Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 92: One Last Restoration

"That's crazy!" one of the animals exclaimed to Diddy and Dixie, looking astonished along with the others. "You two were about to never come back. You have truly been miraculously saved."

"And those insane tamers never wanted to give up," another of the animals added in the same way. "Until you defeated them once and for all."

The herd of animals was accompanying Diddy and Dixie as they headed into an underground cave to look for sapphires, as the group of apes had said. They didn't know for sure if that would work for them, but they still had to do something for the herd of rescued children and for Mr. Pinky, even if it was the only possible option.

Along the way, they were commenting about the journey Diddy and Dixie had had, which they had recently told them about while they were at the shelter. All the animals were astonished when they were talking about the topic.

"Hey, but seriously," another animal added. "You defeated that whole criminal organization against animals. Even his minion apes... Or well, they wanted to do it on their own in the end."

"I'm really shocked," another of the animals said, smiling at Diddy and Dixie in amazement. "Now those darn bestial tamers are going to really pay for all for the rest of their short lives! No one will have to worry about them anymore."

"So It will be..." Dixie said, also smiling calmly. "And we really expect them to pay dearly."

Later, Diddy, who was in front along with Dixie, stopped to point in one direction, grabbing everyone's attention.

"It's over there," Diddy said, pointing to the entrance of a dark cave.

"How did you know about this cave?" Dixie asked.

"Ricky and Melvyn had shown it to me," Diddy replied before pausing. "Or well, Rocky and Melenky instead. That was when I went out with them to... find something to give you that gift that time," he added, blushing with some embarrassment.

"Ahh, the time of the carnivorous plant," Dixie said with a little laugh.

Diddy and Dixie entered the cave where Diddy had been before; as he had said, it was where he had tried to get an emerald for Dixie; that time when he gave her that ruined gift. Some of the animals also accompanied them.

The cave was still as bright with stones as it had been seen before; among them, there were sky blue sapphires just like those that the group of apes had. Diddy and Dixie did not wait any longer and took several of them, helping themselves with some stones to extract them. Their hopes of being able to solve the situation were growing; perhaps it was not a lie what those apes had told them. The animals that were accompanying them had brought some containers to collect the sapphires.

Several minutes later, Diddy and Dixie along with the animals got out of the cave with the containers full of those sapphires, which sparkled so brightly in the sunset light. Then, everyone gathered again so they could return to the shelter.

"And we'll have to crush those sapphires, right?" one of the animals asked as they walked. "And then to mix them with the emerald?"

"That's right," Dixie replied. "But that latter is just a piece, nothing more. And it won't harm them, don't worry. It's only harmful when used excessively to heal wounds."

"And we just have to put that mixture in their heads, according to those apes," Diddy added.

"And if they recover their memories," one of the animals said, "we can give them back to their families, right?"

Dixie and Diddy paused for a while, at the same time looking at each other upon remembering that same detail.

"Uhh, no..." Dixie told them, causing the herd of animals to stop suddenly. "I don't think so yet."