towerofanimus | The Melody of The Sea is now Silent

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The Melody of The Sea is now Silent

Characters: Jasmine and you!
Setting: Dorm floors, cafeteria, and floor twenty-five.
Format: Staring with prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: Jasmine wakes up in the Tower and tries to deal with the fact that everyone she knows and loves is dead.
Warnings: None that I can think of!

When Jasmine woke up and found herself in an unfamiliar room and in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar nightgown, she was more than a little worried. Who had kidnapped her? Team Rocket? And why? Looking around, she saw a couple of letters on her nightstand, and while they were a bit informative, Jasmine had a very hard time swallowing it. Joto destroyed? Amphy dead? Olivine no more? All her friends and family dead? Jasmine sighed and bit her lip. In such times, she had to be strong. She hadn't gotten to be a Gym Leader by weeping at every cricis that happened along. She had to figure out what exactly was going on here.

So, she got out of bed and opened up her trunk, hoping to find something useful..and did. She quickly changed into her clothes and did up her hair before gathering up the Pokeballs that were in the trunk. So, her friends hadn't died at all. At least..some of them hadn't. Quickly, she opened up one ball and pulled out her Magnemite, which called out to her. Smiling, she patted it on the head. "Don't worry..we'll figure this one out."

With that, she ran out into the hallway, looking for anyone that she could find, her Magnemite trailing behind her. As she ran, she held onto her other Pokeballs. She wanted to pull them out, but Steelix was rather large, and she didn't want to tire Skarmory, even though she was rather strong.

While the bowl of oatmeal the man had handed her was rather unappetizing, Jasmine was trying to make the best of it and eat it as quickly as possible. While she ate, her Magnemite flitted about, and her other two Pokeballs sat on the table. Even though they weren't out, Jasmine wouldn't leave her friends out of a meal.

After going down the stairs for awhile, Jasmine had finally found a floor large enough for Steelix. Smiling, she released the large Pokemon, and it called out rather loudly as it was let out. "Sorry..this place is a bit smaller than home." In response, it lowered it's head and Jasmine, smiling, patted the large Pokemon on the head. They were made out of Steel and tough, but that didn't mean she had to be tough when she didn't have to be. After all, they were her friends.

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Taiki liked this floor, he walked hand in hand with Sanshi, he had finally made friends with her and Gohran again. Gohran was currently in the form of a small puppy and running at his heals.

When he saw the large creature his eyes widened and Gohran growled drawing near to Taiki and changing into a red wolf, but Taiki had spotted the girl nearby. "Hello..."

Jasmine turned toward the girl when she heard a dog growl, and she smiled a little at the boy.

"Oh..hello. Don't worry...Steelix is strong, but he's not a bully. He's not going to hurt you."

While it was a little odd that there was a red wolf now instead of a dog, it was probably because she had just mistook the sound.

"Oh..." Taiki nodded with a shy smile and Gohran turned back to a puppy, they didn't want to seem threatening either. "Sorry... he's just big..."

Well..that was surprising. Pokemon evolved, but it didn't happen without some time, growth, or the right item. Jasmine looked a little puzzled and fidgeted as she thought before speaking again.

"Oh..I know. He's huge..but he won't hurt you. Just because he's strong doesn't mean..that he'll attack you."

Jasmine paused for a moment before speaking again.

"Um..why did your wolf turn into a puppy?"

Taiki nodded and smiled at the creature, trusting her words. "Oh... um... sorry... Gohran is a shirei... um a demon... but he won't hurt you... He can change into lots of things but he likes being a puppy... and a wolf..."

Well..while demons weren't supposed to be good creatures, Jasmine did trust the boy's words. After all, he didn't seem to be lying.

"It's..alright. Are all demons..nice creatures where you come from?"

Curious, Jasmine held out her hand towards Gohran, seeing if it would come towards her for a pet.

Gohran did go over, though he told himself it was just to make the girl happy and not because he had come to like pets.

"No... sorry... they are often bad... but I'm a kirin... and we can't fight so we bind demons to protect us... they make a pact with the gods so if they are bound by a kirin they are good..."

He shuffled his feet and leaned into Sanshi, "That's... sorry that's a pokemon isn't it?"

In return, Steelix and Magnemite wandered over, with the smaller one staying near Jasmine and the larger one going to check out the boy. Smiling, Jasmine tried to pat Gohran on the head.

"It's alright. These are Pokemon. The one in front of you is Steelix..and the one near me is Magnemite. They're good friends of mine..and they're really strong too!"

Feeling a bit awkward, Jasmine changed the subject. "But..what are kirin? And..demons don't exist where I come from..so how do you know..about Pokemon?"

Taiki smiled as Jasmine petted Gohran, "Oh... sorry... um some of my friends here have pokemon... and I've met them before..." He shuffled his feet, "A kirin is... we serve a king and make sure they are kind to their country... um... I can change too..."

And a moment later there was a gust of wind and instead of a child there was a black horned animal stood in front of her.

While it was good to hear that there were other Pokemon here, Jasmine was a little surprised to hear that this boy was a shapeshifter. When she saw the boy transform, she stopped petting Gohran and fidgeted a little-and even hesitated-before reaching out to try and pat the animal on the head.

"So..you're a..shapeshifter?"

Taiki didn't mind, he liked being petted as much as Gohran did. He shook his head slightly, as much as he could in this form. "Kind of... I'm not like Gohran... I can only look like this or like a human..."

"But..how? And what makes a kirin..different from..a knight?"

"Well... this is my natural form... though for me it's not... but that's because I got lost on earth." He took a breath and then shuffled his feet, thinking he had described a kirin very wrong.

"Kirin can't fight... sorry... unless their king orders them to... and we get sick around blood... we would be bad knights..."

"Erm..it's alright..but..where did you get lost from? And..how?" Jasmine, in contrast, was getting a little less fidgety. It was always nice to find someone else that was just as nervous as you were.

"But..if you get sick..then..why do you fight?"

"Um... the Twelve Kingdoms... it's my world... but um my egg fruit got blown away in a storm and ended up on earth..." He sighed and Sasnhi through his cloak over him, he transformed back to human and there was wriggling under the cloak as he pulled his clothes on.

"We don't... We have shirei because people might try to hurt us... because if you kill the kirin the king dies in a year and the kingdom falls..." He looked down.

"Kirin are there to make the king be kind and peaceful... if they stray off the path of the gods the kirin get's really sick, and if they don't change then the kirin dies and the kingdom falls... sorry... so a new king can be found. Finding the king is a kirin's main job... and then making sure they are a good king..."

Well, that made some sense. While the concept of alternate universes was rather new to Jasmine, she could understand that this boy might have come from a different region with its own strange rules. While she thought, she fidgeted a bit before nodding.

"...I..think I understand. But..what is an egg fruit? And..why..does the king die..if you do?"

"Oh um..." It was a good job Taiki had lived on earth or he would have been confused, "Where I am from... when parents want a child they pray to the gods and tie a ribbon around a special tree... an egg fruit grows there and inside is their baby." He explained, watching her to make sure she understood.

"Kirin... sorry... Kirin don't have parents but we grow on a special tree in the center of the world... when we are needed."

He shuffled his feet, "Because without a kirin a king can't rule... because the gods need the kirin to make sure the king is good... and usually if the kirin dies then it is because of the disease... Sorry..."

While Jasmine understood the explanation perfectly, it was a bit of an odd one. While she digested it, she fidgeted a bit before speaking again. She knew that questions like these were sometimes awkward..but one had to ask them, or misunderstandings would arise. When you helped a town, you couldn't run on those, or more problems would come about.

"Um...I understand your explanation...but..where do you come from? It..doesn't sound like any region..I know of."

"I come from Tai... it's one of the Twelve Kingdoms... It might be a different world... sorry." He shuffled his feet again, certain it was as pokemon were not from his world at all.

Oh..Jasmine had asked this question before, hadn't she? Embarrased, Jasmine nodded and fidgeted, trying to figure out how to deal with this, coming up with nothing, and finally speaking.

"An..alternate world?"

Guess who wasn't familiar with the concept, Taiki??

"Sorry... yes... there's lots of them..." She shuffled his feet, "Hundreds and hundreds and some are similar and some are really different... and this is a different world to them all..."

"Oh...that..would make sense then. Is..your world..destroyed? Or..is that note..a lie?"

"Yes..." He blinked sadly, "I don't think it's a lie..." Even if he didn't like that it was truth and didn't understand how he could still exist when Tai and the entire twelve Kingdoms was gone.

Which meant, logically, that Joto must have been destroyed too. But..how? The thought of Olivine City being blown up and destroyed was horrifying enough, but the whole world?

Jasmine gripped her dress tighter and bit her lip. Steelix, seeing that she wasn't feeling well, curled a bit around her. Normally, this would have calmed her down, but now..it didn't, sadly.

"But...how was your world..destroyed? And mine?!"

Taiki blinked sadly and then reached out for her hand as well, not knowing what to say to help her.

"They said it was a virus... but I don't know..."

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