I … am … finally … back!

Hey, everyone! This is DragonRider bringing you some Fanfics once again!

How long has it been anyway? *Checks date* 5 months! O_O

Sorry, I've been kind of busy with some courses.

So here is the first chapter for a new story I'm writing named "Never a truer word spoken"!

Chapter 1: The Cavern

I was on my computer, banging out the last words to the Pokémon fanfiction I had been writing. Just as I finished typing out the final word, the phone rang. It was my friend, Kaylee. I picked up and said, "Hey, Kaylee! How are you doing?"

"Chase! I just found this awesome hot spring on a local island! I'm inviting everyone in the gang to come along! You want to come?" She said, obviously excited

"Sure, why not. I just finished the last chapter of my Fanfic, so I've got nothing else to do."

"Great! Meet me at the diner. And don't forget to bring a bathing suit!" And she hung up. I grabbed my bathing suit, changed, ran downstairs. I yelled to my mom, "Going out with my friends, mom!"

My mom looked up from her computer and responded, "Sure, sweetie. Just be back by 5:00."

"K, Mom! Bye" I said, slamming the door behind me. Once I got to the diner, I saw my friends hanging around. I recognized Kaylee immediately, mainly because of the Pokemon Trainer cap she always wore. Today, something seemed different about her, but I brushed it off as a product of my staying up late writing my story. Kaylee saw me and called me over. "Hey, Chase! Glad you could make it!"

"Hey, everyone. You guys ready to go?" I asked.

Kaylee responded, 'Yeah, let's go!" She then started rushing ahead of us, going faster as I had ever seen her go in her life.

Jake, our group's analyst, walked up to me and said, "She's going surprisingly fast."

"Yeah, she's going faster than Gary. But she's never been much of an athlete. So how did she get that amount of speed?"

Jake replied, "I don't know, but it probably has something to do with the hot spring. Let's not bring it up until we're there."

"Makes sense. Let's try to keep our eyes out for anything out of the ordinary." In a few minutes, we arrived at the end of the shore.

Kaylee shouted, "Last one to the island is a rotten Pokémon egg!" She ran into the water and started swimming perfect strokes. Once we all climbed onto the island after the swim, Kaylee led us through a forest path to the hot spring. At the end of the path, I was panting and trying to catch my breath. Kaylee was just standing there, completely fine, not even exhausted. What we saw was unbelievable. A waterfall rushed down the rocky slope, feeding into a natural jacuzzi. Kaylee said, "Alright, let's get in!"

"Why not?" I thought. "After all, that is the reason we came here in the first place." "CANNONBALL!" Next thing I see is a massive wave of water rushing towards me. Seconds later, I'm drenched from head to toe. Everyone tried to stifle the giggles that came out because of my expression. "Could you have at least waited until I took off my clothes?!" With that comment, everyone burst out laughing. After a few minutes of laughing, we all got into the hot spring. The water felt amazingly refreshing. Kaylee asked, "You know; we've all been doing Pokémorph stories for a while. But you know, would any of you want to be Pokémorphs in real life?"

All of us stared at Kaylee and burst out laughing. "W-What? What's so funny?" She said, surprised at our reaction.

With tears coming out my eyes, I said, "You've known us for three years, but you have to ask us that? Of course, we would!"

"Glad that was answered." Kaylee said. "But which Pokémorph would you want to become?"

"I would be Oliver, obviously" Jake said. Oliver was Jake's Articuno Pokémorph. Out of our group's list of Pokémorphs, he was also the oldest, being 23 years old, while Jake himself from.

"Everyone knows mine!" Ricky exclaimed proudly. Ricky's favorite was a Garchomp Pokémorph.

"I'm not sure." Erica and Emile said at the same time. Erica and Emile were twins who always ended up speaking at the same time or finishing each other's sentences. "Ugh, not again!" Erica said. "We can't even stop..." she continued.

"… for one minute!" Emile finished. After finishing each other's sentences, both of them proceeded to facepalm at the same time.

"Moving on… What about you two?" Kaylee asked.

"Two? I'm the only one," I said, confused. I turned around and saw my younger brother grinning right in my face. "… here."

"Hey, Tyler!" Ricky shouted over to Tyler.

"What are you doing here Tyler? This is a Pokémorph Writing Club Meeting. If you're to annoy me, leave."

"Nope, I'm here to show you something. He fished around in his backpack. "Found it!" He handed me a packet of pages stapled together. "Here you go!"

"What's this?" I asked.

"My submission into the club." He said, looking quite smug. "So I guess I'm in right?"

"Really? Is that all you're going to need?" I said.

"What do you mean?"

"Your submission must get a unanimous vote from the club." I read it, looking for any large mistakes. To my surprise, there were none. I passed it onto Erica and Emile who then read it and passed it on again. Once the entire club had read the story, we started the vote. "Erica and Emile, what is your vote?" Both of them turned to each other, nodded, and gave him a thumbs-up. Each person was called in turn, all giving Tyler thumbs up. My vote was the last vote. I proclaimed, "I vote yes. Welcome to the club!"

Tyler jumped for joy, took his shirt off, and ran towards the hot spring. He jumped too far and was hurtling towards the waterfall! I closed my eyes as I braced for my brother's impact. But ... none came. I yelled to Tyler over the crashing water, "Are you okay?"

Tyler responded, "I'm fine, but there's a cavern back here! You have got to check this out!"

I got out of the hot-spring and ran as fast as I could. I jumped into the waterfall and was immediately awe-struck by the size of the cavern. Crystals of every color adorned every corner of the cavern, giving the cavern a rainbow-like radiance. What was the most amazing thing of all was the large back wall. It was filled with an ancient language that I couldn't understand. "Here lies the shrine of those Chosen, who will become the bond between the humans and Pokémon. If you are one of the Chosen, touch the crystals in front of you. If they should come out, take them so that you may quickly escape any and all difficult situations." I turned around to see Kaylee and the rest of the group. Like me, everyone was staring at Kaylee. "What? Why are you all staring at me?"

"You can understand what those glyphs say?" I asked.

"Why? You can't?" Kaylee said, sounding as confused as I was.

I chalked it up to Kaylee's weird supernatural new abilities that she somehow now had and said. "Anyway, let's see if this works." I walked up to one of the blue crystals and touched it. It immediately cracked off. I picked it up and saw that the others were doing the same. "I got mine!" Tyler exclaimed, holding up a clear crystal. "I got mine too!" Ricky proudly held out a purple crystal. Soon after, everyone had gotten their crystals. I looked at my watch. "Tyler, we've got to get home! It's almost 5:00!"

"Let's get going!" Tyler yelled, running out of the cavern.

"Wait, Chase." Kaylee stopped me.

"What is it?" I responded.

"We should keep the cavern a secret."

"Don't worry, I won't tell." I responded,

"Come on, Chase!" Tyler yelled.

"Ok!" I yelled back. "See you tomorrow!" I shouted as I ran towards the waterfall.

We ran back to the house and blew open the front door. Mom said, "You two made it just in time for dinner."

We sat down at the table, and Mom asked, 'So what happened today?"

Tyler and I exchanged a glance and said, "Nothing special."

END OF CHAPTER 1