Author's Notes: 03.09.10
Oh. My. Flipping. Buddha. It's been exactly a month since my last upload, my greatest apologies. Looking at the length of this chapter, I think you'll forgive me. Major chapter with an introduction to many important characters. Its slightly draggish, in my opinion, but I feel like this is overall a great chapter to kick off from the CICs.
At the forum, "Grey Hat, Purple Scarf" (now can be found on the first page of the Pokemon forums list) you can post your OCs for Shard Holders and Villains. So far, a lot of good ones and a few are used in this chapter. Now, I know a lot of you are posting multiple OCs, but please restrain to posting one or two in total.
Also, use the form provided for you on the forum thread "OC Submission- Chronicles of Fate: The 17 Knights".
Besides that not much for me to say…except thanks for the patience and please enjoy :)
Knights' Reunion
Wavy and untamable canary yellow hair tied into a messy bun brushed the shoulders of a rather scrawny young woman as she slowly walked down the corridor, lava red eyes eyeing the closed doors to the rooms that lined up. Her dark tan skin contrasted the canary yellow tattoo on her right cheek, below her wary eyes, and she wore a plain amber form-fitting shirt with loose camo pants. Her amber sneakers occasionally squeaked against the clean, white tile flooring, and she picked up her pace as she knew she was passing a particular room, which she wished to avoid. Adjusting the army green bandana around her neck and the matching fingerless gloves on her hands, plates sewn on the back, she gazed down the long hallway, pretending nothing was on her mind.
"You epically failed; you do realize that, right…" A chilling whisper hissed, with a hidden tone of feminism and a snickering in the throat. The young woman gulped, stopping in her tracks but not daring to turn around, "My little Ivory?"
"M-Mr. Ryker…" the young woman, addressed as Ivory, turned around at the grinning figure behind her of the same age. He was exceedingly tall, with an unusually long neck to add onto his abnormal looks. He was wearing an oversized wide-neck sweater that had dark green horizontal bars going across, long sleeves hiding his hands from sight. The collar was slid at angle, revealing part of his left shoulder and his black muscle-shirt underneath. With tight skinny jeans, checkered converse and a chain hooking from his pocket to some belt hidden by his sweater, his outfit defined him, but not as much as his one key feature.
He had flowing, messy bed-head hair, sandy blond and finely layered with tips brushing the back of his neck. His bangs were cut straight across, covering his eyes from sight and stopping at an even level with his nose. To finish off his look he had a tattoo on his right cheek, like Ivory, of a deep green spade snaking from his jaw, tip almost hidden by his bangs. He had his signature grin on, wide with almost every tooth shown; one that spoke for both his sneering, taunting personality and his way to intimidate others.
"Now, why are you so formal? Don't call me a name that would put me in the same group as my dear old brother," he snickered, taking wide, slow steps towards Ivory, who retreated subconsciously. With hand still hidden by his sweater, he wrapped boney fingers around Ivory's chin, and leaned in, grin still tauntingly worn.
"I-I'm very sorry, sir," Ivory retracted, flinching on instinct and holding her arms tightly, "I mean- Ashton…"
"That's more like it," Ivory sighed as Ashton stopped closing in, "Now, let's see here. Should I be a tattle tale and tell on my brother? Or, should I let you off the hook…" He made an obvious act of trying to decide on the options, weighing them between his hidden hands with a fake frown on, made as obvious as a child's.
"I…didn't mean to-"
"Now now, Ivory," Ashton taunted, "Don't interrupt my processing of deciding your fate," he looked at his left hand, "Tell on you, and see you die, or," he lifted his right palm up higher, "let you go, and see what comes of it when my brother finds out you never told him of the failure…"
"Ashton…please," Ivory took in a deep breath. As much as she wanted to ignore his sneers, she couldn't, "I did what I was told to… I used a Sharpedo, like you told me to, and I used my powers and got him in the water without anyone noticing… but somehow he survived-"
"Somehow?" Ashton began to snicker in his throat, "Your darling little Sharpedo attacked the wrong person, that's what."
"I got them mixed up!"
"Sad. Why? Were you too mesmerized by the beauty of the large wave…or the gorgeous beach, palm trees, and clear blue sky?" Ashton watched Ivory harden a serious glare, tears filling her eyes, "Oh, that's right, you can't enjoy beauty. Ironic for such an artist like you, no?"
"…take that back…" Ivory growled, teeth clenching down on her inner cheek and hands forming tight fists, colored aura forming around them. Her left fist had a blue glow, her right having a khaki green one.
"Or what? You punch me in the jaw and break my scrawny self in half?" Ashton questioned, folding his arms over his chest, impressed by her act. Ivory kept her watering glare, lava red eyes burning like fire.
"Take… that… BACK!!" Ivory launched her blue fist to Ashton, who merely dodged it with a tilt of his head and a yawn. With three more attempts, Ivory missed all three, even after adding a knee kick aimed for the gut.
"Oh, don't be mad my little Ivory," Ashton continued to hold his grin with a snicker, "I give you some power and you try to punch me? That's not healthy."
"YOU CAN HAVE IT BACK!!" Ivory growled as Ashton grabbed her wrist and pushed her against the corridor wall, failing to stop with his snickering. He cocked his head to the side, bangs flowing him and sliding off his face enough to reveal his right eye, turned into pink stone.
"Looky looky, recognize this?" he smirked. Ivory didn't reply, even though she knew she did, "Adrienne's Mind shard. I took it from her, easily too, although she is screaming in pain right now. Do you know what that means?" "You…can take shards?" Inside Ivory was filled up with hope, showing through her eyes. Ashton nodded.
"Painful, but yes," he brought his voice down to a chilling whisper as he leaned in, "However, Adrienne still doesn't have her eye back, and I lost mine. Ain't that a bitch."
"Do…do you hear voices like…she did?"
"Oh, yes, I can hear everything you are thinking, but unlike my sister, it doesn't drive me insane, and I can control it," Ashton shook his hair back into place, hiding his eyes once again. Ivory frowned.
"You can't see now," she thinned her eyes, "You already replaced your left eye with the Dread shard…"
"And…?" Ashton sneered, "I just need a Spooky shard to complete myself. Just so hard to get my hands on one of those because of that damned Xanders and his Spooky shard collecting."
"If I get you a Spooky shard…you will let me off the hook?"
"Oh, you failing to kill a Knight isn't the most adorable thing…but…" Ashton looked around in thought, "I'll see what strings I can pull on my asshole of a brother. Which brings me back to the topic of how I am going to kill him…"
Without a word Ashton walked off, mumbling murder possibilities to himself and snickering with each idea. Ivory let out a sigh of relief, throwing herself against the wall. She looked over at Ashton. He really wasn't kidding about the killing his brother part.
As Ivory was preparing to continue down the hallway, the sound of sliding door met her ears and she turned to see the door that she feared so much wide open, a tall woman standing in the frame, single visible eye glaring madly. Ivory gulped. It must be her unlucky day, to find not one Ryker, but two.
"What in Arceus' name are you doing here?" the woman glared, taking a step into open light to reveal herself. She was tall, model slim with smooth, tan skin unevenly distributed across her face. Her entire right half of her face was covered by her long bangs. The rest of her hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, straight, thin hair flowing down to her shoulder blades. Ivory had to take a moment to recognize her features, for today she didn't have the hot pink highlights or the bright blond hair, but dark, chocolate brown hair to compliment with her eyes.
She wore an outfit similar to an army general's; a short simple brown skirt in place for the cargo pants, and long sleeves of the army tan shirt buttoning around her wrists. The collar was buttoned at her neck and folded neatly. She had stars pinned on top of her shoulders and on her front pocket over her heart, and on her other pocket mirroring it was a large diamond patch, light gold in color. To top it off she had a cold, stern look, and black steel-toed boots to go along with it.
"Good morning, Ms. Ryker…" Ivory frowned, "I do like your hair color-"
"Shut up, Ivy," the woman retorted, "I lost my beautiful blond hair and gorgeous skin when that damned Ashton took my Mind Shard!!!" she looked down the hallway, "I heard his voice… where is HE!!!!"
Ivory quickly pointed down the hall to where Ashton had headed. Adrienne Ryker turned to where Ivory was pointing, then looked back.
"I want three shards!! NOW!!!" She hollered. Ivory gulped, flinching at the noise as she saw Adrienne tap her finger to her eye hidden by her bangs, "That…son of a fucking bitch…."
"Which… shards do you want?" Ivory spoke up. Adrienne turned with a glare.
"Anything that won't make me hear fucking voices in my head," She barked, "And while you're at it, report to … whoever is in charge of shard collecting…I think someone is going for a plate Rayquaza is holding. And the last thing I need is Aharora's team to get to it first."
"Yes'm."
"And whatever that plate is…" Adrienne thinned her eyes and brought her voice down lower, "I. Want. It."
"I'll keep that in mind," Ivory took a deep breath, "If Rixa isn't too busy running with scissors, can you tell her to accompany me?"
"Fine, fine, whatever," Adrienne rolled her eyes, "Just don't take that crazy son-of-a-bastard red head with you."
"…Aaron Young?"
"Yeah, I don't need him breaking my plates. Now just get out of my face, will you?"
Ivory was more than happy to. She gave a quick nod and hurried down the corridor, hoping that she wouldn't find another Ryker to make her day any worse. Of course they were a symbol of back luck… just two encounters and she owed them in total four shards and a plate from Rayquaza.
Now, all she needed was the two perfect people for the mission, and she knew one was definitely all over the boss, Ivory reckoned, probably attempting to get some shards out of him…
Yet again.
"We're running a tad bit late," Mew sighed lightly, looking over at the sleeping Hayato, Fey blasting her ears off with music, and Jadyn shifting back and forth in the air, uneasy. Shaking her head, Mew used her psychic abilities to shake them all out of their little la-la-lands, and as they jumped in shock, Mew gave a small, high pitched laugh.
"Not cool, man, not cool," Hayato scurried to make himself float upright, frowning as he saw the foggy mountain chain underneath him, "Where are we NOW!?!"
"Sinnoh," Mew yawned, "I've been flying all day…I think I'm going to pass out…"
"Please don't do that," Jadyn twisted her lips, looking down hesitantly. Fey opened her eyes and pulled her earphones off her ears and around her neck.
"Sinnoh? Why the hell are we in SINNOH!!?" Hayato coughed, "I thought you said we'd be going somewhere nearby."
"Shut up, lazy boy," Mew rolled her eyes, picking up the speed, "Everyone is assembled and we are the only ones that haven't arrived yet."
"How many of 'us' are there, anyway?" Fey yawned, sitting upright and examining the passing mountains with curiosity, "Hey, I've never been to Sinnoh. What part are we at?"
"Seventeen. And we're heading to the top of Mt. Coronet," Mew sighed. Jadyn bolted upright and put on a small smile, looking below her also. Hayato shook his head at this, and closed his eyes for yet another nap.
"You do realize you sleep more than the average Glameow, right?" Fey muttered, snickering lightly. Hayato merely rubbed the ink patch on his right cheek and snorted.
"Does this hot face look like it cares?" he continued to lay back and attempt sleep. Fey and Jadyn looked at each other, with Fey faking a vomiting face. Jadyn couldn't hold back a full blown laugh.
"Heads up, we're here!!"
Everyone looked over to Mew. She flew double the speed, diving down through the fog of the mountains with everyone hollering in fright. Like on a rollercoaster with no safety bars or carts, Fey held her hands up in the air and whooped, and Jadyn closed her eyes, holding her breath. Mew dragged them on to a lone mountain, towering above the rest and the tip hidden by fog as thick as soup. On the top was a white marble grand platform, marble pillars lining the sides, some broken in half and others still intact. It was like a ceremony, gathering of legendary Pokémon and a few dots of humans here and there.
"One… two, three…four…" Fey took a finger and started counting up the humans, "…eleven…plus us three makes fourteen…we're not the only ones late here."
"That's a disappointment," Hayato snorted, "I kind of wanted to be fashionably late."
"For a guy, that doesn't seem right…" Jadyn twisted her lips, looking away from Hayato's lazy eyed glares. The four closed in on the marble platform, Hayato and Jadyn stumbling as their feet met with the ground while Fey was flawless, violin case in hand. Mew panted, tired of all things, and slowly floated over to Fey and flopped on her head.
Hayato looked around him. The pillars were much taller than anything, maybe taller than a Wailord. People were grouped in scattered bunches, eyeing each other curiously. A large yellow bird Pokémon with black feathers along its wings violently screeched and shock electricity from its talons, while a blue beast was tackling a yellow one to the ground. A Pokémon with some crescent moon head floated over to the recently arriving four, while the others seemed to remain intact.
"Time is running short, my friend," a calm, motherly voice came from it, nudging the tired out Mew. Mew sighed, sitting upright on Fey's head, large feet pointing up and reaching her chin and tail swaying lazily behind.
"We're missing three…which ones are they, Cresselia?" Mew yawned. The Pokémon, most likely named Cresselia frowned, purple eyes glowing uneasily.
"Shadows, Leaves, and Fists," she replied back to Mew, "And we have bad news…Entei seems to be in trouble, and not only him. Moltres, Articuno, and Darkrai seem to be also."
"That's never fun."
"You mean to say… this is a gathering of mythical and legendary Pokémon?" Jadyn looked around in awe, eyes flashing, "This… this may be the answer to my research. As an archeologist, I mu-"
"Now is not a good time, Jadyn," Mew frowned, turning back to Cresselia, "We're about to rebirth, a sixth of our Knights haven't showed up, and our legendaries are going missing. How much more trouble do we need to go through!?"
"Celebi hasn't come back from the past, either. If she doesn't come back, half our Knights won't even make it through the rebirth," Cresselia sighed, "I do not like where this is going."
"Wait, you're saying that there's a 'make it' and 'not make it'?! What is this, life and death situation?" Hayato turned his attention from examining the Pokémon and humans to Mew and Cresselia, "Not cool, dudes."
"Actually, it is a life and death situation, Hayato," Mew turned a serious face to him, "And I'm not kidding, this time."
"And Mew," Cresselia took a deep breath, "Not only that, but we cannot find any trace of the Lake Trio, Groudon, Kyogre, Lugia or Ho-oh. The Regis cannot seem to communicate with Regigigas, as he will not wake from his slumber, and something about His Excellency doesn't seem to be right."
"What in the- GARR!!" Mew clenched on her head with her small paws in frustration, "Everything is going haywire!!" She turned to Fey and the other two humans, "Go group up with the other Knights. Me, Cresselia and the others will have to talk about this."
Fey nodded, but Hayato wasn't pleased. He twisted his lips, his subconscious dying to find out what they were going to talk about. Nevertheless, Hayato, Fey, and Jadyn slowly strode off to the center of the marble platform where a large circle was pasted there, the large electric bird and two beasts heading to where Cresselia and Mew were. The other Knights, each looking far more different than the next, gathered to where Hayato, Fey, and Jadyn was, some grouping together, others dying to be isolated.
"So, we all finally meet," a boy around Hayato's age smiled, grey eyes flashing. He had dark hair contrasting with Cerulean blue highlights in his long bangs, and he wore a simple light blue hoodie and dark swimming trunks with flip-flops, shaking from the cold. He was accompanied with a rather short girl that had arrow-straight light blue hair cutting off mid-back and striking blue eyes, wearing a black t-shirt with dark blue sleeves, and tattered jeans covering her grey tennis shoes. She bit her purple lips, looking around nervously.
"What is this? A stakeout?" an even shorter girl barked, having followed the boy and girl. She wore a knee-length light teal dress cinching at the waist with bolero sleeves and saddle shoes, matching with her light teal headband that had a bow on top, contrasting with her long blond hair and brown eyes, "You do realize what I can do, right? Burn you to ashes if any of you dare bother me."
"Now now, Jojo, let's be…civilized," the boy with the Cerulean blue streaks faked a smile, obviously holding in a face filled with fear. The girl frowned and thinned her eyes at Jojo, a spine-chilling glare forming.
"Ooh, look, MORE pretty girls!!" Another boy, hiding behind a rather intimidating large young man, smiled. He had shoulder length light brown hair tied up in a ponytail, complimenting his white long sleeved shirt under a brown over-shirt and dark brown trousers. His dark blue eyes jumped from person to person, and when it reached a boy with brown hair inches longer than a buzz cut, he frowned and retreated to hiding behind the large young man again.
"No one's gonna bite you now, Jack," the intimidating, larger than life young man muttered, pushing the boy from behind him with little effort. He was much, much taller than Hayato, with ruffled brown hair and eyes, and was wearing a simple pallid long-sleeved cotton shirt under pale overalls and worn down shoes. Jack, the boy with the ponytail, twisted his lips, jumping over to the boy with the Cerulean highlights, right hand open in front of him.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Jack!!" he gave a large grin, and the boy accepted his hand shake with an equally as large smile.
"Diko Hiru Nickolia," he laughed, and gestured over to the girl next to him, "and this is Asago, and that girl behind me is Jojo."
"Cool, that biiiggggg dude is like my bro and he's Cam!!" Jack pointed to the young man he was hiding behind earlier, "And then that's- oh, wait, I forgot her name, but she's mean but pretty!!" Jack was pointing over to a girl isolated from the others, long strawberry blond hair flowing to her back, complimenting her red jacket tied in the middle that was over a white silky dress shirt and long, white skirt. Her cold, silver blue eyes looked over at Jack and she snorted, arms crossing over her chest. Jack frowned, turning back to Diko and Asago, then to Hayato.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Jack!!" he repeated, jumping in front of Hayato and extending his hand. Hayato merely gave a look with a raised eyebrow, licking at his lower lip ring and thinning his eyes. Jack frowned, and without lowering his hand, turned to Fey.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Jack!!" he grinned, and Fey too only gave a look, causing Jack to frown. She sighed and accepted his hand shake, and watching him smile, she muttered, "Fey."
"Oh, very firm handshake!!" Jack smiled lightly, "I think-"
"!!!"
The sound, one like a Gyarados' roar amplified a hundred times, not only cut Jack off and rang in everyone's ears, but shook the earth as dust rose from the marble pillars and the rocks around the grand marble platform. In unison, everyone ducked but the Pokémon, the electric bird screeching to its heart's content while the two feline beasts tried to calm it down. Hayato looked at the sky for answers, and he certainly got one.
A snake dragon, one hundred times the size of Hayato that was entirely green, was falling at high speed. It had gold and ruby red lines lining throughout its body as an ancient design, and its eyes were black, using its yellow irises for glaring as it flew from the skies. Sharp claws on its two hands snapped together as the Pokémon roared again, snaking pass everyone and encircling the marble platform. Men on bird Pokémon were chasing after it, dressed from head to toe in black. They were armed with weapons. Very large weapons.
"What the fuck is that!!!" The young man with the hair inches longer than a buzz cut growled, hasty voice very feminine. His short hair was a messy light brown, contrasting with dark green, glaring eyes and his pallid baggy oversized shirt and pants. He was barefoot, looking peasant dirty, and after looking long enough he had breasts. So what Hayato thought was a he was now a she.
"Its… Rayquaza!!!" A boy standing not too far away from Hayato yelled the answer. Looking at him, Hayato saw that the boy looked much like a young scientist, intelligent gray eyes hiding behind spectacles and wearing a white doctor's coat over casual clothing that complimented untamed, dusty brown colored hair. Having gone to medical school (and ditching it half the time), Hayato realized that this was defiantly a college student in the medical field.
"OOOOHHHH!!!! Is he going to help us save the Wailmers too?" a girl standing next to him giggled, putting her open palm along her eyebrows to shield the light from her green eyes as she looked at the Pokémon seeming to be called Rayquaza. She wore pale purple bellbottoms, peace signs hand drawn on the back pockets, and had greasy, sandy blonde hair tied in two braids resting on her shoulders. On the back of her hippy tie-dye t-shirt wrote "Save the Wailmers!!" over a large peace sign. Great. Someone from the hippy movement, Hayato thought.
"Will you shut up about the fucking WAILMERS!!!" A boy, around Hayato's age, growled. His face and most clothing was hidden by a dark, black cloak with a hood. Ok, that dude is creepy.
A man on a Fearow shot a massive net from a bazooka at Rayquaza. The hit Pokémon shrieked, voice rumbling the ground, as electricity flowed through its system. Fainting, the large dragon was headed for the earth, and everyone started running away, getting clear of the massive shadow looming over them. Hayato winced, turning around to expect the dragon to have hit the ground, but instead, it was floating only ten feet above the marble platform, glowing a familiar pinkish aura.
"...Zapdos!!" Mew hollered, and everyone turned to see both Mew and Cresselia glowing the same color, eyes burning a darker shade intensely, "Get everyone into the distortion realm!! We have to take the chances!!
The electric bird shrieked a response, but Hayato couldn't make out what it was saying. He turned to Fey for answers, and she looked at him, eyes shocked and wide.
"What's going on!?!" Hayato muttered. Fey hurried and grabbed his arm.
"Hayato!!!" Mew high voice cut off what Fey was about to say as Hayato turned to the small pink cat, "You're responsible for looking after everyone, okay?"
"What are you turning to me for!?!? No way!!!" Hayato hollered, but the glares of all the Pokémon made him gulp.
"Pl…Please, dear Hayato…" Cresselia panted, trying to suspend Rayquaza in the air while forming a protection barrier around him, blocking off other coming attacks, "You must… wait for Celebi!! Pro…protect your followers!!"
"Who the hell is CELEBI!! Better yet, who the hell are my followers!!" Hayato growled, frustrated now, but his answer never came. Mew and Cresselia had gotten tired of holding up five thousand pounds, and dropped Rayquaza to the ground, earth shaking like an earthquake had hit, marble platform cracking and dust rising everywhere. A loud snicker came as multiple nets soared at Mew and Cresselia, who dodged in time. Unluckily, the blue feline beast was dead in its path.
The yellow feline beast leaped ahead, kicking the blue one aside with a growl and taking the hit of the nets, electricity shocking its body. However, the beast didn't seem to feel a thing, and only roared, electricity flying from its mane over to the men on the bird Pokémon.
"I didn't think I'd see more legendaries here!!" A woman's giggle boomed as a figure emerged from the smoke, suspended high in the sky on a large old broom stick. The beasts glared and growled, along with the other legendaries. The woman was very young, with an athletic build and long, elbow length hair a similar color to Hayato's blond hair only without the platinum highlights. Her eyes were bright vermillion colored, matching the sash around her waist and she wore a long sleeved, knee-length black dress. On her head was a large pointy black witch's hat, the ribbon around it matching her eyes.
"Who are you!!?" Diko spurted, gray eyes thinning. He was holding an arm up to shield Asago from any attacks, the said girl peeping around him to throw her signature death glare. Diko stood ready to send out a Pokémon, but the woman clicked her tongue and shook her index finger back and forth.
"Don't wanna do that now, Deeeeeko!!" She giggled, watching the horror on Diko's face and Asago's that accompanied him, "Isn't that sad...you were supposed to be dead but little miss Ivy made a big mistake."
"What…in the world is she talking about?" yet another unknown girl muttered. She had short brown, ruffled hair cutting off before her shoulders and had bright green eyes hiding from behind black square-rimmed glasses. She wore a dark green hoodie and a green plaid skirt, going great with her green boots and socks that came up pass her knees, green and white horizontal bars going across. The girl crossed her arms over her chest and glared.
"I'm talking about-" her eyes glanced off to the side, "OMIARCEUS!! A lucky PENNY!!!"
As fast as she came she left, flying on her broom down back into the uncleared dust, leaving everyone in confusion. The boy that accompanied the hippy freak, also known as the cloaked freak, growled and darted after her, Pokéballs in hand as the electric bird shrieked at his back. Mew growled and got ready to pursue, but shrieked in shock as she saw a teenage boy approach Rayquaza, taking a knife and skinning a particular scale off the back of Rayquaza's head.
He was tall, pine green eyes showing off confidence and matching his muscle shirt under his black jacket and the bandana around his forehead. He wore baggy black pants and sneakers, and had spiked black hair passing his jaw. Removing a large, torso-sized, green square scale from Rayquaza, he quickly leaped off the Pokémon and ran, hopping onto a Dragonair with a loud, "Ok, Air, move out!!" as he tucked the scale under his arm.
"Stop!!!!" Mew hollered, blasting a psychic wave at the boy, but missing as she saw a large black cloud hover above the marble platform. Purple thunder sparked from it, and as she turned to the humans, she yelled, "Zapdos!! Get everyone in!!!"
The electric bird, Zapdos, cried and hovered above the seemingly small humans, talons opening and getting ready to claw at everyone. It landed with a high pitched cry and many of the Knights knew exactly what to do, hurrying to climb onto the Pokémon's back. Fey tugged on Hayato violently, growling for him to hurry.
"He's telling everyone to get on him and if you know someone doesn't have a medallion, tell them to hold their breath!!!" Fey shrieked and hurried to get on Zapdos, the hippy girl extending her arm to help Fey up. Hayato soon followed, Zapdos running out of room fast. Diko blew a loud whistle, and Hayato turned to see him on a large Pidgeot, riding it with Asago and Jojo accompanying him.
"Here, get on!!" Diko shouted. Hayato nodded and threw himself on the back of the Pidgeot behind the trio, and Pidgeot and Zapdos soon taking flight. The hippy girl looked back and forth uneasily, the woman Hayato mistook for a man glaring at her as she tried to look over her.
"Where's Jay!!!" Hippy girl screamed, tugging on the scientist boy's arm, "Where did he go, Egan!?!! Where!!!?!"
"He'll be fine!!" scientist boy, seemingly Egan, replied. Hayato looked around also, wind generated by Zapdos and Pidgeot's wings cutting off his hearing and making dust fly in his eyes. The cloaked boy wasn't in sight, nor was the teenage boy and his Dratini or that freaky witch on the broom. What was that scale? Hayato's thoughts were cut off when out of the corner of his eye he saw a gray blur hurling at Mew.
"Mew!!! LOOK OUT!!!"
"Meeeeeewwwwwww!!!!"
Mew was sent to the side, shaking violently as electricity rushed through her system. Cresselia tried to tend her, but was occupied with trying to get the two beasts up to the purple cloud not too high in the sky, with the help of her psychic abilities. Hayato could only watch the men in black flinging Mew in a cage, heading to attack Cresselia now. With the two beasts already entering through some wormhole in the purple cloud, she was free to defend Mew, psychic blasts sending men and their weapons flying.
"Hayato!!" Said person turned to see Fey shouting at him from above on Zapdos' back, "HOLD YOUR BREATH!!!!!"
Hayato took three seconds to process the command. He did as he was told, filling his chest with dusty air and wondering in Earth's name why. Pidgeot soared at high speed towards the purple cloud, which engulfed Zapdos and all its passengers in a blink of the eye. It was another blink when Hayato found himself approaching it now, and the feeling of strong gravity churned his stomach. Diko growled and Asago held tightly to Diko's back, Jojo cursing as if nothing had happened. Watching Asago and Diko's facing turning pale, Hayato now knew why.
He tried to take a breath, but it was like trying to breathe while underwater, except without the water running down his throat part. Hayato clasped onto his neck, struggling to breathe while he was tormented by Jojo's particularly fine face, her lungs rising and falling naturally, unlike Asago and Diko who seemed to be going through the same thing. Hayato panicked, feeling light headed as the feeling of drowning swept over him too fast to calculate. He gasped but got no air in his lungs, and it was almost like he was choking himself to death with his fingers tight around his neck.
Everything around him was some Alice in Wonderland dream, distorted images of marble pillars, Mt. Coronet, sky mixing with earth and Rayquaza's body looking like it was a green towel getting the water squeezed out of it. Even though they were flying, no wind or sound was present. Zapdos was up ahead, looking more like Tweety with evil talons and little warts with human faces filling his back. One wart looked just like Fey, turning to look at Hayato and ask why he was choking, no sound coming out from her mute lips. Hayato's head was spinning; he couldn't think of answers for questions and questions for answers. Everything was dark, his head too light to feel and his eyesight getting blurry. His heart thrashed and screamed. Was this death? Or was he suddenly high?
And like the light at the end of a tunnel, Hayato saw a bright sky in all the darkness around him, peeping from a hole surrounded by purple clouds. Pidgeot and Zapdos hurried and headed for it at high speed. The moment they reached it, gravity pulled on them again, and as if hitting the surface for the first time, Hayato breathed in a huge breath of air, gasping loudly and choking. Warm wind blew in his face and he could see again, head slightly pumping with a headache. The sound of bleating wings and gasping others met his ears, and with a face as pale as Asago and Diko's he looked at the unharmed Jojo, Fey, Jack, Cam… and wondered why he was affected and not them.
"Hayato!!!" Fey's loud voice carried over the wind, the girl leaning on Zapdos' tail to see, "What-what's wrong!?"
"Ugh… Nggnn….Nothing…." Hayato held his aching head tightly, breathing heavily. He looked below him and saw he was defiantly not on Mt. Coronet or anywhere near it. All sand and pure desert, stretching for miles and miles away.
"Where the fuck…am I?"
*Oh God….
Ok, I'm going to do one last copyright firing with the Knights, and then give you some copyright OCs on the villains used here. :)
Hayato Kozuro (c) J. Whitnee
Feylene Tarling (c) GrAcEoFaPaNdA
Diko Hiru Nickolia (c) TreyP
Asago Willow (c) Ki-nee-chan
Joanna Jones (c) Flaaffy
Egan Glare (c) Kyuuketsuki Fang
Sage de Boer (c) Silver Leafx
Jason Brown (c) CyberWolf101
Cam Cameron (c) runia24
Jack Darren (c) somepersonoutthere
Cecillia Sylvester (c) Serpent's Ballet
Jordan Struct (c) silentlysnowing
Katie Benson (c) DevoTheMadCashCow
- Ones not in this chapter -
Sarah Crowcraft (c) Pikana
Demetrius (c) anonymous SuperCool Superjailed Pichu
Laryn Fusye (c) xEmilia
Kasumi Konoe (c) Nightmare Syndrome
- New Ocs (only ones that appeared, not mentioned)-
Ivory Westwood (c) Hellokittyismybestfriend
Sarixa Arsonis -witch on the broom- (c) Jigglypuff's Pillow
Aiden -man that took the Rayquaza scale- (c) animegrlsteph
And also
Adrienne Ryker (c) J. Whitnee
Ashton Ryker (c) J. Whitnee