Well, here we are with another chapter
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Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks
Timeline: 3 weeks
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Chapter 12: Seeking Princess
How long had it been since normality?
No one was quite sure.
In any case, hopefully this princess would turn up soon… life was getting annoying with all the Dark Kingdom attacks.
_Quite_ frustrating.
And it certainly didn’t help that said above champions took out their anger on the hapless challengers who showed up demanding battle.
At least it cut down on idiots trying to enter the league.
That was not much consolation.
Charlotte looked at the clock. * According to my predictions, there should be an attack in about five minutes, if the Dark Kingdom really schedules things. *
She put down her cup of coffee and stretched.
Precisely six minutes later, her wand glowed red-hot, a signal that something had happened.
Charlotte transformed and found the other girls fighting not a youma this time.
Articuno2 fired blizzards everywhere, but that didn’t seem to dampen their spirits.
“Binding Flames!”
Hopefully it would work…
No, too weak. Articuno2 simply snapped off the fire, but was luckily constrained by Rachel’s signature move, Thunderstorm.
Misty used her Mermaid’s Enchantment to power up Ashline’s Boomerang, along with Garina’s Moonlit Darkness, while Charlotte and Rachel just made sure Articuno2 wasn’t running away at he last minute.
It worked. Teamwork… ne?
Anyways, a moon-dusted Articuno and the Dark Queen was down another general. What a pain.
That was
when – happy day! The stupid pen began to glow!
The sigh of relief was almost
audible as the girls grabbed their various cell phones and split off to find
the princess.
Finally!
Lance slowly backed away from what at first glance seemed to be a psycho fangirl, but on second glance turned out to be a very cleverly disguised youma. Still, it wasn’t his job to deal with these things.
It jumped at him, trying to suck out his energy.
Lance’s eyes glowed blue, before an Aeroblast destroyed it, leaving a human who turned out to be bleeding internally.
“Possession, then, not actual monsters… that’s a hassle…”
Sighing, Lance teleported her to a hospital, where she landed on a convenient gurney and was wheeled off.
He put his sunglasses back on and waited.
Charlotte looked around the campsite, noting that there was absolutely no one around, sighed, and released her Pidgeot. “Let’s try going somewhere else, girl…”
Pidgeot cawed and they took off.
“Thunderstorm!”
A pair of youma exploded as Rachel grinned triumphantly. “Oh yeah! Who said I couldn’t kill?”
However, a part of her nagged a bit.
If these were decoys… then what was the real deal going on?
She shrugged as Raichu picked up the trail of another youma and she followed.
“Mermaid’s Enchantment.” Misty yawned, putting a whole room full to sleep. “These things must multiply like bunnies…”
Then, she used her Whirlpool to suck them away.
Ah… at least they were getting new attacks. Kind of like pokemon…
So what was wrong with that? It was kind of fun, if only life wasn’t so stupid. Humph.
“Hope we find the princess soon…”
Then, we can get rid of the dark kingdom. And, I can restart my date website! I still need that money!
“Silence Blast!”
Garina quickly healed with Moonlit darkness afterwards, and then smirked. Well, all good things came with snags.
She had just ruined the wall of Pewter City elementary.
At the moment, she was extremely grateful for the glamour that concealed their identities. Oh, those payment fees would be hell.
Hopefully if any more senshi showed up they’d be able to control time?
That might be too much to hope.
Ashline glared at the pen, then back at the kid it was pointing at.
For all intents and purposes, it was a male child…about four years old.
“_This_ is the reincarnation of the princess? Oh well, might as well call the others.”
She picked up her cell phone and began to dial.
“Hello, Ashline.”
“Lance!”
“You found her?”
“Him, actually. The ‘earth princess’ is a boy. Quite bizarre.” Ash told him. “Can you be on Route fourteen?”
“I’ll be there in a few seconds.”
The Dragon Master appeared, and then performed a quick scan. ‘Yes, it’s a boy, and those strange energy fluctuations are like yours.”
“So he’s the princess.”
“Either that, or he’d be a sailor senshi and I highly doubt that’s an option.”
The others arrived within minutes by flying pokemon.
“So he’s the princess?”
“Apparently.”
Winfield popped up, took a good look, and then teetered. “NOOOOOOOOOOO! How did she get reincarnated as a boy?!”
“It’s the princess?”
“Yes! But… oh, this is no good!”
While Winfield continued to angst, the senshi sequestered the boy in their secret base.
End Chapter
Started 4/12/04, completed 5/3/04