mockstevenh is back! This time I'm doing two chapters in one so doesn't keep saying I'm a chapter ahead of the actual chapter (all thanks to the prologue). I hope that makes sense. I stayed up all night writing Chapter 8 (I slept all day so don't worry) so I hope you like it! Also since I keep forgetting which people I haven't thanked for there review, I'll just say right now that I am VERY grateful for all of your guys reviews!
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Pokémon, GameFreek does. But I do own my OCs and the storyline (most of it).
ON WITH THE STORY! Nyah!
Chapter 8: Another One
I awoke with my face in Lightnings mane that acted like a pillow for my face. I quietly removed my face from his mane hopping not to wake him. Luck was on my side because he was still sound asleep. I stood up and stretched, arching my back as it popped from all the cricks in it. I sighed in contempt as I took in the calm atmosphere. I looked over at Lightning as he slept soundly in the darkness of the morning. The sun had yet to come out so I laid back down and cuddled into Lightning's warm fur. I considered just staying like this until he woke up, but I thought of something much better.
"Oh Lightning~!" I sang into his ear as I hugged him effectively waking him up.
He opened his mouth in a wide yawn with his tongue folded back before saying. "Steven? Why'd you wake me u-" He stopped to yawn again before continuing. "-p so early?"
"I was thinking we should go down to the beach to see the sun rise from there." I replied, rather excitedly. "I mean I don't really remember seeing the sun rise from there at all."
Lightning chuckled before saying, "You do realize that the sun rises from the opposite direction of the ocean right?"
My ears drooped as I blushed in embarrassment. I hadn't thought of that. But on the bright side I could keep cuddling into Lightning's soft fur. That made me happy again. So I cuddled into his underbelly fur (seeing as he was a good foot larger then me) with a small "Sorry." before we both went back to sleep.
~Time Skip~ to Sunrise
I awoke with Lightning no longer there so I got up and headed outside, grabbing an Oran berry along the way. When I got outside I saw Lightning sitting at the cliff's edge, his tail swishing behind him as he stared out at the ocean.
"Hey Lightning." I said, walking over to him. "You look a lot better."
"Huh. Oh yea." He replied, turning to me. "I'm just slightly sore from yesterday."
"Yea.." I replied sheepishly while rubbing the back of my head. "Sorry about that."
"Why don't we head down to the beach to see if we can find our friends." It wasn't really a question that he asked.
I replied with a simple, "K." before we began to walk threw the town in the twilight of the morning dawn. As we walked threw the town I noticed a few changes to it that had changed since I was last here. The Kecleon brothers shop now had something that looked similar to a survey. This confused me because I don't remember them ever having paper. I mentally facepawed at that thought because I remembered all the request and outlaw notices were made out of paper. Another change was that there were polls every where with banners saying: Battle Contest. That was all the changes that I could see before we were on the crossroads.
I was about to keep running when Lightning suddenly shoved me behind a tree to our right. I was about to say something but he put a paw on my mouth to prevent me from talking and pointed back to the crossroads. I looked and was actually very shocked at what I saw. There was Team Skull and all their sick selves. But instead of it being Zubat, Koffing, and Skuntank; there was a Golbat, and Weezing in place of the two grunts.
There were in front of two Marill who I immediately recognized as the brothers from our first time going against the outlaw Drowzee. I was about to step out and help the brothers when Lightning's paw stopped me. I looked at him and he shook his head and pointed towards them again. I looked again and saw an Absol coming out of the woods behind them and he looked very angry.
"What are you doing to these two boys." The Absol growled at Team Skull. Must be a he by the sound of his voice.
"Oh us? We are just making them give us all there precious money, because they're to week to keep it." Golbat snickered. I silently facepawed at Golbat's sentence. I mean really? Three years wasn't enough to make them smarter apparently.
"I suggest you back away away from them now and leave them be." The Absol said in a deathly dark tone. I closed my eyes and gauged his aura. I was met with a bright shining blue flame that encompassed his body. I opened my eyes again and smirked as I sat down to enjoy the show.
"Now why should we do that?" Skuntank snickered. Oh they were so in for it. I then realized that the two brothers were now hiding in the entrance to Spinda's Cafe.
The Absol replied by launching a Dark Pulse at Golbat and followed up with a Night Slash, knocking them all back about a foot or two. Golbat was KO'd and so was Weezing, leaving Skuntank alone and barely standing. I smiled at the sight of those nuisances being hopelessly overpowered by this Absol.
The Absol was about to use another move to knock out Skuntank when Skuntank yelled, "Stop! We give. I'll leave with my team." With those words he carefully picked up Golbat and Weezing and put them on his back and limped away to who knows where.
The Absol's aura died down and he turned to the two brothers hiding. "Are you two okay?" He said with concern.
"Y-yes. Thank you." the younger one said.
"Good." He said before he began to walk in Lightning's and mine direction. "So who are you two and how long have you been there?" He asked, It was more of a demand though.
I sighed and stepped out from behind the tree with Lightning. At this close I got a good look at him. He had all the things an Absol had, the Sickle shaped horn, the scythe like tail, and the white fur. But his eyes were different. His left eye was colored a sapphire blue while the other eye was a demonic red. I smiled at the sight and was about to say something but Lightning beat me to it.
"I'm Lightning and this is my best friend Steven." He said, gesturing to himself and then me. "And we were here since just before you came out of the woods. And before you ask, if you were going to ask that is. We were hiding here to watch you beat up Team Skull and save those two brothers."
"Team Skull? Was that who those idiotic scum were?" He asked, half to himself.
"Yes, but could you at least tell us your name?" I said, slightly miffed that he forgot to introduce himself.
"Oh sorry. It's Aaron." He replied.
That's when Lightning decided to spring the surprise. "So how long have you been in this world?" Lightning asked bluntly.
"E-excuse me?" He said, obviously taken aback by Lightning's question.
"He asked how long you've been in this world, Aaron." I said for Lightning.
"I don't know what you mean." He said.
"You don't need to hide it Aaron." Lightning said patiently. "We know your a human."
He stared at us shocked and at loss for words. Lightning and me simply smiled as we began to explain.
"The first way we knew was that you came out of that forest to help those two brothers while most Absol only come out to meet other Pokémon when they are looking for a mate or they're warning others of a natural disaster soon to come." Lightning began. "The second way is that you were abnormally strong when fighting Team Skull. And finally the last reason is your reaction when we guessed if you were human." I smirked at the last reason. "Also we don't mean any harm OK?"
He stood there staring at us for a second longer before he composed himself. "OK, I believe you. And to answer your previous question I've been here for about two weeks, but I have no memory of my human past and I've had hardly any contact with other Pokémon."
"Alright then." I said as I began to walk away towards the beach again with Lightning following me. "We are going to go train down at the beach. Care to join us?" I said over my shoulder.
He stood there contemplating before making up his mind and following us as we continued down to the beach.
Chapter 9: Family
We walked down to the beach with Aaron following on our tails (not literally). When we arrived we saw the rest of our team already there and training, except for Erica. Speaking of Erica, where was she? I didn't have to wait long because a White and blue blur suddenly rammed into me as I flew back with it on to the ground.
"Ow?" I said as I looked down at the Shiny Glaceon pinning me down in slight shock.
"Where have you been Steven?!" She yelled into my face as her cheeks puffed out in clear irritation. "You just up and disappeared yesterday!"
"What do you mean where did I go?" I asked incredulously, my eyebrow twitching in utter irritation. "I just went to play tag with Lightning and come back. But when we got back you guys were no where to be seen."
"You played tag without me?" She said, all her anger replaced by a childish sadness. I unfortunately did not notice her sadness.
"Yes, but that-" I stopped as she started to tear up, her tears falling onto my face. I didn't understand why she was crying, so I foolishly asked her, "Erica? What's wrong?" I said in a soothing voice. Big mistake on my part for asking her that.
"YOU JERK!" She screamed into my face, and then she flew off. She literally flew off into the forest.
Not even thinking about her flying I ran after her into the woods. While that scene had gone on between the two of us the others, Aaron, Lightning, Ray, and Victor had gone on to the beach to converse and get to know each other. When they heard Erica scream bloody murder at me they looked up and saw me running into the forest. Lightning was about to go after me when Aaron put a paw on him. Lightning looked back at him and Aaron just shook his head and said, "Just let them figure it out, Okay?" Lightning nodded but still wished he could help me and Erica.
As I ran through the forest I stopped suddenly when I heard Erica crying. I slowly approached where the sound was coming from and found her in a small grove curled in a ball as she sobbed. But the thing was, She wasn't exactly the Erica I knew. I could tell it was her because of her voice but other then that, there was no evidence that it was her. In her place was what seemed to be a small, blue cat with a long tail with a bulb at the end. I instantly recognized her as a mew. Gathering up my courage I walked into the clearing behind her and picked up and cuddled her into my furry arms as she cried into my chest. "I'm sorry Erica." I said to her as she continued to sob into my chest. "I didn't know that playing with me mattered to you so much."
She sobbed even harder as she said, "I finally get to meet you brother."
"Brother?" I said quietly. 'Why would she call me brother?'
Her crying quieted down after a little while and she looked up at me with puffy eyes and said, "I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that with Dad." She growled slightly at the sound of his name.
"Wait. What do you mean brother? Last time I checked, I had no siblings except for Matt and Brianna, if you could call them siblings." I said, trying to make seance out of this.
"It's a bit complicated." She said simply, but then sighed. "It is also a long story so why don't we get more comfortable."
I nodded seeing as I wanted to find out why she said I was her brother and because I was genuinely curious. She floated out of my arms and sat down on the grass in front of me with her long, blue tail swishing behind her before she pulled it into her fore paws and cuddled it. I really couldn't help but smile at this sight as I sat down in front of her with my legs crossed. I leaned back and used my arms to support me as I looked at her expectantly. She drew in a large breath and began.
"When you were born I was born along side you making us twins. But soon after our mother died in the Hospital with a smile on her face as she saw us. Before she died our father and her named us respectively Erica and Steven." Her eyes slightly teared up as she said this. "After she died our father went into a depression while we stayed at the Hospital. While our father was in his depression He got himself drunk to escape the pain, thus causing his whole personality to change permanently. That is when outside forces began to come into our lives."
"Outside forces?" I asked.
"I'm getting to that." She said, before continuing. It was quite strange seeing her be so serious, but I listened to her never the less. "A voice that neither of us could explain at the time spoke to us. Even though we were young and had been born only recently, we were very intelligent, but we could not yet form words with our under developed bodies. So the voice spoke inside our minds. It asked which of us should it take care of. We were confused and said we had a dad to take care of us. The voice replied by saying, "You do, but soon he will not be the kind father you remember. And I can only spare one of you from this awful fate." We were thoughtful and asked why it would do this for us and why only one of us. We also asked how our father would handle one of us disappearing. The Voice seemed to smile as it said, "You are the chosen ones that are met to save my world from a great many perils. And I shall erase the memory of one of you from this world so no one will get suspicious. Sadly though, that includes the one who stays here." While we thought you suddenly said in sad but responsible voice, "Take my sister with you. I do not wish for her to go through this awful fate you speak of. I want her to grow up to be strong with someone to love her all the way through her childhood." The Voice then said it was final before I could protest and I began to disappear. You then looked over at me with your young baby face and ever changing blue and green eyes and said with a smile that seemed to make all my worries wash away, "I love you sis. I hope you have fun in you life." And with that I disappeared, along with all memories and evidence of me."
I looked at Erica who I now knew without a doubt was my Sister. She had tears in her eyes as she looked at me and said, "Do you believe me now Steven?" I nodded and leaned over and hugged her for all that it was worth as she hugged me back with her small arms. We both cried silently as we had now been reunited.
We stayed there for a few minuets longer, enjoying each others company before parting. She then looked at me sheepishly as she said, "I'm not finished with my story now you know."
I smiled back at her as I lay down on the grass making a go on gesture. She giggled before continuing her story.
"As soon as I disappeared from our world I found myself in a void of never ending darkness. And the voice from before rang out saying, "You will not forget anything that happened here so when you meet your brother again he will know it is you." I smiled at the void and said, "Thank you." Then the voice rang out again saying, "You're very welcome. Now when you enter my world you will be a different creature called a Pokémon. What Pokémon you will be, I know not. But I am going to give you to one of the Pokémon mothers to raise you. She is a loving and caring Pokémon that will care for you no matter what, But sadly she is barren and unable to have any pups. This makes her very sad that she cannot have any pups to take care of so I will give you to her to help her. Knocking out two Pidgeys with one stone if you will." I did not quite understand what she said at the time so I simply nodded. "Oh, and one more thing. You will not remember any of this until you reach the age of 10 years old. So without further ado. Good bye." And then my world went dark."
"I awoke one a grassy plain and did what any baby would do, I cried. Soon a large cream colored fox with nine tails came running through so of the tall grass and spotted me. It stopped died in it's tracks and just stared at me. I stopped crying and looked over at it. I gave a happy yip and began to crawl towards it with my new blue body, stumbling as I made my way over to it. It just stayed there and watched me warily then as if on instinct it came up to me and wrapped its soft nine tails around me comfortably. I then said, "Memma" quietly. Before going to sleep in it's tails."
"When I awoke again I was in a small cave with my new Memma curled around me keeping me warm. I then went back o sleep as I began my new life."
"Wow." That was all I could say.
"Yeah." She said as she smiled at me. "I think we should get back. The rest of our team is probably worrying about us."
"Haha, You are probably right." I laughed. I then quickly scooped her up into my arms and began to walk back to the beach. She cuddled closer to me and I smiled down at her. "Do you think we should tell them about us and you being a Mew?" I asked offhandedly.
"Yea. We should." She replied. "And I'll just stay in my actual form so they can see me."
I nodded down at her and continued walking.
Well I finally finished this dual chapter so I hope you like it. Also I uploaded the first chapter to the prequel so you guys/girls can read that as well if you want. Sorry for taking so long on this by the way.
Aaron the Absol belongs to Gundam-Knight-Chris.
So without further ado. Nyah!