Chapter Two: A Beginning
Peru, ca. 2010
The tiny feline opened her eyes, straining to see through the dark clouds of dust hanging in the air. She could feel the weight of a wall on top of her and her paws throbbed. Jewel tried to look around, tried to see if she had been injured severely, tried to locate her owner, but all she could see was metal, plastic, and dust. Jewel tried to get up, but her head felt twice as big as normal and her neck wasn't strong enough yet to lift such weight. Jewel sighed. She wondered if she were going to die. That's just my luck, she thought - to get dragged into a bug-infested, violence-torn, hot, steamy waste of land - and now it's all over.
As she closed her eyes, Jewel could hear her owner whimpering. Strangely, she couldn't tell where the voice was coming from. It seemed to be coming from inside her head. Jennifer, her owner, was hurt - dying, maybe. If only she could get up, maybe she could help. She strained and pulled and pushed, but the wall on top of her wouldn't give an inch. She let out a scream of frustration. Darn it! (or something similar) I've got to get up!
Her eyes opened, but all she could see was a pink glow. Jewel vented her frustration on the wall, cursing it for everything it was worth, letting out a torrent of anger...
The walls around her leapt up from the ground and flew off in every direction. Air rushed in to fill the space, and Jewel, strengthened by her newfound energy, ripped into the surrounding area, tearing through trees, burying the slain people in piles of dirt and rocks, sending leaves hurtling through the air with such speed that they chopped chunks out of the loggers' heavy machinery.
Having laid waste to a good portion of the loggers' work area, Jewel let out a sigh of relief. It was important to let out one's feelings every now and again, and she DID feel better now. Jewel looked around her, below her - and she gasped. She was in the AIR! She twirled around in all directions, trying to see what held her up, but realizing that, in fact, she was FLYING. She smiled to herself.
AWESOME!
This was definitely more like it!
Jewel zigzagged through the remaining trees, flew loop-de-loops in the air, and summoned large twisters that scoured the land.
Still, she felt a tinge of trepidation, a nagging thought that wouldn't leave her. She had heard some sort of sound before the blast, a sound she couldn't quite compare to anything she ever heard, but it did kind of sound like some musical note that Jennifer meditated by. She knew that that sound was a warning, a warning that this wouldn't be the only change around - no, it was a warning that Earth itself was evolving a new strategy to protect itself. She decided the responsible thing to do was to leave (after finding Jennifer and making sure she was all right, of course), leave for parts unknown.
Jewel mewed cheerfully, despite her worries about that sound, and flew high into the air. As she looked around from her new vantage point, she saw her owner, her long red hair flowing seamlessly into a puddle of blood, lying motionless on an outcropping just past a cliff. Jewel descended slightly, and felt Jennifer's life force hanging on despite severe pain.
Jewel stared at her owner for a few minutes. Jennifer's eyes began to flutter, and Jewel paused, trying to come up with some sort of feeling. Her owner was alive, and Jewel couldn't be a pet anymore - not with her newfound purpose. She hadn't felt anything, originally, but it seemed as if the planet itself was whispering to her, informing her of an important mission that would change history forever. Earth had had Legendaries before, long before humans walked the land, and now there were none. Jewel saw her former owner's eyes open as she floated in the sky. They had to come back. They could set things right. People would have no choice but to change or face their wrath. Jewel mewed as loudly as she could as she flew off, away from her past life as a mere companion for humans. Mew would re-awaken the Titans from their long vacation, beginning with the Ancients - the predecessors of the modern age. Mew felt the Earth instructing her, showing her in her heart how to put them back on the map. There'd have to be a little tweaking, to put them in direct confrontation with human beings. Mew didn't want to hurt Jennifer, but the planet was in its death-throes, and the Legendaries had to come back to set things right.
Peru, ca. 2010
Meanwhile, some tiles on the broken bricks of the ancient temple shattered as an energy wave swirled up from the lost civilization, reconfiguring the work area, absorbing all the strewn documents and mystical symbols lying all over the ground. The writings jumped off pages and tiles - dancing, swirling, spinning in the air before being sucked into a vortex of pink-purple clouds, disappearing as quickly as they had been born, to be unknown until the rebirth of Earth's legends.