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Chapter 2

Without saying anything, she impulsively grabs my arm and we both start running as fast as we can while adrenaline shoots up my body, my legs grow feeble and I'm terrified of collapsing over at any second. I gradually build up the courage to look behind me, and when I do I almost stop running because it's my worst nightmare come true. An enormous horde of Sableye are running about only 20 feet behind us but that's not all, their leader, Dusknoir, is right behind them. I can sense the magnitude their momentum, mainly from Dusknoir, behind me and its feels as though were being chased by a stampede but that's only because the Sableye are being forced to run so fast by Dusknoir. Dusknoir is an enormous ghost Pokémon that has the shape of an actual ghost. He is gray with only one eye and on his stomach there is a yellow face with a zigzag smile. He pounds a fist into his hand that means he's pissed and wants us executed immediately. I'm shaking so badly that I freeze in place for a second until she notices that I've stopped running.

"Grovyle, keep going! We can make it to Lake Guardian just keep going! She yanks on my arm. At her command I continue to run again and not look back.

"So, think you can just get away with this little plan of yours?" Shouts a deep heavy voice from behind us. That's Dusknoir's voice, no doubt about it. I sometimes still hear that voice at night and in my nightmares, we and Dusknoir have a long past.

"Ignore him Grovyle, he knows we're faster than him and his Sableye; he's only trying stall us from running" she stutters in between her breaths. It's true, he may have a much stronger attack than I do but I'm a Grovyle and my speed is over twice as fast than his. We keep running until we reach Lake Guardian. Of course it's not a lake, but I guess it used to be in the past so that's where it gets its name from. We can't complete this mission without the help of Celebi, a legendary Pokémon who stays only in Lake Guardian.

"Celebi, Celebi! We're here! It's us!" I shout as I'm still running. Celebi reveals herself when I call for her. She is pink and looks like a fairy. She doesn't show any sort of emotion but her eyes are a little misty. All three of us hear the stampede meaning we don't have much time to waste.

"Like we agreed?" Celebi asks. Both of us nod and turn around knowing that we might have to fight while Celebi prepares the Dimensional Hole. The Demesional Hole is a black ball of gas with swirls of several other colors mixed in with it. When we jump in it, we will time travel. We have previously agreed with Celebi the date and area we want to arrive in, which is twenty years in the past on an island called Treasure Town. Twenty years ago, Temporal Tower collapsed causing time to stop. And Diagla as a result went mad…

Celebi starts to sing some sort of chant as she moves her hands and the Dimensional Hole starts to form in a little ball. It's still small and our enemy is already here so we're going to have to put up a fight.

"I'll stay in front of Celebi, I'm completely useless in this battle so I'll guard her" she says. It's true though, Dusknoir and his Sableye have attacked Celebi before because without her we can't do our mission. So that means it's me against a clan of Sableye and a Dusknoir twice my size. Crap.

I stand strong and steady and I use agility to increase my speed. I begin to launch my bullet seeds at the Sabyle that are about 30 feet away. I knock out about ten Sableye in a couple seconds and about a third from the total amount is still remaining. They respond to this by attacking back. They launch a few shadow sneaks, but none hit me because I evade all of them. Right now the clan is right in front of me and I know this is the climax of the battle. The Sableye are really slow, so I just attack using bullet seed again and another set of ten are knocked to the ground. They are all standing in a line in front of their leader, so it's easy for me to knock them out with bullet seed; I just start launching from the left and turn my head to the right while still using bullet seed and that row is knocked out.

I think I'm doing good at this point of the battle until I remember my "friend" standing behind the Sableye. I am about to take out another row of them when I look up and see it's too late. Dusknoir releases a shadow ball from the zigzag mouth of his stomach and I know I have about two seconds until it hits me, and what do I do? I freeze where I am, like a deerling in the middle of the road, and I know it's the end for me. But then she jumps out from my right, takes a heavy hit, and collapses onto the ground.

At first I'm shocked, why would she take a hit for me? And for her a Pokémon attack is twice as painful as normal because she's human. Then after hearing Dusknoir's chuckles and when I see the sly grin across his face, anger fills inside of me, for seeing my best friend crippled on the ground and he has nothing to say but laugh. I will avenge her, I can feel flames inside myself even though I'm a grass type, rage is building up on me as I jump about four feet in the air and throw a full powered energy ball right in his one eye. Now he is enraged and he covers his hand over his eye, and while he screams in pain a leaf storm is launched from behind me and Dusknoir is pushed back a good ten feet away from us. He twitches a bit and tries to get up, but to no avail he lays back down and he is defeated. Seeing that their leader had feinted, the Sableye run away, not knowing what do to without commands from their leader. I rush to her side and she opens her eyes, and I release tears of joy to know she is still alive. What then surprises me is that she smiles too and says "You shouldn't be so worried, I can take a hit I'm pretty strong" Before I ask why she did it, I look behind to see where the leaf storm came from, and like I figured Celebi was right behind us with tears rolling down her side. There's nothing to say, all three of us knows she did it. The Dimensional Hole is now at its full height and she flutters around it.

"Twenty years in the past at Treasure Island. Things are getting worse for you two the longer you stay here, so get out of here, now" She and I know Celebi's right, so I help her up and we walk towards the Dimensional Hole. We grab on tightly to each other's hand, and look away from each other. This is the first time either one of us has time traveled and although it sounds like fun, we're scared to death because we don't have a clue what's going to happen to us during the process and once we arrive.

"Now" She says and we jump into the Dimensional Hole. Right as we reach its surface, I feel a tight grip on my arm and look back to find a shadowy figure. It growls,

"You're not going anywhere!" and begins to pull harder on my arm. It has light blue eyes and some sort of gas that looks like fog that hangs from the top of its head, and that's all about I can make of it. I am right now on the ground but my hand is still tightly holding hers while she is being sucked into the Dimensional Hole. I begin to let go my grip from her hand and shout,

"Let go, at least one of us will make it!"

She turns her head around and looks at me like I'm crazy. Now I can only see from her waist up because the rest of her is sucked into the Dimensional Hole.

"No, are you crazy? And leave you here to die?" No, we go together!"

We're gonna die anyway so what does it matter when die? I think to myself. But on the other hand I understand her, it be almost impossible for me to complete this mission without her, so I again hold tightly onto her hand. I try to attack this shadow creature with bullet seed because my mouth is all I have to work with, but this creature is way to strong and doesn't even notice my bullet seeds attacking him. Celebi then launches another leaf storm at him, but he hurls a dark pulse at her, and with that being a double weakness for her, it sends her flying through the air. I scream in anger, for her taking a hit for me, and now for Celebi for trying to attack that creature for us although she knew she had a double weakness. I scream most of all because both of them were nearly killed and are injured, and is this really worth all this suffering? Why can't we just all die without this pain? Before I consider this thought any more, this unknown creature is yanking me with his shadowy arms all over me and I'm still struggling to hold on to her hand. I feel her hand loose her grip from mine, and I look down to see her face red with pain.

"I can't hold on anymore Grovyle!" she yelps

I remember she's still weak from taking a hit from Dusknoir, but she still has to hang on. She isn't holding my hand anymore, all her energy of what she had left has worn out, and now I can only see her shoulders. I keep trying to pull her out, but with that along with the shadow creature trying to pull me away from her, it's no use.

"You're OK!" I shout at her but I know she's not.

"No! Grovyle…"

"Don't let go! Just a little longer!" I interrupt. "C'mon, hang on!"

"No I can't hold on! Grovyle, My Demensional Scream, I'll use it to contact you and I'll get the time gears and save the world, and if I don't do it, you will, swear you will?" She pleads.

After all she's done for me, there's no way I can deny this to her.

"I swear!" I shout back

She smiles at me and before I can say anything the shadow creature has his final say in this mess.

"Say goodbye to each other, you'll never see the other again, and I won't let her finish this little mission" He mutters in a deep voice like Dusknoir's. He whispers some sort of spell and yanks harder on me, and in an instant my grip from her lets go and she is sucked into the Dimensional Hole is gone.