Ahhh!! By the next update, I'm going to be in school. I remember when I posted the first chappie when I got OUT of school :) Time just flies by, don't it? Well, I've had and enjoyable summer full of heat and sun and hikes and computer and friends and writing and camp and rain and explosions and fire and other stuff.
Well, here's the next chappie for ya. I'll double spell check it this time :D
Chapter Twelve: Legends and Preparations
Flädermus flew outside and stretched his four wings in the welcoming morning sunlight. A few minutes after enjoying the warm air, he saw a tired looking Atrox flapping and panting toward the cave. The colony leader eyed him questioningly.
"Atrox, what did you do to yourself?" Flädermus was highly suspicious of the large purple bruise that covered half of his back.
"Nothing! I'm fine! Leave me alone! Piss off! GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Atrox's voice (that he had attempted to make sound angry and menacing) was raspy and almost cracked as he flew into the cave. He was careful not to show Flädermus his bloodied fangs from the large amount of weak and vulnerable pokemon he had poisoned and left to die.
Flädermus shook his head and sighed when Atrox's flapping figure was out of sight. "That boy's keeping something form me. And I can tell it isn't good."
Atrox flapped furiously through the cave, trying to get to his own, panting heavily. He had go back to the Espeon lands by this afternoon, so he decided to rest up. On his way to his cavern, he passed Enfermeira, who as a nurse was naturally concerned.
"Atrox! What happened to you?" she asked hurriedly, approaching him.
"I'm fine!" he snapped back, flying away from her. "Get away from me!"
Enfermeira was used to denial of pain as she caught up with him effortlessly. "Come on, I have just the thing I can put on that bruise to make it numb right away." She tugged at his wing with her own.
"No, dammit!" He jerked his head toward her wing and sank his fangs into it. She yanked her wing away in surprise and saw that it started to bleed. Atrox snorted and, feeling some adrenaline after injuring the strong colony leader's mate, took off out of the mouth of the cave, bumping into Komori on the rush out. Not caring as he normally would, he still flew at full speed despite the pain he felt.
"Hey!" he yelled, but Atrox was too far away to hear anything. Komori mumbled something under his breath and proceeded to fly into his cave. He flew toward his mother's cave which emitted the soft, blue glow.
"Hey Mom, I think my stitches-" He stopped talking when he saw Enfermeira tending to a wound of her own. The leaf bandage she put over it was soaked in blood. "Woah! Mom what happened?"
"Atrox, that's what!" she snapped. "I was just trying to help him when he sank his little fangs right into my wing! Hard!"
"What!?" They both turned to see Flädermus at the front of the cave, a look to kill on his face. "Where is the little bastard?"
"He bumped into me when I came in a while ago," Komori spoke up. "He seemed to be in a rush to get away from here."
"Now we know why," Enfermeira muttered from the corner after swallowing an Oran berry.
Flädermus growled. "He's probably far away by now. Even with my speed advantage I can't predict which way he went."
Komori clenched his fangs together and frowned. "He'll pay for what he did to Mom!"
"Honey, violence isn't the answer." Enfermeira put on a weak smile for her son. Even in situations like this she still had a heart of pure gold.
After a minute or so, Komori nodded his head reluctantly, still scowling. He had nodded, but that didn't mean he was going to obey her.
Life was haywire down at the Espeon grounds. Ovän had forced all of the Espeons out of their caves for the snakes to make homes out of. They were forced to sleep on the cold, moist grass in the chilly night air outside. If they had time to sleep, that is. The alpha always had two Arboks or Sevipers at his side, enforcing him and allowing him to do whatever he wanted.
Ovän was strutting around the grounds, horrifying everyone he passed. Everyone was preparing for war, doing practice fights and running around to build themselves up. If Ovän ever caught someone not getting ready, he would order one of the snakes to knock the wind out of them or he would do it himself. No breaks had been issued yet, and Ovän didn't plan to send out any anytime soon. Or probably ever.
He watched smugly as a group of Espeons panted madly as they ran in a circle around the grounds. One started to lag behind and stopped to catch his breath. Ovän snapped the two tips of his tail and an Arbok that was his current right hand snake lashed out toward the resting Espeon, wrapped his thick tail around him and hissed in his face, exposing his foul breath..
Ovän approached the Espeon, which was now gasping for more air than he first intended to when he stopped. "Ah, Ander. Falling behind, are we?" He grinned bitterly, smugly.
Ander glared at Ovän, his violet eyes full of pure hatred. "What the hell!?I was just resting!"
"No resting! You must run to be strong! You're not going to be strong if you rest, are you?"
"At the rate you're pushing us," Ander choked out, his voice laced with venom, "we're all going to be dead before the war, you tyrant!"
Ovän glowered at him malevolently. "Kill him." He snapped his tail and the Arbok that was already coiling him squeezed him at his strongest while the second one started to repeatedly slammed his tail against Ander's head. Ovän actually flinched at the scene going on before him. Soon, the intense pressure and brutal thwarting was too much, and the Arboks finally squeezed and beat the last breath out of Ander and he closed his eyes forever.
The Arbok released him carelessly and came back to the alpha's side. "What are we to do with the body?"
Ovän smirked at the unmoving, battered body. "Leave him. Let it be a reminder of what happens if they disobey me." He cackled cruelly along with the Arboks.
By the afternoon, thick, grey clouds flooded the sky and it began to rain. Jua and Lunato watched as the water droplets splattered as they hit the rim of the cave mouth. It was a heavy storm, lightning cracked, thunder boomed, and rain fell down in enormous amounts.
"Wow, what a storm. I haven't seen one these bad in ages," Jua commented. They hadn't moved since this morning.
"Yeah. It reminds me of that Kyogre legend," Lunato replied.
Jua looked up at him. "What Kyogre legend?"
Lunato cocked an eyebrow. "You've never heard the Legend of the Sunlit Kyogre?"
Jua had heard so many legends told by her parents and brother, but she couldn't recall one about a sunlit Kyogre. "No," she answered. "Will you tell me it?"
Lunato chuckled. "Yeah of course."
Jua snuggled up against him and listened intently like a young child waiting for their mother to tell them a story. "Go on."
Lunato cleared his throat before speaking. "Okay... The story starts out with Lugia and Ho-Oh. Millions of years ago, they decided to combine their powers to create a new Guardian. It turned out to be a Kyogre, and he was as pink as the sunset. They dubbed the Kyogre Sansai, the Heavy Water God. They gave him the power to control floods, waves, and rainstorms. But that was too much power for Sansai. He crashed tsunamis on helpless pokemon, flooded places tremendously, causing lots of pokemon to lose their homes, and made rain pour so badly that they were like rocks falling from the sky.
"Then, he finally created a flood so immense that all of Earth's land was drowned in water. This angered Lugia and Ho-Oh. They punished Sansai, stripping him of almost all of his powers. He couldn't create anything anymore. The two completely stripped him of his mighty powers. One condition though was that he could create a tsunami once every year and that he could only flash flood the Earth every 100,000 years. Lugia drained the Earth, and Ho-Oh spread an enormous rainbow that encircled the entire Earth.
"Soon, Lugia created another Kyogre by himself. Without the combined powers of Ho-Oh, the Kyogre's color was just a deep sea blue. He gave him Sansai's old powers to control floods, waves and rainstorms. The new Kyogre was much more responsible and limited his powers unlike Sansai. But Sansai still gets to created his powerful tsunamis and devastating floods."
Jua perked up her ears. "Wow, that was a great story. The only legends my parents tell me are extremely boring and unbelievable ones. Are all the ones you hear like that?"
Lunato chuckled at her negative comment and question. "My parents are usually boring too. But when it comes to storytelling, their the most exciting pokemon in the world."
The Espeon smiled and closed her violet eyes as she continued to lean on him. "Sounds nice."
Lunato's ears started to lower as he thought. Even though his parents could be too unfair, overpowering, and strict at times, he realized that he still loved them dearly and missed them as well. He sighed a deep sigh and tightened the his tail's grip on Jua's tail in and effort to comfort himself. She noticed this, and, opening her eyes, turned to look up at him.
"Lunato? Are you alright?"
He turned to her and immediately faced forward, his eyes darting from side to side nervously. "Uh, I-I'm fine. Never better," he lied.
Jua shrugged it off and ley her eyes close again. "If you say so," she said quietly.
The grey clouds carrying the ice cold rain reached the Espeon grounds as well. The air was freezing, nipping at the Espeons' flesh under their purple pelts. Most of the snakes (with the exception of Ovän's enforcers and Brilslang, who stalked the grounds almost endlessly without complaint) were warm and dry inside the caves that were stolen from the Espeons while the catlike pokemon were outside forcing themselves to toughen up for the war since sleep wasn't an option for them ("Unless you want to never wake up," Ovän had told them). The Eevees all huddled against each other and snuggled, sharing their body heat with one another, for the warm bodies of their mothers were out preparing for the war.
Ovän noticed this and strolled up to the soaked, shivering infants and toddlers. "Children, what are you doing? You should be training."
The Eevees looked up, stunned. "W-what? I d-didn't know w-we were g-gonna b-be in t-the fight," one Eevee finally squeaked while shuddering madly like his fellow Eevees.
"Well, you are. Now get running," Ovän snapped, the icy rain droplets unable to faze him or the Arboks.
"B-b-but..." The poor little Eevee was at a loss of words.
One of the Arboks was already getting impatient as his eyes narrowed into slits. "Run you little Weedles!" he finally screeched. This effected the furry kin, and they sped off, terrified, like a numerous, tiny rockets. The three cruel pokemon had themselves a good laugh as their faint whimpering and crying began to fade into the distance, the sound mixing with the rain and thunder claps.
Brilslang slithered around the wet grounds, looking for Espeons to terrorize. Like the Espeon tyrant, he too didn't care about the pouring rain.
He soon heard a distant flapping of wings. He flicked his tongue out and back in before turning around to see Atrox flying towards him, his head hung low in shame.
"I'm sorry, sir." At this point, he was too ashamed to not use the word 'sir' but was still reluctant. "But I've... I've... made the colony hate me."
Brilslang narrowed his eyes into slits. "You mean you've lost their trust forever more?"
Atrox nodded grudgingly before cringing as he awaited his beating.
Brilslang's tongue flicked out again. "That doesn't matter anymore."
Atrox looked up instantly. "W-what?"
"These Espeons are better to rule. Plus, they can't fly away. The bats are useless."
The Zubat was completely stunned. "Y-yeah! We don't need the bats! They were losers anyway!"
"You did something right for once, Atrox." Without saying another word, he snaked away.
Atrox was so stunned that he stopped flying and landed to the ground, extremely surprised now. Brilslang was... proud of him. He called him something other than just 'Zubat.' He didn't beat him down with his tail or laugh at him... Atrox finally shook it off and flew back into the air, his aggressive, stubborn, idiotic nature kicking back in.
Yah. I tried not to make a cliffie, so that was it. Even though his role wasn't huge, Ander (disobeying Espeon) still has a name meaning!
Ander: African for Other
Alright everyone, remember, K-San loves all you awesome reviewers out there! Even though I don't have a lot of time to reply, you all rocks my socks!!
Also, by the next update, I'm going to be in school. This may effect and delay my writing and updating because of school related junk. But don't worry, my friends! This story will be complete if my very existence depends on it!
Peace out,
Kenzay-San
