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Hey guys, new update.
Oh, yeah before I go into this, I feel a need to tell you that I changed something. Because I find it troublesome, I'm going to change Lucas, Damion, and Dawn's age from ten to fourteen. I feel like it will be better in terms of moving the story. I'll go back and change every part in the chapters that I mention of their age so don't worry. If I missed anything, just PM me and it'll save me some of the trouble.
Enjoy!
Chapter 51:
"It ate your bike?" Dawn gaped in shock, pointing at the Gible who was standing close to Lucas. "You're kidding right?" Even though she said this, Dawn knew that Lucas didn't know what kidding is.
"No," Lucas said as though he wasn't worried, "It's okay though…"
"Okay?!" Damion butted into the conversation, "You do realize that you're the only one without a bike and at this rate, we're going to have to slow down for you because you let that Gible eat your bike?!" Damion pointed at the wild Pokemon who snapped angrily at Damion's statement and growled menacingly at the two trainers who are arguing against Lucas.
"This Gible won't leave Lucas alone," Damion said off topic as he watched the Pokemon hugged Lucas' legs even tighter as Lucas tried to lazily shake it off.
"It must really like Lucas," Dawn said. She bent down and tried to pet the wild Pokemon but it snapped angrily and growled fiercely. It gave a "Don't you dare touch Lucas" look. Dawn immediately felt quite irritated at this behavior.
"It must really hate you," Damion laughed before he got punched in the face by Dawn.
"Mira was looking for this rare Pokemon!" Mira gasped in amazement at Gible as Damion continued to be hit by Dawn, "Lucas is amazing to befriend wild Pokemon!"
"Oh," Lucas said surprise, "I guess so… A lot of people said I'm good at that…" Lucas shrugged. He seemed to be more concerned on something else.
"But your Pokemon are injured," Mira frowned as she looked at the Pokeballs that contained Lucas' weak Pokemon. "You know, Oregburgh is not far away from here. Why don't you get your Pokemon healed there? Mira lives there so Mira can be your guide again."
"Really?" Lucas looked relieve. "Let's go then!" Lucas bent down to see eye to eye with Gible. "Want to come with us?" Gible looked at Lucas for a moment before it gave a short burp.
"Gahhh," Gible ran off into the grassland and out of sight. Lucas was a bit surprise at the sudden attitude.
"Oh," Lucas said, "Looks like it doesn't want to come." He sounded a bit disappointed but Mira didn't seem to concern at all as she tried to gather everyone.
"Come on then!" Mira smiled, "Let's- Eh? What happened to Damion?" Damion was on the ground apparently covered in bruises.
"This is what's left of him," Dawn said in a dangerous voice. Lucas immediately recognized that look and cowered behind the slightly confused Mira.
"Wow, Mira said amazed, looking not at all scared at the sight, "Dawn is really strong."
"That's what makes her scary," Lucas replied nervously.
"All right then," Dawn said as though she just had a good workout, "Damion and I will get our bikes and… Hey, where are our bikes?" Dawn looked around and saw their bicycles have strangely disappeared. There was a sound of scraping metal and a very large burp.
"GAHAHAHAHA!" Gible's laughter rang through the night.
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Cyrus paused a moment. He could've sworn he heard something that sounded like laughter. Must be in his head… He hasn't been outside for a while now because his job required him to be inside supervising a lot.
Cyrus' spiky sky blue hair glowed under the moonlight. He had on a gray vest with his company's 'G' symbol over his long black shirt and had black pants to match. Cyrus walked slowly and tiredly. He hasn't been getting enough sleep for the past few weeks and his eyes had bags under them to prove it. All those problems his commanders were giving him made him quite irritated. Cyrus decided to take a break and beside, taking a look at things would remind him of his mission and goal. Doing this on a night like this will be peaceful and no one will be bothering him.
Cyrus continued to walk, using the moonlight as his only source of light. His destination – Mt. Cornet.
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"You weren't kidding about that Pokemon eating our bikes," Damion said as they walked out of the Pokemon Center and back on the road. Mira was walking straight ahead to lead the way. Both Damion and Dawn were in a bad mood at what just happened to them. The only things left from their bikes were the tires and some pieces of metals were left. "Argh! If I ever see that Pokemon again, I'm gonna…"
"Demand that Pokemon to pay for what it did to us," Dawn finished the sentence. Damion and Lucas immediately realized that Dawn was still strangely mad at Gible's performance. She was definitely not in the mood so the two trainers back off. Of course, Lucas was lagging behind either way because he was falling asleep.
"Mira will go now," the girl said as she bowed down with respect. They had just reached the crossroad. On the small sign, one indicate going to Oreburgh Town and the other was to Mt. Cornet – the trio's destination. "Mira must go home now before her parents get mad."
"Lucas, wake up!" Damion hissed, shaking Lucas so that his head flopped back and forth. Once Lucas' Pokemon were healed, Lucas immediately started to get drowsy. The sense of urgency disappeared once the danger was gone.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay for the night?" Mira asked, "Mira can send you out tomorrow."
"Thanks, but no thanks," Dawn said as Lucas yawned and tried to open his sleepy eyes, "We need to go to Mt. Cornet. We'll come back if things get bad." Dawn decided not to mention the reason to go so quickly. She glanced at Lucas who taking deep sleepy breaths. They need to confirm Lucas' story and the sooner the better.
"Mira," Damion said, suspiciously, "How old are you?" There was a pause of silence at this sudden question
"Ah," Mira said and smiled happily, "Mira is ten years old." There was a huge pause of silence as the Damion tried to digest this thought.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Damion yelled, "You're traveling by yourself?!"
"Well, Mira is very careful," Mira smiled confusingly, not understanding the situation, "And as long as Mira's parents don't know, then Mira will be fine. Mira is a good kid!" With that she gave a respectful bow so low that her long hair touched the ground and then she rushed off to the road that leads to Oreghburgh. "Bye! Maybe we'll meet again!"
"T-ten years old…" Damion said, trying to process the age number into his brain.
"What's wrong?" Dawn said, "She looks responsible unlike some people. There is no need to be so worry." She walked down the road which leaded to Mt. Cornet. "Come on. Let's get there before it gets any darker."
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Cyrus was standing on top of the small rocky cliff inside the vast mountain. He sighed as he breathed in the air around him. The smell was a bit dank but the air was clean and relaxing. A slight wind was blowing through. He stared below him. Even though darkness surrounded him, Cyrus memorized this place by heart. He was standing at the top of this cave but soon he'll climb higher and reach the top of this mountain.
He'll become God.
"I'm telling you! There is no such ghost here!" Cyrus immediately turned his head around. His calm face turned into irritation. Who in the world would come here so late at night and disturb his meditation? He looked down and saw three kids coming from the other tunnel that leads into this mountain.
They couldn't see Cyrus because of the darkness covering him yet he couldn't see the three trainers. He could tell that one of them must have a fire Pokemon for its tail was lighting up a small area around the three. Cyrus could see the silhouette of a girl and two boys. The girl was arguing with one of the boys while the other one seemed to be lagging behind as though he was asleep.
"What about that haunted house?!" the boy retorted back. Cyrus winced at the boy's loud voice. "There was a ghost there! Why don't we just stay somewhere till morning?!"
"We wouldn't have been in that house if SOMEONE didn't decide to charge right into the forest!" the girl argued back. Cyrus glared at the three kids. They were arguing over some petty problem and they were obviously not going to get it fixed.
Cyrus frowned as his true anger started to bubble. This is the problem with this world – emotions. Joy, rage, depression, greed, pride… Humans let their emotions control them and this world began to grow with conflict based on these emotions. These children are a product of this corrupt world and they will soon learn what pain it is to live in such a place. Still, perhaps it is best for them to be put out of their misery.
Cyrus took out two of his Pokeballs. Out popped his two Pokemon who waited patiently for their master's command. "Put them out of their misery."
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"Okay, so now you're saying this is my fault that we're in this mountain?!" Damion complained. Lucas sighed as he continued to listen to the two bickering in front of him. At least Dawn is in a somewhat better mood – she wasn't hitting anyone. Monferno was groaning as well and had both of his hands covering his ears.
Suddenly, there was large screeching sound echoing the whole place. The pitch was so high that the three had to cover their ears. "EEEEKKKKKKKKK!" The creature cried out.
"AHHHHH!" Dawn winced. Monferno blew out an Ember attack at the shadow flying but he missed.
"Hey! What's go-" Damion didn't have a chance to ask when suddenly the whole place started to shake. "ARGHHHH!"
Dawn, Damion, and Lucas tumbled to the ground and before anyone of them could figure out what was going on, giant boulders came crashing down. "Earthquake?!" Dawn gasped as all three tried to run away.
Lucas felt himself flung into the air as the boulders slammed to the ground. Lucas took out his Pokeball and released the only Pokemon that he didn't use earlier. "Drifloon!" Immediately, the balloon Pokemon tried to use its string arms to grab Lucas so that he wouldn't fall too hard to the ground. However, the momentum was too great and Drifloon lost its grip. Lucas tumbled to the ground and immediately hit his head against something hard. Lucas could feel something wet coming down his head but he couldn't move his whole body.
Lucas' vision was swirling into blackness. Dawn… Damion… are they okay? There was a sudden a pair of gray boots in front of him. Lucas'' dazed eyes tried to focus on the shoes and he tried to cry out for help but he was losing the feel in his body.
"According to one myth, Mt. Cornet was where the Sinnoh region began…" the voice began. It was low and quiet though filled with power.
That voice… who was it… why did it sound… familiar…? Lucas tried to rack his brain to remember but his mind was slipping into unconsciousness.
"A world where only time flowed and space expanded… There should have been no strife. But what became of that world?" The man's voice continued as he continued to stare at the almost dead child in front of him.
"Because the human spirit is weak and incomplete, strife has appeared... This world is being ruined by it...I find the state of things to be deplorable..." Cyrus took out his Pokeballs and returned his two Pokemon back. "For disrupting holy grounds, as God, I punish you. But perhaps I have saved you instead from this horrible world."
Cyrus looked at the rock pile in front of him. The other two were dead for sure. He turned his heel and walked away, leaving the boy for dead. Lucas tried to call out – to anyone. His vision was fading and the pair of shoes were leaving…
Someone… anyone… stop him… he'll… destroy… With that, Lucas fell into unconsciousness, struggling to live with his memories...
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Lucas opened the glass door carefully. He looked inside. Yuma told him to just wait inside even if there was no one there. He was called into the PM (Pokemorph) facility just a couple of days after that letter he got. Justin and Leo were gone ever since and it was just Lucas and Yuma. According to Yuma, both of the guys were on some type of mission that will probably take several months if not a year. Lucas took a step into the medical room and carefully closed the door behind him. He noticed there was a large table with a first aid kit and many doctor equipments that Lucas didn't know the name for.
Lucas noticed that there was a smell of disinfectant in the air. There were several paintings of sceneries that seemed to be showing the green lush hills or waterfalls or meadows dotted with flowers. Lucas was amazed. Paint is expensive and drawing is considered a useless occupation to have.
"Beautiful isn't it?" Lucas spun around and noticed a young creamy skin woman, around twenty six, wearing a lab coat, walking toward him. Over her lab coat, the woman wore She had extremely long red eyelashes that curled up into one thick strand. She has thin bangs that reached to her chin and long thick hair in a thick braided ponytail that goes to the bottom. The most interesting part was that the hair turned from pink, at the top, to aqua blue. At the end of the hair spread out like a thin long blue petals with oval red color inside and when put together, the petals made a fan shape. The woman's dark brown eyes gazed mysteriously at the paintings as well. "Our Mr. Nova allowed a Pokemorph with a Smergle ability to paint those. That is apparently what this place looked like about ten or fifteen years ago." She turned to face Lucas now and smiled.
"Nice to meet you…" Lucas paused, realizing he didn't know her name.
"Aria," the woman said gracefully like a song and held out her delicate long fingers for the young boy to shake, "And you must be Lucas." Lucas nodded politely and Aria smiled. "I know that there were several… ah, complaints about you coming here, but like I said before, you're here to be my assistant, that's all."
"Oh," Lucas said. There really wasn't anything else to say anyways.
"Are you curious as to why I asked you to come to the Pokemorph facility?" Aria asked. Lucas shrugged his shoulder.
"Is it because I'm not good at anything else?" Lucas asked. Aria looked faintly surprise but shook her head as she smiled.
"No, it's because you're good at many things that I want you to help." She motioned Lucas to follow her out of the door. They walked down the tunnel that Lucas had never been to before. There were many rooms that were bolted shut. Some of the doors had thick locks and shuddered as though something was trying to get out. Lucas looked a bit scared but still kept his pace behind Aria who seemed unconcern.
During the whole trip so far, Lucas hasn't seen a single person (or Pokemorph in this case) walking down here.
"This is the Pokemorph sector," Aria explained, "Everyone here, well at least most of us, are Pokemorph and we live in our own community. Most of us don't interact with others."
"Why?" Lucas asked, "Leo does. Aren't we all friends?" Aria hid a small smile as she remembered the change in Leo the last time she saw him.
"That's because of you," Aria said, "Leo rarely talks to anyone. Most of us are very… uneasy being with those who aren't like us. We have so much in common yet so very different."
"We?" Lucas questioned Aria's choice of word.
"I'm a Pokemorph too; can't you tell?" Aria said with a bit of an interested tone and turned around delicately like a twirling ballerina. Lucas stared but couldn't figure it out. "I'm a Milotic. Of course my abilities are lacking somewhat in terms of battle but I make it up with my healing abilities." She opened her hands and a small spiral of water started to rise from the palm. It immediately disappeared when Aria pulled her hands away.
"Wow," Lucas said amazed as he jumped over a small hole on the ground, "Is that why you're happy?"
"Happy?" Aria repeated the word with confusion.
"Leo told me before that being a PM is a curse, but I don't think that's true when you can be happy with your life," Lucas paused for a moment before he continued, "Yuma told me before that life sucks, but if we can keep on smiling with everyone then our lives are still worth living for." Lucas said this so simply that Aria couldn't help but giggle with amusement.
"You're an amusing kid," Aria said to the confused Lucas, "I'm so glad I took you in. Come now, I want you to meet your partner."
"My… partner?" Now Lucas was even more confused.
"Well, when I mean partner, I mean more like patient in a sense," Aria explained, "You see, my patient hasn't been… well sociable and I think it is best that you try to help her. I want her to realize that there is more to life than just killing." Lucas widened his eyes with surprise at Aria's calm tone and expression. "Oh don't worry," Aria added, realizing that her choice of words might scare Lucas, "she isn't that dangerous. Some of us have to be locked away because the Pokemon instincts overtake the human's. She can control hers."
With that, Aria turned at a corner and Lucas followed in pursuit. They didn't say anything else until Aria stopped at a large wooden door. "Here we are. You might want to stand to the side." Lucas didn't have time to ask why.
Aria knocked gently against the dead wood but there was no response from the inside. "It's Aria." The woman introduced herself and then opened the door. Immediately a shadow sprang forward and knocked Lucas to the ground. He found himself centimeters away from three long silver blades. Lucas suddenly realized that the blades were actually a part of the girl's hand as though the fingers transformed.
"Who the hell are you?" The young girl asked and Lucas immediately recognized the voice. He looked up and sure enough, he could see the milky eyes.
"Lucas this is your new enthusiastic partner – Assassin."
Author's Notes
Well that was a lot of stuff. :D
What do you think of my OC – Aria? I always wanted a Milotic so I decided to put her in.
On that note, HGSS game came out in English! I had so much fun playing with my friend's Pokewalker but sadly no game for me. OTL
Okay, my apologies but this might be my only update during this break. I realized I had way too much stuff to do and so… yeah.
Remember my poll because I need to know what you guys want.
Also, I might put another OC here soon but it just depends.
Let's thank my reviewers now
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