Now, it took me a little while but I got another one done. And a lot of dialog. Lots and lots of dialog. And some silly. With more silliness to come.
Anyway, read and review. And don't forget about the silly.
Episode 153: Sunset Horizons
I stared as Fervo and Mewtwo started arguing again. I flexed my claws, deliberating throwing Fervo off of the cliff myself just to shut him up. Then I spotted Mewtwo glancing at me out of the corner of his eye and turned away, refusing to look at him. I then realised that standing around while looking in the opposite direction just made me look stupid, more so than usual, so I walked off. Up the cliff. Strait past Eve and into the trees. I heard her follow behind.
"Hey, wait up!"
I glanced over my shoulder at her, trying to ignore the headache I could feel growing. If she wanted to start something, she'd picked a bad time.
"What do you want?" I asked, sounding a little more hostile than I had intended.
"The same thing you do," she replied, I was wondering if she wanted to throw Fervo off of the cliff too, "to get away from that." She didn't. Shame. That would have been funny.
"You aren't going to throw something at me, are you?"
"I said I was sorry!" She exclaimed, obviously never having heard of friendly ribbing, "how many times do you want me to apologise?"
"I was joking, have a sense of humour," I sighed as I slipped the vine around my neck and adjusted the knot untill it was comfortable again.
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Eve was staring at the horn, probably never had seen one before even attached to a Nidoran let alone like mine was.
"What is that?"
I didn't feel like going into it so I used as little detail as possible, "war trophy," before glancing back, I wanted to ask Eve something without Mewtwo around and I could still here Fervo yelling so I knew the clone was occupied.
"Is he always like that?" I asked. She knew who I meant and nodded.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Fuckwit," I grumbled before I could stop myself.
"Excuse me?" Eve asked, looking a little confused. I back peddled. Fast.
"Not you, him. He's a bloody bastard."
"Oh," she still sounded confused, probably never having heard the phrases before, "yeah, pretty much."
Well, I could at least teach her a way to get back at Mewtwo. Even if it was only just annoying him.
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I then realised that I had been staring at her for a few seconds while I was thinking, so I said the first thing that came into my head before she noticed, "You guys don't get along well, do you?"
"You noticed."
"It was kinda hard to miss," I replied, stopping dead when I spotted Mewtwo walking towards us with Fervo following behind. Eve frowned as she spotted him too, but I was too busy watching Fervo clench and unclench his fists. Something had been said and he was close to smacking something, I did not intend for it to be me.
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Mewtwo was looking at me and I decided to say something, so I wouldn't look like a complete idiot, "about time you noticed we'd walked off." I don't think it worked.
"Come this way, we have matters to discuss," Mewtwo ordered as he walked strait past me, very rude. I threw a mock salute and a "Yes sir" while Fervo just flipped the middle claw at the clone's back. I spotted Eve watching the claw gesture, another thing that she didn't seem familiar with. Although she did seem to get the hidden meaning.
"This could prove interesting," I muttered under my breath, before realising that I sounded just like Mewtwo and bit my tongue. There was a little blood, stupid sharp fangs.
'Next I'll be talking like Scyther' I thought grimly.
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I followed Mewtwo in silence, ignoring him with ease. My stomach was easily outclassing his telepathy in my mind, so I kept my eyes peeled for any sign of food. I almost jumped out of my scales when there was a small thump, but it was only Eve kicking a rock. It was a fairly large rock, yet it didn't seem to hurt her foot at all.
"You were not listening either," came Mewtwo's intruding telepathy. I spotted an apple tree and started climbing, ignoring him. Which worked fine untill I was psychically thrown back to the floor. Which was solid. Headfirst.
"What the hell was that for?" I growled as I pulled myself up, standing on unsteady legs as my head swam.
"You cannot eat untill I am certain that it will not affect you." He sounded amused, especially when my anger came close to bursting again, wiping out the dizziness with burning rage.
"It will have an effect, it'll stop me starving!"
"You will survive. If you do as you are told then the tests will take less time."
"I hope Giovanni catches you next time, because I am not going to save you after this," Fervo grumbled, getting a reaction out of both of the clones.
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While they were staring at him, I shot up the tree and plucked an apple from its branches. I managed three bites before I was thrown to the floor again; at least I landed on my stomach that time.
"Are all lizards this rash?" Mewtwo muttered as he started walking again.
"You owe me," Fervo whispered as he pulled me up before following Mewtwo.
"Aye," I muttered, noticing the apple laying on the ground nearby and picking it up before following behind.
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"He's using us as experiments," Fervo muttered as we found ourselves back in the clearing ten minutes later. Mewtwo had walked off and neither of us could see Eve, so we presumed that she had followed behind.
"I hope Mew shows up soon," I replied, looking up at the sunset as the two of us sat in the grass.
"That reminds me!" Fervo said loudly as he leapt to his feet, "me and Eve figured out who the thief was. Well, me mainly. Eve just mentioned the name and I put the links together."
"Mew, right?" I asked, laughing at the dejected look on his face. I decided to cheer him up a little, "I only figured it out when you remembered when I mentioned Mew. I should have known really, I know he likes stealing milk."
"We found our thief, the one good thing about being here."
"I wouldn't say that," I laughed, laying back and looking up at the sky, "we can take a vacation while we are here. Hell, I need one. We play along with Mewtwo to keep him off of our backs, while we relax and enjoy our stay. Eve doesn't seem too bad. She gave us food after all."
"What about the others?" Fervo asked, looking down at me.
"They'll be fine. Scyther can pull them out of trouble. Scout too."
"I hope you are right."
"I know I am right. I am a genius after all," I laughed, getting one out of the Treecko to as he lay down as well.
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Next thing I know, it is dark and I jolt upright as a small explosion sounds across the clearing. On the other side, the berry bush that I'd been snacking from when Eve had first attacked us was burning away.
"Ack! The food!" I yelled, pulling the dozy Treecko upright and dragging him towards the charred remains, "the food is gone."
"You woke me up to tell me that?" Fervo grumbled, shrugging me off and laying back down, "it's nothing important."
"But the food!"
"There's more around here, remember?"
"That isn't the point."
"Just shut up and go to sleep. From what Mewtwo was saying earlier, we're going to have a long day tomorrow."
"But," I started, untill he interrupted.
"Absorb!"
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I suddenly felt drained and collapsed.
"I will kill you," I managed to murmur.
"Sure, and I can fly," was the reply before I fell asleep again.