Hey, I finally finished this chapter. Well more accurately I've been waiting for my sister to be free so she could look it over. Anyway enjoy and leave a review so I can continue to get better.
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Chapter 5
Reflections
Raven awoke long before dawn. At first he was confused by the dark cave until the memory of yesterday's events came flooding back to him. "Did I do the right thing in saving Ann?" He stood up. "Now we'll have to dodge the military everywhere we go if she tags along." He sighed. "This is going to be a long journey," he looked down at his companions sleeping peacefully around him. "Well I guess what's done is done." Looking to the snow covered entrance, he groaned. "I guess I'll have to clear that mess out of here." And with that he set to work.
Raven dug for hours. He began to think he would never see the sun again then his arm touched fresh air. "Finally!" With a strength born of fear and desperation he pushed himself through the snow and out into dawn's light. He breathed in the cool breeze and let the sun shine on his face. The tops of trees shown above the glistening snow, pidgeys chirped in their branches and a few murkrow returned to their nests from their nightly ventures. He was so lost in the peace he nearly missed the glint of the old gold bell from its steeple, the last part of the town above the snow. "Is that truly all that is left? Where will I live?" Raven's voice felt weak, and his words were like a load of bricks on his heart as he realized he had nothing left no home, no family, not even his humanity. "Is this to be my life? Running and hiding? Am I to be searching for my father's remains my whole life?" He felt the answers to all these questions were as clear as sun on his eyes, he probably would.
His stomach growled as he realized he hadn't eaten since yesterday's breakfast. "Man, I've got to find something to eat." Driven by hunger, he climbed out of the hole. "Let's see what's out here right now…" His mind set on food he began his search. At first all he found were a few shriveled berries sticking about the snow, his heart began to sink until he smelled a strange scent he had never smelled before. "What is that? It smells wonderful." He followed the scent until he spotted a small pidgey unconscious and half frozen in the snow. "Is this what smelled so good?" His thoughts darted about wondering why he was led here. "If it doesn't get somewhere warm soon it will die. But I'm an ice type, if I touch it I might make it worse..." He knew he didn't have time to think longer on it. Gingerly he used his claws to lift up the near lifeless bird. "Come on live!" His heart pounding with fear for the bird he sprinted off to the cave.
Saul was up and pacing when Raven arrived at the cave. "There you are!" He exploded at him when he entered. "Please tell me you went hunting," he added eyeing the pidgey hungrily.
"It's not food. We've got to help it." Raven responded.
"Jeez, you know nothing about surviving in this wilderness do you?"
"I've lived in the city my whole life," Raven said coolly.
"It shows. You can't help every creature in the wild. Some can't be helped and provide us with some tasty food," Saul said as he bent his head to sniff the pidgey. "And it looks like you found one that can't be saved." His jaws opened as he gripped the wing and began to tear it off.
Raven turned his head from the scene, he felt confused, he had never known that living in the wild would mean killing to survive. "Hey you going to take some or not?" Saul called from the kill, blood dripped from his muzzle as he spoke. "It's still warm on the inside." Reluctantly Raven turned back around and sat down to eat. Cutting a piece off of the bird with his claw he nibbled it lightly, savoring the taste of the flesh but hating himself for bring it here only to be eaten.
A mumble from Ann diverted Raven's attention; she was stirring from her slumber. "Well she's waking up," he commented. "Sleep well?"
"What?"
Raven face palmed. "Did I seriously forget again?"
"Yes, yes you did," Saul said, a smirk across his face.
"How can we communicate to her?" Raven asked a little unease in his voice.
"Simple, we don't," Saul replied curtly.
"Can't we at least try something?" As Raven spoke he noticed a small notebook and pen in Ann's pack. Seeing it as a chance to communicate he lunged for it, his mind set on an idea born of the past.
"Hey what are you doing?!" Ann said trying to stop Raven. She would have succeeded too had it not been for her leg. Taking up the notebook, Raven thought of all the letters he wrote to an old friend in unova. After many times dropping the pen and jumping out of Ann's reach he finally managed to grip the pen between his claws and began to write.
"Hey," the writing was sloppy. It looked like something a three year old would write next to a doodle. But with his paws, it was the best he could do and brought the right reaction.
"You can write?" Ann asked after rereading the word several times to make sure it was a word.
"Yes," Below this he wrote down his name, and the names of his companions pointing to each as he wrote their name.
"You all have names?!" She cried out in astonishment. "I didn't think wild Pokémon had names…" she added under her breath.
Raven was trying to think of a reply to this that wouldn't freak her out when a voice said. "You might as well tell her." Raven spun around and saw Dagan waking up behind him. "She'll probably find out sooner or later. Best to have it be now,"
Raven looked at him for a long moment, finally seeing the logic in his words he began his narrative. Due to his horrible skill with the pen the tale lasted through the day and well into the night, at the end of it all Ann simply stared dumbfounded as all the information sunk in.
