Author's Note: Well, so much for this being a one-shot fic. I am going to continue with this as much as I can, there's only one problem. I have no idea about the songs that I can use. The two songs in these two chapters are both in the Pokemon: The first movie soundtrack. And they're the most depressing (strange, because I still like them), I somehow don't think a song like 'Vacation' is going to fit in here somehow.
I don't have the proper lyrics for the songs so I just typed what I heard (good thing I didn't do something like Slipnot then, no offence intended or anything to their fans).
And I don't really know that much about horses so if I get something wrong tell me and I'll change it.
Brother my Brother
By Dark Ice Dragon
If Only Tears Could Bring You Back
I stared at the bowl in front of me, but not really seeing it. I sighed and turned away from it. I sensed that somebody (or something) was watching me. Raising my head I saw that it was the trainer.
So it was the something then.
"Ponyta," he said when he saw that he had my attention, "you've got to eat something. If you don't, you'll become weak and could die!"
I snorted. The only reason why it cared about that was because then he wouldn't have me to show off to his friends about how he caught me.
Anyway, I'm a horse! Which means that I'm a herbivore, something which this trainer obviously still hasn't picked up yet. I mean, this stuff looks like it's meat! I want to graze, simple as that. Just grass, that's all I want, but nooo the trainer decided that it would be better if he got a new pokemon to fill in the space that my brother would have been in. Why didn't he just go and get a Dratini while he was at it?
"Please eat? We're in a haunted tower, lost. Who knows when we're going to get out. I can't have you fainting here when I don't know the next time that I'm going to see a pokécentre." His voice was sounding strained, like we had this argument too many times. Which we had. He had gotten us lost two days ago. Unfortunately for him he couldn't understand what we (the pokémon) had tried to tell him, which was to find the stairs and go down them. Seems kind of logical don't you think? The bad thing was, the trainer didn't have enough braincells to think of this by himself. And his voice was loud enough to scare the wild pokémon away.
I didn't believe about the tower being haunted either. I bet that it was the pokémon in here that made people think that it was.
I saw Raichu walk up to me. -'I think you should listen to him and eat;'- she said gently.
-'I'm not. I just can't.'-
-'Is it because you still hate him for capturing you?'-
I shook my head. -'No. I just can't eat this stuff. I can't eat meat.'- I explained.
-'…Oh.'-
-'Yeah, that's why I'm not eating. Well, maybe it is because I don't like the trainer but even I wouldn't starve myself for two days purposely.'-
Raichu just sighed. -'Are you ever going to try and be friendly with him?'-
-'No. He took away what I treasured the most and then tried to make me hurt who I treasured the most in my life.'-
It was then that a Cubone walked into our little camp. It went unnoticed by everyone apart from me. I think it was because I was the only one who was looking in its direction at the time. Everyone else was talking to each other and the trainer had its back to it.
It saw that I knew that it was there but not raising the alarm. It lifted its arm in a wave and said, -'Hello.'-
That got everybodys attention.
"What the-?" To say that the trainer was surprised was an understatement. He got over it quickly though. "Go, Alakazam! Use your Psybeam attack!"
Alakazam's eyes glowed blue as she powered up for the attack. She brought her hands together as a blue ball appeared there. She drew it close to her chest and then fired. This took less than five seconds.
The Cubone didn't know what hit it. It didn't try to block or dodge. When the dust cleared up, I could see that Cubone was still standing. Or maybe it had been knocked down and the dust gave it cover so that it looked like it hadn't been. It retaliated with its Bone Club attack. It threw the bone in its hand with all its might at Alakazam. Alakazam didn't have enough time to do a counter move. The attack hit her squarely in the chest and she was flung backwards from the force of the attack. She got back up rather shakily.
"Alakazam! Use your Confusion attack!"
Again, Alakazam's eyes glowed and this time Cubone attacked at the same time. When Cubone was hit it was still running forward, its momentum too fast to stop. Cubone's skull crashed into Alakazam. It was Cubone's Headbutt attack.
"Quick, use your Disable attack!"
Cubone didn't move, which meant that the attack was working.
"Go, pokéball!" The red and white ball arced in the air before letting out the streak of red lightning towards the Lonely pokemon. When the ball snapped shut, I saw that the button area was red and the ball was shaking occasionally. Then the red faded back into its original white.
"Oh yeah! I caught it!" I looked on as the trainer jumped about and did what I can only guess was a victory pose. "Now we can get out of here," he declared. I wondered if he had done the same when he caught me.
'But first we have to get unlost,' I thought. The trainer returned us all to our pokéballs.'
:-:-:
"You didn't know? And you've been in there for two days? I'm surprised that she didn't faint!" chided Nurse Joy.
The trainer hung his head. "I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't be saying sorry to me. You should be saying sorry to your Ponyta."
My ear twitched as I heard the door open fully behind me but I didn't turn around. I had already heard the exchange between Nurse Joy and him through the door.
"Hi Ponyta."
-'Leave me alone,'- I mumbled.
"You really shouldn't be up yet. Nurse Joy said that you should relax and just rest in bed," he said softly, so not to wake up Cubone.
-'And you should really read up on your pokémon before you capture them,'- I shot back at him. But of course he didn't understand.
I heard the trainer shake his head. "I'm sorry okay? Is that what you want? Do you hate me or something? How come you don't listen to me?" He asked me.
How I wished humans and pokémon had the same language. But if that happened humans would feel that their 'humanity' (A.K.A the ruling over other speices and being 'superior' over them as well) was being threatened.
The trainer obviously didn't know that horses usually slept standing up unless they were really ill.
I heard someone else walk into the room.
"Ryan? I think you should leave her for the moment. She needs some time to herself to remember what a good trainer you are," Nurse Joy said with a smile.
-'HA!'-
They turned to me. Then Nurse Joy nodded. "See? She agrees with me." She made shooing motions. "Now come one, out," she ordered gently.
I waited to hear the click of the door before walking towards the window. The blinds were open and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. This made the night sky seem more magical as each star shone to its fullest. Nothing was wrong with the sky but everything was wrong with my life.
-'You don't like him do you?'- I heard someone ask.
Staring at the filled beds, I saw that it was the recently caught Cubone who had spoken.
I shook my head. -'Why does everyone ask me that?'-
-'Because it's obvious. Can I ask why you don't like him?'-
-'It's a long story;'- I said bluntly, and left it at that. -'You should rest you know. Alakazam wasn't exactly gentle.'-
I saw the laughter in Cubone's eyes. -'You don't like our trainer and yet you sound like him.'-
I stiffened at the thought of being compared to the trainer. -'Go and rest,'- I repeated.
He did as I told him.
When I saw that he had closed his eyes I was back to staring out the window. I began to think about my brother again.
Was he doing the same? Was he looking up towards the moonlit sky? Was he looking at the same star that I was looking at?
If only I could break free of here! But I couldn't. I couldn't open the door because of my hooves weren't able to open them and the windows were proofed of most pokemon attacks incase a pokemon tried to escape.
I had found that out the hard way.
I wanted to yell out in frustration. I started to pace the floor, I don't know why, I just did. In doing so, I realised just how small the room was. It wasn't enough for me to do anything in it. I was able to walk and that was it.
I wanted to cry. I never knew how much I would miss my family. I was so used to their antics that now, when they weren't there to do them, it felt weird. I especially missed my brother. We were so close that strangers thought we were twins that looked different from each other.
I lowered my head. The only thing that I wanted now, I couldn't get. -'Why did I have to get myself caught?'- I whispered to no one in particular. -'Why couldn't I fight back? Am I weak? Is that it? Am I being punished for being weak?'-
-'I don't think you're weak,'- someone said behind me. It was Cubone again.
-'I thought I told you to go to sleep,'- I mumbled, not looking up.
Cubone shrugged from its bed. -'How am I supposed to get to sleep if all I can hear is you pacing up and down the room?'-
I looked away. -'…Oh…Sorry about that.'-
-'It's okay. I didn't want to sleep anyway.'- He looked thoughtful for a moment. -'Why do you think you're weak?'-
-'Because I let myself get caught, that's why,'- I replied.
-'I somehow doubt that you let yourself get caught.'-
-'Then why am I here?'- I demanded. -'If I didn't let myself get caught then why am I here?'-
'-You saw me fight, and I still got caught. You aren't weak,'- he repeated. -'There's not a lot of pokémon who would keep on fighting after being captured.'-
-'I guess. But I want to go home. I want to see my family again. I don't want to be here following someone else's orders.'- Cubone started to laugh when he heard me say that. -'What? What did I say:'- I asked, confused.
-'You? Following orders?'- I had to wait for a moment before he calmed down again. -'So far, I've seen you burn him, 'accidently' step on his toes, burn him again, not eat anything he gives you –although I now know why- and did I mention burning him?'-
I smiled at those memories.
-'Ah, I knew that you could smile.'-
I looked strangely at the pokémon in front of me. -'I thought you were supposed to only look out for yourself and that was it.'-
Cubone shrugged. -'So I'm different. What's wrong with that?'- I continued smiling. -'Can I ask you why you didn't like being caught? Apart from the loss of freedom.'- That question wiped the smile off my face. -'If you don't want to talk abou-'- Cubone said quickly.
-'It's okay. I feel like I can tell you anything. Only Golduck knows this, none of the others.
-'It's because of my brother.'- I explained. -'We weren't like the kind of siblings that argued and hated each other. It was the opposite for us; we went everywhere together, did anything together. If we weren't related, we would have been the closest of best friends.'-
Cubone knew what was coming. -'And then the trainer came,'- he concluded.
I nodded. -'And then the trainer came,'- I repeated. -'I hated being in that pokéball. I still do. I was on the verge of fainting when I was caught and what's the first thing I see when I wake up? Nothing.'-
-'I know what you mean. I thought that I had died or smething when I woke up,'- Cubone admitted.
-'That's not the worst of it.'-
-'How can there be more?'- Cubone wondered. -'He took away your family and your freedom. What else can he have done?'-
-'The first time he ordered me to come out, what do you think I saw?'-
I saw the realisation dawn on his face.
-'It wasn't...'-
-'It was. It was my brother. Now you can see why I don't like him. You should go back to sleep.'- That ended our conversation.
And that is me finished for today.
I've got some more ideas but I know when I'll be using those songs for and if I told you, it would give away what could end up happening.
And after checking about one hundred times, I now have a new phrase for the 'Roomslof will guide me'. I now have 'Rooms lock will guide me'. Big improvement huh? (--')
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading this.
