Angelic Favour

By: Theodore ‘Blitz’ Leung

Theoleung@sprint.ca

The trip on Melody was uneventful, though the more uneventful, the better the passengers felt on their journey. Skymin and Void remained overhead as lookout, and if they weren’t busy warning the others of danger, then nothing could be wrong.

Alex stood on the shell of the Lapras, staring out at the distance though there was nothing to look at. Ice, on the other hand, sat on the Lapras, watching the waves of the ocean pass by. Nil and Styx waited patiently onboard the Lapras, exchanging brief sentences from time to time. Ignite lay at the centre of the hard shell for transport, sleeping peacefully.

"Is it me, or is it getting a little hotter?" Ice asked, glancing up at Alex. The Psychic Angel glanced down, shaking his head. The Ice Angel’s gaze went towards the two Pikachu’s huddled together, both giving the same response as Alex.

"Must be me..." Ice responded to his own question, looking back down at the ocean water. Ripples trailed the group, caused by the swimming Lapras as they made their escape. The Lapras-Human hybrid glanced at his wound, carefully unwinding it and preparing another roll. He winced when he touched the cut lightly, cursing his carelessness when fighting Fuge. Ice wrapped the new roll around his wound, making sure it was tight. Once that was complete, the journey continued in silence, except for the sounds of the ocean.

* * * * * *

"Alex...can we talk for a second?" Void asked from above. Alex closed his eyes, creating an image of the Eevee mentally. Just by the Pokémon’s thoughts, Alex could tell Void had his eyes closed as well.

"I never knew you as a talking type," Alex responded, mentally smiling. "What’s wrong?"

"My Psychic abilities only come from telepathic talking and throwing light objects..." Void started, though he could sense some impatience from his companion. "You...you...you’re a Psychic Angel for a reason...and not because you’re Psychic...you’re more then that...much more..."

"And what do you mean by that?" Alex asked, sounding as if he didn’t know.

"Don’t play dumb with me, Psychic Angel," Void spoke softly, yet harshly. "You’re like Ice...you’ve been experimented on...you’re on of the advanced Chimera subjects...and you were merged with the DNA of a Psychic Pokémon...which one, I do not know...but you’re Psychic abilities surpass even the most powerful of Psychic’s for Humans."

"Heh," Alex ‘muttered’, ‘looking away’ and closing his mind momentarily. "I guess I should’ve known I couldn’t keep a secret from you." Alex sighed softly, opening his eyes and staring out at the distance.

"Just what is on that disk the doctor gave you?" Void inquired next, changing the topic to some degree.

"Me..." Alex answered softly.

"Pardon?" the Eevee questioned, unsure what the Psychic Angel meant with those words.

"Me," Alex repeated. "My history...my experiments...my abilities...my...my destiny..."

"In other words, it’s a large profile about yourself," Void concluded for his companion.

"Pretty much," Alex agreed, sighing once more. "I don’t like the ‘destiny’ part of the profile though."

"Should I ask? Or you don’t want to tell?" Void asked afterward.

"Either way, you’d find a way to pry it out of me," Alex commented, eluding the question in some manner.

"Probably," Void concurred. "I guess you should make it easy for yourself and tell me what this ‘destiny’ is."

"You’ll find out...I bet you will..." Alex once again spoke, eluding the question.

"Not even a hint?" the Eevee persisted. Silence overcame the two before Alex finally started.

"Not long ago...there was a Psychic Pokémon in the world...I could feel his presence...with my attuned Psychic nature..." Alex started. "A Pokémon of mass destruction...one hell bent on dominating the Human race..."

"However...there was another like that Psychic...similar...but much more faint...though equally as strong...and the two battled..."

"After their fight, the weaker of the two won...and the original disappeared from my senses...as did the other after that battle...as though both were shrouded under a blanket against Psychic energy."

"What does this have to do with your ‘destiny’?" Void interrupted, though the story was almost at an end.

"Those two beings are me...I am they...and my destiny...my destiny is set to defeating those like me...I don’t know why...but it is a force that drives my existence..."

"You’re saying you’re made to be a killing machine?!" Void exclaimed, surprised by such words from Alex.

"In all essence...yes...and until that time...I will remain unfulfilled..." Alex spoke softly, concluding the conversation. Void couldn’t talk anymore after this amount of information. The Eevee continued his sentry duties on Skymin with silence, leaving Alex to contemplate alone once more.

* * * * * *

Nil slowly raised her head, awakened by the panting of another being on the back of the Lapras. She gazed down at Styx, sleeping beside her, then towards the other passengers on Melody. Alex was sleeping, as was Ignite. Ice was the only one still awake in the middle of the night, aside from the two sentries and the Lapras herself. The female Pikachu headed over for Ice, remaining as quite as possible as not to awake the others.

"Can’t sleep?" Nil asked the Human, sitting down beside him. She looked up to his face when there was no initial response. "Hey Ice, are you alright?" the Pikachu asked next, responding to the fact Ice didn’t look to well, even with the low visibility with the darkness.

"Just a little warm...that’s all..." Ice responded weakly, leaning over and splashing some water over his face.

"That’s what you said six hours ago..." Nil countered softly, getting worried now for the Ice Angel. He glanced back, grinning lightly at the young female Pikachu, albeit difficult to see within the blanket of darkness. The sickened one patted the head of Nil lightly, before standing up and quietly heading over to the head of the Lapras.

"She’s right, you do look a bit pale..." Melody commented softly, agreeing with the female Pikachu. The Lapras looked back towards the one who shared DNA with her. "And I can tell you’re lying...both by the tone of your voice and by Psychic powers."

"Heh..." Ice chuckled softly, placing an arm against the Lapras’ long neck and leaning against it. "I’m that predictable to you now..." Melody also giggled, although in a serious way.

"Ice, we should get you to a hospital," Melody suggested. "I can run ashore to a nearby town and see if we can find medical aid for y-"

"No!" Ice interrupted forcefully, albeit softly as not to wake his companions. Even if he wanted to shout any louder, he couldn’t, as his condition was beginning to deteriorate even more. "Then again...I...I think...think I’ll take...that offer..."

His final words were faint and weak, as well as staggered. His grip of the Lapras grew light. Water splashed upwards, Ice falling over the ‘transport’ and into the freezing water they travelled on.

"Ice!" both Nil and Melody yelled out at once, quickly wakening the other members of the team.

* * * * * *

The group came ashore to what they only know as a deserted island. They quickly recovered Ice using Skymin’s aerial ability and Melody’s Psychic ability in conjunction. By the time they reached shore, the sun was already beginning to rise over the horizon.

"How is he?!" Nil exclaimed, rushing over to the fallen Human/Pokémon hybrid as soon as they hit shore. Alex leaned over the unconscious Ice Angel, placing a hand on the forehead of the sick.

"He’s got one hell of a fever...that’s for sure..." Alex commented softly. "But what could’ve caused it..." The Psychic Angel glanced up at the beached Lapras, getting only a shaken head as a response.

"I wouldn’t know what is wrong..." Melody told the group. "Even if he is part ‘me’, he is still also Human. It’s an anatomy that has never been seen except for that other one...Sarpal, I believe..."

"Sarpal...Samantha...s-s-stadium? Pokémon...Stadium?" Nil repeated softly, staggering away from the Ice Angel. "Stadium...Sam...Nova Arc...AAAAAAAAHH!"

The scream from the female Pikachu caught the attention of all. Styx raced over, trying to find out what’s wrong with Nil. She clutched her head tightly, as though something was pounding the inside of her skull.

"Sam...you can’t die...you couldn’t have died...no..." Nil muttered, curling up tightly into a ball.

"Nil, Nil...calm down," Styx tried to reason, shaking the Pikachu in an attempt to get her to snap out of it. The effort did little to stop the frenzy. Nil continued to moan and groan about things unknown to the others of the party.

"Let her be..." Ignite told his companion, stepping beside the male Pikachu.

"What?!" Styx exclaimed, facing Ignite with anger.

"What she’s rambling about...it’s probably an after affect of the serum Dr. Sapphire administrated," Ignite reasoned. "There isn’t much we can do...even if we wanted to help her..."

"But..." Styx spoke, his tone greatly weakened. He glanced over the Nil once more, watching her cringe in pain and talking in dementia.

Alex, not wanting to hear anymore, turned his attention back to the fallen comrade he was attending to before. The cause was quite clear, however.

"Fuge and his poison tipped blades," Void spoke, relating the thought running through Alex’s mind at that very moment. "That tactic is so like him...especially being a Venom Angel..."

"Is there anyway to help him...?" Skymin asked, landing beside the Psychic Angel. The Pidgeot was afraid of the answer he will receive.

"Under normal circumstances like this..." Alex spoke, sighing as a pause for his sentence. "Without any real medical facilities, he’ll die..."

"No..." Melody whispered, closing her eyes and looking away. Alex glanced over to the Eevee before him. The Psychic Angel knew this particular Eevee was different then usual. He already knew the Eevee could use attacks from all three of his ‘Stone’ evolutions. But the Angel also knew Void had abilities from the other two forms of an Eevee, though it is unknown what they are. All Alex knew was that Void was also part Psychic, probably from an evolution of these other two forms. But this information doesn’t matter now, as Alex turned his attention back to Ice.

"Under ‘normal’ circumstances..." Alex spoke, repeating the first three words of his sentence. Melody quickly looked back, wondering what the Psychic Angel meant with those words. Alex clasped one of Ice’s hands in his own, and placed his other hand on the poisoned Angel’s chest. Both hands from the Psychic Angel began to glow softly.

"Come on Lapras boy...you can’t die on me yet...I don’t intend to let you..." Alex muttered softly, closing his eyes. The glow began to intensify slowly and gradually, Alex expending more power to save his comrade in escape.

* * * * * *

Alex sat alone, away from his comrades and facing the ocean sea before him. His legs were pulled towards his chest, as his contemplation continued in silence.

"Ice is waking up," a voice spoke into his mind, though the Psychic Angel knew it was coming. "Though I doubt that is your concern at the moment."

"No, not really, Void," Alex answered closing his eyes so he could visualise the Eevee mentally. "I guess everyone is as surprised as you are..."

"Yeah..." Void agreed, ‘looking away’ from Alex. "I knew you were merged with Psychic Pokémon genes, but I didn’t know your Psychic abilities would come to a point where you can use ‘Recover’ on other begins...let alone a ‘Recover’ that can heal poison..."

"Well...the secrets out now," Alex joked lightly, chuckling a bit. "That’s the power of the Psychic I am merged with..."

"The other’s aren’t sure what to make of you anymore," Void reported. "Though Styx is more concerned for Nil at the moment. She fell unconscious a few minutes before."

"...and the others?" Alex inquired, a bit hesitant.

"Melody isn’t sure what to make of you now," Void continued. "Ignite seems neutral, I can’t read him. Of course, we don’t know about Ice, he’s just waking up."

"...and you?" the Psychic Angel spoke, taking the Eevee aback from the question.

"My decision is impartial," Void responded softly, evading the question. Alex didn’t mind, he would find out sooner or later as their journey continues on.

"Let’s hope it doesn’t become negative when you see the true ‘me’," the Psychic told Void. The Eevee didn’t answer, only allowed the Psychic Angel to continue contemplating by himself, just the way Alex liked it.

<Fin>