Legacies
A Sequel to Crossing of the Paths
By MMM/AJ
A/N: School's turning into a real war for me, and I'm not doing too well on all fronts. I think you guys should know that if I'm gone for an extended period of time, that means my grades might have fallen even lower and my story might fall to the wayside. I'll try not to let that happen, but as of now I need to concentrate harder on schoolwork. Enjoy this chunk well, it could be awhile before the next one.
Chapter XII - A4
"Now that's just creepy." Ashley said aloud as she finished reading the file. She exchanged a glance with Tanis, who looked pale as a ghost with astonishment.
"So I'm not the only one of my species?" Tanis said, staring at the flickering screen.
"Apparently not. What should we read next?" Ashley asked quietly.
"Try the next entry following this one." Tanis said.
Ashley still had a hard time getting used to the way he talked in her head without actually making a sound. She touched the air where the back button was being projected, then double touched for the next file.
/Accessing file Datahistory79965.tri
/File opened
/Contents: Recorded History of Project 79965, Codenamed "Proteus"
/Begin File:
Project initiated 10/13/2148, low priority level G
Using cloned brain tissue from Projects 79964, "Ares", and Project 63340, "Mewtwo", machines will be created to attempt to tap the minds of humans. Such machines, given proper input power will be able to produce such feats as information extraction, memory alteration, awareness manipulation, and total mind control. Extensive resource materials of neural interface tissue will be needed for the project to proceed, several clones will need to be created and have their brains removed to create a viable prototype.
This project has been cancelled due to infeasibility.
/End File
"These men are truly insidious." Tanis said. "They would create life like that only to destroy it, all for the gain of power."
"What should we read next?" Ashley asked.
"Go to the historical archives now, we need to know what the current status of their organization is so we might find an active base and capture one of their members." Tanis said.
Ashley nodded and tapped the back button until she reached the initial idle screen. She double tapped the historical archives and then the latest entry.
/Accessing File HistoricalRecord97439.tri
/File Opened
/Contents: Historical Entry # 97439 as written by member #541 on 2/17/2150
/Begin File:
Its official, the team is being disbanded. Team Magma members have captured and executed the boss and everyone has fallen into anarchy. I saw it coming the moment that that stupid Ares project failed. Fernando pumped way too much of the team's funding into that dead-end project and it turned out a horrific failure that lost our connections with CloneSymantics Inc permanently. Fernando said we could have conquered the world with that creature, but now the entire team has been destroyed thanks to his risky investments.
Team Magma and Aqua have sent a message to all remaining Rocket members, we will all be hunted down and killed if we hold to our allegiance with our team. Even without the boss however, the penalty for leaving the team is death, and I don't plan on taking that way anytime soon. I will stay with the team as long as I can until there is no-one left to enforce that rule, and then I'm jumping ship to become an Aqua Member. If another Rocket member is reading this, you will never find who I am.
/End File
Ashley and Tanis stood silent for a moment, allowing time to let the information sink in. Eventually, Ashley turned to Tanis and said, "So, who is doing this to us?"
"A splinter cell perhaps?" Tanis asked. Suddenly, his heard jerked to the side and his face scrunched in concentration.
"What? What is it?" Ashley whispered.
"Quiet, I hear something!" Tanis said.
Ashley's ears couldn't hear a thing, but she knew Tanis' hearing must have been far superior to her own. The room suddenly felt a lot more uncomfortable than it had been, she now wondered if they had been alone at all.
"Quickly, grab my arm!" Tanis said urgently.
Ashley complied, not knowing why. She suddenly felt herself being lifted as Tanis hovered them both up into the air. She could also no longer see him. She looked down at herself, and there was no sign of her body.
"I've made us invisible for the moment, someone is coming." Tanis said to Ashley, trying to calm her.
Ashley was not calmed however, she could feel her heart racing as her ears suddenly picked up the footsteps that Tanis had heard coming much farther away. She looked down at the door and could barely make out dark human forms entering the room. There were at least twenty of them, dressed the same as the ones that had raided Mewtwo's resting place. As she watched, the men silently drew their swords. Light from the screen she and Tanis had left on reflected off of the deadly steel blades. Swiftly, the men disseminated into the room and began destroying the computer towers. They sliced and diced through the computers with their blades, and clouds of sparks filled the room. Electric fizzing and popping filled the air, and the terminal screen suddenly flashed to static as its input disappeared.
Down below, one of the men paused from his destructive work to notice something. One of the computers had a great, crumpled claw mark on it. Tanis saw him examining it and he knew the jig was up. The man looking at the mark Tanis had made hissed indiscernibly and all his comrades stopped to come and look. Then the one who called promptly fiddled with his belt and pulled out what looked like a pair of binoculars. They had a red laser sight on them, and their lenses glowed green. The man scanned the room systematically until his laser sight stopped on the space where Tanis and Ashley were hovering invisible.
"Get ready to drop." Tanis said silently into Ashley's mind.
Ashley felt her heart rate nearly double when the man with the binoculars pointed straight at her and the laser sight came to rest on her forehead. Suddenly, he and all his followers pulled out Uzis and aimed them at her. That was when Tanis let go and they both dropped to the ground.
The wall and ceiling where they had been just a second ago was suddenly perforated with thousands of bullets as all of the men fired their guns at once. Ashley landed and felt a pain tear up from her ankle. She knew it was sprained. She turned to see Tanis was not beside her, he was dashing right at the men who were still unloading rounds into the ceiling. He formed two energy blades and diced the men with ease as he ran between them. Ten of them crumpled and fell like rag dolls, and the other ten turned their guns still firing at Tanis. Ashley screamed, knowing he would be riddled and torn to shreds by the storm of lead projectiles. But she saw an orange glowing bubble form around him and the bullets ricocheted off. He finished off all but one and Ashley saw the last one fall stiff as a board to the ground, paralyzed.
Tanis had psychically paralyzed the man so he could not activate his belt bomb. He approached them man and yanked off his belt. He tossed it aside and then released the paralysis partially, allowing the man to speak.
"Will you tell me who you work for or will I have to ready your mind?" Tanis asked. "Team Aqua or Magma?"
The man's face was blank, devoid of emotion. "Loyalty or death" he said.
Suddenly, Tanis was blown backwards by a blast of psychic energy out of the blue. He reached out and caught the base of a computer tower with his robotic arm and halted his momentum. He jumped to his feet and saw who had attacked him. A form covered in bright crimson robes walked into the room. No part of him was visible under his ugly vestments. A sword emerged from his robes and it stabbed down into the black clad man's head, sealing his secrets away forever.
"Who are you?" Tanis said in his most deadly psychic tone. He made it audible for the robed one and Ashley.
"The question to be asked is, who are you?" The robed figure said, its voice echoed deeply into tones that were unnatural for any type of vocal cord.
"I am Tanis, and I ask you; do you come from Team Magma?"
"You cannot comprehend what I am nor whom I serve. We are above humans, and we have deemed you unfit for existence. Die now."
Ashley watched as Tanis suddenly tensed and his face contorted with concentration. She knew enough about how psychic Pokemon battled, she had trained several of them over her career as League Champion. She could recognize that this man was assaulting Tanis psychically, and the battle was not going well for him. She knew she had to help, so she silently crept forward toward the body of a dead black clad man on the floor. She grabbed his Uzi and pointed it the red robed figure. She pulled the trigger and the report barked loudly through the chamber. The red robes thrashed and undulated violently as the bullets ripped through them. Ashley held the burst as long as she could until the gun fell silent, out of ammunition. She looked at the figure and saw red blood seeping into the robes, making them glisten in the faint light that glowed from the partially destroyed computer towers. It was a terrifying sight, and the man just continued to stand there.
Tanis suddenly relaxed and Ashley saw it much to her relief. "Disable him now so you can extract the info from his mind!" She said.
"I will not....allow....that to happen." The man sputtered wetly as blood filled his lungs. "Loyalty, or death."
"Jump back, now!" Tanis screamed at Ashley, who was only feet from the robed man.
Time seemed to slow as the next events unfolded. Ashley was too dumbfounded with fear to do what she knew she had to. She looked and saw the man's arm was moving underneath his robes toward his waist. She then got the message and her brain sent the signals to her legs to shove her back. Before she could however, there was a blinding flash as the bomb went off. Ashley could only scream, her mind anticipating the death that was a few feet away. As time finally returned to its original speed, she felt herself hit the ground unharmed. She looked up to see Tanis standing between her and where the man had been, a glowing orange bubble surrounding him.
Tanis slowly let his arms fall to his sides and the bubble faded away. Ashley saw a crater in the room's floor; all the computer towers had been blown away except for the ones that had been behind Tanis' shield alongside Ashley. She was on an island that was in the middle of a sea of devastation that was this room.
"I guess I owe you my life again." Ashley said, smiling weakly.
Tanis turned to her and grinned. "I keep no tabs for a friend." He said.
The two of them proceeded slowly back up the turning hallways to exit the hideout. As they proceeded, Tanis newly assessed the situation.
"I think it's obvious now that we're not dealing with any human criminal syndicate, neither Teams Magma and Aqua nor a splinter of Rocket." He said.
"That man in the red robe, his voice chilled me to the bone. Who could he have possibly been?" Ashley wondered.
"During the time that we psychically dueled, I saw flashes from his mind. I didn't see very much, just a few almost unreadable flashes of imagery. But what I could intercept and understand was chilling. It was of another creature like me, only with blood red skin the same color as the man's robes." Tanis said.
"What do you think it means?" Ashley asked.
"I think I saw a flash of the other of my species." Tanis said.
"Ares?"
"Yes. Somehow, he is involved with these people, I just don't know how."
Chapter XIII – R4
In her dreams, Ruru was sitting in front of a table that was covered with small vases. She was picking them up randomly and looking inside them to see what they held. One held water, one held sand, and another held ants. As Ruru picked up the fourth however, a beam of golden light suddenly streamed out of it. She tilted it to look inside and the light splashed over her face. She suddenly felt extraordinarily hot and the light filled her vision. The burning heat seared her skin, and her eyes felt as if they were melting. There was a jolt and a shattering pain in her forehead.
"You are destined to hold Wisdom's power until the great reuniting. Use it well." A booming voice said.
Ruru suddenly burst awake. She frantically opened her eyes and saw the dark interior of her room clearly. She felt the skin on her face, it was unhurt. She then saw a glimmer on her hand, a shining gold on the back of her right hand. She looked at it, it was a golden triangle about an inch on each side, embedded in her skin. A violent draft suddenly whipped through the room, Ruru turned and saw her window was open. She looked back down at her hand again, it shone without being luminescent, almost like some foreign light were reflecting off of it. But there was no light anywhere in or out of the room. The entire Gerudo palace was dark and silent, there were no signs of life to be seen over the grasslands that were slowly overtaking the desert outside of Ruru's open window.
Suddenly her door burst open and three armed Gerudo guards rushed in.
"We heard you scream milady!" One of them said.
Ruru concluded that she must have screamed as she had woken up. "I'm alright, no one's in here. But, look at this." She said, holding up her hand.
The Guard held her torch up to Ruru's hand and stared at the golden triangle intensely.
"It wasn't there when I went to sleep." Ruru said.
"This could be some form of sorcery, we should wake up a cleric or a medicine woman and your sister to look at it." The guard said.
"It would probably be the best idea." Ruru said, getting out of bed and slipping on a nightgown.
So Kalana and Fara were woken and they met in the palace infirmary. Their torches sputtered sickly, making only half-hearted attempts to fight off the intrusive darkness of the night. Fara examined the foreign object in Ruru's hand first, but could deduce nothing. But when Kalana looked at it, her face scrunched up in deep thought and remembrance like she was trying to unearth a memory that was ringing a bell but eluding direct placement.
"I remember, something that mother told me about this. It was part of an tremendously ancient Hylian Legend. Come, we must go to the archives." Kalana said.
The three of them with two helpers trudged down several flights of stairs to the deepest basement of the palace. The old archives were in a room next to the palace's wine cellar, and the sweet smell of Hylian grapes filled their nostrils as they passed through. Once in the musty archives, Kalana braved the dust piles and began sifting through rows of tomes and stacks of scrolls. The air became thick with dust and it was slightly hard to breathe. Kalana grumbled in frustration as she dug through Hylian lore and legends until she finally found the scroll she was looking for. She unrolled it fully to seven feet long and puffed the dust off of it. It was cracked and yellowed, but its Ancient Hylian text was still readable.
"Containing the power of the Goddesses themselves, the Triforce was left behind after Din, Nayru, and Farore created the world. It is said that whoever touches them will have the wish in his heart granted, but only if his heart, mind and soul are balance. The Triforce will only deem those worthy that hold the forces of Power, Wisdom, and Courage in equality. Should one who is imbalanced touch it, it will split into three pieces, only leaving the piece that represents the force that the seeker values most. The other three pieces will seek out others that hold their forces in high regard.
"Two thousand years ago, the Triforce was split by a Gerudo King by the name of Ganondorf. He created a world of darkness for seven years before being struck down by a noble Hylian Hero. Since then, it has not been seen in Hyrule nor the Sacred realm."
Kalana looked back at Ruru. "Read this." She said.
Ruru read the scroll as well, and as she finished she wondered what had made her worthy of gaining such a power. But she remembered the words in her dream, and she related them to her sister without hesitation.
"So, the Triforce has been rediscovered by someone once more. But who found it, and what piece did he keep?" Kalana asked.
"It's not like I have a mental link to him or something! All I know is that I'm very sleepy, and as long as this thing isn't dangerous to me then I'm going to bed!" Ruru said.
"Yes, it must be close to dawn. We should talk about it more in the morning." Kalana said, suddenly suppressing a yawn.
After walking back up the stairs and closing her bedroom door, Ruru found herself wondering why the Triforce had chosen her. The bed offered her no answers as she climbed into it, but Ruru hoped that more dreams might. Besides, she hadn't finished looking in all of her vases yet, who knows what might be in the next one.
Chapter XIV – I4
"Well, now that that's over with, I suppose we should get back to business eh?" Alex said, smiling over at Isaac.
"Wait, don't you think it would be a good idea to work together and find out more about these things that just attacked us? Together we are more powerful!" Isaac said.
"My dear foolish Isaac, you should remember that you're nothing without your Djinni. If I take them from you, then I won't need to team up with you. Now kindly hand over your Djinn so I won't have to crush you." Alex said smugly.
Isaac sighed heavily. He wondered what the world would come to after Alex killed him and took his Djinn. He held his Darksword tightly, admiring the irony of how that evil blade had become subservient to him in fighting for good in the world. Alex might take it too and use it for its original purpose.
"No." Isaac said plainly.
"Then I must apologize for you." Alex said.
In an instant, Isaac suddenly felt a stabbing pain and looked down to see Alex's blade sticking out of his stomach. His knees gave out and he fell to the ground limply. His vision began to blur, but he could feel Alex pulling the Venus Djinn off of him.
"Please...don't hurt....Mia." Isaac sputtered with his last few breaths.
"Oh don't worry, as long as she and your friends don't try to resist my new world order, then they'll be fine, living their lives as my personal slaves!" Alex cackled.
Isaac's mind reeling in despair at the thoughts Alex left him with. He felt his power fade as Alex took the last few Djinn away. He tried to reach an arm up to take one last swing at Alex with the Darksword, but his body was no longer strong enough to lift the blade.
"Hmm, you know the saying 'I'll see you in the next life'? I'd say that for you, but I'm afraid that it won't happen, thanks to the immortality that the Stone of Sages has granted me. So, goodbye forever then!" Alex laughed as he walked off.
There was a sudden golden flash in the sky, and Isaac's eyes struggled to look up and see it. He was turning cold, his lungs had just stopped breathing. The light intensified in his fading vision until his vision stopped fading. He suddenly felt new warmth wash over his dying body, new energy flooded his veins. There was a sudden jolt and he felt a pain in his forehead. His body suddenly jerked to life again, his lungs sucked in new breath. He felt the hole in his stomach suddenly close and feeling was restored in the lower half of his body. He felt a bolt of energy travel down his body to stop at his right hand, and the light faded away.
"You are destined to hold Power's strength until the great reuniting. Use it well" A voice suddenly boomed in Isaac's ear.
Isaac was fully restored and then some, he could feel immense power pulsing through his mind and body. It was as if all the Djinn in the world had been set to him. He stood and looked at Alex as he was walking away.
"Alex!" Isaac shouted suddenly.
Alex turned and stared at Isaac with an expression of pure shock.
"Try this on for size!" Isaac shouted.
Isaac raised his arms in the air and collected the new energy that had been afforded to him. He didn't use it to create an elemental psynergy spell however, he simply formed it into a glowing sphere of power. Smaller orbs of elemental energy formed on their own, emerging out of the environment and glowing in the four colors. They orbited it like electrons around an atom's nucleus. Isaac threw the energy forward and the smaller ones screamed ahead first. They smashed into Alex, perforating his armor and knocking him backwards several feet. Then the larger orb struck the ground where Alex had stood and a great white ball of flames and furious power engulfed Alex. The shockwave blasted Alex backwards like a rag doll, he slammed into a rock and his armor rook the blunt of the impact. The explosion's report echoed across the entire Gondowan Continent, further agitating the people of Kibombo in the East.
When the smoke cleared, Isaac walked over to the gigantic crater that his attack had left. Alex was lying in the bottom, his armor and skin charred badly. His hair had been completely burned off. The Djinni he was wearing had unset themselves and were wandering aimlessly around him. Isaac walked down the crater walls to the bottom and began to pick them up. He set them to himself and felt his power grow even further, like Gasoline on a fire. He set every single one of them, all 72, and they covered his ruined armor. He then reached down and searched Alex's person for the Stone of Sages. He found it in a pouch inside Alex's armor and took it for himself.
Suddenly Alex opened his burned eyelids and looked up to see Isaac wearing all of the Djinn.
"It seems that you win, dear opponent.....Good show. I guess it'll be me who'll be waiting for eternity in the afterlife for an opponent who'll never come." Alex stammered.
Isaac scowled down at Alex, who now looked like nothing but a pathetic ant to him. He grabbed Alex's half melted sword and stabbed it into Alex's chest.
"Just die already, weak little man." Isaac said.
Alex was silent, his head fell back to the stone in one jerk and his eyes glassed over. Isaac took his sword out of his stomach and snapped the metal over his knee. He tossed the bloody blade down with the rest of Alex's ruins and walked out of the crater. He immediately looked southeast and felt the presence of his friends. He began to walk, it was at least five miles away, but he could do it easily. He wanted to talk to Kraden, badly.
Chapter XV – T4
Orange radiance blazed over the ridges of Purity Canyon as Tanis and Ashley sat on the island in the center of the crater's lake. They had come back here again to collect their thoughts and to plan a new course of action. Though the Team Rocket Hideout had given them much useful information, none of it lead them any father toward the next two pieces of the Triforce or to finding out who these men were who had attacked them. Tanis looked down at his left had, the glinting polished steel of his robotic arm was cold, lifeless and alien to him. It clicked and whirred in an almost eerie fashion when he moved it, and the sharpened claw fingers he had looked almost sinister. He looked at his right hand and admired the golden glow of the Triforce piece. Looking at it filled his mind with courage and inner peace, almost a polar opposite of what he felt when he had looked at his other arm. Then Tanis looked up into the sky and saw the hair thin black line that was bisecting the sky. As he stared at it, it became easier to see, more defined for his vision. It was almost as if it had gotten a tiny bit wider. Tanis rubbed his eyes and saw it had stopped, but it was definitely clearer to his eyes.
"Back before we entered the hideout, I tried to show you something." Tanis said to Ashley. "Look now, up in the sky. There is something there."
Ashley raised her eyes to the atmosphere, following Tanis' pointing arm. She squinted for a moment and then looked at Tanis with a confused expression.
"I don't see anything." She said.
Tanis looked up again. Maybe it was some sort of phenomenon that was natural to this world, something so insignificant that his father had never mentioned it in his messages. Either that, or he had but the computer hadn't played it before the errors shut it down.
"Never mind." Tanis said. His mind suddenly recalled back to his father and he remembered the two gems they had found.
"Can I have those two jewels?" Tanis asked.
"What jewels?" Ashley asked.
"The ones we recovered from my father's grave. The black and white ones."
"Ah, sure. Let me get them out. I have that Medallion too." Ashley said.
Ashley reached into her backpack and produced the Sage of Time's Medallion, and then rifled through her fanny pack to find the gems. She handed them all to Tanis and Tanis could feel their energies. He could feel his father's essences in the items, each held his memories and his emotions preserved as if in freeze-frames. But when he held them in his robotic hand, he could feel nothing. He set the Medallion down and just held the two gems in his right hand. They suddenly felt warmer in his hand, and the Triforce piece in the back of his hand glowed brighter. Tanis saw images flash through his mind. He saw pictures of a burning desert, a green paradise, and a gigantic space fleet. He saw a pair of burning red eyes and a pair of angelic wings. He saw a great battlefield strewn with the dead and planets burning and exploding. He saw the smiling faces of a tanned desert people and the satin white face of a royal princess. He then saw his father's face before him. Mewtwo's face then twisted and contorted into that of an evil version of himself, his horns spiked and twisted and with dripping fangs. The face then turned back and then into something new, an angelic version of him with the deepest blue eyes in the universe. As the images faded away, Tanis noticed that the gems were searing hot in his hand and he dropped them instantly. He turned and saw that Ashley was staring at him.
"What in the world is up with you?" Ashley asked.
"I've seen images from my father's life." Tanis said. "He had told me his stories, but I never saw them in person. It was quite amazing and shocking at the same time."
Suddenly Tanis felt a wave of energy passing through himself. His senses were acutely amplified and he felt the energy from the other living creatures around him at a much higher awareness. He could suddenly feel the emotion of worry and compassion emanating from Ashley's mind without actually reading it. He could feel the content of a squirrel eating an acorn up in a tree behind them. He could feel the energies of humans living hundreds of miles away. All of their emotions washed over him at once. Joy, rage, sorrow, laughter, hatred, elation, and love all filled his ears in a cacophony of emotional energy that was deafening. He clasped his hands tightly and his face contorted from the feelings he was feeling. The metal claws on his robotic arm screeched against each other.
"So loud!" Tanis said, his mind overloading.
"What, what do you mean, it's totally silent here." Ashley said, gesturing all around them at the tranquility of the canyon.
"So many voices, make them stop!" Tanis howled, now clutching his head.
"What voices?" Ashley asked frantically, not knowing what to do to help him.
The tides of emotion suddenly ebbed in Tanis' mind, the din decreasing until he could suddenly make out one over all the others.
"So, the Triforce has been rediscovered by someone once more. But who found it, and what piece did he keep?" a woman's voice whispered in his head.
"So, goodbye forever then!" A sinister sounding man's voice laughed.
"So my dear brother, your abilities are growing well." A third, malevolent voice uttered.
"Get out of my head!" Tanis shouted at the top of his psychic voice. The voices all ceased at once, his mind was clear.
Ashley had been laid out by the force at which Tanis had screamed, her mind reeled and echoed the powerful burst that Tanis had inadvertently sent into her mind as well. She moaned in pain and hid her face behind her hands as if the sky were assaulting her eyes. As Tanis recovered himself, he found he could now still sense these energies as well, but he could now control and filter out what he did and didn't want to hear. And now he could hear the thoughts of men far away, talking about Ares and his father Mewtwo.
"Ashley! I think I have found our next objective!" Tanis said eagerly, forgetting the fit he had just thrown.
"Tanis...." Ashley began, "I need some sleep. I have the biggest headache known to mankind, the kind only six to eight hours of solid rest can cure. Let's go to a city and get a hotel room."
Tanis understood and accepted this, but one thing worried him. "Won't I look frightening and suspicious to those who work there?" he asked.
"I'll put you in a Poke ball until we get into our room, unless you have another idea." Ashley said, rubbing her temples.
"I could disguise myself, but that would be too much of a hassle. I could cloak myself, but that uses a lot of energy and I couldn't hold it for too long. I guess we can go with your plan. Besides, I'm curious to see what it's like." Tanis said.
"Alright, take us to Saffron city again I guess. I know some people there." Ashley said.
Tanis teleported them instantly and they appeared back in a dark alley. Ashley fumbled with her trainer's belt until she found and empty Poke ball. She pressed the button and it expanded to full size to fit her palm.
"I hope you don't have claustrophobia." Ashley said, and then tossed the red and white orb at Tanis.
Tanis felt the ball hit him in the stomach and was overcome with the strangest sensation. It was almost the same thing as when he teleported himself, only when her reformed he felt his molecular structure being altered in some way. He knew he was being shrunk. When his vision returned he saw a semi-dark spherical room around him, made out of uniformly drab grey metal in geometric latticework. He settled down in and waited. He could feel a slight swaying motion as Ashley walked, almost like being in a cradle. It was hypnotic and relaxing, and he almost dozed off until he heard Ashley voice. The Poke ball muffled the sound of her speaking, but Tanis knew she had found a place to stay. The talking stopped and the walking began again. The walking continued for a few more minutes, and Tanis heard a creaking sound and a click. Then the same feeling came over him again as he was ejected from the Poke ball. He appeared inside a down-home style decorated hotel room with two beds and a TV.
"This was all I could afford for now." Ashley said.
"It will be good, I will just put that dresser at the end of my bed so that my feet won't dangle off of the bottom. Tanis said. "Are you going to watch television before sleeping?"
"Not with this headache, I'm going straight to bed." Ashley said.
"I suppose I will too then." Tanis said. He used his power to lift the dresser and place it at the foot of his bed.
Ashley let out a great sigh of relief as she let her backpack slam to the floor and off of her shoulders. She jumped into the bed without even getting under the covers and turned off the lights. Tanis gently set the Medallion and two gems on the night-table and climbed into the human sized bed. He feet rested on the dresser with a couple of extra pillows as padding against the hardwood surface. His tail stuck out the side, hanging down comfortably. He relaxed, letting out a great breath of air. LED lights in his robotic arm flickered off and the sounds of the city outside lulled him and Ashley into deep sleep.
A/N: So the Triforce has now distributed itself to its new holders. What has Tanis seen that could lead to their next clue? What is happening to Isaac? What will happen to Ruru? Keep on reading and I'll keep on writing! Reviews make the Fanfiction world go round!
