Fiery Skies
The silence in the room was abruptly ended when a small girl maneuvered herself into the room on crutches. (A/N: The girl had been using the crutches across the room and on the second storey of the cottage in the chappie before.) Cerulean openly gawked at the girl. May scooped up the little girl, crutches and all. She placed her sister on a chair beside May's own.
"Cerulean, Drew. This is my younger sister Rosalie. Or Rose for short. She is the other sibling that monitors the Rapidash herd." May smiled and her younger sister waved. Rosalie tossed her head and her back of the knee length onyx hair flipped from side to side.
Drew noticed the cloudiness of Rosalie's sea green eyes and cleared his throat.
"Is it just me or are Rosalie's eyes cloudy? Is she blind?" Drew asked gruffly. He handled the situation with very little to no tact at all.
Rosalie smiled warmly and decided to answer Drew's question.
"Yes my eyes are cloudy. I am blind. But I can see well enough that you cannot handle situations like this very well can you? You should be more like May, Max or Cerulean. You weren't polite at all. Any questions you wish to ask about myself will be answered by me and me alone. Got that? Now. Could someone pass the teapot?" Rosalie laughed, pleasantly dismissing her earlier display of temper.
Drew looked shocked as Rosalie poured her tea into the cup without spilling a drop and passing it back to Max, who placed it back on its mat. Max was grinning at Cerulean and Cerulean burst out laughing so much that she fell backward off her chair.
The loud thud was heard and Rosalie grabbed her crutches and hurried over. She extended a tanned hand with sparkling emerald nail polish on its nails.
"Need a hand Cerulean?" Rosalie's kind, warm voice caused the whole table to burst out into smiles as Cerulean took the offered hand and Rosalie hauled her up gently.
Rosalie tossed her head again and she felt the vibrations of hooves thundering close by.
"Come on Max! We need to get some more data on the Rapidash! They are by the east paddock. Would our guests like to come watch us and the Rapidash?" Rosalie used her crutches to get to the back door and out into the back paddock. The small group hurried outside just in time to watch Rosalie signal for Max to hurry up.
The blind girl, Drew noticed kept her feet bare ad she pushed the wheels to her wheelchair with strong arms. May sighed and ran after her younger sister, Cerulean followed close behind and watched may speedily push the wheelchair along with the happy Rosalie inside it.
The herd of Rapidash seemed to materialize out of know where and Drew ran to catch up. Max had already started jotting down his notes in a large notepad.
The Rapidash herd sent Cerulean into a state of awe and admiration. Drew watched Rosalie put out her hand to a mare. But this mare had a mane and tail of sparkling sapphire fire billowing out in the slight breeze. As if on cue, Rosalie turned with a slight frown creasing her angelic face.
"What are you staring at?" Her indifferent tones brought him to full attention.
"I'm staring at that beautiful mare Rapidash." Drew countered and Rosalie beamed immediately after he had finished speaking.
"That's the newest addition to the herd, Sapphire. They rescued her last year; a Mightyeanna was attacking her and they made her part of their herd. Her foal is the Ponyta with the gold mane and tail. He is still presently unnamed. He's cute huh?" Rosalie seemed to know each Rapidash and Ponyta by name and personality in the entire herd.
May pointed out a leggy Ponyta in a group of the other foals not too far from the paddock. He had magnificent gold flames spewing out as his mane and tail.
"When he grows older…can I have him?" Cerulean asked as she smiled at Rosalie. Rosalie seemed to sense Cerulean smiling at her and smiled softly in return.
"I don't see why not? What do you think Max?" Rosalie nudged her brother in the ribs with astonishing accuracy and that made him wince.
"Sure. Well I'll be gathering data on them for the rest of the day. So you all can take a break. Rosalie you're staying with me right?" Max grinned and he got a nod from Rosalie as a signal that she would be staying with him to gather more data on the fire horse pokemon.
May waved to her siblings and grabbed Cerulean and Drew's hands. She promptly dragged them off to a nearby creek, overlooked by a large tree. Cerulean played in the water for a while before coming out of the ankle deep water.
Drew dozed off and Cerulean sat next to May, she then asked a startling question.
"Hey May? What happens to a girl's body when they get older?" Cerulean's naive innocence was making May's face heat up rapidly.
"Well…Every girl has to get ready to make a baby when she grows up. So when this girl grows up she will be curvy, have more noticeable hips and have something that adults call…b-b-b-breasts. Like me…see?" May stuttered a little on the last few words and May brought attention to her chest. Cerulean gazed intently at May's chest. May felt her face turn a bright red and Cerulean looked away suddenly.
Something had caught the nine-year-old's attention. A dead Stantler floated down the creek. Its head was bent behind its neck in a grotesque fashion.
"We have to drag it out of the water! NOW! Or the entire area's water supply will be contaminated!" May explained as she stepped into the water and dragged the large, heavy pokemon ashore. Its body was still warm…someone or something hadn't wasted any time dumping it into the creek that was for sure.
Cerulean had shaken Drew awake and May had let out her Squirtle and it was absorbing and destroying all the contaminated water.
Later that afternoon May and Drew sat on the bench behind the "fairy garden" near the to the south of the cottage. The sun was painting the east a beautiful fiery sky. Drew glanced at May then looked away again.
May was first to break the tranquil silence between them.
"I'm sorry. I believe we got off on the wrong foot. Don't you think so?" May's soft voice was carried to Drew's ears and he flicked his hair.
"I know that you believe so. But I wouldn't change the way I treat you. Or aren't you smart enough to figure that out yet? Did the genius gene skip little Masy? Did mommy and daddy forget about little old May and make her brother and blind sister smarter? Leaving Masy behind?" Drew realised he'd hit a raw nerve when May turned to him and slapped him hard across the face. Drew stared at her, looking into her eyes. Her sapphire orbs held swiftly gathering tears.
"You do not know what you are talking about! Shut up! JUST SHUT UP! Leave! Right now! Take your green haired coordinator but and go!" May yelled and shrieked so loud that Max and Cerulean, who were walking hand in hand through the garden came running.
Max scowled darkly as he saw May run past them, deep into the fairy garden. Drew looked questioningly at Max. Max sat down and Drew shot his first question at him.
"Why did May act like that when I mentioned the genius gene skipping her and her two younger siblings getting it? Why does she avoid mentioning your parents?" Drew's voice sounded indifferent, but Cerulean knew better than to think that her brother didn't care.
"It isn't my place to say why. You can ask Rosalie that later. But the truth is…our mother and father live up there," Max pointed to a large mansion that was poking its elegant structure out of the trees. Drew shuddered at Max's next words. "May never really gets on well with our father. He would call her stupid and ugly at every chance he got. May just took it and had such a low self-esteem that mother gave us this place to live in. May came out of her shell, but not completely. Now you've just showed her that you think she is stupid. Have you ever had that feeling?"
"I never knew! I mean it's not like she told anyone," A small cough from Cerulean made him look in her direction. She nodded at his questioning look. "You knew?! When did she tell you?"
"She told me at the creek after you left to tell Max about the Stantler. You should have seen her face when she told me. She still hasn't gotten over it I don't think. You just rubbed salt into an open and bleeding wound." Cerulean said in a matter-of-factly tone with her hands on her hips.
Max grinned and slipped his hand into hers. Cerulean blushed and giggled.
"We'll go talk to her ok?" They said in unison.
Drew smiled and gave Cerulean a red rose.
"Can you please give it to her and say that I apologise?"
(A/N: That's the third chappie! R&R please! Anyway…I must get off my but and write the fourth chappie for you guys (and girls).