A/N: Wow. You make one interesting familial connection and people suddenly love your work.

K-master dumb: Ok, calm down, I've continued. All happy now? Goody!

Mystic Mewtwo: Sashara's had a lot to cope with, including her new life with Mewtwo. But don't worry, she isn't totally oblivious…

YunCyn: Awww, you read my request! Thank you and happy you like this as well as 'I Won't Say It'!

Bulbasaur: Wow, I actually wrote a realistic Mewtwo fic? Cool! Picking up on the Legendaries…well, just read on.

Cosmic Mewtwo: This fic won't go unfinished, don't worry! And yay for romance as well!

Goldie: I like angst. It's just writing it can be a real bitch.

Miah Tolensky: Oooooh. Could I use that line if I give you credit for it?

VMorticia: Apart from this chapter, haven't decided re. more songfics, but you'll know soon enough. Ouch. You really were having a bad day when you wrote that review.

Markus Youki: You're embarrassing me. Stop it. And as for the little suggestion…it'll happen, trust me.

Gregory Stephen/nightdragon0: With the current plot revelations, the fic has gone a little darker, but it will get less angsty as it moves on.

Disclaimer: Sashara and Penumbra - mine. Mewtwo and everything else remotely cool - Satoshi Tajiri, 4Kids and Nintendo. Anyone who's ever watched Pokemon or listened to the CD '2 B A Master' will recognise the chorus of 'Misty's Song'. And no, I don't own it either, much as I love it.

Warnings: The usual angst dose. The romance between Mewtwo and Sashara is starting to emerge from this chapter onwards, so if you don't like the thought of a Pokemon and a Pokemon-human hybrid getting together, then don't read this fic. I will mercilessly ridicule any and all flames, then delete them.

Italics denotes Pokemon speech

The shifting plot perspective in this part is in italics.

Forgotten: Part 8

I didn't leave her side that night. Not even to meditate.

Sleep eventually wrapped Sashara in its embrace as she finished sobbing her heart out in the shadows of Mount Caina. Penumbra had curled up beside her, occasionally licking her tears from her cheeks.

As soon as her breathing had slowed down to the odd hitched sob, I roused myself long enough to carry her underneath the mountain, settling her under a cluster of small trees and covering her with a blanket.

After everything she had shown me, after all those revelations…she was someone who I was meant, conditioned even, to hate with all of my genetically engineered soul.

But yet…I love her.

One simple phrase. Three one-syllable words. And I could never say those words to her without breaking my heart.

Vaguely focussing my eyes on the spring, I remembered part of a song I had heard long ago. After I had encountered Ash Ketchum on New Island. After the light had cleared from the Psychic Blasts, and his body lay lifeless on the stadium floor; somehow, I had heard the thoughts of his female companion.

Misty.

Out of curiosity, I had listened to that song as she had cried for her fallen friend.

'…I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't know how to start.
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid that you might break my heart.
Why should anything so easy ever be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, and to say that…I love you…'

At the time, I merely took the song to be mawkishly human, sentimental rubbish for the weak. And now I finally understood what she had meant by those words.

Love does hurt.

Mewtwo?

I shook my head slightly and looked down. Penumbra was carrying a short branch in its mouth, a few berries hanging off the end. Evidently they were meant for me.

Giovanni…my parents told me of him. Do you believe what she showed you?

'She had no reason to lie. And in any case, it's impossible to lie through a Psychic meld. All of it is true.'

I pulled one of the berries off the branch and chewed on it, barely tasting its juices.

So…will you tell her?

'Tell her what?'

That you love her. You can't hide that. If I can guess what you feel for her, then she'll guess as well.

I sighed. Sometimes that Pokemon seemed too smart to be just a child.

'Not yet. But…'

Soon.

Ocean blue…lightening yellow…flame red…the colours seemed to swirl constantly. And in the centre of the hurricane…a glitter of blue and pink…

Blinking the haze from my eyes, it took me a few seconds to register that the caves were filled with light. But it was still dark; the moon was still high. No human-made power source could produce that light.

A Pokemon…a Legendary at that…it had to be…

Mew?

No…even she couldn't produce that amount of light. That meant…

Three.

Three beings had surrounded Sashara's body as she slept.

The first possessed deep yellow and black striped fur, its dark blue lightning forked tail twitching back and forth while a small mane of dark purple rain clouds rested against the back of its almost lion-like head.

The second, the largest of the three, tilted its red and yellow crested head at the sight of the sleeping human, its dark red fur and the white mane on its back bristling with curiosity.

The third, easily the most petite, stepped forward, its lavender hued mane swirling through the air as it sniffed Sashara. Its body was a clear turquoise colour, smaller diamond-shaped of lighter blue covering its flanks. Two streams of white formed its tail, while its heavy blue crest shimmered in the light of its companions' auras.

Raikou, Entei and Suicune. The Legendary Dogs of Lightning, Fire and Water.

But why were they here?

Penumbra yawned and blinked beside me, its tiny body tensing up as it saw the light. What is it?

'The Dogs…'

The Eevee fell silent almost instantly. Apparently it had heard of the Legendary Dogs of Johto. As for me...

Unlike the Birds, I had believed the Dogs to be a myth. There were only a few sightings of them in over two centuries, whereas the Birds had been observed barely a year ago in the Lugia incident.

Saying inside the shadows as much as I could, I settled myself on a small ledge and listened, Penumbra clambering into my lap as it tried to see what the Dogs were doing.

If only I had known then I was to be humiliated beyond all belief.

The Dog of Lightning instinctively raised its hackles as Entei and Suicune continued to study the sleeping body.

'Be careful. She may be part Pokemon, but she is also still human.'

'Calm yourself, my brother.'

The great Fire Pokemon held in a canine sigh. Eternal existence with the Legendary Dog of Lightning was not a task for the faint of heart. He and Raikou had both descended from the clouds so many millennia ago, and through most of that time he had been the one to keep his younger sibling in check. The role of the calming influence on the Lightning Pokemon had been passed to Raikou's mate for the past few hundred years.

'She will not attack. Not after her revelation to the created Legendary.'

'You are way too trusting, Entei.'

'And you are far too cynical, my love.'

The slender Dog of Water placed a paw against the human's forehead and concentrated. Her ruby eyes shone with concern as she examined the girl's thoughts and life experiences. She had been through so much, so much worse than the one known as Mewtwo. But now it was critical to find out for certain.

If her father and creator had broken what the three of them had feared, there would be no hope for this poor child.

Raikou watched with apprehension as his mate delved deeper into the recesses of the human's mind. His nervousness around the human world was ingrained. Any time he had tried to roam freely around the Earth, he had faced Pokemon trainers trying to capture him, his brother or his mate. But like Entei and Suicune, the girl that Mew had told them of had intrigued him. A genetically engineered Pokemon-human hybrid with the powers of a Legendary…

But the void around her…she had seen so much death and pain. More often than not, she had been the cause of it.

There was hope though. That pain had been caused by someone no longer in her life. But if they had damaged or somehow tainted her soul and her will…

'Well?'

The Dog of Water slowly looked up at him, a small canine smile on her perfect face. 'There is hope. Her soul is still pure, and her will is strong.'

Entei settled back and rested his head on his gigantic front paws. 'And?'

'And what?'

'I know you too well, Suicune. You have found something of interest, hmm?'

'Something else? Whatisitwhatisitwhatisit?' Raikou was almost bursting with curiosity as he bounced around on the pads of his paws.

'That was immature even by your standards, Raikou.'

The look of pretend hurt on the Dog's face was too pathetic to ignore.

Suicune shook her head as she nuzzled her hyperactive partner. 'You're a gigantic overgrown electricity-conducting puppy and I love you. Just as our young friend here cares about a certain Psychic Pokemon.'

The Dog of Fire blinked and smiled almost indulgently at Sashara's body. 'Mewtwo.'

'Mmm-hmm.'

'It's already happening then?'

Suicune sighed. 'Her feelings for Mewtwo exist freely of the drugs she had been using to suppress her memories. Time, space, even the universe can end. The only thing that endures is love.'

The Dog of Lightning frowned slightly. 'And what of Mewtwo's hatred of all that connects to his creator?'

'There is that as well. But to be honest, I don't think that's a problem right now.'

'And why not?'

'Because he loves her in the same way. And that, as far as I can tell, will never change. But still, the young one's fate is teetering on the edge of a knife.'

Entei nodded solemnly. 'She can follow the path of self-hatred and end her life no better than Giovanni, or she can follow another path, harder yes, but at the end, she will truly become a Legendary.'

The Dog of Water held in a yap of mirth. 'But none of that can happen without a little…nudge…in the right direction.'

'And you're going to give her that nudge.'

'You can never say I don't care, Entei.'

'Hmmm.'

The Fire Pokemon smiled, stretched and walked with Raikou towards the cave entrance. 'Do what you need to, then back into the spring with you.'

'Yes master.' The playful sarcasm in her tone was evident. She sighed as she watched her friend and her mate leave for the heavens before turning her attention back to the sleeping human.

Placing a paw over Sashara's heart, she bowed her dark head and closed her eyes. 'Trust in him, young one. You are the light in his darkness, just as he is the light in yours.'

Her job done, Suicune bent her neck slightly and licked a stray tear from the human's face. She would survive somehow, of that the Dog of Water was certain.

Stretching, she finally turned and stared straight into the eyes of the being who had been present since she and her companions had arrived…

'Do not give up, child of Mew.' Her voice was psychically projected into my mind as she spoke.

'You worry that she might stray. But that will not be not the case if you are there for her.'

A fountain of ice rose from the surface of the waters as Suicune padded towards the bank of the spring. Settling onto her haunches, she glanced over at the sleeping human with an almost maternal expression on her face.

'The apple never falls far from the tree, unless a wind blows it away.'

The ice melted instantly around the Dog's body as she departed below the surface of Clarity Lake. Even the rush of water couldn't blur her last words.

'…Mewtwo, you are that wind.' (1)

TBC

(1) Credit for this line goes to Miah Tolensky. Many thanks!