EarthBound:

The Seed of Giygas

by

JamesPicard_007

Chapter 2

When last left Ness he was walking down the streets of Twoson. He had come concerned about his friend, Paula. A Starman had attacked Ness's home saying he needed to destroy Ness so that the Seed of Giygas may live. What is this mysterious seed? Read on…

Twoson

The darkened streets of Twoson reminded Ness of Onett several months again. The final days when Ness was preparing the final assault against Giygas. Except this time the little town gave Ness more of a creepy feel than Onett had.

There was no one walking the streets. No foes at all to combat Ness. Whoever was behind this wanted to place psychological fear on the town. Ness walked through the empty streets, heading for the Polestar Preschool. As Ness passed it, even Burglin Park was incredibly eerie.

The usually bustling park was now empty. Ness gripped his backpack a little more and quickened his pace. Soon he saw the preschool nearby. As with all the other houses the lights were shining brightly inside. Ness walked up to the front door and knocked a few times.

A few seconds later the door swung open and something came flying at him.

"Whoa!" he said. The object was holding steady a few inches above his face. He looked up and saw Paula's mom holding a broomstick.

"Oops! Sorry about that. Come in." she said apologetically. Ness walked in after her. The preschool looked different without all the children inside. They must have been home right now.

"Where's Paula?" he asked.

"She's not here right now." she answered.

"Where is she?" Ness asked.

"She went to Happy Happy Village. She said the source of this evil is there." she said.

"What! She went there alone?" he said. Ness ran out the door and down the path towards Happy Happy Village. Ness was nearly out of breath by the time he reached the cave to Peaceful Rest Valley. When came out of the other side the valley was very strange.

He couldn't hear the river nearby and the valley was covered in a faint white light. A strange buzzing sound was coming up from above. Ness looked up a got a shock. An incredibly large armada of Lil' UFOs were covering the ceiling of the valley as far as

Ness could see.

He walked very careful as not to attract any of the UFOs attention. The UFOs above were slowly spinning. One nearby to Ness happened to have a cold today. He had tried his cold beam on a mirror and it bounced back on him. He suddenly sneezed and saw Ness below.

The UFO began to sound of an intruder alert. Ness heard the siren and saw all the UFOs turn towards him. They suddenly flew down to attack him. Ness knew he would never be able to take on all the UFOs Ness quickly looked a round for some shelter.

There was a rock nearby with a hole just big enough for Ness to crawl in. He quickly climbed into the hole while the UFOs kept coming. They saw they were going to hit the rock, but were too late. The group in front smashed into the rock and exploded. The explosion started a chain reaction of explosions among the UFOs.

When the last of the explosions stopped Ness crawled out of the rock. The entire valley was covered in debris. Ness made his way through the debris towards Happy Happy Village. He had finally made it to the cave, which led to Happy Happy Village. He took a minute to rest before going on.

When Ness made his way through the cave what he saw was not good. The village was desolated. Buildings were destroyed and there was no sign of the townspeople. In the middle of the village a bright yellow light shone. Ness walked over to the light.

It was the shrine where Carpainter had started his weird religion. On a higher platform he saw Paula. He ran up to meet her.

"It's about time you got here." she said.

'What do you mean?" Ness asked. She pointed towards the light. Ness gasped at what he saw. At the center of the light was a repaired Mani Mani Statue!

What is the Mani Mani Statue doing back in Happy Happy Village? And how did it get repaired? Find out in Chapter 3 of the Seed of Giygas!