Disclaimer: I don't own the Mother series it belongs to it's rightful owner.

Claus was currently in Twoson and had been for the last 5 minutes. He was searching high and low for Ness and had even started asking people if they had seen him. After searching for another few minutes he realized that Ness wasn't there. Sighing he teleported to Threed to begin his search there.

Claus had no luck finding Ness in Threed so he checked Fourside only to come up with the same results. This only leaves Summers left. Upon arriving he started to ask around and the first person he saw was a lady at a cart selling something called Magic Cake. He decided to ask her first. He walked over to her.

"Excuse me madam I don't mean to interrupt your business but I was wondering if I can ask you something."

The lady just smiled at him. "Sure, what do you need?"

"I'm looking for someone. He wears a yellow and blue striped shirt, dark blue shorts, has purple eyes and has a red baseball cap on his head. Have you seen him?"

"Oh, that sounds like the same boy who got me to open up my business again. If your asking if I seen him today then yes I have. He bought a Magic Cake from me. Though he was extremely sad."

Claus was happy to hear that, but felt bad that he was the one who hurt Ness. He had began to think that maybe Ness had gone to somewhere he hadn't been to before.

"Really, so where did he go?"

"He went over to the docks. Not long after the boat that takes people to Scaraba left so that's probably where he went to."

"Thank you." Claus said before running off toward the docks.

So Ness did go to somewhere Claus hadn't been to before. Well at least he now knew how to get there. He began to wonder what kind of place Scaraba was. Pushing that thought out of his head he stopped running when he saw a sailor standing next to a boat. He then walked over to the man.

"Is this the boat that takes people to Scaraba?"

The man simply nodded his head. "Yep, you need a ride?"

"Yes, I believe a friend of mine took a ride earlier?"

"The only person who took a ride today was a boy about your age. Turns out it was the same boy who defeated the Kraken and made the sea safer for us sailors. Although I must admit he was extremely sad when he asked for a ride. Said he could have teleported there but he wanted to cross the sea to get there."

Claus sighed at hearing that another person had noticed that Ness was sad. "Okay can we please hurry up? I don't want to miss him."

"Sure let's go." the man said as he got on the boat with Claus following him. They sailed and when a few minutes arrived at Scaraba. "Well here we are. Now do you want me to wait here for you?"

Claus shook his head. "No, I can teleport too. I've never been here before and I can't teleport to places I haven't been to."

"Alright then, see ya." the man said as he left.

Claus started looking around to observe his surroundings. He noticed that the town area was extremely small though there were a lot of merchants around. He then saw a desert out in the distance. Looking around he didn't see Ness anywhere so he concluded that Ness must be in the desert which he wasn't happy about. He never really liked deserts. He then started walking toward the desert.

"Man it's so fucking hot here." Claus complained as he was walking.

Claus then saw a pyramid and started walking toward it. Standing in front of it he observed the pyramid unable to believe something like this even existed. He had never seen a pyramid before and was really fascinated by it. Turning around his eyes widened at what he saw. To his horror laying on the ground was a severed arm with a lot of blood around it. As he walked around he ended up finding another arm and a leg.

"My god, what happened here?" Claus asked as he observed the horrific scene in front of him.

He then saw something that spread fear through his entire body. Laying on the ground was a bat that was clearly familiar to him. Walking over to the bat he picked it up and saw that it was clearly Ness's. Looking around again he figured out that the scattered limbs clearly belonged to Ness.

"N-no it c-can't be." Claus said with disbelief. He dropped the bat and started running around the desert trying to search for Ness's body, but couldn't find it. Returning to the bat he picked it up and held it close to him.

Claus felt tears falling down from his eyes. He now believed that Ness was dead and the culprit took his body away somewhere. Clenching his fists he started repeatedly slamming them into the ground.

"Damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it DAMN IT!" Claus screamed as he kept slamming his fists into the ground. "It's all my fault, my fault, my fault."

"Claus!"

Claus didn't even bother wiping his tears away as he turned his head and saw Lucas and everyone else walking toward him.

"There you are Claus I was wondering- hey what's wrong?" Lucas asked.

Claus didn't say anything, but simply held up Ness's bat and moved his finger around pointing in different directions.

Everyone started looking around and their eyes widened at the scene in front of them.

"My god." Ninten said as he held his hands over his mouth.

"These are Ness's limbs. I don't know what happened, but he's clearly dead. He would have eventually bled to death." Claus said as he stared at the ground.

No one wanted to believe what Claus was saying was true, but the evidence around them clearly proved otherwise. Tears started rolling down everyone's eyes as they realized that their friend was gone.

Lucas looked at his brother with tears in his eyes and saw that his brother was a complete wreck. He had a feeling that he would be considering that Claus was the reason why Ness ran away in the first place. He then place a hand on Claus's shoulder trying to comfort him, but Claus just shrugged his hand off of him.

"I'm going home." Claus said as he stood up and ran before teleporting away.

Lucas watched sadly as his brother left. "Poor Claus, he must feel so guilty."

"I refuse to believe it."

Lucas looked at Ninten as he started shaking. "Huh?"

"I refuse to believe that Ness is dead. He just can't die so easily! He has to be alive he just has to be!"

Poo sighed as he rubbed his pointer and thumb over his eyes. "Take a look around you Ninten. Three of Ness's limbs were cut off. Like Claus said if he didn't die immediately then he would have bled to death. Just face it Ness is dead."

Claus opened the door to his and Lucas's house and kicked his shoes off then his socks. Walking toward the Bedroom he walked in and threw his socks to the side before climbing on his bed and laying down with his left leg bent and his right leg laying flat. He sniffed and rubbed his eyes unable to believe what happened. Why did this have to happen? Ness was gone because of him all because he said the wrong thing.

"Claus, are you okay?"

Claus turned his head and saw Flint standing in the doorway. He then sighed and shook his head. "No, I'm not. I made a huge mistake and it cost the only person I saw as a friend his life. It seems like the only thing I'm good at is making mistakes."

Flint walked over and sat on the edge of the bed. "What kind of mistake did you make?"

Claus sighed. "You remember meeting Ness right?"

"Ah, the kid who had a crush on you?"

Claus nodded his head. "Yeah well he-wait how did you know he had a crush on me?"

"It was pretty obvious by the way he looked at you. So let me guess, he confessed to you and you either rejected him or didn't know how you felt about him. He didn't respond well and ran away. Am I right?"

"Yeah, that's exactly right. I really don't know how I feel about him, but it's what I said afterwords that was a mistake. I told him that I didn't think I could fall for someone like him. I didn't mean to say it like a bad thing. I just don't understand how he can fall for me. I'm not good looking, I'm not the nicest person in the world. I made so many mistakes while he probably never made one. Do you see where I'm going with this?"

"Ness clearly saw something in you that you don't see. You should ask him the next time you see him."

"How can I ask him? He's dead!"

"Are you sure?"

Claus blinked in confusion. "What do you mean? Of course he is!"

"Did you find his body?"

"Well no, but I did find 3 of his limbs so his attacker must have hid his body somewhere."

"Someone isn't classified as dead until a body is found. That's why I believed you were still alive and I think that he was kidnapped for some reason same as you."

"What makes you think that?"

"I just know it."

Claus smiled. "Thanks dad, I feel a lot better now."

"No problem son."