Chapter 4
Sunday
I woke up the next morning feeling groggy and sad. I couldn't believe how much I missed her. I missed everything about her, the cuddling, the look in her eyes, even the way she was stalking me. I knew she had become dependent on me, but did I become dependent on her.
I got up, got dressed and went downstairs for another seemingly endless day. I ate breakfast and went to watch TV. At that moment, I realized that to get over the dependency of having Latias there, I had to get out of the routine I went through yesterday. I couldn't just go my life just missing her.
"I'm going for a walk mom, I'll be back soon".
"Ok, bye". I walked out the door unaccompanied and alone. I was depressed, but I had to get over it. I couldn't get her off my mind though, it was so hard.
I had to face reality, Latias was far away and she wasn't coming back, and I was gonna have to -OOF.
I suddenly found myself sliding on the ground fast. Something hit me on the back hard, it ached badly. I slid about twenty meters, but when I turned around I noticed it wasn't I but we.
"Latias"!!!!!! She pinned me on the ground and started smothering me in kisses. It wasn't long before I found myself kissing back. "Where have you been".
I came to feet and gave her a massive hug. When I let go, I could tell she was not only happy but excited. She was frantically flying circles around me letting out brief squeaks and squawks of happiness.
"Latias, what is it"?
She didn't hint but urged me to get on her back. I slowly got on and she lifted off the ground about 50 meters in the air. In an instant we shot off. I couldn't see, the wind was blowing so hard. I felt like I was in a wind tunnel, Until things seemed eerily calm. Did we stop?
I opened my eyes to see that Latias put a pyramid shaped shield in front of me. But we, indeed, did not stop. I looked over Latias' shoulder to find that we were going faster than a mach1 jet.
I found myself holding onto Latias' wings for dear life as I seemed to hover over her body. As I was in a lying down position, the wind caused me to fly a little over Latias' body. It was scary but it was fun.
After one minute, we slowed to a stop, and finally landed near the bottom of a cliff. It was only a one minute flight but I could tell that I was probably ten kilometers away from home.
"So, Latias, where are we"? She pointed to a cave in the cliff. She flew in and signaled me to follow her. I went in. It was a fairly small cave but it was long. After a while we did some climbing in which Latias gave me hand. It felt so good to have her back.
After about ten minutes of walking we arrived in a massive room of the back of the cave. I looked around to find a walls of rock, and a ceiling that went about a hundred meters high. I also spotted something strange, there was a small perfectly square rock in the middle and behind it a large plateau that seemed perfectly flat as if it was carved.
I approached the square rock to be amazed by the strange text inscribed on the rock, it looked just like a bunch of curvy lines and circles, with two large circles in the center.
I walked onto the plateau to be amazed as the I could see a hole in the ceiling allowing the sun to shine perfectly across the plateau.
"Wow this is amazing, how did you find this"? Latias approached the square rock as if everthing was normal and placed her hands on the two large circles.
"What are you doing"?
The circles that Latias touched her hands to started glowing, I was amazed. After a few seconds I could see the strange inscriptions on the rock starting to glow. Later the entire rock started to glow.
"Latias, what's going on"? I started to get scared, I could still see the excitement in her eyes though. I knew everything was going to be alright, but none the less this was downright crazy.
In an instant, the plateau I was standing on started to glow with the same strange patterns as on the stone. I looked around me to find that the entire room was starting to light up. I was surrounded in a cornucopia of lights.
Latias closed her eyes and gave me smile. I looked up at the hole in the ceiling to find that there was a strange glowing light in the center of it that looked completely different from the sun. The light did not blind me but amazed me. It grew larger and larger until it filled the entire hole.
The strange ball of light shot out a ray of light towards me. I flinched back as the light came shooting down and hit the plateau. My body suddenly felt like it was going in fast forward. My mind felt like it was having information and memories crammed into it. I heard a loud high pitched noise in the center of my head. I couldn't tell what was going on, I couldn't see anything as the light engulfed me.
The light finally stopped. I found myself completely out of breath, as if the energy had been sucked out of me. I tried to catch my breath, but I couldn't.
I took one last look at Latias, I was puzzled not to find the usual expression but to find complete and total shock and amazement.
I took one last breath, and fell to the ground, unconscious.
I opened my eyes to find Latias breathing in my face. I got up and looked around, I was still in the cave, it seemed like nothing had happened. I had a massive headache.
"It worked, I can't believe it actually worked". I didn't say anything. I suddenly looked at Latias, she started nuzzling me again, "This is the best day of my life", the voice came directly from Latias.
"LATIAS, you can talk. This is fantastic, we can finally communicate with each other. Is that what the ray of light did to me"?
"Actually it-".
"Oh I have so many questions for you. First off, why are- wait, why can't I feel my legs". I looked at my legs to find the strangest thing, I didn't have any.
"Wa ... What's going on here"? I looked at my hand, it was strangely circular with pointy claws at the end.
"Oh my god". I looked at my back to find wings, beautiful long wings, similar to Latias' only with one difference, blue.
I became a latios.
