Wow, I'm on a row today! Three Chapters in one day! Wow, this is fun! Ah, but I feel tired now, even though it's just 10:20 PM, so this is the last chapter for today and I hope I go extreme writer crazy some other time like today. :P Well, like I asked in the passed three chapters, please Read and Review. :D
Chapter 12: Cursed
Darry had to be careful now. This trainer Jill was a tough one. He had already gone through all of his Pokémon and they all fainted due to spikes left on the floor and the fact that he underestimated her Sneasel. Now it was his last chance to beat the now tired Sneasel, but even then he didn't know what other Pokémon Jill had. Everything was narrowed down to the last Pokémon for Darry; he didn't think his last Pokémon would win. It wasn't type disadvantage that got to him, his Medicham was doing a good job, it's just that his Medicham, Mede, wasn't that strong anymore. To think the battle started like he would win, eh?
"Sneasel, Beat Up!" yelled Jill, and not a second later, the small Sneasel ran all around Mede and just struck him with its claws once, and now one more hit would cause Darry to lose. He didn't know what to do, and the Sneasel was already jumping in the air for one last strike. It hit Mede in the head and Mede collapsed in defeat. "Mede, return!" called Darry getting his Pokémon back. He felt like he could've done better, but the point was that he tried.
"Great battle Jill," Darry called over to her. She smiled at him back and walked off. Darry sighed and wondered what next. Darry looked up at the ceiling for some reason just thinking about nothing until a ship employee walked over to him.
"Excuse me sir," he said through his mustache, "were ready for the next trainer battle, I'm goanna have to ask you to step aside." Darry listened and walked away from the arena, he was already about to exit the door when…
A small buzz noise came from the lighting on the ceiling. Many people looked up and saw the some lights start to flicker on and off. Children started to panic from the bleachers; Darry looked out the door and saw a few centered lights were beginning to flicker too. After a few moments of flickering lights, they all just completely turned off.
It was silent for a moment, and then many passengers started to talk loudly and started arguing over the lights out. It was way too dark; Darry couldn't even see his hand in front of him. He walked back into the arena and saw the once fighting trainers were taking out their fire types, or any type that gave light.
Something was wrong, Darry could feel it. It wasn't the thing that you felt when you get chills, this was something else entirely. Darry ran through the crowd leaving the bleachers trying to see where to go and bumped into someone.
"Oh," said Darry, "sorry sir, I didn't see"
"Hey," interrupted the person, "you're the guy I ran into behind the Pokémon Center earlier with that kid with the weird powers, aren't you?"
Darry looked through the darkness, and indeed, he saw the trainer that had been with his brother. "Didn't I tell you to go home, trainee?" asked Darry purposely trying to make him mad. Well, it worked.
"Just because you beat the Elite Four doesn't mean you have to refer to me like a kid! I've got four badges already!" he yelled. Darry rolled his eyes, luckily though, since it was dark, the other trainer didn't see him do that. "Who are you anyways?" Darry had to ask. The other trainer looked at him through the darkness and said, "Alex, you?"
"I'm Darry." Darry replied. Alex released a Pokémon, a Jolteon, and then got back to talking with Darry. "So, what's the story behind you and your brother, because I'm sure it's not the same trainer story."
Darry sighed. "I wish I could tell someone, but what happened between my brother and I is a very disturbing story." Alex chuckled, "aw come-on, can't be that disturbing."
Darry tried to remember what happen, and had the same flashbacks he always had. "I'll tell you a part of it, but it's not like your goanna believe me anyways." Alex raised an eyebrow, "try me."
Darry sighed again. "well, to tell you the truth, the most disturbing part is when I first saw my brother coming into my hotel room, he gave me my Pokédex, and without a word was about to leave. It was night, so I didn't think he should have left. I told him to stay, but he kept saying something bad was going to happen to him, that night when I awoke from my sleep…"
Crash! A noise came from the other room. It sounded like as if it was in the same hotel room, Darry immediately got his Pokéballs and walked next to the door. He tried to listen; there was a sound of dragging. What's going on?, wondered Darry.
Slowly he opened the door. Silence was all around the room. Darry looked around the big entrance; he had gotten a suite from his parents. Apparently they wanted their son to have one of the best Pokémon Journeys ever. "Hey," Darry called out, "Charley? Are you there?"
No reply. Darry went passed the entrance and into the room that Charley was in. Charley was gone. Darry went back to the main entrance and into the small kitchen there. He turned on the lights and saw nothing there. It was odd; he definitely heard something being dragged. He turned around and saw a shadow standing outside the balcony.
"Hey," called Darry, "Charley, what are you doing?" he walked over to him but stopped right before the glass door. Charley was holding something in his hand; Darry knew he didn't come in there with anything. Charley was holding some kind of stick. Darry opened the sliding door and stood right there. "What are you doing?"
Charley turned around and faced Darry. Darry got a shocked expression and fell on his back once he saw what Charley was carrying. It was a shotgun. Charley cocked it once; the used bullet fell out and was ready for usage. Then Charley aimed the gun at his own head.
"Charley don't!" yelled Darry. BAM!
"I can't tell you more," said Darry. Alex looked a bit shocked. He got rid of the look he had and tried to talk to Darry again. "But that doesn't explain why he has powers."
Darry walked passed him and his Jolteon. "It explains enough to me." He continued to walk away. Alex shrugged. "Are you buying this story Spark?" his jolteon gave shrug, and a few seconds later his Sableye came from the shadows.
"Ghost, did you find anything wrong with the ship?" asked Alex. The Sableye nodded its head. "Alright, lead the way." All of a sudden, the lights came right on. There were a lot of people there wondering about the sudden lights out. With the lights back on, Alex decided to follow the mysterious Darry character. "C'mon guys, let's go." His Jolteon and Sableye followed him as he left the room and went passed the hall. The lights turned on and off for awhile, then stayed on.
"Where did he go?" asked Alex. He turned around to face his two Pokémon, Jolteon who again shrugged, and then he turned to Sableye who was looking at the boys' restroom. "Ghost, what's wrong?" Ghost got out of his trance and pointed to the restroom. Alex walked up to it and pushed the door. A flood of water started to pour out.
"What the?" Alex was confused; he pushed the door open to see that there was water everywhere. The urine stalls were fine, but one of the toilet doors was open and broken leaking water. Alex slowly walked to the stall to get a closer look. He got close enough to see a girl standing over a guy, the guy that saved him from Team Magma.
The girl turned and looked at Alex. "Don't just stand there, get some help!" Alex was shocked to see a girl there. "Ghost and Spark, stay here and help her I'll be right back. What's wrong with him?" Alex asked. "He's bleeding to death, get help!" yelled the girl.
The trainer that had saved him earlier moved his eyes open. They were white all around it. A white glow started to dance around him, and the place where blood came out was healing. Alex could hear a bone crack inside the persons body, he heard him scream in pain through the white eyes. The door opened and Darry stepped in.
"What the hell happened in here?" he asked, and then spotted his brother on the floor. Darry leaned against the wall. "Oh god Charley," he said to himself. Darry went next to his brother getting his pants wet with toilet water and red blood.
Alex looked to the ceiling and saw smoke starting to form. "What's that?" he asked pointing. Darry turned to see the ceiling and was frozen for a moment shocked. He shook it away and yelled at Alex. "CALL YOUR POKEMON BACK NOW!" Alex was shocked by the sudden outbreak and returned his Pokémon.
Darry picked up Charley, which was kind of hard to imagine, and started to head to the door leaving the other two behind. "Don't follow, don't let any Pokémon get near him." With that said, he ran out of the restroom. Alex was still shocked; he turned his attention to the ceiling and saw the smoke start to form something.
"We got to get out of here now," said the girl, but Alex seemed to be hypnotized by the ghostly thing. "Damn it boy, listen to me! I've dealed with this thing before!" it started to form a face and Alex slipped down unable to move, too scared to move. Without warning, the girl started to drag Alex through the floor she pulled him to the other end where there was another door leading out. "Come-on, get up!" Alex had completely forgotten he dropped his Pokéballs.
The thing circled around his Sableye's Pokéball, surrounding it in a mist of grey. The Pokéball began to shake violently and after a few minutes, a soul-like mist that resembled Ghost came right out of it. The girl grabbed the Pokéball with the Jolteon in it and called it out.
"Jolt lt eon?" asked the Jolteon, but like Charley, the girl understood exactly what the Jolteon said. "What happened to him?"
"He can't move, that's what!" she yelled startling the Jolteon, "quick, Thundershock!"
"But"
"THUNDERSHOCK!"
Without a word, Zap gave out a Thundershock that shocked the whole room. "AH!" started yelling Alex. "Hurry, we got to get out of here, LOOK OUT!"
Too late, the smoke attacked Alex and pulled him to the ceiling, choking him. The girl and Zap could see Alex trying to breath and could do nothing but stare. Dark and grey smoke went around his neck and nose covering the wind from coming in. a bright light went through some of the smoke and around Alex. Then it let go.
Alex fell to the floor gasping for air, his Jolteon turned to fight the shadow, but in an instant, it disappeared. The girl, her name was Jenny, not really, but her human name. She didn't remember the rest of her life before, but after seeing the Jolteon try to fight back, she knew she met him before. The Pokémon that saved her life, when she was a Ninetales. And the young trainer that had just been choked, she knew it was too late. Alex had just been cursed.
Well, hope everyone enjoys this one, good night for now. –Yawns-
