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Psychics, and Birds, and Gods, Oh MY!
Leo
My brain was actually throbbing as I walked into Terra's home. I was tempted to yell for Terra, but I though better of it, remembering the last time I pissed her off. I staggered into the kitchen and stumbled around blindly for the light switch. I knocked over jars and other unidentifiable objects. Crashing and banging was evident. As I found the light switch, I cursed myself at what I found. Salt was spread across the floor with several containers smashed. There was some kind of liquid seeping under fridge, and on many cabinets was a mysterious slime. On a table in the center of the room was a large over-turned pitcher. I walked slowly to the table with my mouth hanging open. When I reached the table I picked up a small bottle and stared at the label, still slack jawed. Smiling I left the room to go to bed, shutting the lights off and saying,
"Oh, heeeres the aspirin."
I staggered off to bed happily.
Until I woke up to screaming. I ran downstairs to find Terra slack jawed in her kitchen. It looked strangely familiar. Looking around I said,
"Terra? I think you were robbed."
"No shit dumb ass!" She was screaming, "I don't understand though! They didn't sack any other room and all they took was aspirin!" I stared at her confused.
"And you called me a dumb ass." With that matter-o-fact statement I turned on my heel and said over my shoulder, "I'll be back before dinner." Waving I left Terra to clean the mess some stupid robbers had made.
Arriving at Raina's home I found her no where in sight, but her door was open so I let myself in. I entered her living room and gasped, she was sitting cross legged in the middle of the room. DIRECTLY in the center of the room really. She was floating about four feet off the ground. I didn't want to disturb her so I sat cross legged, practicing the exercises she taught me yesterday. I had to project my thoughts, my feelings, and myself around me. I began sensing the structure of objects in the room. The bookcase, the doorway to the other room and directly in front of me a glowing orb of power. I stopped focusing and opened my eyes when I sensed that Raina had moved.
"I'm impressed that you were so focused." She sounded honestly impressed. I looked up to see her in front of me. Curiosity took over and I had to ask,
"Why would you be impressed?" I asked.
"You've been completely still for almost three hours, two hours fifty-four minutes to be exact." She was smiling. I grinned , I can barely sit still for five seconds usually. "Today we are going to start on changing your shape. Normally this would take years of practicing to get good enough, but your special and we are going to start easy." She held out her arm and closed her eyes in focus. I gaped when it morphed before me into a large wing. I didn't doubt that if she had two, Raina could fly with them. "Now you try. The idea is basic, but the practice is difficult. Just focus on your arm and imagine it changing. Make it anything you want. A claw, a wing, a hoof, anything."
Smiling I held up my arm. Closing my eyes I built the image of my arm in my head. I tried to be as precise as possible. Every muscle and vein stood out on the skin, every strand of hair was vibrant. Then I imagined, no believed, my arm was changing. In my minds eye I saw the skin tighten and harden. I wanted it to be simple so I didn't try to change the structure of my arm at all. Alternatively I made my skin steel. My hand had to remain flexible, but my forearm became indestructible. I heard Raina gasp and snapped open my eyes. In the moment before his focus was shattered I could see the fruits of my labor. From the elbow down my arm was shiny silver. Light glared off the metal and seemed to make me understand the power I was mastering. I looked to Raina smiling, but stopped when I saw the look on her face. It was one of deep awe and confusion. I was once again clueless.
Raina snapped her head up to look me in the eye, the smile returning to her lips, "That was incredible Leo, but since this is your first time you will tire quickly if you keep trying. We are finished for today, you can go home and rest. And one more thing, from now on we will communicate in telepathy, to increase your mental focus." I just stood confused, I had only done one thing today.
"Raina-" She gave me a look and I realized, "Raina, why are we stopping so soon? I need more practice." Raina had that look again and snapped her head up when I spoke.
"If you think you are up to it, you can practice at home, but be careful and don't over exert yourself." With that she ushered me out of the house and pointed me towards the city. She slammed her door when she got back inside. I stared at the door still confused, but listened to her request and headed for Terra's home. I promised myself I would practice more when I was back.
Raina
How on earth could a mortal have that much power on the first try? Even when I became an immortal I wasn't able to achieve even slight transformation on the first try. What is he? It is time to speak to the gods. Sitting cross-legged in the middle of my living room I could focus on transporting my spirit to the heavens. Spiritual transportation was always a bizarre feeling. Do you know what an out-of-body experience is? Well imagine that at high speeds. Your soul is almost literally ripped from your body. The secret to transportation is that it depends on distance. In your classic out-of-body experience your spirit appears directly next to your body. But the realm of the legendaries is an indiscernible distance away, but it must be pretty far away. The final note you need to make on this is that your spirit takes the same amount of time to reach both locations, so that means you are going a hell of a lot faster to go farther away. Somewhere between one and two thousand miles an hour. Enough of this factual stuff. I give enough of it to Leo.
I opened my eyes to find myself at the bottom of a staircase. The stairway to heaven. Thats a good song. Anyway I had to get to the top of the staircase to reach the Hall of the Gods. During the climb I collected my thoughts, something I'm rather good at. I knew Leo was gaining power in his mental acuity rapidly. The only problem was that in one day of training he had the ability of a five year student of the gods. He had already mastered mental telepathy, though they hadn't tested distance yet, and he was well on his way to actual psychic abilities such as levitation and physical telepathy. He was growing rapidly, which was great, but transformation was far, far, far beyond what he should be able to achieve. At very best I expected him to only achieve maybe a finger if he was lucky. I looked up and found myself in front of a twelve foot door. It was engraved in white gold in an intricate pattern of a budding rose bush. Instead of roses at the end of each vine though were shining rubies. The leaves were made of emeralds.
Flashy, stupid, arrogant legendaries. They weren't my favorite people.
The door opened to a blinding white light. They were showing off again. Unaffected, I walked into the large hall. Everything was a dazzling white. Along the sides of the hall and at the front were columns. On these columns sat the legendaries of every region. Every legendary you would expect, and some you wouldn't. At the front were the most powerful legendaries, Arceus, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Mew, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Lugia, and Ho-oH. Along the side columns were the lower legendaries, Regigigas, Shaymin, Latios, Latias, Deoxys, Celebi, Jirachi, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Cresselia, Darkrai, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Kyogre, Groudon, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, and, finally, Heatran. So much power was massed in this room that most creatures would be intimidated. But I was on a mission and knew who to speak to. I walked directly towards Giratina, he being the god of time and future. I looked bravely into his face, knowing I could match his power, and he knew too.
"I want to know the boys future. And don't even TRY to say you don't know what I'm talking about. With the amount of power he posses I know it can only come from the gods." You only spoke through your mind to the gods unless you were on Earth. There true voice could destroy your eardrums and make you go insane. "Well? What is your reasoning? What about you Mew? You always have a plan." She turned to the happy, pink sprite. Mew did a little flip and smiled.
"You know his future Raina. He will save the world." Her high pitched voice was bordering on infuriating. "Now how do you expect him to fill that role without substantial power?" No, scratch that, it was definitely infuriating.
I was in a rage now, "This much power will tear him apart! His body can't contain the power of a god. If not for the power of my nine tails, I wouldn't be able to contain it." They weren't grasping the danger they had put him in. Lugia, the god of all pokemons defensive abilities, rose from his pedestal too speak.
"Do you assume we are stupid, Raina? He is one of a kind. He is more powerful then I think you realize. Added to his natural power, we have conditioned him with every protective force we can afford. He can handle the power. On top of that he has a natural intellect, and we have given him a intuition on what to do with the power you are giving him." Lugia was confident he could do as was seen in his prophecy, "He has two years until what we expect to happen, will happen, and even with our gifts, there is no guarantee that he will be ready. The task of teaching has fallen on your shoulders." I wasn't happy. I turned to Arceus. He would have the answers, I hoped. He had to be the Alpha pokemon for something. He just shook his head when I caught his eye.
"It is all up to you. If you chose to instruct Leo, he will gain unimaginable power. He will have a chance to alter history for the better. If he goes wrong in his training though, he will be destroyed. It will be unavoidable. Will you take this challenge? Raina, will you instruct Leo in the ways of the unearthly arts?" Every legendary looked at mr expectantly, Mespirit even nearly fell off his column. I had thought long and hard about this. I had already made up my mind, but it was fun to see the legendaries sweat in expectation. Only Mew and Mewtwo sat calmly, probably able to read my mind. Looking up I stared into the eyes of each pokemon around her. I shouted my simple statement aloud to add weight to my words.
"Yes," they all jumped back in surprise, "yes I will train my son." With that she turned and left. Mew was smiling, always the mysterious one.
Leo
I wanted to get back to the house in style. I felt that Raina was surprised by my success with my arm and I wanted to go further. Standing atop a hill outside Oakridge city limits facing into the wind with my shirt off would have startled anyone even if I was human, but what had planned would ruin my shirt and I liked this one. As before I focused deeply with my eyes closed, except now I was focusing on an image of my torso. I willed bulges to form in my back. Those bulges sprouted from my skin with a sudden movement. In my minds eye was a pair of fifteen foot wings from behind me. They were soft and feathery and strong. Giant yellow angel wings. I focused even harder into making them reality, solid bone, muscle, skin, and feather. I hoped it would last. I have had no experience maintaining my creations so far I might remind you. With one last strong thought I opened my eyes. I tried to turn myself around to see my new wings, but I couldn't see anything. I turned several times trying to twist myself to see my wings. I was giving up. Sighing I stretched, Raina was right about focus taking a lot of energy out of you. I froze when I felt a new muscle contract in my back. I looked to my right and left, and can you guess what I saw? Fifteen feet of golden glory. I gave a cheer and jumped into the air, pumping my wings at the same time. I think I easily reached ten to twenty feet in the air. I landed hard, but I didn't care. I pumped my wings several times, getting used to the muscles required to "flap" them. In pure joy I shot into the air, pumping my wings mightily. I can't even describe the sensation to you. Utter freedom. In my focus, hours had passed again and in the west the sun was setting. Beautiful light just shining over the hills was enough to take your breath away. I could see wild pokemon in the temperate grasslands, flying over-head to their homes. It made think that it really sucked that humans were destroying this world. I hate sounding like a sissy environmentalist, but god damn this was amazing. Golden rays shone on my body. The effect was intense I assume. I don't know how this could get any better.
It couldn't, but when I reached the city, I realized what could go horribly wrong. With my powerful wings I had neglected to add the other necessities of flying. Like big lungs to catch the thin oxygen, or thick blood to hold that oxygen, or a big heart to move it around. Hell, some stronger chest muscles to pull those big wings back would have been nice to. After only ten minutes of flight I was becoming dizzy and tired. The only thing keeping me aloft up to now was my already unnatural strength and stamina, but that only lasted me so long. I thanked my strange attraction to roof running as I recognized Terra's house. I could tell I wasn't going to land gracefully, partly because I had no practice, partly because I was very tired and falling fast, and partly because heI had neglected strong leg muscles along with almost everything else. I steeled myself as Terra's front window closed in quickly. I instinctively folded my wings on impact and crashed into her living room. I heard screaming, but all I could say was,
"Oops." I giggled. All I could think of was:
A)How did I remember to add instincts?
B)Why was I giggling?
C)Why do I crash every time I fly?
D) And, Raina was right. Damn it.
These are the questions one asks himself as he passes into oblivion from a violent crash.Chapter End Notes:I'm so tired. Please your comments, this story is bordering on not worth it, I might as well stop posting if no one likes the story... It just seems like to much work for near zero output
My brain was actually throbbing as I walked into Terra's home. I was tempted to yell for Terra, but I though better of it, remembering the last time I pissed her off. I staggered into the kitchen and stumbled around blindly for the light switch. I knocked over jars and other unidentifiable objects. Crashing and banging was evident. As I found the light switch, I cursed myself at what I found. Salt was spread across the floor with several containers smashed. There was some kind of liquid seeping under fridge, and on many cabinets was a mysterious slime. On a table in the center of the room was a large over-turned pitcher. I walked slowly to the table with my mouth hanging open. When I reached the table I picked up a small bottle and stared at the label, still slack jawed. Smiling I left the room to go to bed, shutting the lights off and saying,
"Oh, heeeres the aspirin."
I staggered off to bed happily.
Until I woke up to screaming. I ran downstairs to find Terra slack jawed in her kitchen. It looked strangely familiar. Looking around I said,
"Terra? I think you were robbed."
"No shit dumb ass!" She was screaming, "I don't understand though! They didn't sack any other room and all they took was aspirin!" I stared at her confused.
"And you called me a dumb ass." With that matter-o-fact statement I turned on my heel and said over my shoulder, "I'll be back before dinner." Waving I left Terra to clean the mess some stupid robbers had made.
Arriving at Raina's home I found her no where in sight, but her door was open so I let myself in. I entered her living room and gasped, she was sitting cross legged in the middle of the room. DIRECTLY in the center of the room really. She was floating about four feet off the ground. I didn't want to disturb her so I sat cross legged, practicing the exercises she taught me yesterday. I had to project my thoughts, my feelings, and myself around me. I began sensing the structure of objects in the room. The bookcase, the doorway to the other room and directly in front of me a glowing orb of power. I stopped focusing and opened my eyes when I sensed that Raina had moved.
"I'm impressed that you were so focused." She sounded honestly impressed. I looked up to see her in front of me. Curiosity took over and I had to ask,
"Why would you be impressed?" I asked.
"You've been completely still for almost three hours, two hours fifty-four minutes to be exact." She was smiling. I grinned , I can barely sit still for five seconds usually. "Today we are going to start on changing your shape. Normally this would take years of practicing to get good enough, but your special and we are going to start easy." She held out her arm and closed her eyes in focus. I gaped when it morphed before me into a large wing. I didn't doubt that if she had two, Raina could fly with them. "Now you try. The idea is basic, but the practice is difficult. Just focus on your arm and imagine it changing. Make it anything you want. A claw, a wing, a hoof, anything."
Smiling I held up my arm. Closing my eyes I built the image of my arm in my head. I tried to be as precise as possible. Every muscle and vein stood out on the skin, every strand of hair was vibrant. Then I imagined, no believed, my arm was changing. In my minds eye I saw the skin tighten and harden. I wanted it to be simple so I didn't try to change the structure of my arm at all. Alternatively I made my skin steel. My hand had to remain flexible, but my forearm became indestructible. I heard Raina gasp and snapped open my eyes. In the moment before his focus was shattered I could see the fruits of my labor. From the elbow down my arm was shiny silver. Light glared off the metal and seemed to make me understand the power I was mastering. I looked to Raina smiling, but stopped when I saw the look on her face. It was one of deep awe and confusion. I was once again clueless.
Raina snapped her head up to look me in the eye, the smile returning to her lips, "That was incredible Leo, but since this is your first time you will tire quickly if you keep trying. We are finished for today, you can go home and rest. And one more thing, from now on we will communicate in telepathy, to increase your mental focus." I just stood confused, I had only done one thing today.
"Raina-" She gave me a look and I realized, "Raina, why are we stopping so soon? I need more practice." Raina had that look again and snapped her head up when I spoke.
"If you think you are up to it, you can practice at home, but be careful and don't over exert yourself." With that she ushered me out of the house and pointed me towards the city. She slammed her door when she got back inside. I stared at the door still confused, but listened to her request and headed for Terra's home. I promised myself I would practice more when I was back.
Raina
How on earth could a mortal have that much power on the first try? Even when I became an immortal I wasn't able to achieve even slight transformation on the first try. What is he? It is time to speak to the gods. Sitting cross-legged in the middle of my living room I could focus on transporting my spirit to the heavens. Spiritual transportation was always a bizarre feeling. Do you know what an out-of-body experience is? Well imagine that at high speeds. Your soul is almost literally ripped from your body. The secret to transportation is that it depends on distance. In your classic out-of-body experience your spirit appears directly next to your body. But the realm of the legendaries is an indiscernible distance away, but it must be pretty far away. The final note you need to make on this is that your spirit takes the same amount of time to reach both locations, so that means you are going a hell of a lot faster to go farther away. Somewhere between one and two thousand miles an hour. Enough of this factual stuff. I give enough of it to Leo.
I opened my eyes to find myself at the bottom of a staircase. The stairway to heaven. Thats a good song. Anyway I had to get to the top of the staircase to reach the Hall of the Gods. During the climb I collected my thoughts, something I'm rather good at. I knew Leo was gaining power in his mental acuity rapidly. The only problem was that in one day of training he had the ability of a five year student of the gods. He had already mastered mental telepathy, though they hadn't tested distance yet, and he was well on his way to actual psychic abilities such as levitation and physical telepathy. He was growing rapidly, which was great, but transformation was far, far, far beyond what he should be able to achieve. At very best I expected him to only achieve maybe a finger if he was lucky. I looked up and found myself in front of a twelve foot door. It was engraved in white gold in an intricate pattern of a budding rose bush. Instead of roses at the end of each vine though were shining rubies. The leaves were made of emeralds.
Flashy, stupid, arrogant legendaries. They weren't my favorite people.
The door opened to a blinding white light. They were showing off again. Unaffected, I walked into the large hall. Everything was a dazzling white. Along the sides of the hall and at the front were columns. On these columns sat the legendaries of every region. Every legendary you would expect, and some you wouldn't. At the front were the most powerful legendaries, Arceus, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Mew, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Lugia, and Ho-oH. Along the side columns were the lower legendaries, Regigigas, Shaymin, Latios, Latias, Deoxys, Celebi, Jirachi, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Cresselia, Darkrai, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Kyogre, Groudon, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, and, finally, Heatran. So much power was massed in this room that most creatures would be intimidated. But I was on a mission and knew who to speak to. I walked directly towards Giratina, he being the god of time and future. I looked bravely into his face, knowing I could match his power, and he knew too.
"I want to know the boys future. And don't even TRY to say you don't know what I'm talking about. With the amount of power he posses I know it can only come from the gods." You only spoke through your mind to the gods unless you were on Earth. There true voice could destroy your eardrums and make you go insane. "Well? What is your reasoning? What about you Mew? You always have a plan." She turned to the happy, pink sprite. Mew did a little flip and smiled.
"You know his future Raina. He will save the world." Her high pitched voice was bordering on infuriating. "Now how do you expect him to fill that role without substantial power?" No, scratch that, it was definitely infuriating.
I was in a rage now, "This much power will tear him apart! His body can't contain the power of a god. If not for the power of my nine tails, I wouldn't be able to contain it." They weren't grasping the danger they had put him in. Lugia, the god of all pokemons defensive abilities, rose from his pedestal too speak.
"Do you assume we are stupid, Raina? He is one of a kind. He is more powerful then I think you realize. Added to his natural power, we have conditioned him with every protective force we can afford. He can handle the power. On top of that he has a natural intellect, and we have given him a intuition on what to do with the power you are giving him." Lugia was confident he could do as was seen in his prophecy, "He has two years until what we expect to happen, will happen, and even with our gifts, there is no guarantee that he will be ready. The task of teaching has fallen on your shoulders." I wasn't happy. I turned to Arceus. He would have the answers, I hoped. He had to be the Alpha pokemon for something. He just shook his head when I caught his eye.
"It is all up to you. If you chose to instruct Leo, he will gain unimaginable power. He will have a chance to alter history for the better. If he goes wrong in his training though, he will be destroyed. It will be unavoidable. Will you take this challenge? Raina, will you instruct Leo in the ways of the unearthly arts?" Every legendary looked at mr expectantly, Mespirit even nearly fell off his column. I had thought long and hard about this. I had already made up my mind, but it was fun to see the legendaries sweat in expectation. Only Mew and Mewtwo sat calmly, probably able to read my mind. Looking up I stared into the eyes of each pokemon around her. I shouted my simple statement aloud to add weight to my words.
"Yes," they all jumped back in surprise, "yes I will train my son." With that she turned and left. Mew was smiling, always the mysterious one.
Leo
I wanted to get back to the house in style. I felt that Raina was surprised by my success with my arm and I wanted to go further. Standing atop a hill outside Oakridge city limits facing into the wind with my shirt off would have startled anyone even if I was human, but what had planned would ruin my shirt and I liked this one. As before I focused deeply with my eyes closed, except now I was focusing on an image of my torso. I willed bulges to form in my back. Those bulges sprouted from my skin with a sudden movement. In my minds eye was a pair of fifteen foot wings from behind me. They were soft and feathery and strong. Giant yellow angel wings. I focused even harder into making them reality, solid bone, muscle, skin, and feather. I hoped it would last. I have had no experience maintaining my creations so far I might remind you. With one last strong thought I opened my eyes. I tried to turn myself around to see my new wings, but I couldn't see anything. I turned several times trying to twist myself to see my wings. I was giving up. Sighing I stretched, Raina was right about focus taking a lot of energy out of you. I froze when I felt a new muscle contract in my back. I looked to my right and left, and can you guess what I saw? Fifteen feet of golden glory. I gave a cheer and jumped into the air, pumping my wings at the same time. I think I easily reached ten to twenty feet in the air. I landed hard, but I didn't care. I pumped my wings several times, getting used to the muscles required to "flap" them. In pure joy I shot into the air, pumping my wings mightily. I can't even describe the sensation to you. Utter freedom. In my focus, hours had passed again and in the west the sun was setting. Beautiful light just shining over the hills was enough to take your breath away. I could see wild pokemon in the temperate grasslands, flying over-head to their homes. It made think that it really sucked that humans were destroying this world. I hate sounding like a sissy environmentalist, but god damn this was amazing. Golden rays shone on my body. The effect was intense I assume. I don't know how this could get any better.
It couldn't, but when I reached the city, I realized what could go horribly wrong. With my powerful wings I had neglected to add the other necessities of flying. Like big lungs to catch the thin oxygen, or thick blood to hold that oxygen, or a big heart to move it around. Hell, some stronger chest muscles to pull those big wings back would have been nice to. After only ten minutes of flight I was becoming dizzy and tired. The only thing keeping me aloft up to now was my already unnatural strength and stamina, but that only lasted me so long. I thanked my strange attraction to roof running as I recognized Terra's house. I could tell I wasn't going to land gracefully, partly because I had no practice, partly because I was very tired and falling fast, and partly because heI had neglected strong leg muscles along with almost everything else. I steeled myself as Terra's front window closed in quickly. I instinctively folded my wings on impact and crashed into her living room. I heard screaming, but all I could say was,
"Oops." I giggled. All I could think of was:
A)How did I remember to add instincts?
B)Why was I giggling?
C)Why do I crash every time I fly?
D) And, Raina was right. Damn it.
These are the questions one asks himself as he passes into oblivion from a violent crash.Chapter End Notes:I'm so tired. Please your comments, this story is bordering on not worth it, I might as well stop posting if no one likes the story... It just seems like to much work for near zero output