Ch. 13
Kiva arrived in Celadon City within the hour. From her bird's eye view, she could see the wake of destruction from Giovanni. Sadly, she spotted the place where her home had been, now just a smoldering pile of ruins. She steered pidgeot towards the gym, waiting to see its silhouette rise into her line of sight.
After a while, she realized she had been waiting far too long, and told pidgeot to turn around. It did so, wheeling through the air. This time, she scoured the ground for any signs of the Grass-type gym where she had beaten her cousin. It was nowhere to be seen, just more scalded ruins. Scoping out the outline of the streets still slightly visible, she pinpointed the place where she was sure the gym should have been. Instead there were just more ruins.
Kiva told pidgeot to land, and it did so, finding a large enough landing space after a brief search. Kiva jumped off and ran towards where the gym should be. She picked her way through the ruins, looking for any sign of the people who should have been there. She found her way to a wall, still standing weakly. She edged her way around it, being careful so as not to knock it down. Beyond was a sight that she never should have seen.
There were the people, her mom, Erika, Nurse Joy, the townspeople, everyone who had been hiding from Giovanni. But they were all dead.
Kiva winced and shut her eyes, stumbling out of the ruins of the gym. She found her way back to pidgeot and climbed on, tears leaking from her eyes. Together they took off, away from the nightmare. As they were flying, Kiva heard the sound of a helicopter. She looked over her shoulder to see the logo of a popular news company printed on the side of two quickly approaching helicopters.
Good, She thought, Let them get their footage. Show the world the work of this monster. Now Kiva, too, wanted revenge on Giovanni. That made two of them.