Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or any of the characters except my OCs.
Turquoise walked out only to be pushed off his feet by an unknown force. He heard footsteps run by and the slamming of the door before he sat up. He felt as if he was just taken down by a Tauros. They had just finish disusing the plan with Crimson and was about to return to their own room when he was tackled to the ground.
Groaning he sat up and heard someone sniffle. He looked down and saw that it was Aries. Her clothes were torn and wild tears shook her body. He quickly put his cloak around her and gently forced her to her feet and pushed her into a chair. She wouldn't let go of him however so he sat next to her and placed her on his lap. He looked around to see that Aqua, Moonstone and Amethysts was in the room panting as if they had just come from a race.
"I'm so sorry but I couldn't let him touch me and he wouldn't stop even after I scream!" She continued to ramble but it was almost incomprehensible. He held her against him and said soft words to her yet he didn't understand half of what he was saying. "I'm sorry."
When Aries's tears subsided, Moonstone spoke. "We escaped and…"
Aqua put her hand on her shoulder and shook her head. She knew that Aries was in shock and knew that she would need some time. "We escaped but now they're after us. We can hide out in your room until you're sent on that mission."
"That should be easy." Orange said. "Aqua is rooming with me. I'm sure that Aries should stay with Turquoise and Amethysts should room with Crimson. Moonstone-"
"No I am not rooming with that-"
"It's not questionable." Crimson said sharply, "I'm not leaving Amethysts's to anyone else."
"Fine! I'm taking a shower." Moonstone snapped and rushed to the adjoining bathroom, slamming the door.
"I'm taking Aries to my room, it's too nosy in here. Work out your problems, I don't care how you do it." Turquoise said in a harsh whisper and carried Aries to the next room. He made sure that no one else was in the hall before bringing Aries to his room. He saw that she had fallen asleep, exhausted from her heartache. She let a hiccup every once and a while and it made his guilt worsen. He had let her down.
He let her sleep, setting her on the large chair before he going to check the room for any devices similar to the one Peridot had when they first met her. When he threw the few he found out the window he went to where Aries sat. He sighed, it donned on him that there must have been some devices in Topaz's room when they were discussing the plan. He looked back at Aries and wonder what he was going to do.
When Aries woke up, she was frantic with worry that her nightmare had been true. She shifted and realized the she was sleeping against something large and hard. She saw that she was in an unfamiliar and that she was in the largest and softest bed she ever saw. She saw that Turquoise looked down at her with concern and question. She wanted to cry, how can she explaine that she wasn't good enpugh for him anymore?
"I'm so sorry!" She cried and shifted closer to him. She couldn't stand the gentle way he was treating. He was stroking her back as if she was fragile glass. "I killed him."
"Killed who?" Turquiose hand stiffened.
"That man Peridot brought with her when she came down to the prison. He wanted to kill me as a warning to you but she told him that he could have fun with only one of us." She had to force out the last few words. "He tried to touch me but I couldn't let him. Oh Arceus I feel so horrid. I didn't want him to so I screamed for him to stop but he kept pulling at my skirt. I didn't mean to, I just wanted him to stop so I called him out and told him to make the man stop but it all got out of hand and now he's dead!"
Turquoise could tell that she was going to cry again so tucked her head beneath his chin. She went on, as if he couldn't sense the tension building up in his body. "It's a sin to murder and that's what I did. I'm going to hell now. I couldn't do anything to stop myself! What would you have done in my place?"
"Kill him with my bare hands for you." Turquoise said in a hard voice.
"But-"
"He deserved to die." Turquoise told her. "I know that you were afraid and that you felt as if you had no choice. I'm sure at the moment, you felt as if it was the only option. I don't blame you for killing him; I blame myself for not being there for you. I told your father and my mother that I would protect you."
Aries went silent. He didn't want to protect her because he cared for her but because it would disappoint her father and his mother. She felt her heart drop a little. Many would think that she made herself dependent on Turquoise but she just wanted him to care about her. If she became self-sufficient, he wouldn't bother with her. Would he still cherish her if he knew that she was more powerful than everyone thought her to be?
Crimson stepped out of the bathroom to a sight he thought he would never see. His pokemon were sitting around Amethysts, his Shadow at her feet. The room was large enough to room his seven large pokemon. It wasn't the fact that his pokemon were gather around him since they grew close to her, it was the fact that they all looked as if they jumped into a flower garden. Flower necklace or hair ordainment adorned his pokemon as well as several bows. He didn't even know it was possible for his Genger to wear a bow tie!
When Amethysts noticed him, she sent him a nervous smile, "I was grooming Shadow and I saw how it relaxed him so I wanted to brush some of your other pokemon and I also got curious about the pokemon you carry."
She paused when she saw that he didn't say anything so showed any reaction to her words, "You really shouldn't neglect your pokemon the way you do. You care about their health but that's more than giving them the right food or potion. If too much dirt builds up in their fur their speed and defence will lower. And it doesn't hurt for them to get that little boost in confidence and I bond with my pokemon when I groom them."
She saw that Crimson just grumbled something beneath his breath and head off to bed. She quickly called back Crimson pokemon and noticed that they actually obeyed her. She saw Shadow jumped onto the bed to lie at Crimson's feet. She looked at the grandfather clock in the room and saw that it was almost midnight and hope that none of the guards went to check on them yet.
Amethysts scurried to the bed and quickly made her way under the covers. She felt the mattress shift beneath her and turned so that her vision was filled with Crimson's intense eyes. He stared at her as if trying to look into her soul and discover all her secrets. She felt her face heat when he leaned closer to her.
"What's wrong?" She asked, a little awkwardly.
"I was thinking about your parents. I heard so many stories about them but what were they to you? I know Topaz always work to live up to his father's legacy and that Turquoise took after his father while his twin is his mother double. Orange got a Pikachu like his mother and father…"
"You were thinking if you would've turn out differently if your parents never died?" She asked gently. "My parents are so different that I was afraid to disappoint one when I side with the other. I think that even if your parents lived to see you today, they'll be proud of you and that you would still be a great man. I wouldn't fall in love with a lesser man."
Crimson was going to remind her that she didn't love him and was merely infatuated but then realize that she was already sleeping, nestling up against him in her sleep. He didn't want to get attached to her or her to him, it made thing much too complicated when they go their separate way. And they would one day. He wasn't the great man she saw him as.
He closed his eyes and imagined her in a white picket fence with lace curtains and everything else she deserved. Then he saw a man walk through the door and had to mentally shake himself. He couldn't be that man, didn't deserve to be. He couldn't help but pull her closer and day dream for a while more.
When the cynical assassin fell asleep that day, he did with a smile upon his lips.
"I'm guessing that you're angry I left you to Peridot?" Topaz said with a wary grin. Moonstone had resigned to staying in his room but her outburst was still fresh on his mind. He tried to make her laugh so that he could see her smile but it seem teasing her was the wrong thing to have done that moment.
What little control Moonstone had on her raging emotion slipped from her and she lashed out. His betrayal was still fresh on her mind. She thought that they had grown close but he was able to throw what they shared for some information about his parent's death. Why couldn't the man move forward?
"You don't have to pretend to care about since we both know that the only thing that you care about is holding onto the dead. I never understood why one would let a ghost live in their soul and take over their life! You let revenge take over your life and everything else takes a second seat!"
"You can't accept me then why did you bother to come along. I thought you saw more than the surface! You throw me away so easily, what am I supposed to think?"
"I thought that there was more than the rake but all there is an obsessed man with his parents' death!"
"How can you judge me so easily? You don't know what it feels like to have everything taken away from you?" He screamed, "I will see that the man is brought to justice, that's all I want!"
Moonstone was about to give a sharp retort bite it off when she heard the doorknob turn frantically. They both turn sharply when the person on the other side of the door began to knock loudly. Topaz quickly blew out the candle and dragged Moonstone away. She couldn't react and found herself under the covers and under Topaz's hard body.
"Stay quiet." He whispered in her ear. "You're pretty small so they'll never notice that you're here."
The door burst open and Moonstone flinched, making Topaz tighten his hold on her. "The prisoner has escaped! We're here to see if you're hiding them in your room!"
"Fine, just let me sleep." Topaz said in a hard voice. He pulled her closer and Moonstone felt something shift in her. The man went from shouting at her to protecting her. She closed her eyes then had to shake herself. This man didn't care for her, she had to remember that.
"You're room is going to be kept under surveillance, as well as the others. When we find them, questions will be answered!"
"Get the Hell out of my room!" Topaz eyes flashed and his Breloom went after them with his sharp claws. "God this is not my day."
"So I'm thinking that Amethysts should battle Crimson someday. He needs see that there's more than her way of battling to understand her more." Aqua took a little note in her notebook, "I'll call it 'Beauty and the Beast'."
"Crimson will never battle her." Orange jumped next to her on the bed where she lay, "And why would she want to battle him anyway?"
"Never underestimate a woman. I know that Amethysts hates it when someone doesn't understand her way of battling. Anyway, even Crimson has his limits; we just need to push him to it." Orange had to laugh at the scenario she listed in her book. "Do you think we should work on HappyMoonshipping or Innocentshipping next?"
"HappyMoonshippping is on rocky ground right now so let give it more time. We need some development in Aries." Orange saw how Aqua pen stopped over Topaz's name. Aqua had told him that Peridot told them that it was Topaz that freed her. He squeezed her hand, "Remember that Amethysts is Soul and she didn't get any bad feeling coming from him."
"I just feel horrible if it turns out that Topaz is really against us. But if it's Crimson, then Ametyhsts will be heart broken." Aqua sighed, "What if I'm wrong about Topaz and Crimson?"
"Don't worry." Orange head snapped up when there was a banging at the door.
"Open up! We're searching for the escapees." The voice behind the door yelled as they tried to break down the door. Their pokemon, who were out of their pokeball and resting in front of the fireplace, ran to the door. They threw themselves at the door in hopes of keeping it close.
"How did they find us so fast?" Aqua said in worried voice. I need to hide!"
"Calm down, they don't know you're here yet." Aqua jaw dropped when Orange took off his shirt. She wasn't quite over her shock when Orange shifted her so that he laid over her. She gasped when she felt his body against her. He was so large that she was sure they wouldn't notice her under him. Her head was tucked into her shoulder and she saw that his eyes were serious.
"Where are they?" Orange didn't even look up at them. "As you can tell, I'm a little busy. I work fast."
Orange looked back and grinned at the cloaked figure who stared at him in surprise. When he heard Aqua's intake of breath and he could do the only thing that come to his mind. He kissed her. Aqua eyes widen. Despite being close to Orange her whole life, this was the first time he kissed her since Moonstone's fifth birthday. Aqua brought her hand up to his chest but didn't know if it was to push him away or pull him closer. Warmth spread through her and her eyes slid close, someone moaned but she wasn't quite sure who it was. He was gentle and she felt so alive, his lips lightly pondered hers.
He gently broke the kiss and sat up. Aqua laid there, dazed by his kiss. Others had kissed her before but not like that, as if she were something precious. She felt love and contentment filled her heart, maybe there was a chance for them.
"I'm sorry." Sorry? He was saying sorry for making her feel precious? There was something wrong here. He went on, not looking at her, "It was the only thing I could think of but it worked."
He finally turned to her. She looked so heartbroken, had it been that bad for her? It was just a ploy to get the guards away. Arceus, why was her life all messed up? She couldn't understand her feelings for him yet it played on her mind over and over. The cloaked men were gone but she felt as if there were still a thousand eyes were on her.
She shook herself when someone ran through the door. She looked up and saw that Amethysts had run in along with everyone else. Turquoise almost tripped over himself when he saw Orange sitting at the edge of the bed without a shirt and Aqua sitting away from him, her face flushed. Turquoise brotherly instinct flared and he glared at Orange, the man was his best friend of twenty three years but he wouldn't let him shame his sister.
"Are we interrupting anything?" he asked in a hard voice while Aries face turned red as a tomato.
"We can deal with this later!" Crimson said sharply, "Right now we need to get everyone out of here. We're being sent on another mission so we need to leave now. Topaz already sent for the WindWarrior so all we need is to leave undetected. But we have to do it now while they're all distracted with searching for Amethysts and the others. I'll go scout ahead to make sure that we're not being followed and Orange you're going to trail behind to make sure no one follow us."
He didn't wait to see if anyone was listening, instead he stride out with Amethysts closely following. He felt as if nothing was going right. Peridot and Shauntal almost ruined everything. Now he was on very thin glass. He had to watch his step now or everything will blow up and the plan would be ruined. He made a mental note to watch Topaz closely as well. Some people just couldn't be trusted.
He summoned his Steelix and ordered him to create a hole in the wall. I turned out that they were three stories up and the steel pokemon had to slither towards the ground to make a stairwell. He went down first and saw that a cloak man had heard the blast and came to investigate. He looked back and saw that Amethysts hadn't notice him yet so he held up a hand in warning.
Without causing a noise, Crimson crept behind the man and sliced his throat. The water was a mere five foot away so he threw the body into the river. Crimson washed his hand, he had no choice, he would have given them away and he had to protect Amethysts. He turned back and saw that Amethysts was where he left her. She looked up at him concerned and touched his arm, questions swarming in her eyes. He knew that she hadn't seen him kill the man so he lied to her.
"It was just a wild pokemon." He told her. He turned away before she could question him and called out his Khione to use Mist. "Go ride on Khione and get onto the ship."
"Come on Aries," Turquoise grabbed Aries hand and helped pull her onto his Tentacruel since he knew that she only carry normal type pokemon. They all made their way to the silhouette of the WindWarrior in mist Khione created.
I realize that I never listed all the characters pokemon but I don't want to reveal them all just yet. So here are all the pokemon you know they have so far.
Orange: Pikachu (Sparky), Salamence (Draco), Pidgeot (Geot)
Aqua: Corsola (Pearl), Butterfree (Diamond), Ursaring (Copper), ? (Platinum)
Turquoise: Aggron, Rapidash, Beedrill
Aries: Furret (Fluffy), Clefairy (Magic), Cinccino (Chilla), Secret Pokemon, Munchlax (Munch),
Crimson: Mightyena (Shadow), Lapras (Khione), Genger (?)
Amethysts: Glaceon (Glacia), Altaria (Airia),
Topaz: Breloom, Tyranitar, Phampy (in daycare), Skarmory, Gallade, Tauros,
Moonstone: Vulpix (Pixie),
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