Author's Note: Hello, all! This is Meganium, here with the fifth in my series of Legendary Pokémon pairing stories. However, this one's a little different: it's a multi-chapter! *GASP!* This is a story about Celebi and Jirachi, or SylphShipping (I have no idea where the name came from, but it's on the Shipping List). Please read and review; I really hope you enjoy my story! Thank you for clicking! :)
Disclaimer: If I owned Pokémon, I could probably pay for my college education all by myself and I probably wouldn't even need to get a job. -sigh-
Without further ado: Seven Nights!
Seven Nights
Night One: The Forest's Lullaby
Celebi liked to fly through the forest.
Swooping through dense trees, brushing the tops of shrubs and the surfaces of lakes with her fingertips, sitting in tree branches and eating sweet berries... There was nothing she loved more than her forests. She was always flitting from time to time to find new ones, or old ones, as they may have been.
On this particular day she visited a forest in Hoenn. The trees were thick and green, and there was much more sunlight streaming down through the trees than in her favorite forest in Johto. Still, the forest was a place of seclusion and secret joy, and she enjoyed it, singing to herself as she flew.
"Forest, oh so deep and green
Hide me so I can't be seen
Your high-up boughs will be my bed
Your leaves a pillow for my head
Your rustling my lullaby
"Forest, oh so green and deep
Branches rocking me to sleep
Your hidden fruits, which feed me well
Within your sacred hollows dwell;
For nothing will I want or sigh.
"Forest, with your secret charm
Your canopy will keep me warm
High above in branches tall;
The ones below will look so small
When I sleep so close to the sky.
"O, Your rustling my lullaby,
For nothing will I want or sigh
When I sleep so close to the sky."
Singing this song to herself, she sat in the branches of a strong Pecha tree, its bark dulled with age, but sturdy and reliable. She plucked the sweet berries from its boughs and brought them to her small mouth, savoring their sweetness. Humming the song she had made up to herself, her eyes scanned the forest floor below. The grass looked velvety and lush from up here, its texture barely visible and giving the forest floor a soft, uniform look. It looked so plush that she half-considered laying down on the ground for a nap. However, she knew it wasn't safe.
Popping another berry into her mouth, its juice trickling down her chin, her eyes scanned over to the adjacent tree. It was a Cheri tree. Celebi didn't much care for Cheri berries, but was familiar with their spicy taste and healing qualities. Sometimes she brought the berries to Pokémon in the forest when they were in trouble. Her eyes gazed at the ripe berries in the boughs, then down to where the branches converged into one sturdy trunk, and traveled down the tree until her gaze reached the foot of the tree. Its roots were gnarled and large, as the tree was quite old. It was nothing she hadn't seen before, but she was entranced by the beauty of the old roots. The way they twisted and wound around one another, the way they seemed to rise out of the dirt, the strange violet chrysalis nestled between two roots...
Wait, what?
Her gaze flitted back a bit. What was that strange object? It appeared to be made of violet quartz, and was about her size. Celebi had never seen anything like it before. Abandoning her lunch, she flitted out of her Pecha tree and over to the foot of the Cheri.
Her curiosity increasing, she reached out a small green hand to touch the object. It was hard, but it glowed with a strange heat that belied its cold-looking appearance. Celebi squinted her eyes at it— there was a strange shadow in its center that she just couldn't make out...
Her eyes took in a strange shape with a three-pointed top and a small bundle for its bottom half. She tilted her head and squinted again. The shape did not move. Was something trapped in this odd chrysalis? Celebi shuddered at the thought. She brought her face closer to it, touching it with both hands now. Her fingertips tingled slightly at the warmth from within. Could the something in this rock be a Pokémon? Maybe this chrysalis was a special kind of ice? She felt her excitement escalate a little. What if whatever was inside was alive? What if she could free it?
She glanced from side to side, taking in her surroundings. Her large blue eyes scanned over the trees until they found what they were looking for— plump yellow berries hanging from an orangey-red leaved tree. She flitted over to it, and plucked a berry from a branch. It was very round, bright yellow, with green circles covering its dense skin. Celebi knew it was very sour, but it contained a special juice which helped Pokémon defrost and which melted ice.
Holding the berry carefully, she flew back to the foot of the Cheri tree. She squeezed the berry with all her might, but it would not burst: its skin was too hard. Sighing in frustration, she flew a short distance away, selected a sharp rock, picked it up, and, with some difficulty, flew it over to the Cheri. Holding the rock steady, she brought down the berry hard on its sharp edge, breaking its skin and causing a few drops of sour juice to spray in all directions. Celebi held the berry above the strange chrysalis and pulled the skin apart, allowing the juice to drip onto the violet object. She waited patiently for this to have an effect, but nothing happened. She cocked her head.
"I suppose it isn't ice after all," she said sadly. "I'm sorry, whoever you are. I tried to free you..."
She sat down next to the object and looked up at the branches of the Cheri, sighing deeply. Almost subconsciously, she began humming her song again, at a loss for what else to do. Singing was soothing to her; it always helped her mood.
"Forest, oh so deep and green
Hide me so I can't be seen
Your high-up boughs will be my bed
Your leaves a pillow for my head..."
Next to her, something stirred within the chrysalis, the shadow twitching slightly. Celebi continued singing softly, unaware.
"Your rustling my lullaby..."
Softly, a dim glow started at the core of the quartz-like shell.
Celebi pointed her toes out and together in rhythm with her song, singing sweetly.
"Forest, oh so green and deep
Branches rocking me to sleep,
Your hidden fruits, which feed me well
Within your sacred hollows dwell;
For nothing will I want or sigh..."
The faint white light within the chrysalis grew brighter, slowly expanding as Celebi sang.
"Forest, with your secret charm
Your canopy will keep me warm
High above in branches tall;
The ones below will look so small
When I sleep so close to the sky..."
The glow covered nearly the entire shell now, spreading to its edges. Celebi played with the grass as she stared at the treetops.
"O, Your rustling my lullaby..."
Suddenly, the white light encapsulated the whole chrysalis, and the shell began to shake. Gasping, Celebi stumbled to her feet, watching as the chrysalis glowed with an unearthly brilliance, its shape changing and forming into the smaller one of the shadow that had lain within its center.
A small creature hovered slightly in the air. Its face was white, with light blue triangular markings extending from its closed eyes like tears. Its head was covered with a three-pointed crest, a rectangular blue tag hanging from each point. Its body was small, wrapped in a gold streamers that were slowly unfurling and fluttering to the sides like tiny wings. It spread its arms, yawned widely, and then, at last, opened its bright eyes.
Celebi gazed at the creature, holding her breath. She'd never seen anything like it.
"Hello," said the creature, blinking its eyes blearily. "I am Jirachi."
Author's Note: Well, what did you think? I'm planning on this being seven chapters, but it may be less (or the chapters may be short). Please please please review if you liked or want to see more. I'm working on it, and I definitely know where this story is going. :3 Sooo if you want to see more, review, and I will know that there is interest in my story. Otherwise why bother to post. D: XD
Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it! :)