Celestic Town – "The Past Lives."
A cool wind blew past Cynthia's face, ruffling the seven-year-old's short blonde hair. But, the girl paid no attention to it. Instead, she kept her gaze fixated on the shrine in front of her. It was shaped almost like a small house, with a red roof, white walls, and brown wood on the front wall that had ancient writing engraved in it, dedicated to the legendary pokémon of the Sinnoh region.
Cynthia had no idea what the ancient writing meant, but her gut told her that it was something important.
"Hey Gible, do you have any idea what this writing means?"
The small dragon pokémon next to her, gible, only shook his head in response.
"Huh… I really wanna know what it says. What if it says how to summon legendary pokémon? Wouldn't that be awesome?"
"Gible, gib!"
Cynthia laughed in response as she picked up her pokémon and nuzzled it close to her. "That's why I wanna study this kind of stuff," she said as she gestured to the ancient shrine, "Because it's so cool."
The duo stared at the shrine for a bit longer, before Cynthia sighed and began walking away. "I guess we should go home now, before it gets too late. I don't want grandma getting mad at us for staying out too late again."
"Mesprit?"
Cynthia had only taken a few steps away from the shrine when she spun around at the sound of an unfamiliar voice.
In front of the shrine, floating in mid-air was an ancient pokémon that Cynthia had only seen in picture books that her grandma had read to her. It had a pink head with a similar colored jewel in the middle of its forehead, a small, white body, and two tails coming from behind.
Cynthia was a few feet away from the Mesprit.
The small girl slowly began to walk forward, clutching Gible tightly against her, as she silently moved towards the legendary pokémon.
Mesprit eyed her suspiciously.
"Don't worry Mesprit, I won't hurt you," Cynthia whispered as she slowly inched closer.
"Gible!"
Cynthia finally made it close enough to Mesprit so that she could reach out and touch the pokémon. As she reached one short arm out, Mesprit slowly floated towards her arm. The pokémon stared into Cynthia's eyes for a few seconds, before finally floating up to the girl's hand so that she could pet the pokémon.
"Wow, Mesprit, I never thought I would meet you in person," the young girl breathed.
"Mes, mesprit," it purred in response.
"Cynthia, what are you doing out here? It's getting late, and everyone else has already gone inside. You should be sleeping!"
Mesprit made a quiet shriek before it disappeared into thin air, leaving Cynthia and Gible staring at the empty space in front of him. However, it wasn't empty for too long, because her grandma quickly took up the space that Mesprit had just been in.
"Explain yourself, young lady."
Cynthia stayed silent for a bit, trying to process what had just happened. "Grandma, you'll never believe what just happened! Gible and I saw Mesprit. You know, one of the legendary pokémon in that storybook we read all the time? Well, we saw it! I think you scared it off though…"
"Gible!"
Cynthia's grandma only shook her head and sighed. "I didn't seen anyone in front of you, Cynthia. You must have been seeing things. Barely anyone gets to see Mesprit. Only a select few that the legendary pokémon chooses itself."
"So Gible and I must have been chosen, right?"
The grandmother stared at the young girl with the small gible in her arms, before chuckling. "I don't know… I've heard that Mesprit only chooses people who follow their grandmother's rules, and do whatever they say."
Cynthia began running towards her house, desperate to get into bed and show Mesprit that she was special, and she deserved to be chosen. Her grandmother walked behind her, laughing the whole way.
"Don't worry Mesprit, we'll meet again one day. I'll know more about you and other legendary pokémon, and Gible and I will become stronger."
"Gible!"
"And that's a promise."
Author's Note:
Hi everyone! This is a new collection of one-shots I'm writing. I'll be doing one for every main town and city from the pokémon games, excluding things such as islands and other places that can only be accessed by special events. But, any town and city in the five main regions of all the pokémon games will be featured in this. Please review and let me know what you think of this, it would mean a lot!