((This is probably going to end up really lame. XD So I apologise, my muse is slightly askew at the moment. D; Damn back pain. ;-; And I've made her inner monologue/ thoughts/speech bold, because yeah. You'll see))
A maelstrom of white barraged the jetty as the nets were hauled from the water, along with strange contraptions which imprisoned the unfortunate crustaceans that had been foolish enough to enter them. The aromas of fish, algae and salt saturated the air with a combined, overbearing stench that was far too potent for those unaccustomed to it. Further down the bay the waves were gentle, caressing the sand as water seeped into the imprints that had been created by shells and pebbles that had lodged themselves between the tiny particles and since been plucked away by children, tourists and Pokemon. The beach was not the only thing to be embraced by the aqueous mass, the swash was obstructed by a human, splayed out upon the dampened, darker sand. The sun was suspended high overheard, warming the girl 's pallid skin and causing her to stir.
"Mmmm..." Fenton groaned, sitting upright and rubbing her eyes with sand-dappled fingers, soon regretting it. Upon clearing her eyes of the grains, she leant back on her hands and stared up at the few clouds occupying the azure sky, ruminating the possibility of all the Dies Irae nonsense being a mere fabrication. This was... One Island, just as it usually was at this hour, during this particular season. The fishermen were locked in their daily battle to retain all of their hard-earned fish from the ravenous beaks of Wingull and Pelipper downshore, and when she tipped her head backwards, she could just about view the peak of Mt. Ember, as silent as it had always been since the family moved there. I guess... It must have been a dream. Which means... All those people weren't real... And falling into the sea wasn't real either... Though how the heck someone like Raizel ended up in my mind, I don't know...She shuddered at the thought, rising to her feet and ambling up the beach with flip flops in hand, brushing the sand from the soles of her feet upon reaching the stone steps that led to another set, which in turn scaled the distance between the town and the Sinclair residence. Ugh... I guess I must have... Sleep walked again... Oh well. I wonder what Da's cooking today...
She was greeted with the hiss of butter meeting a hot frying pan, the clashing of metal against metal, the bang of a cupboard door being slammed shut. Inhaling the rich scent of coffee that bubbled from the maker in the corner as she passed the kitchen and traversed in the direction of her bedroom, Fenton decided it was paramount that she showered and changed her clothes in the en suite bathroom adjoined to her chamber.
Wait a second... I thought I told Da' I didn't mind sharing a bathroom with him and Tris... I thought he... Holy crap, what happened to my room?!
It was if aliens had visited during her somnambulistic jaunt to the beach and exchanged her room for that of another girl. Gone was the mountain of laundry overflowing her allocated basket, gone was the desk, laden with old drawings (and sweet wrappers) that she hadn't ever had the heart to discard, and gone was the giant map of the world affixed to the western wall (which had been decorated with Polaroids of her brothers depending on which town or city they dwelt in upon calling home; a tradition upheld ever since Lake became a trainer thirteen years prior to the occasion). Instead, it was a minimalist's paradise. A four-postered, queen-size bed was the centrepiece of the room, adorned with floaty white drapes and soft pink blankets. A dressing table now hugged the left-hand wall, devoid of anything but a shiny white surface from obvious cleaning. There were a few places for storing trinkets and possessions- Fenton discovered that even these were arranged neatly upon inspecting the drawers and the doors.
This... This isn't my house...
"You bet it's not your house," a singsong voice chimed from nowhere; Fenton spun around, eyes wide with incredulity as the owner stepped forward.
"You... You're... But how?"
The girl giggled, brown eyes identical to those of Fenton (sans disbelief) not leaving her as she moved from the aperture and traipsed lackadaisically around the bed, a look of boredom upon her child-like face.
"Wow, you're good. Then again, it's not surprising. I am you, after all."
"Yeah, me after the local beauty salon exploded..." It was true, this doppelganger only differed from her other self via her long hair, made-up face and elegant ensemble. "Where the Hell am I then?"
"Sweetie, you're not in Kanto anymore! Well, techinally you are, but you're really not."
"For the Wizard of Oz reference, I'm going to call you Glinda."
"But my name's Fenton. Fenton Laurel Sinclair. Sister of Lake and Tristan, daughter of Caden Sinclair and Channeller Cerleene. I was born on the fifth of April, at nine twenty-nine at night, weighing six pounds and four ounces," the other girl protested with a pout, though her oration still sustained ennui, as if she were reciting from a list.
"Glinda is less surreal to me," Fenton growled, her stance shifting into one of hostility as her mother's name reached her ears. "Seriously. What in Hell is going on here? And why are you being more useless than a Magikarp?"
"I'm only trying to be like you," Glinda sighed, strumming her manicured nails upon the dressing table as she passed it. "After all. You're nothing special. No wonder she didn't want you..."
"Stop talking to me as if I'm a piece of crap stuck to the bottom of your shoe! I'm not useless!" Fenton seethed, darting towards her parellel self but discovering that she was merely swiping at air as the image of the girl vanished. A beast-like growl rumbled within the back of her throat upon losing her target.
"You can't hurt me here, silly, just as how I couldn't hurt you if we were in your world. You know. The world where everyone sees you as a child. Where you act like a psychopath every time something doesn't go your way. Where you drove your own mother away because she saw how useless you were."
"I am not, for the second freakin' time, useless!"
"Oh no? But... Let's see... There's nothing special about you. No one outside of your family has ever cared about you. You'll probably turn into one of those insane Skitty ladies when you get old, and die all alone."
"And you stuff your bra with tissue paper! I'd rather be unloved than a b*tch like you!"
"I'm not a b*tch Fenton, I'm just reminding you of the truth. But hey, you could stuff your bra too if you wanted, but oooh," she grimaced. "Raizel would get disappointed when he found out that the only thing he could do with your 'assets' would be to wipe his nose with them." Fenton's face turned from crimson rage to a furious variant of purple (as purple as skin could turn, anyhow). Glinda only continued, now relatively amused from the provocation her mocking instilled within the girl. "You thought Lance was hot too, didn't you? How about Travis? No? Kamten's a little young for you, I can see why you don't consider him attractive... But hmmm... I can also see why you're in denial."
"I don't like any of 'em!" Fenton roared hotly, oblivious to the fair-haired woman who had popped her head around the door to learn what all the vociferation was about. "Okay? Lance just has charisma! I've never actually seen Travis' face because he's so damn tall, Kamten creeps me out with that smile of his, and as for that stupid, idiotic bastard city-boy... I hate him more than I hate my mother!"
"Fenton?" A quiet, soothing voice washed over the silence that afflicted the girl and her doppelganger, the sort that the tomboy had secretly yearned to hear all her life. She had seen pictures- Dad hadn't been very good at concealing them from her inquisitive nature. Though they had always been enshrouded in some fog or other, or the woman's face had been obscured by a medium's veil, Fenton had often sat with the pictures in hand and created her own version of what Ma looked like, despite only having vague ideas thanks to her brothers' descriptions. This was the version that appeared before her now. Light brown hair, a face that deceived her true age and large brown eyes... An older version of the feminine Fenton, save for the hair colour.
Glinda rushed to her side, smiling at the woman (who was on equal level to her) and then nodding to Fenton, who had adopted the qualities of a statue.
"It's time for you to get the spirits to send her back, Ma. Else we'll have to put up with her here."
"I see," Cerleene said musically, returning the expression weariedly. "I don't know what we'll tell your father, mind you."
Fenton couldn't speak- she knew it wasn't her real mother, but something still formed a lump at the back of her throat. She turned away from them, willing to keep her sadness buried inside her, not wanting to display weakness. Around her, the room began to melt, becoming a mass of clear liquid. A whirlpool formed beneath her flip-flopped feet, though gravity did not drag her through it at that moment. Glinda had something to say first.
"Fen, if you don't want to end up a mad Skitty lady, you'll have to trust the people you're with. And work on the temper, I guess, but I mean it. There are many worlds created by the possibilities that were extinguished by the choices people make, or avoid. A lot of Psychic, Dark and Ghost Pokemon have the power to send people to these worlds when their soul comes close to perishing, and some humans too, like my mother in this world... But I don't think you came here by coincidence or a random occurrence. Then again, you're so useless that I guess someone must have pitied you and tried to make you special, like the rest of them in that group."
Fenton was unresponsive. Her fists were still clenched.
"Just get me outta here." She mumbled, after a while. Cerleene complied, and the Pokemon trainer descended into the watery vortex, back to the realm of the conscious.
Fenton spluttered, eyes bursting open as she inhaled sharply and suddenly. Rain still pelted her from all sides, her body was shuddering from being subjected to the torrent and the cold sea, but she was alive. In her own world.
"T-Travis?" She groaned, staring blearily up at the man. "Do you think that girls with flat chests should stuff their bras with tissue?"
((YAY LAMENESS THAT DOESN'T FLOW. And for being slightly out of it, in Fenton's case 8D Time for bed. <3 ))