A/N Chapter 5 is when, in the game, you are going to fight the mondo mole (the second sound stone piece) Ahh this brings me back…nostalgic moment. Oh and I don't own earthbound oh and about the brief Zelda reference. I don't own that either.
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Chapter 5
Ness looked inside the cave's entrance, he had snapped out of the trance-like state, "Looks safe, come on."
Paula, reluctantly, followed close behind him, Ness! Look out!"
A mole, looking quite violent, jumped at him. Ness dodged it barely; they turned to face each other, and as it prepare to jump again, Ness armed himself with his bat, "Come on stupid mole."
It lunged at him, "Eat this!" He swung his bat and nailed the mole, launching it into the wall. The mole landed on the ground and got up, "Oh want some more?" The mole looked at him for a moment then burrowed into the ground, "…warm…" Ness breathed. A warmth sensation filled Ness after the mole left.
"What's this warmth?" Paula asked. "I don't know, but I felt it when I learned Rockin' Beta," Ness answered, "Let's go."
They walked in a little further and saw a huge cavern, "Wow….," Paula let out, turning to Ness, "What are you doing?"
"Drawing."
"Drawing? Don't we have to hurry?"
"I'm drawing a map from what I can see up here."
"Oh."
"Let's see now," Suddenly getting quiet Ness continued, "we go that way…up there…turn left," Again so Paula could hear, "Ok I got I figured out follow me."
"Okay."
They walked along Ness' path until they saw a bear around one of the corners; Ness grabbed Paula and pulled her back, "Oww, Ness…"
"Bear…we need a plan," Ness took off his backpack and looked inside, "Bat, bread roll, 2 cookies…nothing like what I need…hmm…I could try blocking with my bracelet it is bronze, and I know bronze is hard." A light bulb turned on in his mind, "how much do you like that teddy bear?"
"This? I like it, why?"
"I could use it to block attacks, until it broke."
"But…," Paula sighed, and hugged her teddy one last time, "Here," She said, handing it to him. Looking around Paula noticed another path going right, "What about that way?"
Consulting his map he informed her, "It's a dead end."
"Hmm…" She started walking that way, but Ness turned and asked, "Why are you going that way? It's a dead end."
"I think I see a box, a gift box, over there."
"Where? Oh I see it." After a moment to think Ness decided, "Okay let's check that out first, but if the bear's still there we'll execute my plan."
"K." Paula smiled, happy that she got her way.
"Carefully and silently walk that way until we can't see the bear anymore."
They made their way to the gift box, they had to walk around a pool of disgusting-looking water, but when they reached it and opened it, a great charm was in it. Ness grabbed it and held his hand up high, "daDaDADA!"
"What are you doing?" Paula had a blank look on her face.
"I wonder. Here I've already got a travel charm, and I think this great charm will look better on you."
Paula put it on her wrist and looked at it, "So pretty."
"Come on, let's get that bear," Ness grabbed his bat.
"Ok, I'll run up to it while you use freeze on it, just try not to hit me."
"I'll try," Paula giggled a little.
"Hopefully your freeze will stun it long enough for me to nail it, alright? BREAK."
"You are strange."
"Whatever, let's go."
Ness ran as silently as he could until he was right behind the bear, giving Paula a thumbs up, he ducked.
"PSI FREEZE ALPHA!" A great gust of wind surrounded Paula and icicles shot out at the bear. The bear was frozen solid by the chill, but the ice started to crack. The bear was breaking free!
Ness jumped up and nailed the bear on the head. The ice shattered and the bear got up, looked around, seemingly to be confused, and ran off towards the entrance. This time the warmth lasted twice as long as when with the mole.
"It feels so nice…" Ness breathed.
"We should continue," Paula put her hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah."
They continued down the path and encountered another bear, this time it saw them. It rushed at Ness, "Use freeze!"
"Right! PSI FREEZE ALPHA!" She nailed the bear dead on, but this bear blocked with its hands.
It slashed at Ness, who blocked with the teddy bear. He jump and swung his bat. He successfully made contact with the bear's face. It was stunned for a moment but swing hard at Ness again. This time the teddy bear exploded into a pile of fluff.
Paula ran at the bear and hit it, with the frying pan Ness gave her, in its legs, it fell down. It slowly rose, and fled. Warmth came over the companions like before, only this time Paula felt like she had suddenly remembered a long forgotten ability. "Psi Freeze Beta..." she breathed.
"What was that?" Ness asked.
"What?" Paula snapped back to reality, "Sorry I zoned out for a second. I feel like I just remembered something important, a skill I had..."
"That happened to me too, when I used Rockin' Beta. I felt like I had remembered it from a long time ago but that couldn't be true."
"Oh well let's continue on, I wanna get out of this cave as soon as I can." Paula said, a little wary about continuing.
They continued onward using the same strategy to take out more bears, but they noticed their powers were harder to use every time.
"I don't think I'll be able to use Freeze again until I rest a while." Paula sighed and sat on the ground.
"Hmm, we'll just have to use physical attacks for a bit, I have a plan."
Ness pulled Paula up and they continued walking.
"Look, another gift box!" Ness ran ahead and opened it, "A candy 'Psi Caramel'! Psi! That's it, Paula."
"What is?"
"It's hard to use our powers because our Psi energy is low, here." Ness opened the wrapper, broke the bar in half and gave one half to Paula, "Eat up"
They both ate their halves and felt recharged, "Wow, it really works." Paula said.
Ness finally looked around; he was totally absorbed in the gift box up to this point, and noticed a Mondo Mole!
"Ness that thing looks tough."
"Look we just have to use our powers and we'll be fine, ok?"
"…ok."
"Ok, here's the plan, you keep using Freeze Beta until you can't then try and use Alpha until you can't. I'll be using Rockin' Beta, then Alpha too. Once we're both out, if it's not dead by then, just hit it as hard as you can, ok?"
"Right."
"Okay!"
They both ran forward in front of the Mondo Mole, "This is your second Your Sanctuary location, take it from me if you dare."
"PSI ROCKIN BETA!" "PSI FREEZE BETA!" Light and cold slashed at the Mondo Mole (A/N I'm not sure what element Rockin is so I'm assuming because Ness has Flash that Rockin is Light-based). It recoiled in pain but came back slashing its claws at Ness. It cut his left arm and sent him into the wall.
"Ness!"
"Don't stop attacking…" Ness got up, "PSI LIFEUP BETA! Better. Freeze isn't doing much. Do you have another power?"
"Fire."
"Use it"
"Stand beside me so I don't hit you." Ness ran beside her.
"PSI…"
"PSI…"
"ROCKIN…"
"FIRE…"
"BETA!"
"ALPHA!"
The combined attack damaged the mole but it was still standing. It slashed at Paula, and sent her flying back a few feet.
"Paula! You ok!"
No response.
"You stupid MOLE! PSI ROCKIN BETA!" This time the mole struggled to get up, but Ness ran forward and hit it as hard as he could with his bat. It stopped moving.
"Paula!" He touched her neck, "Whew, a pulse, she's just knocked-out."
He gently put his arms under her knees and neck, and carried her past the dead mole, outside.
"Wow…" Ness saw the Lilliput Steps Sanctuary Location.
"Ugh…What…Ness?" Paula woke up.
"You're awake!" Ness hugged her closely.
"Ness…" 'He's so sweet'
"Oh, sorry, I was worried." A tear fell from his eyes. He let her down and quickly wiped the tear.
'Aww, he does have a soft side' "What's that rock in your pocket?"
Ness grabbed the sound stone and held it out, and more of the song played out. A second dot appeared on the stone.
"So it called me here for this."
"Let's go back to Twoson."
"Okay."
They went back into the cave, but unknown to them a shadow was watching them.
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(A/N oooo spooky, shadow watching them…..so unoriginal I know, so sue me)
