Hello! Saccy here!!!
Alright, well, I'm going to post mission #2 now. (1'st person Gale form. He's ten in this) lol!
-BE WARNED IT IS FIVE PAGES LONG!!!!-
Alrighty, here we go.
~Gale~
“Big Brother! Get up!”
I opened my eyes slightly as morning light poured in. My eyes blinked several times as I saw a Girafarig shadow. She nuzzled her head on mine, trying to coax me up.
“Come on, you said you would play with me in the forest today.” She pouted, begging me to come with.
‘Good morning, sunshine.’ Ivax sarcastically laughed.
“Good morning.” I yawned as my sister hopped up and down.
“Come on, come on, come on!!!” she inpatiently ordered.
I groaned, “Alright, fine, let me get dressed.”
“I’m happy I don’t have to waste time putting on clothes!” she smiled, running out of the bush.
‘I’m happy I don’t have to put on clothes!’ Ivax repeated, making fun of her.
I gave him the look before he shut up and looked down.
I gathered what little clothing my father had gathered from the nearby human town and left from my bush.
The rest of the group always gave me odd looks, wondering what had gone wrong when I was in my egg and such. I was always different, on the outside and inside. While the others had limited ties with their tails, I had whole conversations with mine, Ivax, my closest friend. I wondered if I would ever get as tall as a human, or if I could become friends with humans, but my father always told me not to affiliate with them. They always said to me and crammed into my brain that I was a Girafarig, a Pokémon. My parents put me in the groups with the other Girafarigs, but I never could keep up with them. Many of the others in our clan would call me strange, and asked why I had such a curiosity for humans. Always, I had to give the same answer, I don’t know.
Ginger was my younger sister by about a month, yet she already towered above me at Four feet. I scuffed my hooves into the ground as I looked up at her.
“Are you ready to go?”
She nodded. “Yeah!”
We snuck out of the camp in the early morning, hoping no one would notice us gone until we got back. We carefully made our way to the lake and then deeper into the forest. We ran around, chasing each other in between the tall trees for about twenty minutes before finally getting bored and just lying on the ground.
My eyes lay closed as I just listened to the brisk lake breeze through the trees. I softly sighed as she got back on all four of her knees.
“Hey! Look! It’s a Honchkrow nest!”She pointed her head up.
I looked up as well. “Whoa…It’s big…” I gasped.
Ivax got a large smile on his face, ‘Let’s see if anyone’s home!’
I looked back at him, “No, we’ll get in trouble, besides, it’s up the tree!”
Ginger gave me a look, “What’d Ivax say?” she asked.
“He wants me to climb up the nest and see if there’s anything up there.” I
sighed. Her eyes got bright as she smiled.
“I hear they collect a lot of really good and RARE berries!” she laughed.
Ivax nodded, ‘See? She’s down with it!’
“Come on, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s there.” She was now begging.
I sighed, “Alright, Alright… but tell me if you see anyone coming.”
She jumped up and down with joy, “Aye, aye captain!”
I sighed, shaking my head. Why did I cave so easily to these two?
‘Yu’ want to know what’s up there just as bad as we do!’ Ivax cut into my thoughts.
“Shut up and help me up.” I growled as I walked to the tree.
Ginger placed her head under me and hauled me off the ground.
“Whoa!” I grabbed her antlers.
“Come on, brother, we don’t have all day!” She squeaked as my hands grasped around a branch. I got myself half way up the branch as Ivax wrapped his jaws around it and gave me an extra tug. At least we were in the tree.
‘Alrighty! Let’s get to the nest!’ Ivax happily grinned to himself.
Why was I doing this again? Peer pressure really was an awful thing, yet, not matter what the situation, I would fall hold to its gooey grasp.
I climbed up the tree steadily thinking the whole time, ‘Girafarigs aren’t meant to climb trees!!!!’ Finally after hearing me repeat this over and over again in my mind, Ivax fumed.
‘MAN! We aren’t Girafarigs! Now climb the Damn tree and STOP COMPLAINING!’
I gulped looking down. “We’re pretty high, huh?”
‘Listen, the nest is right there! Come on, we can’t give up yet!’Ivax pulled me up another branch as I got my footing.
‘FINAY!’ was all I could think as we reached the nest. I crawled in, noticing no one was there. That was a relief. I glanced around at all the different objects up there.
Berries, books, jewelry, machine parts, potions, nuggets, dust, it was all there.
“What’s up there!?” My sister’s voice barely made it to my ears as she yelled from the ground.
I poked my head over the edge, but suddenly pulled myself back. I didn’t realize how high up we were. I took another hard gulp as I felt my legs tense. I poked back over the edge.
“ALOT!” I yelled to her.
‘Hey! What’s dat?’ Ivax chattered.
I turned to face the nest again as it caught my eye. It was round, like some sort of disk. I crawled over and picked it up, comparing it to the light. On one side it was a beautiful rainbow. I brought my face closer, my eyes large in amazement, until I froze, I couldn’t move my body. I felt SOMETHING from the disk. I stood still for a second longer until I felt my body get released.
“AH!” I acted immediately, throwing the disk to the side.
‘What the HELL just happened!?’ Ivax was as startled as I.
I just shook my head in reply, gasping from fear. I felt something, something different, as if I had learned something new without any effort. Yep, definitely SOMETHING. I didn’t want to stay up here anymore. Swiping one berry, I started back down the tree.
“Why’d you scream?” Ginger asked as we both sat on the ground. She started eating the berry as I held my knees to my chest, my arms wrapped around them.
“I found some weird disk up there.” The words immediately came.
She gave me a questionable look. “A weird disk?” I nodded slightly before continuing.
“I held it up to the light and focused my eyes on it. There was a beautiful rainbow that appeared. But then, I…”
She swayed her head on a tilt and looked me up and down before widening her eyes.
“But then you?”
I sighed, but looked at her. “I felt like I got something. Something NEW and POWERFUL."
“You mean like a new move!” she excitedly finished her berry and stood.
“Do you know what you got?!” She smiled. “Psybeam, Crunch, Assurance, Oh! Was it Zen headbut!?”
‘Who knows what it is.’ Ivax grumbled.
“I don’t think so, it doesn’t FEEL a Psychic or Dark type. It feels, DIFFERENT… that’s all I know to describe it…”
She gave me another questioning look, “Well, if it isn’t any of those, it’s obviously a move none of the elders know.”
I just nodded as her eyes glowed up with an idea. “I know!! Show me! Show me!!!” She cheered.
“Ah, no…I don’t think I should use it until I ask dad…” I lowered my head, not wanting to get in any more trouble then I already could be in.
“It doesn’t matter, only us two are around! PLEASE!” she begged. I shook my head.
“No, now come on, let’s head back.”
“Yeah, but you NEVER learn any new moves, if you practice back here, when we get back, everyone will think your amazing…” She pouted, looking down. “I WANT you to fit in…”
She started to sniffle. Aw, great. Just what I needed right now, for her to start crying over something stupid.
‘You KNOW they’re Totodial tears!’ Ivax warned. I sighed and walked back over. ‘Idiot…’
“Alright, fine, but ONLY once, I still have no idea what it is.”
“YEAH!!!” she cheered, immediately getting over it.
I took aim at a tree, mustering up my new found strength. As it welled inside of me, I froze. ‘What is this…It-it’s to strong! I can’t control this energy inside me!’
Too late. I felt the words appear in my mind for a mere second. ‘Earth quake’ I gulped as the forest around me shook, vigorously. Ginger glanced around.
“B-brother!? What’s happening!” She yelled.
I gulped, looking around. The ground began to split as the two of us stood there.
‘RUN!’ Ivax yelled.
“Let’s get out of here!” I agreed. Ginger took off, screaming.
We frantically tried to stay on our feet as sharp rocks emerged from the ground and trees began to fall through the cracks. The ground moved like a wave on the ocean as more things and Pokémon fell. A tree collapsed in front of us as Ginger frantically ran another direction.
“NO GINGER! That’ll lead you deeper into the-WAIT!” I tried after her until the ground under me split. I slid down the hole until I caught my hooves on a root.
‘Don’t move!’ Ivax chattered, frantically trying to get me to hold on to the roots with all my strength. I nodded my head, to scared to move from my position. I didn’t know how long it had been, but it finally stopped.
Ivax gulped as his voice remained shaken in my head. ‘It-it stopped.’ I grasped at the dirt and pulled myself out. Trees lay all over the ground with other Pokémon coming out of the ruble. My mind immediately sprung.
Where was Ginger?!
I looked around as the other Pokémon also looked for anyone they knew. Everyone helping others from the ruble, but I couldn’t find Ginger.
“GINGER!? GINGER!? Where are you!?” I gasped out in fear. I stopped at a Caterpie on top of one of the fallen trees.
“Have you seen a female Girafarig!?” I gulped.
They nodded. “Yeah, I saw her running towards the caves during the quake! What the hell could’ve caused such a huge one?!”
I didn’t stay to answer. I ran further in the direction of the caves. I climbed over trees and continued until I heard Ivax gasp.
‘GINGER!’
I turned to see her neck and head sticking out from under a large tree. Her eyes and face frozen, void of life. I fell to my knees, tears starting to pour from my eyes.
“Ginger?...Ginger…come on…yo-you can-n’t” I chocked.
Ivax exhaled. ‘she’s…dead…isn’t she?’ his voice was quivering. I couldn’t answer, I just sat there. How could I let this happen… how could I let her die.
If I didn't use that move...
...if I had just crawled out of that hole...
...I could’ve…
Awhile passed until Ivax brought me from my trance.
‘Gale! It’s the clan! They’re coming!’ I looked around before running for cover in a bush. I saw mom, she ran to Ginger the moment she saw her, and the same with dad. They cried and wailed over her. I felt sick to my stomach, I couldn’t face them, I had to go, anywhere but here. I came out on the other side of the bush and ran. Running from everyone and everything that died that day...
...my family...
...my life...
All I could think was...
‘I’m sorry...'
& that's how it happened. Hope you enjoyed Leader, Everyone!!! ^-^
(hope that counts...lol)
~Saccy~
