Kazooie and The Crooked Mountains
Chapter Six
The Hospital
Alone. That's the only word Kazooie would be able to discribe the way her dream made her feel afterward. She remembered being in Chuffy's cabin with Banjo, it was getting dark and Kazooie needed to stretch her legs. "Hey Banjo, do you mind if I jump out for a minute?" Banjo looked over at her and smiled. "Why are you asking, you can jump out any time you want" So that's what she did. After kicking around for a couple minutes, she asked Banjo. "So what we gonna do to the old hag when we get to Caldron Keep?" Banjo took a moment to think, what were they going to do? "I don't know yet, but probably something like last time." Kazooie was about to make a remark about not knowing that when the train hit a rough spot on the track, Kazooie lost her balance and was ready to kiss the floor, she closed her eyes but nothing happened, she felt warm so she opened her eyes to see Banjo holding her up. "You OK Kaz?" Banjo asked, still holding her. "Y-y-ya I'm f-fine Banjo, d-dont worry about me" Kazooie stammered, she was a little flustered by her friends act of kindness, catching her so she didn't hurt herself, but he probably only did that because he didn't want her to fall, she calmly pulled herself together and stepped back. "Thanks Banjo, that would've hurt" Banjo was glowing with happiness, Kazooie never really thanked people for anything, so when she thanked him, he felt accomplished. "No problem Kaz, I got your back." Then she woke up.
She felt mildly depressed, Banjo made everything so joyful, and now she was in this hellhole trying to save him, but on the other hand, she was glad he wasn't the one going through the insanity of this place, it would change him, he wouldn't be so happy all the time, she kinda fed off of his personality.
The second path didn't look much different from the first one, she stood up and started walking towards her second destination with a frown on her face, she really missed her companions good mood.
About twenty minutes after she started walking, a building started to make itself visible, it looked run down and relatively scary, but she wasn't going to let the fear stop her from getting the job done, she crept towards the door and opened it, it was silent, she didn't like that, the first thing she noticed was the darkness, her eyes would just have to Adjust to it, everything was quite until she heard someone say. "What's a pretty birdie like you doing in such a bad place?" She was getting ready to run for the door when something grabbed her around the neck, she struggled, she wasn't expecting this to happen. "Let me go you creep!" She screamd with fear, but then she felt a sharp pain in her lower neck around her right shoulder, she screamed in fear, then everything started to fade. "Ohh a fighter, I haven't had one of those in a long time, I'm sure you'll understand" Kazooie didn't understand what was happening. "What are you going to do to me?" It came out like a slur, didn't make much sense. "The pretty bird is going to be like all the others who broke into my home, Dead! night nig..." then everything went dark.
Drip, drip, drip, drip. Kazooie woke up with a sore shoulder, her body hurt like something had tossed her around for hours. She looked at her wings, they were wrapped in bandages, but she still felt them, maybe the freak that drugged her thought she would fly away, but nothing else was out of place, she was still alive. She looked at her surroundings, trying to figure out where she was, it was damp.
She couldn't think about where she was, she just needed to get out, she only need three more jiggys, maybe she could find another one somewhere else, because this place wasn't worth the trouble.
She couldn't see to far ahead, her eyes were still adjusting to the dark, a lamp or something would be kinda nice right about now. The walls had stripes along them, she couldn't make out what the words on them read, but one of them had to be a path to the exit. She just kept walking until she heard something terrifying, she heard deep lumbering footsteps, they were getting closer, she looked around for someplace to hide, she couldn't find anything, she was out in the opened, then it came around the corner.
It was a hideous monster, it was shiny, like it was covered in grease, it was probably 9.5 or something around that hight, when it saw her, it let out a high pitch wailing sound and grabbed her, its grasp was tight. "Agh" was all Kazooie could let out, it hurt, and then it threw her down the corridor it just came from, she hit the ground and cried out with pain, she pulled herself to her feet and started limping away, it ran towards her, she had about three seconds to think before she shot a wind egg at it. The effects were astonishing, the beast was hit by the egg and instead of flying backwards, it blasted its torso into the air and its head went through the ceiling, it just hung there, then it went limp. As do all the other enemies she had encountered, it faded away, but this one swallowed something she needed. A jiggy dropped from the red hole that was now In the ceiling, she stumbled over to it and touched it, causing it to disappear until it was needed, but then some of the lights went on, only in some of the corridors, almost as if it was leading to the way out. Kazooie didn't want to ever come back to this god forsaken landmass after she got Banjo out of here, it was all twisted, kinda demented in a way.
She hobbled down the halls until something he made it to the front door, she hadn't been here that long, but she was glad to be going as quickly as she was.
Somewhere deep inside herself she felt it was definitely worth the pain she felt to get this jiggy, she wasn't sure