Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 99: Uncertain Future

It had been maybe an hour and a half, and the sky was already seen with colors of late afternoon and almost dusk. There was no longer so much dry land in sight, and Hurricane Island was barely seen as an unrecognizable distant point. The sea was beginning to look open with only horizons in sight on all sides. Diddy and Dixie were excited after starting their trip back to their island with complete peace... Although after several minutes of navigation, that emotion was disappearing naturally.

Both were sitting between the helm and the steps, both with expressions of seriousness and different from how they were at first.

"I'm bored already," Diddy said as his head rested on his hand.

"Me too," Dixie replied after heaving a sigh.

"How long will it take?" Diddy asked somewhat reluctantly. "Is this how we'll spend the whole trip?"

"No idea, but according to what we were told, we'll spend all night and most of tomorrow here... Ohh, what if we actually took much longer?"

"We should have had an engine put in this ship," Diddy added jokingly. Then, he got up to take a look at the compass and map, and then returned to sit next to Dixie. "At least we're doing well so far."

Afterwards, Diddy took the box that Mr. Pinky had given them to deliver it to Wrinkly when they arrived, and examined it for a while.

"What if we opened Mr. Pinky's box?" Diddy said with a tone of curiosity.

"Hey, no, he said that it should arrive sealed in Wrinkly's hands. In addition... that might be a lot of paper sheets with long and tiring texts to read."

"Oh, but at least it wouldn't be so boring to read now," Diddy added, shaking the box and trying to hear what was inside. Afterwards, he put the box aside and continued to look into nothingness. "In the end, this ship was left for us to return to DK Island," he said after a while. "First we thought we'd go with all those kids on this ship, then it was a means of kidnapping, then a means of escape, then a battlefield, and now... it's on where we're returning home."

"In the end, it was left for the use that was going to be given to it in the beginning, just without all those children," Dixie said, also looking towards the horizon. "I still don't believe we've come out of all this alive. And to think that at first, I was just going to search for you at that circus and then we'd head straight back to DK Island," she added with a small smile.

"Or rather, I was just going to go out for a sail in the sea and come back to my house that same night," Diddy said smiling too.

"And what else would have happened in that case?" she added with a curious look. "Would you never have talked to me because of that pyramid anymore?"

"Well, maybe not," Diddy replied with a little laughter and some embarrassment. "But maybe if you clarified everything for me, we could have fixed it and I could have understood it."

"Because rather... Oh, you already know, I used to just try in absurd ways that you told me you liked me," Dixie added more embarrassedly.

"Ah, in that regard, those four of them had planned to steal that emerald from us anyway," Diddy replied, shrugging and smiling a little. "But how would we have handled the Jemky and the others issue? I don't think we could have told anyone about the misdeeds they used to do back then."

"That's true. Can you imagine what would have happened in those circumstances?"

"Well, we weren't really in that much danger from them; in the end, they were going to be with their dads on that island in that hidden building. The problem would be... what would have happened there. I'm not going to justify anything, but... if none of this had happened, those apes would have mechanized all those children without interruptions; the tamers would have continued carrying out their evil plans, even all that macabre circus would still be there, with those animals suffering or dying; or even Jemky and the other three kids would have returned for this next school year, and who knows what trouble they would have made for us... We might even have had contact with that group of apes; we never saw them before, but who knows if at some point we were going to run into them."