DL apologizes for the extensive delays! School sucks, she knows, and she hopes that time will fly quickly to summer.
Why is she speaking in third-person? Because she can, silly! It is fun beyond imaginable! The readers should try it for their reviews, too! If they do, DL may give out a hint next chapter about something important coming up....
(Turnback Cave, 12:30 p.m.)
Giratina scowled at all of the Legendaries packed into his cave (they had left their helpers to guard over their homes), and he mumbled to himself, "Why does it have to be my place? I'm pretty sure Arccy has a giant television or two, and if he doesn't he could just wave his magical fairy wand and get one!"
"I'm ssssssorry, sssssir," an Arbok who wassssss hisssssss assssssisssstant nodded her head in apology, "but the shrimp did ssssssay it wasssss important. About the human girl you told usssss about."
"Ah, yes," Giratina smirked at the reminder of the 'squirt', "you mean Squirt. Well, I still think they could have warned me more than ten minutes before they all came, or at least knocked first."
"If you insssstalled a doorbell, maybe it would help…."
"Good idea, December," he nodded to her in congratulations as if seriously considering the idea and turned to the deeper part of his cave where he could 'sit' down in peace, and a Cubone ran after him and asked, "C-Can I c-come with you, G-G-Girat-t-tina?" The little guy always had a stuttering problem, and nobody knew that he was here (except 'Arccy', of course, and Mew with his snooping) or that Giratina took care of him – he was simply too small to notice. The Dragon/Ghost-Type actually had a soft spot for the little guy, and so he nodded and made sure that he was safe and sound behind him – where no one would be able to see him. Rattle didn't appreciate strangers, even other Legendaries, and so all of the Pokemon that suddenly filled the front part of the cave scared him to death and kicked his stuttering up a notch. He shivered a bit, but then the Arbok came over and curled around him gently to keep him as warm as she could – being cold-blooded had its downsides, although Giratina had given her a better control over her temperature than others of her species. As the Lord of Death settled himself in for the long haul, he noticed that even Deoxys was here despite her previous absences in the meetings. As they were waiting for Articuno to come back from Arceus' place, Giratina found it all too boring and started to drift to sleep like he normally did….
"Hey, Articuno, what took ya so long?" The Renegade Pokemon opened an eye in agitation (he had wanted a quick nap, but Zapdos' squawking wasn't going to let him) as he watched the Ice/Flying-Type alight beside his counterparts with a frown toward the yellow Bird. Since the last Legendary was now here, everyone turned their attention to Rotom, who seemed to puff up with pride because he was in the center of the spotlight before turning to the television and slipping inside. If he breaks that thing, I'm going to kill him, Giratina mentally threatened, and he made sure to keep an eye out for anything strange as he watched the screen flicker to life and show static. After a while, suddenly the Plasma Pokemon appeared on the screen, and a few jumped at the surprise as he said cheerfully, "Thank you all for coming, and I hope you can use this information in some way to better understand DL!" Then, he disappeared, and everyone waited anxiously for something to happen.
"This," his voice crackled from the speakers, "is a couple of videos I found on her laptop, and they're really weird but I think they may be somewhat important to the way she thinks and acts. Or at least give us something to laugh at." Then, a moving picture coming up with DL walking around in a meadow, to which Raikou mumbled 'looks familiar' before suddenly a yellow streak zoomed across the screen, barely visible to the camera. DL fell over and landed on her butt, and then ran up to the camera and raced after the blur in vain to try to follow what looked like Raikou. The Electric-Type snickered as she fell on her face, and then it showed the Raichu's as he pulled her up and asked if she was okay. She sighed, the camera not on her, and mumbled, "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine…except that I just missed Raikou again!" Hunter floated across in the background, rolling his eyes and muttering to 'stop whining and get off your fat lazy butt', and then the camera was dropped on its side as they saw feet chasing after the Gas Pokemon with shouts of 'say that to my face, you coward' and 'I'm going to catch you with a vacuum and call Ghost Busters to take you away'.
"Wow," someone mumbled, and others snickered as the scene changed to a place that Rayquaza spoke up was her old hiding place and showed DL staring straight at the camera as if talking to someone. She cleared her throat and mumbled 'is it on?' before she nodded and smiled brightly at the camera. "Okay, Proff," she said happily, "I'm trying something new that might help me, or might not – okay, actually, I was bored," the Legendaries could hear a sigh in the background belonging to a certain Haunter, "so I decided to make a video in case I caught sight of any Legendaries! I'll probably do this from now on, so that you can see what I see!"
"Rai rai, raichu…." (Not with your terrible movie director skills, you won't….)
"Oh, shut up!" She shouted at the Raichu off-screen, and then turned back to the screen with a pout and mumbled, "So, yeah, I'll put this right next to my telescopie-thingie that you guys gave me, and…yeah." She didn't seem to know what else to say, so she just shrugged and moved the camera a little behind and beside her so that it could see her as well as where she was looking at, and then sat down and took out her binoculars (Giratina thought, wow, how do you mix up a telescope and a pair of binoculars?) and grew quiet, much to all of their surprise.
"Oops, still have the cap-thingies on…."
They all rolled their eyes or sighed or shook their heads at the human on the screen as she laughed nervously and removed the caps before looking through them again, and then it grew quiet once more. Rotom's voice popped up again as he told them, "It's kinda boring for a while, so I'll fast-forward to something cool." It went at super-speed for a while, with DL moving around and shifting very often, before he stopped and played it at regular speed as the human put the binoculars down and mumbled, "What the…." She put them back up, looked over them, and then put them down again to say, "What the hell is that?" She then got up and walked forward until she was out of the camera's sight, and they heard her mumble, "There's something in the bushes rustling…." It was quiet for a bit more, before everyone jumped at the sound of a scream and watched as she ran past the screen, and then Hunter flew up to it snickering as they heard her shout at him, "You bastard, I hate you!" Then, he yelped and ducked down as a shoe went flying, and then they watched as he dodged numerous items that probably would have just passed through him anyways while Giratina commented, "She sure is rather athletic to be able to run that fast and throw that hard and far." Some snickered at that while others just sighed, and Darkrai even commented, "It's surprising that she's such a klutz and yet still manages to frighten her Pokemon."
After the chuckling had died down a bit, the video changed to see her sitting there again and groaning, "I'm soooo damn bored…." After a while of her complaining, she put the binoculars down and sighed, saying she'd go get something to eat and walking off-screen once more. After a while, she came back holding a sandwich and munching on it as she held the binoculars with one hand lazily, not really seeming to be paying attention. A brown paw slowly reached over and grabbed the sandwich before she jumped up (leaving the sandwich to be taken by the Raichu) and said excitedly, "Hey, it's Rayquaza! Omigod, look, guys, it's –" When she looked down and noticed her sandwich was gone, though, she muttered, "Hey, wha…?" Then, she quickly looked up and she cursed under her breath as she whined, "Aww, phooie, he disappeared! And dammit, who took my sandwich?!"
They continued watching such random clips of her watching for Legendaries, before Rotom told them all, "Alright, that's all of the videos that had anything good in them, but here's some audio clips I found on there, too! And they're really interesting! She tried deleting them, but I could recover them easily." As the blank screen remained so, they heard a bit of crackling before a steady rhythm of breathing blew into the microphone and DL started to talk.
"I tried to capture a Pokemon today," she sounded like she was talking to a diary, "but it got away and I ran after it hoping to catch it like my Dad could. He was always good at catching Pokemon…battling them, too. But, yeah, I ran after the Vespiquen – actually, it was strange that it didn't have a colony of Combee with it, but I didn't notice that until I had run a long way and it – well, it had to be a she – turned around to face me unexpectedly and I skidded to a halt only two yards from her. Then, I saw a bright red light shoot towards her and suck her up into a Poke Ball, and I was stunned as someone walked out from between the trees laughing, as if they were a Glameow that had pounced on a poor unsuspecting Rattata." She took a deep breath, as if readying herself, and everyone listened closely as she mumbled, "And then, I saw her….
"I wouldn't have recognized her if it wasn't for the way she walked and how she held up her head to look down on me, but once I looked at her the long blonde hair was a dead-giveaway, too. She had on that familiar Team Galactic uniform," Palkia and Dialga both scowled at the name, "and she was switching the Poke Ball with her Vespiquen in it with another one. When she threw it and yelled a familiar name, I found that I couldn't speak at all. Out came a Glameow that used to belong to my Aunt Jen, her name's Tony, and I looked up at the tall woman standing before me and said her name like it was a godsend. 'Nicole.' I don't think she heard me, but she looked at me funny before telling her Glameow to use Iron Tail.
"Unfortunately, I didn't have Butterscotch or Hunter out, so I assumed that she meant me and quickly ran to dodge it. I tripped over something, being me, yet it still missed as she had tried to get me in the head, and I rolled over before it could land on me with its sharp claws. I noticed that a Poke Ball rolled away from my pockets, and I quickly reached for it but got scratched by Tony as she smacked it away with her tail. I'm lucky it didn't break when it hit a tree but instead opened up and let out Butterscotch, who in turn faced the Glameow and growled, cheeks sparking with electricity. Then, I saw a look of recognition on his face as well, and even Tony stopped hissing to look at him with a look of surprise. Then, her Trainer told her to use Fury Swipes, and she had to obey as she leapt onto him and attacked.
"Since I don't know much about battling, I was pretty much helpless, but I did know that it was at least level twenty since she knew Fury Swipes and I hoped that Butterscotch could keep up with her, being kinda old. Heh, he doesn't like being called that, but I can't help it! But, erm," she cleared her throat nervously and lowered her voice as if she didn't want someone to hear, "anyways, they started to fight a bit, and I looked over to Nicole, my sister, narrowing her eyes and her eyebrows arched like it used to be when we'd argue over things like toys and such. I couldn't believe that she couldn't recognize me! I mean, I saw her and knew immediately who it was in a heartbeat! But, then I realized that she was a part of Team Galactic, and it really hit home; she was a bad guy – err, girl. She was a villain. She could get arrested. Finally, I shouted at her, 'Stop it, Nicole, it's me!'
"That's when she stopped and seemed to really take a good look at me. I think she cursed under her breath or something, but her eyes grew wide and her Pokemon froze in mid-swing. Butterscotch used that opportunity to smack her with his own Iron Tail, and sent her flying back to her Trainer as the blonde woman turned to the Electric-Type and growled. Then, she returned her Pokemon and quickly shouted, 'go, Vespiquen!' and I remember her using Confuse Ray before it all got fuzzy, and then when I could see and think clearly again, they were gone."
Another clip came on after that, a similar tone of voice to the first (as if she was whispering to not wake someone up), as she started, "Well, I think that my entire family must be evil now. Can you believe how lucky – or, really, unlucky – I am? Well, I think I've found the rest of my family now, but I still can't believe it! Dammit!" Then, she lowered her voice (it had risen a degree in her angry rant) and whispered, "I mean, I was trying to find Groudon and was climbing an extinct volcano – don't ask me why, I thought that he might be there –"
"Back before she knew our genders," the Continent Pokemon muttered, and Kyogre sniggered a bit before they were shushed by Rayquaza.
"Anyways, while I was climbing, a giant rockslide came and nearly wiped me clear off the mountain, but I was lucky enough to be able to get out of the way of any really bad rocks. I was dirty, but I wasn't hurt. So, I climbed the rest of the way to find out what did that – I was hoping it might have been Groudon – and found two people fighting in – guess what – Team Magma and Aqua uniforms." Groudon and Kyogre both rolled their eyes and mumbled, "What are the odds…?"
"One was a redhead that was probably only five years younger than me with his red hood down as he was sweating from the tension and heat of the battle, and the other was a blonde with blue eyes who was frowning slightly while pushing his bangs away from his face and seemed to be just as sweaty by the way his black-and-white striped shirt was damp and clung to his skin. I didn't recognize them as quickly and easily as my older sister, Nicole, but when they started to shout at each other I found that it was an all too familiar scene.
"The redhead was like 'you were always such a jerk, Trey' and that nickname immediately rung a bell in my head; one of my younger brothers was called that because he was the third child born, and he was blonde and had blue eyes just like the kid I could see standing before me. A Magmortar, which I assumed was the redhead's, growled and shot a Solarbeam at the Quagsire he was fighting, but the Water/Ground-Type seemed to just flow around it and slapped his tail until a bunch of rocks slid down the peak above them and formed a Rockslide to hit the Fire-Type. I guess that's where the other falling rocks came from, too. He just shot a Flamethrower to melt the rocks at a temperature over 3600 degrees, and I had to duck so that the remaining rocks could roll over my head and just barely missed having my face melted off. The two were pretty good at battling, but it seemed that they weren't really paying attention to their Pokemon as they yelled at each other.
"The blonde with the Quagsire shouted back 'well, you were always being a baby, anyways' and told his Pokemon to use Mud Shot and blind the Magmortar. As the two Pokemon were still locked in deadly combat where either of them could fall off the cliff, their Trainers seemed to be battling with glares and scowls that made me thank God that looks couldn't kill. Then the blonde kid said, 'and you always had to have your way, because you were such a spoiled brat!' and I noticed the shorter boy clench his fists and grow even angrier. The redhead countered, 'well, you're spoiled, too, you damn pretty boy' and smirked with triumph when his Magmortar clobbered the Quagsire by spinning rapidly – and blindly – and using Fire Spin to become a swirling fiery tornado, smacking the big blubber-thing with his flaming arms. They both stumbled back a bit, but then they jumped right back into the fray and into each others' faces, attacking with everything they got. A Pokemon's loyalty is one of the strongest bonds, it seems.
"The blonde, Trey, then frowned at the redhead and said, 'Alex, you know that Mom hated it when you cursed' and it was then that I realized they were related and could possibly be my two missing brothers, Alexander and Wayne DrakenHart. And, with the redhead's next words, I knew that I couldn't be wrong: 'but Mom's dead!'"
"Hm," Giratina hummed happily, "I should really check and see if I can find any of their relatives; they seem like such a lively bunch." With his bad joke, he heard December sigh and smack her forehead with her tail, but he just grinned and continued listening to the audio clip with the others.
"So, now I knew that these two were my brothers and that I had an evil trio of siblings to deal with. I mean, come on! What kind of cruel twist of fate is it to have them all go and join some evil group? Why couldn't they go and at least join Team Rocket? I mean, they at least pay more! Oh, God, now I feel bad – I'm telling them which team they should join as if they were just football teams! I wish someone was awake to smack me." She grew quiet, letting everyone mull over the notion for a while – how unlucky it was to have a family full of villains and having to face these facts – before finally she sighed and mumbled, "Well, anyways, they battled for a bit more, yelling various taunts like 'wimp' and 'shrimp' and 'moron' and 'retard' – you know, normal sibling banter – before suddenly the Magmortar smacked the Quagsire so hard it flew to the edge of the cliff near me and teetered on the edge as it yelped in distress, earning the Trainers' attention and making them notice me. Then, Trey gasped and shouted, 'Bell!' which I guess was the Quagsire's name and ran over, but he wouldn't make it in time as the Water/Ground-Type was already slipping off, and suddenly I found myself grabbing for the Pokemon's arms. Unfortunately, its skin was so slippery that it just slid out of my hands and kept on going down the mountain, and then Trey finally got to the edge and bit his lip nervously as he wondered whether to go after him.
"I heard some triumphant laughing and we both turned to look at Alex as he let out another Poke Ball, which revealed a Charizard that reminded me of his young Charmander that he had gotten from Dad's Pokemon breeding ranch, and when he shouted for 'Blazord' to get ready to kick some ass, I knew that it was the one and only. Instinctively I shouted, 'hey, that's not fair!'" She chuckled sourly and added,"Trust me to be all goody-two-shoes-big-sis and all. Although the blonde looked at me and a strange look came on his face, the redhead didn't seem to really care about me and just shouted, 'life isn't fair' which sounded sour and bitter to me with how true it was as his two Pokemon teamed up on Trey – and ultimately me. Trey cursed under his breath – I was about to call him a 'hypocrite' but it didn't seem like the time – and then threw a Poke Ball, shouting, 'King, use Twister!' and out came a Kingdra – haha, creative name – that spat out said attack to distract the two Pokemon while the Water/Dragon-Type ferried Trey down the mountain. It looked painful to slide down that slope on your belly, but I guess it didn't mind or something as they quickly disappeared from sight, probably catching up to that Quagsire that looked strangely familiar.
"Alex swore loudly and recalled his Magmortar before getting on Blazord's back and Flying down the mountainside as well, apparently forgetting that I was there as the Charizard's tail whipped right above my head and nearly cleaved it right off. I was a bit shaken because of the adrenaline I had experienced with watching them, but I was also shaking because I couldn't believe I had found my brothers – and they were villains, just like my sister. Not only did I lose my parents and the house of my childhood, but I've lost my siblings to evil crime syndicates, the only family I have left….
"It's like…some really bad soap opera or something – and I hate soap operas."
The clip ended, and the screen flickered back to static before Rotom popped out and the TV turned off, and the Plasma Pokemon decided to take a break (he seemed a bit tired from pulling the clips from a computer to a television thousands of miles away) while the Legendaries chattered over the information they had learned. Giratina stayed out of it, although he was thinking as well, and instead just listened in on other people's conversations.
"Why do you think they're with the bad guys?" Mew asked Uxie, and the yellow Spirit frowned as he mulled it over. Then, he slowly suggested, "Perhaps they were looking for a reason to live after they lost everything, and they saw it in power and money, which the teams offered."
"Or maybe," Azelf popped in, "they wanted to get revenge on the world and fix it to be a kind of place that they want it to be, and the different teams fit they're ideal world – a watery world for fish and such, a very big landmass for plants and humans, or maybe even a totally new world that they could shape into their desires!"
"Or," even Mesprit decided she had to put her two cents in the conversation, "maybe they were so hurt and confused after they lost their parents that they just wanted to get away from the past and move on, and they decided that being with the teams would get rid of all of their memories and bring them to a better future!"
"Ouch," Mew held his head as if in pain, "all of these suggestions are hurting my head!"
As the Spirits argued over who was right and Mew listened to them until his head exploded, Giratina just bobbed his head to a song and hummed the tune to himself (it was "Best Friend" by Aqua, in case anyone wanted to know) before he felt something prod his tail repeatedly. He turned his head over his shoulder to look and see who it was to see Rattle was using his little bone-club to poke him and get his attention, and the Ghost/Dragon-Type grinned before asking him, "Yeah, Rattle? What is it?"
"Wh-who's dat?" He was referring to the human they were talking about. "She s-s-sounds sad." The Arbok that curled around him nodded absentmindedly, commenting herself, "The girl ssssssseemssssss to have a problem on her handsssssss."
"Yeah," the oversized centipede-like dragon nodded in agreement, "she does. And I now want to go bother her." He pouted slightly because he had to stay in his cave and deal with all of these Legendaries, but he brightened considerably when he remembered that he'd at least be learning things about the human that he probably wouldn't have learned if he asked her directly.
"Hey, guys!" Rotom's voice called from the television again as his face popped up on the screen, and he told them, "I just remembered that I found a secret folder in her laptop about some of her most embarrassing moments! Wanna see?"
Giratina cheered and roared, "Yes! It'll make up for everything today!" He heard agreeing from Raikou and Zapdos and even Celebi, although Latios just sighed and shook his head at them all. Rotom smiled cheerfully (probably because Zapdos was agreeing with him) and said merrily, "Okay! Videos coming up!"
"Just shut up and play the videos already!" Zapdos roared from the middle of the group, impatient as most of the rest of them although she was the only one brash enough to say it aloud. Giratina grinned as the footage began to roll and he said to himself while December just shook her head and sighed, "I hope the Squirt doesn't take this personal…but I can't pass up the chance for possible blackmail!"
(Arceus' Office, 1:27 p.m.)
As the white qilin-like Pokemon sighed and shifted in his spot sitting before the giant desk, he heard the giant door creak open slightly with a loud 'squaaaaawk' that reminded him much of a disturbed Murkrow he knew, and he looked up with an eyebrow raised – well, he would if he had any – to see the door slightly ajar and DL to be the source. The brown-haired human was poking her head in rather painfully (he had to admit that it was rather hard to open the door without Psychic powers, even for some of the Legendaries) and was trying to keep it open barely with all of her strength as she asked restrained, "Umm, Arceus, could I…?"
"Yes – ah!" Arceus quickly leapt over the desk as she lost her battle with the door and was about to get her head decapitated by the heavy obstacle crushing her neck, and he was there in a flash and had his hooves in between the edges of the doors to prevent her from losing her head. After he pushed it open with a very ungodly-like grunt enough for her to slip through, he let it shut heavily with a 'thud' as the human flopped onto her back, panting raggedly from the massive effort on her part. He could have just used his Psychic powers to open it, but he had really acted on instinct at the time. Her hair splayed out all around her head like the wheel that was around Arceus' waist, and as she lay there with the Legendary standing beside her without feeling even a bit worn out he asked her, "What was it that you wanted exactly, DL?"
She chuckled nervously and slowly raised an arm, requesting weakly, "Help me up?" Her expression was filled with bashful inquiry, and after a moment of looking at her on the ground helpless in her exhaustion he sighed and reached down, grabbing her hand gently with his teeth, and then picking her up completely off of the ground as she shrieked with delight before setting her down on her feet as she giggled. It would have been more uncomplicated if he had hands, but the Alpha Pokemon ignored that slight handicap (strange that the God of all Pokemon would have a weakness) to instead make sure she was steady on her feet in case she fell back down again and he'd have to lift her to her feet again. She seemed stable enough, though, and so he stepped back and eyed her curiously, wondering what could have caused her to risk her life to enter his office. After she had dusted herself off and seemed comfortable enough, she looked up at the God Pokemon and bit her lip, looking rather nervous all of a sudden. Which only made his curiosity grow more, of course.
"Umm…." She looked down at her feet, then at him, and then back down at the ground, and the God Pokemon again would have raised an eyebrow if he could as he asked again, "Yes, DL? I'm pretty sure you didn't just risk your life to come in here and chew your mouth apart." With her face getting red in embarrassment, he softened his expression a bit and said calmly, "Whatever it is, it has to be important to trouble you."
Especially since you're too immature to realize something is of such a magnitude unless it's huge, but that's beside the point. He cleared his throat and continued kindly, "So, tell me what it is exactly that's on your mind." He felt like he was talking to her like she was his daughter, and although it troubled him to be so kind to someone when he was the God of all Pokemon and such and should be as detached as possible, it made sense because he had created everything and was essentially the father of all.
"Well…." The human shuffled her feet, and it was then that Arceus wished he had made the humans easier to read the minds of (With the Legendaries, I can do whatever the hell I want…with the humans, however….) as she mumbled, "Well, umm, I was wondering if you could tell me about something that I remembered hearing about while I was in Canalave researching on mythology and stuff."
He nodded to show that he would agree to it and walked over to his desk so he had a place to sit, watching from the corner of his eye as she followed nervously and found the (huge!) seat in front of the desk as her own spot, and after they had both gotten themselves comfortable (with the human sinking into the chair slightly) the Alpha Pokemon said, "Well, let us start, shall we? I am actually curious to hear some of the things humans have said about us in times past."
She shuffled in her seat again, and he was bursting to ask her what the hell was wrong with her today, but he was a Legendary and had better control over such emotions as impatience (bloody hell, he better have, because he made the Spirit Trio!) and instead was calm and tolerant of her long silence as her eyes stayed on the grains of the desk that had lasted a little more than a century (Mew had destroyed the last one on accident, with the incident including a lesson of Flamethrower and a few too many Tamato berries). It was a while afterwards that she started to speak, but when she did she had chosen her words carefully and precisely. She seemed a bit afraid of saying the wrong thing.
"Well, there was this one myth that I never understood," she started, "because the name of whoever it was talking about was unknown to the people who had written the book." She closed her eyes, trying to remember the exact wording, and slowly recited, "'Betray not your anger, lest 'blank' will come. Weep not with sorrow, or 'blank' will draw near. When joy and enjoyment come natural as the very air, that is happiness. Let such be blessed by the hand of Master 'blank'.'" She then opened her eyes to stare at the desk again and told him as he mulled over the saying, "The book said that 'these words were spoken often as a custom,' but it never said exactly who it was referring to." She then looked up at the white qilin-like Pokemon and asked, "Is it…referring to you, Arceus?"
Arceus thought over this hard, for he had never heard the myth himself, before he said slowly, "I suppose it could be, although I've never heard it before. It sounds like a prayer to me."
DL smiled slightly, and she joked, "Well, I wonder how the people down there would feel if they knew that all those prayers they said fell on deaf ears." Before he could answer in a positive or negative way, she then crossed her arms and looked up at the ceiling way above, mumbling as if answering herself, "Of course, maybe those prayers weren't actually for you – maybe they were meant for anyone who would listen."
Although it sounded strange when initially heard (a prayer for a God that wasn't meant for the God?), after a while of thinking about the idea it made a sliver of sense. After all, they are basically wishes that Jirachi could overhear, and surely Cresselia could feel people's hopes through their good dreams. But, when he stated so to the human, he was surprised to see her frown slightly and shake her head, saying, "No, I didn't mean just the Legendaries, although it would be wonderful." She then tilted her head down a bit, thinking about what she was going to say as Arceus pondered how she couldn't be thinking the same thing he was. Well, she is an eccentric girl, after all, so I guess that makes sense…. Of course, if anyone knew that the God Pokemon was guessing, they would have thought they had gone insane.
"When I was littler," she started suddenly, causing him to cock his head to the side while he listened, "I remember that I use to lay in my bed and ask myself things aloud, like if I wanted to be a trainer or be a breeder like my father had been. Sometimes I wanted to train my own Pokemon and be a Master, and sometimes I would want to just have a peaceful life with my Pokemon. I could be either my father or my mother, but I ended up being neither." After a moment of pausing in her discussion, she looked up at him as if finding it disrespectful to not look him in the eye while she was talking, although he could see that she was visibly saddened by talking about this. "But, I used to also pray that I wouldn't die in my sleep, which used to be my greatest fear when I was a kid. I would beg and beg and beg, always saying that I still had things I needed to do, and each morning I'd wake up with a love for life and determination to do what needed to be done. But, I'd always leave something left over that I'd have to do the next day so I could wake up in the morning."
After a moment of thought, Arceus ventured to point out, "But, that's talking to yourself. If I've never heard these prayers, then who could you have possibly been talking to?"
She smiled at him, a warm expression in her chocolate eyes as if he had just said the right thing, and she recited the words as if they had been said by somebody wise, "'You only need one person to make a determined soul, a caring heart, and a pair of ears to listen.'" Then, she giggled a bit and added, "And there's nothing wrong with talking to yourself unless you argue with yourself and lose!"
"Then perhaps I should stop," he grumbled quietly, but she seemed to have heard and held her stomach as she laughed while the God rolled his eyes, although he gave a small chuckle as well. Her laugh was contagious, it seemed.
(Legendary Palace, 7:03 p.m.)
After a long time of discussing myths and the like to the God of all Pokemon and ultimately bothering him for way too long, she bid good-bye and was almost killed again on her way out of the door, but she only chuckled nervously as he helped her out and said 'good-bye' once more before going on her way back through the maze of hallways in an effort to find her room. She remembered going through the front hall of the palace, but she ended up going in circles and coming back to the hall before she finally decided to sit down and think about where she was going. That was when she noticed that someone else was in the room – a Kadabra, to be exact – and he had been staring at her for the past minute she had sat there. A bit creeped out by that, she tilted her head to the side and slowly asked, "Hello? Who are you?"
"I am Kazza," she couldn't help but find that the name fit him for some reason, perhaps because of his rich European-like accent that seemed so much like a magician's, "and I have watched you walk in and out of this hall for the past fifteen minutes." He raised an eyebrow as his nose twitched, causing his little mustache-like fur to sway to and fro, and she had to stifle a giggle at the strange sight before sighing and telling him, "I keep thinking that I'm almost to my room, but then I end up here and realize I went in a circle, again." She hung her head down and slumped her shoulders, whining, "I'm looooooost."
"And you just came back from talking with Arceus," he added, making her perk up and look at him in amazement. He smiled a bit smugly as she asked him incredibly, "How'd you know?"
"Besides the fact that I am a Psychic-Type," he pointed out proudly, "you came from that hall," he directed a clawed-finger towards the hallway he spoke of. He explained as she pondered over the fact, "The only place of importance down there is Arceus' office, since I highly doubt you went to look at the trophies stacked upon millions of shelves for 'tennis' and 'tidiness'."
"They have an awards night?"
He shrugged. "So I have heard. But, I digress. I am a recent replacement for Cresselia's assistants, since they seemed to have…damaged her island, and they told me I had to come meet you before anything." He looked a bit hesitant to say what happened, but she blew his efforts of evading it out of the water by asking, "Why, what'd they do?"
"Let us just…leave it at the thought of her busting them messing around with fire and fermented berry juice," he grumbled as he crossed his arms and shook his head as if at their foolishness, but his ears perked and he snapped his head back up to look at her laughing, covering her mouth as if attempting to stop the torrent of bliss from issuing out of her mouth like a chuckling (haha) fountain but failing miserably. He frowned at her and looked puzzled by her laughter, and then asked her, "What is it? What is making you laugh?"
"Oh, nothing," her snickering was muffled behind her hand, "except I'm just trying to imagine what a bunch of 'fermented berry juice' would make them do!" She continued in her merry tittering, making him stare at her as if she was a hysterical hyena, before she quieted down and ended it with a sigh and mumbling, "Oh, that was good…."
"…All right…what is your name, human?" He looked a bit like he felt he was in for it, or that this was some initiation for newcomers or something. He had no idea what he was in for, though.
She smiled at him and stood up, saying, "Oh, right, sorry." She then walked forward and bent her front down so she could shake his three-clawed hand properly as she told him, "I'm Megan DrakenHart, but please call me DL. I prefer it, actually." She then stood up straight, scratching the back of her head nervously. "Could you, perhaps, maybe, lead me to my room? I'm sure your Psychic powers could find it in a heartbeat."
"I already have," he stated, and then waved a claw behind him as he started to walk forward, "alright, now come, DL. It is not too hard, you just took too many lefts." (A/N: Have any of you noticed that he doesn't use abbreviation-words, like 'don't' or 'it's'? Instead he uses 'do not' and 'it is', unless it's a possessive, then it is 'it's'. Haha, and he uses 'are not' instead of 'aren't'!)
She snapped her fingers and growled, "I knew I should have gone straight! But no, the little voice says, 'Maybe one more left!' Grr, last time I listen to that little…." He just sighed and walked her to her room with her muttering nonsense behind him, and then after they had arrived at their destination she did what she thought was a proper bow and told him with a smile, "Thank you, I wouldn't have found this either way!"
"It is alright, I was only –" But then he stopped mid-sentence with his mouth hanging open as she bent down and hugged him tightly, telling him, "I won't forget this, I swear! You need a favor, you ask, and bam! I'm there!" (Haha, she rhymed!) She then let go, patting him on the head as if a sweet reminder of the embrace, told him 'toodles!' and turned around to walk into the room, not even waiting for him to accept her offer or thanks. He stood there for a moment more, stunned into silence with his mouth still hanging open, before he seemed to remember himself and clicked his jaw shut, shaking his head and walking off, wondering about this strange human and trying to ignore the bit of red that came across his features when he thought of her unpredictable hug.
Are not Psychics supposed to foresee things like this?
(Note: Alright, at this point in time, I would like to stop and give you a heads-up; anything from here on out for the rest of this entire story has no connection whatsoever with the oneshots or stories I'm going to do based on this universe. This is where all similarities end, and I just wanted to let you know that. Alright, anyways….)
