[AN. First Movie for Ruby's Journey. When Ruby and Co. head to Amethyst City for Pearl and Alessandra's Pokémon Contest, they never expected to be caught in the middle of a war! Mew has flown into town, so the kingdom of Pearl has ordered an attack on Amethyst city to retrieve it, how will things turn out?]
Me: My second attempt at a movie! The last one hasn't been updated for years, but this will be up more often. Though it does mean that RJC itself will be a lot slower updated now. :( (PS. I think this is set just after her fifth badge and everyone is now one year older.) I JUST REALISED! Due to when this is set there may be some spoilers for later chapters of RJC
Amethyst Mew
"Are we there yet?" A familiar girl moaned. She was walking slumped over, her curly black hair falling over her shoulders. Her red T-shirt and black tank top were both covered in snow, due to her stubbornness of not wearing a coat. You could barely even tell she was wearing black jeans, not white. A familiar cap adorned her head, as well as a familiar Pokémon who is currently frozen to the hat.
"For the five hundredth time this minute, NO!" Another yelled. When she snapped her head around her dark brunette hair almost knocked the hat off of the former girl's head and her black glasses almost flew off her face. Her black coat was as white as her face due to snow, her black jeans had just a bit on them and her black, short sleeved turtle neck was spared by the coat. You couldn't even see her feet due to her white cowboy boots, and the red bow and her silk belt stood out majorly.
"Gemmma!" the former groaned.
"She has a point, Ruby." Said a boy as he ran a pale white hand though his snow covered tousled, dark brunette hair. His green button up shirt was covered by a large black leather jacket. His jeans were originally black, but had begun to fade with age.
"Shut up Walter." Ruby sighed.
"Oh will you two quit arguing!" Two girls said in unison. The first was a bluenette wearing pink earmuffs; she was in a pink winter jacket with cream fluff in the hood and on the sleeves, pockets and zip. Her skirt was pleated and black and white checked, only reaching her knees, which wasn't very practical in the current weather. Her black boots didn't really help much at all.
The second had brunette hair with black clips holding her bangs out of her face, she was in a black T-shirt covered by a light blue coat, she had a necklace with a Poké ball on. She was in white shorts, yet again not too practical, blue socks and black boots.
"Alright, Alright." The boy said. The first girl sighed and stared at the map again.
"Are we there now?" Ruby repeated.
"NO!" Everyone said.
A ginger boy sighed.
"Ruby, Gemma was right. Stop asking!" He said. His spiky ginger hair was snow coated, same with his green jacket. His black T-shirt didn't do him justice, being so baggy he looked fat. His jeans, however, were too tight, digging into his waist making him have to pull them away every now and then.
"But I'm tired, Leaf!" Ruby sighed.
"We know." A blonde boy said. He was in a black t-shirt, black cargo pants and black shoes, all coated in snow. "
The only person there who hadn't spoken was Leaf's sister. She had green/grey hair down to her shoulder but in a high side ponytail, she was in a yellow cardigan and a green blouse. She was in grey jeans and green sneakers.
"Look, Ruby, we aren't gonna get there for a while." She said.
These are our heroes. In order of appearance: Ruby, Gemma, Walter, Pearl, Alessandra, Leaf, Francesco and Yellow.
"HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME!" The Pokémon yelled.
Oh yes, and finally Torchix. The crazy talking Torchic.
"Look!" Pearl said, pointing forward. "I can see the spire of Amethyst City's chapel!"
"Whoa..." Alessandra said. "It's so beautiful! What are the jewels?"
"Amethysts, duh!" Pearl giggled.
"I wanna go to beeeeeddddd!" Ruby groaned again.
"Gah!" Gemma yelled, chasing after the girl in pure frustration.
"Eeeep! Crazy ex-vampire is trying to kill me!" Ruby squealed. Everyone laughed, Walter running after them so that Gemma didn't actually kill the trainer. Francesco picked up the map that had been dropped and looked at how far was left. Torchix jumped onto his head.
"Whatcha doing?" She asked, Francesco jumped.
"I do wish you wouldn't do that!" He hissed.
"Ooo! Moody pants!" Francesco sighed and shook the Pokémon from his head. "OI!"
Ruby and co. are currently heading to the kingdom of Amethyst City for Alessandra and Pearl's Pokémon contest, but little do they know that it will lead them to one of the most life threatening, most exciting adventures of their lives so far.
(Play any of the opening tunes here)
The group arrived at a large gate a dozen or so minutes later, Ruby crashing straight into after she had yet again riled up her second BFF, Gemma.
"Owy." She groaned. Sighing Gemma pulled the girl to her feet by her arm.
"Wow, this gate is sure huge." Yellow said, craning her neck upwards to try to see the top of the arch. "And yet again it's all made out of Amethyst."
"They gave their city the name for a reason, Y." Leaf said.
"They sure did." Alessandra agreed. Walter walked forwards and examined the giant gold bars.
"How do we get through? There's no way we can open this without vampires." He said. Gemma whistled, everyone looked over to her. She was holding open a human sized gate cut into the large on. "Oh." She giggled and ran through. Everyone followed her lead, except Torchix who jumped through the bars.
Gemma kept running after she got inside, well ahead of her friends, only to freeze when she saw the horror that was the town centre. She stood still in shock.
Only seconds later the group was behind her.
"Gemma why did you... oh my god." Francesco said.
All around the square were bodies of humans, Pokémon, all in army like uniforms. Blood was everywhere, Fearow went around scavenging bits of meat, along with other carnivorous Pokémon. Walter and Gemma half expected to leap out and try and take some blood themselves.
"What happened here?" Ruby and Pearl said.
Suddenly shots filled the air and they all heard a voice calling them.
"Quick! Over here!" Looking around they saw a familiar pink haired nurse calling them from the glass doors of a Poké Centre, Walter grabbed Gemma's hand and ran, everyone else taking the hint and following. Pearl screamed as a bullet narrowly missed the back of her head, making her lose concentration and trip. Leaf stopped, grabbing her and throwing her onto his back, running slower with the added weight. Finally he reached the door and ran in.
Nurse Joy looked out before shutting the door and locking them, she turned to the group.
"What on earth were you doing out there?!" She exclaimed. The group all dusted themselves off, Gemma, Pearl and Alessandra were all shaking slightly. Francesco wrapped an arm around the latter's shoulder.
"Nurse Joy, we only came here for the contest, what's happened?" Ruby asked.
"I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while for the contest." Nurse Joy said, ignoring the latter question.
"How long?" Yellow asked.
"I don't know."
"Joy, please tell us why the square looks like that." Walter said, holding his shaken girlfriend close. The pink haired nurse sighed, gesturing to a sitting area.
"You may want to sit down."
***
"You may not know this, but Amethyst city is so named because of a legendary Pokémon who once dwelled in the caves just by the shore. It would turn the rock into amethyst and make the towns people rich, so rich that they could soon be declared as a kingdom, in fact. Soon other kingdoms started to go after the Pokémon, hoping to become as rich. Many wars were fought, so many that the Pokémon ran away.
"The wars stopped, and the kingdom went through many golden years. No droughts, no plagues, nothing bad happened at all.
"But this year, last month to be precise, it came back. Now the kingdom of Pearl from Sinnoh is attacking us. With new modern technology it's become a lot more brutal than any previous wars. Both sides have lost over half their troops already." Joy explained.
"What is this Pokémon."
"Mew."
"Mew? You mean the little cat thing?" Torchix said. Joy nodded.
"It's named Amethyst by the people. When the war started, we were going to call off the contest, but Lillian and the judges arrived ages ago, and no communications can reach the outside. We're all stuck."
"How many people are in this centre?" Walter asked.
"50 and counting. All natives are in their homes, but we have four other Pokémon Centres full. I have a pair of rooms left, they have six beds in each but you may end up bunking with some others." Joy said.
"If that's all there is..." Leaf said.
"It is."
"I guess we'll have to take it. Are we safe here?" Francesco asked.
"Yes, they only attack the main palace, normally anyway... well, shall we show you where your rooms are?" Everyone stood up, Gemma still shaking. Walter looked at her with concerned eyes and picked her up, carrying her upstairs on his back. He was sure he could feel her crying. Ruby seemed to hear her, stopping and turning to them.
"What's wrong?" She asked. Walter shook his head.
"I don't know." He sighed. Ruby frowned, walking back and walking with them, a hand on her friend's back. They soon reached a pair of doors, Ruby lead Gemma into the girl's room, giving Walter a look that showed she could take care of her. He nodded, walking back to the boys' room.
The rooms were plain, three bunk beds. One small window and only one tiny shared bathroom, for a kingdom this Pokémon centre wasn't very well equipped. Everyone claimed a bed, but Gemma was still shaking.
"Gem?" Pearl asked. Ruby climbed up the ladder and sat next to the girl.
"Are you alright?" She asked. Gemma sobbed.
"Dumb question Ru'." Yellow said. Ruby glared at her.
"What's wrong Gemma?" Ruby repeated. Gemma just sobbed more. Ruby sighed, climbing back down and instead sitting on her bottom bunk.
"Give her time." Pearl said. Ruby nodded and lay down. Torchix jumped up and tried to cheer up the sobbing brunette, dancing around in an attempt to cheer her up. Gemma just lay down, face in her pillow. Torchix gave up and jumped back to her trainer.
Ruby removed her cap, laying it on the floor by the bed. Torchix jumped into it and tried to get to sleep.
Pearl walked from the bathroom in pink PJs covered in bubbles. She released Prinplup and fell asleep in the bottom bunk opposite from Ruby with her Pokémon for comfort. Yellow just changed into a yellow night dress and fell asleep on the other top bunk, not bothering to release Wartortle. Alessandra took the bottom bunk of the last bed, in blue PJs. Ruby didn't bother changing, she wasn't even falling asleep. Despite how tired she was earlier, she just couldn't get to sleep when she could hear shooting and her friend crying.
***
In the boys room it was a similar tale. Leaf and the others had fallen asleep almost instantly, but Walter could hear his girlfriend's sobs through the thin walls, making it difficult for him to drift off.
Time wound on, hours and hours of the night passed, and he still couldn't bring himself to close his eyes when his love was so sad. So he gently began to hum a lullaby from their old lives, back in England a hundred years ago. He didn't know if she heard it but she stopped sobbing and he could now hear her deep breathing, and slight snores. Smiling lightly he allowed himself to close his tired eyes and fall asleep.
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Me: How was that for a start? I actually enjoy writing this, its fun. Now, please people! I recently looked at the traffic for my RJC story, and there are hundreds of members who read it, so why so little reviewers? Legendary Fairy is all on her own! C'mon people, it's not that hard to log in using the review window! Please, I don't want to stop writing this or RJC and RJC behind the scenes. So c'mon!