A/N: Kay so here's chapter seven.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
~Felix Adler
The table was filled swiftly, and looking around Lance realized that he didn't know most of the people there. People in all ages and styles had settled down at the table and chatted as they ate. Lance was across from Yellow so they chatted as they ate the roast Goldeen fillet. Suddenly the large double doors opened. Elli slid through the door, blushing ferociously.
"You're late Ellenor." Elli flushed a brighter red at the stern reprimand.
"How did you even know it was me?" She pouted.
Yellow's bluntly amused smile made Elli pout more. "I couldn't hear you talking. Since you're never one to keep quiet, I simply assumed that you hadn't arrived yet." Elli shuddered. "Your distressed." Worry coated Yellow's tone as Elli whimpered softly.
Her purple eyes connected with Yellow's cloudy orbs. "Something is coming." She whispered. "It tingles across my skin like lightning in the clouds." Those who heard her shuddered for a second before returning to their meals. Elli settled beside Red with a sigh. 'Something will happen soon.' Her thoughts rolled in a chaotic storm around her head. 'and I'm going to be at the helm of it.'
On the end of the table Steven watched Sapphire interrogate Wally as Ruby desperately tried to change the subject. "So you just left with out asking for help?" she huffed at him.
Wally rolled his eyes. "I'm a big boy Saph, I can fight my own battles."
"What about your sickness?" She asked worriedly. Steven sat back and smiled at the familiar scene of the Hoenn Pokedex holders squabbling like the children he still thought they were at heart.
"The mistress healed him." A women sitting on Wally's other side said. She had frizzy brown hair and dark almost black eyes. "Wally got sick on an over night mission and she found out." Wally blushed and busied himself with his food. "She brought him into the forest and used the power of its heart to fix that which had made him frail. Then she smacked him for hiding his sickness and told him not to do it again."
"Hush Jamie." Steven said with amusement. "You'll turn Wally into a tomato at this rate." Suddenly a strange noise caught their attention.
Elli had paled and stiffened sitting strait up. Her purple eyes grew distant and her body stiffened as if she had rigor mortis. "Here we go again!" Gold said with a grin as everyone quieted and stared at Elli.
"Ellenor?" Yellow asked. "Can you hear me?"
The pale girl shuddered before tilting forwards slightly and opening her mouth. When she spoke it was not in her normal voice, but in that of a grown woman. The effect of hearing a small child speak in an adults voice was unsettling.
"They will find it, the secret of the grave yard tower.
One will betray the whole for cold revenge, then he will find the taste not to his liking."
Her voice seemed to flood the room. Not a single person was willing to interrupt her as the words spewed forth.
"Those hidden within are in grave peril.
They are searching, and they shall find her.
Child of the Viridian. Favored by the queen.
They wish to use her as a weapon against her mistress."
Elli seemed to draw in a shuddering breath. Her hands clenched and unclenched on the green table cloth. Lance couldn't help but shudder. 'Prophet.' A dark voice whispered in his mind. 'A being outside the natural order. They receive painful visions and speak prophecy for things that have yet to come.'
The Dragon Tamer will be the only one who can help the phantom child,
But will The Queen be willing to give him up, if only for a moment?
All the pieces are in play.
Now the war truly begins."
As if she was simply a puppet who had just had its strings cut Elli slumped forward in a boneless lump. She landed face first in her soup and just lay there. Silence filled the room.
"Will someone please pull her out before she drowns in her soup?" Yellow asked. As if her speaking had broken the spell, the room filled with the noise of people discussing the prophecy. Red got up and pulled Elli out of her soup. Green, who was on her other side, got up and wiped her face clean with a napkin as Red moved her bowl away. When they were done they laid her head on the table over her folded arms and let her sleep there.
"Danna." Yellow called to a small blonde. The girl kept staring at Morty with something akin to hero worship in her eyes. Yellow sighed before turning to Silver. "Who put Danna across from Morty?" She rubbed her forehead before turning back towards Danna.
"DANNA!" Everyone nearby jerked as Yellow yelled at the small child.
The girl blushed and turned away from gazing at Morty to give her Queen attention. "My Lady?" From the embarrassment in her voice it was obvious that she knew she had been caught staring.
"Is there any reason we should fear that our base in Lavender was discovered?" While it was clear she was trying to hide her worry, Lance could easily see through Yellow's ruse. She wouldn't stop fingering the table cloth.
Danna looked insulted for a moment before stopping to think. "The Pokémon tower has been getting an unusual amount of attention from the Rocket Grunts in the city." She cringingly admitted. "I simply didn't think it was enough to bother you with. There are no actions on their part that could mean we've been discovered."
Yellow sighed before starting to pick at her food again. "Very well, but you will fill me in if anything else happens." Danna nodded sharply before returning to her meal as well.
Not long after Yellow left the table and, as if it were some sort of unspoken cue, others finished up and began to leave as well. A delicate groan from beside him drew Red's attention to Elli. She had awakened and was glancing about groggily.
"Wha?" she mumbled as she sat up in her chair. She seemed almost dazed.
Gold and Silver walked over and started pulling her out of her chair. "Up you go honey," Silver said. "It's time to go to bed." With that said they made a follow me gesture to the rest of the Pokédex holders and started off up the wooden spiral staircase. Ellenor supported gently between them.
A couple minutes walking took them to a hall full of doors. "These are guest quarters. Four to a room." Gold pointed out as he opened a purple door with a five on it. "The ladies can stay with Misty and Jamie in here." He gestured to the four bunks in the room.
"Guys are this way." Silver said as he walked farther down the hall. Gold opened a black door with several names painted in white on the door. Elli stumbled into one of the two bunks that were in there. Silver sighed before pointing forwards. "Up here." He added.
As Silver and the boys moved on Elli pulled on Gold's sleeve to stop him from leaving. "Wait." She pleaded. "Listen."
Gold turned back to her and shot her a worried look. "Every thing okay?" He asked.
"Ruby and Lance are important." She told him. "Red and Green will make good team leaders, and blue will work well with the intelligence squads. Sapphire will find her place on her own, but it's Ruby and Lance we'll need." Gold shot her a startled look but stayed quiet.
"They'll make some of the best generals we'll ever see. Yellow will need them both in the months to come." Her purple eyes seemed almost feverish as she held him near her. "Bunk Ruby in the empty bed in Stevens room and Lance in the single person room next to Yellow. They'll be needed tonight."
With that said she dropped onto her bed and settled into an exhausted slumber. Gold stared at her for a second before blinking. With a sigh he pulled the blanket over her and left her to rest before jogging up the hall to Silver.
Silver and the males of the group had stopped in front of a dark blue door with a two painted on it. Silver was just about to open it when Gold jogged up and started hissing in his ear. Silver nodded sharply before directing the boys to a blue door with a seven on it.
"Red and Green can stay in this one." Silver said as Gold Led Ruby and Lance farther way. "It's only got room for two, so we're splitting you guys up for now." Red and Green stepped into the room with murmured thanks and started getting ready for bed, so Silver left them to it and chased after Gold.
He got there in time to see the door to the room him and Gold shared with Steven close behind Ruby. Gold made as if to lead Lance away but he folded his arms and refused to budge. "Why is splitting us up so important?" he asked coldly.
A tired sigh left Silver as he leaned back on the wall. "Well, it involves Elli, so it's complicated." He said. Lance shrugged but didn't uncross his arms. It was clear that he would not move until he got his answers.
"She feels that it is important for you to be near Yellow and for Ruby to be near Steven." Gold explained. "That it's important for the sake of the rebellion."
"Do you normally blindly follow a little girl's orders?" Lance huffed. He knew Elli was a prophet, but he also knew that prophets were fallible, and that the more one relied on a prophet the more likely they were to screw up something important.
Silvers eyes grew distant and hazy in memory. "We never used to." He admitted. The pain in his voice was tangible. "Then the great Celadon City burning happened." Lance wanted to ask, but from the shift of the two men's bodies they were clearly unwilling to keep talking.
Lance sighed before gesturing forward. "Lead on then." He said with false cheer in his voice. "To my room. I assume me being by the queen means I'm bunking alone?"
