Questions without answers

Jaiden's POV

She looked at me. "Do you know me?"

My eyes widened.

"Mina?" I asked again.

She giggled. "Is that who I am?"

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I don't know who I am," she said, "So I've always called myself Daniella Kata-Lee because I thought it sounded cool. I've been hoping to run into someone who knows who I am."

"How can you not know who you are?" Ash asked.

"I don't remember," she said, "I don't remember anything. Some people found me when I was five. They said I fell out of a car or something as it sped past. They said I was unconscious. I don't remember anything at all though."

Fell out of a car? The kidnapper's van! Of course. This really was Mina!

I couldn't help myself and I embraced her. "Yes, I know you."

"Really?" She asked, "Who am I?"

"You're Mina," I said, "You're my best friend."

I could feel the other guys and their eyes on me.

"Is this true?" She asked.

I nodded.

Shortly after, I felt her embracing me back. "Then I'm so happy."

"Me too," I said, sighing into her hair.

Midnight's POV

I was happily walking along, alone with Umbreon.

I stopped when I felt the presence of another person. "Who's there?"

My hands reached for the dagger I kept strapped to my spine for emergencies like this.

"Very good, sharp senses. I like it."

I whipped around, uncasing my dagger, holding it up against the intruder's throat.

"And quick and deadly, even better."

I narrowed my eyes, inspecting who is was who disturbed my peace.

It was a man. He seemed to be an average man. Dirty brown hair and similar brown eyes. From what I could guess, he was in his late 40's. He was taller than I was and he carried a way about him that was calm and collected. I would guess that he was used to being in charge of people from his upright posture.

I looked over his face, trying to read what he could possibly want from me.

His face, however, was carefully blank. If anything, there was a certain look of hunger in his eyes, like he'd found something that he had been searching for.

His eyes were cold and hard and they ran over my features as he was inspecting me.

I dug the dagger into his skin slightly, and his eyes met mine again.

Strangely, they showed no fear at all.

He laughed slightly and I frowned. What person would laugh at a situation like this.

"Forgive me for my rudeness," He said, "My name is Nathan."

I raised an eyebrow.

"May I ask, what is your name?" he asked.

I poked the blade of my dagger into his skin enough to draw a trickle of blood. "I don't give my name freely. What is it that you want?"

"Forgive me if this sounds creepy to you, but we have been observing you over a number of years now," he said.

My eyes narrowed. "Who is 'we' and why are you watching me?"

He clicked his tongue. "Where are my manners? I work for ALPHA. We aim to liberate all captive Pokémon from their enslaving masters."

"What does this have to me?" I asked.

"Ah, you see, you may be a valuable part of our team," Nathan said.

I took my dagger away and started walking away. "Not interested. I don't trust humans."

Not after what had happened to me. I shall never forget how it felt or the look in their eyes.

I paused when I felt something sharp poking into my back.

"Let me rephrase, you will be a valuable part in our team," he said.

"Threatening me won't get you anywhere," I said, "Why do you want me so bad?"

"Because you're special," he said.

"Special?" I asked.

"You're very special Midnight," he said.

"I don't think I told you my name," I said.

"We've observed you," he replied, "I know your name. I know about what happened to you."

I tensed up.

"With us, you can get revenge on those people, like you've always panned to do," he said.

I fingered the arrow I kept strapped to my leg. This was the reason I didn't trust people.

"When you're done, you can have them begging for mercy," he said, "You can have them in the palm of your hands and you can do anything you want to them."

I pricked my fingered on the sharp tip through the fabric of my pants. I brought my finger up, staring at the blood drizzling down slowly.

That was a lot of blood for such a small wound.

I sounded like me. Such a lot of hurt came from such a seemingly small event.

"All you need to do, is join us and you can have everything you want," he said.

"Everything I want," I repeated.

"All you have to do is one little favour," Nathan said.

"What do you want?" I asked, clenching my fists.

The one thing I want. Revenge on those who had left me like this. And now I was so close.

"Do you remember those girls you met a while ago?" Nathan asked.

"What about them?" I asked, turning around to face him.

I would do anything.

He leaned close, his mouth next to my ear as he whispered his next words. "Bring them to me."

Ash's POV

"So can she really not remember a single thing?" I asked Jaiden.

Jaiden shook his head. "Completely blank. She can't even remember her name."

"So why did you get to tell her who she is and we didn't?" Drew asked.

"She can't even remember her name," Jaiden said, "The others can remember their name at least. They at least know what happened after they were kidnapped. Mina has no memory at all. I had to give her something."

Paul huffed slightly and crossed his arms. "What happens now?"

Jaiden shrugged. "We'll take them back and find a way to regain their memory."

"We should check on the girls," Drew said, "I would think Misty's alright now."

"I wonder how they don't remember us in the first place," I said.

Jaiden shook his head. "I don't have the answers to that."

He sighed. "Out here, I don't have any of the answers."

Misty's POV

Rain, rain, let it rain.

Children. Two of them.

One an orange haired girl.

One a black haired boy.

Chocolate eyes stare into mine. It's like he can see me even though so far I had been invisible.

Look at me please.

I'm not invisible.

It was pouring. Raining down.

Thunder went and lightning struck.

"We should go inside," the orange haired girl said, "We'll get rained on."

The boy shook his head, staring at the sky. "I like the lightning."

She tugged on his hand, but he stayed still.

They would get hurt if they continued this. The lightning and thunder was getting closer.

She huffed and crossed her arms, going back to go inside.

No, don't leave him alone. Something bad could happen.

As if on cue, lightning rained down again.

I shut my eyes and blocked my ears, but it didn't stop me from hearing the pained scream or seeing the brief look of horror on his face before the lightning hit him.

It was silent. Deathly silent.

I opened my eyes and gasped.

The boy was lying there. He was dying, but still his eyes still looked at me.

Haunting me. Accusing me.

His mouth opened as his eyes closed, words slipping past his lips before he went still.

Why don't you remember me?

"I don't know you!" I screamed as I woke up.

Six faces peered at me in worry.

"It was a nightmare?" I asked.

I raised my hands to cover my face and realised, in horror, that it was damp with tears.

"Are you ok Misty?"

It was Ash who had asked the question, but the amount of concern in his voice confused me. Why would he be so worried for a stranger.

"I…I don't know him," I said, "Why does he keep coming back?"

"Who is?" May asked.

"What happened?" Dawn asked.

"The boy in my dreams," I said, "He keeps coming back, but I don't know him."

"Boy?" May asked slowly.

I nodded and then blinked. "Wait, what happened?"

"They had to knock you out so they could operate," Dawn said, "There's a pin in your leg because it was broken pretty bad."

I looked at the cast over my leg. It was plain white.

"They said that you could choose a colour when you woke up again," May said, "For the waterproof wrapping."

"Blue," I said instantly, "I love blue."

I looked at Ash.

He had chocolate brown eyes.

Like the boy in my dreams.

"I don't know you," I said to him, "get out of my head."

"I know," he said sadly.

Why? All these unanswered questions were driving me crazy.

Who had the answers?

Me: Finally an update!

Ash: MIDNIGHT IS THE BAD GUY...er...GIRL!

Midnight: *shrugs* Seems to fit

Misty: I'm so confused.

Drew: This isn't fair. Why does Jaiden get Mina and we don't get to tell?

Me: Ah, but I don't remember a thing, do I? That includes Jaiden.

So yeah, sorry for updating in a bit. I had other priorities. I shall try to update this more often because I do realise that cliffhangers are awful.