Angel Wings, chapter 13
Amy47101:OH MY GOD! I am such, such a cruel person! I left you guys all with somewhat of a cliffhanger, and I haven't updated in forever! Sorry!
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(Carter P.O.V)
"Pokemon Ranger Carter, now searching through the dangerous jungle!" I said, speaking into my styler as if recording my words. I somersaulted through the tall grass, and lifted my head, scanning my surroundings through the grass. "Searching for..."
I thought for a moment.
"The great temple of Arceus!"
I laughed. Yeah, I should searching for the Happiny. Yeah, I shouldn't be goofing off. But, hey, I've never been outside Vientown before, and the Vein Forest is HUGE.
I summersaulted, and rolled under a bush. I laughed as I picked leaves out of my hair.
"(Oh, come on.)" said a female voice from above. I opened my eyes and nearly gasped. I was in some sort of shrine. The trees surrounded it completely, and a few strange glowing symbols were carved into the bark. A large pedestal rose into the air, out of a crystal clear and super still pond. Atop it, was a strange colored Eevee. Assuming it was a girl, she looked down at me with displeasure and disappointment. Her fur was silver, and she had gold colored fur around her neck and on the tip of her tail. She also had a strange, gold symbol on her head. It was a circle with eight wavy triangle shapes coming out of it. A sun, I realized.
"(I've been waiting here for over a year, and this is what I get. A joke.)"
"Excuse me?" I asked as I got up. She jumped down, and glared at me.
"(My name is Cala. I am supposed to be watching over you, keeping you out of trouble.)" she looked at me again with disapproval. "(I would've preferred one of the more mature Angel Gene holders, but, beggars can't be choosers I suppose.)"
"Eh?" I asked as I blinked. If pokemon could face palm, then I guess Cala just did. She let out a huff, and then a sigh.
"(Idiotic to. You see, I am like your guardian. Your guide, if that helps. I am supposed to show you how to control your powers and how to keep your wings a secret.)"
"Hey! I've kept the wings a secret for twelve years!"
"(Then, surely, you should be able to keep your shapeshifting powers a secret to?)"
"Shapeshifting powers? I have those?"
"(Yes.)"
"Cool! How do they work?"
"(Figure it out yourself. I've already told you to much already.)"
"My names Carter, by the way." I said after the heavy silence set in.
"(I do hope you realize that those powers will grow over time. Each one of you have some sort of special gift, like how my associates have some sort of gift. Mine, for example, is healing in sunlight and using the move Hyper Beam.)"
"But normal Eevee's can't do that!"
"(And normal teenagers don't have special powers and wings, now do they, Carter?)"
"Touche."
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(Eleanor P.O.V)
I stared at the barrel of the gun and I blinked. Once. Twice.
My mind was blank. I was still comprehending what was happening. I just ran out of a collapsing cave, after discovering an unusual colored Eevee who told me about some sort of 'Angel Gene' that I have. Now I have some black cloaked, masked dude pointing a gun at my face, willing to kill me.
I thought about this for a moment, and then mentally face palmed. Of course! This had to be a joke. The rangers pulled a prank on us before, right? Maybe they decided to give us a scare. It's probably Crawford under the mask, and I'll bet that Carter is facing the same problem with Barlow! Wouldn't have been hard. They could've convinced Lily into the act, for candy or something. She is Luanas' sister. And those guns are probably just really realistic-looking fakes!
I stood up slowly, not trying to hide the amusement I was feeling.
"Good one, Crawford."
Confusion was evident as he lowered the gun for a moment.
"Huh?"
"The prank! Lily acting, the fake gun, and I'm pretty sure that what happened to the cave back there was caused by a pokemon or something. I'll admit..." I said as I casually walked around him, playfully bumping his arm while doing so. I turned around to face him. "You had me going for a minute there. Lets go back and-"
I was cut off when he pulled the trigger and the bullet flew through my shoulder. I gasped as blood began to stain my shirt. I felt week in the knees, and slowly slumped to the ground.
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(Carter P.O.V)
I flinched for a moment, and felt a searing pain in my shoulder, like I've been shot. I winced, and felt my shoulder, expecting to find something there. There was nothing.
"Hey Cala..." I grunted. This pain wouldn't stop! She looked over at me with concern in her eyes.
"(Carter? What's wrong?)"
"My shoulder. It feel like I've been shot."
Her eyes widened for a moment. Then she frowned, and walked over to me.
"(Carter, I think what you are experiencing is called an Empathy Link. It's your connection to all the others with the Angel Gene. Usually, it's activated whenever you're around the others, giving you a safe feeling. When you're far apart from one, then you feel extremely vulnerable. It's also common for you to have dreams concerning the futures of who ever is with in the Empathy Link. But sometimes...)" she trailed off, and looked up at me.
"Sometimes, what?" I asked.
"(Sometimes, it is possible to feel pain or injury of another. I just received a message from my associate, Prince. We to share an Empathy Link along with the rest of the our partners. He said that one with an Angel Gene has been shot by a mysterious man in a cloak.)" she paused for another moment. "(Does the name 'Eleanor Moon' have any meaning to you?")
My eyes widened. Was she shot?
I suddenly felt a huge surge of pain running throughout my entire body. It felt as if someone was trying to rearrange my body parts. I fell to my stomach, and began convulsing and flopping around like a fish out of water. I vomited, and my muscles tightened, then loosened, as if falling into place.
I breathed heavily, and looked at Cala. Funny, everything was gray, like one of those old black and white movies, only about a million times better. Her eyes widened.
"(My lord...)" she whispered. "(Carter, you shapeshifted...)"
My eyes widened, and I went over to the mirror-like pond.
Ho. Ly. Sh*t.
I was a Mightyena, complete with fangs, fur, and claws. As I stared at my reflection, and began to pick up on my new and improved senses. My ears were picking up on every sound in the surrounding area. A branch snapping. Leaves ruffling in the breeze. Heck, I was even hearing some sort of bug type crawling across the ground.
My nose was more enhanced, and I was beginning to smell everything, from the freshly cut grass in Vientown, to the salty ports of Puel Town. Now I understand why pokemon such as Mightyena and Houndoom don't need enhanced sight like us humans do. They rely on smell and sound. Nothing else.
I sniffed the air, and caught the faint scent of Eleanors strawberry-scented shampoo and... blood. A lot of it.
"(How fast to you suppose I could run?)" I asked Cala as I walked towards her.
"(Very fast. Enough to get us pretty far in under a few minutes.)" she speculated as she gathered my clothing into her mouth.
"(Good, then I hope you don't mind going for a ride!)" I yelled...barked... as I picked her up and tossed her onto my back. And soon, I was running like mad towards Marine Cave.
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(Eleanor P.O.V)
I felt woozy. My brain was clouding up, and bright dots were dancing across my eyes. I was leaning against the cave wall, my hand was clasped over my shoulder, trying to stop the bleeding. It was working, but I could hear him reloading the gun. With me laying here, practically motionless, he would have a much better shot. Surely then it would hit its mark.
And even with the point five percent chance that he would miss, I wouldn't survive another hit. I would slowly bleed to death.
I heard a low growl, and let out a shuddery sigh. Great. Now we have some sort pokemon here. Nonetheless, I turned my head in the direction of the sound, and saw a Mightyena with a gold and silver Eevee on its back. The Eevee had some sort of sun symbol on its head and had a bundle of clothing in its mouth. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it was a males ranger school uniform. The Mightyena had strange colored eyes. Usually, they would be grey, but instead, they were gold. Gold like Carters.
The Eevee leapt off the Mighyenas back, and ran over to my Eevee.
"(Prince!)" she shouted towards him.
"(Cala!)" he yelled. His name is Prince, and her's Cala. They know each other. I had a small, yet surprisingly painful, smile on my face as they huddled together.
The Mightyena growled again, and, like a bolt of lightening, it lunged at the man. He shot, but the pokemon dodged it. The Mightyena tackled him, and yanked the gun from the owners hand, and, by closing its jaws around it, crushed it.
The man sat on his behind in a stunned silence, staring down the pissed off pokemon. It let out a guttural growl, and barked. When the man didn't move, the Mightyena snarled, and lunged again. This time the man rolled out of the way, and let out a Musharna.
"Teleport!" he yelled before he disappeared in a flash of purplish pinkish light.
I let out a sigh of relief once I was sure that man was gone, but gasped as the Mightyena fell flat on the floor, and began to convulse. I tried to crawl towards the poor thing, but was stopped as Prince and Cala jumped in front of me.
"(Let him finish.)" said Cala. "(It's his first time transforming to and from pokemon, and by disturbing him, we could hurt him even more.)"
I nodded slowly, and watched as he vomited, and slowly, his snout went back into a normal human face, and the black fur atop his head became a mess of brown. He had no clothing on, but was thankfully in fetal position, so everything was covered. Most surprising was the wings. Almost exactly like mine, but tinted silver instead of gold. He vomited again, coughed, and then wiped his mouth.
"Ugh... Now that was not a pleasant feeling."
Thats all it took to convince me. I wasn't dreaming, or hallucinating. That was Carters voice. I turned my head as he put his clothing on as quickly as he could, but only had time to get his underwear and pants on. I heard footsteps coming. Luckily, he just folded them behind his back and leaned back against the wall, taking deep shuddery breaths.
The rangers stampeded in, and looked at the both of us, slumped against the wall, me clutching my shoulder and Carter half asleep.
"What happened to you guys?" asked Barlow. He looked at my shoulder.
"I,um,got shot. By a man in a cloak." I said. Everyones eyes, even Carters, widened.
"Luana, treat the wound." ordered Barlow. Luana came over with a first aid kit. She opened it, and dug out a pair of scissors.
"We're gonna have to cut off your shirt. We can't move your arm, cause of we do, then you may be at the risk of loosing more blood and causing more damage." she said as she began to snip away the top.
I closed my eyes and waited for the shirt and jacket to fall of my shoulders. With each snip of cloth, I knew that they were one step closer to finding out about the wings. I gulped, and felt the shirt and jacket slip from my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole top.
"Oh, god..." mumbled Luana as she looked at the wings. I had a somewhat awkward smile on my face. To tell the truth, it was kinda funny, seeing there incredibly shocked faces. Carters was classic. A mix of shock and... relief, I think?
"Eleanor, whats that on your back?" asked Barlow in an awestruck tone.
"It's a wing." I said, avoiding their eye contact. "It's, um, my wing."
Elaine came a little closer, as if to confirm what she was seeing.
"Well, they're defiantly yours', thats a surefire thing." she said, backing away as Luana bandaged the wound. A heavy and awkward silence filled the area, and surprisingly, I chuckled.
"This is terribly awkward, isn't it?" I said as I bashfully rubbed the back of my head.
"I've seen a lot of things. But this is the first time that I've ever seen a kid with wings." said Crawford.
"First time for everything." I said, leaning my head back. Another silence filled the air, and I wished they would all just stop staring at me.
"So that's how you pulled it off!" yelled Carter as he snapped his fingers. We all looked at him.
"Pulled what off?" I asked, baffled by his sudden outburst.
"Your Halloween costume! That's how you made the wings look so real! They were real! Why didn't I think of that sooner?" he mumbled as he turned his back to us.
"Carter has wings to?!" yelled Barlow. "What the hell?!"
"What?! Wait, No! I can explain!"
"To late." I said, nearly laughing at his silly attempts to hide his wings while thinking up excuses. "You're busted."
"Damn it!" he yelled as he shoved his arms through the sleeves of his shirt. "Anyone tells anyone else, then I'll personally feed you to a Sharpedo!"
"Us?!" said Crawford in a mocking tone. "Why we would never tell a soul! Especially Professor Hastings, the head scientist of the Ranger Union!"
"You tell him, then I'll rip you to shreds myself!"
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"You should be fine soon, Eleanor, just take it easy for a few days." instructed Barlow as we stood out side the base, with Prince and Cala by our side. I had on my cami, and Carters jacket, which he kindly offered to me when I refused to were my bloody shirt and jacket. "And we'll get rid of these two. School students aren't supposed to have partner pokemon."
He tried to grab the two, but they growled.
"Not smart." I said as Prince tried to bite him. Barlow sighed.
"(These restrictions are idiotic!)" yelled Cala with a huff. "(We are staying with these two, for master ordered to do so!)"
"(Yeah!)" shouted Prince. "(We aren't gonna let your stupid human rules get in the way of our mission!)"
"He can't understand you." I whispered. "Act it out. Pretend you'll leave, and then meet up with us once he's gone."
They looked confused for a moment, looked at each other, and then sighed. Then, with a pretty good puppy-dog eye, they turned away and sulked into the forest. Barlow looked shocked for a moment, and Carter looked sad.
"What did you say to get em to leave like that?" asked Barlow, still staring at the spot were they disappeared.
"I just told them that, one day, we'll reunite and fight together as ranger and partner pokemon."
Barlow looked skeptical, but decided to accept the answer anyways. He said some last good byes, and, with hopes of having us in the base one day, went back inside.
"(Are we safe?)" whispered Prince.
"You're good." said Carter as the two stepped out. They hopped up to their respective partners shoulder, and Prince grinned.
"(Shall we get going?)" asked Cala in an impatient tone.
"Yeah, Yeah. We're walking, we're walking." said Carter with a yawn. "It;s been an eventful day. Guns, missions, hooded figures, shapeshifting, wings-" He paused and looked at me. Wonder what's going through his mind right now.
"So..."
"So..."
"I'm kinda glad that theres another person like me out there." he said, avoiding my face.
"Carter-"
"Do you think I'm weird?" he asked suddenly.
"Weird? You're asking me? The girl who also has wings?"
"Yeah, but I don't see you shapeshifting into a pokemon."
I was silent for a moment.
"Carter, I think I have strange powers to."
"Like what?"
"Like healing."
I pulled off the jacket he lent me, and showed him the wound that was once a bloody, nasty mess. It was now nothing more then a white scar. He blinked, and stared at my shoulder.
"You wanna prove it?"
"Sure."
He whipped out a swiss army knife, and cut into his hand. It was small, but noticeable enough for one to see.
"Heal this for me then."
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Sure. I mean, come on. What could possibly go wrong. I'll have a cut on my hand. Big whoop."
I gulped, and slid his jacket back on. I then took his hand in mine, closed my eyes, and focuses on the cut. I imagined it closing together, as if it was never even there. Once I was sure it was good and healed. I opened my eyes.
It worked.
We both broke into a grin, along with Cala and Prince.
"(So that's your power. Healing.)" said Prince, impressed. "(Cool!)"
"Hey Eleanor." said Carter with a mischievous grin.
"What?" I asked, still to excited over my 'achievement'.
"Race you back to the school!" he yelled before taking off, with Cala yelling and lecturing him about how 'impolite' he was being. I laughed, and took off after him. Prince was yelling and hollering for me to 'go faster', and all four of us, even super stern Cala, was laughing the whole way.
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Amy47101: Yay! Again, so sorry about the late update. School has gotten in the way of my creative juices, all of them being forced into Math class. Stupid math...
Anyways, this was a long one, nineteen pages, and 3087 words!
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