Chapter 5 : the awakening

Memories(Souvenirs).

It is with this word that the human beings appoint what they remember themselves.

What their memory has to record over the years as so many grains of sand in the desert it has of good memories there of which we would like that it lasts ever and other painful and very present but that we would want to erase forever and which nevertheless persist and return ceaselessly as if the events had occurred the day before.

Why I speak to you about memories is very simply because every dragon is born with the memories of all his ancestors. Most freshly are the ones of course of our parents the deeper memory is blocked the time when the young dragon increases little because a child, even a dragon, remains a child and has to live its care freeness and play before entering the world of the adults but it leaves enough knowledge to be able to survive and interact his environment the nature is thus well made is this way.

The first thing which I remember as newcomer on this Earth after I went out of my egg is to have heard the tears of one other new, like me.

This new had no shell contrary to me, curious, (but when we have that a few hours we forget to ask questions and it released a kind of indescribable strength which incited me to go to meet him/her. I felt at once comfortable with him, I can even say that we got along extremely well at once in spite of the fact that we couldn't speak.

I am a pokemon, hardly hatched I know already how to open eyes and move awkwardly what was not the case of other one.

Human beings speak but I don't understand, not still, that will come later. What matters for me for the moment it is to be with the one who was born at the same time as I because I like sleeping against him, he holds me warmly even if his body is small mine is cold and smooth, covered with blue and white soft scales.

I feel that it is then cold outside I snuggle up even more to him and we are both wrapped up in a kind of quite soft nest, the human beings call that of the blankets.

I don't know how long we remained to sleep so but something pulled me forwards. They wanted to separate me from him! Then I shouted, roared so that we leave alone me, I don't want that we separate us and I am determined to let them know!

It seems that that it worked because we leave me alone I'm half asleep still, to be a baby it's exhausted you know.

I feel that we move, that human beings manipulate us friendly, we were even plunged into something hot and of wet for a moment but I don't want to know why, I want just to sleep!

For me we have still changed nest. It is not cold, there is no wind and I hear other small shouts as if there were others as us. I open an eye then another, I recover to see what surrounds me. We are in a closed place, the light is not the one of the sun and a human moves to observe us.

He approaches me and holds offers the hand, I move back of surprise because I don't know what he wants. I hear) him to whisper with a soft voice words to reassure me but I don't understand then he embraces me.

I am too much surprised to react over the moment when he lifted me in the air, I can see all the room.

There are other small human beings in their nest of blankets and they sleep almost all. I lower the head and I perceive the one with whom I sleep since the beginning:

He is similar to all the small human beings who are in the room except that he has orange hairs on the head. Other human beings are any various but there is only him who has this color, at least I can never confuse him with another one and it is rather reassuring because for a Pokemon like me, the human beings have almost all the same shape.

He stirs and begins crying, he too doesn't like that we are too far one of the other one we would say. The human speaks again, it lowers the head and restsme slowly next to him and in spite of he has still blindly, the small hand catches one of my fins almost instinctively and he stops crying immediately. That surprises me then I release a small shout but it makes me not bad the human utters some funny sounds, I believe that she laughs?

I want to fall asleep again but my stomach makes strange noises, I want to cry because I'm then afraid I begin shouting and my shouts wakes him and he begins crying again.

Another human comes to see us, she embraces us by shaking us friendly, is soothing but that is not enough to remove the funny noises which come from my stomach.

We move in another place, this human speaks to us as that of front made him and it also makes something else while holding us. She takes something that I have never seen in the hands then sits down in a funny shape, an armchair as they call that.

She presents a sort of long tube in front of the mouth of my small human being to hairs orange and he holds out hands towards this one by big opening the mouth naturally.

I'm curious; I don't know why he did that. For me the human beings are really strange creatures! Then another human sits down in the armchair nearby and takes me on the knees, I do not care because the end of my tail remains connected to the body of my small human being. She begins to caress me behind fins, is pleasant!

I forgot the strange noises whereas she presents me a funny tube in front of my mouth. Friendly puts the quite soft tip in my mouth and suddenly my body reacts alone, the tube is food!

Normally dragons do not feed their offspring's in this way, the mother regurgitates of the food in the mouth of her offspring, but I know since I came into the world that my mom is not any more there. I felt only the presence of my father and the dragons' fathers that don't take care about babies.

I swallowed all the contents of the tube and now that fits better, I'm satisfied and I want to sleep now, I believe that he's similar that me then we move us in the other place, that where there are all the nests in blankets. While moving the human tosses us in the arms and I cannot retain a bubble which escapes from my mouth, I believe that I ate too much.

When I woke up I recognized a familiar presence, that of that who was there since we were born and who had left with us with these human which take care of us since a moment.

I understand that the one that I don't leave anymore since the beginning is his offspring. At the human beings there doesn't seem be of difference between the mother and the father even if I noticed that there were very few male human beings who took care of us for the moment.

Human approaches and lift him of our nest to embrace him, I look at her dissatisfied and I begin shouting, why still want they to separate us now?

The human beings discuss between them, the human seems confused and looks at me with concern. Suddenly she took me and approached me of the blankets which they had rolled up around him, I didn't wait and I fast skipped inside, I flew off the handle and I put my head next to his, looking most maliciously at possible this human. Then she given us to his father who embraced us in his turn.

He addressed me but I understood nothing. Then he scratched my head friendly, where was my bump, it was really soothing then I gave small cries.

Human left forward and his father followed her, where is he took us now? Then I raised the head towards him as to ask him, even if I know that he will not understand me, as all other human beings. He smiles to me, his expression reassures me, and then he places us in another nest. This one is more comfortable than all the others and he has a kind of roof which makes that we are shielded from everything.

In a flash of red light, a big pokemon appears, it has scales orange and big green wings and I know his smell that this one is my father. I want to draw his attention but it is too much occupied with following the orders of the human being who makes it go out of the ball which he holds in a hand.

It's windy outside then I still bury myself farther in blankets and my small human being too doesn't seem to appreciate either the cold because he moves a lot! A big hand comes in my vision field and pulls down blankets around us, it is true that like that we are little less cold.

I'm curious then I stick my head outside it makes quite black and there is no so much wind as before. We move again because that moves of everywhere and I hear noises as banging.

A big voice is listened, for a human being he speaks loudly and that doesn't please me then I go out of my hiding place to protest. In fact there are several human beings around us and the one who has so just spoken loudly has just moved back, I believe that it's because of me.

In our nest, my small human being stirs and his feet give violent kicks before he begins crying.

To shout and to cry, it's can be annoying for the adults, but when you are a baby it's the only way which we have to express what we feel then you well imagine that we don't go without!

Other voices are listened, the voices don't seem satisfied that we cry and suddenly a human which looks like none that I have already seen approaches us. She removes slowly with the hands my small human being of our nest then looks at me. I see in the eyes which she understands me!

After long moment to look straight in the eyes, I am as calmed and I know that she doesn't want to us of badly then I dash and I jump into the arms to join my small human being. His movements make me nap and I fall asleep almost immediately.

When I wake up I notice that we have still changed place, it's dark but as all the dragons I manage to see perfectly in the dark, I prefer moreover the darkness, that less hurts me with the eyes than the daylight.

The place is big, there is full of objects in all the corners and on walls I can see funny forms. That pleases me; I hope at least that we are going to stay one moment here.

I'll like exploring a little this new place but one of his small hands hung and collided at the end of my tail! I noticed that when he sleeps his small hands trick or my fins or my tail, it is no problem finally except when I want to move. I try to move away a little bit but the embrace tightens on my tail and I cannot refrain from uttering a small sharp squeak. He begins to cry, there I believe that it's my fault …

The human of later opens the door and presses on something on the wall and suddenly is daylight; I'm forced to wink before hiding me under a blanket.

The human takes care of the small human being whereas I remain to hide, I did not want to make him cry!

The door opens a little more and a length blue pokemon comes, it skips towards the place where we slept and with its snout push away the blankets under which I hide. I can see that it is a dragon, it has almost the same smell as my father, finally almost.

" What you have done, child? "

I move back of surprise, she speaks to me in my head and I understand what she wants to say! Moreover she looks like what I perceived of my mother when I was born.

I give a small cry to answer her, I wanted to speak but my mouth produces only funny sounds.

" No, with your head, you are too small to speak for the moment. "

I tilt the head on the side, my head? I close closely my eyes and I try to think.

To speak by the thought is an average nature for us dragons and we very learn quickly to use it.

" Me, me ,did not want that hecries. "

" Ah, so it's your fault. You learn quickly, you are lively for a baby Dratini of two weeks. Know child, whom the human beings aren't like us, they grow up more slowly than us and are very a slow learner thus the adults have to take care of them. The human baby whom you do not want to leave is a part of the family of my mistress; it is her who takes care of both of you because one said me that you don't have a mom anymore.

Good listening, remains quiet and what she tells you, you will see the human beings and especially the family of my mistress understandsus easily. "

" All right mom. "

" No! Not mom, I am not your mom, child, my name is Nyméria, it's me who will teach you all that you must know to be a Dragon. But I am not your mom am I clear? "

I shook the head, she looked kind but when she spoke with me, in my head, it was authoritarian as a real mother dragon!

" Good, now sleep and do not annoy any more the baby! "

When the human which had been appointed to me as the mistress of my almost mom rested the baby next to me, she spoke with her but I didn't still understand the sense of these words. She caressed me the head then dipped back our place into the black and party followed by the other dragon which closed the door with its tail.

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Many days crossed since the moment when the father of my baby human we brought us here, months as say the human beings and it passed it six.

I speak very mentally with my almost mom dragon, she learns me a lot of things and I am almost capable of making sentences with my mouth now!

When comes the hour to eat, she and her mistress pick us up and we go to another place where the mistress takes care of us.

the snake look like dragon mom looks at me curiously because since a moment I try to say her name, after some efforts of concentration I manage to speak.

" Ny? "

The mistress turned to me and says something the in surprised tone .

" You try to say my name? " My almost mom asks.

I shake the head by shouting cheerfully its name.

" Ny! "

" You learn quickly mistress Enora says that you will soon have to have all your memory and that will remember you of your name. "

What she has just told me it is of the gibberish for me at the moment, I don't want to know what that means.

Days take place almost quite similar since a moment:

We sleep a lot, finally I don't sleep any more as much as the baby human, we also eat and mistress Enora and her dragonair take care of us every day. Now we begin to play together in our nest since he has open eyes all the time, my little human being tries to catch me as soon as he can! I believe that he's as curious as me. I begin to play with him when he's awake; it's much funnier than to speak and to learn with Ny!

This small human being will never stop amazing me because he reacts almost as a real Pokemon than a human! He doesn't speak, not still, but his big amber eyes almost red say more than words and it's enough for me to communicate with him. Just by looking in the eyes I know the way he feels or what he wants, it's rather incredible and even Ny told me that the human beings don't make this kind of thing usually.

Due to hearing him I eventually retained the name which we gave him : Lancelot.

On the other hand I, my name I have it on the tip of my tongue but every time I try to retain him it it's as if it disappeared everything at the bottom of my memory and that irritates me so much! The mistress and Nyméria said when he'll be able to he would know it because our link is very strong and because I know of what he thinks and conversely.

I don't understand everything but a thing is sure it's that I look forward to that he knows how to speak to be finally able to give me my name because I have enough that Ny calls me a child!

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What is his name so ? the answer in the next chapter !