Starsea: And we're back! This chapter's a little short, but it came out pretty fast, huh?

Sunny: Wow . . . this is amazing!

Storm: *Points* What's that?

Starsea: *Looks up* It's probably a character from a Wizard of Oz fanfiction. See how they're riding the broom?

Sage: Maybe it's Harry Potter?

Starsea: Maybe . . . *Looks back at the outside of the Writing Room* Huh . . . Maybe it's a little smaller on the outside. I don't know if it counts as a TARDIS, though. I don't think it can travel through time and space.

Sage: Maybe it will, though.

Sunny: Anyways, now that we're free, let's go ahead and reply to some reviews.

Starsea: First off, we have Mr.001! Yay! Thank you for liking the cliffhanger! And the longest chapter I have written so far . . .? Well, according to Fanfiction, the longest chapter for this story - which includes the intros and stuff - I believe is Chapter Eight, with 3,896 words.

Sunny: For all of her stories on Fanfiction, the longest chapter is in Twisted Tails. It's called, "Jade's Secret Revealed!" It has 4,977 words!

Starsea: I should finish writing those stories, too . . . By the way, for anyone who's been reading those two, my plan is to finish writing Twisted Tails, and I think I'm going to redo Unlikely Love. But I want to get further along in this story before I do that. I actually have a plot for this one!

Storm: Next review comes from Species Unknown! Er . . . IDT . . .? IUT . . .? Um . . . Sunny? Why don't you continue with this one?

Sunny: Eevees are incredibly cute! I love them so much, and I know that a lot of people love them!

Sage: Plot . . . Twist? Um . . .

Storm: *Laughs and points at Sage* I would love to see Sage as an Espeon! I know that would be amazing!

Sage: *Blushes* S-Starsea already has other things in mind for what's going to happen to me later on! Actually . . . *Grins* She has a lot of funny ideas to happen to-

Storm: MOVING ON! Garner4444! Starsea says thanks for letting her know about the errors! Quick question? Can I hit my head on a wall with you?

Starsea: The last review comes from Vulpix411! Aww . . . you have no idea how much these kind of reviews mean to me! *Self confidence boost!* I'll keep trying my best on these chapters! Thank you so much, Vulpix!

Storm: Now that we're done with that . . . KNOCKING ON DOORS, TIME!

Starsea: Wait! You can't just do that! Behind each door, is an author writing!

Storm: So?

Starsea: So, that means that you can't disturb them! The Writing Room is a place where authors can interact with their characters, interview them for their stories, figure out things about their personalities, and some authors don't even know that they have a place like this! You can't risk barging in on someone's Room who doesn't even know that they have a Room, you know?

Storm: Whatever . . . Let's go! *Runs off*

Starsea: Wait a second!

Sage: Don't leave me behind!

Sunny: Anyways, Starsea does not own Pokemon. She, technically, owns me. Storm and Sage were created and based off of two of her close friends. She owns Three Presents, which she based off of an idea the three had come up with a while back.

Sunny: Wait for me!


Chapter Twelve: Storm

"This isn't funny . . ." I mumbled to myself. I put my hand out in front of me, and waved it around the place that Sage disappeared.

"What the hell am I doing?" I asked to no one. I stopped waving my hand. "What just happened?"

I thought for a moment that Sage had just died, somehow. He was gone from the room, and that must've been impossible. But if I'd learned anything in the past couple of weeks, it was that what I was thinking was completely ridiculous.

A moment later, another light appeared behind me, and I turned around quickly, thinking that Sage had come back. Actually, Sunny had just changed back.

She yawned and sat up. She rubbed her eyes and asked, "What's up? What was that light?"

"Oh good," I said. "You're back."

She looked around Sage's room, obviously confused. She stood up. "How did we end up in here?" she asked.

I chuckled nervously. I rubbed my hands along my arms subconsciously. "Um . . . Well, I brought you over to Sage to see if we could see if he could help, you know?"

"Uh, huh . . ." she said, crossing her arms. "And?"

"A-And . . . He got his watch to work – I think."

Sunny blinked. "Where is he? How did he get it to do something?"

I thought for a second, and looked at the ground before answering, "I don't know, and . . . I don't know. He kind of just hit it a bunch of times."

"How do you not know where he is?" she asked. "He couldn't have just disappeared, right?"

I laughed for a second, and then nodded. "Yeah. Yes he could have. Crap . . ."

"What?" she asked in a surprised tone. "This is a joke, right?"

"No, it is not a joke. I feel like I'm having the same conversation twice . . ." I mumbled the last part under my breath.

She didn't speak, and I was pretty sure that she was going to try to kill me. My arms started doing their sparking-thing.

Instead of murdering me, she looked down at her watch. "You're saying that he just hit it, right?" she asked.

I frowned and nodded. "Basically. Wait . . . what happened to your arm?" I asked. I'd only just noticed, but her arm looked burned, and it was a little bloody. She looked down at it, confused.

"Huh," she said. "Um . . ."

"One second," I said. "Let's see . . . I wonder if he has anything in here . . ."

I opened up one of the drawers on his desk to see if he had any kind of bandage that would work. There wasn't any, so I checked the next one.

"He's not going to have . . . okay, you're kidding," she said, after I'd pulled out a roll of gauze.

"This is just starting to get ridiculous," I said. "What doesn't he have in this room?"

"I don't know. Just hand that to me," she said. I tossed her the gauze, and she quickly wrapped it around her arm.

"Was that from the Pokemon?" I asked her. She frowned, and I guessed that she'd forgotten.

". . . Yeah," she said after a second. "It was."

"It attacked you?! Why didn't you say that earlier?"

"Maybe it didn't exactly occur to me to mention that," she yelled at me. "I'd just had a very scary experience!"

I rolled my eyes, and then brought them back to the spot that Sage had been standing in just a few minutes earlier. "Anyways," I said, "why don't we focus on the most important thing at the moment: Sage just disappeared!"

Sunny frowned. "You're sure that he just vanished? You don't think he might be hiding, do you?"

"He's not hiding," I insisted. "There was a big flash of light, and then he was gone. You don't think he died, do you?" The last part came out a little more sarcastic than I wanted to, and I wished I hadn't even said a word.

Sunny visibly winced the moment that the words came out of my mouth. "You can shut up," she hissed, "and never say that again."

The way that she said it sent shivers down my spine. I opened my mouth to speak, but she just got up in my face.

"You. Can. Shut. Up." She enunciated every word so that I would understand. I gulped, and nodded my head.

"Good," she said, relaxing just a little bit. She was still on edge, though, so I didn't risk speaking. "We should probably wait to see if he'll show up before we do anything. If he doesn't, we'll go looking for him."

"Who put you in charge?" I asked. I said it in a joking way, but she didn't take it lightly.

"The second you suggested that Sage might be dead," she said, tensing up. "He is not dead, and we won't let him die. You can't say something like that about someone like it's no big deal."

"Fine," I said, crossing my arms defensively. "He's not dead, then."

Sunny nodded. "Good. And now, we wait."

She sat back down on Sage's bed and watched the spot I had been looking at.

The next five minutes were very awkward. There was no talking, no looking at each other . . . It was hell. I needed for there to be some kind of noise, but there would be no way we could talk without it becoming even more awkward than it already was.

I was desperate for something to happen. My mind went over to what Sunny said. I was just as worried as Sage as she was. I just handled myself in different ways. I didn't understand why people couldn't see that.

My thoughts were interrupted when I heard a knocking at the door. "Sage," she said, "does your friend want to have dinner with us?"

Sunny's eyes widened, and she gave me a panicked look that said, "What the hell do we do now?!"

I shook my head to show that I had no idea of what the answer to that would be. Sage's mom jiggled the doorknob, but thank God it was somehow locked.

"Sage?" she asked, a little more nervously. "Are you in there?"

Just when I thought that his mother was going to kick down the door, the bright light had come back, and with it, Sage.

He quickly fell down to his knees, clutching his stomach. "J-Just a second, mom!" he called out quickly.

"Okay, honey!" his mom said in a relieved tone, walking away from the door.

"Dude!" I whispered. "Are you okay? What happened?!"

He shook his head, then realized that that was not a good plan. He reached out for a small trash bin next to his desk, and proceeded to get rid of his lunch.

Sunny got down to Sage's level, and rubbed his back while he continued to be miserable.

"Gross . . ." I mumbled to myself while it was happening. Sunny glared at me, and at the same time, I felt what I guessed to be some kind of psychic energy hit me across my face.

"Ow!" I winced.

Sage seemed to be done throwing up. He coughed a few times. Sunny asked, "Are you alright?"

Sage nodded. He covered his mouth with his hand and mumbled, "That's embarrassing . . ."

"It's fine," Sunny said, but I couldn't help but agree with Sage internally. "Do you want to tell us what happened?"

He nodded again. "Yeah. But why don't I go get rid of this real quickly?" He stood up, and I noticed that his body was shaking.

"Do you want any help?" I asked.

"I'm fine," he said, unlocking the door. "I'll be back in a second."

He walked out of the room, and we waited for him to return.

"What do you think happened?" Sunny asked me.

"Well how am I supposed to know?" I asked.

"You saw more than I did!"

"And he saw more than me. Let's just wait." I made sure that the last part of my sentence was spoken clearly and precisely.

Sunny crossed her arms, and winced as she accidentally touched the gauze.

Sage came back into the room with a now clean waste basket. He tossed it back to where it was, and locked his door.

He walked over to where Sunny was, and took her wrist. He started to fiddle with her watch. "Okay," he said, mainly focused on moving different parts of the watch around, "so here's what happened . . ."


Sage: Did you have to make me throw up?

Starsea: Yes. I actually did.

Storm: Let's get this done with so that we can go look around some more! Mr.001, here is your smiley face! :-)

Starsea: Species Unknown, here is your emoticon! :-)

Sage: Garner4444, here's yours! :-)

Sunny: And Vulpix411, here's your smiley! :-)

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