May the Halberd Fly Forever!

With as much being focused, the staff was certainly draining them almost dry of magic. Darmirr looked about to pass out, and clearly the others were too!

“S-stars dammit…!”

He had to hold out, just a little longer….

….

Another blast shot off as the Necro Staff broke into nothing more than a fine dust. And on contact, the blast hot Necrodeus, causing a brief flash right as the skull leader was forced out of the body the moment Daroach tried to take it back! Of course, he almost instantly passed out.

“…” Necrodeus was holding a glare like poison at everyone. But the staff as broken.

He couldn’t do anything about this.

Just a bit more…

There!

The Kirbies managed to stay awake even when Dark Meta Knight ended up falling over and passing out. The skull leader was out though, so they won! Three of the puffs stood in front of their friends, with the pink one hurrying over to Daroach.

{KIRBY} —- “Dar! Wake up!”

Flamberge cast a happy glance at the unconscious mouse, then returned Necrodeus’ enraged glare.

Despite being of the verge of falling unconscious herself, the mage summoned her sword. It even flickered with what little starlight she could use in her current state. Just in case Necrodeus tried anything else.

[VS DMK roll; 2]

The blade hit dead on, actually cutting pretty deep, though not enough to be near fatal, luckily. Still, Necrodeus, despite refusing to scream out in pain, looked… Bad. He couldn’t take much more.

Not really the strongest one here

[VS Kirbies rolls;  14, 12, 20, 1]

[VS Flam rolls; 12, 7, 7, 11 ]

With so much going on at once, the Kirbies grabbing again for the staff, and the starlight-covered blades slicing up one hand….

His grip slipped, though he managed to regrab the end of it. Seeing a chance, Darmirr went to grab at the handle too!

… And a burst of electricity was shot at him as at response! The mechanical mouse managed to mostly avoid it, but part if the blast still hit one arm, making him totally lock up for a few seconds.

“G-GET THE HANDLE YOU TWO!” His voice sounded glitched out as he yelled to the two sword users.

–> @stxrlightdreams

DMK swooped in, grabbing onto the handle of the staff. He passed his sword to the main Kirby, just in case it needed to be used.

{DMK} —- “Got it!”

The Kirbies decided it would be best to let go now since they had the handle of the staff now. They jumped off, but still stayed close so they could help if needed.

So now they were the cheer squad and were busy cheering on the three of them. They had him. Surely they had him now.

Flamberge dashed to DMK’s side and joined in holding the staff. This was probably going to seem kinda silly in hindsight, she thought. 

“I’ve got it!”

Now all they had to was used the staff and free Daroach!

“This may be draining, just a warning.”

The staff reacted to that energy surge, it’s own energy quickly going through all three of them, Darmirr wasn’t wrong, it was… VERY draining.

Seeing what was being done, Necrodeus tried to react with an electric blast, getting interrupted once more by three stars to the back of the head, before getting shot backwards from a charged blast of the Necro Staff!

A purplish glow enveloped the skull leader in the stolen body, and a similar one to Daroach’s spirit.

… The entire staff seemed covered in cracks after that. Not good…

{DMK} —- “Damn it.”

Kirby hurried over to the three of them, and grabbed onto Dark Meta’s hand. He held on, and the knight looked towards the child.

{DMK} —- “Kirby what do you think you’re doing-”

The star warrior seemed to be giving the mirror some of his strength so he could add it to the necrostaff for him!

{KIRBY} —- “Wanna… Help!”

The other three Kirbies hurried over, and grabbed onto the pink one to try to help.

She was actually relieved to see the rainbow of puffballs join and lend their energy. As dangerous as this was, they needed all the help they could get. 

Hopefully this won’t kill all of us... 

[VS DMK roll; 2]

The blade hit dead on, actually cutting pretty deep, though not enough to be near fatal, luckily. Still, Necrodeus, despite refusing to scream out in pain, looked… Bad. He couldn’t take much more.

Not really the strongest one here

[VS Kirbies rolls;  14, 12, 20, 1]

[VS Flam rolls; 12, 7, 7, 11 ]

With so much going on at once, the Kirbies grabbing again for the staff, and the starlight-covered blades slicing up one hand….

His grip slipped, though he managed to regrab the end of it. Seeing a chance, Darmirr went to grab at the handle too!

… And a burst of electricity was shot at him as at response! The mechanical mouse managed to mostly avoid it, but part if the blast still hit one arm, making him totally lock up for a few seconds.

“G-GET THE HANDLE YOU TWO!” His voice sounded glitched out as he yelled to the two sword users.

–> @stxrlightdreams

DMK swooped in, grabbing onto the handle of the staff. He passed his sword to the main Kirby, just in case it needed to be used.

{DMK} —- “Got it!”

The Kirbies decided it would be best to let go now since they had the handle of the staff now. They jumped off, but still stayed close so they could help if needed.

So now they were the cheer squad and were busy cheering on the three of them. They had him. Surely they had him now.

Flamberge dashed to DMK’s side and joined in holding the staff. This was probably going to seem kinda silly in hindsight, she thought. 

“I’ve got it!”

Now all they had to was used the staff and free Daroach!

Darmirr gave his own little grin, and the air around Necrodeus shifted, some of it forming into spikes and flying at him! And of course, seeing what everyone else was doing, Daroach threw in the Triple Star too!

[Rolls;  16, 6, 11,   17, 16, 15, 4]

Of all the attacks, only one of the mouse duo’s attacks missed, a spike of air, the rest hitting to hinder, not not to kill. Not only that, but two of DMK’s three attacks hit, and three of four of the flaming blades.

That much starlight… hurt. It hurt a lot. Necrodeus almost fell on the spot, but yet, he refused to go down so soon.

At least he had one advantage here. With a wave of the staff, it gained a light blue glow, and a swing shot off multiple lasers of ice, infused with Necro Energy! Darmirr just barely managed to avoid a hit.

[Roll @ DMK; 4, Roll @ Kirbies; 6, Roll @ Flam; 13]

–> @stxrlightdreams

{ DMK: 14, Kirbies: 19 }

Dark moved quickly, avoiding the ice laser. The Kirbies easily avoided it too, and the knight prepared another spell. This time it was a single mirror, once more with a starlight blade coming out of it. It went for Necrodeus again.

{ Roll: 19 }

The blade was glowing brightly from all of the starlight that was being used from it.

Really, he didn’t know how much longer he could use the starlight from it.

The four Kirbies made their move for the Necrostaff again!

{ Kirby: 2, Yellow: 18, Blue: 5, Green: 14 }

Unlike the others, Flamberge was not lucky enough to dodge the laser. The ice froze her to the ground, but she melted herself out of it before she became to vulnerable.

They’re going for the staff again, might as well try to help.

Once more, she sent four starlight charged blades flying towards Necrodeus, but they focused on slicing at the hand that held the staff,

(Rolls: 14, 17, 3, 17)

Necrodeus was not really prepared for anything that just happen, and, combines with still not being used to this stolen body, this would prove… troublesome.

[Roll; 8]

He took advantage of the teleporting powers to narrowly avoid being tackled, and held th staff up… failing to notice the swords!

[Rolls;  4, 13, 9, 10]

While the staff was used to deflect one, the rest of the three cut across the face, yet…

He didn’t react to the pain. The most he did was back up from the surprise, not the pain. Daroach flinched from the sidlines, that was gonna hurt if he came back…

It seemed, with this body being counted still as “dead”, he couldn’t feel normal pain from it. Yet Starlight has seemed to work earlier…

Darmirr took notice of this quickly.

“Uh… Starlight, use starlight!”

… He seemed to be preparing something as he spoke.

–> @stxrlightdreams

Dark Meta Knight looked towards Darmirr when he started yelling. A nod came from him and he raised his sword. Several mirrors appeared, created from the starlight within the sword. Then four blades shot out from them, made up of blinding starlight magic.

{Rolls: 1, 7, 12, 12}

One of the swords however, didn’t like the fact that it was being made out of starlight. It was something he had never done before, so it was bound to go wrong. The blade crumbled, and there was a surge of magic that caused some damage to the knight.

{DMK} —- “Urgh-”

The four kirbies stayed out of the way to avoid the swords though.

“Well, hopefully this won’t hurt too much.”

Four more flamberges appeared, this time glowing with a bright yellow flame instead of the usual orange. They rushed at Necrodeus, now aiming to slice at the body’s torso instead of his head.

Well, it was a standoff now, as Darmirr didn’t dare move either. What could they do? One wrong move…

…Daroach seemed focused on something as the skull leader spoke.

“Now then. Lea– GHCH?!”

Three stars broke through the skullies, hitting Necrodeus right in the back of the head, long enough for Daroach to move out of harms way!

Darmirr took this as a chance.

“NOW NOW!”

–> @stxrlightdreams

The Kirbies didn’t move until they heard Darmirr’s yelling. All four of them tackled Necrodeus again, and tried to get the staff out of his hands at the same time.

{KIRBY} —- “Let… Go!”

The pink one was trying to get the staff right now, while the other three were trying to be a distraction.

{ Roll: 6 }

Dark Meta Knight moved towards Necrodeus, so he would be close enough to grab the staff once Kirby throws it to them. Assuming that he succeeded with grabbing it of course.

Her sword split into four and flew at Necrodeus, but they only served to fly by the death god’s face, giving a burning cut at worst.

(Rolls: 15, 2, 10, 18)

As she launched her attacks, she made sure to cast a few wary glances at Daroach’s ghost to make sure he wouldn’t get hurt.

Darmirr looked panicked,  and tried to go after the others, worry lacing his voice.

“Guys wait!!”

Daroach watched from his little corner, seeming more confused than anything, and a bit worried himself.

And then there was Necrodeus. Getting jumped by four Kirbies was quite the shock, but he had away top get around this.

Teleporting.

Looks like he had the powers that came with this body… Not to mention, advantage of the spirit.

Skullies surrounded Daroach, and the staff was pointed too, making the ghost mouse back off some.

“Make a move. I dare it.”

–> @stxrlightdreams

The four Kirbies dropped to the ground, yelps leaving them as they did so. The puffs pushed themselves back up onto the feet.

{KIRBY} —- “Dar!!”

Kirby had been about to move, but Yellow grabbed onto him to stop him. This wasn’t what he was expecting.

Dark Meta Knight had his sword ready, but wasn’t moving otherwise. He was busy trying to think up a plan. Trying to figure out some way around this. How do they fix this mess?

{BLUE} —- “What do we do???”

“Oh you bone-faced bastard...”

Her grip on her sword tightened, but she kept herself still. But even in her fury, she didn’t dare make the first attack. All she could do at the moment was wait and see what the death god would do while someone thought of a plan.

Darmirr seemed… surprised at Kirby’s action. Being how they didn’t really interact often and all…

“…Right. This’ll be just fine.”

It would be a bit of wandering later, noting the odd lack of skullies around, before they came across just what they were looking for.

Necrodeus, in the… less than well looking body of the leader mouse. He seemed not to notice them… But a familiar spirit did, looking over in surprise.

–> @stxrlightdreams

Kirby grinned upon seeing that Necrodeus didn’t notice him. The puff let go of Darmirr’s hand, and ran towards the skulls’ leader.

Once close enough, Kirby pounced, trying to grab onto the possessed mouse. The other kirbies followed, all of them tackling Necrodeus. They weren’t about to waste time.

{KIRBY} —- “Get him!!”

“What the hell are you doing!?”

Flam rushed after the four Kirbies in a panic. Yes this was part of the plan, but it wasn’t what they were starting with for Void’s sake!

“Ready ready!”

Darmirr put out an act of confidence, though his fur, what he had of it, was standing on end.

After all, this was risky.

“Well, let’s go. I can keep an eye on dangers.”

The mouse’s mechanical eye shifted modes, letting him see energy signatures. One in particular was… stronger than the rest. So he followed that, making sure the others followed with brief glances.

–> @stxrlightdreams

Dark Meta Knight, Kirby, Yellow, Green, and Blue all seemed ready to fight. They made sure to follow Darmirr, trusting that he would be able to lead them to Necrodeus.

{DMK} —- “Understood.”

Kirby hurried after him, and grabbed onto one of Darmirr’s hands to try to act as somewhat of a comfort.

{KIRBY} —- “It’ll be okay.”

Flamberge left the Lor last. She stared at the ground in thought as she walked, occasionally looking up to make sure the she was still following.

Seeing Kirby comfort Darmirr brought a bit of ease to the mage’s mind.

Maybe this won’t be so bad. All we have to do is hold Necrodeus down while avoiding harm to Daroach, right?

The mirror mouse seemed a bit… disappointing that DMK hadn’t noticed, but said nothing of it. They had more important stuff to do.

“…Once again” He spoke to everyone. “Don’t do too much damage. Injuries should be fine, but nothing that would be fatal or this will be…. Much harder. Don’t mutilate it.”

This couldn’t go too bad, right? Necrodeus would be outnumbered! No way he’d have a chance!

–> @stxrlightdreams

They had entered Another Dimension without much issue, and a few more buttons were pressed as another portal was opened. One that would lead into the heart of Necro Nebula.

{MAGOLOR} —- “Alright. Here we are.”

He pressed a few more buttons, and the door of the Lor opened.

{MAGOLOR} —- “Get going before the skull bastards get into the ship.”

“Right...”

She looked out at the dark purple space outside of the door then at the others that would be joining her.

“Are you guys ready?”

She was rather nervous, but now wasn’t the time to be hesitant.

The mechanical mouse followed after, giving a wave to his spirit buddy before going onto the ship. Not much Mirro could do in this, so no point in him going.

Darmirr specifically chose to stay near DMK, casting the knight even a brief glance.

…Oh yeah. That was a thing still for him.

–> @stxrlightdreams

Dark Meta left the ship just to help Magolor with the Kirbies that were slowing him down. Once everyone was in the ship, the door was closed and the Halcandran began to start the ship.

DMK didn’t seem to notice Darmirr getting close to him at the moment, or if he did he just didn’t mention it.

Magolor turned the Lor towards Necrodeus’ lair, and a few more buttons were pressed before the portal to another dimension opened.

{MAGOLOR} —- “Going through another dimension as a shortcut so we don’t run into some of his minions and end up taking damage.”

Flam kept to herself while Magolor prepared to take of. She gave a sympathetic look at Darmirr.

Maybe I should help him when this bullshit is over.

“I mean, it’s not hard to miss.”

Darmirr pointed up, the location they needed to go handing just outside Popstar’s air. Not too hard to miss indeed.

“Magolor, take us the way there, I’ll call you back up when we’re ready to leave assuming you don’t stick around otherwise.”

–> @stxrlightdreams

Magolor nodded, and headed towards the ships with Kirby in tow. All four of the puffs were still clinging to him.

{MAGOLOR} —- “Well, we’ll use the Lor to get there then. Come on.”

Dark moved past them, and got onto the ship before Magolor could. But Magolor was being slowed by the Kirbies, so he had a reason.

“I guess Mags is gonna provide the Kirby transportation himself, huh?”

She says that as if she hasn’t been in a similar situation.

“…That might work, but how would we restrain him without a fight? No doubt he’ll attack us. Might just be best to get through a little scuffle so someone can physically hold him down.”

Darmirr gave a shrug.

“We can plan on the way, but we should have a good chance with how many of us there are.”

–> @stxrlightdreams

Kirby waved, a smile on his face. He had an idea!

{KIRBY} —- “My other selves and I can distract him! And try to hold him down!! We did that once when I was split into ten weaker versions of myself, so why won’t I be able to do the same thing with four versions of myself at full power?”

Kirby saw no reason for that to not work.

“Alright, sounds good. Kirby Hold him down and one of us uses the staff to revive Dar.”

Something in the back of Flam’s head told her that this plan seemed a little too simple, but she paid no mind to it.

Darmirr paused, looking at Flamberge. Maybe he shouldn’t have been so blunt.

Well, time to answer questions, starting with Magolor.

“Well, part of it was, Captain egg-face, you can give us transportation to the uh… I think the place is called “Necro Nebula” or something? And Kirby’s Kirby. He’s useful. As for the rest of you, that’s where the plan comes up.”

One hand was up, claws to his face, thinking how to word this.

“…Well, Necro guy has the staff, but three of us can use it. Maybe if we do that, we can force ‘Roach back into his own body to revive him.”

–> @stxrlightdreams

At the nickname Magolor just seemed a bit irritated and annoyed, and Kirby pat the Halcandran’s face. Blue frowned a bit before looking towards Darmirr.

{BLUE} —- “Don’t make fun of Magolor. That’s mean!”

Dark didn’t seem bothered like the Kirbies. He really just didn’t care about any of this that was going on.

{DMK} —- “Sounds like a plan. However, how do we retrieve the staff from Necrodeus himself?”

The Kirbies were now swarming Magolor.

After her brain finally stopped playing loud static, Flamberge chimed in with her own input.

The mirror mouse looked between the group, once all had arrived. The Kirbies were a nice bonus, since that would help.

“Oh good, you guys got here. I’ll keep this simple, we gotta go on a rescue mission. Ya know how ‘Roach is like, a ghost and all? Well, as told to me by my buddy here–” 

Mirror Storo waved to the group. Though, being a spirit and all, he wasn’t expecting to be seen by everyone. 

Darmirr continued. “Apparently Roach decided to run off and try to get his body back from Necro… guy, and hasn’t… returned.”

—> @stxrlightdreams

{KIRBY} —- “Dar is in trouble???”

The puff frowned, and worry appeared on all of their faces. The four of them didn’t like the sound of that.

{MAGOLOR} —- “Yeah. I know he’s a ghost. But why did you call specifically us? I understand Kirby and Flamberge but why me and Dark Meta?”

Magolor seemed to cross his arms, despite his lack of arms. Dark, on the other hand, decided to just get to the point.

{DMK} —- “What’s the plan?”

Daroach? Ghost?

Necro guy??

Hasn’t returned????