The Second Quest – Part one
Afterwards

Ness was awakened to the sound of rhythmic knocking upon the door of his house. Ness jumped out of his bed, grabbed the nearby Gutsy Bat and ran from his room. He came into the hallway of his house, and he saw his sister, Tracy, had also been awakened by the noise. "Has Pokey come back?!” shouted Ness. "I am not sure, big bro." she replied. "I am scared though." Ness looked at his sister closely and realized that she was close to tears. "Aww... Don't worry so much Trace," said Ness calmly, "Mom probably locked herself out of the house or something." This got a laugh out of Tracy. "Thanks bro, you had better go let her in then." she said with a smile on her face. Ness turned to the stairway and raced down the stairs.

His mom was lying down on the couch, asleep, with a sweater she was knitting half finished on the floor beside her. Ness tiptoed past his mom, and reached the front door, from which the infernal knocking was still coming. Ness gripped the Gutsy Bat in his right hand, prepared to swing, while his left hand reached for the knob. He grabbed the knob and turned it, and the door swung open. Standing outside the door was none other than Picky, the brother of the evil Pokey. "Ness," said Picky excitedly, "Have a look at this! Pokey sent it to me to give it to you." He handed Ness an envelope. Ness opened the envelope and pulled out a letter written in handwriting that was none other than that of Pokey's. The letter said:

'Dear Ness, I have to congratulate you on defeating Gigyas. But, unfortunately for you, I survived and I am a much greater threat than Gigyas was. You could almost say that Gigyas was somewhat of an understudy to me. He always thought that he was in command of everything, but that was false. But I could not take over his minions, because Gigyas could only be destroyed by a legendary group of four. Gigyas understood that and therefore took me, the destroyer of Giegue, to join his army and become his second hand man. Gigyas did not know who the legendary group was, but I did. I guess that I was lucky in some ways. I mean, I never imagined that I would live next to the second legendary hero. But I could tell that you were the minute I saw you, for you possessed the same Psychic Abilities that I had. I was overcome with joy, because if I could get you to defeat Gigyas, then I could rise up, and take his army. So, I sent a messenger, "from the future", to tell you about the legendary journey that you would take and to give you Sound Stone. I knew that you would need the Sound Stone, which I had, to gain enough Psychic Ability to defeat Gigyas. So you took the bait and defeated Gigyas, which left me, Ninten, to take over his army, and become even more powerful than Gigyas and Giegue combined. So, now, I have to thank you.

Thank you Ness,

"Pokey"'

Ness stared at the letter in disbelief. "This cannot be real..." whispered Ness.”Oh, I assure you that it is." Ness looked up, startled. Picky had disappeared and a stranger stood in his place. "Hahaha, I had to do away with the "family"," said the figure "No use for them anymore." Ness just stood there for a minute, and then he realized that this was Pokey in his true form, as Ninten. Then, he gripped his bat in both hands and swung with all his strength. His bat shattered when it hit Ninten and sent tremors down his arms. "Ah!" yelled Ness. He dropped the bat and held onto his arms. "Hahahaha, Ness, you cannot defeat me!" shouted Ninten. Then, Ninten commanded the heavens to open up and rain lightening down upon Ness. Ness yelled out in pain, and fell to the ground. "Ah! No. No... no..." said Ness weakly. "You will not destroy me..." Ninten laughed and called upon the power of lightening again. Before the lightening could strike, Ness remembered something. Ness saw himself in a cabin with a jail cell. The cell had one prisoner: a girl about his age. He remembered her giving him a present with which he could deflect the lightening of the cultist. Ness had kept that gift close to him since. Ness reached into his pocket, and pulled out the present from that girl, the Franklin Badge. He held up the badge in protection. The lightening came down from the skies and deflected off of Ness's badge. The lightening hit Ninten at full force, and he flew back off of the doorstep. Ness jumped up and called out his own, special psychic power, PSI POWER. The rays of power went directly at the fallen Ninten, but before they got there, Ninten, rose from the ground and used PSI Teleport 3 and disappeared before the rays could hit him. The rays struck the ground and cause a crater in the front yard of Ness' house. Ness stood in the doorway to his home looking out at where Ninten had once been. He turned around and saw his mother had awakened and looked very frightened. "Mom, I think I am going away again." Ness said weakly, before closing his eyes and falling to the ground in faint.