Parallel Heart Chapter 7
"Why take me to the library, Rose?" Mega asks as he looks around the seemingly endless rows of bookshelves.
"Because I think I might be able to find something that can answer my questions," Rose replies as she walks besides him.
"Do you think it'll work that way just 'cause I found mine by pure luck?" He asks, assuming Rose might think this way because of it.
"No, and it's not just a book that can answer my questions," she then points directly at him, "you can answer some of them!"
Mega feels uncomfortable about the situation he's in, "why me?"
"Because some of them involves you, Mega," she puts up a smile that even he has to admit looks cute on her.
He sighs then sighs in defeat knowing he can't resist something as cute as her. "Fine, but I can choose to pass questions that I don't feel like answering."
"Deal," she thinks about a question that doesn't seem too personal. "Do you have any brothers or sisters?" She begins the first question as something simple so he wouldn't feel interigated.
"you already know this one, I have two older brothers... even though we're not brothers by blood, we're still brothers by heart and spirit," he answers that question calmly.
"So I know that Diggy is one of your brothers, who is your other brother?"
"It's a surprise," he replies with a wink, making the bunny girl think of another question.
"Why do you like sitrus berries so much?"
"Because they're delicious, and they remind me of my pichu days," is the reply Mega said comfortably.
Rose put more thoughts to this question, "where were you raised?"
"Pass," the pikachu immediately answers.
"Do you like flowers?"
"Pass."
"Will you leave Pokeball Forest?"
"Yes, when all three of us are together again," he replies to this questions faster than even he expects to.
This answers all of her questions as to whether he'll leave or not, she couldn't help but feel sorrow building up inside. "So it's best to spend as much time with you as possible?" She asks concerning about his answer to the last one.
All he does is turn to her and shrug, "if you want, I don't know when I'll be leaving exactly, but I will... eventually," he replies.
She immediatley hugs him and tries to cry out the pain in her heart. She doesn't want him to leave.
"What will you accomplish from this?" She asks underneath his soft fur.
"I made a promise with them to make our dream come true."
This makes her stop sobbing for a moment and look into his eyes, "what is your dreams?"
"To become stronger, and to have an adventure of a life-time," he feels guilty about leaving her, but he can't just give up on his dream. It's something he been wanting since he was a little kid.
"Mega... will you come visit me with open arms?" Rose questions as she looks into the dark, black eyes of his, tears running down her face.
"O-of... course," he stutters, dazing at her beautiful eyes that shines brighter in the dark, they remind him of the beautiful night sky. He slowly wipes away the tears off her face in hope to make her feel better.
Slowly, their face starts getting closer to one another, "will you ever forget me?" She asks as she leans towards him.
"I never will forget you as long as I live," he promises as he leans towards her as well.
"Oh, Mega," "Oh, Rose," they each other's names in unison, feeling each other's breath as they're about to have their lips connect, closing their eyes to embrace this new feeling for each other's presence, never wanting it to end.
"Mega, Rose, are you two down there?" They hear Beauty's yell echoing throughout the entire library, making the two immediately snaps out of what they doing and fall backward.
Rose hits her head against the one of the bookshelves, "Rose, are you alright?" Mega asks, concern if she hurt herself badly.
"Ow, I think so," she says as she rubs where she hit her head.
Beauty soon caught up to them, "there you two are," she says in a serious manner, causing the two to look at her, "I've been looking everywhere for you two."
"What do you need us for?" Mega asks unaware what's going on.
"There's a swinub in our living room asking where you two are," the two knows exactly who she's talking about and runs toward the stair to enter their destination room.
"You better have a good reason why you're late," the swinub scowls at the two pokemon as they leave the living room and walking the staircase to Mega's room.
"We were looking for something," was all that Mega replies with a shrug.
"Whatever," Diggy says with a huff, he doesn't like waiting, especially if it involves his family.
They eventually reach the destinated room.
Diggy and Mega looks at Rose for a moment, "what?" She asks as to why they were staring at her.
"Would you please step out for a moment? Diggy and I need to talk alone for a while," Mega said for the both of them.
"So I just walked all the way up here, just to walk all the way back down?" Obviously fustrated about the situation.
"Let her stay she's going to know about it eventaully," Diggy replies to the fustration.
Again Mega shrugs, "fine, just promise us you keep this a secret." All Rose replies is with a nod.
Mega turns back to Diggy, "when is he gonna get here? I'm sick of waiting," he said in a serious, impatient manner. He crosses his arms, knowing this pokemon isn't going to fullfill his promise anytime soon.
"He sends a mesage from me to you," Diggy says, serious as well, "'beware of the dark aura pokemon, if you see one, don't hold ANYTHING back.'"
Mega gets confusion about the message, "'dark aura pokemon'?" He repeats part of the message. He never heard of such pokemon, not once in his life.
"I'm just as confuse as you are, but he also said we'll know what it means eventually."
"It seems these 'dark aura pokemon' are powerful if... 'he' said to not hold anything back, Mega," Rose interrupts the conversation.
The other two were surprise as to how she could understand who 'he' is so quickly, "how would you know?" Diggy asks concern about the secret they're holding.
"I don't know who 'he' is exactly, but 'he' sounds like the leader or something," she examines as though she's reading their minds.
Mega looks at Diggy for an answer, but all the mole pokemon does is shrug. He sighs and look into her eyes, "you'd wouldn't believe if I tell you this," he hesitates to try and explain what's going on, "but he'll be the strongest one out of all of us, that's why he isn't here yet," he finishes as though they're weak compare to 'him'.
Rose was surprise by this... so that's why they were waiting for 'him', because he's training. Time seems to have stopped for the three of them, so many things were rushing through their heads and they can't do anything about it.
"So," Rose begins, trying to break the silence, "who exactly is 'he' anyway?"
"Like I said before, it's a surprise," Mega replies, "I'll get you some juice and berries, do you want any, Diggy?"
"As attempting as that is, I have to get back to training, bye," Diggy said as he gets out the room and descends down the stairs.
"Okay, bye," Rose says as she waves for him. After he leaves the front door, everything was silent again for the two of them again.
"Why must everything be their way?" Beauty asks in sadness, she saw what Knolla was trying to do by snatching Mega's book. Her plan was to have him chase her all the way to the lake where the view from right there then sneak a kiss from him and everything would be perfect. But he was too fast for her and she got snatched before her plans could succeed.
The eevee wasn't sure what Rose was planning down here, but the two seemed to have some kind of an accident when she called them, "thank goodness I interrupted what was going on down here," she says to herself. She wish she can spend some time with him, but he's always seems busy with the other two. Suddenly an idea comes to her as she walks back upstairs.
"Dammit, why must everything go so wrong for me?" A certain fustrated togetic shouts to herself in her book-filled room. If her idea would've worked, she would be the one getting Mega, but she used the Metronome too many times and got him aggrivated enough to get back the book.
"I knew using it was too much of a gamble," she grumbles to herself. Then she tried to change her plans and kiss him right then and there in desperation, but that smeargle also ruined her final chance as well, "stupid smeargle and his 'art-seeking perfection'."
After slamming her fist against a wall, she finally calms down, "there's no need for fustration... I can always come up with a new plan." With that, she goes to her book-covered bean bag and falls asleep peacefully.
Rose has just gone down the stairs from Mega's room, "I can't believe he's leaving us when his brother gets here," she says sadly, her ear drooping as well, "I wish I can go with him."
"Rose," she looks where the voice was coming from, "hey Beauty, what are you doing here?"
The eevee simply walks up to her, "who was that swinub anyway?" She asks curious about the visitor that was recently here.
"He's a friend of ours named Diggy," Rose replies casually.
Beauty thinks it wasn't just that, but decides to leave it just that, "I'm going to ask Mega if he could get us some honey... it's been forever since we had any," Beauty said with hope in her eyes.
"Yeah I want some myself, but I don't want to take advantage of him, because the way to get honey is dangerous," Rose states, bringing down the eevee's hopes.
"Did someone say 'honey'?" Mega shouts behind them, as though appearing out of nowhere.
"when did you get here?" Beauty asks, completely shock that he would appear out of nowhere like that.
"Not important, but I've heard the word 'honey' so I want some," Mega said, "so lead the way to the combee hive!"
The two sweatdrops by the determination he has. "S-Sure... I'll lead the way," Beauty gestures to the awkward situation the pikachu just gave.
When the two left the hideout, they've decided to take a good walk first. The walk is nice and comfortable for them, "what moves do you know?" Mega asks with his arms crossed behind the back of his head.
"I know Tackle, Sand Attack, Shadow Ball, and Protect," she replies cutely towards him.
"Huh, that Protect can be useful when we're battling," they continue walking until they reach the lake.
"Do you think, Fast Star is still down about the loss against you?" She asks as she looks at her own reflection against the water.
"Why be down about a loss? I think he's training to become stronger," was Mega's reply to the question, "huh?" She looks back at him.
"If you fight against a stronger opponent and lose, you'll learn from your mistakes and train even harder to beat that opponent."
His wisdom hits her and makes her wonder about him, "Meggy, is that how you got your scar?"
That question hit Mega pretty hard and makes him turn somewhere else to avoid eye-contact with anyone, "yes... it was a long time ago, but I was doing it for someone else who meant alot to me." Mega looks back at her, "c'mon, let's go get that honey," he says to her, making her worry if she shouldn't have asked that question.
"Y-yeah it's this way," she answers back nervously. The way he says these kind of things to her openly, makes her want him even more as her mate than anything else.
They continue to walk down the dirt road that leads to the honey cave, the silence between them was not as fun since Beauty asked about the scar. The two seem to be in their own thoughts just just to pass the time, not once looking at each other.
After what seems like an eternity, they found their destination. Mega closes his eyes and tries to smell if there's any honey in the cave, "yup, there's definetly honey in there," he says and walks into the cave like it's casual.
Beauty follows behind, thinking she forgot something about the cave, but what is it? She remembers how lumpy the ground is for her feet and watches her steps, but that doesn't seem to help at all.
Swiftly , the combees that lives in there fly above them, "we can do this the easy way or the hard way, combees," the pikachu warns.
The combees didn't listen to his warning, "Gust," they shout and starts flapping their wings, creating a gust of powerful winds against the honey-hunting pair.
Mega grabs the lumpy ground with one of his paw and grabs Beauty with the other, "it'll take more than that to send me flying," he shouts at them, making them to increase the gustering wind's power.
"Mega, you're only making the situation worse," he hears Beauty yell behind him. Despite the situation, she couldn't help but blush at how Mega was holding onto him like this. But she has to focus on the situation, "Shadow Ball," she shouts and focuses a sinistering black aura ball onto her mouth.
Seeing the attack from behind him, Mega focuses his arm muscles and throws her right at them, making her launch the attack at them.
The Shadow Ball was having a struggle in the middle between them as the eevee is being sent back into the entrance of the cave by the strong winds, "Thunderbolt." Mega shouts and sends electricity from his body to aims for the ball of black aura, hoping to give it a boost towards them.
There was an explosion from that stagety instead, cancelling out the gusty winds, the three combees falls down from the smoke, unconscience. "Better get going before more comes," he says to himself and charges in the hived cave on all four.
Meanwhile laying on the entrance of the cave reveals to be the eevee that decided to do this in the first place, headswirling, "this is going to be a long honey-hunt," she said to herself.
