Hey! Back! I apologize once again for the short chapter last update, but it was late and I wanted to get this story up on the site right away. Alright, here's Chapter 2!
I DO NOT OWN POKEMON OR ITS CHARACTERS.
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"I'm gonna jump!" A young girl shouted as she was swinging very high on the swings.
"No, Sakura-!" A man yelled but it was too late, the girl released her grip from the swing and flew in the air. For a few seconds, she was flying but was tumbling down to the ground only a few short moments later.
"Ahh!" The young girl cried as she felt hard on the mulch that surrounded the swings on the playground. The man approached her and began to help her brush off the dirt that was on her play dress. The girl wore a bright pink play dress that had overall style straps, a white shirt underneath, and pink strapped shoes. However, the dirt covered most of her knees and dress causing it to appear less bright.
"I told you not too." The man said as he knelt down before, keeping eye level with her. "…Your mom is going to kill me" He referred to her dirty dress as he finished brushing off the dirty mulch. He also picked out some stray mulch out of her long lavender hair, and a few specks of dirt from her bangs.
"But Daddy! Mommy said these are my play clothes!" Sakura complained in a whiny voice.
"Yeah but you know how your mom gets, she insists on making you look dolled up all the time."
"Mommy loves dressing me up! She says I look cute!"
"Yeah, that's your mother." The man sighed and Sakura giggled.
"Listen Sakura, I'm going to tell you something and you must never forget it." The man warned in a serious tone.
"What daddy?" Sakura asked, a little worried that she has done something wrong. Her father could get very rough when it came to punishment.
"Whenever you are falling or anything like it from a very high height, focus and calm down. Everything will become much easier for you to find the safest way down." He said, trying to explain it as easy as he could to a five year old.
"Really?!" Sakura shouted anxiously.
The man simply nodded, "It's our little secret, okay?"
"Okay!"
He placed her piggy back style on his back and began walking to an open area when a woman was placing food around a spread out blanket. She brightened up when she saw them both but her face frowned when she caught glimpse of Sakura's dress.
"Honey, what happened to Sakura's dress?" She confronted the man angrily; the man simply smirked and shrugged.
"Mommy! The swings were so much fun! I want to go on them again!" Sakura chimed as she gave her mother a big hug.
"Really?" The woman cooed as she hugged her daughter. "We'll go back then, but next time your father," She gave the man a glare. "Your father will have to be supervised on pushing you if he let you get dirty." She simply said, her cooing voice returning.
"Ah, it's not my fault." The man said as he kissed his wife on the cheek, the woman simply giggled.
"Yuck!" Sakura covered her eyes and the couple laughed.
"Well, the food's ready. Look Sakura, as a special birthday treat, I picked some Pecha Berries!" The woman brought out a basket of the fruit and handed one to Sakura.
"Yay! Pecha Berries!" Sakura rejoiced as she took a faithful bite out of the pink fruit.
"Want one dear?" The woman asked as she handed one to her husband.
"No thanks, I can't stand those." The man said with great distaste as he pushed the basket away.
"You're so strange, these are my favorites!" The woman took a faithful bite just like her daughter and playfully stuck her tongue at the man. The man returned by just rolling his eyes.
After they had finished eating their meals, Sakura began to pester her parents.
"Do I get a present? Huh huh huh?" She anxiously asked, hopping up and down.
"Calm down, of course you do." The man said.
"Yay! Gimme!"
"Nope, what do you say?" The woman warned.
" Pleasssssseeeeeeee?" Sakura pleaded, the man and woman smiled.
"Happy Birthday Sakura! They both warmly said as they handed her a small wrapped package. She happily took the package and unwrapped it quickly. She opened the box and the two 25 year-old parents warmly smiled at each other as she did.
"Kya!" Sakura cried as she held a golden locket in her hands. "So pretty!"
The woman took her daughter into her lap and opened the locket for her. A soft melody began to play.
"Our Lullaby!" Sakura commented and the woman nodded. The man smiled at the scene. The woman began to sing a soft melody to match the tune:
High above in the enchanted night
Stars shine, Silver and Bright
Pokemon slumber down below
Underneath a star's eternal glow
Jigglypuff serenade the night away
Kirlia dance, they glide and sway
Close your eyes, take a rest
This is a star's lone request
I love you, my darling, so don't you cry
Now and Forever, Our Lullaby…
The woman ended the song quietly and rested her hand on Sakura's head. She had drifted asleep, comfortable in the arms of her mother. The woman gently put the locket around Sakura's neck, and kissed her head.
"That always puts her to sleep…" The man said. He looked over at his wife but only to find her sleeping as well. He smirked and lied down next to his beloved family. The man closed his eyes, and eventually, he drifted off into a sleep too.
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A machine began to rampage again into a familiar forest. Unlike the other, this one was twice as big, twice as powerful. It was known and feared as The Rampager II. Inside a man sat in a commander's chair, an evil smirk on his lips.
"Now that it's weak, it won't be able to escape this time." A mysterious woman said from the corner, her features concealed by shadows.
"I am sure, but why do you think it will stay captive? It's last outburst cam by surprise." Damar questioned from his chair.
"Because I studied Celebi my whole life! Don't judge my decisions or I shall report this to the Team Galactic that you're not taking this seriously!" The fierce woman threatened, Damar cowered in fear.
"As you say! Keep on track! Celebi's coordinates are straight ahead!" Damar commanded from his seat. The grunts obeyed instantly, The Rampager II speeding up.
Damar touched his finger tips together and smirked. It was not escaping this time.
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Sakura awoke sleepily and looked around. Her mother and father were still fast asleep, her father's arm wrapped around his wife's waist. She smiled than got up to her feet. She was going to go conquer the swings and jump, taking her father's advice to use.
She was half way to the playground when she heard a faint cried.
"Lebi…" It called in a shrill, weak voice.
"Huh?" Sakura asked as she turned around. Nothing. The voice kept crying, and it came from the forest. Of course, being a five year old, she followed it. She knew what her parent's always said to her:
"Never wander off!"
But this was different. Someone-or something- was hurt! She walked into the forest and trudged through muddy water. She wailed as her pretty pink shoes became a spotted brown but the voice kept her going. She eventually came to a small secluded area with vines wrapped tightly around a small green pokemon.
"Bei…" It whimpered.
"H-Hey! Are you okay?!" Sakura shouted as she climbed through the vines. Normally, no one could get through but with a five year old's body, Sakura could get in with ease.
She picked up the pokemon carefully in her arms and gently caressed its head. It slowly opened its eyes and looked at her, immediately feeling better knowing that there was a nurturing person caring for it.
"You look hurt! Are you hungry? My mommy always says that you always feel better if you eat a treat!" Sakura dug into her dress's pocket, and pulled out a spare Pecha Berry. She had taken it from the basket secretly when her parent's were speaking to one another.
She fed the creature and it happily ate it, despite its condition.
"See? All better!" Sakura cooed, "Do you have a name?" Sakura, oblivious to the fact that pokemon can't speak.
"Lebi…" Celebi murmured.
"Lebi? Hi Lebi, my name is Sakura!"
Celebi closed its eyes and hummed to itself. The green vines slowly evaporated and its green aura absorbed into the Celebi. It rose from Sakura's arms and spun around in the air, it was all better!
"Brii!" It rejoiced. Sakura laughed as Celebi spun around her, occasionally poking its head out behind her, playing around.
Sakura laughed and danced with the pokemon while saying "You're all better! Pecha Berries really do help! Hurray Lebi!"
She laughed and played with the Celebi, oblivious to what was about to happen next.
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The woman felt around in her sleep in hug her daughter but when she felt nothing, her eyes woke up immediately. She checked on the man's side. No one. She looked around, Sakura was gone…
"Sakura?!" She exclaimed in fright.
"What's wrong?" The man asked, still groggy from his sleep.
"Sakura, she's gone!"
The man's eyes widened and he looked around, shouting her name as well. They looked around and the man noticed foot prints leading into the forest.
"Oh god…we have to go! She went this way!" He yelled as he grabbed his wife by the arm, forcing her to come with him. The woman eagerly followed.
They rushed through the trees, the woman almost crying with worry.
"You don't think…?" She wept
"No! That's not going to happen! I'm not going to let it!" He shouted back.
"Yay, Lebi!"
They both froze at the sound of Sakura's voice.
"Sakura?!" The both cried, following the laughter and eventually seeing their daughter playing with a green pokemon.
"Mommy! Daddy! Look! I made a friend!" She cheered as a Celebi shyly poked out from Sakura's back, landing in Sakura's arms.
The parents' breath was cut short and the woman cried "Leave that pokemon alone this instant! Get back here!"
"What?" Sakura asked, hurt.
"NOW!" The man roared.
Sakura almost burst into tears but that was quickly cut short when something grasped her hard in the back and pulling her up into the air.
"SAKURA!" The woman cried, the man cursed under his breath.
"Mommy! Daddy! Help!" Sakura cried as a mechanical claw tightened its grip. Celebi, still stuck in Sakura's arms, shrieked in pain.
"We seem to have a girl with it." Damar cackled evilly, "What do we do?" He asked the mysterious woman.
"Take her with it, we'll dispose of her immediately afterwards." She said, still hidden in the shadows.
"You heard her, don't hold back!" Damar commanded to his hesitant team of pokemon hunters.
"Empolean, Help out Sakura!" The woman shouted.
"Torterra, help out!" The man shouted.
They both threw their pokeballs in the air, causing two pokemon to come out.
"Ice beam!"
"Hyperbeam!" They both shouted but immediately stopped the attack in mid- sentence. If they attacked, Sakura would be in the line of fire.
The claw electrocuted the pair and Sakura shrieked in pain.
"NO!!!!" The woman cried, lunging herself to her daughter.
"Dawn! NO!" The man yelled as he restrained his wife, she struggled to escape but she was no match against her husband's grasp. "I can't loose you too…" He said.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Sakura cried as she and Celebi was thrown into a glass tube that, once again, appeared on the machine. Once the tube closed, Sakura beat madly against it, trying to break it. Celebi, also, lunged towards it. Celebi tried holding back tears; it was still weak from the last time. It couldn't use its ultimate defense, but there was a way… The Celebi tapped Sakura's forehead and a small green light shone on it, than it disappeared as if nothing happened. The machine headed back towards the forest, causing Sakura and Celebi to fall backwards against the cold hard glass.
"Sakura!" The woman and man yelled in angst.
"Help!" She cried, her voice slightly muffled from the glass's interior.
"Good. Now, harness the power." Damar ordered
An orange claw stuck into the tube and grasped Celebi.
"Lebi!" Sakura screamed.
"Now, begin submission" He continued.
A yellow-green light came from Celebi as it shrieked, and a green orb surrounded the machine.
" NO!!!!!!!" The woman cried.
"Mommy! Daddy! Save me!" Sakura shouted, tears falling off her cheeks.
The woman managed to break free from her husband's arms and ran towards the Rampager II.
"Activate, 15 years into the past."
The woman reached the machine but it was too late. The green orb engulfed the entire machine and disappeared into thin air.
"…No…" The woman whispered as she fell to her knees. The man ran up to her and helped her up. She wept into his shoulder and cried. "What do we do now, Paul?" She wept, still burying herself into his shoulder.
"We have to wait…everything's going to be fine…." He comforted as he rubbed her back gently, she cried into his shoulder as he did so .He rested his head on top of hers, and a few tears escaped through his eyes as well.
I love you, my darling, so don't you cry
Now and Forever, Our Lullaby…
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Chapter 2 is done! I made it extra long to make up for last chapter! See? Well I concealed the parent's identities until the end, but I'm guessing it was pretty easy to guess after a while. I wrote that lullaby, but I think it's too short, aw well, it's pretty! Um, I tried using variations for Celebi saying more stuff that "Brii" and "Bii" so I changed it up a bit.
Please Review! Until next time!