Where raindrops go to heaven
I hope it's allowed to use one of the tiny stories in the examples because I didn't find one inspiring enough on the site.
3.
Every raindrop falls in hopes of building an ocean.
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Title: Where raindrops go to heaven
Author: solarpillar
Rating: G
Verse: gameverse
Characters: Hibiki, Red, Silver, Yuuki, Haruka, Kotone.
Summary: Boys and girls in their Silver's secret base, trying to avoid the rain, building a family in the process.
0.
The rain was heavy, yet not cold. Perhaps it was because it was still summer, if hot days during months that should be autumn count as summer. Sneasel shook its fur. Felines didn't like rains, water weakness or not. Silver handed it a towel. Instead of using it to wipe away water, the cat Pokemon rolled itself into it and tried to sleep.
"Idiot. You'll catch cold like that."
Sneasel answered by breathing out Icy Wind in the direction of the entrance. Raindrops froze into ice drops and shattered all over the place.
"Fine! I get it! Ice type! Just cut it out already!"
With the feline asleep, Silver took out Typhlosion from the PC. Its mane of fire was warm.
"It's good having you around, friend."
The fire weasel let out a growl of contentment. It curled up on its side, with its human on its tummy, on the Surf Mat that covered the centre of the room.
Having friends was nice.
1.
Hibiki was riding on Feraligatr's shoulders when they found Silver's secret base. The aligator Pokemon's feet were covered in mud from running and its body was wet from the rain. Yet its head and neck were dry, for its human was holding an umbrella for them both. Silver failed to understand the point of holding an umbrella for a water type. Maybe the boy was a moron on top of being weak. He could've let the reptile
carry him in the arms so the boy would be safe from the rain and Feraligatr could enjoy the rain.
"Ah, I haven't thought of that. You are quite bright, no wonder Kotone likes you."
And that boy was meant to become a professor. Arceus help the students.
But Hibiki was quite useful. He always carried more than enough edibles on him and he was always happy to share them.
"Silver, do you have a bigger table than this? I mean, the small table has your laptop on it and I don't want to leave crumbs on it. And is this the only chair?"
Of course Silver didn't have more furniture. He spent most of his times outdoors, in Dragon's Den or in Pokemon Centre, so all he had in his secret base was a Surf Mat, a blanket, a sleeping bag, a pillow, a small table and one chair. There was a tent in his bag.
"If you are rich, why don't you donate some?" Silver asked.
"Sure." Hibiki said without thinking. "I like to carry spare tables in my bag so I could have a proper meal in-between field works. You can have this big table. It has short legs because it's meant to be used inside with people sitting on the floor around it. My house doesn't need any more tables and I don't get to use it between my field works, so why don't you have it? While we're at it, have this TV too. Red gave it to me. It was meant to be some kind of audiovisual guide to new trainers, but Red's a pro now and I'm not really a trainer, so you can use it to watch movies instead. I'll connect it to the laptop for you."
Silver wondered if people usually carry such things in their bags. He looked at his bag. Food, drinks, escape ropes, healing items and TMs. He didn't even carry Poke Balls anymore because his team was full.
"Oh, did you know?" Hibiki said excitedly. "If, instead of using it in a TM machine, you try to play a TM or HM as a movie in a DVD reader, you get to see movies of trainers and Pokemon using the move?"
Silver didn't know. What he did know was that the boy needed to shut up or else.
2.
Red saw fire light from afar and walked towards it. Few minutes later, he was standing in front of Silver's no-longer-so-secret base, soaked to the bones.
"Mr. Red! What are you doing here? Come in!"
Silver was pissed at Hibiki from inviting a wet stranger into his base, but the act was done. He reacted just fast enough to not get rain and mud on his Surf Mat. Hibiki provided dry clothes for Red when the Kanto Champion failed to find his own. Red's bag was full of escape ropes and food. Hibiki did the introduction and they sat around the table, eating and chatting.
Silver had head of Red before. There were three legends about this young man. The first was that Red was the boy who defeated Giovanni, leading to Team Rocket's dissolution. The second was that he was the youngest Champion to have successfully challenged and defeated the Elite Four and the Champion and instead of taking over, abandoned the position in order to chase his childhood friend and rival, Green, in Seveii Islands. The third was that the boy became a spirit who resided on top of Mt. Silver, taking on any challenge of Pokemon Battle without a word, defeated only by Kotone and only once. All trainers who climbed the mountain claimed that their Pokemon felt a powerful presence on top.
But right here, in flesh and blood, in Silver's room, Red looked just like any other young man of that age. And he was not a mute. He was a gossip. He had a Fame Checker to record all the gossips too. Strangely enough, there was nothing recorded on subject of Green in it. Instead he kept all memories of Green in his mind and talked the most about him. A Green fan in Viridian City could tell you Green's favourite trend and food. Red could tell you his real favourite food and till what age the Gym Leader still wet his bed.
And for a Pokemon Master, Red talked strangely less about Pokemon and more about people.
3.
Just like Hibiki and Red, Yuuki and Haruka found the really-not-a-secret-anymore base from the firelight. Again, forced to change into dry clothes before stepping in. The couple came from Hoenn. One of them was born in Johto, so they came to mainland for a return-to-roots visit.
"Ah, so you're Hibiki, the Prof. Elm's aide? Haruka is a professor's assistant too."
"My father is Prof. Birch. I do field works for him, but my little brother will take over that job soon. Then I'll become a Gym Leader with Yuuki."
"It'll be at Slateport City. Please drop by if you visit Hoenn!"
At first Red stopped talking at their arrival, becoming more his mute self on Mt. Silver. Then he gradually warmed up to them when they let out their Plusle and Minun. His pikachu enjoyed the presence of more electric mice, talking to them via small jolts of electric shock.
Silver noticed that Red was recording under the table. He wondered if he should do something. Hibiki beat him to it. The New Bark boy poked the Kanto legend under the table and they had a conversation there, using the tip of their fingers and the palm of their hands. Above the table they gave no hints of what they were doing.
Always with their hands, Hibiki gave Red the nod of understanding and Red gave Hibiki the knock of thanks. Red kept the Fame Checker.
The sky turned bright again after an hour or so. The sun was visible on the sky, yet the rain did not stop completely.
"Look!"
"A sunshower!"
"Fox's weeding!"
Silver noticed the engagement rings on Yuuki and Haruka's hands. He looked at his own ring finger. He thought of Kotone's.
The Ocean.
Later, when all the guests left and only Hibiki was left with Silver, the Johto boy told Silver that Red was slowing having difficulty to remember new things. Difficulty in creation of new episodic memories, to be precise.
"We'll meet again." Said Hibiki before leaving. "Thanks for the hospitality."
"How do you know that we'll meet again?" Silver asked. After all, the world is huge. He would be moving his secret base so it would still be secret, and Hibiki might not find it.
Hibiki kicked a small puddle of rainwater near them. "All raindrops have the tendency to converge and build an ocean. We are the same. Even if we diverge now and then, it is in our nature to converge again, and again we will eventually meet."
"What if we fail? What if the raindrop evaporates before becoming an ocean?"
Hibiki pointed up. There were few clouds on the sky. A double rainbow could be seen as well. "There's an ocean up there too. No, more like a waiting line. No matter where you are, in what state you are, as long as you want to, as long as you have will, you will still be on your way to the ocean."
"What kind of seer's answer is what?"
"You just said it. Seer's answer. You'll understand when you know."
Hibiki walked a few steps away, then stopped and said without turning back. "Oh, and besides, when Kotone and you marry, I'll get an invitation for sure. So see you there if we don't see each other before than."
And the wannabe-seer boy left, running like wind.
The Sky.
All raindrops end in the ocean.
All stories, if get to it, end with death.
Silver was ninety-seven when he stood in front of Kotone and Hibiki's tombs waiting for his own end.
"You guys even saved a place for me... Were you trying to curse me?"
It wasn't a curse. If it was Silver would be dead about ten years ago, when Hibiki left. Kotone was the first of the three to leave. Hibiki said she was pulling her life thread too hard. She was the first to reach her dream and lived her life full, therefore only adequate to be the first to leave. Silver would have killed Hibiki that day if others hadn't intervened. Hibiki told him that he needed not to worry. How could you say so, Silver remembered himself saying, she was my other half. She was taken away from me. Wasn't she your first love too? She's your childhood friend too. We both should be mourning her, yet here you are, saying bullshit as always. Don't you realise that she's gone? She's gone!
And Hibiki said She was gone as my other half about seventy years ago, when she took her heart away from me to give to you. And few hours she was gone as a life, few days from my day of final flight. You don't have to kill me here. I'll join her shortly. We'll be waiting for you. You are going to live a few more years, at first disoriented, but will find you way. I'll go home for now. Have matters to attend to before my own departure. Please don't speak ill of me on my funeral... and do mention my cooking, alright? He walked away after these words.
Don't blame him. He had gone mad from the sadness. Others said of Hibiki.
Hibiki was found dead in his home few days after Kotone's funeral, well dressed and peaceful.
Silver walked through the cemetery. Tired, he rest on a bench. His heart stopped there. There was no one around to help him.
It started to rain.
Silver thought he saw firelight in the sky.
[Silver Giovanni died on the bench outside the National Cemetary at the age of 97, his heart having stopped beating in the arrival of a brief autumn rain. He was the husband of late long-time Johto Champion Kotone "Lyra" of New Bark Town, though his works was often overshadowed by those of his wife, he was a bright soul that glowed no dimmed than hers in the time of need. Though the man is gone, his brave spirit will remain a source of inspiration.] - Johto Times Obituaries
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Author's note: Ok, I admit, this fic was more inspired by the graphic novel Daytripper than the prompt. If you haven't read it I suggest you to go grab a copy. It's by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon.
3.
Every raindrop falls in hopes of building an ocean.
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Title: Where raindrops go to heaven
Author: solarpillar
Rating: G
Verse: gameverse
Characters: Hibiki, Red, Silver, Yuuki, Haruka, Kotone.
Summary: Boys and girls in their Silver's secret base, trying to avoid the rain, building a family in the process.
0.
The rain was heavy, yet not cold. Perhaps it was because it was still summer, if hot days during months that should be autumn count as summer. Sneasel shook its fur. Felines didn't like rains, water weakness or not. Silver handed it a towel. Instead of using it to wipe away water, the cat Pokemon rolled itself into it and tried to sleep.
"Idiot. You'll catch cold like that."
Sneasel answered by breathing out Icy Wind in the direction of the entrance. Raindrops froze into ice drops and shattered all over the place.
"Fine! I get it! Ice type! Just cut it out already!"
With the feline asleep, Silver took out Typhlosion from the PC. Its mane of fire was warm.
"It's good having you around, friend."
The fire weasel let out a growl of contentment. It curled up on its side, with its human on its tummy, on the Surf Mat that covered the centre of the room.
Having friends was nice.
1.
Hibiki was riding on Feraligatr's shoulders when they found Silver's secret base. The aligator Pokemon's feet were covered in mud from running and its body was wet from the rain. Yet its head and neck were dry, for its human was holding an umbrella for them both. Silver failed to understand the point of holding an umbrella for a water type. Maybe the boy was a moron on top of being weak. He could've let the reptile
carry him in the arms so the boy would be safe from the rain and Feraligatr could enjoy the rain.
"Ah, I haven't thought of that. You are quite bright, no wonder Kotone likes you."
And that boy was meant to become a professor. Arceus help the students.
But Hibiki was quite useful. He always carried more than enough edibles on him and he was always happy to share them.
"Silver, do you have a bigger table than this? I mean, the small table has your laptop on it and I don't want to leave crumbs on it. And is this the only chair?"
Of course Silver didn't have more furniture. He spent most of his times outdoors, in Dragon's Den or in Pokemon Centre, so all he had in his secret base was a Surf Mat, a blanket, a sleeping bag, a pillow, a small table and one chair. There was a tent in his bag.
"If you are rich, why don't you donate some?" Silver asked.
"Sure." Hibiki said without thinking. "I like to carry spare tables in my bag so I could have a proper meal in-between field works. You can have this big table. It has short legs because it's meant to be used inside with people sitting on the floor around it. My house doesn't need any more tables and I don't get to use it between my field works, so why don't you have it? While we're at it, have this TV too. Red gave it to me. It was meant to be some kind of audiovisual guide to new trainers, but Red's a pro now and I'm not really a trainer, so you can use it to watch movies instead. I'll connect it to the laptop for you."
Silver wondered if people usually carry such things in their bags. He looked at his bag. Food, drinks, escape ropes, healing items and TMs. He didn't even carry Poke Balls anymore because his team was full.
"Oh, did you know?" Hibiki said excitedly. "If, instead of using it in a TM machine, you try to play a TM or HM as a movie in a DVD reader, you get to see movies of trainers and Pokemon using the move?"
Silver didn't know. What he did know was that the boy needed to shut up or else.
2.
Red saw fire light from afar and walked towards it. Few minutes later, he was standing in front of Silver's no-longer-so-secret base, soaked to the bones.
"Mr. Red! What are you doing here? Come in!"
Silver was pissed at Hibiki from inviting a wet stranger into his base, but the act was done. He reacted just fast enough to not get rain and mud on his Surf Mat. Hibiki provided dry clothes for Red when the Kanto Champion failed to find his own. Red's bag was full of escape ropes and food. Hibiki did the introduction and they sat around the table, eating and chatting.
Silver had head of Red before. There were three legends about this young man. The first was that Red was the boy who defeated Giovanni, leading to Team Rocket's dissolution. The second was that he was the youngest Champion to have successfully challenged and defeated the Elite Four and the Champion and instead of taking over, abandoned the position in order to chase his childhood friend and rival, Green, in Seveii Islands. The third was that the boy became a spirit who resided on top of Mt. Silver, taking on any challenge of Pokemon Battle without a word, defeated only by Kotone and only once. All trainers who climbed the mountain claimed that their Pokemon felt a powerful presence on top.
But right here, in flesh and blood, in Silver's room, Red looked just like any other young man of that age. And he was not a mute. He was a gossip. He had a Fame Checker to record all the gossips too. Strangely enough, there was nothing recorded on subject of Green in it. Instead he kept all memories of Green in his mind and talked the most about him. A Green fan in Viridian City could tell you Green's favourite trend and food. Red could tell you his real favourite food and till what age the Gym Leader still wet his bed.
And for a Pokemon Master, Red talked strangely less about Pokemon and more about people.
3.
Just like Hibiki and Red, Yuuki and Haruka found the really-not-a-secret-anymore base from the firelight. Again, forced to change into dry clothes before stepping in. The couple came from Hoenn. One of them was born in Johto, so they came to mainland for a return-to-roots visit.
"Ah, so you're Hibiki, the Prof. Elm's aide? Haruka is a professor's assistant too."
"My father is Prof. Birch. I do field works for him, but my little brother will take over that job soon. Then I'll become a Gym Leader with Yuuki."
"It'll be at Slateport City. Please drop by if you visit Hoenn!"
At first Red stopped talking at their arrival, becoming more his mute self on Mt. Silver. Then he gradually warmed up to them when they let out their Plusle and Minun. His pikachu enjoyed the presence of more electric mice, talking to them via small jolts of electric shock.
Silver noticed that Red was recording under the table. He wondered if he should do something. Hibiki beat him to it. The New Bark boy poked the Kanto legend under the table and they had a conversation there, using the tip of their fingers and the palm of their hands. Above the table they gave no hints of what they were doing.
Always with their hands, Hibiki gave Red the nod of understanding and Red gave Hibiki the knock of thanks. Red kept the Fame Checker.
The sky turned bright again after an hour or so. The sun was visible on the sky, yet the rain did not stop completely.
"Look!"
"A sunshower!"
"Fox's weeding!"
Silver noticed the engagement rings on Yuuki and Haruka's hands. He looked at his own ring finger. He thought of Kotone's.
The Ocean.
Later, when all the guests left and only Hibiki was left with Silver, the Johto boy told Silver that Red was slowing having difficulty to remember new things. Difficulty in creation of new episodic memories, to be precise.
"We'll meet again." Said Hibiki before leaving. "Thanks for the hospitality."
"How do you know that we'll meet again?" Silver asked. After all, the world is huge. He would be moving his secret base so it would still be secret, and Hibiki might not find it.
Hibiki kicked a small puddle of rainwater near them. "All raindrops have the tendency to converge and build an ocean. We are the same. Even if we diverge now and then, it is in our nature to converge again, and again we will eventually meet."
"What if we fail? What if the raindrop evaporates before becoming an ocean?"
Hibiki pointed up. There were few clouds on the sky. A double rainbow could be seen as well. "There's an ocean up there too. No, more like a waiting line. No matter where you are, in what state you are, as long as you want to, as long as you have will, you will still be on your way to the ocean."
"What kind of seer's answer is what?"
"You just said it. Seer's answer. You'll understand when you know."
Hibiki walked a few steps away, then stopped and said without turning back. "Oh, and besides, when Kotone and you marry, I'll get an invitation for sure. So see you there if we don't see each other before than."
And the wannabe-seer boy left, running like wind.
The Sky.
All raindrops end in the ocean.
All stories, if get to it, end with death.
Silver was ninety-seven when he stood in front of Kotone and Hibiki's tombs waiting for his own end.
"You guys even saved a place for me... Were you trying to curse me?"
It wasn't a curse. If it was Silver would be dead about ten years ago, when Hibiki left. Kotone was the first of the three to leave. Hibiki said she was pulling her life thread too hard. She was the first to reach her dream and lived her life full, therefore only adequate to be the first to leave. Silver would have killed Hibiki that day if others hadn't intervened. Hibiki told him that he needed not to worry. How could you say so, Silver remembered himself saying, she was my other half. She was taken away from me. Wasn't she your first love too? She's your childhood friend too. We both should be mourning her, yet here you are, saying bullshit as always. Don't you realise that she's gone? She's gone!
And Hibiki said She was gone as my other half about seventy years ago, when she took her heart away from me to give to you. And few hours she was gone as a life, few days from my day of final flight. You don't have to kill me here. I'll join her shortly. We'll be waiting for you. You are going to live a few more years, at first disoriented, but will find you way. I'll go home for now. Have matters to attend to before my own departure. Please don't speak ill of me on my funeral... and do mention my cooking, alright? He walked away after these words.
Don't blame him. He had gone mad from the sadness. Others said of Hibiki.
Hibiki was found dead in his home few days after Kotone's funeral, well dressed and peaceful.
Silver walked through the cemetery. Tired, he rest on a bench. His heart stopped there. There was no one around to help him.
It started to rain.
Silver thought he saw firelight in the sky.
[Silver Giovanni died on the bench outside the National Cemetary at the age of 97, his heart having stopped beating in the arrival of a brief autumn rain. He was the husband of late long-time Johto Champion Kotone "Lyra" of New Bark Town, though his works was often overshadowed by those of his wife, he was a bright soul that glowed no dimmed than hers in the time of need. Though the man is gone, his brave spirit will remain a source of inspiration.] - Johto Times Obituaries
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Author's note: Ok, I admit, this fic was more inspired by the graphic novel Daytripper than the prompt. If you haven't read it I suggest you to go grab a copy. It's by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon.