by Gee-chan » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:40 pm
"Should we step in?"
"I think that would be best."
"It is a shame that we must though. I do not want to put us in a position where she must rely on us every time she faces a challenge."
"True, but this time it is different. You know as well as I do that as strong as they may be, they are still running from their pasts."
Slowly two dark clouds began to form either side of Tina's tortured form. Gradually, they began to take shape, each very different but both instantly recognisable. The first was a dark rounded form, with diminutive arms and legs. The thing's face was positioned in the middle of it's large torso, featuring a huge grinning mouth and large red eyes. Despite their threatening colour, the eyes held a kindness and gentle feel to them.
The other cloud became a tall thin figure which slowly gained human features. It was a tall, teenage bow with long brown hair. His face was grim and his dark eyes cold and as empty as the void itself. For some reason his clothing was damaged revealing a well muscled chest and arms. He looked a bit like Tina would have done if she had human colours.
The pair looked at each other and nodded. While the Gengar stood over Tina, the boy walked over to Absol and knelt down beside her, placing his hand on her head.
Absol fought a losing battle in her pokeball. She was determined to keep her mind intact but it was becoming more and more difficult as her strength waned. Suddenly another voice pierced her mind.
"How long are you going to stay in there?"
She knew that voice.
"You were never here, you are not here now, nor will you be, ever. Do you remember the lake?"
The lake? though Absol
"Remember it, picture it, make it real around you."
The lake.....
The rain fell hard around her as she limped forward. The broken form of the once pure white pokemon, now a dirty grey. She was hungry. She could not remember the last time she wasn't hungry. This year's berries had long gone and she was now too weak to hunt. And it was cold, so cold.
It's over. she thought, I can't go any further forward.
The quiet sobs of a young human child drifted through the air, drawing her closer. Under a make-shift tent at the shore was a boy, he was just as cold and wet as she was but he did have some food. Normally she would have fled at the sight of a human but today starvation drove her, she just could not resist that food. As she drew close the boy turned, his eyes wet with tear and his hair dripping. She sat down beside the boy, curling up next to him to stay warm. A hand on her head startled her slightly, as did the food offered to her. It was just a bit of bread, but it was something. The sad boy shared food with her, kept her warm that night, kept her company and she did the same for him as they both drifted off to sleep.
Morning seemed to come in an instant as Absol got to her feet, her two feet. Looking out across the shore she saw a familiar figure.
"Tom!" she called out, running towards him.
He turned towards her, smiling and holding out his hand. Absol reached out and held onto it tight.
"Let's go" he said
Absol nodded, smiling as they walked out onto the lake, and vanished into the rising sun.
The fires burned intensely, coming ever closer and closer while Tina beat desperately at the window. Fearfully looking back she saw the flames as they seemed flicker and warp into hideous faces; laughing, mocking, lashing her with their tongues of heat. Amid them all was another face, large and clear.
"How long are you going to stay there? How long are you going to let yourself be trapped here?"
"But" gasped Tina, terrified
"But what? The fire? What fire?"
Instantly the flames vanished. Without the flames in the way, Tina saw that the face belonged to Gengar, right down the uncharacteristic eyes.
"What the?" asked Tina
"There was never any fire." said Gengar, "Nor were you ever in this room when you burned it. This is what you have been running from isn't it? This is what made you take up the life you lead."
"Yes" said Tina, "I did everything I could to avoid this place, only for it to be brought to me. I shouldn't be allowed to leave."
"But you will" said Gengar, "You have to. There is far more at stake than your sense of guilt. You were going to try to prevent a disaster weren't you?"
"The battle!" gasped Tina in sudden remembrance and dashed out the door, turning to the right.
"Other way" called Gengar. Two seconds later Tina crossed by the door, this time going the other way.
Slowly but surely the pair returned to consciousness. As each one opened their eyes they were surprised to see their 'guides' still in front of them.
"What the?" said Tina, "How are you still here?"
Absol meanwhile looked up at Tom. He looked different than she remembered him, better built. Her heart thumped in her chest as she struggled to fight back human feelings she was not prepared for.
OOC: Hey guys, I had an idea for Darkrai but I need him to be defeated first. When you do, have it so an orb of dark energy is floating in the air, a sphere none of them can touch or attack. Trust me, I know what I am doing here.
I'm looking at the world through a Jaffa-cake filling.....
Let the loli's hit the floor.....
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