Chapter 18
Pokémon X
Falling......downwards, water swirling all around me. I felt the air rushing past me, my short hair was waving. I hit the water with a painful splash, the air was knocked out of me. The force of gravity continued to pull me down. I didn't know how far I had gone down but the lake after the waterfall was deep enough to prevent my head from hitting the bottom. Their wasn't any rocks are hard objects waiting to impale us. I lost consciousness, the last feeling was me sinking deeper.
I was awaken suddenly, coughing and hacking. Poliwhirl was next me, her hands on my stomach. I was apparently on a large rock in the cave. Water rushed all around me, I could not see it but the sound was clue enough. Scyther was lying down and panting. Ivysaur was also lying on the floor, tongue hanging out in exhaustion. Umbreon was curled up and surprisingly in a nap, light snoring could be heard from him. I lied back down, now sure that my Pokémon were safe.
For a few minutes, we just rested. Poliwhirl was not very tired though, her being a water type. Umbreon seemed to be recovering the fastest in his slumber, his snoring quieted to his usual noiseless sleeping. Ivysaur and Scyther decided the Pokéball was a better place to recover.
Mikey had made it too. It took me a while to notice him, on the opposite side of the lake. I think Krabby dragged him to the sirface but I could not tell. His Eevee, Spearow, and Ledyba survived too. They were just resting, like I was. I fell asleep.
I woke up by myself this time. Poliwhirl was swimming around in the little lake. I groaned and sat up. Grabbing my Pokédex, which was water proof, I took a look at the time. I was surprised to find that I had slept for a few hours!
"Hey, any idea where to go!" Mikey shouted from the other side. He was already up on his feet and looking around. "Look, a path!" Mikey pointed to an opening on the rock wall behind me. It was easily big enough for any person to go through. Mikey took another look around and swam to my side with a lot of help from Poliwhirl and Krabby.
I groaned again as I forced myself to get up. I felt so tired and stiff. We started walking after calling back Poliwhirl and Krabby in to their Pokéballs. "Been here before?" I asked conversationally.
"No, I heard a dangerous rare Pokémon lives here. They call it Pokémon X," said Mikey.
"Pokémon X? It could be Lugia," I said with a smile.
"Lugia? How would you know?" Mikey asked.
"It was in the game," I said nonchalantly. Mikey looked at me like I was an escapee from the nut house. I forgotten that about not talking about my world. I mentally cursed myself for my momentary stupidity. "Um, I mean the Pokédex," I lied quickly.
"Noone knows who lives here. You're....you're....," Mikey stopped walking in surprise.
"I'm a what?" I snapped. He was acting like I was some kind of freak.
"You're one of the other world's," Mikey gasped. I nodded in response. "Whoa! How did you know so much about Pokémon? How is it like in your world? How did you get here? Are sure how Lugia being here?" one question after another came out at high speeds from Mikey's gibbering mouth.
"Slow down! I can only answer one question at a time," I said. I started walking again, forcing Mikey to catch up with me. One by one, I answered his questions. My world had no real Pokémon but I was a rabid fan of the card game and video game.
After a while, we aproached another lake. It was surrounded by walls on 3 sides. There was not another path anywhere, not even on the othe side of the lake. In the water near the other side was one large whirlpool. I pointed at it and jokingly said, "Lugia."
A low rumbling sound started as soon as those words escaped my mouth. The cave started vibrating. I was dropped down on to my stomach before I knew it. "Are you sure that's suppose to happen?!" Mikey shouted.
"No!" I shouted back. Our argument quickly stopped as something emerged from the whirlpool. It was mostly white blue-ish in color. His long wingspan kept him afloat in the air. The neck was stretched out long, almost as long as his tail on the other end of his body.
"LUGIA!" I cried out in surprise. I didn't think that I was going to be correct. Lugia couldn't possibly be really in front of me, could it?
<Who summons me?> A voice in my head thundered. It was like the Ledgendary Dogs, they spoke in my mind, soundlessly. Lugia didn't sound happy to see me though. He floated in the air, glaring at Mikey and me. <Trainers!> Lugia's eyes flashed in hatred. He must of had many trainers after him.
"Run!" I yelled. We turned and ran. Lugia reared his head back and released a large yellow beam. The attack hit the ground behind me, I ran faster out of fear. Pebbles sprayed in every direction from Lugia's Aero Blast. If I was thinking logically then, I might have noticed that Lugia missed on purpose and was only trying to scare us away but I was too panicked to think. Lugia flapped after us, roaring noises coming from his mouth made us ran even faster.
I tripped and fell. Grabbing for something instinctively, I caught Mikey's feet and he tumbled to the ground next to me. I mumbled an apology and was about to get up again. Mikey almost frozen, looked behind me. I turned back and saw Lugia's face right in front of me. He had landed right behind me.
"D-uh-uh.....," I couldn't speak. My voice came out as small grunts and whimpers. Lugia studied me carefully. I froze, looking back at him.
"Don't eat us!" Mikey managed to scream. Lugia turned his head to look at Mikey.
<Leave, now!> Lugia instructed harshly.
There was a short pause as both Mikey and I tried to calm down. "We can't find the way out," I said, almost whimpering like a wounded animal. Lugia could kill me in an instant, with the smallest fraction of his psychic powers. My Pokémon would not even make a scratch on him. He turned to look at me again.
<You!> Lugia shouted at me. I flinched and raised my hands over my head. <You're choosen by Celebi!> Lugia said in surprise. I nodded.
"You won't hurt me than?" I asked.
<I apologize, I did not recognize you in the darkness of the cave,> Lugia said almost lowering his head in a sign of respect. My shaking stopped and my heart beat slowed down a little.
"What's a Celebi?" Mikey asked me.
"A rare Pokémon," I said, my voice still shaking a little.
<Climb on,> Lugia instructed. He lowered his head. I crawled on to his head, past his neck and on to his back. Mikey climbed on behind me. <Hold on tight!> he shouted. He reared his head back and let loose a blast that made a large hole in the roof of the cave. We took to the air, Lugia flew faster than the Pidgeot I had rode before. I hung on tight to Lugia to keep from falling off.
<Where are you getting the medicine?> Lugia asked me.
"In the city up ahead, Cianwood," I said pointing to the city that we were flying close to.
<I do not wish to be seen but we do not have time, tell me where the medicine man resides,> Lugia.
"Um......., uh........," I glanced at all the buildings nervously. It obviously didn't have this many buildings in the G/S game. At this rate, it could take us months, even years to locate the medicine man.
"Let's try the Pokémart, he needs to sell medicine for money, right?" Mikey said. We landed on the empty streets at the Pokémart. Many of the trainers going in or out of the shop stood almost frozen in place in front of Lugia. Lugia sighed in disgust. I guess he doesn't like being gawked at.
"Hey, we're did u get that.....?" a trainer yelled. He was the one closest to Lugia and was staring upwards at Lugia's face.
"Somewhere," I answered and got off of Lugia with a little help from him. I went to the shop without being stopped by any trainers. I found the shop owner staring out the window. I sighed and looked at the sighs in the asiles and found medicine near the back of it. Although the shop was smaller than the one in Goldenrod, it held several medicine that Goldenrod's shop did not possess. I grabbed two potions having to do with extreme exhaustion and healing properties and ran back to the counter.
"Excuse me," I said to the shop owner.
"Just a minute," the shop owner mumbled. He didn't look at me at all and was still staring at Lugia. I saw Mikey standing on top yelling something and sighed loudly.
"I'm in a hurry here," I said almost panicking. Who knows what might happend with a ledgendaery just sitting outside on the streets. I could see Lugia sweating nervously. "Please hurry," I sighed.
"Um..,yeah sure," the shop owner said. I kept glancing back out the window as he checked off the items and told me the amount. I gave him the monet and ran back outside.
"-and get along back to where ever you're suppose to go now!" Mikey was yelling from atop Lugia. He stopped his yelling as soon as I arrived. Lugia aloud me to climb on again and we took off to the sky again. This time, we landed in a deserted part of the island that held Cianwood. Not many people made it there because it was a rough hike through the mountains and no amateur mountain climber was going to make it.
Lugia made us get off when we landed. It was surrounded by forest, undisturbed by many people at all. Wild plants seem to gorw more freely around here. But that didn't worry me, there was something else there. It was almost a rip in space. It was suspended in mid air, almost purple around it. Inside the rip was black and a swirl of colors of the rainbow, I could not see well inside it.
<This is how you will find Celebi,> Lugia said.
"This is like some sci-fi thing," I said nervously.
"Maybe it's a portal or a black hole," Mikey guessed.
<It is a gateway between the dimensions,> Lugia explained.
"Ok, let's go!" Mikey shouted, he ran towards it.
<Wait, one must not go in without protection!> Lugia's warning stopped Mikey in his tracks. He turned around as Lugia continued again, <Without protection, you will start to degrade after long exposure to primitive wild and violent monsters.>
"Where do we get that?" I asked.
<I will provide it to you and one of your Pokémon,> Lugia answered.
I thought about my short list of Pokémon and tried to decide which Pokémon I should bring out. "Ivysaur, I choose you," I said after some thought. The Pokéball dropped out of my hands and released its cargo. Lugia closed his eyes in concentration. He suddenly jumped up and open his mouth shooting a blue beam. I instinctively tried to block myself with my hands. When it was finished, I noticed a blue glow around me and Ivysaur.
<This will protect you while you get Celebi,> Lugia told me. I nodded and walked over to the little hole in the air. Peering through it nervously, I saw what looked like endless black and flashing colors in random places.
*Reeeerrrrr!* A weird shrill voice made me jump. From the hole leapt small creature that stood on four feet. It was made completely out of a crystal-like matter of a purple-blueish color. When it saw me, it pounced on me. The creature latched on to my stomach as I fell on to my back. I threw it off me and was surprise to see it shatter upon impact with the ground.
<An unfortunate Rattata. He suffered every moment as a creature, your shattering only ended it,> Lugia informed me. Still, I could not help but felt guilty and sad. <You have a job to do,> Lugia pushed me gently with his head.
"Good luck!" Mikey called out.
I stood in front of the hole once again, frozen with unknown fear. Who knew what would happend once I've gone through. Lugia startled me by pushing me and Ivysaur forward. I took a step forward in to the black emptyness and suddenly pitched forward. It seems that you could only float, not walk in between dimensions.
"Ivy Ivysaur (Wow!)" Ivysaur shouted excited. He started to kick his legs as if he was swimming and moved forward. A voice seemed to be calling me in a direction. I could not tell which direction from the faintness of it. Kicking my legs, I moved deeper and deeper in to the unknown.
*Graaaggg!* it sounded like something was trying to clear its throat roughly. A slimey green Pinsir stood in my way. Ivysaur attacked immediately with his Razor Leaf attack. The attack did not do much damage however, Pinsir's crystalized skin seemed to increased his defense against it. Pinsir counter attacked with a blast of black energy but Lugia's blow sheild sapped it away. Pinsir made another noise again and slammed in to Ivysaur with his Pinsirs closed. Ivysaur was thrown backwards and away from me. He desperately tried to get back to me but saw he would be a little late at the rate he was going.
Pinsir grabbed me by the shirt with his sharp claws. It glared at me with invisible eyes and reared one its arm back and got ready to cut me in three. "Help me!" I screamed. A sudden purple flash blew me away from my current location. Spinning a few times, I finially regained myself and saw that Celebi was collapsed in front of me. Pieces of the broken Pinsir floated all around her.
"Ivysaur Ivy Ivysaur (We found her!)" said Ivysaur. I swam forward and reached towards her when suddenly something unexpect happend.
Celebi's eyes shot open and she screamed as if she was in deep pain. Was it a psychic type attack? Celebi doubled over in pain as she continued screaming. I reached in to my bag for the potion I had bought. <What's happening.....?> Celebi screamed in confusion. Celebi's form suddenly lighted up. The light got unbearable.
When I light was gone, I stuggled to get my vision back to normal. "Ivysaur Ivysaur Ivysaur (What is that....?)" Ivysaur said in confusion. He had recovered before I did.
What I saw shocked me behind belief. I reached forward and in my hands was a Celebi card of the Psychic type. Celebi had become a Pokémon card from the TCG from my word! I grasped the card and looked down at it in horror.
Sorry I haven't been writing for a LONG time. I have been busy with another story that I am working on. I will try to get parts earlier from now on. Please drop me a line Luckvillag@aol.com.
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