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Children of Destiny
Prologue: The Birth
By: Raven Star

~Pallet Town ~ 11 years ago~

Miranda Ketchum strolled down the street in the shopping district of Pallet Town as she peered through windows looking at baby things, as she made her way to a lunch date with a visiting friend. As she stared through the window, her reflection showed the large bulge in her stomach, and she smiled happily as she placed her hand on her stomach, and smiles fondly.

<"Any day now, kids."> she thought quietly to herself. <"I'll finally get to hold you both in my arms. I'll be the best mom ever, and I won't allow anyone or anything to hurt you guys."> she said as a frown creased her features made her way towards the diner.

~Al's Diner~

Entering the diner, she spots her friend, Paige Summers, sitting at a table with her husband, Rick, and quickly makes her way to the table.

"Hi guys. Sorry I'm late. On my way here I was window shopping, for anything else I might need for the twins when their born." Miranda explained as she tossed her purse into the booth across from Paige and Rick, and slowly eased herself onto the seat.

"That's all right Miranda." Paige said as she smiled at her friend. "We've just got here ourselves, so we haven't been waiting long." she said, a smile on her mouth. "So how are you and the kids doing?"

"Yeah, Miranda. How are they?" Rick chimed in. "How are our godsons doing? Has there been any problems that the doctors know about?"

Miranda lightly patted her belly as she returned the smile. "It's going to be any day now before their born." she said quietly. "The doctors said both boys are looking healthy. But..." she started just as a waitress came by to take her order. Miranda opene a Ceasar Salad, and a soda.

"Still no word from their father?" Paige asked, her eyes narrowing. "I still can't believe that no good jerk just left you and the kids 6 months ago, and without even marrying you either. What kind of father would just abandon their kids before their even born and..." her voice trails off as Rick places a hand on her shoulder, and she looks over at Miranda who's shaking her head.

"It's not like that. It's true that I haven't heard from Jareth in the entire 9 months, but I don't think it could be helped. But, that's not what I'm worried about now that I wanted to talk to you about." she said as she got a serious look on her face. "It's about Ashura and Shin..."

"Ashura and Shin?" Paige and Rick chorused, then quieted down when they noticed the blush creeping into Miranda's cheeks.

"That's what I'm going to name them when they're born." Miranda quickly explained before going into her what she had been about to say. "Something strange has been happening the last 2 months. And I'm afraid to tell anyone about it, or risk being called crazy or worse..."

Paige's hand snaked out to clasp Miranda's to give it a comforting squeeze. "Come on, Randy. The three of us have been friends since kindergarten. You can tell us anything." she said encouragingly.

"Yeah, Ran." Rick said as he moved closer to the table so that he was practically leaning over it. "Tell us."

"It started 4 weeks ago. I was alone in my house setting up the cribs in the baby's room, with the help of some friends. We were taking a break in the kitchen, and I decided to go back to the bedroom to check on some things." Miranda began as she started to twist her hands together in nervously. "When I entered the room, everything was flying around the room."

"Flying?" Paige asked.

"Not the cribs, but all of the smaller things. Things like baby toys, clothes, diapers and shoes were flying around the room. When I saw this and cried out in alarm, everything immediatly returned to the right places like as if what I had just seen hadn't happened."

"It could be a ghost Pokémon causing the trouble." Rick offered, but his eyes were narrowed as he considered.

"That's what I thought too," Miranda said as she looked between her two friends. "I called in Profeessor Oak to see if he could find the Pokémon that was causing the trouble, but came up with nothing. But after that incident, nothing else happened. But then I had almost had got into a car accident..."

"CAR ACCIDENT!!" Rick and Paige shouted, drawing the attention of the other diner patrons, they quickly lowered their voices down to a whispher.

"What do you mean, Randy?" Rick demanded. "How bad was this accident and why haven't we heard about it until now?"

"I was driving outside of Pallet Town, and I was sideswiped by a drunk driver." Miranda said also keeping her voice in a whisper as she shot a glance around the diner to see if anyone was listening in. "My car crashed into a ravine, that much I remember. And I remember being thrown from the car. I went flying through the air, and all I could worry about were the boys when..." Miranda's voice trailed off as she looked down at her food.

"When what, Miranda?" Paige demanded.

"I don't know how to describe it." Miranda finally said. "I was falling, and I could see the ground rushing towards me. I was going to hit the ground face first, when I felt it. No I felt one of *them* or at least I think it was one of them."

"Who?" Rick asked.

"Ashura and Shinobi. I felt fear, that I at first thought was mine, because I was scared of dying, but then I realized it wasn't just mine, but the babies." she said as she shook her head.

"I felt a surge of warmth going through my body just before I was suddenly enveloped in this strange glowing ball of blue energy. It slowed me down, and turned me over so that when I landed on the ground, I was on my back. I was knocked unconcious. The next time I woke up it was in the hospital, where the doctors told me that I was lucky that the only thing I got from the accident was a few bumps and scrapes."

Paige and Rick shared a glance as they watched Miranda.

"Miranda, are you sure you didn't just dream all this while you were unconscious? What you just described is impossible, unless it was done by a Pokémon."

She slowly shook her head as she took a bite out of her salad, "It could have been a lot worse than that. I should have been dead or had lost the twins, but neither happened. I know exactly how high up I was before I hit the ground, you two and it's just impossible and--OH!" she cried out with a painful gasp, as she clutched her stomach.

"What is it?" Paige demanded as she and Rick immediatley stood up to move towards Miranda, to help her up. "Is it the babies?"

Sweat began to pour down Miranda's face as she struggled to her feet with Rick's help, as she slowly nodded her head in assent. "I think my water just broke," she mumbled as she looked down her front. "Oh my..." she whispered

Both of her friends followed her gaze, until they saw what she was staring at. The front and back of Miranda's pants were soaked through along with the seat she had been sitting on. Just then she cried out again in pain as a contraction hit hard.

Rick ran towards the cash register demanding that someone call the hospital while Paige helped Miranda to sit back down, and tried to get her to relax. "It'll be okay, Miranda... Just breath..."

~Hours Later~

At exactly 9:30 pm, Miranda Ketchum gave birth to twin healthy boys. She named the first born, Shinobi, who had small tuffs of brown hair sticking out of his head; the second baby had dark black hair, whom she gave the name Ashura.

After feeding the twins, the nurses took the babies away to return them to the nursery so that Miranda could rest. And it was soon discovered to be impossible to seperate the two boys as they were placed in seperate incubators.

The minute the two were placed down, Ashura began crying nonstop, and nothing they did would make him stop. Then Shinobi started up too, but as the two nurses moved closer to each other while holding the babys the crying immediatly stopped, as two identical tiny pairs of dark blue eyes stared at each other from behind the blankets they were covered in, as they tried to reach out for each other, with few childish chuckles and coos.

Confused the nurses finally agreed, and brought in a larger incubator and placed the babies inside side by side, and soon both boys fell asleep a few moments later.

~2 Hours Later~

A cloaked figure snuck into the nursery, after glancing at the night nurse who had dozed off. Checking each of the cribs, he finally stops in front of the incubator holding the twins. Gloved hands reached in and picked up one of them, gently holding him, and making sure that he didn't wake the child.

The hood of the cloak was soon pushed back to reveal that the figure was a man in his mid-30's, with dark black hair cut in a crew and sinister looking black eyes, as he stared down at the boy he held. Reading the id tag that was tied around the childs wrist.

"Shinobi Ketchum." the man whispered as he then glanced towards the other child, shifting Shinobi to one arm as he reached back into the incubator to retrieve Ashura.

Holding both babies in his arms, the man smiled evilly as he looked into each child's face, as he headed towards the door. "So, my dear boys. If everything goes according to plan, the two of you will rule the world with me, as the world's most powerfullest Pokémon masters." he whispered as he exited the door. "And I'm not about to let that simpleton mother of yours the priveledge of raising you, when I can do it so much better." he finished as he began walking quickly towards the front of the hospital. When a figure suddenly blocks his way. Looking up to glare at the whoever it was and push past, he stopped as he stared into the familiar face of Miranda Ketchum.

"Jareth?!" Miranda exclaimed angrily as she glared at the father of her children. Miranda had woken up 10 minutes ago and had decided to come check on the twins to see how they were doing, only to find her ex-boyfriend sneaking out of the nursery with two small wrapped bundles. "What are you doing here!? What are does?!"

"Miranda, my dear. I'm just here to see our darling boys. I heard that they were born today, and I've come to claim them, as is my right." Jareth said easily as he pushed past her.

Miranda ran towards Jareth and grabbed his arm. "YOUR RIGHT!!" she shouted as she yanked him back around and tried to grab one of the babies. "You gave up all of your rights to them when you left me nine months ago. Give them to me!" she demanded before she started yelling "Someone help!This guys trying to steal my babies"

Jareth gave Miranda a pitying look as he pulled back as he frowned at her. Hearing the sound of pounding feet, coming from down the halls, he glared at her, before shifting his grip on one of the babies, and thrusting one into her grasping arms. "If you want them so much, then here. Take one, and I'll keep the other, for now. But I'll warn you now, Miranda. I'll be back to claim my other son." he said as he stepped back and literally disappeared into thin air.

Miranda stood their gaping in horror at what just happened as she held onto the small body in her arms. Tears welled up in her eyes, as she realized she just lost one of her babies, she slid to the floor still clutching the sleeping child to her body. "No..." she whispered. "NO!!! Bring him back!!" she cried outloud.

The child in her arms squirmed as he woke up, his sleepy blue eyes peered up into the face of his mother, awaken by the sound of her crying, but also by the sensation of his brother no longer being near him. His small face scruntched in a frown, getting more intense before he broke out into a full blown wail.

Miranda sat there comforting her baby, until he finally cried himself to sleep, as some orderlies came running into the hallway. After telling them what happened, they searched the hospital for Jareth and the missing child with no luck.

As she was led back to her room, she still held the baby, and she pushed back the blankets to read the id bracelet to find out which baby it was. The bracelet had a single name printed out on it:

Ashura.

A flash of light appeared on a hill outside of Pallet Town, where a helicopter bearing a capital letter "R" painted in red, waited. as Jarreth reappeared holding the now wailing Shinobi. After a few moments he was able to make the baby go back to sleep. As he looked back in the direction he had come from he silently cursed out Miranda, as anger cursed through him at the lost of his other son, but then he stared silently at the sleeping baby boy he held in his hands.

<"I may have lost the other one, but at I have you in my possession, Shinobi."> he thought angrily as he smiled down at his son. "You will keep the name your bitch of a mother gave you, because I like it. But your name won't be Ketchum. Now your last name is Giovanni, and be raised as a Giovanni" he stated as he walked towards the helicopter and climbs in, handing Shinobi to a waiting nursemaid he'd hired.

"Take us home." he ordered the pilot. Seconds later, the helicopter lifts up into the air and disappears into the night.

To Be Continued...

Author's Notes:
Come on people tell me: Did you love it? Hate it? Loathe it? What? I just came up with this idea yesterday and no matter how hard I tried to shake the idea I couldn't get rid of it until I finally gave in and wrote it down. This is my first time writing a Pokémon fanfic so try and be kind when you respond.