Giratina Lives Under My Bed
By Emzee
Here is the slightly dark story about a girl with a (somewhat) unbreakable bond with a Pokemon she cares (and did sneak) into her room. While not so popular in school she has a plan to get back even with that "SO PERFECT ANNA MAY". While her busy and neglectful parents have no idea what she's doing.
"Giratina I know you're really not that wimpy…SO GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT!"
"I…I…. Can't…I…-"
"DON'T GIVE ME ONE OF YOUR DUMB EXCUSES!"
"I…told...you...I…can-"
"Be that way you stupid pathetic worthless nothi-"
"AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH"
"See? I told you I could fight" Said Giratina blasting off another shadow force.
Seeing the chance Giratina quickly escaped thought the dimension gap to the "main world."
Back in the "main world" Tinagira sat monotonously though a "How to Properly take Care your Pokemon" class. Not paying attention she looked at her sketchbook and found one of her teacher Mrs.Anndetta being eaten by a Grimer. Looking at it she smiled. But out of nowhere a little voice that belonged to "Little Ms.Perfect Anna May" Hollered "Mrs.Anndetta! Mrs.Anndetta! "Weirdo Tinagira isn't paying attention again!"
Now knowing that both Tinagira and Anna May weren't exactly BFFs Mrs.Anndetta knew oh so well what to do and say.
"Anna May it's not nice to call people names or holler in the middle of class." "But you Tinagira" pointing her finger "Please do try to pay attention"
Shooting an extremely nasty look at Tinagira, Anna May went back to listening to Mrs.Anndetta. But Tinagira just smiled and looked "all candy sweet" as she herself listened to Mrs.Anndetta.
RINGGGGG! "Great the lunch bell…just what I wanted" Looking in her backpack she realized that her mom Shelly had forgotten her lunch again. "Great third time this week."
Walking as slow as possible now to the lunchroom she couldn't help but thinking that she didn't belong here. Just something seemed to be nagging her that she was called to do something much greater than go though a never ending cycle of "What a weirdo!" all day. Like heck yeah like that'll ever happen.
At the lunchroom Anna May and her friend Brittany just had to comment on how Tinagira had on one to sit with and was sitting alone like usual. "Look at poor Tinagira, she has no friends and sits alone how funny!" Dang! They had to notice…some day I'm going to get her…some how…some- RINGGGG! Thank god the bell!
Some how she managed to survive the rest of the day and then got on the bus (alone of course) and walked miserably home. I'm home but what is there to do?
Now Giratina not know a glimpse of where he was or what to do looked around in almost like a trance. Nothing looked familiar compared to the reverse world. Instead of the inky darkness and tranquillity that he was used to there was light with sounds that were extremely unfamiliar. Only though stories told from his brother and sister had he'd ever been in the "main world". Seeing that there was light streaming all over him he best decided to go some place quiet and dark to think.
Soon after he had found a quiet place to hide Giratina also realized that he must heal if ever thinking of returning to the reverse world.
Thinking that over because right now there was so many threats against him that he'd be caught immediately and being put back into the situation he was in last that he so narrowly escaped.
The sun started to set and things started to make more sense, he found out that he was in that region of Sinnoh and the date was September 17th. But that was only according to the stars that he'd had been forced to learn and memorize. Then suddenly felt the strain on his mind and body from thinking he fell forcefully asleep.
His dreams were pleasant, playing flashbacks of what life was before chaos took over the reverse world. His old house where he lived with his family, his brother and sister, and most importantly when he was truly happy.
Then the nightmares set in with "GO! GO! LEAVE! I'LL TAKE THEM OUT WHILE YOU ESCAPE!" in a high pitched scream from his mother.
But...But…I might never see you again!"
"I can't leave you here!"
"Go your life means more than mine!"
"Mother how…how…HOW CAN YOU HONESTLY SAY THAT?!"
"Just remember no matter what I still will always love you and your brother and sister…SO GET AWAY WHILE YOU CAN!"
Just sneaking one last peek at his mother Giratina narrowly escaped out of his house.
Jerking himself awake Giratina awoken to the light of sunrise and though he should get going before he caught any attention. Especially human attention, he'd heard and seen them before and (it seemed) like he always got into trouble with them and (by now) learned not to bother with them. He also had to remind himself that this was not on a vacation and had to be always alert in case he would to be ambushed at any time. Setting down the rules for himself, he continued to try self-healing in the safety of a dark quiet forest.
In town a little distance away Tinagira woke herself finding another day to do something with herself. Taking a quick glance at her calendar she saw that it was the Saturday. Great the weekend no Anna May but nothing to do here either. Going downstairs her parents were already up and about and had left the house for the day. Then she noticed the clock, which said 9:30AM. "My, I slept late today!" "Oh well that's what weekends are for!" she said cheerfully. But no one answered but she was to use to that to care.
After breakfast alone (O.K. you could call it brunch seeing that it was so late) she grabbed her one Pokemon (Lucario) for protection and went off into the forest a little ways out of town.
Reaching the forest Tinagira sat down under the shade of a tree. Thinking how to entertain herself a familiar snotty voice came into her field of hearing. "Hurry up we can lose-" "Hey Tinagira what ya doin' in the forest?"
As quickly as possible Tinagira got up and sprinted deeper into the so-called "unknown" part of forest. Not even looking back once at Anna May too much in fear of her being followed. "Crap we lost her… oh well she'll get lost and won't be coming back."
Thinking that she lost Anna May, Tinagira finally stopped running and took a breath of air, which suddenly was turned very cold.
Leaning against a tall tree she started thinking about how to get home.
Then a voice out of nowhere said in a ghastly tone "I feel like that all the time." To here such a strange voice in the dark woods was so unexpected that it made her jump suddenly. The voice continued "To always run and never know when it is safe enough to even catch your breath? I guess I'm not alone." The voice gave a raspy laugh then stopped suddenly.
"Who…Who…are you!?" Tinagira cried out in fright. "The world has given me many names child, but Giratina is sufficient.
"Can you show yourself?"
"Yes."
"Could you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Reveal you physical state?"
"But I already am."
"Where the heck are you then! I can't see you!"
"Look up."
"Huh?"
"Do it!" it hissed.
To Tinagira's total embarrassment the Pokemon like thing was sitting on a branch right up above her.
"Oh I…I…umm didn't know I'm sorry!"
"Whatever."
"Oh... well I'm sorry too, I'm just tryin' to be polite!" she said sarcastically.
"So who and what are you?"
"Do humans always ask so many questions?"
(Huh? What does it mean?)
"Well to answer your question, my name I already told you but I'll it again is Giratina and I guess I'd fall in the category Pokemon".
"Owwww!" Suddenly a sharp pain shot up Giratina's side.
"What's the matter? Are you hurt or something?"
"Well…umm I guess."
"Oh you are! Can I do anything for you?"
"You're very strange aren't you?"
"Why do you say that?"
"I say that because you just met me and have no idea who I am but yet you help me? That's strange."
"Oh well I just think that's the right thing to do."
"Whatever."
"Is that your favorite word!?" Tinagira shouted. That's like the only thing you've been saying to me!"
-Silence- "Well if you could do one thing… It's sorta a little not really that important…"
"What!?"
(Sigh) "The only thing I really need is a place to hide."
"That's it! I thought you'd want something larger than that!"
"I'll probably think of more…"
"That's ok!"
(??)
"All you'd have to do is come live with me!"
"Are you really serious? Ha! I can think of like hundreds of problems with that!"
"Like what?"
"Like what!? Everything!
"Name one."
"Umm well wouldn't you think that someone in your house know that I'm there?"
"Ha! What a thought! My parents probably forget I exist! They wouldn't ever know."
"Ok problem solved, next how long will I be alone during the day?"
"Well I do go to school, so I'm not there about six hours a day."
"Perfect."
"And finally the last thing, do you have a dark place in your room where it's dark all the time?"
"Why?"
"Because I can't ideally survive in full sunlight for very long. Why do you think I'm in a dark quiet forest?"
"Well there's under my bed…"
"Excellent!"
"How it that excellent?! It's not very large and it's very dusty."
"I like that. Greatly."
"Why?"
"Don't you think that's an nice environment?"
"No… Well actually now that you say it sorta yeah."
"And besides it keeps the term "There's a monster under my bed" thing if yah know."
"Ha!"
"Yah know, even though we just met I think I'm gonna like you."
Strangely Tinagira was thinking the same thing but was to busy laughing with her new friend to notice.
Suddenly reality set in and Tinagira exclaimed "Oh no look at the time! It's so late! And I don't know how to get back to town!"
"Ha! C'mon I'll take you, Actually I'll fly you there!"
"No!"
"Why not?"
"Your still hurt! Don't waste your precious energy on me!"
"Whatever you say, then just get on my back, it's a bit of a way to town."
Tinagira not knowing what to expect, Giratina started walking slowly towards the direction of the town.
They got home around 6:30PM seeing that they got funnily lost several times. Entering the house Tinagira saw that her parents weren't there. Figures they wouldn't be here. "Let's go upstairs now."
Tinagira lead Giratina up the staircase and showed it where her bedroom was. And also showed it where her parent bedroom was. "This is where my parents are when there home don't go there you'll just likely get caught." "You wouldn't want that!" said Tinagira cheerfully. "But really don't worry much. When they actually are home you can definitely hear them!"
"Let's go back to my room so you can settle in." As they were walking towards her room she heard the door open.
"There's my parents! You better hide!" Tinagira whispered.
Giratina quickly ran and hide under the bed, which he just fit into.
"Tinagira where are you? We're home." "Coming!" she replied.
"I'll come back with table scrapes." Tinagira promised Giratina. "Hope you like take out or chicken!" Then she ran downstairs to join her parents.
"So did anything happen today?" Tinagira's father Archie asked. Tinagira just smiled and said "just a ordinary day nothing happened." She said with a slight laugh. "Well that's good, nothing is better than something sometimes!" After that her father let out a hoarse laugh ending with a cough. "Are you ok?" Tinagira asked. "Oh it's nothing."
Trying to change the subject Tinagira asked "So umm… what's for dinner?"
"Well what do you think?"
"Umm… take out pizza?"
"No."
"Take out Chinese?"
"No."
"What then?"
"Lemon chicken and something else."
"But we have that like every night!"
"Don't complain."
"Why not?"
"Because that's the only reasonably priced product in the store anymore."
Later at the dinner table not listening to her parents Tinagira thought about how to resolve her problems with Anna May but only briefly because then she was interrupted by a noise upstairs. "What was that?" Her mother asked. "Oh probably nothing much."
She started eating extremely fast so she could get upstairs as quickly as possible. "Why are you eating so fast?" "Oh I'm uh…just tired I ran around town all day. I want to get to bed." "Well that's certainly a change usually you'd be begging to stay up by now!" "I'm done!" Tinagira spat as she ran upstairs.
As she knew it was safe to talk she said "What are you trying to do!? Get caught!?"
"Well God knows what's under your bed! It's not anything like you said!
"What do you mean?! It's fine! I used to hide under there all the time so I wouldn't have to take a bath!"
"Then it's probably been a few years since you've done that cuz I think it's not like a pictured it at all!"
"What in the livin' world do you want from me now? Gold, chocolate, money, food, anything else the Tinagira maid service is in full swing now! Just ask and I'll wave my magic wand and it'll appear!" "Dang! I don't want to talk to you eva'!
"Tinagira! Who are you yelling at?" Tinagira's mom asked.
"Oh nothin' just stupid "Super Smash Brothers Brawl" my dang partner Wario just KO'ed me and I lost!"
"Oh just wondering try to keep it down I'm paying bills."
"Sorry!"
"That's Ok Tinagira."
After her mom replied a slight sigh and laugh could be heard.
"Are you ok?"
"Oh me? Tinagira don't worry 'bout me just yourself ok?"
"So you talk to someone who doesn't act that you're even there but you won't talk to me?"
"I said I'm not talking to you f'eva!"
We'll see how long that lasts…gwah ha ha ha… Giratina thought deviously.