Chapter14: Reunion
*Meanwhile half an hour earlier…*
“.... and every year a grand festival is held to celebrate the Luna’s return and the raising of the sun” Twilight explained
“Interesting,” Meta Knight said “on our world, the sun and moon move freely and are living beings like you or me, although they do have very short tempers, its what Marx abused to make them fight each other”.
They passed a big open area next to a massive fountain where a stage and decorations of many varieties were being set up,
“Twilight can i go help set up for the Festival?” Pinkie asked while still hopping up and down, the eternal smile never leaving her face
“you can help them set up after we speak to the princesses about them,” Twilight said as she pointed to Kirby and his friends, they soon reached a massive castle that overshadowed pretty much the entire city and stopped at the gate, the guards looked behind Twilight and her friends and noticed us
“Halt!” the guards said pointing their spears at them
Meta Knight attempted to draw Galaxia but Sectonia put three of her hands on his hand to stop him from pulling it out “let's let Twilight handle this one” she whispered
“at ease, there with me and my friends,” Twilight said
they headed inside and began to walk down toward the throne room, ponies were rushing around not even stopping to look at the castle's new guests but Kirby had different plans when he saw a cart of food coming with a massive cake on the top and multiple deserts on the bottom. Kirby’s eyes lit up with aww and he even drooled a bit, he began to inhale as the cart was passing them by and sucked up all the food on the bottom row while keeping the cake intact to avoid suspicion, they soon came to a long hallway with stained glass dictating picture of what Meta Knight assumed to be the ponies past, some art depicted Twilight and her friends shooting rainbows at multiple beings one that looked like an alicorn version of his mirror-world counterpart another looked like some kind of amalgamation of multiple things from a goat to dragon, chicken, ect, another was of Twilight wearing a crown with a purple star on it, the same symbol as her cutie mark, another had a denomic looking unicorn at the top he was being help back by the light from a crystal heart carried by a purple and green dargon that looked like Spike, and the last one Meta Knight looked at was one of dark insect-like creatures being blasted away by two ponies in a heart formation the pink one was an alicorn and had a crystal heart for a cutie mark, the silver one was a unicorn he had a sheild for a cutie mark. They finally made it to the throne room there were two thrones up on top a red carpet and not much else besides the very high windows, although not too much of a far cry from Dedede’s throne room,
“greeting’s princess it good to see you again and as you asked here are Equestria's unexpected guests” Twilight and her friends moved out of the way.
Celestia and luna looked to be far taller alicorns, Celestia had rainbow-like hair and tail but with not all the colors like rainbow dash and white fur she also had a golden regalia and horseshoes as well as a golden crown with a purple gem in the top. Luna, on the other hand, was far darker with her hair being made up of stars, she had a black and purple crown and horseshoes as well but instead of the golden regalia her sister had she had a cotton looking necklace with a moon symbol on the front, they both had the cutie marks of the sun and moon respectively, Meta Knight walked up and bowed.
“Greetings,” Celestia said with a smile “Twilight has told me much of you, were not versed in different ways beyond the stars but you may correct us if you wish”
“Since we haven't been told yet how did you all even end up here in the first place?” Luna asked.
“We were destroying a member of a species of dark creatures of negative energy, we tried to stop the now completely insane Hyness and the three generals from bringing him back but in the end, we were too late” Zan shot Meta Knight a scowl as he gave his speech “we took the power of the heart spears that were used by the once great four heroes to originally seal it away, we ended up facing him in battle and although I wasn’t there personally there to witness Kirby take most of him down I was there for the ending, after that we flew off and then tried to fly home to Popstar but before we could reach it we were pulled through a portal and now we're here”.
“We find this interesting and who are these so-called heros who sealed the darkness with the spears?” luna asked.
“The legend does not say although I have encountered one before when at the end of my personal journey to become the strongest warrior in the galaxy and judging from what happened to him I can only assume the other three met a similar fate” Meta Knight said
he heard footsteps coming from the hallway, and Dedede, Susie, Adeline, Ribbon, and Bandana Dee walked through the door!
“Poyo!” Kirby said as rushed over to Dedede for a hug with open nubiles
“Hey!” Dedede said while pushing Kirby away, Kirby struggling against Dedede’s hand “just because we're friends now and our grudge is settled doesn't mean you get a free hug!”
“well I'm giving him a hug” said Ribbon as she fluttered down and hugged the puffball
“Uhh seriously,” Zan said as she rolled her eyes
“don’t question it Zan this is normal on Popstar and Dedede and Kirby’s rivalry lasted for almost two years, that is until he challenged Kirby to fight his way to castle Dedede again and I can only assume Kirby did so and Dedede lost again” Meta knight explained
Celestia then fluttered off the throne and began to trot towards the reunited group of friends,
“can I go decorate for the festival now?” Pinkie asked Twilight the smile she carried never wavering from her face
“Alright then Pinkie go do what you do best” Twilight said
Pinkie hopped her way out the door, leaving everyone else behind.
“Hello, Kirby,” Celestia said with a smile as she lowered her head to get to Kirby’s eye level
“Poyo?” Kirby said as he tilted his head to side confused,
“Can you show me this special ability you have?” she asked
Kirby nodded and inhaled Dedede’s hammer much to Dedede’s dismay, a flash of light then occurred and Kirby appeared with a new form and one of his most powerful at that, he had a blue and white headband and carried a smaller version of Dedede’s hammer
“Hammer!” Kirby squeaked
“If I may explain?” Meta Knight asked,
“Sure,” Celestia said
“Kirby possesses the ability to copy anything he can inhale but most of it is centered around categories unless the ability itself is very unique, for example, a wind chime can give him bell, if he inhales magic he gets beam, if he inhales snow he gets ice, ect, ect” Meta Knight explained,
“interesting” Celestia said as she took mental notes
Kirby spit the hammer back out with the ability disappearing, he gave Dedede his hammer back with Dedede giving Kirby an irritated look,
“meta knight?” Dedede asked
“When the festival is all said and done I have something to tell everyone”,
“how many secrets you have Dedede I will never know,” Meta Knight said as he shook his head.
Around one and a half hours later they began to make their way out to the stage in the courtyard, the raising of the sun would start soon, “Poyo” Kirby said with a big amount of fatigue in his eyes he never normally stayed up this late, Meta Knight pulled up his mask enough to yawn the place was littered with decorations of all shapes and sizes, balloons, streamers, confetti, pretty much anyone would consider applicable for a party, once they reached the chairs in front of the stage Kirby fell asleep on his chair gaining the sleep ability in the process what Kirby didn’t know was that he wasn’t going to be awake for very long the next time he woke up and he wasn’t going to holding on to the sleep ability either.