Chapter 8: The dead rise again
There was blood. I touched the ground with my hands to get a closer look. The blood looked fresh like it had just been dripped onto my carpet. It ran down my fingers and dripped itself back into the puddle that was lying on the ground. It seemed even darker now then before. Lightning struck the ground and the puddle and seemed to have gotten bigger. Looking down at my foot I saw it had been cut but there was nothing that could of cut it on the floor. Suddenly I felt a cold hand come across my shoulder and just froze in place. "Red! Go back to your mothers room! Red!" Walking back down the hall my mothers room now had the light glowing from it. I crept up slowly and went to turn the doorknob when I felt something on the knob. More blood.
I jumped up almost out of bed completely.
"Oh, whew it was just a dream."
I mumbled to myself in my head. Checking the clock it said it was just 3 minutes past midnight. Green was still sound asleep snuggled up next to pichu who was asleep also now positioned right below her neck. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
"Red come on you idiot. Do I have to be your mother on this journey and tell you when you should get out of bed!"
Green was standing over me with a pillow in hand ready to throw at me. Pichu following in her trainers footsteps also had a pillow ready to throw.
"I'm up I'm up."
I said rubbing my eyes. I got out of bed and got my stuff together to leave the pokemon center and we left.
"Still wanna get breakfast Green?"
She seemed surprised I had remembered what she told me the night before and said,
"Uh yeah if you still wanna. Lets eat at the nearest diner."
Luckily for us there was one in Vermilion that we hadn't noticed before. Green and I walked in to the diner. They had nearly every booth available.
"Hello there. Table for 2?"
Green and I nodded.
"Normally we don't many customers this time of day."
I looked over at Green and asked,
"Uh Green what time is it?"
"6 am."
She said smiling. I thought to myself I should still be in bed right now for at least another 10-12 hours.
"Oh ok. I should still be in bed Green I need my beauty sleep."
"Well I couldn't sleep for all that snoring you was doing!"
She remarked back at me. After Green and I got a table I decided to tell her about the dream.
"Green I had another nightmare last night."
She looked alarmed and said,
"Did you wet the bed again?"
She said giggling.
"No it was a continuation from my last dream."
"Oh really what happened?"
I told Green what happened. About the touching the ground and finding that the blood was fresh on my carpet and that my foot had been cut and that the puddle grew bigger then a hand touched my shoulder and told me to go back to my mothers room.
"Hmm well I don't know. Maybe your dreams are trying to tell you something? Did any of this actually happen in your life Red?"
I thought for a moment then said,
"No nothing like this has ever happened to me in real life. I don't know what to make of these dreams."
Green started to speak up again when she was interrupted,
"How may I take your order?"
The waitress had asked us with pencil and paper in hand waiting for a reply. Green scanned the menu for a moment then said,
"I will have a egg and some toast."
"And I will have eggs, bacon, toast, hash browns, and gravy."
We handed the waitress our menus.
"Wow Green you actually ordered food for once!"
I said jokingly to her. She grabbed her fork and stabbed me with it then said,
"I always order food! I am just a little hungry is all."
"Proabably cause your close to death of hunger."
She stabbed me again.
"Ouch! That hurts Green!"
"Well good! Serves you right for making fun of me!"
"I was only joking! You didn't have to stab me with a fork!"
We ate our meals in silence then after paying for the food left the diner.
"So are we gonna go get our bikes in Cerulean?"
I asked Green she still seemed annoyed with me that I had made fun of her back in the diner and said,
"Uh yeah! Didn't we agree to that yesterday? Dumb ass."
"Wow someone really is on there period."
I said jokingly. Greens face turned dark red but it wasn't from blushing no, it was from anger. She stormed away in a mad rage ready to throw something or kill someone(most likely me) or both. I chased after her making sure she didn't do anything to hurt anyone or worse hurt herself.
"Green wait! I'm sorry!"
She stopped walking and turned then said,
"Ugh! Why do I put up with you!"
She stood in place for about 5 minutes then said,
"Alright I accept your apology. Lets go."
She had a smile back on her face and I was delighted to see it return. We left Vermilion back onto route 6. The Route early in the morning was foggy and cold.
"Brrr, I am c- cccc- cold!"
I looked over at Green and she was shivering back and forth.
"Green come here I will keep you warm."
I put my arm around her to keep her warm. She didn't argue and held herself close to me for warmth. She looked up and stared into my eyes while I held her as we walked.
"Thanks Red."
She placed her head on my shoulders and shut her eyes allowing me to guide her footsteps as we walked. After about 15 or so minutes we had made it back to the underground path that lead back to Cerulean. We went inside and continued walking. Green wasn't shivering no more but she didn't move her head from my shoulder.
"I take it your warm now?"
I asked her. She opened her eyes and I stared into them. They had the most beautiful shade of blue I had ever seen. They were light around the exterior of the pupil then darkened a little throughout the rest of the eye then were light back at the tips of the retina. I blushed and Green said,
"Yeah I am pretty warm."
She saw I was blushing and just smiled. She stared at me for a minute then moved her head off of my shoulders and moved my arm back from around her freeing herself from my grip so she could walk on her own. We continued our walk and exited the Underground Path.
That meant we was back on Route 5 so we would soon be back to Cerulean. Route 5 didn't take much time at all to pass threw and before we knew it we were back in Cerulean City. We went into the bike shop.
"We have vouchers for bikes."
We told the man behind the counter.
"Ah yes."
He took the vouchers and looked them over then said,
"There you go. A bike for you and a bike for you."
My bike was red with a black handle and black wheels. Greens bike was light pink with a white handle and white wheels. We took them and left the bike shop.
"Race ya!"
Green smirked and hopped on her bike pedaling as fast as she could. I wobbled onto mine and tried to ride it but ended up crashing and hitting the ground hard.
"Red you don't know how to ride a bike?"
She said giggling.
"No I never learned how."
Green didn't seem surprised and taught me how to ride the bicycle.
"Just like that."
She said. I was doing better this time. The bike was barely moving but I was managing to keep it level on the ground.
"Lets hold off on the race till you get used to it."
"I think I'll just walk for now."
I put away my bike and Green did the same and we continued on foot.
"Ok so which way do we go to get to Lavender Town? Even though I don't wanna go cause of the dead thingys."
"We gotta cross routes 9 and 10 then a cave before we get to Lavender Town."
"Oh yay a cave."
Green said sarcastically. We left Cerulean to the east to Route 9.
Route 9 had a lot of hill sides and one wrong turn you would have to go all the way back to the start of it and try again. Walking along the route we were stopped by 2 trainers who wanted to battle.
"Go Oddish."
"Go Growlithe."
The trainers pokemon were out ready to battle.
"Alright lets show them! Go Pichu!"
Pichu hopped off of Greens shoulder and sparked her cheeks ready for battle.
"Go Mankey."
Mankey readied to battle and the fight commenced.
"Oddish use sleep powder."
"Growlithe use bite."
"Pichu use thundershock."
"Mankey use karate chop."
All 4 pokemon readied there moves but Mankey struck first with its karate chop knocking Oddish back before it could use the powder. Growlithe saw what had happened and used the bite on Mankey knocking Mankey down for a moment. Pichu zapped Growlithe releasing the bite.
"Oddish use vine whip."
"Growlithe ember."
"Pichu use thundershock again."
"Mankey use seismic toss."
Mankey struck first again with his seismic toss tossing Growlithe into the air spinning him. Growlithes used its ember but the ember managed to hit Oddish knocking it out. Pichu zapped Growlithe again in the air knocking it back down to the ground and out. Just then Pichu glowed brightly and its appearance changed. It had evolved into Pikachu.
"Yay! Pichu you evolved."
Green ran up giving her yellow mouse pokemon a big hug and placing it back on her shoulder. We proceeded down the route and battled a few more trainers beating them easily. We arrived now on Route 10.
It had a large patch of grass, a pokemon center, and the entrance to the cave. We walked into the pokemon center and handed the nurse our pokemon and after they were healed we left for the cave.
"Red I don't like caves."
"I know Green but it's the only way to Lavender Town."
We entered the cave. It was pitch black and we couldn't see a thing inside of it.
"Lets see if my cute little Pikachu can help us."
Green scanned her pokedex and sure enough Pikachu had learned a move that could help us after all.
"Pikachu use flash!"
Pikachus body turned into a light and lit up the entire cave. We used Pikachu as a flashlight and easily found our way to go throughout the cave. The cave had several levels to it and we managed to get lost at one point but we backtracked and finally made our way out of the cave.
"Whew I'm glad that's over with."
Green said shaking. We were back on Route 10 now and could see a huge tower in the distance.
"That must be the pokemon tower."
I said to Green who didn't seem happy at all about a tower of dead pokemon.
"Lets go."
I grabbed Green by the arm and pulled her along.
"Wai-"
She was trying to shot but I kept going. We arrived in Lavender Town.
We healed our pokemon at the pokemon center and Green noticed her bag was shaking.
"Huh? I wonder what's going on?"
Green lifted out the egg from her bag and it was shaking heavily. She placed it on the ground and it started cracking piece by piece. A white light came out from around the egg and then appeared a purple ghost like pokemon floating in the air.
"AAHH! What is that! Get it away!"
I took out my pokedex and it said the pokemon was Gastly.
"Awww. look Green you're a mother."
I said laughing. Green looked over at the Gastly terrified.
"I hate ghost! I don't want it! Our eggs must've been cursed!"
"Green calm down."
I noticed my bag was shaking also and I took out my egg. It started cracking and glowed a bright white light and appeared a second Gastly.
"AAHH! Another one!"
Green said shaking and ran behind me for protection.
"I hate ghost! I hate them!"
"Green its ok."
Green still shaking handed me a poke ball and I took one out of my pocket and in a flash both Gastlys had been captured. I handed Green her Gastly and she shook in place.
"L- lets go to the pc right quick."
Green placed the gastly in her pc and pressed the button like 20 times making sure it was sealed away.
"Whew, I never want to see that thing again. Red you'd better store yours as well!"
I placed mine in storage as well and we left the pokemon center. We were stopped outside by a small boy who ran up to us,
"Hello mr. and miss I need your help."
I said,
"Alright whats wrong?"
"Well me and my uncle Mr. Fuji were inside the pokemon tower paying respect to his cubones mother who had died saving its life and his body suddenly turned into a spirit and then vanished deeper into the tower. You got to get him back!"
"We'll help your uncle don't worry."
The boy thanked us and left. Green walked up to me smiling and smacked me hard in the face leaving a bruise.
"You know I hate ghost! And I don't want to get possessed and die or turn into a spirit! I'm not going into that Tower!"
"Come on Green we got to see what happened to Mr. Fuji."
Green wanted to argue but knew it was the right thing to do.
"Ugh fine. I swear if I get possessed or something the first thing I am doing is killing you."
I smiled knowing Green didn't mean. At least I hoped she didn't mean it.
We entered the tower and saw that it was almost completely vacated except for one person who was standing at a stairway that lead up. The person approached and said,
"I mean you no harm. My sisters were all possessed and in order for them to return to there human state you have to defeat what ever is possessing them."
"Red you don't think it's the same thing that took Mr. Fuji do you?"
"I don't know Green but we gotta help."
Green hated the idea that this tower was probably filled with ghost pokemon that could eat out her soul or kill her or worse but she knew we had to help as best we could.
"O-Ok lets figure out whats doing this and stop it."
She finally managed to mutter shaking in place.
"Be warned my sisters will attack on sight. Being possessed they have no control over there bodies."
The girl guarding the stairway said. Green seemed like she was about to faint and I placed my hand on her shoulder and stared into her eyes saying,
"Green don't worry. I wont let anything happen to you."
A small smile appeared on Greens face and she nodded. The women moved from guarding the stairway and we walked up it.
The stairway lead to a room with a few women that all looked the same as the one that had been guarding it.
"Those must be her sisters."
I mumbled to Green who was standing behind me shaking.
"You- you- uh- go ahead and I will follow behind you."
Green finally managed to say. Making sure Green was behind me and didn't go back down the stairway
"Braiiinnnnzzz!"
The women shouted jumping out at us and Green fainted. I caught Green before she hit the ground and picked her up in my arms to carry since she had passed out. I placed my hand on my belt and held out a poke ball.
"Go Charmeleon."
Charmeleon let out a flame and readied for battle. The women threw out her poke ball. It was a Gastly. Green opened her eyes and saw she was lying in my arms and realized she had passed out. She looked over and saw the Gastly and fainted again.
"Charmeleon use fire blast."
Charmeleon engulfed the ghost type and it fainted. The womans spirit passed by and flew down the stairway. I walked with Green still fainted carrying her throughout the rest of the Tower. The next sister appeared.
"Will have Braiinz!"
Her spirit said and held out her poke ball. It wasn't a Gastly this time. It was dark purple and looked like it had arms. I held out my pokedex and it said it was a Haunter the evolve form of Gastly. Charmeleon struggled fighting the Haunter who had cursed him causing him to faint.
"Charmeleon return. Go Pidgeotto."
Pidgeotto flapped its wings and I told him to attack.
"Use wing attack."
Pidgeotto flapped its wings heavily and attacked the Haunter knocking it out. Like before the spirit flew down the stairway. I walked further along the room and saw there was a second staircase that lead up.
"Man Green you sure are heavy for a girl that doesn't eat much."
I said trying to lift her as I stepped on each step that lead upward.
After finally making it to the end of the steps I was in a room and noticed there were several men in black in the room.
"Team Rocket."
I said and noticed a man in the far right corner who was being guarded by a rocket member was tied up secured in place.
"Go Geodude and Go Poliwhirl."
I shouted and threw there poke balls in the air. We ran up to the team rocket members who held out there pokemon.
"Who are you? And what are you doing here. Your gonna ruin everything!"
The shouted then threw out there pokemon.
"Go Arbok."
"Go Weezing."
They said making sure I was no where near the rocket member who had the man tied up.
"Geodude use rock tomb. Poliwhirl use bubble beam."
Geodude landed rocks on top of Weezing knocking it back and Poliwhirl hit the bubble beam on Arbok knocking it down for a moment.
"Grr, Arbok use constrict."
"Weezing use poison gas."
Gas filled the room poisoning my pokemon and Arbok constricted Geodude In place and squeezed.
"Poliwhirl use body slam."
Poliwhirl rammed into Arbok freeing Geodude from its grasp. The poison took affect and knocked my pokemon down.
"Weezing use sludge."
"Arbok use bite."
Sludge hit down on Poliwhirl hard and Arbok bit him even harder.
"Geodude use rock slide."
"Poliwhirl use bubble beam again."
The rocks pelted down on Weezing knocking him onto the ground and the bubble beam struck him also knocking him out.
"Grr, you will pay you brat! Arbok use bite again."
Before I could command another attack Arbok bit down hard on Geodude knocking him out.
"Alright Poliwhirl its up to you. Use body slam."
"Arbok use bite again."
Poliwhirl managed to slam Arbok down hard knocking him out before Arbok could bite him.
"Good job Poliwhirl. Return."
"Curse you. Oh well you wont be able to stop us from our scheme! Mwahahahaha!"
The rockets got back over to the other rocket who was now trying to light a torch. After it lit he looked at me and said,
"Our plan is almost upon us."
He held the torch in the air and shouted.
"Marowak! Can you hear me! Show yourself!"
A spirit appeared that had a large bone in its head and a skull plate over its face. The man laughed menacingly and said,
"Marowak we are the ones that killed you trying to save your cubone! You want retribution? Here we are."
"Why would Team rocket resurrect a pokemon they had killed and ask it if it wanted retribution?"
The team rocket member looked over at me realizing I was the one that had said that and said,
"Because that Marowak took down nearly all of our members before we could finally kill it. Its power is incredible! And if we controlled it we could control the world! Mwahahahahahaha."
The Marowak lowered its head and charged at the rocket member and the two I had battled knocking them all out cold. Then it stared at me in the face. Mr Fuji was moving around shaking trying to speak. I ran over and freed him he quickly shouted,
"Hurry you must defeat Marowak. It probably thinks we were helping try to kill it. Help calm its spirit before its to late."
I held out a poke ball.
"Go Butterfree. Use sleep powder."
Butterfree put the Marowak to sleep.
"Now use confusion."
Pulse waves hit the Marowak and knocked it down. It woke up though and charged at Butterfree head butting it into a wall and knocking it out.
"Butterfree return. Go Poliwhirl."
Poliwhirl came back out and saw Marowak was staring at it.
"Poliwhirl use body slam."
He charged at Marowak and Marowak charged back with a head butt that was far stronger causing Poliwhirl to be knocked out in just one hit just like Butterfree. "Poliwhirl return. Go Pidgeotto."
Pidgeotto flew into the air and flapped its wings.
"Use wing attack."
He blew Marowak backwards some but Marowak held its ground and charged in again for another head butt. This time it missed and collided with the wall.
"Now Pidgeotto use quick attack."
With Marowak still in the wall he collided with it knocking himself out as well as Marowak. Just then Marowak turned back into a spirit and the haunting vibe left the room with the spirit departing back into the abyss.
"The spirit of Marowak is finally at rest. I had came to pay respects to Marowak when I was attacked and sucked up here. It's a good thing you showed up when you did. Thank you."
"Mr. Fuji a boy was looking for you he said you was his uncle."
"Ah yes. I will return. Thank you for freeing me from Team Rockets clutches."
Green awoke still lying in my arms and looked up at me.
"What happened?"
She asked.
"Well you fainted, woke up and fainted again."
"I know that much! Dumb ass! I mean what happened here?"
"Team Rocket resurrected Cubones mother in hopes of controlling its power but it was far greater then they thought and it knocked them out. I fought it and cleansed its spirit and it returned back into the abyss."
I sat Green back on her feet and she smiled and said,
"Thanks for keeping me safe."
"Your welcome Green."
We walked back down the top set of stairs and then back down the final set. The women saw us as we approached the bottom of the stairway and said,
"Thank you for freeing my sisters. Now they can rest properly. Take this."
She handed us a flute.
"That is a pokemon flute. Use it to wake up sleeping pokemon that may be blocking the way."
Green and I accepted the flute and left the tower.
"Lets never go back in there again."
Green said and I nodded. We healed our pokemon at the pokemon center and then left.
"So does this city have a gym?"
"I'm not sure."
We searched the town for about an hour and couldn't find one.
"I guess not. Hmm. So this was a useless trip!"
Green said smacking me in the back.
"Our eggs were haunted! I almost died! And all cause you wanted to see some Tower!"
"Green I kept you safe and besides we saved Mr. Fuji."
"Well true. So what now?"
Just then Mr. Fuji approached with his nephew.
"Thank you for saving me."
"Mr. Fuji does Lavender Town have a gym we can fight?"
He looked around for a moment and said,
"Sorry but no. However there is a gym to the west of here in Celadon City."
Greens eyes sparkled just then.
"Celadon! Yay! Celadon!"
I looked over at Green who was jumping around in the air. Puzzled I asked Green,
"Green whats so special about Celadon?"
Green seemed shocked I would ask such a thing and gasped.
"Red! How dare you! Celadon City is home to the biggest shopping mall in Kanto! EEK!"
She said jumping in the air once more. I just looked down and shook my head.
"Women these days."
Green heard my remarked and stomped down hard on my feet. While I was lying on the ground in pain, Green turned to Mr. Fuji and said,
"Mr. Fuji how do we get there from here?"
He looked around again and said,
"Route 8 to the west has an underground path that will lead you to Celadon."
We thanked Mr. Fuji for the information and he left. I managed to stand up somehow after having a nearly broken foot.
"Red I cant wait! We can go shopping tomorrow! And you can hold all my things!"
I sarcastically replied with,
"Oh boy. Yay me."
She gave me a glare and just then I felt something hit me in the face. It was water. We looked into the sky and the sky had turned thunderous and had started raining. Green and I quickly hurried back to the pokemon center.
We sat there waiting for the storm to die out but it didn't seem like it was going to.
"Well damn it! I wanted to get to Celadon today!"
Green said sadly looking at the ground.
"I guess were gonna have to spend the night here."
Green didn't seem to like the idea of staying in a town where its Tower had been haunted but we didn't have much of a choice considering the thunder was getting worse.
"Alright."
Green and I handed the nurse our pokemon and after the nurse healed them we received them back. We watched TV for a while. Green seemed into one show. It was something about a girl and she had 2 guys fighting over her. One guy from what I could tell was half vampire and the other was half wolf.
"Red why cant you be romantic like them!"
She said giggling at me. I was tired and instead of replying I just sit there. An hour or so later Green said,
"Red I know! Lets play a game!"
The nurse walked up to us at this time and told us that it was night time and if we were gonna stay the night we had to go back into the room and leave the lobby. Green and I nodded and left the lobby.
I walked in and noticed Lavender Towns pokemon center only had one guest bed cause they weren't used to visitors staying the night. Green walked in and she kicked off her shoes and sit on the bed. . She said,
"So do you wanna play?"
I looked over at Green and said,
"What kinda game is it?"
Green looked at me and giggled then said,
"Its called truth or dare."
I stared at her for a second and said,
"Alright you go first."
Green smiled and giggled a bit more then said,
"Hehe, ok Red. Truth or dare?"
I stared at her for a moment then said,
"Truth."
Green said,
"You softie alright fine. Is it true that you wet the bed every night?"
I gave Green a glare and said,
"No I do not."
"Haha I know I'm just messin with you. Your turn."
I spoke up and said,
"Ok Green, truth or dare?"
She looked around a moment then winked and said,
"Dare. Hehe."
"Alright. I dare you to use your Gastly when fighting the gym leader in Celadon."
Green immediately said,
"What?! I don't like that thing! And its possessed! And it'll kill me!"
Green almost jumped out of the bed. I sat down beside her and placed a finger over her mouth then said,
"Shhh, Green. It is a dare you have to."
She lightly blushed seeing how close I was to her then looked down for a moment then looked back up and smiled.
"Ok. Fine I will."
Green left the room for a few and changed into her pajamas. They were light red and pink. Her top came down just below her belly button and her pajamas bottoms were a pair of small shorts that barely covered her behind. I blushed and she just hopped back on the bed. I felt embarrassed staring at her like that and left the room before she could say anything or throw something at me. I went into the rest room and changed into my pajamas as well. My top was a light blue shirt and my bottoms were a pair of shorts that came to my knees. I looked out the windows and saw that the thunder outside was getting really bad and I could tell it wasn't gonna let up before morning. The sky had already blackened and the pokemon center had closed not letting anyone else in for the night due to the storms. I went back in the room and saw Green was petting her pikachu and he was purring in her lap as she stroked his back. She smiled seeing I had returned and I sat down beside her. Green smiled and said,
"Ok Red one more. Truth or dare."
I had picked truth the first time so I decided to go with dare.
"Dare."
I said to Green and she looked into my eyes and smiled then said,
"I dare you to kiss me. You have to. it's a dare. Hehe."
She said mocking what I had said to her earlier. I blushed at what she had said and leaned in to her. Her face turned bright red seeing I was actually gonna do it and she closed her eyes leaning my way so our lips could meet. Our lips were about to touch when thunder struck outside and it made a sound so loud it made us both jump back before they did. Just then the power went out for a moment and Green decided to wrap her arms around me for protection in case the storms got worse. We were both still blushing over what almost happened and Green said,
"Uh Red lets call it a night."
I nodded and we laid back. Green still had her arms wrapped around me but I didn't mind. She leaned my way cuddled up next to me and said,
"You still gotta do the dare you know."
I turned to face her and she was staring at me still blushing. My face was just as red as hers though.
"Come on you big softie. Its just a dare."
Green said winking at me. I leaned my head towards hers and she leaned hers towards mine and our lips touched. We both stood there frozen for a moment with our lips touching then stopped and stared into each other eyes. Greens eyes were an even prettier shade of blue then the day before. Her face as red as can be and mine was equally just as red if not more. She laid her head down on my shoulder and looked up at me with her delicate eyes and said,
"Red you blush a lot around me. I'm not all that pretty."
She said then she stared right at me and said,
"Do you like me as more then just a friend?"
I hadn't thought about it till just then. Maybe I did like Green more as just a friend. Before I could answer she laid her head on my shoulder and said,
"Goodnight Red."
She fell asleep with her arms wrapped around me cuddled up next to me. I just stared at her face. Her skin looked so soft and delicate. Her eyes looked fragile closed away. Maybe I did consider her as more then a friend. Maybe I was falling for her.
"The question is is she falling for me?"
I asked myself staring at her beautiful body cuddled up next to mine then closed my eyes and fell asleep.
