Hey right another update, I decided to take my time explaining this one just incase her power gets a bit confusing. Oh and thanks for all your reviews! Also I won't use 'mind-spoke' forever just this one more chapter, so you people know she's not actually talking.

Chapter 4: A Deeper Explanation

DISCLAIMER: Oh yes, after two chapters I do own all of Pokemon. NOT.

"Hey guys! I can Striaton City just over there!" Touko mind-spoke pointing towards the city "Hurry hurry!" The brunette said impatiently, running faster in the direction of her destination.

"Arceus woman, slow down a little! You have speed to rival a Zebstrika when you want something!" Merlin yelled.

"Osha!" Blaise half-shouted half-panted in agreement.

"Aww... feeling sad 'cause you're getting you little asses whooped by a girl?" She teased slowing down a little for their sake.

Merlin and Blaise fumed at their trainer then looked at each other, both with a devious grin. They had a plan. They nodded in agreement and both bolted towards the oblivious girl, they got right under her feet causing her to trip and fall over.

"Wha- AHHHHH!" She fell down to the grassy ground with a very audible thump.

Both pokemon weren't capable to stay upright whilst laughing so they fell to the floor as well and rolled around laughing instead.

Touko pouted "Oh yeah guys, that was just HI-LARIOUS." She mind-spoke whilst rolling her eyes sarcastically but, she couldn't help giggling slightly.

The trio all managed to get up, unharmed but Blaise and Merlin had severely split sides from laughing too much and they were both still gasping for air.

Touko let out smirk "Serves. You. Right." The smug girl mind-spoke.

Merlin murmered some uncocievable words but said nothing else. Blaise just pouted in the same way as his trainer.

The three started walking now towards the city, Touko could barely hold in all her excitement and showed it by doing little random dances, which amused her pokemon, all the way there...

Striaton City

"Well guys, we're here!" Touko mind-spoke, breathing in the air.

They were just inside the city, the pokemon stood there staring in awe. Neither had seen a big city. Touko had seen them, after all she used to live in one.

BACKSTORY STARTS!

Touko was born in Castelia City and raised there until the age of seven. That was where she met Bianca.

When Touko (aged five) and her mom were wandering around the city, her mom explaining the history of it to her as she nodded pretending to understand with a bored expression, the young girl saw another her age. Rare in a busy city like that. So rare that Touko's only friend was a stuffed doll.

She tugged on her mothers sleeve and signed "Mommy may I go see that other girl?"

Her mother beamed at her "Of course sweetie!"

They walked up to the little blond haired girl and her parents, her mother asked them if their daughters could play together and explained about Touko's disabillity.

"Well Bianca can be a little difficult..." Said the father.

Bianca looked at her father and put on puppy dog eyes, she too wanted to play with this girl, even if she was a little strange.

"Oh for goodness sake Harold, let them play!" His wife huffed.

The man sighed but nodded reluctantly "Okay..."

The two girls smiled brightly at each other and ran to the small park nearby. They both sat on a bench.

"So what's your name?" The blond girl had clearly not been listening to her parents.

Touko sighed silently before jumping and sitting on the sand. She started to draw in it.

Bianca too jumped down into to it to see what she was doing.

Touko was writing perfect english. She was very clever even at five years of age.

"My... name is... uh... Touko?" Bianca said aloud hoping she pronounced it right.

Touko nodded in approval before doing it again.

"I can... not speak... I... erm... I am mute?" Bianca said.

Touko nodded hoping the girl knew what mute meant.

"Mute..." Bianca said rubbing her chin thoughtfully "Oh that's where people don't have the ability to speak right?" She asked.

Touko nodded and smiled at the girl.

"Well Touko the Silent, I am Bianca the Brave! We must find a cure at once!" The excited girl yelled standing up.

Touko giggled silently as they played a make-believe game where both of them went to various lands to try and find a cure for mutism. Bianca was the first person who treated her like, well like a normal person. Not someone different or special.

She could tell they would be great friends in the future.

BACKSTORY ENDS!

The trio began to advance into the city streets, there were quite a few people wandering around.

The pokemon stared at every tall building and gasped when they saw, and smelt, an ice-cream vendor for the first time.

Touko began furiously looking for the gym, down empty alleys, behind taller buildings. Just everywhere. Her puzzzled pokemon followed her taking in every inch of their surroundings.

She finally gave up and tottered towards the big map sign. Her pokemon sweat-dropped and wondered why they spent around fifteen minutes looking when there were signs everywhere.

"Hmmm... so if we are here... then the gym is around... here!" Touko mind-spoke and and pointed to a place on the map. She then turned to her pokemon "Okay Merlin, Blaise let's take a vote. When we battle who wants to be first?"

Like a bolt of lightning, Merlin's paw shot up.

"Okay then Merlin goes first!" Touko nodded at her dark type.

He smiled happily until he caught the death glare of Blaise, who also wanted to be first. Merlin was no scaredy-cat but the water type did have a you-die-tonight look on his face. So he trembled slightly.

"But first, let's get you healed up at a Pokemon centre okay?" She mind-spoke.

Her pokemon nodded and followed her as she bounded off in the right direction... probably...

Pokemon Centre

"Okay here are your pokemon, fully healed!" Nurse Joy smiled.

Touko smiled back and took the pokeballs and write on some paper "Thanks so much!" She then handed it to Nurse Joy, who beamed when she read it.

"No problem dear, we hope to be of service to you and your pokemon always." The pink haired nurse said.

Touko nodded and walked outside, where she prompty released her friends.

"Alright guys, lets get to the gym before it closes!" Touko mind-spoke, checking her watch which read '4:13pm' "It closes in fourty-seven minutes!"

She started running through the crowds, pokemon close behind her, until she suddenly stopped and her pokemon stumbled into her, confused at her halt.

Touko had stopped because there was a worried looking, dark blue haired woman. The womans aura was showed there was something different about her and that something might be wrong so she began to walk up to her, Blaise and Merlin shrugged at each other and follwed her. The woman in question looked at her and smiled.

"Hi there, can you help me?" The woman asked.

Touko pondered this for a moment and then nodded.

The woman smiled widely again "Thank you! Ok come to my lab." The woman said more seriously.

Touko followed without question though Merlin had a few. Touko just told him to shut up, Blaise giggled.

The Lab

The woman led her inside to a big room with lots of computers and researchers. Touko's pokemon began excitedly searching around. Touko went to stop them but the woman turned to her.

"It's ok they can do that." She said "Oh by the way my name is Dr. Fennel, I am friends with Professor. Juniper. She told me about you, you're Touko correct?"

Touko smiled brightly and nodded, any friend of Junipers, was a friend of hers.

"She's very impressed with you, overcoming your mutism and everything." Fennel said truthfully.

Touko smiled awkwardly and blushed.

"Anyhow, I need your help to collect something called Dream Mist. It is expelled from Munna when it eats good dreams and then sleeps." Fennel explained.

Touko nodded, she had heard of this from Cheren before.

"You can find Munna in the Dreamyard, it's right behind my lab. Can you collect in this jar?" She asked handing Touko a jar "But be careful, some troublemakers called Team, err, Masga or something? Anyways they have been sighted so be careful alright?"

Touko nodded and smiled in a I-can-do-it way.

Fennel smiled back "Ok I'm counting on you and your pokemon!"

Touko fist-pumped and returned her pokemon to their balls, she reckonned it would be quicker that without those slowpokes.

She waved goodbye then ran outside and straight into the one person she didn't expect to see.

"Omigosh! Touko! It's so great to see you!" Bianca squealed as she squeezed the life out of Touko who was struggling to breathe but silently laughing at her friend.

Bianca put her down and giggled "What's up?"

Touo explained about Fennel in sign language to her and Bianca thought about it for a minute.

"Okay! I'm coming with you then, y'know just incase those bad people are there." The blond decided.

Touko nodded in approval and the two began walking towards the Dreamyard.

"So what's new with you?" Bianca asked.

"Well, Oshawott is now called Blaise and I have a new friend, a purrloin named Merlin." She signed.

"Oh wow! That's so awesome!" She gasped.

Touko began thinking deeply for a minute, she wondered if she should tell her best friend about her power. She was scared that Bianca may think she's strange, or she may not believe her at all. But she shook those feelings off. Of course Bianca would believe her, they were as close as two friends could be.

Touko stopped and Bianca, curious to what her friend was doing, did too.

"What is it Touko?" She asked "Is there something wrong?"

Touko shook her head and sighed, pulling at her hair "Bianca I have to tell you something..." She signed "But you have to promise you won't tell anyone unless I say okay?"

Bianca nodded impatiently "I promise I promise! Just tell me!" She said excitedly.

Touko smiled lightly "Ok. Well I... I have this power. I can speak to pokemon with my mind..." Touko signed and then rubbed her neck.

Bianca's sparkling eyes widened, as she took this information in.

"T-that's amazing..." She breathed.

Touko waited for her to say something, still tugging at her hair in a childish manner.

"Does it work on people too?" Bianca asked.

Touko had not expected her to say THAT "I actually don't know." She signed.

Bianca looked up at her friend "Then we've got to try it!"

"Wait, you mean on you?" Touko signed unsure.

"Well of course! I wanna hear your voice!" Bianca said.

Touko nodded and began to put all her power into focusing her voice on Bianca.

"Hi Bibi..." She mind-spoke, but Bianca obviously didn't hear it as she just stood still. Touko tried again, harder this time.

"Hi Bibi!" She said energetically.

Bianca gasped and stumbled backwards this time.

"Oh my arceus..." She said, eyes shining with awe.

Touko giggled and used her power again "Oh and I can understand pokemon aswell." She told her awestruck friend. Who in turn gasped again and fell down to the floor.

Touko ran to her and helped her up.

"Oh Touko, you are really awesome! I can't wait to see Cheren's face when I tell him!" Bianca laughed.

Touko nodded "I guess you can tell him." She mind-spoke.

Suddenly they bumped into the gate and both looked at the other laughed.

"Well that Fennel lady is a Doctor right? Maybe we could tell her. She might know what you power is." Bianca said.

Touko thought this over for a minute and nodded "Good idea Bianca."

They both pulled open the heavy gate and looked around.

"I guess this is the Dreamyard huh?" Bianca said.

Touko nodded in agreement.

They both wandered around for a while till they saw something that looked like pink smoke coming from behind a pile of junk.

"That must be the Dream mist!" Bianca exclaimed.

The girls ran in the direction of the mist and both skidded to a halt at what they saw. There were two strange looking people kicking a Munna.

"HEY!" Bianca yelled angrily, catching the attention of the people "STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!"

Touko growled in her head and gritted her teeth.

The people laughed weirdly "Oh look some kiddy-winks come to tell us off!" The girl cackled.

"Whatever kiddies, we are Team Plasma and we can do what we like!" The guy snorted.

"No you can't! Leave that Munna alone!" Bianca shouted.

"How about no? We need the Dream mist and it won't give to us any other way. Or would you like to battle to stop us?" The guy said.

"Yeah, there's no way you'll ever beat us!" The girl nodded and pulled out a pokeball as her companion did.

The two girls looked at each other, both with a fierce determanation burning in their eyes, and pulled out a pokeball each.

"Go Smokey!" Yelled Bianca, throwing the red and white ball.

"Go Blaise!" Mind-spoke Touko as she did the same.

The Team Plasma members had also done this and stood before them were two trubbish.

"Osha, oshawott!" Blaise growled.

"Tepig!" Smokey snorted.

"Trubbish, Trubbish!" The two grabage pokemon said together.

"Smokey use ember!" Bianca ordered.

"Blaise use tackle!" Touko said.

"Trubbish use smog!" Both of the Team Plasma grunts yelled.

The trubbish were too late though, because Blaise had tackled the girls one and Smokey had used ember on the boys one, knocking out both the pokemon almost immediantly.

The strangely dressed people recalled their pokemon as did Bianca and Touko.

"We have failed our king..." The guy said.

"At least we got the mist. Let's go." The girl said.

"Cowards..." Bianca muttered.

Suddenly a bright light appeared out of nowhere and the strangely dressed man Touko saw earlier in Accumla Town was there.

"IDIOTS! YOU ABSOLUTE FOOLS, YOU ARE USELESS!" He yelled.

The grunts whimpered "We are so sorry Master Ghetsis." The guy whined.

"BEGONE AT ONCE!" Ghetsis shouted harshly.

The couple didn't hesitate and sped off like Lillipups in trouble.

Then as quick as he appeared, Ghetsis dissapeared and in place of where he stood, was a pink and purple pokemon much like Munna.

It floated over to Munna and licked her wounds, tending to her.

"Hey Touko I bet that's a Musharna, the evolution of Munna." Bianca said pointing to it.

Touko nodded and scanned the pokemon with her pokedex.

"Musharna. The Drowsing pokemon. The mist emanating from their foreheads is packed with the dreams of people and Pokémon."

"Hey Touko thet strange guy must have been a dream made by Musharna which means this must be Dream Mist aswell, c'mon collect it before it dissapears." Bianca said.

Touko pulled out the jar and collected some of the pink mist. Screwing the top on securely she placed it carefully back in her bag.

Now the Munna had recovered slightly it floated towards the two teens. Musharna followed it cautiously.

"Munna." It cried out happily, recognising that they saved her, Musharna also came closer.

Munna rubbed itself against Bianca as a thank you, doing the same for Touko. The two girls giggled as it's soft fur tickled them.

"That's ok Munna. We were glad to help, right Touko?" The blonde smiled.

Touko nodded "Right." She mind-spoke.

The musharna's eyes widened as it floated closer to inspect the mind speaking girl.

"You speak not with words, but with your mind. That is truly incredible." Musharna said.

Touko jumped back slightly in suprise of hearing it's voice.

"Huh?" Bianca said confsued, not knowing of the conversation.

"Musharna. Do you know of my power?" Touko asked.

"I have heard tales, but nothing else. Prehaps you have... no nevermind. Forget I said anything my dear." Musharna said softly.

"Um okay, goodbye Musharna and you too Munna." Touko smiled.

The pokemon began to vanish.

Bianca waved "Byeeee!" When they were gone from view, Bianca turned to her "Better get the mist back to Fennel and hopefully get an explanation of your power."

Touko nodded and they began the short journey back to the lab.

Fennel's Lab

"... and so Musharna appeared and scared them off with a bad dream of a strangely clothed man they called Ghetsis." Bianca explained, as Touko gave Fennel the jar.

Fennel rubbed her chin thoughtfully with her free hand "Really? Well at least you two came back unscathed." She smiled "Bianca is it?" Fennel asked putting away the jar and the girl nodded "Ok nice to meet you aswell but you said you had another question. So fire away."

Touko and Bianca shared a nervous look before Touko nodded a yes.

"Ok well erm... Touko has a... a special power..." Bianca began, shifting slightly "She... she can communicate with her mind to humans and pokemon." She blurted out the rest.

Fennel gasped and raised one slender hand to her mouth.

"No way..." She said "Is this really true Touko?" She said turning to meet the brunettes brown eyes.

Touko gulped and sighed "It is true." She mind-spoke to Fennel.

Fennel gasped again and turned to her computer, typing something rapidly "Can you hear them too?" She asked, speaking as quick as her fingers tapped.

Bianca threw her hands to her mouth dramatically. She was speechless for the second time.

Touko gasped in her head "How the mew did you know!"

Fennel turned back to the amazed girl "Listen to this." She said grabbing a piece of printed paper

"This condition is rare in humans, only one case was ever known. The person in question was called Touya Black, better known as the Silent Hero for he was mute. He helped Reshiram in the pursuit of truth, unlike his brother, Nathaniel Melodia, who is better known as the Stubborn Hero for he was so stubborn, never giving in even when he knew he should. He helped Zekrom in pursuit of ideals. Nathaniel always resented his brother as he had a special power. He could speak to pokemon and people using not words but his mind, also understanding pokemon. This was almost 140 years ago now but it is still the only known case. His power was dubbed Telepathy, similar to the pokemon ability. It is said he and his brother will be reborn in a time where they are needed." Fennel said breathlessly finishing it.

Touko stood there, her body still. From a distance she looked as though she was a statue, her breathing slowed down and she could of sworn her heart stopped if just for a moment. Bianca stared at her, waiting for her to talk from her mind.

"Am... am I... T-the reborn form o-of him?..." Touko asked.

Fennel frowned and sighed "That I cannot answer, you need to find that for yourself. All I know is that people should be alerted of your power, it would easier than writing everything. Don't you agree?"

Touko nodded dumb-founded at what Fennel had found out. Could she really be a reborn hero?
Bianca waved a hand infront of Touko's "Hey Touko we need to go get a room for the night at the pokemon centre, then we can both challenge the gym in the morning. Sound okay?"

"Y-yeah sure..." Touko answered.

Both said their good-byes to Fennel and made there way to the centre. Touko couldn't stop thinking about what Fennel has said though. Espicially the part about speaking with her mind not with words. "Just like the Musharna..." She thought "I seriously need to find out more about my power. I'll ask the gym leaders in the morning. I've heard they are wise."

Touko needed to know. She needed to know why she had this power. She needed a much more deeper explanation.

Okay guys so a bit of a weird chapter, also many will notice I reinvented the story of the two brothers. Just thought it might prove to be a good addition to the story. Well until the next time!