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"Ugghh..." Princess Mimi groaned from the headache she had. Relized that she was now back on solid ground and no longer being held in mid air inside of a barrier.
"What even happened back there? Where am I?" She was about to rub her head but she relized her hands were bit occupied holding something else.
"Hehehe! Now awake Princess?" A familiar voice spoke to her. That voice annoyed Mimi that she strained to open her eyes.
But now she really wished she didn't. In her horror she saw she was at an alter with O'Chunks in a white tux across from her and floating in the air next to them was Countess Shay with a smile on her face. But Mimi also spotted a strange looking book floating next to her. Why was she here? And why was O'Chunks in a white tux? Then Mimi looked down to see she was in a white wedding gown with bouquet of flowers held in her hands.
This can't be happening! She thought.
She was brought out of her thoughts as she heard a great cheer behind O'Chunks. All of his minions from before cheering in celebration and O'Chunks waved to them with a big grin of his face.
"T-This has to be a nightmare." Mimi mumbled out.
In burst of energy and rainbow light beside Countess Shay comes another figure. She was a young woman with long white hair with a rainbow butterfly band in her hair. She had a butterfly wing pattern cloak that was white and golden but was also shaped similar to butterfly wings that was kept together by a rainbow ribbon at the the inside of the cloak was not the continued pattern but the colors of rainbows. Under the cloak she wore a fluffy white dress that matched her hair. She was kept in the air by a pair of triangular rainbow butterfly wings. She had turned to the Countess with a smile.
"Oh Timpani. You return with good news I hope." The Countess said towards who Mimi now knows as Timpani.
She gave a bow. "Of course my dear Countess. The preparations are complete. The ceremony can now go on as planned." She raises up from the bow and floated over to Mimi with her wings.
"Why hello dear Princess it's pleasure to meet you." Timpani said with a smile. Mimi looked at the smile to see any mockery or malice but she saw none. Her smile was sincere.
She's nice at least. A lot more than that Countess or whatever her name was. Mimi thought looking back at the Countess with a glare.
"Now allow us to continue!" Countess Shay grinned as she raised one of her hands up. "Now the ceremony shall commence!"
The choir of bells filled the alter and the audience below cheered as the bells played. Countess Shay grins as she clears her throat looking upon O'Chunks and Mimi.
"Oh O'Chunks the fearsome ruler of the Valiant Kingdom. Do you take Mimi to be your lawfully wedded wife 'til your games be over?"
O'Chunks cheered. " O' course I do!"
Princess Mimi gripped the bouquet in her hands glaring at O'Chunks.
Satisfied with his answer she turned to Mimi. "Dear Mimi, nobel and pure hearted princess. Do you take O'Chunks to be your lawfully wedded husband 'til your games be over?"
"NO I DON'T! NOW TELL ME WHAT'S EVEN GOING ON RIGHT NOW!" Mimi yelled out glaring right at Countess Shay.
Countess Shay giggled covering her mouth with her hand. "Oh isn't obvious? It's your wedding Princess!"
"Then why in world am I marrying O'Chunks!?" Mimi was fuming as she tighten her grip on the bouquet hearing slight crumbles from it.
" 'Ey come on Mimi! It'll be great as your lawfully wedded husband. We'll finally be together!" Mimi sent O'Chunks a glare but it wasn't like he cared.
"I said no!" Mimi looked down at her gown in disgust. "And who picked out this ugly wedding dress!? It's awful!" Princess Mimi enraged throws her bouquet at O'Chunks's face hitting him but it bounces of him and right into Timpani's face making her wobble a bit in the air with her wings fluttering.
She growled as some spider legs start to form out from behind her back. "If you don't send me back to my castle right this instant. I'll show you how ugly things can be-"
In the middle of her speech she was zapped with something and she fell to the ground. She was in a lot of pain as her body shaked. She tries to get back up but was zapped again.
She looks up to see what was zapping her to see Timpani with a spark of colors in her hand sparking like lightning in her hand. She looked at her body to see the sparks of colors all over her body.
"Now, now no need to be rude Princess. I don't think the Countess likes this behaviour." She floated in front of Mimi. "I do believe the Countess asked you a question. Don't leave her waiting."
"I...I...Said...No..." Mimi barely gasped out she was getting dizzy and her own thoughts slipping from her.
"Hmm. Why don't we get rid of those negative thoughts? Such happiness awaits you in marriage Princess." She once again zaps Mimi.
"What is your answer Princess?" Timpani asks again.
"I-I...Do..." Just as she finished speaking she faints onto the ground.
The entire room shakes like there was an earthquake causing the panic of the audience below. And below within the audience. The shaking awakens a certain ghost among the audience.
"What the?" King Boo raises up to see three familiar figures at the top of the alter.
"Great. You got a be kidding me!"
Pushing his way through the minions and made his way to the top.
Once he had reached the top he saw a dark blinding black light amerge from the alter. From the alter something raises up towards the Countess. It was a shadowy, dark, and ominous heart it felt like a destructive power was inside of it and was leaking out into reality. As the heart reaches the Countess she let out a manic laughter.
"HehEhE! Yes! Just as it was foretold in the Dark Prognosticus! The Chaos Heart! We have finally unleashed it!" The Countess menacingly cheered looking upon the darkness that is the Chaos Heart.
"Wonderful work my Countess!" Timpani cheered clasping her hands together.
"Alright that's enough!" King Boo yelled reaching the top of the alter.
"Hhm? Now who might you be?" The Countess said turning her attention to King Boo.
"I'm King Boo! King of The Boos! And since Dimentio isn't here to stop whatever it is you're doing. I'll stop you instead!" King Boo raised up his little nub hand and there spawned a blue flame and launched it right at the Chaos Heart.
"Wait stop attacking the Chaos Heart!" Timpani cried out but her cries fell on deaf ears as the blue flame directly hits the Chaos Heart. "You think I care!? I'll take down this Chaos Heart thing!" He was about to summon another blue flame but he saw the Chaos Heart reacting to his attack.
The contact of the blue flame caused the Chaos Heart to start glowing a blinding light. The room shaked violently as the Chaos Heart's power shined through and filled the room with it's blinding light.
Once the light had cleared Countess Shay and Timpani reappeared with the Dark Prognosticus by the Countess's side.
"Are you alright my Countess?" Timpani said gazing at Countess Shay
"Of course my dear Timpani. But I doubt the others were so lucky." She turned to Timpani. "But now we have the Chaos Heart secured in our grasp! And my dear Timpani I have a special job for you. If you do come across any wedding attendants please round them up as they could prove useful to our cause."
"Yes my Countess." Her eyes darted to the side. "I guess this means you're moving onto the next page of dark prophesies?"
The Countess raised both her hands high up. "Hehehe Yes! Now darkness open wide your mouth! Consume all worlds as it is foretold in the prophecy and then bestow upon us your power to gain what we truly desire!"
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Dimentio...
"Huh..?"
Do you hear me Dimentio..?
Dimentio slowly opened his eyes to be greeted with nothing but a black void of darkness.
"What even happened again..?"
Dimentio do you hear me..?
Dimentio flinched at the voice. He turn around to be greeted by a young girl wearing a white magician's hat with stars hanging with strings from the rim of the hat. With a long dark purple cloak that had a light purple diamond pattern covering her body. She had long white hair but at the bottom of her hair it shaded into a darker pink. With a white suit underneath matching her leggings. And she wore dark boots she looked forward smiling at Dimentio as if she knew him for a long time.
"Dimentio I am so happy to see you..."
Dimentio stared at her and then let out a chuckle. "Hehehe. Oh what an amusing dream I'm having. I haven't had a dream with you in it for so long. And here I thought I was finally over it."
"Oh Dimentio you can never get over what happened to me. After all..."
"How does one who lives for so long get over their Sister's death?"
"But I'm here now Brother...It'll be fine..."
Dimentio looked down holding in a chuckle. "Hehehe oh dear Sister what do you expect me to do now? Run into your arms as I did the first time? Cry tears of joy only to come to the conclusion that you're not here. That you're gone."
" Dreams are always such a pain dear Sister...Why am I even talking to you...You're not her..."
His Sister stared at him with a smile. "Oh Brother lively as always. But I guess."
Dimentio you need to wake up now.
A new voice whispers into the darkness. One Dimentio didn't recognize.
"It's time to awaken. I hope to see you again the next time you sleep, Brother."
Hold on 'k? Maybe this will awaken you.
"Goodbye Brother."
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"Dimentio..."
"Dimentio wake up..."
Dimentio slowly opens his eyes hearing the voice calling out to him he looks forward to see some sort of creature in front of him. Dimentio knew what this creature was it was a Pixl. This Pixl had four small triangles acting as ears and feet. Two other much bigger triangles acting as wings. With a semicircle acting as a body for the Pixl it seemed to have some resemblance to a bat. It's pixelated body looked dark purple mixed with a shading of light purple within it. And under the smaller triangle ears it had red glasses acting as it's eyes with a mixed shading of pink and orange. It's red glasses eyes change to a relief like expression.
"Thank goodness you're awake now." The Pixl said.
Dimentio stood back onto his feet looking around. "So it did happen. How annoying."
Dimentio looked back at the Pixl. "Now who are you little Pixl?"
The Pixl looked a bit suprised at Dimentio. "You're aware of what a Pixl is?"
"Of course. I am a sort of Dimensional Traveler who decided to take residence in the world. I've been to many worlds so I'd picked up a few things." Dimentio said grinning.
"Ah I see. Well I'm Nassie it's a pleasure to meet you Dimentio."
Nassie looked around. "But it seems I was too late."
Nassie raises her pixelated wings. "Some kind of shadowy figure calling themself Countess Shay came here and took a princess and an evil king correct?"
"Ah yes. Using them to end all worlds as I've heard. To create something called The Void correct?"
"How did yo-"
Dimentio smirked. "As I've said I am a Dimensional Traveler you can pick up a few things through out the years."
Nassie looked to do side a bit suspicious of Dimentio's claim but brushes it off. "I see. I suppose that makes sense but this means that she is already beginning to form the Void."
"Now that won't do. I've grown quite fond of this world." Dimentio said with a smile.
" 'K allow us to waste no time then." Nassie raised her wings and Dimentio felt a familiar feeling of teleportation as they were gone.
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Dimentio and Nassie were no longer at O'Chunks's Castle. Instead he was now standing a top of a plateau made of white bricks. Dimentio looks up towards the with plain,blue and slightly green cube like covering the sky. And some beige diamonds in the sky as well.
Footsteps start to approach the both of them. It seemed to be a Koopa with a blue and white robe with the white being the outline of the robes and blue being inner part and the clasp part of the robes with a light green sphere with red triangle,green square, and a blue circle inside of it. And had his blue a white wizard hat with it only being white in the middle of it. He looked towards Dimentio and Nassie as he pushes forward the glasses he was wearing. "Nassie you've returned."
"And who is this?" He inspected Dimentio much more closely. "That jester like clothes,that blue cloak, and that black and white mask. Ah ha! Great work Nassie!"
"He has to be the one of the four heroes mentioned in the Light Prognosticus. And he seems to have some knowledge about the prophecy. Mainly about The Void. His name is also Dimentio he is a bit strange..."
"Hmm really? Well it's great that one of the four heroes is informed about it."
Dimentio tilted his head. "Well I think I should know your name since you know mine don't you agree?"
"Ah...Right I'm Kamek and where you stand now is called Flipside a town in between dimensions. You have come quite far from the Spider Kingdom of your dimension"
"I've came from a different dimension and came to this town. Where I begain studying the ancient texts that foretell the end of all worlds from The Void that looms above us all."
Dimentio gazes at The Void.
Hmm so that's what The Void looks like. Dimentio thought to himself.
"As you know The Void is a hole in the fabric of space. With it's location is unknown. It's here to do only one thing and that's to consume all the worlds in it's path and leave nothing in it's place. And Countess Shay has brought it into creation with the book she wields the Dark Prognosticus." Kamek says looking towards The Void.
"'A fair and lovely princess...A furious and fearsome king...The union of these two will call forth the Chaos Heart, the consumer of worlds...And the Chaos Heart will ravage the sky, and so bring forth The Void.'" Nassie said in a monotone voice.
"Ah yes. That quote from the Light Prognosticus was written by someone from the Tribe Of Ancients long ago. The book states: 'The Void will swallow all...Naught can stop it...Unless the one protected by the dark power is destroyed. The hero with the power of eight Pure Hearts will rise to this task.' So is written within. But hero may I ask you of this."
Kamek raises his arms high up and appeared a bright large heart shaped object and it's red light shined brightly upon the three of them. It's presence was off putting to Dimentio. Why should he be graced with it's presence? But it still stayed gracing him with a warm and comforting feeling. It was...Nice.
"Will you take this Pure Heart and save all worlds from destruction?" Kamek said but in a way that he sounded uncertain. As if Dimentio would reject this request.
Dimentio chuckled. "Aw don't sound that way Kamek. I couldn't allow all worlds to end at the hands of The Void."
Dimentio puts his hand on his chest. "I shall accept this Pure Heart you've just so generously entrusted to me." Kamek let out a sigh of relief to Dimentio's answer.
"Phew was worried for a moment. But now I bestow the Pure Heart onto you, Dimentio." Kamek moves his hands forward and the Pure Heart floats towards Dimentio and into his hands.
"Nassie." Kamek turned to the bat like Pixl. "Lead Dimentio towards the Heart Pillar. He could use your help getting around here."
Nassie proudly looks at Kamek. "Of course!" Nassie turned to Dimentio. "This way 'k?"
Dimentio follows behind Nassie across the plateau and stopped in front of an elevator button and Dimentio presses it as an elevator appears in front of them.
It opens up and Dimentio and Nassie head inside it then closes behind them.
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The elevator has reached the bottom and it opens as the two of them exited it.
Taking note of the area Dimentio saw the plateau was connected to a high tower. Nassie called Dimentio over to follow him past a building that looked like an Inn and next to the Inn was another elevator. On the other side of the elevator looked like some sort of fortune telling building but Dimentio paid it no mind as he entered the other elevator with Nassie.
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They exit the elevator and Nassie flied forward calling out to Dimentio to follow after her.
Dimentio followed behind her with the Pure Heart beating faster as he got closer and closer to the Heart Pillar.
He stood next to Nassie as she explained. "Now release the Pure Heart, Dimentio."
Dimentio held out the Pure Heart and it floated towards flew towards the Heart Pillar and it fits right into it as it let's out a pulse of energy upon entering. It's let's off a light show of clockwork and stars before finally vanishing.
"Great work, Dimentio! Allow us to return right back to Kamek, 'k."
Nassie flapped her wings with a flutter. "Now let's go back to the elevator-"
"Now, now Nassie, dear we don't need to take the elevator." Dimentio interrupted.
"Huh what do you mea-" Before Nassie could finish she was going to say. She and Dimentio were gone.
-...-
Kamek was suprised the moment when Dimentio and Nassie teleported in at the top of the tower.
"Ack! Oh you're back that's good." Kamek points to the newly formed red door. " A dimensional door has now appeared and it'll guide you to the next Pure Heart."
Kamek turned to Nassie. "Nassie you'll accompany Dimentio through this door and be his guide to the next Pure Heart and once you have it return here."
"Of course." Nassie replied joining Dimentio's side.
Kamek continues. "It was foretold in the Light Prognosticus that you have the power to travel into the dimensional plane."
"Ah yes I do it is quite easy for the Master Of Dimensions." Dimentio cheered with a smirk.
"I see so you would have no trouble then but. I would advise visting a friend of mine along your path. This friend of mine is called Merloo. He'll be there to aid you just... Don't be frightened by his appearance he doesn't get many vistiors because of it."
"Alright. Hhm I doubt it's anything frightening for me Kamek." Dimentio said before entering the red door with Nassie by his side.
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