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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 12:44:59 GMT -5
Darkfire continued to follow Gree, trying to use up the tiniest amount of energy possible. He didn't know how long this boost would last, but he needed it to last until he got the others in Gree's garden healed.
"Is it much farther?" Darkfire asked curiously.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 15:59:33 GMT -5
" Not much." Gree was tired too even though they had not walked all that long.
He soon smelled, then saw his garden. A bulbasaur who did not show any small brown spots came up to Gree and the newcomer. " Gree! Hi. Who's this?" She looked at Darkfire.
" This is Darkfire," said Gree, " he's come to help cure us. Darkfire, this is Maliya."
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Post by fya on Mar 2, 2007 17:22:32 GMT -5
ooc: Alca and co are coming here yes?
ic: Lelaka and the kits followed after Alcatraz and the venesaur towards where her garden.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 17:41:44 GMT -5
ooc: yup
ic: Alcatraz smelled the sickness as soon as he entered the garden territory. And as he looked around in the greenery he saw several bulbasaur who looked like they had seen better days. They all had brown spots all over them, and some of them were scratching furiously at these sickly looking lesions.
" Here we are," said Florifica in a sad voice. " Everyone--I have found and brought Aruseus to help us, just as I said I hoped to do. He is indeed real."
~Oh no,~ thought Alcatraz, ~look at them all...and they all expect me to be able to do a miracle heal on them...but I never had anyone teach me how to do it...~ Nor could he go to the beginning dimension for a quick few pointers. He had been banned from there. " Hi," he said a little nervously to the gathering grass pokemon. Most of the garden looked sick. It was only a matter of time before they all were. He looked at Florifica. " Has anyone died from this?"
" Yes, we have lost three already. All not long after they got ill. And we are losing more."
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 18:36:48 GMT -5
Darkfire smiled lightly.
"Hi Maliya." Darkfire said. He dropped some of the berries onto the ground. He was happy they were already heated up. But when he heard a Venesaur say something about Alcatraz, he cocked his head.
"What's an Aruseus?" Darkfire quietly asked Gree. He then looked at Alcatraz.
"You need a cure for this, right? I know about one, Heated Sitrus Berry juice. I brought along some heated Sitrus berries. That way, we don't need to waste time looking."
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Post by fya on Mar 2, 2007 18:46:09 GMT -5
Lelaka quivered slightly at the horrid smell of sickness. She glanced around the garden. ~Alca if there's anyway I can help you..just let me know,~ she telepathically said to her aruseus buddy. She glanced at the kits.
Jarreth would have normally felt blood lust around so much prey, but being smaller than all of them and the smell of sickness made him loose the hunger for kill. Even if the disease wouldn't hurt him, the smell pushed him away. It was horrible and the meat wouldn't stop stinking like sickness until the 'saurs were better.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 18:57:32 GMT -5
~I have to do this, I have to figure out how to perform miracle heals, it's what my kind can do and I...it's in me somewhere, I just have to tap into it, like I did with my elements. Thanks anyway--you can help by providing moral support...~ He remembered that day when he had lent moral support to Lelaka when she had learned to teleport. Wow, that was a long time ago.
Alcatraz let Florifica lead him out to where some ivysaurs were caring for a few really sick ones. The lesions were all over these poor bulba and ivysaurs. The rest of thei colours were faded, including the ivysaur flowers...Alcatraz could hear them breathing and he smelled the sickness reeking on their breath. One ivysaur opened puffy red eyes and squinted up at him.
Alcatraz went over to him. " Hi," he said gently, wondering where to begin.
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 19:16:32 GMT -5
Darkfire sighed lightly, and headed over to a Bulbasaur that had the spots. He cracked one of the heated berries open, and gave it to the Bulbasaur. It drank the juice quickly, and Darkfire smiled.
"Only like 50 more to go." Darkfire murmured. He turned to Gree.
"Wanna help hand out the berries?" Darkfire asked. He quickly looked to Alcatraz, and sighed.
Great, ignoring me. He thought.
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Post by fya on Mar 2, 2007 19:35:40 GMT -5
~Ok,~ sent Lelaka. ~I'll do my best.~ She smiled and watched as he made his way to the sick pokemon. The emurit looked at the kits. They seemed all right. Now to let Alcatraz work.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 19:43:29 GMT -5
Cirenze waited to see if Alcatraz would really be able to heal them. He was -the- god, so if he couldn't there would be a serious doubt in her mind as to just what lay ahead of her in her own afterlife...and the nature of things like that.
Alcatraz placed his front hoof gently on the worst-looking bulbasaur. Nothing happened. ~Dammit...~ What was he doing wrong? Well, maybe he wasn't viewing this in the correct way. He removed his foot from the bulbsaur. It wasn't his psysical touch that would heal--it was the powers that lay within him. Powers that until recently he had had no real desire to explore. A lot of that had died in him with the horrible experience that had been his elemental journey.
Alcatraz reached out with that same elemental energy, remembering what he was--he was the origin of all pokemon, all pokemon powers lay inside of him; and it was that power that would heal this poor creature.
A radiant white light began to glow around him and the bulbasaur...
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 19:48:03 GMT -5
Darkfire continued to hand out the heated berries, seeing the 'Saurs he'd given them to early on were starting to heal.
Yes! He thought happily. He handed out the last few he had, seeing that there were still more he needed.
Now, if I were a Sitrus Berry bush, where would I be? Darkfire wondered, beginning to look around for more.
Darkfire swore lightly as he felt he boost of energy wearing off.
Dammit, I need more time!
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 19:51:59 GMT -5
" Darkfire..." said Gree as he watched the aruseus do his stuff. " You might not want to miss this..."
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 20:02:33 GMT -5
Darkfire cocked his head. He was confused, what was so special?
"Gree, miss what? Is an Aruseus really all that?" Darkfire asked. He didn't know what was so special about an Aruseus, seeing as he'd never even heard of them.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 20:11:11 GMT -5
" He's healing Bulby," said Gree. " You might not need to worry about those berries after all."
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 20:19:50 GMT -5
Darkfire sighed lightly, and stopped searching.
"Oh...okay." Darkfire said sadly. He let Flare Drive wear down slowly, just enough to let him have a tiny bit of energy.
"I guess I should leave then, if you don't need my help anymore." Darkfire said, starting to head towards where he'd come in.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 20:27:12 GMT -5
" Hardly," said Gree in his hoarse voice. " You know, maybe he can heal you too. And it'd be a shale if you just up and left." Secretly, he thought it was strange that both Darkfire and Aruseus had come into his life in one day. it must be destiny or something...
Alcatraz could not believe it. He had healed a pokemon of its illness. Bulby was now restored to full health. But there were so many more that needed it...He started to work on the next one, an ivysaur.
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 20:40:18 GMT -5
"Yeah, sure." Darkfire said. He laid down of his stomach, feeling his sickness coming back.
Damn! Darkfire thought. He coughed up a bit of blood, but tried to hide it.
I don't need help...it'll just go away like last time. Darkfire hoped.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 20:59:06 GMT -5
" You definitely look sick too," said Gree. " I'd let him have a look at you." Gree then watched as Alcaltraz finished healing the ones over there and ventured over towards him. Gree backed up a little, uncertain. The pokemon was humungous.
" You're sick too." Alcatraz knelt down where he was. " I can heal you too. I healed the others."
"And what would...you want in return?" said Gree.
" Nothing," said Alcatraz. He did this because he felt drawn to. There was really no other way.
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 21:09:33 GMT -5
Darkfire threw up a bit more blood, feeling even worse now.
Dammit, what's wrong with me? I shouldn't be this sick. Darkfire thought. He felt oblivious to what was going on around him. He looked to Gree, smiled lightly, and passed out again.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 21:18:47 GMT -5
Alcatraz knew that Darkfire was in trouble and wouldn't survive long this way. He reached out his powers towards the unconscious cyndaquil and let them flow, letting them also flow to Gree, if they would allow it in.
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 21:29:03 GMT -5
Darkfire felt his body healing, he didn't know how or why, but he knew Alcatraz had something to do with it.
He's healing me? Darkfire wondered. He felt his body getting enough energy back, but not before he saw something else. A memory? A Shadow Typhlosion and a Shadow Quilava. They were over him, smiling at him.
...My parents? Darkfire thought. He wanted to see more, but he woke up before it could continue.
Darkfire looked up at Alcatraz, and smiled.
"Thanks."
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 22:06:07 GMT -5
" Don't worry about it...no need to thank me. Just feel better, rest up if you feel you need to." Alcatraz had sensed the memory while healing him, but he said nothing of it. It was a personal thing and not something he would pry into.
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 2, 2007 22:17:58 GMT -5
"Oh...okay." Darkfire smiled a bit, and fell asleep almost instantly.
Finally, some rest time. But...what was with that? Was it a memory, a dream, or what? Darkfire wondered. Why would his parents be shadow pokemon?
Would that make me one too? Darkfire thought as he slept.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 2, 2007 22:39:47 GMT -5
Alcatraz decided not to intrude on that, and he stepped away, feeling uncomfortable in this whole place. There was something abotu being a miracle healing pokemon god that gave him the squirmy feeling around "ordinary" pokemon. ~Perhaps it's because I know I'll never be one of them...and since my own kind has rejected me, I don't belong there either. There is no world for me.~
He cursed to himself to snap out of that mindset. If he had no hope of ever belonging anywhere then why had he come here with the intention to build a dream home for Dimity?
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Post by fya on Mar 3, 2007 12:12:19 GMT -5
~Wow Alca,~ sent Lelaka as she watched her arusesus friend heal the 'saurs. It was truly amazing. So it was possible. An aruseus could heal others. Something to keep in mind, definetly.
Jarreth looked at Cirenze. "How..did he do that?" he whispered to his friend.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 3, 2007 13:27:47 GMT -5
" I don't know," said Cirenze. She didn't know how he had been able to appear and find her in her moment of peril either. But he was an aruseus. That was just the way they were.
It was getting late. Alcatraz was a bit tired from all the healing and he debated whether to stay here for the night or go back to the alcove. He decided he'd remain here; he wanted to monitor everyone to make sure nothing bad happened from their being healed all so quickly. He had no real experience with this yet, after all. " I'll be staying here for the night," he said. " Just to make sure everyone's really okay."
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Post by Darkfire on Mar 3, 2007 15:54:45 GMT -5
Darkfire didn't stay asleep long. He lasted about 10 minutes before waking up. He stood up, and began to look around. Apparently all the 'Saurs were better now.
Well, that's good. Darkfire thought. He began to walk towards the exit of the area. He had some business to deal with now.
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Post by fya on Mar 3, 2007 16:15:35 GMT -5
Lelaka nodded. Staying for a night was a good idea, she thought. The emurit levitated off the ground and said to the kits, "Make yourselves at home guys..if Alca's staying, we all are. 'Night." She flew up into a tree with a hole in it and made herself at home. It wasn't clean and warm like her home back at Arua, but it was nice.
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Post by wynnyelle on Mar 3, 2007 18:40:10 GMT -5
~Arua...someday I'll be able to return there, a happy aruseus hopefully.~ Alcatraz thought too about the island where he had been born. " Goodnight everyone."
He found a place between trees that was dry and clean enough to sleep in and lay himself down.
It was after he'd gone to sleep that he realised he wasn't alone inside his mind.
~Alcatraz...Alca...are you there?~ His mother's voice was calling him. Alcatraz opened his eyes and looked around, but they weren't in sight. But he could feel their nearness. They were here.
~Mother? Father?~ Alca stood up in the darkness and turned psychic. He used that sense to try and pinpoint where they were...
~No, don't worry that you cannot see us, we did not want to startle anyone else there. Someone told us that you've been crusading here to cure every pokemon of disease. Is that true?~
~Well...not every pokemon, but these pokemon,~ sent Alcatraz looking up at the moon. ~Their leader--she came to me for help. I couldn't turn her down.~
~Word will get around to the others that you are abusing your powers. I don't want you to get hurt,~ said Diamanta.
~I'm not--I'm not abusing my powers, I'm -using- them, there's a difference,~ said Alcatraz. ~Who's the one who's been spying on me? Who told you?~
~I won't say, I don't want to start a feud,~ said his mother. ~But he has legitimate concerns. You can't heal every pokemon. Disease, though horrible, is a force of nature. Without it the populations of pokemon might explode and then there'd be worldwide suffering.~
Alcatraz knew she was right. But he couldn't look at a sick pokemon and tell them no.
~You have to tell them no. It's the way things are. Alca...I know you were deprived of proper teaching through much of your life. And I'm not blaming you for how things turned out in some ways. But I want to see you happy and see the world happy, and you have to take a step back and think.~
Alca's thoughts were a whirl of anger and confusion. ~I'll try. But I--I can't turn down a sick pokemon who comes to me...~
~It will get worse before it gets better,~ said Diamanta. ~Will you treat the hundreds who hear of your miracles and travel miles to see you? It never ends, Alca.~
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Post by fya on Mar 3, 2007 19:12:15 GMT -5
Lelaka was sleeping throughly through the psychic conversation that Alcatraz and his mother were having. If she had been awake, she would have sensed the connection occuring. but her sleep was too relaxed and deep. The emurit snuggled herself into a smaller crevice in the hollow tree as she slept.
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