True Eons

Chapter 1: Encounter


Boring... My teenage life was like any other teen. Go to school, hang with friends, do homework, etc... anything that you would expect from an everyday teen. It seemed reality was repeating itself everyday, with nothing special happening. I wished something such as a cloning machine or a time machine would change the world. Or maybe something that seemed just so non-real would actually exist, even though in me I know that somewhere they exist... just somewhere.

The end of the school year was nearing with only three days left and I couldn't wait. It had been a Friday and after school, I would plan to start learning more Korean and Japanese on the Internet, watch Anime, look at Pokemon pictures I have on my computer, and other miscellaneous tasks, mostly on my computer, since it's the only thing that keeps me busy. Homework has the least of my worries, as I would only do it if I was downloading zipped files with songs of my favourite Asian artists. Files big as 80MB would take over an hour and I would use the time doing my homework as I don't have to sit at my computer waiting for the progress bar to go to 100%. I had my own personal plans.


School has finished for the day at 3:15 and I got whatever I needed with me, homework, late work, and my other personal belongings from my locker. My backpack felt sort of heavy with what I have brought with me. Just enough for me to take without tiring that much while holding it.

I got on my bus on the way to home and listened to my favourite songs. All the way to home. Ignoring almost everything around me. Some of my friends would talk to me, I would talk to them. I kept on listening to my songs.

Finally I arrived home.

I walked up my driveway to get to my house. The walk was a one-minute walk since I had a long driveway.

I finally reached my house. As I got in, I just raced up to my room upstairs, ignoring my mother, dropped my stuff in my room, and started my computer. I got my network card ready for me to connect to the Internet.

Just as my computer started up for me to log in, I started to feel tired or fatigued. It always happened to me since the past month and it affected how I sleep and how I do my homework. It sort of made me think that I may had Mono (also known as the kissing disease). I think of it as a bother sometimes, but not when I don't feel like doing my homework so soon. After sleeping I would just wander around my house and going back to my bed trying to go back to sleep. When I can't sleep, I just turn on my computer and do stuff and such on the Internet while sometimes doing my homework during long downloads. I decided to use that method in getting my grades up in school, as I also do my homework whenever I don't feel tired while surfing the web or playing online games. My grades improved little by little.

Now I had just logged into my account. Waiting for my computer to load the desktop icons and everything else in the system took a while since I got some weird virus or worm or something in it and makes me think of formatting my computer's memory just so I can have my computer performing like new. Every time I put in anything external (such as a USB device or an SD card, but not headphones or microphones), my computer browser stops working and has to restart. It annoys me and wish that I could have the threats removed so my computer would operate normally. Vundo trojans appear to be the main culprit of my computer's performance, but not entirely sure. I needed to get rid of them, but I think I read that they can manipulate security programs of scanning the trojan not dangerous and scanning other files as dangerous, unless I misread it or something.

I had the chance now to put in my Sprint network card and the computer browser hadn't needed to restart this time. I immediately started to connect and wait for the connection to progress.

Connection successful.

I started to go to my favourite online game's site, looking for new updates. I clicked the link to play. I waited for the game to load.

The login screen had appeared. I logged in.

One of my friends from school started to talk to me on the game about getting specific items for him. I told him I would.

I started for the items he needed and just after a while, I started to feel more tired. I told him that I wanted to go to sleep.

Just as I was about to log off, something outside happened.

I had heard a cry that I heard of from somewhere but couldn't remember where I had heard it. It didn't sound human. And it sounded hurt.

I knew I had to go see what it was. I was curious.

I informed my friend of what I had heard outside and I logged off.

I rushed downstairs and tried to go out the door, but before I could go outside, my mother said that she would be gone with my step-father for the night and would return sometime the next day. She was going to leave soon. I heard what she said and went back to what I was doing. Just when I tried to go outside again, my mother asked me why I was in a hurry. I told her that I felt like drawing the outside before it gets dark outside. I had to bring a sketch book and pencil with me so she wouldn't be suspicious of me. She bought it. I had to bring some food with me in case I get hungry. I had put the food in a small lunch box that I found in the house. Now I was prepared and had the chance to finally go outside, and I did.

I looked outside to see where the cry came from just when it sounded again. The cry now sounded like it was in more pain than the last time I heard it. I quickly followed the direction of the cry and wondered what I might find there, carrying the food, sketch book and pencil with me. I wouldn't want to have my mother find them laying around, making her think that I may had been kidnapped or purposely leave them there for some reason.

I journeyed my way through a thick forest that surrounded my house to find the source of the sound. I had to maneuver through trees, weird plants, and branches, though some of them hit me leaving minour cuts and scratches. I didn't let that stop me. I had to keep searching.

I become less tired all of a sudden. Now becoming more aware of my surroundings as I search the forest. I heard the cry again. And it sounded closer. I quickly followed it, still wondering what I might find there.

About few minutes passed and I had become tired from running in the forest and searched a comfortable tree for me to sit on so I could rest for a while. Then...

Again, I heard the cry, and this time...

It sounded right next to me.

I was surprised that it sounded next to me. My mind began to have thoughts of what I might see. I couldn't wait. I just had to look.

I stood up, looked around me, and...

I couldn't believe what I saw.

What I had seen was beyond my wildest dreams. What I saw was a creature that had the lower part of her body, back of hands, and head coloured red and the rest white, had protruding red wings out of her back, and had three claws on each hand. The creature had eyes of amber-gold. They were the prettiest of what I have seen. I knew the gender of the creature: female.

She appeared badly hurt. Cuts and bruises cover her body, even on her wings. She was laying on the ground with the foliage around her body. She had some blood on her, not sure if the blood was hers or somebody or something else's. She looked sad. I wonder why she was sad.

I then blurted out "A Latias!" I couldn't keep the blurt to myself due to my excitement of seeing a live for the first time.

I quickly hid behind the tree I was at and covered my mouth so I wouldn't go detected. I waited a while before I could look again. I wanted to examine more of her to see how hurt she really is, so I had to take quite steps, trying to not snap any twigs that lay there, going behind any trees.

-SNAP!-

A twig had snapped as I was about to hide behind a tree and I looked to see if the Latias heard me. I paused, standing in the same position I was in while sneaking and turned and I caught myself staring into the Latias' eyes, who was staring back at me. Her eyes amazed me. I had never seen eyes as beautiful as hers. I could just keep staring.

I kept staring until I started to lose my balance. I couldn't find a tree or a branch nearby to grab onto so I fell with my lunch box, sketchbook and pencil in hand.

I had rolled a little over a small hill that was not too high, just a small slope. My sketchbook and pencil (which was in the rings of the sketchbook) along with my lunch box tumbled down with me. I didn't get hurt that much. I sat up and got my belongings back in my hands. I looked up and noticed that I was closer to Latias. Close enough that I could reach out my arm and could almost touch her face. I could clearly see the size comparison between her and me. She was somewhat shorter than I was. Maybe at least a foot, the size of a normal Latias.  A look of fright began to emerge on her face. She was scared of me. Maybe she had something against humans or my size scares her.

I started to her, crawling in a way that wouldn't be a way of making an attack to her. She started to get more scared. I was finally next to her, and I looked in her eyes without any expression that could frighten her. She then started trembling in fear. I had to be careful of my actions. One wrong move and she could be crying and flailing all over the place, thus injuring herself even more.

I had been able to get next to her. I needed to do something to show trust to her. I decided that I need to put my hand on her head and rub gently across her head to show affection.

I thought over if I should do this, but I had no other options.

I had my hand out ready to put on her head. I had to do with caution as I may not know what she may do.

My hand has gotten on her head, feeling her still trembling. And now I began to rub my hand across her head. I did it for a while and the trembling began to subside. I could tell that I started to gain her trust. Then I heard a purr-like sound coming from her. Sounded like she likes it. I then spoke with a gentle voice "You like that, don'tcha, Latias?"

I took notice of the soft down that was covering her body as I was rubbing her head. Her down was the softest thing I have ever felt.

She responded with the cry similar to what I had heard, but this time it didn't sound hurt. It sounded pleasing. And she had understood me. I was really amazed that she can understand me.

I continued with the head rubbing. I had taken notice of her injuries.

"How did you get in this condition? There's no doubt that you're seriously hurt. Don't worry. I'll be back." I told her.

I left my stuff there with her, not having time to carry them with me. I could only care for Latias.


I ran through the thick forest to arrive back at my house. It took a while to see the house in full vision, seeing that my mother's car wasn't there anymore. They had left.

I bursted in my house, in search of bandages, alcohol, towel rags and what not to help the hurt Latias. I went through my kitchen then I saw a note from my mother hanging on the fridge.

" 'While we are gone, wash the dishes, sweep the floor, mop the floor, do your laundry, and clean your room. We might be gone longer than we had planned.' "

I groaned at the note. I'm always too lazy to do cleaning, but sometimes never for the laundry.

I put the note back hanging on the fridge and started to pack the bandages and the other stuff in a zipper bag. I looked at what I got in the bag, thinking over if I might have forgotten something or might need something else. I scanned my kitchen for food for Latias. A few apples and a bottle of water and now I'm all set.

I exited my house and went rushing back to where I had found Latias. I needed to hurry. I didn't want Latias to suffer through the injuries she had present on her.

Thankfully Latias was still there. I sat down near her and unpacked my stuff. I started to wipe off the blood that was visible on her. Now the alcohol had to be applied on her cuts.

"Okay, this may sting, but try to bare it. This is going to help you heal." I said in a caring voice.

The alcohol had then been applied. She had a slight moan of pain from the alcohol but was cooperating with what I had told her. I wiped the excess alcohol off her with a rag. Applying the bandages was the last thing to help her with her injuries.

"I'm almost done. After this, you should be okay."

I applied the bandages on her visible cuts, the last one being on her head, on the white where the bandage was almost noticeable.

"There. Now you're patched up."

Her response was a nuzzle from her, rubbing her head against my chest. She then squealed with happiness.

A sound of hunger came in a sudden. It was coming from Latias.

"Sounds like you're hungry. Here, you can have this apple. And if you're thirsty, you can have the water in this bottle here."

She ate the apple, and pretty quick. I could tell that she was very hungry. Maybe she would need the food I had with me to fill her up.

It turns out she did. I hadn't had the chance to eat any of the food I had brought with me, but I didn't care, as long as Latias is happy with the available food, I'm happy.

Water was the thing left. I had started to get thirsty. And she wanted the water as well. I gave her the water and she chugged it like a chugging contest for the Grand prize. She had a little trouble handling the bottle due to her having only three claws. So much water was drank that the bottle started to crumple under as she drank the water.  She left a little water left and offered the remaining water to me. I wanted to be nice to her. "Thanks Latias." I didn't want her to think that she had nasty germs and could be offended. Ignoring that, I took the water and drank it. I really didn't think that she had nasty germs. She looked too sweet to have bad germs.

I wondered how she got here. Or where she came from. The injuries she has could mean that she either got attacked from some group of people or the branches had given her the cuts and bruises as she was falling from the sky. I would ask her how she got here and where she came from but I wouldn't be able to understand her. I felt like I have another language to learn, but instead of wanting to learn it like Japanese and Korean, I have to learn it.

After our little picnic, I had gotten the fatigue feeling again. My body was so weak that I couldn't get up and head to my house to sleep. So I had to sleep with her for the night, in the forest. I had no problem sleeping with her, but a small one for sleeping in the forest. And she didn't look like she had a problem with that. She probably wanted my protection.

I gathered the stuff I had brought with me into the bag and put it near Latias and I. I searched the surroundings for something comfortable for me to lay my head on. It didn't take a while to find a nearby rock that had a gentle slope, using it as a pillow. It was getting dark out anyways. I didn't have a wrist watch with me to know what time it is. I needed to go to sleep.

I put the rock somewhere close to Latias, then putting my head on it, my body turned toward to Latias for a comfortable position. My eyes were heavy with fatigue and I could no longer keep them open. My last sight for the night was Latias' Amber eye, seeing how pretty it was. Now my body falls asleep with me.

"Good night, Latias. I'll see you tomorrow morning." The last thing I said to her for the night.

Our eyes now close for a good night's sleep...

"Goodnight" said a voice out of nowhere.

...and a good night's sleep we had.