Welcome back readers for another chapter of Remembering an Old Friend! So yeah, this will be my last story for fanfiction, BUT! I will make my own stories that I would like everyone to read at after this story is complete. But if anyone would like to request a story please do so. Oh and what kind of sucks is that I found out that I can't cry to anything sad... like I don't cry at funerals anymore, or by watching something sad, or even reading it, so please tell me about anything that can break this emotional wall! I hope you enjoy this chapter! xD
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Last time on Remembering an Old Friend...
"Get out of my office and get back to work." the boss said coldly as the grunt did as he was told.
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"It's still raining?" Bianca asked herself, looking out of the rain splattered window. "Yeah, it looks like it's raining even harder than before." Misty commented as she walked up to the window. "Come on, let's go check on the boys." Bianca said, walking towards the door.
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"Are you finished Ash?" Brock asked, zipping his suitcase up and placing it against the bed. "Yeah almost done." the raven haired boy grunted, jamming all of his clothes in the tiny suitcase that he owned. "Come on Ash you know that's never going to work." Brock sighed, offering to help his hopeless friend.
Then the door suddenly opened, "Are you guys done yet?" Bianca shouted cheerily. "Not yet, Ash is still packing his stuff." Brock answered in a strange tone. "Hey is there something wrong Brock? You seem to be acting different." Misty asked, stepping into the room along with Bianca.
Brock didn't answer. "Hello! Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you Brock!" Misty growled. Brock finally snapped out of his trance, "Huh? Oh sorry Misty I was just thinking about something." the tanned boy apologized. The two girls ignored Brock's strange behavior.
"Hey does anyone know where Latios and Latias are?" Bianca asked, taking a peek outside through the window. "They went to the garden to say goodbye to their dad." Ash informed lifting up his blue suitcase with a grunt.
"Oh I see. Hey why don't we meet up with them there?" Bianca suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement as they all followed the girl down the stairs and into the kitchen. Each person casually pulled on their own jacket and took an umbrella with them as they walked out of the patio door and into the drenched backyard.
"Hey how come we walked out of the patio door instead of the front door?" Misty asked, walking through the gate which lead them into the side yard. "Oh I guess I was thinking about Latias and Latios too much and did left how they usually leave." Bianca answered in embarrassment.
The group simply laughed warmly and continued their short journey to the secret garden. They were walking down a common alley, cold, crystal clear water flowing down the slight incline. Rain continued to drop down on the island, making it's surface a slippery hazard.
The fog had died down, but the bone chilling rain was still present and was accompanied by a slight wind that stung when it hit your skin.
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'What's with this strange weather brother?' Latias asked, keeping her psychic barrier up as they entered the garden. 'I don't know, but whatever the cause is, it's really bothering me." Latios grumbled, irritated at the cold weather. The two dragons flew through the damp garden, pushing branches away with their psychic until they reached the stone pedestal which held the soul dew.
'It sure has been a while.' Latias sighed, staring at the soul dew with sad eyes. 'It's only been a few weeks though...' Latios sweatdropped. Latias just pouted and turned her back to her brother as he flew closer to the pedestal.
'Hey dad, looks like I'll be leaving Altomare as well.' the blue dragon sighed. 'Bye daddy!' Latias squealed over Latios' shoulder. 'Hehe, well I better put up a barrier around the soul dew.' Latios announced as he released his barrier and reached into the ice cold pool of water that held the crystal orb.
Latios' claw slowly made it's way toward the glowing crystal, unaware of the different host. And finally, he connected with the soul dew, pouring a small portion of his soul into it to communicate with his father.
A couple seconds of silence passed by...
'AH!' Latios shot back immediately, grasping his claw which seemed to be emitting some sort of steam. The blue eon backed away from the pedestal and fell on his back, screaming at the top of his lungs. 'Brother what's wrong!' Latias questioned, flying to her brother's side. Latios' eyes were closed tightly as he clenched his throbbing head.
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'Brother what's going on!' Latias demanded as she held on tightly to her brother's shoulder. Latios continued to give out loud painful grunts, each grunt became softer and softer as time passed by.
"Ken... why did you do this?" Latios asked himself, regaining control of his breathing. 'Brother, what just happened?' Latias asked as Latios slowly sat up. Latios didn't hear his sister's words as he began to piece together the overwhelming waves of memories.
"You, you helped me save Altomare, and you killed Giovanni while I was in the soul dew..." Latios thought to himself feeling that he was becoming a bit emotionally unstable. "But why did you do this! We could have helped you!" the blue eon cried in his thoughts as he took a deep breath and completely shut out all of his emotions.
Latias gasped, 'Brother, why did you just do that?'
'No reason. Come on lets go back to Bianca's house.' Latios replied with a blank face as he headed out of the garden. Latias didn't say another word as she followed her brother out of the garden, only taking one look back at the soul dew.
"It seems as though that burst of energy from the soul dew unlocked my memories, but then that means... Ken's the one in the picture, and the soul dew!" Latios pondered in his thoughts as he flew ever so slowly. 'Brother, do you know where the others are?' Latias asked quietly, raising a barrier above both of them since Latios was too busy thinking to put up his own.
'Huh? Oh I can sense them right now, they seem to be on their way to the garden. We should meet up with them.' Latios answered as he quickly went back to his thoughts.
Latias didn't understand what happened, one moment Latios just seemed to be communicating with their father, then the next moment, Latios' behavior and emotions change drastically.
"Do I tell the others? Would they have the same violent episode as I did?" Latios thought to himself as they finally made it to a reasonably high altitude.
After several minutes, the weather seemed to be lightening up. The rain decreased in intensity and the sky beyond the clouds were now becoming visible.
'Hey look, there they are!' Latias said, pointing down to a nearby shopping center. Latios snapped out of his thoughts once more, 'Oh, let's go meet up with them then.' Latios suggested as he began to fly towards the small group of people.
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"Oh hey look, it's Latias and Latias!" Ash announced, pointing to the sky where a faint outline of two dragons were. "Hey what were you guys doing?" Bianca asked, running up to where the twins had landed.
'We were going to say goodbye to dad but when brother tried to talk to him, something happened!' Latias explained in a worried tone as Latios just gazed up at the forever crying sky.
The frantic eon hurriedly explained the recent events to the rest of the group while Latios was deep in his thoughts.
"What!" the group gasped in unison. "Is the soul dew capable of giving out such a negative response?" Brock asked in horror as he shot a quick glance at Latios. "No." Bianca answered, "Something as violent as Latias said shouldn't be possible unless..." Bianca cut her sentence short.
"Unless what?" Misty asked. "Unless the eon inside that soul dew isn't their father!" Bianca concluded, receiving gasps from everybody except Latios. But Latios suddenly spoke up in a flat tone, 'Let's talk about this later. Let's go back to Bianca's house and make sure that we're ready to go to Kanto tomorrow afternoon.'
"But what about you Latios? Shouldn't you be resting or something after what's happened?" Ash asked in a worried tone. Latios simply replied, 'No.' and begun to fly back to the house.
The rest followed the dragon, "Somethings not right, why is Latios acting this way? It seems as though he's grieving or something..." Bianca pondered in her thoughts as she followed the group back to her house.
It was getting late, the rain lightened up slightly, tiny droplets of water were barely visible in the clouded sky. The group of friends had arrived at Bianca's house and checked their stuff as they were told.
They each said an uneasy goodnight to each other and slowly fell asleep, all except one who was sleeping in the pitch black living room. "Dammit Dammit Dammit!" Latios cursed as he quietly lay on his stomach.
"What do I do? Should I tell the others? But how would they react?" Latios continued to think himself as the ticking from the clock in the kitchen continued to echo in Latios' mind. "Ken, we could have helped you! You didn't have to do all of this!" Latios cried in his thoughts, a single tear rolled down his face as he continued to plan out how he was going to reveal this to everyone.
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"Latios, are you thinking about the eon in the picture too?"Bianca thought to herself as she gazed out of her bedroom window.
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The next morning...
Misty was the first to wake up, she lifted her head to find Bianca sleeping right next to her in Bianca's bed. When she looked out of the window with pink Hello Kitty curtains, the sun was barely breaching over the horizon.
"Well, might as well get dressed." Misty whispered to herself as she did her daily routine of making herself perfect for the day. "I hope that I'm not the only one getting a strange feeling about that Latios in Bianca's picture." Misty thought to herself as she began to brush her hair while sitting in front of Bianca's mirror.
"Just thinking about it makes me really sad for some reason. I wonder why?" the red headed girl thought once more. Misty finished getting ready without saying another word and began to wake Bianca up, the sun was now making its way farther above the horizon as the digital numbers on Bianca's Hello Kitty clock reached 6: 38 am.
"Wake up Bianca, it's morning." Misty whispered as she shook the sleeping girls shoulder. "Huh?" Bianca mumbled as she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "Oh." Bianca uttered suddenly as she automatically began to her daily thing of making herself perfect for the day.
By the time Bianca finished it was already 8:00. "Why don't we wake the others up?" Misty suggested as Bianca finished brushing her hair. The girl in the green top simply nodded as she followed Misty out the door.
"I'll go wake Latios and Latias up while you get the boys." Bianca suggested as she headed in one direction of the hallway while Misty went the other.
As Bianca made her way down the stairs she noticed that Latios was already awake. "Huh? Latios why are you awake?" Bianca asked as she approached the eon. Latios didn't respond. "Please Latios I'm really worried about you, tell me whats wrong." Bianca said in a soft tone as she got closer to the blue dragon.
Latios sighed, 'I know who the Latios in the picture is.' Bianca gasped. "Really?" she said quite loudly. Latios shushed her. 'Yes, I don't know if telling you will bring back your memories but you must keep it a secret from the others.' Latios ordered in a hushed voice.
"But why should we keep it a secret? Bianca asked, taking care not to step on Latias who was still sound asleep. 'Because I don't know how you or the others will react if their memories come back.' Latios said.
There was silence for a few moments before Latios continued again, he explained all of his gained memories to Bianca who just stood their and listened with careful ears. But before Latios could get to the part where this so called friend of there's died for them, she broke down and fell to her knees.
"Please, stop. Don't tell me anymore." Bianca whispered, her hand over her eyes to hide her tears. "She remembers." Latios thought to himself as he tried to comfort Bianca, who had trouble holding in her tears.
After a few minutes the two heard Misty shout out from upstairs which was followed by a small thud, they both knew that she was trying to wake Ash up. 'I know it hurts Bianca, but try and keep it hidden from the others, try your best, for him.' Latios said as he helped the crying girl up.
"Ken..." Bianca sniffed.
'Wake up sis'.' Latios said as he gently shook his sister's shoulder. 'Is it time to get up already? Aw...' Latias whined as she got up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. 'Come on lets go upstairs where the others are.' the blue eon said as he beckoned both girls to follow him. Bianca was doing surprisingly well hiding her feelings despite the way she felt on the inside.
She glanced at Latios for support and received a warm smile along with a nod. The trio entered the guest room where Ash and Brock were sleeping, well, Ash at least. Brock was trying his best to ignore Misty's loud shouting while he brushed his teeth, his hair and clothes were already taken care of.
"Wake up!" the red head shouted, stamping her foot on Ash's bed. "Uhg... I'm up already!" Ash grunted, giving in to his friend's annoying way to wake him up. 'Come on Ash why don't you get ready?' Latias smiled warmly getting an immediate response from her boyfriend.
"Sheesh, I should have asked Latias to wake him up long ago..." Misty grunted as she turned her back to the scene.
"Alright you guys we'll be leaving soon." Brock announced after he finished brushing his teeth in the bathroom. It was already 11:00, close to the afternoon. 'The time flew by fast.' Latios simply said.
A few minutes later, Ash was ready to go along with the rest of the group. They all got their bags and headed towards the harbor. "It's still cloudy..." Brock sighed as he looked up at the sky. "We're almost there!" Ash cheered, knowing that the cruise ship that they were boarding had an all you can eat lunch.
"You're just excited about the food aren't you?" Misty sweatdropped as they began to board the ship after they showed their tickets.
'I hope the beds are just as bouncy as the last one was!' the disguised Latias squealed childishly as they made their ways to their assigned rooms. Ash turned to the disguised dragon and smiled warmly as he hugged her tightly.
Everyone in the group seemed their normal selves, except Bianca. She was having a hard time keeping her tears from bursting out. Then she had thought of a plan, "Why don't you guys go to the dining area while I go put our stuff in our rooms?" Bianca suggested, trying her best to keep her smile steady.
'I'll go with you.' Latios said before anyone could object and took everyone's luggage with him. Latios was surprisingly disguised as the mysterious boy whom everybody except Bianca and himself knew nothing about.
"Uh, thanks." Brock said after the two had left. 'How come brother is using the same strange disguise as before?' Latias asked, still unaware of the disguise's true identity. "Maybe he doesn't know who to change into." Brock answered.
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As soon as Bianca took the card out from the door, she gently placed the luggage down by the front door and collapsed on the couch, tears flowing uncontrollably from her eyes.
'Do you think that I made you do too much? I know how much you're hurt by Ken's memory.' Latios said. But Bianca continued to cry, and Latios couldn't sense why. Then Bianca suddenly burst out, "Can we do anything to bring him back?"
Latios stood frozen, the thought had never crossed his mind, but at that moment he knew that nothing could be done to bring their friend back, but a strange feeling in the back of his mind told him that it was possible.
'Yes, I think there is a way we can bring him back...'
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YAY! Sorry for the delayed update, I've been struck with the stomach flu but I'm still going to school. This chapter might be a little mixed up because I kept coming back to this chapter to finish it but I never did until now,and thank you all for your patience! I think that's the right word... Tune in next time on Remembering an Old Friend!