Latias to Latios
CHAPTER 1: Latias' Ice Cage
Looking out the window, all I could see was a wall of white snow. The house seemed to groan at the harsh winds spewing from the sky. No matter all the commotion of weather, Eevee sat on the couch by the fire, completely conked out from boredom.
I touched the window while smiling at the snow and muttered," I know I love snow, but this is even a little too much for me."
"Eev!" shouted Eevee, right next to me. I jumped slightly and looked down at her.
"Awake already?" I asked. Picking her up like a cat and putting her on the large window sill. Suddenly Eevee quickly jumped off the window sill and ran down to the couch, hiding under it.
Suddenly a pulse of light blasted through the thick wall of snow. The room shook as I fell down to the floor and hugged the back of the couch in fear. Even the lights flickered for a matter of seconds, till it all ended.
My knees shook like they I was walking around in snow, bare foot. Even my hands trembled no matter how hard I locked them onto the couch.
"What has just happened?" I asked trying to get to my feet. I felt an almost intense feel, like as if suddenly I was wearing a heavy jacket over my shoulders. Only the intense aura of a ghost-type pokemon can cause this, but I knew that no ghosts lived in our house.
I fell back down, suddenly noticing that I was starting to gasp for air. I put my hands up to my throat as if I were choking on the air. I fell down to the floor as my body suddenly craved for more air. The room started to spin slowly like if I were in a dream.
Suddenly there was a sharp pain in my hand that made me breath in deeply. I pulled my hand from beneath me and looked at it.
Bite marks?
I got up off the floor and breathed in again, deeply. I looked down behind me to see eevee.
"Thank you," I managed to say. My breath returned to normal and the room stopped spinning. I sat up and patted eevee lightly. I must have started to hyper-ventilate. The way I did before when a Gengar took over our house, but my mom kicked it out before it had a chance to do any real damage. But this was for more intense than before, no mere pokemon could've caused this.
I jumped at the sudden scrapping noise. I spun my head at the door, only to find eevee clawing at it. I lightly sighed and tried to stand up. I fell back down and said," Eevee, don't ever do that again."
She ignored me, which was rare, and continued to claw at the door.
"Eevee?" I asked, this time a little worried.
"Eev…" she said worriedly.
I sighed lightly and looked back out the window.
"Alright," I said. I knew something was out there and whatever was out there was most likely something I didn't want to get into. Something to get me off of this mountain…
"Eevee," I said lightly sighing. "We will explore, and you shall lead."
I ran up the stairs and into my room. Then I pulled open a closet door and threw on a thick black jacket. I shoved on a pair of skiing pants over my pajamas. I put on a pair of gloves and adjusted the straps on them, and remarked at how everything I wore was black. I pulled on a neck-warmer over my head and pulled out a pair of skiing goggles to look through. The frame was white but the plastic visor was orange tinted. I breathed into it and rubbed it with my gloves. It was a gift from my mother, and I had meant to cherish it with my dear life.
I put my keys in my pocket and adjusted the goggle's straps. I finally stomped down stairs to reach my boots to find eevee waiting for me as she paced back and forth across the room. Another thing she did very rarely as she was very patient due to our training.
Ignoring her sudden changes in personality, I picked up a pair of boots from around the entrance and sat down to put them on. She stared at me from the entrance, irritation written across her face as I tied the shoe laces on my boots.
"Lead me," I said, opening the door. Suddenly a strong gust of wind threw open the door nearly hitting me as it slammed wide open. Snow poured in as I jumped outside with eevee and quickly pulled the door closed. I looked down from the short flight of stairs and found the snow already at the height of my knee.I pulled up my neck warmer over my nose and saw eevee drowning in the snow up to her neck. Something she also got used to.
"Allow me to pick you up," I said, pulling her out of the snow. I carried her like if she were a baby and continued forward.
I tromped through the snow in the darkness, barely able to dodge the camouflaged trees in front of me. Even with my goggles, the rate at which the snow fell at was like trying to dry my goggles in the rain. On top of that my breath fogged up the visors, making it nearly impossible to see through. Furthermore, it was nearly impossible to move with the snow up to my knees. Already snow was diving into my boots, making my socks soaking wet and numb to the bone.
I breathed out and felt my breath run out of my neck warmer and up into my goggles. Suddenly eevee tugged at my arm. I knelt down to let her walk, but she sunk into the snow. Though she seemed to try to swim to the right. That meant I had to walk right, I guess.
I pulled her out of the snow and turned towards the right as she did and continued.
After 5 minutes of repeating the process, she finally jumped out of my hands and into a large mound of snow Next to a tree. It had to be taller than I was because when I looked up, the snow seemed to tumble over me like an Abomasnow .
Eevee started to create a hole in the mound, throwing snow onto my already buried legs.
I waddled over to her and knelt down beside her, copying her movements and throwing snow over my back. Ignoring time, me brushed away at the snow, stopping only to clear the snow off of my goggles. When suddenly it hit me.
I tore the glove off my right hand and found my fingers to be completely numb from the cold.
"H-how," I said, finding that both of my hands were suddenly cold. I balled both of them into fists and squeezed, tightly feeling like even the blood in my hands were frozen. I shoved my hands into the pockets of my jacket and watched eevee work away.
"Aren't you cold?" I asked, almost expecting her to answer me. I pulled a hand from my jacket and removed the glove from it. I slowly moved me hand to eevee's paw and felt it. Suddenly as if a needle stuck my hand, I let go of it. Her paws felt like they were almost frozen.
"Eevee stop," I yelled over the roaring wind.
She continued her excavation, ignoring my warning. I pulled her up and was met with resistance. She kicked at my arms and frantically tried to escape.
"Eevee, Stop!" I shouted.
She continued to twist and turned in my hands till I was forced to let her go. She continued drilling at the snow mound.
Something was definitely off here, she never acted like so. I looked back at the snow mound and frowned at it. What froze my hands like this. It was true that often my hands were cold and I wore gloves indoors just to keep them warm, but this was truly outrageous.
I poked at the snow and felt the cold rush through my glove. But I also felt something, it was hard but something told me. Something, I could feel it like a force or telepathy, there was something beyond the ice. I quickly peeled the snow off the ice. This time I moved more vigorously, for curiosity was now in control. I stopped when I had made a hole large enough for my body to fit through. But beneath the ice, I could see something. It was red colored and it seemed to continue on.
I punched at the ice as hard as possible, but instead of the ice breaking, I could feel my knuckles swell up from the cold and impact.
"Haaa…." I breathed out, moving my fist back to rub it lightly. I put my gloves back on and put my hand in my pocket.
I stood back up and rammed the ice with my foot, only to slip on the snow and fall back. It was not possible to kick it, I thought to myself as I fell into the snow. And like if someone were burying me alive, snow fell all over my face. I got back up and knelt down on my knees and leaned on the ice with all my weight. But nothing happened except my palms were starting to turn blue.
Then with a little bit of thought I rammed into it with my right elbow. Only to find that the cold ran through my coat, like it was a thing summer shirt, and the blow made my elbow hurt. Then I switched to my other elbow and gave the ice another blow. Nothing happened.
Then curious to see if I could see what was under the ice from another part of the snow mound, I moved to the left of eevee and started to dig with my hands. After a few minutes I reached the same ice that I found on the other side. I rubbed the snow from the area and looked in through the ice.
My eyes opened wide at what I found. I couldn't tell what it was, but it had a sleek face. A red triangle was marked over its head. It seemed like its eyes were closed calmly, if not it was going to sleep forever. This most likely meant it had to be a pokemon.
This time with adrenaline force I started to ram into with my elbows. Ignoring the pain that rushed up my arms every blow, through closed eyes and gritted teeth. I could almost feel my eyes get watery from the pain but I kept ushering on, trying to get the ice to crack.
Eventually, my elbows seemed to feel like they were broke or fractured.
Then I started to resort to my fist, delivering a non-stop flurry of slow punches. I felt something warm on my fists, the warmth oozed from my knuckles to my fingers. I could feel is drench into the gloves, but that only seemed to make me want to punch even harder.
Suddenly as if I were waiting for an egg to hatch, the ice cracked as my fist met the icy surface. Then I drilled forward and smashed my palms into it, trying to make the crack spread. I moved my hands back, and pushed again with all my weight. I laid against the ice with my weight on it. I could hear the crack spread, till suddenly it all shattered. I fell inside and felt the sharp glass like ice push into my coat. I breathed out and stood up. I looked through the hole, to find a red and white creature. It was elegant, and it's body seemed to be made for speed as its overall shape was like an arrow. It had no legs and was covered injuries. Like if the creature had been in fire, it was burned all over the place. But the white skin looked pale and almost blue from the cold.
Eevee peered through the hole with me, looking down upon the creature, trying to figure out what it was. Though I had a single impossible idea, is it a Latias?
Either way I grabbed the cold creature and pulled her through the hole I made. Finding her surprisingly light for such a big creature I laid her down on the snow outside the ice. She was skinny, looking as if she hadn't eaten in days.
I touched her face and felt a small movement, perhaps she was still breathing. How was I going to bring her back was the question. No matter how light she was, it was not possible to simply carry her back.
"The sled…" I muttered, remembering at home that I had a sled large enough to fit the creature on. I unzipped my jacket and put the jacket over the long creature.
"Survive just a little while longer." I said, standing back up. I could feel the ice cold wind bite my skin and suck the warmth and color out of it.
Ignoring the pain in my hands, I picked up eevee and trampled through the snow. Following my halfway covered footprints for guidance. Time flew on quickly as I trampled through the snow. I hugged Eevee for warmth as I hugged him close to my chest. I could feel her pawns, cold like ice, but thankfully they were not as beaten as my hands were.
I fumbled for my keys as I fished them out of my pocket. I held my hand that shook from the cold, with my other hand and somehow managed to get the key into the keyhole. I dropped eevee onto the couch and ran up the stairs, neglecting to take off my frosted boots. I yanked open my door and dove into my closet searching for the sled. I threw everything my hands could grab onto the floor till I dug my way to the back to find a dusty sled.
It was almost as old as I was, 14. I remember being told that I got it from one of my mom's friends when I was just born. I never understood why, but I sure am thankful now.
I ran down the stairs feeling the bruises all across my arms starting to swell up. Eevee sat at the bottom of the stairs alone, waiting for me.
"You stay here, I'll do fine alone." I said, patting her on her head before leaving again. I ran out the door, forgetting to close the door on the way out and continued to tread through the snow. I retraced the footsteps back to the creature, feeling the snow claw through my pajamas.
It had been about another five minutes when I got to the creature. She hadn't moved but still slowly breathed, exhaling cold air.
I put the sled next to her and slowly tried to pick her up. But none of my muscles refused to work in the cold. I then tried to push her onto the sled but the sled laid on a mound that made it hard for me to push her onto the sled.
"Crud…" I cried lightly, as my body refused to work with no kind of jacket. I sucked in my breath and rapped my arms around her body. Somehow with a lot of groaning, I pulled her off the ground by an inch and quickly dropped her onto the sled.
I scooped up the roped that was attached to the large sled and started to pull, using only the strength in my legs and the weight of my body. The sled quickly jerked back and my own weight threw me to the snow. I jumped up, shocked by the sudden cold that spread along my back. I looked around for a few seconds and scooped up the reins of the sled and started to run toward my house. Pulling the sled with all my strength I could feel my hand numb with pain and cold. My elbows were contorted with bruises from slamming them against the ice. My jogging soon was replaced with steps that were covered in ice.
I pushed forward against the wind and snow, as they attempted to quit. There was a giant light in the distance, my house. It seemed to glow more than I could ever remember as I took another mechanical step towards it. In the distance I could see something dark come out of the house.
Ignoring, I pushed ahead through the snow. My feet numb with ice and snow, I could feel my body start to give in. Weariness started to blotch my vision as I was only minutes away from home.
The sled got stuck as I took another step forward. Now the black object that was coming towards me was closer and I could tell it was furry, but still it seemed to be blurry.
I swallowed my breath and gave the sled a pull with my weight, and fell down against the snow. My body shook with the sudden chill and somehow I slowly got up. My body was petrified with frost, and for the first time in my life, I thought I was going to get frostbite.
I grabbed at the reins of the sled and pulled forward. The black object was now recognizably close, it was eevee. She ran behind me as I pulled the sled forward. Then I suddenly felt the sled get lighter, plowing it through the snow I noticed how it became easier to move. After a handful of minutes, I pulled the sled through the door, feeling the warmth of the fire place hit me like a barrier.
I pulled the sled inches further and into the floor with eevee pushing forward with me. I could see the fire place through my goggles, it seemed to glow warmer than I could ever remember. I breathed out and jerked the sled forward again, ignoring the fact that I was probably damaging the floor a little. I tore off the goggles and laid them on the floor. That was when I finally noticed my purple knuckles and the quivering of my arms.
With a final effort I heaved the sled across the floor and in front of the fire place, then I immediately collapsed to the floor. I welcomed the warm air into my lungs as I breathed in with a small smile at the edges of my mouth. Eevee collapsed to the right of me, and curled into a ball before the warm fireplace. Soon my body stopped quivering and pain seared across my knuckles and elbows.
I got up slowly, my body still limp with pain and cold. I threw the jacket off of the creature and moved it onto Eevee who fell asleep peacefully. I rapped her in my jacket and moved her onto the couch for now.
"Time to get to work," I muttered watching the color of the creature's skin return.
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