I almost forgot I wrote this… Well the idea stuck and I'm finally back, from my vacation in digimon comicdom.
Soul of the Monarch Part 2
Power to the Roches!
Komo wandered around the little town for about, five minutes before deciding she was lost. "This town is like a maze of air! Where is a shop!" She yelled at they sky. Scaring several grasshoppers and other non-huge wildlife away. Her cockroach crawled up onto her shoulder. "Oh, Jome, you're up." She said and patted the cockroach.
"I'll get you!" Komo turned around to have a girl with bright pink hair in a flower patterned pink dress run into her. She had a butterfly net and was chasseing a grasshopper.
"Jomo, breakfast. Who are you?" Komo said, glaring at the other girl. The cockroach jumped on the grasshopper and began to eat it.
"Oh, Sorry… Omigod, a roach! It listened to you… Your pet? I'm Rosie. You must be new here, what's your name?" Said, Rosie. She began to dust herself off.
"I'm Komo, from that red house somewhere around here and before that, Neo City. The roach is my pet. She makes all my money.
"Neo City? I always wanted to move there but the houses are so expensive. Where did you live?" Rosie said in awe.
"Wherever, the others were… Do you know where a shop is in this place?" Komo cut herself off and looked around.
"Oh, I totally forgot, Nook generously gave me a job there!" Rosie ran off in a random direction. Komo picked up the very full cockroach, and ran after her. They were soon at a shop that looked as it had been thrown together in a day and left to rot for years after.
An angry raccoon stepped outside. "It took you long enough. What took you so long!" Nook said.
"I'm so sorry, I got distracted by a grasshopper!" Rosie said, looking genuinely sorry.
"You didn't tell us when to be here, Looky." Komo said simply, and tried not to glare at him.
"Ug, more nicknames. Come here, you need uniforms." Nook said. He led them in and gave them both green dresses. The shade of green was tolerable, but the logo of what looked like a badly drawn plum was ridicules.
Ug, I have to listen to a raccoon and be a walking advertisement. It isn't even red. Thought Komo. I thought I'd never wear a dress unless someone paid me, at least he's paying.
"Yay, more clothes, thank you sir!" Rosie said cheerfully.
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After a bit they had changed and Rosie cheery as ever was out planting some seeds. Why does she get the easy job. Mumbled Komo as she vainly tried to sweep the thick layer of dust covering he wooden floor in the green dress.
"Omigod, a sprier, kill it, kill it!" Said Nook, screaming like a girl. There was a little spider on a web, in front of him.
Komo was content to let him act like an idiot. Jomo nipped her. "Go on boy." She whispered to him. Her pet crawled, hidden to right near the web. Komo inched away and used the broom to kick up a huge cloud of dust. Jomo crawled up the web and began too much on the spider.
"Roach! This place is infested! Call animal control, before the health patrol shows up!" Nook yelled. He grabbed Komo's arm and ran, dragging her along, out of the shop.
Komo chuckled, and whistled briefly. Her faithful pet crawled out and hid in her shoe. Rosie was just outside the door, in the dirt. She must have been startled by Nook's yelling.
"What is it boss?" She said, wiping some mud off her dress.
"You have the rest of the day off, I need to find a phone!" Nook yelled.
"Let go of me you perverted rat!" Komo yelled, and managed t pull him off her arm as he ran away from the shop. Jomo crawled up to her shoulder. "Good work, boy." Komo patted her strange pet on its antenna.
"Cool, break! Komo, let me introduce you to everyone!" Rosie grabbed Komo's arm and dragged her along to a beach.
A trio of cats walked up to them. One was orange with stripes. One was brown and white, Komo recognized her as Kitty. The third was entirely white in a pink dress. Kitty was first to speak, "Hobo, I mean Komo, I didn't think I'd see you again so soon!".
"Morning Kitty, Mitzi, Bob!" Rosie said cheerily.
The orange cat spook next, "I'm Bob, you must be the new girl, Komo, is it? Take this." Bob said. He fished threw a backpack and handed her a giant blanket.
"Morning, Rosie, I'm Mitzi, Komo. Here's a bit of a housewarming gift." Mitzi handed Komo a chair, in leaf form.
"You know me, hi, Rosie. Take this, in the tradition of Johto as a new town present." Kitty handed Komo a heater, stove thing in leaf form.
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As the day went by, Rosie dragged Komo all across town. Komo got lots of new stuff. It was finally night when Rosie finally dragged her back to her house. "You got lots of stuff, Ko! See you at work toramrow!" Rosie said. Komo managed to yank her very sore arm free at long last.
She walked across the little bulletin board to her house and arranged her stuff. The tiny house now looked livable though. There was Mitzi's chair in front of the notebook and the stove, fireplace in the center. There was an unlatching sofa with the blanket draped over it on one side. A little desk with a bonsai tree was now Jomo's home. Everything was facing the fireplace. "Now it seems like I might actually sleep here!" Komo said in approval and clasped in the chair in front of the notebook. "I wonder why this was left here…" Komo mumbled. She positioned a small table lamp to it and began to read,
I'm finally here, in Johto! Its so nice here, but everyone's an adult ad all the people are animals!
Komo yawned and flipped to the near back of the book, and what she read froze her to the bone,
Now I know why everyone's animals. I should have known to say back in the human village of Kaito. Now it's too late. I can never go back. All the humans here grow up and turn into animals! I'll leave this diary to whoever next owns this house. I'm now known as Bob, the cat. I might come back someday… Get a nice house by the beach… To note, look into the piece of mirror and it'll tell you what you'll turn into. The process is very very slow…
Komo got to freaked out and slammed the notebook shut. A small piece of mirror clattered to the floor behind her. She looked at it, only she didn't she the back of her uniform. The Komo in the mirror had huge crimson butterfly wings! She fell over in fright and grabbed the notebook. "I'll get this to Bob, and get him to explain this!" Komo ran out the door, notebook in hand. Once she was gone, Jomo crawled up to the mirror. In place of a cockroach, he could she the face of a teenage boy…
Komo looked at the towns map and raced to the seaside. She easily found Bob's house and banged on the door.
"Oh, Komo, good evening. What brings you here at this late hour? Don't knock so loud, people are asleep." Bob said and yawned.
"This, explain!" She handed him the diary.
"So you found out. Come with me." He said, and sighed sorrowfully. He walked up to the waters edge. Their reflections were that of a boy ad a huge butterfly. Komo tried to back away but, Bob, grabbed her. She winced as his claws dug into her. "Oh, sorry." He lightened his grip.
"Explain, cat, what is going on here!" Said Komo angrily.
"It's a curse. The people inflicted with it are the only ones that could have seen the train that took you here. You have to get out. You have to remember, where did you live before Neo City? Where are your parents?"
"I don't remember. I don't remember ever living with adult humans. I've always wandered around. Neo City was where I stayed the most. Where's that Kaito place you talked about in here?"
"What?" He looked at the notebook. "Kaito must have been where I lived before. Komo, remember. You can still get out if you can before you completely transform. The moonlight and pure water combined reveal your soul's current form. Before your reflection turns human, get out." He said seriously.
"I've always lived in the animal cities. I'm completely human!" Komo said and ran off, to the train station. She heard footsteps and turned to see Rosie.
"What are you doing up so late, Ko?" She said. Komo's eyes were locked on a puddle of water. Rosie's reflection, was a fox.
Komo, fell to her knees, trying to make sense of what she had learned. Ho knew, in just half an hour, something could turn your life upside down. She smiled dryly as she thought, and fainted. Clouds covered the moon and it began to rain. The puddle reflected, Komo's unconscious features and Rosie's worry…
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Sorry it took so long to update. Please review!
-Necoji