OH MY GOSH! OH. MY. GOSH. I'm sorry! Gomenasai! Perdonenme! I didn't expect this much time to pass! But, ugh, I was soooooo busy with school! I will bake each of you a dozen cookies, as a way of saying I'm sorry!

And I know Meta Knight's eyes aren't yellow. I tried making it silver, BUT it actually looked weird... :/ SO I just made them lightly yellow XP

Aww thank you all for your reviews :D Really made me happy! :D

Imnobodyanymore: Yeah...thanks...I CAN SEE THAT ITS EMPTY!...now I have to make a WHOLE NEW BATCH! -_- ... But, I guess I deserve that for having have made u guys wait so long XD Besides, I was gonna do that either way XP

DreamTraveler470: Yep, you should be getting your cookies soon :D

Guest: Sorry, I didn't read any reviews until I had finished the chapter (Which I should read first before making the chapter) But I will try to use that idea in the future. I like that idea XD

Death: You'll get ur cookie, soon :D

Sorry to say, but I don't think this chapter has any humor at all...ya'll will see why :P *Le sigh*

Disclaimer: I don't own any Kirby characters

It was nighttime. The king paced around his room, dressed in his pajamas. He couldn't sleep. For some reason, he was worried. Probably because he didn't feel so safe anymore. He did have Sword and Blade, but, Meta Knight had been his best knight. And now, he couldn't be protected as well. Nothing really attacked his castle, unless he ordered a Demon Beast, but, he was scared. Like something was going to happen.

"Highness!" Escargoon shouted as he entered the room, making the king jump a little.

"HAVEN'T I TOLD YOU TO KNOCK ON MY DOOR BEFORE YOU ENTER?!" King Dedede hollered. The snail cringed a little.

"Well, I just wanted to tell you that we found the source of the blackout. We're working on fixing it!"

King Dedede went up to the snail angrily. "Well, why don't you tell me when it's already fixed?!"

Escargoon looked at the furious king with wide eyes. "J-just letting you know..." With that, Escargoon left the room.

The king sighed. He also hoped that the lights could be fixed soon.

He hopped onto his bed, making it creak a little, and he pulled the covers up. At dawn, he was barely going to sleep, when a loud CRACK! Made him fall off his bed. Startled, he looked around the room. The lights were on. So the lights were fixed.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Escargoon shouted from another room. The king quickly got up, but fell again, as the light's flashed, and a few sparks flew from the light bulb. "Now what's going on?!" King Dedede shouted. He stood up again, and ran towards his throne room. His transporting machine was going crazy. It was all lit up with lightning, and sparks were going everywhere. Escargoon was hiding behind the throne. Suddenly, there was a big flash from the machine, blinding the snail and the penguin. Then, it was gone, and the lights went off once more.

King Dedede ran up to his cowering servant, and hit him on the head with his huge hammer. "What did you do?!" The king demanded. "What just happened?!"

Recovering from the blow to the head, Escargoon said, "I-I don't know...The waddle dee had finished repairing the lights, when we heard something pop in this room. I came running here, and your machine was going all crazy. But it was working as if you had ordered a Demon Beast. Did you order one? Before the lights went out the first time?"

"N-no...I didn't order anything...nothing...even if I did, something would have ended up at my machine, wouldn't it? But why did it go all crazy and stuff?"

"I told you, I don't know..."

The lights flashed on again, startling the penguin. The television in the throne room came down, and it flashed on.

"Hey there, Dedede," Customer Service greeted happily. "Hope I didn't scare you too much."

"You!" King Dedede raised a finger angrily. "You're the cause of all this?"

"The first black out, no. but I was in charge of sending you a Demon Beast."

"...yeah, which was a big failure, like we told you already-"

"No, not Eradicator...This one I just sent you."

"...You sent me one?"

"Yes...just now...that's what all the fuss was about. I saw when your power came back on, and I decided it was the perfect time to send you a gift."

"But...I don't see anything!"

"Look around!"

The king looked around the room. Nothing looked different. The throne was still there. So was the red carpet, the yellow walls, the thick vines on the walls...Wait...thick vines?!

"Woah! What's that?!" Dedede screamed. Thick vines surrounded almost the whole room, and two foot thorns stuck out from almost everywhere. Purple stuff oozed out of the thorns.

"I recommend you stay as far away from those thorns as possible..." Customer Service warmed. "Anyways, this is Venom. I sent it as a gift to you for free! The only thing you have to pay is the delivery!"

"But I don't want no Demon Beast!" Kind Dedede shouted.

"Dedede, before the blackout, you told me that Meta Knight, your best knight, was turned into a baby, right?"

"Y-Yeah..."

"And you have always wanted to get rid of Kirby, right? Well, with Meta Knight out of the way, you can finally defeat Kirby once and for all!"

"But-"

"This Demon Beast will follow Kirby, everywhere he goes. All this Demon Beast has to do, is prick Kirby with it's venomous thorns, and Kirby will slowly begin to go...bye-bye. Or it can just squeeze Kirby until...Muahahahaha!" (-I'm sorry if I went a little bit over K+ there O.o And I'm sorry for the cheesy name XD)

"But what if it pricks someone else instead?"

"That's your problem, isn't it? Oh, and I recommend you leave the castle before it pricks you. Ta-ta!" The screen flashed off.

"WAIT! I'M NOT DONE TALKING WITH YOU! I DON'T WANT THIS DEMON BEAST! TAKE IT BACK!" The king pushed a button to turn the television back on, which it did, but all it showed was a blank screen. Dedede smashed his fists into the throne.

"Grrrr..."

"Sire, I recommend we leave now...THE VINE IS ALMOST BLOCKING THE WHOLE EXIT!" Escargoon hollered.

Dedede gasped, turned around quickly, and ran out the door with all his might, barely squeezing by, and Escargoon behind him. The waddle dee noticed them running for their lives, and they did the same, not knowing why.

OoO

The sun shined through the living room window, blinding Tiff, and making her wake up. She had fallen asleep on the floor, but she wasn't stiff. She stretched her arms, and turned to look at the rest. Everybody else was asleep on the floor. Tuff was close to Kirby, both asleep on their backs. Sword and Blade were so close to each other, their faces almost touched, but their helmets were in the way. Meta Knight laid between them, with a diaper put on very badly. He was sleeping with the same face as Kirby. This made Tiff smile.

She went to the kitchen, and began to prepare breakfast.

A short while later, Tuff woke up. A little bit of saliva rolled down from his mouth. He wiped it off with his hand, and stretched. It was a nice day. And the smell of pancakes was very pleasing in the morning. He went into the kitchen, and saw Tiff cooking.

"Woah! Sis! You cook?" Tuff asked.

"Morning Tuff! No, I only know how to make pancakes that's all." Tiff flipped over a pancake.

"Can I help?"

"Sure!"

"Poyo..." Kirby said, coming in, rubbing his tired eyes.

"Good morning Kirby!" Tiff greeted. "Did you sleep well?"

"Poyo!"

"That's good! You wanna help us?"

"POYO!" Kirby shouted happily.

OoO

Blade woke up, a bit sore from sleeping on the ground. She opened her eyes, and shouted out, for Swords face was extremely close to hers. Quickly, she backed away, and accidentally hit herself on the table.

"Oww..." She rubbed the hurt spot, and looked at Sword. She gave him a soft nudge with her foot. "Sword...wake up...come on..."

"...no..." Sword replied sleepily. Blade sighed. She was always used to the both of them waking up at the same time. It just felt weird for one of them to be asleep, and the other awake.

"SWORD!" She shouted. Sword and Meta Knight both shouted out in surprise at the loud shout.

Blade laughed a little. "Sorry, I had to wake you up. I mean, if Meta Knight wasn't a baby, he'd be angry at us that we didn't wake up early in the morning."

She glanced at Meta Knight, who was frowning at her. Blade smiled, and she picked him up. "Sword, you put on the diaper all wrong!"

"Why did you have me do that, then? Why didn't you just do it?" Sword replied, standing up.

"I was tired. Anyways, you have to learn, if someday you have a kid."

Sword blushed a little behind his mask.

"Oh, you two are finally awake!" Tiff said, as she came out from the kitchen. "I made pancakes for us! Come on and eat, you guys!"

"Okay." Sword replied. They went to the table and sat down. Tiff went to the kitchen to prepare Meta Knights milk. She grabbed some powdered milk, and poured it into the bottle, which had warm water in it, before she put the cap on, she noticed Tuff playing catch with Kirby with a Vase.

"Tuff! Don't do that!" She said, and went over to him, snatching the vase away.

"But Tiff!" Tuff whined.

While Tiff was scolding Tuff , a vine began to grow. A thorn grew above the bottle, and a couple drops of the purple stuff oozed out of the thorn, and landed in the bottle. Tiff came back, and put the cap on the bottle, not looking at it, because she was arguing with Tuff.

"And when mom and dad come back, they're going to see that their favorite vase is broken. Why would you even play catch with a vase?" Tiff said, shaking the bottle to mix the stuff inside, not noticing how the milk turned purple.

"I was bored!" Tuff shouted back.

"You get bored too easily!"

"Anyways, you're not mom nor dad to tell me what to do!"

"But I'm your older sister!" She put the bottle in Meta Knight's mouth, and sat down.

"SO what?"

"So, I-"

"POYO!" Kirby suddenly shouted and knocked the bottle away from Meta Knight. Meta Knight shrieked, and looked at Kirby angrily. He was just about to eat!

"POY!" Meta Knight told Kirby.

"POYO!" Kirby said back. He pointed at the bottle, and looked at Tiff. Tiff went to pick it up, and she gasped.

"OH MY GOSH! WHY DID IT TURN PURPLE?!"

"T-Tiff..." Tuff stuttered as he quickly tapped his sisters shoulder. "T-TIFF!"

"What?" She turned around, and saw Tuff pointing at something. Then, she gasped again. Thick vines, were surrounding the group , with many sharp thorns pointing at them, Sword and Blade took out their swords. The vine continued to circle around them, each thorn dripping purple poison.

"Blade!" Sword shouted out, and Blade nodded. Together, they cut through a thick vine in one slash, to make an escape for them. "GO!"

Tiff grabbed Kirby, and she ran out through the gap. Tuff ran out as well. The vine split in two, and one lunged after Kirby and the others.

Blade slashed at the vine, cutting a small piece off. She lunged at Meta Knight to grab him, and barely managed to, just as the vine swiped at the chair where Meta Knight had been sitting.

The gap had closed. Sword tried to leap over the vine, but it smacked him down. Luckily, there were no thorns where the vine had hit him. Meta Knight began to whimper.

Blade slashed at the vine with one hand, holding the blue puffball in the other hand. Her weapon would hit the thick Venom, and make a large slash, but it would quickly heal itself. She grunted.

"Sword! We have to hit it together! When I try-" She began, but quickly dodged the vine that swiped at her. "when I try to slash it, it's not enough! So we have to do this together!"

"Alright!"

OoO

"Don't stop running!" Tiff shouted. She was running down the castle hallway with Kirby in her arms, and Tuff right behind her. Venom was chasing after them furiously.

Tiff looked behind her quickly, and only saw Tuff struggling to keep up. She skidded to a halt.

"Wait! Where are the others?!"

"Tiff, don't stop! You said to keep running!" Tuff reminded her.

"But Sword and Blade and Meta Knight are still back there! What if they're not alright?!"

Venom gave an awful shriek, one that sounded a lot like Eradicators shriek, and lunged forward.

"Sis! Look out!" Tuff shouted, and he shoved his sister and Kirby out of the way. Kirby fell out of Tiff's arms, and bounced across the floor and hit the wall.

"Poyo..." Kirby muttered as he stood up, and rubbed his head. He barely had time to dodge as the vine slashed at him with its thorns.

"Kirby!" Tiff shouted. She started to run towards him, but the vine pounded the ground, causing her to scream and fall to the ground.

"Tiff! I think you should call the warp star!" Tuff shouted over a roar.

"But it's too dangerous! What if the warp star gets damaged?! AAH!" She bent down just as the vine swooped over her head.

"POYO!" Kirby shouted out. Venom shot out purple stuff from its thorns. A bit splashed onto Kirby, making the spot hurt a lot. A few tears escaped his eyes from the pain.

"Sis! You have to do it! There's no other way!" Tuff shouted. Tiff hesitated for a brief second, and then inhaled, and shouted, "WARP ST—AAAHH!" She didn't get to finish, because venom had once again swiped it's vine over their heads, but this time, it smashed the castle wall, causing a lot of it to break into little pieces. It smashed the ground angrily, causing the floor to collapse and break.

OoO

Sword and Blade were running for their lives. They had managed to escape the room, but now they had angered the Demon Beast. It was shrieking horribly.

Meta knight, in Blade's arms, seemed to be having fun. He was smiling, and laughing. Blade frowned. If only he knew that they were running for their lives, he wouldn't find this amusing.

Sword suddenly grunted, and stopped running. A sharp pain had hit his side. Blade turned around to face him, and saw that he was looking at the floor, holding his side.

"Sword! Sword!" She ran towards him. "Sword! Are you okay?"

Sword looked at Blade, and said, "Y-yeah! But keep going! I'll take care of this! You have to take care of sir Meta Knight!"

"Don't act all brave and stuff! We can do this together! You can't do it alone!"

"But you have-"

"We just need to find a safe place to leave him, and then we can fight this thing!"

Sword nodded, and then stood up straight. "Let's go!"

OoO

Kirby, Tiff, and Tuff had fallen down the castle, and were tossed outside, in the back yard of the castle. Kirby was the first to recover.

"Poyo!" He shouted, and ran to Tiff and Tuff. Tuff stirred, and then sat up, holding his head. "Oww...That—SIS!"

He had spotted his sister unconscious next to him. "Sis, wake up! Wake up!" He moved over to her, and turned her over on her back. She showed no signs of waking up. He looked up towards the castle, and saw the entire thing covered by the horrible plant. Two vines were slithering down the walls, towards them. Tuff shivered in fear.

"D-don't come any closer!" Tuff cried, knowing that it wouldn't make any difference whether he said that or not. He grabbed a nearby stick, and held it in front of him, while stepping out in front of Tiff and Kirby. "Stay behind me, Kirby!"

"Poyo.." Kirby muttered.

Venom fired a thorn at Tuff. Tuff shouted out, and ducked. The thorn flew through where his head had been, and it broke the stick in half. Tuff dropped the stick in shock. He backed away slowly, but tripped on Tiff. Usually, Meta Knight would save them around this time, but in his current state...

Venom lunged forwards, after shrieking awfully. Tuff screamed and closed his eyes.

A loud slicing sound made him open his eyes. He saw Sword and Blade standing in a battle pose, just as the tip of one of the vines fell off. Venom shrieked.

"Sword! Blade!" Tuff shouted in happiness.

"POYO!" Kirby chirped. He knew Sword and Blade would save them.

"GO!" Blade shouted. She dodged a thorn that was aimed at her. "Go Tuff! Kirby! And Take Tiff with you as best as you can!"

"But-" Tuff began.

"GO!"

Tuff, jumped a little, but nodded. "Alright! Let's go, Kirby!"

"Poyo!" Kirby said. He and Tuff dragged Tiff as best as they could across the grass. They had barely made it to the castle part of the yard, when thorn less Vines came up all around them, surrounding the three. (You know, like in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Yeah. Like that...if you've played it XP) Tuff screamed. He had almost walked into the vine.

Tuff bit his bottom lip, and he turned to where Sword and Blade were fighting, hoping one of them would spot them, and save them. However, they seemed too busy fighting the thing.

"Poyo..." Kirby whimpered, scared. He hid behind Tuff's back, until a vine whipped Kirby's back, making him cry out in pain.

"Kirby!" Tuff cried. He went to the pink puffball, and saw a long, red mark across Kirby's back. Small tears formed in the puffballs eyes.

Tuff hugged Kirby, as if to tell him that everything was alright, even though it wasn't. This wasn't something Tuff would do, but he was feeling better as well, just by hugging the puffball.

The vine whipped again, barely missing Tuff. A third vine followed suit. And then a fourth, then a fifth. Kirby and Tuff were barely dodging these attacks, until Tuff noticed a torch burning not too far from them.

"Kirby! Inhale that torch!" The boy shouted. Obeying, Kirby quickly inhaled the torch, and he transformed into fire Kirby. He dodged a vine, and then breathed flames at the vines surrounding them. The plant whined loudly, and began to go underground. The vines that Sword and Blade were fighting sensed this, and the demon beast got angry. It shrieked loudly, and slithered at amazing speeds towards Kirby.

The pink puffball got ready, and he breathed flames at the thorny vines. However, they went through the fire as if it was nothing. It smacked Kirby hard across the face, leaving another red mark on him. Kirby winced.

"Kirby!" Sword and Blade shouted. They ran to his rescue, but were smacked away by the beast. Kirby recovered, and breathed stronger flames at the beast. It shrugged it off like it was nothing, and sent its thorns flying at everyone. Kirby hid behind a rock, his eyes wide. Why didn't fire work?! This was a plant, after all, wasn't it? And why did it only work on the thorn less vines? If only Meta Knight were alright. He would come help save them.

"Meta Knipoyo..." Kirby whimpered.

Suddenly, the group heard familiar babbling sounds, coming not far from them. They all, even the vine, turned to see the baby Meta Knight crawling across the castle grounds.

"SWORD!" Blade shouted in rage. "I told you we shouldn't have left Meta Knight in that place! I told you we shouldn't have left Meta Knight with Whispy at Whispy Woods!" (Yes, they dropped him off with whispy, and they did have time to do that).

"Well, Whispy is a pretty strong tree! I didn't think Meta Knight would leave! Besides, that place is far away from here, so I presumed he would have been safe! Besides, how did he get here so fast by crawling?" Sword shouted back.

Venom wasn't paying attention to them. It was looking at the little blue ball crawling towards it. It then looked at the reddish-pinkish puffball with flames on its head. Obviously, that one was Kirby...but the blue one looked just like Kirby, only a different color.

The plant made a loud, confused sound. What if the blue one was the actual Kirby it was sent out to destroy? Whichever one it was, why not destroy both, just in case?

Venom sent out another thick vine towards the crawling blue ball.

"POYO!" Kirby shouted, and ran towards Meta Knight. It was his turn to take care of Meta Knight.

Sword and Blade ran to help as well. They rushed at the vine heading towards their lord. Tuff was taking care of his sister, by pulling her to a safe place, and checking if she had no serious wounds.

The vine got to smack Meta Knight's arm, making him shriek out and start crying. Kirby gasped, and got angry. No one did that to his teacher! He blew flames out of his mouth, knowing it wouldn't work, but causing a distraction, so that Venom wouldn't hit the blue puffball.

Sword and Blade got their swords ready, to slash the demon. Kirby turned to look at them fight. Their swords seemed to be doing the trick. Their swords! Thats what he needed! He could go, and retrieve Meta Knights sword, and inhale it, so he could fight as well!

The pink ball took a few steps towards the castle, until he remembered that he couldn't leave his teacher all alone here. He ran back to get him.

"Blade! Help me over here!" Sword shouted. The plant was trying to knock him off of it, as he was cutting a piece off of it. Blade dodged a thorn, which splattered purple stuff on her armor. She ran towards Sword.

The demon beast, on the other hand, saw Kirby picking up Meta Knight. The perfect chance to strike them both!

It knocked Sword off of it, and smashed Blade against a tree. Then, it Sped forwards, sharpened its thorns, and it swung with all its might, puncturing Kirby a little with a thorn, and barely missing Meta Knight. Kirby cried out in pain, and his fire ability was lost, as he and the crying blue puffball were sent flying far away.

MY COOKIES BURNED! D: Now I have to make new ones for u guys. *Sniff* The things I do for my reviewers...AHAH jk jk. Well, please review! The third, fifth, and seventh reviewer gets an extra large cookie delivered to him/her! :D