Without a warning the young and naturally strong female leapt on the young reincarnated human making him loose balance. Ash emmited a surprised shriek as he felt the gravity take over his balance and his whole body fell, back first, rolling down the mild slope, a wave of laughter echoing in his throat as Elly joined him, letting herself roll as well, and throwing herself to the floor when she stopped. Their game went on like that, consisting on leaping and rolling, a roar of laughter expanding across the valley and startling a few birds and mice. Ash took revenge on a distracted Elly and leapt on her, his paws pushing her down on the ground making the two canines roll a few metres down. Elly shrieked as she felt her balance threatened by a sudden attack but her surprise was quickly extinguished by the sound of laughter echoing in her throat. The both landed, stomach up, on the plane part of the hill's foot, their breathing laboured and funny smiles of joy playing in their lips, "i have to admit i had fun after all, you'e one crazy pokemon, Elly" Ash said moving his eyes to stare at the slender and atractive dog. Elly rolled over, half her body resting on Ash's stomach and chest, a proud smile in her lips, "of course i am, after all, that's the clue of fun, to be crazy" Elly explained, her pearly fangs glittering with the recently appeared moon as a grin took control of her lips. Ash smiled staring in wonder at her icy blue eyes, they were so blue and cold yet this time a strange form of fire seemed to light them, as if her insides burnt with a force or a magick unknown to him. And once again he felt odd, and this surprised him since he had never felt anything similar, and at the same time this feeling was very comforting for it brought him memories of her and how caring she had always been with him. Elly looked up and stared forward, something had caught her attention, "Ash, look..." she gasped breathlessly, a strange feeling of unease drowning her happiness. Ash moved over and stared at the humans, he could see no humans but a large, triangular tent, green cloth used in it to blend in with the enviroment, it was a scientist's tent, that was for sure. And out of the tent walked a little creature covered in yellow fur, a little rodent with a saddened expresion, the skin sticking to the bones of this pokemon and its extremely thin legs nearly unable to keep it standing. Ash's eyes lit with an expression of complete eufory and at the same time guilt and sorrow, "PIKACHU!" he barked starting a dashing race torwards the little creature.
Pikachu's ears perked up as the bark reached her ears, she understood, it was a voice calling her name in the tounge of eevees. And she saw it. Two eevees raced torwards her, one male who trotted as if life depended on eaching her and a female who hesitantly ran behind the male. There was a strange mixture of smells in the air, floating lazily torwards her as the wind impulsed the scent. She recognized sorrow, hope, friendship and love, a strong kind of love, the one kind to fear for it's unpredictable character modified the bearer's personality. However these were wild pokemon and could not be trusted since they could attempt to hunt her. The pokemon's volts charged with electric energy as rage and distrust torwards the newcomers flowed across her veins, her instinct yelling in his mind to protect herself against the carnivour and extremely deadly hunters. Ash recoiled surprised, his own logical mind warning him against the dangers of approaching a deffensive pikachu. His heart dropped with great pain, a pain that punctured every single inch of his heart with a knife wrapped in flames, the pain of staring at a friend's eyes and not being recognized. Elly stopped next to Ash, her icy blue eyes glaring at the pikachu, her head up and chest out in pride and dominance. A single glance at the female eevee froze the little rodent's blood, inmediatly she knew that this pokemon was as dangerous and deadly as an angered gyarados, the great water serpent, and she also knew the chances of winning in her state were from minimal to nule. Elly's laugh echoed in the valley as a single roar of amusement and pride, "look at her, she can barely stand on her feet, much less gather enough energy to scratch us" Elly snapped harshly talking to Ash although her words were directed to Pikachu. Ash stared at her, a mixture of anger and sadness hitting his heart and stomach, "dont speak that way about Pikachu, she's done nothing to you, she's just protecting herself as much as she can...dont you have a heart? Cant you see she's already hurted enough?" Ash snapped at her, a deep growl echoing in his throat. Elly took a step to the right in surprise, her eyes scanning the pokemon's eyes in search of answers to his behaviour, but all she could see was pain, and that pain hit her with the force of a rampaging tauros. Lowering her ears and head she acceped her defeat, and although Ash would not understand that now he was the leader of the pack, and Elly knew one thing too, there was no battle deciding their ranking, the only strength of their hearts was the energy that powered their destiny as a pack.
Pikachu stared amused at both pokemon, their verbal fight bounced from one another like a tennis match, but a thought echoed in the little and weak pokemon's mind, why was this stranger protecting her against the rage of this female? Pikachu shook her head discarding the current of thoughts that flowed through her brain. Ash looked back at her, his penetrating gaze piercing her eyes caught her attention as the sensation of being observed sent goosebumps across her spine as if it was a freezing wind traveling down from the frozen mountains. Timidly she stared at the male pokemon with a slightly distrusting gaze, as well as with a great surprise, and something caught her attention, the warmth she could read in his dark chestnut eyes, the fire of triumph blazing in the depths of his eyes. Ash managed to curl his black lips in a faint, nearly unoticeable smile, "Pikachu, it's me" he said, his words choking with a current of tears and a wave of sobs that threatened to escape any moment. Pikachu squinted her eyes to catch a better look, her eyes gazing deeply into the eevee's, trying to catch a glimpse of something, she didnt kno what but something that would tell her who this stranger was. And with the speed of lightning the clear image came into her mind, those same chestnut eyes that stared with a sorrowful look into pikachu's dark brown eyes nearly a year ago. A boy mounted on a dragon's back, a handsome boy with dreams of becoming the best pokemon master ever, and with extremely deep chestnut eyes. Pikachu's lips curled in a joyful smile, and a current of happines drowned her with the waters of pleasure and dream, sending a warm sensation across her body, a sensation that filled her with new life, and hope, a hope already lost. She was still confused although the reality slowly sank in and with much more strength than ever, a reality that told her a terrible truth, Ash was dead, but this also sent a relief to her natural being, death was not the end. Her eyes gazed deeply into Ash's for a longer moment before her previously vanished voice returned, "Ash?" she stuttered in a faint whisper, a whisper that gave away her shock. Ash nodded slowly, a sad look reflecting in his face with the clarity of words in an open book's pages. Pikachu squeaked of joy as she suddenly recovered from her shock. Leaping against Ash she embraced him in a tight hug, a hug she had desired to be able to do many times ever since the news of his dissapereance had reached her ears. Ash yelled surprised as the full force of the female leaping on him sent him rolling to the floor, and his knotted throat cleared as a laugh echoed in the valley, a joyful laugh speaking for many emotions flowing through his body and many thoughts roaming his mind. Pikachu rubbed her tear stained eyes against his fluffy chest covered with silky, creamy fur, "i missed you, we all did, why did you leave us?" she blamed him although unable to cover her happiness with this sudden rush of anger. Ash laughed placing a padded paw on the pokemon's back, "as if it was my choice, Pikachu, and i've come as quick as i could ever since i regained conciousness, i've been very sick, you know? If it hadnt been for Elly i would be dead...again" Ash explained chuckling at his own little, ironic joke.
Pikachu stared at him, her eyes shinning as hey were covered in tears, but the gaze moved torwards the attractive pokemon that sat a few feet away from the two, her eyes staring curiously at the two but a glitter of jeallowsy blazed in the depth's of her icy blue eyes. Pikachu narrowed her eyebrows in both, conffusion and distrust, "have you forgotten Misty?" Pikachu inquired all of a sudden, hinting the slight anger that she felt about this fact. Ash moved his head torwards the pikachu's abruptly, his eyes scanning for hers to search for the hidden meaning of her words, "what do you mean?" Ash asked when he had found the pokemon's eyes, his gaze reading between the lines of the pokemon's sentence, the word becoming clear in her eyes. Pikachu looked at him matter of factly, a loopsided smile showing her amusement about the fact that some things nevr change, like the teen's inocence, "well, it's obvious, Alpha Male, you have found a mate already" Pikachu said suddenly feeling the strange sensation of seeing her trainer and friend as an equal, as another member of the animal world. Ash was taken by surprise, his eyes widdened greatly and his jaw dropped shocked. He kicked the pokemon aside with his paws and stood up, suddenly feeling really hot and oppresive, a feeling of butterflies fluttering across his stomach and the incoherent numbness of his brain due to the shock was clearly visible. Pikachu and Elly were both surprised at the reaction, but while Pikachu studied Ash with interest Elly looked away, locked in her own world of thoughts, a hand squiching her heart, and her logical mind fighting against the event that had been taking place in her heart for the past days. Pikachu's smile faded and was replaced with a look of slight sadness, "so it's true" Pikachu said sadly, her eyes finding the grass suddenly blooming with interest. Ash raised her head gently placing a paw under her chin and forcing her eyes to stare at him, "listen Pikachu, i didnt forget you, i'll never forget any of you, indeed, i came back, didnt i?" he explained seriously smiling faintly, his eyes scanning into her features for any sign of understanding. Pikachu nodded slowly but her eyes searched Elly once more as if pointing her out to Ash, wich she was doing actually. Ash understood but his gaze didnt leave his seriousness although a feeling of lack of oxigen attacked him, "she is a great friend, she has helped me survived and cme all the way here with me at free will, im grateful to her, that's all...ok, we became good friends and i'd die if she left, but we are friends, that's all" Ash explained as seriously, his words being forced out of his mouth and his heart aching every time a letter escaped his lips.
That was nothing compared to Elly, her ears caught everything spoken in the conversation and each time Ash said something, her heart sank lower and lower into the depths of dispair. She closed her eyes tightly trying to block away any vision of the world outside, trying to escape reality, but the image of the breathtaking eevee kept roaming her mind, his gentle and loving smile playing with her heart unconciously. A stray tear tickled her cheek as it escaped the stone hearted eevee's efforts to remain cool and passive in the most terrible and dangerous, or depressing situations. But this time the feelings that flowed across her body were so big she couldnt hold them back and lock them up in the cage of her heart, and she knew, she had just realized everything, and she knew most of the time you dont realize the importance of those surounding you until they are no longer there, and Elly was loosing Ash since now he had found his friends. She had accepted the fact that he would leave her once they had found his friends, but the only thought of it now that they had finally found her, sent a current of frozen fear across her back. However an idea suddenly appeared in her intelligent mind. She moved her gaze torwards Ash, but her features showed passiveness, "Ash, you have found them now, but you wont be able to tell them who you are, and how will you become human?" she reasoned, her voice cool and tranquil. Ash stared at her understanding her reasoning, she was right and he admited it, but there was something in the hidden side of his brain that told him he could return to his body.
The two were startled by the sound of light footsteps pacing across the grass in their direction, this followed by the melodic voice of a male shouting Pikachu's name. Pikachu's ears perked up and her dark brown eyes widdened in recognition of the sound, "quickly, run away, if Tracey finds you here he might try to capture you" she yelled desperately shaking her arms wildly in a motion for them to leave. As stared at his old friend with sadness and simpathy, "Pikachu, I..." he started saying, but his words were silenced by Pikachu's voice, "RUN!" she hissed desperately. The two canines didnt waist a second as their agile, thin legs carried them in a race torwards the top of the hill, away from any humanity. It was then, as he raced torwards the safety of wilderness, as his eyes stared into empty space as he ran, and a knife pierced his heart that he understood the difficulty to return to Misty. The two animals stopped at the top of the hill, their breathing heavy, their noses touching the grass as they took a brief rest to recover their exhausted bodies. Ash stared back at the camp with saddened eyes, but his eyes widdened at the vision he saw. There was a woman with flaming hair standing by the old, ragged tent. The moon penetrated the fine, white silk of her night gown shapping her slender and beautiful figure perfectly, the firm, round breasts, the wasp waist, the musculous, long legs. The young teen recognized the beautiful human inmediatly, "MISTYYYYY!!!!" his voice howled into the night, a surprised howl and at the same time, to human ears, mournful. The elven woman raised her head, a surprised expression crossing her handsome features, but as reality sank in her heart, she lowered her gaze to the ground, "it's simply my imagination, Ash is dead, he cant be yelling my name...but it sounded so...so real" she whispered to herself, her mind missing a friend while her heart loved another man. Ash lowered his head in sorrow. He missed her, true, but there was this thing in his heart, this feeling that everything had changed, that she had changed and...he gasped in surprise as a thought dawned in his brain, he had changed too.
His gaze moved to the young female eevee, his eyes widdening and his stomach knotting with a feeling of sudden discomfort. Elly was there, the sun washing her fur with highlights of a shinny, silver colour, her slender and musculous figure suddenly looked breathtaking to the teen's eyes. But it wasnt not that wich bothered the young male, it was the fact that the beautiful creature sat there, her nose pointing at the ground and her eyes closed. All the coldness and hardness that was characteristic from her personality had vanished and left a young, and vulnerable teenager. Ash approached her with caution, his steps careful and small, "Elly?" he asked, his voice a soft, worried whisper. The female eevee looked up, her eyes glittering with tears, her lips curled down in a sad expression, and the ice from his eyes had melted into a depressing sorrow. Ash's heart shattered in a thousand pieces, his eyebrows narrowed in a confused but at the same time sad expression as his stomach knotted and froze with a feeling of guilt and sorrow. Elly pierced his soul with her eyes, so full of despair in this exact moment, "now that you have found them, you will leave, right?" she said, her tone hopeless and close to a silent sobbing. Ash was taken back by this sudden and unexpected question, "E...Elly no...no, i'll neaver leave you, you mean too much to me, if you were not here, with me, right now, i dont know what i'd do" Ash said, his voice nearly a whine, but his mouth only represented what his heart felt, for this words had not been planned, they came out unconciously. A single tear streamed down his cheek and silently collapsed on the ground, a tear that repressented the sorrow and impotence he felt at the moment, the impotence he felt while seeing her cry, and the sadness he felt as the thought of loosing her stabbed his heart. Elly studied Ash closely, her expression changing from saddened to deeply surprised, and even disbelieving, "do you... do you mean it, Ash?" she said gazing at his eyes in search for the truth. Ash stared at her icy blue eyes trying to send the sincerity of his words through his gaze, "i mean it, Elly" he whispered and moved closer. The young male placed his arms and paws around Elly as he embraced her in a comforting hug, his paws pressing the female against his body tightly. Elly placed her paws around his body responding to the hug, her eyes closed as she rested her head on the male's musculous chest, and her breathing relaxed. Ahs placed his nose against her neck and breathed her scent deeply, "Mew, you are so pretty" he whispered unconciously, and not even realizing what he had said. The two creatured fell asleep in each other's arms oblivious to their surrounding, but in the place where Ash's tear dropped was a little dead flower, a flower that bloomed to a magnificent silvery flower.
AN: Here goes another chapter, personally im enjoying this quiet a bunch, i want to thank Twilight_the_Umbreon for adding me to her faves list, and i want to thank The Maeltrom Mephisto for his constructive reviews and his great critics from wich i learn a lot.
Personally i think the story is quiet cool already, interesting and not as slow, what will happen to Ash? Will he return to his friends? Will they recognize him? Keep reading and you'll know.