Couldn't resist finishing this short (but important!) chapter. So here it is, Chapter 7 :)


Chapter Seven: Premonitions

Rachel let out a moan. What's going on? She tried to open her eyes, but it was hard, she felt groggy, and her vision was blurry. What happened? And why does my head hurt.

She suddenly heard a scream. It was a girl, definitely. Someone then came up to her and started grabbing her.

"Rachel? Rachel can you hear me?" The figure spoke to her. It was a girl, and she soon came into focus. She was a brunette, and she was pretty. But she had no clue who she was. "Rachel are you okay?" The girl asked her.

"Er, yeah, I think so." Rachel managed to mutter. "My head really hurts." She then put her hand to her head and felt something wet, she moved it back in front of her face and noticed it was covered in blood. "Oh my god!"

"It's okay," The girl comforted her. "Just a bad gash, head wounds bleed like a bitch." The girl then looked behind Rachel and her eyes widened. "Oh no Joe!" The girl screamed and climbed over Rachel, who turned and saw to her horror a body. Rachel screamed too.

"What's happening!?" She shrieked but the girl beside her was sobbing too much, leaning over the body. Rachel couldn't see the face, but it appeared to be a guy, and his hair… are those dreadlocks? She then looked away from the girl and saw they were in a large old room, are we in a dungeon? Rachel thought. "What's going on?" Rachel shouted again but the girl was still crying too much to notice. She looked over and saw a huge blast in the wall, and then noticed the broken pieces of brick and stone around her. Did I fly through that wall?

Just then she heard some shouting and screaming, along with the footsteps of people running. Suddenly crashing through a door to her side three figures appeared. She couldn't believe it.

"Santana! Kurt!" Rachel screamed as they collapsed on the floor beside her. They were with a third guy who she didn't recognise, and two Pokemon followed behind them. One was a strange small blue creature that stayed close to the new guy; while at Santana's side she had a large type of wolf Pokemon. She then realised that Santana and the other guy had been carrying Kurt, and that's when she saw his face. "Oh my god what happened to him!" Rachel shrieked. Kurt's face was badly burnt all along his left side, his clothes were damaged and he didn't seem to be moving. The guy beside him was sobbing.

"Don't be dead Kurt, please god," The boy cried. "Please don't take him away from me." The blue Pokemon hugged the boy in concern while Santana leant down to listen to Kurt's chest.

"Santana what happened to him?" Rachel yelled again, now rising to her feet and passing the still crying girl over the body, she went towards the others.

"Shut up a sec!" Santana screamed as she leant her ear closer to Kurt's chest. A moment passed where they all stayed silent and she suddenly sat back up crying, but also smiling. "He's still breathing, thank god." Santana leant back and took a huge breath, when Rachel then noticed a huge gash cut down the side of her cheek.

"What happened to him, and how did you get cut?" Rachel shouted at her.

"Those stupid birds." Santana screamed. "Moltres got him with a Heat Wave head on. And that bastard Zapdos almost got me with a Zap Cannon. Well not completely, still just got me the bitch." She said touching the cut on her cheek.

"Puck managed to take down Articuno." The boy holding Kurt said. "Him, Sam and Sugar started to hold off the other two while we ran away."

"What's happening your side? Did you beat the golems?" Santana asked turning to Rachel.

"What?" Rachel stared at her in disbelief. What the hell is going on?

"Rachel, what's happening?" Santana demanded.

"Joe's dead." The girl behind Rachel said. Santana and the other boy looked at her, clearly shocked, and for the first time noticed the body on the ground.

"Crap." Santana said, her eyes widening in horror.

"Oh my god," the boy said with tears in his eyes. "I'm so sorry Ha…"

"Not now." The girl interrupted him. "We still have a war to fight."

"What is going on!?" Rachel screamed. "I don't understand! What the hell is happening?"

"What happened to her?" The boy asked.

"Regigigas blasted her and Joe through several walls." The girl said. "I think she has a concussion."

"Did you take down the golems?" Santana demanded.

"Only Regice." The girl replied.

"Casualties?"

"I.. I tried to save them but…" The girl started crying. "They were too far away and I couldn't reach them." Santana froze.

"Who?"

"Mer…Mercedes and Quinn." The girl cried, and Rachel stared at her in shock.

"What?" Rachel whimpered. Did she just say? Mercedes and Quinn… dead?

"Oh Jesus no." The boy holding Kurt sobbed, holding Kurt close while his blue Pokemon holded him tight. Santana looked ready to cry, but she clearly held it back.

"Okay we have to find the others, we need to regroup. Who has any Pokemon left?" Santana demanded.

"Mine were all downstairs fighting, I've lost track of them." The girl replied.

"Us too." The boy said. "Other than these two." He signalled at the wolf and the blue thing beside him.

"Rachel how about you, Pokemon?" Santana demanded.

"I er…" Rachel looked down to her belt, there was two Poke Balls attached and she picked them up. "These I think?" One has to be Totodile, she thought. But where did this other one come from?

"Okay so four, well three." Santana said, as she held tight to her wolf. "Blaine's isn't good to fight, but he can defend right?"

"Wynaut!" The blue Pokemon beside the boy announced proudly.

"Okay good." Santana said. Rachel looked at her and could tell she was thinking quickly. "Blaine, you and Wynaut take Kurt and try and find somewhere to hide and help him come to." The boy holding Kurt – Blaine, Rachel assumed – nodded at her.

"I'll keep him safe." Blaine said.

"Okay Harmony," Santana said facing the girl beside Rachel. "I think you know."

"Are you sure?" The girl – Harmony it seemed – looked scared. "Cause if we do this we can't go back."

"Look around," Santana stared at her intently, refusing to break eye contact. "I saw Mike, Lauren and Unique die in front of me. Kurt's closer to death with every passing second. Mercedes… Quinn." Santana paused to regain her composure. "And you've lost Joe."

"I know," Harmony frowned. "But we were only meant to do it if we've lost all hope."

"You think we still have hope?" Blaine said.

"We're still alive aren't we?" Harmony shrugged. "At least, a few of us are. And even a few people can have hope."

"She's right." Blaine turned to Santana. "We can't give up hope." He looked Santana straight in the eye, and she paused again thinking.

"Okay." Santana smiled. "We have hope. We might not have much, but we at least have that!" Santana then stood up. "But Harmony, if I give you the word again. You will do it."

"Understood." Harmony nodded, though she didn't look happy about it.

"Somebody help!" A voice called out, and they all spun to see someone with another person draped over the shoulders heading towards them.

"Artie!" Santana yelled. "What happened?"

"Entei took a chunk out of his leg." Artie said as him started to come into the room, with another boy, who was rather short, draped across his shoulders.

"Artie you can walk!" Rachel gasped staring at him.

"Of course I can, where the hell have you been?" Artie snapped.

"She hit her head." Santana explained. She then quickly leant towards Rachel and Harmony and whispered to them. "Don't mention what happened to Quinn."

She then got up and ran over to help Artie with the boy. Rachel stared at him and could see that half of his right leg was missing; yet she had no clue who this boy was.

"I don't understand what's happening." Rachel said now starting to sob. This makes no sense, I was in the woods, I was just walking, and now, now people are losing limbs and getting burnt and dying. "I just don't get it!" Rachel wailed.

"Hey, hey pull it together." Harmony said as she wrapped her arms around her. Rachel stayed silent and looked over to Santana who was talking to Artie.

"Moltres got him, he's still breathing for the moment." Santana said. "We ran away to get him to safety while Puck, Sam and Sugar fended them off."

"Okay." Artie said, taking a breath. "Did they get out alright?"

"I dunno," Santana began. "But some people are dead."

"Who?" Artie asked, his face intense like Santana.

"Mike, Lauren, Unique, Joe and Mercedes." Santana muttered. Artie looked shell-shocked, like each name was a stab to the heart. However he still opened his mouth to talk.

"And Quinn?" Artie asked, his eyes widening.

"She got away. She should be fine." Santana said, her face as still as stone.

She just lied straight to his face, Rachel thought. Harmony was still hugging her and she had fallen silent, watching Artie and Santana talk.

"Thank god." Artie's eyes softened in relief.

"How about you, did you see anyone else get hurt?" Santana asked him and Artie's head fell.

"Two dead." He said silently.

"Who." Santana demanded.

"Er Sebastian…" Artie began. Blaine then let out a gasp as he held onto Kurt. Santana however stayed looking intensely at Artie, who was avoiding her gaze.

"And?" Santana said, her body frozen again, staring straight at Artie, who was now looking at the floor. "And?" She said with more intensity. Artie remained silent still and Santana's face softened, her eyes begin to show signs of panic and as she said her next two words her voice started to break. "Not her."

"I'm so sorry." Artie cried as he looked up at Santana, tears falling heavily from his eyes. Santana stared at him with horror; she took a step back and looked like she was about to fall over. Her wolf Pokemon then ran over and balanced her up.

"Which one." She demanded. "Tell me Artie, which one killed her!" Santana screamed at him. Artie, still crying just frowned at her.

"Rayquaza." Artie muttered. Santana stayed motionless but she then straightened up, her eyes faced directly in front of her.

"MIGHTYENA!" Santana screamed as she ran as fast as she could, her wolf following behind her, unleashing a huge and fearsome howl.

"Santana wait!" Artie screamed after her. He then quickly turned around to the others. "I have to catch her, help Rory." Artie then ran off after Santana while Rachel felt Harmony tug at her shoulder.

"Rachel, help me!" Harmony called as she led Rachel over to the boy with the missing leg. Rachel paused for a second and suddenly threw up on the floor.

"Oh god." Rachel cried.

"Come on Rachel, pull it together!" Harmony shouted at her as Rachel took a big breath and helped her drag the boy across the room beside Kurt, Blaine and his blue Pokemon. "Rory, Rory come on wake up." Harmony said as she tried to rouse the boy, who stayed silent.

"I don't understand." Rachel cried. What is happening, this can't be real, it must be a dream, this all has to be a dream! Suddenly someone coughed and Rachel saw Kurt start to stir.

"Oh god Kurt speak to me." Blaine begged. Kurt suddenly opened his eyes and he looked at Blaine, then straight at Rory, then Harmony and finally Rachel.

"Kurt?" Rachel said softly. Kurt let out a smile softly when he looked at her, but then his eyes suddenly widened in horror.

"LOOK OUT!" Kurt shrieked. Rachel then suddenly turned around and saw a huge burst of light head towards her. She then had one last thought… This is how I die.

X-X-X-X

A huge scream came out as Rachel bolted up right in her bed.

"Rachel?" Lyra ran over concerned and jumped on the bedside behind her.

"What's happening?" Rachel gasped. Her heart was racing fast.

"It's okay Rachel, you were having a nightmare." Brittany said as she came over and sat on the bed beside her. A few feet away with a look of concern on his face was Mike, watching the girls comfort her.

"Where am I?" Rachel muttered, her breathing was out of control and she was shaking.

"In your room at the Pokemon centre." Lyra said, stroking her hair comfortingly.

"We found you by the woods." Mike added. "After you went off, we decided to go looking for you and found you unconscious."

"Did you faint or something?" Brittany asked. "It's okay if you did, I faint all the time. Well I mean I pretend to faint a lot, but still."

"What do you remember Rachel?" Lyra asked.

"I…I..." Rachel stammered. What do I remember? I was feeling down, and walking through the woods… and then? Rachel paused, trying to think, but she just couldn't remember.

"Rachel?"

"I don't know, I can't remember!" Rachel sighed. "I must have fainted or something."

"Told you." Brittany said turning to Mike who simply frowned.

"What time is it?" Rachel asked.

"Just after midnight." Lyra smiled at her, still stroking her hair. "You should get some more sleep. Big day ahead of you tomorrow."

"Oh yeah." Finn, Rachel thought. I'm going to talk to Finn. "I think your right, I need some sleep. Thanks for helping me guys."

"No problem," Brittany smiled as she stood up from the bed and went over to Mike by the doorway.

"Just take it easy okay Rachel?" He said comfortingly.

"I will, thanks Mike." Rachel smiled.

"Okay you, time to rest." Lyra smiled. She then kissed Rachel on her forehead and helped her lean back into bed. "Night Rachel."

"Night Lyra." Rachel murmured as she closed her eyes. She could then hear as Lyra got up off the bed and went out the door with Brittany and Mike. She felt the room then fill with silence. I can't believe I fainted. Still… it feels like I'm forgetting something. Something really important.

As she fell into a deep dreamless sleep, a final thought entered her head. One thought that when she would wake up the next morning she would completely forget.

This is how I die.


Pokemon Status:

KANTO - Artie (Bulbasaur, Pidgey, Nidoran [M]), Quinn (Squirtle), Puck (Charmander)

JOHTO - Rachel (Totodile), Mike (Cyndaquil, Sentret, Hoothoot), Brittany (Chikorita, Hoppip)

HOENN - Santana (Treecko [F], Poochyena [F], Wurmple [F]), Kurt (Mudkip [F]), Finn (Torchic [F]), Blaine (Marshtomp [M], Beautifly [F], Pelliper [M], Zigzagoon [M])

SINNOH - Sam (Turtwig, Starly, Shinx), Mercedes (Chimchar), Tina (Piplup)

So yeah... anyone expect the story to take this turn?

Note on my updating... I know it's a lot at the moment, but it will eventually die down. When it does I'll aim to have a new chapter every few days, or at the most every week. But I've got a lot of chapters planned so I'm hoping to update as soon as I can, of course only when I'm happy with the chapters I write.

So again, please review! Love to hear your thoughts, and hopes or theories about how the story might go!

Next Time... It's Day 2 in the Pokemon World! What new friends (or foes) may our heroes face?