Mystic Latios
30th November 2003, 02:17 AM
I finally decided to redo the whole fic. Now the first chapter will be very similar to the origional one, but the other chapters will definately be different from the origional. And here's the first chapter...
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Spiritual Night
-Chapter 1-
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The sun was slowly starting to hide itself behind the mountainous peaks to the west of the small river valley covered in a lush rainforest. The gigantic trees were stretching their thick branches towards the last specks of sunlight, before the cold night came upon them to slowly form frost on their miniature, oval green leaves. The small exotic flowers that covered the forest floor were slowly closing their petals, preparing for the cold night while trapping some small insects that were trying to get a small snack of their sugar sweet honey.
The glittering silver stars started to sparkle into the darkening sky. Thick clouds that smothered the sky like a blanket were slowly turning into a mist-like form in the blood freezing atmosphere, quickly clearing away for the pokemon and humans to get a good view of the night sky approaching. A small gust of wind blew through the branches as the sleeping Butterfree were slowly waking up from their slumber to see the soon coming spectacle.
The large group of Butterfree started twitching their long antennas and started flapping their rainbow-colored wings to warm them up for their night flight. The Butterfree‘s mouths started sucking honey and pollen from the large apple blossoms on the trees, slurping all the food they could get before their migration.
Their wings started glowing like a bright aurora borealis as they slowly started to lift off of their resting spots and took flight. The small, scaly black flaps around the edges of their wings lifted up as the powdery dust started flowing out of them and floated along in the wind, making it look like they were glowing fireflies riding the wind currents.
They were now starting to migrate south while their small insect bodies were climbing higher and higher into the air. They emerged out of the forest and above a large field, covered in six inch tall grass. The field was surrounded by the forest trees and had a small river flowing its pure, crystal clear water along the east side of the field.
Near the center of the field was a small village, named Usoitar, that had the same architecture look like nineteenth century Japanese buildings. In the center of the town was a three story building, where the Lord and Lady of the town lived. Surrounding it were large food stands and stores, waiting for the last of their customers to purchase their goods so that they could close their doors for the night. Only the medical center stayed open for the night, in case of any late night accidents that the village doctor must heal.
The homes, which surrounded the town, had large peak roofs covered in tube-like shingles and had small, wooden porches surrounding them. Black smoke billowed out of the chimneys as some family members opened the sliding doors made of birch wood and pearl white cloth, like the walls, and sat at the porch steps, admiring the wondrous view of the Butterfree flying overhead. Forming into the night sky over the flying bug pokemon, was a vast aurora borealis, lighting up the night sky with a large arrangement of colors, like a light show.
Sakura Marla, a small ten year old girl, glazed at the amazing sight in awe with her soft, glistering sapphire eyes. Her long, emerald green hair hanged down to the top of her shoulders, and was waving in the sudden cold wind that blew through the chilly night air. She was wearing a silky white, long sleeve shirt along with a small, crimson dress that went down to her ankles. On her small feet were sandals made from intertwining dried grass and sliced bamboo.
The moon shined its pale light on her pale face while the entrance door behind her slid open. Her mother, who was wearing a silky crimson kimono, lightly stepped out of the house, barely making a sound. She watched her daughter observing the spectacle above along with half of the village as a small smile formed on her face.
“It’s amazing.” Sakura exclaimed, turning towards her mother.
“Yes it is. And to think that if you missed it, you would have to wait another fifty years for it to happen again.” Her mothered sweetly answered while watching it too.
“Really? I never knew that.”
“Well you’re still young honey.” The mother started. “There is still a lot of things you need to learn.”
“When do I get to learn it all momma?”
“In a few years sweetie. In a few years.” Sakura’s mom dazed off, thinking of her daughter’s future. “After this rare event is over, come back in for dinner with the rest of your family. I’m cooking some of the fresh sakana (fish) I bought today in the market, along with some small bowls of gohan (rice) and soba (noodles made of buckwheat flour).”
“Okay!” Sakura answered cheerfully while she turned her attention back to the sky.
She smiled to herself as she left her daughter on the porch steps. A tear started to form in the corner of her eye as a sudden thought went through her head.
‘Good thing she doesn’t know what would have happened tonight if it still occurred. I couldn’t think of what I would do if I lost my daughter…’
As her mother closed the front door, Sakura suddenly noticed that some of the Butterfree were flying away from the others and were heading towards the western part of the forest. Curiosity got the better of her as she walked down her front yard and checked her small Seedot. It had a gray shell on top of its brown, acorn-looking body along with a stem on top. Two small yellow circles were just below the gray helmet with small, topaz pupils that stared at her.
“Hello Seedy. Want to take a small trip through the woods?” She smiled on the infant pokemon. It started squealing loudly with delight as Sakura wrapped her arms immediately around it and lift it up.
“No Seedy! You can’t make any loud noises, or momma will catch us and we won’t be able to go then.” She whispered.
The baby Seedot quickly became silent as she trotted down the dirt path, trying to catch up with a speedy Butterfree that flew past her head. Sakura suddenly had no choice but to leave the path and ran down the short hill towards the western forest entrance. Her Seedot started to squeal softly with delight, thinking how much fun it was letting the wind brush its face.
Sakura’s hair flowed in the air like an ocean at the seashore as she starting to sprint, trying to catch up as her feet started to ache. The moonlight barely lit the forest floor as she almost tripped on a small tree root that a small, hungry Paras was pulling from the ground. It had started feeding on the tips of the root while Sakura continued to run again in the now frozen ground, more further behind then she was before she tripped.
She suddenly felt her sense of fear growing inside her like a weed while having the feeling that someone was stalking her right now from the darkness. Her breath could be seen as a large puff of smoke coming out of her mouth, while the air temperature started to drop like a rock from a cliff.
She started shivering in the cold as she started seeing tons of glowing yellow eyes staring at her from the trees’ shadows with curiosity, which made her spine chill. Sakura quickly made a huge sigh of relief as she saw that the glowing eyes belonged to a flock of Hoothoot and Noctowl that were settling on the tree branches.
‘What am I so nervous about? Its just a bunch of bird pokemon that were glaring at me. Not some crazy person.’ She tried to convinced herself while trying to warm her hands up. Her words still didn’t comfort her from the feeling that something was hunting her.
She wrapped a small blanket that she was carrying around her Seedot to keep it from shivering . It started to make a small whimper while making a large sneeze. She started hoping that it wasn’t getting sick as another thought came to her head.
‘Where are the Butterfree going anyway? Are they going towards some other Butterfree to make them follow them? Since I‘m all the way out here, I might as well find out.’
That last thought turned out to be the biggest mistake she had ever made in her life. She ran out of the forest and into a hilly field that she didn’t even knew existed near her village. She started squinted her eyes in the pitch black darkness to see where the dim moonlight was reflecting off of. Slowly, she began to see an outline of a huge and empty village. The fairly large buildings looked as if they were slowly decaying like corpses over a long period of time.
She also started to notice a strong, pungent smell of death that was in the air. She tried her best to cover her nose, so that she wouldn’t breath in the strong and awful stench while holding her baby pokemon. The smell, unfortunately, didn‘t go away as Sakura felt like she was going to suffocate.
‘What the hell is with that smell? And what is this place?’ She wondered along with her ever sickening Seedot. ‘Is this the mysterious cursed village that momma kept talking about behind my back when she thinks I‘m not listening?’
She suddenly felt goose bumps all over her arms as she suddenly had that same, dark feeling again in her bones. A strong gust of freezing wind, howling like a snarling wolf, suddenly rushed through her and into the field in front of her. It sounded as if it came from behind her and was going to attack at any time.
Small, silky white snowflakes started falling down towards the ground, even though the sky was clear of dark clouds. Its as if the snow was coming from the aurora borealis. Or may be, just may be, from something else.
The torches that bordered the abandoned looking town started to lit up by themselves, giving the town a haunting look that started to scare her. Candles, large and small, were lighting up by the invisible unknown. She started shivering from fright and from the ever lowering temperature. The stem on top of Seedot’s head started to form frost.
“Its that cold already?” Sakura asked herself, not knowing how to explain the events that were happening around her.
Sakura started hearing the voices of people in the village, but they weren’t sounding like they were just having friendly talk. The voices were screaming in agony and in misery, sounding sort of like the dying people in a war movie that could haunt your dreams for eternity. There were even the sound of children crying in agony, but not in pain as in torture. More like crying as if they were emotionally upset from watching their loved ones dying in front of them.
“Okay I think its time to go back now.” Sakura shivered as she slowly backed up.
The baby Seedot in her arms suddenly heard something rustling in the forest behind it and her trainer, and was now squeaking to get her attention. A sudden, loud thump noise from behind alerted her as she quickly turned around and slowly widen her eyes at what she saw.
A small boy that looked like he was the same age as she was, sat on the cold ground. The boy had greasy, black hair that covered his face and was wearing all black clothes that had small bloodstains on them.
“Are you all right?” She started questioning the boy while shivering from the deep cold that now surrounded her.
The eerie and creepy looking boy said nothing as he slowly started standing up on his bare feet. He had small spots of yellow skin spreading on his frost bitten feet. The boy slowly lifted his head, as Sakura starred in horror at the face that was hidden behind his partially long hair.
She started to make a shriek that echoed into the air as the boy started chasing her with his yellow patched arms. Sakura’s exit into the forest was now blocked because of the ghostly boy, and now she had no choice but to go into the haunting village while the moans and shrieks started to increased in volume.
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Spiritual Night
-Chapter 1-
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The sun was slowly starting to hide itself behind the mountainous peaks to the west of the small river valley covered in a lush rainforest. The gigantic trees were stretching their thick branches towards the last specks of sunlight, before the cold night came upon them to slowly form frost on their miniature, oval green leaves. The small exotic flowers that covered the forest floor were slowly closing their petals, preparing for the cold night while trapping some small insects that were trying to get a small snack of their sugar sweet honey.
The glittering silver stars started to sparkle into the darkening sky. Thick clouds that smothered the sky like a blanket were slowly turning into a mist-like form in the blood freezing atmosphere, quickly clearing away for the pokemon and humans to get a good view of the night sky approaching. A small gust of wind blew through the branches as the sleeping Butterfree were slowly waking up from their slumber to see the soon coming spectacle.
The large group of Butterfree started twitching their long antennas and started flapping their rainbow-colored wings to warm them up for their night flight. The Butterfree‘s mouths started sucking honey and pollen from the large apple blossoms on the trees, slurping all the food they could get before their migration.
Their wings started glowing like a bright aurora borealis as they slowly started to lift off of their resting spots and took flight. The small, scaly black flaps around the edges of their wings lifted up as the powdery dust started flowing out of them and floated along in the wind, making it look like they were glowing fireflies riding the wind currents.
They were now starting to migrate south while their small insect bodies were climbing higher and higher into the air. They emerged out of the forest and above a large field, covered in six inch tall grass. The field was surrounded by the forest trees and had a small river flowing its pure, crystal clear water along the east side of the field.
Near the center of the field was a small village, named Usoitar, that had the same architecture look like nineteenth century Japanese buildings. In the center of the town was a three story building, where the Lord and Lady of the town lived. Surrounding it were large food stands and stores, waiting for the last of their customers to purchase their goods so that they could close their doors for the night. Only the medical center stayed open for the night, in case of any late night accidents that the village doctor must heal.
The homes, which surrounded the town, had large peak roofs covered in tube-like shingles and had small, wooden porches surrounding them. Black smoke billowed out of the chimneys as some family members opened the sliding doors made of birch wood and pearl white cloth, like the walls, and sat at the porch steps, admiring the wondrous view of the Butterfree flying overhead. Forming into the night sky over the flying bug pokemon, was a vast aurora borealis, lighting up the night sky with a large arrangement of colors, like a light show.
Sakura Marla, a small ten year old girl, glazed at the amazing sight in awe with her soft, glistering sapphire eyes. Her long, emerald green hair hanged down to the top of her shoulders, and was waving in the sudden cold wind that blew through the chilly night air. She was wearing a silky white, long sleeve shirt along with a small, crimson dress that went down to her ankles. On her small feet were sandals made from intertwining dried grass and sliced bamboo.
The moon shined its pale light on her pale face while the entrance door behind her slid open. Her mother, who was wearing a silky crimson kimono, lightly stepped out of the house, barely making a sound. She watched her daughter observing the spectacle above along with half of the village as a small smile formed on her face.
“It’s amazing.” Sakura exclaimed, turning towards her mother.
“Yes it is. And to think that if you missed it, you would have to wait another fifty years for it to happen again.” Her mothered sweetly answered while watching it too.
“Really? I never knew that.”
“Well you’re still young honey.” The mother started. “There is still a lot of things you need to learn.”
“When do I get to learn it all momma?”
“In a few years sweetie. In a few years.” Sakura’s mom dazed off, thinking of her daughter’s future. “After this rare event is over, come back in for dinner with the rest of your family. I’m cooking some of the fresh sakana (fish) I bought today in the market, along with some small bowls of gohan (rice) and soba (noodles made of buckwheat flour).”
“Okay!” Sakura answered cheerfully while she turned her attention back to the sky.
She smiled to herself as she left her daughter on the porch steps. A tear started to form in the corner of her eye as a sudden thought went through her head.
‘Good thing she doesn’t know what would have happened tonight if it still occurred. I couldn’t think of what I would do if I lost my daughter…’
As her mother closed the front door, Sakura suddenly noticed that some of the Butterfree were flying away from the others and were heading towards the western part of the forest. Curiosity got the better of her as she walked down her front yard and checked her small Seedot. It had a gray shell on top of its brown, acorn-looking body along with a stem on top. Two small yellow circles were just below the gray helmet with small, topaz pupils that stared at her.
“Hello Seedy. Want to take a small trip through the woods?” She smiled on the infant pokemon. It started squealing loudly with delight as Sakura wrapped her arms immediately around it and lift it up.
“No Seedy! You can’t make any loud noises, or momma will catch us and we won’t be able to go then.” She whispered.
The baby Seedot quickly became silent as she trotted down the dirt path, trying to catch up with a speedy Butterfree that flew past her head. Sakura suddenly had no choice but to leave the path and ran down the short hill towards the western forest entrance. Her Seedot started to squeal softly with delight, thinking how much fun it was letting the wind brush its face.
Sakura’s hair flowed in the air like an ocean at the seashore as she starting to sprint, trying to catch up as her feet started to ache. The moonlight barely lit the forest floor as she almost tripped on a small tree root that a small, hungry Paras was pulling from the ground. It had started feeding on the tips of the root while Sakura continued to run again in the now frozen ground, more further behind then she was before she tripped.
She suddenly felt her sense of fear growing inside her like a weed while having the feeling that someone was stalking her right now from the darkness. Her breath could be seen as a large puff of smoke coming out of her mouth, while the air temperature started to drop like a rock from a cliff.
She started shivering in the cold as she started seeing tons of glowing yellow eyes staring at her from the trees’ shadows with curiosity, which made her spine chill. Sakura quickly made a huge sigh of relief as she saw that the glowing eyes belonged to a flock of Hoothoot and Noctowl that were settling on the tree branches.
‘What am I so nervous about? Its just a bunch of bird pokemon that were glaring at me. Not some crazy person.’ She tried to convinced herself while trying to warm her hands up. Her words still didn’t comfort her from the feeling that something was hunting her.
She wrapped a small blanket that she was carrying around her Seedot to keep it from shivering . It started to make a small whimper while making a large sneeze. She started hoping that it wasn’t getting sick as another thought came to her head.
‘Where are the Butterfree going anyway? Are they going towards some other Butterfree to make them follow them? Since I‘m all the way out here, I might as well find out.’
That last thought turned out to be the biggest mistake she had ever made in her life. She ran out of the forest and into a hilly field that she didn’t even knew existed near her village. She started squinted her eyes in the pitch black darkness to see where the dim moonlight was reflecting off of. Slowly, she began to see an outline of a huge and empty village. The fairly large buildings looked as if they were slowly decaying like corpses over a long period of time.
She also started to notice a strong, pungent smell of death that was in the air. She tried her best to cover her nose, so that she wouldn’t breath in the strong and awful stench while holding her baby pokemon. The smell, unfortunately, didn‘t go away as Sakura felt like she was going to suffocate.
‘What the hell is with that smell? And what is this place?’ She wondered along with her ever sickening Seedot. ‘Is this the mysterious cursed village that momma kept talking about behind my back when she thinks I‘m not listening?’
She suddenly felt goose bumps all over her arms as she suddenly had that same, dark feeling again in her bones. A strong gust of freezing wind, howling like a snarling wolf, suddenly rushed through her and into the field in front of her. It sounded as if it came from behind her and was going to attack at any time.
Small, silky white snowflakes started falling down towards the ground, even though the sky was clear of dark clouds. Its as if the snow was coming from the aurora borealis. Or may be, just may be, from something else.
The torches that bordered the abandoned looking town started to lit up by themselves, giving the town a haunting look that started to scare her. Candles, large and small, were lighting up by the invisible unknown. She started shivering from fright and from the ever lowering temperature. The stem on top of Seedot’s head started to form frost.
“Its that cold already?” Sakura asked herself, not knowing how to explain the events that were happening around her.
Sakura started hearing the voices of people in the village, but they weren’t sounding like they were just having friendly talk. The voices were screaming in agony and in misery, sounding sort of like the dying people in a war movie that could haunt your dreams for eternity. There were even the sound of children crying in agony, but not in pain as in torture. More like crying as if they were emotionally upset from watching their loved ones dying in front of them.
“Okay I think its time to go back now.” Sakura shivered as she slowly backed up.
The baby Seedot in her arms suddenly heard something rustling in the forest behind it and her trainer, and was now squeaking to get her attention. A sudden, loud thump noise from behind alerted her as she quickly turned around and slowly widen her eyes at what she saw.
A small boy that looked like he was the same age as she was, sat on the cold ground. The boy had greasy, black hair that covered his face and was wearing all black clothes that had small bloodstains on them.
“Are you all right?” She started questioning the boy while shivering from the deep cold that now surrounded her.
The eerie and creepy looking boy said nothing as he slowly started standing up on his bare feet. He had small spots of yellow skin spreading on his frost bitten feet. The boy slowly lifted his head, as Sakura starred in horror at the face that was hidden behind his partially long hair.
She started to make a shriek that echoed into the air as the boy started chasing her with his yellow patched arms. Sakura’s exit into the forest was now blocked because of the ghostly boy, and now she had no choice but to go into the haunting village while the moans and shrieks started to increased in volume.