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Book 2….

Chapter 1

new beginning

by Avalon

Streets.. that is where I wander... The past few weeks have been odd.. and I have honestly been board.. as has been Atlantis.. that is why I am here.. Back on Ac colony.. In this city.. a city made for entertainment.. not the one we went to before.. a different one... it's name is not important only that it is south of the places I know.. Atlantis is doing what he calls "field study" or more like watching the humans go by.. and If I read him right I think he is going to a casino.. But me? I am just wandering trying to figure out this place.. I have been given a cloak.. even if we are free there are plenty of ball happy trainers around.. granted what fun is that if I can't frighten the locals with how I look.. so for now I go without.. I even have some paperwork from Sam to state who truly "owns" me.. as repulsive as that is.. it is the truth... and I must deal with it for now.. The humans here all avoid me.. with good reason.. besides I don't want them near me anyway.. I look up to the area ahead.. this is near the Casino area.. Atlantis should be around here somewhere.. now where is he? I stop an look around scanning the area for him.. and my search is rather rudely interrupted as a flock of panicked humans come running out of the particular place that I happened to be standing in front of.. and once most of them have passed and the screaming has subsided.. that’s when I can hear another familiar sound.. Gunfire.. and shouting... and one other voice screaming in agony

"SYCTHER!!!!"

And I can't tell If I am overly curious or just attracted to danger.. I walk inside..

I look up to see a sycther.. in all it's mantis like glory hovering in the center of the room.. it swoops down behind some of the gambling machines.. and a human scream followed by a *CRUNNCH* I look down and see two armed humans kneeling down with their backs to me.. they wear some sort of Black uniform.. one I think I have seen before.. The two slowly look back.. and a look of horror crosses their faces..

"Holy!"

No time to play right now.. with a sweep of the hand I brush them aside and send them careening into the far wall.. where some others were hiding.. they look up at me and at the same time the enraged Sycther also notices. flying up covered in blood.. the humans open fire.. It's simple to ignore it.. and I walk up to the Sycther looking up.. the sound of sirens getting close..

~more humans are coming. you are in danger.. we should leave~

it begins it's speaking... but I still understand..

"I normally can't stand a psychic but since you helped me..." she back wings and grabs a fallen human.. "follow me..." she speeds off out a window.. after a quick look around.. I see the dead humans.. and a hunger pang gets to me.. and a small voice in the back of my mind says.. ~why not?~ I grin in a feral manner and snatch up a body flying quickly to catch up..

She had lead me to the lush forest outside of the city.. and there we "disposed of the evidence" as Atlantis's creators would have said.. I sit back to a tree now holding my middle.. as now it hurts rather badly.. Must have been the meat.. human meat is foul... why did I do that? I wasn't that hungry.. The Sycther is still working on hers..

~So? why were you attacking them?~

She looks up from her meal.. "revenge.. they killed my master"

~Why?~

"I don't know and I don't care.. so what's your story?"

~I’m a freak of nature~

"Yah you look it"

~So now that you don't have a trainer now what?~

"Maybe find another one"

~Would you like to come with me?~

Her face is expressionless "But your a pokemon"

~yes and? who better to understand you?~

"good point" She looks around then takes off returning moments latter with a pokeball...

~What's that for?~

"this is mine from my old master.. now it's yours" She drops it at my toes..

~You don't mind?~

"if you are my new master then you should have it"

I pick it up.. ~Well don't call me master... My name is Avalon~

"Fine fine.. Avalon... lets get out of here yes?"

I return the Sycther to her ball as she apparently wanted.. and head to town cloaked too seek out Atlantis.. and god my stomach hurts!

Chapter 2

Surprise and Disappointment

by Avalon

Where is that male? I Scan and search for him before I find him relaxing in a park.. Unabashed and loving it.. How irritating..

~Hey Avalon!~

~hell..~ I stop short as he comes into full view.. Intricate lines adorn his tail.. Metal rings through his ears... and A Smile on his Face...

~You like? waddaya Think?~ He turns and reveals a deep purple design on his back.. that looks like a tree.. but the pattern in it.. ~It's a tree made out of Dna cool Huh?~

~What? How? why?!~

~well uh.~ he turns back around and places the tips of his fingers together.. ~You see I went into a casino and got a Whole Bunch of money and then from there I kind of looked for some fun so I went into a club.. and saw all these humans with WONDERFUL decorations.. and so I wanted to see this for myself.. and Then I went to this place.. and I gave them a bunch of money and TA DAHH!~

~You... copied.. humans?... you...~

~Well don't get upset Avalon.. so what were you up to?~ and before I can stop him he scans me... He sees what I have done... my stomach hurts...

~Avalon?~

I turn and run... ashamed.. terrified.. alone...

~Avalon! WAIT!~

But I run.. and I don't stop.. and I leave him behind..

Before long.. I fly.. out over the water.. heading towards the main land.. before sickness overtakes me.. and I crash on a beach. into the sand.. Retching up the rancid meat... but there is more to this sickness... yes.. humans are poison.. but... I retch again but nothing is left to give..

~Avalon?~ I can hear him land next to me.. ~Avalon? oh gods!~

I look up at him and see that he is looking not at my face.. I had been kneeling in the sand... I look down as I hold my middle trying to somehow make the churning stop.. I see the rancid bile and meat... the smell is horrible.. but I smell fresh blood.. I look further down.. Between my knees there is blood my own.. I look away.. as my body seizes up again... Rejecting something else... A life..

~Avalon... ~ he falls to his knees before me.. ~you never told me..~

~I..... never... knew....~ I say teeth clenched.. Something giving way inside before I collapse in my own filth... The smell of death everywhere.. before I pass out...

Chapter 3

Partings

by Avalon

I wake under a blue sky wrapped in blankets and warm my insides still hurt.. I look over and see that I’m in a garden.. A lush one.. I look the other way and see a house.. Oak? Now I can hear the conversation.. and I see Oak standing face to face with Atlantis in his kitchen...

~Will she be all right?~

"why yes. She will be fine.. granted it was a definite miscarry.. Unfortunately I was expecting as much.. But I wish I could have her in the Lab"

He shakes his head.. ~Nooo way! I’m not having her wake up in there!~

"all right..."

At this point the words loose me.. That ghost. Oni had said that I wasn't.. it said that... I had a baby and lost it already? I can feel a tightness in my chest.. I feel a need to run.. or just to not think about it.. I get up.. only feeling a little sick.. and almost immediately they are both outside.. Atlantis putting his arms around me and holding tight.. While Oak stands on the sidelines watching in fascination.. I can hear him thinking how rare a site this is.. and how lucky he feels.. I stand in the embrace for a time.. no words being said. both understanding exactly what needs to be done... Then the need hits me again... I pull away..

~Atlantis... I.. I..~

~yes?~ his eyes wide already expecting the answer.

~I need to go.. I need to wander.. to find myself... This hurts too much... I need to be alone...~

He nods in understanding... ~Please be careful~

~I will be... I will think..~

He looks down for a moment things racing across his mind... ~maybe it wasn’t meant to be?~ his eyes sad... and his heart even worse off... He doesn't want me to go.. but I have too.. I can't take it.. I cant live right now knowing what I have done and what I have lost.. I can't.. I feel my face fall.. and I look at the ground..

~goodbye Atlantis..~ an I turn to walk away..

~no goodbyes.. I will see you again... I swear it..~ Wordless I walk away...

Chapter 4

Past's Premonitions

By Avalon

It was a painful day.. I walked northward.. through winding paths in open fields.. gazing at the sky.. hoping.. wishing for something.. I choose to walk.. Flying just doesn’t feel right to me at the moment.. It would be faster.. but that’s not what I want.. I want to feel my life.. and I want to feel this pain.... Flying.. is too.. fun... too Free.. and I can not escape this pain.. I can not run from it.. I must feel my way through it... I walk into the night.. and on into dawn.... What do I expect to find out here? Myself? I’m right here.. but I’m not. I feel so empty... so cold... Or am I supposed to feel this? Do humans wonder this? Am I alone in this feeling? Atlantis does not feel this like I do.. maybe due to being raised by humans.. I do not know... I pass through a city. for some reason I do not stop.. I can not stop.. my feet carry me on... My black cloak wrapped around me like a cloud.. clinging to me.. hiding me... I need no more trouble.. it stays on... regardless of the looks I receive from the locals.. I find a lush forest.. I feel horribly out of place.. A warping of nature.. in natures bounty.. but it's a convent place to lay down and sleep.. slipping away...

I’m dreaming.. that much I know.. I’m sitting on a rock in the middle of a raging tempest.. the sea... in various states of existence but all water.. some patches are bight and sunny like a tropical beach with deep Aqua water.. others are hurricanes.. like one behind me.. that hurricane is mine.. I peer through my own gloom and see past some of the sun light.. is that a tower in the storm? Another storm.. but far from me.. too far.. I focus back to my feet.. and the water in front of me is a frozen sheet of ice.. and this area is odd.. no color.. just blacks and whites.. everywhere else it's colored.. but not this.. and then it catches my eye.. the hand sticking out of the ice.. one just like mine.. I reach for it and my fur fades out of color.. as I grab the hand.. I look down into the ice and there is another like me.. Atlantis? no.. that's not him... his face looks peaceful and pained at the same time... this is a dream ride with it.. I pull on the hand and the fingers come to life and grab mine desperately color spreading through my arm down into his.. the face coming to life.. a look of pure desperation.. his eyes wide... his mouth open almost in a scream...

~You.. came... back...... please! don't leave me like this!! please!!... help me....~

I pull.. and can not move him.. and then he goes limp... the hand sticking out of the ice.. fingers bent in pain.. the same pleading look plastered across his face. I let go but the color does not fade.. in fact the whole image looks more real... but now what to do? what does this mean? who is he? or is this just a symbol for something?.. If only I knew..

Chapter 5

Drawing...

By Avalon

I wake to a dark night the stars shinning high above me.. but that storm still swirling deep within me.. and that frozen lake... I feel the need to walk... I have to walk... One foot before the next.. the images around me change but I still stay the same.. and I still walk... I don't want to sleep again not yet.. some thing is keeping me from it.. A city passes by... The people gawk and stare.. but I walk on... No food no sleep.. I wonder how far I can go? I survived two years with next to nothing to sustain me.. was it realy two years? I have not been out even a year and I feel that far more time has passed... but now im losing time... before long im standing at a cave entrance.. I smell the faint scent of human here.. they were here long ago... but not now... That ice.. I keep seeing that ice.... I feel that pull to walk.. So inside I step... this is a den to many beings... and all of them sense what I am and stay away... Good idea... I wish it was so simple for me.. Deeper and deeper.. crossing underground rivers... wiggling though tight passages.. hopping deep gaps that go down forever.. and forever.. like my mind.. I never can tell where it ends... and I finaly get to a point where I can go no further. the passages blocked.. I can smell human here too... I hope im not lost... I turn but I can't go.. perhaps I can sleep here for a time... I walk into this last room.. padding around searching for that spot.. when my toes brush aginst something cold square and metaltic.. I bend down and pick it up.. Smooth metal.. I can feel and Inscription of some sort. and it feels hollow.. I can feel that there is a liquid trapped inside.. and I can feel a long forgotten mind.. over time.. long ago... Fear.. Hope.. Urgency.. sacrifice.. I light my eyes so that I can see.. peering at the writing and finding I can't read it? Impossible! I should know every languge there is! But still the meaning eludes me! How!.. unless? I can feel it's age... yes the Doctor.. he will want to see this... I hold it up getting a good look in the soft blue light.. Copper of some sort.. well like copper... and it looks like a fragment is missing.... yes he must see this.. Time to fly... I have to go back and fast... The cave winds around me like a snake as I hover though as fast as I can... before shooting out the mouth of the cave and into the bright sky... was it night when I went in? I can't remember... but the Ugency I get from the tablet.. grows stronger with every mile..

Chapter 6

The past

by Avalon

~Professor!!! Professor!! Let me in!!~ I stand next to the fountain holding the tablet in my hands.. feeling a warmth spread through me.. it had been doing that since I got within veiw of his labs.. now it is amost unbearable...

~Professor OAK!! Wake up!! PLEASE!!~

I see a light come on and he steps out wearing a night shirt rubbing his eyes..

"Avalon you came back.. Im sorry but Atlantis had been picked up a while ago by your trainer... I can.."

~No.. look!~ I hold out the tablet to him.. I don't know why I came here but I did.. this seamed like the best place... and he is the only human on this planet I can trust...

"hmmmm?" He motioned me to follow him inside.. once there he left me in the living room pacing while he took the tablet into the lab... moments latter returning with a courious look.. "Avalon? where did you find this tablet?"

~I was.. exporing.. I found it near the bottom of the caves I was in..~ I sit calmy now trying to ease my nerves..

"fasinating... I will give the computer time to translate the language.. and I have it anilizing a small smaple of the the fluid inside.. It wount take too long... I would know what it said by now if it weren't for the fact that the script is apperntly long dead.. quite a find Miss Avalon if I don't say so myself.."

My ears twich at his words... I will not reveal that I was drawn there... I simply nod.. ~so what does this mean?~

"it means that we wait.. Perhaps you can talk to me some? I have never gotten a real chance to talk to you.."

~What is there to say?~

"Well how are you feeling?"

Im dumbstruck by that question.. how do I feel? Im not even sure what to call half the things that happen to me.. inside...

~I don't know Oak...~ I get up and start to pace some.. taking off the cloak and letting the air move about me... my tail finaly free to relax.. Oak sits and watches me move.. I know in his sublte way he is studying me.. this is fine just no closer... I stop and streach my hands and shoulders out and he gives me an odd look...

"Avalon? You say you were trapped in a ship for two years right after you were 'born' correct?"

~That is right... or at least that is what I know... why?~

"oh nothing really just an odd thought is all"

~Tell me or I will find out on my own...~

"pushy pushy! where are your manners?"

~Long lost since I was born good Profesor~ I smirk at him..

He sighs... "all right but I don't know what good it will do you... The way you were standing just remindid me of a picture I saw about 2 years ago... out of the earth gym..."

~Go on~

"well here let me just show you" He gets up and brings back a practily all black photo.. the image showing only a doorway with a vauge outline of something and a pair of blue glowing eyes in the darkness.. "This was taken by my grandson... He was defeted there by what he says was the strangest pokemon he had ever seen.. A psychic for sure.. he says it displayed Teleknetic abilities..."

~so?~

"Avalon Humor me.. go stand in the doorway to the kitchen and pick me up from there"

I do so not sure what he is doing and lift him up effortlessly..

~Now what?~

He looks from me to the phote several times.. "allright set me down now"

I let him down gently and walk up to him...

"Well the eyes are right but the outline looks a little off.. I wish I had a better picture... mabey If I could get Gary out here to see you..."

~Oak what are you rambling about?~

"Do you know if Atlantis was ever sent out here before?"

I shake my head.. ~No he wasn't... I can not recall anything like that..~

"well he is a year younger than you isn't he.. hmmmm" he stares at it pondering...

~Oak?~

"I think.." And his computer chimes... "Hang on.."

Im too intuged now old man.. I follow him into the lab.. About to ask him what it was he was thinking when the flashing images on the screens chatch my eyes... the first one shows an outline just like mine.. the other displays text.. reading:

"however this should only be used by the wise and only in dire need.. only in good hands will this gift prosper and In the hands of the wicked only terror follows.. be warned the rebirth of this beast"

Oak is nodding as he reads it.. "I wish it wasn't cut off.. but from what I can read I think we have learned that the hard way hevent we miss Avalon?"

I blink unsure on what to say.. another? I have found another? The dream of the ice returns to me for a moment.. the other begging not to be left alone... what is going on? The computer flashes a warning.. and Oak taps a few buttons bringing up a timer...

"Avalon we don't have much time to save the sample... The liquid is perseved DNA.. of a mewtwo... I have the supplies and the know how thanks to your files to regrow it.. but only with your permission..."

I think.. would I be a hypocite? would that be wrong?.. the dream haunts me..... ~please.. don't leave me like this.. please...~ the voice drifting out from before... I feel torn. what if Im wrong?

"Avalon? make your choice quickly.."

I look up at the screen and at the warning.. then at Oak.. setting my jaw... ~Do it~

Chapter 7

Thaw

By Avalon

It was soo cold and dark there.... cold... dark.. now I am warm... so warm... No need to breath.. no need to speak... just relax... What happend? The people? My mothers and Fathers? I was protecting them.... how? what happend?.. Where is that female.. or was there ever one? Mabey it was just a dream like this is..... no don't worry about that now.. just rest.. rest..

"Avalon? get some rest you... you have been staring at that tube since I've started are you ever going to move?"

I look away.. blinking trying to shake the voices drifting from the tube..

~No.. I want to be here just in case.. I don't wan't him to have the same birth I did...~

"He will be just fine.. besides he has plenty of time untill he is ready.."

~I can hear him...~ I stand and place one open hand on the tube calmly.. He mentioned a female does he mean me? How would that be possible unless we have.. something else.. within.. a soul?

Oak sighs and walks out of the room.. by the way he is dressed I would guess it to be day time... but I care not... Time has no meaning here... Not when you wait... And I will be here when he wakes.. I sleep here... I can hear the dreams drifting to me... He is calm.. thankfully... He is close now... Most everything is complete.. he still has some webbing in the fingers and his eyes look sealed shut still.. It's hard to tell through the fluid but he looks a bit darker in color to me and even Atlantis.. Ah I wonder how he is doing? Oak says that he went back with Sam for a time... I...

~are we safe here?~

I look up stunned... he's outright talking to me! ~Hello?~

~are we safe here?~ The rich voice haunting to me... it has a strange accent... one I can't recognize...

~Yes... we are safe...~

~Good... can I come out yet?... I wish to streach and feel the wind around me...~

~I know how you feel... But not yet... your not grown...~

~Do you? you know how I feel?~

~Im certain of it~ I watch as the muscles in his face flex.. he's trying to open his eyes..

~I can't see~ his face relaxing...

~Thats why you need to wait...~

~Who are you?~

~My name...~

~I care not for your name.. WHO are you? What are you? what do you represnt....~

I step back a bit... ~I.. am a mewtwo.. just like you... Im here to help..~

~Thank you... forgive my rudness.. I had to know... know...~

~hello?~ Silence.. All I get is silence. he seams to have lapsed back into sleep... I hope everything is allright... I hope..

Ah... she is here.. but who is she? I know her.. that hand? was that her that warmed me in the dark? was that her that I dreamed held me tight... even before.. before the darkness? What kind of world is this? I can sense pain and longing.. not just from her but from everywhere.... I need to grow? If I am being born... then Why do I remember?... Her... my mothers... I rember being born once before... warm... closeness.. there was a heartbeat there... here.. I can hear nothing.. the hum of machines.. the low buzz of ecltricity.... Is this Female my mother? is that why I hear her?... but I don't hear a heart.. wait I do.. but only one.. my own... I am Alive... yes.. I am alive... I feel no more Ice clinging to my body a blessed storm has come and torn it all away... I try one last time to see... and finally.. a sliver of light fills my vison... its dim but not too dim... The bubbles drifting up past my face... I can feel them on my nose.. behind my head aginst my ears.. I focus and I see her.. laying prone on the floor.. fast asleep... I smile... forcing the muscles to work... There are other things to take care of.. but I belive I am ready...

Chapter 8

Arcadia

By Avalon

I stirr.. my eyes flikker open and I stare down at the floor.. At another of my own kind.. A smile creeps accors my face slowly.. and moments latter a few keys are pressed apperntly by nothing and the liquid begins to drain.. the tubes and wires attached to me pulling away as the I sink with the fluid.. I slump with the gravity as the protective fluid drains away.. untill the tube is empty and the glass slides down... I shiver but I am not scared.. just cold.. I lean forward to expell the remaining fluid from my mouth and nose... taking the first breath.. and smelling the air.. sweet... The lights shine on my darker fur.. Just as dark all over as this other one is on her tail.. Weak and Tired.... muscles never used before ache as they fight to move.. but I press on.. moving twords the sleeping one before I fall to my knees next to her and put my mouth up to her ear.. a strained whisper coming to her in the dreams...

"thank you.. "

I snap awake.. and look up to see Him right there shivering and smiling at the same time.. ~You let yourself out?~

~I was ready...~

I get up but I don't want to leave him here.. ~OAK!!~

He leans aginst my leg holding on tight.. ~who is Oak?~

~you can trust him~ Did I just say that? The proffessor walks in and stands wide eyed.. "oh my"

~Do something.. he's cold!~

"Right! I will be back in a moment" He scuries out and retuns with towls and blankets handing one to me.. "Dry him off and hurry if we dont get this off of him it can sting"

I shudder remebering excatly how that felt. and kneel down next to him starting with his face.. he watches me smiling...

~I can't thank you enough..~ he blinks as I move over his eyes. but he keeps his gaze focused on me..

~For what?~

~brining me to life.. or at least helping...~

~well at least I could do that for someone..~

~what do you...~ and a sad look crosses his face he picked up on what I meant.. He knows what happend to me.. ~mean.. I see...~

I work on his chest and arms next... ~feeling warmer yet?~

~yes thank you agian.... it's very nice..~

~well I would rather have you happy right now then blowing up the building..~

~now why would I do that?.. This seams like a nice place...~

I move down to his legs and tail and watch as his eyes go wide.. as he emits an empty laugh..

~that tickles!~

~Sorry.. I need to get you dry~ I look over to Oak who holds the blanket at the ready... I Give him the nod and Oak steps forward wraping the blanket around him.. this newborn takes the edges and pulls it close a low purr beining.. ~Oh thank you so much...~

"now he needs a name.." the human taking a step back and gazing at us both..

He looks up at Oak then at me.. a pained expression crossing his face.. ~Call me Arcadia~

"oh well isn't this nice.. Arcadia it is.."

~If that is what you wish?~

He nods.. ~It is excatly what I wish.. along with real sleep and maby a meal sooner or latter~ he starts to drift off I pick him up and turn to Oak..

"Ah this way then" he leads me into a room and I set him down gently on the bed.. gazing down softly..

~I wonder if he knows how lucky he is?~

"Im sure he knows..." Oak motiouns me to follow him out and once in the hall he gives me a serous look.. "Avalon tell me? when you were watching him grow did you put any progarmming in him? like languages and what not?"

~No... not at all..~

"Then why does he know so much? He is speaking allready!"

~I can't explain it.. all I know is that he knows... perhaps he simply pulled it up from our minds?~

His eyes go wide.. "you can do that? Just Learn things by looking at someone? Facinating!"

~yes...~

"well then that must be it.. you go ahead and keep an eye on him if you wish.. I need to clean up the Lab"

~as you wish~

I step inside... Watching his Chest rise and fall with each breath.. not too long ago he was just some fluid inside a tablet.. now? Now he is Alive.. and So kind? So diffrent from myself.. and even Atlantis.. Is this what I would have been like had I been loved? or At least cared for?.. I drift into sleep myself.. the Ice all falling away..