Playing With Fire: Chapter 1
AN: I'm still really busy on TROL, but this was begging to be written down. I might continue this story when I've finished TROL, so please don't continue it for me. :) Thanks!
My name was Anastasia. Quite ironic, really, as it means 'resurrection' in Greek or Hebrew or something like that.
I was what people would call an emo at first sight. I always wore black and red, and had sleek, silky black hair that reached down to my waist.
My Houndoom, Blitz certainly added to the 'demonic girl' image.
I certainly wasn't an emo, though.
I was bubbly and bouncy and loved running up behind random people, putting my hands over their eyes and shouting "BOO!" before running off again laughing with my best friend, Freya.
I also loved Fire Pokemon, and I went to the Fire Pokemon club at college on Monday afternoons. That was where I met Danny, my boyfriend.
I was popular and doing well at college to become a teacher in the Rustboro Trainers' School, specializing in Fire Pokemon, with Blitz and Danny at my side.
But I lost it all in one night.
Oh, I didn't lose my personality, just my body, my Blitz, my family, and my first life.
Before that, I had it made.
Until I went camping with Danny and Blitz in Viridian Forest, and I lost it all.
It was peaceful and quiet in my dark little tent.
The moon was shining bright above the trees, and I could hear the steady breathing of Danny and Blitz sleeping deeply in the black of the night.
I could hear the gentle murmur of the trees' leaves rustling in a gentle breeze, the little growl from Blitz as he chased Glameows in his sleep, the gentle hissing, the occasional call of a Hoothoot...
Wait, hissing?
I opened my deep purply-brown eyes and sat up, slowly.
And I came face to face, literally, with a Seviper.
As my mouth formed a silent scream, the Seviper opened its mouth in a giant, taunting grin, long, lethal fangs bared and ready to strike.
I finally made a noise as the Seviper struck, leaping forwards and sinking its giant fangs into my neck, and through my windpipe.
I choked and gasped as Blitz woke up and tackled the Seviper, throwing off me and starting a fight to the death.
Danny must have been woke up by the sound of a Houndoom howling and a Seviper hissing madly, because as I lay in a pool of my own dark red blood, he burst into my tent and dropped to his knees, trying to stem the flow of blood from my neck.
Tears were dripping from his soft inky black eyes and onto my face, as he mumbled things to me.
A final hiss was heard, and Blitz immediately came to my side, licking the blood off my body.
Two neat holes were in the side of my neck, and suddenly everything started to fade away.
"No... NO!" I heard as a Houndoom howled in grief, and everything turned black, as black as my ex-boyfriend's sodden eyes.
I heard a final howl and a sob, and everything was gone.
These memories flashed through my mind as I stared at Mew and Mewtwo.
Mew was smiling happily; while Mewtwo was gazing at me gravely.
"The only way to get back is by being reborn." Mewtwo stated, narrowing his purple eyes as my heart leapt and I gasped with happiness.
"However, you won't be human." Me and Mew immediately stopped smiling and turned to the Genetic Pokemon.
"But... how will she see Danny and Blitz again? Unless... oh, no!" Mew's pink fur turned paler and her blue eyes widened as Mewtwo nodded.
Then both the catlike Pokemon turned to me, and with a jolt, I saw that Mew wasn't smiling anymore.
"What will I be?" I asked tentatively, dreading the answer.
"You will be a Pokemon." Mewtwo answered, as Mew beckoned me closer to her.
"I'll make sure that you see Danny and Blitz again. And I'll make sure that he doesn't accidentally break your string of life again." Mew added as Mewtwo went red.
"I didn't mean to! Deoxys pushed me into the cabinet and I fell against your string! It wasn't on purpose!" he looked like a small boy caught stealing sweets from the cupboard.
"Anyway, you have to start as a hatchling. You'll still have your human mind, but you'll have Pokemon instincts as well, and these things will generally disguise you from being recognised as a reborn by humans. Pokemon will know, though."
Mew reeled off these things quite quickly, and Mewtwo looked annoyed at Mew for delaying my departure from the shiny, blue sky-like place which we were all floating in.
"Now, Mew, Anastasia has to go. Her new life awaits!" Mew raised a white arm, and I felt myself being floated upwards by his telekinesis.
"Bye, 'Stasia! Have a good life!" Mew called, before white mist swallowed me up, and I felt nothing.
Then I felt something. I opened my eyes and blinked, staring around at the warm, orange space in which I was floating.
With a jolt I remembered my death, Mew and Mewtwo, and that this was the inside of an egg.
My instincts took over and I kicked, cracking the egg and spilling myself onto some bracken, in a moonlit forest.
I shook the goo off my fur and looked up at the moon, blinking slowly.
I flicked one of my giant ears, hearing a howl from close by.
"Viridian Forest... so I should be close to the tents..." I murmured to myself, and slowly, shakily stood on my four legs.
I looked down at the orange fur and black stripes. Two little white claws, sharp and shining, stuck out of my orange paws.
"I love you, Mew..." I whispered, wagging my Growlithe tail in anticipation and taking a shaky step towards the sounds of howling and crying.
Suddenly, two big shapes lurched out of the trees and towered above me.
Somehow, I knew that these Umbreon weren't my parents, as they growled and stepped towards me, licking their lips.
"I haven't had Growlithe for ages, not since Fuchsia City." One growled, stepping closer to me.
I could see his white, glistening fangs in his open mouth as he salivated in the prospect of a meal.
"Oh damn," I whispered, backing up against the tree as the Umbreon opened their mouths wider, preparing to clamp their jaws around my new, orange body.
Not again!