This is a Collaboration of The Avatar of Bahamut and Lanari. Rated T for occasional profanity, Violence, and some strongly suggestive subject matter.
...Episode One: The Shrine...
The Milano Region- a place where legends are alive. As the holder of the Pokemon World's Spiritual Capital, Romano City, it is no surprise. But this tale begins near the quiet community of Bloom Town...
...In the Ominous Woods...
A song of rain and wind beat down on the autumn(sp?) leaves. Any creature in the woods were tucked away in their homes. However, there was the exception of a plump, yellow Mother Psyduck, beckoning to her baby. The tiny Dewduck wobbled on its small blue feet as the wieght of it's round red belly pulled it down. Its blue eyes widened as it tripped over in surprise. The blue gem on its head sparkled, and the Psyduck waddled over to help it.
Katheryn watched the world go by in the safety of a small cave. Her tied, deep red hair was soaked; even her blue sweatshirt and skirt were drenched. She had found refuge here once before, but then she was accompanied by her (much older) childhood friend, Mortis. She held her half of their friendship in her fist- a necklace made to look like a half of a clock surrounded by sun flares. Mortis had one like it, only the clock-half was encircled by a crescent moon.
I wonder how he's doing... we haven't seen each other in weeks...
"I should be getting home, my parents are probably worried about me..." Her sky colored eyes shifted sleepily.
As she sat up to brush off her gray skirt and black boots, she had the oddest feeling someone was behind her.
"Gotcha, Kay!"
She recognized the childhood nickname...only one person ever called her that nowadays...
Violet hair sparkled under the dim sunlight that managed to filter though the tightly woven clouds and the drops of rain that fell clung to darkly tanned skin like drops of glittering dew. A single gold eye danced with mirth as the semi tall male looked down at Katheryn with a cocky smile.
"Hey, looks like I found a wet kitten!" The 25 year old, also known as Mortis Yuki, grinned and reached down a hand to pull his childhood friend to her feet, his gloves and jacket soaked through. "Lemme give you a hand, you look downright pitiful drenched like that." As he said this, he pulled his black, leather trenchcoat off so he could drape it over Katheryn's shoulders.
"Ummm...thank you." She pulled the coat tightly around her body.
"So... what are you doing here, Mortis? I haven't seen you in a while!"
Mortis glanced over. "I was going to ask you what you're doing out in the rain."
Katheryn leaned in against the cave wall. "I was looking for my mom's Ledian... it went off into a frenzy this afternoon and ran away... but then it started to rain and I lost it... So here I am."
She took a breath. "Now it's your turn, what are you up to?"
Mortis smirked and toyed with his eyepatch while regarding her from beneath his lowered lashes.
"Just graduated actually, came back to get a job, earn some money and see what my dear sidekick was up to." His ear twitched as a buzzing sound reached it, his tanned nose wrinkling in thought.
"That's your Ledian...correct? Or is there some drunken Beedril in there that I don't know about?" Katheryn glared at him for his attempt at a joke and sighed exasperatingly at the small smirk on her older friends face.
"You never change do you...?" The smirk widened to show his slightly pointed teeth, an unnerving sight to those not use to the vampiric look. He took her hand and lead her farther in, away from the pitter pater of the rain. The glowing mushrooms illuminated his face in demonic ways as she simply smiled at her.
"Hopefully not, wouldn't want TOO many things to change; College was enough for me. Now , come on; we can find the bug AND get out of the rain: win win huh?"Katheryn rolled her eyes. As the two of them wandered towards the back of the cave, she could see a faint glow.
"Ledian!" She called.
"Laddddd!" A voice hummed. Just then, a red red flash went past them, and Katheryn found the ladybug pokemon clinging to her foot apoligetically.
It looked at he with round azure eyes as its red, dotted wings flutters and antennae spun.
"Now, do you mind telling me what got into you. Miss?" She picked up the pokemon. Ledian pointed her white hand towards the very back of the cave.Mortis squinted for a moment, and noticed a hole, and could small crumbling noise.
His visible eye then widened to the size of a dinner plate and he grabbed Katheryn by the elbow and tugged her to his chest, clutching her to himself protectively as the floor beneath them crumbled into nothingness. He clenched his teeth and razor sharp rocks cut into his skin; all the while keeping his younger friend from harm with his body mass and his oh-so-useful leather jacket. Katheryn's scream of terror rang clear and true around them, until they landed with a loud thud on the rock floor below. A sickening snapping crunch was heard as Mortis grunted under the sudden impact with the ground at his back. The friends lay there like that for a moment before the tanned male laughed thickly, crimson and gold eyes shining as the cord to the patch that his his red eye had been sliced through.
"As much as I enjoy this Kay…can you get off? You're crushing my lungs and newly broken ribs."
"Ack! I'm so sorry!" Katheryn gently rolled off of Mortis onto the ground, and realized it was a tiled floor.
Mortis saw it as well.
"Well this can't be right!... Hey, are you alright?" Katheryn helped him slowly to his feet.
"I'm ok. But if your that badly hurt, we should try to get out of here right away..."
Ledian sat up, dazed. It shook, and pointed to a small walkway, leading to a wooden he three of them got up and glanced around. The walls were covered in runes, but it was all dusty and gray. The door had a seal of a sun with a crescent moon inside of it.
"Where are we?" She wondered. Ledian flew over to the door and tapped on it curiously, there was a rumbling, and suddenly the door creaked open, revealing a dark room beyond.
The sound of a gentle music box song echoed faintly from beyond their line of sight. The violet haired man's slightly pointed ears twitched at the noise and he cocked his head to the side in curiosity.
"In all honesty…I have no idea." Was all the tanned male could say as he gazed around the chamber that seemed to be carved into the rock. The walls gleamed as if polished to a shine; completely smooth. Suddenly Katheryn pointed to something in the gloom with a shaking finger.
"Hey look! What's that?" There, at the back of the room, sat an alter made out of polished blue rock that seemed to glow with it's own inner light. Upon the alter sat two eggs that were curiously large. Mortis walked over to the alter, limping slightly as pain shot through his torso with each step, his teeth clenched to keep from whimpering and making his friend worry. When he came to stop before them he waved his red haired friend over.
"They look like…Pokemon eggs. But a kind that I've never seen before. Have you?"
"No, at least... I don't think so, what do you supose they are doing here?"
As he reached over to examine the eggs more closely, another stream of pain shot through him. He ground his teeth. Katheryn had him put his arm around her shoulder for support.
"You shouldn't be moving much on your own."
"Heh...you worry too much."
Katheryn looked down, and there was a piece of parchment next to the eggs. Ledian saw her trying to pick it up while supporting Mortis, and grabbed it. The bug held it out for her to see, while using it's flash technique (the dots on its back lit up) to illuminate the page.
"Wow! I'm surprised I can read this, it must be really old."
"No kidding." Mortis mumbled.
"To the Archbishop of Romano city, from Mother Celeste of Bloom Cathedral,
We are desperately tried to hatch the eggs, but these orphaned Pokemon seem to be without hope. The saints of snow and cosmos disappeared, and this is what they have left behind...
But, we have no choice but to leave them here, in the shrine that had been built in there honor. For I believe these are perhaps...something more..."
The page mysteriously ended in a streak of black ink. Ledian saw that behind the alter was a music box, bearing a snowflake and star symbol. A banner above it held the same image.
"The Archbishop of Romano city...that sounds familiar... The Bloom Cathedral...isn't that the local church? It hasn't been around that long, has it?"
Mortis sighed and looked at the ceiling in thought as he dug up old memories of history textbooks. His bi-colored eyes sparked in light form the beetle pokemon.
"Let's see…it was built in 1963…that's around…60 years ago? Old enough. Most people can't remember when it was made." He glanced down at his friend and grinned, his voice going into teasing mode.
"Hey Kay-chan…try picking one up; maybe it'll hatch! You never know…it could be another Tentacool." He played on the incident 2 summers ago when they'd been ganged up on by a mass of the nasty little buggers. The comment earned him a smack to the back of his head from a very annoyed Katheryn.
"Act your age you immature nutcase!" He chucked, his head bent forward from the force of her hit, his lips cracking in a grin.
"And you call me destructive; look who's hitting an injured person!" This earned him another smack, he grimaced as he used his free hand to rub the back of his head.
"Ouch…I think your hits got harder."
Katheryn sighed.
"Anyways... if it was built 60 years ago... then this place may not be as old as we thought...maybe we should take these back to Mother Flora and Professor Olive...Maybe one of them can find out about these..." Just then, the music box quieted down. The room was silent. Ledian's antennae twitched, and suddenly it pointed to the eggs...it could here something moving inside of them.
Mortis looked up at the slightly glowing Pokemon eggs and laughed nervously, one of his eyes twitching.
"That's…not supposed to happen…right?" He glanced over at the equally confused Katheryn and gave her a look of pure panic. Then he looked back at the eggs and saw them shaking. His eyes widened and he pulled his red haired friend around to sheild her with his body again.
"Shit, they're gonna blow!!" After a few moments had passed and nothing happened he peeked back around and looked more closely at the shiny blue eggs…only to have them both explode up in his face-minus the fire and the shrapnel.
"Mortis!"
Her friend looked around and winced. He seemed ok, accept for the fact he was startled. They turned back to the eggs.
However, the eggs were now broken . And peering out of the holes were two pairs of eyes, staring back at them. Ledian drew closer to poke one, only to find a coating of frost swiftly covering it.
A sudden meep came from the other egg, followed by a soft coo from whatever had blown frost at Ledian.
Then, one of the eggs slowly broke apart as the Pokemon inside kicked away at it. The other, also trying to break free, fell to the floor and burst open, leaving only a fraction of the eggshell to conceal the newborn.But, from what could be seen, it had a long silvery tale, and wet, ruffled feathers.
"Coo..." The Pokemon muffled bitterly.
"Mew..." The Pokemon still pounding away at its eggshell to break free on the alter replied sympathetically. A feline silhouette began to appear inside the egg.
Ledian brushed the freeze of it's body. It turned to Katheryn on Mortis, as if it were asking what they should do
Mortis smiled gently and reached his had forward towards the hiding one that resembled a cat, trying to look for al the world like he didn't just have a pokemon egg explode in his face.
"Hey there little guy. We won't hurt you." One timid blue eye blinked out at him and he mustered up what he hoped was a reassuring smile.
A coal black beak pecked through the other eggshell. Slowly, it broke away, and the pokemon was finally in full view.
Its eyes were a crimson red, its crest was shaped like tiny, tightly bonded crystals, and was coal black like its beak, and long, flowing tale; most of all, its feathers were the most brilliant silver...
The blue eyed cat pokemon pushed out, of its own eggs and rolled forward to the eggs of the older, meeping in frustration. It's light blue hair appeared fine, hardly even visible. Its slender, lengthy feline tail ended in a small, ovally bead shape. It's diminutive ears wiggled as it lifted its fairly large head.
It stared up at Mortis and mewed. The bird pokemon scuffled to get back up on the alter next to the feline, but it fell backwards, right into Katheryn's feet.
Mortis smiled down at the bird pokemon before turning back to the feline one and cooing, holding his fingers out again for it to sniff. After about ten minutes of coaxing he finally got the tiny blue creature to come near him so he could pick it up. His tanned hands cuddled the pokemon close to his chest as he looked it over. He frowned slightly when he figured out what they were.
" A Mew…and an Articuno. Two very rare pokemon and we just found two shiny, newly hatched ones." He juggled the small Mew around so that he could use one of his hands to massage the bridge of his nose as he felt a migraine starting to come on.
"I'm beginning to think the Gods have it out for us, Kay."
"Don't you mean the saints?"
Just then, they heard someone talking. "Don't worry Mr. and Mrs. Boleyn. They couldn't have gotten to far."
"Oh no, it's professor Olive…My parents must have been worried and sent her to look for me."
Mortis sighed and mussed up his violet hair, his frustration knowing no bounds. If her parents were worried then they were sure to blame it on him for getting them lost...they never had liked him. He groaned when the Professor came though the door of the chamber they were in.
"Greaaaat..." He looked up at the woman who nearly ran their schools and waved slightly when she walked in.
"Yo..." She glared at him and dead panned to Kaythern's parents on the phone.
"I found them..."
The professor had her light, "olive" green hair pulled back tight into a bun. Her brown eyes glared with contempt.
She closed her phone, sliding it into the top pocket of her forest green suit under white lab coat.
"I figured you be here...The cave was the only shelter between here and the town. I didn't know however, that a shrine to the saints of snow and space had been buried underneath it."
"You're going to turn me into my parents, aren't you, Professor Olive?" Katheryn huffed. Ledian sat on her shoulder.
The professor chuckled. "Not necessarily. I want you two to come with me back to my lab in the cathedral...I believe those Pokemon you're holding came from here, correct?"
"Yes."
"Then we need to see Mother Valorie. She might know something about these two..."
Mortis glanced over. "Hold on, we already know what they are."
"That's not what I meant, Mr Snow. You'll have to see when we get there I suppose... however, I'm not covering for either of you if Ms. Boleyn's parents come and wonder what the hell happened."
Mortis grunted. "They've always hated me, I'm not suprised."
"Maybe they're worried that thier daughter is hanging around with a much older young man. After all... you're 25, and she's what, seventeen? That kind of gap looks suspicious to some people.
Anyways... it's none of my business. I should drive you both back to town in my Jeep."
The violet haired man just snorted and followed the Professor out, protesting her assessment of their relationship on the way out.
"Her parents can't blame me that all the boys in girls her age are brainless, zombies/blimbos who only care about sex and drugs. I may be a daredevil and have a bit of an alcohol problem but atleast I'm not drugged up everyday, or have too many strange things in my mouth to speak." He flipped his hair over one of his shoulders in an exaggerated move and cocked his head to the side before staring defiantly ahead of him. As he got in the car he reached over to make sure his coat was still wrapped around his friend then slid the baby Mew under his shirt to keep his warm, then passed out from the long over due pain of his most likely broken ribs. Professor Olive glanced at his body that was slumped between the car door and his seat and shook her head.
"He is going to get himself killed one of these days...the idiotic child." Kaythern smartly refrained from commenting on the slug and her friend when he wasn't awake to defend himself.
End of Episode One-Please tune in next time!!