A Dragon's Tail
Tail 1: Rachael's Tail – Contamination
Tail 1-Interlude: A Faint Light
"…"
"…A….y…u…a…r…ht…"
"…Are you alright?"
A powerful but warm and gentle voice echoed through my ears. I slowly opened my eyes and tried to see who spoke that…
"…Are you alright?" The same voice asked me again. "Here, let me help…"
The owner of that voice reached their paw to me to help me stand up.
"…Thank you…" I gave my gratitude to them as I stood up.
I looked around this place. It seemed like I am in a beautiful and exotic garden with small bushes, refreshing air, stone statues, sparkling river and curved bridge. The most outstanding thing in this place was the trees that grew up here. Instead of having green leaves on their branches, the trees had the pale pink-colored flowers, both in bud and in full-bloom, decorated everywhere. The sight of pale pink petals falling from the trees and dancing in the wind before reaching the ground below was so… beautiful…
"This place… is so beautiful…" I commented.
"You are in the Cherry Blossom Trail." A Pokemon who helped me explained. "It's famous for the cherry blossom that will only bloom during this time of the year. Cherry Blossom is also the flower that represents Theocracy of Venturnome."
"Cherry Blossom Trail… Theocracy of Venturnome…" I repeated the words I heard. "So… I am on the continent of Symmetria, right?"
"Hm?" That Pokemon looked at me. "You spoke as if… you have just come here out of…nowhere…"
"Well… I…" I tried to remember what was happening to me before I came here, but I couldn't remember anything! "I…don't remember…"
"You don't remember?" That Pokemon crossed their arms. "Then, what about your name? Do you remember your name?"
I tried to think again, but I couldn't remember anything about myself.
"…No…" I shook my head no. "I don't remember…"
"I see… You couldn't remember anything about yourself… Yet you know that this place is on the continent of Symmetria…" That Pokemon spoke up again. "And… If you don't remember anything about yourself… Then… Could you at least remember that you were always a kind of Pokemon you are now?"
I slowly walked up to a river nearby and looked at my reflection in the surface of water. The reflection I saw was… same… It was the reflection of my face… My face that I could remember very well… But… Somehow… I felt like I am a bit… hollow inside my body… I felt like I am not a 'whole'.
"Yes…" I gave her a short answer.
"…." That Pokemon said nothing and walked up to the river. They then stood beside me.
I looked at myself on the surface of water again. Somehow… I felt as if…
I slowly reached my paw to the surface of water, trying to touch my reflection…
And when I did…
"...T…That…"
"Finally… After a long waiting for over a thousand years…"
"After those with Blood of Legend defeated me and sealed me within the rift of time and space… I have been waiting for this…"
"With this… I will finally get my own body…"
" I will finally exist.."
"And with my existence…"
"I will continue my duty of plaguing the world with nightmares, just like what I did during Twilight Crisis!"
"GRRRRRRRRRR"
"What the?!"
I looked at the surface of water again. When I touched the surface of water, I heard a voice of someone… Who speaks about something about darkness… And… It seemed like the one who spoke that was…me?!
"What happened?" The Pokemon who helped me asked when they saw me acting a bit strange.
"N…Nothing…" I gave them a false answer as I still didn't know what had just happened to me.
"…Alright then…" That Pokemon continued speaking. "If you still couldn't remember anything, why don't you come with me? I will show you around Theocracy of Venturnome. Maybe you will remember something…"
"Thank you…" I expressed my gratitude to them again.
"And before that… I think I haven't introduced myself yet, right?" That Pokemon said, and then they started introducing themselves.
"My name is Iris Mysteric the Mewtwo. I am the Sage of Existence and the current Hero of Legend who holds the power of psychic type. For now, I am the Archsage of Theocracy of Venturnome."
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: Here's the first interlude for you.
This interlude is a bit mysterious, isn't it? We have unknown character who suffers amnesia. They couldn't remember anything about themselves, include their name! And we also meet Iris, the current Hero of Legend who holds the power of Psychic type.
The next chapter would be the start of the second tail! I must warn you again that the second tail is MUCH darker than the first tail. So, be careful…
A special thanks to Ridin Valon for helping me with the error correction.