Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 29: An Unknown Place

"Would we wake them up?"

"No, no, leave them alone- Wait! They are waking up."

Diddy and Dixie began to open their eyes because of the bright midday light reflected through the holes in their sleeping shelters, and also the murmurs of several voices that could be heard nearby. They both got up before giving one last yawn and rubbing their eyes. Upon fully waking up, they uttered a shout of astonishment as they saw a whole massive group of known faces surrounding them, as if it were a group of curious people watching an accident.

"Hi, little monkeys! We met again."

"Say what?!" Diddy exclaimed in shock. "W-What are you doing here?"

"How... did you get here?" Dixie asked in the same expression. "How did you find us?!"

"Well, while we were into the sea, the current brought us here," an elephant replied. "The question would be: how did you get here?... Didn't you go to your island?"

Diddy and Dixie finished getting up quickly and left their positions completely to get a better look at those ones. In fact, it was the great herd of the same animals of the circus, now also accompanied by those of the zoo and other animals never seen before. Diddy and Dixie looked at each other stunned by the unexpected reunion, because they never expected to coincide with them right in the same place.

"Do you live here too?" the animals asked the two of them between murmurs.

"So, you're the one who freed everyone from the circus?" asked the animals that went from the zoo.

"Did you come to visit us or were you following us?"

"No, no, no, I can explain!" Diddy replied, calming them all down. "Well, we were going home on that boat, but then giant waves swept us here... and we don't know where we are now."

"By the way, does anyone know DK Island?" Dixie asked them quickly. "Or is it at least nearby here?"

"DK Island, huh?" a lion said pensively.

The animals looked at each other and muttered in case anyone knew... But none seemed to have the answer they needed, not even the unknown animals that seemed to be from that new island had an answer.

"Sorry, little monkeys," a gorilla said in a compassionate tone. "It seems that nobody knows about that island... Huh, but don't worry, this island seems to be nice."

Diddy and Dixie were disappointed upon seeing that no one could help them find their way home, to which the rest of the animals looked at them with some pity and kept muttering.

"But... nobody really knows?" Diddy asked them again. "Haven't you heard of DK Island?"

"I didn't know it, I didn't even know it existed," replied a rhino.

"Me neither, I've never heard it," added a zebra in the same way.

"It sounds familiar to me but I'm not so sure," said one of the tigers.

The animals began to mumble with similar responses, which only increased concern in Diddy and Dixie. Both didn't want to get the idea that they wouldn't return to DK Island easily and would have a new inconvenience now.

"Uh, so, what do we do?" Diddy asked Dixie in a lower voice.

"Oh, I don't know, we didn't expect this," Dixie replied with too much concern as they continued to look at the murmuring animals.

"We're really sorry, little monkeys," said one of the elephants. "Although you can stay here with us; everything is quiet."

"Well, how have you been, by the way?" Dixie asked, trying to break the thread of the conversation. "Were you swept away by the waves?"