The Child And The Pink Time Traveler

Kibou sits at the edge of the lake. His paws are over his face as he cries into them, wishing things weren't so bad. The memories that the Abandoned facility had awoken have ruined his mood and have made him very upset. His parents had done the unthinkable to allow him to live on and this part bothers him the most. His crying echoes over the lake, and while he thinks nobody else is around, a peculiar face rises from the bushes on the other side and sees him. His pained voice tugs on her heartstrings and she is compelled to help him out. She waits for a bit though, as she doesn't want to suddenly pop up and scare him.

Kibou dips his paws into the lake, then flicks the cool, crisp water up at his face. He does this a few times and then rubs it in. It feels good and he decides to keep doing this. It might look silly, but the feeling of the cold water on his face is somewhat comforting to him. It rolls down his soaked fur and drips off onto the surface of the water by his feet. He splashes himself one last time and really rubs it in before throwing his head up and taking a deep breath.

He's feeling only slightly better now, the memories have been suppressed for a bit but he'll have to really focus on something else to avoid bringing them back up. He takes a look at his surroundings with his shimmering baby blue eyes. It didn't come to him before, but the lake seems to have unnatural plant-life placement. Bushes and grasses seem to be selectively growing in certain spots while other areas seem to be completely bare.

He takes a seat and sighs. "I can't believe I remembered all of that… I wish I could just forget about it, the only thing it makes me do is cry…" he whispers to himself.

His attention is placed on a bush that he sees move slightly out of the corner of his eye. He stands up and prepares to run if needed. The bush shakes again but for a bit longer. He tenses his entire body up and expects the worst to come. The bush intensely shakes and then stops, leaving the area in silence once again. He expects anything at this point and the moment something he doesn't like shows up, he's gonna run as fast as he can.

He doesn't notice that behind him, a cute, pink Pokemon capable of travelling through time has appeared. She looks at him in wonder, trying to understand why a Pokemon like him came all the way out here. She senses a deep sorrow within him and is compelled to try and help him out. She goes up to Kibou and taps him on the shoulder once and this is enough for him to be spooked. He jumps up, screams, and turns around to see what touched him. He backs up quickly from whatever it is and then notices who it is. He recognizes this Pokemon from the Hall Of Origin. It's Celebi, except she's all pink…?

She floats in front of him and gives him a nice smile. "Well hello there… I wasn't expecting you to react like that. Are you okay?"

He stands up off the ground and dusts himself off. "Y-yeah… I saw a bush shaking and I thought someone was gonna jump out and fight me."

"Oh, that was me… I'm sorry if I scared you."

"No.. it's fine, I was just expecting someone else."

Now that she has a good look at his face, she can see that he's been crying. There are tear stains on his cheeks and this slightly upsets her. "Hey… you sure you're okay? There's tear stains on your face."

He looks away, a bit embarrassed that she sees this. "Yeah… I'm fine…"

She doesn't believe him. "Something's wrong with you, and it's clearly bothering you. Are you sure you're fine?"

He nods slowly. "Yeah… I just needed some time to myself. I saw some bad stuff in that building…"

She knows what he's talking about. "The abandoned research facility? Yeah, it's best that nobody goes there. Humans used it to do terrible things to Pokemon, like torture them by putting them into their insane and crazy experiments. Going in there would scar anyone for life. I hope you didn't see the bodies…"

He looks at the ground. This tells her that he saw what she hoped he didn't see. She floats next to him and pats him on the back gently. "Hey, don't be so sad. This stuff happened over 10 years ago, there's nothing we could've done to save them."

He shakes his head. "I-it's not that…" more tears seem to be forming in his eyes. The topic of the facility is making him remember what had happened when he was younger.

She notices the tears and frowns. "What's the crying all about?"

He doesn't want to tell her but she's the only one that he sort of knows so he puts it on her. "...that place made me remember something bad. When I was younger, me and my parents ended up getting kidnapped by humans and we were brought to one of those places. One day, my parents were taken away from me and they were used in some sort of thing that caused them to be covered in weird liquid and blood. They got laughed at by the humans as well. They also…" he cuts himself off.

"They also what?"

He hesitates as the tears start to drop down his face. "They… they also sacrificed themselves to make sure I lived on. They h-helped me escape into the world where I was able to run away and get back home."

She finds this a bit shocking, but saddening as well. "Oh… I… I didn't know… that's terrible."

He tries to hold back the tears as he doesn't want to end up in another crying fit in front of Celebi. He knows for a fact she's never seen him cry for real, only once when he ended up hurting himself, but never for real. She seems to understand though. "It's okay to cry. What you just said sounds like something that was very hard for you to deal with at such a young age. Don't feel ashamed to cry in front of me, there's no shame in doing so."

He nods but doesn't let the tears come out. He knows that his parents might be watching him right now and he wants to be strong for them. He wants to make them proud, they wouldn't want him to cry over something that happened so many years ago. "Yeah… thanks for telling me that I can cry… I just wish they were still here." he says, grabbing the heart locket with his left paw and holding it close to his heart. It seems to faintly glow upon doing so.

Celebi finds the locket rather interesting. "What's that?"

He looks at her and holds the locket in his paw. "Oh, this? My locket?" He then holds it out as far as the chain will allow him. "My mom and dad got me this as a present for me a long time ago. They said I could have it when I was older but here I am now, older and I'm wearing it."

She floats a bit closer to him and gets a good look at it. She likes it and smiles. "It's a fine gift. Your parents must've really loved you, most baby Pokemon wouldn't be trusted with something like that."

He blushes a bit in embarrassment. "Celebi…"

She raises an eyebrow at this. "Celebi? Are you talking to me?"

He nods. "You're Celebi, r-right?"

She shakes her head and chuckles. "I am a Celebi, but I'm not THE Celebi of Illex Forest. I have a name, Maria. Call me Maria, okay?"

"Ma...maria… Maria!" he says. He looks up at her and smiles. "Okay, Maria!"

She puts her hand up in front of her mouth to hide a giggle, then asks a question. "Alright, now, do you have a name?"

He giggles and bows. "I am named as Kibou. My parents gave me my name by naming me that name. I hope this greeting is good and stuff!"

His greeting still could use some work, but it's a little bit better than what he had last time. She simply giggles at it. Just from that alone, she can tell he's very young, even then, there's something about him that seems a bit familiar. She can't put a hand on it and she simply ignores it for now. He's no longer sad and that's what she sees as the most important thing here, however, she's curious as to why he's only showed up now and how she hasn't seen him in the forest until today.

"Umm… Kibou, how come you've only just shown up in the forest today? Don't you live around here? I mean, this place looks like a place a Mew like you would live in since it has everything you could ever need." she says.

He shakes his head and puts his locket down. "Nope! I came here because I didn't wanna fight those bad men from earlier. They kept breaking into Emma's house and I was really upset by it."

She doesn't know of anyone with the name Emma. "Emma? Who's Emma?"

"She's a friend! She helped me when I jumped off the big mountain where the Hall Of Origin is. I did that to avoid being caught by those bad men. It hurt quite a bit.." he then looks at his still wrapped thigh and touches it, flinching ever so slightly in pain. Seems it still hasn't completely healed yet but it's getting there.

She covers her mouth. "Oh dear! You threw yourself off Mt. Coronet!?" she's clearly shocked by this.

"Yep!" he says happily as if it's something to be proud of.

She doesn't know what to say, she's never heard of any Pokemon jumping off that mountain and living to tell the tale. This comes off as odd, even legendaries wouldn't survive a fall like that, so either he got extremely lucky, or he's much more than meets the eye. The fact that he would survive something like that jogs her memory of something she heard of many years ago and she wants to know if he might be what she thinks he is. "Kibou, do you by any chance, know of any secret powers you might have?"

He tilts his head in confusion. "Secret powers? Like what kind?"

This completely shuts down what she was thinking. "Oh, nevermind… I was thinking that maybe you were someone else."

He becomes curious. "Who were you thinking of?"

She closes her eyes. "Nobody in particular that you might know, but, it just made me think of something else."

He's very interested in what she's thinking about. "Tell me! I wanna know!"

She sees that he's quite interested. "I don't think you'll know what it is, and even if you do, it won't make sense unless I show you what it is I'm talking about."

He starts to hop up and down excitedly. "Show me! Show me! I wanna to see something cool and awesome!"

She can't help but smile and laugh at his enthusiasm. "Alright, you'll have to follow me closely though, you don't want to get lost now."

She starts to fly away and he floats up and follows her. They fly over the lake and past the bush from earlier and she takes him deeper into the forest. As they get deeper and deeper, Kibou notices that the surroundings start to take on a more bluish hue rather than the normal green he's used to seeing. The trees and plants start to look more and more organized rather than all over the place, almost as if someone grew them in a specific way rather than naturally grown. The blue hue looks pretty as well, and seems to give off a rather mysterious but interest piquing vibe. Kibou likes it and he looks all over the place as he follows Maria.

She makes a right and he does the same, giggling a bit at all the beautiful plants and flowers. A short fly after that turn and they come across some rather very old and ancient looking ruins that seem almost identical to the ones he saw in that other forest with Alderon. Kibou immediately points this out. "Hey, I know this place! These are the ruins I saw a while back when I got lost with my friend Plush! We found each other after a while but I came across some ruins that look exactly like this while in the forest a few days ago!" he says overenthusiastically.

She slightly raises her eyebrows. "Wait, you know about a place with ruins that look just like this?"

He nods. "Uh huh! I don't remember where they are though so I think these might be different!"

The truth is, while Kibou did find ruins that looked exactly like this one a few days ago, they weren't quite the same. These ruins are not only in a different part of the forest, but also have something completely different contained inside. Maria finds it odd that he managed to find another set of ruins in the forest, but because he doesn't know where they're located, she can't go and check them out herself.

She sighs. "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to look for them myself." she turns to face him. "Anyway, I bet you're wondering what's inside, aren't you?"

He nods. "Yeah! I'm gonna go in right now!" he goes to fly in but she stops him.

"Wait!" He stops before he crashes into her. "You can't just barge in, the place could be a trap! Did you ever think of that?"

He shakes his head and she pinches his cheek in response. "Bad! You could've been hurt! Think before you act!"

He rubs the spot for a second and then his eyes widen. Him getting his cheek pinched and being told to think before he acts is something his mother would sometimes tell him when he went to do something that wasn't the best idea at the time. He stands there thinking about this for a moment but shrugs it off as coincidence.

So he found another set of ruins… interesting. He'll learn a little bit more now and will be that much closer to finding out the truth and learning of his destiny.

PD: sorry for missing the sunday upload, this chapter wasn't ready at the time and I was having a bit of difficulty writing it. After coming back to it the next day, I was able to complete it. HOPEFULLY this is the only time something like this happens. I also bumped the story's content rating to mature as I completely forgot that a few upcoming chapters get extremely violent and some colorful language is used. Anyway, Seeya in the next chapter!