Chapter 8: Trapped In Threed, The Zombie City!
Once the tour bus had exited the tunnel Sarah drew in a breath...the town was...dark...but it was almost mid day! "Moon look at this." she said tapping him on the shoulder. Moon looked outside, the whole feel of the town was dark...depressing...and scary. There were barely any people outside and those that were didn't look too eager to talk.
"It's literally almost a ghost town!" Moon said as he looked out the window. They both looked at each other. "I hope our friend...whoever he is...is alright." Moon said quietly. Sarah nodded nervously.
The tour bus skidded to a halt, Gorgeous led Moon and Sarah off the bus. "Look like we have to say goodbye for now." he said. "This town seems pretty gloomy...but I'm sure you two can light up the place with your own little brand of sunshine!"
"Thanks Gorgeous, we'll do that." The man smiled and got back on the bus. When he closed the door, Lucky stuck his head out the window.
"Thanks again you two. Hope to see you again sometime!" the bus started to exhaust fumes again, "Look for us to be singing at some theater in Fourside!" he said waving goodbye. Moon and Sarah waved goodbye back to the Runaway Five as the bus drove off down the street.
"Um excuse me." a man said approaching them, "you two aren't from around here...also your just kids...but I need to tell you that zombies and ghosts run rampid in this town. You two should probably pick up some weapons from the department store if you are tourists, I doubt the normal Fry pans and Sandlot bats made in Twoson will help you much here." he said. "There's also supposedly an arms dealer around here who'll sell you some cool explosives like bottle rockets and bombs! Anyways, you two lovers stay safe now." With that he ran off down the street.
"Did he say..Zombies?" Moon asked. "Oh brother, what if they caught our friend?" they both shivered, that was an uncomfortable thought.
"I'm sure he's fine Moon, if we ask around I'm sure we could figure out who he is, he's probably well known, just like you and me!" Moon gave an uncomfortable smile,
"yeah...popular...just incase this takes longer than we think we should probably get a better bat and frying pan like the guy recommended." he said rubbing his arm. He still didn't want to tell Sarah that he wasn't well known, popular, accepted...he still had to tell her about Dark Moon though, no way she was letting what happened in Twoson go until she got her answer.
The two walked into the department store and bought their items, a Minor League bat for Moon, and a Thick Frying Pan for Sarah. After paying for that and a bit of food, Sarah made a movement for the exit when Moon held her back. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"Um, do you mind if I call my mother, I want to check how things are going at home...also I need to talk to my sister, she's working Escargo Express, there are a few things I'd like to drop off. Sarah nodded, and he walked over towards the payphone inserted a dollar then called his mom.
"Hello Moon...is that you?" his mother asked.
"Yeah it's me," he responded.
"So how are things going?" his mother asked. "I heard that you got a girlfriend on your journey." Moon went red, this was what he was going to tell his mother. "I received a call from Mr. Polestar last evening, he told me about how Sarah was joining you on your journey...as an actual girlfriend." Moon groaned.
"As you can probably imagine I was surprised, I mean a girlfriend...just like that...I'm sure she's a good girl Moon and you she has my full consent...that is assuming she knows about...your problem?" Moon flinched, his mother didn't know about Dark Moon, no one did. The problem she was referring too was Moon's...well...lack of friends.
"Yeah...she knows." he lied.
"Good good, so she'll understand that you'll be quite...clingy...anyways, I'd love to meet her, but you can tell me more about her later...you see I have this weird feeling she's right next to you." Moon glanced to his side, Sarah was indeed right next to him, but she couldn't hear anything as evident by the look of concern in her eye. "Well if she is right next to you say hello to her for me...I gotta go now I'm in the middle of cleaning the toilet...Bye!" she said before hanging up.
Moon dialed the Escargo Express number he had received earlier as well. "Hello this is Escargo Express!" his sister said. "Is that you Moon? Big Bro! It's me Tracy, I'm working part time for the Escargo Express...what can I do for you? Do you need someone to come an pick up some stuff?" she asked
"Yes Tracy Sarah and I need to…" Moon slapped himself,
"EEK!" Tracy's voice rang. "You have a girlfriend? Just like that? Moon that's excellent, you're finally a normal kid! What's she like? Can you bring her over sometime? I'd love to meet my soon to be sister in law!"
"TRACY!" Moon shouted.
"Just saying Moon, don't mess things up with her...we'll send someone to pick up your things right away!"
"How'd it go?" she asked.
"My mother's fine with the whole boyfriend girlfriend thing." Sarah lit up at these words,
"Excellent...what about your sister?"
"She's sending someone from Escargo Express to pick up something...I doubt they can carry everything...so help me figure out what we'll need and what we won't."
The two sat down on a bench outside and looked through their stuff. "We probably don't need the backstage pass anymore." Sarah said. "It's only good in Twoson, not anywhere else." Moon nodded.
"Are you sure you want to keep your Teddy Bear with you?" he asked as she put it back in her backpack. Sarah nodded,
"I kind of need to sleep at night." she said going red.
"It's alright," Moon said. He pulled out the pencil eraser, "You never know when we might come across another pencil statue, no doubt in my mind Giygas had something to do with that." he said putting it back in his backpack.
Next, Moon pulled out the map he had checked out of the library. "It's kind of a waste of space." he said looking over the map. "I'm sure we can figure out where the only places of importance are by asking...hang on!" he looked closer at the map. "It...looks like there's some sort of northern outlet by the cemetery, only...the map doesn't mark where it leads to!" he responded.
"Well, you can have the map delivered back to you at any time, so I guess if we ask people about a northern outlet that they don't know about, then we'll keep it with us." Sarah said to him.
A man wearing a white shirt and a red hat and pants walked up to them. "Hello I'm from Escargo Express, you're Moon right?" he asked. Moon nodded. "Good good, I'm here to pick up your stuff, I'm sure you knew that already...but your delivery charge is 18 dollars. You can cover the bill right? Moon nodded again and withdrew the money from his pocket. "What can I take off your hands today...I can take up to three things." Moon handed him the backstage pass, then the map. "Is there anything else?" the man asked.
"Nope we're all good." Moon said. The man took the items and walked away away.
Sarah was glancing from side to side, it was odd, the town had such an eerie feel, it was dark, cold, really depressing...but no sign of...
Danger!
Sarah felt something hit the back of her head. "Ow!" she said rubbing the back of her head. Moon turned around, only to himself being hit by seeds as well. Kids around their age were wearing a pumpkin on their head, wore a bright yellow shirt, and was carrying two tiny round objects that looked like pumpkins. Moon had his suspicions considering they were being onto with what looked like quite the careful grip.
"They're giving off dark energy." Moon said. "I hope you don't mind taking these kids on." Sarah was a bit concerned about hurting them. All they were doing was spitting seeds at them after all.
"BOMBS AWAY!" One of the kids shouted throwing the pumpkin at both of them. The pumpkin landed on the ground in front of them and exploded!
KA-BOOM!
The bomb exploded throwing them across the street. "Damn it." Moon grunted, Sarah saw both kids preparing to throw yet another bomb at them.
"PSI Freeze α!" she shouted. The beam of ice hit one of the kids and encapsulated him in ice. The other kid screeched in rage, and threw his own bomb at them. Moon quickly pushed Sarah to the side, the explosion threw him into the side of the drugstore. Sarah looked at him, he was badly burned, and possibly had a concussion after being thrown into the side of a brick building. She concentrated and aimed at the last bomb in the kids hand. "PSI Fire α!" she shouted. The jet of fire shot out of her hand and hit the bomb.
KA-BOOM!
The bomb exploded throwing both kids into the side of a building. Sarah stood still for a moment to make sure they weren't going to get back up. Then she ran over to Moon, "Are you okay," she asked with worry.
Moon grunted, "Yeah...just gotta…" his hand flashed green, only when he placed it on his own head, the burn marks didn't fade.
"What...happened?" Sarah asked. "You can't be out of energy...your hand just flashed green." Moon got up, he struggled for a bit, but he was still able to stand.
"I guess Lifeup alpha can only heal so much...I may need a stronger version or something." he grunted as he got up. "I guess I'll have to power through for the time being." the second he said that, he immediately wished he hadn't."
"YOU CAN'T!" Sarah cried, "Moon you're hurt, don't push yourself too hard! Can you please try again? For me!" Moon sighed, he concentrated his thoughts on a stronger Lifeup, He felt it within him, but it was telling him that this wasn't alpha...it was something different it was telling him Lifeup . Sarah watched as his hand flashed a bit more green light than usual he moved it over himself and all his burn marks faded. Sarah gave him a sweet smile, "see you just needed some encouragement." Moon took her hand. "Let's ask about that northern passage, it'd be best if we checked it out." she continued.
They walked past a huge circus tent, where a man with blonde hair was standing. "Excuse me sir, we were wondering, is there a path or something north of here?" Moon asked
The man flinched for a second. "Well, I'm not sure, but rumor has it that there is an underground path at the end of the graveyard." he said wiping his brow. "A-also, if you were to go through the path you'd meet some dirty, stinky, ugly, powerful monster...that's all I know...please don't eat my brains!"
"Um...we aren't zombies." Sarah said.
"T-that's what you want me to think, I'm outta here, I gave you what you want!" the man shouted as he ran off.
The couple noticed that some people were walking in and out of the big circus tent. "I hope you're not afraid of clowns." Moon teased as he poked Sarah in the side.
"I'm not afraid of clowns Moon." Sarah said.
"You've clearly never seen the movie It then." Moon responded. Sarah couldn't help but feel good with him next to her, She thought it was nice that he was trying to make light of the situation.
The two stopped a man coming out of the tent. "So what's with the circus tent?" Moon asked. "You guys don't look like circus performers." The man gave them both a suspicious look.
"This tent is the headquarters of the Zombie Relief Corps." he said. "We try to come up with ways to crush this stupid zombie invasion, but everything we keep coming up with is just another way for us to get crushed."
"Did you try asking them to leave?" Sarah asked. Moon laughed, the man on the other hand looked at them with fury,
"Don't make a fool of us, if you two think you could deal with it then I'd like to see you take them on in graveyard!" he scoffed before walking away.
"Well, I mean, with no other leads, we might as well check it out!" Moon said. Sarah nodded and the two set off towards the north. Sarah was keeping herself at the ready, that dark energy that had surrounded Moon in Twoson was frightening to her and she wanted to make sure he was alright. However, this proved to be a challenge, Threed was uncomfortably cold.
Danger!
The two walked past a puppet lying on the ground. All of a sudden, the puppet came to life and slapped Moon over the head. "Hiyah kiddos!" the puppet said with a cold voice. "I'm Handsome Tom!." Sarah shifted uncomfortably, she wasn't a big fan of puppets...and this was very creepy.
"PSI Thunder α!" she shouted. A bolt of lighting shot past the tiny puppet without even touching it. "PSI Thunder α!" Once again the lighting shot passed the puppet. The puppet turned its head a hundred and eighty degrees to look at the lighting strike. Then it snapped itself back into place.
"Watch it girl!" it snapped. "I'm made of mahogany wood do you have any…" Moon whacked the puppet with his bat.
"Stupid freaking puppets." he muttered turning to Sarah. "Sarah...are you sure your okay...what happened with Thunder?" he asked. "You must've missed it by at least two feet." Sarah hid her face in embarrassment. She had forgotten about what the cultists talked about. Lighting wasn't easily controllable, it was a force that would take time to master properly.
"I'm...not able to use it properly...lighting, unlike freeze and fire, isn't that easy to control." she said with a hint of sadness. Moon took her hand.
"It's alright Sarah..I'm sure as time goes on you'll be able to control it."
Out of nowhere, another bomb landed next to them and exploded. They both landed next to another puppet, with a really uncomfortable smile. "Defense down α!" the puppet shouted. Sarah felt herself being surrounded by blue light. Then the puppet slapped her...well that was kind of an understatement, she felt like she had been punched in the stomach!
"PSI Fire α!" Sarah shouted. No fire came out of her fingers. "Damn it." She said to herself. Moon came to her rescue, and knocked the puppet out. Then he grabbed her hand and swiftly ran towards the cemetery entrance.
The two ran to the north where they were halted with the edge of the cemetery. "Moon...please stop...I'm...out of...energy." Sarah panted,
"I can tell." he responded whacking another puppet. Sarah rubbed her head, it was throbbing a little after that puppet slap. She heard herself saying something,
"Magnet...PSI Magnet! Concentrate Sarah!"
She concentrated her thoughts on PSI Magnet, all of a sudden, she felt herself draining some sort of...energy. She was surrounded by some sort of blue circular light as well. The puppet was within the light. "Am I draining it's PSI energy?" she asked herself. "Only one way to find out...PSI Fire α!" fire shot out of her fingers and the puppet was burnt to a crisp. "Sweet!" she told herself.
"Sarah lookout!" Moon jumped in front of her, he swung his bat hitting another pumpkin bomb back the way it came.
KA-BOOM!
The bomb exploded throwing another kid with a pumpkin on his head into the air and onto the street. "Nice save." Sarah said. She turned inwards towards the cemetery, "Let's keep looking."
Several flies swarmed them immediately as they entered the cemetery. "PSI Fire α!" Sarah shouted, the flames shot past the insects, they were moving to fast for her to make a target. Moon looked around for something of help, the insects were moving to fast for anything to possibly hit them. Then on the top of a garbage can in the cemetery, there was a spray can. He grabbed it, the label read "Insecticide Spray!" he shook the spray and pressed down on the nozzle, a small blast of moisture came out of the top surrounding the insects killing all of them instantly.
Suddenly, Sarah felt an icy hand on her shoulder. She tensed up, it had a firm grip and was cold as ice. "PSI Rollin α!" Moon shouted, the bright beams of light hit the hand of whatever was on her off. They both heard a horrible screeching sound that sounded like
"HELP!"
Instantly several ghosts floated over to aid of this ghost. "PSI Freeze α!" Sarah shouted. The beam of ice hit the ghost in the center freezing it and falling to the ground.
"PSI Rollin α!" Moon shouted. The last few ghosts were enveloped by bright multi colored lights and vanished.
Moon was breathing quite heavily, the amount of monsters was stressful. "You still good Sarah?" he asked. She nodded, There were no more zombies, ghosts, flies, or puppets around. "It Looks like they've calmed down though, let's keep going." he continued.
The two continued through the cemetery when they came to a stop. In front of them were two human-like figures with pale blue skin, and blood red eyes.
"Zombies." Moon whispered, "What should we do?"
Sarah glanced at them, both zombies seemed to just be staring at each other, they clearly weren't bothered by the fact that a ghost had screeched for help, or explosives going off. "Just approach with caution, maybe they won't do anything." she whispered back.
The two approached the zombies, bat and frying pan at the ready. The zombies turned and looked at both of them. All of them just looked at one another, the blood red eyes of both zombies was an uncomfortable sight for both of them. It felt like they were staring into both of their souls.
"You know...maybe I should step in...afterall, you aren't doing much to help the current situation. Maybe I could convince them otherwise!"
Moon ignored the voice, there was no need for Dark Moon to take over...Sarah's safety or well being wasn't at stake and he wasn't in a sticky situation that required any sort of action, plus he was still hoping that Sarah would forget about the Twoson incident.
"Oh the silent treatment, real original...you can't do this forever! She wants to know, you know she does, how long are you going to hide me from her?"
Moon shook his head. Turning to Sarah, she was also in a deadlocked state looking at the zombies "Let's go," he whispered. "They aren't going to budge, we might as well figure out a different way to make them move...if we attack they may call for more backup than we can handle." Sarah nodded in response. As they both walked away the zombies began groan a bit.
Suddenly Moon's head throbbed...he had a flash vision, a boy with black hair, glasses, and hazel brown eyes was sitting in a bed tinkering with broken spray can.
Moon shook his head, that had to be their next friend...but...where was he? He found himself in front of the hotel Sarah was saying his name.
"Moon...Moon?" she asked. He was snapped back to reality, "Are you sure your alright?" Sarah asked. "You've been...in a daze...is something wrong?" Moon shook his head just to make sure he was really there.
"Yeah...I'm good Sarah." he said. He looked around, there was no way to tell what time it was in Threed, the sky was dark all the time...that's when he noticed something peculiar. Outside the front of the Threed Hotel was a woman with blonde hair sunglasses...and...um...a rather questionable outfit for Threed's climate. Her skin was also significantly pale.
"Sarah...how far away are we from a beach?" he asked
Sarah noticed the woman standing by the hotel. "Who the hell where's an outfit like THAT here, I'm freezing!" she said irritably. The woman took notice of them staring at her and immediately moved over to both of them. They both felt a little bit of dark energy emitting from the woman, they immediately braced themselves for an attack.
"No need to be alarmed." the woman said with a scratchy voice, "I heard you two are looking for someone special...I think I might be able to help you...if you could just step into my hotel room, I'll tell you."
"Why do we need to follow you?" Moon asked.
"To dangerous," the woman responded. "Zombies are everywhere, some are even posing as humans!" Moon glanced uncomfortably at Sarah. "I'll be in room two on the first floor if you want that information." the woman said before walking into the hotel.
"What do you think?" Moon asked turning to Sarah.
"We have no other leads...but we are going to need help with we are ever getting through this." she replied. "But...that woman...just...why?"
The two entered the hotel, there was no one behind the desk...but that didn't matter, they were visiting, not staying. "First floor second door." Moon said as they approached the door. He reached for the doorknob only for his reflexes to start screaming again.
DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!
Moon opened the door hesitantly, two zombies, two more ghosts, and a zombie dog immediately jumped out of the room and tackled them,
"PSI Fi" Sarah began, she was cut off suddenly, as another cold hand was placed on her, her whole body froze up. She could see the woman looking at both of them, there was no remorse, or regret, just a dead evil stare into her eyes.
The zombie dog ran up to her...but she never saw it get there, just a flash of pink was the last thing she saw before passing out.
(Below Threed's Cemetery)
Sarah awoke with a dizzying pain, everything was spinning, her head was in massive pain, and she was freezing. She felt a hand on her head and all of the pain vanished, she became aware of her surroundings. She was now in a dark cave...there was light coming from...somewhere. She got up and brushed herself off,
Moon was sitting curled in a ball. "I'm sorry...for everything." he mumbled. Sarah could tell he was trying his hardest to not cry. "I should've known what was coming...now...just look at this mess...we're trapped and alone...I...oh who am I kidding, Pokey was right, I was only just going to get you and the others killed...I'm a failure."
Sarah grasped his hand she hated to see him like this, "Come on Moon...don't think that way." she said. "You're a good leader, this is nothing more than a set back We'll be fine!"
Moon looked up at her, "How?" he snapped. "The door's locked, we don't know where we are, and to make things worse, there's a zombie army that knows our location!" Sarah opened her mouth but quickly shut it. He was indeed right, there was no possible way out. Their PSI powers couldn't possibly break them out they were much to weak. Then she sensed a bit of dark energy emitting off Moon again.
"Moon...can I ask you something?" she asked. He nodded in response, "You're emitting a tiny bit of dark energy just like in Twoson...why?"
Moon flinched, he wasn't going to be able to talk his way out of this one...he took a deep breath and then said. "I can't really explain it." Sarah gave him an obvious look of doubt. "I can however, show you...you've shown me that you could probably handle it."
Sarah waited for him to do something, he just looked into her eyes. After what seemed like ten minutes of silence, Sarah finally decided to speak. "What are you doing?" she asked.
Moon stared into her eyes. "Promise me this." he said after a moment. "You're about to meet someone...special If you get uncomfortable, scared, or I bring harm to you or myself...promise me you'll tell me to stop, that's the only way I can come back.
Sarah was now a bit worried. "Moon what are you going to do?" she asked nervously.
Moon shook his head. "I'm not going to do anything other than become someone else." he responded. "I'm going to relinquish control for you to meet the person who is giving off the dark energy." Sarah gulped which he caught sight of. "Do you not think you're ready?" he asked. "I completely understand if your not, this becomes a secondary effect in our relationship, it's a responsibility that you and I both must deal with."
Sarah hesitated, "No, I believe I'm ready," she said slowly. He smiled then leaned in and kissed her on the cheek.
"Very well, Sarah..goodbye, I'll see you soon." he said. Sarah stared at him, after a moment his eyes flashed red. Then his eyes became the same cold and heartless stare she had seen back in Twoson. This was what he told her about before.
"Hello Sarah." Moon said with a rather cold tone.
"Moon...if you're trying to play a joke on me...it's not working." she responded.
Moon laughed coldly, "I assure you this is far from a joke, I'm Moon's...uh darker side...or something like that."
"So who are you then?" Sarah asked.
"Moon prefers to call me Dark...by some logic I happen to also be him...so...Dark Moon will work just fine." he responded. "Anyways, you're quite adorable." he said eyeing her up and down. "Although I don't think that purple is really your color, perhaps a little black and red would work." Sarah frowned, this Dark Moon, wasn't really doing anything of interest other than just giving her a cold and emotionless stare.
"So...what'd you think about what I did to Dan?" he asked. "Moon seemed pretty bent out of shape when he noticed that the loser had slapped you..naturally it was my duty to take over, he forced me out though after just whacking him...thanks to you." he added with a grunt. "Same thing when I had him in my grasp, you stopped me yet again...I hate that you have authority."
Sarah blinked, "Authority...take over...forced out?" she asked with confusion. To her surprise Dark Moon smiled...though it was quite an evil one.
"Yes Sarah." he said harshly. "As Moon's girlfriend you have a certain...role. You can ask me questions I am bound by a rule to answer you with full honesty, with a few exceptions. Or as Moon has probably already made you aware, you can force him back in control."
I can ask him a question that he has to answer. Sarah thought, what do I ask him though? A whole world of opportunities opened up before her, she could ask him to help get them out, she could ask why Moon was so nervous around her, that's whens she paused. "Moon said he can be dangerous." she said to herself. "He doesn't seem that bad really though...wait...that's what I ask him. Based on his response, I can question further."
"Dark Moon...Moon told me you are dangerous...so why are you acting nice?" she asked.
Dark Moon laughed again. "Wise question, I can see why Moon loves you, you're no idiot by any means" Sarah frowned. "Anyways, I'm dangerous because that's my nature. I'd make an example with that teddy bear of yours if it hadn't been destroyed by the zombies."
Sarah drew in a breath. "What?" she asked quietly. Dark Moon crackled.
"Yeah, that teddy bear of yours was ripped to shreds by the zombies, your telekinetic powers drew the bear in front of you, the Zombies must've hated the color pink because they attacked the bear instead of you!" he said withdrawing the bear from Moon's backpack. One arm, leg, ear, and eye of the bear were all missing, on top of that there was a bunch of fluff sticking out of many tears on the bear. "Gotta admit, I could've stepped in to save you...I have quite the knack in getting out of trouble, physical trouble that is."
Sarah had to turn her head away from his cold and heartless stare, it was getting really uncomfortable, plus the addition of her teddy bear in his hand was unsettling. "No I have to keep listening to him...he probably knew something that could help us get out of here." she told herself.
"I can tell that you and him are very much alike," Dark Moon said after a moment, "You're starting to feel uncomfortable with me around, but much like Moon, you know that you have no other option." he said inching closer to her, Sarah made an attempt to back away, but he grabbed her wrist and held it tightly
"Darkness is a beautiful thing Sarah...and soon...very soon...You...Moon...and your other friends...will be surrounded by darkness, evil, horror." he leaned in closer so both their faces were mere inches apart. "All it takes is the tiniest little..."
"MOON STOP!" Sarah cried.
Dark Moon blinked, then he shook his head. His eyes slowly became more soft and passionate, then his grip weakened, almost instantly she felt all the dark energy disappear. He quickly backed away from her and held his head. "Moon...is it you?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah," Moon responded holding his head. "Yeah...usually, did he...you two didn't? Did you?" he asked. Sarah quickly shook her head.
"No, he tried, but I stopped him before he could." she responded. Moon relaxed a little, "So, Dark Moon..what's it like sharing your body with him?" Sarah asked as he rubbed his own head.
"It's...painful." he responded. "He talks a lot, and usually after he's been in control I...ergh!" he he said punching his head. Sarah sat down and made a motion for him to follow. He sat down next to her still rubbing his head. "So...what's he like?" Moon asked after sitting in silence for a few minutes.
Sarah was caught off guard, "You don't know what he's like?"
Moon shook his head. "I only know about Dark because of our talks, when he takes control I lose my own surroundings...based on what he says and the fact that I'm always in great pain whenever I take control back, I could only assume that he wasn't friendly."
"No one has ever bothered to tell you what he's like...your family, friends, no one?" she asked.
Moon hesitated on his response then went red. "Um...yeah...they don't know...no one other than you does. I've been keeping him a secret for nearly ten years." Sarah started to feel a little bit uneasy. "I started hearing his voice one day when I was outside, at first I thought it was my dog. Then, when I was about seven, I started having blackouts at school and ending up at home. After about another week, he appeared to me in dream."
"What happened?" Sarah asked, she had him talking about the burden she needed to carry. She needed to know as much as possible.
Moon bit his bottom lip. "He...said he wanted to make a deal, told me that he was some sort of special dream, a dream that is both real and not real. He told me that I had the power to allow him to step out of his "world" and take my place if I ever needed." Sarah nodded to show she was listening. "Then...he said that some "outside force" placed him here and that he was supposed to take over and help with some things if I wished."
"Okay Moon, I understand the backstory, but...why did you say I have to help you carry this burden?" Sarah asked.
Moon sighed, "He presented me with a proposition, I could be in control, but if I was ever too angry. He could step in and handle the problem for me. I agreed, and he started slowly taking control."
"What do you mean by...control?" Sarah asked. Moon bit his lip yet again.
"I started losing track of time...he took control and held me in for days on end. One time I gave him control and woke up a whole week later...Naturally I knew this had to stop, I stopped giving him control, just like that, I pulled the plug on his raid. Unfortunately, it was too late, he had already gotten me with his back up plan, my temper. He can still waltz in whenever I am in a bad mood...like with that kid...Dan right?"
Sarah stared at him, this was honestly a bit frightening, everything that he had told her was interesting at best...but where was she was supposed to fit in?
"So...you said I had a burden to carry." Sarah said. "What is that burden?"
"You...have to basically be my...um...keeper?" Moon said with doubt. "All I know is this, Dark Moon specifically stops if he is asked with force or concern from someone else for my safety. You've already done this three times Sarah. Once at the theater, earlier this morning, and just now. You have established your authority, you have proven to me that you care about me enough to take that role."
Sarah turned away, she was trying not to show her fear. "Moon...I'm not sure I can...now that I've heard about this." she said. "It's not that I'm afraid of him...but...you say I have to get you back...what if I can't?" to her great surprise she felt Moon's arms wrap around her. Her heart started to beat faster, this was him doing something without her asking him to.
"If you can't get me back, I have to fight him to get my control back." he said softly, "I know it seems like alot to ask of you Sarah...but you can definitely do this...I know you can." she started to relax as he continued to hold her. "I never told anyone for this reason...because I knew that I'd be asking for something...next to impossible. If you don't want to...I completely understand."
Sarah finally found the courage to hug him back. "Thank you for trusting me with this." she responded with a mixed tone of happiness and sadness. "I'll try my best to help you keep your dark side under control...you and I will make a perfect team, and once we get out of here and meet our other friends there's nothing Giygas can throw at us!"
Moon smiled, his head was still throbbing...this was a little concerning, it had never hurt for this long before. "Thanks Sarah...um...sorry about your teddy bear by the way." he added.
Sarah smiled brightly, just the sight of it made him happier. "It's alright." she responded. "I can try to fall asleep without it."
The two layed on the rough floor of the cave. "Moon...I'm...um cold." Sarah said. Her teeth were chattering and the ground felt pretty icy. Moon turned over and placed an arm around her and drew her closer to him.
"Does this help?" he asked with concern.
Sarah smiled before turning to him. "Yes, it works perfectly fine...thanks." she responded with glee. Moon smiled back to her. "Goodnight Moon."
"Goodnight Sarah!" he responded back.
(Mindscape)
Moon arrived back in the empty void. "Fantastic...I suppose that you want to talk again Dark?" he asked into the void. He waited for a few minutes, but shadow didn't appear. Instead, light shone in front of him and Sarah entered the void as well.
"Hello," Moon said. "I thought you had enough of me for one day?"
Sarah giggled, "No...I assure you that you'll never be too much for me to handle." she said taking his hand "Although...I do wonder why both of us are here."
Light shone once again and the images of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo all entered the void alongside them.
"Oh...um...hello again." Ness said. "I see you rescued Sarah, great job on your part Moon."
"So...I suppose you two are in need of help...which is why we are here again." Poo said. "What can we help the two of you with?"
"Um we're trapped," Sarah said. "Zombies captured us and put us in this cave..the door is locked and our PSI powers aren't enough to get us out"
"Ah...yeah..Threed," Paula said slowly, "Well...in terms of what you can do to get out of that cave...you're going to need to ask for help."
"We are literally doing that right now." Moon responded. "So...what do we do?"
"Not from us...from your third friend." Ness said. Moon looked at Jeff, the resemblance to him and the boy he had seen earlier was strong, the main difference was the hair color, unlike the boy, Jeff had blonde hair like him. However, he took notice to the fact that Jeff was looking at him and Sarah with a evident look of concern.
"Just one problem." Sarah said. "We don't know his name...I can't contact him telepathically without his name!"
"How in the world do you not know his name?" Paula asked. "That voice should've told you!"
"Moon? Do you know?" Sarah asked. Moon's head suddenly clicked in as he remembered what the voice communicating with the Mondo Mole had told him.
"If you don't deal with them here, that means Giygas must warn The Trillionage Sprout! By then they'll have met Erick!"
"Sarah...our third friend, the one from Winters...his name is Erick!" he said. "We can contact him, tell him where we are!" Sarah lit up,
"Hurray! Erick will rescue us! Then we'll combine together as a Triforce and SLAUGHTER THAT ALIEN!" Sarah shouted. She and Moon both hugged each other and then kissed, before vanishing.
"Did they just?" Jeff asked.
"Yes...yes they did." Poo responded.
"That's not supposed to happen, this is bad, really bad, LIKE SUPER BAD!" Jeff shouted.
"What why?" Ness asked. "All they did was kiss, they're in love Jeff and they should be.
"No, no they shouldn't." Jeff responded. "PSI gets stronger based on your emotions, you and Paula weren't in love on your adventure!"
"So what's the problem?" Paula asked. "I told her to not be afraid to go for it."
"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TELL HER NOT TO DO IT PAULA!" Jeff shouted.
"What why?" Paula asked.
"Yeah Jeff, if two people love each other, they should be together, not hiding it." Ness said.
"I agree with them as well Jeff, despite my Mu training, I know that Love is a force not to be meddled with..what could possibly go wrong with the two of them being in love?"
Jeff facepalmed. "Ness do you remember what happened when Paula got kidnapped?" he asked.
"Yeah, I had to go rescue her from a psychotic cu-"
"THE OTHER TIME, PAULA GOT KIDNAPPED?" Jeff shouted.
Ness and Paula both thought about it then went severely pale. "OH DAMN IT WHAT'VE WE DONE?" they shouted.
That's all for this chapter next up Erick's adventure in Winters a bit of a memorable moment for me, I have plans for this chapter in the making and I hope that I can get it up soon.
Personal thanks to PhoenixClaw for pointing out my paragraphs while people speak I hope I fixed that this chapter.
Anyways thanks for reading if you have any advice be sure to let me know.