Author's note: Just to let you know...The beginning is set later for the boys then for the girls. Basically, the girls pick up where they left off, while the guys, since they weren't really exciting, start later. You'll understand! JUST READ!
Also, Pokémon speak in English, since only a few special people can speak Pokémon. So, don't be alarmed when a Charizard starts talking, ok? Plus, since their speaking English...I'm writing that now, and it sounds really weird...So I'm trying to make it sound better by using their nicknames. This will probably be the only time where you can really get a sense of each Pokémon's personality. Listen up!
Signed,Me
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Seth and Kip were sitting back behind the rest, both frantic with worry about the girls. Kieran went back up to them after playing, though not his first choice, dolls with some 4 year olds.
"What are you guys so worried about?" Kieran said, noticing the looks of worry on both boy's faces.
"We're not worried!!" They both said at the same time, trying to cover up their expressions. Kieran smiled evilly.
"Someone's got the hots for a couple of girls," Kieran said slyly.
"No!" Both boys said, their voices cracking. Kieran burst out laughing.
"I knew it!" Kieran cheered. "So...Who's got who?"
"NEITHER HAVE EITHER!" They both said, once again their voices cracking in unison. This only made Kieran laugh harder, causing him to roll around on the ground in laughter. Both boys turned very bright shades of red, because now everyone was staring at them.
And just then, a humungous tremor ran through from the volcano, throwing everyone off their feet.
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"Come on! Hurry! We've only got an hour and a half left!"
They were still running, trying desperately to escape from the maze that was Mt. Chimney. Left...Right...It didn't matter. They always hit solid rock. Many times they tried to break through, but nothing worked against the super-hot walls of stone around them. Some of the kids were starting to cry, while others were just really quiet. But a few, including the boy and Tami, along with some others, were being mature and trying to help the others calm down and were leading the pack, running alongside Lily and Gaby.
"How...Much...Further...?" The boy panted.
"I'm not sure...All we can do is hope to find a way out soon..." Lily said.
But back at the end of the line, a serious development was occurring. Gaby had been ok so far, but the toxic fumes were getting to her, and it was getting serious. She was coughing loudly, spitting up blood every now and then.
"You ok?" Tami asked, running up beside Gaby.
"No...I'm not ok...Get Lily..." Gaby sputtered. Tami nodded and bolted ahead, trying to catch the Pokémon-mounted crew.
"HEY!!!!" She yelled, trying to get her attention. "Your friend's in trouble!!!" Lily stopped, then turned to the boy.
"Lead them on. I've got to help my friend."
"Right."
The boy led the rest of them ahead as Lily doubled back. Tami was now kneeling beside Gaby, who was breathing heavily and coughing. Lily landed and kneeled on her other side.
"Gaby! What's wrong?"
"Damn...Fumes..." Gaby said. She coughed again. "Hard...To breath..."
"You're gonna be ok!" Lily said. Thinking fast, she undid Gaby's bandana. Taking it off revealed that her hair underneath was a brilliant white. The rest of her hair was covered in soot.
Lily then tied the bandana around Gaby's mouth, acting as a filter. Gaby kept coughing, but she could breath now.
"Thanks," Gaby said. Lily helped her up. Then...
"HEY!!!!!! I FOUND AN EXIT!!!!"
The yell echoed through the volcano. Everyone bolted to where the voice had came from. Sure enough, there was a bright opening to the outside. The Pokémon riders were already outside.
"Yay!!!!!" Everyone yelled. They all jumped happily out of the volcano, happy to see the sky again...Or not. The whole sky was dark, covered in dark fumes coming from the volcano. Still...It was great to be outside.
"Ok! Role call!" Said the teacher. She counted everyone up, but gasped when she reached the last person. She counted again, and then one more time.
"Oh no! There's someone missing!" She said. Gaby and Lily looked at each other.
"Just one?"
"Yes, but you'll never make it!"
"Just try us!" Gaby said. "Dragonsong, start taking kids down the mountain. Hurry! Try to find the others!" The Dragonite looked at her worriedly. "GO!!!"
"You too Arrow! Get going!" Lily said to her Salamence. But both Pokémon would not budge.
"NOW!!!"
The Pokémon, against their will, left their masters. They flew down the mountain, each Pokémon carrying 6 or 7 kids each. Lily and Gaby turned to each other.
"Let's go."
They ran inside. Tami spotted them and tried to follow, but the teacher stopped her.
"No Tami! You can't follow them!"
"But they'll be killed!"
"There's nothing we can do! And it's Kyo's only hope!"
Gaby and Lily ran through the volcano, calling all the way. But no answer was heard.
"We'll never find him...or her...It!" Lily said, yelling some more. "If it's unconscious, it can answer, right?"
"We just have to hope!" Gaby said. "If I only had my powers...I could sense where it was!"
They kept running, calling to no avail. Then....
"Help!! Someone, help!"
The voice of a boy rang through the volcano. Unfortunately, it came from all directions, making it impossible to find the source.
"Hey!!" Lily yelled. "We're here! Stay calm and tell us where you are!"
"I fell through the ground, I'm in a cave somewhere on the trail!" Came the answering voice. "Please, it's starting to cave in! Help!"
"Hole in the floor...That gap!" Gaby said. She started running back, and, making a left turn and running for a little more, found a large hole in the ground that was extremely deep. Lily caught up with her.
"You may have good hearing, Lily," Gaby said, staring down into the hole and focusing her vision. "But my eyesight's a lot better then yours!"
"You found me?" Came the voice from inside the hole. "Great! Can you get me out?"
"Coming!" Gaby said. Then she jumped down into the whole. Lily couldn't see a thing.
Then Gaby reappeared, a boy in her arms. She set him down, just as the volcano gave a tremendous tremor and shook everyone, even the ones sitting miles away on the hill.
"We'd better get out of here...There's less then an hour left," Lily said. They nodded and started running.
Time was ticking. Many more tremors hit them, some barely felt, others throwing them to the ground. Eventually, they reached the exit tunnel. The Dragonite and the Salamence were waiting, and all the people were gone.
"Great job, Dragonsong!" Gaby said, spotting the Pokémon before everyone else. "Now..."
But Gaby never finished that sentence. For at that moment, a full-scale earthquake occurred, throwing them all into each other. And to everyone's horror, a resounding crack was heard, and at the entrance, a cave-in was happening.
This was their only way out! They tried to get up, but were shook down again. Gaby, fighting the restraint, grabbed the boy, levitated up with all her might, and floated forward just enough to throw him out the exit and onto her Dragonite. Then, all the lights went out.
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"Whoa! Do you feel that?" Seth said, grabbing onto the rock he had been sitting on for support as a tremor went through the ground.
"Yeah! What the hell is going on?" Kieran said, grabbing onto Seth since he hadn't claimed a rock (Kip had stolen the other one). Then is stopped.
"The girls...I have a bad feeling about this..." Kip said. "It's like...It's like Gaby's not there anymore...No Telekinetic energy at all."
"That can't be good..." Seth said, looking at the mountain. Just then, a crowd of about 30 people came running up from the hill.
"You made it!" Seth said, standing up. Before anyone could move, however, Tami ran forward and nearly jumped on Seth.
"Go back to that volcano!" She yelled. Seth stared at her.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"Your friends...They've gone back into the volcano! Someone got lost, and..."
But she was cut off as a Salamence and a Dragonite landed right in front of them, scattering the people. They were in hysterics, and a boy was on his back.
"Kyo! You made it!" The teacher said, getting the boy off the Dragonite's back. But the boy pointed to the Pokémon, who was trying wildly to get their attention.
"What?" Tami said suddenly, her eyes glowing orange around the edges. "Gaby and Lily are trapped in the mountain from a cave in...Volcano about to blow in half an hour...Help them..."
"Telepathy!" Seth said. "Gaby's one hell of a trainer if she can teach a Dragonite...Wait, trapped?!" He realized mid-sentence what the girl was saying. "ACK!" He had a thought of Lily in pain and trapped in a cave, alone.
"T-Trapped?" Kip said franticly, imagining Gaby trapped all alone in a dark cave.
"NO!!!" Both boys said at the same time.
"This can't be good..." Kieran said.
"Please...You have to get up there and help them..." Said the boy, looking up at Seth. Seth nodded.
"Right. Let's go. Everyone! Just stay calm, cover your mouths with a cloth or something, and you'll be fine!"
Seth jumped back on his Flygon, just as Kip and Kieran mounted their Pokémon. Then they took off, flying towards the mountain.
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"What...What happened? Lily? You there?" Gaby said, sitting up. It was almost pitch dark, but the little light that was glowing from the walls reflected in her eyes (Like a cat's), she could see the cave normally. And she saw Lily stirring in a corner of the cave.
"Lily? You ok?" Gaby said, going over to her. Lily sat up, rubbing her head.
"Where are we? I can't see!" Lily said.
"It's ok, it's just the dark. I cave no idea where we are."
"The cave in...We must be somewhere near the entrance. If I can see, I can tell us where we are...Go, Re-...My Pokéballs!!!!"
Sure enough, Lily's Pokéballs were gone, as well as Gaby's. Gaby looked around, and found two. They released their Pokémon, and found that Lily had her Xatu and Gaby had Pidgeot.
"Where are the rest...?" Lily said. Gaby looked around again, but there were not Pokéballs inside the tiny cave. When she pushed against the opening to look for more, it wouldn't budge.
"Uh...Lily...We've got a bit of a problem..." Gaby said, pushing harder against the rock.
"Don't tell me...Blocked in?"
"Yup. And I can tell you this: I have no idea how we got here, but we are no where NEAR the entrance. And at this rate, our Pokémon are probably too far to call. And without my Psychic powers, we're in serious trouble."
"Yes, this is a bad thing. And...Damn, PsyFly's attacks won't work in here either! If all Psychic activity is down..."
"And my Pidgeot...Well, Trouble might be able to something off...But not enough to get us out of-"
Gaby cut off suddenly in a coughing fit. Lily, using her tail as a torch, could see that the bandana was so covered in soot, it was just going into her mouth and not stopping it at all.
"This is not good...Gaby, if you're sensitive to this stuff, you'll be unconscious soon, and dead not long after that...But that's not the biggest problem. I'd say it's a safe bet we were out for about 8 minutes, and..."
"There's...Only about...22 minutes left, then..." Gaby said, coughing though the sentence.
"Right...We've got to get out of here..."
"Let's...Just hope...Dragonsong...Got the message..." Gaby said. Lily looked at her. Gaby smiled, then coughed again. "I told...Dragonsong...To relay the message...To Tami...To give to the others..."
"Gaby, we may get out of here yet!" Lily said, standing up. She used her tail as a torch, surveyed the wall of rock, and gave a small smile. "Let's GO!"
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In another part of the volcano, 7 Pokéballs laid. They all opened at the same time, releasing a Meganium, a Skarmory, a Lugia, a Swellow, a Murkrow, a Aerodactyl, and a Charizard. Fortunately, it was a large enough cave to hold all of them comfortably. They looked at each other, and could see, thanks to the light reflecting off the Lugia and the Skarmory, plus the flame burning on the Charizard.
"What...What happened?" Slicksilver said, looking around the room.
"All I remember is being really shook up..." Said the Murkrow.
"Then we all just came out here..." Said the Swellow.
"What are you?" Said all of Gaby's Pokémon unanimously at the sight of the strange flying Pokémon.
"I'm a Swellow. And most of you are unfamiliar too...And none of us know each other's names."
"Well...I'm Slicksilver," Said the Skarmory.
"I'm Affection," Said the Meganium.
"Name's Silversong," Said the Lugia.
"Well, I'm Rocker," Said the Aerodactyl.
"BraveWing," Said the Swellow.
"My name's Darkbeak," Said the Murkrow.
"And I'm Red," Said the Charizard.
"Well, now that we're all introduced...Wait, where's Dragonsong? And Trouble? And Sapphire?!" Affection said suddenly.
"And PsyFly and Arrow are missing as well!" Rocker said.
"That kid Kieran's got Sapphire...And Gaby let the kids borrow Dragonsong...But Trouble should be here..." Silversong said.
"That's right, Arrow was helping that Dragonite...Dragonsong, as you called him. But PsyFly was in a Ball too," Red said.
"And they're not here...I'd sense something..." Silversong said. "And It's so hard to use my Psychic powers here...It's like there's a barrier..."
"Right now, I think we should be more worried about our masters then anything else!" Affection said.
"Right. Where could they be?" Darkbeak said.
"Wait...Lily taught us this trick a while ago..." Red said. "If we all concentrate, maybe we can read our master's energy!"
"Right. Let's give it a try!"
Gaby's Pokémon huddle together, concentrating hard on their master's resounding and powerful energy, while Lily's Pokémon concentrated on Lily's fiery attitude. Lily's four instantly felt a strong will, and saw a picture of their master preparing to use an attack.Gaby's three felt a very weak presence, extremely sick, and only Silversong had felt this before, and that had been when he had found her.
"They're trapped!"
"And Gaby's in bad shape!"
"We have to find them, and quick! Otherwise, Gaby will die!"
