Chapter 13
It was love at first sight. At least, that's what Red believed. The two Pikachu had been inseparable since the incident on the ship.
It had been a big shock when the female Pikachu had jumped at his face, wanting to attack him. Thank Arceus Pika managed to calm her down.
One look and it seemed as if they were blown away. It probably really was love at first sight.
It felt strange for Crystal to touch the ground, to feel it beneath her feet.
The ground of the Earth Kingdom.
For the first time in her life, she was in the Earth Kingdom. This was the first time in her life that she wasn't on Water Kingdom soil. And Crystal knew that this was also Ruby's first time out of the Water Kingdom as well.
But they weren't there for fun; they had an important mission to fulfill.
Crystal looked at Blue and Yellow. The two girls were standing side-by-side, but looking in different directions and not exchanging a single word.
Crystal sighed, it wasn't good when disputes built up, but she didn't know how she could help both without making everything worse.
"We must go to Concordia. Blue, do you know the best way we can get there?" Crystal asked.
But the brunette merely shrugged. "No idea."
"Oh great." Crystal sighed. "Then we must go to the next city we find and search for information there."
"Sounds good." Blue said, going on ahead. Crystal watched her and sighed softly.
"It can't go on like this…"
"Black? Black, where are you? Black?"
Only a few minutes ago, Black was with Bianca and now he had vanished.
Where could he have gone? Bianca didn't like being alone and Black knew that.
"Black?"
Her voice echoed through the mountains. It was her first time going so far into the mountains, or rather, what was left of the mountains.
It was a shunned territory and she was only here because Black had persuaded her.
How could he just leave her alone?!
Pure wasteland…here, there is nothing except hill.
Ruby didn't like this area, hopefully they'd soon reach a city, this whole area to him was just lifeless, and so quiet…
Somehow this whole territory made him feel fear. Great fear.
Not even pokémon inhabited the area.
"Do you think this place is haunted?" He asked the others quietly.
"Nonsense," Crystal replied. "Ghost don´t exist."
"I have to disagree with you on that. Ghosts do exist." Blue interfered. "Ghastly, Misdreavus, and so on are all ghosts."
Crystal sighed. "Those are Ghost Pokémon, not real ghosts. And also, ghost Pokémon are just legend."
"But there is always something true in legends. Yellow's the best example." Ruby murmured.
Crystal sighed again; "Can you stop before you start scaring yourself? Ghosts do not exist, and that's that."
They wanted to believe Crystal, but at the moment they heard a low, desperate and creepy howl.
Blue, Crystal and Ruby froze and turned to Yellow, as all three thought it had come from her. But Yellow herself was frozen, looking for the cause of the howling.
"I didn't make that noise!" She cried when she saw the eyes of the others on her.
The howling grew louder.
"Oh my Arceus… there are ghost and they're out to get us now!" Ruby shouted. Crystal punched Ruby's arm.
"NONSENSE!" she shouted. "If you listen carefully, you hear that the howl comes from a girl."
"A ghost girl!"
"Ruby! Are you just talking nonsense?!"
"No I –"
"Be quiet you two!" The dispute between Crystal and Ruby was interrupted by Yellow.
"Do you hear footsteps, too?" she asked.
There was no time for an answer, as out of nowhere a howling blond girl appeared. She ran remarkably quickly.
Was she running away from something?
This question was answered quickly when a man riding a Stantler appeared behind her.
"HELP! Oh, please help me!" the girl cried.
Silver took a deep breath and leaned his head against the wall. Although he would never admit it, he longed for Lyra's company.
The girl was a little annoying, but she was still more interesting than the silence. She had brought him something for lunch, but that was at an estimated 2 hours ago. Would she bring him an evening meal?
Probably not… After all, he was a prisoner here, and the Fire Nation probably would not spoil their prisoners.
He heard a door open, excitement shooting through his body. But the footsteps that he heard did not go to his cell, but to the cell next to his.
Curiosity took hold of him. Who occupied the Cell next door?
Silver pressed his head against the stone wall, trying to hear something. If he strained, he could hear soft female voices, one of which he recognized as Azul!
She's alive…
The other women's voice was completely foreign.
"The Air Mage of which everyone speaks, is she the Avatar?" the foreign Woman asked Azul. Silver´s eyes widened.
Azul's answer didn´t come immediately.
"You can´t tell the fire king…!" she whispered.
"And why not? He is my Husband."
"I know that you're a pathetic traitor, but the air magician saved your life just like mine! Don´t you have dignity?" Azul shouted.
"I want to survive, just like everyone else."
They were surrounded by many men. And in the middle was the howling blonde girl. How did they get into this mess?
Crystal didn't recognize the clothing of the men, but they were not from the Fire Kingdom. They were more than likely wandering rogues.
"Oh please! PLEASE! Help me! I'm so scared!" The girl cried.
Crystal took a step back, stretching out her hand to create a jet of water when she was interrupted by a dark brunette boy fell from nowhere and landed right in front of the blonde girl, causing the earth to shake.
An earth magician!
"Black!" scream the blonde girl. Grinning, he turned to face her.
"Sorry I left you alone, Bianca."
She didn´t return his smile.
"Look out!" Bianca shouted, as one of the men tried to stab Black with his sword.
Black reacted quickly, whirling around and stomping his foot on the ground to raise a huge boulder in front of him. The man's sword broke into many pieces.
More men tried to attack Black and Crystal and Co. were also attacked.
Black repeatedly vibrated the earth until he let the earth tremble to strong.
One of the surrounding hills broke an avalanche of hard stones rained down on them.
I´m really sorry that I didn´t upload for a so long time :( , the last two month´s were not easy for me but I try to upload more regular in the future :)