The Shadow of The Seeking
Part 1
Growlithe of Fading Flame
Prologue: The Find
For many years trainers in Jhoto, mostly campers, there's only one satisfying campfire story; The Growlithe of Fading Flame.
Scientist all over Kanto and Jhoto have been unable to solve the mysteries of this legend, due to the fact that there was really no reliable sorce, until now. The P.A.J (Poke`mon Archeologists of Jhoto) made an important discovery. This discovery was "The Book of Mystical Fire". This book translates a forgotten tongue and lettering. The P.A.J named this toungue, 'The Mystical Tongue". But what triggered the attention of Gracie Odess, a 12-year-old member of the P.A.J, was the map at the back of the book. It was a simple Jhoto League map, but on it was a path...a path that led to a tower, it's name marked on the map in the code lettering. She translated it to be "Bristle Tower." She checked in a new Jhoto map out of curiosity, the path wasn't there.
But what really got her was that there was really no way of telling which city the path was by, because the old map could have been wrong. So she searched through the book for clues about the path. But there were none. Where the pathway was located would have been lost, if Gracie hadn't noticed a message on parchment that fell out of the back.
It was written in the tongue, the mystical tongue, and decoded it read;
"The path to Bristle Tower is beyond the city of black thorns."
Gracie was struck with inspiration, "City of Black thorns, Blackthorn City!" So the search for Bristle Tower began.
Gracie took a group of 3Scientists and 5 other Archeologists to Blackthorn City on an exploration. All the note had said was "beyond the city of black thorns" and that could be miles off. They could only hope that it was just beyond Blackthorn City, not way beyond Blackthorn City.
Luckily for the party of 9 Scientists and Archeologists, Gracie found a hidden path right past the gym. But from the beginning, you couldn't see a tower, which made almost all of them a little discouraged, but since there was no where else to go, they soldiered on. Nothing could have prepared them for what happened next.
The pathway went on a long ways, and ended at a dead end, and the 9 of them found themselves surrounded by walls of vines. Written behind one of the vine-covered walls was a message in code. Gracie decoded it as;
"The key is in the wall with the picture of a pichu on it."
"The Key?" many asked. But Gracie, still looking very closely at the wall found an almost completely concealed keyhole. They now began trying to find a picture of a pichu. One of the Scientists found it. It was a picture of a sunkern being shocked by the pichu. He pushed on the pichu, and out of the sunkern's mouth popped a small key, with rubies at the end. Gracie stuck it in the keyhole and turned it. The wall with the pichu began to spin faster and faster. Then, there was a flash of light, and a hole just big enough for a person to fit through, surrounded by flames, appeared. They all climbed eagerly through. "Oh my gosh." In front of them all was a pile of ruble that had been obviously once the Bristle Tower, but even more strange was that in the middle was a big sheet of rock. The weirdest part about it was that everything else was charred, except the rock. On it though was what looked like a fable, in the coded language. Gracie had found what she came for.
Now, Part 1 of the story carved in the rock, The Growlithe of Fading Flame, the true story.
Part 1
Growlithe of Fading Flame
Prologue: The Find
For many years trainers in Jhoto, mostly campers, there's only one satisfying campfire story; The Growlithe of Fading Flame.
Scientist all over Kanto and Jhoto have been unable to solve the mysteries of this legend, due to the fact that there was really no reliable sorce, until now. The P.A.J (Poke`mon Archeologists of Jhoto) made an important discovery. This discovery was "The Book of Mystical Fire". This book translates a forgotten tongue and lettering. The P.A.J named this toungue, 'The Mystical Tongue". But what triggered the attention of Gracie Odess, a 12-year-old member of the P.A.J, was the map at the back of the book. It was a simple Jhoto League map, but on it was a path...a path that led to a tower, it's name marked on the map in the code lettering. She translated it to be "Bristle Tower." She checked in a new Jhoto map out of curiosity, the path wasn't there.
But what really got her was that there was really no way of telling which city the path was by, because the old map could have been wrong. So she searched through the book for clues about the path. But there were none. Where the pathway was located would have been lost, if Gracie hadn't noticed a message on parchment that fell out of the back.
It was written in the tongue, the mystical tongue, and decoded it read;
"The path to Bristle Tower is beyond the city of black thorns."
Gracie was struck with inspiration, "City of Black thorns, Blackthorn City!" So the search for Bristle Tower began.
Gracie took a group of 3Scientists and 5 other Archeologists to Blackthorn City on an exploration. All the note had said was "beyond the city of black thorns" and that could be miles off. They could only hope that it was just beyond Blackthorn City, not way beyond Blackthorn City.
Luckily for the party of 9 Scientists and Archeologists, Gracie found a hidden path right past the gym. But from the beginning, you couldn't see a tower, which made almost all of them a little discouraged, but since there was no where else to go, they soldiered on. Nothing could have prepared them for what happened next.
The pathway went on a long ways, and ended at a dead end, and the 9 of them found themselves surrounded by walls of vines. Written behind one of the vine-covered walls was a message in code. Gracie decoded it as;
"The key is in the wall with the picture of a pichu on it."
"The Key?" many asked. But Gracie, still looking very closely at the wall found an almost completely concealed keyhole. They now began trying to find a picture of a pichu. One of the Scientists found it. It was a picture of a sunkern being shocked by the pichu. He pushed on the pichu, and out of the sunkern's mouth popped a small key, with rubies at the end. Gracie stuck it in the keyhole and turned it. The wall with the pichu began to spin faster and faster. Then, there was a flash of light, and a hole just big enough for a person to fit through, surrounded by flames, appeared. They all climbed eagerly through. "Oh my gosh." In front of them all was a pile of ruble that had been obviously once the Bristle Tower, but even more strange was that in the middle was a big sheet of rock. The weirdest part about it was that everything else was charred, except the rock. On it though was what looked like a fable, in the coded language. Gracie had found what she came for.
Now, Part 1 of the story carved in the rock, The Growlithe of Fading Flame, the true story.