//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: The Power of the Heart and Mind // by BurninSoul //------------------------------// We were crawling for a while and Sam was getting bored. “Rob, Is all this Crawling necessary? We can just make a run for it?”. “Absolutely not. If we’re caught who knows what they may do”. “Yeah. They could help us! We have injured and we aren't in the best of wear so we may as well show ourselves and if push comes to shove you have me and your weapons as protection”. “Ugh, fine but if we die or put in a prison you’re gonna get it”. “Sure, sure. Get up”. With that she stands up and makes me get up too with just a bit of her power. Next she sends out a psychic pulse giving away our positions to everyone. “Seriously, That has to one of the dumbest things you just did there”. I say incredulous. “Just wait and see, we’ll be fine I promise”. Before long we are surrounded by these strange creatures wearing dark blue-black armor. One of the guards step forth with a sword raised in its grasp. “What are you and how did you get in the royal fields?” (Ok again sorry for the name but hey i’m silly) “I’m human and I have no idea how we got here -gesturing to the kirlia by my side- and this here is Sammy my Kirlia. We are in need of assistance”. “Human hmmm…. never heard of you but seeing as you’ve caused no problem I may as well be help you. Come with us!” With that the guard turned around and ordered his -what I guess to be male by the voice- squad to surround us as we walk out into the garden. We make it out quickly and the sight that beholds us makes us stop in our tracks. I was a massive castle, I have never seen a structure so big. “Woah!” “Woah indeed” Sam says too just staring at the size of the place. “How did we miss that!” “No Idea”. “No lollygagging!” One of the dark guards say as he jabs us with a spear to make us move. “Oi, Don't do that! I’m moving”. We begin walking again heading straight for a massive door. We get to the door and wait as the squad commander opens the door and ushers us in. We walk through and take in all our surroundings not caring that we were being stared at with smug grins. We were thrown from our gaping with a quick jab from the commanders sword. I fix him with a pissed stare and he just stare back as though he hadn’t done anything and a small whistle. “Well if you done gaping at the halls we have someone you have to meet before anything else happens”. with said and done everyone heads off at a quick trot. I lean down and pluck Sam from the ground and put her up on my shoulder as I follow behind. We find ourselves in front of a large door with a sun and moon emblazoned on the front and gilded in gold and moonstone. “How rich are you people!” “Very”. Is all I get in response from the guard Captain. He pushes open the doors and walks in with us following behind. We walk into the most magnificent room I have ever seen. I stare at all the stained glass windows slack jawed at the beauty and mastership of the place then I look at the end of the hall and see up on thrones set at the end I see a much larger creature. She -i suppose is a she by the appearance- is a deep blue almost as dark as the darkest night and her mane looks like the sky itself. I instantly got the feeling that she is a very important creature. Perhaps royalty. At seeing us she instantly stands up and walks over to us where stop and looks at us up close. She looks over at the captain. “Thou may go now. I have this under control and I would like to speak to it alone thank you”. she speaks in an old dialect somewhat mid-early-modern English. “As you command Princess”. And the captain and his squad leave if somewhat reluctantly. The Princess turns to me with a curious stare. “What are thou?” I can detect she has an inkling on what I am and answer her anyway. “I am Human”. That simple statement is all she needed to know but then she looks to my companion on my shoulder. “What is that thing? Is it dangerous?” “This is my Kirlia, her name is Sam and no she isn’t dangerous but she a slight temper”. Looking over at kirlia seeing she has a annoyed look on her face. “Well I think i’ll let her speak for herself”. “Hello”. Sam greets into her mind. The princess wasn’t expecting mental speech and jumped a foot in the air to Sam’s amusement and mine. “Oh, She’s a psychic. That’s a surprise”. “You don’t say”. Sam is giggling under her breath at seeing the Royal jump like that which did nothing less than embarrass the royal to no end. “Well then….. What’s your name, I forgot to ask?” The Princess turns to me quizzically. “My name is Rob”. “...Rob” rolling the name off her tongue treating it like a words never heard before. “Well anyways… Rob, I need to ask before we continue. How did you get here and what are you going to do?” “Like I told the Captain, I have no idea how we got here. All I remember is falling and then a bright light and hitting the field, hard I might add. Actually I have a request if that isn’t so hard?” “Go ahead” Thinking over what was said. “I have an injured Mawile that need drastic attention. I was hoping if you could help it?” I pull out the injured pokemons ball and show it to the Princess which said princess stares at fearfully knowing what it can do she really didn’t want it to touch her. “Keep that thing away from me, Don't touch me with it!” she cries. “What? This?” gesturing to the ball. “Yes! That!” Nodding. I laugh hysterically at that not caring that i’m laughing at royalty. “Why are you laughing?” glaring at me for my hysterical laughter. “This thing can’t hurt you and besides it already contains something”. I put down in front of her. which she stares at carefully. “It contains the injured Mawile in question”. The Princess Pokes the ball with a hoof causing it to open and let out the injured mawile making her jump back in fright and stare at the sorry state it is in. “GUARDS!” The Princess call out loudly and a full squad of Guards come rushing in. “Get this poor creature to the infirmary Now!”. The guards stare at the creature in fright of its massive jaws on the back of its head but quickly rush to find a stretcher and take the pitiful pokemon away to be healed. I just stare in rapt curiosity. “Well anyways Princess……? Actually I didn’t get a name”. “It’s Luna”. “Oh, pretty name”. Sam looks at me incredulous and smacks in the head, “OwO” “Well… umm thank you….” Luna blushes and brushes the comment aside. “Well seeing as you’re new to our Kingdom from what I have seen and heard you won’t have anywhere to stay so I’m going to get you a room”. Quickly calling a guard in and instructing him on what to do the Stallion Guard gives us a nervous stare and leads us out into the hallway and up a flight of stairs found at the end of the hall. “Now umm….” the stallion begins. “Rob”. I interrupt. “Yes, Rob, I have been instructed to take you to a room down the hall from her Majesty so she may keep an eye on you. “Fine by me”. Looking at Sam finding her staring at me. I can tell she wants to say something which I nod to her to continue. “Do you this is a good idea? I know it was earlier but now im not so sure”. “Oh relax will you. It’ll be fine”. The guard just stares at me funny thinking that i’m just talking to myself. Eventually we end up in front of a door slightly bigger than me. “Here you go. If you need anything let me know”. “Actually there is. Can you inform us as soon as you hear about the creatures health in the Infirmary”. “Sure, I can do that”. “Thank you, I’ll see ya around”. I cheerfully open up the door and waltz with the door just brushing my head and nearly hitting Sam in the face to her ire and my embarrassment. I walk over to the bed which thankfully is large and has enough room for us and I lay down. “It is soo late right now. I’m going to sleep”. I only get an annoyed grunt in response. “Ok Sam, I’m sorry ok but what has got your skirt in a twist?” “It’s nothing”. she grumpily replies staring at the roof. “Don't give me that, I can tell you’re troubled, now please tell me what it is?” I say while leaning up on a shoulder staring at her sleepily. “Fine… What, what if…..? What if we can’t get home?” She sniffles and I quickly lean over and hug her. “We’ll figure that out when we get to it. Now please cheer up and get some sleep….. okay?” “Fine… *sigh*”. With that we both fall into a fitful sleep. I wake up to the suns rays in my eyes and the smell of food in the air. “Mmmm, What is that?” I take a quick sniff of the air and deduce it down to porridge with honey in it. I look over where the smell is coming from and find Sam already sitting and eating at a table in the side of the room. “Morning”. “Morning”. “Where’d that come from?” “I found it on the table when I awoke”. I quickly get up and head over to the table and sit down. Dragging over a bowl of the delicious gold/white porridge I think over what happened last night. “Sam?” “Yeah”. “Are you feeling okay? After last night I mean”. “Yeah. I feel fine as anything”. “I hope so, oh yeah I almost forgot. I wanna go check in with the Mawile down at the infirmary, you up for it?” “Yeah sure, just after we finish breakfast ok”. “Great”. I dig into my breakfast with much gusto and finish within seconds but end up with porridge all over my face. “Bahahaha, you’re gonna need a shower now!” Sam laughs. I look down on myself and blush in embarrassment. “Oh well. We were gonna need one anyways”. I proceed to walk to the side door in the room that I had just noticed after waking and open it to find a rather modern bathroom.. “It seems as though our luck just gets better and better. Im just hoping when the opposite happens it won’t be horrible or painful”. “Yeah it had better not”. I proceed to walk into the bathroom and strip off, leave my clothes by the door and hop into the shower. The moment the water starts i’m hit by searing hot pain over my head and back “AHHHHHHHHHH” “HOT HOT HOT HOT”. I cry out and fall down still being beat by the searing water. Sam runs in to see me being blasted by the hot water and shuts off the water with her psychic attacks. “ROB! ARE YOU OKAY?” She screams into my mind. All I can do is whimper as she goes and grabs a robe to cover me up and drags me out of the shower with her powers. “I guess you got your bad luck sooner than expected”. She quickly picks me up with the robe still over me and carries me to the door where there are a group guards standing in the doorway with weapons drawn. They see me and then see the Kirlia carrying me and instantly rush in and surround us. This group was different. They were not the kind that wore the black-blue armor, these ones were wearing gold armor. “I’ve no time for this”. Sam broadcasts into their minds which makes them skittish and shuffle around. “If you could just move aside, I need to get his boy to the infirmary”. The Guards first stare at Sam and then look over at me and notice all the burns on my body and robe over my body. “What happened to him?” One of the less skittish guards asked. “He burned himself in the shower”. “-_-’ Well I won’t keep you then. Come with me”. Sam follows the speaker with me in tow in her psychic hold. It is a long walk down the hall and down several flights of steps but we eventually stop at a door with a big Red cross on the front. “Go straight on it”. and then leaves us there and goes back to his duties. “*hissss* Sam, ow ow. Help me”. Sam opens the doors and walks in carrying me, It only takes a few seconds for us to be noticed and a another few for a nurse to notice the obvious pain im in. The nurses rush over to me and grab me in their magic but Sam refuses to let go but after a few seconds give up and passes me over while i’m still hanging in the air in pain and obvious embarrassment. “What happened to him?” One of the nurses ask Sam to which she replies but I don’t care at that time as i’m wheeled away and into another room where they try to fix me up. Sams Perspective I turn to the nurse next to me. “While i’m here, I might as well check up on that mawile, can I see it?” “What is a…. oh that horrifying creature that was carried in yesterday. It is actually a he and he will be fine, just needs a few days rest and a couple weeks in casts”. “Ok then, well now that I know that he’s ok.. Can I stick around till the human is wheeled out?” “Oh course dear, I can tell that you worry for him”. “Oh course I worry. He’s my master”. “Master? Are you a slave to him?” She asks incredulous at the implications. “No I am not a slave per say, I am more like a companion and for my race it is easier to become happy with a master for we feel happiness when the master is happy, In easy terms I feel and feed from emotion”. That statement causes the nurse to stare at me strangely and slightly scared. “What’s wrong?” I’m only answered with a scared whimper and the nurse running off scared. “What did I say?” I shrug and just go over to a bed to nap in till my human is brought out. (Will there be any showing mark from Robs accident, Will the poor nurse report to the guard on what she thought. Tune in next time and find out.)