Disclaimer: Despite the fact that the temple is doomed, I do not own Pokemon.
This is a hastily typed chapter, so don't criticize it too much. School is starting for me this Monday. YAY! (sarcasm here) Chapters will be slower and shorter, but hopefully, I can finish this story soon.
Enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 26
The whole temple shuddered and shook causing the whole gang to stagger back and forth. The giant empty holes on the wall started to pour out water into the tower. The water slammed onto the marble bridge and to the floor.
"ARGH!" Brendan yelled as he just narrowly dodged one of the huge waterfalls of water, "Stop that Phantom! You're going to cause chaos!" Phantom ignored the warning and continued to pull the crystals out of the rock and into the sack.
"Let's go," Hiromi said in a defeated voice, "We need to get out of here before the temple gets destroyed." May, who was carrying Manaphy, and Max hurried back to the way they came and down the stairs.
"But-" Brendan tried to object, but he immediately saw that Hiromi was unwilling to let Phantom have what he wants, but she wanted everybody to escape safely. Brendan gave one long glare of pure hatred at Phantom, and then followed the rest of them down the stairs, leaving Phantom with his greedy self.
The whole building was rumbling as the gang continued down the stairs. Despite the fact that they all wanted to leave quickly, Brendan, May, Hiromi, and Max had to walk carefully so that they won't trip and fall. As they were getting down the final steps of the stairs, they heard footsteps coming up. Suddenly they were face to face with a person.
"Jack!" Max cried.
"Guys!" Jack said, "Nobody hurt?"
"Nope," May said quickly, "But things are getting rough around here." Jack looked around the place. The waterway is suddenly overflowing with water and the ground was already soaked.
"Where's Phantom?" Jack asked. Brendan pointed up the stairs they just went.
"Back there, getting those crystals he wanted," Brendan said, disgusted. Jack frowned, trying to make a decision.
"Right, you guys get back to the sub and get out of here. I'll take care of Phantom," Jack said, "The temple is sinking, so hurry up."
"You're kidding right?" Max said shocked, but the look on Jack's face says that he is dead serious.
"Let's go guys," Hiromi said. Brendan hung back, looking uncertain as to running away.
"Go Brendan," Jack said firmly, "You need to get out of here." Brendan hesitated and quickly left. Jack hurried up the steps toward Phantom.
"You better beat him," Brendan yelled, "And you better tell me how in a world does something sink after its underwater."
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Phantom was enjoying himself despite the fact that the water was rising very quickly as more chasms sprayed water. He was like a kid who was in a candy shop.
"Hand over the crystals Phantom." Phantom turned around to see who was talking and found a very old friend.
"Well, well, if it isn't the ranger," Phantom grinned, "Too bad. This load of crystal is mine." Jack didn't take no for an answer and slammed his leg into Phantom's stomach. The pirate stumbled back but unhurt. He tried to grab Jack, but the ranger simply jumped over Phantom. Jack kicked Phantom again, making the pirate almost fall over the bridge.
Jack immediately grabbed the crystals from the sack and started to put back into the holes of the marble rock. Phantom, realizing what Jack was doing, swatted Jack's hand and grabbed the crystal that Jack was pushing in back out. Jack and Phantom were in an immediate tug-of-war between the crystal when suddenly a huge column of water sprayed to the marble floor, causing Jack and Phantom to lose balance and fall over and into the rising water.
The huge current of the water caused Phantom and the crystal to be sucked into one of the holes while Jack got sucked into another.
DAMN! Jack thought as the current sucked him into the unknown.
Phantom was traveling fast with the crystal through the dark tunnel when suddenly both got sprayed out onto one of the open waterway. The crystal traveled through the waterway, while Phantom was left behind, coughing up water. The place was starting to overflow with large currents of water. He saw that the crystal was traveling farther and farther away from him and started to run. Phantom was about to grab the crystal when it flew into a small opening that even Phantom's arm can't reach in.
"NO!" Phantom yelled, "The treasure! It can't escape me!"
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Hiromi was helping Max into the sub. Brendan and May were watching the majestic temple starting to crumble from the enormous water coming in.
"Manaphy's home," May whisphered.
"Destroyed," Brendan finished. Manaphy watched with huge sad eyes, watching the place it loved become nothing more but a pile of rocks and ruins. Then without a warning, Manaphy jumped out of May's hand and into the water.
"Manaphy!" May ran after Manaphy as it started to swim up the waterway.
"Stop!" Brendan yelled as he ran after May, "Do you realize that you're going the wrong way?!"
"Brendan! May! Get back here!" Hiromi yelled. A huge waterfall of water came crashing down close to the sub, causing a huge wave. The sub was pushed farther out of the port and Hiromi had no choice but to close the submarine's door.
"Great! May! You just lost our ticket to get out of here! Now we're really going to die!"
"Brendan! Shut up! We can't leave without Manaphy!" May yelled as she went up the stairs to follow Manaphy.
"Manaphy can breath underwater!" Brendan yelled back, still catching up with May. "We can't!" May ignore Brendan and continued to follow Manaphy. They arrived back to the room where the crystals were held. They found Manaphy, struggling to get one of the crystals out of the sack and into the hole.
"Brendan!" May exclaimed, "If we get the crystals back into their rightful place, the temple can be saved!" Brendan thought for a moment. It was true that the whole chaos started due to the fact that Phantom pulled out the crystals.
"Fine," Brendan said, "This plan better work. Or else we're going to end up drowning, but no pressure."
"A positive attitude would make things better," May snapped as she took one of the crystals.
"Fine, we're going to die if this plan doesn't work. Yay!" Brendan said, helping out. May rolled her eyes, but decided to hold her tounge. Together they placed the crystals back into their rightful place, hoping that the temple can be saved.
Author's Notes
Well, no pressure for those two. lol.
Could somebody explain to me how in the world does something sink, if its already underwater? (Jack really said "the temple is sinking" in the movie and I'm having a hard time figuring out how.) Me and Jarkes are trying to figure that out.
Well, like I said, school is starting so updates are limited. Please understand that I have a life besides fanfiction.
Now to thank the reviewers.
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Jarkes
yup, the temple is sinking even though its underwater.
the shadow of hell
This chapter is longer. MUHAHAHA!
Brenediction
Hahahaha. If that happens, you'll be the first person that I caused to die. lol. Well, it is unique. I promise to send flowers over. lol.
Blissfully Disturbed
Heh, my story is starting to become popular. (me: happy) thanks for the review.
renniegirl
eh, no biggie. I understand that my stories can cause people to crave for more. Don't worry about it. I understand what's it like to wait for the next chapter/book. thanks for the review.
X-Spark
who am I? I'm JapanDreamer. Who are you? An insane guy who changes his OC every time. Lol. thanks for the review.
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thanks for reading and please review. I'll try to get updates ready next weekend.
-JapanDreamer
