Author note
This is my attempt to make a fanfiction! Hope you like it! More information at the end.
Broken Bonds
Chapter one
In an empty road in the afternoon sunset, warm winds blew up from the sea and rustled around in the trees to bring the smell of the salty sea. A lone person walked along the road. It took small silent steps, followed by the figure walking down a little stair that led down to the beach. The feeling of sand under the persons feet did nothing to calm it. Suddenly the figure turned around as person appeared from behind it. The new person proceed to walk up to first person.
"I've been waiting here for a few minutes. Now tell me why I'm here and especially, why I'm here with you out of all people."
"Because I wanted to apologize for, you know…"
The first person tried to avoid the powerful words, tried to escape the truth and trying more than ever to avoid saying it. The thing that made everything turn to chaos. The thing that shook the cornerstones too hard and made everything fall into pieces. The thing that made it impossible to repair the damages.
"You want to apologize for this? I don't think you need to. It's over. Me, my friends, my family, my life. Everything. The only thing that is left is you."
The first person didn't answered and just stood there, looking at the second one, taking a few steps backwards in shame. As the first person stared down at its feet, sobs began to escape from their mouth before they looked up again.
"I'm so sor…,"
The second one interrupted without hesitation.
"You have told everyone that word to many times. No one cares anymore. You say that damages repairs over time. These ones won't repair. Not over a day, not over a week, not over a month, not over a year, not over a decade, not over a lifetime."
The second one took a few steps closer and knuckled it's fists staring at the other one with a gaze that could kill.
The first one stuttered, tried to speak, tried to keep the tears down, tried to keep the body stable and tried most of all to resist fainting. It takes a bit of time but the figure finally speaks, forcing the words out.
"There must be some way I can help you, anyway. I'll do whatever you want."
The second one sighed, completely disappointed. It then turned away, to look at the sunset like the other one didn't even exist.
"You know what. There actually exists a way out of this. This won't be able to be repaired in a life-time but it will be repaired with what comes after a lifetime. You know what comes when your existence has ended?"
The first one began to cry and slow sobs were heard as the tears ran down it's face, already knowing what the other one was talking about and what was going to happen.
"Death."
"Your right, death. The only thing that is left for me after you came into my life, interesting enough you go spared from everything that happened here. You come in and destroys everything. Then you just leave everyone with the chaos of broken bonds, death, pain, and sorrow that was caused by you. You are the one that shall pay for this. Not me and everyone else. You shall pay with as much death as I did."
The first one slowly backed away as the second one closed in with malicious smile on the face. The person then proceeded to pull out a small pocketknife from it's pocket.
The first one turned around and tried to run but it's to late. They were caught by the arm and forced to fall down on the beach. They struggled as the other one sat down astride their chest making them give up completely. The first person stops bothering about the world around them and just closes their eyes to ignore the world. They knew what was going to happen to them soon and knew more than ever that they deserved it.
The second proceeds to grab the knife with both hands, holding it over the first.
"So helpless, so helpless."
What is happening? Who are they? Why are they doing this? So many questions. I think we need to take a closer look at what actually happened. We back off from this future vision and goes back to the present time to see what's going to lead up to this. I'm as curious as you.
The sun was shining as people rushed around in the crowded town square. The noise from people and cars filled the air. The lovely smell of newly made apple pie came from a café that was set in a house block on the side of the town square, bringing its pleasant aroma to any walking by. In the outdoor seating area sat a girl, waiting for someone. She was Reshiram, a medium, tall girl who's was clothed in neat white clothes, all of them carefully ironed. Her skin consisted of soft, pure white scales and down her back, long silver-white hair flowed. The color of her eyes were bright blue and under that she had a straight muzzle.
She put her backpack down on her lap and began picking up various things. A notebook, a few pencils, and erasers. Her movement were smooth, fast, and accurate. Without hesitation Reshiram began drawing in the notebook she had pulled out.
Reshiram was waiting for a two of her friends who's she had been close to since they were young but on thing led to another to change that. Both of them had moved to another town and began living another life while she had been stuck in her small hometown, completely alone. As the time passed on she started drifting away in her thoughts. While she was drawing, someone suddenly shook her shoulder. Reshiram jolted from her thoughts and looked at the person behind her. An above average, tall pink-skinned creature stood behind her and smiled at her. Reshiram stood to give her old friend a hug with Mewtwo putting her long tail around Reshiram's neck.
"Finally we all can meet together again. It has been like a half year since we had the chance to meet like this," Mewtwo said and released her friend. Mewtwo was clothed in purple and pink casual clothes and under them you could forebode a muscular body of someone that exercised a lot.
"Then there's only Latias left," Reshiram said and dragged out a chair for her friend. They sat down and began talking about everything that had happened since their last meeting.
"Shall we order something?" Mewtwo said and picked her wallet from out of her pocket.
Reshiram nodded and Mewtwo quickly got up from the table. While Mewtwo was disappearing through the crowd a new person appeared at the table. Latias hurried through the crowd with a handbag in a tight grip. As soon as she reached the table she shouted: "I'm at least here before Mewtwo," and broke out in a laughter that was joined by Reshirams.
"She's just ordering. Don't even bother to dream about coming in time," Reshiram said and gave her friend a hug.
"Don't miff me. I'm at least trying to come on time," Latias said and sat down in an empty chair as she tried to catch her breath after all the running she had done. Latias was a middle sized person, her body covered in red and white scales. She had a short muzzle and two pointy ears on the top of her head and she had a handbag hung over her shoulder.
Mewtwo returned through the crowd with three sandwiches and sat down at the table.
"Look who is here at last," Mewtwo said teased as she looked over at Latias with a grin.
"Don't talk about it!" Latias said and pretended to bare her teeth at Mewtwo. Reshiram smiled, thinking about all the countless times she and Mewtwo had spend waiting for Latias, who was practically always fashionably late.
"Shall we talk about the more important things?" Mewtwo said and took a bit of her sandwhich.
"Maybe the fact that we are all are going to begin at our new school in a week?" Latias said as she corrected a lock of hair over her shoulder.
"We have missed you Reshiram. Isn't it funny that we can live with each other again like old times but this time in big city instead of this little town," Mewtwo said.
Reshiram just sat, completely silent and looked at her sandwich. "It's easy to say so but it's much more than that," she said as she finally spoke.
"Is it?" Latias said and rose her eyebrows.
"My family is going to be far away. You have aways lived there with yours but mine bought an apartment to give me this opportunity. I'm going to miss them. "
"You can see them on the weekends if you want," Mewtwo said and embraced Reshiram.
"It's not only that. Every day I try to convince myself that the reason I'm moving is because of you guys, the new school, and everything but everyday I find myself thinking on it as an escape from this town along with everything that happened here. I've realized that the main reason that makes me want to move is to get a chance to restart my messed up life and leave the past behind."
Latias quickly joined in the hug, before saying in caring voice,"What happened during the summer wasn't your fault. We all know that it made a huge impressions on you. But you need to put it behind you and walk forwards. Don't feel bad over things that happened during the summer. Moving is just a step away from it and to a better life for you."
"How can things change so fast? It took a few month to make it all chaos. I'm going to need years to clean it up. Why did I made so many bad decisions?" Reshiram said and felt how her mind was attacked by memories.
Mewtwo continued on Latias speech. "Don't worry about it, because we were there for you then and we are still here now. Most of those problems are solved and taken care of. The only ones left are emotional wounds but we have to fix those together. Stop blaming yourself for bad choices. Hundreds of bad choices have been made this summer and nearly all of them have been made by other people, not you. You being the victim that was affected by them, means it isn't your fault."
Reshiram sighed as she took in what her friends had said.
"Shall we go to your new home?" Latias asked and stood up from her chair.
In Reshiram and her friends were sitting in Reshiram's room. Nearly everything was packed down in boxes or bags. The next plan was to get Reshiram ready for resettling. All of them were sitting on her bed talking about the good things with a new school.
"...And we are going to meet a lots of new friends. I bet that there must be someone like me there that always comes late. I can't be lonely with it when it's a big school like that,"
"I've heard that the school has gym, I'm going to check it out so I can see if I can train there and get a bit stronger,"
Latias and Mewtwo laughed. "When shall you stop? When you can crumple a whole car to the size of a tin?" Latias said and jabbed Mewtwo in the side.
"Be careful or I crumble you to a tin," Mewtwo said and rose from the bed just to lift up Latias over her shoulder like a sack of poatoes.
"Drop Me!"
Mewtwo laughed and put her down on the bed.
"Why are you so silent Reshiram?" Mewtwo said when she noticed that Reshiram didn't join in the fun.
"I'm thinking on what could happen at this school,"
A serious atmosphere entered the room and it felt like a draft of air blocked off all the sounds from the air around them.
"Don't worry, this time we will be with you every day. Nothing is going to happen to you," Latias said and pulled Reshiram closer next to her.
"Things won't be the same. It's time to start over and stop looking over your shoulders. This time we will be with you to protect you," Mewtwo filled in and covered the both of them with a cover.
"I need to go to on the toilet," Reshiram said and threw the covet of herself.
With hasty steps she walked away aiming for the bathroom. Reshiram opened the door to the small bathroom and began looking at herself in the mirror over the sink. She could see a face of someone who had been through a lot in a short amount of time and didn't slept properly at night.
Stay in the present. Don't look backwards. Live for the future.
Those were the words she had silently repeated in her head a thousands of times. It had started with one time in the middle of summer and she ended up repeated it at least a few times a day. It was her way of surviving the days and to keep her nose over the surface of endless suffering and pain.
Reshiram turned on the faucet and looked at it. She picked a coin from her pocket and looked at it.
The crown for hot and the king for cold as always.
She threw the coin in the air and looked at it as fell down in her hand. King.
Reshiram put the plug in the basin and turned on the facet on with the water as cold as possible. She let it flow into the basin until there were enough water to put her head in it, and the without hesitating she pushed her face down in the cold water.
You need to hold yourself together. Blow away every thought about the past. Start a new life in this city. Find friends, keep up with the school, and create for yourself a stable existence.
Her body wanted more than ever to lift up her head from the biting cold water, wanted to get away from the pain. She forced herself to stay under the surface and feel the pain. Letting the pain help her to forget all the memories for a few seconds. Letting the pain take place and be everything that occupied her mind. No worries about her past. She soon found her lungs were out of breath, bringing more pain to her senses because of the lack of oxygen. She lifted her head, crying out of the pain from the cold water and the lack of oxygen in her lungs, she then looked at herself in the mirror.
Am I not a pathetic creature? Can only hurt myself make me forget things?
Reshiram sighed and turned to take a towel and dry her face. When she was ready and had the hand on the doorknob she suddenly remembered something. Reshiram proceed to take out the plug in the basin, watching it slowly funnel out of existence and completely disappear. When she did so she rolled up the sleeve on her arm. That was mistake. On her inner arm she saw the beginnings of a scar. She suddenly went about and rolled up her sleeves the whole way to the shoulder and looked at her arm. It had three long scars along it. Beginning at the lower arm and continuing to the upper, ending somewhere in her armpit.
Why did I deserve this? I didn't even make these by myself. Why did they choose me out of all people? Why me out of all people?
"Come out from the bathroom!" Latias suddenly shouted from outside from the door making Reshiram jolt at the sudden sound.
"We know what you are doing in there so come out and talk about it," Mewtwo continued.
Reshiram put down her sleeve and opened the door to meet two worried faces.
"Why do you always leaves us like that?" Latias said and put an arm around her friends shoulder leading her away from the bathroom.
"Talk with us instead of yourself," Mewtwo said as they walked to Reshiram's room.
"I shall do that, I promise," Reshiram said while knowing that she wasn't able to let out all of her feelings.
"Don't promise, do it," Latias said and lifted up on of the cardboards from the floor: "Let's fix these ones before doing anything else,"
Soon Reshiram sat in the backseat of a car with Latias besides her and Mewtwo behind the steering wheel. All the cardboards where packet in the car, most of the in the trunk, the rest in the backseat.
The air was filled with the sound of a cars driving on on the slightly cracked asphalt of the road. All of them going to the specific location of the City of Eagle Point. The city was an average sized city that began with normal suburban villas that slowly turned into a massive city core.
Reshiram rested her head against the box that were in her knee and tried her best to focus on its smell as an attempt to displace the smell of exhaust. She began counting the cars that she could see outside the window. For every car she counted she knew that it was one step away from her earlier home.
"Reshiram? Are you listening?" Latias said and poked her friend on the chin.
Reshiram jolted and lifted her head up from the cardboard. "Yea. I'm listening to you."
Latias just smiled and continued talking while Reshiram drifted away in her thoughts not even bothering to try to hide the fact that she wasn't listening. Slowly her thought wandered off to her hometown and to the new one.
Think positive. Think positive. I'm going to get new friends but I'm going to miss my old ones. Only positive things. I still got my best friends with me. But they may leave me. Nothing negative. Be positive. They would never leave me. What happened in my hometown may happen again. No. Stay in the present. Don't look backwards. Live for the future. But what happened during the summer may...
A low growling sound emitted from Reshiram as she smashed her head harder than she intended to in the box. Latias stopped talking and silence filled the air. Reshiram wailed and rubbed the sore spot on her head.
"Are you okay?" Mewtwo said not taking her eyes of the road. Reshiram just groaned.
"Poor you," Latias said and tried to hug her friend over the boxes while taking a peek in the box.
"No wonder it hurts, your box is filled with books," Latias said and pitied her friend by stroking her over the head.
Why is it always me? Why I'm I always hurting myself like this? The world really is against me. I'm a true idiot.
"You know what Reshiram, sometimes you act like an open book. Just by looking at you I can see that you are thinking about negative things," Latias said before releasing her friend. "We can see that you aren't okay so why are you refusing to let us help you," Mewtwo filled in, throw her eye over her shoulder at Reshiram.
Reshiram rose her head from the box and looked through the window while sorting out her thoughts.
I know I need their help. Do I want it? It's with the help of phone calls to them that I've survived this summer so why can't I accept their help now?
Reshiram walked through all the specific parts of her mind to find the answer. Through old memories as well as new ones. To places she had swore to never enter again. To things that she just wanted to forgot. To incidents she knew she had done wrong in. To the summer. To all the days of crying and worrying. To the reason she didn't want to speak out about everything.
I don't trust them anymore. I don't trust anyone, not even myself. Not after what people did to me this summer. But they have never done anything against me, so why? I know I can trust them. They are always supporting me. They've never done anything wrong towards me. Just because I can't trust others doesn't mean that I can't trust my best friends. I need to hang on. I need to trust them.
"I tell you later," Reshiram said before resting her head against the box and drifting off to sleep unaware of what problems she was going to cause in the future.
The strong smell of fried fast food entered Reshiram's nostrils as she open her eyes. She could hear someone gobbling while they ate and Reshiram instantly knew the culprit. Reshiram twisted her head against Latias, and it was entirely as she expectation. Latias was devouring a hamburger in a fast pace, swallowing it down like a vacuum cleaner. As soon as she noticed Reshiram she stopped eating and spoke.
"While you were sleeping we got hungry and bought this in a drive thru," she said and nodded to a plastic bag on empty seat besides Mewtwo.
"Luckily I saved you from that unhealthy, fried crap and bought sandwiches for us," Mewtwo said and wrinkled her nose because of the smell and Latias constant chewing.
"Just because you like to be fit that much. This isn't that bad Mewtwo," Latias said and took an extra big bite of here hamburger.
Mewtwo laughed in response.
"The most interesting thing with you is that you are one of the best chefs I've ever known and still you prefer to eat fast food," Mewtwo said.
"It's because it feels like a relief to eat something simple when I'm always spending a ton of time cooking, and besides that comes from the worlds most sporty and active person that still isn't capable of getting out of the bed before ten on the weekends."
"You got me."
Reshiram muttered something unhearable about food and reached out to pick the bag of food from the seat in front of her. She looked down in it and picked up a sandwich. When she looked at it she felt like she wasn't hungry. After putting it down she decided to take a closer look inside the box that she had in her lap. Reshiram saw that the first books inside were just normal books but as soon as she looked underneath them she saw what it really contained. Her diaries.
Reshiram picked up one.
I think this was my recent one up until two weeks ago.
She then fast read through it the first couple of pages.
I think I've written more this summer than the rest of the whole year. They are at least good at talking to. It always listens.
Reshiram thought on all the time she had spent writing in them. Every day, the whole summer she had written down every painful detail of her past. Reshiram closed the books and decided that it was best to let the past stay in the past.
As she was about to put it back, Latias suddenly grabbed the book and took it out of her hands.
"A book? What's in it? Is it an interesting story?" Latias said and was about to open it.
"Do not ever touch my diary!" Reshiram said and barred her teeth. Latias had already opened it but she immediately closed it when she realized what she had done.
"Give it back," Reshiram growled and lowered her eyebrows as she stared Latias in the eyes. Latias reached out slowly and gave it to Reshiram while nestling together and trying to look away from Reshirams gaze.
Reshiram snatched the book out of Latia's hands and growled as Latias tried to make herself as small and invisible as possible.
"Don't you ever dare to look at it. This summer I've been forced to extend my limits more I thought I would be able to do. I've done horrible things and I don't want you to be the next on I test them on," Reshiram said and supported it with a deep growl.
End note
So what do you think about this story? Did you like it? Here I'm at least answering a few common questions.
How often are you going to post chapters?
That really depends, I already got another story but I may consider to make this to put my main focus on this story if people enjoys it. If I do that expect me to update bi-weekly.
How long will these chapters be?
More than 3000 words every chapter.
What legendaries are going to be included?
I don't really now, this story is still in the planning phase. You can always tell me if you wish to see a specific legendary or mythical Pokemon.
What if I want to help you?
Give me a good review or a pm with what you think about the chapter and the story. If you have other ways of helping me just send me a pm.
That was all from me this time. I hope you enjoyed the reading as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Stay sharp - Paarthurnax!
