Me: I hope this one didn't take as long... well, anyway, back again, and time for a lot of explaining, a giving of the ribbon, and then parting ways with Alice! For now anyway.

Episode 36- Heritage

"Last episode we saw Scarlet finally win her first ribbon, after two losses! Defeating Alice in the process. Now, we join her as she goes to collect her ribbon."

"I cannot believe this is happening!" Scarlet squeaked, standing by the entrance to the stage. Alice and Lucy, both now in their normal clothes, stood either side of her.

"Well it is!" Lucy said, putting a hand on the younger girl's shoulder. "You won, so you're going to get the ribbon! You deserve it too, after two losses in a row!"

"Gee... thanks for the reminder..." Scarlet said, slumping over. Lucy sweatdropped, smacking her lightly around the back of the head.

"C'mon Scarlet, you'll be fine up there, just don't get too nervous, you should be happy!" Alice said.

"Yeah, listen to Alice!" Lucy said. Scarlet mumbled something that sounded a bit like 'what if I don't wanna?'. Lucy sweatdropped again. "Look, you'll be fine."

"If ya think so..." Scarlet sighed, standing straight and straightening up her dress and hair. "Alright, time to do this."

"And here is our winner, Scarlet Stone-Ketchum!" Lillian announced. Scarlet froze.

"Scarlet! You're up!" Lucy hissed. Scarlet stayed still. Lucy started to try and push her, but still she stood in place.

"...Scarlet Stone-Ketchum!" Lillian called again. Again, Scarlet was frozen.

Then Suddenly Lillian poked her head through the curtains, and Scarlet fell back in shock, arms flailing as she fell.

"Whhooooaaaaaooaaaooaaa!" was the only noise she made as she fell, until the resulting thump that is. Gee, Scarlet, I thought you weren't that easily shocked! "Shuddup." She said from the ground."

Theme: Third Generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
We're better than ever and we're never givin' up,
Gonna keep on fightin' 'til we reach the top!
Cos' we still gotta catch 'em all,
Never gonna let you fall!
Third generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!

Indigo gulped.

Dax took a few steps closer until he was standing barely millimetres away from her, she could feel his nearly too clean smelling breath hitting her face, and she began to shake. Dax's hands grabbed her sides tightly, pressing down on where he knew there should be bruises, making Indigo yelp in pain. It was by no means the worst he ever did, but she knew it could only get worse now.

She was right, he legs were kicked from beneath her and she fell back to the floor, hard. Her back was fragile already, it hurt a lot to land so roughly on the tiled floor. She let out a loud cry of pain, feeling a hard kick to her side only seconds after she landed.

"P-Please... s-stop..." Indigo whimpered. Dax ignored her words, only kicking her hard again. Indigo cried out again.

"YOU STOP RIGHT THERE DAX BLACKTHORNE!" A male voice yelled. Dax turned around, Indigo weakly pushing herself up a little, and both looked to who was there.

"J-Jas?" Indigo stuttered. The ginger haired boy was standing in the entry to the stands, facing them, fists clenched, eyes starting to change to a bright red colour instead of the yellow he normally had. Indigo could see one drop of blood fall from his one palm, nails digging hard into the hardening skin, but after that there was no more blood from the wound caused.

"LEAVE HER ALONE YOU BASTARD!" He shouted again, suddenly running at inhuman speed toward Dax. Dax was suddenly against the wall, Jaspa holding him there by his throat.

"Jaspa! Jaspa! STOP! DON'T KILL HIM!" Indigo cried, seeing how Dax seemed to be choking from the grip the inhuman boy had on his neck. Jaspa ignored her cry, tightening the hold, Dax choking more. "JAS! PLEASE! I KNOW HE HURTS ME BUT HE'S STILL MY FAMILY! PLEASE! PLEASE!"

"I can't let him do this to you anymore! I won't let him hurt you Indi! I WON'T!" Jaspa snarled, eyes bright red now, skin paler than before, face seeming that little bit more perfectly arranged, hair that little bit neater.

"P-Please... stop... y-you're s-scaring me J-Jaspa..." Indigo whimpered, half in pain, half in fright. Jaspa's eyes dulled a little hearing this, face relaxing to a worried look instead of anger. Indigo was tearing up now. Jaspa slowly let Dax go, though the older boy was long since unconscious from lack of air. His eyes faded back to yellow, his skin regaining more colour, though still less than before, and his face looked a bit less perfect, hair back to normal, and he dashed to Indigo's side.

"Are you alright Indi?-!" Jaspa said, sounding panicked. Indigo started to cry into his chest, him rubbing her back as gently as he could. "Are you badly hurt?"

"M-My b-back hurts, and s-so d-do m-my b-bruises a-and l-legs..." Indigo sobbed. Jaspa... you need to take her somewhere... before the others come... you can say she fell over...

"Where the hell have you been?-!" I was kinda taking part in another story... checking on a couple of friends of mine... but I'm back, just get Indigo to the Poké Centre, tell her now. "About..." Yes, about you and Nevee, go! "Alright..."

Jaspa picked Indigo up, and ran out of the Contest hall.

~X~X~X~

"I believe this is your first ribbon, correct?" Contesta said to Scarlet as he handed her the ribbon.

"Yeah, it is." Scarlet said as she took it from him.

"Then congratulations!" Contesta continued. "Well done on your first win."

"I won the Celestic Ribbon!" Scarlet cheered as she held the ribbon up, jumping up and down afterward, behind the curtain Lucy and Alice sweatdropped, Lucy falling over anime style shortly afterward.

"She is hyper as hell sometimes." Lucy sighed. Yep, I know. "Where the hell were you?" In someone else's story checking up on a couple of my friends. (How many times am I gonna have to say that this chapter I wonder?) "Ah, I see. How'd it go?" Well... other than Shrubhill getting blown up, Trayton getting pissed off with me a million and one times, and several other problems... fine. Lucy sweatdropped again. Hey, believe me, if my device had malfunctioned along with Nathen's transporter remote then believe me, it would have been a hell of a lot worse. Lucy sweatdropped again.

"Let me guess, you annoyed this 'Trayton' with the whole 'I know' thing?" Alice asked. Yeah... that, but also a couple of other things. I'm tempted to set he who I will not name (*cough* Blaze Alex's Infernape *cough*) on him, blaming him for the incident that shall not be mentioned. Alice sweatdropped again too. What? He set a Devire on me! (Pokoh Pokémon) And they're a bloody nuisance!

"I'm going to back away slowly now." Lucy said. Gee, thanks.

~X~X~X~

Pokémon Centre Room

"There, last of the bruises covered." Jaspa said. Indigo was a little red in the face, even though she'd only had to lift her top so he could see her sides and stomach, she still felt embarrassed she'd revealed some of her torso to him.

"Thanks Jas... for everything..." She whispered, resting her head on his shoulder. "I've... never had support through this before... it's a great relief..."

"No problem at all Indi." Jaspa said, arm around her. "But now... I think I owe an explanation of exactly what's happening to me and Nevee. You've seen what can happen when we get angry... and you've realised what we're becoming."

"Yeah... you're... you're becoming... V-Vampires... just like your parents used to be." Indigo said, struggling on the word Vampire. Jaspa nodded.

"We're technically already half-vampires, just without a current lust for blood, our true vampire side only shows when we get angry which is why Nevee's has only shown once. You've seen me get angry at least twice now though, right?"

"Y-Yeah, it's scary." Indigo said.

"I know... and I apologise for the past two times and any times to come." Jaspa said softly, making Indigo smile. "But it's a lot more technical than it seems, we're completely unique... our parents are the only vampires ever to have been turned human, or turned human and been able to live without the Volturi hunting them down for stealing the power from them. Guess its lucky dad got permission... anyway...

"There's a gene that never leaves a vampire, the venomous gene, it passes down to the children the ex-vampire has, and depending on if their partner is a human or ex-vampire, turns the child into either a half-vampire or vampire a few months after its tenth birthday, luckily it's not like being bitten, but it will still cause pain when the proper transformation occurs..."

Indigo was listening intently, head still rested on his shoulder.

~X~X~X~

"Has anyone seen Jaspa or Indigo?" Auberon said as the group walked out of the Contest Hall, Scarlet acting like her mother and Pearl, looking at her ribbon endlessly. Oh, they went to the Pokémon Centre, but said you better not disturb them. "Oh... wait, where the heck have you been?-!" *sighs* 3rd time this chapter!

Look, I'll say it for all of you to hear, I've been visiting two of my other OC in someone else's story, got it? Good.

"You are so weird." Scarlet said. I know. "Gah!" *giggle* I missed doing that.

"Again again!" Nevee cheered. And I missed insane little Nevee! Nevee giggled happily, bouncing up and down as the group walked. Hotaru was sweatdropping at the whole scene.

"Hey, Shorty, when are we going to leave town and catch Pokémon already?" Auberon said. Have you been talking to Trayton? "No, why?" Nothing... anyway, you'll leave at the start of next chapter, I even have some new outfits ready for you all, well, not Alice, Hotaru or Lucy.

"Why do we need new outfits?" Scarlet asked. Well, let's be honest, my outfit designs for you are very boring and plain... I came up with a couple more PKMN anime like designs/more interesting. "O...kay?"

"You are seriously strange." Hotaru said. You just insulted yourself. "?" I'm a version of you, or should I said you're a version of me, duh! "..."

"I think you just traumatised her." Scarlet said as she waved a hand in front of her face. Oh gee, thanks.

~X~X~X~

"As I said before, we gain gifts, weak at first, but growing stronger. I can sense when something bad happens to someone like a good friend, family, or good friend's family, my other gift has yet to be revealed... Nevee has a gift for healing, though I've only seen it in action once, and that was the day we left the house, she used it on her Eevee.

"Back there... I was ready to kill Dax... I really was... it took all my willpower not to let the Vampiric side of me take me over... I was almost going to go for his neck with my teeth..."

"I'm glad you didn't. Deep down I'm sure he's still my Daxy, even if he's not so much on the surface... he's still my brother Dax." Indigo said.

"I know." Jaspa said. Indigo giggled. "What?"

"You sounded like Authoress then." She said. Jaspa laughed.

"Oh dear, I did? Better kill me now before I turn into her." He replied. Indigo's smile dropped. "What?"

"1. Don't talk about killing you. 2. Authoress actually isn't that bad when you get to know her sincerer side. Don't let her know I said that though!" Too late! I heard you! "S-..." I thought it was only Scarlet who tried to swear? Indigo shrugged. Well, anyway, I'm flattered! *giggle* Three characters don't hate me now!

"Um? Three? Who's third?" Jaspa said. You of course, and don't deny it, I can read your mind. "Dammit." You know you love me really. (Oh gee, I sound like Londie...) "No I don't." Oh wait of course you don't, because you love... "Shut UP!" Jaspa said as he went red.

I love my job.

~X~X~X~

Me: Why is it I can never keep a chapter tense once I start talking to the characters? XD But anyway, hope this chapter is good enough, the abuse bit was hard to write... well, if you want a sneak look at the outfits I'll upload them to my deviantART before the next chapter is up. R&R!