Hello everyone, it's riolulover again bringing you another chapter of: 'a Buneary's heart'. Now before we get into the meat of the story, here's something I just wanted to get out there if your wondering why I don't have a profile picture for my...well, profile
(A/N lol even thought now i definetly have one.)
it's because I'm...not very experienced in the (put's on a fancy voice) mythical ways of computers and as such, can't really use the image manager to give myself one until I figure out how to do it….or….until..maybe someone else can teach me?...please?…
NAH that I'll never happen. Anyway, let's get on with where we left off.
(P.S I was listening to this REALLY nice piano music while I was writing this but it was on a stream, so I don't know what it was...my bad…
Ok NOW back to where we left off.)
The two eventually left the forest's domain to traverse the path that was set out for them with Pasco asking "so do you know if this trail will lead us to 'post town'?"
Anina responded with: "well according to the map, this trail should lead us to another trail...which will bring us to a crossroads...leading us to ANOTHER trail...and THAT trail should lead us to post town." she exclaimed, having gone through, more so a list than a sentence.
"Who knew your heart was so into long scenic walks?"Pasco said in a joking manner.
The buneary responded with: "Oh shut it! it's not my fault I like wh- I mean that we were so far away from any sort of town!" she spoke, frantically trying to cover her slip of the tongue.
"Suuure it isn't. Anyway, how long is this gonna take?"
"If the weather holds and we don't get distracted two days." the buneary determined with a confident look.
"And if it doesn't?" the mouse questioned.
Anina's confidence wavered a bit at that and said: "well that depends...worst case scenario we'll be on the road for a week."
The Pikachu looked worried at that statement saying: "...we only have enough supplies to last us three days..."
Seeing that her friend was upset, she said: "hey, don't be so down, there's no reason to worry about things that haven't happened yet right?" she asked, trying to lift his spirits.
The Pikachu felt a little relieved about all of this saying: "yeah...yeah I guess your right… well, let's keep moving." as they did just that.
As they continued to walk in silence the trail seemingly stretching out as far as they could see, the sun began to rise. They took notice of this and stopped, for a moment, to watch the rare sight. "man...now there's something you don't see every day..." he commented, a look of awe on his face...being the kind of guy he was, this was not a sight he had the pleasure of viewing very often.
"Ironic, considering it does in fact, HAPPEN every single day." the bunny said, a palm on her forehead.
"Well have YOU stayed up till the crack of dawn to see something like this?" Pasco asked believing she had not, for as far as he could tell, he had been with her almost every night she slept.
The buneary stuttered for a minute. "uh...well I...hmm..." it seemed he was right.
The Pikachu once again, dawning his signature smirk said: "I rest my case.".
She wanted to argue, but before she could say anything the ball of fire appeared over the edge to grace the sky with its presence. The two Pokemon stood in awe at the giant ball as it rose into the domain of the birds. The sky, blushing a soft, golden red slowly looked at its child as it rose to be with her.
And soon her ever-faithful companions, the noble clouds came to her side fulfilling their vow to never leave her, or her children until they passed away. While peaceful being's, they were protective of her and soon brandished their weapons, the holy trident's and slammed them down to earth reminding it's inhabitant's who guarded their queen.
Soon, they grew tired as their sweat fell down to earth, but It was not the filthy muck that you or I would produce no, this sweat, the sweat of the clouds was so pure, so holy, that it could nurture the very grass that grew on earth, or provide bodies of water that Pokemon could play in, and make a place of safety, and comfort for those who embody the spirit of the element water.
This was the legend of the sky, and how Pokemon explained the phenomenon known as; rain.
Thankfully, it was not too intense for our wanders to be hurt, or grow weak from the cold. No, this shower was rather tame, so they simply decided to look up at the sky her knight guarding her vigilantly, while still leaving enough room for her child the sun to play with her, creating small gaps in their formation wherever they may roam...it was yet another beautiful sight.
"So uh...does this still count as the weather holding?" Pasco asked innocently, feeling worry creep into his mind.
"(sigh) Well, it's not too strong...we should be fine." anina answered, not wanting him to be discouraged from trecking onward.
"Oh good! I didn't know if we had the supplies to stop and try to wait this out." he breathed a look of relief on his face.
"Yeah, neither did I." the bunny confessed.
The two stood in silence for a while, marveling at the day-to-day miracle happening right before their eyes. "well, we should keep moving." anina said as they continued to walk through the road. A moment or two of silence passed between them as they walked in the light rain...before the spark of conversation reignited itself.
"Hey anina?" the Pikachu asked.
"Yeah, Pasco?"
"You want to hear one of my world famous stories as we trek on?" he said, a look of pride dawning on his face.
His companion let out a small gasp saying: "Yes! Yes please!" you see, the parent's of Pasco were actually veteran explorers once upon a time, and they always found time to pass down story's both of their adventures, and the adventures of others so he always had something to entertain his fluffy friend with.
"You know how most Pokemon refer to the sun as the child of the sky?"
"Well yeah, even my parent's do sometimes." the normal type answered.
"Have you ever wondered why that is?" the mouse asked.
"...Yeah occasionally." Anina confessed
"Well, a myth goes round about a time where the sky had no child and seemingly didn't know where she could go she had no home, no family, and no sibling's but as she wandered, she met a man...a man known only to us; as space. He was a very kind soul and offered to guide sky to wherever she may wish to go since she had no one else to accompany her, she accepted his offer, and the two went on to wander the strange world they found themselves in...kind of like us."
"Huh...now that I think about it...yeah, you found me all alone in my room with no one else, you offered to be my friend and...wait, your not just telling me our story are you?" the buneary said, thinking this tale may be just a ruse.
Pasco chuckled to himself "heh, I wish...anyway, the two of them had many adventures so many in fact, that we have yet to discover them all. What we do know is this, after a long journey of wandering the land, sky confessed that she had grown to love her companion...in a way no friendship could copy. Understanding what she meant, space took her had and told her the same was true for him and after a small moment of them together, the two were mates. A few years later, they bore two children. One was the sun the other, the moon. While they were overjoyed to have such a precious gift in their life's, they knew that the two of them would not be safe, wandering the same land they did and sought for a place to settle down. Luckily they found such a place, earth. A large, beautiful planet with no danger in sight...they knew it was perfect. And so, sky and space hid their children on this place for years until one day they found that this place was inhabited by a species known as clouds, they were tireless knight's, able to defend against anything with their sacred weapons, the holy tridents."
"But without a queen, they had nothing to protect and thus, grew lost and tired, for knight's without a purpose often couldn't call themselves knights. So sky made a promise to the clouds; she would accept the role of the clouds new queen, along with all of the responsibility's that come with such a title, if the clouds made a vow to protect sky, along with her children and space until they faded away. Knowing that with a queen they would have a purpose, the clouds excepted her offer, and so the sky was named the queen of earth and by extension, space was to be her king. And under their rule, the plant earth prospered and grew from a simple plain of rock to a beautiful and lush green planet. So much it grew, that eventually, Pokemon like us were able to come into existence here through many years, we changed, adapted, and even evolved, to live on this sacred place along with the sky and her family. Thankfully she was kind and allowed us to live here too, but some say the clouds still are wary of us, and occasionally throw their tridents into the ground to remind us that they will defend their queen, but as long as we aren't dumb, and go looking for trouble, all of us can live happily..."
He turned to face his companion. "So you see that's why..huh?" he exclaimed as he found that his companion was nowhere to be found. "Uh..anina?" he said in a worried tone as he looked around trying to find her...he managed to spy a lone figure in the distance. He walked back down the trail curious, and after a few minutes found his companion whose back was against a tall pole that read; 'route to post town' on a sign shaped in an arrow pointing west, and 'route to wild-lands' on an arrow pointing east.
He had a small chuckle to himself saying; "heh, you couldn't even stay awake long enough to hear the full story." he then looked out to the horizon saying "then again, my stories always had this effect on you didn't they?" he then sat down continuing his previous thought. "Yeah, you always asked to hear a story from me, and they were always so long you could never even hope to stay awake long enough to hear the whole thing. To the point that your parents would ask mine if I could come to your house and help you fall asleep, and you asking me to just leave once I heard snoring...".
He then looked out into the horizon yet again. "and then...heh...you would always come to my house first thing in the morning, and jump on the bed to wake me up cause you just HAD to know what happened that you missed. To the point where mom and dad HAD to get me to come almost every night because I was always a heavy sleeper and couldn't get up in the morning." he once again had a small laugh to himself. "Maybe...that's one of the reasons why you wanted to do this...because you had heard so many of my-well, my parents stories that you realized...you didn't have your own..and you wanted to go out there and find it..so you'd have your own story to tell."
A moment of silence passed. "...We've always been pretty tight, haven't we? You were always so curious what Pokemon like me did with our lives, and I was just happy I could tell someone like you...y'know...our lives were kind of similar to that myth weren't they? You were sky lost, alone, and confused. And I was space. A guide and companion for you to rely on… to care about… to..." he stopped himself there. "Heh well, let's not get carried away. After all, I am just a guide..." he said to himself knowing that the chances of THAT happening while not impossible, were still unlikely...at least, knowing his luck.
"Well, this seems like a good spot to rest...even if it IS in broad daylight...then again, we WERE up the whole night weren't we?" he said to his unconscious companion. "Yeah, we should really take five right about now..." he said as he lay-ed down against the same pole she did. But before he closed his eyes, the clouds decided enough was enough and ended their torrent, leaving the sun free to roam where ever it may like. As long as the sky could see it, of course, leaving the air free and most of the clouds to return home, with a few still guarding the queen. Pasco then muttered to himself; "man, I could never get tired of views like this." his eyelids starting to grow heavy, he decided to do only one final thing before he surrendered himself to unconsciousness.
That act was to gently take one of the ears of his friend and, ever so softly stroke it. After a while of this, he could see a smile form on the buneary's face. He then said to himself "yup, you always did like it when I did this...even if you didn't like to admit it...heh, but I knew better, that smile of yours could never tell a lie. Granted, the language is a bit hard to learn, but I was able to." A few minutes of this later, and he found the buneary snuggling up to him that same smile on her face growing slightly wider.
He let out a sigh as he said; "aaaand there we go...you always did that too, if I wasn't quick in my escape." Although, he was a bit embarrassed to say that, he kind of liked it when she did this. While it felt awkward at first, over time she began to feel like a soft fluffy blanket to him...and he always would remember the great nights of sleep he got with a blanket like that. "(sigh)... You're a good friend anina." was that last thing he said before his closed, as he put himself into the care of cresselia.
And that's gonna wrap it up for the second chapter gents, and ladies! I'm sorry if these first chapters I'm writing are more dialogue heavy and don't really have a lot of action to them, (you know, as you would think when you see something labeled as 'adventure') but really wanted to establish a background for these characters before flying straight of the handle to GOD knows where. And I'm also sorry if again, that these chapters are only 1,000 to 2,000 words long, but I'd just like to clarify that I usually try to write all of these in one go because if I take to long in making something my interest in it can wane to the point of me not finishing it and I don't want that to happen! I like this story I can't just give up on it! (though you guys probably have by now…) so 2,000 is probably gonna be the average of words in each chapter. (well, at least until we get to the action anyway.) so again, my apologies. I'm doing the best with what I have to work with (and what I have to work with is a brain with a short attention span so...yeah. P.S when writing this text I tried to make it look really small but I don't know if it will work properly on fanfiction so can you guys tell how it went please?) oh and by the way, the stream I was listening to for the piano music was called 'calm piano music 24/7 study music, focus, think, meditation, relaxing music.' in case anyone was curious.
So anyway, this is riolulover97, hoping Y'all get to go to heaven!