Transformation: Project Legend
Chapter 37-Tommy
A/N: And I'm back with another update! Miss me? Lol. Well I have another quick update for you and it's an exciting one! Daniel has finally escaped the confines of his dark gale prison…but how long will he keep his freedom? Read on to find out!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, Nintendo does. The transformation universe is created by TurtlesandMonkeys and I am borrowing with permission. Each OC belongs to their respective owners and creators and are being used at the request of their creator.
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I saw the sky…
I saw the waves, the splash that he had left behind…
Suddenly…I am under the water, seeing him sink…
The young boy's kicking begins to slow…
…I hear a cry…almost like music…
Then suddenly I am the boy seeing the pair of glowing blue eyes swimming toward me, a mask-like visage surrounding them…I reach out for them…
"Tell me the stories again mama." The sea had disappeared and I could a small bedroom. A woman with brown hair sat with a young boy by a nightlight, sitting on her knees as she tucked him in.
"Well, ok…'In the seas deep below, where the rivers churn deep and the waters run wild, a great sea beast lives, taming the world's inner beast with his song,'" She closed her eyes and stroked his hair, beginning to hum the tune for him…he began to close his eyes…I felt sleepy too…
"'This beast wore silver feathers that resisted the water, with a long tail that kicks him through the churning waves and two massive wings that take him into the air,'" She made a gesture with her arms, spreading them like wings and embraced the kid…
"'They called this beast, this legend, the water's great guardian…Lugia.'"
Lugia…
She smiled and kissed the boy's forehead. "Sleep tight…Daniel."
…Mother…
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I felt a slight poking sensation and groaned as I began to open my eyes. I saw the seashore and the setting sky and then I felt the poke again. I turned my massive head and saw a little boy suddenly jump back. "Ah! It's still alive!" He cried out as he took a step back. I saw a stick in his hand. He looked to be around eight or nine. His messy hair was short and black and his clothes looked rather ratty and old. He wore a tattered shirt with a large coat that was missing its sleeves, the shreds at the elbows indicating it had sleeves once. His shorts had tattered edges and were dirty and he had old bandages wrapped around his ankles, wrists and hands, almost like gloves and he had a few dirt stains but his skin looked slightly tanned as if he spent a lot of time outdoors. He wore old tennis shoes that looked like the wrong size and he wore a piece of red fabric around his neck in the shape of a tattered bandana. His brown eyes were kinda sharp but still young enough to give way to the curiousness he probably had about something like me.
When it looked like he wasn't going to run away I decided to break the silence. "Are you afraid of me?" I said, using my newly learned telepathic powers.
He blinked and shook his head. "Ohhh, don't talk in my head! It's creepy!" He said while clutching his head. I raised my brow. "Surely you can't hear me like this." I said, 'talking' to him, though it probably sounded like a bunch of grunts and growls.
He smiled. "Ah that's better." I blinked. "You can understand me?" He nodded.
"Yup, I like it when Pokemon talk to me cuz I can talk back." He took a step forward. "You are a Pokemon right?"
I brought myself up with my wings and kinda sat down in front of him, my tail swaying. "Well yeah, a Lugia." The kid nodded. "If you say so." He sat cross-legged right in front of me and waved with a big smile. "I'm Tommy, Lugia."
I shook my head. "Oh no, I'm not a Pokemon, I'm actually human." I found it strange to be talking with this kid as if I was human again.
"You don't look human to me." Tommy said while giggling. I sunk my head. "Well I was human, but I was turned into a Lugia." Tommy raised an eyebrow. "You turned into Lugia?" He crossed his arms. "Well then if you're not Lugia then who are you?"
"My name is Daniel. I was captured by some team called Dark Gale and me and the others escaped from their base." Tommy cocked his head to the side giving me a suspicious glare. "So there's some guys going around turning people into Pokemon?" He smiled widely. "Cool."
I shook my head. "No it's not cool, they did it against our will. If they're not stopped they could take over the world."
Tommy stretched. "Well it doesn't matter because I don't live in the cities anyway."
I looked at him. "Tell me about yourself then Tommy." He then looked down and turned away, as if he were remembering something. "You have mom?" He asked. I blinked, surprised by the question.
"Yeah? She must miss me and I miss her."
"What about a Dad?" he asked. I sighed, remembering how he wasn't there. "I don't think so…"
Tommy looked to me with a smile. "Then you and me are the same because of that."
I decided I wanted another question answered. "Well how can you understand pokemon?"
He smiled proudly. "I learned all by myself. When I run away I found the forest and stay there for a while, then I can hear the Pokemon. At first they say funny things, but then I hung around them and soon could understand what they say to me. Stuff like 'run away' or 'food is here' or 'bad guy coming.' They became my friends and we became a team when I went back to the city. We get food for each other because it's hard to eat in the forest sometimes." He snapped his fingers. "Oh yeah!" He then cupped his hands around his mouth and made a little hoot and the bushes rustled. I turned and saw a little Pichu and Sentret, and a small Rattata come out of the bushes and gather around Tommy. He stroked their heads and giggled. The Pichu went atop his head and played with his hair. "These are some of my friends." I couldn't help but smile. "I can tell."
He scratched the back of his head. "Guys, meet Daniel. He's a Lugia." The Sentret and Rattata looked up and the Pichu had a look of awe on its face. "I thought they were just stories!" The Pichu said. Tommy giggled. "Nope they're real." The Rattata looked to the other pokemon. "Told you they were real."
"Is it true that your roar calls the rain?" Asked the Pichu. I noticed the Rattata had an old red bow around its tail and she looked at me innocently. "Is it true that your tail calls the thunder?" she asked. The Sentret stood up on his tail. "Is it true that your big wings can make twisters?"
Tommy laughed. "Yeah, is it all true?" I smiled nervously. What do Pokemon tell each other? "Uhh, I don't know?" I said chuckling. The Pichu looked to the Rattata. "His voice doesn't sound big enough to call the thunder."
I stood up on my big legs, the Pokemon looking with awe as I stood up. Is this what it's like to be considered a legend? I mean a long time ago I think I would have asked a Lugia if it was true too I guess.
"Uhh where's the nearest city?" I asked Tommy. Tommy stood up with Pichu on his head. "Its across all the trees, why?" I looked beyond the forest. "I think I can get help there."
"But you're so big you'll scare every body out of town." He laughed. Pichu giggled. "Maybe that's not a bad idea, we can have the run of the place." Tommy looked up to Pichu. "Oh yeah, I haven't thought of that."
"If he doesn't smash the town with his big tail." The girl Rattata said, her buddies chuckling. "As long as he leaves the food place up I'm ok with that." Said the Sentret. I shook my head. Oh well, they're only kids.
"Hey! Can you fly?" Tommy asked excitedly. The pokemon hopped up and down, excited by his question. I blinked. "Well I uh…haven't had much uh…practice."
"But you have wings, you should fly." Pichu said. The Rattata nodded.
I decided to flap my wings and a gust came down, kicking sand up. I flapped some more and felt myself beginning to lift. I landed, the pokemon looking up with astonish looks, Tommy grinning. I smiled. "Yeah, I can fly."
The Sentret's ears twitch and he sniffed the air. "Uh-oh, people!" The Rattata and Pichu looked to him. "People?" Tommy furrowed his brow, gritting his teeth and growling. He got into a crouching pose and looked around like some animal. "Where are they?"
I could hear a whipping sound and I turned to see a helicopter soar by, kicking dust up on the beach. I could hear shouts from the forest. I gasped. "It's them, Dark Gale!"
Tommy made another call and the Pokemon began to run in the forest, Pichu staying on Tommy's head. A bright light flashed on me and I could see a spotlight from the chopper. "Don't move Lugia!" I heard from a speaker.
I reared my head back and roared and flapped my wings forward, a gust coming and making the Helicopter sway. It began to fly sideways and the blades whipped into the water, the waves covering it until the blades stopped and the chopper sank. Tommy cheered at this. I could see more choppers coming and I decided it wasn't safe to stay here. I began to run on lumbering steps, Tommy following. He ran in an odd way, like on his fours, but he kept up.
Another spotlight centered on me and I heard a clicking sound when I heard the sound of machinegun fire following it. Instinctively I stopped and brought up a barrier, Tommy barely getting in as the bullets bounced off. The chopper swooped overhead and another followed, firing again. They were trying to pin us down. I roared and pushed out my barrier, the wave pushing them back and making them fly erratically.
"The forest, this way!" Tommy said, dashing into the brush. I didn't think the forest would be big enough to hide me but I couldn't let him go off on his own. I began to lumber inside, a tree trunk falling aside from my big tail. I had to duck in real low so I could barely dash through the trees, loose branches falling off. Tommy was dashing real fast through the trees. I could hear the choppers overhead but then they backed off.
I heard another sound and saw a flash of light ahead when I suddenly lurch forward and grabbed the back of Tommy's coat and tossed him up on the back of my neck as a rider on a motorcycle drove by where he was just standing and a passenger in the back with a launcher fired at me. I dodged and the ring landed on a tree limb. I swung my tail and knocked the bike back and the riders slammed into the bushes. I continued to run as I heard more motorcycles and choppers arrive. Tommy looked behind us, Pichu barely hanging on the back of his coat. I could see the forest clearing and suddenly I saw it was the edge of a cliff! "Oh crap!" I called out.
I brought myself to a halt but it was too late, we slid over the edge. As we plummeted I could see the bottom coming up fast when I steadied my body and instinctively flapped my big wings and we kicked upwards, tucking my wings as we shot up faster. Tommy hung on to my neck and laughed. "Cool!" He shouted as the wind whipped past us. My heart leapt. I knew I flew several times before but there's nothing like it. I flapped my wings again to gain more speed, seeing the choppers fade behind us. Tommy held his arms to the side of him as if he were flying, laughing joyously. I released a roar of joy myself.
We flew a little longer until the sun went down. I saw a cave by the coast and decided to settle there. I rested by the mouth of the cave while Tommy sat on the bank, his shoes off, letting his feet get caught in the surf, his back flat on the sand as he rested his head on his hands, smiling with out a care in the world. Pichu was on his chest, admiring the view. "You fly good even though you say you didn't practice." Tommy said. I chuckled. It was nice to see another friendly face, even if I didn't know much about him. I thought of Samantha for some reason. She was another friend. And Julie, and Amy, and Melody, and Ryan. And Miyuki…all these people I wouldn't have met had this not happened to me. I sure hoped they got away like I did. "So tomorrow we go to the city?" I asked. Tommy looked to me. "Huh? Oh, maybe." He shrugged. I crawled a bit out of the cave. "Why change your mind?"
Tommy sighed and looked to the side. " What's so good about being a person anyway? I think I'd be much happier as a Pokemon." His eyes grew hurt. "You don't need to wait for someone, or want someone, or wish someone could come and help you…no you just need yourself and other pokemon. You get cool powers, do cool things…you don't have to be what I am now…" He looked to me. "If I were you, I'd be happy being a Lugia."
I stared at him. What kind of life did he know that he thought my current predicament was actually a good one? "I would like to go back to my mom. I don't think I can as a Lugia."
Tommy frowned and bit his lip. "For mommy then?" I nodded. "You once asked me if I had a mom. Do you have one?"
He turned his back to me. "I only have myself and the pokemon. No mommy. No dad."
He curled up tighter. "No one wants me, so it's better I live in the forest with the pokemon. At least they like me."
I blinked. Then I remembered what he said about running away from somewhere…
"Well, can you tell me where the city is?" I asked. Tommy nodded. "If you want, I can help." He smiled to me. "Because I help my friends."
I smiled too and yawned. It's been awhile since I had a real good rest in a while and the soothing waves helped. This cave felt a lot more cozier than the cell I had spent who knows how long in. "Well good night Tommy, keep an eye out for any trouble." Tommy smirked and nodded and turned his attention back to the sea.
I yawned again and curled my head near my tail and began to dream of mom…
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And that's the end of this chap. Like I mentioned before the chapters will be shorter than the large ones I put out during the sins of the father arc and I hope to give them some narrow focus. (Sometimes there's so much stuff going on is one chap it's hard to keep track of what is what. lol) But this one focuses on a new character introduction, one pitched by TheLegendTamer a while back named Tommy who was described as a runaway who got lost in the forest and learned Poke-Speak when he was young and when one thinks about it, it makes some sense because some studies show that one can assimilate new languages more easily when taught at a young age and I guess some can call poke-speak its own language! Lol.
One thing I liked were his Pokemon pals asking Daniel questions and its such a cute moment for me, which this series has been deficient in for the past few arcs and also the escape scenes I had in the middle were what I had intended for this story originally before I got ambitious in expanding the story when the extra OC's started to come in. I don't mind however because I am pleased with the current product.
Also I actually let Daniel have this one and not have him recaptured immediately, and when I think about it the story plays better to have Tommy accompany him in this escape and shows that the good guys win some occasionally. We'll continue to follow Daniel and his new friend as well as the other entangled lives in the next chapter of Project Legend!
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Jonesycat, out!