Sorry this took so long, I really don't have much of an excuse other then the fact that I kept getting writers block and kept feeling lazy. I promise this won't happen often. Also, I would highly recommend reading chapters 1-3 again as I made a bit of changes to them. Hope you enjoy.
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Ninten has never seen a bat in real life before, but he still knew they where nocturnal animals and didn't like to go near people. That's why he was surprised when he was attacked by three of them at once in broad daylight practically right next to town. He was even more suprised to see they were all a bright purple, and he was pretty sure bats weren't bright purple.
[Mr. Battys drew near]
"(Why are these the most normal things I've had to fight. Actually maybe the snake was better.)" Ninten tried to hit one of them with his own bat, but they were too fast and kept flying out the way.
[Ninten's attack. Missed]
One of the bats proceeded to charge at him, but this turned out to be a mistake as Ninten swatted it after it got to close.
[Mr. Batty A's attack. Just missed]
[Nintens attack. 10 damage to Mr. Batty A]
The bat flew back, thinking about what just happened. This only hurt it's little head even more.
[Mr. Batty A thought about the situation. Mr. Batty A was confused]
The other two bats saw what happened to their comrade, but decided to charge at Ninten anyway. Unfortunately they met with the same fate as Ninten smacked them both.
[Mr. Battys B and C attacked. Missed]
[Ninten swung wildly. 10 damage to Mr. Battys B and C]
"(Wow, these guys really aren't that threatening. Maybe I can try that other PSI I learned.)" Ninten held his hand towards the bats like the book said, and said the other words that had gone through his head earlier.
"PSI Hypnosis alpha."
[Ninten tried PSI Hypnosis α. Nothing happened.]
A soft, purple light left his hand and hit one of the bats, however it didn't seem to affect them in anyway. The bats didn't even seem to notice the light.
"(Wierd, why didn't that one work.)" He decided to ignore the failed attempt and took a defensive stance so he could counter the bat's charges again. However, the first one he attacked charged at its friend instead of Ninten.
[Mr. Batty A is so confused. 4 damage to Mr. Batty C]
This started a fight between the two bats, and they wound up completely ignoring Ninten completely, leaving him dumbfounded. He was so distracted by the ongoing scuffle that he forgot about the third bat, which flew directly at him.
[Mr. Batty B's attack. 3 damage to Ninten]
The attack barely hurt, and Ninten quickly responded with another swat, causing the bat to fly away.
[Nintens attack. 11 damage to Mr. Batty B]
[Mr. Batty B flew away.]
"(Alright, where are the other two.)" Ninten looked over to see that the other two bats where still fighting each other. Feeling that there really wasn't a point to beating them up as well, he decided to leave them alone and walked away.
[Ninten ran away]
"(I really hope the graveyard will be this simple. I'd rather not get bitten by more zombies.)" The rest of the walk to the graveyard was uneventful other then the fact that the sounds of fighting bats hung in the background, but Ninten couldnt help but check his bite wounds every few minutes. Thankfully, they didn't seem to be getting worse, but Ninten wanted to keep an eye on them. Even though Mat got bit a few days ago and was still fine, Ninten was still anxious about the possibilities. It wasn't long before he came across a fork in the road with a sign directly next to it. It read "Healer house left. Cemetery straight ahead."
"(Whats a healer house? Well I guess its in the name, but whats the difference between that and a hospital? Though... whoever lives there might know something about these zombies. Besides, its not like I don't have a baseball bat and PSI if things go south.)" Throwing caution to the wind, he decided to investigate the so called "healer house". Thankfully it wasn't far from the sign, so it didn't take long at all for Ninten to arrive at a suprisingly normal looking house. He knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
(knock knock knock)
...
"Oh! A visitor!" A voice came from the other side of the door, as well as several footsteps. After a few seconds, the door opened to reveal a man with distinctly blue hair.
"Why hello their young man. What do you need?" The man was only slightly taller then Ninten, and he even had a blue mustache to go with his hair. He seemed friendly enough, but for some reason Ninten kept feeling an odd tingling sensation around him.
"Umm, I was just wondering what this place was. I mean, the sign said this was a healer house but I have no idea what that means." Ninten was still hesitant to trust strangers after the zombies from earlier, but nothing really felt off about the man other then the tingling.
"Ah, your first time hear? Well come in and I'll explain." The man beckoned Ninten inside, and while still hesitant, he obliged. The inside of the house was also normal looking, with the most odd thing in the room being the various herbs on the kitchen counter,
"Please, have a seat." The man pointed to a table relatively close to the door. Ninten sat in one of the chairs and kept an eye on the man, who seemed to be taking some of the herbs from the counter.
"Now, what I do here is treat the more uncommen ailments that hospitals tend to ignore, such as poisening or paralysis. I assure you the hospital knows of my existence, they just don't shut me down because I'm not taking patients from them." The man said, now sitting across the table from Ninten.
"(I, guess that makes sense.) And you use those herbs to treat them, right?"
"Well, the herbs help, but I actually use PSI for most treatments."
"PSI! You know PSI?!" This statement made Ninten's eyes light up. "What can you do?"
"Why yes I do, and I can use a sort of healing technique that simply removes the ailments from the body, the herbs are to replenish energy and treat potential side effects." The man paused for a second "And if I'm correct, you have this power as well."
"(That must be PSI healing that was mentioned in the journal) Yeah, well I don't have the healing powers you mentioned but, I'm a psychic. How did you know?"
"An excellent question. You see, it's not often but I have occasionally run into other psychics with healing abilities on par with mine. Whenever I'm near one I feel this sort of tingly feeling, it goes away after a while but it's a tell tale sign of another psychic."
"(So that's what the tingling feeling is!)" Ninten had a ton of other questions he wanted to ask the man, but decided to cut things short as he still needed to rescue Pippi. "So, this is a wierd question, but you wouldn't happen to know anything about the zombies would you?"
"Ugh, the zombies." The mans face turned sour. They never go near my house thankfully, but they keep botheribg me whenever I try to get into town. Why do you ask?"
"My friend was taken by them, so I'm going to save them. I was just wondering if you knew anything about them." Ninten said with determination.
"You are? My what a brave young lad. I'm afraid I don't have any advice about them, but I do have these." The man handed Ninten the herbs he had taken from the counter earlier. They where a bright bluish green color, and had fairly sweet scent. "These herbs are what I use if I need extra of psychic energy. I may not know what powers you have, but you'll need them if your going to help your friend."
"Thank you! These will help a lot." Ninten graciously accepted the herbs and put them into his bag.
[Got 2 Magic herbs]
However a new thought crossed his mind as he was about to leave. "How much do I owe you?"
"You don't owe anything. I'd hate to charge a kid with such a noble mission, and I can spare a couple of herbs. Still though, you should probably hurry and find your friend before anything happens to them.
"Thank you again sir, I really appreciate it." Ninten got up from the table and ran to the door.
"Good luck kid." The man got up and went over to the counter with the other herbs as Ninten left.
As Ninten passed the sign and sprinted to the graveyard, he kept his eyes open for more bats or zombies. He had never needed to go to the graveyard before, but he had heard from his classmates that it's incredibly creepy no matter what time it is. As he got closer he was able to see what they meant, as all of the trees in the surrounding were completely bare of leaves despite it being in the middle of summer. Soon he came across the giant gate that signified the entrance. It was wide open, but nothing seemed to be nearby. Ninten pulled out his bat in preparation and proceeded through.
"(I really hope I find Pippi soon. I don't want to stay here for long.)" The atmosphere of the graveyard was scarier then any horror movie he had watched. The sight of graves everywhere was extremely unsettling, and the fact that he could only hear the occasional gust of wind didn't help his nerves. But he couldn't leave until he found Pippi, so he ignored the instincts that were screaming at him to run and kept exploring. While he was staring at a tree that had fallen through a wall though, he saw something move in the corner of his eye.
"(Crap what was that!)" He quickly turned in the direction he saw movement and spotted what could only be described as a bad Halloween decoration. It was a strange, purple ghost that was barely as tall as his torso, but the fact that it looked just like floating bed sheet with a goofy smile made it hard to take seriously. As soon as Ninten noticed it, it started laughing historically.
[Ghost drew near]
"(Is, this thing even hostile?)" Ninten stared at the ghost for a bit as it continued laughing. Suddenly it stopped, flew closer to him, and started laughing harder.
[Ghost started laughing. Nothing happened]
Ninten was dumbfounded, but decided to ignore the ghost as it seemed to be harmless. However just as started walking away it smacked him on the back of his head with its tiny hands.
[Ghost's attack. 5 damage to Ninten]
"Hey, what the heck!" Ninten turned around to see the ghost was laughing even harder. "(Alright, you asked for it.)" He took the opportunity to smack the ghost across the face. Surprisingly enough the bat actually made contact with it instead of phasing through.
[Ninten's attack. 12 damage to Ghost]
The ghost wasn't expecting any retaliation, and gave a yelp of suprise as it was smacked. It flew away before Ninten could hit it again.
[Ghost ran away]
"(Stupid ghost, it better not try that again.)" He continued to search the graveyard while grumbling to himself. Thankfully, the remaining ghosts in the area saw what happened and avoided him. He searched the entire graveyard without interruption, but only to find that Pippi wasn't there. However, in the last place he looked he came across a piller with a hole in front of it and a ladder leading downwards.
"(How did this get here? Maybe the zombies use it as base, but can they even use ladders?)" He tried to look down the hole, but it was pitch black. He thought about yelling down it to see if Pippi was there, but decided that would only alert the zombies he was coming if they didn't already know. "(Well she's not anywhere up here, so this might be my best bet.)" His instincts were now practically begging him to leave, but he ignored them and climbed down the ladder.
It was a suprisongly short climb down into what seemed to be a cave, but that didn't make it any less dark. In the darkness, Ninten could barely make out a narrow passageway and nothing else. "(Why'd It have to be so dark down here.)" He walked through the passage, which seemed to travel even farther down into the earth until it finally ended at a mysterious room illuminated by torches with four coffins scattered around. The coffin on the other side of the room was shaking occasionally while the other three remained ominously still.
"(Maybe Pippi's hiding in one of these. It's not like there's anywhere else to look down here.)" He opened the coffin that was closest to him, but there was nothing inside of it. In fact none of the still coffins had anything in them, meaning the only one remaining was the coffin that was starting to shake even more aggressively. "(I... might as well open it. I can probably defeat whatever's in there, and if it's Pippi we can leave this freaking graveyard.)" He cautiously approached the now violently shaking coffin and took the lid off. Another force pushed from inside and after the lid came off, a shape stepped out and stared at Ninten. It's hair was an orangish reddish color, and was split into two pigtails. Of course, there was only one person he knew with that type of hair.
"Pippi?"
It took less then a second for him to confirm that the shape was, in fact Pippi. Other then a tear in her skirt and some dirt on her face, she seemed fine at a glance. But there was definitely something off about the way she was blankly staring at Ninten.
"Umm, Pippi? It's me, Ninten. Are you ok?" He got closer to her to see if she was hurt at all.
"RARGH!"
[Pippi drew near]
All of a sudden she let out what could only be called a war cry and charged at Ninten with a punch. He wasn't prepared for this and took the full force of the attack to his stomach.
[Pippi's attack. SMAAAASH! 15 damage to Ninten]
Ninten stumbled back, the punch knocking the breath out him.
"Huff... (What the heck is wrong with her? Ok, I should probably use life up, that really hurt.)" He held his hand to his stomach while he watched Pippi, who was now glaring at him with hostility in her eyes.
"PSI Lifeup alpha." Just like the first time he used it, his hand emitted a soft green light that covered the area he was punched. It even spread to the other areas he got hurt earlier.
[Ninten tried PSI Lifeup α. 23 HP Recovered to Ninten]
The soreness from the punch had disappeared, and Ninten directed all of his attention to Pippi, who was still staring at him with a hostile look. "(Crap what do I do, I can't really take her home if she keeps attacking me like that.)" She seemed to only attack him if he got close, but he had to get close if he wanted to help her, unless... His eyes suddenly widened.
"(Maybe that hypnosis PSI will work!)" He held his hand towards Pippi and after regaining his breath, used the technique he hoped would have some sort effect.
"PSI Hypnosis alpha!"
The purple light that he had summoned against the bats appeared once again and was shot towards Pippi. It hit her directly in the face, but other then the light looking pretty nothing seemed to happen.
[Ninten tried PSI Hypnosis α. But nothing happened]
"(Seriosly? Why won't it work.)" He was about to try again, but the PSI must have triggered something in Pippi because she suddenly started running at him again with her fists clenched up. Thankfully he was prepared for the attack this time and blocked her next punches with his arm.
[Pippi's attack. 7 damage to Ninten. Continuous attack, 8 damage to Ninten]
"(Sorry Pippi.)" Seeing no other choice, he smacked Pippi in the arm with his bat. It wasn't a hard swing, but it got her to back away.
[Ninten held back. 5 damage to Pippi]
Pippi tried to get close to punch him again, so Ninten readied his bat for another swing. Unfortunately though Pippi ducked right as he swung, and was hit in the head.
[Ninten's attack. 12 damage to Pippi]
"Wait, No! I didn't mean to!" Pippi fell backwards in a sitting position while Ninten started to panick. "(Crap! Why did she duck then! Ok Ninten, deep breaths, you can fix this.)" He held his hand to cast lifeup on her, but before he could use it Pippi started blinking slowly and she stared at him with a confused and slightly dazed look.
"N-Ninten? Is that you?"
[Pippi regained her senses]
[YOU WIN!]
Ninten let out a sigh of relief at this remark. "(Thank god she's back to normal) Are you ok? I didn't hurt you did I?"
"Hurt me? Why are you acting weird? What happened?" She replied as she looked around, clearly confused as to what has happened. "Where are we anyway?"
"You don't remember? Umm, (Crap how do I explain this.) your mom said you didn't come home after you went out yesterday, so I went to look for you after telling the mayor. Do you remember what happened?"
"I..." She seemed to be thinking hard about what happened. "Oh yeah! I was playing in the graveyard when these two weirdos tried to grab me. I punched one of them super hard!" She punched the air to emphasize this. "But I don't remember anything after that. Now why are you asking if you hurt me?"
"(Well she's just as energetic as normal.) Well... I found you in this cave in the graveyard, but you tried to attack me when I found you. I may have hit you in the head, on accident of course." He rubbed the arm she had punched earlier. "Also you're really good at punching, now are you sure you can't remember anything else? Was it zombies that attacked you?"
"Zombies?" Her eyes suddenly lit up as she completely forgot about the injury question. "Yeah they were zombies! I just remembered! They took me down here and put me into that box thing after they grabbed me!" She pointed to the coffin Ninten found her in. "After that I don't remember anything though, did you find them to?"
"Yeah, they attacked me to. I beat them up though, so don't worry about them."
This seemed to dissapoint her. "Aww... really? I wanted to do that."
"(That's a wierd thing to complain about.) Well, don't worry about. I doubt you could beat them anyway if they got you the first time."
"Yeah, well if you help me I'd totally be able to take them!" She started getting pouty, so Ninten decided to change the subject.
"How about we talk about this after I get you home. Your mom's worried sick about you and I'd rather not stay down here any longer."
Pippi stopped pouting as she heard this. "Ok, I'm hungry anyway. Do you have any food?"
"Uhh" Ninten remember the two herbs he had gotten from the man earlier. "(I doubt those would help hunger. Actually, I should probably eat one of them. I did use a lot of PSI today.) No, sorry."
"Really? All right then." She responded disappointedly. She got up to exit the room before Ninten stopped her.
"Wait, you should stay behind me. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Nah, I'll be fine." She responded in a nonchalant manner as she pulled out a slingshot from her pocket. "I can defend myself."
"Well at least stay close to me then." He said as he approached the room's exit. Thankfully, she nodded and only strayed a few steps ahead of him. On the way out, he ate one of the herbs while Pippi wasn't looking just in case he needed his PSI. It was extremely bitter at first despite its sweet scent, but after a few seconds it started to taste a lot like mint.
[Ninten used Magic Herb. Restored 15 HP. Restored 21 PP]
It didn't take long for them to climb out of the hole, and Ninten was never more happy to see sunlight then that moment. The graveyard still felt just as creepy, but not being alone definitely helped. He decided to ask Pippi something on his mind to try and ignore the silence.
"So Pippi, why did you come down here in anyway?"
"To play. I come down here all the time."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, I love exploring down here, and it's not scary to me. Is it scary to you?
"I mean, I'm not scared, but it's a creepy place."
"Hah! I'm braver then you are!"
"Pippi, that's not bravery. And I just said I wasn't scared."
The conversation continued until they reached the exit of the graveyard, but something was already waiting for them.
"Heh heh heh, well if it ain't the kid that offed my last two men. And the brat's with him to."
The sudden voice took the Ninten by suprise as he held his bat in front of him and looked at the figure that had come out of hiding. It was another zombie, but this one was bigger then the other two he fought, and it spoke just like a normal person. It wore a fedora, a brown coat and brown pants with a light brown undershirt and comedic red shoes. After looking closely, Ninten could see bloody holes in its chest area, presumably how it died in the first place.
"Pippi, stay behind me." He whispered so only she could hear him. "Who are you? Are you the zombies leader?"
"Right you are kid, and you took out my last men, so I'm gonna return the favor!" The zombie flashed a mean smile at Ninten.
"(Last men?) What do you mean last men? Did you only have two other zombies?"
"I had five others kid, but they were offed when we tried to get capture people to join. So now I have to do things myself."
"(So that's why they were attacking the town.) But we don't turn into zombies, how does that work. (Maybe I can district it long enough for Pippi to run)".
"I thought you would've figured it out, but the coffins you found are brainwashing devices. That girl you rescued would only have been halfway through the process right now, which is why I really don't appreciate you ruining everything! Now when I'm done with you, I'm gonna lock both of you in them until you obey, then I'm gonna rule this town just like when I was alive!"
[Gang zombie attacked]
The zombie charged at Ninten, who had gotten into a defensive position during its monologue.
[Gang zombie's attack. 14 damage to Ninten]
The blow hurt, but Ninten retaliated with a smack to the leg and backed away. He glanced around to check on Pippi and thankfully it looked like she had ran away.
[Ninten's attack. 10 damage to Gang Zombie]
"Heh, not bad kid. That strength will help me a lot when you're under my control!" The zombie then charged again, but this time it was much faster and kicked at Ninten's legs, tripping him.]
[Gang zombie's attack. 11 damage to Ninten]
He tried to get up and put some distance between him and the zombie, but it scratched him across the arm as he backed away.
[Gang zombie's attack. 15 damage to Ninten]
"(Hopefully I can pull this off.)" Ninten held his hand on his arm and yelled before the zombie could charge at him again.
"PSI Lifeup alpha!"
[Ninten tried PSI Lifeup α. Ninten recovered 31 HP]
He looked back to the zombie and braced himself, but it just stood there in shock as Ninten's arm healed.
"Your... well I thought they were the only ones" The zombie seemed dumbstruck by this, but Ninten had no idea what it was talking about.
"Who's they?" He asked warily. He stayed in his defensive position as he hoped to learn more.
"None of your business kid, you'll meet them soon enough!" The zombie snapped out of its awestruck state in an instant and charged at Ninten again. It was met with a baseball bat to the leg, but it managed to grab ahold of Ninten.
[Ninten's attack. 8 damage to Gang zombie]
[Gang zombie's attack. 7 damage to Ninten. Ninten couldn't move]
"That hurt kid, but I'm top dog for a reason! Now get ready for- OWW!" The zombie suddenly dropped Ninten as it clutches the back of its head in pain. Ninten quickly got up and looked behind the zombie to see Pippi was aiming her slingshot at it.
"Get away from him you smelly... you jerk!"
[Pippi's attack. 9 damage to to Gang zombie]
"You little brat! You're gonna- OWW!" The zombie was interrupted again as Pippi had already loaded another shot and fired it at the zombie.
[Pippi's attack. 7 damage to Gang zombie]
Since he was now forgotten thanks to the distraction, Ninten got a solid grip on his bat and hit the zombie as hard as he could in the head.
[Ninten's attack. SMAAAASH! 24 damage to Gang zombie]
The zombies head came flying off as it's body slumped over on the ground, crumbling to dust. Soon there was nothing where the advisory once stood.
[Gang zombie turned to dust]
[YOU WIN!]
"I told you I could fight!" Pippi ran over to Ninten with a proud look on her face. "We kicked that things but!"
"Yeah, thanks Pippi. That distraction made things a lot easi- urk!" The lifeup he has used during the fight wasn't enough to fix him up completely, as his leg started to hurt again where the zombie had kicked him.
"Hey Pippi, if I show you something, will you promise not to tell anyone?"
"Of course!"
"(I hope she keeps that promise.)" He healed the rest of the damage he had sustained from the battle as Pippi watched with awestruck eyes.
"PSI Lifeup alpha."
[Ninten used PSI lifeup α. Ninten recovered 16 HP]
"Wow... That's so cool! How did you do that?!"
"To make a long story short, I've had these powers for a while. Promise me you won't tell anyone and I'll tell you more."
"I promise! Pinky Promise! I can't believe you have super powers! What else can you do?" She was clearly amazed by the revelation.
"I'll tell you tomorrow, Ok? I need to get you home."
"Ok then!" She headed to the road that lead to podunk as Ninten followed closely. Little did he know that this was only the beginning of what was to come.
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Authors notes: I wanted to give the Gang zombie a bit more backstory, but I couldn't figure out how to do that without it feeling awkward, (honestly I'm still worried it feels like that) So I'll just include that and a couple of other things here.
The Gang zombie was a mob boss that practically ruled America, but was killed and buried in the podunk cemetery. He was revived with 5 other zombies for henchmen by some unknown force (though we all know what it is) and was given mind control devices. He wanted to rule like he did in the good old days, but Ninten and Pippi stopped him. Speaking of them...
Ninten and Pippi have been friends since before the story started like chapter three stated. There not best friends, but they still like each other. (Not in a weird way).
The Pippi fight was inspired by her unused combat sprite in the game that's titled Gang zombie. If you hack the game to fight it, it just says they regained their senses instead of turning to dust like all the other zombies, meaning you might have had to fight a mind controlled Pippi in the game at one point. I liked this idea and wanted to include it.
Thats it for now, I hope you guys look forward to the next chapter. And please leave a review of your thoughts so far.