Pokemon: Curse of the Geoblight
Chapter: Prologue
Authors Note: This is my idea for a Sequel to Pokemon Ruby, set 16 years after the game. This story will include romances of both the straight and lesbian variety as well as minor character death and violence.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
Rustboro city gleamed in the night, warm and inviting. From the towering Davon Corp. Headquarters to the gym that doubled as a trainers school the city was covered in softly glowing decorations to celebrate the Shining Days, a week long remembrance of the week of never ending sunlight during the rampage of the legendary Groudon sixteen years ago. Despite the pleasant mood this put most of the town in, all was not well.
"Cor?" Corsola muttered confusedly as she drifted awake. A muted red glow shone on the wall beside her. A harsh cough made her look to her trainer who bolted upright, wheezing loudly, black smoke pouring from her mouth with each exhale. The pink pokemon, now fully awake and aware, began spewing an icy blue mist from minute holes in her shell.
Flannary Quartz groggily awoke as the temperature dropped, reaching over to the other side of the bed before remembering that her wife was in Johto on official business. She stood and slipped on her insulated bathrobe before slipping out the door and down the hall. She stopped by the kitchen first to grab a bottle of green liquid from the fridge before returning to a door not far from her own. She knocked and called out, "Hey kiddo, you ok? Mind if I come in?" Before opening the door and stepping inside as a cloud of blue mist rushed out and chilled the hallway. While Flannary shivered in her warm robe, the fifteen year old on the bed was dressed only in her underclothes and was sweating, taking long measured breaths. Flannary walked over and sat next to her eldest daughter, looking like she wanted nothing more than to take the girl into her arms, but instead just handed her the drink before grabbing a spray bottle from the bedside table. The girl easily twisted the lid off and took a long gulp while her mother examined her back, frowning at what now appeared just to be oddly straight red scars interspersed with whole and half circles, and cursing her no good uncle for being the root cause of all this. "Its spreading still." Flannary stated, spraying the spot with the green liquid in her hands.
"It will keep spreading until my body can't take it any more." The girl states.
"Ruby-" Flannary starts only to be interrupted with "Mom, there is no use denying it. Its a miracle I survived past infancy. Five humans and Mew knows how many pokemon have died in the sixteen years since the Geoblight first appeared, almost all of them not even a year old yet, and because I was the first human to be born with it we don't know the life expectancy of this." The girl looked pleadingly into her mothers eyes, "For now we just have to do what we can and hope it doesn't speed up any. Fifteen years and it only covers my upper back, some cases have more spread than that in a year."
Now Flannary did hold her daughter close, hopeing the attack had subsided long enough ago that it wouldn't be painful to the young girl. "Ok baby, but don't expect me to leave until you fall back to sleep." She said kissing the top of her forehead.
Not far away six figures in red hoodies hop the fence into town. Their hoods are raised and cover their faces in shadow until they get to the door that opens for them. In the quick light before the door slams closed a sharp eyed viewer would see the telltale marks of the Geoblight covering half of the lead mans face.