Mother: The Original Story: Difference between revisions

At the station in the afternoon, the trio finds out that the train will not go past a place called [[Spookane]], who only makes Ken's mood worse. Upon boarding the train, Ana fails to read Ken's mind, and speculates with Lloyd on what he could be feeling. Lloyd discusses his hometown, [[Merrysville]], with Ana, as she has never heard of it before; when Ana confirms the reality of her mental image receiving by accurately stating [[Twinkle Elementary School|the location of Lloyd's first meeting with Ken]], she begins to explain it before Ken interrupts and states that she has to go home. When she inquires at the reason, Ken states that something very strange is happening with the station keepers and people and speculates that devilish monsters have replaced them and that they are being dragged into a trap at Spookane. At the Spookane station, Ken angrily reacts when he finds out that no trains are heading back to Snowman, leaving Ana to remain in the party; a train worker states that an avalanche has caused the disruptions, a fact that Ken heavily disreputes afterwards, stating that everyone is "alien spies". When he complains about the situation, Ana disproves of it, internally thinking him childish for doing so; Lloyd suggests they stay at a [[Hotel]] for the night, while Ken states he probably has to call [[Ninten's father|his father]] anyway. When Ana is amused, Ken angrily explains that his father works for a news network and that the only way he can obtain any real information about the world's affairs is to talk to him. Ana realizes that Ken is an extremely lucky kid, as she compares his relatively-easy living to her own poor life. When Ken roughly urges everyone to go, Ana is internally agitated by him shouting at everyone all the time, yet  Ana obliges. Lloyd tries to help her, but Ana kindly rebukes his offer; when she asks about Lloyd's own home-life, he reveals his parents are divorced and expresses his agitation that while he is good at mechanical engineering, he cannot fix humans the same way he can computers. Ana wonders whether Lloyd is trying to compensate for his father's inability to help others, and tries to do so himself to avoid ending up like him. She also realizes that Lloyd is trying to give his mother what his father could never give him, wondering if he would even risk his own life for it.

When Lloyd stares at Ken with a hateful look in his eyes, Ana notices and tells him that while Ken went out to save the world, that they went out to save their mothers and asks if that is pathetic. She then reassures him that in a way, they are both heroes. Lloyd then kisses her hand, affirming that they are both "warriors of battle" and promises to protect her even if it costs him his own life, which greatly surprises Ana. When she reminds Lloyd of his mission to obtain a Kannon flower, she begins to reveal her ability to see Lloyd and Ken's events at Lloyd's astonishment when Ken furiously interjects on the false pretense that the two are romantically involved. Suddenly, all of Spookane's street lights go dark and the trio are surrounded by all the adults in the town, who appear to be possessed by an evil force. Ken extrapolates from their previous speech that a piano in a [[Rosemary's house|haunted house]] has a melody in it. After Ana returns the attacking adults to normal with Extra-Mocha Spray, Ken returns an unconscious Lloyd to normal with Psycho-Healing, and the trio journey to the haunted house with Ana realizing that she strangely enough doesn't mind Ken's complaining and moodiness, even if Ken neglected to completely heal her of her injuries. At the house, Ana refuses to journey inside, opting to find a place to rest; Lloyd and Ken are both agitated by this before Lloyd explains that the piano in the house contains one of the [[Eight Melodies|eight melodies]] that they have been searching for in order to save the world. Ken then explains his story; after ridding his house of a poltergeist and finding the first melody in his sister's doll, he had journeyed out into the world to protect his home, discover his abilities, and find out what the sources for the strange events befalling the world were coming from. After recovering a girl named [[Pippi]] from a graveyard, he had recovered the second and third melodies from the [[Canary Village]] and the [[Choucream Zoo]], respectively. Afterwards, he had journeyed to Magicant, where a mysterious queen named Mary had tasked him with recovering eight important melodies to save the world, with Ken having already recovered three out of the eight. At Merrysville, he had found Lloyd, and together the two were trying to find the rest of the melodies in order to save the planet. After hearing this and the incomplete tune, Ana sets out to the haunted house, though Ken decides the group should eat first, with Ana and Lloyd hungrily conceding.

The trio then dine in the household of the owner of the haunted manor, Mr. Rosewater, who the next morning then blackmails a furious Ken with an official contract (with Lloyd's agreement and signatures) by having him promise to be wed to Mr. Rosewater's shy daughter, Evangeline, in exchange for the haunted manor's door-key on the basis that only her bride-to-be and his closest friends would be allowed on the manor's grounds. Initially, Ken incurs that Lloyd and Ana set him up so that they could be a couple, but Ana violently slaps him in response. Eventually, the trio head off wordlessly to the haunted manor, with Ken expressing his disappointment towards Lloyd long after entering. A naughty [[Rat|mouse]] suddenly appears, which sends legions of attacking mice towards the children after telling Ana (only she could understand its language) that it does not know the whereabouts of the piano after Ana enquires the mouse about it. The trio is quickly overwhelmed, with Ken carrying an exhausted Ana up a flight of stairs while he and Lloyd fend off the mice. After encountering a pair of sentient [[Armor|knight statues]] and ghosts, Ken profusely apologizes for being a constant tantrum-prone jerk as they are overwhelmed to the point of near-death. Summoning up her power, Ana then powerfully lashes outwards with a psychic shockwave, instantly immobilizing and disposing the trio of all of their brutal foes.