by Ki woong Kim

Stay safe out there! Be on the lookout for any tricks and treats!

“In this mini novel, new faces begin to pop up in Dream Land! Kirby helps out a new friend while Meta Knight investigates the strange appearance of another knight! What could this mean for Pop Star’s Dream Team?”

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

This is the masterpost for my first Kirby Light Novel fan project! This one helps introduce the two of my OCs into the world of Kirby! I’ll be updating it over time. Happy Reading!

It had now been a month since Rifty had arrived in Dream Land, and he had already become quite acquainted with all the people who lived there. Everyday, Kirby and Rifty would love to take walks throughout the Waddle Dee Village together, and people would always give them the best of greetings. However, the people of Dream Land were quite fascinated by Rifty, everyone had wanted to learn just a little more about him. Rifty was very overwhelmed by the constant flow of questions they received from Waddle Dees, Waddle Doos, Noddies, and others alike, but Kirby would always be there to help Rifty out when he needed it.

On one sparkly night, it was foretold that a meteor shower was gonna happen near Pop Star, and that it could be seen from Dream Land! All of the lights in town were dimmed as the dreamlanders gathered together on the rooftops and observatories of the village, while Kirby and his friends got together on one of Castle Dedede’s towers, King Dedede even set up a telescope for Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee, and Rifty to get a better look (with Meta Knight’s help, of course).

“Look at all those stars, Rifty!” Kirby proudly exclaimed. “Aren’t they just beautiful?”

“Wow, shiny…” Rifty was amazed, the stars had never been this clear and visible to him before.

“There’s even a few constellations visible too! Look!” Bandana Waddle Dee proclaimed, pointing out several of the star formations. “There’s the belt of Orion, the Gemini twins, and- oh! I think I can see Taurus from here!”

You couldn’t tell, but Meta Knight smiled from underneath his mask. “Rifty, have you ever heard of zodiac signs before?” he asked, to which Rifty shook their head in response. “Those are special constellations that align with where our planet is correlating with the sun. There are twelve of them, matching with certain times of the year. They say such signs can dictate what someone’s personality is depending on when they were born.” Meta Knight began to explain the hidden meanings behind the stars in the sky, to which Rifty was very fascinated. There was so much about the world he wanted to learn about, so much he had wanted to see. 

However, Meta Knight’s lesson would abruptly end thanks to Dedede noticing something.

“I think it’s starting!” he shouted, as tiny stars began to streak the dark skies of Dream Land. The rest of the group quickly gathered around the telescope, taking turns to see the meteor shower up close. It started off small at first, but more and more stars slowly became more visible. Kirby, Rifty, and Bandana Waddle were practically fighting over who got to use the telescope, though the two eventually decided that Rifty would be the one to use it first.

“They look so pretty!” Rifty happily exclaimed. However, they wouldn’t have much time to look at the stars before something strange happened.

All of a sudden, in a burst of light, millions of tiny little stars began shooting across Dream Land from a singular spot in the sky, the slight shockwave it caused knocking Rifty over.

Kirby panicked a little. “Oh no! Are you okay, Rifty?”

“I’m fine! Just got a little startled!”

Meta Knight looked up into the sky with confusion. “That…isn‘t normal.” 

“You think? I’m pretty sure the sky doesn’t just burst into stars like that!” Dedede shouted.

The knight began to ponder the current situation. “It doesn’t seem to be causing much harm, however. It’s not like any of the stars are crashing into the town. But what possibly could have caused this?”

“Maybe the stars were just behind schedule?”

“Stars can’t be behind schedule! They’re always right on time!”

Both Bandana Waddle Dee and Kirby quickly started debating stars with each other, forgetting all about the meteor shower.

“Nay, this is certainly no normal meteor shower, this is something else, but I can’t quite tell what.”

“Well, whatever it is, it’s still pretty, right?” Kirby asked, but Meta Knight did not respond.

A couple of days after the mysterious meteor shower, Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee offered to take Rifty to the downtown market to go shopping. There were many things being sold there from many different small shops. Kirby was happily running towards the food court, while Rifty and Bandana Dee followed after him. Their chase would abruptly stop, however, when something caught the attention of almost everyone in town that day! 

“Greetings, people of Dream Land!”

A voice could be heard coming from one of the roofs of the shops. It was another knight like Meta Knight! He managed to grab the attention of everyone very quickly.

“Tis I! Sir Quantum Knight! Distant Traveler on a quest for knowledge! I have come from a far off land to make my mark here after hearing word of your beloved planet, for I wish to learn more about it and its culture, as well as defending it from the clutches of evil!”

Everyone was very confused by the knight’s last remark. There hadn’t been any danger in Dream Land for quite some time now. Even Kirby was confused by this, being the danger magnet he was. They all looked at the knight with puzzled expressions.

“…wait, what dost thou mean that there is no evil that lurketh here?”

The villagers affirmed the knight’s query by shaking their heads.

“Uhh, very well then! You shall resume your duties then, as I shall continue to make my observations!”

The knight, rather embarrassed, disappeared as quickly as he arrived. Both Kirby and Bandana Dee were very puzzled by this. They have never heard of a knight such as this before!

“Who was that?”

“I’m not sure, I’ve never heard of a Quantum Knight before.”

“Didn’t they kind of remind you of someone?”

“Who?”

“They kind of looked like Galacta Knight. You know them, right? That knight Meta Knight said he met at some point?”

“Oh yeah! He was very strong, but not as strong as Sir Meta Knight!”

While Kirby and Bandana were discussing the new knight, Rifty was left in their own confusion. The knight had stood out to them, for they looked quite similar to Rifty themselves.

“Rifty, what did you think about the knight?”

“Me? Well, I don’t know who he is, but he looked kind of familiar.”

“Really? Did he remind you of anyone?”

“Not really, but I did think his armor was pretty cool! It had pretty butterflies!”

Bandana Dee then chimed in. “What did you think he was doing here?”

“Well, he did say it himself, he is just here to observe.”

“It sounds pretty suspicious, doesn’t it?”

“Well, not really,” Kirby added. “I mean, exploring planets can be a pretty fun thing to do!”

Even after their conversation, their ideas of the knight still circled around in their heads.

Word of the knight began to rapidly spread across all of Pop Star, even King Dedede and Meta Knight began to become curious about the matter.

“Didja hear about that new knight in town?” Dedede asked while looking out a window from the castle.

Meta Knight turned to look at him from his seat while he was reading a newspaper article about this mysterious new knight. “How could I not? Word of him has spread across the land like a great fire, it is quite bizarre, I must say.”

“What do you think his deal is? The only other knight around here is you, do we really need another one?”

“I know not of his intentions, but I must get to the bottom of this. Something tells me there is more to this ‘Quantum Knight’ than he is willing to admit.”

Before the two could continue, Sword Knight, one of Meta Knight’s loyal knights, quickly burst through the castle doors. “Sir! You must come and see this!”

“What is the matter, Sword Knight?” Meta Knight said as he got out of his seat.

”It’s that new knight! He’s been spotted near the Halberd! Come!”

Sword Knight quickly rushed Meta Knight over to the Halberd’s Hangar in the castle, but there was no knight to be seen!

“S-Sir! I swear I saw him here!”

“There’s no need to apologize, Sword, for I know you are telling the truth. It looks like the knight must have fled once he realized he had been seen.”

While he was talking, Meta Knight had noticed a glint of something from the corner of his eye. He quickly turned around to see what it was, only to find a green butterfly fluttering around some flowers adorned around one of the castle windows.

‘Hmph, I must be seeing things…’ he thought to himself.

Over the course of a couple of weeks, Meta Knight would continually be alerted to sightings of the Quantum Knight, only to arrive with no one present at the scene. No one except for that green butterfly he had seen before. Meta Knight quickly informed his men of the situation as soon as he came to this conclusion.

“This green butterfly must be tied to this knight in some form. If you see it, be sure to keep an eye on it, for it may lead us to finding them.”

“Understood, sir!”

While Meta Knight made his investigation across Dream Land, Quantum Knight continued to travel across the planet, documenting its many interesting locations. However, this knight was not on just a quest to document the planet, he had arrived for a different purpose: Rifty. The knight would always appear wherever Rifty had gone, many of his traces being in areas Rifty had visited, almost going entirely undetected by anyone on Pop Star. Anyone except Rifty themselves! He started catching on to them once Meta Knight had told them about the butterfly sightings, always looking around for them, as if they were gonna catch it! It would take quite some time, however, for the two to finally meet each other in person.

“Just who is that knight? And why does he seem so familiar?” Rifty says to themselves.