***Pokemon Party***
~~By: Kat of Pokemon: The Hokubu & Nanka Trek~~
"Black tie/costume?" Sooney questioned, "What in the world does that mean?"
"It means it's a formal costume party. Like put on a fancy dress and grab a feathered mask type thing," Medira answered.
"Eevy?" someone familiar shouted from behind them.
"Hey! Ash! Misty! Brock!" Eevy said as she turned to face them, "And hello Pikachu!"
"Pika, pikachu pi!" Pikachu said as he hopped off Ash's shoulder and clung to Eevy's leg in a huge electric hug.
Eevy laughed a bit and scratched his forehead, "I beat you up and you still like me. You're a real sweetie."
The scratches triggered happy sparks to fly from Pikachu's red cheeks, "Pika pi. Pika pika."
"Hey, Eevy," Mizu said as she walked up behind her, "Who are these kids?"
"These are my friends," Eevy said as she stood up.
Brock became completely infatuated and fluttered to each girl's side, "Hi, I'm Brock," he repeated to each of them.
Medira swatted him in the head with the back of her hand, "Get over it."
Eevy laughed a bit before turning her attention back to Ash and Misty. She smiled a bit with a very sly tendency to say something about Misty keeping that all too important secret from Ash, but she held it away quite well.
"Guys, this is Ash, Misty and Pikachu. That thing flying around is Brock," Eevy laughed, "Ash, Misty, Pikachu, and BROCK!" she had to shout his name to ground him again, "This is Mizu, Medira, Sooney and you already met Yuu-Yuu."
After a few giggly introductions, Brock was again floating around the room and Misty slapped his ear and dragged him off. Ash just kind of laughed. Eevy grinned again. When Ash saw her, he flashed an odd look.
"What's all the smiling about?" Ash asked her as she straightened her face.
"Oh...Nothing," she said as she turned and went back to the poster before turning and leaning up against the wall, "How many badges do you have?"
"Three! The Red, White and Green," he bellowed proudly as he displayed his badges pinned to the inside of his coat.
"Three huh? I've got four," she said as she popped open her backpack and showed off.
Ash made a nasty face and looked at the poster behind her on the wall, "Hey! That looks like fun! We should all go and hang out!"
"We don't 'hang out'," Medira said as she again slapped Brock away, "We party hard."
"Huh?" Ash asked with a tilt of his head.
"Ah," she said as she waved her hand at him, "You're just kids, you wouldn't get it."
"I'm no kid!"
"How old are you?" Medira asked slyly.
"Almost seventeen."
"Twenty three," Medira answered.
"Twenty two," Eevy added.
"Twenty two," Mizu said.
"Really?" he cocked his head.
"Yes really!" Medira burst, "I put it this way, we can drive and you can't. You're kids."
Ash scowled before Misty pushed up behind him, "I want to go anyway!"
"You're out of your league," Mizu said snottily as she walked over.
"Be nice!" Eevy shouted, "You stop that now!"
Medira and Mizu sat down and snorted things incoherently to each other. Ash and Misty just stared at each other blankly. Again Eevy smiled, but this time rubbed her chin as well. Misty saw her, but Ash didn't. Eevy grinned and winked at her and Misty's face went bright red before pushing herself away and running to the poster.
She cleared her throat, "It says the party is tonight. We'd better get moving if we're going to go."
"Not me," Sooney said.
"Not on your life," Yuu-Yuu added.
"Why not?" Mizu asked as she eyed her friends.
"I don't go for formal," Sooney said.
"Me neither," Yuu-Yuu said pointedly.
"Suit yourself," Eevy shrugged, "Let's go!"
Each group ran off in different directions, promising to meet back there in and hour, leaving them ten minutes to get to City Hall for the dance. Eevy knew just what she needed to buy and what to wear.
*^~^**^~^*
Lance sat with his legs crossed on the table, watching the ceiling, as usual. Raikou trotted in with something in his mouth. Jason stood and walked to take it, but Raikou pushed past and gave it to Lance. Will, who was sitting up against Luri, laughed at that and Luri, now Will's new girlfriend, giggled as she leaned over on Will's shoulder.
"What's this?" Lance asked as he pushed his gum to the side of his mouth.
"A party. In Tulip Town. We want you all to go," Raikou said as he sat and wrapped his tail around his body, "It may prove beneficial."
"Yes," Suicune said as she walked in, "We've already cleared up the matter of you being allowed out of the City."
"And how, pray tell, do we get there without being swamped?" Jason asked.
"It's a costume party at City Hall. There will be so many people, you can just grab a mask and cape and walk in," Entei answered him from the doorway.
The quartet looked around at each other and Lance spoke up for them, "Let's go get changed. We need some good get ups."
*^~^**^~^*
Eevy looked at herself in the mirror of the powder room of the Pokemon Center, "This is perfect!" she said as she spun around, the long tails of her purple dress spinning with her.
Medira walked out in a short, revealing black dress, "Woah Eevy! Where'd you get that?"
Eevy looked over at her friend and eyed what she was wearing, "I've had this for a long time. Since, well...I've never told a soul this before. So keep it quiet OK? You too!" she shouted.
"I promise!" Mizu bellowed from her room.
"Well...Taylor..." she fidgeted around, "Taylor used to be..." she tilted her head in a 'you finish the sentence' gesture, but Medira wanted to hear her say it, "...be my boyfriend."
"Eeww!" Medira shouted, "That's sick!"
"You're not serious!" Mizu said as she grabbed the top of her door and hoisted herself up to peer over.
Eevy poked her index fingers together, "I'm all too serious."
"Yech," Medira mused, "Thanks for the visual."
"Oh gross!" Mizu said as she let go and dropped back behind the door, "I think I'm gonna be sick!"
"Can we drop this conversation now?" Eevy asked as she put her hair up in a bun.
"Gladly," both other girls answer simultaneously.
*^~^**^~^*
"That's what you're wearing?" Entei asked as he looked over towards the Elite 4.
"What's wrong with it?" Jason asked as he looked towards the other three.
"Kind of plain, don't you think?" Suicune asked.
"Not at all," Luri said as she stood next to Will.
Lance, standing in a midnight blue coat, black shirt, black pants and long cloak to match his coat peered at them. He hadn't even changed his hair, just pulled the hood of his cloak up and over and added a black masquerade mask. His hair, tall and purple, would have been a dead give away had it not been hidden. Luri, in a long blue dress the color of ice and a long white cloak boasted an ice blue mask with one white feather on each end. Her long blond hair in a French twist. Will, in his usual red suit with the purple shirt, had added black highlights to his red hair, although it was covered by his purple cloak's hood. A red mask covered his face. Jason, the simplest of all, wore a white sweater with a dark green vest and dark green pants. His long black cloak behind him and the hood pulled over his shaggy brown hair. His green mask across it face.
"I'm not going to over do this," Lance said, "I don't know why we have to go anyway."
"You'll see," Raikou snickered as the four humans left the mansion.
"Do you think he'll find her?" Suicune asked as she looked at Raikou.
"Yes. He'll be drawn to her like a hungry ant to a picnic," Raikou laughed, "Remember, she is his soulmate, after all."
*^~^**^~^*
Eevy fooled with her hair as Medira walked out and again slapped Brock away. She snickered and got her hair in just the right position. She was in a three-layer dress. Each layer a different shade of purple, falling from violet with each layer. She adjusted her high-heeled shoes and stood up.
"Curse the person who made high-heels the formal choice," she hissed as she tried to maneuver around.
After she stood, she was perfectly fine with the heels. It was standing up that gave her the problem, not walking or standing still. Her hair was up in a nice sensible bun at the top of her neck with a twisty strand of stubborn hair hanging down in the center of her forehead. She had her bangs curled and flopped down in long crimped strands outlining her face. Mizu was in a simple aqua dress and her hair was thrown into a bun at the back of her head. She wasn't all that fashion driven. Eevy took a few test steps and walked out. With a howl of pleasure from Brock, she knew she looked at least half way decent.
"You look great!" Mizu mused, "Let's go!"
Eevy didn't even bother to look at Ash and Misty, all she noticed was that Brock was hanging back at the Center with Yuu-Yuu and Sooney. The group reached City Hall and met a HUGE line of people.
"Is City Hall big enough to hold all these people?" Ash asked wearily.
"It's out behind it too, see?" Misty asked as she turned him to see the flashing lights in the grass behind the building.
The group stood in line for a moment before they were followed by four older trainers. Taller too. Eevy got an odd feeling down her spine as they waited behind them. She took a deep breath and shrugged it off.
"Oh n-n-no..." Lance started trembling.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked.
Lance raised one shaking hand towards the back of the girl in front of them, "It's-it's..." he couldn't finish because of the lump that formed in his throat.
"That's why Raikou wanted us to come," Luri whispered, "Because she's here."
Sure enough, they were standing right behind Eevy and the girls. Lance tipped back and forth. He felt like running behind the building and jumping on Dragonite, but he didn't. He felt the undying urge to grab her and kiss her but he just sort of stood and sweated profusely. He saw Eevy lift up the mask that had been in her hand and slip it over her head. A purple mask with a collage of feathers. He bit his index finger. Eevy and the girls reached the podium where the admission was being taken.
"You're Poke Dex, please," the man said in an odd tone.
"Poke Dex?" Eevy asked, "Why?"
"Don't worry! It's just to keep a record of who attends. When you leave you'll get it back."
Eevy and the two other girls eyed each other and nodded, each handing over their Poke'Dex. The group behind them also protested, but also gave them their Poke'Dex.
*^~^**^~^*
Eevy leaned her head up against the wall, watching the ceiling fan spin as the music died down for the next song. Medira and Mizu sat down on both sides of her.
"You've been a wallflower all night," Medira mused, "Why not dance?"
"And with who would I?" Eevy questioned.
"Uh..." Mizu thought for a minute, "I don't know..."
"Me neither," Medira laughed.
The next song started and Eevy leaned forward to look at her feet. To her surprise, three hands were stuck under her nose. She pondered this for a moment. The right one was definitely Shurdi. Not him, no way. The middle looked like Iskur, not him either. The last one on the left was not familiar at all. Black fingerless gloves? She never met anyone like that. She swallowed and chose the left hand. Shurdi and Iskur walked away rejected as the fingers closed gently around hers. That spine tingling feeling zipped through her about twice as powerful as it had been, causing her to jump.
"Something wrong?" the man holding her hand asked.
"No," she said as she still watched the floor, "Why did I do that?" she thought silently, "What if it's Cain with a costume? Or worse...Taylor," she shivered.
"What's wrong?" he asked, "I can feel you shaking."
Eevy swallowed hard and let her glance travel up...up...up...his never-ending side. He was huge! He towered over her by a good foot and a half at least! His black mask and midnight blue hood did nothing for her comfort except tempt it to fizzle away completely.
"Nothing," Eevy said as she watched his eyes, soft and sandy colored.
"Really?" he asked as he snapped her around to catch her other hand.
She swallowed hard and looked over at Mizu who shrugged and Medira, who was dancing with someone in green, "Yes," she lied as she wriggled her hand free a little.
He shrugged, "So. You're Eevy," a statement, not a question.
"How did you...Oh! You watch PKMN TV don't you?" she blushed and looked down.
"I've been keeping an eye on you and your friends."
"Keeping an eye on me?" she mused silently, "Raikou said...Watching me..."
She felt that weird feeling rip through her arm as he tightened his grip on her hand. It was an odd feeling, not painful, but almost pure feeling. This had to be him. This had to be that man Raikou spoke of. She leaned forward as the next song started and sat her head on his shoulder. She felt him twitch at that.
"Are you ok?" she asked as she backed up.
"Yes, I'm fine," he choked sheepishly, "Just didn't expect that."
"What? This?" she asked as she returned her head to his shoulder and felt him actually cringe that time, "I'll stop if it's bothering you."
"No!" he said loudly and then became silent as he thought to himself, "No don't stop that. It doesn't bother me one bit. This is like seventh heaven."
She felt him loosen up and drop her arms. He just stepped in time with the music for a minute without touching her as she stood with her head perched on is shoulder. She was the first to react to that with her arms around his waist. He smiled on the inside, but smirked slightly on the outside.
"What's your name?" she asked into his shoulder, "It would help if I knew."
He choked for a moment, "Uh...Dragon. Just call me Dragon..." he thought then, "STUPID!" he could have imagined himself smacking his own forehead profusely for that idiotic remark.
"Why? Are you like a dragon, in some way?" she laughed.
"In a sense, yes, I suppose."
Will and Luri watched without dancing as Jason and Lance rocked gently with their own girls. Jason had the one Eevy called Medira and it was plain to see who Lance had gotten his hands on.
"They do look so nice together," Luri said as she watched Lance smiling, "It's the first time he's smiled in months."
"Look at the munchkin," Will laughed as he pointed to Jason who turned himself and Medira around so he was facing them and gave them a huge thumb's up from behind her back, "He's just as attached as Lance is. Too bad we can't tell them who we are."
"Yes. That is kind of a shame."
The song ended way too fast for them, even though it had actually been two. Eevy stepped back and smiled. She waved a bit and started to walk away, but got that feeling again as he snatched her wrist. She turned and looked at him, his soft brown eyes blazing with pure passion. She couldn't help but think about just running back over to him and holding on all night, but she really wanted some fresh air and time to think. But she would not get her wish.
"Hey there, party animals!" the man from the Poke'Dex thing shouted from the stage, "Wave bye, bye to your Poke'Dex!"
"That's right!" a woman said as she grabbed hold of a rope hanging from the air vent and was hoisted into the air in a hot air balloon.
"Oh no! Our Pokemon!" someone cried.
The balloon crashed through the roof, leaving a gaping whole. Ash and Misty ran forward.
"It's Butch and Cassidy!" they cried together.
"No! With our Poke'Dex they can tap into our Pokemon storage systems!" Eevy cried.
"Bye twerp-os!" Butch shouted.
"See you later, Feraligatr!" Cassidy laughed.
"What do we do?" Misty asked.
"I tell you what we do," 'Dragon' said as he ripped out a Poke'Ball, "We fight back! Go! Dragonite!"
"No! Don't!" Will and Luri cried.
"Wow, you have a Dragonite. Cool," Eevy said.
"Thanks," Dragon said as he climbed on and held out a hand, "Like a lift?"
"Absolutely!" Eevy said as she climbed up and sat sidesaddle.
"Dragonite! Go!"
The Dragon- type took off into the sky with a rip of air. Unnoticed by Lance himself or anyone on the ground, but his hood had been blown back in the wind. Eevy saw it though.
"Oh my God!" she cried, "Master Lance!"
Lance gasped as he noticed his hood was down, "Oh crud," he said as he made a face.
"You! It's been you all this time!"
"Shhh! Keep it down! We've got to get those Poke'Dex back!"
"Alright. But we're going to have a nice long talk when we land."
"If Will doesn't get to you first," Lance said as he vowed to have Will erase her memory.
"What?"
"Nothing. Just go!"
Dragonite slowed next to the balloon as Butch, Cassidy and Raticate watched helplessly as Eevy stood up and bared a Poke'Ball of purple.
"Go! Sun Ball!" she dropped the ball onto Dragonite's back, releasing Sovo, "Sovo! Psychic! Grab the bag and pop the balloon!"
"Raticate," Cassidy said, "Hyper Fang!"
"Dragonite! Hit it!" Lance said.
As the Raticate jumped at Sovo, Dragonite slammed it with a huge fist, sending it flying into the distance. Sovo did just as he was told and the balloon began losing air, but didn't fly away. Dragonite was holding it. After Eevy had safely retrieved the bag of Poke'Dex, Dragonite prepared. Lance held tightly to Dragonite's neck with one arm and reached out to Eevy, who was recalling Sovo, with the other.
"Give me your hand! You'll go flying if you don't!"
"Why should I trust you?" Eevy hissed, "You've lied to me once!"
"Raikou! Raikou told you about a man! And he told me about a woman! Trust me Eevy!" he looked into her eyes with nothing but absolute truth dwelling in his gaze.
She jumped and grabbed onto Lance's shoulders, holding tightly to him and the Poke'Dex bag, "Dragonite! Spin them and launch them!" Lance shouted as he reached behind his back and grabbed Eevy, "Hold on!"
The Dragonite started spinning, faster and faster every second. Eevy felt like she was going to be flung off, but she held tighter. She felt him grip the back of her dress with his right hand and saw him hold tighter to Dragonite with his left as the Pokemon spun faster. It was like as long as he was there, she was fine. With a quick jerk to a stop, Dragonite flung the balloon out into the distance with shouts falling from it as it flew. Eevy panted into Lance's back as she sat up and looked at him.
"Lance," she said flatly, "Why?"
"I don't know," he panted as he returned his hood to his head, "Raikou told me..."
"He told me too," she examined the bag of Poke Dex and then looked back at him, "Now what?"
"I can't let you remember this, you know. It wouldn't be right."
"What are you going to do?"
"I won't do anything. Will shall do the honors."
"Let's get this over with then," she sighed as she watched the people below.
"Just one more minute," Lance said as he patted Dragonite's back, "Hold on just a minute, buddy."
"What?" she asked as she saw him staring at her again.
She got no verbal answer, just as Luri hadn't the day before. Instead she got herself pulled closer and their lips pressed together. She felt like melting. This felt so oddly right, yet wrong. She wouldn't remember it anyway, she wished she could. She wanted to remember this forever. But, he was right, it was neither wrong nor right to allow her to remember, but this was best forgotten, for her any way. The Elite would always remember. It was good that only she had seen who he was, Will would have wilted having to do every person down there. He pulled back and looked at her. She was crying. Actually crying. He reached out and wiped away her tear.
"We'll be together again, someday," he said, "You just wait and see."
The Dragonite descended and Eevy hopped off. Now knowing, if only for the moment, who the Elite were, she ran to Jason and hugged him, dropping the bag of Poke Dex by Mizu and Medira's feet. The two girls looked at each other with odd expressions.
"Master Jason," she whispered to him as he stiffened, then to Will she hugged him too, "Master Will," and she even hugged Luri, "Mistress Luri," the three of them stood back and watched her approach Lance again and hug him, "and my Lance."
"Please don't," he pushed her away and gestured for Will, "Can we speak to you, alone?"
Eevy walked off with Will and Lance as she was trying to tuck some of her memories away in a safe haven, "I'm ready, Will," she said when they were out of ear and eye shot.
"How does she know?" Will asked.
"She saw my hood blow off. Would you get this over with, please?"
"Certainly," he touched her forehead and released his Alakazam, "Alakazam, help me make her forget."
^*^In The Next Chronicle:^*^
Twisted
A/N: Be warned-Twisted is a crummy excuse for an AAML!
~*~Notes~*~
This chapter was fun to write. Depressing towards the end though. Alakazam knows an attack called 'Kinesis' which reduces the opponents accuracy, so I thought I'd edit it a bit and have it erase human memories. Weird, ain't I? I'm not weird, I'm just messed up. What's weird is when your cat eats spaghetti and drinks 7UP. Don't ask. The next chapter is kind of freaky, but not as freaky as Slippery Suicune. I don't think I'll ever end up writing something that weird again, but you never know...
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~~By: Kat of Pokemon: The Hokubu & Nanka Trek~~
"Black tie/costume?" Sooney questioned, "What in the world does that mean?"
"It means it's a formal costume party. Like put on a fancy dress and grab a feathered mask type thing," Medira answered.
"Eevy?" someone familiar shouted from behind them.
"Hey! Ash! Misty! Brock!" Eevy said as she turned to face them, "And hello Pikachu!"
"Pika, pikachu pi!" Pikachu said as he hopped off Ash's shoulder and clung to Eevy's leg in a huge electric hug.
Eevy laughed a bit and scratched his forehead, "I beat you up and you still like me. You're a real sweetie."
The scratches triggered happy sparks to fly from Pikachu's red cheeks, "Pika pi. Pika pika."
"Hey, Eevy," Mizu said as she walked up behind her, "Who are these kids?"
"These are my friends," Eevy said as she stood up.
Brock became completely infatuated and fluttered to each girl's side, "Hi, I'm Brock," he repeated to each of them.
Medira swatted him in the head with the back of her hand, "Get over it."
Eevy laughed a bit before turning her attention back to Ash and Misty. She smiled a bit with a very sly tendency to say something about Misty keeping that all too important secret from Ash, but she held it away quite well.
"Guys, this is Ash, Misty and Pikachu. That thing flying around is Brock," Eevy laughed, "Ash, Misty, Pikachu, and BROCK!" she had to shout his name to ground him again, "This is Mizu, Medira, Sooney and you already met Yuu-Yuu."
After a few giggly introductions, Brock was again floating around the room and Misty slapped his ear and dragged him off. Ash just kind of laughed. Eevy grinned again. When Ash saw her, he flashed an odd look.
"What's all the smiling about?" Ash asked her as she straightened her face.
"Oh...Nothing," she said as she turned and went back to the poster before turning and leaning up against the wall, "How many badges do you have?"
"Three! The Red, White and Green," he bellowed proudly as he displayed his badges pinned to the inside of his coat.
"Three huh? I've got four," she said as she popped open her backpack and showed off.
Ash made a nasty face and looked at the poster behind her on the wall, "Hey! That looks like fun! We should all go and hang out!"
"We don't 'hang out'," Medira said as she again slapped Brock away, "We party hard."
"Huh?" Ash asked with a tilt of his head.
"Ah," she said as she waved her hand at him, "You're just kids, you wouldn't get it."
"I'm no kid!"
"How old are you?" Medira asked slyly.
"Almost seventeen."
"Twenty three," Medira answered.
"Twenty two," Eevy added.
"Twenty two," Mizu said.
"Really?" he cocked his head.
"Yes really!" Medira burst, "I put it this way, we can drive and you can't. You're kids."
Ash scowled before Misty pushed up behind him, "I want to go anyway!"
"You're out of your league," Mizu said snottily as she walked over.
"Be nice!" Eevy shouted, "You stop that now!"
Medira and Mizu sat down and snorted things incoherently to each other. Ash and Misty just stared at each other blankly. Again Eevy smiled, but this time rubbed her chin as well. Misty saw her, but Ash didn't. Eevy grinned and winked at her and Misty's face went bright red before pushing herself away and running to the poster.
She cleared her throat, "It says the party is tonight. We'd better get moving if we're going to go."
"Not me," Sooney said.
"Not on your life," Yuu-Yuu added.
"Why not?" Mizu asked as she eyed her friends.
"I don't go for formal," Sooney said.
"Me neither," Yuu-Yuu said pointedly.
"Suit yourself," Eevy shrugged, "Let's go!"
Each group ran off in different directions, promising to meet back there in and hour, leaving them ten minutes to get to City Hall for the dance. Eevy knew just what she needed to buy and what to wear.
*^~^**^~^*
Lance sat with his legs crossed on the table, watching the ceiling, as usual. Raikou trotted in with something in his mouth. Jason stood and walked to take it, but Raikou pushed past and gave it to Lance. Will, who was sitting up against Luri, laughed at that and Luri, now Will's new girlfriend, giggled as she leaned over on Will's shoulder.
"What's this?" Lance asked as he pushed his gum to the side of his mouth.
"A party. In Tulip Town. We want you all to go," Raikou said as he sat and wrapped his tail around his body, "It may prove beneficial."
"Yes," Suicune said as she walked in, "We've already cleared up the matter of you being allowed out of the City."
"And how, pray tell, do we get there without being swamped?" Jason asked.
"It's a costume party at City Hall. There will be so many people, you can just grab a mask and cape and walk in," Entei answered him from the doorway.
The quartet looked around at each other and Lance spoke up for them, "Let's go get changed. We need some good get ups."
*^~^**^~^*
Eevy looked at herself in the mirror of the powder room of the Pokemon Center, "This is perfect!" she said as she spun around, the long tails of her purple dress spinning with her.
Medira walked out in a short, revealing black dress, "Woah Eevy! Where'd you get that?"
Eevy looked over at her friend and eyed what she was wearing, "I've had this for a long time. Since, well...I've never told a soul this before. So keep it quiet OK? You too!" she shouted.
"I promise!" Mizu bellowed from her room.
"Well...Taylor..." she fidgeted around, "Taylor used to be..." she tilted her head in a 'you finish the sentence' gesture, but Medira wanted to hear her say it, "...be my boyfriend."
"Eeww!" Medira shouted, "That's sick!"
"You're not serious!" Mizu said as she grabbed the top of her door and hoisted herself up to peer over.
Eevy poked her index fingers together, "I'm all too serious."
"Yech," Medira mused, "Thanks for the visual."
"Oh gross!" Mizu said as she let go and dropped back behind the door, "I think I'm gonna be sick!"
"Can we drop this conversation now?" Eevy asked as she put her hair up in a bun.
"Gladly," both other girls answer simultaneously.
*^~^**^~^*
"That's what you're wearing?" Entei asked as he looked over towards the Elite 4.
"What's wrong with it?" Jason asked as he looked towards the other three.
"Kind of plain, don't you think?" Suicune asked.
"Not at all," Luri said as she stood next to Will.
Lance, standing in a midnight blue coat, black shirt, black pants and long cloak to match his coat peered at them. He hadn't even changed his hair, just pulled the hood of his cloak up and over and added a black masquerade mask. His hair, tall and purple, would have been a dead give away had it not been hidden. Luri, in a long blue dress the color of ice and a long white cloak boasted an ice blue mask with one white feather on each end. Her long blond hair in a French twist. Will, in his usual red suit with the purple shirt, had added black highlights to his red hair, although it was covered by his purple cloak's hood. A red mask covered his face. Jason, the simplest of all, wore a white sweater with a dark green vest and dark green pants. His long black cloak behind him and the hood pulled over his shaggy brown hair. His green mask across it face.
"I'm not going to over do this," Lance said, "I don't know why we have to go anyway."
"You'll see," Raikou snickered as the four humans left the mansion.
"Do you think he'll find her?" Suicune asked as she looked at Raikou.
"Yes. He'll be drawn to her like a hungry ant to a picnic," Raikou laughed, "Remember, she is his soulmate, after all."
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Eevy fooled with her hair as Medira walked out and again slapped Brock away. She snickered and got her hair in just the right position. She was in a three-layer dress. Each layer a different shade of purple, falling from violet with each layer. She adjusted her high-heeled shoes and stood up.
"Curse the person who made high-heels the formal choice," she hissed as she tried to maneuver around.
After she stood, she was perfectly fine with the heels. It was standing up that gave her the problem, not walking or standing still. Her hair was up in a nice sensible bun at the top of her neck with a twisty strand of stubborn hair hanging down in the center of her forehead. She had her bangs curled and flopped down in long crimped strands outlining her face. Mizu was in a simple aqua dress and her hair was thrown into a bun at the back of her head. She wasn't all that fashion driven. Eevy took a few test steps and walked out. With a howl of pleasure from Brock, she knew she looked at least half way decent.
"You look great!" Mizu mused, "Let's go!"
Eevy didn't even bother to look at Ash and Misty, all she noticed was that Brock was hanging back at the Center with Yuu-Yuu and Sooney. The group reached City Hall and met a HUGE line of people.
"Is City Hall big enough to hold all these people?" Ash asked wearily.
"It's out behind it too, see?" Misty asked as she turned him to see the flashing lights in the grass behind the building.
The group stood in line for a moment before they were followed by four older trainers. Taller too. Eevy got an odd feeling down her spine as they waited behind them. She took a deep breath and shrugged it off.
"Oh n-n-no..." Lance started trembling.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked.
Lance raised one shaking hand towards the back of the girl in front of them, "It's-it's..." he couldn't finish because of the lump that formed in his throat.
"That's why Raikou wanted us to come," Luri whispered, "Because she's here."
Sure enough, they were standing right behind Eevy and the girls. Lance tipped back and forth. He felt like running behind the building and jumping on Dragonite, but he didn't. He felt the undying urge to grab her and kiss her but he just sort of stood and sweated profusely. He saw Eevy lift up the mask that had been in her hand and slip it over her head. A purple mask with a collage of feathers. He bit his index finger. Eevy and the girls reached the podium where the admission was being taken.
"You're Poke Dex, please," the man said in an odd tone.
"Poke Dex?" Eevy asked, "Why?"
"Don't worry! It's just to keep a record of who attends. When you leave you'll get it back."
Eevy and the two other girls eyed each other and nodded, each handing over their Poke'Dex. The group behind them also protested, but also gave them their Poke'Dex.
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Eevy leaned her head up against the wall, watching the ceiling fan spin as the music died down for the next song. Medira and Mizu sat down on both sides of her.
"You've been a wallflower all night," Medira mused, "Why not dance?"
"And with who would I?" Eevy questioned.
"Uh..." Mizu thought for a minute, "I don't know..."
"Me neither," Medira laughed.
The next song started and Eevy leaned forward to look at her feet. To her surprise, three hands were stuck under her nose. She pondered this for a moment. The right one was definitely Shurdi. Not him, no way. The middle looked like Iskur, not him either. The last one on the left was not familiar at all. Black fingerless gloves? She never met anyone like that. She swallowed and chose the left hand. Shurdi and Iskur walked away rejected as the fingers closed gently around hers. That spine tingling feeling zipped through her about twice as powerful as it had been, causing her to jump.
"Something wrong?" the man holding her hand asked.
"No," she said as she still watched the floor, "Why did I do that?" she thought silently, "What if it's Cain with a costume? Or worse...Taylor," she shivered.
"What's wrong?" he asked, "I can feel you shaking."
Eevy swallowed hard and let her glance travel up...up...up...his never-ending side. He was huge! He towered over her by a good foot and a half at least! His black mask and midnight blue hood did nothing for her comfort except tempt it to fizzle away completely.
"Nothing," Eevy said as she watched his eyes, soft and sandy colored.
"Really?" he asked as he snapped her around to catch her other hand.
She swallowed hard and looked over at Mizu who shrugged and Medira, who was dancing with someone in green, "Yes," she lied as she wriggled her hand free a little.
He shrugged, "So. You're Eevy," a statement, not a question.
"How did you...Oh! You watch PKMN TV don't you?" she blushed and looked down.
"I've been keeping an eye on you and your friends."
"Keeping an eye on me?" she mused silently, "Raikou said...Watching me..."
She felt that weird feeling rip through her arm as he tightened his grip on her hand. It was an odd feeling, not painful, but almost pure feeling. This had to be him. This had to be that man Raikou spoke of. She leaned forward as the next song started and sat her head on his shoulder. She felt him twitch at that.
"Are you ok?" she asked as she backed up.
"Yes, I'm fine," he choked sheepishly, "Just didn't expect that."
"What? This?" she asked as she returned her head to his shoulder and felt him actually cringe that time, "I'll stop if it's bothering you."
"No!" he said loudly and then became silent as he thought to himself, "No don't stop that. It doesn't bother me one bit. This is like seventh heaven."
She felt him loosen up and drop her arms. He just stepped in time with the music for a minute without touching her as she stood with her head perched on is shoulder. She was the first to react to that with her arms around his waist. He smiled on the inside, but smirked slightly on the outside.
"What's your name?" she asked into his shoulder, "It would help if I knew."
He choked for a moment, "Uh...Dragon. Just call me Dragon..." he thought then, "STUPID!" he could have imagined himself smacking his own forehead profusely for that idiotic remark.
"Why? Are you like a dragon, in some way?" she laughed.
"In a sense, yes, I suppose."
Will and Luri watched without dancing as Jason and Lance rocked gently with their own girls. Jason had the one Eevy called Medira and it was plain to see who Lance had gotten his hands on.
"They do look so nice together," Luri said as she watched Lance smiling, "It's the first time he's smiled in months."
"Look at the munchkin," Will laughed as he pointed to Jason who turned himself and Medira around so he was facing them and gave them a huge thumb's up from behind her back, "He's just as attached as Lance is. Too bad we can't tell them who we are."
"Yes. That is kind of a shame."
The song ended way too fast for them, even though it had actually been two. Eevy stepped back and smiled. She waved a bit and started to walk away, but got that feeling again as he snatched her wrist. She turned and looked at him, his soft brown eyes blazing with pure passion. She couldn't help but think about just running back over to him and holding on all night, but she really wanted some fresh air and time to think. But she would not get her wish.
"Hey there, party animals!" the man from the Poke'Dex thing shouted from the stage, "Wave bye, bye to your Poke'Dex!"
"That's right!" a woman said as she grabbed hold of a rope hanging from the air vent and was hoisted into the air in a hot air balloon.
"Oh no! Our Pokemon!" someone cried.
The balloon crashed through the roof, leaving a gaping whole. Ash and Misty ran forward.
"It's Butch and Cassidy!" they cried together.
"No! With our Poke'Dex they can tap into our Pokemon storage systems!" Eevy cried.
"Bye twerp-os!" Butch shouted.
"See you later, Feraligatr!" Cassidy laughed.
"What do we do?" Misty asked.
"I tell you what we do," 'Dragon' said as he ripped out a Poke'Ball, "We fight back! Go! Dragonite!"
"No! Don't!" Will and Luri cried.
"Wow, you have a Dragonite. Cool," Eevy said.
"Thanks," Dragon said as he climbed on and held out a hand, "Like a lift?"
"Absolutely!" Eevy said as she climbed up and sat sidesaddle.
"Dragonite! Go!"
The Dragon- type took off into the sky with a rip of air. Unnoticed by Lance himself or anyone on the ground, but his hood had been blown back in the wind. Eevy saw it though.
"Oh my God!" she cried, "Master Lance!"
Lance gasped as he noticed his hood was down, "Oh crud," he said as he made a face.
"You! It's been you all this time!"
"Shhh! Keep it down! We've got to get those Poke'Dex back!"
"Alright. But we're going to have a nice long talk when we land."
"If Will doesn't get to you first," Lance said as he vowed to have Will erase her memory.
"What?"
"Nothing. Just go!"
Dragonite slowed next to the balloon as Butch, Cassidy and Raticate watched helplessly as Eevy stood up and bared a Poke'Ball of purple.
"Go! Sun Ball!" she dropped the ball onto Dragonite's back, releasing Sovo, "Sovo! Psychic! Grab the bag and pop the balloon!"
"Raticate," Cassidy said, "Hyper Fang!"
"Dragonite! Hit it!" Lance said.
As the Raticate jumped at Sovo, Dragonite slammed it with a huge fist, sending it flying into the distance. Sovo did just as he was told and the balloon began losing air, but didn't fly away. Dragonite was holding it. After Eevy had safely retrieved the bag of Poke'Dex, Dragonite prepared. Lance held tightly to Dragonite's neck with one arm and reached out to Eevy, who was recalling Sovo, with the other.
"Give me your hand! You'll go flying if you don't!"
"Why should I trust you?" Eevy hissed, "You've lied to me once!"
"Raikou! Raikou told you about a man! And he told me about a woman! Trust me Eevy!" he looked into her eyes with nothing but absolute truth dwelling in his gaze.
She jumped and grabbed onto Lance's shoulders, holding tightly to him and the Poke'Dex bag, "Dragonite! Spin them and launch them!" Lance shouted as he reached behind his back and grabbed Eevy, "Hold on!"
The Dragonite started spinning, faster and faster every second. Eevy felt like she was going to be flung off, but she held tighter. She felt him grip the back of her dress with his right hand and saw him hold tighter to Dragonite with his left as the Pokemon spun faster. It was like as long as he was there, she was fine. With a quick jerk to a stop, Dragonite flung the balloon out into the distance with shouts falling from it as it flew. Eevy panted into Lance's back as she sat up and looked at him.
"Lance," she said flatly, "Why?"
"I don't know," he panted as he returned his hood to his head, "Raikou told me..."
"He told me too," she examined the bag of Poke Dex and then looked back at him, "Now what?"
"I can't let you remember this, you know. It wouldn't be right."
"What are you going to do?"
"I won't do anything. Will shall do the honors."
"Let's get this over with then," she sighed as she watched the people below.
"Just one more minute," Lance said as he patted Dragonite's back, "Hold on just a minute, buddy."
"What?" she asked as she saw him staring at her again.
She got no verbal answer, just as Luri hadn't the day before. Instead she got herself pulled closer and their lips pressed together. She felt like melting. This felt so oddly right, yet wrong. She wouldn't remember it anyway, she wished she could. She wanted to remember this forever. But, he was right, it was neither wrong nor right to allow her to remember, but this was best forgotten, for her any way. The Elite would always remember. It was good that only she had seen who he was, Will would have wilted having to do every person down there. He pulled back and looked at her. She was crying. Actually crying. He reached out and wiped away her tear.
"We'll be together again, someday," he said, "You just wait and see."
The Dragonite descended and Eevy hopped off. Now knowing, if only for the moment, who the Elite were, she ran to Jason and hugged him, dropping the bag of Poke Dex by Mizu and Medira's feet. The two girls looked at each other with odd expressions.
"Master Jason," she whispered to him as he stiffened, then to Will she hugged him too, "Master Will," and she even hugged Luri, "Mistress Luri," the three of them stood back and watched her approach Lance again and hug him, "and my Lance."
"Please don't," he pushed her away and gestured for Will, "Can we speak to you, alone?"
Eevy walked off with Will and Lance as she was trying to tuck some of her memories away in a safe haven, "I'm ready, Will," she said when they were out of ear and eye shot.
"How does she know?" Will asked.
"She saw my hood blow off. Would you get this over with, please?"
"Certainly," he touched her forehead and released his Alakazam, "Alakazam, help me make her forget."
^*^In The Next Chronicle:^*^
Twisted
A/N: Be warned-Twisted is a crummy excuse for an AAML!
~*~Notes~*~
This chapter was fun to write. Depressing towards the end though. Alakazam knows an attack called 'Kinesis' which reduces the opponents accuracy, so I thought I'd edit it a bit and have it erase human memories. Weird, ain't I? I'm not weird, I'm just messed up. What's weird is when your cat eats spaghetti and drinks 7UP. Don't ask. The next chapter is kind of freaky, but not as freaky as Slippery Suicune. I don't think I'll ever end up writing something that weird again, but you never know...
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