Chapter 33

Remembrance and Legends

“Ooooooooo!!!!!!!, Why do you wear tha’ thing? It’s too big for you” said a child’s voice, maybe only six years in age as he pointed to the boy’s hat which was obviously too large for him.

“I don’t know. I just always have” replied the boy, also seeming to be six years in age hearing the childish accent in his voice.

“Can I wear it?” the boy replied back.

“No! I never take it off!” the boy replied going into a defensive position cringing in fear of having his hat taken off, since he never took it off except for bedtime and bathing.

“Oh come on, can’t I wear it?” screamed the child in frustration.

“No!” screamed the boy in the hat as the other boy started to float in mid-air. “Go away!” said the boy in the hat as other boy went about two feet.

“Mommy! Ness did something to me! He threw me without touching me. It hurts. It hurts!” said the boy running away afraid of Ness crying, but not really in any pain.

“Honey, don’t you think that hat is slightly big on my newborn son” said Ness’s mom as she looked at Ness’s father strangely as he had put a hat on Ness meant for a teenager.

“Yeah, I think so too. He’ll grow into it and will become strong when he does” said Ness’s Dad lifting his newborn son out of the cradle. The newborn Ness seemed to be reaching for his bottle, but could not get to it.

“Honey, I think he wants his bottle. I’ve just stopped nursing him, so I want him to get used to the bottle now” said Ness’s mom.

“Well, I think he already is used to it if he is reaching for it” said Ness’s Dad with a slight chuckle as he saw the bottle move of its own free will towards Ness. It fell to the ground and Ness was crying because he still could not reach his bottle. Ness’s parents were stunned. Ness had just shown signs of telekinetic powers before the age of one year old.

“What do we do about that?” said Ness’s mom with a look of shock on her face pointing to the bottle.

“We don’t tell anyone that’s what. No one is going to believe that their kid is psychic so we’ll let him grow normally. If he does do something like that again, no one will believe and will pass it off as their minds playing tricks on them” said Ness’s Dad with a slight chuckle. “You’re going to be much stronger than I even thought. You have a great destiny ahead of you” said Ness’s Dad as little Ness smiled as his father had gotten down to grab his bottle and bring it to him. “You will always be able to depend on me for anything you need Ness, absolutely anything.”

“Die Ness die!” said Pokey in his spider suit hurling himself towards Ness in his robotic state.

“Pokey, why have you sided with Giygas?! What is it about him that has made you betray all of humanity?!” the robotic Ness screamed as he blocked Pokey’s charge and swung his bat hard enough to do some damage to Pokey’s machine.

“One word Ness, power. He has given me great power and with this power I will bring humanity to its knees as it will forever serve me!” said Pokey as he started to vent a gas to hide himself.

“Psi Freeze Omega!” Paula screamed as she saw where Pokey was and used her most effective attack against something like Pokey. Giygas was there using psychic attacks in his devil machine form but couldn’t do much. Paula had put up a triple thick shield that would nullify any psychic attack.

“That doesn’t give you the right to rule over humanity, nor does it give you any power to be Giygas’s right hand man. I swear Pokey. You and Giygas will fall!” Ness screamed as he charged straight for Pokey.

“Not again” Ness said to himself as he woke up on his rooftop with the bright morning sun beating down on his eyes. He squinted and put his hand in front of his face just to block the glaring morning sun. “I hate those dreams. It does have one thing of truth to them. My father was right in saying I had a great destiny in front of me. I just don’t like reliving the horror I’ve gone through in my life, especially the thing with Giygas. Better go see how Mike’s doing.” Ness quickly went downstairs to where Mike was laying on his couch unconscious still worn out from his latest ordeal.

“Ness, are you sure that Mike will be better off here than at his own home?” Tracy said running up to Ness. She was getting a little sick of the sight of Mike just sleeping there for the last day.

“Yeah, he’ll be better off here. Mike would flip anyway if he woke up to see Jeff doing scans on his body, so I’m just keeping him away from Jeff curious mind right now” said Ness while he started to go out the door.

“Where are you going? Don’t you have other matters to worry about?” said Tracy with a smart tone.

“That’s why I’m leaving. I’m gonna call everyone over to discuss something once Mike wakes his butt up. If he wakes up in the mean time, just tell him I’ll be right back” said Ness as he rushed out the door.

“Ness said everyone was together now, but where is everyone?” said Tracy to herself as she saw the unconscious Mike start to stir.

“So, Nolan, I hear you have five of the seven legendary blades” said Poo with some curiosity as he had seen what Nolan had just done one day ago.

“Yeah, I do. Right now in total we’ve collected six in total with Mike’s meteo sword” said Nolan relaxing in Poo’s Dalaam palace with the others with the expection of Ness and Mike.

“So, you are trying to complete the legendary sword of Heaven. The sword that descended from the Heavens to Earth after the war with Lucifer that ended the war of Lucertia, the utopia of reptiles, and Atlantis, the utopia of humanity. It’s said that the sword sent mankind back to the Stone Age with its Earth shattering power, and destroyed both Atlantis and Lucertia the second it struck the earth” said Poo recalling the legend of the sword of Heaven.

“It was then broken into the seven blades of legend. The four elemental sabers of fire, water, thunder, and soul; the Christ Blade, the meteo sword, and the last blade which no one has seen since the fall of Atlantis; I know the legend Poo” Nolan sternly said as he grabbed his trench coat to go outside for a walk.

“What’s up with him?” said Paula as she was a little amazed that Nolan looked a little mad after that. It was only the foretelling of a legend after all, nothing to get upset about.

“I don’t know. It’s best to let him blow off some steam anyway, since he’s rarely angry. I just want to know why Ness has all of us here. I just met the guy and he’s already wanting to discuss something that concerns all of us” said Ryan with a confused looked on his face. He had no clue as to why everyone was in Dalaam and why Ness wanted them all there.

“Beats me, I’ve never seen Ness with that look on his face before when he told us to go to Dalaam when he came back with Mike” said Poo as he started to walk out of the palace. “Just make yourselves comfortable, I’m just going to see how Nolan is doing and see what was bothering him” said Poo before walking outside.

“Wait Poo I’m…” said Dave as he started to walk towards Poo. Ryan quickly grabbed Dave’s arm before he even took two steps.

“Not now Dave, I wouldn’t do that if I were you” Ryan said calmly as he started to loosen his grip. “Nolan’s ticked about something else right now and it would be best if Poo talked to Nolan. I would talk to him, but I think it would be best that he talk to someone else besides another Destined One for once. Once Ness gets here, we have more serious issues to talk about.” Dave shook his head yes, seeing that Ryan was serious and did not want to instigate things.

Near the cave of the Pink Cloud, Nolan was taking out and loading several of his guns. “I can’t believe that happened. It shouldn’t have happened. I’ve done that before flawlessly without the slightest effort. Why did it have to not work properly there?” Nolan thought to himself as he was checking the clip on a pistol he just pulled out of his trench coat. “Poo, I know you’re there reading my thoughts.”

“You’re better than I thought. I just want to know why you flipped out back there that’s all” said Poo as he walked forward cautiously as he saw Nolan pull an AK-74 out of his coat.

“I’m just ticked at myself for screwing up back in Belle Vernon. I should have been able to handle Godan, Giegue, and Gorin all by myself, but I just couldn’t get going. I did something wrong with my Shadow Body that time and I’m just trying to figure out what. You just broke my concentration at the wrong time” said Nolan while shoving the rifle back into his coat. “Hey Poo, quick question.”

“Yeah, what do you need to ask?” said Poo with a curious look on his face.

“Why is it that we’re fighting when we are supposed to lose?’ said Nolan with a sharp look in his eyes.

“How did you…How could you possibly of…” Poo said with a very shocked tone in his voice. He was stunned that someone else knew of that fact.

“I’m really good at reading minds. You didn’t guard your thoughts well. Now tell me!” Nolan screamed drawing a pistol right in between Poo’s eyes.

Sweat was pouring down Poo’s face as he saw his life flash before his eyes. He couldn’t believe that Nolan was so quick to draw his gun to force information out of him. “I don’t know. You should ask Mike and Ness about that one. All I know is that there is something the Apple didn’t predict correctly!” Poo screamed afraid that Nolan was going to pull the trigger as he heard the clicking from Nolan taking off the safety.

“Go on, I’m curious to know what that is” said Nolan with a smile on his face.

“Ness’s archangel form, he was never supposed to achieve it. It was said that a human could never achieve the form of the Guardian of Earth for he would be destroyed before he ever could realize it” Poo explained as he closed his eyes and shaking in fear afraid Nolan would pull the trigger.

Nolan dropped his gun the instant he heard that. “Archangel form…when did that happen?” said Nolan as he fell to his hands and knees shocked by Poo’s claim.

“When we were rescuing Mike, we were ambushed by hundreds of starmen. Everyone thought it was over. Ness used his Fate Saint at nearly full power to save us. The archangels came down with swords and shields in hand and stopped the massive wave of starstorm attacks just unleashed to destroy us. Then, there about ten feet to my left was Ness with Paula in his arms. On his back eight blindly white wings had formed, this was where the Apple was wrong. According to legend, a human obtaining the form of an archangel is the sign that he is the Guardian of the Earth” Poo explained with relief now that Nolan’s gun was on the ground. “That has brought some doubts into my mind as to if we will actually lose. If the Apple can be wrong once, it can be wrong again. I hope.”

“That’s why you haven’t said anything. It’s because of that that you have kept your mouth shut. It’s because you were hoping that something would turn up to prove your intuition right” Nolan let out a huge sigh as he made his statement. “Thank you for clearing that up Poo. I’ll keep my mouth shut about this for now. I just need to ask you something else though. Don’t worry, this won’t be going to your head again” said Nolan as he put his gun away. “I want to know if Shadow Body can be affected by anything physical or mental, and if so what is it?”

“If you were feeling any type of extreme emotion, it would have interrupted the concentration necessary to have all three forms at the power of the original” Poo explained.

“I guess I have to control my fear and anger a bit better. The fear that comes with the territory of fighting those four combined with what happened to Casie. Well, need I say anymore?”

“No, you don’t. I guess that’s what you were angry about before. That you couldn’t do Shadow Body the way you usually do.”

“Yeah, that was it. I guess I still need some more training after all of this is over.”

“I need to get back to my princely duties after all of this is over. I just want to get back to my normal life. I just want to train, help people, be with my family…”

“And I’m guessing chasing women is also one of those things” Nolan laughed as he made his quick comment.

“Hey, who told you about that?!”

“What, the girls here talk about you all the time. It’s not that hard to see you’re a women chase.” Nolan was laughing so hard at that point he could already breathe. Not to mention that Poo was beat red from being purely embarrassed by someone he had just met.

“Why are you here anyway Nolan? I mean you don’t seem to have much reason to fight and all” Poo quickly snapped back, not realizing what he had just said.

“I should shoot you right now for that but I guess I deserved that. I know it was rhetorical, but I’ll answer that anyhow. I just fight because I care. When I first went along with Mike and Ryan, I was doubtful of this entire thing. After claming the third of Mike’s sanctuaries, well, I saw the importance of all of this and didn’t want to sit back and do nothing” Nolan stated firmly as he started to get up off the ground. “I’m not going to ask you, but you can tell me another time if you want. I’m heading back up to the palace right now.

“Hey Ryan, could I ask you something about Mike and Nolan?” Jeff asked back up at the palace.

“Yeah sure” Ryan replied.

“Well, I’m just wondering how can Mike and Nolan store so much stuff in such tiny spaces. Mike has a four foot eight inch blade in a small two foot quiver, along with other things, and wouldn’t know he even had all of that stuff unless he pulled it out. What really struck me was Nolan when he did Star Arsenal. The only way that either of those two could do store the amount of stuff in such a small space is using hyper-dimensional geometry” Jeff stated as he was wondering how Nolan and Mike were able carry what they do in such amounts in such small spaces.

“You nailed it Jeff. Those are hyper-dimensional storage devices. They were gifts to us from someone. I think his name was Dr. Andonuts” Ryan answered as he did not know Jeff last name.

“Go figure, I should have know he was responsible for those things” said Jeff.

“Ah, you know him Jeff?” Dave questioned.

“Pffftt. I don’t just know the man. He’s my father” said Jeff as Ryan’s and Dave’s jaws hit the floor.

“Honestly, wouldn’t the last names of Andonuts for the Doc. and Jeff be a dead give away” Casie commented with a slight tone of ‘You should have know’ looking straight at Ryan.

“Hey guys, I need your help with something” said Tom as he finished polishing his katana he just like to clean because it gave him some comfort at times.

“Yeah, what’s up Tom” said Paula with a slight look of wonder on her face.

“What do you think Mike would like: a new pair of gloves for his hands or a video game?” said Tom as he slowly got up.

“That was sure off the subject of what we were talking about. What’s the occasion Tom?” Paula questioned as she was wondering why Tom just said what he did.

“Definitely a game, try and get him Half-Life so he can play me sometime. Paula, today is Mike’s birthday in case you didn’t know” Ryan quickly said cutting off Casie and Tom from replying first. Ryan was definitely a big gamer as he saw that as first priority. He also threw out the other part intentionally hoping that it would take Paula, Jeff, and Dave a while to catch on to what he just said.

About one minute passed before Jeff reacted, “What?! How old is the guy today?” Jeff screamed in shock at first not really hearing what Ryan had said at first like everyone else.

“He’s the oldest out of all of us by at least five months. He’s fifteen today” said Casie as she quickly got up forgetting about Mike’s birthday herself amidst all the recent excitement.

“So what are the plans then?” said Jeff as they knew they need to do something.

“Just a small thing after all of this is over. Besides, Mike would kill us if we put his birthday over the current situation” said Ryan as he started to smell something. “Okay, what is that great smell, Paula?” Ryan started to levitate in mid-air as he was enjoying the smell that was coming from somewhere in the palace.

“I don’t know what it is. It’s probably coming from the kitchen though. It’s down the hall and to the ri…” Paula could not even speak further as she saw Ryan fly off right to where the smell was coming from.

“I think I’m going to join him. I haven’t eaten all day and Poo did say that we have unlimited access to everything here” said Dave as he ran off to chase down Ryan. Tom and Jeff quickly followed suit. Paula suddenly heard her stomach roar.

“I guess a quick meal wouldn’t hurt” said Casie as she started to walk off in that direction.

“Dalaamesse food always gives me problems. Oh well, I’m starving and I have nothing to do until Ness gets his butt up here” Paula said to herself as she got up slowly and went slowly off to the kitchen, dreading having to eat Dalaamesee food again.

Once Ryan got into the dining hall, he saw a feast fit for a king. Everything he saw looked absolutely delicious, especially the gourmet ramen. As Ryan tried to take a seat, remembering Poo’s earlier statement of unlimited access, his hand was quickly slapped by one of the servants. “I know you are Prince Poo’s guest, but you will not touch this food. This is for a very important meeting of leaders today from around the world to discuss policy with them. I would suggest you leave the room” said the servant as Ryan started to walk off slowly with his head dropping like the rest of his body.

“I was so close too. Oh well, better luck next time” Ryan thought to himself as he started to leave the room when he heard a voice in the distance say “stay”.

“What was that?” said Ryan to himself about to turn the corner to go back down the hall.

“I want you to stay and eat your fill” said the voice as Ryan’s head snapped to the direction of the voice so fast that it would have given most whiplash.

“But, but, but…” said the servant as he was shocked by what he just heard.

Ryan quickly took focus on from where the voice came, and quickly kneeled to show his respect. “Your majesty, I am grateful” said Ryan with great respect as he immediately saw the elegant clothing on the person and quickly put two and two together.

“It is my honor to even have you and your friend in this hall young Destined One. Both you and everyone else has performed great deeds, I should be the one kneeling to you” as the king said that everyone started to enter the room. Jeff and Tom were the first two to enter as Ryan quickly grabbed their shirts and yanked them down to a kneeling position.

“Ryan, that hurt, what’s up with pulling us down like that before we even fully turn the corner? If Dave hadn’t fallen behind, I swear he would have” before Tom could finish his sentence Ryan quickly interrupted “Look up and show your respect.”

“Oh my, I’m sorry, please excuse us your majesty” said Tom as he quickly saw the king of Dalaam was in the room. Jeff got up to his feet once he looked and saw the king.

“I’m sorry for these two your majesty. They don’t know that it is almost slightly disrespectful to honor royalty with a bow” once Jeff said that Ryan and Tom quickly snapped upward as Dave, Casie and Paula all entered the dining hall.

“I don’t even want to know what you two were just doing just now” said Casie with a smart tone in her voice.

“They were just trying to pay their respects to loyalty young lady” said the king of Dalaam. “For those of you who don’t know me already, my name is Mistha III, king of this great country of Dalaam. Please sit down, I have to pay my respects to all of you for the great deeds you have done” said the king as everyone quickly took a seat.

“Are you sure this is okay sire?” the servant whispered to the king.

“I have to attend to them first today. It was just nice that the food was out already for them to eat” the king whispered back as everyone was digging in. The king then pushed a platter in Paula’s direction. “I know you have some problems handling all the fish in our cuisine. This should be more satisfying” said the king as Paula lifted the cover to a fantastic aroma and to see one of her favorite foods, lasagna. Paula mouthed ‘thank you’ started to slowly eat her meal, unlike everyone else who was chowing down but stopped to watch Ryan tackle the ramen.

“I can’t believe he likes ramen that much” said Jeff with a look of disbelieve on his face as he watched Ryan just down one plate of noodles after another.

“This is like a bad episode of DBZ” Tom muttered as he was just disgusted with how fast Ryan was eating.

“That was three pounds of noodle he just ate. How hungry were you?” said Casie as she just could not stop staring.

“Sorry for my manners there. Casie didn’t let us eat much when we were training so I was just a little hungry” Ryan commented as he started to relax after a satisfying meal. Just then Poo and Nolan entered the dining hall.

“Almost everyone is here then” said Poo as he looked at his father with a look of conformation and then sat down. “Nolan, sit and eat your fill.” Nolan quickly sat down and started eating away since he too had not eaten much over the last few days.

“I’m still wondering why we are all down here sire. Would you be able to tell us why Ness wanted all of us here?” Paula quickly asked while pushing her plate up a bit signifying she was done.

“Well, I do know the purpose for why but let’s wait until everyone else is here” said the king. About thirty minutes later Ness finally entered the room.

Ness was leaning on the wall under the archway to the dining hall when he started to speak. “I see that everyone is here now”.

“What about Mike? Isn’t he coming here?” said Dave as he just finished eating.

“I chose not to tell him that we were here. By my knowledge, Mike is still out cold so I want to keep him that way for a while. Not many of us could have taken a point blank blast from Oblivion and lived to tell about it” Ness replied as he started to dig through his bag for something.

“What you looking for Ness?” said Jeff with a curious look on his face.

“It’s the reason we’re all here right now if I could just… Ah HA!” said Ness as he pulled a CD out of his backpack. The Destined Ones who were there were in shock once they saw the writing on the CD. It said ‘classified’, meaning it was the disc Mike had gotten a while back on their previous adventure.

“How do you have that Ness? Let alone what it contains since no one has cracked the code on that thing” said Nolan as he just couldn’t stopping starring at the CD.

“Actually, that’s not entirely true. This is the reason Mike was in Twoson with the Apple Kid when Gorin struck everyone. The information this thing holds might be the key to defeating the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse” said Ness as he started to walk towards the center of the room.

“Everyone, this is the business we need to talk about today. None of you have gotten the true story of what has been going on here over the last few weeks. Mike and Ness both know it, as Mike as I can tell had enlightened you on the current situation recently. I guess he woke up for maybe an hour and was able to tell you everything correct Ness” said the king as Ness started to interrupt.

“Mike did wake up and he said everything that I needed to hear for maybe two hours after midnight last night. He quickly fell back asleep afterwards. I thought I wouldn’t have to mention that but I guess his royal highness here is good at reading minds” as everyone was awe struck at the fact that Mike could recover so quickly after Godan hit him with the most devastating attack ever seen.

“Everyone, to understand what has been happening. Ness and I must reveal to you all the true origins of this fight and why everything that has happened so far has happened. As well as bring something else to light with everyone sitting here” said the king as started to stand. “Ever hear of the weapons of light” said the king as Poo and Tom simultaneously rose up and said…

“I thought those were just legends told to me by master! The Apple never mentions anything about them at all! I was told that their existence was not possible because no one being or even galaxies could even reach the technology to produce such weapons as those!”

“What are you two talking about? You’ve heard of these things before” said Paula as she beat Ryan to asking the same question. Poo started to speak first.

“Yes, we have. The weapons of light are said to be the ultimate weapons and nothing even comes close to their power. It is said that if the Horsemen of Light could get those weapons. They stand a chance of winning” said Poo as he started to sit back down.

“Well, we should get started then” said Ness getting ready to explain everything Mike had told him.