The Burning Heart Part One

The Burning Heart: Part 1

The next sets of memories were of her wandering around in the forest aimlessly. barely eating or drinking anything, and just kept walking until she was exhausted and cried herself to sleep.

This cycle continued for quite some time. until one day when she was walking, she accidentally bumped into someone.

She looked up and saw that it was a Kabutops, a very weird looking one.

One of its claws was shorter than the other one, both of its eyes were covered with eye patches, a small pendant was around its neck and finally an old twisted cloak was wrapped around it.

"Are you all right?" the Kabutops asked her. the wave of sadness again started to wash over her again "no...No I'm not all right, not at all!" she curled herself into a ball and started crying "why couldn't I save him?" "Why do I have to live without him?" "why…WHY HIM!!"

The Kabutops went down on one knee and patted her on the head "you poor thing." said the Kabutops. then taking his cloak off and putting it on her "come with me, everything will be okay."

She slowly got up holding onto the cloak to keep herself warm, as she started walking with the Kabutops. after 15 minutes of walking she finally asked him "what's your name?" the Kabutops did not respond right away, a minute later she heard him say "J….and yours?"

"R-Rose." J nodded his head "a very nice name for a Gardevoir." again their conversation was followed by a long silence's.

J looked at her and asked "do you know where I'm taking you?" Rose shook her head "I don't care," "this world is meaningless to me without my master."

"How long has it been since he died?" J asked her. Rose shook her head "days, months, I don't now anymore." again a long silence's from both of them.

10 minutes later they arrived at a small stone house near an old building of a dojo. J walked forward and knocks on the door of the stone house three times stopped then knocked again and both of them walked in. The first thing that Rose noticed in this house was its, atmosphere, she could feel some of her sadness and pain, lighten.

"What is this place?" She asked him J turned around and said "my home, please make yourself comfortable wherever you like, I will be right back with something for us to eat." then J walked into another room.

Rose found a place near the fireplace then sat in a very comfortable chair. She looked up at the mantle above the fireplace and noticed four small necklaces in glass cases.

She got out of the chair and walked near the mantle to examine them more closely "beautiful are they not?" She heard J's voice in the back room. She jumped in surprise "how did you know that I was..." her sentence was cut off when J walked in the room with a tray full of berries and fruit in two bowls.

He smiled at her "because, I now." he said cryptically, then set the tray on a small table near the chair that Rose was sitting in moment's ago.

Rose then realized something about him that she should have noticed right away "excuse me for asking this but, if you are blind, then how can you see where you're going?" J then looked at her seriously "mostly by smell and listening to the sounds around me." then pointed to the chair and said "please sit, it's usually better to have a conversation when you're sitting comfortably."

Rose then set back into the chair then saw that J sat himself on the floor near her crossing his legs. Before she could ask him, J turned his head to her "I will answer your questions in a moment, but first, can you please pass me one of the bowls of fruit to me?" Rose wordlessly got one of the bowls and got out of her chair then placed it in front of him "thank you." he replied.

After she got back into her chair then gets the bowl from the tray and bit into one of the fruit's. After a few minutes of silence Rose heard J say "you are the most patient Gardevoir, that I have ever met." she chose to take it as a complement "thank you, but it's like my master says "you can't plant a seed one day, then expect to have an apple tree the next day, you must be patient."

"Very true." J said to her chuckling a little bit "I can remember the days of me bumping into walls and things, and tell I learned to use my sense of smell and sense of hearing to know where things were." he plucked a small berrie with his claw, smelled it, then eat it, chewed slowly for a moment, then swallow it, and said "but...not being able to see the trees I love...or to see the colors of the world around me...and the faces of the friends I used to see every day...I miss that...very badly."

Rose sensing the sadness in his voice and tried to change the subject, she looked around the room for a moment, then spotted something unusual near the side of the fireplace and asked him "are those, wooden swords?"

J lifted his head up "those are my well claw carved practiced swords, I let my students use word in class, but afterwards I take them back home to either throw them in the fireplace if they break or carving them into something else for the students to use."

"You mean to tell me, you're a karate teacher?" Rose asked him, J nodded his head "I'm a 10th degree black belt in all forms of martial arts." again long silence's filled the room, Rose was looking at the dancing flames in the fireplace while J was sitting on the floor looking forward.

"It's getting late." J said "I have some students to train in the morning, so would it be all right if I showed you room now to sleep?" Rose nodded her head and said "of course." Rose followed him upstairs and down a hallway then pointed with his claw to the left and said "that is the guest room, if you need me I will be in this room" he pointed to the right to a slide door.

Before he went into the room he heard her say "J!" J turned his head to her "yes?" "...thank you...for letting me stay here." J smiled at her "you're very welcome." then went into his room and close the door.


Rose went to her room as well, closed the door behind her, then went into the bed to sleep...=}