(Partially inspired by Wings of Fortitude, Koku-Draws's second Kirby AU private to the Kirby's Knightmare Discmord Server) TW: (Implied) Sl@very. ✦✦✦ 4 hours before the day the Dark Hearts Society came. Approximately 1 hour after Kirby started to drift off to sleep, Kirby started to have a strange dream. Kirby woke up in the bed in a cell in the middle of a strange red dungeon with a headache. In the dream, he couldn't remember anything else other than he got captured. He tried to move his nubs, but it was futile; they were held together with rope. It must have explained the strange piece of rope that was on the ground. Someone then stormed into his cell. It was a strange black Kaabii (puffball) with gray feet. The Kaabii then tugged onto the end of the rope and dragged him out of his cell, marching through the hall. He then started to walk, looking around, afraid. The Kaabii that was taking him then stopped at another cell, and then he stopped walking. Kirby felt another piece of rope wrap around his waist, and then the Kaabii continued marching while Kirby continued walking. He then felt a pair of nubs touch his back. He looked back and saw a blue, horned Kaabii with floof and some rope tied onto her wings. She whispered to him, "Hey, let's get out of here." Kirby nodded. The blue Kaabii then whispered to him, "The next subject in this slave school is training. Then there's mining. Then there's re-education. Then there's the monthly fight to the death test. And then more training, mining and re-education. We escape during the next mining thing." Kirby whispered back to her, "I...I don't understand..." "What I'm saying is, we're going to be trained next, then we're going to mine for this special crystal thing and then we're going to be re-educated. That's the training cycle, training, mining and re-education. At the end of today's first cycle, we're going to have a monthly fight-to-the-death. And like I said, we're going to escape at the mining section." "Why are we--" Suddenly, the Kaabii that was taking him tugged on his rope some more, causing Kirby to briefly look foward again. He then turned around again, facing the strange blue Kaabii once more. "Why are we doing this?" Kirby whispered to her. "We're going to either be used as weapons for this Dark Hearts Society thing or be slaves to mine some strange thing. Anyways, what's your name?" "K-Kirby." "I'm Zephyr, but some call me Zeph. I've been a slave for 5 months. Now, we should already be at the training room." Kirby and Zeph then get shoved into the room after Kirby's captor untied the duo's ropes. The dream ends. -9 hours before the day the Dark Hearts Society came. ✦✦✦ "Hey Kirby! Happy birthday!" Those were the first words Kirby woke up to a second after the dream ended. They were uttered by none other than Bandanna Waddle Dee himself. Kirby's eyes flickered open. "It's my birthday?" Kirby said. "Yeah!" said Bandanna Waddle Dee. "Oh my god...I just had the strangest dream! I-I was in a strange cell in some dungeon, a-and...someone stormed in and..." "That was probably a nightmare, and that's all it'll ever be! Anyways, come outside an hour after lunch!" "Okay..." Kirby said, before he ate 20 pancakes, the same breakfast he had yesterday. After eating breakfast, he went out and inhaled a Blade Knight to gain the sword copy ability. Then, when Meta's airship came around, he waved his sword at him, all the while shouting, "META! COME HERE!!" Bandanna didn't understand why Kirby was acting like this, but then he remembered; yesterday he was acting very strange. He assumed something evil would arrive on his birthday, and now he's trying to prepare Dreamland for what's to come. He still doesn't understand why Kirby considers this to be true, though. Meta Knight's airship descended towards Kirby and Meta hopped out, but then...some kind of ship descended onto Dreamland. Bandanna looked at Kirby, who appeared scared and shaking, yet he still managed to stay confident for what's to come. He then looked at the ship. It had landed. Three strange entities emerged from it, all of them looking somewhat like Meta Knight, although their masks are white and their bodies black. All of them had horns, and one of them had a broken one and a crack on his mask. Bandanna couldn't believe it. Kirby was right. "How did you know about this?!" Bandanna told Kirby, although knowing his response. "I-I just did," Kirby said. "I just felt it." "How did you feel like this was coming?!" Kirby left no response. Instead, he was just staring at the men from the ship. "We have come for Kirby," one of the three men stated. "And it looks like he's willing to give in," another said. "No, poyo," Kirby yelled, his sword glistening in the sun. "I'm willing to fight!" "A fight he wants, a fight he'll get," said the third man who haven't said a thing yet.
[READ INSTRUCTIONS FIRST] The three men took out their swords, and Kirby charged at them. The middle man used their sword to deflect Kirby's attack. Bandanna took out his spear, and Meta Knight ordered his knights to attack. Out came the Meta-Knights, and from the other airship, out came more knights, all of them without horns and wearing masks and weilding swords. As the Meta-Knights attacked the other knights and Meta, Bandanna and Kirby attacked the three horned knights. The battle waged on for about half an hour, and the Meta-Knights were wiped out, as well as the knights the three horned knights sent. "Unless you turn yourself in, we will send out more knights," the middle horned knight stated. "Send out all the knights you have, poyo," Kirby said, still filled with determination. "Send in your leader, even. Even though Meta's knights have been defeated, poyo, he still has more, even though they may not be as powerful. And, poyo, we three still have the strength to keep going. Do everything you can, poyo, cuz I'll never turn myself in!!" "Very well then," said one of the other horned knights. "We were going to send in more knights, but now that you mention your leader, we'll send him out as well...if you defeat our second 'batch' of them." Out came more knights from the ship of the three horned knights, and out came more knights from Meta's airship. After another half hour of fighting, the hornless knights from Dreamland's new guests were defeated, as well as Meta's knights. The middle horned knight, now showing rage, charged towards Kirby, and the six continued fighting. But then, after 15 minutes, the horned ones were defeated. The middle horned knight turned towards his ship and cried out, "YOUR HIGHNESS!!!" Hearing that made Kirby lose a bit of his determination. Out came the leader from the ship of the three horned knights. The leader bore red horns, which did not appear as great as the three knights' horns, and also wore a galaxy-like cloak. The leader's skin was black, like the three knights, and he wore a pair of gloves, one of them holding a sword, and his eyes appeared a fiery red, and his presence intimidated Kirby, but it appeared so slightly. Little did Bandanna know, Kirby wasn't afraid of the leader's appearance, but of another feature. "Y-You'll never take me alive, p-poyo!!!" Kirby said, slightly trembling. "I will, and you will work for me once again," said the leader. Bandanna noticed that behind the leader, the three horned knights were escaping into the ship. The leader grabbed onto Kirby and walked back to the ship as it began to take off, and the door was going to shut. In defense, Kirby slashed the leader and escaped his clutches before he was going to be trapped on that ship. "This isn't over," Kirby said. "Poyo, they're just going to keep coming back until I turn myself in...unless I come to them first." "So...what are you trying to suggest?" Bandanna asked. "We're going on an adventure, poyo," Kirby said. "To defeat our unfriendly guests!!" ✦✦✦ "Come on, we almost had him!!" said the horned knight with the broken mask. "Don't worry, Etsuji," said the horned knight to the left. "We're going to go back for him." "No," said the leader. "He's going to come straight to us. And he doesn't know that we're expecting this." "How do you know, your highness?" said the middle knight (Hidetsugu). "Yeah, how?" the left knight (Katsuo) agreed. "Hidetsugu, Katsuo," said the leader. "You know Kirby. We’ve been watching him for five years. Don’t you know that he loves adventures across the cosmos?" "Oh, right," Katsuo said. "We'll give him one last adventure," the leader said, "before we have him in our clutches.” To be continued... First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/988505256/ Previous: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/988505256/ Next: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1166908284/ Last: N/A Animated Version: N/A Song: Kikuo - I'll Forgive You Even If You Die (Singer: Hatsune Miku)
