Ancient Society: Ascension
Chapter 6:A Sister's memories
A/N: Well, I'm finally done with Quarantine, so I can work more on this one, yay! (:D). I probably should have waited before starting that other one. (XO) MEE-YAA!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, Nintendo does. I also do not own the Ancient Society or the Virus created by TurtlesandMonkeys; they belong to her and I'm only borrowing them with her permission. Felix the Eevee Trainer's OC and Ebony, his shiny Espeon, belong to him. I own Ryoko. MEE-YAA!
Over the course of a few days, Felix, and his companion Ebony, began to get along with the society on good terms. Demetrie found him and his Espeon a bit odd. His mind does wander occasionally, but he is dependable when he needs to be. His random personality usually earned him a reprimand from Ebony in the form of a tackle or even a light psychic attack, but he tells everyone else that they mean that Ebony likes him. Demetrie found Felix's interactions and conversations with Ebony very fascinating. Ebony always engaged in conversation with Felix and the two would casually talk as if they were speaking each other's language. Her rough displays of affection usually got a laugh from Felix. Ryoko always found the pair odd as well, but she knew that Ebony was different from the other pokemon that she knew; she knew she wouldn't have to worry about Felix when ever Ebony playfully bit him…
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Ryoko was coming walking through the forest with a hand basket filled with flowers she recently picked. She heard a rustling and suddenly Felix popped up from one of the bushes in front of her. "Hi!" He said, waving his arm. Ryoko gasped and dropped her flowers. Felix widened his eyes and began to scratch the back of his head. "Oops, sorry…" He walked over to the fallen flowers. "I'll help you pick them up." He began to put them in the basket. Ryoko also bent down and began to pick up the flowers. She looked to Felix. "Is Ebony around here?" As if to answer her question, the black Espeon suddenly jumped from the bushes and tackled him on his back, wrestling with him. He began to laugh and rolled around with Ebony. After awhile Felix got up. "Ok, Ebony, I give."
The Espeon sat at his feet and looked up at him and began to speak to him. "Espeon esp?"
Felix laughed off her comment. "No, I'm just came by to say hello to her and I surprised her and made her drop her flowers, and now I'm helping her pick them up."
The Espeon apparently rolled its eyes. "Espy esp."
"Honestly, see? I'm helping her pick them up now." He reached for a flower that Ryoko grabbed at the same time and the two eyed each other before blushing and pulling away quickly. Ebony chuckled and the Espeon apparently began to sing in a teasing tune. "Espeon Espy, Espy Espeon! Espy-Espy-Esp-eon!" Felix blushed and threw a flower lightly at Ebony. "Ok, cut it out. You're embarrassing me."
Ebony shot something back. Felix looked at Ryoko. "Well, she may not understand you but if she did, she's probably be embarrassed to-"He caught himself and began to blush again. Ebony decided to use a light psychic attack and dropped a twig on Felix's head. He barely flinched. Ryoko giggled at this little exchange. "Well, I better get back and give these to the Elder before he leaves on his visit to the other village." She got up and picked up her flower basket. Felix got up to. "Oh yeah. What was that about again?"
"The letter that Elder Karu gave to Demetrie mentioned a village nearby that also worships Yasuo. I hear that he has to pick up something from there. I also hear that's where most of the other younglings were born before they were old enough to come here."
Felix stared at the clouds. He still didn't turn away from them when he spoke. "Where you from that village?"
Ryoko closed her eyes and began to remember.
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"I'm…tired…"
"Ryoko, stay with me! We're almost there!"
An 8-year old girl with long black hair was carrying a little girl of 6 on her back through the forest. The little girl was breathing harshly and had her eyes closed tightly. The older girl turned her head back. "Ryoko, stay with me! I'm gonna find some help!" Ryoko still breathed heavily. "Hiroko…I want mommy…"She began to cough. "…It hurts…"
Hiroko stopped and laid Ryoko by a tree. Hiroko needed rest and looked to the sky. They were lost in the forest…
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"Ryoko? Are you ok?" Felix asked, Ryoko looking up. "Huh? Oh, I'm fine…I was just remembering…"
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"Hiroko, Ryoko, don't play too far, ok suppers almost ready!" Hiroko turned back, "Ok mom!"
They played through the woods, trying to stay in an area that wasn't too far from their mother…and then that's when it happened…
"PARAS! PARASECT!" The weird mushroom began to contract itself and released a noxious yellow powder. Hiroko turned away and brought a handkerchief to her mouth and closed her eyes. She heard Ryoko cough and looked up to see her little sister choking in the dust. Hiroko gasped and closed her eyes, grabbing her sister and running through the cloud of poison powder. Ryoko was in bad shape, but they ran until they collapsed, Ryoko breathing heavily. Hiroko realized that they were lost in another part of the forest, and if Ryoko did not receive any help, she is not going to make much longer…
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They were walking back to the village, Ebony's tail swaying behind her. She said something to Felix and he looked at Ryoko, who was looking down the whole trip. "Ebony tells me that there's something up with your mental patterns or something. Are you ok?"
Ryoko looked at the black Espeon. "She can tell that?" Felix shrugged. "I think she can, but she's telling me that something seems to be bothering you. I'm no psychic and I can tell there's something up."
Ryoko looked down.
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"Help! Help! Somebody! My sister's in trouble! Is there any one out there?!" Hiroko desperately looked around and called out into the woods when she felt Ryoko's fever go up. She grabbed her sister's hand. "It's ok, Ryoko, I'm gonna find you some help." She looked up when she heard a rustle. A boy about Hiroko's age came out of the bushes, strange markings on his tan skin…
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"I…when I was little…I played too far and a Parasect used poison powder on me…I was not gonna last much longer…then he came…"
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Hiroko was at first shocked by the boys appearance, but she was desperate for help of any kind. "Please! My sister's in trouble! Can you help us?" She pleaded to the boy. He bent down next to her sister. He felt her head. He had a stern look. "She is poisoned badly." He got up. "Our village is not too far from here. I can take your sister there. But there will be a price…" Hiroko gripped Ryoko's hand tightly. "Anything to save her…"
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"I was brought in…much like you…" She said, lost in her memories.
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"Elder Karu, I have a young one who is in great need. She'll die if we don't do anything." An old man with determined eyes and a long white beard looked at her, then at the boy. He sighed. "Demetrie, you realize that they're outsiders? I know we never turn away anyone in need, but you have taken them away from their prior lives."
The boy, Demetrie, stood firm. "She won't have a life if we don't act quickly!" The Old Man, Elder Karu, walked up to Hiroko with his old walking stick and looked her in the eye. "Young one, if we help your sister, will you stay here in our village, leaving behind your past life, living by our ways?" Hiroko's eyes watered. "Yes, anything, just save her…" Elder Karu nodded. "Demetrie, tend to the girl, I will go to retrieve the antidote against the toxin…if there is time."
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"Although Elder Karu was a kind hearted one, if it weren't for Demetrie's insistence…"
Felix had a face of understanding. "That's why you have a respect for him? Even before he was elder?"
Ryoko nodded.
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Hiroko was watching as the boy rested Ryoko on the straw mat and put a cloth to her head. "Fetch me that water jug, if you will?" He asked, never taking his eyes off of the harshly breathing Ryoko. Hiroko nodded and brought the jug to Demetrie, who took a cloth and put it on Ryoko's head. He took a root and held it to her mouth. She wouldn't eat it. Hiroko rubbed Ryoko's arm and took the root from Demetrie. "Ryoko, this will help." She bitterly ate the root. Elder Karu came back with a yellow powder. He put it in some water and began to mix it, adding more ingredients from it. "Have her drink this." The Old man said. Demetrie nodded and brought it to Ryoko's lips. He gave it to her and, Hiroko noticed, showed a face of worry for the first time since she saw him. Ryoko coughed…
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"When I came to…he was there. Ever since then…I kind of…I don't know what to say…" She began blushing. Felix walked by and gave her a hug. "It's all right." He suddenly felt a psychic push. "Hey! I was just comforting her!" Ebony pouted. "Esp!"
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Elder Karu was in the center, in front of a statue. He held his arms out.
"Young ones! Today, we accept knew members among us! They have come to us in need, but we saved them!" Hiroko stood sternly while several kids began to paint symbols on her. Ryoko only got minor ones on her arms and one on the back of her shoulder. "Today, they live by our ways! They were not only saved from annihilation, but relieved of the shackles of civilized man! They too will bear judgment with our ancestors!" He held up Hiroko's arm and Ryoko's too. "From now on, they are one of us!" He painted a red symbol on Ryoko's right cheek. It looked kind of like across between a slender dragon shaped mark and a flower of some kind. Hiroko got one on her left cheek, looking like a cat's paw with a line running down the center. All the younglings cheered while the pokemon roared into the night sky. Hiroko looked at the markings on her arms and at Ryoko, closed her eyes in acceptance, and stared at the moon. Ryoko joined the other ones in their yelling, then looked at her big sister and smiled…
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"Oh, so you were initiated like me?" Felix scratched the back of his head. "Well, I always wondered why you weren't as dark as the others." Ebony closed her eyes and made a pine cone hit Felix's head. "Espy Esp." She muttered. Felix looked at her, rubbing where he was hit. "Ow! I am not insensitive! I was just making a point, that's all." Ebony rolled her eyes. They entered the village, greeted by the young ones. Ryoko looked to Felix. "Well, thanks for the help." Felix winked. "No problem." Ebony tackled him to the ground and beamed at Ryoko. "ESPEON, ESPY!" "uhh…Ebony wish's you luck…"
Ryoko smiled. "Why thank you Ebony, but I won't need the luck. Elder Demetrie does."
Demetrie walked by her. "But you'll be accompanying me." Ryoko spun around and gasped in surprise. "Elder Demetrie!" She blushed. "Oh, I-I…I picked up the flowers, for luck." Demetrie looked to the fallen Felix. "The prophecy bearer will also accompany me." Felix got up. "What?" Demetrie closed his eyes. "We depart at dawn." He walked to his hut, leaving Ryoko and Felix just staring at him. Ebony rolled her eyes. "Espy esp Espeon." (Translation: Oh, this is gonna be great.)
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A/N: And that's the end of that one! I decided to translate that last line Ebony said in order to get the full humor effect I was aiming for. The rest I left up for interpretation, but I think I made it clear what song Ebony was teasing Felix with. I also wanted to go deeper into Ryoko's past and show that, like Felix, she to was an outsider at one point and show he connection to Demetrie. Well, please review! Jonseycat, out!