"All right, I'll see what it does," Luigi folded himself up and then sprung himself up in the air and struck the red ! Switch. This triggered the current coming out of the pipe to disappear…but they actually heard a timer as well.
"Uh oh… I don't think we have enough time…" Sonic gulped. "We need to go into that pipe fast! Errrr… Although, I HATE being in the water. Bah, I'll just go in anyway and follow you all."
Sonic jumped into the water and was dragged into the pipe by Blade as they had little time to reach it. They were led into an underwater tunnel that had these enemies called Sun Urchins roaming around in the water. The only way to beat them was, well, to freeze them.
"I guess this means I have to use some ice balls on these guys," Chopper said as he tossed an ice ball at a Sun Urchin, making it float to the ceiling and shattering it. Sonic grabbed an air bubble, which appeared disgusting-looking, but it appeared to be normal air coming from the bubbles.
"You doing OK there, Sonic?" Chopper turned his head to Sonic, who gave a nod as he tried to run underwater. Of course, since he IS underwater, he couldn't move fast. They noticed the next pipe up ahead was being guarded by another Sun Urchin, but Chopper managed to freeze it and destroy it with an ice ball.
"I guess that's the last of those guys, huh?" Luigi asked.
"I'm pretty sure that's the last of them… But, we'll find out through this pipe."
They made their way into the pipe and ended up coming out of the pipe…from the ceiling?
"Poyo? (Why did we suddenly come out from the ceiling?)" Kirby gawked as they landed on a metallic platform. They noticed that there was a waterfall of sewage in the background that led down to a small pool of sewage. Beside the platform they were standing on, there were two pipes to the left and right and two more below, but a lot closer to each other.
"Hmmmmmm… Well, let's hope there aren't any Sun Piranhas coming out of those…" Timpani trailed, only to find a Sun Piranha pop its head out of the pipe and attempt to spit a fireball from an upper angle.
"What the…" Chopper got struck by the Sun Piranha's fireball and got a nasty burn from it. "Oh, you gotta be kidding me! I've been left with a burn on me! Ugh… This is why things like them are annoying."
"Poyo! (I'll try getting rid of them!)" since Kirby still had his Fire ability on him, he jumped down to the Sun Piranha and spun in a fireball to destroy it. Once it was clear, everyone jumped down while Chopper used Piccolo's power to cure him of his burn status.
"Great… More water." Sonic groaned as he jumped down from the pipe and landed in the small pool. "Oh… Well, at least this place isn't filled with sewage. Now… Which way do we go?"
Mario: That way!
Mario pointed over to a pipe to the right sticking out of the wall. Everyone looked at each other and shrugged and headed into the pipe into another tunnel. However, this tunnel wasn't filled with water like the other. And one thing for sure was that there were some Sun Koopas walking around here.
"WHY are there Sun Koopas in the sewers?!" Blade exclaimed as they began to walk toward them. "And they don't NEED shades when they're down in a disgusting, hideous place!"
"Well, that's logic for you," Sonic stated as he struck the first Sun Koopa with a Spin Jump. It retreated back into its shell as Blade decided to blow it up by tossing Hommissile at it.
"Hold on, let me have a chance at attacking!" Luigi called out as he stomped on the Sun Koopa and kicked it into another Sun Koopa, stunning it. Of course, that's when Chopper rushed toward the Koopa and managed to punch it in the face with a flaming fist, then finished it off by stomping on it with fire energy on his feet.
"Well that takes care of the enemies in here…" declared Blumiere as everyone headed into the pipe ahead to find themselves in a larger room in the sewers. There happened to be a little slide right next to them with water flowing down. Sonic gulped as he looked at it. It sure was a long one…
"Oh, man… This reminds me back in the days when I was sliding down some water in the Labyrinth Zone…" Sonic frowned as he looked down the slide nervously. Blade wanted to find a blindfold, but alas, he didn't have one.
"Man, why don't I have any blindfolds with me?!" Blade growled.
"Probably because we didn't need them…" Chopper trailed as he pulled his communicator out to get in contact with Flyer. "Hey, Flyer! We're in the castle at the moment!"
"That's excellent news!" Flyer smiled, but then noticed Chopper was covered in sewage. "Errrrr… What's with you? You look all dirty or something. In fact, you kind of smell from the scent above you! What happened?"
"Errrr… We went into some sewage…" Luigi explained as he spoke to Flyer through the communicator. "We need to find a sword sharpener for a Sun Knight because he's too lazy to find it himself."
"Oh… Yeah… That's uh…strange…" the young Wingel had a blank look on his face. "I can see that you're all enjoying yourselves down here, aren't you? And… Yeah, I think that's it."
"Maybe you can find some of my mail, if that's anything important," Parakarry suggested as his face appeared on the screen. "Ever since Tipral's sudden attack, I've lost all of my letters. The shame…"
"Oh… Well that's a shame." Blade said as if he didn't care. "So… Who's going to go down this slide first? Because it's definitely not going to be me!"
"Errrr… You go!" Chopper pushed Blade down the slide, causing him to scream as the water made him slide. What was strange was…that he came back to the slide they were right next to and continued to go down. He even returned again, as if there was some kind of portal from above.
"Poyo? (What the heck is going on here?)" Kirby gawked.
"Hey… I think Blade just discovered a portal that leads him back here!" Chopper gasped as they all heard Blade scream at Chopper for pushing him. "…Or this whole slide just repeats itself."
"Well, maybe you should check and see what's around, Chopper," Flyer suggested before Bow appeared.
"What's with the sewage?" Bow asked.
"Yeah, I was wondering the same thing," Vivian added.
"Well... That's because we were sent down here to look for a sword sharpener.
"Oh… I see now."
"AAAGGHHHHH!" Blade screamed as he continued sliding back and forth, while Chopper put his communicator away. "This is all your fault, Chopper!"
"Geez! No need to be so angry…" Chopper frowned as he went down the slide next. Soon everyone else began to slide down and noticed that they were just repeating the same slides over and over again.
"See? This is just going back and forth in this place!" Sonic pointed out. Mario, however, noticed a little entrance to a pipe past the one slide and jumped for it.
Mario: Jump!
"Ummmm… OK!" Luigi made the jump second and landed right over by Mario. The rest of the group began to jump over to the pipe as well and immediately headed down the pipe into a small room with a chest.
"I swear, Chopper… I'm going to hurt you the next time you do something like that without asking." Blade grumbled as Chopper sweat dropped.
"Hey, I was just trying to help! I didn't intend to make you want to hurt me!" Chopper retorted as Kirby walked over to the chest and opened it. There just so happened to be a sword sharpener in there.
"Poyo! (I got the sword sharpener!)" he announced as he held it up. "…Poyo? (…But why was it stuck in a chest?)"
"The world may never know…" the pale green gumball responded as a pipe appeared right by them. "Well, looks like that's our way out of here! Let's go!"
And with that, they took the pipe out of the sewers.
Castle entrance-
A pipe appeared from the ceiling and all six heroes dropped down and landed right beside the two Sun Knights. Both of them smelled the scent coming from the heroes and felt like they needed to gag.
"Geez! You people STINK! I think we know how to get rid of this…" the first Sun Knight pulled a rope right by him and a bunch of water splashed on top of the heroes, washing the sewage off them.
"Well, now I feel much better!" Luigi smiled, despite being soaking wet. "This is a lot better than being covered in disgusting sewage!"
"Yeah, we have that just in case someone goes down into the sewers…" the second Sun Knight informed. "So… Have you brought us that sword sharpener? If so, I think you'll be giving us some proof…"
"Poyo! (I got it right here!)" Kirby took the sword sharpener out and gave it to the two Sun Knights.
"Oh, look… It's our… Wait a second…" the first Sun Knight blinked. "If you guys got this sword sharpener for us… Does this… Holy cow…"
There was a small moment of silence…until…
"THE HEROES OF THE PROPHECY ARE HERE!"
"You six… I guess it's true…" the second Sun Knight trailed, despite looking a bit nervous at the heroes. "Well, you people are the heroes of the prophecy, so we might as well let you through."
The two guards stepped out of the way and allowed the heroes to walk through the door. "…Oh! By the way…"
The six instantly tripped and fell over on the ground next to the door. When they got up, they turned to the guards. "If you manage to find Arcaine running around the castle, don't bother with him. However, if he ends up causing some big trouble, and I mean BIG trouble, then just try to knock him out, OK?"
"That's…just fine," Blade smiled as they all walked into the next room. They noticed that they were in a hallway with nothing around except for two Sunoids roaming around. Kirby tried breathing fire on it, but it didn't seem to do much damage and ended up healing them instead.
"Poyo… (Well that was a waste of an ability…)" Kirby groaned as he removed the Fire ability and inhaled the yellow star to spit it at one of the Sunoids to defeat it. Blade finished the other one with his hurricane slash, blowing it away and disintegrating it into smoke, leaving an Ultra Shroom Shake behind. Blade picked it up and put it away and walked to the end of the hallway.
"What the heck?! There's no door here!" Blade frowned as he looked around, only to see the portraits of the sun and whatnot. "You've gotta be kidding me! This whole time we just ran into a room with nothing around at all?!"
"Hmmmmm… Well, maybe we need to use Tippi's power to investigate… Er, I mean Timpani." Chopper pondered as he pulled Timpani's wand out and scanned the area. It just so happened that an orange door was hidden.
"There's a hidden door here… Let me make it visible for you…" and with that, Timpani made the whole door visible for all of them. They immediately headed through to the next room, which had some stairs leading up and even a door right next to the staircase.
"Let's check the stairs first," Luigi suggested as he made his way up the stairs, striking some Sun Brontos – which were Bronto Burts but orange with his Super Jump to knock them off the air. When he made it to the top, he saw a large, red button on the ground and a large gap ahead that leads to the ground. He noticed that there was a red ! Switch floating straight across from him.
"Hmmmmm… Now what are we supposed to do here?" the green plumber pondered as he looked down at the button.
"There's only one way to find out," Sonic jumped on the button and another red ! Switch appeared, but it was closer to them than the other block. From what they could see, there was no way of hitting them from that distance.
"Hold on, I'm gonna try something," Blade threw a shuriken at the closest red ! Switch, but it didn't do anything. "Crud… I guess there's no solving this little puzzle… Should we go back?"
"I guess that's our only choice," Chopper nodded as Sonic jumped off the button. The red ! Switch ended up disappearing, to their surprise.
"I guess that block will only appear if you're stepping on that button…" Timpani trailed.
"Poyo, (Then we should go to that other door,)" Kirby suggested as he plopped down the stairs. Everyone else followed him down to the door and entered to find themselves in some sort of armory. There were two Sun Koopatrols walking around in the room, but they didn't look too friendly…
Mario: I guess we need to be careful with them…
"I think I know what to do," Luigi performed his Cyclone attack on the first Sun Koopatrol while his back was turned and sent him flying in the air. The green plumber folded himself and sprung up to defeat the Sun Koopatrol and letting it drop an Ultimate Shroom Shake.
Mario whipped his hammer out and slammed it on top of the Sun Koopatrol's head. It shook itself from the attack and tried to charge at the plumber by piercing through his stomach with the spike on top of its helmet. However, that was not to be as Chopper froze it with a charged ice ball. To finish things off, Mario bashed it one last time with his hammer to shatter it. It also ended up dropping an Ultimate Shroom Shake as well, which was a nice touch.
"Well that took care of that," Sonic declared, only to find no key around the room. "What? No key or special item that can help us in here? You gotta be kidding me… That stinks."
"I guess we should go back then," Chopper suggested as he walked over to the door. Everyone agreed and headed over to the door…
"WAIT!"
Everyone stopped all of the sudden when they turned to see a purple boomerang appear before them. It had a monocle, a French mustache and a red little small hat. Its eyes were also closed as well, which was kind of strange.
"Ah, bonjour! You have finally seen me? Zis is good!" the boomerang flew over to the heroes, but mostly looked at Luigi. "Honh honh! So you are zee only one zat lacks a
Pixl! Zis iz an outrage!"
"Errmmmm… Who are you supposed to be?" Luigi asked.
"Honh? Do you not know what a Pixl iz? Well, if zis iz necessary, zen I will tell you my name. They call me Bonjourang! I am zee Pixl of throwing things! You throw me, I will hit something! Eetz very simple!"
"…What? I don't understand what you mean."
"He means that you can throw him. It's just like every other boomerang." Blumiere informed. "…Except this one seems to talk, which is rather…strange."
"So now zat we have gotten to learn about each other, zis iz zee time zat we start going! I will try my best to help zee heroes!" Bonjourang circled around Luigi and held him up with a confused look.
The French boomerang, Bonjourang, has become your friend! With him, you can throw him at a certain range! If you hold him longer, you'll throw him at a longer range. This can be helpful when you're trying to reach something that's too hard to hit from a long distance!
"And now zat I joined you, now iz zee time to move on!" Bonjourang announced.
"I suppose this…Bonjourang person can help us with that switch," Chopper stated as he looked at the Pixl. "Maybe we should go back up those stairs and see if he'll be able to hit both of them?"
They all agreed and left the room to go back up the stairs. Luigi decided to throw Bonjourang first before stepping on the switch. After he did this, a bridge was drawn and it led up to a door ahead. Of course, there was a Sunoid, but Luigi was able to defeat it by throwing Bonjourang at it.
"Hey, this Pixl is actually pretty useful!" Luigi smiled as he caught the Pixl and allowed it to float beside him again. "I think I can get used to this!"
"I think I can agree with you on that, Luigi," Sonic nodded. "So… How's about we get going, huh? We've got to go find King Sunday and catch Arcaine! …If we can even find him, that is."
Everyone agreed and headed through the door into the next room. They noticed that they were in a room with more portraits, but with some grass on the ground and even some flowers. The sun was also shining from the ceiling so the Sunflowers can grow. Of course, they weren't friendly sunflowers.
"Crud… Well, I guess we need to do what we usually do against Sunflowers…" Chopper groaned as he readied himself to throw a fireball.
"Hold on, I wanna try something," Sonic grabbed Reflecto and used him to reflect the sunlight at the Sunflower. Since the rays were incredibly hot, the Sunflower ended up burning instead.
"Now that was very interesting…" Blumiere gaped as he noticed the sunflower burn down. "I guess that if you reflect some sunlight at the Sunflowers, you can easily burn them down."
"Is there any chance that I can throw Bonjourang while he's being surrounded by fire energy or something?" Luigi questioned as he grabbed Bonjourang. Chopper shrugged and tossed a fireball at Bonjourang, surrounding him in a flaming aura.
"Now watch zee mustache now, monsieur," Bonjourang warned as Luigi threw him at the other Sunflower. It burned down just like the other and Luigi caught the boomerang Pixl as its flames went away.
"Let's go!" Chopper charged up his Speed Dash and took off toward the door, knocking two Sun Koopas out of the way. Kirby decided to inhale one of them and swallow it whole. Mario finished the other Sun Koopa off by bashing it with his hammer. With that they walked into the next door.
"Can you honestly believe that this castle has grass on the ground?" Chopper asked as they stepped into another room. They noticed that there was a grassy platform ahead, but it didn't seem to lead anywhere. Over by the grassy wall, a little hole could be seen, but it didn't look like a normal jump could reach it.
"This looks like a job for Luigi!" Luigi announced as he Super Jumped to the hole in the wall and found a little pedestal with a sign that shows a tornado. He shrugged and used his Cyclone to spin around on it and create a tornado that went out of the hole.
"What did Luigi just do?" Blade asked.
Mario: I think that was his Luigi Cyclone…
Luigi used his Cyclone again, but this time he began to float over the ground and reach the tornado, increasing the speed of his cyclone. When he moved away from it to the left, he crashed into the grassy platform and caused it to crash into the wall, making a blue ! Switch appear in the hole – which he hit to make a door appear right beside them.
"Well, that was pretty interesting," Chopper commented as he walked over to the door. "Let's get a move on, shall we?"
They entered the door and noticed that they were outside. They happened to notice that there was a bridge up ahead filled with some Sunoids and even Sun Paratroopas that are flying above. One of them knocked Chopper back when it swooped down.
"Ow! I didn't know those guys could do that! …Oh, wait. Parakarry could do that."
"Hold on, I'll get them," Luigi used his Super Jump to knock both Sun Paratroopas to the ground and also allowing Mario to stomp on one of them and kick them into the other Sun Koopa and the two Sunoids. Chopper finished the two Sunoids off by chucking some ice balls at them.
"Poyo, (Well that was pretty simple,)" Kirby commented as he walked over to the door. "Poyo. (I guess we should get going.)"
Everyone agreed and headed through the door into a small room. To their surprise, they happened to notice Arcaine in the room, but he was punching a hole in the wall. He looked pretty irritated.
"Those stupid people think they can block me with this wall?" he grumbled, aiming at the wall with his stick. "Don't they realize that they're in grave danger from the great and ferocious SunMoonFlower?!"
"Oh, so THIS is where you are!" Blade said, making Arcaine startle. "Whoops… Didn't mean to make you startle…"
"Well, it's nice of you to show up… You see, I've been trying to get through this wall, but it appears that there's no way for me to get through! I don't understand! Is there something on my face or something? I should be allowed through there! This stupid wall just don't want me to go in! How come I'm talking incredibly fast? Why is my stick is not sharp enough? When will we ever warn King Sunday? How come I'm still speaking like this? And WHY are we still standing around here like boring old people and not drinking something?"
"Errrrr… Yeah! We understood EXACTLY what you said." Chopper said as he suddenly blinked. "…So, how do we get through? Wait, what's that hole in the wall?"
"Let me check," Luigi walked over to the hole and took a peek through. He happened to notice a blue ! Switch in the hole. "Oh! I think I know what to do here! This is a lot easier than you think!"
He immediately threw Bonjourang through the hole and made him hit the blue ! Switch. This triggered a door to be drawn right between Arcaine and the rest of the heroes. Arcaine nearly gasped.
"I don't believe it! You… You managed to hit that block!" Arcaine gaped. "You know, you might make some good partners after all! …Partners!"
"Can you stop calling us 'partners' and call us by our real names?" Sonic asked.
"Now's not the time, partners! We've got a sunious situation here! We're not too far from King Sunday's room…"
He entered through the door, resulting in everyone else following. They noticed a staircase just up ahead, but there was a Sunflower in the room that managed to grab a hold of Arcaine and throw him back.
"It's the dangerous SunMoonFlower!" he squawked as he got up.
"No, you idiot! It's just a Sunflower…" Chopper face palmed as he tossed a fireball directly at the Sunflower, causing it to burn down. They noticed a Sun Koopatrol making its way down the stairs as well.
"I'll take care of this guy!" Blade smirked as he drew his katana and waited for the Sun Koopatrol to charge at him. He decided to stun him for a couple of seconds by using Barry to counter his attack. He finished the Sun Koopatrol off by slashing it a couple of times.
"I'm so awesome!"
"Errrr… Yeah, you are…that." Chopper said with a blank look as he made his way up the stairs. When he reached the top, he saw that there was a Sun Koopatrol waiting up there. Kirby tossed Crystaline at it to leave it frozen while Chopper punched it with a flaming fist while it was frozen. He finished it off by bashing it with his hammer.
"I'm actually surprised that we haven't seen any more Sun Knights around here," Sonic realized.
"Well, maybe we'll find some in the next room," Luigi wondered as he opened the door into the next room. It looked rather small, to their surprise. But they noticed that there was a large door with two Sun Knights guarding. A ? Block also happened to be right by, so Chopper punched it to get a Super Shroom. Blade split it into six pieces and they all ate the piece to recover 20 HP.
"Poyo, (I don't get why that Super Shroom was there,)" Kirby said, confused.
"Maybe we're going to fight someone? Hopefully we don't have to fight the king…" Chopper gulped.
When all seven walked up to the door to the throne room, the Sun Knights blocked the door with their swords.
"Halt! Who gave you the authority to come here?" one of the Sun Knights asked.
"Sun Knights! We must speak to the king!" Arcaine said as he walked up to the front. "We must warn him about the ferocious SunMoonFlower! There could be a chance that it could come here and attack!"
"Really? Is that why you're here, Arcaine?" the second Sun Knight groaned and face palmed. "Seriously! That's the seventh time this week! Do you HONESTLY need to see the king about this?"
"Well, I've brought my partners with me as well! So it should be just fine!" he assured, pointing to the six heroes.
"How's it going?" Blade asked, waving.
"Errr… And who are they?" the first Sun Knight asked while raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, they keep going on about being some heroes of some prophecy whatchamacallits. It's kind of hard to explain, since I don't care about it. They're just here to help me catch SunMoonFlower!"
"Wait a second… Heroes of the prophecy? I think… I think King Sunday's been waiting to meet those people! You six… I think we should let you through. Yes, I believe it's for the best!" the two Sun Knights stepped out of the way and allowed the heroes through, but stopped when Arcaine tried to come in.
"You're not authorized to come in."
"What? But I gotta speak to the king!" Arcaine whined. "I'm super sunious!"
"Just… Just let him come in." Chopper groaned. The two Sun Knights listened and allowed Arcaine through.
Throne room-
When the seven walked into the throne room, they saw that it almost reminded them of the throne room in the Sweet Castle back in the Sweet Kingdom. However, the walls were a light orange and the ground had a picture of the sun on it. There were even statues of the sun and even a statue of a Sunny wearing armor. From what they could see, this was a pretty nice place.
"Wow, this doesn't look bad!" Luigi commented.
"What's this? Who are you people?" everyone looked over by the throne to see a Sunny with an orange sun-shaped face with a dark orange robe and a golden staff with the top being shaped like the sun. "Wait… Let me get a good look at you…"
"King Sunday!" Arcaine shouted as he walked up to the king. "This is an emergency! We must get you and the rest of the Sunnies to safety! The ferocious SunMoonFlower could attack at any moment!"
"Ugh… Arcaine, why are you always talking to me about the SunMoonFlower? This is the same issue over and over again…" King Sunday face palmed. "You should know what happened because of this..."
"Oh, and these are my partners, if that's anything important," Arcaine added.
"Yeah, it's always 'important' to you, Arcaine…" Chopper said sarcastically. "It's 'important' that we're the chosen heroes of the Light Prognosticus and that I have level 10 antennae because of Dracktail and stuff…"
"Hold the phone… Did you say that you guys are the heroes of the prophecy?"
"Is that anything important to you?" Blade asked.
"Is that anything important?! You know how long I've been waiting for the heroes to show up?! It's been 1,500 years since my ancestors have been waiting! We've been waiting to give you the Pure Heart!"
"Really? So do you have it with you?" Timpani asked. King Sunday's smiled suddenly changed to the look that makes you want to go "this isn't good…"
"Weeeeeeeell… You see… I…sort of…had it with me…but I realized that I…left the Pure Heart back at King Moonnight's castle… And now that we're no longer friends, Sunnies aren't allowed on Night Land."
Mario: Can't we go over there?
"Hmmmm… Now that I think about it, I believe it's possible for the heroes of the prophecy to go over to Night Land. I believe King Moonnight knows about the heroes as well. However, it would be wise not to tell him I sent you, because he would think you're spies."
"That sounds…understandable," Sonic nodded. "But why can't you two just make up or something?"
"Make up? There's no way I can make up! It's HIS fault! He should be the one to apologize!"
"Poyo… (Right…)" Kirby commented.
"OK, enough about that. To get to Night Land, you must cross the border. Don't worry, it's not bad. It's actually pretty interesting. You'll be able to see the sunset there as well!"
"And maybe SunMoonFlower is around there!" Arcaine added.
A light bulb appeared over King Sunday's head. "…And now an idea has now struck me! Perhaps if you took Arcaine with you, everyone would think you're harmless. Well, more like neutral or something so no one's hostile toward you."
"And what about SunMoonFlower?"
"Errr… Yes! SunMoonFlower is most likely around there! Arcaine! I want you to find that beast and put an end to it once and for all!"
"You can count on me, king!" Arcaine saluted.
"That sounds like a good plan!" Chopper smiled while giving a thumbs up. "So… How do we get there?"
"Well, I just have this lever here and you'll be set!" King Sunday smirked as he pulled the lever, making the floor spring up and launch the seven out of the castle. The king looked out the window and watched them scream their butts off.
Outside-
As soon as they hit the ground, they noticed at the end of the pathway, there was a Star Block. They also noticed that the sky was changing a bit thanks to leaving that castle.
"Well, we all know what to do, right?" Luigi said as everyone looked at him.
"Yup. It's pretty simple." Chopper walked up to the Star Block and smashed it with his fist, putting an end to this chapter once and for all.
END OF CHAPTER
"So King Sunday has entrusted us to put an end to the SunMoonFlower! Fear not, partners! We shall not disappoint him!" Arcaine looked rather heroic as he began to walk on the green grass to the border. The rest of the group, on the other hand, was getting a bit annoying. But, they decided to play along with Arcaine and follow him. "If King Sunday is correct, the Pure Heart must be in King Moonnight's hands… We must make sure we get to Night Land before anything bad happens." suggested Blumiere. One thing for sure was that getting past the border wasn't going to be easy.
Ugh... This chapter felt a bit annoying to write. No, it's not a chapter I hate, but it's probably because of the bad hand injury I got the day before. Yeah, I know. It stinks. On the other hand, we met one of my favorite Pixls in this whole fic (yes, I do like French accents for some reason. They're cool).
Anyway, next part, we're going to head over to the border! This should be pretty interesting if you ask me...hopefully. :P