Thanks for reading on to the actual Chapter 1 of Plan B!

Just a quick warning, while this story will feature a fully drawn out plot, there will be a lot of sexual action and references woven into the world and characters. If this offends you then it would probably be a good idea to not go any further. I want people to enjoy the story, but it is what it is.

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Chapter 1: Pollyanna


Three years later…

A cool breeze gently blew through the sleepy village of Onett as the sun peaked over the mountains on the horizon. It was still dark as two figures in tattered cloaks approached a large building on the southern end of town.

A man wearing a finned helmet leaned against the wall near the entrance; he looked from side to side, but mostly was dozing in the early morning hours. Dozing enough that he failed to notice the two shadows slip along the side of the building.

A window slid open and the two figures climbed inside, "You were right, they did get restocked!"

"See? They're telling everyone in town there's no food when they're sitting on tonnes of it!" The two trespassers made their way up the rows of produce and started filling bags they brought with them.

"We gotta hurry," one said as he stuffed as much as he could into his sack, "You never know when Frank is gonna…" the sound of an opening door hushed the statement as the two quickly found hiding spots.

"...that it's part of the plan, but how are we going to explain all this food?" The boys peeked from between crates at the two men who had entered the room, one muscular, the other fat with a moustache.

The mustached man looked around the room and shrugged, "We'll save enough for ourselves and our men, the rest can be burned, no one needs to know this food was ever here."

"But Mr. Minch…" The thinner man lost his words as the large man stared him down.

"Don't be a fool, if the people believe that Eagleland has sent the supplies they promised then they will continue to support a failing nation. Destroying these rations is the most effective way of convincing the people they are in need of a newer stronger government."

One of the boys couldn't help but almost growl after hearing such a remark. He quickly covered his mouth with his hand but the two men looked in their direction, "Did you hear something?"

"Maybe... the wind can make strange noises in here though," Frank looked over the tables but didn't see anything.

Wanting to be sure nothing was amiss, Mr. Minch walked across the storeroom looking down several dim aisles. The two boys huddled close behind a crate as they waited for the man to walk by. The footsteps stopped just beside them as Mr. Minch looked around the room.

"I don't see anything Mr. Minch," Frank called from another aisle.

Mr. Minch grunted, "Obviously not," the man walked away leaving the two boys to let out quiet sighs of relief.

"How do you want us to do this sir?" Frank asked once he was at Mr. Minch's side again.

"Oh…" Mr Minch looked around at the large room, "By the end of the week, get whatever remains onto wagons and dump it on the other side of Mt. Itoi. Burn it in the night and no one will be the wiser."

"Yes sir..." Frank and Mr. Minch finally left the room.

Immediately the two boys jumped up from behind the crate. In an excited motion, the first boy pulled his hood down revealing black hair, blue eyes, and a red ascot around his neck, "Holy shit Ness! We've gotta tell someone!"

The other boy lowered his hood as well, keeping his violet eyes trained on the door the two men had just disappeared through, "Yeah, but we gotta be careful too…"

"Come on, let's get outta here!" Without further warning, the excited boy picked up his bags and started running through the storeroom.

"Ninten! Don't make so much noise!" Ness scolded as he quickly followed.

Ninten opened a window and started climbing out, "It's okay, Mr. Minch and Frank went out the other side."

Ness climbed down after Ninten, "Yeah but that doesn't mean there aren't other... guards… around…" Ness dropped to the ground and noticed he and Ninten were surrounded by about eight of the Shark Guards.

Ninten chuckled to himself, "So guys… you see… the thing is…" The guards gave the boys menacing looks as they stepped closer. Ninten gulped and leaned closer to Ness, "Need a power up?"

Ness nodded, "Power up!"

Ninten put his hands against Ness's back as energy passed from him into Ness, "Power up!"

Ness grit his teeth as his hands began to crackle with lightning magic, "Thunder FLASH!" Light flashed and the crack of thunder echoed through the streets as Ness drove his hand forward. The light cleared revealing two of the guards were on the ground and singed while the boys were nowhere to be seen.

"That way!" One of the guards pointed and they all started running.

About five guards ran straight on as Ness and Ninten watched them run by from an alleyway. The two boys stepped out and laughed. Ninten pointed in the direction they ran off in, "I can't believe that worked! Ha, what a bunch of morons!"

The sound of a throat clearing caused the boy's eyes to snap open and brought their laughter to halt. They slowly looked back and saw a very large guard standing in front of the two guards who were still charred from Ness's lightning spell.

Quickly Ness pointed his hand at the large man, "Thunder!" Another loud crack of thunder filled the streets, but once the light settled, a pillar of dirt and rock stood between the boys and their attackers. The guard's hand gave off a faint yellow glow as he waved it from behind the wall causing it to collapse back to the ground.

"Earth Magic?" Ninten asked.

"Definitely Earth Magic," Ness confirmed.

"Run?" Ninten asked.

"Running," both boys turned and dashed as quickly as they could without dropping the bags of food they were carrying.

The guard grunted and stomped his foot hard on the ground. The yellow glow spread from his foot, past the two boys, then the ground in front of Ness and Ninten broke apart as a rock wall rose up effectively blocking their path.

Ninten tried to jump at the wall and climb to the top, but slid down the smooth surface, "This could have gone better…"

Ness turned around, ready to fight, "I sure wish you knew some offensive spells right about now."

"Hey, I'm a pacifist!" Ninten folded his arms and pouted.

"Then why are you the one who keeps coming up with ideas that get us into trouble?!" Ness stood in front of Ninten protectively as the guards approached.

"There you guys are!" A new voice called from on top of the building to Ness's left. Immediately a look of relief came over both boys.

A boy slightly taller than Ness and Ninten with messy blue-black hair and icy blue eyes dropped from the building and stood between the boys and the guards.

"Rock!" Ness cheered.

"Where the hell have you been?!" Ninten demanded

"Sorry I overslept," Rock yawned and stretched, "I told you I didn't want to be up before dawn on a Saturday."

The guard cleared his throat to get the boy's attention, "Move over twerp unless you want to be taught a lesson for stealing along with your thieving friends."

"Who stole what now?" Rock looked over to Ness and Ninten who shrugged while holding the bags of produce up. Rock stood up to the guard not at all concerned that the man towered over his own stature, "You're really going to stand there and accuse my friends of stealing rations that you all stole from the people of this village in the first place?"

Ninten leaned closer to Ness, "How'd he know about that already?"

Ness sighed, "He's probably been following us and listening in for a while…"

"Creepy…" Ninten shivered.

Rock sweatdropped but shook it off, "I stand by my friends here, so if you want to get to them, you're going to have to go through me!"

"You'll regret that!" The three guards made their move and charged forward.

Rock ducked under the largest guard and slid under him with a leg sweep. While the guard was off balance, Rock shot up from between the man's legs legs with a jumping uppercut which sent the earth mage soaring past the two smaller shark finned guards.

One of the guards who had already been charred by Ness tried to jump Rock next. With quick reflexes, Rock sidestepped and placed his open palm against the man's back. Light built up in Rock's hand and once it was expelled the man was launched at incredible velocity into the wall of a nearby building. The last guard put up his hands and began to run away. He made it half a block down when a sharp metal disk whizzed by his face and embedded itself into the wall front of him. Rock stepped forward and pulled the blade back from the wall and stared at the guard, "They're going to ask you when you get back what you saw here today."

From behind, the oversized guard pushed himself back to his feet and started running towards Rock again.

"Look out!" Ness called out. A glow came over Rock's hand as the guard approached. With every leaping step the guard took, the light in Rock's hand became brighter until he turned around and pointed his hand at the guard's chest. Another beam of light, much larger than the last, impacted the guard and blew him off his feet. He screamed as he sailed through the air, over the top of the nearby buildings and out of site. The echoing sound of a far off thump the only signifier that the man must have eventually come back down.

The remaining guard shook his head rapidly, "Nothing! I didn't see 'nothin!"

Rock pulled his metal disk out from the wall by the man's head, "Good, you can go now." With a nervous nod, The Shark Guard ran off in a panic.

Ness ran up to Rock, "Thanks! That was awesome!"

Rock gave Ness a thumbs up, "Let's get out of here before more guards show up."

The three boys took back roads into town to avoid being spotted by any lingering search parties.

"So did you hear what they plan to do to all the food Rock?" Ninten began to rant at an overly excited pace, "They're going to burn all the food that's for the town and tell the town that no food ever came so that the people lose faith in Eagleland and then people are going to have to keep eating mush or go hungry and become angry, desperate, and willing to do something horrible and drastic unless we do something!"

Ness nodded, "Mr. Minch did say that, I can't believe he would do something like that. But if we told anyone about what we heard who would believe us?"

Rock looked down at the sacks the other two were carrying, "You've got quite a bit of fresh food there."

"Yeah, it was all we could get away with," Ninten showed off his two bags.

Rock grinned, "If people wouldn't believe us that Mr. Minch is going to burn all the food then we just won't tell them."

"What?!" Ninten immediately huffed as his emotions turned over.

Rock grinned as he reeled the boy back down, "Let's do this instead…"

The sun was finally visible in the early morning sky as people in Onett were leaving their homes and forming queues to the stores that had only dried meat and vegetable mush to sell. People were looking disheartened as they waited their turn to be given their portions of the tasteless slop.

"It's here! Everyone it's here!" People turned their heads as they saw three boys in tunics running down the street, "The food from Threed made it last night! It's at the southern warehouse!" Everyone in town lit up as they saw the boys carrying bags of fresh food and immediately a swarm of townsfolk made their way south toward the warehouse.

Rock watched the people go and smiled, "When the people get there en masse they'll be demanding to be let in to get some food. There will be no denying that the food made it now."

"But what about Mr. Minch?" Ninten demanded, "People still won't know that he planned to burn the food."

"Pick your battles Ninten," Rock patted him on the shoulder, "Today it was more important for everyone to eat than it was to topple a dishonest loan shark."

Ness nodded, "Yeah, you saw the looks on all their faces when they saw the food? We gotta do this one step at a time."

All three boys walked up to Ness's house and stepped inside. Ness's mother was preparing things in the kitchen, "Ness, Ninten? Where did you sneak off to this morning?"

Rock leaned into the kitchen and waved at Ness's mom, "Good morning ma'am."

Ness's mother smiled, "Oh, good morning Rock, were you with them too?"

Rock nodded, "Yes, I heard the food carriages from Threed bringing fresh food in last night, so I got Ness and Ninten up early so we could be first in line to get some of it."

"Good thinking!" Ness's mom smiled, "Is your father still out of town?"

Rock frowned for a moment but quickly righted himself, "Yes ma'am, he's on important business still."

Ness's mom smiled sadly at Rock, "Well let me make some breakfast for everyone then."

A weight lifted off Ness's shoulders as his earlier whereabouts were no longer a concern to his mother. "Thanks," Ness mouthed to Rock as he carried his bags into the kitchen.

"Kiss-ass," Ninten mouthed as he walked by Rock with his bags causing them both to giggle.

Ness's mom made a large meal while the boys put the rest of the food away. Three younger girls came running into the room when they smelled something good cooking, "Real food!"

Ness's mom looked sternly at the girls, "Now Tracy, we've been fortunate enough to have never gone without real food, and while we can be thankful that today we have better food than we have for the last week, don't forget to be grateful for having any food at all."

"Yes mom," Tracy gulped and turned to the other girls, "Umm Minnie, Mimmie, help me set the table."

On the other side of the room, the boys had gotten bored and started poking each other with vegetables that were being put away. Ninten jabbed a celery at Ness's face before putting it up. Ness retorted by poking Ninten with a carrot and putting it up. Ninten pulled out a potato and bopped in on Ness's head and put it away. Ness pulled out a beet and shoved it in Ninten's face causing Ninten to jump, "Not beets! I hate beets!"

"Ness!" Ness's mom called out, "stop tormenting your cousin!"

Ness grimaced, "He started it…"

Everyone went back to working for another minute and then Ninten pulled out a large carrot and started making lewd motions with it toward his mouth to make Ness laugh. Ness retaliated by grabbing a potato and rubbing his face against it suggestively. Rock picked out two peppers and pushed one into each of the other two's mouths quickly. Ness and Ninten started coughing from surprise and then the heat of the peppers kicked in and they started fanning their tongues.

Ness's mom shook her head and laughed, "You three really are like brothers with your antics."

Ness hopped from one foot to another while trying to take his mind off his burning tongue, "How come you yell at me but don't say anything to Rock for this?!"

Ness's mom grinned, "Because I know by the time Rock steps in, you two probably deserve it."

The two boys were panting to cool their tongues and glared daggers at Rock while Rock only scratched the back of his head and showed off a toothy grin.

The moment was broken as an annoying knock started rapping on the door to the beat of shave and a haircut.

Tracy looked to her cousins and sighed, "You know who that must be…"

"I'll get it," Ness ran to the front of the house and opened the door.

Two blond boys stood at the entryway. Neighbors from up the street, Pokey and Picky Minch, the sons of Mr. Minch. Pokey rubbed his chubby belly, "Heya neighbor! Something sure smells good in here!"

The thinner boy, Picky, waved more politely, "Hey Ness, sorry our dad came home a little while ago really upset about something and started yelling a whole bunch, we were hoping to maybe hang out until he calms down."

Ness had a pretty good idea what Mr. Minch was angry for and sympathized with the boys. He turned his head and called out, "Hey mom, would it be alright if Pokey and Picky joined us for breakfast?"

An audible groan came from everyone else in the kitchen, but Ness's mom very politely answered, "That's fine dear, food is ready so everyone needs to wash up."

Everyone made room at the table for the two extra guests while Rock and Tracy helped serve the food out.

Pokey looked down at the plate and smiled, "Thank you so much ma'am, you've really outdone yourself today, this looks and smells so delicious!"

"Just shut up and eat it…" Ninten grumbled barely loud enough for Pokey to hear him.

Pokey eyed Ninten from under his hair and smiled in a way that made the dark haired boy shiver.

Once breakfast was done everyone helped clean up, except for Pokey. Picky nudged at him to urge him on and whispered, "Come on, do something to help."

"Oh I would dearest brother," Pokey pointed to his leg, "But as you can see from the swelling I have twisted my ankle, best I rest it for a few more minutes."

Ninten grimaced again, "What a lazy ass…"

The last of the dishes were put away when Pokey hopped off his chair, apparently completely fine, "Hey Ness, you gotta come with Picky and me, we got something cool to show you!"

Ninten crossed his arms, "And what is this something cool exactly?"

Pokey put a hand up in front of Ninten, "Whoa! I don't remember inviting you pacifist boy, I only told Ness to come." The hand then turned to a pointing finger towards Rock, "And unless you can be more useful than a walking flashlight then we don't need you coming either."

Rock's eyes widened and his arms crossed. Ninten was too annoyed to take it as he groaned and left the room, "Good, 'cause I don't want to hang out with you anyway."

Pokey made a rude gesture with his finger and eye socket to Ninten's back before he grabbed onto Ness by the wrist, "Come on Ness, let's go."

Ness shrugged and grabbed his shoes, "What is it you want to show me anyway?

"You'll see!" Pokey looked excited about whatever it was.

Ness was almost dragged out the door when he looked back at Rock, "Oh hey, can we meet up at your house later?"

Rock smiled, "Definitely!"

Ness called back into the house, "Hey mom, is it okay if Ninten and I stay at Rock's house tonight?"

Ness's mom laughed, "Tired of a house full of girls are you? That's fine, we'll have another girl's night."

"Thank you!" Ness waved to Rock, "Then I'll see you later."

"Come on, hurry already!" Pokey pulled harder on Ness out the door and up the mountain trail. Ness knew the trail well, he'd been up here hundreds of times it seemed and wasn't sure what was so exciting that Pokey wanted to show him. The trek to the mountain summit usually took a few hours. They were near the top when Pokey turned off the path without warning and started pushing his way through the thick brush, "It's this way!"

Ness followed close to areas no one ever really went through because of the thick foliage, "Whatever's out here, how did you even find it?"

"Picky went running away like a little crybaby and found it first," Picky sighed at Pokey's comments but didn't try and defend himself.

The brush was dense, the boys kept having to push large branches out of their way and slip between intertwined brush. Ness slowed and brushed a hand against his forehead. Picky noticed first that Ness was falling behind, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah… I just feel kind of weird all of a sudden. Like… there's something close by… something important." Ness scanned the area around him, "I don't know how to describe it really."

"We're almost there, keep walking!" Pokey barked

After climbing up through gaps between boulders and a few steep crevices Pokey stopped, "Whoa, it wasn't doing that earlier…"

Ness climbed up behind Pokey, "What wasn't doing whaaaa...?" Ness gulped as he looked around Pokey and saw a boulder like stone, and embedded in it was a crystal that pulsed in a bright violet light.

The three boys kneeled around the boulder and stared for a moment. Picky broke the silence by asking, "Do you think it's some kind of magic?"

"It's giving off light so it must be magic," Pokey stated snarkily to his brother. He squinted his eyes as the light began to glow slightly brighter, "But I don't feel anything from it."

"You don't?" Ness looked almost shocked.

"Nu-uh, why? Do you?" Pokey's eye piqued as Ness was staring at the small crystal as if he were in some kind of trance. "You alright Ness?"

Ness nodded, "Yeah, but I definitely feel something… I think I… I think I've seen something like this before though."

Without any more thought, Ness reached for it. His fingers made contact with the embedded crystal and the light intensified further, washing the clearing in a bright violet light. Both Pokey and Picky jumped back from shock. The air had suddenly filled with static, and their hair was standing on its own.

Both Pokey and Picky rubbed at their eyes to try and clear the light that had etched itself into their cornea. Once they could focus again, they saw Ness standing by the boulder, the purple gem like crystal floated just an inch over his cupped hands.

"What is that?" Picky stared in awe as he got closer to take a look.

The moment was awe inspiring; the very atmosphere around the crystal shard gave off the smell of ozone, and the light was the kind of hypnotizingly majestic sort that commanded attention. The rest of the world quieted and darkened so that all focus could be had on this one artifact of vast importance. No one said anything for a moment until Pokey held out his hand, "Give it to me."

"...Huh?" Ness and Picky both looked at him oddly.

Pokey nodded, "I'm the one that brought you here, you wouldn't have known anything was here if it wasn't for me, that makes it mine."

Ness frowned and looked back down at the crystal shard, "I guess you're right, but there's something about it…"

Pokey reached out to take it but the shard gave off another bright glow as several more beams of lightning emanated from it, setting a few small fires to nearby bushes that it struck.

"Ahh!" Pokey yelled, "Stop that!"

"I'm not doing anything!" Ness tried to defend himself as he watched the crystal emit more lightning energy.

"I don't care, just make it stop!" Pokey yelled as he hopped over a bolt that nearly zapped his foot.

Ness focused on the crystal shard for a moment and the lightning assault ceased. Pokey and Picky caught their breaths but then held it as the bright violet light from the shard expanded and enveloped Ness's body completely. Pokey and Picky both fell to the ground as the light formed a pillar that shot to the heavens. There was a final earth shattering crack of thunder and then the light simply vanished.

Ness's eyes snapped open, his irises gave off the same purple light for a moment and then faded. At Ness's feet, a magic circle of lightning was burnt into the ground. Ness could feel energy flowing through his body, an electric tingling sensation coursed through every nerve and caused his breath to shudder involuntarily as he inhaled.

"Ness? What happened?" Picky tentatively stepped closer.

Ness still didn't have control returned to his breathing, "That was… wow…"

Though it was hard to make out, Pokey raised his eyebrows under his hair, "What the hell happened?"

"I don't know…" Ness gulped as he tried to relax. The world around him suddenly looked and felt hyperreal. Every color was exaggerated to his eyes, every nearby sound was crisp, and he was overly aware of every sensation coursing through his body."

Pokey looked around at the clearing and the rune which was now etched into the ground, "Where did that crystal thing go?"

Picky finally shook the shock and disbelief from his head, "Didn't you see? It like… went inside of Ness!"

"Well then can you take it out?" Pokey looked Ness all over again.

"I have no idea how it did…" Ness blushed slightly, "...everything that it did!"

Everyone was quiet as for several minutes as Ness seemed to need the silence to collect himself. Picky eventually spoke out, "I swear I've seen or read something like this before."

Curious, Ness pressed Picky on, "Where or what did you see?"

Picky thought harder to try and remember, "I'm almost positive I've seen a picture before, like in a mythology book, there was like this naked guy holding his hand out to a huge crystal in the sky."

"That does sound a little familiar actually…" Ness tried thinking as well.

"It should," Pokey's voice hit an accusatory pitch that caused both his brother and Ness to turn and watch his approach, "It's the tale of the Champions, the same ones didn't finish the dumb ceremony three years ago."

"Oh yeah!" Picky nodded, "The Champions are chosen every thousand years right? No one really knows what happened after the ceremony failed three years ago, no one has seen the Champions since, but the world didn't end or anything."

Pokey stepped closer to Ness, "Could this mean there's a new reason that you're special Ness?" He wrapped an arm over Ness's shoulder, and immediately Ness leaned forward, his eyes shut, and shivered from the contact. "Ness? What's wrong?" Pokey's voice bled with false innocence.

"It feels…" Ness gulped, as he tried to reel in the sensations coursing through his body again, "I uhh…"

Pokey smirked from behind Ness as his hand continued to rub the boy's back, "It's fine, take all the time you need to get your brain sorted out, I'll be right here."

Ness shook his head and took in a deep breath to try and get control over himself, "I'm fine, thanks."

The sky had darkened above the tree canopy; distant thunder and a single sprinkle of rain spoke of a coming storm. Picky wasn't sure what was going on in front of him but looked up at the sky and took notice of the weather, "That changed fast, we should go back to town so we don't get rained on."

Ness immediately jumped back to his feet and shook himself off, "Yeah, let's get going!"

Picky followed after Ness and Pokey silently brought up the rear. No one noticed a dark look of realization that crossed the large boy's face.

Several minutes of hiking down the trail seemed to clear the oddness of the day from Picky's mind, or at least he began trying to get the others to get back to their rambunctious and teasing ways. Ness's thoughts however still remained scattered and jumbled as he tried to determine what had just happened to him with the limited information he had. He was still deep in the introspection when he stepped on a loose rock. "AHH!" Ness rolled off the hill side and took a shortcut down to the next crosspath thirty feet below.

Ness landed on his back with his legs still up the mountain side. Pokey leaned his head off the side, "Hey, you should be careful around here."

Ness twitched but the moment served to restore his demeanor, "Yeah, after I fall, thanks!"

The three made it back to town without further incident. "Do you think dad will be in a better mood when we get home?" Picky sounded nervous.

A look of sympathy came over Ness's face, "I'm sure he'll be better by now."

The three approached the Minch's house and noticed an unusual carriage parked in front. Guards wearing dark colors of a uniform they had never seen before stood by the equally darkly colored vehicle. The boys walked by it not giving it much thought and approached the door but it opened before they could knock. The atmosphere immediately iced over causing all three boys to take a startled step back as the door slammed open. A very tall man in a black coat with a sharply pointed mustache and arms that were as long as the boys were tall rushed out of the Minch's home, "...tables must be moved up. With the artifact finally detected in such close proximity of your town I'm sure my superiors will feel there is little other choice…"

Not one for tact, Pokey immediately asked, "Choice for what?" Pokey's father stood behind the tall man making violent motions with his hands at his son to shut up.

A monocled eye fell upon Pokey, "Oh, are these your boys?" The tall man leaned over and examined all three teenagers.

"The two on the left are, yes, the other is their… friend… I think…" Mr. Minch seemed exceptionally nervous.

Picky immediately shied away from the tall man, but Pokey put on his usual bravado by putting his hands on hips and stood cockily in place. The man laughed, "You've got some potential kid, keep that up." The man then looked over at Ness, "You though… what's your name?"

Ness narrowed his eyes and didn't say anything to the gangly tall man so Pokey answered for him, "His name is Ness, he lives next door."

"Ness…" the man grinned in a way that creeped Ness out, "There's something about you that we'll have to keep an eye on isn't there?"

"Gamgi Waluigi," A certain fear was laced in Mr. Minch's words as he regained the man's attention, "Please let your superiors know that I stand fully prepared to support them in any way possible."

"Indeed," Waluigi eyed the man carefully before he began to walk away, "I expect they will be eager to take action here most… immediately."

The boys watched the man enter the strange carriage in front of the house. The guards climbed aboard as well and the large horses began to pull the carriage away.

Mr. Minch watched the carriage carefully as it left, "Boys, I need you in the house, NOW!"

Both Pokey and Picky flinched but they obeyed and entered the house, "See ya Ness."

Ness nodded to the two of them and was about to leave, "Ness..." Mr. Minch spoke the boy's name in a low tone that caused his skin to crawl in dread.

Slowly Ness looked over his shoulder at the man who he had been hiding from just that morning, "Yes sir, Mr. Minch?"

"You will speak nothing of what you saw here to anyone, do you understand?!" Mr. Minch's voice left no room for interpretation in his instructions.

"Yes sir… not a word…" Ness tried to sound sincere enough for the man to let him go.

Mr. Minch waved him off so he ran back to town as quickly as he could.

Ness's tunnel vision was so bad as he ran towards Rock's house that he didn't even notice he ran past Rock and Ninten on the street, "YO! NESS!"

Finally Ness slid to a stop as he noticed his cousin and best friend waving at him, "Sorry guys, it's been a freaky afternoon."

Ninten's eye piqued, "Umm yeah? You were with Mr. Freaky himself."

Ness looked disapprovingly at Ninten, "We all know what kind of an asshat Mr. Minch is, he puts Pokey and Picky through just as much if not worse than he does to the town."

Ninten shrugged, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, at least in Pokey's case if you ask me."

"That doesn't matter right now, something's going on, we need to go talk!" Ness led the way back to Rock's house and made sure the door was locked before he sat down.

"So…" Ninten pressed while Rock leaned against the wall giving Ness his full attention.

"We went up to Mt. Itoi," Ness gave the others the details of his day. The expressions on their faces changed when he brought up the crystal shard, "After I touched it… well it just floated in my hands for a bit and Pokey tried to take it but it like zapped him or something. It gave off an even brighter light that shot to the sky and left all these weird marks on the ground. It disappeared after that, but I've felt like really… weird isn't the right word… I can't even describe it!"

"You sure you didn't fall off the trail and hit your head again?" Ninten had already noticed a bit of a lump on Ness's head when he got back.

"I'm serious this happened!" Ness defended.

Rock nodded, "There was a flash of light before the storm hit in the direction of Mt. Itoi today… It sounds like you found a really cool magical stone on the mountain and then it disappeared. Interesting…"

Ness nodded, "But that wasn't the end! We came down the mountain and went back to the Minch's house, and there were these people there. I've never seen anyone like them before, they looked like they were wearing military uniforms but definitely not Eagleland's."

Rock leaned forward, "Did you see or hear anything else?"

"Nothing that made a whole lot of sense," Ness thought carefully, "There was this guy named Gamgi, or Waloogy, or something like that, and he was visiting with Mr. Minch."

"A Gamgi…" Rock looked alarmed as he repeated the word and the other two waited for him to think.

"Do you know a Gamgi?" Ninten prodded first.

Rock shook his head, "I definitely don't know one, but from what I've heard Gamgi isn't a name, it's sort of a rank, kind of like a general in the army."

Curious as to who he might have seen, Ness asked, "Which army?"

Rock bit his lip as though he were still thinking, "From what I've heard from my father it's high ranking officer for a member of the Golden Empire."

"Golden?" Ninten chuckled, "What are they supposed to be really rich or something?"

Ness shrugged, "They sure didn't look very golden, their uniforms were mostly black."

"Yeah…" Rock tried to explain, "Most people don't seem to like the empire, they've been expanding a lot over the last two years, and supposedly they're called the golden empire because they spread wealth and prosperity, but people also say that's just a ruse to cover up something terrible."

"I know I didn't get a good vibe at all from their Gamgi then…" Ness shivered just thinking about him.

Rock took a few more moments to try and piece something together in his head, "Did he say anything that you overheard?"

"Something about…" Ness tried to recall the exact words, "'Tables must be moved,' and 'The artifact was detected,' and 'We have little other choice,' or... something like that. I know it had Mr. Minch looking frightened."

"If Mr. Minch was scared then maybe these guys aren't so bad," Ninten laughed.

Rock rested his chin on his hand as he thought. Ness noticed he wasn't saying anything, "What do you think Rock?"

"No idea…" Rock looked back up and smiled, "but I'm getting hungry, how about you guys?"

"Definitely!" Ninten cheered.

"Your mom sent some food with us for dinner," Rock pulled out a bag and set it on the table.

The boys ate, played games, had fun, and allowed themselves to forget about the day's drama. The old house lacked ventilation and had heated up from the afternoon sun and the fire the boys used to warm their supper. Shoes, socks, and overgarments were strewn about the room near the table the boys were playing at as the three assumed their guys night uniform of undershirts and small clothes. The games went on for a few hours when Ness slammed down the last seven cards from his hand and declared, "Rummy!"

"No way!" Ninten leaned over the table, "A seven card Rummy, you gotta be cheating!"

"Nope, it's legit!" Ness grinned with his eyes closed.

Ninten looked closer, "Wait… that's a six of clubs, not spades! You are cheating!"

"Oh…" Ness looked down at the hand, "I guess it was…"

"Trying to trick us, this means war!" Ness barely had a chance to react as Ninten jumped from his seat and tackled him out of his chair.

Rock laughed as the two wrestled on the floor, rolling over each other trying to pin the other to the floor. It took him a moment to decide who to support but eventually dropped down and put Ness's legs in an arm lock. Ness's violet eyes opened wide as he felt Rock's fingers dance across the bottom of his bare feet, "AHH! NOO!" Ness couldn't keep himself from convulsing and laughing as Rock tickled his feet and Ninten kept him pinned to the ground.

As Ness pulled and kicked against the hands on him, the sensations from earlier returned and spread across every nerve ending in his body. Ness's eyes at first opened wide, and then closed tight as his breathing became quick and excited, "AHH!"

While in their underwear it was impossible to hide the effect this wave of hypersensitivity had on Ness. Ninten grinned to himself as he noticed, "You're not supposed to enjoy the punishment, how are we going to make sure you don't cheat again?"

Ness leaned back on the floor, his breath ragged again while the others kneeled over him. "Sorry, but this happened because of that magic gem thing too I swear! Since I touched it I've felt so…" Ness grinned slightly as he floated on a high of endorphins and the firing of unusual synapses.

Ninten giggled poked Ness in the side causing his breath to hitch, "I think you're just trying to find excuses for being horny all the time." Ness laughed and gasped as fingers poked him, "No use hiding it from me!"

Rock let go of Ness's legs, "I guess this means it's time for bed."

"Yeah!" Ninten hopped up to his feet and nearly dashed into Rock's room, his shirt randomly discarded as he entered.

Rock pulled Ness to his feet and whispered, "Seriously, are you okay?"

Ness smiled in a way that almost made him look drunk, "Great actually!"

Rock pushed him towards the bedroom before he blew out the candles and made sure all the drapes were shut. There was barely enough light coming from behind the curtains to see Rock pull the covers back on the bed and then he and Ness pulled off their shirts as well. Ninten immediately took the right side of the small bed as Rock and Ness fell onto the left.

Everything was quiet for a moment as the boys made themselves comfortable.

Ness sighed as he squirmed on the sheets. The feel of the material on his skin felt more real than ever before. He was almost lost in the hypersensitivity of his sensations, but he was certainly enjoying it. He could hear his friends breathing, smell the faint musk of a boy's room, and as his eyes adjusted everything began to glow as he made out Ninten grinning to himself.

The look on Ninten's face left no room for doubt that he was about to blurt out something audacious, "I haven't gotten to jerk off in like three days."

"Pffft!" Both Ness and Rock couldn't help but laugh at how blunt Ninten could be.

"It's true, there's too many people living at home." Ninten grumbled slightly, "And don't lie like you don't need to Ness, we saw it!"

Ninten and Rock looked to Ness as he giggled to himself, "I swear it's the crystal doing it! But yeah, I really want to."

Ninten chuckled and the other two could feel his movements under the covers. With only dim moonlight filtering in through the window they could make out the sheet over Ninten's groin tented high and movement starting up and down.

Without any question, Ness and Rock followed suit. They lifted their butts enough to slide their underwear off and then kicked the garments from their legs. Ness gulped as he slid his right hand across his body. His skin felt so electrified, to his hand everything felt like silk, and his own hand left waves of pleasure everywhere it touched. The moment he grabbed onto his hard penis he couldn't help but let out a deep sigh. It felt hot and hard, but also soft and smooth. The other two heard him and couldn't help but laugh a little, "What?" Ness demanded as if he was hurt by their reaction, "Like Ninten said… it's just kind of been a while."

"I said three days," Ninten chuckled, "That sigh was like three months worth!"

Ness ignored Ninten, his mind much more preoccupied with the unusually intense sensations he was feeling.

Rock grinned but focused on his own stroking. Rock pulled his hand out from under the sheet and held it up to his mouth as he spit into his palm and then reached back down. The sound of his self pleasing motions began to make wet popping sounds as his hand picked up speed.

Ninten mimicked Rock and spit on his hand for lubricant. Ness wasn't far behind as he did the same thing. Ninten started grunting and groaning as he stroked himself faster. The bed was lacking in space for all three of them which meant their hips and legs rubbed against each other as the mattress practically vibrated from their quick movements.

The dark room was filled with the sounds of wet slips, slight moans, hitched breaths, and wooden creaks from the bed frame as it tried to support the three bucking hips from on top of the thin mattress. The air held excitement as the three boys listened to each other masturbate; every time wandering eyes met in the darkness they would only laugh with each other.

Ninten was taking in air through exaggerated gasps. Before long even those were raspy as he his body reacted to the movement and pleasure by removing his ability to take in a smooth breath. Ninten's leg hooked around Rock's as he stopped stroking and leaned closer to whisper in a husky voice, "Will you jerk me off please?"

"Sure," Rock didn't say anything else as Ninten's left hand reached for Rock's right hand. He took Rock's hand and slowly guided it to his waiting penis. As Rock's fingers circled around it Ninten gave off another moan. Ninten twitched on the bed as Rock began to stroke his slick hardness.

Ness leaned up and looked over Rock. In the dark he could just make out Ninten's eyes squeezed shut and his chest rising and falling. Ninten was the thinnest of the three, and his small stomach was rising and falling due to both his breathing and bucking hips. The cover was just below Ninten's belly button where Rock's arm disappeared into and was moving rapidly up and down under the tent the sheet made over Ninten's nether regions. Ninten's hips bucked off the mattress every few strokes and Ness could make out his cousin's legs spreading and curling under the sheet.

Rock gasped as he felt a sudden jolt. Ness's hand glided across his left hip, under the cover, and snaked his way towards Rock's groin. Rock's mouth hung open as he watched Ness's hand closely. He couldn't quite pinpoint what was happening, but he could feel something in Ness's touch alone that was ecstatic, barely noticeable but excruciatingly pleasurable at the same time. Rock's entire body shuttered as Ness cupped his scrotum, "Oh gods, is this what you were...?"

Ness realized whatever he was feeling that he must have been sharing a bit of that with Rock. He slid Rock's foreskin down and back up the head allowing his finger to gently slide over the gland. Rock started breathing through his teeth as he squeezed Ninten gently and sped up the stroking he was doing to the other boy. Ness squeezed harder and stroked faster causing Rock to start bucking his hips as well.

Rock's left hand snaked its way across from his own belly to Ness's thigh giving him a slight squeeze before moving up. The touch on Ness's thigh sent a ripple through his body; he had to bite down hard to keep from moaning out like he did before. He felt the hand gently caress his right thigh and then it reached his balls. The fingers squeezed his balls gently, and Ness flexed his dick out of reflex and groaned.

"Oh!" Ninten squirmed and writhed more as Rock's right hand moved down to cup Ninten's balls as well. Ninten's left hand moved to find Rock's dick and met with Ness's hand that was still on it. A similar tingle flowed into Ninten through his contact with Ness's hand. In that instant he almost felt drunk as he giggled to himself and began to stroke Rock in tandem with Ness.

Ness actually slid himself closer to Rock so more of their side was touching as they touched each other. His thoughts weren't forming words any longer. The skin on skin contact from his torso down his right leg pushed his rational consciousness to the side. Rock could feel at as well as he wanted nothing more but to continue the movements which caused friction against Ness.

Ness's mind was screaming. This thing, this wonderful thing that was already leading him down a path of intense pleasure needed to reach that release. For some reason it was important, more so than any orgasm could ever be alone, he innately knew that he needed to cum and that it signified something much more important than he could comprehend in the moment. It was driving him mad; he hardly even noticed his own moaning as Rock began to stroke him.

"Oh… ohh… Oh!" Ninten couldn't help but look over Rock to see. Ness's upper body was completely exposed. He envied Ness for being more muscular than he was, and Rock was more muscular still but they were both really lean. Ness and Rock's arms were crossed much like his left arm was crossed with Rock's right. They were speeding up to the point that all of their bodies were nearly vibrating on the bed.

Feeling a little devious, Ninten used his free right arm to pull down gently on the sheet. The way the sheets were tented from their jerking motion made it easy to pull the sheet down a little bit, first exposing himself to the night air with Rock's hand still stroking him. He kept pulling slightly and pulled the sheet down from over Rock and then Ness.

Ness didn't even care about the removal of any modesty he might have had, though a sensation, a source of friction had been altered which he did notice and sought to replace it. He began to grind his body against Rock's left side harder. Overcome in the moment, Ness stared through the darkness at Rock's dick then his eyes shifted to Ninten's.

Ninten was curiously looking over the other two as well. Both Ness and Ninten looked up at almost the same time and caught each other looking, momentarily snapping Ness back into rational thought. Though they were both slightly embarrassed by how caught up they were in what they were doing, they quickly realized the other was just as into it. They grinned at each other and laughed off any awkwardness feeling instead a connection growing between them as they made themselves completely vulnerable to each other. Comparing what they had the boy's noticed Rock's equipment was the biggest between the three of them, it looked almost an inch longer and a little thicker than Ness's own. Ninten's was almost the same size as Ness's maybe just a little thinner, it was hard to tell in the dark.

Rock silently watched the moment play out between his friends, knowing well the silent conversation taking place and allowing it to run its course. He squeezed both their dicks to bring them back to the task at hand.

"Ahh!" Ninten's leg muscles locked which caused his hips to vibrate faster. Ness found his leg entwined with Rock's and the sides of their bodies rubbing against each other harder. Ness could also feel Ninten's hand tighten over his own which was still jerking Rock off.

Ninten's fingers clasped between Ness's, "I need you too for just a second." Ninten pulled Ness's hand off of Rock's penis and pulled it to his own. As he suspected, that electrifying touch Ness was somehow emanating came with his hand and sent a jolt of energy into his body through his penis, "That feels so good!"

Ness rolled onto his side so his far hand could return to touch Rock while his nearer hand continued to cup and stroke Ninten. Rock was being smothered between the two as Ninten held one hand from of each of his friends tight against his erection while his leg sought out contact with the leg Ness had draped over Rock's as well. Sweat gathered on Rock's brow as the skin grinding against his own electrified and overwhelmed his senses while Ness's left hand began stroking him faster.

"I'm gonna… I'm gonna!" Ninten bit his lip as he raised his hips much higher than before.

"Me too…" Rock breathed out hotly.

"Guys I…" Ness choked out as he neared his limit.

"I'm cumming!" Ninten went first, his sperm shot across his body, his first shots puddled near his neck while the last shots dribbled out near the base of his dick, "Ahh! Wow…"

Ninten's left hand gently gripped onto Rock's balls as he came and what felt like a sort of feedback flowed through the hand over Rock's penis. Ness's eyes opened wide, his breathing was uncontrollable, his heart was pounding furiously, "I'm!" Rock could see something big building inside of his best friend, "Oh yes! Oh yes!" A glow came over Ness's eyes, just enough to reflect a violet light off the ceiling as his body arched in orgasm. Each of Ness's spurts fired a different distance, first hitting his stomach, then launching all the way to his face, then back down. As the last dribble fell from Ness's dick, his eyes closed, and when they opened everything was normal again.

Rock felt in tune with the sensations crashing across Ness's body. The orgasmic energy flowed through Ness, down his arm, and directly into Rock's hard penis. There was nothing Rock could do to edge or stay off his orgasm as he closed his eyes as well and was washed over by a flood of sensation that seemed to pull him towards his friend, "I'm… I'm cumming!" Ninten watched as Rock's testicles tightened and semen exploded from his cock, landing on his chest with hushed splash sounds.

All three boys were drenched with sweat and out of breath. They looked at each other as if to confirm they were all in the same condition and then laughed. Ness pulled a cloth off the nightstand and wiped himself up real quick before passing it down the line. Rock examined the rag first, as if he expected it to glow from Ness's semen. It looked normal so he wiped up and passed it to Ninten who took the cloth and made a face, "You guys, ewww." They all laughed again as Ninten wiped up anyway.

The sheet was pulled back over them and they began to pass out almost immediately.

Not completely sure of what happened, Rock couldn't help but ask, "Are you okay Ness?"

"Yeah, I'm great!" Ness responded immediately with a sleepy smile.

"You sure?" Rock rubbed his hand along Ness's arm as if to test something.

Ness shrugged, "Yeah, everything feels a little more normal now… but better. It's hard to explain."

Rock nodded and yawned, "Say something though if anything changes… or if… you know… you need to do that again."

Ness giggled as he rolled to his side, "Definitely will need to do that again. Good night Ninten, good night Rock."

"Mmmph," Ninten responded as he was almost out already.

Rock's eyes closed as he found a spot to rest against both his friends, "Night you guys."


End Chapter

I know I have a tendency to make very dark themed stories, and while this one may have a few dark moments I at least wanted to get things started on a bit of a light hearted note. Banter between Ness and Ninten felt like a good way to do that. And this is a yaoi, so the hot scene at the end of the chapter is just kind of a requirement.

Hope you enjoyed it, let me know what you think in the reviews and I'll respond on Tumblr.

'Til next time!