Transformation: New dawn
Chapter 17: Still memories
A/N: Finally, after my long bout of writer's block, an update! YAY! I made sure this chapter was very special and it focuses back on Cindy's group. Enjoy the chap! MEE-YAA!
PS: Oh to all TF fans, the fourth installment of TurtlesandMonkeys' series has been published, Transformation: Termination, and it's getting real exciting! Check it out if you love this series! XD
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Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, Nintendo does. I also do not own the transformation series created by TurtlesandMonkeys; I am only doing so with her permission. John Ping and his family belong to Swack16, Akira and Omega to Lord Nalthren, and Cindy belongs to me. ^_^
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Sarah slowly opened her eyes as the morning light approached and began to rise slowly, feeling the stings from the injuries she sustained from her fight with Wilhelm. Steve was snuggled next to Hakura who had a paw around the Larvitar's back. Warren and Sophie were cuddled together, one of the Beautifly's wings tucked around the sleeping Ralts. Sarah then turned her gaze to Cindy, who was already awake and watching the sunrise as she usually does. The Quilava turned and looked at Sarah, the scratch Wilhelm gave her beginning to heal over but still a slight reminder of the ordeal. And she bit that human…
"Good morning Sarah." Cindy said with a slight smile, Sarah sensing the uneasiness beneath her eyes. "Morning Cindy." Sarah said as she gingerly walked toward Cindy, slightly wincing. "Are you ok?" Cindy asked.
Sarah nodded. "Just a scratch. I've been through worse." She gave Cindy a forced reassuring smile. "How are you?"
Cindy closed her eyes. "I'm just trying to put it all behind me…but I can still hear the screams…"
Sarah looked to the side before looking at Cindy again. "So where do we go now? We going to get you cured?"
Cindy looked to the horizon. "They're still out there…Lina, Umi, Maku…"
She looked to her sleeping friends. "But I don't want them to suffer much longer."
Sarah looked at the group, realizing how close they had all become, almost like a family.
Cindy closed her eyes. "I don't know what to think anymore…plus I think I'm getting worse. When I came back after that bite, I felt so helpless and almost gave up and I could feel it…" She looked to the side. "The virus...taking me over slowly…almost releasing me… " Sarah put a paw on Cindy, a genuine look of worry on the Luxray's features. "Hang in there. Keep fighting, for us…for him."
"I try, but each day it gets harder…"
Cindy saw the group beginning to stir as they were waking up. Steve yawned and rubbed is eyes. "Morning…"
Cindy and Sarah turned toward him. "Good morning Steve." Cindy said with a smile.
Warren and Sophie began to uncurl and wake up them selves and Hakura stretched as she let out a Growlithe yawn. Cindy approached her circle of friends. Hakura looked to Cindy. "How are you?"
"I'm…doing better, especially after last night." Cindy said, a forced smile on her face. Hakura nodded. "Good. Nobody deserves to go through what you went through, but you endured it and managed to move past it." Hakura said with a faint sense of hope in her words.
I wish it was that easy…
Cindy nodded. "I'll feel better when we're all human." Steve looked up. "Then we're finally going to get cured?" Cindy nodded without missing a beat. "I think its time we put this virus nightmare behind us."
Warren cocked his head. "But who will help us? What's to make sure we don't get contained and quarantined?"
Cindy closed her eyes. "We just have to take that chance that someone will help us."
Sarah began to walk. "Ok then, let's get to it." She took a few steps before flinching and hissing. Cindy and the rest gasped and gathered around Sarah while she shook off the pain. "Must have pushed a little to hard." Sarah said with a faint smile, one eye clenched tightly. Cindy walked by her friend and saw one of her leaf bandages beginning to seep small trickles of blood. Sarah pushed at it with a paw. Cindy looked at her friend with worry. "You need to get checked out."
Sarah shook her head. "I'll be fine. Like I said, I've been through worse." Cindy stood in front of her, worry in her face. "Sarah, you got hurt real bad… because of me."
Sarah shook her head. "No, not because of you. I'm fine." She walked forward again when she stumbled and collapsed, trembling as she gripped her wound. Cindy rushed to her and began to help her up. Hakura walked by. "She needs to go to a pokemon center fast." Cindy held Sarah's flinching face in her paws while she nodded at Hakura. She turned to Sophie. "Sophie you can fly, right?"
Sophie nodded. "I need you to go into the sky and tell me if there are any pokemon centers or human settlements nearby." Cindy said. Sophie nodded. "Right." And she took of into the air.
Cindy turned back to her bleeding friend. "Sarah. Sarah, stay with me." Sarah smiled weakly. "I'm not going anywhere." Hakura came by with large twigs in her mouth while Steve and Warren began to gather the biggest leaves they could find. "We need to build a stretcher so we could carry her." The Growlithe said as she dropped the sticks.
Cindy nodded and began to rub the Luxray's head as she hoped Sophie would return soon.
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While her friends were worrying for her, Sarah let herself succumb to the lightheadedness that was building up as she drifted off to memory lane. The last tie she felt this uncertain for her life was long ago…
"…You worthless thing!"
She was stinging as she felt the venom from her previous battle beginning to affect her. She was bruised and battered. She looked around in the forest that she was dropped off in as he began to leave. She walked by herself, alone in the forest, getting weaker, tears in her eyes. Suddenly she was attacked…
"STARRR!" They shrieked.
The birds were unrelenting in their attack. She could feel the scratching talons as more of her lifeblood began to trickle down her…so this is her fate? Her worthless self is to perish at the hands of these predators? She began to mew for help as she hoped anything might come to save her from this…
The little Shinx was being flocked by many angry Starly and Staravia as they pecked and scratched her. She curled up, hoping they would go away…
"Burn! Ember on those Starly!" A voice rang from somewhere. She felt a blast of heat near her as the birds were scattered and she saw the shape of something coming forward and felt a hand on her. She was too weak to resist it, but closed her eyes in fear. She felt something spray on her as some of her cuts stung but the pain began to lessen. She still breathed hard She got up and saw a boy there, one with black hair and concerned amber eyes. He began to reach for her. She mewed, fear on her face. No, not another one…
She began to run away from him but she felt a pain and fell on her side She felt the boy pick her up and trembled as he began to carry her.
"You just hang in there, ok?" He told her with determination and worry in his voice as he ran, tucking her in his vest…
Her world was black after that… she barely saw the doors of the building opening, the one with the huge Red Cross…
…
She felt pain on her, assuring her that she still existed. The pain soon passed and she began to open her eyes slowly as light began to approach them, the world fading in from the blur is was. She looked around in the strange place. Where am I?
She looked around in the alien world she was in; she recognized it as a place where humans came to. She just remembered what it was called. Oh…this is a pokemon center I've been hearing so much about…but how am I here?
She looked around. She saw a human sleeping. She instantly flinched and panicked. Ahh! It's him! She let out a frightened mew before she stopped and began to sniff the sleeping human, the one with the black hair. It didn't smell like the other human, he reeked of potions and there was a faint hint of Starly on him
She remembered then. This was the trainer that came to her rescue, when she was left to die and the Starly came. This was the kind boy. She walked to him and got a better view of his gentle sleeping face.
So he's the one who saved me…told me to hang in there. He must really care for me. No one has ever cared about me before…
She saw a lock of black hair brush from his gentle face. She smiled. And he's handsome too. She giggled. She felt so moved by the fact that this one human can show so much compassion as if she were one of his own species. And I better return the favor and thank him properly. She began to lick him.
He woke up to the touch of something soft and fine brushing his cheek. He opened his eyes to see the little Shinx there with so much life in her eyes.
"Why hello little girl."
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Sarah felt a jarring pain as reality returned to her and her injuries nagged at her. She saw Cindy there in the same position he was in all those years ago. "Hang in there."
Sarah felt a tear escape her eyes as she closed them tight. John…
Cindy saw the tear and began to rub her best friend. "It's all right. I'm here for you."
She looked up and saw the Beautifly return. Sophie flapped excitedly. "Cindy, I found a Center a little farther down the road. We can make it if we start now." Cindy nodded.' Ok lets get her on that stretcher." Warren and Steve began to haul their makeshift stretcher toward Sarah when Sophie began to fly by. "It's never gonna hold much long this way." She began to hover and spray several string shots of web to reinforce it. Cindy nodded and was moving to lift Sarah when a blue light began to glow around the Luxray and she began to gently lift above the ground and onto the stretcher. Cindy watched in amazement and turned to Warren, who wobbled after the blue aura left him and he was going to fall back when Sophie caught him. Hakura smiled. "Very nice Psychic attack, Warren." Warren blushed. "Thanks, now come on, let's get Sarah to that Center." Hakura put the back half on her shoulders While Steve, Warren and Sophie lifted the front end and put it on top of Cindy's back.
Cindy looked forward. "Ok, let's move. Sarah, just hang on."
They began to move.
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She drifted again, seeing the trees passing by as her friends rushed.
Just like when he rushed to save me before…
"My name is John. Nice to meet you." The boy said while stroking the little Shinx. She purred as he did so, repeating the introduction in her head.
"I see your pokemon is doing fine." The pink haired human said as she walked in.
"Oh she's not my pokemon. Well, at least not yet. Hang on a sec." He walked back to her and looked at her with his kind amber eyes.
"Um Shinx? Would you like to join me on my adventure?" He asked. She nodded excitedly and leapt at his face, licking and nuzzling him.
"All right I get it." He said while laughing. She had a feeling she was going to enjoy her time with this human who called himself John. She felt something she had never felt before, a growing sense of closeness with this human, a closer bond than she had with her other master…
Her other master…
She trembled when she thought of him.
"You worthless thing…"
John stroked her more and thoughts of her former master began to leave her. She licked John some more.
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Cindy looked to Sophie ahead of her. "How much farther?"
Sophie looked back. "Just a little more, we're almost there!"
Cindy felt Sarah feeling heavier. "Hang in there, Sarah!"
Cindy and Hakura stepped up the pace, Steve and Warren running as fast as they could to keep up.
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She was out of the dark space and she saw light again. John was there. "Hey there girl, how are you feeling?" He bent over to her with a smile. She was glad to be out of the Pokeball and she leapt at his leg and began to nuzzle him. He chuckled at the display of affection and petted her. "Nice to see you too." He picked her up and brought her face to face with his own. "Now what do I call you? I can't keep calling you girl every time I see you, huh?"
He began running through a list. "You're kind of cute…Sparky?" The Shinx shook her head. "No? How about…Grace?" She thought about it but it didn't feel like her and she shook her head. "Oh man, you may look cute, but you're kind of stubborn, like she was." He laughed as he remembered something. She cocked her head. "Oh? It was this other trainer I knew named Sarah. She was kind of like you, very shy and awkward when I first met her, but she can fight her way around when she needs to." The Shinx thought about it and began to nod and nuzzle him. "Oh? You like Sarah?" She nodded again and mewed her approval. John chuckled. "Ok then I guess you're Sarah then. Hi Sarah!" he began to pet her and she leapt for his face and began to lick him again. "Ok ok!" he laughed.
So my name is Sarah now…
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Cindy was beginning to breath hard and saw that even Sophie was beginning to look tired. Hakura panted like the Growlithe she was and Steve and Warren both ran with strained expressions. How much farther…
"There it is!" She heard Sophie call out and she saw the center. Cindy's heart leapt and she found some extra strength to continue. "Come on Sarah, almost there!"
The Luxray's tail twitched and began to swing from the side. Cindy began to run faster.
They ran hard and the building began to get closer and loom larger and Cindy felt her lungs burn as they continued to run, every muscle aching. They were approaching the door so fast Cindy thought they might plow through them when cleared the automatic doors when they tumbled into the lobby from exhaustion, panting as the door closed with a chime.
"We made it…" Sophie said as she fell on her back, her eyes tired from the flapping they did.
Cindy looked around and saw the center looked devoid of life. Though the lights and doors were working, it looked like no one was around. Her heart sank a little and she just sat there, panting. No nurse joy…
She saw movement and saw the familiar shape of Nurse Joy. She looked in their direction. "Oh my, what do we…" Her eyes darted to the injured Luxray. She gasped. "Chansey, we need a stretcher to the ER right away!" Cindy saw the familiar egg pokemon run out from behind the counter and rush up to the group, preparing a stretcher, their makeshift one in pieces. The Chansey helped put Sarah on and looked to Joy. "We have to hurry, she needs instant attention." Nurse Joy nodded and walked out of the counter and helped Chansey lift the stretcher into the ER behind the center. Cindy sighed in relief and leaned her head back as she ached all over. Warren cocked his head. "Hm?" Steve looked to him. "What's wrong Warren?" Warren put a hand to his chin. "I don't know, but it sounded to me like Nurse Joy understood Chansey perfectly, as if she spoke plain English. We can hear her because we're pokemon, but how can Nurse Joy understand her?" Steve shrugged. "Maybe they connected that well? I've seen trainers and pokemon talk to each other because they've known each other for a long time. " Hakura nodded. "Yes, plus she's a trained nurse and maybe Chansey have a code they learn in training that Joy's understand, like how doctors have codes."
Warren thought deeply again. "Still…" Sophie looked to him. "Come on Warren, she looked perfectly fine to me, you saw for yourself she's human."
Warren nodded. "Guess you're right. At least Sarah will get the attention she needs, right Cindy?" Cindy didn't answer him. She just stared at the light above the door with the syringe icon, indicating a pokemon emergency. She remember several times when she was human she would wait by the lobby staring at that light, waiting for it to change so Nurse Joy can come out and tell her that her pokemon will be all right. She's rarely been through a pokemon emergency though, and this one was her best friend in real need.
Sarah, you have to make it…
She stood up and sat, watching the light.
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Sarah could sense movement, she smelled two pokemon, not her friends. She began to stir as her wounds sent a wave of pain through her body and she shot up, feeling the tog of some wires being applied to her. She could faintly see a nurse Joy over her. "Now calm down, everything will be ok…Chansey, I need that IV in there now!" Sarah could barely see but she sensed something off about this Joy. She didn't have much time to think as another wave of pain assaulted her. "Oh no…Chansey!"
"I'm on it!" Sarah could feel them sliding the tube into her and could feel the nutrients being pumped into her. She began to feel lightheaded.
"Now stay with me! Sta…"
John…
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Cindy slowly opened her eyes and turned to the light from where she laid down and saw that it was still on. Oh Sarah, please hang in there… if I lose you…I don't know if I can fight without you…
The light turned off and Cindy looked up, her heart racing. She saw Nurse Joy walk out with her eyes closed, wiping sweat off her forehead. Her skin seemed to glisten a little more. Cindy and the rest gathered as they looked at Joy, with worried eyes. She took a deep breath….
…and then sighed with a smile as she spread her fingers in a V sign. "You're friend will be ok…you're lucky you brought her in when you did. A little later and…" She paused. "It was good that you brought her in."
Cindy sighed and the rest of the group yipped and cheered. Joy looked at her arm and began to hide it back behind her as she walked by the counter and looked at them. "Now you're friend just needs some rest and she'll be ready to get out when she wakes."
Cindy looked at Joy. "Thank you." She said with a bow, knowing she couldn't understand but wanted to show her gratitude anyway. Joy smiled. "You're perfectly welcome." Cindy smiled nervously. Maybe it's just a coincidence?
Joy looked to her. "Would you like to see her?" Cindy nodded and Joy motioned her toward the room. "You're friends can come too. I'll be waiting out here." Cindy nodded again and motioned her friends to follow. "Just be very quiet." Joy added.
Cindy and the rest walked into the room where Chansey was monitoring the Resting Luxrays, multiple bandages and wires and tubes hooked into her, the machine pumping vital fluids into her, her chest raising slowly as she breathed.
Cindy felt tears hit her eyes as she smiled. She'll be ok…
"You look pretty beat up."
Cindy gasped and whirled around to see the Chansey there. Cindy sighed in relief. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you." Chansey said. Cindy nodded. "It's ok." She looked to Sarah. "So…you're human, aren't you?"
Cindy stared at Chansey before nodding. Chansey looked to Sarah. "Is she human too?" Cindy shook her head. "No, she was a pokemon that belonged to a friend. But she has become more than that since I met her, she is a true friend, one that I would do anything for…" Chansey smiled. "She is luck to know a human like you. There aren't much like you these days." Cindy looked at Sarah. "Her master was just as loving as I was, but then this virus took him away and I'm all she's got."
Chansey looked down. "This virus has ravaged the world as we know it." Cindy looked to Chansey. "Yes but I thin it's almost over for us. I mean, the cure is actually simple. All it takes is human blood sample to overcome the virus."
Cindy heard Nurse joy behind her.
"Yes I know… " She turned and saw Joy standing there with a sad expression. Cindy looked to her. "But…how?"
Joy walked up to the group. "As you can guess…I'm not quite human myself."
Cindy was about to ask what she meant when Joy closed her eyes and a light began to cover her body and she began to shrink and change shape as she became smaller and had less of a form. When the light cleared, a Ditto stood where Nurse Joy was earlier. She opened her eyes and looked to them. "You see, I only learned to assume my human form recently a few days ago, but it isn't entirely perfect. Sometimes my fingers aren't fully formed, or my clothes and skin seem to shine like my other body. But I got infected by this virus, too, so I can't help you."
Cindy started to take this in but nodded. "it's ok, a least you can use your human form to do things. Have you searched for help?"
Joy shook her formless head. "No, like I said I only recently learned to assume my human form recently. It is quite complex, with the clothes and all. I can do other pokemon." She closed her eyes and began to glow as she changed shape and became a Quilava in front of Cindy. She reverted back to her ditto form. "But that's all I can master at this point. Almost no one comes out here. I think this virus has decreased much travel between towns." Steve looked to her . "Can you speak? I mean, when in human form?"
Joy closed her eyes. "That is another matter. Even if I look human, I don't think I can sound like one or even speak full sentences. You understand me because you're pokemon, but if I were to speak to a human, I would be found out. They'd probably throw me out." Cindy put a reassuring paw on Nurse Joy's jelly like body. "At least you've learned how to master your pokemon form. Maybe we can use that to get help and finally be cured." Joy looked to the side. "I wish it were that simple."
Joy smiled. "But enough with my troubles, you all look like you need a rest." She glowed and reverted to her human form and smiled. "Ok now who wants a check up first?"
Steve looked at her legs. "Uhh, your legs…"
Joy looked down and saw that they were fused at the knees and had a jelly quality to them. Joy blushed "oops." She closed her eyes and concentrated a bit more and they separated. She walked up to Steve. "Since you pointed that out, I guess you go first." Steve nodded with a smile "Ok.
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Cindy sat in the lobby after Nurse joy had a look at her. Everyone felt rested and was munching on some provision found in the storage room, Sophie feeding on some nectar juice Cindy looked to them as she thought back to Sarah.
"Hey guys, want to hear something?'
Hakura looked to Cindy. "Sure." The rest of the group nodded to her.
Cindy sat back as she remembered.
"When I first met John, we had a battle. After the fight he told me how he saved Sarah when she was a Shinx. She nearly died when he saved her and rushed to the pokemon center and never left her side. The next morning she woke up and saw him there and kept nuzzling and licking him and agreed to join him on his adventure." She looked to the side. "He told me…that she was like that because…she was abandoned by her other trainer."
Steve gasped. "Really?"
Cindy looked back as she remembered the rest.
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"Really?" Cindy asked. John stood there nodding, stroking Sarah. "We found him some time after I saved her. He recognized her and she recognized him. His name was Kevin…" His eyes narrowed as he remembered.
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The little Shinx was eating with him when she sensed something, a familiar presence. She felt frightened at first, but then she growled as she began to take off. "Whoa, Sarah! Where are you going?" John got up and ran after the little Shinx.
She ran until she came across a boy on the road, turning slowly and staring impassively at her as she growled.
"Oh so you survived after all…"
John caught up with the little Shinx. "There you are, why'd you run off like that?"
He looked up and saw the purple haired trainer before him, staring with cold eyes at the little Shinx as she continued to growl. He then turned his attention to John and closed his eyes as he shrugged. "So he's the one who picked you up?"
John came to a moment of realization as he gritted his teeth. "So it was you. You're the one who left her to die!"
The trainer only seemed to shake off the comment as he closed his eyes. "To die? No. I only shed the little weak thing. She would have done the world a favor if it perished after all."
John growled. "What the hell kind of trainer are you!"
The trainer gave John a narrow stare with a slight smile. "I'm just like you." He clenched his fist. "Whatever it takes to get to the top."
"Well the way you treat your pokemon, that's not going to happen!" John glared.
The trainer snorted and turned away from John. "What do you know about me? I only strive to become the best, and that little Shinx couldn't even wield a spark attack properly without injuring itself. What good are you if you only hinder yourself?"
John growled. "Just who the hell are you?"
He looked at John with a narrow stare that seemed devoid of emotion. "My name is Kevin, and I will become a pokemon master, shedding myself of weaknesses like that Shinx to reach the top."
John stepped forward by Sarah. "I assure you She's not weak if you care for her and show her love and trust!"
Kevin snickered as if he heard a thing of nonsense. He then picked up his ball. "Love and trust, pathetic!" He spat. "Well then, prove it." He unfurled his Pokeball at the ready.
John then looked to his little companion. "Are you ready to battle, Sarah?"
Kevin then smirked. "You named it? You don't ever name trash. It thinks it's loved when you do."
Jon only stared with determination at his opponent. "Just battle." He said in a gruff tone.
Kevin tossed his ball and out came a Staraptor, which called out and looked at Sarah, and turned away as if it disregarded her as a threat.
"Sarah, get ready!" John said as he got into a battle position. The Shinx nodded. "Just remember what we trained."
Kevin narrowed his eyes and pointed. "Staraptor, take flight and devastate the runt."
The bid flapped itself into the air and sailed toward the little cub that stood with determination in her face. "Wait for it." John said as little sparks started from Sarah's fur.
The Staraptor had its talons outstretched. "Wait for it."
The Staraptor then pinned the Shinx to the ground.
"NOW!"
Sarah then sparked upward, the Staraptor letting go. She then made a lunge for the bird's extended foot, clamping down with a thunderfang. Kevin only observed with a neutral face. "Hmph, so you taught it that?"
John grinned. "And also some move. Sarah! Flip it over!"
Kevin snarled. "Staraptor, take flight!"
Staraptor tried to fly when the Shinx surprisingly shifted her weight and the Bird stumbled a bit. John pointed. "Sarah! Spark tackle!" The little Shinx then hopped back and began to lunge at the bird with sparks surrounding her fur. The Staraptor was met with a bundle of thunder and fur as it was knocked back. It wobbled and regained its footing, shaking the attack off.
"Good job Sarah!"
Kevin narrowed is eyes. "We're not done yet. Aerial ace!"
The Staraptor then disappeared in a blur and reappeared in front of Sarah and clipped her several times, the little Shinx crying out as the bird scrapped her. She panted as she struggled to stay up. The bird was flapping overhead. Paul pointed. "Finish it."
. "Sarah, thunder shock!" John cried out.
The Staraptor was sailing toward Sarah and the little Shinx squeezed her eyes as she focused all the energy she could muster and fired a torrent of electricity at the bird. The wave struck it full force and it pecked at Sarah, sending her back.
Sarah landed and cringed one eye as she struggled to get up only to release a small cry and fall forward, her head leaning to the side against the ground, unable to push forward.
The Staraptor flapped back as it shook the static off, and landed, but cringed from its injuries. Kevin growled. "Grr, Staraptor, return." He recalled the bird pokemon.
"Hmph, so at least she was a challenge...you almost made me believe she had a chance."
John only stared at Sarah, who struggled to get up again but fell. He looked to Kevin with a stare of determination. "She will…"
"Oh and one more thing…"He walked up to Kevin.
"What are you-" John slugged his fist across Kevin's jaw.
"If you ever do that to another pokemon ever again, then you'll deal with me."
Kevin got up and held his bruised face as he leered at John. "Who do you think you are?!"
John smirked. "I'm John Kai ping and don't you forget it!"
Kevin snarled at him. "Well mark my words John, I won't be forgetting this. When next we meet, I'll be sure to teach you a lesson."
John smirked again. "Any time, any where."
Kevin walked past Sarah who had gotten up and kicked some dirt at her. She then growled and leapt at him, biting his rear, the trainer grunting in pain and annoyance. She let go and Kevin glared at her and was about to strike at her when he saw a look from John, snorted, and brushed the dust off of him before leaving the pokemon with her trainer.
Sarah looked to John with a look of fear. She had failed again, he'll be sure to leave her like the other one did. I am worthless...a stupid worthless…
John then smiled and picked her up. "Hey…you were great! You'll get him next time!" He brought her close to his face and she saw the laughter and pride in his face, smiling because of something she did. She felt real love from this trainer, the most real thing she had ever felt in her life. He will ever abandon her, never. He does care…
She mewed happily and licked his face, tears streaming from her face as she cried with joy. John only smiled and rubbed her back. "There there…"
I love you John…
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"…She cried in his arms because she knew he would never abandon her." Cindy said as she remembered the look of affection on Sarah's face when she was at the battle with Akira, her final battle with John at her side. That was true love between a master and pokemon, a true bond that most trainers strive to achieve…
"Wow, that was a cool story." Steve said as he smiled. Hakura felt herself crying from the beauty of the tale. "So beautiful…"
Sophie also felt tears in her eyes. "Wow, all this time…you sure are lucky to know people like Sarah and John…"
Cindy smiled. "Yeah…" she looked to the ER where Sarah was sleeping, no doubt knowing that the pokemon's thoughts were on her true master…her true love…
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In her dreams, she was there again, in his arms, seeing his smile of pride and laughter.
"Great job Sarah!"
John…
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Wow, what a nice chapter. It feels so good to write these sorts of things again. This chapter was to focus back on Cindy and her party and it was sort of difficult to follow this up with the recent chapters focusing on John, which where epic in proportion and scale. I had to bring a sort of close-knit homeliness feel with Cindy and her friends and the thought presented itself with the array of injuries Sarah sustained in the service of her friends. So in a discussion with Swack16 to quell my writers block, he brought up the concept of taking Sarah to a pokemon center where they would find a transformed Nurse joy to help the. He also presented the idea that Cindy should relate the story of how John and Sarah faced her old trainer, Kevin. It was based off a role-playing session we did on the subject following Cindy's battle with John. In Quarantine, Cindy relates the tale of how John saved Sarah, in this story she relates how their bond became even closer. The idea of showing Sarah's point of view in her memories was done entirely by me in the process of writing this chapter. And it paid off well in a way that pleased me and got to explore Sarah more deeply than any other chapter had done previously. She has truly become one of my favorite pokemon in this series because of who she is. She has a bond that is beautiful and sacred that people rarely experience in their lifetime, something we all yearn for.
The Nurse Joy being transformed into a Ditto was another thing we discussed when discussing what pokemon the transformed nurse would be. We ran off a list of pokemon but then Ditto popped up and it seemed to fit the role. We had it so that she learned to transform into her human form to give Cindy and the others that false hope that she is human and can help them when it is revealed that she to is stuck in a similar predicament. However, her ability can become useful if the opportunity presents itself. By the way, in the Role-play, I played Kevin , who was described as a Paul look alike with purple hair, and gave him his biting personality. Swack said I was right on the money with his portrayal. XD
Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please review. JonseyCat, out! MEE-YAA!