Hello everyone! Lots has happened in the past few months! My grandpa died, and I locked myself in my room for a couple of days due to that, I studied for this test which I didn't have to study for because it was EASY. (I GOT INTO A LITERATURE SCHOOL!) Ahem, um, My aunt from japan came over and I got to meet my super cool uncle who is an AMAZING SOCCER PLAYER, um, I got to see my other uncle who scares the living hell out of me. Don't talk to him. Ever. He can make you so confused. When you talk to him, your brain goes blank. And even worse, he asks lots of questions, and when your mind is blank, you cant remember the answer, and you sound stupid in front of him. Uncle Rudy seriously just scares the crap out of me... Um, My dad is being stupid... He keeps promising me he will come home but I know its a lie every time. He really isn't supporting me, my sister, and my mum right now. Okay, I think im done rambling! ON WITH THE STORY!
~Papa~
Winter bolted upstairs when she realized she was in her PJs. After getting ready, she sat in her bed, bawling in her hands. A few memories were flowing back to her, and her head was in complete pain.
Flashbacks
"...Winter?... Why did you protect me from that bottle? You could've killed yourself." Kellyn said, holding the hand of his best friend. She um...He was laying in a hospital bed, a bandage wrapped around his ribs where the bottle cracked.
Winter smiled gently at Kellyn. "Because you're my friend. And a friend has to help one another. Besides, I promised."
"But you almost died Winter!" Winter frowned at his comment. "I'd rather die than have my best friend die right before my eyes."
Kellyn stayed quiet after that, staring at Winter in awe. Slowly, he smiled. "You're the best of friend a person could ever have, you know that?" Winter didn't hear though. He was already fast asleep.
Two years later.
"Winter!" Kellyn yelled. They were happily playing in the orphanage, ignoring the other boys making snide comments on Winters freaky eyes. Winter brightened up at the person who called his name. He ran over to Kellyn, who was playing with the small train that was chugging along a big railroad that Kellyn build himself.
"Yeah Kellyn?" Winter asked as he sat down beside him, mesmerized by how cool the train looked on the looped up railroad.
"I found this! Its a stuffed bunny that has one gold eye and one silver! Just like you! Cool huh?" Kellyn said, handing the bunny to Winter, who gladly took it and stared into its eyes. After a few seconds, Winter smiled lovingly and hugged the stuffed bunny, tucking his head in it. "Yeah. Cool."
Kellyn looked back at the train, occasionally taking a quick glance at Winter. "Hey, Winter... Don't let those meanies get to you... K? I don't like it when you're sad."
Winter took his head back from the stuffed animal and smiled brightly at Kellyn. "As long as I have you Kellyn, nothing can make me sad!" Kellyn smiled at this.
"Friends forever?" Winter stuck out his pinky at Kellyn, which he gladly accepted with his own. "Friends forever! Wait, BEST friends forever!" He said happily.
Another year later.
Winter sat in the room, squirming. He didn't like the thought of being adopted without Kellyn being by his side.
"Mama, is that going to be my little sibling?" An eight year old asked, tugging on her mothers dress.
"Yes... Thats going to be your younger sister."
Winters eyed the lady in awe. How did she figure out that she was a girl? Her hair may be long, but many boys have long hair. The little girl smiled and ran up to Winter happily. "Whats your name?"
Winter tucked her knees into her chest, ducking her head slightly to avoid eye contact. "Winter..." She mumbled.
"I'm White! Well, my name is Hilda... My mama is SO creative." White said, whispering the last part. Winter giggled at the statement, then frowned slightly.
"Am I really going to leave this place..." White gave her a confused look. "Don't you WANT to leave this place? I thought the kids bully you!"
Winter nodded. "B-but its not worth leaving my best friend here... I won't be happy without Kellyn..." White sensed her sadness and suddenly had an interest in her shoes, but a lightbulb flashed. "You wait here!" White said excitedly, rushing to her mother and big sister, who were casually talking about what to get for Winter. Despite that Leaf, the eldest sister, was only eight and a half years old, she didn't get along with kids her age. She liked talking about grown up things, or, should we just say that she was much too smart for her age and it was hard to make friends with kids who had worse vocabulary than her.
White got in a conversation with both of the two older ones, and they both smiled for some reason, confusing Winter. The mother got up and went over to face Winter. "Honey, you don't need to worry about your friend, Kellyn. We have a good neighbor of ours who has been wanting to adopt a boy. We'll gladly tell them about Kellyn, and they'd surely rush over and adopt him. You'll be by his side for as long as you want Dear."
Winter looked up at the woman, her eyes sparking with delight, then smiled graciously. "Thank you! Thank you!" And with that, Winter jumped into the womans arms.
A few months later.
Winter walked around in her still hard to get used to house, bunny and soccer ball in hand. She decided she wanted to stay a boy. She was afraid of what Kellyn would think if she suddenly told him she was a girl, and that she was lying to him for as long as they've known each other.
She exited through the front door, saying a quick goodbye to her sisters White and Leaf. Their mother was out in the garden.
Winter sighed sadly as she walked down to the small forest that her and Kellyn played in. Leaf was going to leave to the Kanto region and start her journey. A famous professor was sending letters with her back and forth, and since she sounded like a very compatible person for helping him in research, he sent a letter to their mother and asked for permission if she could start her journey in the Kanto region, getting to choose a starter pokemon herself. (A/N If you want me to make a story out of this, I will gladly do so.)
When Winter finally reached the forest, she sat down with the soccer ball and stuff bunny she was holding. Kellyn didn't seem to be anywhere in sight. Despite the fact that being an eight year old means you have more energy, there wasn't much that interested Winter without her friend. Well, until that light showed up.
Through the corner of her eye, Winter spotted a bright pink and white light, moving around in a fast speed. It was wrestling with a blue and purple figure that she couldn't see much.
Winter got up and hid behind a tree that was close enough for her to almost feel the sparks that flew by when the two mystical beings clashed together.
"Wow..." She breathed. She unconsciously walked closer to the battle, and the pink light noticed her quickly. The cold colored figure stopped fighting after seeing the lights attention get stolen, and when the figure turned around, Winter got a good look at him. There was a diamond shaped crown placed on its head, and its purple main was flowing with the wind. Small white spots were on its legs, also shaped like diamonds, and its eyes were as cold as pluto, no matter how silly it sounded. Once the figure got a look at Winter, its face shot an awed look, then softened.
"Winter…" His deep voice whispered.
End Flashbacks
Winter gasped as a book flew over and hit her in the head.
"Miss Winter, I found this book in the basement. I presume its yours?" Mr. Kincaid said, eyeing her suspiciously. Winter looked at the book for a few moments and sighed.
"Yes. I lost this book yesterday. I don't remember how though..." Mr. Kincaid kept staring for quite a while and sighed. She seemed innocent enough.
"Okay then, you should go to class early. It will be starting soon." With that, the hairspray man took his leave, leaving an extremely suspicious Winter. Why was he so secretive about whats in that basement? She'd have to ask Isaac about it later.
Her head began to throb again, and she decided it would be best to not go to class and just head to Janice.
She carefully climbed down the bunk bed and walked over to Janice's room, knocking at the door. Janice answered and gasped as Winter was clutching her head.
"Oh dear, What in the world happened to you sweetie?"
"I just woke up and had a bad headache for some reason." Winter lied, walking into the room as Janice sat her in a comfortable seat.
"Well, thats no good! I'll tell miss April that you have a headache. Is it that bad?"
Winter nodded. "I feel as if I'm having a migraine."
Janice sighed and walked out of the room, leaving Winter to think.
'I definitely knew Kellyn. But why do I have amnesia? I had enough flashbacks to give me some hints, and all of them concern me. The last one concerns me most. That pokemon, what was it? And how did it know my name? I wonder, If I find out who the pokemon is, will the key to my memories be unlocked?'
She sighed and rubbed her temples. "My brain hurts..."
"That so?"
Winter looked at the doorway, and there stood the person she hoped to not see most. Kellyn.
"Yes, it hurts. Even just a few flashbacks hurt a lot." Winter groaned and slouched down, forearms resting on her legs. "I remember now, but I think it was best that I didn't remember. I saw something thats probably the reason I have amnesia, A pokemon that spoke to me... It said my name. I remember, I was waiting for you in the woods. I brought a soccer ball. I got bored and I saw this weird glowing pink light that was clashing with a blue and purple figure. I went up to get a closer look, but then both... things, I guess you can call them, saw me. I noticed one was a pokemon, and the other? Well, I still have no idea. The pokemon looked at me and said my name. I don't know why or how, but it knew my name. You know a thing about any of this?"
Kellyn stayed in the doorway, deep in thought, then it hit him. "Yeah, I remember something you said once, pretty clearly. It was really weird."
Winter perked up, only to tuck her head in her knees from the sudden movement.
"Are you okay?" Kellyn asked, taking a seat next to her.
"I'm fine. Please continue." She mumbled.
Kellyn gave her a look of concern and sighed. "Well, I noticed, when we were kids, that you were acting strange. And eventually, when you told others that you had amnesia, it started to sound like lying. I asked you the truth and you said, 'You wanna know the truth? My papa is a legendary pokemon and I'm a half pokemon who hasn't honed her powers yet! And another legendary pokemon is tracking me down so she can take me to the past so I can risk my life to save the earth from something bad!' I laughed at what you said and you gave me a serious look, which made me think for a split second that what you were saying is true. But then you laughed along with me... I have a feeling that maybe you were acting."
Winter slowly lifted her head up and raised an eyebrow. "Half pokemon? Theres no way. I don't believe that." She said defiantly. Kellyn rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Theres a chance that maybe what you said was true. I mean, look at Kate. Do you think anything human could have done that."
Winter paused, letting the information sink in. "You're right. This whole time, I was referring to a person or pokemon. But whatever did this could very well be something completely different. Wow, reality just got kicked in the gut."
Kellyn chuckled. "Well, I'm not a realist. I'm an imaginist!"
Winter laughed for a short while, Kellyn joining her, then suddenly stopped. "... Kellyn, what was I like when I was little?"
Kellyn stopped laughing and frowned. "You were... The only person I knew who would think of others, and never yourself. Not once did you think for yourself. If you saw someone getting hurt, you'd jump right in to save them. Like you did when my dad almost killed me with a thick glass bottle. You really saved me that day..."
A sudden pulse went through Winters head, and she fell off her chair. She instantly curled up into a ball and clutched her head tightly.
"Winter!"
Flashback
"Ahh, Kellyn forgot his ball." The little girl, or supposedly boy at the time said, staring down at the green and white soccer ball. "I'll go give it back to him."
He jumped off the tree he was laying on and landed next the the ball, picking it up and staring at it. He really enjoyed kicking it around with Kellyn.
He smiled and ran over to the direction he saw Kellyn walk out of the forest. He found a small, silent village, and one of the houses had a lot of yelling.
"Damn you kid! You were an accident!"
"P-please... Stop..."
The boy immediately noticed the voice, and ran over to the door. It was open, and he hesitantly pushed it. The door flew open, despite the small press of the fingers, and a terrible scene rushed through the boys head.
A man, who the boy presumed was Kellyn's father, held a thick glass bottle over his head, ready to whip it across his child's head. There was only one thing that popped in the boys mind.
'I have to save Kellyn!'
He dropped the soccer ball and quickly rushed over, grabbing his friend and tucking Kellyn's head into his chest. The bottle made direct contact with the boys rib.
"W-WINTER!"
End Flashback
Winter slowly opened her eyelids, meeting the face of the boy she was talking to before she blacked out.
"Kellyn..." He was asleep, holding her hand for some reason. She looked around, unable to identify her surroundings. "Where..." She mumbled, not finishing her sentence as the scenery slowly progressed through her brain. "The infirmary."
She turned her head to see Kellyn looking at her. "You're at the infirmary. You passed out. Its been like that for a long time..." He sighed.
"Can you... Show me your eyes now? I want to see them again..."
Winter didn't say anything, but she did sit up. She took out her contacts, then glared at Kellyn.
Kellyn shivered. The eyes were gold and silver, just as he remembered them, but now, they show traces of emotions he's never seen in the used to be innocent eyes. Loneliness, sadness, fear. It was horrifying. Its hard to imagine the Winter he used to know to have these types of emotions, yet here is Winter, these emotions bedded into her eyes.
"It startles you, doesn't it? My emotions?"
Kellyn nodded hesitantly. "Where did they come from?"
Winter's eyes softened, and she sighed. "Stuff happens, and things change. Only knowing your name and living by yourself isn't really something that brings you happiness when you're eight. And in a forest? You'd live in constant fear that something might attack you."
"You lived in a forest again?"
Winter raised an eyebrow. "Again?"
Kellyn nodded. "Yeah, again. You lived in a forest when I met you... Well, actually, you woke up, saw the forest, and decided to live in it. Well, thats what you told me when you met me. I'm pretty sure you just woke up at the time, because there was no fear in your eyes..."
"Ah... I'm tired, my brain hurts from thinking so much." Winter lied back down and closed her eyes, Kellyn chuckling as she did so.
He looked at her for a little while, then grabbed her hand. "You're the best of friend a person could ever have, you know that?"
Winter didn't hear though. She was already fast asleep.
Winter slowly got up from the bed and yawned. Kellyn was still by her side, which made her smile slightly.
"Kellyn~" She sang, nudging Kellyn with the hand he had a firm grasp on. He slowly opened his eyes and smiled. "Thats the same exact thing you did to me at the hospital. Deja vu."
Winter laughed. "Well, I don't remember that, but I do remember you sitting by my side on the hospital bed, telling me that I shouldn't have helped you."
"And you said you'd rather die than see your best friend die."
"Right" Winter nodded, confirming the memory. She immediately frowned. "Kellyn?"
"Yeah?" Kellyn perked up. "What is it?"
"Could you... Get me the book Legendary Myths? It might be the key to unlocking my memory... and for some reason, I have a feeling that my memory is somehow connected to Kate's condition.
Kellyn furrowed his eyebrows and crossed his arms. "Oh no, no way! You have to think of yourself once and while! Your head hurts, wait until it is better!"
Winter frowned and sat up, ignoring the pain running through her head. She pushed off her blankets and got out of the bed.
"Hey, where're you going?"
Winter snapped her head towards Kellyn. "If you aren't going to get the book, I'll do it personally."
Kellyn glared at her for a couple of moments and sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I'll go get it. You lay down."
Winter smiled victoriously as she draped the covers back over herself, happy to get Kellyn to do as she says.
"You're so stubborn." Kellyn smiled. Winter rolled her eyes.
"Call me what you wish. You're still going to get the book." She said smugly, Smirking in her victory.
Kellyn laughed and got up to leave. "You really are Winter." He whispered.
Winter smiled in Kellyns direction as he left the room, letting the emptiness close in on Winter. She sighed in boredom. The feeling of loneliness was coming back. She hated that feeling, yet she had to deal with it anyways. As always.
'At least I have Kellyn to help me through it. Kate used to help too...' She thought. There was a knock on her door, and she snapped her head towards it, only to cause her to groan out of pain.
She took a mirror and quickly put her contacts back on, sure that it was probably not Kellyn.
"Come in." She muttered reluctantly, putting down the mirror. She had to be polite, hurting or not.
In came a all-too familiar flaming headed boy, making Winter wish she didn't say come in. "Keith..." She muttered, staring at said boy emotionlessly.
"Winter..." Keith said, putting his weight on one foot. "I heard you fainted..."
Winter frowned at the obvious comment. "Yes, I did. And?" She asked expectantly.
Keith paused for a seconds and muttered something.
"What?"
"I was worried about you."
Keith avoided eye contact and hissed. Winter was shocked that he'd be worried about her. About her. Was he okay?
"You know what, forget it. I was never here."
"But you are here, in this room, with a security camera. And you say you weren't here?"
Keith chuckled. "You're such a smart ass." He said, ready to walk out the room. Winter smirked. "I know."
Keith waved his hand, back turned to Winter, then exited the door. It was a quick, yet somewhat pleasant visit. Winter liked it.
Kellyn walked into the room, looking over his shoulder in Keith's direction. "Keith visit?" He asked, handing her the book.
Winter nodded. "Yeah, just a short visit. Anyways." Winter flipped open the book and started reading, Kellyn looking at her worriedly. He really didn't like the idea of her working herself so hard. And if she remembered everything, Kellyn wouldn't even know what would happen. All he hoped was now, she would still like him. You never know.
"Hey Kellyn!"
Kellyn snapped out of his mental argument with himself. He was telling himself that it would never happen, and that Winter would always like him...right?
"What is it?"
Winter smiled and read the lines on the page.
"Suicune, the northern wind. Suicune is said to purify anything with just a touch of a paw, and it is the creator of the northern wind. Nobody but its daughter may be able to see its full body. The only thing seeable is the diamond shaped crown that supposedly lays on its head, and a few diamond marks on its legs. Color: Unknown. Height: Unknown. Weight: Unknown. Daughter: The one who brings the season of Winter. Her name is supposedly Winter itself."
Kellyn was deep in thought. This was interesting indeed. But was it really enough information? It didn't seem like it would be able to trigger any memory, really. It didn't even say its color or height. It was just a myth that wasn't proven. But it did connect to that thing she said when they were little... Hah, no, of course not! She didn't know this pokemon!
"I recognize this pokemon."
Okay, well, he was stood corrected.
"Not long ago, I had a flashback on how I disappeared. Remember when I told you about the clashing light and the figure? The figure had a blue body, with a long, purple main that blew in the wind, and it had white diamond shaped markings on it front arms, and a giant diamond crown on its head. It looked at me and said my name. Now that I think of it... When it said my name, it sounded quite familiar to a dream of mine."
Kellyn leaned in, interested in the conversation. There was now an 80% possibility that Winter could actually be Suicune's daughter, and she may actually wield the power to control the season Winter. Wait, what the hell was he thinking? Winter was obviously human! Then again, everything did seem to fit. What if she really was Suicune's daughter? That would mean what she said when they were little... She probably remembered about it and made a joke of it. But she said she was being chased down by a pokemon... ugh, brain fart.
Winter paused for a moment, collecting the data of her dream.
"I remember having a dream not too long ago. A little girl running in the forest, yelling for her papa. I think that girl was me. I tripped on a root, hurting my ankle, I heard someone scream my name. It was a deep voice. Then I yelled... I yelled..."
Winter froze up, which made Kellyn tense. "Winter? Winter, what is it?" He said, getting up and shaking her shoulder slightly.
"I said... Papa Suicune."