Koe :: [a growing collection of events]By:Flashfire
After consideration, writing large amounts of fanfiction has become hard to do any more. So, I thought up something else. The 'One-Hour' Collection is a sequence of events/stories, where each 'chapter' took 1 hour to write. Ch.4 newly added!
Rated: Fiction T - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,502 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: Nov 16, 2001 - Published: Sep 27, 2001 - id: 416924
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KaosKaos They weren't armed, at all.
They didn't think they'd need it; perhaps their idea of those like him were
of confused freaks that knew neither what they were, why they were, or what
they should do about it. Koe was neither. He wasn't
one of the first cases, having only gained a tail on the thirteenth of December,
2004. Today was the second of February, 2006; cases were documented right
up from April 2002. And to Koe, these people looked like they'd decided how
they dealt with his kind. "I tell you what.
Enough horsing around. You can turn round and walk. Or you can be carted
away in a casket, stiffer then frozen soil on Christmas Eve." This was the
guy who's son Koe had supposedly 'threatened'. Koe, however, couldn't care
less really. He'd just started thinking of something, and so he said nothing. ~I wonder why no-one
came up with a name for us..~ the rai pondered. He'd never had to refer to
it before, but usually if you were to meet people like this, you'd expect
them to throw all sorts of derogatory names at you. Here, they just called
them 'your kind'. Like they were different. Which they were. "Answer me, you damned
rat." The King of the Drink Beer gang was getting rather impatient. So, too,
was whatever raichu part of Koe's mind was the one that liked a good fight.
Koe, however, couldn't care less for it. So, he shrugged once, and then headed
off left, towards a path that most likely led somewhere new. However, the men really
were interested in starting trouble. Now he'd gone and refused, they were
more annoyed then they were in the first instance.. One of them went back
to the truck, to get something.. ~Wait it off for
a while, and then I can go around. Either way, I'm getting into this city
before nightfall.~ said he to himself. Looking at the sun, it was fairly
low in the sky. And that's the last thing he noticed. He heard the whiz through
the air, but his hearing not as it might otherwise be, he didn't have any
sort of chance to move. He examined his arm.
Stuck in the side of it, barely piercing, was a yellow shafted dart, with
a red plumage. ~Tranquiliser. Damnit.~ And that was that. --- When he woke up eventually,
it was dark. Something rather weird had happened overnight, though. It seems
that the sky and the ground became swapped with each other. Seeing a waning
moon below him was not an everyday sight. Until whatever controlled
his balance kicked in, and told him that he was upside down. ~Well.. This is something
most probably don't like to wake up to...~ He recognised the area.
He had been tied to the low tree outside, probably by his legs. Looking up,
a pair of light-adjusted eyes could see that indeed, some crudely tied cord
was around his legs. And then, suddenly, pain ebbed down his back.. It felt
like the skin had been dragged a way.. ~You know, I bet
they just tied the cord into a lasso, and dragged me on over here, rather
then touch me..~ He sighed, out loud. And he just hung there, swaying ever
so slightly, waiting for his sapped strength to slip back, so he could right
himself, and set to untying his bindings. However, he felt really
tired at that point.. The tranquiliser probably knocked him cold for a good
number of hours.. So he had a while to wait until morning. His body told
him he should be asleep, and so his consciousness quickly faded, as he slipped
into an induced sleep once more.. --- It was morning when Koe
woke. He was still tired, feeling like he could throw up any second.. He'd
ben upside down now for almost half a day. And he just sat there, and swung,
while he awoke properly.. But he ended up swinging so much, that something
gave up above him, and all of a sudden, the ground was much closer then it
had been a second ago. "Owch...." Koe shrugged,
righting himself to proper stance.. Today obviously was not his day, and
his tail agreed with him.. curving in the semilight of early morn like a
writhing snake.. Something else caught his
senses.. A smell on the air.. Of burning? He turned an arc, but it didn't
take him too long before he caught sight of the sity that, half a day hence,
he had looked at, and wondered if it would welcome him. While he wasn't any sort
of expert on matters like this, what was smouldering of the city told him
those fires had been raging for several hours. He wasn't quite within it..
but all he could see of it was blackened buildings, the odd lick of flames
peeping from within a broken window.. And the smoke, that was settling in
the air in the manner of a dense fog.. ~Guess I'm not staying
here for tonight then..~ And he continued his arc around, looking for some
other way he could travel.. The endless grasses of the
Kanto plain were not things he liked a whole lot.. A couple of large paths
were all he had; one which he had come from, and one which went off left.
He had started to take this left one, yesterday. There was a third, but Koe
didn't feel like traversing the city ablaze.. Something caught his eye.
Something white, against the bark of that very tree he'd been hanging from..
With curiosity, he ventured up to it.. and seeing something was etched onto
it, he pulled it from its mooring. Before reading, he eyed it. A sharp, yellow,
needle. "Well, I didn't see
this when I was awake last.. So, it's probably meant for me.." he reassured
himself, before reading. --To the raichu that
was hanging from this tree (~Yep, definitely for me..~
thought he. On he read..); The wreckage you see of
that city, where they would stand by and see someone be hung up in that manner,
sits in flames as this is written. Sorry, but that knot was an annoying one;
I think we loosened it a bit, and we didn't want to go too much in case we
ended up causing a fall. Until we meet again.. -kaos "Kaos.." Koe said,
out loud.. "Fitting.. perhaps.." His travels around the plains brought with
them the rumours of there being numbers of his kind.. that went around, keeping
alive, and opposing any bigotism with strong action. "But.. For my sake..?
That's wrong.." Of course, he remembered
then, that while travelling yesterday, he'd left his holdall, his supplies,
in a bush somewhere, along a line of them that cornered one end of the large
area. Why had he done that again..? ~Because I thought
I was being tracked.. They were probably just going the same way I were..
and so I stashed it away..~ Koe thought to himself a while.. and then headed
off, back the way he'd come. He needed that holdall. A while later, and he found
it, in the bush where he'd left it. It was a simple black holdall, designed
for carrying over one shoulder; it was brown on the inside, and the attachments
of the strap to the bag itself were yellow circles, with raichu-ear shaped
drapings coming from those. It hadn't been touched, it still contained what
it had last time. The contents were simple; five bottles of water, fourteen
one-day rations, a map of Kanto, and a compass. And, tucked away to the
left, a red ball, with several turns of black tape around it, keeping it
shut. Koe shuddered involuntarily. He then slung the bag over his shoulder,
and headed along the line of bushes, going left when it's corner came. He
avoided getting back up close to the city then, which he could still see,
emitting smoke every so often.. --- The rai followed the path
along. A large, wooden post sat at the side of the road, and as he got up
to it, he looked at the name. Over the original post, there had been nailed
another, lighter, board. And on that was etched; 'Selenia City'. A quick check by Koe, of
his map. He had originally been heading through Celadon, but he couldn't
do that any more.. Selenia was a new city, sided off along the route. Koe
estimated he could make it there in around a couple of hours. "No time like the
present.." is all he said, as he placed the map back to his holdall, swung
the bag back to his shoulder, and continued on. A pair of eyes, skittering
across the grasslands, keeping out of sight. It had come across the rai hanging
from a tree, and decided to see what it was up to. After watching it go around
in circles for a while, he saw some paper be produced, and then he headed
off. A city meant -people-. But
it didn't want that just yet. Still, it followed on, just out of curiosity. Or maybe because it had
nothing else to do. ---
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