Lightning flashes across the sky as the air
was split in twain by its sheer force, and the painful howl of the very breathe
of the land fills every heart in dread. In this place of sorrow and hate, a
small girl stands among the swirling energy of the elements with a dark smile
upon her lips. Hidden by the shadows, and with the elements under her command,
she turns and utters a single word…Reshon.
It was like a
nightmare. Officer Jenny had never even fathom that the plan could go so awry
as she grab one pokeball after another releasing and in most cases returning
the girl’s pokemon until she discovers which one the shiny Dragonite belong
inside. With a sign, she rolls the small golden pokeball in her hand as two of
the girl’s pokemon growls at her threaten.
She only glances at them in frustration as she enlarges the ball, and
then returns the Dragonite inside. They were just one more example of how her
plans had gone so horrible wrong. Now instead of just having two pokemon to
worry about she now had three, including what she guess was a wild Hopip. A
frown crosses her features as her pidgey screams out loud taking her mind away
from the trouble at hand for a few moments as it cartwheel in the sky signaling
that help would soon be coming. That more people would have to be informed of
her mistake, but there was no getting around it. She sat down beside the
sleeping girl to the outrage of her Jolteon and Growlithe, yet neither attacks
her. They just growl, and sat down
besides her, eyeing her with mistrust. Reattaching the pokeballs to the girl’s
belt, she found herself at a lost to do anything else but wait. To her relief
and horror it wasn’t too long before they arrives as she rose to greet them.
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Reshon’s POV
Darkness and light, air and earth, in my dreams these
elements continue to plague me as they beg for my help. Yet with the rousing of
my body, and the opening of my eyes the memories of from what slips from my
grasps like mist as I awoke in a cold sweat doubting everything in my dreams.
“It’s about time,” a harsh voice greets me as a young women
seemingly in her late twenties or early thirties comes into view. She smiles at
me lightly as I stare into the sorrow of her silent green eyes. Words weren’t
needed from her as I try my best to gather all my wits about me. I had a very
good feeling that I would need them, and as if that harsh voice could read my
thoughts it spoke out again.
“Reshon,” I knew for sure now that it didn’t belong to the
lady in front of me. “Reshon,” it booms again as I turn this time to see a very
tall man at a desk a few feet from me with a serious expression on his face.
“I know you
would much rather we wait until you’re fully awaken to question you, but from
the information we receive from Officer Jenny such a thing isn’t possible.”
“The Pokemon Master, Sapphire’s life depends on talking to you as soon as
possible.” The man stated as the lady took a sit next to me, and he relays the
entire situation to me.
It was an
understatement to say that I was confuse about the whole thing, especially
since the last thing I remember was my battle with Sapphire. How I ended up
here, and what must have happen before that was a complete mystery to me as I
lock eyes with the man. Yet, the conflict of my final memory also made such
knowledge seem irrelevant as I stated my questions carefully.
“Where is
Dratini?”
The man just
laughs slightly as he points to my belt, and then signal for the lady beside me
to get the door. Two strong bounds later, and the two pokemon had knocked me to
the floor. Making me laugh loudly as they lick at my face eagerly as if I had
been missing for years. Only the movement of purple at the corner of my vision
kept me from missing the wild pokemon’s entirely as it hung back in the
doorway.
“Hopip,” I
calls out to it, and with only a slight hesitation it came to me.
“Pip, pip,
hop, hopip, hop, pip, hop,” It’s voice rambles as it went through the whole
story of how it got here without being ask. I just smile as I push Growlithe
and Blitz (Jolteon) off of me and reach out and hug the pokemon lightly. Once
it had calm down a little bit I pull the gold pokeball from my belt and release
Dratini just to check on her condition. There wasn’t scratch on her, and she
yawns lazily.
“Now, if you
don’t mind answering our questions?” the harsh voice boom once again as I
half-heartedly look up into what I thought would be an angry face. I was
completely surprise to see a smile there instead, and as if she read my mind
the lady drops down beside me on the floor and whisper into my ear.
“Any trainer
worth a grain of salt would worry about their pokemon before anything else.”
I nod in
agreement as I pat the top of the slightly trembling Hopip’s head as I slowly
got off the ground, and back onto the bench I had been sleeping on prior. My
three pokemon curl up underneath my feet or hop up next to me on the bench.
“So who is the
boss of team rocket?” the man surprises me a bit with the question, and I
figure he had misread my nod.
“Who is the
boss of Team Rocket? I repeat his questions in awe. If I was clueless before I
didn’t even have a hope of a hint now.
“Pip, Hop,
Pip, Hop,” Hopip answers back. “A man about in his twenties with dark black
hair?” I stun that he knew the answer to the question, and the man seem
satisfied with the description and move on to the next.
“Do you know
his name?”
“Do I know his
name?”
“Pip, Hop,
Pip.
“No they only
called the man boss.”
Thus in this
way all of his questions were answer, with me learning more and more about the
event in question, and Hopip giving enough information to satisfy the man. I
thought it was a win..win situation as I left the room after the questioning
with my pokemon in toll, until I ran into Officer Jenny outside the door. Her
face was a mask of desperations and sorrow as she looks down at me.
“Are you sure
that is all you know?” she asks in a hollow voice.
“Yes,” I look
her square in the eyes, and she just took a deep breath and enter the room I
had just exit.
I felt the
feeling of hopelessness take over me as I came to the conclusions that my
information hadn’t been enough to help Sapphire, and so with a heavy heart I
left the station and headed home.
Meanwhile in
the room, “ Damn, that doesn’t help us find her at all,” a voice shouts in
anger as the sound of a fist hitting a wall follows afterwards.
“Calm down,
Jenny,” the soft light voice of a female speaks soothingly. “ “Its not over
yet, and from the feelings I was getting from that girl this will not be the
last attempt they make on her.”
“Mirage, what
do you mean?” the man sitting at the desk shot to his feet.
Mirage took a
second to figure out her words as she tried to put them into plan English. “As
you know, I have ESP, and can read feelings enough to know if a person is tell
an untruth or withholding information, yet with her… I am unsure.” “It was like
something was barring me from such feelings, so I couldn’t tell if she was or
wasn’t telling the truth.” “In fact, it was hiding her so well from me that I
wouldn’t have been able to tell you that she was in this room if she wasn’t
seating in front of us.”
“So she
probably have ESP like you,” Jenny snaps back a bit agitated.
“No, it’s not
that, I would have felt it if she was using any such power.” “No, she’s
strange…different from any other person I have ever had contact with.”
“Like some
unforeseen force, or a shadow that walks alone,” the man pipe in to the
surprise of Mirage.
“Chief,”
Mirage and Jenny reply together as he smile at them both awkwardly.
“It’s an old
wives tell that the Gymleader Brown told both me and Sapphire a couple of weeks
before this happen. It would seem that he was right that wherever that girl
travels trouble will not be too far behind, and if the tale he told us were
true then its going to get a lot worst.”
“Okay, chief,
enough dramatics,” Officer Jenny states as she leans up against the same wall
she had put her fist into. “What’s the legend?”
“I’m curious
as well,” Mirage smirk slightly as she takes a seat on the bench, and the chief
falls back into his seat. He slowly clears his throat as he begins to recite
the words that Brown had told him.
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Alone she must
chose to save the world
Like some
unforeseen force, or a shadow that walks alone
The Girl of
Legend would come on the tail of a storm
The elements
of destruction will come to life
On her
shoulders everything will rest
Time will aid
her on this quest
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“Well, that explains a lot!”
Officer Jenny states with a touch of sarcasm in her voice.
“Hmmm, yes it does,” Mirage,
whom completely misses the sarcasm, states. “Some one with that much power, to
be able to stand before the very elements, she must hold more than my sense can
handle, and thus they sense nothing.”
“Like a pit
being so deep that one doesn’t even realize it has a bottom,” Jenny retorts in
a voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Exactly,”
Mirage smiles at Jenny.
“So, chief,”
Jenny ignores her completely. “How many people know this story?”
“Except for
us, this story generally doesn’t leave the ranks of Gymleaders and pokemon
masters.” He answers looking at her a bit confuse by the question.
Mirage picking
up a bit more on where she was going with this joins in with the next question.
“And how many gymleaders fit the girl’s description?”
A dark grin
crosses the chief’s face.
Meanwhile at
Reshon’s home, the girl in question stood outside looking longingly at her
house. She knew that it would be a
while, before she sat eyes on it again, and this both excites her and makes her
sad. She was going to be on her own from here on in as she closes her eyes
accepting this fact. Opening them slowly she remembers all the friends and the
adventures she had had in this place, and her fist clutches close in memory of
Sapphire. Yet, the spark of new adventures, friends, and pokemon set her eyes a
light in the dust of the afternoon as she turns and walk away from her home
towards the road that would take her away from everything she had every known
and into the unknown.
…To Be Continued!!!
(Author note’s) Thanks Topaz for reviewing. It means a lot to
me that someone is still reading my fanfics, and it definitely gives me a
reason to update a lot sooner.