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Chapter 7: little one
John felt like his body was made out of lead as he tried to move but with no luck. All he could do was open his eye, blinking helped him focus better only to see a dark and damp room. He knew this was not the room he fell asleep in last night, looking around the room looked old and rotting. There were old wood beams fallen from the roof that made a hole in the floor. There was no windows only a hole in the roof to let in the light.
He felt so cold and lonely in this room. He felt something cold run down his check. Am I crying? He thought to himself as more tears fell. All he could fill was a deep loneliness, the filling of no one cared, no around. There was sadness too. So much it hurt. There was nothing.
John shot up from his nightmare waking Mitsuki as well.
"Are you ok?" she asked as her rubber her eyes.
John looked around the room. He was back in his room at the center. With the morning light soaking the room he looked at Mitsuki who was still rubbing her eyes.
"Yeah just had a bad dream." He said with a soft smile.
"Are you crying?" she asked with a worried look on her face.
He rubbed his check filling the cold tears. I was crying. He thought to himself but he felt like they were not his.
"In fine but more importantly we need to get on the road." He said as he got out of the bed.
She shrugged and got up with him putting her close back on. John put his pants back on and pulled Sara's ball off his belt before putting it on. He let her out. With a red flash she was sitting on the floor rubbing her eyes sleepily.
"Good morning." She said with a yawn.
"Good morning to you." John said smiling.
"Well todays going to be a good day. I was planning to challenge the gym this morning then start to head to the next town." John said as he packed his things.
"Sounds good I'm up for challenge." Sara said with a fist pump.
"yeah." Mitsuki said mimicking Sara.
"Cool. Now let grab Vivi and some breakfast and head out." John said heading to the door.
John told Vivi the plan for the day as the all ate pancakes in the cafeteria of the Pokémon center when light came through the front door and walked up to the group.
"Well I got some bad news. I went to the mart to get us some supplies for the journey and they had a notice on the door that said all gyms will be closed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience. Signed the Pokémon league. I asked around and the word is that all the gym leaders got called in for an emergency meeting." Light said holding up the flier.
"Well that blows." Sara said with a sigh.
"Well it can't be helped. I guess will just have to skip this gym and come back to it later." John said shrugging his shoulder. "Anyway we have to get Mitsuki to her family at Mont. Ember."
"Thank you." Mitsuki said shyly.
"So how about we head to petalburg woods. Then to rustboro. I heard that the Devon corp. is holding a tournament and the winner get some high-end goods." Vivi said smiling.
"That sounds good let's get going." John said getting up from the table.
They all left the Pokémon center heading out of town toward petalburg woods. It was a quiet walk to the wood with a couple of wild Pokémon looking for a challenge and the occasional cocky trainer the john blow away with ease. By the time they reached the petalburg woods it was getting dark. John found a spot to set up camp. Sara and Mitsuki were gathering firewood. And Vivi was getting some berries. By the time that they finished supper the sun had set. Being tired from the day off walking Sara and Mitsuki went into the ball to sleep seeing that the tent john had was too small for all of them. John and Vivi cleaned up the mess from supper and clawed in the tent. Vivi fell asleep fast cuddled up next to john but john couldn't sleep.
With the dream he had the night before still stuck in his mind he couldn't sleep. All he could do was think of the loneliness and sadness he felt. John decided to try and walk off the fillings thinking the cool night air would help him clear his mind. He quietly left the tent not to wake Vivi and stated to walk out into the night. John had stopped at a small creek a short distance from his camp and started to look and the crystal clear water. He bent down and cuffed his hands to get a drink. The water was crisp and clean as he drank and slashed his face.
"Sob…sob." John heard crying. He jumped up and looked around but no one was there.
"Sob… sob" john heard crying again. The crying was in his head. John felt the lonely filling again.
John started to walk into the wood filling something pull him in. john walked through the wood with the loneliness getting stronger. He found himself in front of what looked like an old house rundown and abandoned. He couldn't help but o walk in. there was a big hole in the side wall of the house. What looked like the living room was destroyed and the furniture was upturned and shredded. There were large claw marks in the wall and floor. It looked like something went wild. There was a stair case at that lead up to the second floor but there were no marks just dust and broken boards and hand rails.
John walked up the stair being careful not to step on any broken steps. He reached the top and stopped. There was a short hallway with two doors but he didn't notice one. The only one he saw was the last door at the back of the hallway. He slowly walked to the door with his focus not leaving the door. He stopped with his hand on the knob with a cold sweat running down his cheek. He slowly opened the door. It was dark inside with the only light entering the room was from a hole in the roof. The room looked old and falling apart and smelled musty and damp. He froze when he realized that the room he was ion was the one from his dream.
"sob." The soft cry snapped john out of his daze. Looking around the room he notice the cry was coming from the darkest corner of the room. All he could see was a small dark shape sitting in the corner. He let his eyes focus to the dark in the room as he walked to the corner. He could make out a little gold on the top of his head with it pressed in what looked like thin black legs with gold arms wrapped around them.
"hello." John said as it cringed. He could see a red eye pairing from in between its legs.
"Its ok I won't hurt you I promise." John slowly stepped closer to it. He notice two small gold ears twitching as he got close. He kneeled down in front of it filling the same sadness and loneliness of his dream.
"You're the one from my dream. I could fill how lonely you are." John said sitting beside it. He got a better look at it. He saw a black tear shaped fluff on the side of it head. It had gold fur on its arms and a black no sleeve shirt and blue caller around its neck. It ware gold shorts with long black socks and two silver ovals on its wrists. It was crying and it looked like it has been crying for a while. In between the quiet sobs he heard its stomach growl. He remember that he grabbed a berry be for he left the camp, he was going to eat in on the way back from his walk.
"Here you can have this." John said smiling at it. It looked up at the berry and then at john. He could see how sad and lonely it was in its red eyes. "Go ahead eat it I know you're hungry."
It looked at the berry for a little while before taking it. It ate the berry with tears falling from its gold and black face. The tears mixed with the juice of the berry. He sat there watching it eat the berry while the light from the fool moon hit a broken mirror that was lying on the wall across from them. The light reflected in there corner lighting it up. John got a good look at it. It was a shiny gold and black riolu.
"Well riolu would you like to come with me? I promise that you'll never be alone again." He said standing up and offering his hand. Riolu looked up at him with a little more shine in its red eyes. Riolu slowly reached for his hand grabbing it and pulling itself up. It stood about two and a half foot tall with a death grip on john's hand. It looked like a child in the moon light.
"Let's get you out of here and washed up ok." He said smiling lovingly. Riolu gave him a slight nod.
They headed back into the hallway but stopped when they got to the next room. John looked at the door and noticed something dark red on the knob. He took a closer look with riolu still holding his hand. It was dried blood. He got a cold chill down his spine.
"Riolu can you wait here form a bit I'll be right back I promise." John said with a worried look. Riolu gave a slight nod and let his hand go.
John turned the knob and slowly opened the door. The room was a mess. Everything was broken and upturned just like the living room. The moon light came in thought the windows lighting up the room. John froze when he saw to bodies on the floor next to each other holding hands lovingly. They both had big claw marks on their back. One looked like an older man and the other was a female lucario. He walked closer stopping when he stepped on something. He bent down to pick it up. It was a picture that had both the man and lucario and in the middle was the riolu hold their hands. They were its family. Killed by a wild Pokémon. A tear ran down his face now knowing why riolu was so lonely. He lowered his head in respect and headed for the door. He tripped when his foot when through the floor. He pulled his foot out of the hole and looked in finding a small box.
It was a small dark wood box with old patterns carved on the top. He opened it and inside he found four stones. Two looked like big marbles with one being green and the other blue and both had a blue and green swirl inside them. The third was a clear light blue stone with bobbles inside and the last was a clear orange with still flame inside it. He was amazed by the stones and closed the box and headed to the door. He opened it so see riolu sitting by the door.
"Ok we can go now." He said holding out his hand. Riolu gladly took it in his death grip not wanting to let go. They headed out of the house and back into the woods. Before long they reach the small creek outside of his camp and stopped to clean the dried berry juice and tears of its face. The water was cold to its face. After riolu was cleaned up they headed to the camp.
John was surprised to see Vivi awake by the fire.
"Vivi what are you doing up?" he asked tilting his head to the side.
"John you're alright." She said running to him giving him a hug. I got worried when you weren't in the tent." She said still hugging him.
"I'm ok I just went for a walk. Oh I want you to meet someone." He said pointing down at the riolu who was now behind him holding on to his leg.
"Riolu this is Vivi my valpix." He said with riolu ducking behind his head.
"Looks like he's grown attached to you." She said giggling.
"Wait so he's a boy. I couldn't tell." He said surprised.
"Yeah and still a young pup. Probably hatched last year." She said smiling at riolu.
"Were did you find him?" she asked but before he could answer they heard a yawn followed by a stomach growl.
"Well how about we get you something to eat." She said smiling sweetly. John went to his tent and grabbed some berry and a poke ball from his pack and came back to the fire with riolu still by his side.
"I'm going to catch you now ok." John said holding out the ball. Riolu nodded being sucked into the ball. Once the red light on the front faded he let him back out and gave him the berries. He happily sat beside john with Vivi on the other side of john. With a full stomach and the worm fire riolu was falling asleep leaning on john side.
"Oh I got a great name for you how does Aiko sound. It means little one." John said noticing a big smile on his face as he leaned down putting his head on john's lap falling right to sleep peacefully.
"So how did you find him?" she said looking at little Aiko.
John stared at the fire as he began to explain all what he saw.
"Oh that's awful." Vivi said wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Yeah but I think he's going to be happy now." John said standing up with Aiko in his arms.
"Let's go to bed it's been a long night." John yawned heading for the tent with Vivi beside him and Aiko in his arms.