Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:14:56 -0700
From: Amethyst Rose <thepleiadescall@gmail.com>
Subject: Pokemon Amethyst: Analia Part 4

Disclaimer: All rights for the Pokemon franchise go to Nintendo. This story
is a fan ficition in this franchise universe, categorized under fan
fiction.

This story is obviously fiction. It's also PG-13, so... yeah. Probably
won't offend anybody, but err, I guess you never know? Huh.


				  Analia
				 Part Four


The sun was shining high in the noon sky as Steelix, Sceptile, and Gallade
were spread out under its light. Kai went back and forth between them,
feeding them different pellets and rubbing them with different tonics.
Reece, Ash, Brock, and Dawn sat on the sidelines still, drinking some
lemonade that Reece had in the refrigerator. Dawn leaned over to talk to
Reece. "It's really nice of you guys to heal the pokemon here. They seem to
be better already!"

Reece nodded, still watching Kai. Brock addressed him as well. "Why do you
do this anyway? Your medicines work fantastic, but wouldn't it just be
easier to go to a pokemon center?"

He turned his head and smiled. "We're kind of used to taking care of
ourselves, so we might as well. " Reece turned his gaze away again,
trailing Kai, who was amusedly engaged in conversation with Sceptile, whose
responses to speech mostly entailed wild movements of his blade-like arms
and taciturn grunts of his name. "Besides. We don't really trust the center
much."

Brock and Dawn exchanged sceptical glances, but Ash pursed his lips knowing
the real story. Kai walked over to them then crouched down to meet their
gazes. "You'll all be happy to hear that Steelix and Sceptile are in
tip-top shape." he said. Brock looked behind him, and laughed when he saw
Steelix bouncing Sceptile and Gallade on his tail.

Dawn sighed and put her arms behind her head. "That battle was just too
much... You're such amazing trainers."

Ash followed up. "Yeah, I'll say! It seems like forever since I've lost a
battle. Goes to show that I still have a lot to learn. I've never seen
pokemon like yours!" Reece and Kai blushed, and Reece let slip a quiet
"thanks." "Kai, how does your Gardevoir know Petal Dance?" Ash continued.

Kai seemed to freeze, but recovered from his fumble. "I thought you would
ask me that, Ash. She was born with it, really. Ever since she was a little
Ralts, she knew."

Reece interjected. "But you guys are pretty good yourselves. I haven't had
a battle like that in a long time." he said.

"Yeah... but that didn't keep us from losing." Brock said, scratching his
head.

Kai waved his hand at him, brushing off Brock's humility in a friendly
motion. He stood up, now walking towards the house. "I guess I should start
making dinner... I hear it'll be cold, so how does udon sound? I mean, you
ARE staying for another night, right?"

They all nodded in affirmation, and Kai walked back into the house, sliding
the screen door behind him. Brock remembered how worried he was when they
first arrived here; now he was content to stay as long as they needed.
Brock and Ash went over to see their pokemon, and it was only Reece and
Dawn sitting on the side. "Hey Dawn." Reece said. She looked over at him.
"I haven't seen any of your pokemon. Why didn't you try your hand at
battling?"

He said it with a smile, but Dawn was still a bit nervous. "Er, uh... well,
you see. I'm kinda bad at... battling. And training. And catching. And even
contests, which is what I'm supposed to be good at."

Reece frowned. "Well, that's no way to talk. Besides.... everyone starts
somewhere." He motioned her closer, and she leaned over so he could talk
quieter. "In fact. Your friend Ash, when he first started... he probably
won't tell you this, but he woke up so late on his first day that he
couldn't get Bulbasaur, Charmandar, or Squirtle." Dawn giggled. "So he had
to get Pikachu. But Pikachu never listened at first! He just kept shocking
him every time he tried to touch him!" That made Dawn really laugh.

"Haha!! Reece, how do you know?"

Reece looked around, as if to check that no one was looking. "Kai told
me. And Kai knows a lot of things." Dawn gave a puzzled look. "But don't
tell Ash." Reece winked and gave a thumbs up, and Dawn smiled. He walked
back into the house.

ÔWell that was nice of him... Although it was kinda creepy.' Dawn thought
to herself. She observed Ash with Pikachu on one shoulder and Sceptile by
his leg, both engaged with Gallade in some sort of physical training. Brock
was polishing Steelix. She sighed. ÔI wish... I could be as powerful as
them.' "In fact." Dawn started talking out loud to herself. "You know what,
I don't care. I think I will be."



It was a delightful dinner, and another beautiful night out in the field of
rainbow flowers. Ash was alone again, sitting in the same spot that Kai was
sitting in last night. Tiny flecks of stars were obviously trying to break
through the darkness, and the sky was just a little bit brighter than it
was before. He felt someone sit down next to him: it was Reece.

Unlike Kai, he looked perfectly natural under this moonlight. He looked
over at Ash with a friendly smile. "Hey there, Ash. What are you doing out
here this late?"

"Erhm, well, uh..." Ash scratched behind his head, but Reece was perfectly
accomodating. "...I saw Kai out here last night. And I talked to him
here. I thought maybe I would see him again."

Reece suddenly looked serious and his eyes widend a little bit. "So. You
saw Kai in the moonlight." Ash nodded. Reece sighed and rubbed his
face. "Ash, can I trust you?"

Ash paused for several seconds, a bit aghast at the sudden
remark. "...Yeah. Reece, you can trust me."

He nodded as well. "Well then get comfortable, Ash. Here comes another
story." Ash laughed out loud, and Reece grinned. It faded as he delved into
the story. "I never told you the third big thing that happened in this
garden. For a lot of nights, Kai would refuse to go outside at night. I
always invited him to spend an evening in the garden, but he would always
say Ôno' and run off somewhere. So one night, about three years ago, I
grabbed his hand and dragged him outside. It was the first time I ever saw
the symptoms of his Analia- his hair was shiny blue, his eyes bright red:
the entire shebang. He just held his face in his hands and started
sobbing. I had never felt worse. I realized that I never told him that I
knew about it."

"He asked me if I thought he was a freak. He asked me if I would kick him
out and humiliate him like all the others did. Our Kirlia came outside at
this point, and huddled with each other in the flowers. I hugged Kai. He
seemed really surprised when I did. I hugged him, and I told him Ôno.' I
told him that I knew. And that I was perfectly okay with it."

"And then... this was the most beautiful part. Kai was crying. But when he
looked up, I saw the night reflected in his bright red eyes. And I saw a
shooting star. I looked up, and he did too, and sure enough, there was a
meteor shower. It was gorgeous... streaks of light lit up the entire
sky. We were all spellbound: me, Kai, and our Kirlia. We heard a bang and a
flash of light burned for a couple of seconds. Kai and I looked at each
other and ran to where it came from in the middle of the garden. A meteor
had fallen in our flowers."

"Kai reached down into the rubble. I tried to pull his hand back since the
rock felt hot, but he didn't listen. He dug around in the rocks, somehow
unhurt...and he pulled out this stone. It was bright and it...shone. It
shone like eyes. He held out my hand and placed it in my palms. The meteor
shower was still in the sky, but we were just looking at each other. He
gave the stone to me: as thanks for saving him. I just laughed. But as we
walked towards our Kirlia, the stone began to light up. It sparkled like it
was on fire, and soon my Kirlia was too. He was holding hands with Kai's
Kirlia, and with smiles on both of their faces, they looked into each
others eyes and began glowing. They grew and they changed. The light
disappeared. There was Gallade, staring straight into the eyes of
Gardevoir. Their evolution was complete."

"Kai and I were joyous. And as I stared at Kai that night, with his hair
and eyes and...and everything. I realized that-that- you know, I'll just
say it. That I... love him." Ash looked solemn, and Reece was deathly
serious. "You might think it's weird, Ash, and Kai would too, but-"

"I don't think it's weird." Ash said. Reece looked over. "It's not weird at
all. You two were like, made for each other."

Reece gave a hopeless laugh. "But Kai-"

"Hey, now I don't know much about this stuff..." Ash said. "...but I'm
pretty sure that Kai feels the same way." Reece gave Ash a curious
look. Ash clarified. "He told me that he was waiting for something."

"..." Reece pouted. He raised his palms up to his mouth and blew into them,
so as to warm them. "...You know, ever since we were little. Ever since I
nursed him back to health, I've wanted to protect him. I just want to
protect him from this world that wants to hurt him, because I love him so
much. I wanna save him."

"From what?"

"From everything. From the people in town, from his family, from Analia-"
He stopped at "Analia." Reece put his head down between his legs. Ash
couldn't see his face in that position, but the sudden mention of Analia
brought a very noticeable damper to the atmosphere.

Ash stood up. He clenched his fists. "You have to tell him."

Reece nodded, not lifting his head until a very long pause. "I know." His
face now exposed, Reece angled his neck gently upwards, gazing at the night
sky. Ash paralleled his gaze. "...Ash."

"Yes?"

The tiny sky diamonds tried to break through the darkness, tender beams of
light twinkling away like half-hearted candles. Yet it had a strange,
delicate beauty to it, like a glass figurine or a ice sculpture, and it was
as if tiny dewdrops adorned a large night petal as they did the millions of
petals in the garden. Ash heard Reece's voice, gentle yet clinical.

"Analia is a blessing in Pokemon. It causes the creation of abnormal
proteins in the Pokemon's body that allow abilities beyond those
normal. But in the rare case that a human contracts it, these abnormal
proteins created are toxic to the human body. When enough time passes, it
inevitably causes the afflicted person to die."

Something shiny fell to the ground. Was it a star? Was it a dewdrop?
Something shiny, something small, tasting like salt water. Ash saw it
splash into the ground, and when he saw it, he didn't realize it fell from
his own cheek. He looked to Reece. But Reece continued to gaze at the
stars.

============

"Fun" Fact for Fans!: I have seen like, one episode of Hoenn pokemon anime
total (I ran away in fear upon hearing everyone's new voices :( so sad). As
a result, writing Dawn's character has been fairly difficult, so I decided
to just make her incompetent as a character trait. God, I barely know what
pokemon she even owns. Doesn't she have a Piplup or something? I dunno.
Anyway, at this point she's gonna be completely different from the anime,
so I guess it doesn't really matter anymore :P.



Hey all,

Yes yes yes, it's part four of Analia! If I'm prognosticating correctly, I
think there will be either one or two more parts after this. Then the other
stories start: I consider Analia to be the sort of "prelude" for Pokemon
Amethyst, but it's still very important nonetheless.

Poor Kai! Or perhaps, poor Reece! What is their fate? Find out in the next
issue :O.



Thanks for reading!

Questions? Comments? Recommendations? Fan Mail? Hate Mail, maybe? Wanna
just chat? Email me at ThePleiadesCall@gmail.com . Love to hear from you!

If you like Pokemon: Amethyst, maybe there's the very vague possibility
you'll like other stories I've submitted:

Charmed Reborn (Celebrity), Final Fantasy Rosa (Celebrity), Teth (Fantasy),
Diana Celes (High School), and Hallow (Fantasy/SciFi).