The annoying music seemed to fade as they approached a tall, solemn tower that stood, protected by a stoned wall. Dawn eagerly suggested they explore it but they desperately wanted to get to the next town: make some progress.
Solaceon Town was small and farm-like, with lots of random cowfolk wandering about. The first person they met, however, was not a cowpoke. At the gates of the town, which was just a picket fence, was a tall boy with poofy hair.
"Welcome to Solaceon Town!" he said in a badly disguised happy voice; he had a sableye who waved its arms unenthusiastically.
"Can I interest you in some miltank milk? We steal it from up north." he said with a blank smile. Dawn immediately soured.
"No: I hate milk."
"Dawn, you're so…" Justyna ended her sentence with a disgruntled meow noise since there are no adjectives to describe everything Dawn is and isn't.
"Right. We'll be going." Dawn brushed past the boy with Anna and Justyna, who waved a small goodbye.
"Please buy some milk!" the boy pleaded in muted desperation.
They went to the Pokemon Centre to heal up real quick and then went to explore the town. It had its own newspaper; they walked into the small farmhouse, which was supposedly its headquarters. Inside were only two guys and not a printing press in sight. The manger man saw them and approached enthusiastically.
"How would you three like a job?" He said, quickly shaking their hands and getting to the point.
"Uh, we're pokemon trainers." Justyna said in a very as-a-matter-of-facty voice, "We make enough money."
"Well then it'll be very easy! You just bring me pokemon to observe and then I can write my newspaper." he said eagerly.
"Sounds kind of boring." Dawn pointed out. Paul nodded and looked around at the unimpressive room.
"Please." the man's voice suddenly got very desperate. "No one brings me any pokemon. My newspaper's dying!" he cried out the last words and fell to the floor. They promptly left.
"That could have been really awkward…" Anna said, motioning a turtle with her hands.
The rest of the town was just a bunch of houses whose inhabitants were cowboys and cowladies with an abundance of bidoofs. They had to leave, otherwise Justyna would have destroyed them out of her irrational hatred for the beaver-mouse things. The town was incredibly unremarkable. The only perk was a large farm that made up the west part of town: the Day Care Centre. The old people there seemed to be making enough money and calmly invited them into their house for some tea. Anna, Dawn, and Justyna let out their pokemon to entertain the ones at the Day Care. After a good two hours of tea, they decided to get out and squeeze some training into the remainder of the day. The old couple kindly asked if they wanted to leave any pokemon in their care.
"Good idea!" Justyna exclaimed. She released Silver; the little ralts looked nervously around at the full room.
"I caught him the other day and all he knows is Growl." Justyna scowled, "I'm sure he can learn a thing or two here." The oldsters smiled, picked him up and took him out to the farm. As Justyna, Dawn and Anna left with Paul, Riley and Obama remaining outside their pokeballs, Silver slithered along the fence of the farm, watching as they left.
Paul felt bad for the little pokemon; he was young and lonely and had already developed a bond with its trainer, which was now being severed. When ralts couldn't follow them any further and Justyna naively waved back as he whimpered from behind the fence, Paul felt his demeanor change drastically. The little ralts frowned and its aura burned like an angry women's: that's really, really mad. Paul shivered and Riley jumped; they fast walked after their trainers.
They trained for the rest of the day on the north side of town, which was a large, tall-grass field. It started to get dark and they were left with no choice but to return to Solaceon. They discovered that the town didn't have a hotel; they should have checked that first. And on top of that, it started to rain; so camping was out of the question. They took shelter under an awning hanging over the Pokemart because in such a small town, the Pokemon Centre closed at eight PM.
They were startled by the door opening; and emerged from it the poofy-haired boy who had greeted them when they first entered the unextraordinary town.
"Well, well, well," he laughed from under an umbrella, "What are you guys doing here?"
Dawn soured again: like a slab of meat. "We need a place to stay."
"Oh and I'm going to invite you in?" he said in a lightly amused voice.
"Yes." Anna said in her monotone voice. She drilled into him with her monotone eyes. Justyna tried but with no avail. Dawn was very successful in the art.
"Fine." the boy shouted, backing away from the girls.
They followed him home where he made them dinner and then gave up his bed and couch to them and slept on the floor.
"I'm Cody, by the way." he said as he fell asleep against a puffy sandslash that he owned. His sableye, masquerading in a black hat and dark cape, kept watch from his side.
Anna and Dawn murmured their acknowledgement and Justyna snored. In the morning, she had to be informed what his name was again.
Even though he had to slave to make them breakfast, Cody was shocked when they told him that they were leaving.
"Why?"
"There's nothing to do in this town." Dawn said, drinking some G2.
"Except for the Day Care Centre and these chadd waffles." Justyna stuffed herself with them because the narrator would make sure she didn't put on a single pound.
"What about the ruins?" Cody whined, "There's this old temple on the other side of town filled with unknown."
"Unknown?" Anna asked.
"They're basically just big eyes that have limbs that make them look like letters." Cody explained, "There's the whole alphabet! It's fun to try catch them all; though I've never done it." He made a sad Cody face.
"We should try and get them all!" Justyna exclaimed, "And we'll name them after the letters that they are, but in French!" Because everyone knows the alphabet is different in France.
After dragging them to the Pokemart, which Cody owned, to buy a bunch of pokeballs, Cody led the girls to the ruins. Their entrance was guarded by a large stone statue of a deer-like pokemon with tentacles.
"It's Arceus: the God of Pokemon. Which is complete bullshit, of course. It's just like the FSM!" Cody exclaimed.
"I'm starting to like him." Dawn whispered to Anna.
Not enough, however, to take him with them. The three insisted, for some absurd reason, that they were going into the caves alone.
"You don't know where you're going! You'll get completely lost!" Cody declared. The girls paid him no heed and vanished into the dark, but still light enough to see dark, cave.
At first they wandered the cave aimlessly: sticking close and having Makowca and Piotr lead the way with their brightly lit shoulders and tail. Then they suddenly noticed that there were millions of unknown in the cave: floating above their heads. They quickly caught one of each in one swarm and then had to move somewhere else. Catching them became exceedingly more difficult; they lost track of which letters they had already caught and the constantly moving and buzzing swarms of the creatures were enough to melt your brain.
They eventually decided to keep tabs; they stopped and, by their pokemon's light, tried to recall all the unknown they had already caught. They needed only seven more letters; if they had counted correctly which they hadn't. They searched desperately for the letters they needed among the shifting and buzzing cloud of unknown. It wasn't even buzzing: it was an annoying pixilated sound that rang like sharp bells in their ears.
"Found him!" Justyna exclaimed; she had spotted the elusive letter Q.
"I think that's an R." Dawn whined, tired from thought.
"No, it's a ku!" Justyna ran after the letter, which floated away from its group and down a stone flight of stairs. Makowca, and the main source of light, disappeared behind her. Anna and Dawn stumbled over tiny Piotr and down the stairs.
It seemed like those stairs were a giant hole. They fell down, down, down until they collapsed on the floor. Justyna was looking around in anguish. The unknown slipped out of the stone wall and laughed in its bell-pixel way. Makowca used Flamethrower in its direction but it had already disappeared. It appeared several times more, taunting Justyna until she fell to her knees, fraught; Makowca continued to attack the wall out of determination.
"I think we're lost." Anna said in a quiet voice too monotone even for her. Dawn was terrified. Paul was scared too. The ruins and the unknown power, coincidently I pun terms, weighed him down so that he was only hovering over the ground. He eventually drooped down and lay on Dawn's head.
"Light!" Justyna called out. It wasn't a jolteon; it was actual light. They must have been in there for hours because the single ray of light was like a match to drywood. A drop of dim, white light trickled in through the ceiling of the cave. It was a tremendously small opening; it was high above the floor but collapsed rocks enabled an easy climb. Dawn tried to get Paul to float up there but he refused and just lay there.
"I gots it!" Justyna said in a strained voice of excitement. She quickly released Riley and commanded the small, thin pokemon to climb. Dawn, inspired, let out Obama and ordered the sleek, young eevee to follow.
Justyna was about to remind them that they had to get help when Riley and Obama both started to glow white. The light was blinding in the dark cave, making the remarkable event just annoying. It faded and revealed, in the pale light coming from the outside, a confuzzled lucario and umbreon. Dawn and Anna were fraught with confusion as well.
"Don't umbreon evolve at night and lucario during the day?" Anna asked.
"Yeah," Dawn confirmed, "How the heck did that happen? And I didn't even have Obama for that long."
"They're too big to fit through!" Justyna cried, burying her face in her hands, "We're doomed!"
Their doom was averted: by someone who could have erased the situation completely. The small hole started to get larger as a sandslash clawed it apart. A sableye looked down from the hole and waved lightly, donning his hat and cloak. Cody stood next to them and gazed down as well.
"You guys look like you're in a jam." he laughed heartily.
They were all safely rescued and returned to Cody's house where he had the even harder task of making food for them and their exhausted pokemon.
"Did you catch all the unknown?" he had the nerve to ask.
Dawn soured: like something very unchadd.
Cody noticed their newly evolved pokemon.
"I thought umbreons were at night and lucario-?"
"We know." Dawn cut him off, "We have no idea what happened."
"Well, when I got up there, when you say your pokemon evolved, it was twilight: almost night and still kind of day." Cody pondered, "That must be what happened. That's pretty awesome; there must be only a handful of times out of a million that that happens. It must have looked awesome."
"I just wanted the light to get the hell away." Dawn whined and drowned herself in her dinner ,which secretly was milk-based. Rain started to pour outside and all but Kisa, Riceball, and the long-forgotten Golduck stayed inside and enjoyed the meal.
DONE! I like Cody :D and I really wanted to evolve those two so I came up with this scenario. Once again if you don't enjoy it, it is two in the morning right now and I need to get the story moving until I get to the actual good stuff.
