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Last Time

Last Time Narration

Narrator

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"Human Speech"

"Song Lines"

'Pokemon Speech'

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XOXOX- Scene Change

Chapter 2- My Life

But the wall of the tower could not hide everything.

May crept past her sleeping godmother as she tip toed to the window. She opened the window as she gasped at the sight.

Each year on her birthday, the King and Queen released thousands of lanterns in the sky in hope that one day, their lost princess.. would return.

May sighed as she sat at the window and watched the pretty lights in the sky. Her sapphire orbs gleamed in the light as she watched the lights fly higher and higher.

XOXOX

A lot of time had passed. It was a bright day and the sun was shining down brightly on the hidden tower. The trees and bushes swayed in the gentle breeze as the waterfall cascaded down steadily.

The room on top of the tower was decorated with flowers. There was a gap left in the top of the tower which served as a window. This window had wooden highlights such as a pulley wheel and a platform like outcropping and the wooden doors were currently shut.

The wooden ledge outside the window was lined with flower pots. A Torchic emerged from inside the tower, nudging the door open and close behind it softly, and quietly crouched behind a flowerpot.

There was greenery all over the roof of the tower and creepers with blossoming flowers covered the old, gray walls.

A scattering of Sentret pranced about in the meadow below, often standing to attention on their tails to look for any signs of danger. They seemed a tad bit agitated.

"HA!" Suddenly, the window burst open and a golden haired, sapphire eyed young girl leaned out of the window. She wore a deep red gown with silver lining and cream colored lace. Pale red colored sleeves covered her arms till mid forearm. The lower part of the girl's gown had silver designs of roses on them.

Her golden hair cascaded down her back as she looked first right and then left. She pursed her lips in pretend bewilderment as she cast her eyes down musingly while glancing sideways towards the Torchic.

"Hmm," she mused, looking slyly at the hidden Torchic who was crouching as low as it could. She brushed a strand of her hair back behind her ear, "well, I guess Torchic's not hiding out here..." she slowly put her hands behind her back and strolled back inside, her eyes darting from the Torchic to the interior of the tower room.

The pokemon chuckled slightly when May seemed unable to find it.

Suddenly, a strand of golden hair grabbed Torchic's leg and pulled it out from between the pots.

"Gotcha!" May exclaimed jumping down from the ceiling.

'Tooor!' It had screamed.

Torchic hung upside down from a strand of her hair she had clutched in her hand. As the surprise wore off, the little pokemon began huffing slightly.

"Now, that's twenty-two for me..." May laughed letting Torchic down on the window ledge.

"How about twenty-three out of forty-five?" May raised an eyebrow, putting her hands on her waist.

Torchic narrowed its eyes at May, 'Toor! Chic!'

May sighed and rolled her eyes, "Okay, well... What do you wanna do?" she sat down on the wooden window still and arched an eyebrow at Torchic.

'Tor-Tor!' It pointed out to the open forest.

"I don't think so..." May grinned, picking him up and holding him in her lap, "I like it in here and so do you," she pointed inside the room.

Her eyes shifted back out to the world outside though and she felt a lurch in her stomach. It was so beautiful really. It really wasn't fair.

Torchic just watched her with a look that said Oh Really?and stuck his beak in the air away from May.

"Oh come on Torchic, its not so bad in here!" She dragged her eyes from the horizon, instead picking the little chick pokemon up and leading him inside.

May ran across her room, her hair trailing behind her like a cape. It had to be more than twenty feet long by now.

The room was filled with things to do to pass the time and May jumped up onto the wooden bars cris-crossing at the top half of the area.

She threw her hair like a lasso onto a wooden switch, lighting up the room and slid down her hair like it was a swinging rope.

"7 AM the usual morning lineup," May landed right next to the clock and checked the time. Torchic sat on a shelf next to the clock.

"Start on the chores and sweep 'til the floor's all clean," May swept the room with a brush and mop as Torchic stood with a dust collecting pan in his mouth. May swept the dust into the pan, getting dust all over Torchic. She swept again, picking up her hair with one foot as it got in the way.

"Polish and wax, do laundry, and mop and shine up," May skated around her room with all her hair in a bunch on a table. She waxed the stairs and mopped the floor. She then took the clothes upstairs to the rooms and brushed the candle stand on her table.

"Sweep again, and by then it's like 7:15," May swept the floor again and then went to see the time. Her eyes widened in slight disbelief and she felt a sense of boredom creeping into her heart. She slumped against the clock when she saw it had just taken her fifteen minutes.

"And so I'll read a book: Or maybe two or three," she walked to her bookshelf and took down a load of books and sat on her bed. Torchic was perched on her shoulder.

"I'll add a few new paintings to my gallery!" She hung on her hair, suspend from the wooden beams as Torchic held the mixing tray in its beak, also hanging from some of May's hair. May added some finishing touches to a painting of a woman with a beautiful sea blue dress and grinned.

Suddenly she felt an itch in her hair and pulled at it and Torchic went down and crashed on the floor getting paint all over itself. May put her hand over her face in shock, "sorry! You know how clumsy I get..."

"I'll play guitar and knit," she sang while strumming the guitar. Then she put the guitar aside and picked up the needles and showed Torchic a half finished muffler.

"And cook and basically..." May took out a hot pie from the oven and smelled it. She suddenly spotted a door kind of thing with a curtain around it. Her curiosity rose as she studied the space.

"Just wonder when will my life begin?" May held up her thumb and measured the area. The suddenly she grinned, feeling the familiar buzz of an idea pop into her head and ran to her paint box, picked it up and carried it to the door kind of thing.

She pushed it aside and it fell off with a huge THUD! May jumped and Torchic breathed fire in surprise at the noise. It had been happily eating the pie May had baked.

May shrugged and pulled the paint box up and then tripped on her hair and the paint all went flying on the area she had cleared to paint. May got up and gasped, disappointed then shrugged and dipped her brush into the blue paint and covered the mess of colors.

"Then after lunch it's puzzles and darts and baking..." May was lying down on her stomach trying to fit a piece of a puzzle in. Torchic pecked the place where it went with its beak and May happily put it there.

The oven dinged and May jumped up and scrambled over to it. This time she had made cookies and she tossed one to Torchic in its mouth. It crunched up the cookie and licked its beak.

"Paper-marche, a bit of ballet and chess," May had made a monster head and was running around scaring Torchic. She twirled around but got tangled in her hair and fell down. She giggled from between her hair as a contentment almost settled in her before she looked back at the clock and suddenly all her happiness was gone.

"Pottery and ventriloquy, candle making," May had her tongue out as she concentrated on cutting the pot from the wheel. She finally got it out on the wooden slab without it splitting. She then proceeded to make Torchic her doll and practiced her ventriloquy.

She took out some candles from the freezing bucket she was using and put them in a shelf filled with candles she had made before.

"Then I'll stretch, maybe sketch, take a climb, Sew a dress!" A Beautifly floated in through the window with a Skitty on her back. May waved to them and Beautifly grabbed May's mixing pan and helped her because Torchic refused to put itself in danger again.

Skitty ran around in circles as May tried to draw it while it was moving about. Not able to quite capture the pokemon on the paper, May sighed and grabbed the pink pokemon.

May climbed up on a swing made of her hair with Torchic on one shoulder and Skitty on her other one. Beautifly floated near her. Suddenly she slipped on her hair and Beautifly blew a gust to help her float -instead of fall- down to the ground.

May clasped her hands as she looked at Torchic. It was dressed in red with a little rose on its head which Beautifly had brought from the ground. Torchic looked anything but pleased being dressed up like a doll. Skitty jumped up and down and rolled about playfully.

"And I'll reread the books- If I have time to spare," May was starting to feel utterly bored now as she re-read the three books she had, surrounded by all her pokemon friends.

"I'll paint the walls some more- I'm sure there's room somewhere," She stood in front of the walls her brush in her hand and Beautifly floating next to her, they looked for somewhere to paint but the walls seemed to be full from ceiling to roof.

"And then I'll brush and brush, and brush and brush my hair," May stood in front of the mirror, grabbing a brush from the nightstand and brushing it through her hair vigorously.

Some time later, she reached the end of her hair, sitting and brushing it on a wooden beam with the rest of it all floating around everywhere. She pulled the brush through the last tangle in her hair and exhaled, exhausted.

"Stuck in the same place I've always been," May slumped against a wooden beam as she blew a piece of her hair that was coming in her face.

"And I'll keep wonderin' and wonderin' And wonderin' and wonderin,'" May grabbed her hair in her hand and ran in spirals, dropping parts of her hair at intervals as she came to stand in the middle of the spiral of her hair.

"When will my life begin?" She threw her hands up in the air and circled in the spiral. Her hair got caught in her legs as she spun, making her trip and forcing Beautifly to untangle her using Physic.

"And tomorrow night, Lights will appear..." May's singing softened as she ran to the window and leaned out as far as she could. She shut her eyes, imagining the lights. Her heart swelled as lights flickered behind her closed eyelids.

"Just like they do on my birthday each year," she stared out longingly as Torchic came and hopped on to her shoulder. Beautifly flew and perched on her hair and Skitty for once became quiet and listened to May's beautiful singing.

"What is it like, Out there where they glow?" May turned back inside and walked to the painting she had just made in the space where the door had been. The paining was of trees and mountains and just above them: floating lights. Hundreds of them. Blue, yellow, orange, many colors.

"Now that I'm older... Mother might just... Let me go..." May almost whispered, tracing a drawing of herself sitting on one of the trees and watching the floating lights.

May sighed as she finished tracing her hair to the tip.

XOXOX

A man slid down the roof of a building. On closer inspection, the building turned out to be the castle and the man turned out to be Derek Hadwinn, the young man from the wanted poster in the woods.

He was followed by two more people. One had blue hair that come down to his chin and piercing green eyes. The other had green hair and red eyes. Both of them slid down the roof after Derek and landed on another roof.

Derek had green eyes and green hair that gleamed as the sun struck it. He was wearing a purple jacket with a black shirt underneath and sea green pants. He pressed himself against the wall as his two companions did the same.

A guard passed under the roof right below where they stood and just as he was out of sight the three began to slink towards a opening in another roof they had been eyeing. They jumped from roof to roof and finally landed on their desired rooftop.

The two with Derek were thin and lean and had a few scars on their arms and faces. They didn't look strong but their eyes had this sly look like foxes.

Derek's eyes danced with amusement as they moved without being seen. He leaned out over the roof and smirked.

"You know, I could get used to a view like this..." James said standing next to him and crossing his arms. He was the blue haired and green eyed guy.

"James, Hadwinn come on!" Butch whispered fiercely. He was the green haired, red eyed one.

"I'm already used to it," Derek waved his arm dismissively as his smirk widened, "and I've decided, I want a castle."

Butch had already opened the trap-door in the roof, "Come on!" he grabbed James by the scruff of his neck and gestured to Derek, "we do this job and you can buy your own castle."

Derek nodded as he was lowered down into the hole with a rope. He had a brown colored satchel in his hand. The Rocket brothers were standing up holding the rope as Derek was lowered down.

Derek was lowered down to the middle of the throne room of the castle. In the center, on a stone pedestrian, the lost princess's crown was sitting on a velvet cushion. It was very precious to the King and Queen and also was very expensive.

The crown was guarded by nine soldiers all holding axes. Next to each soldiers stood a growlithe.

They were standing straight as Derek grabbed the crown and put it into the satchel.

One of the soldiers sneezed and Derek made a mock sympathetic noise, "Cold?"

The guard turned around to face him and nodded then turned back to the post. His Growlithe growled as the guard realized who he had spoken to and spun around again but Derek was already out of the hole.

"W-Wait! Hey! WAIT!" The guard exclaimed as the other guards ran to him and looked up at the hole in the ceiling. The growlithe growled and tried to jump up at the ceiling.

"I'm just picturing me in a castle of my own..." Derek smirked as he ran over the bridge that separated the forest area from the kingdom lands. He had the satchel in his hand.

"Well," James said seriously, "I can certainly picture myself!"

Derek rolled his eyes, "You? Sure."

"Will you just shut up and run?" Butch shouted grinding his teeth together in frustration.

"All the things we've seen," James exclaimed ignoring his brother, "and its only eight in the morning. This is a very big day!"

Derek smirked as all three of them ran across the bridge and into the woods.

XOXOX

May breathed out nervously, "This is it. This is a very big day Torchic," then she seemed to remember something, "Oh, Beautifly, Skitty you must go, I'll see you before I leave to see the lights. Hopefully she'll let me," May showed her friends her crossed fingers.

'Beauti!' Beautifly nodded as Skitty jumped on her back and the two of them sailed out of the window and into a tree nearby.

"I don't know why mother doesn't like Pokemon..." May muttered to Torchic as he shook his head.

'Tor-Tor' He agreed, 'Chick-tor.'

"I know, it's weird right? Kinda like she's from another time and can't accept them," May muttered, shutting her paint box.

Then she giggled nervously, "Today, I'm finally gonna do it. I'm gonna ask her!"

'Torchic!' Torchic seemed delighted at the thought.

"May!" A sing-song voice floated up, "Let down your hair!"

"Here she is!" May exclaimed, hiding Torchic in a drawer, "Coming mother!" she shouted and ran to the window, her heart thumping loudly as she ran over the speech she had prepared.

END

And I finally got the second chapter edited! Sorry this took so long but I had an exam and then there was the India-England cricket match that I just couldn't miss.

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