CRACK!
Fingers in black gloves tensed. A back in a black jacket arched. Bloody shoes shifted swiftly. Red messy hair fluttered. Silvery orbs snapped opened. The air around everyone was at a stand still.
"GAAAAAAAAAAACCCKKKKK AARRGGHHH! NRRAAAAGGHHH!"
"Please try to breath through the pain."
The red haired boy screamed out. Everything, every inch of his body, his bones felt like they were snapping and being rammed with an hammer. He felt the air around him fasten as if he was falling, his neck felt like it was being pieced through with a knife. Everything hurt so much, tears of agony fell from his blood stained face. His voice was hoarse but he kept screaming, aching his back and twisting his torso in the murderous pain he was in. his hands tried to grip the ground, he wanted it to stop. He can't remember the last time he felt this much agony. His head felt like it was exploding. "AAARRGGH AAAAAAAAAAAARRAAAGHH!"
The white haired girl winced at his screams. She was crouched down, standing on her feets as her hair dragged down at the ground. Her light blue laces fell around her. Making her glow slightly in the dirty cave. She wore a poker face and calmly spoke, holding her hands close to her flat chest. Queendra was frozen with fear and shock and more importantly, Disbelief.
Froslass and Haunter tried to cover their ears from the ear piecing scream. Queendra watch he dead master scream with agony. Slowly Silver's screams became whimpers and grunts, his body still flinched from the pain. The Princess panted under her breath a bit. Obviously it took a lot to revive his body. The Princess placed out her hand for the boy to take. Silver's eyes were widen in pain and confusion. He was panting hard and felt the pain leaving his body slowly only leaving behind a few aches here and there. "Who…what…"
He looked in front of him where Queendra stood shocked. "You are Silver. This is the White Leaves Forest. You died by falling off the cliff, under the desire of this Kingdra, I revived your body and brought you back to the life."
Died… that's right I died.. Wait…!
Silver scanned the area. He found himself in a cave and being trapped by his Kingdra, an Haunter and a new species he wasn't sure what it was. He looked to his side where Gold was laying next to him. He reached out for him and pulled his shoulders, wanting to see his face. The Princess quickly took action. "AAHH!"
The redhead flinched and screamed a bit at the sight of the bloody broken bones Gold. He scooted back with fear and a hint of disgust, right away feeling vomit coming up to his throat. Silver covered his mouth with one of his hands as the Princess pulled him into an embrace, covering his face making him turning away from the sight of the dead Gold. Queendra as well flinched and looked down, trying to erase the image. "G-Gold… h-he's.."
The tremble of fear in the redhead's voice made the Princess' eyes glow with sadness. She nodded and pulled him away, making sure he didn't look at Gold's body. "I shall revive him next."
Silver was staring at the ground. "You.. You can do that…?"
She walked with the laces dragging on the ground, she nodded and smiled as she bent down towards Gold's neck. "Yes."
He watched her stick out her palms as they started to glow. Rings that were a mint color surrounded her hands and Gold's neck. Slowly his whole body started to glow. His eyes stayed widen once he saw the bones slowly going back inside the skin. She was actually healing him. She was literally bring him back. We.. We get to live…? We… don't… have to die..!?
His thoughts were interposed once he felt Queendra ram against him, wanting to glomp her trainer. ["You're! You're really alive! She really did it! I! I!"] Queendra let her tears of happiness, the hidden sadness tears all fall out. Everything, everything was so much better. Those images she created in her mind, the expressions of broken hearted pokemons she would see when she told them Silver was dead. The years to come with nothing but hollow tears was no longer waiting for her.
As the water type nuzzled her nose against the boy, Silver was taken back and slowly came to realize they were indeed dead. When he disappeared back then, it wasn't because he was moving on to the afterlife. It was because his soul was returning to it's body. So that means… Gold is coming back to his body too…
Silver chuckled a bit, feeling so relieved he wasn't dead just yet. He patted his only female pokemon back, a faint blush on his cheeks from the new action they were doing. He assumed this was his first time showing such affectionate towards the Kingdra. That was until he gotten a memory glimpse of when he was still a slave to the Masked Man of Ice. When he first met the water type all those years. When she first dashed into his arms looking for protection. Yes, he remember how Pryce was abusing her, and how she came to him for help. Even though it almost cost him his legs, he tried his best to protect the terrified Horsea. He gave a small shy smile and nuzzled back at her. "Sorry to have worried you… Queendra."
The water type widen her eyes and pulled away. Not once have the boy ever called her by that name. it was normally the pokemons in his team or twice by Gold as a joke. Silver struggled to his feets, feeling them ache under his weight. Queendra smiled and tried to help him up. Haunter had glance at Froslass, locking their gazes and vanished in the air. Froslass sighed out, going to the Princess' side. ["You have your Master now. What will you do next?"]
Unable to understand pokemon language, Silver remained standing and ignorant to the starting up conversation between the two 'Queens' the water type turned to her and glance at her trainer. ["Meet up with everyone else. And get out of here."]
Froslass shook her head. ["You're staying here."]
["Excuse me?"] Queendra frowned at her, getting mentally prepared to attack.
The Ghost type shot a glare at her. ["I found you again. I'm not going to lose you again."]
["What…?"] before she can ask the question in a proper way. They were interrupted by violent cracking.
Silver turned to Gold's body that was bloody but healed, no damaged skin or bones. He was perfectly fine. The Princess looked up at the redhead with sadden eyes. "I'm afraid I'm going to need you to hold him down."
"What? Wh-"
Gold flinched, his body twitched and shifted. Soon his fingers curled and he started to kick his legs. "Urgh… UWAAAAARRRRRRRGHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH AAAAAAHHHH!"
The scream echoed throughout the caved, Silver assumed he was feeling what he felt just a while ago and dashed to his side to hold him down. Unlike him, Gold was more physical when it came to pain and nightmares. The Princess quickly backed away letting the two do their things. At the sight of the Princess moving back quickly brought a memory to Queendra, one where a young blood stain Silver stood in the middle of the ice as he looked at his hands. His masked covered the tears he was shedding. She couldn't help but feel something missing with this memory. "Gold! GOLD! GOLD!"
The Hatcher thrashed his body violently, he couldn't take it, all this aching pain it was like electricity ramming against his nerves. His skin felt like it was burned and someone was scratching it. He didn't care enough to stop the tears of agony escaping his golden eyes. "GOLD!" Silver was frantic, being more experience with pain unlike Gold it didn't hurt as much as Gold was feeling. The Princess stared at the sight emotionless. This made Queendra wonder if she even had a heart, it might have been frozen just like this forest. "GAAHH! AAAAARRAAAAAHHAAAAHH!"
His thrashing continued, he looked like an rampaging Gyarados on land. The Princess bent down to her knees and covered Gold's mouth along with his nose. Silver widen his eyes, knowing she was now suffocating the boy even more. "HEY! GET AWAY!"
Even when Silver shoved her. She didn't budged. Gold was screaming though it came out muffled he shut his eyes tightly, making any pained sounds. "He should not be feeling this much pain. Can you move anything Sir?" the Princess calmly looked at Gold, he kept screaming and thrashing his body around. She sighed out and ignored the redhead. "By removing his ability to breath the pain will impact on him and disappear right after instead of flowing through him for hours."
What she said was true, luckily for her, Gold's thrashing calm down. His bones were numb and his skin burned but it wasn't as pulsing as before. Silver gave her a good couple seconds before demanding her to back off. The Princess removed her hands and stood up. " AAHH!" Gold gasped and inhaled all the cold air he can around him. He coughed out violently which pained hi throat. "Gold! Breath, just breath."
Golden eyes rapidly searched around. Scanning the area he was in now. The last thing he can recall was watching Silver and his own body vanish in the icy winds. "A dream….?"
"Gold, can you hear me?"
The Hatcher locked eyes with the redhead. His own eyes were dulling with pain. His head pounding kept going. Making his vision a bit blurred. He a girl, she was practically glowing which made him flinch from all the white. More importantly, he saw Silver. Solid. with an straggle sigh, Gold groaned and let Silver help him sit up. "… Someone has damn loads of explaining to do…"
Both boys turned their gazes at the Princess. Froslass went by her side as Queendra went by Silver's. the Princess only smiled and giggled at them.
Sneasel watched the Glaceon from afar. All he got was her name, race and that she was a Guardian. He didn't push anymore questions yet. He wasn't even sure what to ask her. There was many questions in his head and he wasn't even sure if she was willing to answer any of them. He had his own questions for himself. He figured he would try to sort those thoughts out before asking her anything.
Why did he feel like he knew her, why did the name Radiant sound so familiar. Why wasn't Gyarados effected by the Security System, was she the one who ordered their Masters to die. Was Silver really dead? Sneasel sighed out deciding on a question. ["I it possible your Security System doesn't work on water types?"]
["If they know a fire type move, it will effect them."]
["Gyarados knows Fire Blast. And he's the same as ever."]
["Was the water type experimented on or expose to radiation?"]
["What.. Do you mean?"] Sneasel stopped walking, however this wasn't the case for Snowflake you kept walking slowly.
She shook her head to the sides and started to explain. ["The waves that are sent through the a Foul Type's mind are something like mind control. However, since recently there have been people who experiment on pokemons, some are expose to radiation which can block out the waves sent to it's brain."]
["Gyarados was forced to evolve until Radio Sound Waves."]
Snowflake placed a paw in front of her. She then swiftly turned around her whole body, her bangs swaying in the air. ["There is your answer. The Radio Sound Waves are infused in his mind. Making him invisible to any type of sound, psy, chemical waves. Not even a high level Psychic type can control his mind. He's literally a free pokemon and cannot be captured in a Pokeball."]
["What?"] Sneasel walked closer to her. He was positive Gyarados comes out of a Pokeball just like everyone else. ["My Master caught him though."]
He heard the ice type giggled bitterly. She turned back before walking again she gave one last question. ["Caught? Or Befriended?"]
She didn't bother waiting for his answer, she kept walking, passing the areas she and Murkrow had passed. She made note that Ursaring was no where to be found. Who know what happened with Murkrow and Glacier. Hopefully he wasn't that brainless and ran away. ["I have a game. I ask you a question and you can ask me."]
Sneasel found this a bit fair. Only he was concern to the answers he would get. ["Will you answer?"]
Snowflake glanced at him with an cocky look and raising eyebrows. ["Will you?"]
There was a silence for a moment until Sneasel nodded. Snowflake laughed at the hesitance and said she will too. Since he had asked a question and she was a cheat, she went first. ["There is two trainers. Which six pokemons are from the Trainer you are owned by?"]
Sighing with a slight relief at the easy question, Sneasel proceeded to answer. ["Myself, Murkrow, Ursaring, Kingdra, Gyarados and Feraligatr."]
The ice type felt something in her stomach cringe. ["Tocca a."]
Something in Sneasel broke causing tears to swell up in his throat. Though he was strong enough to gulp it back down. He wasn't sure how much was the limit, he couldn't ask how she knew that word. He nodded and brought up his next question. ["Did you ever intended, wanted and or ordered to kill our trainers?"]
["No. I had asked Froslass to locate the bodies and to separate the pokemons from them. I wanted to look at them in peace without crying or and raging pokemons on my tail. I wanted to avoid all conflict but it seems that wasn't he case."]
Sneasel looked back down, walking at the same pace she was only a bit behind her incase she tried anything. The ice type considered the possibility Froslass mislead orders. After all the way Utaro describe the person wasn't anything how Snowflake looked like. Snowflake was cautiously walking, it's more likely they would get attacked by someone. ["Why did you come to the White Leaves Forests?"]
["Shiro-nee gave us a mission to collect the Ice Heart. She said that others might be after it and it's why we needed to get it first."]
["Shiro-nee?"]
["Shirona, the Founder of the Galax Company."]
At this Snowflake paused. Even she knew just who the hell this woman was. This gave her a new view on the trespassers. In fact she didn't even think of them like that anymore. She was partly glad she got away with an extra question. She waited for the Sneasel to come up with his. Sneasel had many questions, but he wasn't sure for how long the game was going to hold on for. This could be his last question and he certainly didn't want to waste it. ["How do you know the name of Dark Prince?"]
He watched carefully for any reaction. She seem to have saw this coming, she didn't give any particular reaction. She only kept walking, now entering the deep forest, heading down towards the hill. ["Same way you do."]
She answered, he wasted the question. He wanted to know how exactly, he should have clogged up all the loopholes more clearly. Snowflake paused to look around the forest. ["What is it?"]
["…."] Snowflake shook her head. ["Nothing."] she continued walking, hoping that Murkrow found the Princess' base and was safe. ["How long have you been with the boy?"]
["Since his birth."]
Snowflake stopped at this. She turned around, this time trying to get a closer look on his appearance. This gave Sneasel more of a hint that they definitely knew each other from somewhere. He figured out she used to be an Eevee, yet he cannot recall an Eevee being apart of the Masked Man's Crew. Yet there was something off about her. Every pokemon from the Masked Man was left with a scar of some sort as proof of their loyalty. The Glaceon held out her paw, she wanted to touch the fellow ice type. Deep in her eyes shined just the faintest of hope.
At the hope in her eyes, Sneasel's mind flashed. He saw the snow turned into grass, flowers. He saw the open field and he saw an Eevee, holding out her paw wanting to touch his cheek. The image flashed back to reality. Sneasel felt like he was so close to remembering something. As if her touch can restore what he had forgotten. As luck would have it, it wasn't on his side today.
["GRAAAAHHHH!"]
Glaceon bent her legs, ears flopping down and swiftly turning to the deep part of the forest where stomping noises can be heard. Sneasel felt the memories vanish in air before it can set down on him. He looked at the forest as well and growled. Knowing neither of them was in the position to fight, Snowflake inhaled the air around her, creating mist to come off her pores. ["Run down the hill! NOW!"] Sneasel was taken back at the rather gigantic Ursaring clawing down the trees. Snowflake fired an Ice Beam to the ground, creating icicles to shoot up from the ground. ["I said NOW!"]
Sneasel winced and made a run for it, right after Snowflake joined the retreat down the hill. Yet with her badly cut front paw, she flinched and ended up sliding down the sharp icy snow all the way to the bottom. At first the weasel pokemon didn't care, though once he saw the trail of faint blood coming from her; he felt compelled to stop her suffering. ["Icy Wind!"]
With his working claw, Sneasel twist it up, creating a much more smoother path for Snowflake to slide down. He as well used this to catch up with her. ["Who is that?"]
["That would be the insanely large King of the White Leaves Forest."]
["The king?!"]
["Yes, we had a run in with him I do believe the nut job is seeking revenge."]
["We as in?"]
["Myself and that brainless bird companion of yours."]
Assuming she was referring to Murkrow, Sneasel started to wonder if she was lying before. The two of them kept running to the best of their abilities. ["And where is he?"]
["I told you we got separated."]
["Where?"]
["Deeper in the forest where that Ursaring was."]
["And you left him in the cold?"]
["Of course not!"] Snowflake rolled her eyes, getting annoyed with his question spam. ["That sunflower attacked me."]
["But she's a grass type, and you're an ice type."]
Everything happened so quickly, Sneasel needed a couple seconds to process it all. Snowflake had widen her eyes and halted her running, swiftly turning her body around towards him in result semi head butting him. His feets slid with the ice, making him fall on his back. Snowflake lowered her head down at him, clearly pissed at his words. ["Not everything is about type advantages."]
They gain a good distance to loose the giant Ursaring. Sneasel was actually scared at Snowflake's tone. She was hiding something personal and she clearly didn't waste a moment to voice out her thoughts. Snowflake huffed and took a couple steps to the front, waiting for Sneasel to get up again. ["Come on. Let's move."]
["Yeah…"] Sneasel followed her silently, knowing the game was good as done.
["SIIINTARRROOOO! SINTARRROOOO!"]
Ursaring stopped walking. He looked towards the deeper part of the forest where echoes were being heard. The name it was calling was obviously someone he knew. This made him follow wherever the voice had came from. However along with the screaming of the grass type, he also heard rumbling noises coming near him like there was an earthquake coming by.
Ursaring walked slowly, trying to concentrate on the name yelling rather then rumbling. He found that to be impossible, hearing the rumble noise coming near him. At him. ["What the-"]
["RAARR!"]
["What the-!?"] Ursaring quickly jumped back. The looming shadow was and Giant Ursaring, twice the size of him. ["That has got to be a machine…!"] the giant Ursaring roared once more, this time swinging his fist towards the normal sized bear. Ursaring flinched and held up his paws, stopping the punch in the mid-air. Despite how large the King was, their strength wasn't much different from each other. ["Grrg.. Ghh.."]
Ursaring struggled with the King. He tried to force him back and wanted to make an attempt in running yet he couldn't with the giant bear forcing his claw punch down. This struggle carried on for a good minute before Ursaring felt his knees wobbled. ["Damn you! I don't have time for this!"] Ursaring felt lave run through his veins. Starting from his mind, down to his neck, spreading to his shoulders and exploding his arms. He conjured up an Fire Punch, making his paws flame up. ["Out of my way!"]
The giant king Ursaring growled and jumped back creating a distance between them. ["Trespassers shall pay the price. I will exterminate you."]
["You think you own this forest? I understand you want to protect it, I'm not here to harm it or anything I just want to find my family."]
["Those who enter the White Leaves Forest will be erased from Existence as the price of committing this heinous crime."]
Ursaring was clearly ticked off from the much taller bear. He can only imagine how much blood have been spilled by this deranged pokemon. The normal sized Ursaring growled and yanked off a tree branch from one of the frozen trees. He dashed towards the taller bear trying to toss the branch at his face. The King Ursaring winced to the hit but smashed down his arm at Ursaring's shoulder earning himself a shout of pain from the smaller bear. The King Ursaring spun around, swinging his foot towards the tamed Ursaring's stomach. ["GOAAH!"]
The tamed Ursaring grunted as his back made harsh impact with the ground. Before the King Ursaring can stomp on him, an lighting strike zapped his foot away making the King Ursaring jump back a good distance. Ursaring turned his head towards where the lighting bolt had came from. He saw Snowin make his way towards the little field they were in. ["I take it you're my replacement?"] the Snorlax bitterly chuckled. ["Erased from Existence… without warning?"]
["Anyone who dares to enter the White Leaves Forest whether it be child or woman. They shall pay for their heinous crime."] the King Ursaring turned his attention towards the Snorlax. He still kept a straight scowl. ["You who turns against their own kind. You shall pay for the crime you have committed."]
Snowin looked at him viciously. ["Without a second chance? That's what is wrong with you. You don't give a second chance. What's your name?"]
["Ursaring, The King of the White Leaves Forest."]
["If she didn't give you a nickname, she doesn't like you."]
["The Princess knows what is personal and what is professional."] the King Ursaring raised up his claw, preparing for a battle.
Snowin frowned, his lips making an upside down u. ["Does the Princess knows about the innocent blood you spill?"]
By now, Ursaring had gotten up and tried to get his breathing pattern back in order. The King Ursaring corner lips twitch. Inwardly growling. ["They are not innocent if they dare enter the forest."]
["SIINNTAARRROOOO!"]
Snowin looked at the Ursaring who looked deeper in the forest. ["You find the voice. Leave this to me."] the Snorlax started to prepare for battle after taking a couple steps front.
["Trying to play hero?"] Ursaring shook his head, yet he took him up on his offer. Snowin shrugged and pumped his fist growling up all his anger to add more power. ["Everyone deserves a second chance. And I'm sure Sheer will give it to you if you can give him one too."]
With that, Ursaring left behind the sadden Snorlax to fight with his replacement. Snowin nodded at Ursaring's words and turned his attention towards the gigantic Ursaring. This isn't how the Guardians did things. They scared off trainers and fire types. If they harm the residence in the forest or anything else then they would wait for the Princess' permission for taking their lives. The Princess never made this decision lightly. She always tried to avoid violence as much as she could. Though sometimes humans make that impossible for her. He was positive this King Ursaring was insane and disobeying the wishes of the Princess. For all he knew the Ursaring looked down at her for being young. In a way he really did fit the title King. ["You who betrayals. Prepare to meet your end."]
["You're corny as shit too."] Snorlax shook his head, mocking the much taller bear. In a split second they both sent out their attacks.
As for the tamed Ursaring he ran deep into the forest, trying to follow the screaming voice desperately looking for the name it was calling. He didn't spend much time with Gold's pokemons so it was hard to make out who was screaming. The only thing he did know was that the screaming voice was losing energy, sanity and his very life. ["SIIINTAAarrgh!"]
The screams broke in a fit of coughing. Ursaring was close and kept running until he came across an green water type. ["Politaro! It's you who was screaming."]
The water type was on his knees, using one arm to hold himself up. The snow made his paws numb, he can fee the ice taking over his blood. His insides were literally turning into ice, killing him from the inside out. ["Who are… y-you…?"] his hoarse voice had extreme difficulties talking the words on his mind.
["I'm Ursaring, one of Silver's pokemons remember?"]
["Oh.. Ri-right…"] He slowly tried to get up, feeling his bones crack the ice that was freezing it. It was highly unpleasant. ["Hey… have you seen Sintaro..?"]
["No. I haven't but you need to rest somewhere."] Ursaring bend down, feeling a bit more prideful with his height seeing the difference between him and the water type. He lifted him up not waiting for an answer from Poltaro. When he touched him it felt like carrying ice. It made him wonder how long have the water type been out here looking for Sintaro. ["Let's find shelter and restore your body heat a bit."]
Poltaro didn't have the energy to tell him to go to Pichuu. He could barely breath with ice starting to cover his lungs. ["Nngg… Si..n…tah.."]
["Did you say something Explotaro?"] Sintaro and Ataro were on the lava pokemon's back. Regaining body heat as well Ataro's back seems to be healing a bit more. But only by just a bit. The fire type shook his head and went back to laying down, staring at the invisible line that cause him to rampage and kill Gold. I swear… I heard him…
'I'm scared'
Explotaro shook his head, his bitter eyes glaring at the barrier. He hated himself, he hated being a fire type. He hated ever coming here, being the only pokemon that can transport his trainer. He hated everything. It was much easier for him to hate than to feel the pain of guilt and grief. Ataro was still sleeping, unable to move his feets or torso. It's my fault… if I never rampaged then no one would have gotten hurt…
Gyarados was encircling them. Trying to stay on guard at all times, it was rather cute seeing the water type childish try to act all tough. However it irked Explotaro whenever the red dragon pass the line front and back. He didn't say anything about it, he couldn't. he was in no position to talk. He was the reason all this happened. Everything happened because of him.
The only thing the fire type did was close his eyes, letting his mind wonder in his memories of Gold.
Beep…. Beep…. Beep…
"Ne… Explotaro."
The fire type looked up at the ten year Hatcher. His sudden tone he had was so sadden full of tears and yet his golden eyes were completely dry. He sat up, letting his trainer know he was listening to him. "What…. What does it feel like to be free…?" Gold looked at his ultimate. The expression he wore was one of a broken scared child.
Explotaro snapped open his eyes. That was a memory he didn't want to remember. He was much to unstable to recall it. Shutting his eyes trying to squeeze the out the rest of that day, the fire type went back to his self bashing. Waiting until something happened.
Okay… first off… WHY NO ONE TELL ME I WAS USING THE WRONG WORD!?
Pichuu looked down with his HOLY GREATLY RESPECTED eyes.
Queendra felt so HOLY GREATLY RESPECTED as she cried at her Trainer's death.
SERIOSULY?! HOLLOW AND HALLOW ARE DIFFERENT WORDS OMFG
Hollow = Empty
Hallow = HOLY GREATLY RESPECTED
*FLIPING TABLES*
YAAYY Gold and Silver are alive W00T~~~ PLOT TWIST/SHOT
and yeah XD Hope you guys enjoy!