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

Epilogue: Into the Stars

Skye Knight's POV:

As the medium blue light of time travel fades away, I steady myself on the ground and open my eyes. Thankfully, I tend to be one of those rare, lucky Time Travelers who manages to hold onto most of her memories almost every time she travels, so I still know who I am and why I came here. Centuries ago, Princess Rosalina set up a signal to tell me to travel to this exact moment and place in time and space, I'm assuming for something important.

It doesn't take long to be able to see that I've arrived in the warm, cozy library onboard the Comet Observatory. Rosalina is just closing a thick storybook, while the Lumas around her argue over whether or not they liked the last bit. The general consensus seems to be that the girl Lumas found it sweet and cute, but the boy Lumas found it gross and mushy. Well, sounds like whatever story it was ended with a love story- and I have a sneaking suspicion I know whose love story it was.

Among the crowd of listeners, which is mostly composed of Lumas, there also sits a little Human girl with brown hair and green eyes, probably about five or six years old, a Manga-Head girl seated next to her with pink hair and brown eyes who's about the same age, an Elf boy with blond hair and violet eyes who's a little bit older, and curled up in the Human girl's lap is a very young purple Star Warrior (a boy, going by the slightly-askew baseball cap on his head) who's quietly snoring, apparently having been bored into slumber by whatever story Rosalina just finished telling.

After a small amount of work, the Lady of the Shining Stars manages to get her numerous brood to settle down. Not wanting to interrupt story-time, I take a place leaning against the wall close to the fireplace, and then smile slightly to myself at the sight of my Aunt Jiyuu curled up and snoozing in front of the warm fire. She's used to me popping up in various times long after I'd have naturally grown old and died if I weren't a Time Traveler, so I very well might come back, wake her up, and chat with her once I'm finished attending to whatever Rosalina needs, whether it's carrying a message back to the past Rosalina or someone else or taking a warning of some sort forward to the future.

Even though most of the Lumas have quieted down, one of them suddenly pipes up in her excited little-girl voice, "What was their wedding like?! What was their wedding like?!"

Shaking her head and laughing, Rosalina tells her, "That's a different story for another time. Maybe we'll tell that one when there aren't as many of your brothers around to be grossed out. Now... Do any of you want to know what happened to the heroes after the adventure I just read you was over?"

A loud ruckus of cheers goes up, including some from the non-Luma-child department, causing the sleepy little puff-boy to wake up with a start before sitting up and contentedly sticking a paw in his mouth to gum on.

Once she gets them to settle down again (or 'cuddle doon, wee ones,' as my adopted grandmother Stellar used to order me and my siblings whenever she'd watch us for a day or two and have the toughest of times getting us to ever go to bed), Rosalina narrates to them as she gets up and puts the book away with six others very much like it on the bookshelf, "Well, you all know where Jiyuu ended up." The cozy, warm-looking lilac cat-puff snoozing on the floor opens one eye in response to her name before closing it again and dozing back off. "She and Magolor eventually fell in love and got married some years after the story we just finished ended, so, in all technicality, her name's now Jiyuulor. Magolor eventually grew old and joined the stars about six hundred or so years later, but being a Guardian of the Stars, Jiyuu's never aged since then. Their children, Annilor, Tailor, and Saylor all ended up being important parts of the Galaxy's story themselves. Saylor, the boy, I'll tell you more about in a minute, but Tailor and Annilor, the two girls, were a great aid in one of the Galaxy's later Dark hours, and one day became a famous sister pair of traveling singers and musicians." I smile at the memory of my first adventure, the Dark hour Rosalina mentioned. Even though at the time it seemed awful, now that we're far on the other end of it and I, my siblings, and my half-Halcandran cousins all survived it in one piece, it's actually mostly a fond remembrance. "I'll explain more about that in a minute, as well. Well... who's next? Let's see..."