Author stuff:
Woo! Time for another update! Now, given that we've been having fun with Serena for the past few chapters, let's spice some things up a bit with a returning character…..
Day 2 - Early Morning
Everything feels dark. She can't see anything. I can't hear anything. All she could feel is the tight embrace of….. friend, and the ever reaching presence of the quiet darkness beyond.
Friend is what she called him, because she couldn't tell who he was in the dark room they were sleeping in. All that she knew was his scent. He smelled kinda like lavender, and a little like vanilla.
But beyond that, he smelled kind and gentle. Like someone she can trust. He smelled kinda fruity, like a lemony smell, just like Bonnie. They must be related.
...Wait a second….
Finally opening her eyes, Bonnie tried to sit upright, only to be held down by this sleeping stranger. Looking down, she could see a pair of human-like arms wrapped around her, almost like he fell asleep hugging her. Human-like, she thinks, because from her position, she could see blue fur coating his arms, long claws on each finger and golden rings coating his wrists. She can also see, rolled all the way up towards his elbows, a pair of blue sleeves.
Bonnie began to move the arms away from her in attempt to stand up, before feeling something move in her hair. No, not her hair - this felt like something else. Moving her own head a bit, Bonnie tried to stick her hand up her head before catching a glimpse of it, coated in a bright orange fur. Continuing to feel her head, she could feel a pair of ears on the sides of her head, feeling fuzzy to the touch. One of them, it seemed, was touching the side of her big brothers face.
At this point, Bonnie decided that it was best if she found a mirror, and to do so without waking Clemont. Prying herself away from her napping brother, she could look around the room and tell that it was an abandoned Pokécenter. Hopping off of the counter she and her brother had been resting on, she could see that the room was filled with sleeping mutants, people altered by the smoothie's effects. A starley laid across the room, as well as a pachirisu. She could even see a vulpix couple dosing by a wall, two women sharing a sleeping bag together. Stepping over one of the nearby vulpixes, Bonnie walked towards the center of the room, until she stopped.
There, in the center, was one of the most disgusting things she had ever seen.
Then again, it's not every day someone finds a dead sawsbuck in the middle of a Pokécenter. A good portion of it had been eaten away, exposing some of the bones. But what horrified Bonnie the most, was herself.
She was salivating at the dead pokémon, and could faintly hear her stomach growling. She smelt the corpse, and instead of smelling the stench of roadkill, she could smell something similar to the aroma of MilBurgers.
Quickly, she began to walk away from the meat, and began to find the restroom in the facility. Once she was in, the automatic lights flickered on. Thankfully, she thought, the restrooms were located away from the main lobby, so the light won't wake anyone up. Finding the sink, she leaned up on her toes and looked into the mirror. When she caught a glimpse of herself, she nearly gasped
On the sides of her head, she had two disk-like ears, both of them a dark brown with a creme colored inside. The edges of her face were tinted with a orange like fuzz, and her cheeks had a red tint to them. Her irises that were once a blue color was now black, giving them an unnatural appearance. Looking at her legs, she could see that the lower half of her calf, as well as her feet were orange as well. Looming behind her, Bonnie could see a thin black tail, something she didn't notice before. Making it wave around in the air a bit, she confirmed that she could control her tail, before sitting down on the floor.
Laying her head back, Bonnie suddenly remembered the events of the past day. Or, she thought, what little she could remember. She remembered seeing her brother curled up on the streets, how she had felt like she was going to die as Serena carried her through the crowds of scared people.
Poor Serena, she thought. Bonnie still couldn't remember what had happened to her - laying in her arms was the last thing she could think of. She hoped Serena was ok.
Those people. She thought back to the mutant that had attacked them. While she couldn't see it that well, she remembers seeing enough of it to know that it was in no way mentally sane. Then again, if all of the mutants had acted like that, then why was Bonnie sitting in here instead of devouring the sawsbuck in the lobby?
Bonnie was starting to feel lonely sitting in a public restroom by herself. Reaching into her pockets, she was thankful to find a pokeball. Pressing the front button like her brother had taught her, Bonnie released Dedenne into the bathroom. Of course, the first thing the small pokémon did was scream.
"S-Shush it Dedenne!" Bonnie quickly whispered to the rodent, clamping her hand over its mouth. "You'll wake up the others!"
After a few seconds, Dedenne had stopped screeching, and was now shaking in the young girl's lap. Stroking its back, Bonnie tried her best to calm it down. "Hey, I'm not like the others, Dedenne. I'm not gonna hurt you."
Slowly, a calming scent filled the room, seemingly seeping through the doors and the vents. It filled the air, soothing both of the Dedennes in the bathroom. Bonnie didn't realize till the pokémon was asleep that she was the one producing the smell, and quietly she put it back in its ball. As she manually turned off the lights, she caught a whiff of a new smell, coming from the lobby. It was one filled of lemons, lavender, and fear. It didn't take a genius to know that her brother had woken up.
Bonnie began to think about what would happen should she go meet her brother. More importantly, she wondered if he was sane like her, or if he was like the mutants of the first attack, bloodthirsty and insane. Would he embrace her, glad to see her alive, or would he even blink as he raced to kill her where she stood?
To be honest, she didn't want to find out. She peered out of the door and quickly assumed that he was still in the lobby. Quietly, she sprinted towards the back to one of the overnight rooms. Shutting the door, she glanced around and and let out a soft groan.
Of course. Out of all the rooms she could hide in, she chose the room her brother had stayed in before the world went to heck.
She grabbed a few of his belongings and hid in the rooms private bathroom. A little bit of moonlight shone through the window in the room, allowing Bonnie to see better. She seemed to be safe here, so she looked over all of the things she had grabbed. Most of it seemed unimportant - just some checks from the last few wins the boys had had on the way there, as well as the rooms' bills. However, in the middle of the mess, there were a few magazines. Looking at one, it seemed to be an article about luxrays in Kalos, as well as other pokémon in the Felidae family. Glancing down at the article, Bonnie began to read to ease her nerves.
"The Luxray family tends to group together in a form of hierarchy, similarly to most other pokémon in the wild. The Alpha tends to be the strongest Luxray in the pack, or the one most fit to lead. In a pack of mixed pokémon, the Alpha is typically the strongest predatory pokémon, or the strongest carnivore. These Alphas tend to be easily spot during the packs resting period, since the Alpha and its family tends to sleep on a higher surface in the camp, both as a show of power and so that it can easily watch for any threats. Only the children of the Alp…"
A noise out in the hall dragged Bonnie from the article, putting her on high alert. She peered out of the bathroom, then made her way over towards the bedroom door, which was still open from when she had ran in there.
Dang it. Now it was obvious where she was hiding. Tense from fear, she peered out into the dark hallway.
And piercing through the dark hallway, staring right at her, were a pair of glowing yellow eyes, slightly covered by a pair of glasses. Apparently when the smoothie gave him night vision and razor sharp teeth, it couldn't fix his nearsightedness.
Running away from the door, Bonnie looked around for any potential hiding spot, before realizing that there were none. This was it. In a few minutes, she may possibly be dead, killed by the hands of what was once was her brother. Seeing no other hiding place, she crawled underneath the sheets of the bed she was laying on. She was still laying down and closing her eyes when the door was thrown open, the lavender and terror filled aroma flooding the room.
She was shaking when she heard him walk towards the bed, the terror beginning to change into something else.
She didn't open her eyes until she felt Clemont hold her in his arms, the terror in his scent becoming something more...calming.
She couldn't help it. After all of the events that had happened over the last 24 hours, she got teary eyed as he held her close, his own face in her hair, whispering to her in an attempt to calm down his dedenne.
"Shhh, don't worry Bonnie…" he was telling her as she began to drift off, calmed by his scent. He was beginning to pull the covers over both of them when he told her "I'm here, I'm here, I'm here…"
