A/N: Okay I am still accepting OC's. However there is a group going around and deleting oc submitting stories so in order to make sure this story doesn't get deleted I have posted the oc form for this story on the forum "Grey Hat, Purple Scarf" and there will be a link on my profile to make life a little easier. The good thing about posting it on the forum (along with not having the story deleted) is you can edit your character and receive feedback about your character.
The reason for the delay in this chapter was my surgery. Sorry but I gotta stay alive ya know?
Special thanks to my AMAZING beta reader Coconut994777!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you all enjoy this chapter and get the chance to check out my main pokemon fic "Meika"
Disclaimers: This story was based off of the role play created by J. Whitnee (if you don't know her you should go check her amazing stories out! She is the genius behind "17 Knights" and "Belief at Dawn") on he forum created by Sliver Leafx (the brilliant mind behind "Unseen, Unheard, Unfelt") both can be found under my favorite author's page on my profile. Oh yeah and I don't own pokemon.
Grey Hat, Purple Scarf
Chapter 02
A Path
"The sea bracelet has vanished...." a small Natu grumbled to himself as he flipped the pages of an old book within the small whole of an old tree. He used his short wings to close the thick book and he peered out through the whole, watching the thunder and rain batter the neighboring trees. "That bracelet, it belongs to the Emperor of the Seas. I wonder, is it possible that someone is trying to get an audience with the Empress of the Sky? No, that's impossible, no one would be so foolish..." Natu crawled deeper into his dark nest as he closed his eyes he muttered, "I may have to see who is this foolish and see how much power there will be for me." With that final thought he was lulled into a deep dream, a much simpler and kinder dream with illusions of power and greatness in stark contrast with the dream haunting Mel.
She awoke in her room right against her bookshelf, her body shook uncontrollably. The lights in her room softly lit her cream room. She picked herself off the floor and stumbled out into the living room.
"M-mom..." she muttered, holding her shoulders.
Mels' mother looked up from the coach and her potato chips before leaping to her feet and running towards Mel, "Honey? What's wrong?" Mel's mother firm grasped both of Mel's shoulders and looked her right in the eye.
"I-I'm not s-sure. I t-think I had a bad hallucination. A strange ghost was in front of me trying to make some kinda.... deal..." Mel mumbled.
"Are you hurting? How's your back?" Mel's mother looked her straight in the eye.
Mel placed her hand on her back, attempting to reach her right shoulder blade, "It... doesn't.... it's not even sore...." Mel tried to look at her back awkwardly before looking back at her mom smiling, "Mom! My back doesn't hurt!"
"What did you say?" her mother asked.
"I said: It doesn't hurt!" Mel smile grew bigger.
"I don't understand, you need to speak normally honey...." Her mother placed her hand over her mouth with concern.
"I am speaking normally mom! Maybe louder then normal, but my back it doesn't hurt!"
"Melissa Cook! Stop pretending your a bird and speak normally!"
"Mom, why are you using my full name? I am talking normally..." Mel looked concerned at her mother before feeling a strange sensation running up and down her arm. She looked at her hands as thin fluffy feathers started sprouting from her skin. "Oh. My. GOD! What is this? Mom! Mom! Help!" Mel cried holding her arm forward.
Mel's mother ignored the feathers sprouting out of Mel's arm and yelled again, "I can't understand you! Speak normally!"
"Mom!" Mel cried, the rest of her body started burning, her joints felt disjointed, and her bones crackled. Mel felt herself collapse on the ground and her vision turned black.
In the back of her head Mel could hear Kowai's crackly whisper, "Take the path before you."
"Well, well, would you look at that," an unfamiliar female's voice chuckled.
"I-I-I-I-I've, n-n-never really s-s-seen one b-b-before," the voice of a young girl stuttered.
"Let's see how much of a fight it can put up!" A deep male's voice growled.
Mel's eyes snapped open, first she noticed the rust red soil, then she looked up in time to see a white ape-like creature with extended claws swiping down at her. Mel attempted to stand and jump out of the way but her hand did work right, her legs couldn't jump right, she couldn't escape and she was pounded with the creatures sharp claws. The sharp pain ran up her side and she attempted to grab her aching side with her arm but it didn't feel right, she glanced at herself, in shock she realized her body had become small and bird like, her arms had been replaced with fluffy white cotton puffs as wings. Her legs were extremely short, it seemed more like all she had was a pair of scaly gray legs. She looked downward and noticed she was still wearing her purple scarf and it felt as though she had the hat on her head.
"Ow..." Mel groaned. She then looked at her attacker, a tall white ape, rocking back and forth, clearly prepared to attack again. Behind the monkey sat a small pink cat with a large head and a small body . Then beside the cat a strange gold creature stood on tiny legs and on each arm was a heavy rose, one in black and one in purple.
"Fight!" The white creature growled.
"WHY!?" Mel shouted.
"Fight!" the white creature growled again, this time pulling his arm back to attack again.
Mel attempted to dodge, clumsily she tripped over her own feet and taking the hit to her back. The strike had done a lot of damage as she failed to get back up.
The gold and green creature walked forward and the ape stopped his assault, "You have five seconds before I allow Ryuk to continue attacking, or you can join or exploration team."
Mel looked at the creature and mumbled, "What's a exploration team?"
The creature in response smirked and counted, "Three-two-wo-"
"I'll join! I'll join!" Mel shouted, this was probably the path before her.
"Good, my name is Kodachi Roselia, the golden Roselia: The leader, and the founder of Team Rose Majesty. The rules of joining the team include following my every order, obeying my every wish and caving to my demand. Understood?"
Mel looked blankly at the creature, "....What?"
"If I say jump, do not waste your time asking how high, just jump as high as you can and hope that's high enough." Kodachi glared, adjusting her black scarf.
"....Okay that much I get, but what's an exploration team?"
"Differ all other questions to Twitch. She has patience for your stupidity." she motioned with her black rose towards the pink cat.
"Ummmm He-he-he-hello," the pink cat smiled.
"We have no more time to stop, move it, move it!" Kodachi turned and started to walk forward, followed by Ryuk, the white ape and twitch the pink cat.
"So, Twitch right? Is that your real name?" Mel asked.
"N-n-n-n-no, Twitch is just a n-n-n-nickname. T-t-t-t-though it's s-s-stuck," Twitch smiled. "What's your n-n-n-name?"
"Mel..... well it's actually Melissa Cook, but I don't like long names." Mel hopped beside the pink cat.
"MelissaCook S-s-s-s-swablu? Y-y-y-y-yeah I can see how you'd hate that long n-n-n-name."
"Swablu?" Mel asked.
"I'm n-n-n-not b-b-bright but I'm n-n-n-not s-s-stupid. You're c-c-c-clearly a Swablu."
Mel glanced at her wings before glancing back to the pink cat, should she make mention that she was actually a human? "Twitch, what's your full name?"
"M-m-m-moon Skitty and b-b-b-beside Kodachi is R-r-r-ryuk V-v-vigoroth. W-w-w-w-why are you in t-t-this forest?"
Ah the dreaded question, Mel looked to the rusty soil and then up to the trees decorated with red foliage, "Well that's....... um.... you see, I kinda, geeze. I don't know." Mel gasped as that last portion left her mouth.
"You d-d-d-don't know?"
Mel looked Twitch in the eye or at least she tried to seeing how Twitch's eyes seemed closed. "Um, well yeah,m you see I can't remember anything more then my name...."
"But you r-r-r-remembered that you don't l-l-l-like long names...."
"Strange isn't it?" Mel squeaked, she made up this lie and it was as good as any other. Only task left to make a lie believable is to stick with it. "So uh.... where exactly are we?"
"T-t-t-t-the second dungeon, t-t-t-the Bloody Forest."
Mel examined Twitch and noticed a small bell around before sighed and asking, "'The second dungeon'?"
"W-w-w-wow you really f-f-f-forgot a lot. There are eight d-d-d-dungeons and if you can g-g-g-get the necklace of E-e-e-earth and the t-t-t-t-tiara of Heaven you can have a-a-a-any wish granted. But to get those you need to pass the e-e-e-eight dungeons and get the b-b-b-bracelet of sea."
Mel continued to look at Twitch, "Any wish?"
"A-a-a-any wish."
"So do we have a base or anything?"
"S-s-s-s-sure do! Kodachi made a p-p-p-pretty base just outside o-o-o-of Scarlett Crest." Twitch smiled. Mel briefly wondered if everything in this world was covered in red, it sure sounded like it so far.
The group reached a narrow passage and Kodachi turned to face the group, "There's a high chance we're going to get separated on the next floor. From what I can tell there are warp traps littering the floor. If we get speared you all know what to do."
"I don't know what to do," Mel mumbled and rose her former hand.
Kodachi glared at Mel and sighed, "Meet up at the stairway and in your case if push comes to shove for a fight, just sing and run away."
"Sing? Sing what?"
"I don't care."
Sure enough as soon as the group entered the room they wall walked onto a giant warp panel, it was Mel's good luck that Twitch grabbed onto her purple scarf and they were transported to the same corner.
"Oh that felt sickening..." Mel grumbled.
Twitch wagged her tail happily, "W-w-w-w-we should go find the -s-s-s-s-stairs now."
The two walked up to a narrow path and carefully peered around the corner. They had found a room filled with several Furrets and Spinda patrolling.
"Oh, this is so not good…" Mel muttered.
"Y-y-y-y-y-you can say that a-a-again," Twitch stuttered.
"How can we get around them? I'm way too weak to take them on and Kodachi's over by the stairs…" Mel whispered to Twitch.
Twitch remained silent, watching the movements of the normal Pokémon. She continued to watch, only the wind bristling the leaves above could be heard. "I-I-I-I-I h-have an i-idea… L-l-let's just ask t-t-t-them to let us p-p-p-pass?"
"If they say no, you can probably handle yourself, but I can barely fly right, let alone take on Pokémon that have managed to EVOLVE," Mel grumbled, that was no lie, she had been a pokemon for maybe fifteen minutes, how was she going to take on a monster house?
"W-w-w-w-w-well, how about y-y-you play decoy and I c-c-c-can run to g-g-get Kodachi. She'll be-be able to help."
"Did you not just hear me? I can't take on those Pokémon!" Mel sighed.
"W-w-w-well, what if you t-t-t-try to be neighborly?"
Mel looked at the Twitch as a light clicked in her head, "Are these Pokémon kind to their neighbors?"
"I w-w-w-w-wouldn't know, I've never b-b-been their neighbor b-b-b-but most Pokémon get along, right?"
"I'll distract them by playing a good neighbor and you need to hurry, Kodachi and Ryuk are the one's able to handle this…" Mel cleared her throat, "If everything starts to fall apart, Kodachi said I should start singing right? Everything will probably be fine….." Mel looked Twitch for reassurance; she was happily nodding causing a soft chime of a bell to ring as it dangled from her dark pink collar.
Mel hopped into the monster house and immediately all the Pokemon surrounded her, growling and preparing to attack. "Hey-hey, Um, ah wait, please wait, I-I wanted to talk with you…" Mel chirruped nervously.
"We don't talk to strangers…." A male Furret growled.
Mel inched back slightly, "W-w-well, maybe we can change that. Um, well you see, I was kinda hoping I could move into this lovely forest…." Mel continued to inch backwards, away from the entrance to the clearing.
Immediately the heard stopped its advance and gave Mel more room. Her main resounding thought, 'you're kidding me,' echoed through her head. Mel watched as Twitch dashed behind the cluster of wild Pokemon and speed out of the room.
"Why would a small Swablu like yourself want to live here? Where are you from?" A Spinda grumbled as he tottered.
"I think this forest is lovely, the trees are so rich and….." Mel desperately looked up to see only faint remnants of sunlight filter through the red leaves, "Red. Red's a pretty color. You know?"
"You didn't answer the second question…" a voice called from the back of the pack.
"Um, well, you see, uhh… I kinda came from, oh geeze, Scarlett Crest?" she muttered, accidentally changing her pitch to questioning.
The heard renewed the pressure as they marched towards her, "A pampered little city bird, no wonder she looks so weak."
A female's voice called out, "I bet you anything she's lying!"
Mel inched up against a thick gathering of red trees, no black to go, "I-I-I'm not lying! And to prove it h-h-h-how about I s-s-sing a song for you!" Mel took a deep breath and as she started to sing the only thing she could think of, the last song she had heard as a human.
Wake up in the morning feeling like Pdiddy
Grab my glasses, I'm out the door I'm gonna hit this city!
Before I leave brush my teeth with a bottle of jack,
Cause when I leave for the night I aint coming back!
I'm talking pedicures on our toes, toes.
Trying on all clothes, clothes.
Boys blowing off our phones, phones.
Drop-topping, playing our favorite cd's
Pulling up to the parties
Trying to get a little bit tipsy.
Don't stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, Imma fight
Till we see the sunlight
Tick tock, on the clock
But the party don't stop, no
Everyone's jaw dropped in astonishment, they had never heard a song quite like this one.
A/N: and that ends my experiment on flashing forward, what did you all thinking about the flash forwards? Good, bad, confusing, redundant? If people liked them I'll sneak more in, in the future. I still want more oc's so please please please stop by the forum "Grey Hat, Purple Scarf" to submit one or two or three! If the link on my profilke is not up by the time you read this you can find "Grey Hat, Purple Scarf" to J. Whitnee's Page and on Sliverleafx's page (both can be found in my favorite authors)
Mel:Ki-nee-chan
Twitch: J. Whitnee
Kodachi: NightmareSyndrom
Ryuk: Onxyshade7
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