ChapterXXXIV- Bonding
We continued to walk down a fairly dark hall way until we reached an area a level
below ground. It was a huge master bath like the one I had at home on Cinnabar,
compleate with the staute and everything.
"The changing rooms are right over there, but there's only three." My future self gave her
daughter a suspisious look.
"Well, I'm going first." Hinokoai said.
"Oh no! Age before beauty!" She said.
"All right! We'll settle this here!" She said and smiled as she put a fist out infront of her,
my other self did the same, and they started to chant,
"Rock, paper, scissors, rock, paper, scissors, rock, paper, scissors...." going a little faster
every time. It was typical me to do that with any one to settle a dispute when I was little.
"Rock crushes scissors! You lose! I go first!" Hinokoai said, and walked over to the first
changing room.
"Hugh....I can't ever win these days ^_^" My other self said and I walked into the second
dressing room, while Erika took the third. We all changed into towels and I headed into
the water without one. I don't really care. It doesn't bother me at all to show a little skin.
Erika and my other self on the other hand, kept the towles on. I turned around to wash my
hair under the fountian and something touched my back where my scar was.
"OOOH! Hey who did that! Not funny! That was cold!" I said and turned around to see
Hinokoai marveling at my scar.
"Marcy!?" Erika shouted out, but I barely heard her and ignored it for a second.
"Mom has one just like this...." She said as she moved her finger up to the white wings
tattoos. "but not these." She said and I turned to Erika.
"I have them too." Erika said and turned around to reveal her black ones.
"Does it mean you're both angels? But if you are both angels, and I still exsist; that could
only mean that you're from a different dimesion as well." My other self said.
"We're not angels," I said, "we are quite alive. It occured at the Mahogany gym just about
a month ago."
"I didn't go to the Mahogany gym though. The gym leader was sick when we got there,
and we left."
"Well, what happened was..." I explained to them what had happened as my daughter
starred in wonder.
"Lugia hugh?" Hinokoai said. "Can I see your wings mom?" She asked refearing to me.
"Sure....I guess." I concentrated hard and my wings flew up, bringing some water with
them. I folded them then around, like a bird when it's not using them and she touched
them carefully, as if she was afraid they would break.
"They're beautiful!" She gasped and my other self starred on in wonder, then said,
"Ok. Well, we had better get out now; we have to see if your dad has found anything."
and my wings folded, then dissapeared as I got out and wrapped a towel around me.
"Marcy...." Erika whispered to me, "Hinokoai has tattoo's just like ours..." I stopped and
starred at her face.
"What?! How is that possible!?" I said as I looked over at Hinokoai. Sure enough, there
were two redish orange tattooed wings on her back, in the same place as ours.
"I'm not sure. Do you think it's just a coincidence, or do you think that she really does
have wings?" Erika asked as we walked back to our changing rooms.
"If she really does have wings, I'd love to know how she got hers." I said as I walked back
into my changing room. When I got out, my otherself was already upstairs checking on
Jarod, and it was just Erika, me, and Hinokoai. We walked upstairs together, with
Hinokoai starring at me the whole time. It bothered me at first, but as soon as I turned to
her and smiled, she stopped looking at me. Weird. Hinokoai was probobly just shocked to
see her mother 20 years before Hinokoai was born. We made it up stairs finally and Jarod
came down the stairs on the phone saying,
"Ok Dave...sounds like a plan....how long will it take..............I don't have that
long........how about 24 hours?...........Great! Thanks a bunch! Bye!" He finished and hung
up the phone. "Ah girls! Great news! Dave says that he may have found a way to get you
back to your time!" Hinokoai seemed to turn away as he said this, "If he can recalibrate
his time machine to work across dimesions, he can get you back easy!" He said and
Hinokoai, ignoring him, sat down on the couch, with her head down. "You should be
back home by 3:00 tommorow afternoon!......So let's see, what time is it now? Gosh! It's
almost 9:30! I gotta get up early tommorw, why don't you arange sleeping quarters
Noki?" He said refearing to Hinokoai.
"K dad." She said blandly.
"Anything wrong honey?" He asked as he hung the cordless phone up on the wall mount.
"No dad, it's nothing. You get to sleep! I love you!^_^" She said and kissed him when he
came over looking for a hug.
"Night honey." He said and went up stairs.
"Marcy, if you don't mind, can you take the couch down here? And Erika, you can sleep
in the guest bedroom." She said handing Erika two pillows off the couch.
"No problems with the couch!^_^" I said as I looked around for a blanket.
"Good! Then it's settled." She said, "I'll go upstairs and get you some blankets Marcy."
And she ran up the stairs on her tip toes and back down after she got some extra blankets
from the closet.
"Thanks." I said and put them across the couch.
"Good night Marcy!" Erika said and headed up stairs.
"Oh Erika, your room is the one after mine on the right, the other way are the Master bed
rooms." She said as she fluffed the couch pillows.
"You have more than one?" I asked.
"Yeah! One for my parents and one for their favorite pokemon. Usually Raichu, Leafeon,
Pegesedon, Hinoarashi, and R....." She suddenly stopped and caught herself in mid
sentance and stopped fluffing the pillows.
"Hinokoai?" I asked, and she said,
"It's nothing! I gotta get to bed! No school, but I gotta train! Good night!" She said and
ran upstairs.
"Weird...." I whispered, and jumped into my makeshift bed on the couch. I got myself
arranged and fell asleep.
I was abrubtly woken up by some one crying. It was coming from upstairs, since I
was the only one on the lower floor. I looked at the clock on top of the mantle; it read
11:00. The crying continued, and I got up, only to see Hinokoai walking down the stairs.
It was her crying that was wetting the carpets. She walked down silently other than her
sobbs, and I sat up, scarring her.
"Uh! I'm sorry!.....I heard you crying and....." She walked around the side of the couch,
and sat down next to me, still crying. "What's wrong? Is there.....anything I can do?" I
whispered. She shook her head no, and layed down in my lap.
"I don't.....(sniff).....want you to leave..." She said, sniffling.
"Why?" I asked, and she sat up, grabbing a tissue from the tissue box on the table in front
of me.
"I'll.....(sniff--blow nose--sniff)....I'll be all....alone again...." She said, and she put her
arms around me.
"oh......but....you know, we have to go back.....0_0(wait..)....why would you be all alone?"
I asked.
"This is an.....(sniff).....island in the middle of no where. There's no one......(sniff)....else
my age here. You're the first......(sniff).....person my age to visit this Island as long as I
can remember....."
"But you said again, so there must have been some time when there was someone else
your age...." I said.
"(sniff).....No.....no one else, except the pokemon that visited me that day........." She was
holding me in suspense, ".......that day, was the happiest day of my childhood. When I was
six, a beautiful bird pokemon landed here because it was hurt. I found it in the fields in
the back yard. I didn't tell mom and dad at first......but mom found out. She wasn't angry,
but scarred......because that pokemon was Ho-oh......"
"Ho-oh!?" I exclaimed.
"She said I should have told her because it could have hurt me......but that bird loved me
soooooo much......It was amazing how well we got along.....that's how I got my nick
name.....Noki....it means in our ancient language...."
"Fire birds love...." I finished.
"....that's right. So, I took care of it all by myself becuse my parents were afraid of it....in
return, it gave me one of his feathers, a peice of charcoal, and the phoenix wings...."
"So, you do have wings then...." I asked as it started to drizzle outside.
"It's true. I would practice flying everyday when mom and day were at work. I never told
them I could fly.....they never would have let me do it again.....I couldn't tell them....it was
me and Ho-oh's secret......He said to me, that if I flew tword the rainbow on my own
wings, I could see him again....but every time I saw a rainbow and wanted to spread my
wings.....my parents would be there....I haven't seen him since. I miss him...." She
continued as she began to fall asleep from exhaustion. I could here rain begin to beat on
the windows infront of me.
"Why don't you sleep down here with me..." I said and pried her arms off from around
me, putting them to her sides. I moved my legs onto the couch, and she slipped into my
lap, with her head on my chest.....fast asleep. "Oh, well. May as well try to get to sleep." I
said and put my head back, closed my eyes, and did fall asleep.
We continued to walk down a fairly dark hall way until we reached an area a level
below ground. It was a huge master bath like the one I had at home on Cinnabar,
compleate with the staute and everything.
"The changing rooms are right over there, but there's only three." My future self gave her
daughter a suspisious look.
"Well, I'm going first." Hinokoai said.
"Oh no! Age before beauty!" She said.
"All right! We'll settle this here!" She said and smiled as she put a fist out infront of her,
my other self did the same, and they started to chant,
"Rock, paper, scissors, rock, paper, scissors, rock, paper, scissors...." going a little faster
every time. It was typical me to do that with any one to settle a dispute when I was little.
"Rock crushes scissors! You lose! I go first!" Hinokoai said, and walked over to the first
changing room.
"Hugh....I can't ever win these days ^_^" My other self said and I walked into the second
dressing room, while Erika took the third. We all changed into towels and I headed into
the water without one. I don't really care. It doesn't bother me at all to show a little skin.
Erika and my other self on the other hand, kept the towles on. I turned around to wash my
hair under the fountian and something touched my back where my scar was.
"OOOH! Hey who did that! Not funny! That was cold!" I said and turned around to see
Hinokoai marveling at my scar.
"Marcy!?" Erika shouted out, but I barely heard her and ignored it for a second.
"Mom has one just like this...." She said as she moved her finger up to the white wings
tattoos. "but not these." She said and I turned to Erika.
"I have them too." Erika said and turned around to reveal her black ones.
"Does it mean you're both angels? But if you are both angels, and I still exsist; that could
only mean that you're from a different dimesion as well." My other self said.
"We're not angels," I said, "we are quite alive. It occured at the Mahogany gym just about
a month ago."
"I didn't go to the Mahogany gym though. The gym leader was sick when we got there,
and we left."
"Well, what happened was..." I explained to them what had happened as my daughter
starred in wonder.
"Lugia hugh?" Hinokoai said. "Can I see your wings mom?" She asked refearing to me.
"Sure....I guess." I concentrated hard and my wings flew up, bringing some water with
them. I folded them then around, like a bird when it's not using them and she touched
them carefully, as if she was afraid they would break.
"They're beautiful!" She gasped and my other self starred on in wonder, then said,
"Ok. Well, we had better get out now; we have to see if your dad has found anything."
and my wings folded, then dissapeared as I got out and wrapped a towel around me.
"Marcy...." Erika whispered to me, "Hinokoai has tattoo's just like ours..." I stopped and
starred at her face.
"What?! How is that possible!?" I said as I looked over at Hinokoai. Sure enough, there
were two redish orange tattooed wings on her back, in the same place as ours.
"I'm not sure. Do you think it's just a coincidence, or do you think that she really does
have wings?" Erika asked as we walked back to our changing rooms.
"If she really does have wings, I'd love to know how she got hers." I said as I walked back
into my changing room. When I got out, my otherself was already upstairs checking on
Jarod, and it was just Erika, me, and Hinokoai. We walked upstairs together, with
Hinokoai starring at me the whole time. It bothered me at first, but as soon as I turned to
her and smiled, she stopped looking at me. Weird. Hinokoai was probobly just shocked to
see her mother 20 years before Hinokoai was born. We made it up stairs finally and Jarod
came down the stairs on the phone saying,
"Ok Dave...sounds like a plan....how long will it take..............I don't have that
long........how about 24 hours?...........Great! Thanks a bunch! Bye!" He finished and hung
up the phone. "Ah girls! Great news! Dave says that he may have found a way to get you
back to your time!" Hinokoai seemed to turn away as he said this, "If he can recalibrate
his time machine to work across dimesions, he can get you back easy!" He said and
Hinokoai, ignoring him, sat down on the couch, with her head down. "You should be
back home by 3:00 tommorow afternoon!......So let's see, what time is it now? Gosh! It's
almost 9:30! I gotta get up early tommorw, why don't you arange sleeping quarters
Noki?" He said refearing to Hinokoai.
"K dad." She said blandly.
"Anything wrong honey?" He asked as he hung the cordless phone up on the wall mount.
"No dad, it's nothing. You get to sleep! I love you!^_^" She said and kissed him when he
came over looking for a hug.
"Night honey." He said and went up stairs.
"Marcy, if you don't mind, can you take the couch down here? And Erika, you can sleep
in the guest bedroom." She said handing Erika two pillows off the couch.
"No problems with the couch!^_^" I said as I looked around for a blanket.
"Good! Then it's settled." She said, "I'll go upstairs and get you some blankets Marcy."
And she ran up the stairs on her tip toes and back down after she got some extra blankets
from the closet.
"Thanks." I said and put them across the couch.
"Good night Marcy!" Erika said and headed up stairs.
"Oh Erika, your room is the one after mine on the right, the other way are the Master bed
rooms." She said as she fluffed the couch pillows.
"You have more than one?" I asked.
"Yeah! One for my parents and one for their favorite pokemon. Usually Raichu, Leafeon,
Pegesedon, Hinoarashi, and R....." She suddenly stopped and caught herself in mid
sentance and stopped fluffing the pillows.
"Hinokoai?" I asked, and she said,
"It's nothing! I gotta get to bed! No school, but I gotta train! Good night!" She said and
ran upstairs.
"Weird...." I whispered, and jumped into my makeshift bed on the couch. I got myself
arranged and fell asleep.
I was abrubtly woken up by some one crying. It was coming from upstairs, since I
was the only one on the lower floor. I looked at the clock on top of the mantle; it read
11:00. The crying continued, and I got up, only to see Hinokoai walking down the stairs.
It was her crying that was wetting the carpets. She walked down silently other than her
sobbs, and I sat up, scarring her.
"Uh! I'm sorry!.....I heard you crying and....." She walked around the side of the couch,
and sat down next to me, still crying. "What's wrong? Is there.....anything I can do?" I
whispered. She shook her head no, and layed down in my lap.
"I don't.....(sniff).....want you to leave..." She said, sniffling.
"Why?" I asked, and she sat up, grabbing a tissue from the tissue box on the table in front
of me.
"I'll.....(sniff--blow nose--sniff)....I'll be all....alone again...." She said, and she put her
arms around me.
"oh......but....you know, we have to go back.....0_0(wait..)....why would you be all alone?"
I asked.
"This is an.....(sniff).....island in the middle of no where. There's no one......(sniff)....else
my age here. You're the first......(sniff).....person my age to visit this Island as long as I
can remember....."
"But you said again, so there must have been some time when there was someone else
your age...." I said.
"(sniff).....No.....no one else, except the pokemon that visited me that day........." She was
holding me in suspense, ".......that day, was the happiest day of my childhood. When I was
six, a beautiful bird pokemon landed here because it was hurt. I found it in the fields in
the back yard. I didn't tell mom and dad at first......but mom found out. She wasn't angry,
but scarred......because that pokemon was Ho-oh......"
"Ho-oh!?" I exclaimed.
"She said I should have told her because it could have hurt me......but that bird loved me
soooooo much......It was amazing how well we got along.....that's how I got my nick
name.....Noki....it means in our ancient language...."
"Fire birds love...." I finished.
"....that's right. So, I took care of it all by myself becuse my parents were afraid of it....in
return, it gave me one of his feathers, a peice of charcoal, and the phoenix wings...."
"So, you do have wings then...." I asked as it started to drizzle outside.
"It's true. I would practice flying everyday when mom and day were at work. I never told
them I could fly.....they never would have let me do it again.....I couldn't tell them....it was
me and Ho-oh's secret......He said to me, that if I flew tword the rainbow on my own
wings, I could see him again....but every time I saw a rainbow and wanted to spread my
wings.....my parents would be there....I haven't seen him since. I miss him...." She
continued as she began to fall asleep from exhaustion. I could here rain begin to beat on
the windows infront of me.
"Why don't you sleep down here with me..." I said and pried her arms off from around
me, putting them to her sides. I moved my legs onto the couch, and she slipped into my
lap, with her head on my chest.....fast asleep. "Oh, well. May as well try to get to sleep." I
said and put my head back, closed my eyes, and did fall asleep.