ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 16 - Nightmares.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
Disclaimer 2: I feel like I have to put this here becuz some peeps won't get to the Author's note before typing a review, I DO NOT OWN the plot of this chapter. More along the lines of inspired and placed my own twist. I do not know who made the original but if you search "Why they ran away" you will find it a version with audio.
Enjoy...
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
"Children! It is dinner time!"
A 7-year-old girl called Lillie and her 9-year-old brother approached the dining table.
Two butlers came over to them and place napkins on their expensive clothing to ensure nothing is split on them.
"Before it arrives, let us pray and thank our lord." Lillie's mother suggested.
Lillie, her mom, and her brother lowered their heads and closed their eyes.
"Repeat after me, Thank you, dear lord, thy mighty Arceus."
"Thank you, dear lord, thy mighty Arceus." Both Lillie and her brother said in sync.
"For blessing us with the food you have bestowed, to ensure hunger is but a mere myth."
Again, Lillie and her brother repeated what their mother had said.
"Though within past times, life had been hard and broken."
Once more, they repeated the verses.
"But if we have a family, we can never be hurt."
"Amen." The mother finished off.
"Amen"
Three butlers from before arrived with multiple plates.
Two were placed down in front of Lillie's brother.
Two were also placed down in front of her mother as well.
But Lillie barely got half a plate full.
She stared down at the food that her mother had instructed to be made.
They were having a lasagne with a side of bread rolls, a salad, and shallow fried onion rings.
"Eat up my precious babies. We don't want it to get cold!" Lillie's mother announced.
Her Brother and Mother ate away as a normal family would do.
But Lillie was looking down at the half empty plate she had been given by the butler.
She felt her stomach growling, knowing she needed to eat soon.
Lillie did so.
Despite having the least amount of food, she finished last.
Heading to bed, Lillie was struggling to get to sleep as the hunger did not help.
"So hungry…" the 7-year old moaned.
"Rawr…" A loud moan could be heard underneath her.
Lillie feared the dark still.
Ever since her father died, her fear of it had gotten worse.
"Lillie?" a voice called out.
Lillie rolled around to find her mother, who was in a white lacey nightgown standing in her doorway.
"Can't sleep?" she asked.
Lillie shook her head in agreement.
"Scared of the dark…"
Lillie's mother smirk.
"Do you want mummy to stay with you?" she asked once more.
Lillie shuffled over as her mother hopped into bed with her.
"There? Better? Not scared anymore." She said whilst stroking her daughter's hair.
"Thank you, mother." Lillie thanked tiredly as she fell asleep.
Her mother smirked.
"You are welcome my precious Ni-… Lillie…"
The next day rolled over and Lillie had no energy yet again due to the lack of food she received.
She wanted to play with brother and cousin Ken, but she could not move a muscle.
Walking to go do basic things like go toilet or grab a book was taking up a lot of energy.
And she was still only 7…
It was later that night as it was dinner time once again.
Their mother recited the same pray once more as a different meal from last night appeared, but the same proportions were given.
Lillie sighed and finally had to ask.
"Mother? Can I please eat the same amount as Brother does?" Lillie asked.
Her mother stopped eating and placed down the fork she had calmly.
"Oh, my dear daughter…" she started.
Lillie's eyes sparkled as it sounded like it was going to happen.
"That is not very pretty, now is it?" her mother finished sinisterly.
Lillie's eyes stopped sparkling as she sunk into her chair.
"WHY would you want more food? TO become FATTER? That is not very lady like NOW IS IT?"
"No mother!" Lillie squeaked as her brother watched.
"I! Have calculated your diet perfectly to ensure that you and your brother get the right number of nutrients and vitamins daily to ensure that you are healthy and stable by the age of 20! Anything else you eat will interfere and will be counted as a toxic." Lillie's mother now screaming over her daughter.
"Mother stop, please! You're scaring me…" Lillie pleaded with tears.
"Eat what you have… Or don't! It doesn't affect mummy if you don't eat what you have, IT doesn't hurt MUMMY if you starve! Besides, I can just inject the required nutrients in if needed. Are we clear?"
"Lillie. You should eat what you have before it goes cold. It isn't nice cold trust me…" Lillie's brother told her as Lillie looked down on her food and nibbled away at it.
Lillie's mother giggled.
"Hmm! That is better! Mother loves children that behave!" she said.
"OH, how I love my children (Dolls)…"
Later that night, Lillie was wrapped around sheets of her bed as she could not get any sleep due to her hunger.
"So… Hungry…" Lillie moaned weakly.
Knock, knock, knock.
Lillie froze in fear before throwing the sheets over herself and acted as if she was asleep.
"Oh no. It's mother! If she finds me awake now… she'll… she'll send me to the quiet room…" Lillie thought in fear.
"Lillie!" a male whispered.
Lillie turned around to find her brother.
"Brot-" Lillie started before he placed his hand on her mouth.
"Shh!" he shushed the girl as he removed his hand from her mouth.
"What are you doing her? If mother catches you!" Lillie worried.
"Eat." He merely said as he pulled out two break rolls filled with chicken and ham from his pajama pockets.
Lillie started drooling at the sight and quickly ate them.
"How did you get them?" Lillie asked her kind brother, who was scratching his head.
"When Mother wasn't looking, I snuck my two bread rolls out and yeah." Her brother explained.
"But… That means you didn't eat enough yourself…" Lillie said guiltily.
"Relax. Don't worry about me. I'm your big brother, I'm here to protect you!" he said while patting the top of Lillie's head.
"Will we always be a family? Even a family without mother…" Lillie asked.
"Of course, I'll always be there for you!" he said as the two hugged. "Eat up. I'll bring more maybe tomorrow or the day after that!"
He left the room as Lillie chowed down on the bread rolls. They weren't filling to the max, but it calmed down her hunger immensely.
She drifted off to sleep once again.
Her brother would sneak away food for Lillie and give it to her at ridiculous hours at night throughout the last week.
The time was around about 1:00 AM.
He was on his way to give Lillie some extra vegetables and a box of juice he managed to hid away.
His stomach was growling though as well, due to the results of him giving off his food to fed his younger sister.
Looking both ways down the hallway, he made a right turn to head straight to the kitchen.
Lillie laid in her bed looking at the ceiling.
"I thought brother said he would be here by now…" she said to herself.
The elder brother opened the fridge door and saw the platter of food. On the bench under a cloth, he found a plate of bread rolls.
One by one, he ate them, not taking time for breaths in between.
"Oh my sweet little boy…" a cold voice sang out to the boy as he froze in fear with food chunks falling out of his mouth.
His head slowly turned around with his pupil going small. Small tears appeared in the corners of his eyes as he shook in fear.
"Is those bread rolls tasty?" his mother asked as she approached him.
"Mother, please! It is not what it looks like!" he pleaded as his mother grabbed him by his hair and dragged him to the toilet in the fancy bathroom.
"Throw up." She spat at her child.
"W-what?" he muttered in pain.
"THROW IT ALL UP RIGHT NOW!" she screamed again, grabbing him by the hair and forcing him to face above the toilet.
"I told you, ANYTHING outside your food plan is TOXIC! Yet you ignored me!"
Her eldest child began to gag but nothing was being thrown up.
"Mother… please stop!"
"Hmph! Didn't try hard enough! You might make a quick trip to the quiet room then!"
His eyes widened up as far as they could as he shook his quickly.
"NO! PLEASE!"
"Then throw it all up!"
He jabbed two fingers into his mouth, resulting in him throwing up everything he ate before and dinner.
"Good boy." She said as her son coughed heavily. "Now… Let's forget all about this, now shall we?"
"Y-yes Mother…"
"If I find you ever doing that again, let's say I won't be as nice. Go to bed."
She did a twirl and left as her son was panting on the ground.
He then started to growl at the door where his mother had left.
He thought back to something just then…
"We are making a Pokémon to fight monsters!"
Those were the exact words of his cousin Ken.
Getting up shakily, he proceeded back to his room and went to sleep.
Elsewhere, Lillie was still up, waiting for her brother.
"Where is he?" she questioned as her stomach began to rumble.
There was a knock at the door as it opened with sudden warning.
Standing in the doorframe was a slim man wearing a white lab coat with a white shirt and black tie. He had murky blonde hair that swayed to the side and large glasses. He looked in his mid-20s
"Ken?" Lillie asked.
"Hey Lillie. Have you seen your brother anywhere? I check his room and he wasn't there and thought he could be here despite your mother policy of you two staying in the same room." Ken asked.
Lillie shook her head, making Ken frown.
"Weird."
"Why do you need him Ken?" Lillie asked this time.
"I uh, just needed to tell him something, that is all." Ken stuttered.
Lillie being only 7 didn't pick up on the stutter.
"Oh ok then."
"I should probably go before your mum catches me. Night." Ken said before closing the door.
Lillie laid down on her bed looked on the ceiling.
"Brother has been giving food to me all this week. I just hope…" Lillie started.
"…I just hope he is no to hungry."
Lillie gave off a little scream as she woke up.
Panting a little, she had woken up Vulpix.
"Pix?" the Alolan Pokémon questioned.
"Sorry Vulpix… Just had a nightmare. That's all…"
Authors note: Lmao, a lot of you have probably read the comic strip already but it felt like it fitted so well!
Lets just say, I planned to make it really dark... But decided against it for now.
Yeah this one was actually already done before the previous chapter cuz I loved the comic strip.
I wish I knew the original artist so I could credit him/her but I don't :(.
If any of you do know the name of the artist, please message me or leave the name in the review so I can add it in.
ALSO, at the time of this upload (New Zealand time so its the 26th now.), the infamous leaks of the Sun and Moon logos were found.
Its been a year already? WOW!
They are doing a lot of build up to 'Pokemon day' being the 27th, so it makes me wonder if they are going to announce anything.
DP remakes? Third game or a sequel? Switch port for Pokken which I'm sure will happen eventually.
Anywho, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out.