A/N: Another chapter up! And thanks for the 22 reviews so far! One more OC introduced.
Anastasia couldn't believe what just happened, there it was again, that dream, it was always haunting her each year. She didn't knew what it meant when she first dreamed about it, she couldn't hear well, the voices became clearer as time went by, and now she finally understood each and every word, but...what does that dream mean?
Vulpix and Riolu went to the girl's side as fast as they could and was greeted by the girl's kind smile. "I'm alright you guys, don't worry." she said and patted their heads, then turned to her window with a sad expression on her face as a silhouette watched over her from afar then disappeared into the dark night.
-The Next Day-
Anastasia got up miserably and changed, she was fixing her hair when somebody suddenly barged in her room through the window. "Hey Anastasia!" Raven greeted while riding his Misdreavus who was using Spite, he was wearing his shades and Fedora hat as usual but he sweatdropped when Anastasia didn't even do a thing and just stared at him, without blinking. "If you think you can scare me with that act you are so wrong." she said and tied the silver ribbon around her ponytail and tightened it. Raven jumped off his Pokemon while scratching the back of his head. "What's with you? Its like you're not afraid at ghosts at all..." Anastasia just sighed and got up from her seat in front of the mirror. "I'm just not afraid okay? I can't explain it but I like ghost types." she patted Misdreavus' head and this time Raven was the one who sighed.
"You're weird, you know that?" Anastasia turned around and Raven jumped. You see, Anastasia was great at giving evil looks, with those intense green eyes that looks like green flames that were forcing themselves to get out and burn him to the ground, it was enough to even make a Snorlax cry for his mommy, and the look she was giving him was a perfect evil '10'. Luckily for him, she just sighed and went downstairs, which made the boy and his Misdreavus sigh in relief that they won't be Judo thrown, again.
"Bonjour Anastasia!" Fantina greeted and she smiled when she saw her nephew. "Raven, que faites-vous ici à cette heure?" (What are you doing here at this hour?) Raven smiled and his cousin just sighed and said in French: "He went through the window..." Fantina sighed and sat down. "You're going to get in big trouble because of this someday..." she said with her French accent which made Raven scratch the back of his head again. "Actually tante, I think I need to use the bathroom..." he said and left the two women alone.
"Mère?"(mother) Anastasia said worriedly. "Can I ask you something?" Fantina knitted her eyebrows. "Bien sûr(Of course) my daughter, what do you want to ask?" Anastasia tightened the grip on her fork. Should she tell her? It would be rude to ask, but..."Mère, Are you my real mother?" she asked, hoping that Fantina would just laugh at her question, but she just sat there, silent. "No..." was all that the young girl can mutter to herself. When Raven came back, looked at the two, wondering what was going on and why was Anastasia behaving in that way, but, it was the first time he saw the girl like this, in such a surprised and at the same time, worried state, like she couldn't believe what was happening.
"Mère..." Anastasia started, her bangs shadowing the upper part of her face. "Please, answer my question, are you my real mother or not." she pleaded while her hands shook. Fantina couldn't face her and looked at the ground. "Oui..."the woman said sadly, which made Anastasia finally face her eye to eye. "I'm not your mother..." she finally announced in a soft voice. Anastasia just stood there so motionless like a tree, Raven shifted his gaze from his tante to his cousin and his eyes widened. Her bangs shadowed her face again, her head looking straight upwards with no tears running down her face. The girl got to her knees and tears slowly started to form in her eyes.
"No..." she muttered as a picture of the blonde woman from her dream appeared in her memory, covered in a pool of blood, her tears ran down her face as she continued to look at the ceiling. "No...no no no..." she muttered as she felt that same sensation she felt when that blue-haired man struck his spear into the woman's chest, making her baby fall into that portal, she clenched her fists without even noticing. She couldn't believe what was happening, it was all going so fast...
"Anastasia!" Raven shouted, trying to snap the girl back to reality, she continued to clench her fists and her tears continued to fall down. "No..no...no..." she continued to mutter, images appearing to her head, the man who tried to protect his wife and his daughter, the woman who died saving her beloved baby, and...that man who killed both of them. She clenched her fists even harder as she thought of that man, anger ranged inside of her like when she was dreaming last night...
"Anastasia! What is happening to you?" Fantina called out. "ANASTASIA SNAP OUT OF IT!" Raven yelled as the winds around the place started to whirl around the crying girl."No...no..." and finally the image of the woman smiling while the general struck his spear to her heart appeared on her mind, it was as if, she was the one in front of her during that time, watching her fall, to the ground, motionless. "NOOOOOOO!" she bellowed, a gigantic violet magic seal with two swords in the middle making an X pattern appeared right underneath her...
Fantina and Raven's eyes widened as they watched the girl in front of them, swords, axes, pointed arrows, spears and many other weapons were floating in the air around the girl, all targeting the ceiling, Anastasia was standing in the middle, her clothes were clothed in a harsh silver light. Her form started to change dramatically, then a flash of light was seen and a small explosion was heard.
Raven coughed as smoke surrounded the whole Gym, he looked around, trying to find any signs of Fantina or Anastasia, hopefully he found his aunt coughing a few steps away. She was lying down, her purple dress covered in dirt, Raven offered his hand. "Where's Anastasia?" Fantina asked worriedly, Raven kept on looking around the place and then that's when he saw it. A faint silver light was shimmering in the distance.
As soon as the smoke was gone, Raven's eyes widened at the girl he saw, it was Anastasia, but it wasn't her in a way. The girl had the same long pitch-black hair, intense green eyes and ivory skin, but she wasn't wearing the same clothes, instead she was wearing a long-sleeved silvery white vest with black trim that covered a white sleeveless turtleneck, she also had a silver mini skirt with longer black biking shorts inside, her silver boots had no heels and longer black socks that reached even until her knee. A long silver scarf was around her neck and black fingerless gloves covered her hands. The girl's hair wasn't in a ponytail and instead was just flowing there, which showed exactly how long her hair was.
Anastasia was breathing heavily, a silver sword in her hand, it had wings on the side instead of the usual cross like sword, it also had a single black diamond shaped gem in the middle, and somewhere on the side was a name, Raven couldn't see it well since the girl was so far away, but he knew just what was written since the name was shining with a bright light, every single word of it. On the right side of the sword was written...Anastasia Everglade.
-Meanwhile-
A young man with light blue hair and green eyes was watching over a distance. He wore a black tanktop with black jeans and blue jean jacket and black converse. He smiled as he felt the magical energy he was looking for. "All this years of searching will finally be over..." he thought to himself as he gazed upon the wonderful city of Hearthome..."But now the hard part starts..." he said and disappeared.
To be Continued...
A/N: Hope you liked it and please review!
