Queen's feather

Chapter 2

-Author notes-

Here's the second chapter~! In all honesty, why hasn't anyone made a small joke with N's name yet? Seems like I'll be the first. Also, Aerowen will be her main name for a vast majority of the story. Sapphire will come in after certain events occur. May rank this M with the next two chapters...They're a copy of each other except one scene, that's where its different. Time skips will be underlined and Italicized, while scene changes with xoxoxo will be Bolded and underlined. Titles will be underlined and bolded, while author notes from here on out will be bold. Another also, will introduce some german in the next chapter. Don't worry, translation will be at the end of the chapter. Last also, warning of certain words coming from the shiny Sylveon.

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Aerowen gave a small yawn as they entered Acculmula town for the second time in her journey. Shade was behind her as Arthur was flew above, circling and swooping down to ensure no one got close to her. Lixue just took everything in stride as Mimosa looked around at everything in a disinterested yet amazement. Along the way to the town, Aerowen caught a Lillipup that she named Risk. She did need to get Mimosa checked for anything and looked at Lixue with a smile.

"Hey, Lix. Can ya tell me where the Pokémon center is?" She whispered to the fairy type and said type gave a cry before leading her to the Pokémon center, and in front of said center was Professor Juniper. She waved to the professor and walked by her, knowing that the professor was going to explain things to Cheren and Bianca about how Pokémon centers work and whatnot. She walked to the counter and placed Mimosa on it, asking if the nurse could do a checkup on her. The nurse nodded and told her it was going to be twenty to twenty-five minutes for Mimosa to get fully checked out.

She sat down at a table and pulled a magazine closer to her before frowning, it wasn't in braille. While their trainer sat the table getting increasingly frustrated with being legally blind; Shade, Arthur, and Lixue wondered over to the window to check out what was going on outside. A rally and one that seemed not bolding well for those there. Arthur had perched himself on Shade's blade, even if they were the same height, he weighed less than she did and was able to balance on her blade. Lixue was fast asleep, not caring what was going on outside.

"Hey Shade, what do you think is going on with that rally?"

"That I do not know Arthur. I'm not obliged to care about anything that doesn't pertain to the well-being of our trainer. By Arceus, it difficult to not call her that."

"I don't give two shits about some dumb rally. Any trainer trying anything funny to our trainer is getting a fucking moonblast or shadowball to the balls or face!"

Lixue said as he woke briefly to interact with his fellow Pokémon before falling back asleep. Being a guide Pokémon was hard work and he was hungry. Aerowen looked to the outlines of her Pokémon and smiled as they conversed amongst themselves before going back to the magazine, trying her hardest to not try to get her face closer to see the blurred words. As she stared at the magazine, a green haired individual came walking in and saw her Pokémon.

"Hey Shade, what should we do if our trainer gets the twitches from seeing that rally?"

"Let her handle the situation and not try to stick out too much."

Shade said as she sat there, looking at the rally with disinterested eyes. She was more concerned about her trainer than some human rally. She looked at Lixue and sighed. Great, the fairy type was hard to wake up with loud noises or rough handling. He woke up to gentle handling and soft noises but, he was a loose mouth when woken from a nap or rudely awakened from slumber and he was normally like that most of the time. Her red eyes caught a pale green haired person heading their way and discretely looked at her mistress. Seems like he was headed to them and not their mistress, good. Said person, smelled like a teenager and male, patted her head with a smile as she looked at him with confused eyes.

"Hello there, Absol. Seems like your far from your home in the mountains."

He said as she registered his statement. It was true she was far from her mountain home, but her mountain home wasn't here in Unova but in Kalos. She noticed an aura around him that was akin to her mistress but so different. She tilted her head slightly to the right and stared at him in further confusion. Her trainer's aura was mixed with Xerneas' aura but that was all she could figure out as she had been exposed to the legendary and fought alongside said Pokémon. If only Mordicai were here to at least make more sense of what this aura around the teen was, but he wasn't. Then again, the teen was still petting her head and far from where she wanted it to go.

"Hey Shade, why is this person petting you?"

"That I do not know, Arthur."

"Your name is Shade? It's nice to meet you." Said teen said while grinning broadly. That alone didn't cause Arthur to squawk in wonder. It was the fact that the human actually heard them speak! And he was another person to understand them too!

"Holy Arceus! You can understand us?! Shade, this awesome! Wait till…"

"No."

Shade said before standing and giving a rough kick to Lixue, causing fairy type to waken with a sailor's mouth.

"Wha… Shade, why the fuck did you kick me? Can't you see I'm taking a fucking nap?"

"Our trainer seems to be looking for us as she can't seem to find the counter."

She said before walking away with Arthur and Lixue, the latter running to help his trainer as the former still perched on her blade but still looking at the teen. Many questions whirled around her head. Why was this teen able to hear them talk when only their trainer could understand them? Many questions came and went but one stood out amongst them. How was he able to hear them? Something had to have happened to enable him to understand them or he was born with it, like their trainer was.

"Why be with a trainer when the wild is much better? Isn't it better to be free and wild?" The teen said to them and causing Shade to stop. She looked at him with confused eyes. Wild and free? Her mistress once asked if she wanted to go back home but she squarely told her mistress that she wasn't leaving. Plus, Arthur and Lixue were foreign Pokémon that didn't know what berries to eat and what to avoid. She turned her back without giving the teen an answer and walked to her mistress.

Aerowen smiled down at Mimosa as the snivy was given a clean bill of health. The checkup was shorter than she was told but she was told to make sure her snivy was given a proper nutrition and exercise. She then began to think of the training regimen and wondered if Cheren and Bianca would be glad to join in. She didn't know them very well and this could be a good way to break the ice in making them her friends. She looked to a source of commotion and saw various blurry blobs standing in front of a podium set in the center of a grassy area in the center of town. She felt Cheren begin pulling her towards it and she couldn't help but feel a bit angry with him. Why was he wanting her to come to this nonsensical commotion anyway?

That's when she heard a man's words. Free Pokémon and liberate those that were enslaved by humans. She looked at speaker with narrowed harsh eyes. She could make out the man was dressed in an archaic fashion and had green hair, that was all she could make out. But his words…They felt wrong, skin writhing wrong. The man left with his name lingering on the air, Ghetsis. She adjusted her hat on her head and muttered.

"Jumping into the Shaperdo tank here but it's worth a shot." She went to where Ghetsis had stood and cleared her throat.

"Good people and trainers. Let not that man's words fool you. Freeing Pokémon on a whim isn't right! He knows not what makes your Pokémon happy or how hard the hardships you went through to get where you are! The happiness your Pokémon express to you comes in many forms and he does not know how your Pokémon asks when asked something! He thinks selfishly! Your Pokémon know your heart and you know their heart. Ask yourself, is it wise to release your Pokémon when they are happy with you or is it better to just release them without telling them a reason? If you release them on a whim, they'll think you hate them and no longer want them. That'll hurt them more than you know it! Ask them and see how they respond. Thank you."

Aerowen exclaimed to the crowd before bowing to them and walking to where Cheren and Bianca were, with Lixue guiding her. People took a moment to think and filed by, thanking her for opening their eyes and went about their day. Cheren heard the speech and felt it rang true and clear in his ears, but he aimed to be champion like Aerowen and possibly could challenge her if he went to Kalos. He was set on doing another battle, but he saw her begin to deflate as she pulled her hat over her eyes.

"Should've thought that more through." She said as her words began hitting home. Those were so like her mother when people began to ask if they should release their Pokémon or keep them. She also did a speech on her second year of champion. By all rights, the man could've been champion if he hadn't pulled out his last Pokémon. The poor dear was ragged and looked ready to keel over at any moment. She had let her anger get the better of her and thrashed the man for abusing the poor thing, but the Pokémon defended his trainer, telling her that it was happy. By regulation rules, she had to take the Pokémon away from the man and allowed the experience to fuel a speech. One that caused two members of the elite four to chastise her for going without at least practicing it. She had winged it from the start, and it was a big hit.

"You winged it from the beginning, didn't you?" A nod from the champion gave Cheren what he needed to know. He sighed and patted her shoulder lightly. Her blush went down some but at least she didn't look so down. Aerowen straightened up and adjusted her hat on her head. She gave Cheren a smile before opening her mouth to thank him, but someone beat her to it.

"Your Pokémon…Just now…it was saying…" A green haired teenager said, making the words fast and awkward.

"Slow down, slow down. What do you mean you heard them talk? That doesn't make any logical sense." Cheren said but the fellow teen didn't look at him but at Aerowen. She looked back at him and smiled. Lixue gave a bark of warning to the person and she patted the fairy type on the head. Said fairy type didn't mind it but she wouldn't take her eyes off the green haired teen. Aerowen looked at the teen with questions in her head but his eyes seemed an unfathomable greenish color, or so her vision could tell. Why did his eyes look so familiar? She could only chalk it up to her dreams being a jumbled mess, this was why she wanted a psychic type. They could peer into her dreams and at least give her a sense of where her dreams were telling her.

"Your Pokémon…They speak of such praise for you…Oh my…" He said as he looked at the Pokémon at the trainer's side. He looked back at the trainer for said trainer to tilt her head to the left slightly, but he was conflicted with how he should proceed. He could only think of one solution, a Pokémon battle, and as much as he hated putting his friends through such hurt and abuse, this was a sure way to gauge her.

"A battle? Sure!" She said before pulling out a pokeball and tossing it a bit to her left, causing the teen beside her to let out a curse. But the desired effect went off, making a snivy appear. It looked quite disinterested and looked outright bored but once he let out one of his friends, the expression changed to one of intrigue and excitement. He looked at the trainer of the snivy.

"My name is N." He said, and she smiled in turn.

"Nice to make your acquaintance, N…It better than having F, C, or B for a name." She said, and he bristled with anger. How dare she insult him like so?! Wait, she wasn't. She was just making a comment on his name and that was it. N took a calming breath and looked at the snivy. Something didn't seem right.

"Ready when you are mistress~."

That voice caused her right hand to lightly smack her face. Does the little fox really need to come out when…oh wait, she pulled the wrong pokeball out? She fished through her bag and, getting frustrated, bent down to let Lixue help her. Pulling out the correct one, after passing by Arthur and Xerneas' ball several times, she whistled to Shadow Jr. to stop his merry making and get back to her side.

Mistress…That Pokémon called her mistress. N fumed silently as he ordered Nincada to scratch the Snivy. It hit from the right side but the Snivy didn't look remotely hurt, just a small annoyance was all nincada caused it. That was until the Snivy wasn't a Snivy anymore, but a Zorua.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to do that, Shadow Jr? Your pops was better at illusions than you are, and he pulled that kind of stunt daily." She said before Jr hopped up on her shoulder, using Lixue as a stand, and nuzzled her left cheek with affection. Jr loved his mistress with his life. Even when his menma was gone from this mortal coil and joined with Arceus in the heavens, he owned her his life for being there when he was down. He looked at his mistress' opponent with an amused glint to his eyes and snickered at the male's expression of shock before it morphed into a cool mask.

N was shocked when the Snivy morphed into a Zorua but he soon masked it as his opponent pulled out what seemed the correct pokeball and threw to the left, until a near ten foot Pokémon appeared and the woman was cursing all sorts of words to express her frustration. The Pokémon, looking like a Sawbuck but more antlers and almost no hoof, looked at its trainer with what would presume an unamused expression on its face. It stepped back from the battle and the woman tossed another pokeball towards him, looking like a normal pokeball, and out popped a bird, one not like he had seen before. Again, the woman began cursing and screamed frustration, exclaiming that it was unfair that she couldn't see her own…Oh…OH, now he knew his opponent was blind. Or at least what was perceived as legally blind.

"CHEREN! GET OVER HERE!" Aerowen shouted out, making Cheren jump in his skin with surprise at the tone in her voice. He went to her side and she trust her bag at him, but he looked so confused at what she wanted.

"Try to find Mimosa's ball. I don't trust myself with trying to find the damn thing." He opened his mouth before she pointed to the near ten-foot Pokémon next to her, and then to the bird perched on its horns. "That's why!"

Cheren wanted to know so much more on what kind of Pokémon the tall one was, but with the urgency of her request/demand, he put it aside and handed her two same colored balls. She took them and squatted next to her seeing eye Pokémon, whispering to it and she had her answer when the feminine fox-thing wrapped her ribbons on the one in her left hand. She patted the girl fox-thing and stood up, tossing the one in her left to open to…an absol…

"DAMMIT, LIXUE! YOU TOLD ME THAT WAS MIMOSA'S POKEBALL! JR. DON'T EVEN DARE PIPE UP WITH SOME SARCATIC COMMENT! ARG!" She exclaimed in all her frustration, hearing Jr. snicker at her misery. It didn't really help when she had grabbed Xerneas' ball and threw it, making the legendary appear in a beginner's battle. It also didn't help that Jr. also confused Lixue with which pokeball was Mimosa's. She sometimes hated being legally blind; either with living or in Pokémon battles, she got so frustrated with who's was whose ball to throw. She just tossed the other one and heard the familiar cry of Mimosa before she gave a groan of relief. Finally, the Pokémon she needed to have out.

"Sorry about that, N. Shall we continue our battle or try some other time?" She said, with a smile on her face. N tapped his left pointer finger on his chin, he could let this slide and go away to report to his father, but he wouldn't get a gauge on how strong his opponent actually was. And from the feeling he was getting from the near ten-foot-tall sawbuck lookalike, she was experienced. There was also the issue of his 'babysitters' lurking around to watch the happenings. They would act if he took too long to get away from a situation.

"Continue, but next time, let your opponent know if your blind or not." She giggled nervously. "So ya noticed that? *sigh* Alright, you have first move." She said before N gave a small smile.

"Nincada, scratch from the flank."

"Mimosa, dodge and counter with leer before leading it up with tackle."

Both Pokémon gave a cry of acknowledgement as Nincada buzzed towards Mimosa's left flank and nearly succeeded scratching her but succeeded at getting a nasty glare in return for its attack before it was knocked back a foot or so with the impact from the tackle. A sharp whistle caused both Pokémon to look to the source and Mimosa saw her trainer slapping a hand on her face, muttering about forgetting something. That was enough for Nincada to rush Mimosa head on and scratched her on her neck, making a shallow gash near an artery. Mimosa gave a cry of pain but retaliated by vinewhipping Nincada for the hurt it caused her before it fainted from the amount of damage it was caused by the vinewhip.

Her trainer picked her up and sprayed the horrid potion on her cut, but she felt somewhat grateful to her trainer for the healing. The cut was close to an artery and if the Nincada had tried to twist a bit closer, she would've bled out from internal bleeding. She nuzzled under her trainer's chin once before her trainer set her down, patting her on the head with a smile. Her opponent now was a Purrlion, looking at her with a bit of boredom in its eyes.

"Purrlion, use leer than use scratch on the Snivy!" As commanded, the Purrlion gave Mimosa a nasty glare causing her to shiver slightly before she was scratched on her left flank. She retaliated without her trainer's command, instead trusting a low sharp whistle to commence her vine whip. One, two, three, four, five…Five whips in succession and Purrlion wasn't quite happy with the whipping but it didn't look quite as good as before. Its body posture as a bit wobbly and it gave a gave a whimper when it pressed its left back lag on the ground. A sharp high whistle had Mimosa looking at her trainer once more. Instead of issuing a command to her, she was possibly trying to get the little fox to obey her or something. The distraction caused her damage to her left flank again and she felt her skin begin to tear some, the purrlion had advantage to the attack and took it. Mimosa acted on her anger and tackled the purrlion in retaliation. It gave a whimpering cry of pain and defeat as it fainted from the damage it had been incurred upon it.

Aerowen tilted her head to the left as she looked at Jr. giving a warning bark at someone, telling them that he would bite his groin if the male got any closer. Oh! Had she won?! She looked at the green haired blurry outline of the affirmed man/teen and smiled at him before holding her hand up.

"I don't need the money. Keep it. I hope your Pokémon aren't too hurt by Mimosa. Shadow Jr. here kept trying to keep my attention on him, attention seeking little Zorua." The mentioned Pokémon just gave a snicker and gave a lick to her cheek, causing his trainer to pet him on the head a bit. N took a side glance at her Pokémon and found they were healthy, but they weren't going to be in her hands for much longer if he got his wish. Freedom for all Pokémon, that was his dream. Even if it caused people to hate him, Pokémon were meant to be free. He heard a cry much different from a Sawsbuck and looked towards the Sawsbuck lookalike with a side glance, finding it looking at him. He was a bit taken back by the Pokémon looking at him, but he left as the people conversed with the blind girl. Something about the blind girl and the Sawsbuck lookalike just had him shiver lightly in both anticipation and worry, but he left to go back to the camp where the rest of the sages and Team Plasma were. All while thinking of the girl with silver eyes and a grin akin to a shining sun…