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Umbreon: Umbreon Mastah's back from the dead again.
Sorry about that... . Anyway...the chapter is hopefully okay...the good stuff really begins next chapter. Ooooo...love is in the air!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the fic and the plot.
Mewtwo found himself in a large field. He rubbed his head and sat up. "Ciar's not going to be happy about this," he said to himself. Running his hand through the soft grass, Mewtwo sighed. Ciar probably wouldn't be as mad if he had lost to Mew, or to Lucario, but no, he had to go and lose to some brat.
Some cute brat.
The cat-like Pokémon shook the thought out of his head. She wasn't cute. She was an enemy, and like all enemies she would have to be taken out of the picture.
She spared your life.
"Shut up," he said aloud. That didn't mean that he had to do the same for her! "Only good guys show that kind of respect," he muttered. Mewtwo pulled himself up. He was going to have to go back eventually. Focusing his little remaining energy, he started to teleport. His last thought was that the next time he saw that Flareon, he wouldn't hold back.
Even if she was cute.
Then he disappeared.
Flareon sat outside of Kiki's house, head in her paws. Finally, she had some alone time. The others had been pestering her about everything that happened in the Tree for over an hour when she escaped. She laughed to herself. They were probably still in there, talking to the bunch of pillows she had pulled under a blanket on her bed. Flareon was still snickering when something tickled her nose. "Aaa...aaa...aaa...aa-choo!" she sneezed. Embers burst out of her mouth and set some of the grass on fire. "Whoops," the fire fox said, patting out the flames with her tail. She sighed. Evolution was going to take some getting used to.
Her thoughts drifted to the episode at the Tree, which she now referred to as It.That was what everyone else was calling it. "You could have won It!" or "Why didn't you beat It?" or "It could have been over!" She rolled over onto her back. It wasn't something she was very happy talking about. Sure, she could have killed Mewtwo, but what would that make her? A murderer, that's what. And she really didn't want to be that. Flareon couldn't understand why her friends were angry at her for not becoming that.
And besides that, there was the matter of...the heart. She could picture it clearly even now. A living ruby, that's how she'd describe it. Beautiful, soft, gentle...no, this heart couldn't belong to someone evil. But then, she thought to herself, why would Mewtwo's heart be a heart of goodness when he had done so many bad things?
Mewtwo.
Why did thinking about him now bring butterflies to her stomach? Flareon remembered looking at his eyes. What a brilliant purple, she thought. They're a beautiful color. She mentally kicked herself. If she kept thinking like that, people might start believing that she...
"No," Flareon said aloud. "That's impossible." Her stomach growled. "Lunch time!" she shouted to no one in particular. She tried not to finish her thought, but as she walked to the kitchen, it popped back into her mind.
Could she have a crush on Mewtwo?
Vaporeon took her two cards from Espeon and looked at them. Yes! She thought. Pocket aces! She put on her best poker face and waited. Espeon, on the other side of the card table that they were playing on, looked the water fox in the eyes and said, "I fold."
"Hey!" shouted Vaporeon. "You read my mind, didn't you?" Espeon smirked.
"Maybe I did," she said, "maybe I didn't."
"Hmph." Vaporeon put her aces under the deck and crossed her arms. "Cheater."
"It's not cheating," said Espeon defensively. "It's creative thinking." Vaporeon opened her mouth to say something rude and most likely not to be repeated when she noticed Mewtwo float by solemnly out of the corner of her eye. Much as she disliked him, she was concerned.
"What's wrong with him?" she asked, taking another two cards. The psychic fox shrugged.
"How should I know?" Espeon thought a minute. "Due to the lack of Dark Elementalist here, though," she concluded, "I'd say he lost. Bad."
"Should we do something?" Espeon laughed.
"Heck no!" Vaporeon smacked her head. She shouldn't have asked. Sighing, she looked at her cards. Dang it, she thought. Jack seven! Espeon looked at her. "All in," she said smartly, placing her large pile of chips next to Vaporeon's much smaller one. "Put down your cards." Vaporeon did, showing the king and ten of spades to match the ace, queen, and jack that were on the table. Espeon's mouth fell open. The water fox smirked.
"Looks like I just out-wised the wise guy, huh?"
Rin awoke to the sound of muffled movement outside the cave. Her head shot up and her ears twitched. She sniffed the air. There was an unfamiliar scent, and the Glaceon couldn't tell yet if it was friend or foe. She glanced over at her sleeping sister. "Anisa!" she whispered anxiously. "Anisa, wake up!"
"Huh? What?" The Leafeon smacked her lips and rubbed her eyes. "Can't I have five more minutes?" Rin sighed.
"Anisa, this is serious!"
"I know!" Anisa retorted sleepily. "I'm seriously tired!"
"Haha," said Rin sarcastically. "Really, though, something's wrong." She paused for a second. "Listen," she said quietly. There were more rustles from outside. Anisa blinked.
"What was that?" she asked. Rin shook her head.
"I've got no idea."
"Do we really want to find out?" The ice fox thought a moment.
"Do we really have a choice?" she said. Anisa sighed. "I'll check," her sister told her. She nodded. It was always Rin who checked. I'd probably mistake a bush for a Skarmory, she thought to herself with a slight smile. She was jutted out of her thoughts by sudden scream.
"Rin!" she cried. She dashed outside into the evening sun. There was her sister, cornered by a vicious-looking Houndoom. Foam dripped from his mouth. Rin saw Anisa out of the corner of her eye.
"Look out!" she shouted. Anisa jumped to the side and narrowly dodged a Flamethrower from another Houndoom. Thinking quickly, she shot a Razor Leaf toward the fire dog trapping Rin. The ice fox froze the leaves, and they hit the Houndoom hard. She took the opportunity to get out of there.
"Rin, there's more of them!" Anisa yelled. The two stood back-to-back and watched in horror as an entire Houndoom pack surrounded them. "What do we do?" The dogs started to close in. Rin panicked. For the first time in her life, she didn't have a plan. She was stumped. Anisa looked at her older sister expectantly. "Well?"
Rin shrugged. "We're sunk." Anisa laughed.
"That's real funny, Rin." The Glaceon shook her head, and then Anisa knew that it wasn't a joke. "We can't give up yet!" she shouted in dismay.
"I'm sorry, Ani," sighed the ice fox. The Houndoom got closer. Panicking, Anisa flung Razor Leaves in every direction, but they didn't seem to falter the fire dogs.
"Rin, snap out of it!" she screamed, but Rin didn't hear her. They couldn't escape. She held Anisa's paw tightly. A tear dripped down her face. She closed her eyes. If only I could fly...
Rin heard Anisa shout. She felt her stomach drop. Opening her eyes, she saw the circle of Houndoom getting smaller and smaller. Rin wondered how this was possible until she bumped her head into something fluffy and soft. A cloud? But that could only mean that...
...they were flying!
"Rin! Rin, look at you!" Anisa's voice dragged Rin out of her thoughts. She looked down at her younger sister, who was hanging on to a tan talon.
Wait, a tan talon?
Rin tried to move her legs. She saw the talons move. "Hey!" yelled Anisa. "Watch it!"
"Oh my..." Rin stop talking when she realized that whenever her mouth closed it made a clicking sound. Did she have a beak? She looked at herself. Brown and yellow feathers? A red tail? Wings?
"Oh my god, Rin, you're a Pidgeot!" cried the Leafeon with glee. "You're flying!"
"Flying?" Rin started to panic. She didn't know how to fly! Yet they were still airborne...her wings were moving involuntarily. What did this mean?
"Land by that tree, Rin!" laughed Anisa. She didn't seem very perturbed by the idea that a few minutes ago, her sister had been a Glaceon.
"How?" asked Rin. Anisa shrugged.
"Stop flapping!"
"Are you crazy?"
"Maybe." Rin sighed. She spread her wings out and tried to stop flapping. Surprisingly, she started to glide slowly down to earth.
"It's working!" she exclaimed. The two sisters neared the ground.
"Now flap a little to slow down!" Anisa shouted. Rin nodded her head and started to flap. They landed smoothly (well, almost smoothly) in the middle of a field. "Next time, try not to crush me," said the Leafeon. Rin rolled her eyes. "You can turn back into a Glaceon now," Anisa told her.
Rin's face went sour. Turn back? "Um..."
"You can't turn back?"
"I don't know how." Anisa looked at her thoughtfully.
"Well, look on the bright side," she said. "Being a bird sister is better than being a dead sister." Rin slapped her head with her wing.
"I don't want to be a bird sister!" she exclaimed. "Birds can't breathe ice, or hold things, or even walk right, for Pete's sake!" She continued to rant, not noticing the blue lights surrounding her.
"Um, Rin?" said Anisa.
"...or talk without a clinking sound, or have blue fur, or eat proper food, or..."
"Rin?" she said again.
"...or wag their tails, or scratch their ears...they don't even have ears!...or..."
"RIN!" she screamed.
"What?" said Rin.
"You're you again!" Rin held her arm up to her face and saw that it was blue again. She felt her ears and moved her legs.
"Oh," she said. "So I am."
Jolteon was thinking. He sat on a chair in Kiki's living room, keeping an eye on a sleeping Mew. There wasn't much to watch, so he let his mind wander.
It stopped on the thought of Vaporeon. Where was she right now? In some dark and muggy place? The electric fox sighed. Oh, how he loathed Mewtwo! He still fumed at the thought that that monster had slipped right between his fingers...um, paws. Mewtwo would have been dead right now if it weren't for Flareon!
Jolteon tried to calm himself down. Forgive and forget, that's what he had to do. It was probably a mind trick anyway; Flareon had been duped, that's it! There was no heart, just a little trick of the light. And if it wasn't, well, Flareon had gone crazy! Hearts don't just float in the air! Jolteon laughed to himself. Floating hearts, what a crazy idea.
Amédée.
Wait, what? Jolteon looked back and forth. "Who said that?" he asked. There was no answer.
Amédée.
There it was again! Where had he heard that name before? "Amédée, Amédée," he muttered to himself. Then a light bulb clicked. Amédée was an Elementalist! "Ha! Score one for the Jolteon!" the electric fox shouted. He started doing a cheesy little dance. That is, until he remembered what Amédée's power was.
"Wait a second...what if Umbreon wasn't the Elementalist Mewtwo was looking for? What if it was..." He stopped short. "...Flareon?" Uh oh. "Guys!" he called out, running to the kitchen where everyone else was sitting, eating dinner.
This was bad.
Uh oh...
Next chapter will be better, I swear...if it's not, I'll eat Kiki's Poffins of Death (remember those? oh yeah...)
See ya soon!
-Umbreon Mastah
