Yes, I, shadow have lifted the plot of Yu-gi-oh! To use in pokemon, like CCA and my sailor moon and FY ficcies. Ah well.
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon, only new characters. Please refer to Satoshi Tajiri and Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. I do not own Yugioh either. Ask Kazuki Takahashi.
Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics for pokemon talking. Have distributed millennium items to various people in pokemon. Warned. Charlotte is Ash’s twin older sister in this fic. Everyone is 15 except for Lance, who is 17
Emerald: So, new fic?
Phantomness: *Beams*
Emerald: And I’m you’re muse for this one? This is a serious fic?
Phantomness: I decided to give Lance a break for this fic, at least temporarily.
Emerald: Oh
Ash: Millennium Puzzle
Lance: Millennium Tauk
Charlotte: Millennium Eye
This was once a separate fic, but I merged it with ‘Puzzle pieces’ to become one fic.
Chapter 3: Return to me
The clouds outside the window looked like a giant man-eating shark about to gobble up his boring Spanish teacher.
Ash rubbed his aching eyes as he copied down the last page of notes on verb conjugations for that day, and waited for the bell to ring.
The clock ticked.
Ash fidgeted.
He scratched his ear, he tapped his pencil, he drew squiggly drawings of the school exploding, and he scribbled bits of Romeo and Juliet still floating around in his head from English class earlier…
The bell finally rang.
Twenty minutes later, Ash dashed out the door happily.
“Wait up!” Charlotte said, running after him. Ash slowed down, allowing her to catch up. The new law enacted said that all trainers needed six years of junior high/high school education before they were twenty-two, so after three years of journeying, Ash and Charlotte had settled down. They were currently enrolled in their third year of the required education.
Her black glossy hair was parted carefully, hiding the left side of her face.
Ash still couldn’t look at her without a bit of a chill. When her left eye had been damaged and had was surgically removed after a training accident involving and explosion and a Muk, they had installed a false eye, made of gold.
That would not have mattered much, except that Charlotte had confided a secret in him.
There were things she could do with that eye. Pass as a psychic, for example.
Still, nobody else knew.
He had promised to keep her secret.
Of course, then there had been the strange dreams. Dreams of a glowing place, filled with pokemon. Ash saw himself interacting with them, battling, playing… often just living. But the strange thing was, he wore white robes and what looked like a golden puzzle around his neck. Golden bracelets wound up his arms and legs, and on his forehead glowed the kanji for thunder.
Ash knew he didn’t’ have a puzzle, only puzzle pieces that he had been working on for five years, ever since Professor Oak had sent it, claming it was mystic junk.
Still, maybe there was some connection.
“Want me to make you a snack?” Charlotte asked as she opened the door to their house. Their mom was off working in Houen again. She had a steady job as an engineer in Devon, so she was often gone.
“Okay!”
Charlotte nodded. Half an hour later, they were munching on fresh-baked blueberry scones with honey. Ash pulled out his Trigonometry homework and they both worked in it.
An hour was devoted to Spanish, and another to World Literature/History. But they both had their homework done by the time they ate dinner at seven-thirty.
“Going to work on the puzzle again?”
“You bet!” Ash said excitedly.
“Just don’t’ hurt yourself, okay?”
“I won’t…” Ash pouted. Once, he had been trying to put two particularly tricky pieces together, when he missed a step on the stairs and rolled down. Charlotte had gotten ice to get rid of the giant bruise, but it was still embarrassing.
But this time, there weren’t as many problems. It was half-assembled when he turned in for the night.
Two more days passed, as Charlotte swore to send the Spanish teacher on a nice long vacation somewhere, and Ash nearly failed his biology test because the teacher used the wrong key to correct it.
Still, that night, he managed to solve the puzzle. He worked long into the night, finally falling asleep with the puzzle next to his face, head on a thick Literature text.
The strange thing was that he didn’t feel any different. He still had dreams.
The next day he went to school, puzzle hidden under his black jacket. However, at lunch, Charlotte found him.
“You solved it?”
Ash nodded, wondering how she knew.
“That’s good. You know that I can control power with this Eye.” Charlotte said. ‘Your puzzle has the same type of power. They are from the same set.”
“So you’ll teach me?”
Charlotte laughed. “I don’t need to. You already know how to use it unconsciously. Remember all those times on the journey when we thought we were at the ends of our ropes, but something always came through?”
Scrunching up his face, Ash nodded.
“You were using your powers of Shadow. Mine are of light, and weaker. But now you have the Puzzle as your focus. Your magic will get stronger.’
“So I can summon spirits too?” Ash asked excitedly.
“Yes.’ Charlotte said.
Ash smiled as he bit into his tangy mustard and ham sandwich. “Wow…”
“Get used to it,” Charlotte ruffled his hair. “Life is never boring or simple around you.”
Chewing on the thought, Ash decided it was true. “So now what?”
“We wait I guess… you can send the biology teacher to the Dream Realm by the way.”
Ash laughed. “Ah.”
End Chapter!
Created 1/15/04, completed 1/27/04