Chapter 2: Padding, padding, Paaaaadding!
It was a summer day, though you wouldn't know it because of constant snow in the aptly named town of Snowman.
"ACHOO! C-Can't you come visit me instead of the reverse?"
"No silly, or how else would I know that you cared enough to remember where I lived?"
"Ana, of course I care! Why else would I willingly get a cold every time I come here?" *chuckle* *ACHOO!*
"Oh Ninty..." *Giggle*
*Blush* "Don't call me that...It makes me sound like a chewing gum…"
*Giggle* "Ninty: you're a breath of fresh air,"
*Laugh* "Good one Ana…"
"Who's Ana?" A soft boyish voice asked, abruptly shattering the thin illusion of the dream. Finally waking up fully, Ninten was greeted to the sight of a face WAY too close to his.
"AGH!" the raven haired boy squealed, giving the blond boy's forehead a rough shove, "Where am I?! Who are you?!" Without the face covering his vision he discovered that he was in a wooden lodge of some kind with a double bed to the right of him, a single bed to the left of him and he was lying on one a single bed.
"I'm Lucas & you're in my house ," the blond boy murmured, rubbing the spot on his head where Ninten hit him. "You fainted remember? And with the woods no longer safe, I thought this would be the best place to bring you."
The Raven haired boy frowned slightly, feeling a little guilty for attacking the blond now. He seemed really sweet. A bit like Pippi. Giving a shudder at the image of him Lucas in Pippi's dress and being super strong, he apologised, "Sorry...You were just too close there...Hey, I don't suppose you know of a piggy looking boy in a strange spider machine thing?"
Lucas gave him a confused look, quelching some of Ninten's hope of getting home anytime soon, "No, but I can probably help you find him…" the blond boy said, giving Ninten the most comforting smile he had even seen. He couldn't help but smile back.
"Thanks Lucas...Do you honestly not know who I am? Ninten? Saviour of the world? Defeater of Giegue?" The time travelling psychic asked and upon receiving an even more confused look from the blond, he sighed, "Only a thousand years and I've been completely forgotten...Remind me to tell Ana that...Probably try and get everyone to write book and build statues about us.." he said with a small chuckle before looking down at his knees, remembering that there was a chance he might never see her again.
"It's okay, we'll get you back to your time and back to your girlfriend," Lucas said, giving Ninten a comforting hug. Said boy only froze...The blond really was willing to help him, somebody who he just met & was probably sounding really crazy now, but he was still going to help.
"Why..Why are you going to help me? I-I mean you don't even know me," Ninten murmured, his voice dryer that he knew, as he pulled away from his hugging compadre.
Lucas just gave him a smile, his eyes shining so innocently, "Because you need help and I can sense the good in you...Even if you did attack me earlier," he said, almost teasingly, as he got off the bed and walked towards the door of the cottage. "We should better go, Kumatora's waiting and we already wasted too much time…"
Shrugging off the covers, the displaced psychic jumped out of bed and jogged after him, hoping that Kumatora wasn't that pink haired girl.
Kumatora was the pink haired girl and she was just outside the house when he ran out, as well the the thin haired man & the dog. Taking a few steps away from her and even hiding behind Lucas a little, he waved at her, "Hey there, Ninten here, met you earlier at the forest and I-"
"Lucas let's just go! We already wasted too much waiting for this boy to wake-up!" Kumatora yelled slightly, grabbing both the blond's and the brunette's hands and pulling them along and towards what looked like a small town. Both Ninten and the brown labrador followed along.
"Hey, what's wrong anyway? Is it aliens again? I bet it's aliens," The Raven haired psychic asked, having to do a jog to ask Lucas this, because he wasn't going to ask the brunette (because he didn't know him) or Kumatora (as she scared him) & definitely not the dog (as he didn't want to look anymore crazier than he seemed).
"Aliens? Are you crazy or something?" The pink haired girl asked, giving him a small look (so he failed slightly at not looking insane). "No, we have to pull all the needles so that the world won't be destroyed."
"Okay so aliens are crazy but pulling magical needles, no that's completely rational," the raven-haired psychic murmured mostly to himself, feeling a little nostalgic. After all, he had crossed all the way across America to get the 8 melodies so that he could stop Geigue. "Why would the world be destroyed if the needles aren't pulled by you?"
it was the blonde's turn to speak, "There is godlike dragon deep below us & pulling the needles put our hearts into it...If a good person pulls them then the world will be saved, but if the masked man does it then...The world will end."
Although the tale was fantastical, almost laughable, Ninten nodded acceptingly. After all his story started with his lamp trying to kill him and ended with him singing a song to a catlike alien. "Okay, maybe if I help this dragon can help me get home.."
"maybe, but we can't just bring you along like a lost puppy..No offence boney," Kumatora said, looking to the dog with an apologetic smirk.
"Hey! I can help just as much as the dog…" the Raven-haired hero yelled indignantly, as the rest of the group stopped with him.
"Ninten...You say you saved the world and I believe you. Kumatora...I think he should come with us," The blond boy said, giving a soft smile to the the two in question.
Believing that he was going to be rejected again by the pink haired girl he opened his mouth to retort but was given a, "fine!" from Kumatora.
A little shocked, but knowing not to look a gift horse in the mouth (He learned his lesson from the first time he did that as a kid), he simply nodded as they continued onwards. "Where are we goi-?"
"What's that?!" Boney barked, which was thankfully translated for Ninten due to being psychic, and looked to where to dog was looking. A vague orange distortion on a small hill near the house. The exact same kind that kid in the machine used to bring Ninten here.
"That could be my ticket home!" the raven haired teen yelled with a grin, running towards the anomaly, bat reigned back in order to attack when the octopedal machine came out. The rest of the group followed him, all yelling questions about what it was and why he was going to attack it, but Ninten only focused on the portal a few meters from him and was ready for that tube boy.
However what came out of the portal wasn't the boy, or the octopedal machine, or one of his friends. But Ninten knew what came out of the portal oh so well. He had met many of them on his journey to save the world & he had many nightmares about their return.
It was a Starman.