Theme: 4. Dark
Pairing: LucasxNana
Summary: It surprised him to learn she was afraid of the dark.
Rating: K

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Lucas woke up for the third time that night to hear crying. He kept thinking he was dreaming, but as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, the crying continued.

Who was it? It sounded a bit like a girl's crying, but it's not like he knew the other smashers well enough to place a voice to a name.

The little psychic boy shrugged and licked his lips. Groggily, Lucas went to the bathroom he shared with his roommate, Ness. After pouring himself a cup of water and swishing it around in his mouth, he realized something else.

The crying had grown louder.

Maybe whoever was crying was in the next room. Or this whole house was haunted.

Lucas really hoped it wasn't the later.

"Should I go check it out or go back to bed?" Lucas silently wondered.

The crying got louder, this time sounding like a pitiful wail. Lucas decided a little investigation wouldn't hurt, as long as he wasn't caught...by Master Hand, or worse...a ghost...

Lucas steeled his jumpy nerves and crept quietly out of his room, trying not to awaken Ness, and stepped out into the hallway. The crying continued to his right and he looked at the door there. Using a small flash of PK Love, he lit the hallway up up very briefly and saw the eggplant symbol on the door.

He also noticed that the door was partly open...and that the crying had lessened.

"Who's there?!" a voice hissed.

"Ulp!" Lucas took a step back as the door swung open. A very disheveled figure stood in the door frame, though he couldn't recognize who.

"I h-heard crying..." Lucas stammered. "Please d-don't...hurt me..."

The person in front of him suddenly began to giggle. "Hurt you? Why would I do that?" It was definitely a girl and Lucas narrowed it down to who it could be. It wasn't one of the older girls and the figure wasn't round like that pokemon...that only left the girl with a twin brother. What was her name...Lala? Mama? NO! Nana? Yes! Nana the female Ice Climber.

"Nana? Um, are you...okay?"

Nana paused and slowly shook her head. "You're the first to hear me...I guess you'll want to know why I was...?"

Lucas didn't know what to say. What does a twelve year old boy say to a girl he hardly knows when she's obviously scared? Nana continued talking, not really caring about the awkwardness of the situation. "It's...embarrassing to admit, but I have a terrible fear of the dark. Popo doesn't know...especially since he's such a heavy sleeper..." she sniffed. "It's not so bad at home because I have the hall lights left on until Mom and Dad go to sleep. But here...all the lights are shut off at once and it scares me." Nana whimpered again.

Lucas felt bad. Being a timid person, he had a lot of fears but he outgrew his fear of the dark after his night light broke. If only there was something he could do...

"Hey...you're not holding any lights...how did you make that flash just now?" Nana asked.

"Oh...I have psychic powers. I used a technique to check the symbol on your door to see who you were," Lucas explained. An idea dawned on him. "Do you want me to show you?"

"Sure..." Nana sounded curious. She led Lucas inside her room and partly closed her door. "Don't worry about Popo, he couldn't wake up if Captain Falcon drove his Blue Falcon by really close to his head."

Lucas dared to smile. He pointed his finger upward and focused his mind to create a bit of light. Nana's face lit up in both emotion and through the light and Lucas saw how happy she looked. It made him relieved to know she wasn't crying anymore and he had stopped her crying as well. He moved his finger all around them, making the light look like it was dancing. Nana giggled as she watched the light dance around her. It was so pretty...

"I've never seen Ness do this kind of trick before..."

"W-well, we're different...different minds use different powers," Lucas explained. This made perfect sense to Nana and she nodded. The light began to flicker and Lucas yawned. "I'm s-sorry, Nana, but...I'm really sleepy..."

Nana nodded. "I feel better now...thank you, Lucas..." She went over to her bed and huddled under the covers. "I th-think I can go to sleep now..." she yawned.

"That's good. Um...good night, Nana..." Lucas said, creeping out the door.

"Good night...Lucas..." Nana drifted off to sleep as the light disappeared and the dark took over again. Lucas went back to his room and crawled back into bed. A few minutes later, he fell asleep with a smile on his face.

"I finally did something good...Mom and Claus would have been happy..."

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By my standards, this is pure CUTENESS. I LOVED this little oneshot.

Can't believe I had half of this written since summer and only NOW it's finished. Blarg.

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