Heroes of Dreamland, Book 6: Kirby and the Fountain's Fate (OLD)

Fumu and the Amazing Mirror

Fumu's POV:

It's a dusty day in Dedede's library. The sun shines in through the windows just barely enough to cover the room in a dim light, but it's still pretty hard to see well anywhere in here except right by my lamp.

Yep, I'm still here, and still hunting for a way to help one of my least favorite people in order to stop one of my even more least favorite people. With a sigh of exhaustion, I flip yet another book shut and lean my elbows on the table so I can rest my chin in my hands.

"Giving up? If you are, I can't say I blame you," Escargoon sighs from where he's fruitlessly swiping at a window with a dust-filled rag. It's not that he hasn't been rinsing the rag every once in awhile that it's dusty, because he has. Now his water bucket is filled with gray sludge thanks to him trying to wash the rag off.

Sneezing, I disagree, "No, I'm not giving up. I'm just taking a break. Maybe you should do the same thing."

Shaking his head, he tries to rinse the rag again with another sloppy splash, which leaves a dirty spot on the normally-shining hardwood floor that he'll have to clean up later. "No breaks for me. I wanna be done with this as soon as is snail-ly possible."

So why's it so dusty in here in the first place, when normally it's kept downright sparkling by the practically-OCD Waddle Dee Cleanup Brigade? The answer should be obvious. It's all thanks to Little Miss Anti-Sunshine and her stupid magic. With just a wave of her cat's paws, a glow of her eyes, and a murmur of a spell, the windows in here all got covered with a really thick layer of dust that made it nearly impossible to see in here.

Why'd she do that? Well, she said it was so she could make Escargoon spend a good week trying to clean it all off, but I have my suspicions that she has some idea of what I'm up to here and is trying to hinder my reading. All I know for sure is that I miss my beautiful view of the ever-blossoming cherry tree and the Fountain of Dreams down in the hedged-in garden below that I'd been able to enjoy right up until several hours ago.

Even though I've never been able to enter the Star Warriors' Garden (trust me; I've been trying to ever since one time when I was really little and saw Meta Knight head in there with a book), I'd still tell anyone that it's one of my favorite places here in Castle Dedede. I used to sit outside the hedge and wait excitedly for a cloud of cherry blossoms to blow over, so I could collect them to press in my books and then give them to my mother so she could make her perfume with them or use them for potpourri. Once I got older, I started keeping some of them to study with a microscope. They're really beautiful up close, what with their star-shaped pollen granules and their satin-y texture. And just like snowflakes, no two cherry blossoms are exactly alike. Amazing, huh?

The tree isn't the only reason I love that place, though; not at all. Don't even get me started on the Fountain of Dreams. One of my life goals is to figure out how the Ancients constructed it and how it works, where the water inside it comes from, how the Star Rod came to be, and how it came to be here in Dreamland. It's one of my favorite sights, the Fountain of Dreams. I love looking down at it, sitting there with the Star Rod always resting on top and pointing up to the starry skies.

It's even more beautiful to look down at when it's nighttime, when the Star Rod seems to give off a small-but-luminous glow of its own; just like it's also a star, only stuck here down on the ground. In a lot of ways, the Star Rod reminds me of Galaxia. Star Rod, star sword... Both are instruments of Light... Both are the special weapon that belongs only to one Star Warrior... Maybe there's a connection, and maybe there isn't, but someday, I'd like to find out for sure.

There really do seem to be a lot of stars here in Dreamland... Star Warriors, star swords, a Star Rod, a Warrior of the Stars, the Star Power... Sometimes I wonder if there's some deeper meaning to it all, or if it's all just a bunch of coincidences. I also often wonder what makes Star Warriors Star Warriors. Why aren't they Puff Warriors or something like that? What do they have to do with stars? More questions that I'd like to have answered someday. If only there were actually useful books in here that could actually help me learn things...