Author's Note: Aren't you happy that I made a quick update? =D I hope you guys enjoy the story! It's getting good! Normally I would start out with the folks in Dreamland, but I am going to start out with Yoshi for a reason. Oh and I do introduce ONE more yoshi…I PROMISE this will be the last one. I couldn't resist! This DOES take place in Yoshi's Island. xDDD

Chapter 4: The Curse
Yoshi's island

Yoshi wandered through the ruins, not knowing where he was going. He was desperate to find Toony and Link and the exit. With each turn he made through each hallway, his doubts of escape grew. His hopes were nearly falling apart. The only thing that kept it together was his friends and family that he was afraid to leave behind.

"Where is an escape to this place?" whined Yoshi.

He was growing weary, but he continued to move on. Yoshi emerged into a large room and stopped to look around.

"This place just gets weirder and weider…"

"What are you doing here!?" shouted someone.

Yoshi turned around and saw a black yoshi glaring at him. "Who are you?"

"I wanna know the same thing! Tell me!"

"Hey! I'm not a threat. I'm just lost. I'm looking for a way out of here!"

"That is what they all say!" The yoshi ran toward the green yoshi.

Yoshi jumped out of the way. "What are you doing!? Do I look like I came to hurt you!?"

"I don't care! I'm gonna kill you!" The black yoshi took out a dagger from his bag. He ran toward Yoshi again and swung the dagger. Yoshi ducked and kicked the dagger off the black yoshi's hand. The black yoshi turned around and ran toward the dagger, but Yoshi laid an egg and threw it. The egg struck the black yoshi's head.

The black yoshi turned around and charged at Yoshi. He roared and tackled the green yoshi to the ground. Yoshi kicked the black yoshi off him and jumped up.

"Look…I'll give you one more chance, I am not here to attack you," said Yoshi.

"I'm still gonna kill you!" shouted the black yoshi. He ran toward the dagger, but Yoshi grabbed him and tossed him to the wall.

"Please, I don't want to hurt you."

"You deserve to die! Everyone from your family deserves to die!"

Yoshi tightened his fist. "I see you're just plain evil…if that is how you want it!"

"You're gonna die!" He tackled the green yoshi to the ground.

Yoshi tried to push him off, but the black yoshi had pinned him to the ground. The black yoshi gave off an eerie smile. He took out his dagger. Yoshi kicked the black yoshi off him. He stood up straight and tossed another egg. The black yoshi dodged the egg and ran toward the green yoshi.

Yoshi jumped above the black yoshi and tried to do a ground pound. The black yoshi jumped out of the way. Before Yoshi had a chance to stand up straight, the black yoshi kicked him to the ground. The black yoshi stepped on his chest and looked at the green yoshi.

"I got you now, fool. I rather kill you with my bare hands." He grabbed the green yoshi's neck tightly. Yoshi cried out in pain.

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King Dedede grabbed a bag of potato chips and began to eat. He was sitting on his royal chair in front of the large screen. The Dreamland King flipped through each of the television channels, trying to find something of interest. He yawned.

"Man, there is nothing good on tv."

"Good day King Dedede." King Dedede looked up and saw Meta Knight standing in front, with Jigglypuff and the two apprentice knights behind.

"What the hell do you want?"

"We will be departing today for Jigglypuff's home planet. Do you not mind?"

"You're on vacation. I don't give a damn about where you go."

"Thank you very much." Meta Knight turned around. "Now let us enter the Halberd and make preparation for take-off."

Jigglypuff smiled.

King Dedede's cell phone rang. "Hello?...Hey Ganondorf!...What?...REALLY!?...Well, Meta Knight and his pals will be traveling maybe I can pass by…Great! See ya!"

"Are you kidding me!?" cried out Sword.

"I will be joining you guys. The Cappies can take care of themselves. Now let's go!"

"Very well then, you may get ready. We will be departing very shortly. We are going to the Halberd now," said Meta Knight.

Meta Knight turned around and walked out of the throne room with the others following behind.

"Do we HAVE to bring him along!?" cried out Blade.

"He is the king and we cannot object to his will," said Meta Knight.

They entered through a door, which led into a spiraling staircase to a lower level. Meta Knight grabbed a torch and led everyone. Once they reached the bottom, they reached a second door and opened it. The great Halberd stood in the enormous room.

Jigglypuff gasped. The Halberd had always amazed her because of its great size. Meta Knight grabbed her hand, snapping her out of her daydream once again. The entrance to the Halberd opened. They entered the great ship.

Jigglypuff looked in all direction as she traveled through the hallway. They walked into the elevator and exited into the control room, the room at the top of the tower. Sword and Blade sat on their seats and turned on the ship. The engine roared the life and the button lit up. Meta Knight looked up at the monitor, with Jigglypuff standing by his side.

"We are prepared for take-off," said Sword.

"Good, now let us wait for King Dedede," said Meta Knight.

"Why can't we just leave him here? I don't want him to come!" complained Blade.

"Yeah! He's gonna hog all of our food in the kitchen," said Sword soon after.

"Exactly!"

"We also have to wait for Kirby," reminded Meta Knight.

"You're right. You contacted Kirby?"

"Of course I did. I would never forget Kirby. I know he would like travel along with us." Meta Knight looked at the security camera and saw Kirby and King Dedede by the entrance. He pressed a button which allowed the door to be opened.

Sword and Blade face palmed.

"We will drop King Dedede off at Bowser's castle. He will not come with us to Jigglypuff's home planet. Do not worry," said Meta Knight.

"But being on the Halberd with him is bad enough!" complained Blade.

"If you remain in this room, he will do nothing."

"I hope so," muttered Sword.

"Poyo!" squealed Kirby.

Jigglypuff turned around before Kirby ran up to her and hugged her. Jigglypuff looked at Kirby and smiled. "Hi Kirby! Are you ready to see my home planet?"

"Yes!" squeaked Kirby.

"Are we not going!?" shouted King Dedede.

"Damnit…" mumbled Sword.

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Toony, Link, and SD continued walking through the hidden pathway. Toony barely caught up to the other two. His feet ached and he was growing weary. Link turned his head and looked at Toony.

"You're already tired?"

"SD beat the hell out of me and we've probably been wandering for hours! How can I NOT be tired!?" retorted Toony.

"I was only asking…"

"Oh boy…" SD thought to himself as he continued moving forward until they reached the end of the pathway. They entered a room. "This is new…" he said looking around.

"What is this place?" asked Toony.

Looks like some sort of old chapel or something…I didn't think we yoshis had these a long time ago," said SD. He walked up to the alter with an old book. "Hmm? What's this book?"

"Let me see!" shouted Toony. He walked up to SD and looked at the book.

"It's called…The Curse…hey!" Link snatched the book away from SD after barely reading the title.

"Oh my gosh! Toony, this book…it can help my buddy Meta Knight and Yellow!" shouted Link with glee. "I didn't know it was possible! Wow…this is amazing. Wait until we show this to the others! Too bad I left my cell phone…"

SD was confused. "Hold on! What are you talking about?"

"To make a long story short, we know some Pure Hearts who are cursed," said Toony.

"I see. We better take the book with us then, but we still need to find Yoshi, if he's still in here."

"You're right. I got so excited over the book…I'LL SAVE YOU YOSHI MA BUDDY!"

"Hmm?" SD picked up what appeared to be a heart shaped rock. "This was under the book…I better hold on to it," he thought to himself. He put the stone in a back-pack he wore under the cloak. He faced the two Smashers. "We better move on guys, we still need to find a way out and find your friend."

"Alright! Which way do we go?" asked Link.

"There's only one way to go Mr. Dungeon Expert…" said SD said to Link. He pointed to a door that was not open.

"I can deal with this!" Link walked up to the door."Okay…maybe there is a way to activate the door..."

"Link?" How about, oh I don't know…turning the door handle?"

"Oh…"

The yoshi noticed some faded writing on a wall, which Toony was already looking at. "What's that writing on the wall?" asked the yoshi.

"What is that?" questioned Toony. "SD! You're a yoshi! Why don't you check it out?"

SD walked up to Toony. "Alright, I can give reading this a shot."

"There is a being that possesses great power. This being is the guardian of our precious island. Sadly, there are many beings who want to take control of our guardian in order to use his or her power to their advantage.

These beings are known as Chaos Hearts. Their heart and souls were born to the purpose of gaining power, even if it means taking the power of the Pure Heart. They do this by placing a curse. The curse was meant to cause the Pure Heart to obey only the one who places the curse. They are bound to that person and if they should ever leave that person, they cannot be with anyone else. They are doomed to loneliness. If they should ever approach someone, the cursed one will only think of killing them…no matter what."

"Could this have happened to the two Link told me? And it says no matter what…" thought SD before continuing with the reading.

"The curse is the only way to take down the Pure Heart because they cannot be defeated. Our people came up with a way to defend our guardian from such curse. The cure to the curse lies within the heart. Only the one with the Pure Heart can use it to cure another Pure Heart from the curse."

"But only two they know are cursed…unless there's another Pure Heart?" He thought back to the heart stone he found. "Could that stone be…"

"Wow! We should tell that to the others!" shouted Link.

"Who knew this place had some clues regarding the curse," said Toony.

"Yeah…let's find your friend and keep going…" said SD before he was interrupted by a cry of pain.

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"What if something happened to him?" asked Auri with worry.

"This is Yoshi we're talking about and he's with Link and Toony, the dungeon experts. He'll do fine. No need to worry," said Mario.

"But didn't someone died in those ruins?" asked Luigi.

"Luigi…"

"I hope they're okay," muttered Princess Peach.

"They will be fine Princess," reassured Mario.

"We have to go search for them in the ruins!" shouted Cameo.

"But it's too dangerous…I don't want anything to happen to anyone else, even though I don't want anything to happen to Yoshi…" responded Auri.

"Don't worry. Link and Toony are great in handling places like the ruins. They've gone into many ruins and dungeon and they came out unharmed," said Zelda.

"Maybe Link has met his match," chuckled Falco.

"If you trust them that much, we'll just give them until tomorrow for them to return. If they do not return by then, I will go look for them myself," said Cameo.

"Don't worry! They will be back! I know it!" exclaimed Zelda.

"Can I get an autograph from everyone?" asked Pavo.

"Of course you can dear!" Zelda grabbed Pavo's autograph book and signed it. She gave the book back to him and smiled.

"Thanks…"

"Would you guys like anything to eat?" offered Auri.

"Mario….you know you cannot resist," mumbled FLUDD.

"Shut up!" roared Mario.

"What was that?" said Auri confused.

"Oh nothing…I'm not hungry," said Mario.

The Smashers passed the autograph book around, signing their names into it. Mario was the last to sign it. He handed the book back to Pavo.

"Awesome!" cried out Pavo. He ran out of the door.

"Wow…I bet he is going to show it off to everyone," said Fox.

"Well, who's not crazy about us?" said Samus.

"You got a point there…"

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"What was that!?" cried out Link.

"I don't know…wait…that voice…sounds familiar," muttered Toony.

"That sounds like my buddy Yoshi!" cried out Link.

The three ran toward the direction of the sound, with the red yoshi in front. After they turned a corner, their faces grew into shock. Yoshi was lying on the ground, beaten up.

"Yoshi!" shouted Link.

The red yoshi quickly got to the green yoshi first. "He...he looks like Cameo when we were younger…what happened to him?" SD shook his head before facing Yoshi. "Hey, are you ok? Come on! Wake up!"

"Yoshi stirred." I…was…attacked."

"Who attacked you!?" demanded Link.

"Yoshi! Guess what!?We found some information that may help your sister!" exclaimed Toony.

"Oh that's right! We found some clues regarding the cure to the curse!" said Link.

"Hold on a moment guys…" SD placed a hand on Yoshi, which started to glow blue. "Healing waters, aid this wounded soul…Aqual Heal." Yoshi was covered in the blue glow. His injury vanished.

Yoshi stood up. "Whoa…you did that?" he said to SD.

"Yeah, I did. You ok now?" asked the red yoshi. He removed his hood and allowed the green yoshi to see his marks and spikes. "I'm S. Dragon , SD for short. You're Yoshi, right?"

"Yeah…they told you about me? Well…I wanna see the guy who attacked me!" shouted Yoshi.

"Yeah! No one messes with one of the Smashers!" shouted Link.

"Except me, Mr. I beat your hat off," said SD with a smirk.

"Shut up…you're lucky I need to use the bathroom or I would be the one kicking your ass," said Link.

"He's one of the Smashers?" questioned a voice.

"Hey! It's you!" shouted Yoshi to the voice.

SD quickly drew his sword. "Show yourself!"

A black Yoshi appeared in front of them. "So…that yoshi was a Smasher? So he meant no harm? I'm sorry about that. I took him as a threat."

"You were trying to kill me!" retorted Yoshi.

"Just who are you!?" demanded SD, ready to attack.

"I'm Vincent. I'm lost here. I'm trying to find a way out. I heard about the death of a yoshi and I knew the yoshi very well, so I came to investigate. I thought that guy was one of the murders," explained the black yoshi.

"So, you were only trying to defend yourself?" asked Link.

Vincent nodded his head.

"I still don't believe you," said Yoshi.

SD made no reply. There was something about that yoshi that made him not trustworthy. The name was also very familiar to him. "And why would another yoshi kill his own kind?" he questioned.

"I don't know. Well, you can't expect any other kind to get into the ruins. I'm really sorry, I wanted to take revenge on the murder. You gotta forgive me," said Vincent.

"You can't blame the guy for defending himself," said Link.

"Agreed," said Toony.

"Yoshi, just forgive the guy. This is a forbidden ruin! It's hard to trust anyone here. Besides, it's best to make friends instead of enemies. Give him a chance."

SD put away his sword. "We'll do that later, right now we should get out of here."

"Good idea," said Vincent. "I guess I'll never find the murderer."

SD walked close to Yoshi. "I don't trust that Vincent guy myself…for now, I'm sure someone else is worried about you and your friends," he whispered closely. "So hop on my back, Yoshi, before Mr. Long Hat does something to make thing worse," he said with a chuckle.

"Shut up. So how long is this damn place? I'm so bored and my feet ache and I'm hungry. I haven't eaten anything," complained Link.

"First the bathroom, now you're hungry?" asked Toony.

"I've been hungry…"

Link started to dig through his pocket out of boredom and took out a cell phone. "Hey! I forgot I had this. " Link turned it on. "Damn! There's no signal!"

"Link, we're in a cave. Of course there's no signal!" shouted Yoshi.

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Meta Knight and Jigglypuff walked through the hallway. The ship was on auto-pilot so they were free to roam around the ship. They walked close to each other, holding hands. No one was around but the two lovers.

Meta Knight's eyes flashed red for nearly less than a second. He stopped walking.

"Meta Knight, what's wrong?" asked Jigglypuff.

"I thought I felt something," said Meta Knight.

"Like what?"

"I'm not sure myself. Let us keep going."

Meta Knight began to walk ahead, dragging Jigglypuff along. Jigglypuff took a glimpse at Meta Knight with worry.

"Meta Knight…." She muttered under her breath.

Okay…I guess that is all for now. I hope you guys enjoy the chapter! ^^ I hope to update soon because of snow day! Woot! I live in the Washington D.C area so I was affected by the HUGE snowstorm.

When I play Legend of Zelda games, the door opens by itself, so I thought Link would be used to just going through the door instead of using a door knob in dungeons. xDDD It's about time something happens to Meta Knight. -_-; You know what the red eyes mean. 0:

I don't know why...I tend to make the Yoshis carry daggers, that is because that is personally my favorite weapon. It's portable and deadly. xD It's like how Yellow would carry one for defense, hence the suicide attempt from the last story. 0: I hope you guys enjoy the story. Valentine's Day is almost coming up...well I don't know what I'm gonna do. xDD