Chapter 38: Peace, at last!
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"Lucas… Ness…" a melodic voice cried out.
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Ness awoke in a daze to find him self in the familiar world of Magicant. Beside him laid Lucas who regained consciousness shortly after the former.
"Ness?" Lucas questioned. "What's going on… where are we?"
"I'm not sure, I think this is Magicant…" Ness told.
"What's Magicant?" the blonde asked curiously.
"Magicant is the realm in between worlds, it exists in a dream state and time acts weirdly here, like you could meet yourself from 5 years ago, and then yourself from 60 years in the future!"
"That's strange!"
"Usually, when I've come here in the past, there's been a message that someone wants me to hear or a lesson for me to learn… but, I've never come here with someone else…" Ness explained.
"Oh… well if it makes you feel any better, I've never been here before!" Lucas said comfortingly.
Ness giggled.
The melodic voice once again cried out, "Ness… Lucas…"
"What the—" Lucas yelped. "Who? What? Huh?!"
"I have no idea!" Ness replied to Lucas' nonsense.
The clouds in the sky parted and from the heavens above, descended a familiar woman with light chestnut hair and a red dress that bellowed around her knees.
Lucas was utterly gobsmacked as he looked on in awe. Tears of joy filled his eyes as the woman finally landed before them in arms reach.
"M… Mom?" Lucas sobbed.
"Hello, my darling…" Hinawa replied, putting a soft hand on the blonde's cheek.
The flood gates opened as Lucas wrapped his arms around Hinawa, sobbing as he finally felt her warm embrace. Hinawa protectively wrapped her arms around her son and rested her head on his.
"Well…" She spoke softly, causing Lucas to look up to her face. "You've had quite the day, hmm?"
"Um… How?!" Lucas sobbed. "How is this even possible?!"
"My darling, you have much yet to learn…" Hinawa said gently. "This world exists in between what you'd call reality and the afterlife."
Lucas did not care about any of that, he was just content with being reunited with his mother.
"I cannot even put into words how proud I am of you, of all of you!" Hinawa stated. "Not only did you take on the most powerful evil that the world has ever known, but you won!"
This just made Lucas more emotional. He never thought he would get to hear his mother's voice ever again, let alone that he's hear her say that she's proud of him.
"So… we meet again…" Hinawa said, looking to Ness, the latter of whom was enjoying this heartfelt moment.
"Hi… again!" Ness giggled.
"I'm so glad to see that you followed my advice…" Hinawa winked at Ness, who then sweated a drop.
"Hehehe… yeah!" Ness giggled nervously.
The trio talked for what felt like hours in the pink candyfloss world of Magicant.
"My darling boy…" Hinawa began. "I'm sorry but your time here is up."
"What?" Lucas questioned. "No!"
Lucas began to cry, the thought of having to leave his mother broke his heart.
"Don't cry, my child." Hinawa said, placing a warm soft hand on his cheek. "This is not going to be the last time we see each other, that's a promise!"
"Well.. when will I get to see you again?" Lucas sobbed, pouting his bottom lip slightly.
"Soon…" Hinawa replied. "And I'll always be with you in your heart!"
"You know, people only say that to make others feel better!" Lucas protested.
"Well did it work?" Hinawa jokingly replied.
"… Kinda…"
"Haha!" Hinawa giggled. "Well then it's settled!"
"Promise to visit me in my dreams?" the blonde asked.
"Always…" his mother replied. "And you take care of yourself, Ness!"
"I will!" Ness replied.
"The future holds great things for both of you, and I'll know you'll make me proud!"
Hinawa began to ascend back into the clouds as sparkly magical dust swarmed around her feet and pulled her to the heavens.
"I love you mom!" Lucas yelled, tears filling his eyes.
"And I love you too, my darling!" Hinawa replied as she blew him a kiss goodbye.
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As she disappeared into the clouds, Ness and Lucas were pulled from Magicant back to the real world.
"Ness!" Paula called out. "Wake up!"
As she yelled, Ness awoke and opened his eyes to see the beaming faces of his dear friends. Lucas soon followed who was then showered in kisses from Boney who said, and I quote, "No Homo!"
"I can't believe it!" Kumatora said, seeming astonished by the victory. "We actually won!"
"Yeah… not to bad for a group of kids!" Jeff added, pushing his glasses further up his face, causing them to catch the light.
"Although, we still have one pretty big problem left to fix!" Ninten said, pointing to the mighty dragon in the sky.
"Oh yeah… that exists." Duster added.
"Well he's not being mind controlled anymore… maybe we can talk to him?" Paula proposed to the group.
"And how do you suggest we do that?" Poo asked.
"We can use my Pray ability, if we all join hands, we can all talk to it!" she explained.
"Okay… it's worth a shot!" Ana said.
Everyone except the Psychics joined hands and shared Paula's ability to pray to the mighty dragon waiting above the clouds.
"Hello?" Paula cried out. "Can you hear me?"
"Greetings children…" The Dragon replied. "I must thank you for the part you played in restoring peace to this world…"
"It was nothing…" Giggled Poo seeming rather cocky.
"It was most definitely not nothing!" the dragon replied. "And as a token of my appreciation, I am going to reverse the damage done by Giygas and bring back all of the people he hurt in his slaughter. He ruined the beauty of your world, it is only right I bring it back as your reward for defeating him!"
"That is most kind of you!" Kumatora exclaimed.
"There are some among you who are not from this world… for those of you who fought this war on alien territory, I give you my thanks once more…"
Ninten, Ana, Poo and Paula all blushed a little, meanwhile Ness just kept smiling like he usually does.
"Before I restore this planet to its former beauty, I must first inform you that I have left a little surprise for the two of you named 'Ness' and 'Lucas', the righting of one wrong in particular for one of you, and the beginning of another exciting journey into the unknown for another. This whole war started when the two of you crossed paths and it ended when you used the love you have for each other as well as your world to finally overpower the evil that threatened everything you hold dear…"
Ness and Lucas gazed at one another, a spark of excitement filling their eyes.
"Farewell brave children… I hope to meet you again in another life!"
As the dragon said his final goodbyes, his eyes changed colour to a vibrant and gentle shade of light blue.
His magic rippled out from his body and enveloped the entire planet in a warm blanket of light that mended its wounds.
The group of heroic kids looked around as the plants and the flowers began to grow once more, in an evergreen and lush beauty that they had never seen before. All of the crumbling mounds of rocks in the mountains were restored to a stable and untouched state like they were in before. The crater that rested in Tazmily Village was filled and the buildings there were magically rebuild, brick by brick. Lucas' house that stood proudly on the cliffside was slowly rebuilt as each plank of wood slotted carefully into the right place and the bed of sunflowers that grew just outside of the house grew taller and more beautiful than ever before. The gloomy clouds that hung over the Nowhere Islands disappeared as the sun rose on a bright new day.
The dragon disappeared into the unknown to take his rest having fixed what had been broken and saved what had been lost.
The group looked upon the horizon, gazing at the grateful planet before them.
"We did good, guys!" Kumatora said, breaking the ice.
"Yeah…" Paula replied seeming happy, although a twinge of sorrow filled her voice.
"What's up?" Lucas asked.
"Well… it's just… this means we have to go back to our worlds now…" She explained.
"That's true!" Ninten cried. "Without us in the timelines, our worlds could be ruined!"
Loid, Jeff and Ness all looked confusedly at the Boy with an expression that said, 'he can smart?'.
Lucas looked at Ness solemnly with a face of sorrow and love… you know what I mean? Like he's so in love but sad to see him go.
"In that case… we should probably return to our worlds!" Ana said.
Ninten, Loid and Ana all said their goodbyes to each individual member of the group, hugging them and wishing them well.
Ness, Lucas, Kumatora, Poo and Paula all combined their power for Ness to open the portal back to their world and the trio stepped through it, emerging on the other side waving one final goodbye before the portal closed behind them.
"I suppose it's our turn…" Jeff said sadly as the psychics opened another portal back to Eagleland.
"I am grateful to have met you guys… and Kumatora, make sure you ship an OTP twice as hard for me!" Paula said.
"I will!" Kumatora said, struggling to withhold the tears.
"Take care of yourselves!" Jeff said as he and Paula stepped through the portal.
"It was an honour to battle alongside you all…" Poo gestured as he too stepped through the portal.
Ness was the only one left to step into the portal.
Lucas grabbed hold of Ness, hugging him tightly and burying his head in Ness' shoulders.
"I… I… Love you!" Lucas sobbed as he tightened the grip around Ness' body.
Ness returned the gesture, "I love you too!"
"You've made me so happy!" Lucas said, gazing fondly into Ness' purple eyes.
"You've helped me understand so much about myself, and I'm so grateful to have loved you…" Ness said, fighting the tears running down his face.
The two young lovers shared one final and passionate kiss before Ness had to step into the portal. Ness put one foot into the portal before Lucas lost the grip on Ness' hand.
"Please… don't go!" Lucas whispered.
But it was to late and the portal disappeared with Ness on the other side, in Saturn Valley where the smiling faces of his friends waited for him.
Ana and Ninten were strolling down a street, talking about the events that had transpired.
"You know, something's got me thinking…" Ninten said to the girl beside him.
"What?" she responded.
"Well… Ness kinda looks like me, and he's a psychic…" He explained.
"Oh my god, where are you going with this?!" Ana cried.
"Well… all I'm saying is I think I'm his dad!"
"Oh hell nah, you ain't having a psychic kid without me!"
Ness and his friends emerged at the moment they returned from the fight against Giygas.
"What are you guys gonna do now?" Jeff asked.
"I'm going to train and get stronger!" Poo exclaimed. "But I don't have to do that at the palace I come from, I think I want to mover closer to you guys!"
"There's a few houses near me that are free, I think!" Paula added.
"What about you Ness?" Poo asked.
"I… er… think I need to go home and see my mom…" Ness solemnly explained.
"Are you gonna be okay?" Paula asked caringly.
"I will be…" Ness replied.
Paula, Poo and Jeff began the journey back to Twoson and decided to go to the nearest bus stop and wait for the bus. Meanwhile, Ness took out his bike and rode it back to Onett to his house.
As he approached the door to his house where he noticed that the flag on the mailbox was standing upright. Ness curiously opened the hatch to find a sealed letter that had a strange symbol engraved into the wax that sealed the opening in the envelope.
Ness tore the letter open and read it to himself.
Dear Ness of Onett,
I am delighted to invite you to the tournament of a lifetime Time in the Smash Brothers World does not pass as normal, so if you choose to If you wish not to participate, that is completely okay, simply Yours Sincerely,
that some only dream of participating in.
If you wish to take part in the Super Smash Brothers Tournament, please
selected the 'I'm in!' option in the accompanied iPad
and a car will arrive in 2 days to pick you up and bring you there.
participate in the tournament, you will not age, nor will any
time pass in your world in your absence, you will return at the
exact moment you left after the tournament ends.
select the 'No Thanks' option on the iPad and you will not be entered
into the competition. There will be other opportunities for you to
participate in future tournaments if you do choose this option.
~ Master Hand
Ness picked up the iPad in the mailbox, although he had no idea what an iPad was because they hadn't been invented yet, and weighed up his options, carefully considering each of the two options.
Lucas sat down on the sofa in his living room, clutching a photo of him and Ness. Tears slowly dripped onto the bottom of the photo when the house telephone started to ring. Lucas stood up and used his arm to dry the tears from his face.
"Hello?" Lucas answered.
The voice on the other end told Lucas of some exciting news causing the latter to drop the phone and dash out of his house towards the village.
Lucas made his way to the hospital where he opened the door to the room and entered to see Fuel holding onto Claus's hand.
"Hey bro!" Claus exclaimed, happy to see his brother.
"Claus…you're awake!" Lucas cried joyfully.
"Of course!" Claus weakly said in a joking manner. "I couldn't sleep for much longer!"
Lucas giggled.
"So… did we win?" Claus curiously asked.
"Yeah… yeah we did…" Lucas sadly said.
"… Oh… but at a high cost…" Claus said, reading the room.
"I'll be okay…" Lucas said, reassuring his brother.
"I know you will…" the carrot top replied.
Lucas had a heavy heart having lost his first love, but he had his brother back now, and that was just enough for him.
-The End-
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