Suddenly, out of nowhere, a flaming blurr appeared with the speed of a flashing lightning, and the leaves were inmediatly crushed to green powder, like smoking weed. He was shocked, as shocked as the whole party, but his eyes focused to where the flying blurr had landed. There stood Elly, her head high, her mischievous smile in her lips and her pose straight and proud, like she was, one proud dog. Ash smiled, "Thank you Elly, saved my neck there!" he stated with a smile. A gentle feeling flowed through him, his soul screaming out the reasons, his mind twirling in a whirlpool of conffusion and misunderstanding, and his body, cold with the fear that floated in the air, warmed up with the current of warmth that moved across his veins. His ears caught a sound that snapped him out of such state of conffusion and incoherent happiness. It was like the cracking of a twig, snapping into two pieces, but the faint sound was enough to alert the young eevee, for any sound in such place could mean the closeness of an unknown peril. And so it was, the world became in slow motion as his eyes caught the image of two green leaves, those ones star shapped like the leaf of marihuana, approaching his best friend quickly, twirling and dancing with their movement of death and pain. He didnt think twice before starting a gallop against time, torwards the young female. Elly stared at him, eyes startled with surprise and a slight conffusion until she realized the danger she was on. Too shocked to move, Elly stood frozen, eyes wide with fear as the leaves were aimed at her neck, ready to cut her throat vein. Ash heard the yells of creatures, urging him to go faster, or advicing him not to do such for it was suicide. He didnt listen. They became incoherent sounds, a numb buzzing in his mind, and the world around him vanished, it was him, his target and the two kamikaze leaves. He leapt forward and pushed the young female out of the way, too late for him it was as the leaves pierced his skin. A shriek, a painful yell scaped his throat as he felt crimson blood flowing through the gash in his side and stomach, a fluid staining his brownish fur with an intense red colour.
Ash collapsed unable to bear the intense jolts of pain that dashed across his nervous system, his vision becoming blurry and his mind starting to darken, he was fainting, and was much likely to die due to the loss of blood. He heard a shirek, the call of a large prey bird, and his mind recognized the flashing of lightning before he lost conciousness completely. Against of his own thoughts, the bird was not attacking the helpless group of creatures that fought with all their might to escape the murderous claws of the forest. Indeed, the creature as none other than his Pidgeot, the one that earlier had saved him ad Elly from the hunger of another member of his specie. The flash of light that illuminated the dark and misterious forest was his friend, the little yellow rodent, saving them from the assasin whip of an enormous branch that extended it's rotten wood with twisted intentions torwards the two canines. Tracey picked the little dog in his arms and stared at the rest of the group, his eyes wide and his skin pale with fear, "let's get out of here, quick!" he yelled trying to make his voice rise over the thunderous roars of the souless trees. His words said, the young man sprinted away in time to dodge the smashing of a branch being used like a club. They ran, leaping over roots which suddenly emerted to trip them, feeling the numb roar of the souless forest attempting to follow them, hearing the cracking of wood as numerous branches attempted to grab them, reatining them there for eternity. The moans of trees became fainter as the group dashed away, their feet moving as quickly as they could drag them. Misty, being an Elf, was in her enviroment, the woodlands, and her quick and agile steps, as well as the good reflexes, kept her out of the path marked by destruction. The young girl gasped, her aqua eyes gazing with terror in front of her, "Trace, these trees wont let us pass, they wont!" her melodic voice whinned with a shrill of terror tangled in her chords. In front of them a group of trees tangled their branches forming an unpenetrable wall to retain the group, their moves were slow but their strategy perfect, creating a web like pattern to enclose the group in their jail of wood. Tracey shook his head, "WE WILL!" he said between exhausted gasp, and making a last effort he increased his speed, Ash's limp body firmly held by his tender grip. Misty bent down and grabbed Pikachu from the floor, the slower greature yelping in surprise at the feeling of the woman's hands enclosing around her little body. With an agile leap Misty stepped on a branch that had nearly caught them with a whipping slash, cracking it and hearing in her acute ears the painful yell of the tree, something like when scratching a blackboard with long nails. She kept running, still feeling in her heart the pain of harming any creature that belonged to the forests. Being an Elf she was in great union with the nature, being it a very near friend, someone who had always been there when needed. Misty never thought she would see the day when trees, consumed by the hathred of man and disposed of their only hope of harmony, the purity gifting Mistress of the Woodland, would rebel against their best friends, the Elves.
Tracey kept running, his speed increasing considerably by each step, a misterious, blueish glow illuminating his musculous and handome body, his eyes fixed on the little gap which closed gradually. It was late, and Tracey knew it, nothing but a miracle would save them from being captured by the murderous shadow of a once magical forest, the nest of all purity, now gone and become the spawning pool of the darkest evil imaginable, hathred, ambition and thirst of power in their physical form. This three sins where created by the erroneous human specie and now, specially their ambition had brought them to bring death and destruction not only in this forest, in this lands since the infestation will expand like a pest around the world. It was late not only for them, but for nature as well, the world would end up populated by the souless remains of the once wonderful creatures, their only thought being exterminating those who destroyed them, including those which look like Humans. People would live in fear, in terror, destruction will expand and a new era of blood where the strongest survives will arise from the ashes of hathred expanded around the planet. But Tracey and his friends will not leave to see the terrible outcome of human negligence, there was no hope for them.
Elly leapt forward, her eyes fixed on the trees, she would not die her, she would not let Ash die, "there must be a minimal oportunity of breaking that web" she thought baring her teeth. She thought about Ash as her agile legs kept her moving with an automatic pace, she thought on how he had stood between her and the razor leaves aimed at her neck, on how the young animal had saved her from a sure death. Her icy blue eyes tingled with the salty fluid that blurried her vision, "does he care?" she thought to herself, her heart desiring with all it's power that it was real, that he cared for her enough to give his life for hers. Although she knew he was loyal to his friends, her heart spoke in a more powerful scream than her logic this time. It was because of her, no...for her that Ash was dieing, and she would not let him die, not when they have made it so far. She flet her blood boiling with anger and hathred torwards the woods that menaced to destroy them, suddenly feelig not fear but an intense heat that coloured her world with the crimson glow of blood. She felt powerful, she felt like nothing could overpower her will, like not even the thickest and tallest mountain would separate her from her destination. She leapt forward, jaws open, feeling some sort of misterious instinct that incited her to do such. A jolt of pain coursed through her throat, as if, by some misterious force it had changed, becoming different, a peculiar experience Elly could not describe. She felt a freezing current of cold fluid course it's way through her throat, like a frozen glaciar moving with extreme speed across it. A colum of glittering ice dashed forward, escaping from her mouth, gloawing with an inner light that spoke of the large ammount of energy that created this beam. Clouds of cold vaho escaped in a swrling moting from the zigzagging beam of light, speaking of it's lo temperature and becoming stronger as it collected particles of water and transformed them into more ice that acumulated on the beam. The beam impacted on the web created by the tangleing of rotten branches and an acute shrill echoed in the athmosphere revealing the pain this shadows of trees still were able to feel. The branches recoiled like a small vampire Zubat when the brilliant rays of sun burns it's delicate and unprotected skin, covered by a very thin coat of silky fur. Elly penetrated the gap left by the still surprised trees and vanished into the thick and pale fog that still blocked their vision range into the ignorace of the distance they would still have to put behind until escaping these trap.
Tracey was shocked, the attack had taken him by surprise, however his will to survive was greater than his need to analize the event that had taken place, and the branches, now that the trees had recovered from their surprise, started to close again. He grabbed the young Elf's hand, a firm grip around her delicate fingers, and concentrated, becoming nothing but pure energy, the essence of any creature, the energy that formed every single cell of a body. The white glitter floated across the tense athmosphere, slipping past the thick and anguishing fog, vanishing into the silvery white colou that characterised this peculiar manifestation of the lack of purity.
He, with the rest of the group, emerged to encounter the pleasant rays of a bright sun washing the calm and peaceful suroundings of a very beautiful beach. The water sang with a soft voice as the waves splashed their foams around the sandy shore. Elly followed the glitter with her icy eyes, her mind blocking the thoughts about her new attack, thoughts she had reserved to later observation. The glitter glowed brightly, like a fallen star, and materialized into the creatures she knew, the Elf, the something strange she still hadn't figured out which was his specie, the pikachu and a limp Ash on Tracey's arms. The young human removed the little canine from his body and placed him on the pale sand, the sun caressing the little body with it's golden rays of life, life that will soon be extinguished. Ash's fur was covered in blood that still emanated from the two gashes, some vital organs were so severely damaged it seemed impossible his recovery, this organs being part of the digestive system, and a mayor vein was cut, causing an hemorrage which still kept bleeding. Elly observed the little creature with sad eyes knowing well the outcome, a red flash glinting in her eyes as she planned revenge against the evil that had caused the destruction of something as pure as a forest, and the loss of the only eevee she ever loved. Tracey's T-shirt was also covered in blood, still wet and sticked to his chest, but he ignored that and placed his hands over the canine's body but not touching the creature. His hands started glowing, a pure white colour engulfing them and traveling torwards the creatures body. The strange magick revolcved around the gashes, penetrating the barely living creature, healing the fatal wounds, stopping the internal bleeding and returning the energy he had lost through this loss of blood, of the fluid of live. The wounds were completely healed now, closed, without leaving a trace as if they had never been there.
Ash's eyes oppened slowly, the unaccustomed organs blinking painfully at the sudden attack of brightness received. A groan escaped the animal's black lips and his muscles screamed in pain reminding him of his previous state of near death. Elly gasped, her muscles paralized by the sudden shock, a minute ago Ash was dying without hopes of recovery and the next moment he was standing there, completely healed and as if nothing had ever happened to him. He stared at the eevee, in his eyes hidden the remaint's of a worry that had impulsed him torwards a suicidial act, and this worry was revived upon the vision of the creature that had had a great influence over his coherency and his heart. He rushed over to her and placed a paw of her shoulder, his steps were still hesitant and goofy but he was all right, "Elly, you ok?" he asked not knowing if he had managed to save her from the attack, or if one of the leaves had caught her. Elly nodded slowy, still shocked about such miraclous event. As the movility returned to her muscles, she wraped the eevee in the tightest hug any creature had ever received, a hug that was full of reliefe and love. The female's eyes watered and soon tears were moisting the male's creamy coloured mane, "Oh Ash, I thought I'd loose you" Elly said with an strangled voice due to the flow of tears drowning her. Ash placed his paws around the female's slender body and inhaled her scent deeply, his keen nose sensing a slight variation in the intensity of her characteristic smell, "I was so worried, Elly, I dont think I could bear loosing you, you have become...my best friend" he said, hesitating before explaining what the little eevee meant to him. For some reason he couldnt come up with the exact words, and even the chosen lexic still sounded too cold and distant from the truth of his feelings.
The dog's words were being unnoticed by the two creatures that had been involved in the attack, the two creatures that still formed a solid barrier between Ash's desires, splitting them between his wish to become human again and recover Misty, and the freedom of being an eevee, a creature of the nature. Misty's eyed tracey with suspicion, a hesitant feeling shaking her body like the freezing cold of winter, "what are you?" she asked in a cold, inquiring voice, eyes narrowed with distrust. This word's called the eevee's attention, specially Elly's who had not only seen but felt the miracle that just ocurred, felt the purity that irradiated from such noble act. Tracey ran a nervous hand across his hair, his eyes evading those elven eyes belonging to the woman he loved, "Mist, I...it's not easy, you see?" he started, his voice becoming a trembling stutter as the integrity of the brave man collapsed with the strength of an avalanche. Misty's arms were crossed in a sing of impatience, her eyes still narrowed and her moves careful and vigilant, "I'm waiting Tracey, what-are-you?" she said coldly, her voice tearing the man's heart with the ferocioty of a blizzard, sharp particles of ice tearing his soul. He lowered his head, not in shame like Misty thought, but with the unbearable pain of rejection, of distrust, of hesitance and fear, and all this came from the woman he was in love with. A swift hand rubbed a bright tear that thratened to show, "I'm an Angel, Misty, I'm your Angel, the one sent to protect you" he said, his voice was faint, weak, and quivery, and this note of pain floated with each attempt at vocalizing words. Misty gasped loudly, her eyes widdening now, out of all creatures she knew about, the last one she expected was an Angel, much less the conffesion that he was sent to protect her. She placed a hand over her mouth, "Trace, I..." she started, but upon realizing she was at a loss for words, she gave in any attempt of begging forgivenes for being so distrustful. The young man didnt look up, his manly hands were placed on the sand, printing his characteristical, smooth hand in the soft and warm beach sand, "If it hadn't been because of me, the day Ash died you would have commited suicide, having no hopes left to go on, having lost your first true love" Tracey explained burying his head deeper into the shadows formed by his own body. Ash pricked his ears with attention, a curious look glinting in his eyes and written in his canine features while the Angel explained his story.
Misty nodded with understanding, her cheeks flushing with embarrasment although her eyes were wide with surprise, she never thought she would do such a thing due to someone's death, due to Ash's death, the man she had once loved with all her heart. Her hand traveledtorwards the Angel's hand, her delicate fingers caressing his larger and manly onces tenderly, "that is past, Tracey, now it is you who I love, and I wouldn't change that now" she explained, her face irradiating with a light, a brilliance that spoke for the strong emotions contained in her heart. Tracey looked up, his face drawn with the hillarious lines of concern, a faction that faded as soon as the energy flowing from the Elf's touch reached his heart and banished his previous embarrasment and sadness, replacing it with a cheerful smile. The same couldn't be spoken about Ash, his head had snapped up upon hearing this conffession, his eyes had suddenly become dull and his jaw hanged open with shock. He never felt such sensation, he was feeling hurt, true, all his hopes of recovering Misty might have vanished, and he was feeling betrayed by that who was his friend, and who turned out being an Angel. However there was something kicking his mind and thoughts, there was the fact that, as hurt and betrayed as he felt, there was still something missing. It was true that his heart ached as if the same Misty had pushed a knife through it, and it hurted because it was her doing it, but his emotions weren't as intense as he would have expected. Somehow it was mostly the shock from the news received the trigger of his reaction, not the pain itself, it almost felt as if he was made out of ice, completely emotionless.
Ash walked away silently, head hanging and ears low. He needed some time alone, some time to think about the turbulent river that had become his mind, and his heart since all was connected. Misty stared at the eevee as he left, her eyebrows raising with conffusion, "what's with him?" she inquired mostly to herself, a tone of curiosity flowing with the melody of her voice. Tracey stared at the retrating figure, a hand traveling torwards the back of his head in a motion of confusion, "I...I dont know" concluded the young man extending a hand to grab Elly from the neck skin. The female had wanted to follow Ash, concerned about him although her heart ached with each beat, knowing the young eevee still loved the Elf, "stay here, I have to heal those scratches, they might get infected" Tracey said smiling at the eevee. However Elly could not smile back, she was somber, a shadow seemed to have engulfed her and possesed her integrity, her soul.
The male eevee sat on top of a rocky cliff, the day was passing by in front of his eyes but the living statue did not shake a muscle, his mind was busy trying to figure out the truth of his feelings. He could not speak to Elly, she was involved directly into this matter. His mind traveled across the past weeks, ever since he woke up from the severe comma he had been into for over five months until discovering Misty and Tracey's relationship. He didn't think about the perilous journey itself, he didn't care about the path traveled or the dangers passed, he was concerned about the times when he thought he'd loose Elly. He relived the penetrating fear, the blizzard that had ran across his body numerous times when remembering the terrible feeling that he'd loose her forever. The time when he leapt across the rocks and finally jumped into the river trying to save her from the flood, when he galloped across the praire right after the eevee decided to have some fun with a herd of tauros. Also there was the time when the pidgeot attempted to have eevee for breakfast, he thought he'd die if he lost her. The most shocking moment was when he thought the forest would kill her, and he had pushed her aside, standing over her to shield her from the razor leaves, nearly getting himself killed. In that moment nothing mattered, if something had happened to her Ash would have died, he didnt want to loose her and that was a reality. He lowered his gaze realizing something confusing about his feelings, "Elly..." he whispered thinking how important the eevee was to him, but exactly how much?
He pricked his ears hearing the sound of tiny legs pressed against the soft sand. He turned around, his face suddenly pale and wondering if it could be Elly, although he still wished it was her. A sigh of reliefe escaped his black lips upon seeing the golden coloured rodent approaching him happily, a look of joy but also concern danced with her features, "are you ok?" Pikachu asked with a knowing look crossing her face. Ash raised his ears and nodded, "yeah, I was just...thinking" he said dully, his eyes focusing the ground. Pikachu's smile faded, hier eyes shinning with understanding flashing in them, "it's Misty, right?" her question took Ash by surprise. No, it wasnt Misty the one he couldn't take off his mind, but he wouldn't admit it, his hopes of being human again still alive, "do you still love her?" Pikachu asked carefully, silently, fearing the answer. Ash turned around abruptly, almost violently, startling the little pikachu which was part of an eevee's diet, "of course I lov...e..." he yelled, but somehow stopped in mid sentence. He realized something, which cause a smile starting to appear in his lips, he didn't mean his words. It was a faint smile but the brightest one ever seen, a smile that was able to light the darkest days, "it is true" he whispered, his thoughts placed on that one who meant more to him that anyone ever did. He turned to Pikachu, his smile growing by the minute as his thoughts became clear to him, "it is true, Pikachu, I love her!" he snapped with a joyful laugh. Finally he knew what he felt, finally he felt completely full of life, full of energy.
It ocurred in such little time, Pikachu didnt even have time to inquire who he was talking about when a flash of bright, white light irradiating from the eevee's body blinded him. Ash was frightened at first, his body shaking violently due to the fear and due to the currents of energy coursing through his body. It was painful, he felt his bones twisting, bending, yelling with an unbearable pain. It felt as if something enormous was pressing his body with tectonic force, remodeling his muscles and bones as if he was plastilin. He couldnt see anything, all around himself was white, pure white, a blinding light as if he had penetrated the sun itself. Suddenly the pain subsided and the intense glow faded. Ash layed sprawled on the ground, but he was not an eevee any more. His body was still as elegant and musculous but the thick mane that had shown his gender and dominance had been replaced by a bunch of hair at the sides of his face, almost like a lynx's face fur. However the point of this fur was dominance, and it's colour became an intense white in heat season to attract females. His body was completely covered with a coat of thin, silky, fur, of the most intense silver colour, almost as if a pieve of the moon had fallen from the sky to give it's magical colour to the animal. His ears had become triangular, finished on a bunch of long hairs, the same as his tail had grown cat like, althought the tip had been parted in two points. His muzzle had also become pointier, more powerful and deffinitely more deadly added to the amazing speed the animal could reach now. But his eyes remained the same.
Pikachu stared at the young dog that layed in front of him, completely exhausted but with a dreamy expression, his thoughts still laying on the special creature, "Ash...you evolved!" Pikachu spat with a silent and careful voice, almost fearing getting attacked by the eevee if such revelations were told. The disbelieving eyes of her former trainer stared at her, "I what?...but...how?" he stuttered nervously upon seeing the truth of her words reflecting on the silver fur of his paws. Pikachu stared at him, "I...I dont know...I think it has to do something with your emotions and...that one who you love" Pikachu explained choosing his words carefully, not wanting to step on the wrong log and fall to the river of the dog's anger, or anxiety. Before either could answer, the sound of a female sobbing and the soft, numb thumping of running pads reached their ears. Ash was able to see the familiar, canine figure belonging to Elly retreating. Suddenly a nausea overcame him, how much had she heard? What did she think of him now? He feared loosing her now more than ever, and the joy that had reached his heart upon realizing his feelings had been shaded by the darkness of doubt. He followed the figure with his confused gazed, "Elly, wait, it's not what you think!" he barked and got ready to follow the little canine. However, his paws never moved, the rock he was standing on began to shake, the oceans started to enrage and the darkness of night started to stretch it's veil over the skies. Ash gasped loudly, an enormous figure blocking the feeble remaints of the sun light, shading his now insignificant figure against the colossus in front of him.
AN: Ok, here comes another chapter, sorry bout the cliffhanger, :D, things are surely getting more interesting hu? What will happen to Ash? And Elly? Poor Ash, realizing Misty and Tracey are together, :P. Anyways I thank all who have been reading it, and those who have reviewed. Keep going guys, only a little more, I dont know how many chapters but aprox 2 or 3 more, ^_^. Well, also read my other stories, they are ok too. BTW, did I tell you I won another story contest? This one at my highschool, I'm so happy, with the money I got I'll buy more books. Well, hope you are enjoying.