MOTHER: Chronology Prologue
Disclaimer: I don't own Earthbound/the MOTHER series.
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After Lucas pulled the Seven Needles and saved the world from eminent doom, slowly but surely, everything began to repair itself.
The villagers of Tazmily returned home, having realized that they were hypnotized and tricked. Those who knew it from the start were apologized to for the behavior of those that were brainwashed. However, Flint and Wess didn't mind. They knew that the villagers were being tricked, and that the reactions to their words were chosen and directed by Porky Minch, their controller.
Duster continued his training as a thief, eventually building a scouting team due to a theory he built: He believed that the Dark Dragon might have restored some of the world and built the team out of this belief.
Lucas, Flint and Boney all returned home, happy that now Hinawa and Claus could rest in peace.
The only problem was Kumatora. Osohe Castle was currently not fit for life to be sustained in their, with the rotten food and the ghosts- in spite of the fact that they were friendly ghosts. Osohe Castle was eventually declared by the mayor to be rebuilt to give the princess someplace to live. Until then, she was to stay with Lucas, as a guest in the household.
This eventually caused problems between the two of them. They didn't hate each other; Rather, it was the opposite. As such, two teens who loved each other living in the same household soon became a problem. Four years passed, and Lucas, unable to stop his mouth from running, confessed to Kumatora.
Needless to say, this caused some awkwardness between the two, until six weeks later, Kumatora confessed as well. Once again, awkwardness happened between the two of them. But, slowly but surely, the gap of awkward emotions between them closed, and soon they were inseparable. Within the next year, an engagement was made.
The festival celebrating the wedding rocked the whole island. Tazmily cheered and applauded Lucas and Kumatora. Flint was proud of his son. The Osohe Castle, by now, was completely rebuilt and mended. Lucas carried Kumatora through its halls, a tradition taught to him by his father. Lucas and Kumatora were now, respectively, King and Queen of the island. Flint was now Head Captain of the Guards, despite their not being anyone who would want to kill the two. Boney and Salsa, who was later found in the mountains, were both appointed as Leaders of the Animal Corps, a version of the Guards that consisted of specialized animals. Duster was later appointed as the Head of the Thieves Corps, the recon division, a position that fit him and his scout team perfectly. The Nowhere Islands, by now, was starting to look like a peaceful and beautiful kingdom.
Another 2 years passed, with Lucas and Kumatora now having a son. He was given a portmanteau of a name like his mother with his father's suggestion. He was named 'Onitenshi', due to his mother believing him to be a handsome devil, but with the sweetness of an angel.
As for Dr. Andonuts, he stayed in the current time a little while longer, and provided the Nowhere Islands with as much scientific knowledge as he deemed necessary, mostly natural science and medical science. He then returned to his own time, having established several schools for the island's welfare.
Lucky, considering what happened a month later.
Porky's influence on the island resulted in fumes from the now torn down New Pork City leaking into the air. For the most part, the citizens were unaffected by it and didn't notice. However, the prince was a new child in the world, and as such, did not have as strong immune system as the other islanders.
The immediate result of this was, exactly a month later, Kumatora noticing something odd about her precious one month old son's complexion. He was growing paler and thinner, and began to cry more often. Feeling something to be wrong, she immediately had the scientists of the island begin checking her son out for anything that might be the cause. They discovered it: The child's exposure to the bad air weakened his still young immune system, making him frail.
A week later, Onitenshi caught a case of the measles, as identified by Dr. Andonut's teachings. The doctors managed to easily cure it, by Kumatora was now a little afraid. It had only been a week and Onitenshi was already identified to have been sick. On Monday, the day after that, King Lucas and Queen Kumatora awoke to their young son's crying. Now he was vomiting, and had pneumonia. The doctors, using what was taught to them, cured that as well, but now Kumatora and Lucas both feared for their child's safety.
As did the islanders. This boy was the precious child of their King and Queen, both of whom they adored. Whenever disaster struck their King and Queen, the islanders would worry about them. And now everyday their son was getting sick with something else.
This pushed the scientists to create the Air Naturalizer, a special device that supplied the soil with more powerful enzymes and vitamins, their by energizing the trees into hyper-cleaning the atmosphere. It worked; The air was ten times cleaner and no children after that became frail or sick from the air.
But for Prince Onitenshi, the damage stayed. For the next two, uneventful years, the Prince would consistenly become sick with something else everyday. The leading case the could not be cured, strangely, seemed to be some unusual form of fever. The Prince couldn't eat as much as was recommended thanks to the fever, and he easily became exhausted when running.
His room was soon outfitted to fit the Prince's special needs. Instead of regular flowers in the vases, Fresh Mints were planted to fill the air with a refreshing scent in hopes that Onitenshi would regain all of his strength, and an air purification system was set up in his walls. He was also given highly nutritional, natural foods, since giving him normally nutritional foods would result in malnutrition thanks to how little he ate. And the doctors pretty much used everything but the kitchen sink to combat that strange fever, but no matter what, it never went away.
And poor King Lucas not only had to worry about his son, about his beloved wife, too. Kumatora was becoming increasingly wary and jumpy of her son and his condition. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that she was becoming overprotective of him. It soon became a castle law that NO ONE, not even the King and Queen, were allowed to be in the boy's room unless they were highly sanitized before entering. And the sanitation process was rather painful. Oh, so painful.
2 years passed, and the fever got so bad that the Prince was recommended to be kept in his room until his condition cleared up, to keep other afflictions from strengthening the fever. However, just when things, seemed grim, Duster came back with marvelous but shocking news: Another island, also inhabited by a kingdom with people in it, was found precisely five hundred meters south of Nowhere Island.
The people identified themselves as coming from the Somewhere Island, named after the first man identified the island as being in the middle of 'somewhere'. The two kingdoms got along well, with no hostility on either island. Duster and Thieves Corps were celebrated as heroes, as he found another place of life in the world. The two kingdom's threw a party with music and dancing, as well food. The two kingdoms shared ideas, discoveries and jokes with each other, and with permission, the Queen allowed the son and daughter of the Somewhere Kingdom's King and Queen to visit Onitenshi in his room. The three got along great, with Onitenshi being happy to have some new company.
The discovery of this second island was followed by several other islands being discovered in different parts of the world. This increased everyone's hope in the future, as more and more kingdoms were discovered, until eventually all of the Islands were forced to be called Kingdoms. The four major Kingdoms were called the Nowhere Kingdom in the west, the Somewhere Kingdom in the East, the Elsewhere Kingdom in the North and the Anywhere Kingdom in the South.
A year later, Duster married a woman and had himself a son as well, called Wesston after his late father. A PSI temple was also made in all kingdoms, forming the Priest Corps, with the united Corps being called the Priest Alliance. Everything was looking up for pretty much everyone.
But the King and Queen of Nowhere Kingdom still worried about their son. Not only did he suffer from a fever, but now he was complaining of headaches. This baffled scientists and doctors, who now discovered that something about his body was changing, and could not figure out how a fever led to a headache, as they were taught that the two were unrelated.
At age nine, the Mysterious Case of Prince Onitenshi, as it was called, was solved. While he was alone, an explosion occurred in the Prince's room…but unlike other explosions, the wall shot outward rather than collapsed into pieces. When the King and Queen arrived, the made a shocking discovery.
Their son was fine, standing up but still looking exhausted. Rubble and small debris around him seemed to fluctuate from floating in midair to laying on the ground, and at times seemed like it was jumping without legs. The Prince was sensitive to PSI, just like his parents, and was proving this via imperfect telekinesis.
The accumulated fever was gone now, as well, and the doctors deduced it as a nine year long 'PSI fever', but took so long to go away because his body was weak, and thus needed to slowly but surely learn the power. By now, the Prince was dreadfully hungry. However, he was still frail, and while all castle rules were greatly loosened with the threat over, Kumatora remained wary over her precious child's frail condition, and she visited him numerous times everyday. He still got sick a little easier than usual, so she eventually decided that part of his schedule would be a daily check up at Clairvoyance, a hospital founded by scientists and priests alike for PSI sensitive patients.
22 years pass after the Seven Needles were pulled and the world was saved. The King is 35, the Queen is 37, Flint is 62 and the Prince is 14. Duster is 49, his wife is 41 and Wesston is 11. Young Onitenshi is about to experience his own adventure.
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WHEW! Longest prologue I have ever written, if I do say so myself. Next chapter, the story really begins.
Also, I purposefully named the Kingdoms/Islands like that. It is, as anyone can see, a pun on the four ways to state a location: anywhere, elsewhere, somewhere and nowhere. Clever, huh?
Also, I purposefully chose Somewhere to be discovered by Nowhere, because Nowhere was chosen by Itoi-sensei possibly, in my opinion, to reference the phrase 'in the middle of nowhere', but Somewhere being found identifies that Nowhere Island is no longer the only place with life in the world, possibly thanks to Lucas's kindness influencing the Dragon. So, in a way, the place goes from 'in the middle nowhere' to 'somewhere in the world'. I think it's clever.
Well, off to write the first chapter. Wish me luck!