Hehe, the week went by so slow. I'm feeling bored. Maybe this chapter will liven the week up? Probably not
Disclaimer: Pokemon to pokemon y OCs to OCs.
Reminders:
Girl 1: Very snippy and rude for a 12 year old, also a coordinator. Kalib is probably the reason why she lost the Floaroma Contest to Kara.
Amethyst and Carmine presents…
Episode 23
A Mess of Casualties Part 1/2
In this story we follow Lexi Schiffer as she ventures towards Solaceon Town. The miniature radio that was attached to her belt loop confirmed that she not only missed a Contest in that town, but a Pokéathlon as well. Her Snover looked up to her curiously as they trudged through the route to the town, probably only a half-hour away.
"There's always other contests," she says to her Pokémon as she ties up her multicolored hair in a ponytail whilst wiping the sweat off her neck, "We might not have…transportation, like those other snot-nosed rich kids, but at least we get to see the scenery longer than them." Just as she said that, they crossed a strange structure in the middle of the road. It looked like a mound that was built from adobe bricks, missing one little piece.
"(I'll never understand public art)" Frigid, her Snover, said from beside her.
"It's not art, it's a real monument…" she said, stepping closer.
"(And how do you know that?)"
"School" she shrugged, "It's the Hallowed Tower!"
"(So do we just…stare at it?)" Frigid inquired, staring at the stone structure.
"Oh shush Frigid, you're going to scare the tower away." She snapped. She stepped closer to see it better, but just one touch made it crumble. She and Frigid's breath hitched in their throats, both secretly wishing that that didn't just happen.
"(Hooooly crap we're dead…)" Frigid hissed as the atmosphere became eerily scary…
"Ditto…" Lexi agreed, just as a purple fog devoured them both.
"DAY 18, STOP YELLING AT ME RAVENN! Okay, so I left the Pokéathlon to get myself some mint ice cream, why is it so wrong? AND NO, MINT ICE CREAM IS NOT EVIL!
"Anyway, Noel's been pushing me earlier to get ready to leave Solaceon, but I keep telling him that I want to stay. And now he's really mad about it. I just want to relax! Veilstone can wait! Kalib and Shawn left an hour ago, although Kalib had to be dragged out by his brother. It's so weird how they're opposites.
"Oh, and do you think Tasha would come on "The Journey" with me? I hate the fact that we have two guys to one girl. Or 1 half's, because I still think Noel has his "masculine" problems…"
Kara stepped out of the Pokémon center, her starter Pokémon at her side. "…Where is everyone? I swear I was the last one to wake up this morning…" she muttered, have that "puking" sensation. Although she was with her Pokémon, she only felt at home when Noel was around, prodding her to leave the town. What if he left without her? The two rounded the back of the 'center, and the two let out their sighs of relief. The multipurpose golf cart was still there, chained to a bike rack.
"(Relieved to see the carts still here?)" Emp questioned as he followed his trainer to the back of the cart, where she pulled up her suitcase.
"I'm only relieved to see that my Famous Amos™ cookies are still here!" she cried out, ripping open the top of the bag, "Alright, let's head over to the Daycare. I'm pretty sure the guy's only reason to be there is to gawk at my cousin."
"(Ya know, they're smart guys, you need to give them more credit")
"I'll give them credit when they quit getting lost in the forest even though we have a PokéGear." She replied, and locked her suitcase before heading towards the Daycare straight across the road, her Prinplup on her heels. Unfortunately, her curiosity made her stop in the middle of the road when purple fog began to seep into her sandals. "Umm…am I crazy or am I seeing purple fog?"
"(Hmm…yes you're crazy.)"
"So you don't see the fog?"
"(Oh, I see it; I'm just confirming that you're crazy.)"
She glared at her Pokémon and turned to the fog which was coming from the south part of town, and beyond that she couldn't see anything.
"Hmm…should we go see Mary or OH GOD WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING COMING OUT OF THE FOG"
A figure emerged from the purple fog, it was a blonde/multicolored haired twelve-year old with a miffed Snover stuck to her neck. Lexi looked up from the fog, glaring at the fourteen year old through her fog-filled glasses.
"You gotta a little something…" Kara trailed off, pointing at her eyes,
"I know," Lexi hissed in response, "I just came back from—ugh, never mind." She trudged towards the Pokémon center,
"Umm…are you alright?" Kara asked hesitantly to her acquaintance, "You look sorta…out of it."
"Don't talk to me." Lexi snapped.
Wow, twelve and already PMSing Kara mused as she headed towards the Daycare. She and her Pokémon froze as they heard a body collapse on the ground. They slowly turned around, although Kara froze halfway. Her Pokémon looked up to her curiously,
"Please don't tell me there's a dead body behind us…"
"(I wouldn't say she's dead…)"
"Oh no! What do I do? Do I help her? Do I get some help? Do I walk away and pretend I didn't see anything? Oh the possibilities!" she cried out helplessly. Her Pokémon rolled his eyes and pushed her into the Daycare door, then went over to Lexi's unconscious body in the middle of the road and sat there. No one took account to the purple fog consuming the town.
Kara quickly ran past the same male receptionist from when she first entered the town three days ago, but screeched to a halt and ran back to the counter. "Where's Mary and Tasha?" she rasped. The receptionist pointed with a pen out that door where the fields were. She glared at him and hurried out the door, only to crash right into her cousin.
"Ow! Dammit Kara…" Mary groaned, getting up.
"Sorry sorry! It's just that there's someone unconscious in the middle of the road!" Kara said, although her cousin was unfazed.
Her cousin but a hand on her shoulder, "Kara, I know you're crazy, and sometimes we see things…"
"He was a real angel and I know it!" she cried in a high-pitched voice, "And there really is a person unconscious on the road!"
Mary sighed, "It's the Christmas party all over again…"
"Movemovemove!" said someone from behind them. The two purple-haired girls blocking the door turned to the person, who happened to be Slate wearing his coolio-aviator sunglasses. "I saw my friend on the lying in the middle of the road with a Prinplup beside her! SO MOVE!" But he didn't have time for them to step aside and just squeezed through their bodies, then rushed out the door, entering the purple fog that had obscured the whole town by now.
"Huh, so you were telling the truth." Mary said, making a 'doubted' face.
"Yep! Don't just stand there! Enter the weird purple fog!" Kara said, running to the door,
"Wait! Kara, you shouldn't go out there, the gas might be toxic!"
"So? All the people outside are fine, and if I die, I'll finally be able to talk to that angel dude again!" she retorted before dramatically slipping outside.
Mary stared at the door where her cousin had just been. "Well. That's one way to see death."
"AH! Lexi my love!" Slate cried out as he finally found Lexi and Emporor in the deep purple fog.
"Since when was she your love?" Kara spat, following him to the body.
"…I say stuff, don't expect me to mean them" He shrugged, and looked over Lexi. "Well, she's breathing." He reached for her arm, but her bright blue eyes snapped open out of nowhere.
"Don't. Touch me." She snarled, and pulled herself off the ground, swaying to the side as if she was still half asleep. Eventually she collapsed again, but he had caught her that time. Kara found Lexi's Snover asleep in his trainer's hoodie-hood, and carefully extracted him from it.
"What should we do with them?" She inquired, looking to Slate for advice.
"'Center." He stated, and slowly dragged the short girl towards the Center, "Can you get a pokéball out of my pocket?" he beckoned with his head to his jacket pocket, and she reached in and pulled out one of them and released the Pokémon from within. It was Lenze, the Pidgeot. "Umm, wow, I was actually hoping you'd get my Charizard…but whatever, um Lenze, can you clear this fog?"
Two swipes of a wing later and the fog was lifted, uncovering the Daycare, Center, and several neighborhoods. The exits to the town were still covered in purple fog though. The teens quickly dragged Lexi and her Snover to the Center, where Nurse Joy took the Pokémon, and told them to put Lexi in a room. Slate placed her onto a bed and asked Kara to toss him a blanket, to which she threw it at his face.
"Umm, ouch?" he said, lifting his eyebrows at her.
"Sorry, Lexi's crabbiness must've rubbed off" Kara shrugged, taking a seat at one of the chairs. "Where's Noel?"
"He…" Slate scratched his head, trying to recollect his memories, "Come to think of it, I have no idea where Noel is. He wasn't even at the Daycare with me this morning…"
"Strange…" she muttered, and reached for her PokéGear, but before she could dial, she heard a familiar voice down the hall saying…
"KARA! SLATE! KARA! SLATE!"
"In here man" Slate said, sticking his head out the hallway. Seconds later Noel arrived in the room out of breath, the tip of his sock-hat hitting his face. He swatted the fabric away,
"Did you guys see the mess of stuff outside?"he asked in a voice that sounded like he just ran a marathon.
"Oh no, we just assumed the sun gave off purple rays of sunlight" Kara deadpanned sarcastically.
"…Anyway, I think I know what happened! Me and Hound (the Houndoom) were investigating just outside the town, and we found that the Hallow Tower collapsed!"
"That weird looking volcano thing?" she inquired.
"Should we do something?" Slate asked, "I don't want to go anywhere till Lexi wakes up…"
"I'll stay here, you two have your adventure," Kara said, waving them off while enjoying her bag of cookies.
"Thanks you rock!" Noel said, and dragged Slate out the room.
Just as they left her PokéGear went off and she quickly dug through her bag to find it, and found it wedged between one of her hoodie's and a quickly forgotten notebook with a page full of log writings. She flipped it open and found her childhood friend, Tasha, on the other end.
"Hey Tasha!" she chirped.
"Don't 'hey Tasha' me!" Tasha snapped, making her flinch, "Get to the Daycare! Some strange periwinkle haired woman snuck onto the property and provoked all the Pokémon! We need help!"
"Alright alright, I'm on my way!" Kara said, and stuffed her device back into her bag, then looked back at Lexi. "I'll be right back Lexi, I just need to take care of something!"
Periwinkle hair huh? Sounds familiar…man; fainting girls, purple fogs, and pandemonium…what the HELL is going on?
Noel and Slate, with their respective pokémon, exited town to the forest route. Their journey to the Hallow Tower involved several casualties—one being that Slate fell down a muddy slope while Noel walked around it. Unfortunately he ran into a trainer who wanted to battle, which was quickly solved after one flamethrower from his Houndoom. Then, after another thirty minutes of walking around and into pit traps, they finally made it to the river side of the forest.
"Hmm...Water...I think we passed it" Slate said, his eyes trailing the water.
"No, we're just really close! Now tell me again why we didn't bring the Golf Cart to quicken this search party?" Noel asked, looking around the area.
"(Because you're a pansy and didn't want to get the tires dirty)" Hound the Houndoom replied.
"Who asked you?" Noel spat childishly, "Alright, I've surveyed the area like 1 and a half times, where is the Hallow Tower?"
"I dunno! All there is around here are fallen old grey bricks!" Slate whined, pointing to the pile behind him. Noel stared at the bricks then said,
"You're right, well, let's keep going!"
The two guys left for the route again, their pokémon staying behind. Hound sighed and turned to Lenze the Pidgeot;
"(Looks like we'll have to build it ourselves. Got any ideas?)"
"(Yeah...we need to evolve with hands!)" Lenze replied, attempting to pick up one of the bricks with his beak. This didn't end well.
"(Ooh, I got an even better idea, stay here)" Hound said, and dashed over to his trainer, who didn't get very far. Noel assumed that he was there the whole time and did nothing, and just-so-happened to miss when the black dog snatched a pokéball off his belt. Hound rushed back over to Lenze and dropped the ball onto the ground. "(Alright Kado, get out, now!)" He barked, poking the shiny object with his paw.
"(Can he get out on his own?)" Lenze wondered.
"(Of course he can! He always sneaks out at midnight and steals all of Kara's food)"
"(That would explain why she hasn't exploded yet)" the bird commented. The two continued to stare at the pokéball, which did nothing like the inanimate object it was. "(Did you get the right pokéball?)"
"(...Damn, I guess not.)" Hound muttered, and took the pokéball with his teeth, and attempted to pry it open with his claws. Ten seconds later and it finally opened, a white energy flying to the side and forming into—not Kado the Alakazam—but Genji the Gengar.
"(What the—where's Noel? Oh great, now I'm stuck with you idiots.)" She muttered, collapsing onto the ground to sit.
"(Ugh, you're such a girl. I despise the day you were ever captured)" Hound scoffed.
"(Jeez Hound, why don't you tell me how you really feel?)" She spat.
"(Umm...guys? Can we get back to the matter at hand?)" Lenze asked, feeling left out and awkward. This wouldn't have happened if he had just followed his trainer like the voice inside of him was saying.
"(Whatever)" the two pokémon muttered, facing the opposite to each other childishly.
After several minutes of stacking bricks together in a sloppy manner, the Hollow Tower was restored. Unfortunately, the purple fog that blew from the top of it continued to blow. If Lenze was Slate, Hound was Noel, and Genji was the feminine side of Noel, then they all would've fled. Unfortunately they couldn't because their trainers returned from the pathway a few seconds later, staring at all of them.
"When did..." Noel started,
"Who cares, we found the Hollow Tower!" Slate cheered. Noel paid no mind to that and happily claimed his Gengar's pokéball, which was inching towards the river only a few steps away. Slate and his large bird examined the brick structure, staring at the cup-sized hole in the middle of it. "...Is it supposed to have a hole?"
"Hmm..." Noel took out his crimson colored Pokédex out of his pocket, then began pressing buttons while pointing it at the brick tower, "Oh, yea there's a piece missing." he showed the picture of the completed tower to his friend and the pokémon, who began to look around for the missing piece.
"You're not going to find it" said a low, sickly voice a few yards away. The guys turned to the figure in the purple fog, Noel screaming like a girl just because it was creepy. It was Lexi, her hoodie over her as if she was shivering cold in the July heat.
"Lexi!" Slate gasped, "What are you doing here? You're sick!"
"I'm" cough, "not!" she protested, hurrying over to them, "All of this is my fault idiot!"
"It's your fault and you're calling him the idiot?" Noel scoffed, crossing his arms. She glared at him and rummaged through her pockets, taking out a grey cup-like rock with a Wobbufet face on it.
"This is the missing piece." she said, holding it up to their faces.
"That's an odd keystone!" Slate cried out, "Where did you...?"
"I found it while crossing Mt. Coronet..." she trailed off, "I kind of tripped over it."
"Smooth" Noel commented, but was quickly glared at by the holder of the stone.
"Last night I found this tower and it crumbled, and a strange pokémon popped out and attacked my Snover and I. If we put the stone back...maybe its spirit will cease the fog?"
"Sounds good," Slate nodded, "Go ahead and put it in."
"But what if it crumbles again?" she asked hesitantly, trying to stay as far from the creepy structure as possible.
"We've got nothing to lose!" Noel said snatching the stone, "Save us you piece of crap!" he stuffed it into the hole, and there was a click. The world seemed to pause and there was a slow breathing—then the tower shot a pink beam into the sky.
"We're screwed" Lexi squeaked.
Ha, this chapter is weird~ooh ooh, let's try something! If we can get 4+ reviews for this chapter, then I'll update the next chapter Monday! YAY! The wait is almost over!
Oh, and thanks to Teddiursa97 and CaramelldansenXLove for reviewing last chap! :D
Preview of Next Chapter because of this short one:
"Don't worry guys, I'll fix this!" Mary said confidently.
"No you won't!" Kara yelled, half in pain and half in desperation, "You can't fix everything Mary! You may be strong, but sometimes you take in more than your perfectness can take!"
