The Legend of Yellow
By: hydro-serpent58
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Chapter 6: Magic and Magick
"Woah, this is so cool!" Yelled Ruby. They were traveling through a vortex. Mist hissed at him "Quiet! I need to concentrate, you don't want us to end up in the middle of a black hole now do you?" He immediately clamped his mouth shut. Soon, they entered a bright place. Mist's expression softened. "All right, here's our destination." She said and there was a bright light blinding them.
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There was a sudden bright light in a forest causing the creatures to settle. As it faded there stood eight strangers with a pixie. The animals looked on with curiosity.
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Yellow P.O.V.
We stood on a dirt path going through the woods. We looked around, everything was different. I could feel magical presence all around us. Mist smiled. "Welcome to Destine Island." Everyone blinked. "Okay...let's go!" Shouted Sapphire as she turned to go but then Mist came right in her face. "Where do you think you're going young lady?" Mist scoffed at the "lady" part. Sapph frowned. "To save Gold of course." "It's not that easy!" By then we crowded around. "What do you mean?" Asked Green. Mist just sighed and shook her head.
"We're in the Magic world now. None of you have magical powers except Yellow, so you're all very vulnerable." "But we have our Pokémon." She just rolled her eyes. "So what? We're in the Magic world, not Pokémon world. They'll hardly be any help. To call them out here would be spelling out they're own death sentence." It took a few moments for the words to sink in then- "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER?" Sapphire roared. We jumped back startled while Mist looked at her unaffected. "So?" "So? I need a weapon!" "Sapph, you already have weapons." Ruby said eying her fists. Sapph ignored this remark. "Don't worry, Yellow already has a weapon so you'll be fine." At this they all looked at me. "What weapon?" Asked Red raising an eyebrow. I laughed nervously. "You'll find out soon enough."
Mist continued. "But, here a lot of things are magical. You have to be careful not to fall into a trap or else you'll be helpless having no magic of you're own to counter it." "How are we supposed to do that?" "We, I'll start with the basics." She said getting a teacher tone in her voice. She flew to a rock and sat down. "Who knows the difference between magic and magick?" Everyone went quiet, then slowly Sliver raised his hand. "Yes Sliv?" Mist said eying his eye color. We blinked surprised. Sliver had never been called that before. "Well... magic has to do with supernatural things, magick has to do with paranormal activity." Mist nodded. "That is correct, magick is often used for "evil" while magic is usually used for "good"." "But, that is just half of the rules in this world. Here, it doesn't really matter. All that matters is you has some type of sorcery running through your veins. To help protect you."
"Well...what help are we then?" She raised an eyebrow. "I don't know, didn't you figure out your purpose already?" We stared. "Then what's the point of coming here then? If we can't do anything at all!" "You should've realized that earlier. There's no turning back now." Mist replied, but then she paused. "But...the portal allowed you to enter, you WILL be apart of some use on our journey, but for now no. We must make haste and find that forest where that boy fell into." I nodded and reluctantly they followed.
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"Woah." We were in town, and boy were things different. This island was...like a village, but...at the same time peaceful. It showed it prospering side everywhere. "This is Oncore Village have to spend some time here to stock up on supplies, but at the same time we'll need to get money." "But, we already have money." Mist turned around and wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Boy, you think here we accept your charity? Here we don't use Pokédollars!" Our mouths clamped shut. "Anyway, first things first. We'll have to get jobs, make money, get supplies, rescue that kid, THEN save the brat got it?" We nodded silently although it was obvious Sapphire was dying to whine. Mist just ignored her. "Very good. Yellow, you MUST make money somehow. The rest of you don't...but, I recommend you do. You can buy your own things. Trust me, I'll be sure that Yellow doesn't share any of the money she earns and rightfully desevers. So don't even think about bribing her." She said eying us suspiciously. We all sweatdropped. "Anyhow, let's get started by talking to some people." With that she and Yellow walked away in search of a job while the rest just stood there. "...I'll get a job." Blue said finally and headed off in another direction. Red and Crystal shrugged and headed somewhere else. Sapphire grumbled but followed. Soon, everyone went there seperate ways.
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"Oh my." I stopped and turned. There sat a lady on her front door steps sulking. "What's wrong?" "My dear cat has been missing for two days now, I don't know where he is." "Oh, you poor thing." "I'll surely give a reward to anyone who finds my cat, but no one is willing to take the job." Mist nudged me forward. "I-I'll find your cat." I offered. She brightened. "Oh thank you honey!" I smiled kindly. "I'll be right back."
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"AHHH! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY MONEY?" A voice roared from inside a house. Though no one could see it, a flash of red and black whizzed by. As Silver landed safely in the forest he checked up on what he had stolen. In his had were 3 purple rupees, and 1 blue rupee. He had no idea how much these were worth. All he knew was that while he was eavesdropping he had heard the man saying these were what was used as money. He'd have to find out from Mist. With that he pocketed the money and headed out to find the pixie.
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"Oh thank you so much!" Cried a boy as Ruby handed him his lunchbox. A bunch of bullies were picking on the little guy so he decided to help out. They were no match for Ruby for he had just walked up to the leader and grabbed him by the collar saying: "Give me the lunchbox, or else." Seeing the leader in a helpless state the rest of the gang had fled. In the end, the leader was tossed aside and ran away for his life. Ruby smiled. "No prob." He was about to walk away when-"Wait!" He turned to see the kid looking at him. "It might not be much...but here, take it." He handed Ruby 1 red rupee and 1 yellow rupee. "Thanks again, see you around!" Called the kid as he ran off before Ruby could ask him what these were. But he had good reason to believe this was money, so he headed off to find Mist.
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"Well, that was certainly easy." Sapphire said. She had wondered through the brush and had found something shiny in the dirt. It happened to be 2 yellow rupees and 1 green one. When she had asked an old timer about these he had simply laughed and said they were rupees, or in this case, money. But, he hadn't told her the exact worth for he thought she had been joking when she had asked him about it. Seeing she would find no more explanations from him, she had left him alone. "Let's see if that fairy knows how much this is worth." She scoffed to herself.
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"There it is." I whispered. There stood a black and white cat just as the lady had described. It was poised and was staring intently into the water. "What is it doing?" "...I think it's trying to catch something." "But that'll take forever." "Hmmm..." I thought for a moment and the idea struck me. I took out my fishing pole and cast it into the water. After a few moments I pulled out a medium sized fish the color green. "It's...the green-bellied trout." Mist said wrinkling her nose at the smell. I glanced down to see the cat staring intently on my fish. I smiled. "Here kitten." I whispered. The cat cocked her head. Slowly she approached me. Finally, when she was close enough I took the fish off and offered it to her by hand. She looked at me and snatched the fish quickly devouring it. "How rude." Mist huffed. While the cat ate, I bent down and slowly petted it. It stiffened at moment, but then relaxed. Once it was done it looked up at me and licked my hand. I giggled. "Okay kitten, time to go home." I said picking him up.
"OH! Whiskers!" The lady yelled. I put the cat down and it darted over to they lady. The lady picked it up and cradled it in her arms. "Oh thank you!" "Please, do come inside!" I looked at Mist who shrugged and reluctantly followed her inside a cabin. "Welcome to my shop. But, hang on a moment." She went behind the counter and handed me a bottle of fresh water. "I know it's not much, but you can keep the bottle. When it's empty you can use it for something else. Also, as promised, here's you reward." The lady handed me 4 red rupees. "I hope that covers it." Before I spoke Mist nodded. "Yes, thank you madam." With that we exited the shop.
As we walked out I saw the rest of the gang come out. "Well, I see you all took my advice." Mist said in approval. "Yeah, yeah, just how much is this worth?" Sapphire said impatiently. Mist frowned. "Fine, but I'll only say this ONCE. So listen well. A green rupee is worth 1, a blue rupee is worth 5, a yellow rupee is worth 10, a red rupee is worth 20, purple rupee is worth 50, a orange rupee is worth 100, a sliver rupee is worth 200, and a gold rupee is worth 300." We looked at her, then looked down at our rupees calculating the amount in our heads.
"SILVER! How the heck did you get 155 rupees?" Ruby exclaimed. "Found them." He said simply as Blue just rolled her eyes. "I know you stole them Silver." She replied. "Tsk. Whatever." "Yay! I have 21!" Sapphire said happily. "And I have 30." She froze. "Did you really have to burst my bubble?" She growled shaking Ruby. "Ah-hem." We turned to face Mist. "Supplies." She reminded. We nodded and were off.
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"What does this do?" Asked Crystal as she pointed to a red potion. "It restores you health! Very useful when traveling, on 30 rupees, would you like one young lady?" Asked the shop keeper. Crystal blinked. "How would my health be affected?" "It's like this. In your world your Pokémon are the ones that loose HP correct?" Mist asked. Crystal nodded. "Well here, your the one who looses health, so I think you should buy one for yourself." Mist explained.
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"Finally, now can we go!" "Yes we can. Come on Yellow!" Mist called as the girl came rushing after her. "To the Forbidden Woods we go!"
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"Where is he?" They were deep in the forest but could not find the kid. "Hold on." Replied Yellow as she took out her telescope. She looked around and saw him hanging on a tree branch just barely." "There he is!" I cried and we raced to where he was. We were only 10 feet away from him when we stopped. There, guarding the tree were 3 monsters. They had pig-like faces but stood upright like human and wore leather. "Ewww, man are they ugly." Crystal said disgusted. While the others froze in fear. "Okay...what now?" Mist frowned. "Don't looked so scared." She turned to me. "Let's go Yellow!" I nodded and charged at the beasts. "YELLOW! What the heck are you doing?" Sapphire yelled after me. "She's gonna get killed!" "No." "Huh?" We turned to her just to see her floating with her arms crossed smirking. "Watch and learn." She replied.
As I approached the first one it had it's back turned to me. In a flash I drew out my sword and did a vertical and horizontal slice finishing him off. By then the other two saw me and started running towards me. As they ganged up on me I dodged them and took care of one, I then turned back and defeated the last one using a side slash. I stood there in the middle of their dead bodies breathing hard. In a few moments they burst into smoke and were gone. "You were great Yellow! Even though these were weak enemies, you still did great!" Mist exclaimed flying around me. I smiled and turned back to see everyone staring at me. "Yellow...where did you g-get that?" Crystal said shakily pointing at my sword. "Um, earlier today?" Then everything went silent until- "YELLOW YOU WERE WICKED!" Sapphire cried. "That was awesome." Green smirked. "When did you learn that?" Blue asked a little too eagerly. "Today." Things went quiet again then-"This is too freaky!" Ruby cried. "Ano-" "How could you Yellow? You were just a sweet little girl and now you can kill without a problem?" He turned to me. "How is that possible?" I sweatdropped. I knew some of them wouldn't like it I looked at Red who was staring at my sword...it looked like, they was fear in them? I shook my head. That can't be it, besides, why would he be afraid of me anyway? Sliver blinked. It was obvious he didn't know how to react. "But how come we couldn't see it?" Blue asked. I turned my back to them and lifted my leather apron revealing the case that held my sword. "It was hidden." I replied as I put my sword away letting the leather drop back down.
We turned to the kid. "It looks like he's waking up." Sure enough as his eyes opened he gasped and wiggled around, at that moment the branch broke and he landed on the ground with a loud thud. "Ouch, that gotta hurt." The boy grumbled. He was a teenager. He had a red bandanna around his neck and wore creamy white baggy pants. He wore a black vest with a black T-shirt underneath. His hair was the color topaz and he looked really agitated. He looked up revealing his golden eyes. "Who are you?" He said in a matter-of-fact voice. Before we could answer-"CAPTAIN!" We turned to see a grown man ran at as. "Are you all right?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." He replied brushing himself off. "Come on, we better get back to the ship." The man turned to us. "What about them?" "Just leave them! Come on!" With that the two went away. We looked at each other. "Let's follow them."
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"What? You want to come with us on our ship?" The boy exclaimed. We were not in the village anymore, but now we were on the coast. "We need to get somewhere and right now you're our only transportation. Besides, a brat was taken from us just like you were from the fox." Mist replied. The boy rolled his eyes. "Does this look like a luxury ship to you? We're pirates! There's no way you're coming with us." By then the last straw broke. Sapphire looked at them coldly. "Now you listen to me boy." She said with a cowgirl accent (she get one whenever she's angry and really serious) "Who was the one who saved your sorry little ass? Yellow, that's who. Now I suggest you let us on your freakin boat unless you wanna be in a world of pain." She said glowering. The crew coward'd intimidated while the boy looked startled. "Look I understand your worried about that kid and all, but it has nothing to do with u-" "Where do get off with that?" We turned and jumped. There stood a man, half bird half human. He was carrying a mail bag. "Who the hell are you?" Cried one of the crew members pointing an accusing finger at him. "I'm a mail carrier, that's who." He snapped causing the crew member to shut up. He turned back to us. "Now as my work entitles me in delivering letters, I spend much of my time traveling between the many different islands resulting in me hearing lots of things...haven't you heard word yet that young boys with golden eyes have been getting kidnapped recently from all regions of the Great Sea? Whether you heard of this or not, it seems to be the case. These boys who are getting kidnapped across the sea are never to be seen of again. And, unless my eyes fail me, the young boy kidnapped from these young people also had golden eyes, much like yourself Mister Fearsome Pirate. My point is, the fox mistook you for that poor boy and grabbed him!" "..." "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was young Yellow here who saved you from the monsters in the Forbidden Forest. Just as this young Miss just told you." He gestured to Sapphire. "...she was telling the truth?" "OH! And one more thing I just might as well tell you, when that bird kidnapped both you and their friend, it's made it's nest in the far north on the heights of the Doom Fortress." "The Doom Fortress? Isn't that the place where..." The pirate trailed off. "So,what are you going to do? Under the circumstances it wouldn't be unreasonable for you to give Yellow a little help now would it?" "I don't need you to tell me that!" He spat. He turned back towards me. "Even if I were to consider it, I've heard nothing but evil rumors about the Doom can't possibly mean to go there with nothing but a tiny little sword! That's just foolish! I mean come on, even a simple little girl has to have something you can use as a shield right? Anything?" Mist perked up."Yellow! I think I saw a store on this island that sells a shield! I think you have enough to buy it!" "Oh, and I'm not coming back here for a while. So don't you go breaking down on me." We all scoffed at this. Very unlikely I thought. "Now hurry up before I change my mind!" He growled. Sapphire glared at him. "Come on Yellow, let's go find that shop!" Mist cried tugging on my arm.
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"Is that it?" He asked eying my shield. It was brown and gray, made of metal and wood. "It looks old, but I suppose it'll have to do." He sighed shaking his head. I can't believe I doing this He thought. "Come on, get aboard."
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~hydro-serpent58