Chapter 3: the hatching
Inside the tent Sarah began to panic, feeling in danger in spite of the presence of the fire type of her husband.
In a violent effort she found the strength to recover from the heap of blankets where she had stretched out. She wanted to see who attacked so suddenly their camp seeing her vacillating the charizard caught him her slowly.
Sarah clung to the fire lizard and just exit in front of the entrance of the tent, holding hardly on her legs she roared in the wind and the storm the name of her husband. This one turned around abruptly
" Sarah! Don't stay there, returns under the tent! Hurry ! "
Sheltering eyes she perceived the silhouette of the man which faced Arthur, squinting she recognized his childhood friend
" Jasper. " she murmured for herself by sticking a hand on her mouth.
Draga gave a cry for attention of her mistress, the pokemon felt its strengths weakening more and more and the bubble of protection protecting the tent of the surrounding storm was about bursting.
«You didn't leave me the choice Sarah, farewells " sighed Jasper for himself. "Mamoswine let us finish it with them! Blizzard! " He ordered to the mammoth.
Before the couple can react a flash of blinding light forced them to cover their eyes.
A big beam of energy came to collide Mamoswine, sending flying it against trees at the other end of the clearing, K.O
When the deep light dissipated all were able to see the creature responsible for this attack: a wide orange dragon landed on a beating of its powerful wings in the space between the tent and Jasper, spreading its legs and its wings in a protective gesture.
" Alastor, it that you? "
The dragonite shook the head towards his trainer before roaring out all its strengths, its shout been able to be heard in several miles in spite of the roaring of the wind.
The whole forest seemed to stir in the sound of the howling of the Dragon and dozens of shouts of pokemon dissatisfied were listened in the surroundings.
Jasper, desperate, tried to take himself directly to Arthur stayed aside.
Alastor reacting so fast as the flash of lightning tossed a violent move Dragon rage straight ahead on the man who not been able to avoid the impact, sending him to crash brutally into the ground.
Getting up with difficulty, Jasper feeling the situation escaping him, recalled its injured pokemon in their pokeballs and called out its Fearow to run away.
A few moments later he disappeared on the horizon in the rain and fog, pursued by some wild pokemon protecting their territories.
Draga collapsed at the end of strength letting the violent wind sweep the camp again. Arthur rushed to his wife, followed by loan by his freshly evolved dragonite.
" Sarah it's over, lay down you please. "
" Japser is runs away, why is he blaming us in this way? "
The young woman didn't been able to retain a cry of pain and clung with strength arm in arm with her husband.
"Arthur, the baby, the baby's coming! "
The Dragon Tamer clenched his teeth, panicked by the situation.
A pokemon battle or a troop of enraged dragons would get for him no fear but see his wife suffering from the work of the childbirth terrified him completely.
The female Dragonair crawled near her trainer and near its egg, this one moved violently, it was going to hatch from moment to another one.
Several hours had passed by since the sudden attack by Jasper but the storm did not weaken.
Arthur closed closely all the entrances of the big tent and commanded his charizard to warm up the atmosphere by blowing of the vapor. He piled up hastily all which could look like blankets and put the heap next to his wife which had lay down as previously.
Pokemon was aware that there was something important and tried to help as they could.
Sudden Alastor left its post in the entrance of the tent and advanced in the storm he had heard a voice half suppressed by the wind.
" You heard anything? " Asked its master by seeing the dragonite stirring.
The orange dragon shook the head and left a little farther towards big trees.
" What is it ? " Asked Sarah worried.
" Alastor found something I'm going to go to see it, try to relax and breathe. "
" Hurgh, easier said than done!" She groaned.
The Dragon Tamer returned outside and let his dragonite to make him big signs.
Behind a tree a woman without age dressed in a green dark cape with hood clung to a Chansey with unusual color.
" Hey there! What are you're doing in this place in full storm? "
The woman brandishes her lantern forwards to distinguish better her interlocutor.
" This dragonair, finally this dragonite at the moment apparently, is belong to you? "
" Yes, but you didn't answer my question!" Arthur roared to be listened in spite of the wind.
"Well, let us not waste time and let us visit your lady!"
Arthur was very surprised at least by this declaration.
"It's your dragon pokemon which found me! He told me that you needed help because you were going to have an offspring " She Explained by seeing the threatening face of the man.
" What?! "
Arthur was open-mouthed one moment, following eyes the small woman who advanced for reaching the tent with its Chansey which squeezed firmly in its leads an worn out leather big bag.
" Hey! Wait one minute who are you, why… "
" Listen to me young Dragon Tamer, we do not have time to askquestions in the middle of a storm which is not of natural cause! If you are willing to show me where is your wife I can assist her so that she gives birth without too much problem. "
He watched his dragonite guiding the woman towards the tent by protecting her of best that he could against gusts and rain.
Frowning, Arthur continued to move forward to the camp and let the woman enter without saying a word.
" Arthur who is she? " Sarah Asked for of a breathless, worried voice.
The woman removed her hood, letting the long green hair fall down in stunt behind her back. Removing her cape she knelt down near her by saying with a soft voice:
" My name is Emma, I am a healer and a quack inhabitant Viridian. I am going to help you to give birth to your offspring. "
She took Sarah's hand between hers in a reassuring gesture.
"How what is that… "
" You are a midwife?"
Cut Arthur by observing the Chansey searching its bag and bringing out some berries of it that he had never seen previously.
"In a way yes " answered Emma.
" I advise you to encourage your wife, put you near her, we are going to spend a very long night I feel it! "
Six long hours passed, Sarah squeezed desperately the arm of her husband to fight against the pain.
Emma encouraged her to push to regular interval while telling her words of encouragement, Chansey which she had called Feuille served as assistant.
"Another small effort, we are there almost done! I can see the head, go continue to push! "
Sarah collected the last strengths who stayed in her, clenched her teeth and push of most hardly that she could and felt suddenly her body to be to release from a pressure.
Sounded by the effort which she had just carried out she heard hardly the shouts of protests of the newborn child.
Near her mistress looking attentively at its egg to crack nested in the nest of blankets, Draga uttered a shout for Alastor.
The big orange dragon was made itself the smallest possible and approached his partner by pushing her of the snout in an emotional gesture whereas small Dratini went out of its shell by means of the white bump situated on the forehead.
Emma had asked to make boil some water in a basin and what we bring her clean covers She made a sign to the young father to approach her. Having cut the umbilical cord and having cleaned the infant of best whom she could, she confided him to Arthur who rolled up him slowly in a hot blanket.
"It is a beautiful little boy! " Emma exclaimed. "What are you going to call him? "
Arthur went to his wife and placed their son in her arms. She smiles weakly, rubbed the cheek of her child and caressed the small bundle of red hair as hers.
"Arthur, say hello to our son, Lancelot."
The Dragon Tamer smiled and kissed the forehead of his wife.
"Welcome in this world, Lancelot Pendragon." he murmured to the ear of the baby which waved towards his father.
Sarah had fallen asleep, holding firmly her son in her arms, the infant of hardly a few hours slept against her mother.
Emma made a sign to Arthur to follow her outside.
The storm had calmed down and the weak light of dawn began to enlighten the forest.
"Lancelot, eh?" Declared the woman by turning to Arthur.
" Yes, Sarah always liked the legends of the ancient times and the ancestral narratives of my clan. "
" You are a member of the clan Pendragon, legendary tamers of dragons of the Blackthorn city far away to the mount Silver. "
Arthur agreed silently.
" Hem, Viridian is not really the best place for the birth of a child but I suppose that It was the fate which brought you here, just like he made me meet your dragonair in the middle of a not natural storm which took me by surprise during my picking! "
" Not indeed, but I don't believe in the fate. We came here because the dragonair of my wife, Draga, came here to lay its egg and wait for its hatching. Sarah being a researcher we wanted to stay until the hatching but we didn't think that she was so early going to give birth! The doctors had asserted us that the birth would be planned for the next month. "
" You should believe in the fate young man! Nothing in this world is due at random. This storm is the work of powerful Pokemon, a powerful legendary one.
The fact that the storm stopped at the very moment when your son came into the world is not a coincidence I can assure it you! As well as this small Dratini who hatched at the same moment, these both there will share a very deep connection. They will be brought to make great things "
Arthur was confuse by the words of this woman whom he didn't know.
" What do you mean? "
" Oh you will discover it very quickly, this young one is special, very special. " She answered in laughing slightly.
" My duty stops here, I cannot tell you more. "
Her Chansey advanced to her by stretching out her cape and the big bag she handed her cape on the shoulders, pulled down the hood on the head and repartee where from she had come.
The Dragon Tamer always thought again about what she had told him earlier and did not notice that she was not anymore next to him.
Emma turned around towards him once last time:
" Arthur Pendragon, Be hardly to overcome the events which wait for you. And especially support your son; he will badly need his father in the coming years! "
Hardly had she finishes her sentence that she disappeared among trees, Arthur tried to catch up her to obtain more ample explanations.
He expected to see a figure with a hood with a Shiny Chansey to walk through the dense forest. But nothing
Noticing that to roar the name of the woman through wood was useless and feeling the biting cold of November numbing his members, he turned back.
He returned to the camp. Tired by the long night and all the events which crowded in his head he fell asleep beside of his wife and her son, surrounded by their pokemon.