Me: I'm sorry for taking so long... (sweatdrops)
May: Watereevee doesn't own pokemon!
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"I was the last ground sage."
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Drew stared suspiciously at the man. Kyle sighed.
"Fine then. Drew, you don't believe me?" Drew caught the pokeball thrown to him. "Although it rarely happens, sages of the same type can communicate with their pokemon." Drew suddenly gave a jolt of surprise as a pokemon jumped out.
'Rrgh! Why'd you have to wake up? I was having a good dream too!" Drew started instinctively backing away from the angry rhydon.
"Okay, okay, I believe you!" Kyle yawned.
"Too late, Rhydon has anger issues."
"What?! Then you shouldn't have given him to me in the first place!" Kyle shrugged. The Rhydon suddenly switched its gaze to an unknown figure walking toward them.
--Flashback--
"May, you have parents right? Do you have a picture of your grandparents?"
"...yes." May opened her bag and began to look for something. "Here." she said finally, handing over a photo wallet.
Drew flipped through the wallet, curious to see what her family looked like. A pair of hands pried the photo wallet away from him.
"I'll show you myself. This is my brother and my parents." May said pointing to a picture with a smiling brown-haired girl and a boy with navy blue hair. Drew grabbed the wallet back and quickly flipped through, to find the picture that he had seen.
He finally stopped at a photo featuring a woman with long chocolate brown hair and shining cobalt eyes. She smiled brightly at the camera.
Drew stared, transfixed, at the photo.
"Drew? Are you having a staring contest with my grandmother?" Drew looked up into the same cobalt eyes.
"Grandmother?"
"Oh, you didn't know? Her name is Christina Maple, she disappeared after my dad was born. Ever since then, no one has seen her. I wonder if she's still alive..."
--End-Flashback--
It was like a photo brought to life. Same brown hair and same bright cobalt eyes. A strong resemblance to May. This was Christina Maple.
"Geez Kyle. Can't you control your own pokemon?" she said, instantly dodging Rhydon's charge. As she dodged, a protective bubble encased the rhino pokemon. Rhydon appeared to give up and relaxed in the bubble.
"What? Mrs. Maple….are you the water sage?" asked a confused Drew. She turned to look at him.
"Don't call me Mrs. Maple. I know May told you about me but you cannot call me Mrs. Maple. And I'm not the water sage…he is." She said and pointed to an approaching man in the shadows. Light purple bangs partly blocked his dark eyes. A horse with a fiery mane and a blue spotted bunny-like creature walked beside him.
"You forgot Rapidash." He said simply.
"I'm sorry! Please forgive me!" Christina cried and ran to hug her pokemon. The flames from the mane seemed to have no effect on her.
"..Uh…Kyle...I'm very confused. Could you explain?" Kyle turned his attention from Christina to look at Drew.
"Hm…ok. I'll explain. I'm Kyle, you know Christina, and he's Kai." He said slowly.
"….I'm not stupid."
"Anyways…well, the next part would be better explained by Christina." She looked up from hugging her Rapidash, the flames partly covering her face.
"Oh…ok. The Maple family is directly related to the beginning sages. For some unexplainable reason, a sage has been born in the family every other generation. My May was the one after me." She started.
"Then what about Max?"
"Max was completely by chance. Every sage type has a certain percentage of occurring with the four starter types being most common, to Max's type, the most uncommon. For Max, the entire spirit of beginning resides in him."
"But to revive the spirit, you have to fulfill a promise. Luckily, May and Max have one."
"What is it?"
"They promised to always protect each other." Spoke Kai quietly.
"…what…? Protect? That means one of them would have to get hurt!" Kyle looked away. Drew was hit by a startling thought. "…you're going to use May right?!"
"I'm sorry Drew…"
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Dawn peered at the boy worriedly. She knew that she shouldn't touch him too much in case his wound opened up but…she settled for talking to him.
"Drew….are you ok?" Drew was slumped against the wall, seemingly dead. Dawn quickly grabbed his wrist and felt his wrist. A soft rhythm of beats answered her. She sighed in relief.
"…….!" A steel spear stabbed into the wall just above his head.
"Sorry Dawn!" cried May. She and Max had dodged another one of Giovanni's deadly missiles. Dawn ignored her. She had seen a sudden glimpse of a smirk on Giovanni. She was worried. After serving Giovanni so long, she knew his ways.
"Be careful…" she whispered.
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"Hey, for being such a tyrant, you're not very strong," provoked Max.
"Too late, you're already trapped."
"What?!" Max looked down as he suddenly couldn't move. Two strong steel wires entwined his feet.
"It seems fitting that the strongest beam should hit the strongest sage." He stated as a beam from the ceiling above broke off and formed itself into a sharp spear.
"No…Max!" May yelled as it came hurtling toward her brother. Max closed his eyes. This was the end.
When no pain came, Max opened his eyes. His sister was at his feet, a puddle of blood forming around her. Max dropped to the ground, and put his sister's hand in his lap.
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May slowly opened her eyes to look at the hand covering her stomach; it was all bloody. She painfully turned her head to look at Max. Her eyes widened. There was a handsome man with brownish blonde hair staring at her with deep purple eyes.
"Hello May…" He said and he hugged her close.
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Me: All done! Agh! That was such a bad ending! Please excuse me. –hits head on wall-
Drew:…………………
May: Review!