New World:
I woke up, but I felt the absence of something.
Pain. The intense… pain, and hurt that I had felt since her death. I knew that I had fallen asleep wishing I could die… but today, it felt like I had something to do… something that would make my life worth living. What was wrong with me? I'm a jackass, even without the crimes I've done.
When I cleared my eyes (and blinked them into focus), I was nearly struck dumb. There was an aura of something overhead, and I was in a crumbling city. There was no way I was still at the same place. I wasn't bound (meaning that I'd been found), and I wasn't dead.
Suicune nudged me from behind, and her gaze went to my right.
There WAS a mountain, but it wasn't Mt. Silver. I looked around, and then shuddered. "Where are we?"
Where do you think we are? A new world. You and I have a chance to start over. I nodded. "How'd you… heal me? I know you tried before, and nothing worked." It is… complex. I made a deal with someone… we do them a favor, they do us one. Since you would have happily killed yourself when we got here, and I couldn't always stop you… they distanced you from your pain. They said it would be like years had passed, and you had finally come to peace with what you did. I sighed. "I'm not totally at peace with it." Neither am I, but we'd best take what we can get. Let's get going, we've got to fulfill our end of the bargain.
I nodded, and sighed softly. It's rather difficult to ride a pokemon. Don't let anyone tell you different. Suicune's backward leading 'ribbon' (I didn't know what to call it) had to go over me. She never said WHY, but it did.
Once I was more or less crouched on her back (luckily I'm short), she was off.
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Did I ever tell you that the so called 'legendary dogs' move fast? Suicune's supposed to be the slowest, and she's faster than Erastrani. Hell, she's faster than Psymachine when he's using Agility.
Well, since there's nothing better to do, I'll give you the lowdown on my pokemon. Erastrani is a female Flygon. Psymachine and Suicune you know already. Well, if you can't remember, he's a Metagross. What other steel/psychic do you know? And don't say Jirachi. Does Jirachi look like something that you'd call 'Psymachine'?
Mindstrike is a male Medicham (and don't rip on him. Unlike most Medicham, he DOESN'T suck. All his abilities are rated at 'far beyond average'.) In an equal level battle with a type disadvantage (A flying psychic type, I'll leave it to you to figure out which one), he beat the living shit out of that bird. He didn't even need to recover. Even when it scored a critical with Drill Peck. He's scary, sometimes. Especially when he's pissed.
Anyway, my other two are Sunseeker (my sweet natured Meganium (female – most males tend to be a bit more aggressive)), and Balrog. I'll give you one guess on what pokemon he is. Don't blame the name on me; I gave him a different nickname. When my pokemon met Her Suicune for the first time, Suicune told me he wanted to be called that.
I don't know how Suicune talks to me. She just does. It's the wind, I guess, that does the talking for her. But it's always the North wind, and always cold.
Anyway, I'm Icewind. Just Icewind, I don't have a name anymore. I'm considered to be one of the world's best trainers (well, my world. Dunno about this place), and if I had just bothered to take the Master's challenge, I would have been a pokemon master.
But that never interested me. Right now, I'm in a pair of black cargo pants, and a black T-Shirt. Both have bleach stains, and some of the stains also have bloodstains.
In other words, my clothing has seen better days. But they're all like that. Clean (more or less), black, and beat up.
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We arrived in a massive cleared area, and Suicune took a break near a travel agency. While she recovered, I looked over the stuff they had to sell.
A mixture of swords, katanas, balls (they called them Blitzballs, but I have no clue about that), dolls (again, I have no idea why), staffs, and hand-blades (well, I call them that. The type of weapons a Twin Blade from .Hack would use).
I sighed, and my eyes widened when I saw a red-white sword, with a pokeball emblem on it. Suicune wearily said that's none to subtle a hint. Buy the sword. I nodded softly, and pulled out my money. It looked different – it wasn't poke dollars. But they accepted it.
Once I'd paid for the sword, I swung it around, getting a feel for it. I've used swords before – guns are impossible to get, but swords aren't. In fact, even the Rockets only gave their executives guns. The damn things were impossible to get at home; knives or blades were usually the common weapon. Well, the ambush had machine guns… but I think that was because they planned that.
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People didn't seem to like Suicune. She was worried, I could tell. Some were apparently wondering if she was some kind of 'fiend'.
I sat down next to her, and apparently that made it worse. They tried to drag me away. BAD MISTAKE.
I nearly sliced the guy's arm off. "Leave me the fuck alone. She's with me, OK? Or do I have to ram a sword into your gut before you get it?"
Mostly, they backed off. Especially when they got a glance at my eyes.
You see, my eyes aren't normal anymore. With all the exposure to Suicune, they've become an ice blue (and as cold as the eighth circle of hell, or so I'm told), and they're very expressive. Right now, they were probably promising blood and murder if anyone TOUCHED Suicune.
We got left alone after that. She seemed to get a kick out of the fact how fast most ran away. I growled, but she knew I was mostly doing it for show. After that, I took out a 'recovery' amulet I'd made a long time ago, and put it around her neck, leaving it with the other amulet already hanging there. It would help her recover energy faster, with no cost to her.
Sometimes, even legends need support.
Surprised by the attitude change? Don't be. This is ACTUALLY his personality. He was depressed before. Now, he's got something to reach for, so this is him 'motivated'. But he won't always be an asshole. Just for now.
And Icewind isn't his real name, either.
He'll eventually say his real name. Until then, he's Icewind. Got it?
And no, it's not inspired by Taledras. It's kinda based off the north wind… if you think about it.
