The Powers of the Crystal by Darkpika
Part 1
General
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Mariah decided to go to the lab for a while to visit her friends, Joey Oak, Zac Sketchit, Kristen Sketchit and Grace Peters. Joey was Gary's youngest child, he had a big sister named Elizabeth or Emily. Emily always gave them trouble as little kids. Emily was sixteen years old and she thought she ruled the world. Joey is ten years old right now. Zac is Tracey's son and Kristen is his stepdaughter. His first wife died of cancer when Zac was a small baby, leaving Tracey alone to raise Zac. He got lots of help by Ash, Misty and Brock, but he was still lonely and missed his wife. Then when they went to an Orange Island for a while, Tracey fell in love with a warmhearted woman named Denise. Denise had a little girl around the same age as his Zac. Denise and Tracey eventually got married. Zac and Kristen are both nine years old. Grace is Brock's daughter. Brock's wife really couldn't have children because of a problem with her reproducing organs (sp?). Amazingly, she got pregnant and had Grace. Grace is eleven years old now. Then they're Mariah Ketchum. Her parents are Ash and Misty Ketchum. She is ten years old at the moment. She arrived at the lab to see Denise, Zac, Joey and Grace sitting outside talking. Joey was the first to look up and see Mariah.

"Hey Mariah!" he yells out to her.

The others turn to see their friend nearby. They wave to her, Mariah waves back. She runs over to them. Denise had her long light blue hair hanging down her back. She was wearing a lavendar T-shirt and a white skirt. She was wearing black platforms and no socks. Zac was wearing a white shirt, dark blue jeans and a dark green jacket. He was wearing black shoes adn white socks. He had his straight blonde hair hanging over her forehead. Grace was wearing her pale pink jeans, and a white long sleeved shirt saying HOTTIE on it. Her short dark brown hair hangs above her ears. Joey wore a black T-shirt and blue jeans. His brown hair was the same as usual. Mariah sat down next to Joey for a moment.

"What's up girl?" asks Denise noticing the look on her face.
"I hate Andrew and Rachel" Mariah decided.
"At least you don't have a big sister to worry about, especially someone like Emily," said Joey.
"I wish I had a sister." said Zac looking all sad.
Denise give him a mad look, Zac looks up at her.
"Oh yeah, I do" he said pointing to Denise.
"At least you guys have brothers and sisters, I'll never have one. I've always been an only child and I always will be." said Grace.
"Don't be sad Grace, I mean be thankful you don't have to wait an hour to use the bathroom." said Joey.
"or listen to bad music all the time." added Zac.
"or have a three year old laughing at you." added Mariah.
"or have an idiot for a brother." added Denise looking at Zac.
"Okay okay, I got the message." laughed Grace as she saw Zac looking at Denise.
"I'm bored." said Mariah.
"Us too." said Joey.
"I got an idea, lets go to the lake to play some volleyball." suggested Zac.
"Sure" they all answer.

They all walked over to the lake. Rachel and Andrew went home to tell on Mariah for what she did. Misty gave her son an icepack for his hurt eye. Misty was washing some dishes at the moment. Andrew sat at the kitchen table with the icepack over his eye. Rachel was standing beside her mother explaining what Mariah had done.

"Then she punched Andrew just acause he said hi to herb" said Rachel.
"Don't worry sweetie, I'll talk to her when gets home, why don't you and Andrew go play by the lake until she gets back." suggested Misty.
"Okay, come on Andrew." said Rachel as she grapped Andrew's shirt sleeve and pulled him outside.

Rachel let go and ran to the lake.

"Rachel, come back here!" yells Andrew.

Rachel didn't listen to her older brother, she kept running. Andrew ran after her as fast as he could to make sure she was safe. She kept running until she frooze in front of a dirty, old temple in the middle of the woods. Andrew had soon caught up with her. He frooze as well when he saw the temple.

"What is it Andrew?" asks Rachel.
"Looks like a playground." said Andrew.
"Oh boy, lets play." said Rachel.

The two ran in the temple, unknowing of the dangers that laid ahead. Rachel and Andrew entered the dark, dirty temple. The cracks on the ceiling pecked some sunlight in the dark temple. Rachel saw the hierogryphs on the walls of a Rockler on the wall to her right. To her left was a picture of Psyria herself holding a crystal. Andrew waited ahead to look at the pictures. He saw pictures of weird looking Pokémon, like one looked like a big tiger, another looked like a shark the other one was a picture of a giant bird with leaves for wings. He saw little slots where apparently something had to be inserted in there for some reason.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: REMEMBER THOSE SLOTS, THEY COME IN HANDY LATER.
They found a small shrine in the middleo of the temple. They gasped with what they saw, a dusty white crystal, siting inside of a hole in the shrine.

"This is cool." said Andrew.
"Yeah, it's so prettiful." said Rachel.
"Lets try and take it home for mom." said Andrew.
"K" agreed Rachel.

Andrew grapped the crystal and tried to pull but it was in there pretty tightly.

"I can't pull it out." said Andrew as he pulled.
"You can do ib Andrew." said Rachel.

As Andrew pulled, the hieroglyphs glowed white once and awhile. Finally, Andrew had pulled the crystal out of the slot. The crystal glowed a very bright white in Andrew's hands. Then the walls of the temple did as well. Both kids screamed as they saw what was happening.

Mariah held the volleyball in her hands, ready to serve it when she heard the screams from where they were.

"Andrew...Rachel" she whispered under her breath.

She dropped the volleyball and ran as fast as she could, following the sound. She paid no attention to the broken twigs scratching her legs, she just continued running. Joey was seen on his Charizard flying behide her.

"Climb on Mariah." said Joey when he was next to her.

Mariah quickly jumped on and Charizard flew to the temple. They saw the glowing building and heard Andrew and Rachel screaming. Mariah tried to run inside but Joey stopped her.

"Mariah, you can't go on there." said Joey.
"But Andrew and Rachel are inside." said Mariah.

Then out of the walls, seventeen strange Pokémon crawl out. They run, fly, swim or whatever they do to get away from the temple. Then Rachel and Andrew's bodies glow white and they disappear, dropping the crystal on the floor. Then the temple goes back to normal. Joey lost his grip on Mariah and she ran in the temple. She saw the walls were completely blank and no sign of Rachel or Andrew. Mariah saw in the middle of the floor was a dusty crystal. She picked it up, looked around.

"Andrew! Rachel!" she yelled out.

Her voice echoed through the dark temple.