Welcome back readers to another chapter of Remembering an Old Friend! Um, not much to say for this chapter except... yeah there's nothing xD Oh wait, I did try i-dosing, really weird, it's like music that stimulates your brain or something and all it did was make me tired. Well anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter! (Man, Arceus-Master's new story almost has as many reviews in one chapter than my whole story. What a depressing competition it is...)
Thanks Pokefan117061 for you review! Just wait and read what happens to Ash! And just because they're a main character doesn't mean that they'll be revived... -.-'
Owner Pwner thanks for your review! Haha ok if you really want to know right NOW! Then I'll try and make this chapter's ending a little less cliff hanger-y xD
Disclaimer: Still screaming my ass off because I'm still excited about Arceus-Master's new story! Forget about the disclaimer!
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Last time on Remembering an Old Friend...
'Goodbye Ash, I'm sorry!' and she flew away, blood trickling from her wounds as her tears rolled down her cheeks.
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Brock and Misty were speechless at Latios' words as they found it difficult to keep their balance on the blue eon. "N-no. It can't be!" Misty cried wiping her eyes with one hand while keeping her other hand on Latios. Brock did nothing but make a strange face, trying to keep his emotions from pouring out. This news was old to Bianca, but she still shared the same reaction as the other two.
They continued to hover in the clouds, Latios waited patiently as the others cried their hearts out. Then a hidden thought came back to strike the blue eon, is there a way to bring back their beloved friend? Or would they have to suffer through this terrible loss? Latios looked down in hopelessness until he sensed something coming toward the cloud that they were hiding in.
'You guys, I can sense something coming close to us.' Latios announced as he put his guard up, but then immediately dropped it as he sensed that it was Latias. The three crying friends on the blue eon's back slowly stopped their sniffling and regained their composure.
"Is it Latias?" Bianca hiccuped, wiping her eyes so her tears didn't freeze from the clouds' cold temperatures.
Latios nodded his head, 'She's pretty far away though.'
Bianca quickly wiped her eyes even more, one thing Latias couldn't stand was seeing her cry. But then a grim expression made its way to the blue eon's face.
"What's wrong Latios?" Misty asked as she took her Togepi back from Brock. The blue eon waited a few moments to make sure what he sensed was correct.
'Ash isn't with her...'
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"Kill him!" a mob member screamed at the top of her lungs as she fist pumped with her shotgun. The mob was in the house along with their captive who was now severely beaten up. Although Ash's chest is currently covered by his shirt and torn vest, he had several bruises on every part of his torso.
His arms had cuts on them and his legs had a few bullet hole shot through them. He was strapped to a chair while surrounded by wild mob members. The leader of the mob walked up to the beat up boy and pointed a sawed off shotgun to his forehead.
The raven haired boy looked defeated, but on the inside his fire still burned with the same intensity as the sun itself! Suddenly a woman came out of the kitchen carrying a large knife, it was Delia.
"Enough! What in the world are you people doing!" Delia cried at the top of her lungs, scaring quite a large number of the mob. The people who had a connection with Delia were the first to walk up, they each told her at the same time that they had no part in harming her son.
"You people are monsters! Nearly beating my son to death over some silly pokemon!" Ash's mother was enraged but in tears at the same time, the whole time she had the knife raised. "I could get all of you into jail for committing a hate crime!" Delia's voice had created silence among the crowd.
Those who knew Ash's mother grew a guilty expression as they slowly dropped their weapons. The rest only knew of Delia's status as a warm hearted, hard working, responsible mother; they kept the same expression of extreme animosity as they kept their weapons raised.
"Delia, we can explain." a man who knew Ash's mother said in a guilty tone. Another woman who knew Delia also stepped up, "We're just trying to follow the law." she said stupidly.
"Does the law say that you must brutally beat children for having feelings towards another being? What law promotes these actions!" Delia demanded, ready to stab each and everyone of the people who laid a single finger on her son.
"I'm going to call the police right now to have you all arrested!" the enraged mother announced as she wiped her eyes with her handkerchief before reaching for the phone. The leader of the group quickly stepped up to the front of the crowd, several members were poured out of the entrance and patio door due to the lack of room.
"Call them if you like, no matter what you do everything that happened right here in Pallet Town will go to court." the leader said, his words stopped Delia from dialing the final number.
"Why?" Delia asked, walking closer to the leader of the mob. But when she was face to face with the leader, she said no more as she backhanded the leader's face, knife still in her hand. The slap was hard, it made a few people cringe at the noise. The awkward position of the knife in Delia's hand as she slapped the leader caused a medium sized gash on his cheek.
He staggered back in pain as he held his hand over his wound, blood still ran down through his fingers as he tried to cover it.
"Fine then. We'll take this to court, but here me when I say this. I will win, and I will deal with you even after the law is done with you and the rest of you trash that call yourself people!" Delia said, her anger rising as she stepped closer to the leader.
"Release my son, and get the hell out of my house!" Delia yelled, waving her slightly blood painted knife at anyone who got in her way. Almost immediately the mob had left the house, only the leader remained who untied Ash as he was told.
"How disappointing, Delia." the leader said as he untied Ash's torso,nobody knows why they tied him up there...
"What do you mean by that?" Delia demanded as she came up from behind the man and placed the knife at his throat. Ash was unconscious but was still able to hear what was going on around him.
"I can't believe a woman of your superiority would support something as disgusting as pokephilia." the man said, spitting at the word pokephilia as he said it. Delia pressed the knife harder against his throat as he continued to untie Ash's arms. At this point, the raven haired boy began to open his eyes. He saw a man untying him with his mom behind the man with a knife in her hand.
"Don't say such things!" Delia said, kicking him in the back of the head, he gave out a grunt which sounded like a laugh as he was hit. Delia applied even more pressure to the leader's throat as droplets of blood began to trickle down to his collar bone.
He finished with Ash's arms and bent down on his knees to untie the raven haired boy's leg's. "Although I just met the girl, I know that she makes my son happy!" Delia said, her anger had no match.
The leader scoffed, "Well, I'm finished untying your son. When I get back to my town I'm immediately going to report this crime to the police, and then form there you will receive a letter telling you the exact date and time of the trial." the ropes restraining Ash's arms fell to the floor as the raven haired boy fidgeted.
Delia removed her knife from the man's throat and took a small step back, "Leave now or else I'll make you leave!" she ordered.
Suddenly Ash's eyes shot open as he looked at the man in front of him. The leader jumped back slightly , but then the raven haired boy sent a speeding kick in between the man's legs, only sending him to his knees.
Delia gasped as Ash thrust the toe of his shoe into the leader's face, breaking his nose. "Don't you ever call pokephilia disgusting ever again!" Ash yelled as the man hurriedly stood up to keep Ash from attacking again. He pulled out his pistol to keep the distance between him and Ash present.
"You got lucky this time little boy. If this were a different situation you'd be dead already." the leader said, holding his nose as he kept his pistol aimed at Ash. And with that, the man left through the patio door, shooting the sliding glass door as he went.
Delia dropped to the floor sobbing. She held her son tightly, the chaos was over, at least for now.
After a few moments of catching her breath, Delia stood back up with the help of Ash and took him to clean up his injuries.
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'No... Why? Why did this have to happen!' Latias cried, barely able to keep herself up in the air. She quickly sent her energy to her left claw, allowing it to glow a faint green as it gained healing properties. Latias painfully healed her right arm, she clenched her teeth in pain and let out a loud cry. More tears rolled down her feathered face, almost completely blurring her vision.
"Why does healing hurt this much? It never hurt this badly before." Latias thought to herself as black sparks shot out from her left claw. But she was in too much pain to notice the strange spark. Again she sent her energy to both her claws and tried to heal her left wing, a medium sized hole was visible in her red wing.
Again Latias cried in pain, she needed someone with her, her body and her heart ached with pain as she felt herself grow cold.
The crimson fluid dried on her feathers and cracked over time. Flakes of blood chipped off of her body as she slowly flew up to the clouds. She was crying, crying very hard. She sobbed with such sadness she could hardly keep herself afloat. It was a sad sight to see, a mighty legendary pokemon brought down to her knees, physically and emotionally.
Again, more black sparks crackled around Latias' claws, finally getting her attention. She looked down at her arms as her tears dropped down to the ground, each tear drop freezing halfway down due to the cold temperatures.
'I just wanted to be with Ash. I don't understand what's so bad about that.' Latias sobbed as she continued to stare at her sparkling claws. 'Is it so bad that I have feelings?' the red eon cried as the sparks grew bigger and cracked louder.
Then Latias stopped moving, she remained where she as she wiped her amber eyes, unable to focus on her powers enough to use psychic to repel her tears. Again, the black sparks crackled in her claws. "These sparks are really starting to hurt." Latias thought to herself as she stared at her claws once more.
Then in an instant, Latias' whole body emitted a large, loud black spark as she cried in pain, her eyes clenched tight.
Her pained expression soon disappeared as she slowly plummeted to the Earth. She gained speed until her body was above the forest that she and her friends had passed through. Luckily Latias landed in a large body of water hidden in the forest.
The unconscious eon sank to the bottom of the body of water.
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'This place. It's where the black shadow was.' Latias said to herself. 'But why am I back here?'
Just like when Latias first came back to Altomare on the cruise liner, strange memories began to flash before her eyes.
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"Lets go my queen!"
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"Don't you dare hurt Latias!"
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"Here, take this pendant. It should keep you safe."
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A sharp pain grew in Latias' head, the information overwhelmed her as she fell down to the empty white space below her. 'Who are you! Please, tell me!' Latias pleaded as the pain in her head grew.
Then a familiar black shadow appeared. It's eyes were pure red, and it's body was pure black. It all seemed so familiar to Latias. Slowly, the black coloration on the shadow began to chip away, revealing a blue and white Latios.
Blue and white feathers, red eyes with a small scar near one of his eyelids, and black angelic wings protruding from his back, and a small black crown replaced his red symbol on his chest.
The being smiled warmly as Latias stared with curiosity,
The red eon mouthed something while staring at the blue eon, 'Ken...'
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Latias was surrounded by water, then she quickly remembered that she fell into some sort of large pond. Her eyes shot open as she blasted out of the water, creating a huge pillar of water as she flew. The sudden rush of energy blanked Latias' mind as she flew towards the direction in which she sensed a powerful psychic source.
A few moments later, Latias came to. She came to a halt in a cloud as she looked around. Without even knowing it, Latias realized that while she was underwater, she was crying! Then it hit her like a brick wall. The poor red eon began to choke up as she sensed her brother's presence nearby. She hurriedly flew in that direction while trying with all of her willpower to not burst out crying.
'Ken...' Latias said again, her eyes were shut as tears escaped out of the corner of her eyes.
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"What? Ash isn't with her!" Brock gasped, almost falling off of Latios' back. Misty, Bianca, and Latios had shocked looks on their faces. Out in the distance they saw a small shadow, it's body type was similar to Latios', it was Latias.
The red eon quickly found her friends as she stood in front of her brother, not saying a single word. The silence made the rest think that Ash had been killed. Misty quickly asked, "Is Ash-" but was cut short as the red eon shook her head, looking downward the whole time.
There was a sigh of relief among the group, but Latias still had a sad look on her angelic face. 'What happened to Ash?' Latios asked, sensing his sister's troubled feelings.
Latias remained silent, she didn't say a word. "Latias, is there something wrong?" Bianca asked, worried for her friend as Misty and Brock awaited an answer, the suspense was killing them.
But again, the red eon just nodded her head without a word. 'Well what is it sis'?' Latios asked, flying closer to his sister. Latias kept her head down.
'I remember hearing the mob saying that they're going to bring Ash to court as I escaped.' Latias said quickly without making eye contact with anybody.
Another but smaller sigh of relief was heard from the group as Bianca looked worriedly at her friend. "It doesn't seem like she's really sad about Ash's problem but something else." Bianca thought to herself.
"Well, now what?" Misty asked. The blue eon turned his neck around to talk to his passengers, 'I'm sad to say this but, this might be the last time we'll ever talk.' Latios announced, receiving shocked looks from everybody, even Latias looked surprised.
"What?" Bianca said in disbelief. "Why?" Misty asked, choking up a bit.
'It's for the safety of everyone here.' Latios started, calming down the two girls slightly. 'I'm going to drop you and Brock to your hometowns. And as for us, we'll have to go back to Altomare...' Latios finished in a sad tone.
"But why!" Bianca objected.
'Because, the people in this area know what we all look like. That's why Brock and Misty need to go back home as well as us!' Latios said. Even he was beginning to choke up. 'I'm sorry. But it's for the best.'
Everyone had a defeated expression. 'Brock, Misty. When they announce Ash's trial date, you two are going to be summoned as witnesses.' Latios informed.
"..." both Brock and Misty were speechless. Latios continued, 'Don't say anything about this to anyone until then, ok?' Latios said, receiving nods from both trainers. 'Alright then. I'm going to take you guys back to your home towns. Just tell me what the name is and I'll find my way.' the blue dragon said sadly as Misty and Brock said their hometown names.
The blue eon made the trip to Brock's town first, flying as slow as possible to spend as much time together. Right as they were about to leave Brock's town Latios told Brock, 'Who knows, maybe someday we'll be able to meet again.' and Latios flew off.
Thirty minutes later, they arrived in Cerulean City and dropped Misty off, Latias and Bianca said their sad goodbyes.
"Well. Are we going back to Altomare Latios?" Bianca asked as she firmly wrapped her arms around his long dragon neck. 'I'm afraid so.' Latios replied in a depressed tone as he flew towards the ocean.
Their trip back to Altomare took two hours, the sun was already setting by the time they made it back home. Nobody spoke a word, they had to leave their friends, the ultimate sacrifice. Latios led his sister to the secret entrance, taking Bianca who was asleep on Latios' back with them.
They arrived in the secret garden. The lifeless body of Colette still lay peacefully in a patch of white flowers, the red and amber roses still stood tall. Latios gently placed Bianca on a patch of soft grass and flew to the soul dew.
"Ken..." Latios thought to himself until something struck his mind. 'Hey sis', do you know who the latios in Bianca's picture really is?' Latios asked as he approached Latias.
'Yes...'
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Whoa, I got this chapter done in one day! Well um, Owner Pwner I hope this ending wasn't as cliffhanger-y as the last one :p Anyway, tune in next time on Remembering an Old Friend!