Chapter 2: Frozen Plagues

I opened my eyes to have a bright light shine in my face. I could feel my eyes water as I turned over quickly, but immediately I felt that my bed was much harder than usual and my arms hurt like if they were hammered to death. I got up and found that I was sleeping on the floor of the living room. The fire in the fire place had gone out and the blinds were open just a crack. The room was dark except the sunlight that made its way through the cracks of the blind. A single large blanket was pulled over me, covering me perfectly.

I pulled the sleeve off of my right arm and found that my elbow and fists were covered in scabs and purple bruises.

Then suddenly what happened last night came flowing back to me.

'I must have been too tired to even get back into my bed,' I thought to myself, while looking down at the floor.

I stood up and checked on the red creature that slept on my bed. She quietly snored and seemed to be comfortable underneath the blanket that I had provided her with last night. I sighed lightly and walked into the kitchen to find Eevee sleeping in her crib. 'She must have woken up and moved here later on last night,' I thought to myself as reached for the medical cabinets.

I quietly opened them and pulled out a roll of bandages and a bottle of ointment.

'Made with Oran Berries!' The bottle said in big red letters. I opened the bottle of salve, that smelled more like medicine than berries, and poured it onto the bandages. Then I tied the bandages tightly to my elbows and fists, and opened the refrigerator behind me.

I pulled out some vegetables, some spaghetti, and a couple different sauces. I poured some water into a pan that sat on the stove and turned on the fire. Then from another cabinet I pulled out a cutting board and laid against the table and started to cut away at the vegetables.

As I cut away, I silently smiled, loving the quiet calm morning. It felt like a moment of rest, peace and just pure calm. Not a thing in the world to worry about, no action, just a time to sit down and drink some tea. Of course even though I was cooking, I still loved my quiet mornings.

"Eev,'' yawned eevee from her bed.

She watched me with drowsy eyes as I chopped away with perfect precision.

I could hear the water start to boil and pop, but I ignored it as I finished slicing away at a carrot. Then I got up from my seat and walked over to the stove and poured in some pasta from its box. I adjusted the bandages and sat back down onto my chair, getting back to work.

I sat down to eat breakfast, which was spaghetti that had a very light soy sauce taste and was heavily salted. I quietly looked out the window as I took another bite from my food. I could hear something flap and fall lightly behind me. But I ignored it as I stared up at the empty sky.

"What is it like out there?" I pondered.

"Eeev!" hissed eevee behind me. I quickly turned around and saw a white floating creature blocking the doorway.

"You're awake!" I said, trying to lower my excitement and volume. I quietly pushed myself out of my chair and walked over to eevee. The creature's golden eyes followed me across the room, without a single expression but almost upset.

"Sorry," I said petting eevee lightly. "She's not used to new pokémon."

She glared at me, with a tense expression written across her face. Chill bumps started to grow on my back as she seemed to watch my every move like a stray purugly.

"You must be hungry," I said retreating to the oven slowly. I reached for a dish on the cabinet and pulled it back. Then suddenly a loud sound sprung from the cabinet like a church bell. I stood there, almost in fear, as the sound bounced across the room. I looked back and saw the creature flinch, but still she kept her eyes on me. Eevee moved back closer to me glaring back at the creature. With the spaghetti server that was left in the pot, I pulled out some spaghetti and dumped it onto the plate.

I walked over to her slowly with the plate as she glared at me more than the food. She hissed at me as I got close enough to reach and touch her with my arm.

Eevee quietly hissed back at her, as I stood perfectly between the two. I slowly kneeled and put down the plate of spaghetti and slowly walked away, almost happy to get the chance to get away from them.

My knees finally buckled and I slowly sat down next to eevee. I could see the creature move look down at the food and back at me, trying to decide if she could trust me or not.

"I'm on your side." I said, slowly crawling towards it. I picked up a single strand of spaghetti and ate it.

"See." I said, watching it glare at me again. I slowly backed away as her glare softened.

She stared at me and then slowly started to eat at the spaghetti. I lightly sighed and her stare fell back on me again. I could feel Eevee tense again. I winced from the sudden glare and fell back a little.

She continued to eat away at the spaghetti and didn't mind me any attention. I shifted uncomfortably on the floor as I stared at her. What was she, well that was obviously a Latias from all the legends and pictures, from various ancient sites like cave paintings and stained glasses, my mom and her books told me about. Why is she here, and where is her brother latios, or is she a Ditto or Zoroark in disguise, after all she was known for her kind personality, I think.

I scratched my head lightly, and gave up on the wonder and decided to just proclaim her as Latias. I slowly stroked Eevee's head and looked back out the window to daydream. Today was going to be a long day.

A few hours later...

Somehow Latias' had become used to me as I slowly walked away to make tea, about an hour later after feeding her spaghetti, she didn't glare at me, as sharply. I sat calmly in the kitchen and stared out the window, drinking my cup of tea, as the latias slept on the couch in the living room.

I had to remove the bandages, but I had to get close to her to do. I went to the cabinet and pulled out a small pair of silver scissors. The end was slightly curved so I could cut bandages that were tightly wrapped to the Pokemon's skin.

I put the scissors in my pocket and slowly walked over to Latias.

"Latias?" I called, unsure what to call her. Her head quickly moved off of the couch, her eyes glaring at me.

"I'm going to take off your bandages, will you let me approach you?" I asked, cautiously with my hands up.

She didn't say anything but let her head fall back to the couch. I slowly approached her, my hands still up. Once I got close enough to touch her, I could almost feel her tense up.

"Don't worry," I muttered kneeling on the couch. I pulled at a bandage around her neck and then looked around for a knot. I put my hand in my pocket feeling for the scissors.

I slowly cut at the bandages, keeping my eye on Latias' head. Trying to figure out if she would think that what I was holding against her was a weapon. Her eyes looked at me then back at the scissor.

Suddenly I had my back against the wall across from the couch and something warm was on my arm.

" ?" I moaned, kind of confused. Pain slowly started to run both up my back and arm. My arms were sizzling with pain as, they were leaned against the wall. I looked at my arm and saw the sight of my own blood. Three large red lines were marked against my arm.

I looked up and saw Latias hovering off the couch. Eevee ran in from the kitchen, and at me and then at the Latias.

"Grr…" Growled Eevee, defending me from Latias. Then she combusted into an angry toned fit of shouts.

"Eevee!" I said, cutting into her fitful yells. She continued to yell at the Latias without no signs of stopping.

"Eevee!" I said, getting up and walking to her. My body ached from, what seemed to be, me getting thrown at the wall. I walked over to her and hugged her with one arm as she stopped.

"It's all right, Eevee, calm down." I whispered, clenching her.

"Eev…" she murmured, looking up at me with big eyes like if she were saying, 'I was saying all that for you.'

I looked up at the Latias, who looked sad and almost hurt. 'I never knew my Eevee was harsh enough to hurt a legendary creature's feelings,' I thought to myself.

The Latias slowly floated towards me, slowly.

"Stand back!" I shouted at her, wondering if she was still after me. She looked even more hurt and moved back.

Maybe Eevee told her what happened and the Latias was just really defensive, not mean.

"Just let me bandage up my arms." I said, standing up slowly. She stared at me with sad eyes of guilt. She looked down at her claws and looked back at me.

I walked into the kitchen and took out another bandage kit and pulled out a roll of bandages and some disinfecting salve to apply to the wound.

She's not here to hurt me, if she was then she would have already came after me. I suppose she understands the situation, and that has to mean Eevee explained what happened. I bit down on my tongue and sprayed the salve over my arm. Pain rose up my arm quickly and as quickly as it came I got used to the pain. I clenched my hand into a fist and wrapped the bandage around my arm.

I took in a quick breath and walked into the living room where Eevee sat idly on the floor. The Latias looked more ashamed than earlier, as I walked back into the room.

I looked at the bandage and found that I was still bleeding, but it had to do for now. Now to the matter at hand, how was I going to even start to speak to Latias?

"Alright, then…" I started to say, but there were no other words that came out of my mouth. "Umm…Well I forgive you for acting defensive, and the fact that you cut me. I forgive you and I understand your reason."

She smiled lightly at that but she still seemed to be sad. If only there was a way for me to talk to her, this would be much easier.

"Next, um… you can stay here as long as you like, and please make yourself feel at home. Finally, can I cut the bandages? I'm sure that the bandages are in your way, rather than helping you."

The latias floated towards me as I picked up the pair of scissors, off the floor, and slowly cut away at the bandages. Eevee watched me calmly from the corner of the room, sort of just hanging out.

Relieved that the tension in the house finally dropped I sighed lightly and cut at the last bandage.

"You're good to go." I said, rolling the bandages up into a ball and walking into the kitchen.

I threw the ball of bandages into a trash can and walked back out. I slowly walked up the stairs and into my room. Then I opened a textbook on my desk and started to study from it. Pain still ran through my arm as I wrote down notes on both pokemon and human medical science.

It was about another three hours before I got bored and walked back downstairs.

Latias picked up her head and motioned with her hand for me to come towards her. Thinking about it for a few seconds I walked over to her.

"Yeah?" I asked.

She closed her eyes for a few seconds and then suddenly a blue clear film, shaped as a sphere, appeared around us. She opened her eyes, and they glowed bright white.

"Latias?" I asked.

Suddenly the film turned into the sky and the floor became the trees and ground. I looked closely and found that I was starting to rise, but I didn't feel that I was falling.

"Grrrohhhhhhhh!" Shrieked something behind me.

The tension, from last night, rose again but this time not as breath taking. Goose bumps pulsed through my body and I suddenly didn't want to turn around. But no matter how much I warned myself, I pushed my neck back, as if it were frozen, and looked back.

I stared into the eyes of something, its eyes as large as my hand. The creatures eyes were not staring at me, but through me. I could almost see infinite knowledge, wisdom, and age, in its golden eyes.

Its head was as tall as my body and was much wider. It's body, as heavy as it looked, it flew through the air with its strange shaped wings, that I would've otherwise claimed flightless or useless. Certain part of its body was white like the newest of snow, and it much taller than a beartic.

But none of this scared me, it was the fact that most of the creatures body was made of ice. Its wings, tail, certain parts of its body and head. The ice was so cold that I could've swore that I could feel frost emanating from it.

I turned around again and saw the Latias, but she was clear like tinted glass. The creature chased her through the sky, with me right between the two. We flew across the sky at top speed till Latias flew into the clouds. The area the creature entered from made the clouds start to turn grey like a drop of food coloring in a bucket of water. The ground started to move at hundreds of miles per hour, making the trees and clouds a blur of grey and green. Suddenly there was a large flash of light and cold air. I blinked and found snow starting to pour down mercilessly like hail. Through the onslaught of snow, Latias flew down into the rug of trees. I could see something clear like crystals starting to cover her as she fell.

The scene changed. Suddenly I was behind Latias, who floated before a group of ten people. All of them had their hair dyed orange with pitch black eyes, as I assumed they were contacts. All of them wore a strange set of black robes, like if they were, wizards?

A single woman walked out from the group of people.

I frowned at the next person in robes that stood out from the crowd. She wore white robes and tall boots. Underneath her robes she wore a light jacket and ski pants.

"Mom?" I muttered, unsure. But it had to be, who else had natural orange hair with clear eyes. Besides who else had a face that was like hers.

"Release Kyurem, Dr. Enki!" shouted my mom, swinging her arm and opening her hand at the Latias.

"Yes mam!" shouted back an old man in the back.

A short man in the back took off his backpack as Latias' stared in wonder. He unzipped and took out what appeared to be a large electric generator and two larger than average pokeballs. He hooked the electric generator to one pokeball and pressed a button.

"Everybody move! Move!" shouted the scientist, running away.

Everybody moved out of the way, quickly forming a circle around the ball. At this time Latias was starting to leave, sensing that whatever was going to come out was dangerous.

There was a bright flash and the creature from earlier appeared, again. The creature looked at me and flew towards me. I through myself onto the floor and covered my head for a few seconds.

Nothing happened.

I dared to look up and saw that the creature flew overhead. Of course I forgot that was an illusion.

I stood back up and patted down my ruffled clothes.

So now I'm guessing this was supposed to mean that she was attacked by a group of people controlling an unknown pokemon. They seemed to also be led by my mother, obviously there had to be a misunderstanding.

The scene changed again.

This time I stood in a forest opening. Light poured into the empty space from the bright sun. In the center was a single fallen creature. It was the same as the Latias, however he was blue.

He laid there without moving at all, except for his faint and slow breathing. From behind a tree, a long sleek Linoone appeared. He held a berry from his mouth and ran over to the fallen creature. The linoone gave the berry to the pokemon and ran off.

I quietly walked towards the creature and studied it. Slow breathing and laying here like this, unresponsive to the pokemon. Not a good sign, in fact a sign of illness.

I walked closer, and bent down to looked at the creatures face. He was pale and looked very uncomfortable. I leaned down to touch it, but my hand slipped through.

Oh yeah, this wasn't reality.

I lightly slapped my forehead and inspected the creature without touching him. Till I walked to a single discolored area on his back. It wasn't the color of a bruise but it was almost brown.

"The pokemon plague!" I gasped. I had read about it enough times in both medical and history books. Hundreds of years ago, when the island was at war, one half the island had a cure for the plague, the other half didn't. The half that had the plague was easily conquered the other half that had no chance against the side with no cure to the plague. Though last time I checked this plague had completely disappeared.

Fortunately, I lived on the half of the island with the cure. Since it grew in cold places at high altitudes.

Latias' eyes closed and the film shattered and dispersed into air. Her eyes opened and she blinked a couple times.

This was an easy guess, Latios and Latias are brothers in the legends. So that most likely meant that she came here for the herbs but was attacked on the way here…

"So I'm guessing you want the herbs to cure Latios with, right?" I asked her.

She nodded at me and kept her eyes on me.

"Good news there up the mountain, it's a short climb so you won't need to come along. In fact I'll get going right now." I said, walking up the stairs.

Setsuna Damius' note

I'm sorry it took such a long time to post this new chapter, I really am, but you must understand I have school. Though this chapter is sort of used to release more conflicts and stuff, I didn't add any action because, as you can already see, I didn't really have time to. However, if I follow my story map correctly, there should be less talking and stuff in the next chapter. Once again I'm sorry for the inconveniently long wait to release the chapter.