Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 23: Welcome to the Circus

While she had nowhere to go, Dixie was walking around that orange building, trying to find some alternative entrance to it, and making sure that no one saw her.

Later, she climbed up to some high windows to search above, until she heard a distant voice that sounded just like Diddy's.

"Hey, but why are you leaving me locked up here?... Wait! Don't leave!" Diddy could be heard exclaiming in despair.

Dixie peeked out of a high window and, indeed, Diddy was there. What she could see inside was a huge room with a bunch of fairly tidy rolling cages, where Diddy was locked in one of them. He was struggling with the cage, trying to open it without success. Dixie was beginning to stop seeing the pleasant atmosphere she witnessed when she arrived at the zoo. She opened the small window and entered the room through it, and immediately went to where Diddy was.

"Diddy!" she called him as she headed towards him.

"Dixie? Are you a secret agent or what?" Diddy joked, surprised to see how Dixie could find him wherever he was taken. "Hey, I don't understand, those men told me they had a surprise for me, but I didn't know I should stay locked up here," he complained.

"Wait, I'll get you out of here," Dixie said, trying to open Diddy's cage, but when she realized, it was really locked and a key would be needed to open it. "Oh, no... This doesn't open."

"Oh, or don't worry about it now," Diddy said, showing fear behind bars. "First explain to me well how it's that those four fools had guns again!"

"Oh, yes, those four psychopaths were carrying guns again!" Dixie explained in the same way. "And the last time when I was going to go with you to the waterfalls, shortly before you arrived, Jemky appeared and threatened me, told me to tell you all that and to give him your pyramid with the emerald, and not to tell anything or they would attack everyone," Dixie summed up desperately before calming down. "That's what happened!"

Diddy was only completely shocked by what she said and now had no doubt if he had heard it right.

"Oh, no!" Diddy started to worry a lot more. He thought that those four evil children wouldn't bother like that anymore, but after hearing that from Dixie, he was afraid of them again as he did quite some time ago. "Oh, no..."

"And yes, Diddy... I took your pyramid; Jemky and those fools threatened me. Really, I'm sorry," Dixie added with a lowered gaze, which surprised Diddy.

"W-what?... Oh, I should have guessed," Diddy said, slapping his face lightly. "Oh... we'll fix it. We have to return to DK Island! But are the other kongs all okay?" he asked her desperately.

"Yes... As far as I knew, yes. By the way, I thought that those fools would have done something to you and that is why you had disappeared," she added in a tone of utmost concern.

"No, I haven't seen them. The night I left, I had gone out because-" upon remembering it, Diddy was a little embarrassed to admit to Dixie that he felt bad for her.

"Because... you were very affected by what I told you, and besides you were failed in school, right?" Dixie continued as if reading his expression.

Diddy just looked away before continuing to tell how he got there.

"Well... Yes, that. And as I told you before, there was a torrential wind and I was swept out to sea, and suddenly three human men appeared, I felt that something was shot at me and suddenly I woke up here in a corner with other apes, although I didn't see that it was such a bad place, at least at first. Then, those gentlemen knew about my acrobatics and told me that I would serve to give shows and that in a few days they would return me to DK Island. But... I don't understand why I should also be behind bars," Diddy explained, confused and shaking the cage door. "Now tell me how you managed to find me."