A/N: Double update! Just because I've actually been writing it for a while now and I want to I've You more than one chapter.

Hope you enjoy Chapter 2!

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Ness had turned as soon as he heard a growl. He hadn't been able to see what it was, but it was obviously insane and probably about to rip Ninten's face off. Instantly he shot a blast of PSI at it, hoping that nobody decided to look in their direction and see a thirteen year-old kid using psychokinetic powers.

The creature fell over, landing to Ninten's side. Ness was suddenly scared he might've hit him until he saw a blue shield around Ninten.

"You're lucky I put up a PSI Shield in time," Ninten said, grinning as he stood up.

"You're lucky I reacted fast enough," Ness pointed out, more seriously. "That thing was about to rip your face off."

"Yeah... thanks for that." Ninten walked towards the creature, which hadn't moved during their whole exchange. Ninten crouched beside it, turning his head towards Ness. "...You think it's... dead?"

Ness joined Ninten on the ground, examining the creature. Now that he got a good look at it, it seemed to be just a normal, everyday dog, with its head to the side and its tongue laying on the ground. He put his hand over the dog's mouth, feeling air coming from it. "Well, it's breathing."

"That's always good."

"And it looks like a normal dog." Ness saw a collar wrapped around its neck and grabbed it. "See, it even has a collar."

"Let's check that out, shall we?" Ninten turned the collar around, looking at its tag. His face turned into a look of shock. "Dude, this is my dog."

"What?" Ness grabbed the tag from Ninten, and sure enough, it had his friend's address on it. "Then why the heck would it attack you?"

"I dunno. He seems pretty normal now. I hope." Ninten looked away from his dog and back to Ness. "You do know you basically almost killed my dog right now, right?"

"How would I know it was yours?"

"Because you're at my house almost every day?"

"Oh whatever, you probably would've died if I hadn't helped. And besides, he's fine now." Ness patted the dog's head. "See? But besides that... that's the second weird thing that's happened today."

"Um, so?"

"What if they're connected?"

"...Are you looking to start a cliché book?"

"No, listen. So these two strange kids end up in your backyard, out of nowhere. And they might have PSI. And then your dog goes insane right after they leave. Both involve you."

"So you're saying I'm the root of this problem?"

"No. Heck no. It's these kids that are. Maybe they're after you."

"Why me? You have better PSI than me anyways..."

"No clue. But we gotta find them." Ness stood up. "So first, we go to our houses. Get some stuff, say we're going into town. Then we do whatever we gotta do to find them and make them talk."

"Uh, what kind of stuff...?"

"Well, stuff just in case we find any more insane animals."

"Oh. Oh. That's much better than what I was envisioning. Alrighty then." Ninten stood next to him. "Who's house first?"

"Lets go to yours. I mean, we're here right now." Ness started running. "C'mon, lets go!"

It only took a few seconds to get to the front door, but even though Ness got a head start, Ninten got there before him. Ninten smirked.

"Beat ya," Ninten remarked, now grinning.

"Since when was it a race?" Ness shot back. Ninten only laughed, opening the door.

"Hey, I-" Ninten called out as he opened the door, but quickly cut off when a head came into view. It didn't even look human anymore, with black holes for eyes, skin almost pink, and green, unsightly hair. Only when it turned towards them did they see it's pupil; a glowing, red circle.

Ninten slowly walked towards the stairs, just behind the monster (at least, that's what Ness decided to call it). "Now, don't freak out," he said, a nervous smile on his face. "We're just gonna go to the stairs, if you could, um, move, that'd be-"

The monster suddenly started running, going straight for Ninten. Ness rushed towards him to get him out of the way, by a Shield was already up. The monster was stopped by the Shield put up by Ninten, giving Ness some protection and Ninten enough time to get to the stairs.

"Ness, c'mon!" Ninten shouted. "The Shield's gonna wear off!" And sure enough, he was right: the Shield was already fading, Ness ran to stairs, following Ninten up them and into a room. Ninten slammed the door behind them, locking in and then falling down against it.

"What was that?" Ness asked after a few seconds. Ninten exhaled, not looking up.

"Pseudo Zombie."

"Say what?"

"It was a Pseudo Zombie," Ninten repeated, getting up off the door. "Weak kind of Zombie. I guess it was... my mom..."

A silence stretched between them.

"...How did you know what was?" Ness asked, after a too long silence.

"I read about it." Ninten opened a drawer in a desk, tossing a book on the floor. "In this."

Ness sat down on the floor, picking up the surprisingly heavy book. He flipped through the pages, seeing notes and drawings of things he'd never seen before, paragraphs of scrawled writing. "...Where'd you get this?"

"Great Grandfather." Ninten joined Ness on the floor. "It was his diary. He's the reason we have PSI."

"How's that...?"

"Well, according to this, he was abducted by aliens, along with his wife. They disappeared for two years, and then one day, he returned, but his wife was gone. He then began a lifelong study of PSI, and wrote down his findings in his diary." Ninten paused. "I guess this used to be his house. I found it in the basement."

"And Pseudo Zombies...?"

"Are in it." Ninten flipped to the front of the book. "'They're the weakest type of Zombie, and posses themselves in humans'," he read. "It's not really hard to them apart though, as you saw..."

"I..." Ness started, but he realized soon after that he didn't know where to start. Your mom turns into a Zombie: what are you supposed to say to that? Luckily, Ninten stood up, ending the thought.

"It's fine. There has to be a way to end it." It seemed like the words were more for himself than Ness. "Well, I guess we should-"

A bang interrupted them. They both froze, before another one came and they realized it was coming from the bedroom door. Ninten walked over and opened it slightly, then shut it right away.

"What is it?" Ness asked.

"My sisters. They're... well, they're Pseudo Zombies too."

"Hold the door." Ness walked away. "Do you have a bat up here?"

"Yeah. Closet." Ness grabbed the bat, along with a spare yo-yo he found.

"We're gonna have to go out the window, aren't we?" Ninten nodded. Ness sighed. "You know we're on the second floor, right?"

"Oh, it doesn't hurt that bad," Ninten said.

"Why do you know that?" Ness asked, unlocking the window.

"I've jumped out it before. How do you think I snuck out of the house when I got grounded?" Ness raised his eyebrows at Ninten.

"You've gotten grounded? You never told-"

"It's a long story. Doesn't matter right now." Ninten grimaced. "Ready? We're gonna have to hurry. I don't think the door's gonna hold much longer."

"Got it." Ness threw the bat and yo-yo out. "Follow right after me."

It took a second to convince his mind it wasn't that bad to jump out a window, although his body was screaming at him not to do it. Finally, he decided "screw it", and jumped out.

Surprisingly, Ninten was right: it didn't hurt at all. Some of the house must've been underground, because it wasn't as far as a drop as he thought. He quickly ran out of the way as Ninten landed right next to him, a book in his hands.

"I had just enough time to grab it," he explained. He held it up, revealing it was the diary he showed Ness just a few minutes ago. "You never know what we might encounter."

"You think... we're gonna be gone that long?" Ness looked into the window of Ninten's house, to his room, seeing a pink-skinned creature walk in and out of view. Ninten sighed.

"I don't know," he said, exasperated. "I just... I don't want to leave, but..."

Ninten stared at the house, where the creatures that had taken over his family were. *'But there's no where else to go,'* Ness added silently. He found himself staring at the ground.

"...You think we should try my house?" Ness asked quietly. He saw Ninten out of the corner of his eye move his head from the house to the ground. Ninten sighed.

"Maybe," he mumbled. Then he said louder, "I just don't want what happened to my family to happen to you."

"Going there isn't going to change anything." Ness stared at Ninten's face, trying to figure out what he was thinking. Unfortunately, his friend's usually expressive face was currently blank.

Ninten let out a breath. "I guess... Just... check first. We don't really need anything else..." His grip visibly tightened on the baseball bat he'd grabbed. "But just in case. Better than to be safe than sorry."

"Exactly. Let's go, then." Instead of running, this time they walked, the atmosphere saddening Ness. It had been a perfect, summer day, and now, since those two boys had shown up...

They had to find them.

They reached Ness' house in less then a minute. It was just across the street, anyways. And by looking in the window, he could already tell there was no way he would be able to enter; one of those creatures was now sitting on the couch, in place of his mom.

"...They're gone," he said, turning back to face Ninten from the window. "I... We have to find those kids. It's the only way.

Ninten nodded, lifting the baseball bat onto his shoulder. "Let's go, then."