The Messanger of Time

Chapter 2: The Bond

~July 9, 1992~

"Lasuno... She made it..."

Lasuno flies over to Larisa and looks at her. She is holding a blanket wrapped around a small black Latias, who is asleep with her wings closed in around her body. It would be seen that her chest crest is of a blue color, and her body seems to emit an odd power.

"So she did... I was afraid she wouldn't... I'm so glad she did."

Larisa purrs softly and looks down at the smaller Latias. "She looks so adorable... I've thought of a name for her..."

He looks at her curiously. "You came to a conclusion?"

She nods slowly. "It's Amber..."

Lasuno smiles and puts his arm around her. "It's a nice name... It's settled then. Our daughter will be named Amber."

Larisa giggles softly and nuzzles him. "I'm glad you like it, dear..."

He chuckles a bit and nods, then looks at the door as Samuel walks in, wearing very simple clothing and covered in dirt after having worked outside.

The Latios looks at him curiously. "Working hard, are we Samuel? Did you get something acomplished?"

He nods and smiles, holding up several laces with differently colored stones attached to them.

The two look at them with curiosity and Lasuno looks from them, back at Samuel. "Are those..."

Samuel nods again and places the stones in his other hand. "Your psychic energy really came in handy when working on these. I couldn't have done it without you?"

Chrissa pokes her head into the room, seeing them here, and walks in. "Is everything okay in here? Some meeting, and you didn't even call me."

Samuel chuckles a bit and puts his arm around her back. "Sorry, Chrissa. I was excited to show them what I finished."

"Oh? And what's that, Sammy?"

He looks down at the stone necklaces, then runs his hand over the group, each of them emitting a glow of their particular color before fading to normal again. He then picks up one of them... a deep blue stone, then looks at Lasuno.

"Our family bond. These necklaces, if used right, can be used to contact the others who have them. I don't really know the full extent of what they can do. But I'm sure they'll really help us. My gift to you all..."

They all watch as he goes over to Lasuno and puts the blue necklace on him. "Lasuno..."

He then goes over to Larisa and pulls up a red stone, putting the necklace on her. "Larisa..."

She smiles and he looks down at Amber, then goes through the stones, pulling up a black one to match her color. He puts it in the blanket with her and Larisa speaks softly. "Amber..."

He smiles and nods. "Amber."

Samuel then goes over to Chrissa and picks up a teal colored one, looking into her eyes and undoing the necklace's magnetic clip. He then puts it around her neck and locks it again, and she smiles.

"My dear Chrissa..."

She giggles and hugs him, and he returns it, then steps back and looks at everyone.

He takes a green stone and looks at it, then puts it around his own neck. "Myself."

Chrissa smiles. "Samuel..."

He nods, then holds up a purple one and speaks again. "Christina Alicera, one of the eldest twins."

He holds up a yellow one. "Hector Alicera, the second of the eldest."

He holds up a light blue one. "Vincent Verona, the third of the four siblings."

He holds up an orange one. "Melissa Verona, the youngest of the four."

He then looks at a white one, holding it up. "One more..." They look at it. And after a while, he sets it back down. "Let's hold onto this one. I'm sure we'll find an owner for it. Someone truly trustworthy..."

They all nod and he puts it in his pocket. He then holds up his stone, then grasps it in his hand. And almost immediately, each of the others glow the same green color as his, before fading to normal.

They look at them in curiosity, and Chrissa holds his in her hand, the others then glowing its teal color and fading again.

She speaks softly. "They react to one another... To tell us who is holding theirs..."

Samuel nods, then looks at the other stones in his hand. "I wonder though..." He then takes his own in his other hand. "We each hold ours, all at once."

They nod and he closes his hand around his necklace, the others doing the same, and a field of psychic energy is projected through the room, easily noticable to each of them. They all look around and let go of their stones, the field soon fading away.

Larisa speaks in awe. "Wow... I didn't expect that."

Samuel shakes his head. "Neither did I... I wonder what it really does."

Lasuno looks at him. "You should be careful though. Psychic energy is dangerous if it gets out of control..."

He nods slowly and looks at his necklace again, then smiles, happy to have made something the entire family can share...

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~September 26, 2001~

Vincent is laying on his bed, his hands clasped together and lightly flickering as he tries to manipulate the flow of the Spiritual energy in his body to his control. He has decided that he should work on using this energy now, while he is still young and his task is yet to begin.

Messangers who are born into families to live mortal lives don't immediately get full control over their powers. While they are trained in the Spiritual Council to control them, they temporarily lose this knowledge when they are born, in order to protect themselves and others around them while they are growing up.

Vincent, like most Messangers, matures much faster than normal people in the world. Through a series of dreams he experiences during his life, he begins to remember who he is and what he was born in the world to acomplish. By the time Messangers reach the age of ten, they would often retain the full maturity and knowledge they had before they were born. Vincent, however, has often succeeded in doing this earlier. Such has made him able to act sooner than others ever could, and finish his tasks much faster.

Most who see Vincent in this world would think he is much older than he really is... which would not be far from the truth. However, he makes attempts to act his physical age, often failing to do so and making a fool out of himself. It is noticable that his siblings have also taken to his actions and grown to mature quicker.

As he continues to channel his energy, getting his physical body to adapt more to his power, he is interrupted by a girl's voice calling out to him from the doorway, which causes him to lose focus and shoot a streak across the room.

Quickly jumping back as the energy narrowly misses her, the girl blinks and slowly pokes her head back into the room. She looks very similar to Chrissa, however much younger and with straighter black hair. This is due to her using a hair straightener on a regular basis.

"V-Vincent? What was that..?"

Vincent sighs and lays his head back into his pillow. "Don't you knock, Christina?"

She walks into the room and folds her arms. "Are you playing with your necklace again? Mom says not to mess around with that."

He looks back at Christina. "I wasn't playing with my necklace. I was..."

"...Playing with your necklace. Don't try to lie, you're bad at it."

He rolls his eyes and puts his arms back behind his head. "So what are you gonna do then? Tell on me?"

She leans down and smacks his leg, making him jump and fold them both back. "Keep it up and I'll just consider that."

He stares at her with an annoyed look and she looks back, noticing a glimmer of light in his eyes and staring at them.

"...What?"

"What's wrong with your eyes?"

"Nothing's wrong with my eyes."

"They're glowing."

He sighs and looks up at the ceiling. "Right."

"They're creepy-looking. You gotta do something about that."

"Christina, my eyes are not-" He then looks at the mirror on the door and draws silent.

"See, they're glowing. What did you do with your that thing?"

"I didn't do anything! This isn't from the necklace." Vincent sits up and stares into the mirror, his eyes flickering silver, then slowly fading back to normal. "...It's Spiritual energy..."

Christina rolls her eyes. "That stupid stuff again? Just admit you messed with it."

He looks back at her, then flicks his hand out, uttering a simple word, " Aqua," as a silver streak shoots from it, quickly turning into a torrent water and splashing all over her.

She jumps and is dumbfounded at what just happened. "You got me wet... What did you... Mom! Vincent's playing with his necklace!"

She storms out of the room and he sighs, laying back. "Lord Arceus, can't you show some mercy..? How can she be so naive?"

Shortly, Chrissa's voice is heard down the hall in response to Christina. "What do you mean, he's playing with his necklace? And why are you all wet?"

"He did something and splashed water on me!"

"Christina, dear, you can't do something like that with the stones. It looks more like he dumped a bucket of water on you."

A pause, and then Christina speaks up. "...Yeah, he did that."

Vincent grunts and puts his arms over his face. "She's just trying to get me into trouble."

"Vincent?" Chrissa comes to the door and looks inside at him, and he brings his arms down to look back at her. "Did you pour water on your sister?"

"Yes, mother, with my imaginary bucket."

She pauses, then looks around the room and then back at Christina, just outside the door. "There's nothing here. Are you sure you didn't just hose yourself down and you're only saying this to get him in trouble?"

Christina groans. "Mom, I swear! He did something!"

Vincent sits up again and shakes his head. "Mother, it's the truth..."

She looks back at him, and Christina peeks around her to look.

After a short moment of hesitation, he puts his hands together, then brings them back apart, creating a ball of silver energy between them and the two step back.

"...That's certainly not something from the necklace."

He shakes his head, then throws his hand towards the window, repeating the spell as the ball is fired outside and turned into another torrent.

Chrissa blinks at the sight and looks back at him. "You really are one of them..."

He looks up at her for a moment, surprised that she caught on so quickly. "...How long have you..."

"Since you were born. You constantly affected electronics around you. So Sam finally got to doing some research online and came to a conclusion."

"I heard my name!" Samuel calls from the livingroom and she looks down at him.

"Just talking to our son, dear!"

He comes down the hall into the room and looks between them, then down at Christina. "...Why are you wet?"

She folds her arms and grunts, and Chrissa walks into the room to sit on one of the beds. "Sammy? Do you remember that article you found before? On those people..."

"The Messangers?"

Vincent turns to look at him silently and Chrissa nods. "...I think it's time we got to the bottom of this."

Samuel looks over at Vincent for a moment, which seems almost like an eternity, and he can feel his heart drop, knowing he can't hide it anymore.

"Dinner tonight. We'll discuss it then, when everyone's together."

Vincent slowly nods and Chrissa gets up, putting her hand on Vincent's shoulder and then walking out with Christina. "Come on, let's get you dry and into different clothes."

Vincent brings his legs up on the bed and rests his head on his knees, thinking to himself. Tonight, he'll have to tell them everything...