LOVE AND SACRIFICE(v3)
Love and Sacrifice(v3): Journey to another land. [corny title...]
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The next night
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"So you're leaving?" Blade asked the dark hybrid in a slightly wistful tone. It had been nice to meet another like him, one who knew what it was like to know that there was no other place in the world where they belonged other than the battlefield.
"Yes." He responded, climbing up the stairs the lead to the outside world, looking around cautiously, and then dissapearing into the shadows in the way dark types tended to do.
"Till we meet again!" Blade called after him.
Shadow simply turned to look once at Blade, his green eyes reflecting the light from the trap door, and then continued on into the darkness till Blade could no longer tell where he was.
"Dangerous boy..." One of his comrades muttered.
"He's had a hard life." The steel hybrid replied, defending him. "It's the only way he truly knows how to live."
"How do we know we can trust him?" Another soldier asked.
"We don't know, but so long as we stay out of his way, we're safe." Pausing, he stared into the darkness with his mercury eyes. "I almost wish he would attack us though, then at least I'd be able to see him again..." [1]
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Shadow had slipped past the border by the time the sun was rising. He was 'safe' for now, as he was in an independent country, one that had yet to be truly taken over by the Kaitans. However, there were barely even a handful of such countries left... It was only a matter of time before the entire east landmass of the world was completely ruled by the Kaitan Alliance.
Checking the arm that had been shot, he realised he had opened up the wound and needed to clean it before it got infected. Glancing around cautiously, he noted that by the number of wild pokemon around, there was bound to be a water source nearby, and few humans.
A pidgey flew up and perched on a branch nearby, looking at Shadow curiously. This only confirmed his suspicion that there were few humans around, for normally wild pidgeys would keep their distance from 'humans'.
He walked around silently, careful not to disturb any of the wild pokemon. Finally, he found a small stream and rinsed his arm in the water, using a pair of scissors for him first aid kit to cut off the fur around the wound, then rubbing some cleaning alcohol on it and bandaging it.
With that done, he ate a quick meal of dried meat and fruit. Not the tastiest things in the world, but nutritious enough, and easy to carry around. Deciding that he had plenty of time to stay in that area, he unbraided his long hair and combed it, attempting to un-tangle the long black strands.
He looked at the hair-tie that he had taken off, and opened it, looking at the picture of his 'family' for a moment. It'd been a very long time since he'd last seen them. They'd become an important figure to those countries that wanted peace, being the only living relatives of the late Ferina and Nerina Tavis. He'd heard that Donna and Tahari had tucked Donari safely in boarding school under a different name while they continued their peace talks. Did they still have their persian and charizard? He could only wonder...
Pushing aside his last ties to humanity, he put up his emotionless mask and braided his hair, putting the tie back in it's place at the end of the braid. He needed to be out of the country he was currently in as soon as possible, but first he'd need to scout around and check if there was another hybrid nearby. He'd gotten reports of three recent attacks on the Alliance. Two on the same night he had been ordered to asasinate Lt. Jakata, and one the night before. According to the natures of the attacks, he suspected that the fire and electric hybrids were both nearby, though he didn't understand what the fire hybrid would be doing in this area... The fire type project had orriginally started in a whole other continent on the west side of the world. The electric, however, had started somewhere in this continent. Fighting, dark and lightning had all been relatively close together, at least, they had been from the start. Though considering the fact that the continent of 'Arasia' was one of the ones being hit the heaviest at the moment, it was understandable that some of the others might have migrated from their orriginal hiding places. The steel hybrid, for one, had obviosuly only just moved in, for his accent was different. It seemed 'Eurelian' as far as Blade could tell, although the boy didn't look entirely Eurelian.
The Kaitan Alliance had originated from Arasia anyway, though Kaita had been more of an inbetween country, extremely close to the continent of Eurel, and had long declared itself independent from either continent.
He heard a high pitched beeping sound and returned to his motorcycle. He pressed in a three codes, and after a pause, the face of Professor Mikoto appeared on the screen.
"Shadow, have you found any of the others?"
"I've found the Steel. Fire and lightning are nearby."
"Good. I have reason to believe they'll be leaving soon, so keep your eye out for any suspicious activities."
Shadow nodded, then switched off the screen. The base that had been attacked was hundreds of miles away, so he'd have to find someway to travel during the day without being seen. He brought up a map on his little screen, and studied the various routes he could take. There was a relatively abandoned path full of many dangerous wild pokemon. Perfect for him then. The pokemon would most likely stay away from him, and if they attacked, he could take care of them.
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Same day, continent of 'Farica'
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"Do I have to?"
"Yes."
"Really have to?"
"Yes."
"Really, really have to?"
"ERIAN! Get on the d*mned boat!"
The ground type hybrid looked reluctantly at the boat, and the water it floated on, then looked back at the rebel soldier she was travelling with. "Isn't there some other way we can get to Arasia?"
"Not in the time that we need to get there, and without getting noticed." He replied.
She twirled a short lock of brown hair with one idle finger. "If our boat sinks, or I somehow get thrown into the water, I'll personally murder you."
"Erian, the boat is perfectly safe."
"They said the same thing about the-"
He grabbed one of her furry hands and dragged her onto the boat, forcibly holding her back as she attempted to escape off the boat. As they sped away, she nervously peeked over the edge of the boat, then rushed away from the railing, staying where she couldn't see the water. "The things I do for this world..." she muttered to herself. "When will we get there?" She asked Joseph. She would have latched onto him, but she was rooted to the spot she was in for fear that she would slip and fall into the sea.
"In a week."
"You mean we're gonna be on this boat for that long? This is torture! I'm a ground hybrid, I need the ground to feel comfortable..."
Joseph sighed, drowning out her complaints. They were meant to put all their hopes into a hybrid that was terrified of the water and complained constantly? He'd known her his whole life, and she had not matured as fast as they had hoped. "Fine, let me show you to your cabin, you'll feel safer there."
"Good." She got up and stuck close to him, and when they got to her cabin, she flung herself onto her bed, burry her head into her pillow. "I'm staying here until we reach land." She declared, rummaging through her bag and taking out a jar with soil in it, then hugging it. "So, are we going to continue my language tutorials?"
"Yes, now-"
"Kuso!"[2] She cursed as she nearly dropped her jar of dirt as the boat rocked a little violently.
"Where'd you learn that?" He said sharply, frowning at her.
She grinned nervously. "Uhh... I picked it up?"
Shaking his head, Joseph picked up a book. "Okay, today we're going to study the various levels of respect..."
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Same day, continent of Eurel
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"So, you're the grass hyrbrid?"
Vair nodded, a few strands of green hair falling infront of her eyes. "And you're the ice hybrid."
"Yup." Aita said.
"So..."
"Hmm?"
They sat under a tree, lazily drinking lemonade. At least, Aita was drinking a glass of lemonade. Vair was drinking some sort of mineral solution mixed in lemonade. They'd pretty much exhausted all that they could think of to talk about, however, and were just enjoying the quiet time. For all the knew they might be dead in a couple of hours. The two of them made an interesting picture, one with pale white-blue hair that cascaded down her shoulders like a frozen waterfall, and another with dark forest green hair that wildly draped her back like vines. Their skin were tinted in light shades of their hair colours, and Aita had a fluffy tail that she never really understood the existence of.
"Do you think there are others?" Vair asked idly, tired of the silence.
"Obviously." Aita replied shortly.
"Are you always so... serious?" Vair had been about to say 'cold', but had caught herself just in time.
"I'm an ice hyrbrid, what do you expect? And look who's talking! You're not exactly the friendliest person in the world either."
"Hmph."
"Are you going to Arasia?"
"Yes. Are you gonna go to the conference?"
"Yes."
"Are we really going to attack in the day? I personally don't mind, but... We'll be seen!"
"That's the point. We want them to acknowledge our existence. Besides, hopefully the others will learn about the attack, and we might be able to get in contact with them. It's comman knowledge that the Fighting, Steel, and Dark types are all Arasian. Steel, Ice, Flying and Grass are from Eurel, or nearby." She looekd at Vair. "You are from Eurel, right?"
"Yeah."
They were silent again, sipping their drinks. They had both been delighted to find out that there were more of their kind, even though they didn't start off on the right foot, after Vair tracked down Aita, they both apologized and became 'friends'.
"Say, Vair?"
"Yeah?"
"When was your first time?"
Vair looked at Aita with a puzzled frown.
"First time you killed someone I mean."
"Oh," Vair put down her drink and leaned against the tree, lazily plucking a flower from a nearby bush with a vine whip. "I was about... thirteen, fourteen?"
"Same here." A wry smile tretched across her lips. "Some way to enter puberty..." She commented. " But we do need to eliminate the real threat, not the Kaitans, but those hiding behind the guise of the Kaitans."
"Unfortunately for us, they haven't revealed themselves yet..."
"They will, they're just biding their time. They've got an excellent leader too. Lady Yiana Naventa, right? And she has a lot of well train pokemon trainer-soldiers. They're going to be tough enemies." Aita got up, wiping some sweat off her forehead. "Aren't you hot?"
"Hot? I'm freezing!" Vair exclaimed in surprise. "Why do you think I warmed my drink?"
Aita looked at the grass hybrid then sighed. "I'm going down below to train. Coming?"
"Sure. We leave tommorow, right? Its gonna be a long journey..."
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[1] Bad me... I stole that line. [2] 'Kuso' is a swear word. Enough said.
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