Chapter – 3 – Fortune telling
That night I had a strange dream, or rather I should call it a nightmare. It was May she was surrounded by a deep blue,sapphire colour and she was smiling at me. "Steven"… She whispered to me. She looked so happy, a bubbly aura was surrounding us and she reached out to me, those light blue eyes gazing at me big and round as they reflected against the dark blue behind her.
HELP ME!
Suddenly the bubbly aura was gone, she was clawing at me her eyes wide with shock, she stared at me begging me to help her. She had her mouth closed as if she was trying to hold her breath. She stopped clawing towards me. I couldn't move and was forced to watch this scene – but that didn't stop me from screaming. "MAY! MAY! MAY!" I screeched. She went still and began to float down, her eyes glassy and her body unmoving. I woke up shrieking her name – rivers of sweat rolled down my face, I was panting and I suddenly realised. The dark blue behind her was the ocean.
I choked before running to the bathroom and throwing up in the toilet. It appeared that my lack of food, drink, social activity and sleep was affecting me. I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror. The sight was shocking I gasped at my reflection. My skin was as white as a sheet.
AS IF YOU'D SEEN A GHOST.
Those words sent a shiver down my spine, shuddering I continued to look at myself, my hair was longer and I was starting to grow a BEARD. How long had it been? 2 months and I still couldn't accept the fact that she was gone. But…. There was one part of me that told me to remember what Gardevoir had said. "My master had survived but not I" it was something like that. But I hadn't seen the Gardevoir since so I just… Put it down to hallucinations.
"I was not. A Hallucination" a voice angrily said from behind me. I spun around yelping in surprise, It was her! The Gardevoir. I looked at her in disbelief she had her hands on her hips and was glaring at me and I realised why. I the only living thing that could actually see her believed that she was a hallucination, I understood her anger I mean if I was in her position I would be angry too. "I-I'm sorry for thinking you were a hallucination" I replied. I was about to ask her something else when I suddenly fell to the ground. Black spots dotted my eyes.
"You have not grown any better Steven" she sighed. She crouched down next to me and closed her eyes placing her hands on my chest. A warm feeling began to pulse throughout my body from where we hands were I immediately began to feel better "w-what is this?" I asked confused as I looked at the Gardevoir sluggishly. "Heal pulse" she replied not opening her eyes.
I felt myself drifting into a dreamless, relaxing sleep and the Gardevoir faded from view as vision grew darker and darker . I was no longer on the floor of the bathroom I was in my bedroom falling…. Asleep….
I woke up the next morning feeling pleasant. I didn't want to move and I slowly began to open my eyelids. "Mhmm I smell… Omelettes…" I murmured to myself. Curling up in a ball and closing my eyes again. – wait omelettes? I abruptly sat up wondering who on earth was in my house cooking omelettes, when my belly growled at me as I felt a sickness there. I was starving – those leftover Blaziken egg sandwiches weren't going to fill me enough. I stumbled out of my bed and hurried downstairs grabbing a random pokeball just Incase.
"Good morning master Steven" I was thankful it was only Gardevoir and not some intruder. I noticed Gardevoir had cleaned my house too. "Now then listen to me! And I won't take no for an answer. You are going to sit here and eat this breakfast, then you are going to go upstairs and take a shower and change into some nice clothes, I want your teeth done too, then we are going to take a walk and get some nice sea air in your lungs you understand?" She ordered me putting the plate on my table. "And what makes you think I will do that?" I questioned her. "Information on May" she simply replied. "And shave the beard too, it doesn't suit you at all" she finished
Damn her. By the time she had said May I was already at the table wolfing down the omelettes.
The waves crashed against the slowly eroding cliff, Steven breathed in the sea air, his hair was clean and he breathed in his scent. He opened his eyes and looked out upon the vast sea. He began to hyperventilate suddenly he felt as if he was trapped on an island, a raging storm around him. The water rose up like a ten foot wall, the winds whipped around him like jet planes. Until "Steven!" A voice called from beside me. The world was calm, I was in no storm – but Gardevoir stared at me worried. She was glad that I had actually done what he asked. And apparently I looked a lot better.
"Steven – You were screaming" she told me, I looked at her shocked before shaking my head "you said that you had information about May?" I questioned. "She…she's trapped in an underwater cave" she announced. "What? Why didn't you tell me this earlier? I have I go out there to find her!" I shouted turning I her angrily.
"Because I don't know where she is specifically I can only see out of my pokeball! – and what I see is a cave with a water entrance as well as some of her other pokeballs" she replied hurriedly."I'm sorry Steven" she whispered and I noticed she was crying. "Hey! Hey don't cry" I whispered coming to her side to put a hand on hers. It slid straight through her and landed on the soft grass below. "S-see? I can't do anything! I-I need to help her… Master May she's…. She's so cold… She's in so much pain" Gardevoir stuttered curling into a ball with her head in between her legs. "I just want to protect her.." Gardevoir began to mumble to herself over and over.
Meanwhile from afar
I watched him… his silky silver hair was back to normal and swayed a little in the wind. Colour had returned to his face. His beautiful yet rare purple coloured eyes shimmered as he turned, his face looked quite angry, he began to talk to the air, strange as that was – before his face softened and he crouched down below trying to feel something. His slender body was back in shape too. I licked my lips.
Steven stone would be mine too.
