Author's Note: Well, here's the first chapter to my Kirby longfic. I really do mean this fanfic is long. It's going to cover just about every Kirby game made. Starting with Kirby's Dream Land 2. It's going to occur in the anime-verse with the game's events following up.

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or Kirby. That belongs to Nintendo and HAL Laboratories

It has been several months since Holy Nightmare Corporation was brought to it's knees by Kirby. Peace has returned to Dreamland now that the Demon Beasts were no longer in existence. Fumu and Bun were actually able to teach Kirby proper speech without a Demon Beast interrupting the tranquility of their town every week. He was learning fast, but he would still utter a "poyo" often.

On this particular day, Kirby, Fumu, and Bun were sitting by the river near town. The sun was shining and the wind was blowing softly. Kirby watched the fish swim below the surface of the water, then stuck one pink arm into the river. He frowned as his potential afternoon snacks swam away.

"Kirby, I don't think you'll catch a fish that way." ,Fumu giggled.

However, when she turned to Kirby, his focus was on something else. She brushed the thought aside as Kirby sometimes had a short attention span. After another thirty seconds Bun noticed that Kirby had a perplexed look on this face.

"What's wrong Kirby?" The siblings asked, concerned for their pink puffball friend's sudden change of mood.

A few seconds later Kirby tugged on their arms then pointed with one of his pink stubs.

"Who that, poyo?"

Fumu and Bun stared in the direction Kirby was pointing. Across the river stood a round ball like creature dark blue in color and round eyes staring down into the flowing stream. Fumu felt a sudden alarm.

"Is it a demon beast? They were supposed to share their demise with Nightmare!" she thought in a quiet panic. "Wait, maybe I'm overreacting. I should try to talk to it first."

"Hello. I don't remember seeing you here before. What are you doing here?" Fumu calmly asked the strange blob.

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The creature suddenly looked up in surprise as if from a daze.

"Oh uh, am I bothering you? I can go if you want me too."

"No no. You're not bothering anyone. " Fumu called to the blue blob.

"Oh good. I didn't want to be trespassing on someone's property and then get a fine and then go to jail because I couldn't pay the fine and then yeah!" the blob replied somewhat loudly.

"Come over here so we can talk to you."

"Okay good. Because this shouting is making me tired!"

The blob hopped on the large stones in the river, crossing his way over to Kirby and the siblings.

"So, what's your name?" Bun asked.

"And what are you doing here in the village?" Fumu finished.

"Well my name is Gooey." the blue blob replied.

"My name is Fumu. I'm the cabinet minister's oldest child."

"I'm Bun, she's my sister."
"Gooey, Gooey!" Kirby cried out, jumping up and down. He was excited over saying his new friend's name.

"And this is Kirby." Fumu introduced the excited pink puffball.

"Oh, Kirby hmm?" Gooey had a strange look on his face.

"I like it! Kirby! Kirby! Kirby!" Gooey replied, jumping up and down with Kirby.

"This guy is one pear short of a fruit bowl…" Bun whispered to his sister.

"Bun!" Fumu sternly whispered in response.

After Gooey and Kirby calmed down, the siblings decided to use this time to ask questions.

"By the way, you never did tell us what you were doing here." Fumu began.

"Oh, that's right. I was fishing." Gooey responded.

"Fishing?" Bun chuckled. "How can you fish if you don't have any hands?"

"Like this." Gooey hopped closer to the water's edge and focused on the fish that swam below. Then without any warning, Gooey's long thin tongue shot out of his mouth, grabbed a fish , then swallowed it whole.

Fumu and Bun's mouths were hanging open, while Kirby cheered. Kirby wished he could fish like that. Every time he tried using his inhale ability to catch fish, he always ended up swallowing something unsavory. Like that time he accidentally ate that rotten old fishing boot. Where did it even come from anyway? Most of the Cappies don't even wear shoes!

"How…how did?" Bun stuttered.

"Pretty amazing eh? My tongue could make a chameleon green with envy! Well actually, chameleons are already green, but they can change colors you know. So maybe the chameleon would change into another shade of green? Maybe sea green? That color's pretty." Gooey rambled on, lost in his thoughts.

"This guy is a basket case." Fumu thought. "At least we know he isn't a threat. That's what's most important for Kirby's sake."

"So when did you come to Dreamland? Are you a traveler?" Fumu questioned, bringing Gooey out of his monologue on the different shades of green.

"Oh uh… well…you could say that." Gooey responded, becoming uncomfortable in the changing conversation.

"Gooey all well poyo?" Kirby asked, stepping a bit closer to his new friend in concern.

"I…I didn't want to involve anyone in my problems. I'll just go."

"Gooey no go poyo!" Kirby cried out, little tears forming in his eyes. If Gooey leaves now he might never see him again!

"Okay okay! I'm not going! Just please stop making that face. It's too sad!"

"Poyo!" Kirby cheered. Instantly brightening up.
"See, the truth is… I was recently kicked out of my home by my…family."

"That's horrible!" Fumu gasped.

"Why'd you get kicked out? Did you do something bad?" Bun asked, ignoring the uncomfortable look on Gooey's face.

"Well, my…family…wanted me to be something I'm not. They wanted me to go into their line of work, but I didn't want too. So they said I was a disappointment and kicked me out before you could say 'That's Mama Luigi to you.'" Gooey sighed.

"You did the right thing. You shouldn't have to go into your family's career path if you don't want to." Fumu said.

"But I have no where to live! I suppose I'll go sleep in a trashcan. I heard that the smell isn't as bad once you get used to it." Gooey replied, about to hop off in search of shelter.

"Poyo. Gooey stay with Kirby." Kirby offered, jumping in front of him.

"I can't do that. You know what they say about houseguests. They're like fish. After three days they stink!"

"Kirby have food at home, poyo."

"Well, I guess I could stay. Just for tonight." Gooey turned around.

Fumu smiled. Kirby was growing up, sharing his food supply and providing shelter for someone going through rough times. He was happy to have made a new friend and she was happy for him.

" Hey sis, does this mean we have to invite Gooey over for dinner too? What if he eats like Kirby?" Bun questioned, already thinking of the inevitable consequences of Kirby's hospitality towards Gooey.

Fumu laughed. "Bun, trust me when I say that no one can eat like Kirby."

"Oh my gosh, he's eating like Kirby!"

Fumu watched in shock as Gooey was keeping pace with Kirby.

"Oh my, you are hungry aren't you?" Memu asked the blue blob.

"Lady, for the past three days I've had nothing to eat but a few mushrooms and swampy water. If I hadn't run into the river, I would be a Gooey no more." He said between swallows.

"Oh you poor darling. It's a good thing Fumu, Bun, and Kirby found you." Memu said, thankful that the blob child was getting enough to eat.

"Thank you people so much. I've never been shown so much hospitality before…I could…I could cry a rainbow of happiness!" Gooey blubbered.

After dinner was over, Kirby decided to escort Gooey to his house.

"Be careful!" Fumu called out to them as they strolled on their way.

"Kirby and Gooey will Fumu poyo!" Kirby waved.

After a short amount of time they arrived at Kirby's house.
"Small but cozy. I like it!" Gooey bounced on the bed. Suddenly, a shrill shriek came from the bed.

"Kirby why did you- aaaagh!" The bird Tokkori screamed.

"What are you?! Why are you here?!" He screeched at Gooey.

"I'm Gooey and-"

"It doesn't matter why you're here, because you're not staying here long!" Tokkori began to peck at Gooey frantically.

"Tokkori poyo! Gooey is friend! Friend poyo!" Kirby cried out in a feeble attempt to stop Tokkori's attacks on Gooey.

Gooey abruptly stopped hopping away and turned around. He gave Tokkori a stern look and grabbed him with his tongue then placed him on the floor.

"Giiiirl you listen up!" Gooey started.

"I'm a boy smart guy."

"Oh you are! I'm sorry, I honestly thought that you were- oh anyway!" Gooey stopped himself from getting sidetracked.

"Boooy you listen up! First, you don't treat someone like that when they're trying to apologize. Second, Kirby was trying to talk to you and you didn't even pay attention! This is Kirby's house, not yours! His house his rules!" Gooey said matter-of-factly.

Tokkori growled. "Fine! If you want to be friends with an overgrown blueberry with a freakish tongue, that's your choice Kirby! Forget you, who needs ya!" Tokkori flew outside, leaving the two alone.

"Aw Kirby, I'm sorry. I made your friend leave." Gooey looked down in shame.

Kirby patted Gooey. "It okay poyo. He be back soon."

The rest of the sleepover went without interruption. The two told stories, watched Channel DDD on the TV which Gooey thought was mediocre like the rest of the village's population, and laughed. Kirby fell asleep on his bed and Gooey on a pile of blankets Kirby had dragged out for him.

The next day was like the one before. The sun was shining and a soft breeze would arrive. Bun was playing with the village children Hohhe, Iroo, and Honey. Fumu was quietly reading a book. Kirby and Gooey were sitting under the shade of a tree.

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Suddenly, the sky grew darker.

Fumu looked up. "I don't remember anything about a storm in the weather."

The once calm wind began to blow viciously and thunder rumbled off in the distance.

Then the sky started to flicker like a light bulb. Something felt very off about this storm. It wasn't natural.

"Everyone! Let's go to town to find shelter! The storm's getting too rough!" Fumu yelled over the wind.

The group of children took refuge at Kawasaki's Restaurant.

Kirby was trying to calm Gooey down, who was having a panic attack.

"It doesn't make sense." Fumu said. "Storms like this don't appear out of thin air. Something's wrong, I just know it."

Then things got worse. Much worse.

Professor Curio was running down the street yelling in a frenzy. "It's gone! It's gone!"

"Hold on Professor. What's gone?" Fumu asked.

"The…bridges…the…rai…ow…bridges" he said between breaths.

"The what bridges?" Bun said in confusion.

"The Rainbow Bridges." Mabel, the town's fortune teller answered.

"Rainbow Bridges? What are those?" Honey asked.

"The Rainbow Bridges are what connects the Rainbow Islands together. Now that they're gone, it will be more difficult to travel to the other islands." Mabel answered.

"But…how? How are they gone?" Bun wondered.

"They've been completely destroyed." Curio answered now that he had his breath back.

The gears in Fumu's head turned. She knew who's fault this was. Somehow, someway, it was him.

"Dedede!"

Fumu, Bun, Kirby, and Gooey raced to the castle. Fumu stormed into King Dedede's throne room only to see a very alarmed Escargon.

" Admit it! The Rainbow Bridges being destroyed is all your fault!" Fumu accused.

"No it's not. We don't have anything to do with it!" Escargon protested.

"Do you really think we're that dumb to fall for that?" Bun said pointing at Escargon.

"It's not our fault! I can prove it!" Escargon motioned to the floor behind him. Dedede was on the floor completely motionless.

"When that storm arrived, he suddenly fell over and hasn't moved since." Escargon said with worry in his voice.

"Then…then…if it wasn't Dedede…then-"

A massive wind suddenly propelled everyone outside the castle doors. Fumu, Bun, Escargon, Kirby, Gooey, Parm, Memu, Waddle Doo and the Waddle Dees were flung outside.

The massive wind then grabbed Kirby and was carrying him away. Fumu, Bun, and Gooey tried in vain to hold onto the pink puffball, but the wind was too strong.

"Kirby! You have to fix the Rainbow Bridges! You have to save Dreamland!" Fumu manages to call as Kirby was swept away. They watched until he was no more than a pink dot in the sky.

Author's Note: And so it begins. I have a soft spot for Gooey, seeing as he disappeared after Kirby's Dream Land 3. No cameos, no mentions of his existence in-game. Nothing. He's kind of a scatterbrain.