Chapter 3

Lucas had only blinked, taking in all of this knowledge, "So basically...Ninten gained his unique powers by...pretending to be Captain Danger?" Ness only laughed, "So that's what you gathered from my whole journal entry", he asked humorously, "that's not exactly all there was to it if that's what you're thinking!" Lucas shrugged, "You're mom is scared of Ninten", he continued, ignoring Ness' tone of sarcasm, "also Ninten's ability has something to do with some sort of beam of energy that goes through solid objects. Yours is healing, right? It kinda makes me wonder what my power is gonna be, since you said I was like you guys and all." Ness returned the bookmark to the journal. He sensed a certain sad tone to Lucas' words, "Just be patient", he tried assuring, "It will come to you eventually. It's not like I'm not excited about it, but it's not good to rush these things."

Lucas touched his forehead and he only tried to focus. He had no idea if he truly wanted to know what he would be able to do in the future. A different part of him wanted to know so dearly what would happen that it hurt. It was the part of him that screamed curiosity. It was the perfect opportunity for anything, he thought. He was right near his best friend and a healer at that, so he figured that heck; he might as well try something. Lucas smiled at Ness nervously and he had noticed that Ness had been sitting patiently on the bed, looking at his journal again. He only ever showed patience, Lucas had noticed, when he was around him.

"Ness", Lucas called to the other, "would you mind...if I try?" Ness looked up from his blanked-out time with his torn pages, "Hmm," he asked regaining himself, "try what?" Lucas wasn't sure exactly what he was doing, or how to 'activate' these so called powers, but besides that he did what his gut and his instincts told him to; and that was take in a deep breath. Ness felt that strange strength in the air, that he had noticed was a lot like something he had felt now from Ninten, except it strangely and inexplicably had a certain 'Lucasy feel' to it. This immediately caught his attention and turned him from his book to Lucas. Ness watched in a strange excitement as he saw that Lucas was indeed trying to find his power, and was actually making progress. Lucas touched his index to his forehead, and he felt a strange and warm heat to it. Ness felt this energy in the air as well, as a sort of sense. Lucas' hand warmed up suddenly, and this surprised him quite a bit.

He felt something withing his head, something that was different, and he tried to grasp onto this. Ness had noticed a narrow stream of blood that slid down to Lucas' chin, and also that his tightly closed eyes began to show red on the sides as well. "Lucas," he called out warningly, "You're nose, it's-" "I know", Lucas countered, slight pain in his words as he kept focus, "Just a bit longer Ness, it's so close..." The single drop soon became another drop, followed by several others as a stream began to form down his face. He's trying way to hard, Ness thought, it's hurting him. Water mixed with the blood from Lucas' eyes as he began to cry; the pain in his head growing more immense with each second of his attempt. He tried so hard to hold on and grasp this felt energy, but to his avail he could not.

Ness acted quickly and efficiently under pressure, using his powers to heal Lucas' pained mind. The green energy flashed from his hands brightly, as it's healing properties began. Slowly, Lucas' eyes opened, and his pained expression faded along with his attempt. Ness noticed that Lucas seemed completely well, and the green energy from his hands faded as Lucas got up and wiped his blood covered chin. "Thanks Ness," Lucas replied as he rubbed his now numb head, "I really mean it." Ness smiled as his eyes focused now on Lucas after dispersing the remaining energy, "You should really be careful with that", he replied, "Don't ever try that again unless I'm around, alright? I think it's a little early for you to try to learn your power anyway. You should just relax for a bit." Lucas looked down in a bit of shame for scaring Ness. He could tell that he was a bit worried for him. "I'm sorry," he said quietly. Ness just patted his back reassuringly; as a Ness way of telling him that he was forgiven. "Just sit back and let me keep reading", Ness replied, "You want me to keep reading...right?" Lucas shook his head, and this made him now very excited, "Yeah", he exclaimed, "tell me how you got your powers now! I want to know if it could help me out."

Ness jumped back onto his bed, reaching forward towards his discarded journal and taking it in hand. "Okay," he said, "but I warn you: it is a very graphic scene and you may want an adult. I'm serious, it's filled with drugs and murder on every corner!" Lucas simply rolled his eyes, sensing Ness' obvious sarcasm. He was a bit tired from his stunt earlier, and he wasn't really in the mood for a lot of humour right about now. "Just read Ness," he replied monotonously. Ness chuckled nasally, and without any further words, began.

"February 12, 2009," he read the date. Lucas looked up at him a bit confused, "Two-thousand and nine? That's a year ago! Are you sure it was back this far?" Ness only winked at his with pure charisma, "Positive", he said.

My day started off as quite a surprise, when the doorbell suddenly rang and when I had answered the two new kids Lucas, and his twin brother Claus, were who I answered it to. They had come visit me at my house.

"Wait", Lucas suddenly interupted, "February 2009 was when I moved to Onett with my family. What does this have to do with-" "Listen. Just listen." Ness continued.

-at my house. Two identical faces stood in my doorway, the blonde standing behind the red-haired, and he seemed to be afraid. I had greeted them a bit cautiously, as I wasn't quite sure why they would be here. The red-haired Claus shook my hand with no problem, but when I offered a greeting handshake to the other, he simply stood still. My mom had also came to the door after to greet the two of them, and she seemed fairly excited by their apparent resemblance. She mixed up their names, and I corrected her. They had left shortly after their introduction to my mother and I, saying they were stopping by to greet everyone in town. As they had faced to leave, I had noticed that Lucas had looked by at me. I smiled and waved towards him, and he shyly waved back at me. Tracy later commented on how he seemed like he would be lost without his brother, but I didn't say anything.

When it was nighttime, I had decided to try and sneak out, and I had made I outside with no problems. I brought along my backpack and my baseball bat, since you never know what could happen. I needed some fresh air, and I decided to walk to walk over to the nearby park to relax and hang around there just to calm down. I couldn't sleep for some reason. I felt something strange and different in the air.

Apparently somebody else couldn't get any sleep either. I had noticed somebody on the swings that was sitting there and swaying just slightly. They had noticed that I was there shortly after I had noticed them, and when I was close enough I recognized this person as one of the twins. The light from the nearby streetlamp shone over a part of his face, and I seen that it was Lucas from the blonde coloured hair. I sat down next to him on the other swing, in quiet for a while. I looked up towards the sky. It was filled with countless stars.

He was the one who actually started a conversation. He asked me why I was out so late, but I countered him with the same question. After the silence came through again, I told him the basics. He told me something I could never forget though. He said, "No matter how bad of a day you have, you could always remember that the stars in the sky will always stay, and the night will bring another day."

Lucas looked over to Ness, "I said that," he asked, "I don't remember ever saying that to you." Ness laughed lightly, "I didn't really expect you to, since it was a year ago and all." He continued on.

Lucas had left right after that and he had went back to his house. While he was gone I had stayed and continued to repeat his words in my head.

Author Note:
Hey, if anybody is reading this out there, I'm sorry that this chapter is lacking. I promise that some things will happen in the story eventually and that there will be a plot. I'm mostly just copying all of this from my notebook(which takes me a long time) and fixing anything up just a bit. This is my first story pretty much ever and I am still in high school so please don't be too harsh, but don't be to nice either! I hope you enjoy my original story, and please if you have any questions or suggestions or anything just tell me. ENJOY! :D