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Chapter 6: Mission's and Missed Youngs.

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Every morning Bandanna Waddle Dee wakes up, puts on his Bandanna ™, combs his fur, grabs his spear, and gets out of his room in five minutes. He trots through the halls of Castle Dedede, headed straight to his morning duties in the training room.

These steps, while slightly different, are the basic fundamentals for fledgling guards such as you, so pay close attention. Now, not all of you are Waddle Dees, or course, but Castle Dedede goes by the same rules for everybody.

The rules are as follows:

D. DIRECTLY ADRESS ALL HIGHER RANKS AS SIR(Update 2/7/16 OR MADAME IN SPECIFIC CASES, I.E MANAGEMENT), ANYTHING ELSE IS DISRESPECT.

D. DON'T SHOW UP LATE FOR ANY EVENT, IF YOU DO ITS YOUR FAULT, UNLESS ITS NOT, AND IN THAT CASE YOU CAN FILE A COMPLAINT. (ANYTHING ELSE IS DISRESPECT.)

D. DON'T RUN AWAY IN THE FACE OR DANGER, STAND STRONG AND REPRESENT CASTLE DEDEDE WELL. (note: anything else is disrespect).

Follow these three simple rules, and you too may one day become the next Bandanna Waddle Dee! And who knows, maybe due to unforeseen circumstances, you could become he next Kin-

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Bandanna Waddle Dee took out the VHS, then set it aside. "Okay new recruits, do you all understand?" Bandanna Dee asked. The recruits made a sort of 'yeah, I guess' sound, with only a singular resounding 'YEAH' from the crowd.

Bandanna Dee shrugged, "Okay, but before we go on our first training mission, please know that, in terms of everyone here you are not any more important than anybody else." Bandanna Waddle Dee began to walk back and forth in a line. "In a way, you are like side characters in a book, who only appear in one chapter, and never agai-"

Knock Knock.

There was a knock on the door. It slowly creaked open. It was King Dedede, looking kind of tired. "Hey… sorry to interrupt, but…" Dedede opened the door wide, and pushed Poppy, who had their eyes closed, into the room. "Okay, this is your problem now, see you later…alligator." He slowly closed the door, leaving the trainees stunned.

"Uh…" Bandanna Dee stammered a bit, "That-THAT is a prime example of what you shouldn't do during a meeting, if the King was one of you, he would have to speak to management." A troop asked who's management, to which Bandanna Dee responded, "I can't tell you for safety concerns." Though, he honestly forgot her name, it started with an S, but that's all he remembered.

Bandanna Dee cleared his throat, "Okay anyways, we're going to head out to the forest outskirts, and go through a basic field mission, alright?" The trainees nodded and one yelled, 'YEAH, MISSIONS, AND ALL THAT'. Another yelled back, 'Shut up so we can get this over with!'. Bandanna Waddle Dee sighed and told them to walk out the door, go through the hall, and wait outside the castle.

They did so, and as they did Bandanna Dee looked at Poppy who was standing straight up with their eyes closed. He walked over to them. "Uh… hello?", He greeted.

Poppy turned their head, left and right, eyes still closed. "Pop?", They questioned.

Where did that noise come from? Seriously, this isn't making any sense whatsoever. Everything is pitch black, it feels like I've been moving, and wherever I move my eyes, it's still black. Am I missing something?

Then a voice that sounded like like that Bandanna Wearing Waddle Dee said, "Open your eyes". My eyes? Were they closed? I opened them and saw the Waddle Dee standing there.

Menacingly.

Why were my eyes closed again? Oh, that thing called sleep, I closed my eyes in order to achieve it. Odd though, that the Adeline girl said nothing about opening them. If there was a way, I'd give her a one star review for service. She has no experience clearly. Where was she anyway?

"Uh, follow me, we're going outside." The Bandanna wearing Waddle Dee...

No, that name is too long, I'll call him Bandanna Dee like that Adeline calls him. So Bandanna Dee said that.

I asked, "Why, is there any particular reason I should follow you?",but it still came out as 'pop'.

Bandanna Dee responded, "I'll take that as a yes, follow me."

I followed him, but only out of politeness of course. Well that and he seemed to have good intentions for the moment. The halls of the castle were a plan sort of beige color, with long hallways sporting various rooms. But eventually we made it to the castle doors.

There was a strange sort of pillar looking object there, and they both walked past it after a long look at it. The group of Waddle Dee and other Dreamland residents were all conversing, and Bandanna Dee got their attention.

After checking, he determined all who were required to be outside, were outside and they begun to make the trek towards the forest outskirts, for a basic training mission. Bandanna Dee led the group, of course and I was walking next to him at around the same pace.

We eventually reached the forest and….

A sharp pain suddenly came up in my head. I unwillingly turned to the wooded area, the forest was what they called it. What just happened? I didn't particularly know, but, I imagine it's nothing important, I'll just ignore it.

Bandanna Dee was talking to the trainees, saying something along the lines of, "When in the field, walk aimlessly back and forth to assert your dominance." It wasn't really a good sort of idea to the group, but they couldn't exactly say no.

It was actually rather interesting, how despite sounding so stupid when hearing it out loud, it seemed the more efficient option compared to other ideas the trainees brought up. I simply listened to the banter and-

OUCH.

That pain pierced through my head again. Something from that forest, was it causing this? Perhaps. Perhaps I should check it out? I walked over to the thick treescape that was the forest, and felt a sort of sense of location of whatever this pain was. It was sort of far, yet close at the same time.

As I did that Bandanna Waddle Dee was saying something along the lines of, "Wait, stop!", but I barely heard him as I was focused on walking. And besides, why stop when I was already going? Sounded rather counter productive. Bandanna Dee then yelled out to that group something like, "Stay right here, I'll be right back.", though I heard it even less then the previous question.

I picked up the place and headed into the dark forest, which was as dark as the kitchen room at night. The feeling of being lured felt stronger the farther I went into the woods, and I heard the distant sound of rushing water. Barely any light was shining through the cracks in the trees, and I heard the footsteps of Bandanna Dee behind me. Where was this going-

OUCH-

The sharp pain came up yet again, and I broke into sort of a sprint, for an odd reason it was like I was being drawn in. The distant sound of rushing water, probably a river got closer. Strangely, I wasn't getting tired, nor did I really feel like divulging from the path. I was sort of just heading straight into whatever it-

I stopped.

…

What just…?

Wait, what….

There was a building. Surrounded by other buildings. In a sort of building meet up party. Or perhaps a settlement. The building I was near the back of, was wooden, with a sort of dull exterior around it. I peeked around and saw these things that had a look of familiarity.

These things were sort of like… if monkeys had no hair, were taller, and had a straight spine. It was slightly freaky seeing them, but it had a slight sense of eeriness. Though now that you mentioned it, they did seem like they'd met when.

...!

Wait-

The word 'human' crossed my mind for some reason. Why was that...

Before I could finish my thought, Bandanna Dee had finally caught up to me, guess he wasn't a fast runner. He stopped to catch his breath, "Why did you run into the forest?" Bandanna Dee asked, huffing and puffing out of exasperation.

"Po…" I couldn't quite finish that word for some reason. Maybe I was too enamored looking at these things? Wait, I was thinking of something... No, I lost it... ugh...

Bandanna Dee wanted to have a gander at what I was peeking at, and looked around the building as well. Bandanna Dee pondered quietly, "What the heck are those things?"

To which I responded, like always, "Poyo."

...!

WAIT WHAT?

Did I just say poyo? No, no, that… oh why was I doubting it, I obviously said poyo. But what was poyo, and why did I feel like having chicken right about now? Ignoring whatever the sudden urge for chicken was, Bandanna Dee and I backed away from whatever this place was, and headed back to the others in the group.

The strange thing though, it was as if I felt a presence. Some sort of… dark presence in the area. But that's not important right now, the important thing is, we headed back, confused as ever.

For an odd reason I felt a tugging on my ear as we were heading back, but when I turned nothing was there but the wind. But perhaps, what I was feeling wasn't something rather... someone.

Eh, probably not.

Twas a generally warm day in Dreamland.

Meta Knight and Ribbon had woke up about fifteen minutes ago. Ribbon had a slow get up compared to Meta Knight, who was essentially up immediately. Ribbon got back on Meta's back and they walked. They were quite hungry to say the very least, but the trees didn't seem to have any apples around. It was just the forest for now.

But they could survive without food for… a couple more days maybe? The desert wasn't going to be a good place, unless of course they are some of the native creatures there, but that would just be awkward.

"So…" Ribbon started. "Uh, you said you were going to tell me your uh… backstory right?" She asked.

Meta Knight responded, "Oh right, right, well let me start from the beginning." Meta Knight cleared his throat.

So,

"I remember it vividly...Hundreds of years ago-"

"Wait, wait-" Ribbon interrupted. "You're that old?!"

Meta Knight laughed, "My species has an impressive life span to say the very least." Meta Knight told her. "I remember the look on Dedede's face when we first met and I revealed my age." Meta Knight flashbacked to that moment, then shook it off. "Anyways, allow me to continue."

"I woke up, and the Harsh wind of the desert was blowing across my face for some reason. I looked over to the window of the circular room which was somehow wide open. I went over and closed it or course, but it just opened back up.

I shut it again, and it opened again.

Then again.

And again.

I decided to leave it alone.

So, I ran out of my room, and bumped into somebody. I fell on my back, then got up. There, I saw my sister, Garlude. She looked nothing like me, looking more like our… our mother, and I looked sort of like my father. She had purple skin and short hair with a ponytail.

Anyways, still on the floor, I told her, "Hey, watch it!", She got back up before me and told me, "You were the one who ran out of your room." I sighed at her and told her to 'Shut it', and she shrugged as I got back up.

Then, we both went into the kitchen, or what we called the kitchen, it was more or less a square room with a flat rock in the middle.

Garlude told me, "Okay so today…" I listened rather intently as she said, "We're heading to hopefully find that sword from the cave, I know this place has so be it!" She announced. Then she said, "After that, once we're done, we'll sell it for like a bajillion dollars!"

You see, the place we lived wasn't a great place for two children to survive in. We had to barely scrape by every month, selling the occasional find, but somehow never having enough left over to spend on quality of life things.

The window I told you about earlier, was actually a makeshift one made by things from a junkyard, but that's another story. Anyways, we had been trying for months to figure out the location of this special sword of legends, known as Galaxia. We had heard stories about it slaying beasts, taking down kings, and more importantly, being made of pure gold.

The element of gold was so scarce, it was essentially the equivalent of diamonds underground, if diamonds weren't common, and not being used to rip off people. The ruler of the land, I've forgotten his name by now, I think it was… S..., no I've forgotten.

But he ruled before the fall of the Waddle Dee Kingdom, and before the Dedede clans rise to power. But once again, that's another story.

In present, Meta Knight wondered, 'Maybe I should write a book...' He continued his story as the day passed.

Anyway, we had nine possible locations we've ruled out over past few months. There was this island, which had an expansive castle on it, a greatly offensive cavern, and an X on a faux treasure map given to us by a trader, just to name a few. We were on the tenth, and final location, and headed out later that day.

But before we did, we stopped to eat, as it was the day of the week where we ate out rations. The rations were what would be known as unseeded sunflower seeds, but in a rather old burlap bag. I grabbed the small bag and placed it on the stone slab table. I sliced the bag open with a knife, and we divided the thirty sunflower seeds in half, fifteen each.

After a rather quick and quiet eating experience, one which I finished first, not to brag, we grabbed our gear and headed out. We only had two things to protect ourselves. A knife, which Garlude and I used every now and then and…

…

A mask, which belonged to our father.

Anyways, ahem, the location of the cave was an icy biome, which we weren't exactly fond of, to say the very least. We set out they day and I'll save you the journey,

We eventually made our way outside the cave, and decided to rest before going in. We had hitched a plan, that if there was a monster inside, I would distract it and she would grab Galaxia. Afterwards, we would run out, sword in tow and bolt it to the nearest selling station.

We took turns on lookout that night, and while it's not really related, I tell you, I swear I saw four figures in the distance, they had lit a fire spontaneously, and I wanted to go ask them who they were. All I could make out was the shadow of a hooded figure making an odd pose, and disappearing before I never saw them again.

Continuing on track, it was the morning and we headed into the cave. It was a sizeable cave with a chilling atmosphere, and for a good reason too. The ground was very slippery, and icicles hang from the ceiling, dripping onto the icy floor.

After we headed in shivering we heard a distant sound of snoring. It was either a traveler, or a monster. We still trudged forward, and after we were shivering, teeth chattering and all, there was a shining light in the distance. Then, we saw it. Though slightly far away, it was Galaxia, shining there in all of its glory.

Garlude heading forward before I did, but she suddenly stopped in her tracks. She beckoned for me to come forward, and I did so slowly. When I was just next to her, I saw a blue beast sleeping directly next to the sword. It looked to be a blue, fat, icy dragon snoring to it's hearts content. An Ice Dragon you could say.

It wasn't awake, but we still treaded carefully towards the sword. When we were about five feet away from it when the dragon suddenly stirred in it's sleep. It looked to be waking up and I panicked.

Then Garlude said to me,

"I'll get the sword and stun it before it wakes up-"

Back in present, Meta Knight paused for ten seconds, before Ribbon asked him a question. "Was that all she said?" Meta Knight didn't respond for about five seconds before continuing.

She said, "I'll be right back."

Ribbon then asked, "Then what happened?"

Meta Knight responded quickly, "She..." Meta Knight paused, then ducked behind a tree startling Ribbon. Meta Knight told her, "Be quiet, be quiet."

"Wait what?", Ribbon questioned, confused.

"Fairy, hush for a moment." Meta Knight then peaked from behind the tree, as Ribbon peaked around as well. It was… a building? Surrounded by other buildings. A sort of… building meet up party? Or rather, a settlement. But who would settle in the middle of a forest? Oh, there was a river nearby.

"What is going on here?", Ribbon pondered aloud. Meta Knight didn't respond, instead he peered closer to the creatures near the buildings.

…

It was the things from before, the things on that spaceship. In fact, it appeared to be the same specific ones from before, albeit, with a few new members.

Ribbon started, "So if those guys are here…"

"...Our weapons must be close." Meta finished.

Ribbon corrected him, "You mean your weapons, yes?"

"Same difference." Meta shot back.

They both looked at one another, and silently crept around the edges of this colony, making sure to be as discrete as possible. They saw very confusing things, but one caught their attention specifically. A building with a wooden exterior, which was odd as all the other buildings looked to be of concrete.

But it was getting late, so quietly, Ribbon whispered to Meta, "I think we should head to sleep for the night."

"Very well, let's go behind that tree." Meta Knight tip-toed to a nearby tree with a thick base. He was a foot away when a deafening crack split the silence of the area. Meta stopped in his tracks and looked around. Looked like nobody had heard thankfully…

But, he was wrong, dead wrong. You see, one person saw them, and this one person would change like… two things. Okay, maybe more than two, perhaps five, but let's just say two for now. This one person, not two, keep in mind only one person. This one person didn't quite have to words to describe it, as she went to sleep, not knowing what awaited in the future.

But this will all be explained in,

Chapter 7: Watching & Watch-ing?

Kirby is a fun franchise.

My favorite character is easily Magolor.

Have a good day, and stay safe!