DaughterofDin

Sarah trembled on the unforgiving cave floor. She despised the winter, the lakes had frozen over, leaving her without her water friends. The bird Pokemon migrated, and all the others where in a deep slumber. Where was Celebi now? When she needed the Pokemon most? It wasn't fair Celebi could just jump through time as she pleased. Sarah pouted, and pulled her thin blanket as tight as possible around her frail body. She felt stabs of unbearable pain in her abdomen. The berries had been picked dry months ago, and the last of the apricorns where in that dang old mans house, likely being turned to apricorn balls to catch pokemon with.

Sarah stood on shaky legs. She hugged the cave wall as she trudged outside. It was time for her to go from being a legend spoken by the town folk, to the cold hungry and pathetic savage little girl she was.
She had been in the village once. She wanted to know the village even more intemately than she already did. She closed her eyes and listened to the earth's voice. She couldn't find any hint of her ever being in the village in the past, but she shivered as she saw a future event.
There she was, a frail body in the cold snow. The villagers rushing to see the forest child in a coffin of snow. One young boy broke from the crowd and hugged Sarah's body in a knowing embrace. He ran his hand over her face. The boy began to weep softly. "You silly girl... it wasn't your time, who will I watch from afar in the tree tops now?" Her blue lips turned into a soft smile, for she knew time all to well, and the problem was, it was her time.

Sarah ran from the village and vowed to never come back, her child like brain denied the truth of her fate.

Flashback

Sarah looked at the towns people, all men walking into the lovely spring forest. They weren't used to the dim lighting the canopy of trees created. Sarah was 16 then, she knew all the faces well, and apparently they knew of her. In the more recent years of her life, the town of Azlea on the outskirts of the forest became aware of her presence. Sometimes whispering tales of the forest child on their trips into the forest. She watched as they paid respects to Celebi's shrine, and that's when she noticed a boy. Her age, the youngest one there, and an unfamiliar look. She blushed, she had never seen a boy her age and by Arceus was he handsome and dashing. As the older men began their trek into the forest, he dropped a small package on the shrine and followed his companions. She looked at the package, "To the guardian child of the forest, protect us on our trip." Sarah was shocked, her little myth hadn't turned into a believed legend so fast had it? Maybe the boy grew up hearing of her tales and believed in her. When she opened the bundle, it was a thin blanket with a note saying "For your winter adventures".
Sarah knew the routine of the group, they gather a huge bundle of charcoal for the winter, harvest the last of the apricorns, a bit of wood, maybe a flower for their sweet hearts back home. However, Sarah watched the boy and came night fall they sat around the fire. Sarah learned that this was the boy's first trip, and one he'd make till he was too old to make it. They told him about their stories of the guardian child's mischief and protection over them on their various trips. That night as Sarah slept in the branches above the camp she heard the boy climb up her tree. She jumped and watched as he reached the tree top. His head burst forth from the tree canopy and he beheld the endless expanse of the forest under the night sky for the first time.

"It's quite the view to fall asleep to each night." She whispered softly, and watched as he jumped and noticed her with him among the branches. "Y-you..." He was in shock, but she was too, a human this close was like a strange contradiction. "Thank you for the blanket, the forest tells me it'll be the coldest winter yet." She slipped closer. "I've never seen you with the others..." She told him and stared at him with curious child like eyes.
"I've seen you in the trees all the time, but no one believes me." He told her, and she smiled. She decided to be her usual self around this boy.
After she got comfortable, Sarah was her usual ball of energy again. She rambled on and on about the forest, and listened with the wide eyes of a child as he told her of village life. She told him about how she flew in the skies on the backs of the pokemon, and swam with the water pokemon even the time she stopped someone from stealing the shiny Gyarados she nicknamed Red. He told her how his mother used to tell him the stories of the forest child, who protected the forest from those who wish to harm it. She blushed when he told her he always believed in the myth of the forest child.
They whispered to each other all night, till they realized the sun was rising over the tree tops. "I didn't realize it was so late..." He whispered, "Sarah, come with us to Azlea town." He took her hands and held them tight. "You are a human, you should be with us instead of out here. You can't live your whole life out here." His feeble attempts did nothing to convince her. "Silly you, I am as much apart of this forest as the lakes or the trees. Besides I can handle anything this forest throws at me!" She laughed, her innocence was almost too painful for him to listen to. "Please just, if you are ever in trouble, don't hesitate to come to the village..." He told her before slipping away.

Flash back over

Sarah reached the village, she knew it was her fate. The forest knew it too. She cried out in agony as she fell to the soft blanket of snow. The villagers rushed out of their warm cabins. All in shock as their legendary guardian lay before them, except one boy who ran by her side. He held her in his warm arms, she died with blue lips and an accepting smile.