Searching Without Shame (A Pokémon Fanfiction)

Chapter 4

"E...ah..."

Leia jerked awake at the odd sound coming from her left. She groggily opened her eyes and squinted around at the dark cell. It took her a moment before her eyes adjusted to the dark and she saw Sky's outline.

"Sky Blue...?" Leia murmured, rubbing her eyes with her fists while straightening up. "What's wrong, are you ok?"

At the sound of her voice, Sky shuffled a little closer to her. He was batting something thin and metallic across the floor, which she was able to decipher from the scratching noise.

A rather small tin plate was laid on the ground. All that was on it was the main meal, which appeared to be rice. Whatever was on the side was already eaten.

Leia smiled slightly and said slyly, "How did the side taste?"

Sky Blue gave a rather sheepish look, causing her to giggle. Judging from the juices on the side of the plate, it seemed that there was at one point berries. Leia recently discovered that Sky had an increased liking for sweets. In his normal state, he was rather indifferent toward things such as candy and berries. Now he couldn't get enough of them, and was the only thing he would eat. Leia was perfectly fine with this since this meant Sky was eating more again and was no longer threatened with force feeding.

As Leia set the plate in her lap, Sky Blue slumped against her, slouching forward as he ran his hand along the link of chains clamped to his wrists. No one had come to take Sky away or chain him back up. Anyone who came to the cell was only there to slide food through the food hatch. Unfortunately, while the shackles weren't chained to the ground anymore, the shackles still restrained his hands some what. For some reason, Sky Blue couldn't break them like he did with the boulder. He tried to snap them, but they were clearly made to specifically restrain someone of Sky's physical strength.

On the bright side, Sky was no longer subjected to being restrained to one spot. He was a lot happier not being confined to the center of the room where he could be found so easily. He now occupied the same corner Leia did and kept watch over her while she slept. It was like having a rather friendly guard dog around.

With Sky's increased calmness, Leia also tried teaching Sky how to talk again. She didn't have as much success as she had hoped, but he managed to "say" one thing; E-ah. She assumed that he was trying to say "Leia" but could only make a few noises. However this gave her hope that there was some sort of humanity left in him.

"Sky, how have you been feeling?" Leia asked the Aura Guardian a minute later, setting aside the now empty plate and watching Sky play with his chains. "Do your cuts hurt at all? Do you feel sick?"

Sky Blue shrugged slightly, his eye still on the chains. Leia sighed and looked around for their medical supplies. She moved them closer to her and slowly began to remove Sky's leather jacket from his shoulders. Sky flinched as the cold air hit him through the large tears in his shirt.

"It's ok, I'm just checking your wounds," Leia told him soothingly as he began to retreat into a hunched position.

She then lifted up his tattered shirt and began to examine them. However when she started taking the bandages off, Sky suddenly made an angry growled.

"What's wrong?" She asked, her heartbeat increasing more rapidly. "Sky, is someone coming?"

But he continued to snarl and suddenly pushed Leia down. She yelped with fright, afraid he was going to suddenly attack her. However he was staring in the direction of the cell door while he crouched over her. He seemed to be trying to guard her from someone coming toward the cell.

Unable to hear anything over the snarls, Leia kept herself to the ground. If they were coming to take Sky, there were most likely more than two guards.