Yep, I'm back. Happy holidays by the way. I don't think I wished that, even though its like, late now.
Happy Valentines day, just so I will be early (early when I wrote this), and starting now, Fun Facts will be at the start of the chapter, just for a tad of fun for all of us.
Fun Fact: Emma's last name is Daniels, very weird indeed...
It was two hours until Suicine got back.
"What took you so long?" I said to him after he opened my door to my room.
"Parade in town, couple ladies wanted some drinks." He grinned. "Paid for them, and got some numbers." He waved the pieces of paper around like it was a trophy. I rolled my eyes at him.
"What was the parade about?" I asked. I looked out my window onto the plains and onto the distant stone town.
"I think people have found out about you leaving." He walked over and stood beside me. He placed a hand on my left shoulder. "News travels fast, doesn't it." He chuckled. "Make sure you don't do anything stupid, else everyone will hear about it." He joked.
"How, it's only been 7 hours!" I exclaimed, looking at him.
"News travels fast." He repeated.
I sighed and turned away from the window. I felt a strong need to go to the town, one that was hard to turn away.
"Can I go?" The words surprised me, even more when I realized they came out of my mouth. Suicine looked at me in alarm.
"Why would you want to do that?" He began to scratch his hand, something he does when he gets nervous.
"It's my last day Suicune, please!" I grabbed both of his shoulders and shook him. "We can ride into town and wear cloaks or something." He didn't seem to relent at first, but after a minute he sighed in defeat.
"Fine, get your cloak and I will saddle up Blaze and Stand, make sure your ready in 10 minutes." He walked out of my room while I scrambled to find my cloak. I found it hanging up in my closet with a cover if dust coating it, and I remembered how long it's been since I've been out to the town, 8 long years. I quickly found my riding boots at the back of the small room and struggled to take my shoes off, and put the boots on. I brought the long-hooded cloak around and snapped the collar on. I ran out the door, catching a glimpse of what time it was, 5:26. I would be 4 minutes early if I got there in less than 3 minutes. I half-ran, half-fell down the stairs. I caught another glimpse of the clock, 5:28, two minutes left. I ran out the castle from the giant front doors and took a left on the dusty path. After a short time, I saw the familiar shape of Suicune petting a Rapidash with a light blue flame coming out, instead of the usual color orange-red flame. Suicune nodded at me.
"Right on time, lets get going if we are going to get back before midnight." He lifted himself onto the regular Rapidash. I jumped onto the weird one, and earned a friendly nicker. I patted Blaze on the neck and lightly kicked him forward. Suicune kicked Stand and galloped in front of me, and I lightly flicked the reigns and Blaze matched Stand's speed. Suicune kicked Stand a bit harder, and he galloped unto the dirt road to the small town. Blaze followed him at the same pace, and side by side we walked.
*Time warp due to that nothing really happened for the 1 hour ride*
Dirt roads met paved cobblestone streets. The horses hooves echoed on the road, due to that everyone was is the center of the town, and there was no noise except for the distant cheers and screams. Blaze's ears went back when the fireworks went off, and the cheers raised in volume for a second, then went back to a somewhat-normal noise. I smiled at Suicune, but his head was straight ahead with the cloak hood on his face, leaving a shadow and marking his face out. I realized I should do the same and lifted the hood over my head and it left a comforting shadow over my face. I smiled and opened my mouth to say something, when I heard footsteps running away. Suicune stopped Stand and put his hand on the outside of Blaze's bit.
"Guess it was just a kid a tad late." Suicune sighed in relief and tapped Stand to walk. Blaze already knew to follow him, so we went around on the streets following the noise. We turned onto a street with people flooding the end of it, trying to get a better glimpse of the parade in front of them. I caught a shadow of someone behind us.
"Nice for you to join us Jase." Suicune said without turning around.
"Sorry, sir. General Arson kept us late." He put a hand on Blaze's side, and earned a angry snort and a move to be kicked.
"So how's the parade sir? Gonna get any closer to the lady's? They might want a legendary after all the ale the men has drank." The soldier laughed at himself, but stopped when he caught a sight of Suicune's angry face.
"Sorry, sir." He said and held his head down for a moment.
"We will get closer, soon, after all the before stuff gets out of the way." He got off of Stand and tied him to the post that was on the end of every street in town. I got off my horse before Suicune could get around to help me. I saw him smack the soldier on the arm. I tied Blaze right next to Stand, and I followed Suicune to the end of the street. I enjoyed the sudden splash of sunlight that fell on my face before the cloak blocked it all. I felt Suicune grab my arm.
"Stay close to me." He whispered. I nodded. We tried to cut through the crowd, but it was hard enough by yourself, never less three. After flowing through the crowd awhile, we were out at the front.
I saw people dancing, people laughing, people who were enjoying themselves. It made me smile and want to join in, join and dance the day away, but the tight grip on my arm told me otherwise. I gazed at everyone, until the main event went on.
The Skylands colors, light blue, white, and light green, were flashing around in the road as people turned, with lively music playing at full blast that turned around them. They all turned and laughed and sang in the road, with everyone cheering and yelling. I saw children run out onto the street, and the dancers took them into the dance, singing. I couldn't understand what they were singing, it was just like a foreign language. Everyone's face had a smile on it. I looked around trying to see people's faces. Everyone we smiling.
But one. The frown automatically made my stomach turn. The man faced towards me. I felt anger showering off the man in waves.
"Suicune!" I whispered frantically to him. I looked back to the man.
He was gone.
"Huh? What?" Suicune looked down at me. "What's wrong?" He became alert.
"There was a man. He.." I never got to finish my sentence. I heard a gunshot, and fluid fell around me. I looked down, and saw red everywhere. Blood.
"Jase!" Suicune yelled to him, but I saw the fear in his eyes. I turned to where Jase last was. His body was on the ground. Suicune dragged me away. I heard more gunshots, some of them I could tell came close. I felt my throat close up with sadness.
"Change forms! It will leave less of a target!" Suicune yelled at me as he changed into being, well, Suicune.
I struggled to be calm for a moment, but when I did, I changed into being a Equinox pretty quickly. I felt my paws grab hold of the ground, and I kept pace with Suicune until we were well out of town, yet very far from the castle.
"You... Ok...?" He asked breathlessly. All I could to was nod.
Bang, done. Worked a month on this chapter. Trying to go back to writing all the time, but...
Anyways. Review. I'm sorry for the graphic things at the last part, but that's why this is rated T.
