Transformation: New Dawn
Chapter 4: mama
A/N: Hi everyone! I'm back with another chap for all of you. I like that a lot of you are really concerned what happens to Cindy…reminds me of the old days when writing Quarantine. So, what will happen now? Read on to find out! ^.^
Disclaimer: I do not own the pokemon franchise, Nintendo does. I also do not own the Transformation universe established by TurtlesandMonkeys, which belongs to her. MEE-YAA!
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The night is darkest just before the dawn…
What darkness? What dawn?
The dawn is coming…
The Vulpix stretched itself awake when the sunlight hit its eyes. It yawned and sniffed the air. It was a beautiful morning and it had no care in the world. The Vulpix got up and stretched its little furry body one more time before starting to walk around the grass on its four paws.
The Vulpix went by the stream and saw its reflection. It bent down and touched the water with its nose and the reflection rippled for a while. The Vulpix yelped and flew back a bit, a little surprised, then it went back and saw the reflection starting to go back to the way it was. The Vulpix cocked its head to the side and walked to the reflection again. It put one paw in the water and saw the reflection ripple again. Amused by this, the Vulpix was batting the water again. Its paw began to feel tired and began to ache. It put its paw out of the water, wondering why it was starting to hurt.
Fire type bad against water…
The Vulpix realized that it shouldn't be around water for too long. Or maybe it was only in attack situations. The Vulpix sighed and began to walk. There was no mother Ninetales to teach it about survival in battle or to forge for food so the Vulpix had to learn by itself in the three months it could remember existing. The Vulpix yearned for a mother. It tried to remember what it mother was when it was born…
A rush of light…there was wailing…hers…the sound of new life…there was joyful sobbing and light everywhere…a brown haired woman looked tired but was smiling with joy and bliss…she reached a hand out and cradled…her…
"Lina…"
The Vulpix blinked. It couldn't understand why that would show up in trying to remember its birth mother. They were not the same species as it. And the meaning of this one word, Lina, held greater mystery for the Vulpix cub. It really wanted a mother Ninetales who probably knew what these visions mean…
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"Do..."
"Duo.."
"Do…"
"Duo."
The Doduo was running through the forest, its mind back in a stable state, free of any signs of the previous night's disturbances. Both heads bobbled as it took great strides with its enormous clawed feet.
"Duo! Do…keep running…Duo!…get away from…Do! Predators and trainers…duo!"
"Yes, Duo! Run, run run, duo duo duo!"
The Doduo then took a left turn and began running towards a stream. A Vulpix walked into its field of vision. The little fox ducked as the two-headed bird bounded over it.
"Vul! Vulpix Vul!" The little fox complained. The Doduo stopped and one head turned to the side.
"Duo?"
It bent forward and observed the fox. "Duo! Duo! Duo!" It squawked. The Vulpix just turned and slapped it with its tails. The head was sent back.
…"OW! We said we were sorry!"
"…Humph, that still doesn't excuse the fact that you attacked me…" A brown haired girl in an orange outfit complained…
The girl in the orange outfit. She was with her…
Cindy…
The Doduo squawked loudly and began to shudder again. The Vulpix began to crouch with a confused look on its face.
"Duo! D-ahhhh!" The bird began to squawk while the other head looked to the Vulpix then it's left head then back to the Vulpix. "Vul!" The fox said in a familiar voice. No not familiar to her, but to him…
"Duo! Do-….L-Lina?" The Doduo asked of the fox.
The Fox's eyes widened. "Vul? Vul vul Vulpix vul?" How did the Doduo know about that name? Did the Vulpix know the bird? It had no recollection of ever making friends with it or anything, this was the first time she ever saw a pokemon like this.
"Lina! It is you isn't it… Duo-gahh! What-what happened to Cindy…?"
The Vulpix began to run and run away and the Doduo's left head tried to run after it but its mind was not coordinated and it stumbled. The right head was squawking in confusion while the left head tried to move forward on its own.
"Lina! Lina! Li-Duo! Doduo DODUO!" The head shuddered and it slumped. Then it got up and the bird was walking normally as if the incident before never happened. It took a drink at the stream.
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The Vulpix did not know what that was about. How did a Doduo it had no memory of encountering know about the word that confounded it ever since it could remember?
The Doduo and the Vulpix may have met before, but it wasn't in the states they were currently in…
The Vulpix shook its head clear. Now what did that mean, not in their current states? Was there a form that they were in before this one?
Lina. That word meant something, and until the Vulpix knew what it meant, it would try and find someone to explain it to it. Just not a two headed bird that is clearly out of its mind…
Cindy…what did the bird mean by that. Cindy was a human in my dreams…was the Doduo in my dreams too?
The Vulpix closed its eyes as it tried to remember…
"So who's this… your boyfriend or something…?" Both perked up at the comment…
There was a man with ebony shades and dressed in black…a boy with amber challenged him… the pokemon battled fiercely…"Playtime is over!" the tall man said as he unleashed a ball that burst into light…a beautiful red Ninetales…
The Vulpix opened its eyes quickly. A red Ninetales…was that it's birth mother? The Vulpix looked to the sky. It has to be, Ninetales are mothers to Vulpix, and it was the only Ninetales the little Vulpix remembered in recent memory. It will seek out this red Ninetales…maybe it knows some answers…
The little fox got up and began to travel north, back to where it remembers being born…
Born by the city on the coast…
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Sarah stretched her self and yawned and looked up. She felt real rested, but noticed something was different. Usually at this time Cindy already disturbed her sleep, but Sarah looked up and saw that the sun was already up for awhile. And Cindy is an early riser…she didn't leave me, did she?
Sarah got up and looked around. There were the ashes of their campfire resting in the center and Sarah looked a little more and sighed in relief when she saw Cindy at the far edge, staring at the horizon, her back to the Luxray. Sarah decided to walk over to her Quilava friend and say good morning.
"Morning Cindy." Sarah said.
Cindy still stared down at the small puddle that was in front of her…then she perked up and slowly turned to Sarah. "Oh, good morning Sarah…" She said with a forced smile. Sarah quickly knew something was on her friends mind. "You ok? You're still not thinking about that dream, are you?"
Cindy shook her head. "No…"
Sarah didn't give up. "You don't make a very good liar, Cindy…"
"Sarah, is there anything I can do? Anything that will make any difference? For my friends…for anyone?"
Sarah sat next to Cindy. "Hey, I thought I already told you, you did all you possibly can to help your friends, and you will find them." She looked Cindy in the eye. "We both will."
Cindy sniffed. "You know what's sad? I almost forgot something real important, and I can feel it drifting…my mother's name…"
Sarah cocked her head to the side. "Your mom's name?"
Cindy nodded. "I think I can still recall...parts of it…it's…It's…Di-lava?"
Sarah cocked her head in confusion. "Dilava?"
Cindy shook her head. "What? No that's not it…lava….It's Qui-ana?" She looked at Sarah with a worried face. "God Sarah, what's happening to me?"
Sarah put a paw on Cindy's back. "Don't worry, it's probably from being a Quilava for awhile…it's probably nothing…"
Cindy looked to Sarah. "I can't remember my own mother's name…it's more than nothing…my mind is fading…I'm dying inside Sarah." Cindy then buried her face in her paws. "I'm scared Sarah, I'm so scared…" She began to sniffle as tears began to stream down her face. She felt a reassuring lick on the side of her cheek and looked to see Sarah with a worried face. "Don't worry...I'm here for you…we all are…but you can't give up." She brought her worried gleaming eyes level with Cindy's. "We need you…your friends need you…he needs you..."
Cindy looked to the sky. John…I need you too.
Cindy then wrapped her paws around Sarah and hugged her tight.
"Sarah, don't let me go…if it comes to that…don't ever let me run away…"
She looked at the Luxray with streaming eyes. "Can you promise me that?"
Sarah nodded. "I'll follow you to the ends of the earth if I have to, I won't let you go…even if I have to go all over the world just to find you, I won't let you go."
"Thank you, Sarah…"
The two separated and Cindy brushed away her tears. "Come on Cindy, let's find that dawn you're always talking about."
"Yeah…Sarah?"
"Yes Cindy?"
"It's Diana. My mother's name is Diana."
Sarah smiled. "Nice name. Hopefully you'll see her again soon."
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The Vulpix kept moving at a steady pace down the road, hiding in bushes whenever a tall person comes by on the road, though there were very few times when the little kit had to do so. There were only a few of those pokemon with the different furs on their heads that strolled by and had other pokemon fight for them…
Wait…didn't it use to call those things something else? What was that word again? The Vulpix stopped and pondered but couldn't comprehend what it was trying to remember…
Mama…I need you…you can guide me and protect me…
The Vulpix then got up again and began to walk down the path. Soon it got hungry and stopped by a berry bush. The little Vulpix stood on its hind paws and grabbed at a large pink berry that was closest to it and pulled down. The bush trained and pulled against the little Vulpix and soon the berry snapped off and The Vulpix settled down. It brought its little muzzle down to the soft skin of the berry and sank its little teeth. A sweet tangy sensation rushed at it as it brought some of the berry's flesh inward and worked its little delicate mouth, grinding the flesh into paste and swallowed it. The Vulpix cried out in delight. That was a good berry. It continued to nibble on it until later there was nothing left of it. The Vulpix licked any left over residue off of the rim of its mouth and looked to the sky. How closer was it to finally finding out what all the things that confounded it really mean?
I have to find you mama…
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They were there again…the pokemon with the multi-colored furs on their bodies. There were some young kits at play, swinging off of some apparent silver vines that connected to a silver tree, swinging back and forth. Others were on a part of the land that moved up when one of the kits sat on one end and the other young one on the other side would push down so that their end came down, laughing while they did it. Some reveled in the sand, digging and piling it up.
She was riding on one of those swinging vines and laughed while she did. She soon leapt through the air and landed on her…hands and got sand all over her, but she didn't mind…
"Hi, are you ok?"
She looked up to see another kit with yellow fur on her head and a blushing smile on her bare face.
"Hi, I'm Cynthia. Everyone calls me Cindy though. I like Cindy" She closed her eyes in a smile.
"Hi Cindy! I'm…" She said something then but now she can't remember.
The Vulpix awakened from its brief slumber. It was another one of those visions. And Cindy, that was what the Doduo asked it about…
The Vulpix looked at the sky and sniffed. It smelled a scent, a new one. It began to continue sniffing the air when it came across a lump in the idle of the road. It was a pokemon, one with black and gray fur and sharp teeth. It had four paws, each having claws.
…The young one with amber eyes and black fur on its head released another red and white ball. "I won't back down…Go Shadow!"
A wolf like pokemon emerged, snarling…"MIGHTYENA!"
The Vulpix jumped back from the memory, the vision so sudden, but sure enough it helped it remember what pokemon this was. Mightyena…that's what it's called…
And the red Ninetales faced a Mightyena…
The Vulpix became excited and sniffed at the Mightyena, trying to find another scent, hoping to catch what a Ninetales might smell like. It soon found a new scent near the head, as if it had been struck. The Vulpix had a brief image of one of those majestic tails hitting this snarling menace.
The man with black hair struck the one in the silver suit and had yellow fur on its head.
"Look Jason, I'm through being your lapdog…"
The Vulpix didn't know why that came, but it had a feeling it had to do with the unconscious Mightyena.
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Night was beginning to fall and the Vulpix could smell the scent weakening.
No, I can't loose the scent, not when mama could be close!
She looked around the bushes and saw a sign in the distance.
Welcome to Lilycove city: "Where the land and sea meet."
The coastline was near by, the Vulpix could hear it. This is definitely the spot it remembers strongly as far back as it could remember. The scent was still faint but it was around this area. The Vulpix knew that it was close to finding any clue about its origin here.
The Vulpix closed its eyes and listened. It heard a sound, like kits at play. It began to follow that noise and slinked in the bushes.
The noises soon stopped and by the time the Vulpix got to the source of the sounds, the sweet sounds of slumber could be heard.
What the little fox saw nearly made its heart leap.
Vulpix. Three of them, sleeping next to two Ninetales. One was as beautiful as the little kit could imagine, its soft creamy yellow fur exhaling and inhaling as it slept. Next to it was another Ninetales, only this one was black and seemed to be ruminating about something than sleeping, then nuzzled one of its sleeping kits. The Vulpix looked around and stopped at the objective of its goal…
A red Ninetales.
It was almost going to prepare itself for slumber when it stopped and sniffed the air. "Who's there?" It asked with a strong yet soothing and smooth voice. The little Vulpix couldn't contain itself and crawled out of the bushes in front of the Red Ninetales. The red fox stopped and looked at the little cub with confusion. "A kit, where is your mother, young one?" The Vulpix stepped forward expectantly.
"Mama?"
The red Ninetales seemed a little socked at the utterance of this word, but soon collected her self. "So, You believe I am your mother?"
The Vulpix stepped forward with expectant eyes. "Mama?" It asked again.
The Ninetales walked over to the kit and sniffed it, a look of faint recognition seeming to appear on its face.
"…I suppose I am then…" She said.
The Vulpix then ran quickly and nuzzled her head against the Ninetales, crying out in joy. The Ninetales twitched from the sudden contact, but quickly relaxed and put a paw on the Vulpix's back.
"Mama! I found you! I found you!" She continued to nuzzle the red Ninetales.
The Ninetales looked to the slumbering black Ninetales then back at the cub.
The Vulpix looked up. "Mama, do I have a name?"
Maybe now she can find out some answers.
The Ninetales seemed to consider then looked at the Vulpix with its deep red eyes.
"..Nia…"
Nia…Lina…Nia… Lina sounded like Nia, so maybe that was the true name of the Vulpix. Maybe she was saying it wrong, but now her mother came and helped her remember her true name. She was Nia.
"Vulll." The newly christened Nia yawned and curled up at its mother Ninetales' feet and began to slumber…all the dreams with "Lina" seeming to…fade away…
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A/N:I think it's pretty apparent who this Vulpix really is now. XD
Well this was a concept that me and my fellow author Lord Nalthren came up with, that the Vulpix Lina became met with Kitsune under the notion that the red Ninetales was her mom, and even though several memories of her true self tried to show her otherwise, Lina still wants to believe in this new reality her Vulpix self created. She's still fighting, but now she has forgotten her name and that's a heavy blow to her state of mind. Now she thinks she's Nia. This will also be covered in Nalthren's Eye of the Beholder Story, and you will see Kitsune's side of it as well. Cindy nearly forgetting her mother's name was a sign that she needs to keep fighting before she becomes Cindy Richards no more…
All of our characters are still fighting…but will they emerge victorious or fade into nothingness? Well, please review. Jonseycat, out! MEE-YAA!