Chapter 10
"Well, this certainly doesent feel right... It just became cloudy and, cold all of a sudden again." He muttered to himself. He was still looking for her, if it wasn't for that vile demon who chased him off from Heidi, he wouldn't be stranded in the middle of nowhere. But it still didn't feel right, that huge monster floated from the clouds, chased him away from her, lying on the ground. "I hope she is okay, hope really nothing vicious like him hurts her..." He said worried about her. He was worried about Lyra too, was she on the island? She was perhaps here by now at least.
But of course, it could be too dangerous for her. "I'm sorry your hurt Aero but you should stay inside, for now, that "thing" was crazy." He said looking at his ball. But finally, the dense fog lifted. "It's only safe to assume that he's gone, it only rolled in when he appeared." He hummed. The walk continued, it was wet, it was finally visible enough to see the ocean line and it was clear the event earlier was west. And there it was, the stone pillar circle.
"But it was a bit farther I thought?..." He spoke to himself once again. And it was the air as cold it would not lift, the theme of the area was changed, people have disappeared, the weather was despicable, foggy and the place has now been inhabited by witches and ruthless demons. Just can't stand it. But then, there I as at where I left Heidi before I was chased off, but she was not there anymore. "Great, another item on the grocery list..." He muttered walking away slowly, however, it wasn't fast enough to catch up to them.
But they had to be on the island, how long has it been? Did time beat him before the hour hand struck Heidi with great force, faster enough to stop me from helping her, from her own death? However, loosing one's mind is not worth it at this point in time. But there was only one thing to do, follow terror that led him here. The terror could just whisper to me, I could remember where it started. But the terror that revealed who she was, what was that stone? It's only safe to assume we need to win it back, but I wondered why it was so important.
But right now, I couldn't only feel the expression of lamenting many things rushing in my head, it was time to macerate, and dig to the bottom of this huge mess. My X-tranceiver has been hacked and I'm only assuming, that we have been noticed as missing, nowone has seen me except for Creepy wizards and Pokemon, Lyra can't call me and I'm now worried, however, is this a dream? Dreams pass by faster than reality, but I couldn't wake up, I needed to snap myself out of the hallucination im in.
This was the first time I felt like a coward, a coward who couldn't face his dreams, I was responsible for not making myself wake up from this non reality, and felt alot responsible for putting others in debt for what I believed in, and I have to pay the toll back. And thus, I drifted away from the vision.
(A little while later)
"Oh, ugh just wake up! You aren't hurt? Aren't you...?" She said uncomfortably. He was just wobbling around in the bed, in the dark room, it was almost an hour since she found him, and he still has not waken up. "Ugh, I give up." Lyra muttered again. He had been shaken quite alot and his face was as pale as a stone. "You really need to wake up right now, because you prove yourself irresponsible with your own toys, heh..." She said trying to make him angry, he wouldn't get up, though.
And just as she was about to give up... "Stop it! Enough shaking, I'm fine." He shouted with his eyes still closed. Lyra sighed again rolling her eyes as well. "Gee, I was shaking you earlier as I about gave up..." She spoke out of the corner of her mouth. He stood up and fixed into a seating position and then the confusion inseus... "I don't know what happened but I think, I think... I fell to the ground, I think was dreaming, but I really don't know." He muttered. She rolled her eyes like he didn't know what he was speaking.
"What are you talking about? You clearly know how to speak from my experience..." She said under her breath. He looked around, noticing he was in a dimly lit room with a beat up mattress. "Well, I don't think I was dreaming, but I think I was hallucinating, and I'm pretty sure it felt real, and I felt like I was running away from something I should not have run from, but it's like I fell to the ground asleep in it, it's hard to explain, hopefully, you get it..." He spoke every single detail out loud. Lyra's mouth was slightly hanging open, her feelings, a little disoriented.
"Well, I don't know what to say other than, it's. Anything that might resolve itself in the future, or we could just take it as a warning..." She spoke under her breath. She nodded and smiled, trying to make him forget about what happened. "Well, Lancy-boy I got a surprise for you, that well, might make you a little jealous." She said changing her tone of voice greatly. He looked up at her, but he needed to forget whatever happened.
"Well, uh what is it?" He responded. He chuckled and was ready to taunt him. "Guess." She stated simply. He got annoyed and wanted to get on out of there. "A Pokemon?" "No." "A Dragon fang?" "No, getting closer.", "A TM?" "No". "Oh my Arceus, I'm not going to have this become twenty questions, but seriously what is it" He complained. She shrugged as she spoke. "Well, I'm just trying to make you excited, but, whatever..." She said under her breath. Lance was tapping his shoulder, waiting.
"It's, somthing that you might know, but it might steal you from Aero, haha..." She hinted again. He looked up and sighed while he held his breath. "I hate when you keep hinting me but, I think I know what you are talking about, and its, worrying me..." He said getting hotter by the minute. She smiled and knew what he meant, they resolved, by Heidi bursting out of her ball scaring the crap out of Lance. "DREIIIIIIIGON!" Yelled the mischievous dragon making him lay flat.
"Gee and I thought you communicate with them better than anyone else man?" She stated. He got back up for a defense. "Well scaring and communicating are two different things, but seriously, you think, you can handle her?" Lance spoke worriedly. Heidi huffed, bonking her head on the ceiling, destroying the ceiling panel. "Okay, sorry but seriously I'm not in the mood for paying debt!" Lance rebuttled again. "You should know this by now, but she can turn the tables so fast you wouldn't even know what happened." Lyra chuckled again, making him roll his eyes.
"Okay, but let's get some things straightened out, she let you catch her? Oh my don't tell me your the one!" He yelled making him get hotter. "I'm afraid so, but it's not like hitting the jackpot, it's hitting the abilities inside of you, it's nothing to freak out over." She said trying to calm down the crowd. "Okay well, I'll have no problems with such if you know who you are taking care of, and though she says she is more innocent than her species, however all dragons can't control their rage, so be careful." Lance assured her. Heidi puffed a ring of smoke, but she knew he was right, it was something to be thought over.
"Lance, Heidi told you like, everything...right?" She asked. Lance chuckled though. "Well, she told me indirectly, I learned it all just by observing until she blurted a little out." He replied. "Well nowone would ever believe me, and it was special for you guys to be one of the ones to well, be one of the first ones! but it was obvious nowone wants to listen to a Dragon that they thought would torture them and eat them afterwards..." Heidi stated frowning from the memories. They comforted her as she teared up wiping her eyes with her "heads".
"I really appreciate it you guys..." She said, thanked them as she cheered up from the little breakdown. "But you have to realize how special you are being such a power above all Pokemon, you should feel blessed that you were chosen to be a Hydreigon..." Lyra told her, trying to release the pain of her being a stereotype of destruction.
"Thank you, it means alot to me, I was isolated in a cave most of my time alive, people told me I was a demon from hell, a nuisance to everyone around me and the worst of all, I was going to be a prisoner of the devil, which I didn't realize I was until not long ago..." she said sobbing, and thanking them. It was much to thank about, but much to take in for her.
But it was silent for awhile, everyone appreciated it and sighed, it was about time to move out. "I really don't want to coward away, but I really don't like he atmosphere on this island, but it's my job to figure out what's going on..." Lyra said sighing from the truth. "It's fine, I had those times, but we are close to fitting out what's going on, and those people who we fought just spoiled everything straight to us... but I don't even know what their plan is!" Lance cried, making the silence a little more heroic.
But the "stale smell" of darkness won't end soon, unless we end it, but the primary focus, was to figure out why that rock was so important to Heidi, and find Fantina of course, she can, handle herself but, something didn't feel right. "Hey Lance, remember that lady, or Fantina, I mean, where I'd she go? You never told me..." Lyra muttered, however it was peculiar that she mentioned it while thinking of it momentarily. "Well, I as just thinking about her, but I she did go off to another island, but I forgot which one... she's supposed to be back, though" Lance replied, holding his chin.
"Well maybe she will come back, we can't just stand around..." She said subjecting the conversation. But yeah, she was right, we couldn't stand around and wait, I didn't know what she was looking for, but hopefully she found it so we can get going. "Well where should we head to?" Lyra asked. "I don't know, our only hope is this island, because everything happened here..." Lance replied, and it was good, neither of us wanted to get lost in the oceans and in the fog, it almost happened to the both of us.
The exit of the center, was an automatic door, that we had to force open, to a really wet stretch of land, it didn't seem fair to Lyra and her small shoes. "Uuuh, I don't feel like getting my shoes wet..." Lyra said, getting icked' at the dirty water. "I can carry you, you can ask for anything..." Heidi suggested to her "Except for the nick-nacks I'm not that type". Lyra giggled and climbed on her, she was balancing on the dry land, Lance shrugged and walked through with his boots.
"I haven't seen Aero out yet, is he good?. Lyra asked again. "Yeah he's fine, just knocked out cold from something, he will proboly be better soon" Lance answered, making her turn to what was ahead of them. "Whats a better idea is to take to the air, and find what's above, the fog is slightly exiting..." Heidi suggested. Lyra nodded and they both waved as the air lifted from above. "Chuckbabuck!" Cried some sort of Pokemon. "Huh?" Lyra thought looking around. "Hey! Uh you! Your Lyra right?" Said someone in the distance. "Yeah? Who are you?" She replied. And out of the fog came someone.
"It's me Gavin one of the bird brother trio, I have been looking for you!" He said, she looked at him, and noticed, Heidi was looking the other way. "Yeah! Why?!" She yelled back. Gavin noticed she was riding something with a glee he wanted. "Huge ride you got there, since uh, when you get that!" He asked, confusing her why he wasn't scared from this huge dragon.
Lyra could feel Heidi enter her mind. "Why isn't he scared of me? The connection is clear" Heidi thought. "I don't know, maybe he likes a sweet ride, but everything shouldn't be scared of you?" Lyra replied, Heidi's face expression didn't change though. "I guess I'm in my own moral dilemma..." She thought making her frown. "Well, yeah not long ago though but what's wrong?" She asked again. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a paper.
"I found this floating in the water, there is obviously a paper inside..." He said replying to her. He flew closer to her, and handed it to her. "Well I have to go and clean up the island, it's ruined." He said, stopping her thoughts. "Alright well maybe see you again." She said, making him close his eyes. "Well it's up to you, but I need to leave before something else happens, alright." Gavin said ending the convorsation, leaving into the fog. After, Lyra read the paper, only to be astonished by the memo. "Fantina, I sware I remember... Oh! She was that lady on Lance's camera, alright..." She muttered.
"Wait what? But why leave, and without her?" She muttered to herself. "What do you think Heidi?" She asked. Heidi looked at her with one head and sighed. "I don't know, but maybe she knows best, let's find Lance..." She said, flying down through the fog back on the lonely island. "One red dot should be easy to find." Lyra whispered to herself. "Uhm, what do you mean by one red dot?" Heidi asked hesitantly. "No, no,no I wasn't referencing blood, but Lance's hair haha." Lyra said laughing awkwardly, making Heidi huff. She wasn't thinking of that anyway.
But once I told Lance, he instantly shivered and told us we needed to go back to Olivine or Vermillions's docks and didn't matter what dock it was, but it was weird it was like he comment possesed him, and needed to be done. But how do we get back, do we just fly there or what? I guess we had to, and we did just that, but either way, I was eager to get off. And was Lance cowering from this, was this what he was afraid of? I hope not...
(Much hours later)
We had landed in the forest with Aero and Heidi breathing, not hard but they were bickering. "Can't even carry your own weight? Shame..." Aero muttered, still breathing. "Whatever little boy, the bigger the better..." Heidi said making him angrier. "Thats what everyone says, your delusional..." Aero insulted again. The other two were sitting criss cross watching the battle of words, on the hill overlooking Vermilion. "Insult all you want but your wings look to small to carry yourself..." Heidi rebeled back, he got angry, "now you asked for it!" Aero shouted landing on top of her barely pinning her down.
"Oh look you picked a fight, you can't finish!" Heidi said chuckling, capsizing him and holding him down with her three heads, but she stared into his eyes widely and he was struggling. "Uuh any longer, you can get off can you?" He said getting angry. And she puffed smoke all him and he started coughing, "You, stupid hag" Aero said Aero gagging from her smoke. They all laughed as Aero was struggling to breathe from her burst of smoke.
"Gee Heidi, your gonna give him bronchitis" Lance said still laughing. "Rr I still think I'm fine, but that's the last time that oafs, will be on me" He said wiping off his shoulders, huffing at her. She was still laughing, at his gray stained face. "Hehe, hope that will stain your throat for awhile, your insults are getting boring..." Heidi knicked at him. He ignored her. Everyone stopped laughing and got into all the seriousness.
"Ok Heidi, you need to return because, well, you know, sorry" Lyra said holding out her ball. "Its fine, i get it, it's not worth exposing all of me to everyone yet is it? Or, will it always be like this?" Heidi asked frowning from her main head. Lyra lifted her hand to Heidis main head and comforted her. "No honey, it won't always, but for now some adjustments have to be made, I'm sorry, though." Lyra answered. Heidi's frown lifted a little bit, but not entirely.
And they went on, packing up finding some answers to why those islands, were, those islands and where is Fantina? They didn't know. However the city was much different than what Lance thought to the last time he was there, except some of the grounds were still not prepared. Apart from that, nothing but aesthetics changed. It was morning, so checking into the center isn't worth it. As the two were thinking a thought pooped into Lance's head.
"You know what is closest to Vermilion and kinda relates to what happened at the islands?" He said making her guess. "What?" She asked seconds later. "There is, a place called Lavender town near here, and it has a big history of ghosts and what we experienced at the Sevii's was full of ghosts and witches and wizards... Maybe the channelers can tell us what really happened..." Lance stated wholely. Lyra did agree on the idea, but it seemed redundant for the fact that they had to visit another creepy place.
"Lance, visiting another creepy town is not worthing my idea for staying calm, island or not... We need to relax somewhere, please?" Lyra complained in an angry tone, but they needed to relax, and wait, Maybe watch the news or stroll around the docks, enough traveling was enough. "So how about checking into that hotel room, it seems like a good choice isn't it?..." Lyra said, making him give up for now. "Sure I guess," Lance replied. And that was when the walked back into the city.
They found the hotel near the center, two stories tall, and small but it looked neat and had neat rooms from the looks. They went inside a empty room with a sleeping cleric, and it was plain silent, silence was too much to handle at the point. "Uhmm hello, you there?" Lyra called out, tapping him. "I don't care, take a key..." He said unwillingly tossing a key at them, and speaking with a drowsy voice, with him falling asleep back on the table. Lance shrugged as maybe this was how it works but he knew what they wanted, however.
"Weird guy, doesent matter though, let's just find this room... second story, room A1, let's go" Lance instructed pathing them to the room. Nowone was around, the halls, lit nearly and no signs of anyone checked in. It was like they were a curse, wherever the two went, odd things would happen, but it's all just coincidental, perhaps. And there was the room, light on in there but it was alone. Aero burst out of his ball, still gagging a bit.
"Separate rooms huh? Good tell Lyra to sleep over there, I'm not in the mood to deal with that menace" Aero muttered to Lance, laying on the floor sighing. "What he say?" Lyra asked. Lance looked at Aero and back to Lyta laughing. "Well it's he fact that, we have separate rooms so that means Heidi can stay as far away from him as possible haha." Lance replied, making her laugh as well. "Well, dragons usually are defensive and snarky when near other dragons so..." Lance added, she nodded as the exited into her suite and layed down.
It was a perfect time to relax, after staying up 4 nights in a row on that island, was something to not go through, again. "Lyra, I'd you want to sleep, that's fine, but I'm going to watch the news and see recent alerts..." Lance said quietly. She didn't say anything though, she was asleep. The living room was small, but two red couches stood symmetricaly from eachother overlooking the TV, and he sat down looking into he blank screen, were we wasting time? What really happened back there? It was all to much of a blur...
But he let it all go and turned on the TV which, was conveniently already on the news channel and nothing streaming was on point of interest and was all gobbledygook. It was all blah blah blah, blah blah, nothing interesting, blah blah blah, nothing, nothing blah blah blah, blah, blah... blah... blaaaaaa...
(Hours later)
'Dont touch the Stone' 'dont touch the Stone' 'dont touch the Stone' 'touch the orb not the Stone'... 'He shall not have it'. "Waugh!" He yelled. Filling the silent room with noise, surprisingly not waking up Lyra. "Oh, did I fall asleep without even watching, but what a dream, though..." He muttered wiping off his forehead. It was time to actually watch the TV and not my mind. It was odd that I fell asleep watching it anyways...
I thought about how I kept going on and on, that we needed to hurry to Lavender Town, but it was time to sit down and think about what they have just been through. Legendaries cannot breed nor Pokemon in general can breed another species than the two in the process, but it was hard to believe Heidi was lying, but then her traits are beyond the dimension of any normal Pokemon, but that is still an unconditional thought to save for later...
But what also was on the mind was that was the devil himself really her father? Again another question I'll find out later, and who was her mother, no-one knew, they still thought it could have been a doing of the Pokemon god, or just a plain genetic mutation of some sort. It was not worth worrying about anything else since we already have so many things to worry about right now.
"Lance! It's 3! We should head out X by the way have you seen anything on the news?" Lyra yelled waking him a little, he rubbed his eyes and turned to her door. "A little, but it's nothing related, and what do you mean by leaving? Leaving the hotel room?" He responded. "No! I mean leave to those docks, and explore a little, it's nice here and I like it.." She said quietly. "Sure I guess, I'm in thought but sure..." He responded once again, Lyra didn't respond.
"Let's leave in 10 minutes, you might just take a shower at least, your sweaty in general..." She shouted. "Well thanks mom, I'm pretty sure I grew years ago..." Lance said sarcastically, he rolled his eyes as well. "Whatever, just a suggestion." She shouted again, with no response. Later they finally exited the hotel, and readied for the next route, and explored the docks. "Hey have you got boats returning from the Sevii islands at all!" "Hey, any boats returning... "when was the last return!". They all kept asking the questions and no reliable answers...
"Lance this won't work, these people are clueless, let's spend 1 more day in that hotel and we are moving on alright?" Lyra said sighing a bit. "Makes sense well find another source... The sun is setting, now." He responded. They left alone like the questions behind and huddled themselves into the room once again.
However, nothing special would happen here, the people were weird and clueless, nothing helped staying in there. But they finally left, headed towards the huge docks leading to Lavender Town. During that whole time they refused every battle request and tilted their heads down, the route entrance was near the grass maze was excessive and full of every Normal Type you can think of. Heidi kept shaking her ball trying to come out, but scaring little kids and being accused of hosting a monster on my team wasn't so much of something I wanted to deal with.
They made it to the route entrance with the docks straight ahead of them. "Lance where did you begin your journey? What was it like? Who was your first partner?" Lyra asked. He sighed and smiled at her, it was a lot to tell. "Well that's alot for a story but, I started in Blackthorn City, where the rest of my family has been born in of course it was quiet, until Claire came around, she tore it up. But my first was, guess it, Aero, I didn't give him a name until he was a Dragonite because he grew so fast, but I got him from the Elder in the Dragons Den, I was really special, and the morals I knew were great, the Elder was Impressed greatly, and he told I would grow up to be one of a kind, so he gave me a Dratini which only people with much knowledge would get for a present" Lance said, stopping for awhile thinking about those times.
"Well my journey was not revolved around navigating the reigon like yours, but I would hop around anywhere I needed to go, but I realized that how much I as able to bond with Dragon Type, because it's aura my family generates, so like it was clear as day to everyone else, I was astonished how much Fairy Types or Steel would have none of interest, and whoever my training was slow, and it didn't mean I still had Erin's for my family to do. It was just how I as born..." Lance said finished for the time being... "Well what else?" Lyra asked again. "Well there is alot more, but we should pay attention a little more from what's around us alright?" He answered. Lyra nodded and turned right again going throgh the huge set of docks.
The fisherman were rogue, every once in awhile Gyrados would be decking water and Hyper Beaming eachother, it was a crazy sight. I could feel Heidi entery mind again. "huh you call that crazy, you realize I can take on all these Gyarados by myself and win either way?" She responded. Obviously it was some sort of snotty response, she would make. "I'm pretty sure you can anyway but getting competitive over these docks is somthing not worth it alright?" She responded, sighing from whatever.
Lyra's hugest concern, was that these docks were soemhow still in place, even still when these crazy battles take place, nowone seemed to care, who gives since it was only her. "So, uhh how much longer till we get there?" Lyra asked, trying to not to sound all distraught. "It's not much farther, should be at the end of these docks." He replied, still walkign across the wood that doesent seem to tremble like it would seem to anyway. "No worries, the terrian really is not hard to navigate here, except for Mount Silver, but anything else seems, anything for ameatures." He said, wakign her up. "You kinda forgot Mount Moon, but whatever" She added, everyone was silent after that.
It was not until later, they found Lavender town, the trip to there was mundane and nothing but a bunch of twists and turns, but a tireing trip, isn't perfectly welcomed by a creepy town they knew of anyway. "Thanks, I sure love these places!" Lyra chirped sarcastically, Lance turned his head from the tower to her. "We were supposed to come here anyway, whats the big deal?" He said trying to silence her, the town was quiet, but it the type of quiet where it seemed peaceful, not erie... But thats what Lance thought to himself. "So, checking in, or are we going to be here for awhile?" Lyra asked again, she was eager to get back inside for sure... "Yes, soon, but we have too looka round first alright?" He asked, expecting a yes either way.
"Sure... I guess..." She responded. Lance nodded and led them towards the tower, which overlooked the town, causing a shadow to fragment anyone inside of it. The entrance was very small for the size of the building, but the stairs were spooky and somewhat impressive otherwise. Inside were more people than any hanging out in the town, was this a place everyone wanted to visit, something told me I, should, not... go upstairs, why do we need to be here anyways? People were crying and the amount of whispers I could hear upstairs was like a demonic possestion, I really wanted to get out. "Ok, we'll have to go and just bust the next flgihts of stairs!" Lance said trying to get her pumped. "Really, I'm notexcited for this place, seriously what is it?!" She questioned angrily hugging her purse. "You'll see, come hither..." He said walking along, and it was a, 'wait for me!', so Lyra didn't wan't to be left alone, though.
"Seriously, why are we here? Let's just leave Ok?!" She said taping him annoyingly trying to change his mind. "Well, it's creepy everywhere else, so what do you have at this point?" He responded. It was true, everywhere else was creepy, and either way, both of them didn't like it. The floors were moldy and green, the purple shimmered like crazy. "Oh my, Lance are you kidding me? This is a cemetery, of all places, they proboly worship and sacrifice death here, I have already had enough.." She said angrily trying to be quiet and much a possible. "Really? This is the third level and seriously we still have many more?" He replied confused, he have not even been through much, really! They really haven't even been through the true parts of the tower. "We are here, too; talk to the channelers, not go back and find nothing worth anywhere..." He said trying to resolve the problem.
Their footsteps echoed through the level and nothing of any voice came back. "Is it me, or is something, "swallowing" our sounds?" She asked holding his shoulder. "I don't know, it might be the Ghost Pokemon playing tricks on us, however they might hurt us, but you know who might send this tower collapsing down..." He said. Lyra looked back and hit him. "Keep that up, they might just send it collapsing down on us, and she has no filter..." She said trying to shush him, "But still, they aren't that paranoid, we still have 5 more levels..." He said trying to quiet her as well. "Besides, the ghost Pokemon here are rather peaceful, but they do like pranking you ever so often." Lance spoke still trying to shush her.
Afterwards she could then hear the sounds coming back to her, it was like the "invisible barrier" was depleted or gone behind them. Lyra didn't feel like pointing it out since it was obvious enough. But that wasn't all that changed, it seemed more than Lance was ignoring everything happening than Lyra pointing out everything, hopefully he did want to get out of there. "Lance, I don't want to point out another single thing, but do you hear whispers, I can feel as if it is chanting, or repeating itself? be honest, do you hear it too?!" She said getting louder he turned back shushing her again. "Yes I can, but do tyou want to rid of this, get back in town, settle down? We can take all our time in here if you want to" He said trying really make her quiet. "Just be quiet for now, hold my hand now, its getting foggier, it shouldnt be foggy in here anyways..." He added again. She turned around, he was holding his hand out, walking in front of her still looking ahead of them. She looked down and saw comfort. She gradually took his hand as the fog semmed to deteriorate, anything around them, they didn't want it to happen again. Upcoming, was something mysterious, it seemed as if it wanted the fog to back off, a calming blue light, very natural however, still pleasing. "I'm afraid you are going to ask, but I don't know what that is, but very wierd things still happen here in this tower, it might be a cleansing floor gram..." He said walking faster towards the diagram imrpinted in the ground. "Also, we are not standing here for a few minutes to rethink everything and rest..." He said making her puff with anger. 'Well damnit I get it, but seriously it would be nice." She responded rolling her eyes.
Obviously, the higher up, the foggier it got, the fog wouldn't give up, she could hear the chanting ahead, becoming weeping, not sadness but worship, it didn't seem unfriendly. "One more level and I think we should be at the top alright?" He said turning around looking at her. "Sure, good thing anyways." She responded, he said no more and kept walking. "Well, I hope you know where we are going because this fog is so thick I think I can just slice it, but really, I can't see anything..." She muttered, gripping him tighter. "Its fine! We are almost there, just hold on a little bit longer alright?" He said, trying to comfort her again. He did undertsand she didn't like it here, but it was the fact that everything happening around her couldn't be focused on at the same time, he wouldn't acknowledge it, though. And it was there, the final set of stairs, he loked back at her, with his unclear face from the fog, the stairs were not there, how could he know where to go with all of this fog? "Here we are, and I think the fog is drifting away..." He whispered again, for the first time ever in the tower.
And it did, the fog finally lifted, it was satisfying to see it deplete for a little while until they had to go back down. "Can we just ride Aero, or something and not back down through all that fog, it's a little too much and I am hearing so many noises, and I don't like it" She complained again, still trying to get his attention. "Yes, we may, hopefully Aero can fly through clouds, he shouldn't have a problem" He responded, satisfying her, but not completely with a bitter taste. "We are above the clouds?! You, could have told me that, but you know, my ear drums were bulging a little bit, but..." She sarcasticlly thanked him turning away. But she halted as she found a group of five, red and white clothed women, with black hair and bandanas around their head. The group were surrounded by a candlestick chanting things, solving Lyra's "hearing problem".
"Ok, so what do we do? Just go up to them?" She asked, crossing her arms. "Well, I don't know what else, so pretty much..." he muttered. It was sure a long corridor to them, it felt longer than it looked, it was like their field of vision got stronger the closer we got to them. But no matter what, they still came closer. As they were closest for them to hear their footsteps the closest held up a hand, and they stopped. "What may you disturb our session for, end it please Demetrius. And so, the man snuffed the candles with powder and spoke. After, they all stared at the two with their hoods over their eyes, seeming weird. "Well we would like to know if the spirits know anything about the Specter's, and anything important about him..." Lance muttered trying to his best to, speak like they would understand him.
They all whispered quietly to eachother and all looking back at the both of them. "We can feel pressure of him on you two, and there is signs of descendance on her, but it feels natural somehow, but do you think he is causing unbalance in this world? We are on one side, but that is for you to find out." The women muttered, not finishing "however, the guardians say, he won't make contact with us, so it's not our bother" she finished. "But, we will give hints for you guys and may you examine them well" One other said leaving 2 left to finish the convorsation. "The Specter's ideals are to perfect the distraught the Alpha has caused." The other spoke. Lyra was going to say something but Lance covered her mouth before she said anything. "Last of all, he might want something your hunting for, and someone for it, you have to get it, first, if you want to stop him." Another spoke, the channelers all turned to the last person to finish the meeting. "We shall continue our session with the spirits, may you leave at once." The last one spoke, as they all turned around to ignore the two. And as expected, they left the hallway.
"Well we need to fly Aero down, because I'm not going to go through that, again." Lyra said hesitantly, shaking a bit. She looked down the hole in the wall and quickly pulled her head out. "I never knew we were this high? All that time in the fog I guess...". She said under her breath. "I guess so, but let's go since you want to." He spoke, finishing the conversation. So they let out Aero, boarded him, and flew down for a long ways. It was night when we landed. "Night that fast? That was quick..." Lyra remarked, looking down. "Well I think it's about time to go to bed." Lance replied, making her nod as well. Why was everything going to quick?
"Alright, just another double room suite please." Lyra asked, the clerk, she nodded without saying a word and hand-out the key to her, and shrugged at him. "Well, they are pretty quiet as well, it's her job to talk quite a bit anyway." She said looking at Lance. "Well, it's a quiet town and we can't really do anything about it so..." He replied. It was quiet, but peaceful yet creepy, it felt just real ambient, just something impending felt real to happen. But it was nothing to worry about at the minute. And the room we got was bright purple, the halls were as well, just purple and white stripped walls, it felt fine to stay in the inn.
Heidi enjoyed being out of her ball, she didn't like it much, Meg decided to sleep with her, Lyra loved it when Meg as out because, she would make the whole room smell delightful, it was good smelling the scent from all that happened today. The rest of the night was peaceful which was all I needed to end the day...
(11 hours later)
She could feel that she was being shaken again, softly. "Hey kid, it's late, we should head out, you slept in too much" Lance spoke to her. "Not now, it's been awhile, and I'm not really a kid anymore..." She responded, making him walk away, giving up. She hid herself under the covers again, meanwhile is was time to make breakfast, he didn't mind though, they haven't ate breakfast for awhile, of course the suite had a kitchen in it which was perfect. And he made up his mind that they would rest for awhile.
"Alright, pancakes, eggs and Moo Moo Milk, if you want it you want it you gotta get up!" Lance yelled at her room, no response, though. "Well, if it's just me then alright..." He said to himself, sitting down on the sofa with the coffee table. A little while later, he could hear her groan behind him. "Well, I did have a feeling you didn't want to miss this." He looked behind and spoke to her. " I really didn't, and thanks to you, but didn't have to if you didn't want to?" She said wiping her eyes and looking around.
"No big deal, it's out right now, so, help yourself really." He said smiling at her. She chuckled and served herself at the kitchen. The both of them sat down, thinking about the hard to conclude statements the channelers said, it was nothing to group-discuss at the minute. The town somehow had an absence of light and was always gloomy, but somehow the light shining in through the window seemed like a promising or a symbol of some sort meaning luck, it seemed hard to describe. But it only meant that everything from here on out would be just fine. But soon the light faded. However, a lost soul in London seemed perfect somehow...
Aside from the weird occurrence Lance had an idea. "I have an idea, you know how that stone looked like the inside of that magma chamber?" he asked, looking straight at her. "Well I was not there, but if Heidi was she might know... she wanted it the most from what I have heard." She responded. " Well it did look like a Magma Stone if I can remember, the last time I was in Sinnoh I aw a replica of one, and they seem alike." He said holding a fist to his chin. "Oh yeah, I heard of those, Grattan guard them inside of Mountains with flowing magma, they allow them to control continents, them being a host." She said smiling hesitantly blurting out instantly.
"Right, but Heidi still won't tell us why she was defending it so harshly, it either means we take it back or keep it away form her." He added. Lyra looked down at the ground and remembered something else substantial. "You know, I think that paper in that bottle, did not really feel like any sort of paper there was something more substantial about it, but I couldn't feel why," Lyra said making a tilted face expression. "I know what you mean, I guarantee she was abducted, nowone was anywhere on the island, she can handle herself fine, but something we can't guess of yet, really has done something to have concern over, but really keep an eye out..." he guessed asking her unsurely.
"Makes sense, but we should concentrate on what we know of, let's not run around on glass fragments until we really run out of time..." She added as well, making Lance laugh. And after all that thinking, it was time to head out. "So where should we head to?" Lyra asked. Lance immediately knew anyway. "Pewter City, if any place here in Kanto knows anything about rocks, it's there" Lance stated, concluding the convorsation. "Alright, pack up everything and I'll explore the town a little," Lyra asked. Lance sighed, yet he nodded anyways. She left out the door, leaving the room to him.
He groaned again. Looking around the room, it would definitely be awhile until this was done. Late, that hour, Lyra looked into her bag and remembered, that random sound Macho found inside that creepy cave, it was still in her bag, she hasn't used it and what was the point of it? "Oh well, won't you look at that!" Someone said right behind her, she shivered and looked behind her to see an old man. "Oh sorry if I scared you, but what stone do you have there?" He asked again. "Well uh, my Pokemon found this on an island, and I don't know what this is?" She responded anyway. He smiled at looked at the Stone. "Oh let me apologize, my name is Mr. Fuji, but I own the Pokemon clinic near here. If you want to know what your stone is, I suggest you follow me to there." He replied chuckling at the same time.
She shrugged and did so. "What might your name be, I know yourPokemon found that for a reason. "Well my name's Lyra, but he just took me on an all-nighter, trying to find this stone and took mr through all these creepy places to find it, but it looks cool though?" She replied infering a question hesitantly. "Well he must be adventurous but here we are, this is my lab. I keep some stones like yours here." He said looking into the room. He walked up towards the shell looking up and taking a box off. He held it in front of her. "So, what you have, is a mega stone, believe it or not, it improves the capabilities of your Pokemon greatly, but you need a bracelet, specially crafted to hold it. I never seen the one you have now, so it must be rare" He said concluding to her. She looked at the stones with glee.
"No way, it looks like mine, so he did do something for a reason haha." She said laughing quietly wiping her head. Mr Fuji laughed as well. "Very much so, however you can only connect, one at a time, so it's a little limited, but your Pokemon will have potential." He said throwing his hands up smiling. "Wow thanks, I doubt I would have figured this out myself, thanks lots." She said, "but, where can i find a bracelet." She asked as well. He lead her towards the other end of the room. "Right here, I'm doing this to help the world improve knowledge to improve another." He responded. He shuffled throughout the case and sighed. "Here we go, this one should fit well, it looks just like a bracelet and matches you!" He suggested smiling as well.
"Oh my, this looks great, I'll take it with gratitude." She said. "He put it in her hand, and smiled. "I have work to do, so if you want to look around the labs you may, thanks or attending me with this, I very do appreciate educating others to start a spread of new ideas."he said finishing, walking out of the room. "That's awesome, i definately needed this." She muttered to herself. But Lance could ha e already been outside, it was time to make him jealous she thought to herself. "It wasn't much of a mess, he should be done right a about now." She muttered chuckling too. "Anyway, it's about time find me some new, oh never mind." She said stopping thinking before. This place proboly wouldn't even have anything related to shopping anyway she thought to herself, rolling her eyes litteraly.
For the next while, she spent her last minutes waiting for Lance inside the hotel lobby, she was cuddling with Toki. Examining her bracelet, it felt like anything normal, it was perfect, it would be a little picky to thing anything metal would be out of place co pared to everything on her. Toki kept smiling at her watching her trying to figure out how to operate the Stone. "I guess so might just need Macho out if I want to operate this..." Lyra muttered to herself again. She kept looking around the empty lobby, tirelessly waiting for Lance until he actually showed up.
"Hey kid, next time you leave your room you should clean it up moderately at least, the room service isn't responsible for every mess we created. They do the "mundane's"." He called out to her, sighing too. "Gee, well most of it was yours anyway haha." She responded, brushing away the situation. "I'm too tired to care, what's up?" He asked changing the subject. "Well, while I as out there, I found myself something that might make you cringe. He looked at her with his eyes half way open. "What?" He asked sarcastically trying to be enthusiastic. She rolled her eyes, "Well say what you want but, the Stone Macho found, is a Mega stone which enhances Pokemons stamina and capabilities, some man who looks like he researches them, gave be a holder and some advice." She responded, waking him lift an eyebrow a little.
"Well that's great, but yeah, I have heard of them and they are hard to find, so maybe him dragging you through all of that as a worth it slightly was it?" He said looking at her. "Well it sure was annoying, but yeah I will say it was worth it..." She responded again. He smiled and he got up, she got too, calling in Toki, and leaving the lobby. "So to get to Pewter, is ether, hike over a huge mountain or walk through darkness inside then to Cerulean and through Mount Moon or hike it and another route and well be there. Another option is to go to saffron, through the underground path to Cerulean then repeat what I said about Mount Moon earlier" He direction trying to route a path to go.
"Well the hiking route seems short but hard, but it's long to go the easy way, I'll vote the hiking way." She suggested. "Well I have no problem with such, so hike away it is..." He agreed slightly. "Let's go before it gets dark alright, we don't have much time to waste." Lance commented, snorting between. She nodded and the walk out of the town wasn't too hard though, but it was just a warm-up compared to what is up next. A little while later, they found themselves to the entrance of the Rocky Tunnel. "Alright, so either we either navigate those dark tunnels or we hike along the pathway somewhere around here, what-do-you-say?" He asked holding his hands out to the cave entrance ahead of them. "Well, I don't know what you have in mind but, I'd rather hike it instead, I really don't want to get lost anyway." She responded. "Well neither do I have plans, so, hiking will be fine." He said ending the subject.
They started to inspect the area to see any traces of steps, but it was quite easily found. "Hey Lance, over here! These look very raggedy and weathered but they still look climbable, just come on!" She said impatiently trying to hurry him up. "Fast as always..." He muttered to himself. "Also, don't expect these stairs to go any further, these people must really not have any time on their hands aside from praying for souls, either way were going to have to mark out a path for ourselves." He added. She turned back to him and shrugged. "Well hiking really doesen't involve much trail anywhere, so what you would you expect. "Well sure, i'm justing telling you incase you don't know." He assured. She popped her tongue at him. "You must be really tired from what happened last night?" She asked angrily. "Well gee, if I had a little help to clean up everything, then it would have been a little start." He answered making her roll her eyes. "For now let us focus on being a little more positive, that town was sucking my sanity, really i'm a litle glad to be outta there" He said trying to change the subject. "Well fine with me, but I guess you were right, I didn't feel like myself much there." She agreed as well.
For the rest of the walk, the stairs did eventually end but it didn't matter, she had to keep it to herself. It was nothing but clear skies and hiking so long it felt like their demise. "It's hot, got water?" She asked. He looked inside his bag to see. "Well, it is water but, it's hot as well, sorry though." He answered. She laughed quietly and looked down and the ground. "sorry though, it's kinda all I got, you might as well drink it?!" He said offering the water to her. She took it drinked it with sweat rolling down her face. "It's okay, but was not too hot to drink, take it anyways. Thanks though..." She said thanking him. He put the water back in the bag and they continued. "How much longer till' this is over, or at least we are off of the mountain?" She asked. He looked at the map folded up and frowned. "Sorry, but just another 4 miles, we have been on it for maybe 3, trst me, not much longer." Lance assured.
"Cannot we fly Aero or something, he and Heidi wouldn't mind would they?" Lyra asked, really not a difficulty question, though. "Yeah we can do that, I guess." He answered scratching his chin, though. And the next minute Lyra was on Heidi, quicker than Cinccino running through the woods. "We can race if you want hehe." She said challenging him, chuckling too. "Well, I guess I wouldn't mind. Lance started to run, thrust' out Aero and took off faster than Lyra could react. "Jerk, come on show him what you got!" Lyra snapped. "I am on it!" Heidi answered taking off as well.
"Of course, he takes off, what a kid." Lyra muttered, Heidi barely hearing it from the loud rush of the wind. "Well it is also your fault sicne you can't react that well" Heidi added. "But i'm not defending him, things don't always have to be straight-forward-fair." "Well you kind of are right, but this is reallly, Lance. Months before I challanged him, ever sicne the day I met him, he was trying his best not be himself, I don't know why, but it was a problem of his to stand out of the crowd. "And ever since I beat him, it was like he sighed out every back bone of stress he was holding, maybe it was good to beat him, since he really needed it mentally." she spoke, stopping for a minute to annunciate. "Well, he luckily did stop all the strangeness once I left for Kanto" She added, ending the story.
"Well, that is great, but he sure does look like hes having fun" Heidi added. "He sure does, i'm glad he is taking a break, it took alot of motivation to persuade him, really" Lyra muttered, sighing. "Im sure he is fine on his own now, as he did tell me you helping him take out a gang of thugs." She said looking at her with her right head. "Well that's a story for another day.." Lyra snapped. "Oh god, look hot slow your going, go, before I have to hear him laugh at me!" Lyra complained. "Whatever I guess." Heidi muttered. She hit it and the two were out of there.
(Later at Cerulean)
"Hah, you were so later, it was beyond my guess!" Lance tried to instigate. "Whatever, keep trying, it won't damn work." She remarked sticking her tongue at him. "You should know, that Aero might look a weak flyer but, you have already seen him in action haven't you." He stated again. She looked at him and gave him a disgusted look. "Alright... well if your going to believe the Pokedex, you should consider that, each Pokemon has qualities of their own." She protested him. He rolled his eyes, "I know evrything in there can be nonsense, but you know Aero is the real deal." He suggested. "Keep that up, your going to get people on their black market buying him from you." She spoke sarcastically. "I don't know what your hinting at, but people have tried to steal him and buy him, but you can guess how that ended." He responded. Lyra shrugged and looked at the small city with the overlook where she was before ahead of her. All of a sudden she gasped and elbowed Lance. "What?!" He defended, a little angry, but realized and gasped himself. "Yeah, we got a crowd let's uh, go..." She said hurried. And thus, the crows proceeded to follow the two.
Authors Note: Ok, alright, I am really sorry for the one month of nothing but silence. Really, I must have forgotten about typing this, because trust me, I could have got this done in like, 2 weeks without even trying. So, I really am not gone and will be forever gone, I just have forgotten somehow. And trust me, I like typing these things but, something is up with me that's for sure.
Aside from all of that, life is okay and nothing will be obstructing my path from finishing this story, and I will finish this, I'll promise you! So my laptop has stopped crashing finally, I definitely would not have this done by now, if it still had it's crashing problem. Ill try and get it fixed so it won't happen again. Other than that, I really don't have many other updates. There might be references and allusions to other texts or media, so it's for people to understand my text better. So yeah this whole chapter is 10,000 words, I did it lol! And last of all, I will get chapter eleven out by next week, please count on it!