Mable: So here it is. The last chapter. The end of my sequel to new Perspective. Wow, that feeling of completion… Isn't here? Oh wait… There it is, right after I upload this chapter it appears. I want to thank everyone who will read this after I post this chapter and specifically: Buick Regal Racecar 56, Sparxs2941, and Nightgazer13. I'm sorry to anyone I missed and I thank them for reading too.

A very special thanks to Meowth's Toon Dragon who not only encouraged and inspired this fic, but has been an awesome friend and wonderful writer!

Well… This is the end… The last chapter…

Rise of the Dark Matter

Chapter Eight: Finally Peace

When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do

Ripple Star's castle was full of many small fairies cheering and praising the heroes who stood before them. Leading them being their Queen, Beautiful, who smiled sweetly. "I never expected to have my kingdom attacked again, and I would have never expected you all to come to our aid against such a dangerous opponent. We thank you and our in your debt." Immediately King Dedede spoke up, "As king of Dreamland it is an honor to come to your aid, your highness." The fairy queen giggled lightly while her glasses slid down in a disheveled manner, which she quickly fixed. "In reward for your valiant deed. You shall all receive the highest honor, the white crystal of courage."

A small purple haired fairy flew over with a pillow in her hands, on it were eight golden chains with white crystals daggling from them. Beautiful placed the necklace around Dedede's neck as he leaned over. Then she placed one around Fumu's neck, the blond being reluctant, "I didn't do anything." The queen smiled, "Of course you did! Even the smallest act is as important as the greatest." Then moved onto Marx who was still a little unstable, "Does it matter that I can't remember what happen for the last few hours?" Beautiful giggled again and put the necklace on him before moving to Sword. Dedede leaned close to Marx and whispered, "Stop asking stupid questions." Only to receive, "You better back off before I tell her how you REALLY are."

After the party received their necklaces the Queen stopped and realized that one was left. Noticing none of the others pointing out their friend being gone, Beautiful decided to merely put back on the pillow, guessing that somebody miscounted. After this all the fairies started to celebrate the peace with dancing, praising, and cheering for their heroes. Immediately Meta Knight left the room and headed through the castle in an undetermined direction. Behind him followed Fumu who was concerned to see him leave until realizing where he was going, out on one of the many balconies of the castle.

Out on the balcony the breeze was cool and the dark sky was lit with millions of stars. Meta Knight wrapped his cape closer to himself as he stared out at the view with minor interest, his eyes green to show deep thought. "Sir Meta Knight?" Fumu asked following him out there and standing alongside him. "What are you doing out here Fumu? I expected you to stay with the others at the party." The blond girl shook her head, "I saw you come out here and I was concerned that something was wrong." Meta Knight nodded with a sigh, "There is something on my mind. I didn't want to tell anyone since what was going on… Here." He handed a white envelope to her that he had been hiding.

Fumu looked down at the obviously resealed envelope, up at Meta Knight, then back to the envelope which she opened gently. Inside was a simple white paper with a strange water mark on it and a message, "Meta Knight, we would be honored if you joined our fighting tournament. Wait, this is the same tournament that Kirby joined two years ago. Every year or so he goes for a week or two… What's wrong with that?" Meta Knight sighed, "I'm a little worried of going. This tournament is going to last much longer then the last two, six months." She felt a little bit of sadness well up inside her, "Six months? That long?" "I was afraid that something could occur while I'm gone… Kirby and King Dedede are also invited but… I doubt they've seen the letters yet."

The silence that was expected was immediately broken, "This is great Sir Meta Knight! An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime!" Fumu tried to sound as optimistic as possible. She knew it would be a long and lonely period without Kirby and Meta Knight, and surely be boring without King Dedede doing crazy things, but she knew how selfish it would be to hold him back. "I think you should do it. Besides, someone needs to watch Kirby, right?" The Knight took a second as to contemplate this before nodding, "You're right. Thank you Fumu, you've helped me make an important decision. Let's go back inside, Marx is starting to get annoyed." Fumu raised an eyebrow, "What do you me- Marx!"

Marx was standing in the doorway listening the whole time, as soon as he noticed Fumu's realization he turned and started to run down the hall, "I can't believe he was eavesdropping! He's acting just like Bun does! Why can't boys be mature?" She stormed down the call while Meta Knight merely chuckled beside her, "Do you think that you'll survive six months with only Bun and Marx?" Fumu sighed, "Unfortunately I'll have to." At this time Marx had finally made it back with the others and glared at Dedede, "You idiot. They weren't having a romantic moment. They were-" he smirked, "-talking about sending you away to some tournament and stealing your throne."

Dedede's jaw dropped, "I'm going to go..." his angry cry was cut off by seeing the Queen Fairy standing only feet away, "Got to keep cool." Then Dedede kicked Marx in the back of the head to subdue his anger before going to complement her. Marx laughed to himself to cover up how relieved he was to see no romantic connections going on between Meta Knight and Fumu on the balcony. Even as the two came in they weren't holding hands or shooting each other looks, so no emotions for each other, right? "That's how it works out, right?" Marx asked himself as he glanced at Fumu. She wasn't sending the Knight looks but she was defiantly sending him looks, glares that probably came from the eavesdropping incident.

At this time Ribbon was finally feeling like herself again, happy and full of life. "It's great to see you again Kirby." She said while flying around Kirby in small circles, "I was afraid we were too late. Did Zero do anything to you?" Kirby shook his head slowly as if he wasn't sure. Secretly he didn't remember; he remembered sleeping at his home, then waking up with Dedede smacking him around. This didn't seem important to Kirby and he pushed it out of his mind quickly. The fairy stood circling and blushed a little, "I missed you… You left so fast before, we never got to really say good bye." After kissing him on the cheek, which lead to both blushing, she took his hand and pulled him, "Come on. You haven't met all the others yet."

"Mr. Blade Knight!" Blade was awoken by the knocking on the door. It sounded a lot louder to the Knight who was still suffering from a head cold and he wished that he could ignore the knocking. He answered it anyway to see a panicking Waddle Doo, "Blade Knight! Something horrible happened! I went to go get his majesty's lemonade and when I came back he was gone! I thought he was just doing something like chasing after Kirby, but it's been days and he's still gone!" Blade winced at the height of the voice and coughed a little before speaking, "King Dedede left with Sword and Sir Meta Knight to go look for Kirby. They should be back in a few days."

Captain Waddle Doo's panic immediately dropped, "Oh…. Okay…. Get well soon!" then walked off as though nothing ever happened. With a small groan, Blade retreated back into his dark room in an attempt to soothe the pounding headache that had only increased from the brightness of the lights and the volume of sound in which Waddle Doo spoke in. He knew that Meta Knight and Sword were fine and didn't worry that they were a little late. He merely lay back down in bed and hoped the head cold would be gone soon.

In the center of Dark Star, a planet made entirely made of amass of Dark Matter, lay the body of Zero Two. In the last destruction the body wasn't destroyed and was instead taken by the last of the Dark Matter. It lay there unmoving on the ground surrounded by dark matter. The dark Matter split to let something through that stood beside the body and looked down at it, "They did this to you." Its eyes teared up, "They took you from me." The tears dripped onto the corpse, red staining the white flesh. The creature looked around at the dark, "You are all WORTHLESS! You couldn't even protect your KING, your LEADER, and the CENTER OF YOUR WORLD! You are of no use to me, I shall kill them myself."

The creature stopped, "No. Not kill, not right away. I will make them feel complete misery, nothing but the despair you wished for." With one last look at the body of Zero Two the creature turned away. This creature was the only reason that Zero Two had captured Kirby; to get an outline frame and DNA strand to help the frame stay. All it took was a mere scrape of skin, not even blood, and a little effort. Now the creature that stood there was perfect in Zero Two's eye. Or he would have been if he was alive. Instead Zero Two was gone and the creature was alone.

At this point the creature looked up while stretching out his feathery wings, "Father." Tears of blood ran down his white skin from his two red eyes, then down the rest of his round body before dripping on the floor and on his dark red feet. If someone had seen him and not took to mind his coloring and wings, they'd think he was Kirby. "Father." His almost innocent features were clouded with hate for the ones who destroyed Zero.

"I will avenge you."

And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through

FIN

Mable: The End! At last! Now, I might write a sequel. Keep a look out…. Even if I do it might be a little while. I need to take a break and work on my other fics. I hope you enjoyed reading!