Soul link
Chapter Eight:
Corresponding feelings
Hi everybody. I am here again and I will announce something before we begin. From the sixth chapter I decided to make the chapters longer so now the media of the chapters will be three or four thousands of words. Let's take a flashback to the previous chapter: Jake trying to turn the alarm off ended on top of Lily. In their way to Jubilife City Sky evolved and when they were going to leave him in the Pokémon Center Angela appeared and dragged Jake to a clothing store and made him pay. After that they had a picnic where Angela and Jake showed their powers but Angela bonded them with the Wedding Contract amulet. They returned to the hotel where Jake made a gun to Lily. Well that's all that we need to remember so now… LET'S BEGIN!
Jake POV
'What's happening' I thought 'Where am I?' I was standing in a cliff from where I could see a beach. It was a really peaceful place, without anything that could disturb me. That I thought for a while before a twig broke behind me making me turning around. There is someone else there, I could feel it. I tried to grab my sable but then I noticed that I don't have it, and the same person who broke the twig was walking towards me but I couldn't identify it because the sun was blinding me.
"Who is there?" I called "Show you!"
"Okay, calm down tiger" I heard a familiar voice calling and Lily appeared form the glow holding a picnic basket "You are really hard to find, you know?"
"Lily, where I am?" I asked "I can't remember how I arrived here"
"He he, you were looking for a place to our picnic" she answered "And this place is perfect"
"Yeah I think so" I said watching to the cliff again "And, why are we going to have a picnic?"
"You are acting really strange Jake" she replied "Did you forget that you dated me?"
"Um, no is just that I have a headache" I had to tell a lie to not make her feel bad "And are we going to start?"
"You haven't changed at all" she giggled "You are the same distracted person that I met four years ago. But you were enough focused to marry with me"
I got frozen with this while I started to look down to inspect my hand. There was a gold ring with the words 'A soul link is not enough' carved in it and a little heart-shaped diamond was on top of it. I lifted my head and she was telling me something but I didn't pay attention to that when I leaned forward and our lips locked. It was the best feeling of my life: I was flying for happiness and the world means nothing to me but suddenly all became dark. I gasped when I woke up sweating and panting heavily and I saw that Lily was still asleep with her head and right arm in my chest.
"What's going on with me?" I told to myself "Did I fell in love for Lily?"
"Jake" I heard Lily whispering "Where are you going?"
"To anywhere" I answered even knowing that she was asleep "I'm right here"
"Jake, with whom are you talking?" I heard from the window and I saw Sky there "When Nurse Joy ended she gave me my Poke ball and let me go for you"
"Is good to see that you are okay" I said relaxed "Hey, that clock is about to mark seven o'clock and will start to make noises. Can you turn it off pressing the big button?"
"Sure, why not" he said landing next to the clock and when it started to make noises Sky pecked the off button "Well, that's it"
"Thanks friend" I started to shake Lily to wake her up. When she woke up she saw me and I smiled "Good morning Lily"
"Good morning Jake" she said and let out a yawn "Hi Sky, when did you arrive?"
"Five minutes ago" he answered.
"Em Lily, I need to get up" I said and she let me go "I will make breakfast today"
"Are you sure?" she asked me when I was putting a pair of black soldier-like traveling pants and a red T-shirt that was still in the shopping bags "I can do it if you want"
"No, I will make it" I said putting my feet inside a pair of running shoes "I will make a food that even my mother doesn't know"
I went to the kitchen and pulled out some eggs, potatoes, onions, coriander, tomatoes and jam. I started to move here and there preparing the breakfast but strangely I was moving like the tango dance style while cooking. When I ended I served the 'Spanish Tortilla' in two plates (Sky told me that he ate before coming) and pulled out a pair of glasses and an orange juice. I put all that in a serving plate and, like a butler, I brought it to the table.
"Breakfast is ready!" I announced "Lily, come here"
"There I go!" I heard her answer "Give me a second"
"The food is getting cold" I said when she entered in the dining room dressed with the white Ada Wong dress that I gave her last night. I inspected her "Now that I see it, you look beautiful in it"
"Thanks" she said blushing a little "What is this?"
"This is a 'Spanish Tortilla'" I said "My mother doesn't know this recipe because I learned it from a TV show when I lost the remote controller"
"Well that's unexpected" suddenly someone started to knock the door.
"Jaaaake!" I heard Angela calling "Are you awake?"
"Yes, I am!" I shouted in response "What do you want?"
"What else would I want?" she replied "Open the door!"
"Oh my Arceus" I said opening the door "Happy? I already opened the door"
"That's no funny" she said hugging me "Won't you invite me to enter?"
"If there is no choice" I said letting she and Chris enter "Hi Chris! How did you sleep last night?"
"Very well, Jake" he answered shaking my hand "All was quiet and calm"
"Is good to hear that" I commented "I had troubles to sleep last night"
"What kind of trouble?" asked Angela who was hearing
"Just an odd dream" I said "That's all. Now, if there aren't problem, I would like to end my breakfast"
"What does she want?" asked Lily when I sat in my chair again "And why is she so hasty?"
"I don't know why she is like that" I told her "And about what she wants I don't know either. She is really unexpected and joyful so I can't foresee what she is planning"
"Well that's a really big trouble" she said getting up with the dishes in her hands. She put them in the sink and returned "Are we ready to leave?"
"Yes, just let me go for my sable. And Lily…" I said turning around to see her "…don't forget your new 'toy'"
She knew what I was talking about so she entered in the bedroom with me. I was packing my pajama and my black suit; even the shopping bags were now empty because I managed to put them all in my camp bag. I grabbed my sable and put it in my belt and Lily took her handgun and hid it in her right leg. Once ready we headed out from the hotel and took the route 204, where we went through a cave and after that through a meadow until we reached to Floaroma Town; but it was already dark and we had to set camp there.
"Oh man, what I did to deserve this?" I asked to myself when I was bathing in a river near from the town "Now I need to drag Angela with me the rest of my damn life"
"Maybe be so handsome" I heard a voice behind me. I turned to see Angela smiling at me "Do you need help to get clean?"
"Angela, what the fuck are you doing here?" I said sinking my body in the water until the neck "I told you to not come while I was bathing"
"Yeah I heard that" she said coming closer "But you know that couldn't bear the temptation to come and see you"
"Oh my Arceus, can you just leave take a bath alone?" I asked "I need to get clean and I am totally naked"
"He he, that's the idea" she said taking of her dress "Don't you mind if I tag along with you?"
"Yes, I mind" I told her coldly "Please Angela just leave me take a so damn fucking bath"
"Okay okay, you didn't need to be so harsh" she said dressing again "But if you need me you know where to find me"
"Yeah yeah, just go" when she disappeared I sighed "Arceus if you can hear me tell me: why me?"
"I don't know but to be appearing you managed to escape from that" said another voice behind me. I turned again and saw Lily who was holding a towel "I think that you forgot this"
"Yeah, thanks Lily" I said grabbing the towel and she turned to avoid seeing me. When I was dressed I told her "Hey Lily, I need to ask you something"
"What is it?" she said turning around to look my face
"What did you dreamed the night before we met Sky?" I asked and she started to blush "If you tell it to me I will tell you what I dreamed last night"
"Is just that…" she said looking down "…I can't tell you, it is too embarrassing"
"Well if that is the case" I said leaning forward "I will tell you my dream first"
"Really?" she asked "Don't you mind to share it with me?"
"No, I don't mind because you are my best friend" I answered "It begun with me standing in a cliff from where I could see a beach and I thought that I was alone, but I was wrong because someone stepped a twig behind me" I took breath to continue "When I turned around it was… you" she gasped when I told her this.
"M-me?" she asked surprised "I was in your dream?"
"Yes, and you told me that I was really hard to find" I carried on "When I agreed with that I asked you how did I end there and you told me that I was looking for a place to our picnic" now I was getting nervous "Then I asked you why were we going to have a picnic and you told me that I dated you. And you said that I was the same distracted man that you met four years ago but… you added that I was enough focused to… to…"
"Come on, just tell it" she pressed me "If you don't say it I will read your mind"
"You said that I was enough focused to… to marry… with you" I finished and she gasped bringing her hands to her mouth "After that I inspected my hand and there was a golden ring with the words 'A soul link is not enough'. When I lifted my head you were talking to me but I didn't mind for that so I leaned forward and I… I…" I took a last breath "I kissed you!"
"You did what?" she asked shocked "You kissed me in your dream?"
"Yes, I did it" I admitted "I hope you aren't angry with me for that"
"Well, I guess that now is my turn" she said and I raised my head "In my dream I woke up in the clearing of a forest with the body of a Gardevoir, but when I dreamed that I still was a Kirlia" she said getting as nervous as I was before
"C'mon, sit down" we sat in the ground "Now you can continue"
"Well, scared by that because I didn't remember have evolved I shouted" she continued "But there was someone else there, and it was you" she said looking me "You asked me if I was alright calling me ho-honey" she told me blushing "I replied why you called me like that and you answered that you called me like that since we married and waved your hand in front of me showing a ring. I was shocked by this and suddenly a pair of Kirlias came from the woods"
Now I was shocked. If a pair of Kirlias were in her dream that would mean… "To be appearing they were our children. One of them was a girl named Mary and the other one was a boy named Marcus and he was carrying a wooden sword. They asked me if I was alright but then you made them go home in change of making honey pancakes and they ran in the woods again while you grabbed my arm and leaned me in the same direction"
This was the strangest thing that happened to me in my whole life "We walked for a while before reaching to house in another clearing. I asked you why our house was there and you told me that we built it by ourselves to avoid the people that judged us and later you asked me if I was alright and I answered that I was distracted since a few hours ago. You told me that you would solve that and then you… you…" I already knew how it ended "you kissed me"
"Th-this is the oddest thing that had happened to me" I said trying to believe what she said "We both had dreams where we were married and both dreams ended in a kiss"
"Yes, and sorry for not telling you that time is just…" she took a deep breath "…I thought that you would hate me for dreaming things like that"
"I wouldn't hate you for anything" I told holding her hand "Now I need to say this: Lily…" I was really nervous but at the same time very decided "I love you"
The last thing I could recall was that I was slammed to the floor when Lily jumped on top of me a locked our lips in a passionate kiss. It was better than in my dream: her lips were soft and silky and her tongue that was looking for a way to enter in my mouth was really seductive. I opened my mouth and our tongues started a fight for domination but Lily won because her tongue was so soft that I couldn't hold it during very much time. When we parted we both were panting heavily trying to catch our breaths.
"That was… wonderful" I managed to say "I never would imagine that you were going to react like that"
"That is because I love you too" she said hugging me "And I don't care if anyone judge us because that"
"There is only a trouble" I said with sadness in my voice "If Angela discovers this then it will be a great trouble that I prefer to avoid"
"Well, if that is what you want" she told me "Let's keep this as our secret"
"Thanks Lily" I hugged her without caring that her chest spike was hurting me "I think that is better that we come back because Angela will be wondering where we were"
"Okay but let's do this" she said getting off from me "I will get back with some berries telling that I was gathering some food and you will soak your hair to simulate that you just ended bathing"
"Woah, that's a great plan" I said impressed by her wiliness "Well let's go"
She went to find some berries and I sank my hair in the water and dried it a little. When we returned Angela was inspecting her longbow but she wasn't wearing her wig and Chris was reading a philosophy book. When they noticed us Angela stood up and Chris closed his book.
"Where were you?" Angela asked "A little girl came begging for help because her dad is being held hostage by some guys with strange outfits"
"What!?" Lily and I said shocked
"Yes, what you heard" said Chris standing up "She said that he was being held in the Valley Windworks power plant"
"Well, what are we waiting for?" I said picking my sable "Let's go to rescue him"
"Well Valley Windworks is not far from here" said Angela
"We don't have time to be bothering about distances" I said running to the Valley Windworks direction with Lily behind me "He needs us and that's what matter is now"
"Hey, wait for us!" shouted Angela reaching for me and Chris behind her. We ran during a minute or so before we could see the power plant and a man with the same outfit that the ones who attacked Sky family
"Hey, you!" I shouted getting his attention "Open the door!"
"Or what?" he said pulling out two Poke balls and throwing them to free a Zubat and a Stunky "Get the rid out of them" he ordered
"I don't think so" said Angela launching an arrow to knock out the Zubat
"I agree" said Chris using a Leaf Blade in the Stunky
"You won't enter anyway!" he shouted before enter in the power plant and I heard the door being locked
"I don't have time for this!" I shouted unsheathing my sable and launching, for first time, a Night Slash breaking the door in two "How did I do that doesn't concern me now" I said entering.
"To be appearing we are going to have troubles" said Lily when we entered because there were more of them "Do you mind if I take care of them?"
"No, I don't" I said and, with a great impulse, I passed through them and reached the Control Room door "Again this" I said now throwing a Psycho Cut to open it
"Who do you think you are?" asked a woman with red hair "I am Venus, one of the three commanders of Galactic Team"
"I don't mind who you are!" I shouted "My name is Jake Coen and now I will liberate to the man that you hold hostage"
"Try it!" she shouted throwing a Poke ball to release a Skuntank "Skuntank use Toxic!" she commanded
"You will have to be faster to do it" I said dodging the attack and striking the Skuntank with my sable letting it unconscious "He is not dead but if you don't want to be the next then I would set free that man"
"You will regret for this one day" she said and passed me towards the exit
"Thanks!" said a man that appeared from behind a machine "Now I will be able to see my daughter"
"She is waiting for you outside" I told him "Don't worry the path is clear"
"Thanks again" he said running to the exit
"Our work here ended" I heard Lily saying when the man left "Now we can rest"
"Yes, I would like too" I said while returning to the camp. There we told good nights to Angela and Chris and entered in our tent. I slipped in my sleeping bag and Lily rested her head and right arm in my chest as ever. I just gave her a quick kiss and said "Good night Lily"
"Sure they will" she answered
It was like everything what happened yesterday didn't mind for any of us now. We were sleeping, hugging each other without bothering for anything. But at the bottom of my heart I knew that all wasn't peace because one day Angela will discover it and when that day arrives, things are going to get hard.
Hi everybody again. As you know the Galactic Team appeared in this chapter and let's say that the Jake actions in Valley Windworks are going to give him troubles in the future with them. The Galactic Team will appear more often now so you can expect that everything are not going to be a flower meadow to Jake and Lily. With this I just say that the Wedding Contract that Angela used holds a secret that you will discover later. So you need to keep reading if you want to know what happens. Good night.
