Hallow’s Eve Part 2 by dalaaminmind

  Ness was floating, or so he at once thought.  He then thought of the others, Everdred and Poo, what had become of them?  It was at that time thinking of where the others had gone when he figured he should try and figure out where he was.  Where he was the only thing was darkness, he didn’t feel a floor but had no sensation of falling, so he had no idea what sort of place he was in.  Ness couldn’t see either so for what he believed to be long hours of just being, another more frightening thought occurred.  Had he died?  He had been walking up to Lier’s house when all he remembered was a flash, and now this.  But certainly he hadn’t died, and besides death couldn’t be this full of boredom.
       After this long period had gone on for an even longer, his surroundings changed.  The darkness shifted into a city. The city was adorned in a bleak color of gray.  It was more of a mirror version of Onett and as a mirror version the city was in most senses not Onett.  This fact was soon discovered by Ness as he looked up and saw the town’s inhabitants.  Instead of people there were now zombies and puppets along with what seemed to be normal people but with pumpkin heads.  
      Ness got up; he was in an alley on the north side looking south.  He looked into the city but thoughts rushed to his head.  Would he be attacked, most likely he decided so he tried to sneak through town, but as he rushed to move to a bush nearby, he tripped and landed on a trashcan.  One of the Mirror town’s zombies rolled up to him.  Ness got up and looked in shock as the zombie on a unicycle clapping rolled up.
“Who you are?” The zombie asked.
The zombie quickly left which caused great confusion In Ness who got up and watched the zombie roll off and then break into a song. Ness’s confusion was almost unbearable as he watched the song pick up its pieces and walk off.
“So weird”, he thought as he ventured into the rather weird town with more confidence.
Ness walked into Mirroronett unharmed and unnoticed by all the other assortment of, what could only be called, inhabitants. He got idea very early on that if he was here could the others be here too? Ness quickly tried to think of a way to find them and as being as ignored as he was, belief that any idea he came up with would work came quickly. 
“Flash should work like a spotlight to call them, I hope they respond though”, Ness thought as went into the middle of the road.
So calling upon his physic powers, Ness sent out the flash.  Then he wondered how the others could even signal back or if they would even come.  He decided to wait for a while on the pavement, as the zombies and puppets and pumpkin head went   by and occasionally on Ness as though he wasn’t even in existence. 
After an hour or so, there was no sun here and Ness went by a few minutes in a silent argument against himself as to how the place got light, but then, suddenly behind him was a noise, so Ness turned and out came Poo! He staggered out and sat down breathing hard with sweat on his face.  Poo was in considerably worse condition than Ness, dried blood on his mouth and nose spoke of some harm but Ness wasn’t sure what as he got up and went to Poo.
“Hey man what happened”, Ness asked as he went to Poo and bent down near him.
“ When I came to here after no telling how long, I was on a tree branch and fell off, not even a chance to think”, he said tiredly.  
“Well, that sucks, but man am I glad to see you, for a while I was afraid to be all alone here.”
Ness helped Poo up as he explained about the Mirroronett’s dwellers and that some odd reason don’t attack, Poo accepted this with only a silent nod as the pair walked south to the center of town.
“Why are we going this way”, Poo asked as they walked.
“Well the town’s layout seems to be the same”, he said looking around, “And the town hall would seem to me the best place to look for a way out of here.”
Poo nodded in understanding as he walked on the blacktop with Ness, they seemed a moderate way to the hall, not to far and they would most likely make it in no time at all.  They quickly made it to the hall; it was built in a neo-classical style with large columns and made of white marble. Ness and Poo made their way slowly up the steps and Ness explained what to do.
“First thing to do is check out Pirkle’s office; most likely whatever we need has a possibility of being there.”
Poo nodded and was the first to go in and take a glance inside at the surroundings; dimly lit, plain furniture, and odd elevator music playing but nothing abnormal. So they both made their way down the waiting room to a door on the other side. With a small creak it opened and behind a small desk was a woman, presumably a secretary going on in a mindless drone, “The mayor will see you now”, in a monotone voice that rose the hairs of both Ness and Poo.
They proceeded to walk past the desk, but not before cast a sneer its way whatever it was, and onto a flight of stairs that took them up to a hallway with, playing with renewed vigor elevator music. They made their way down the hall without a word, for what was there to talk about? Ness came to the door first and nodded when Poo got into a marshal arts position to break down the door. Then again, with another nod from Ness, Poo unleashed a primal yell at the door breaking it into splinters.
 The duo walked in and saw what appeared to be the humble little mayor of Onett seated behind a solid oak desk.
“What is going on here”, Ness demanded as soon as his foot hit the carpet of the room, “How do we get out?!?”
The image of Pirkle slowly and breathlessly turned into at first many would say a devil, but upon close examination possibly the underworld’s version of an Oscar.  
“This is Mani Mani”, an almost scared into shock Ness spoke to out loud.
Poo only stared at Ness, amazed at how the leader of the Chosen Four could come to fear anything. Then, his gaze going back to the statue stared.
Mani Mani spoke nothing, but the room erupted in flames. Poo quickly made a psychic shield, which covered both of them. Ness regained his sense enough to send his mind’s power at the evil entity, succeeding in chipping of one of the devil horns which ordained the metallic beast. Then Poo calling down possibly the entire heavens sent the very stars themselves as his weapons, ripping the room off to show a dark black sky, and thus entered they the room and hit Mani Mani but to no effect, he had his own shield in place.
The battle went on but to an endless stalemate it seemed to Ness. He was tired of being here, tired not being able to see Jeff or Paula, when a small seedling of a thought took root. Paula prayed many times a day; mostly an answer came quickly, to whatever she needed, so if she could couldn’t he? So as Poo stared across the room tired and beaten at a foe with equal powers, Ness prayed. Mostly to anyone, as Paula did long ago, he prayed out there into the dark black sky, when a beam came down and effectively gave full strength to the pair. Poo’s eyes widened, thinking it at first to be an attack but slowly he smiled. He stood tall and looked over at Ness who also smiled.
Rushing out at Mani Mani, their minds melded into one seamless thought process to form a new attack, Psi Flamaganja Omega which caused the solid gold idol to melt, along with the mirror world.
Ness and Poo woke up under a tree on the outskirts of Onett. As they surveyed the area they both sighed as it was all back to normal. They went into town, still full of trick or theaters’ and went into Frank’s restaurant to get a bite to eat, Ness anyway Poo hated everything there. As they walked in a small child walking out said, “Nice costume”, to Poo who went crimson at once.  As they sat down a thought once more came to them.
“Everdred , where’d he go”, they both yelled in alarm.
Back in Threed a lonely Everdred sat at the fire and wondered in why Ness never came to see him at the restaurant.
You seeeeeee, it was all a grand ILLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                               Happy very late Halloween!