for the livejournal genfic meme
Force of Nature
Courtney is screaming herself hoarse, but it's hard to hear much of anything over the howl of gale force winds and self-loathing.
Courtney's concerns are the least of Maxie's worries, which take a shape like a whale and drown this land he wanted to save.
To think that Team Magma, the coalition of Fire-type-loving land-coveters, would bury the world in a watery grave.
But in that cold, clammy darkness of apocalyptic self-reproach, Maxie finds a glimmer of hope. The world is drowning; the world is his.
He will not survive this cataclysmic miscalculation, but his legacy will live on in every person who stands up to save not only their lives but the very foundation upon which their lives are built. People all over this great land will see the ocean for the insidious, sleeping giant that it is...or was before the Coming of Kyogre.
Maxie's crusade has ended in the bitterest failure imaginable, but it will be revived, thrive and succeed on the strength of a human race that has no choice but to embrace his groundbound crusade or fall to a watery armageddon.
His face stings and quickly numbs under the cutting cold of the coming monsoon's swollen raindrops, but he finds the strength to smile.