Heroes of Dreamland, Book 7: Kirby and the Battle for Dreamland (OLD)

Jailhouse Magolor

Alternate title: (I couldn't decide which was better lol) "Toadstools and Plumbers and Elves, Oh My!"

Magolor's POV:

"Lemme out of here! I swear we're innocent! We didn't do it! It wasn't us, honest! ...Wait, what'd we do, anyway?"

The two Toads standing guard outside of the cell me, Bandana Dee, and Shadow Kirby are currently in give each other a disbelieving look and shake their heads at my repeated outbursts, but refuse to answer me at all.

Grabbing hold of the bars and shaking them, which produces a nice rattling-scraping sound, I bawl, now trying the 'feel pity for my poor soul' route, "What'd we ever do to deserve this? Let us ou-ou-out, pleee-ee-ee-ee-eeeease!"

One of the Toads groans and finally turns to face me, making my ears perk up, but then he starts talking and basically just ticks me off. "Look, you were trespassing on Mushroom Kingdom lands in an unidentified vessel carrying massive loads of advanced tech, and were asking every sentient being you came across, including known criminals like Goombas and the Hammer Bros., where Princess Peach was. Ya gotta admit, that's pretty sketchy. But maybe if you shaddup, we'll get things figured out and let you weirdos go on your way someday!"

With a heavy sigh, I give him a puppy-dog-eyed look and go to sit down on one of the bunks bolted to the wall, next to a shivering Shadow Kirby and a extremely-irritated looking Bandana Dee.

Looking straight ahead at the wall across from us, Bandana deadpans, "I told you, Captain, we shoulda just asked a Toad for directions, not just fly in loop-de-loop map-lines all over the point trying to find Peach Castle. And look where we are now. The instant they find out what sort of 'situation' we're in, we'll get shipped off to the Nintendo City slammer, and probably for quite some time too. Just great, brilliant, ingenious, all that."

With a whimper, Shadow covers his eyes with his paws. "I wanna go home. I don't wanna go to a slamming monster in Nintendo City."

Rolling his eyes, Bandana scoots Shadow closer to him and reassures him, "Hey, you're not in trouble, except for this mess. You'd be free to go."

"'I told you so,'" I kinda-repeat after Bandana in an intentionally-annoying voice and then give another heavy sigh. "This was supposed to be easy. We just find Peach Castle, talk things over with her and the Pasta van Nom-Nom Brothers, get back on the ship, go pick up the other peeps, and go blow up a badguy. But no, we gotta end up in jail with my ship impounded, and why?"

In irritation, Bandana mutters with a glare at me, "Because you're too stubborn to ask for directions, Captain."

"Correction: I'm too manly to ask for directions- ahem, not that it matters, because that's so totally not not not why we're here. We're here because at some point in Ancient history, some genius thought that it would be a good idea to make a national landmark like Peach Castle impossible to find!"

Sighing, Bandana mutters, "Whatever you say, Mags. Although I still say it would've been plenty easy enough to find had we asked anyone for directions to the castle, rather than just asking anyone we could find where the Princess was at."

"I'm scared," Shadow squeaks for the umpteenth time and curls in on himself, snuggled up next to Bandana Dee. "Why couldn't I have gone with S'kura or Kirby or Meta Knight? I bet they're not doing anything scary right now..."

Laughing halfheartedly, our resident pessimistic Waddle Dee assures him, "They're probably not having too much more luck than we are, whatever they're up to."

For awhile, I sulk and remain silent, but finally I pull a harmonica out of my cloak and start to play some off-key jailhouse blues on it right up until one of the Toads comes in and takes from me with a groan of annoyance and disgust.