Kates' P.O.V
I woke up to the sound of someone sneezing, along with the sound of someone humming worriedly. I turned over in my bed to see Keith was red in the face, but sat up, while Rythmi was holding a cloth to his forehead trying to get him to lie back down.
I looked at the two in confusion, before Keith sneezed.
'I think I'm coming down with something.'
'Well, you're not out of the normal temperature range yet.'
I sighed as those lines played through my head, Keith had caught something, question was, is it a normal cold or something worse?
"Morning Kate," Rythmi smiled as she saw me before going back to dabbing Keiths' forehead.
"I don't need looking after," Keith growled as he stood up, before he staggered and fell to his knees, I shook my head as I looked at the boy in front of me before getting out of bed and kneeling at his side.
"Want me to make some ice?" Glaceon asked, I simply nodded as I placed my hands on Keiths' shoulders, forcing him to look at me.
"I don't need looking after," he muttered as he tried to stand, I frowned as I stood with him before forcing him to sit on his bed.
"Keith," I said, my voice low, dangerous even. Keith looked at me before sighing; he would be losing a pointless battle if he tried arguing with me.
"Hey, you three up?" Barlow asked as he walked into the room, we were all in our Ranger uniforms, considering we had no pyjamas to sleep in last night.
"Yeah, we're up, but Keith's caught something," Ryth stated, I just shook my head as Keith tried to stand again.
"I don't need looking after," he growled, I looked at him before sitting next to him on the bed.
"Keith, be reasonable," I said as I forced him back down by his shoulders.
"I am, I don't need looking after," he growled as he looked at me, my eyes narrowed, this wasn't Keith, something was wrong with him.
"Rythmi, I'm gonna call Mew, I'll have her teleport you and Keith back to Base safely," I stated, Rythmi nodded, I just counted down from three on my fingers.
"Did someone say my name?" Mew appeared when I got to one, I smiled at the energetic pokemon.
"Yeah I did, I need you to teleport Ryth and Keith back to the Ranger Base, Keith's not very well," I answered, Mew nodded before smiling widely.
"Want me to come back for you and the big guy?" she asked again, I smiled a little.
"No thanks, we'll walk, I need to show Kate something anyway," Barlow stated, Mew nodded before turning to Ryth and Keith.
"Ready to go?" she asked, Rythmi smiled as I stood from the bed next to Keith, he looked at me with pleading eyes, though I don't know why.
"Yeah, let's go," Rythmi answered before looking at me, "We'll see you at the Base Kate," she smiled; I nodded before the two were teleported to the Base. I couldn't get the image of Keiths' scared eyes out of my head, why was he scared?
"Well, we should head out, c'mon Kate," Barlow ordered, I nodded as I followed the older man out the room to the reception. I said goodbye to Jackie, who was heading to the Kanto Region for a while, he wasn't sure when he'd be back, neither was I.
"Woah, I didn't expect it to be this bright," I stated as I held my hand above my eyes, I began to feel light headed as the space around me began to spin, "Here we go again," I groaned as Barlow stood next to me, I fell to my knees before my vision steadied itself.
"Kate, are you alright?" Barlow asked, I nodded as I stood up, Barlow looked around us.
"Where are we?" he asked, I sighed as I looked around, "Space?" Barlow asked as he looked at the earth, to say his voice held shock was an understatement.
"Eh, somewhere between space and heaven I think," honestly, I had no idea where we disappeared to every time Arceus brought me here.
"Kate," speak of the devil, or God, or whatever, you know what I mean. I turned to look at the pokemon, which always seemed to be the same size as me whenever I came here now. Barlow turned to look at the pokemon; his mouth fell open before he dropped to his knees.
"You have the same reaction to Kate as well," I looked around to see Mewtwo; I smiled as the pokemon walked over to us.
"How?" Barlow whispered as he looked at me.
"Don't look at me, I didn't bring us here, don't think I could if I wanted to," I stated, Barlow nodded as he stood up; Arceus looked at him before turning back to me.
"How is it every time I call you, someone else comes with you?" he asked, I shrugged.
"Luck?" I asked, Arceus shook his head as he laughed a little.
"I felt the disturbance yesterday Kate, you're not injured are you?" Arceus asked, I looked at myself.
"No, Celebi healed me pretty good, but my back may reopen since I'm the one who healed that," I stated, Arceus nodded his head.
"The people we feared may find out about you have found out," Arceus stated, I looked at him in confusion.
"What are you…oh," I answered as I looked at the earth, "Well, I have people to protect me and I can hold my own," I stated, Glaceon nodded as he stood next to me, Arceus looked at me, then Glaceon, then Barlow, who looked confusedly between the two of us.
"What's going on?" Barlow asked, I looked at him.
"Long story short, Max found out I'm Summerlands' Gift," I answered, Barlow gasped, "Oh and so did Phantom," I added, again Barlow gasped.
"People who are causing destruction in Almia will also know it now, so you need to be on the lookout," Arceus explained, "Also, Keith is not ill, he's fighting down what Darkrai's doing to him," he added, I looked at him in confusion.
"What do you mean?" I asked, Arceus sighed, I think.
"I mean Darkrai is escaping form the Shadow Crystal, because of this, Keiths' powers are beginning to affect him, keep a close eye on him, or he could do something he'll regret later on," Arceus answered, I nodded.
"Keith has powers?" Barlow asked, I looked at him with wide eyes.
"Er, yeah, but let's just not talk about it, ok?" I asked Barlow cocked a brow but nodded his head; I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, now Kate, I leave the rest of this journey up to you, if you ever have any questions use this," Arceus said as he handed me a white, gold, green and red stone, it was attached onto a silver chain. I looked at Arceus in shock, the pokemon just smiled at me.
"Consider it a birthday gift and way to contact me," Arceus said, I could hear the smile in his voice, I nodded as I slipped it over my head.
"Alright, thank you Arceus," I smiled; the world around me went blurry again, only this time I didn't feel like fainting. When I looked around, we were back outside the Ranger Union, just a few steps down.
"Well, that was interesting," Barlow muttered.
"Tell me about it, now you can contact Arceus any time you like," Glaceon smiled as we continued walking, I nodded.
"Yeah, but I'm more worried about Keith," I sighed as I looked ahead of us. We walked from the Union to the bottom of the remaining steps; a tremor began as we stepped onto the grass.
"Woah," I muttered as I looked around, Barlow did the same thing as me.
"Earthquake?" Barlow asked as he looked around, my eyes narrowed.
"No way near, something's not right a Peril Cliffs," I stated, I could sense where the tremors were coming from but I had no idea what was going on.
"How do you know that?" Barlow asked, I looked at him.
"Dude, I'm you know what, I can sense it," I stated as I looked at him, Barlow sweat dropped.
"Oh yeah," was all he said, Glaceon shook her head, as did I before we began walking towards the cliffs again.
We got to a cabin a woman lived in before another tremor hit. This one was stronger than the last, Glaceon made a pillar of ice to us to hold onto. Once the tremor passed we let go of the ice, I looked at it before hitting it three times, couldn't have it in the way of people could we?
A woman in her mid-twenties came out of the cabin, once she saw us, she sighed. The woman had brown hair and was wearing a brown suit.
"Thank goodness you two are alright," she smiled, we looked at her.
"If you don't mind us asking, what's going on?" Barlow asked, the woman frowned.
"I'm not entirely sure, there was this man, he looked like a scientist, he had two large pokemon with him as he took off to the Peril Cliffs just behind here, but once he was gone these tremors started to happen," the woman explained, Barlow nodded his head, sweet a mission.
"Alright, we'll check it out, c'mon Kate," Barlow ordered, I nodded before following him to the cliffs.
"Aw c'mon Kate, I'm an ice type, I CAN'T CLIMB!" Glaceon yelled, Barlow looked at me.
"What's Glaceon yelling about?" Barlow asked, I sighed.
"She's an ice type, what dya think she's yelling about?" I answered with my own question.
"Can't climb," Barlow answered, I nodded my head before looking around, "Well, she could always go back to Base," Barlow shrugged, I sighed, that would be for the best.
"Alright, MEW!" I called.
"Jheeze no need to yell so loudly," the pink pokemon muttered before looking at me.
"I need you to Take Glaceon back to Base, she can't climb cliffs," I stated, Mew nodded as she went over to Glaceon, "While you're at Base, keep a close eye on Keith, you heard what Arceus said," I ordered, Glaceon nodded before Mew teleported away with her.
"Well, let's get going," Barlow ordered.
"NOT WITHOUT ME!" Barlow and I turned to the source of the voice, Keiths' Buizel.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, Buizel looked at me before jumping onto my shoulders.
"Keith sent me to help you, since you sent Glaceon to watch him," he answered, I nodded before looking at Barlow.
"Are we gonna have more pokemon pop out of nowhere, or can we get started?" he asked, I looked at Buizel, who shrugged.
"We can go," I answered, Barlow nodded before we began climbing the cliffs. When we got to the top of the cliff, I saw a large leaf thing. I cocked a brow as I looked at Barlow, who was clapping his hands and jumping like a kid on Christmas.
"And you and Keith thought I was weird," Buizel whispered, I laughed a little as I looked at the pokemon.
"SPRINGY GRASS!" Barlow yelled as he jumped on it, the grass then flung him to the other side of the cliff, I hadn't noticed the little gap between the two, "C'mon Kate, your turn," Barlow smiled, I gulped before getting onto the grass, once I was on the grass flung me to the other side.
"WAAAAAAAA!" Buizel yelled as he clung to my shoulders, tears streamed out of his eyes as he did so. Luckily I was skilled enough to land on my feet, though that might have been from the cat-like pokemon in me.
"Nice one Kate," Barlow said as he gave me a thumbs up, he then carried on jumping around like a kid on Christmas.
"Never again, NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Buizel yelled, I held my ears as he yelled before following Barlow.
"I haven't been on Springy Grass since I was a kid, I always used to play on it, they're so much fun, aren't they Kate?" Barlow asked, I shrugged.
"They're alright," I answered.
"I hate them," Buizel glared, Barlow laughed at him, could he?
"No I can't understand him, I could tell by the glare that he hates them," Barlow answered my unasked question, I smiled.
"Alright then," I answered as we carried on walking.
We scowered through a number of cliffs, caught a number of pokemon, avoided Arceus knows how many Gligar and jumped from cliff to cliff and guess what…we STILL hadn't found the bastard.
I sighed as we came to another cliff; my head began spinning as an all too familiar noise reached my ears.
"Gigakeno," Barlow whispered, I looked at him.
"That wasn't even close," I muttered as we continued wlaking, I caught a few Mawile, figuring they might come in handy later. You have no idea how right I was, "And it's Gigaremo not Gigakeno," I added, Barlow looked at me.
"What's the difference?" he asked, I looked at him.
"A Gigakeno hasn't been invented yet," I answered, Barlow looked at me before putting his right hand under his chin with his left arm under his right elbow, he then turned to looked at the scene in front of us with the thoughtful expression. Buizel and I looked at each other before sweat dropping.
As we continued walking we came upon the Yellow Gigaremo, oh the joy. I knelt down with my styler before examining it; I feel like a doctor….I did not say or think that, this never leaves my head.
"Mawile, crush that machine," I ordered, one of the Mawile came forwards before attacking the machine, which fell to bits. I smiled as I thanked the Mawile before it ran off.
"Well, that was fun," Barlow muttered, I looked at him.
"How was it?" I asked, he shrugged.
"I have no idea, I just didn't want the silence to continue," he answered, I face palmed before we continued walking.
"Was it something I said?" Barlow asked, Buizel and I fell anime style at that.
"No Barlow," I answered as we came to another machine, oh boy, my head hurts, more than it did in Pueltown, there's at least three more Gigaremos.
After crushing a few more Gigaremos, jumping down cliffs and avoiding more pokemon we finally made it to the tremors.
"Who is that?" Barlow asked, my eyes narrowed as I sighed.
"That would be a Dim Sun," I answered, I felt eyes on me, but when I looked around, no one was there, strange.
"Well, let's go meet him," Barlow smiled, but I knew the smile meant, let's go kick his butt, I nodded as we jumped off the cliff.
I looked back to the cliff we were on to see a pair of red eyes, those eyes, I knew them, but there was no way, it couldn't be. I shook my head before looking back at the spot, the eyes were gone, it was just my imagination, had to be.
"HEY YOU!" Barlow yelled, Buizel almost fell off my shoulder at the sudden outburst but managed to regain his composure. The man in a white lab coat turned to us.
"What I'm just er, I, um I'm just a geologist, and I'm just conducting a soil analysis. That's what this computer is for," the guy said, I cocked a brow before turning to Barlow, who looked at me equally confused.
"You believe this guy?" Barlow asked.
"Are Crawfords' jokes good?" I asked back, Barlow turned back to the guy with the computer, oh it's shiny.
"SHINY!" Buizel yelled as he jumped from my shoulder to the machine.
"BUIZEL!" I yelled, the pokemon began dancing on the machine.
"Well, at least we know he can tap dance," Barlow sweat dropped.
"I think that's actually the can-can," I corrected.
"Well, whatever it is, at least he can do it," Barlow said.
"AH! YOU STUPID POKEMON GET OFF THE MINIREMO!" the 'scientist' yelled, Miniremo, oh no.
"What's a Miniremo?" Barlow asked, my eyes narrowed.
"If I had to take a guess, I'd say a lighter and easier version of the Gigaremo," I answered, Barlow nodded his head before turning back to the show before us.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!" Buizel yelled before jumping onto the things head.
"Shouldn't we help?" I asked, Barlow shook his head as he watched the two of them.
"No, I'm too entertained," he answered, I shrugged before watching the show again, I smiled as I saw Buizel go Buizatouille on the guy.
"GO BUIZATOUILLE!" I yelled as the guy fell onto the Miniremo, successfully breaking it, Buizel smiled widely.
"My work here is done, now I need to jump into a pit of acid," Buizel said, I laughed at him as we watched the two Rampardos look at each other then the guy who was controlling them. They began to advance on the guy, I looked at Barlow.
"Ok, time to step in, you take the one on the left, I got the one on the right," Barlow ordered, I nodded before walking towards the pokemon.
"CAPTURE ON!" I yelled as my eyes flashed white, the pokemon hardly resisted as I began the capture, it sent out some odd boulders here and there but in the end I caught it without a scratch on me. The two pokemon looked to me and Barlow before nodding their heads in thanks and taking off.
"I expected that to be more challenging," Barlow muttered, I shrugged as we looked at the guy in the lab coat, who was smirking at us.
"NOW!" he yelled, my eyes flew around as I saw nets being thrown to me, I dodged some of them, the ones I didn't dodge, Buizel cut up with his iron tails. I looked around; my body froze as I felt two metal things attach to my arms. I gasped as I felt electricity flow around my body.
I fell to my knees in pain as I looked up, Max and Phantom, I should have known. I forced myself to my feet as I glared at them, what the hell was a supposed to do? My eyes widened a bit as I felt my necklace; Barlow rushed to me as I did so.
"Are you ok?" he asked, I looked at him, I didn't say anything.
"Kate?" Buizel asked, why did his voice sound so far away?
"KATE!" another voice yelled, I saw a flash of pink before my world turned blurry, my vision wouldn't steady. I felt myself being lifted from the ground before my body went light.
"STOP THEM!" why couldn't I do anything? I couldn't move my arms, legs, body, I couldn't even speak, what was going on? The weight of my body rushed back to me as my vision became clear again, I fell to my knees one more time.
"KATE!" I heard people yell, I winced at the loudness of them.
"Please, lower your voices," I muttered as I looked up, I was at the Ranger Base, Crawford, Luana, Elaine, Amina, Barlow and Rythmi all stood around me.
"Are you ok?" Crawford asked, I stood to my feet.
"I'm fine, but being shocked with electricity is not fun," I answered as I walked towards the rooms.
"Kate, it's better if you don't go into your room, Keith's being really aggressive," Ryth stated, I looked at her.
"Yeah, kinda figured," I answered as I walked towards my room, Buizel on my shoulders as I did so. When I entered I saw Glaceon was sat on my bed, her eyes held fright, but her face stayed confident. Buizel jumped off my shoulder as he ran to her, I heard the bathroom door open, when I looked towards it, I saw Keith. He really didn't look good, his face was pale, he was sweating and only had some boxes on, ok that part I can't argue with.
"Keith?" I asked, the boys head shot to me, his eyes narrowed as he walked over to me, I didn't back away. He stopped a few feet in front of me before he fell to his knees, "Keith!" I said, this time louder as I knelt down next to him.
"What's happening to me?" he asked as he looked up at me, his eyes flashed from his normal brown colour to red, then they went back to brown. I moved his arm around my shoulder as I lifted him to his bed. I laid him down then covered him with his blankets, as I began to walk away he grabbed my arm.
"You didn't answer me," I stated, his voice was harsh, I looked back at him, anger flashed in his eyes then his face.
"I'll explain everything later, right now you need rest, and something to eat, you're too pale," I said to him, Keith glared at me.
"Tell me," he growled, his grip tightened on me as he glared at me, I pulled my hand out of his grasp, he hadn't held onto me like that since the library in the Ranger School.
"Kate," he whispered as he stood up, I gulped, he was honestly scaring me.
"Keith," I said as I tried not to sound scared, unfortunately I did. He advanced towards me as I walked towards the door; I quickly opened it before closing it. I sunk to the ground as I pulled my knees to my chest; I buried my head into my knees as I did so. How was I meant to help him?
I shook my head, the best way to help him was to try and get him to calm down, stop being aggressive and eat something. I walked into the kitchen in the Base. I grabbed the ingredients I needed to make some homemade soup for him.
"You ok?" Rythmis' voice came from behind me, I turned to her.
"I'm fine, why?" I asked, her eyes shot to my arm before my face, I looked at my arm, it was red, but it wouldn't bruise.
"He got aggressive?" Rythmi asked, I nodded, "What's wrong with him?" she asked, I sighed, so I tell her, or don't I?
"I don't know," I answered, I settled on not telling her, Keith would want to after this fiasco.
"You know something about Keith that none of us know, we all know he has blackouts, but you know why, I can tell," Rythmi stated, I gulped a little, "But if you're not saying anything, it's because Keith doesn't want you to, I respect that," she smiled, I sighed.
"Thanks Rythmi," I smiled, Ryth nodded her head.
"No problem, now let's get some soup done for him," she smiled as she began helping me cook.
After ten minutes, the soup was done and I was walking down the hall to mine and Keiths' room. I sighed as I opened the door, when I walked in, I couldn't see Keith on his bed, I set the soup on his drawer before walking to the bathroom. I knocked on the door before opening it, he wasn't in there.
I turned back around coming face to face with him, I jumped a little.
"For Arceus sake Keith, never do that again," I ordered, he didn't move away from me, he just stared at me, his eyes were hollow, empty.
"Keith?" I asked as I walked around him, he followed me. I turned to him before putting my hands on his shoulders I sat him down on the bed before giving him the soup.
"You still didn't answer me," Keith whispered, I gulped as I took a step back, "I won't hurt you, well, I will if you don't answer me," he said as he looked at me, I gasped a little before touching my necklace, I needed to see Arceus.
My vision went blurry as the room around me disappeared. When I looked around again, I was with Arceus, Keith wasn't there.
"Where are Glaceon and Buizel?" I asked Arceus, who looked at me.
"They left the room because of Keiths' actions, you need to help him," Arceus stated, I looked at him.
"But I don't know how," I said as I looked at him, my voice full of worry.
"Tell him the truth, let him handle it anyway he can, but be there for him, whenever Keith had blackouts his friends were always there to help him through them, that's what he needs right now Kate," Arceus explained, I nodded again before my vision went blurry again, when I looked around, I was stood in front of Keith.
"Answer me," he hissed, I sighed as I walked to sit next to him, I took a deep breath before I began explaining.
"Darkrai's escaping from the Shadow Crystal, because of this the powers you have inside you are taking effect. But since you fight them down, you're going into this state, I don't know what you'd call it but you need to snap out of it," I explained, Keith was silent for a minute, I looked at the bowl on the dresser, he had eaten the soup.
I felt Keiths' hand grab my wrists before he pinned me to the bed, I gulped as I looked up at him, his eyes weren't as hollow as before. He moved his hands to the side of my head before moving his head. When he was done he laid down onto my chest, like I do when he's sleeping in the same bed as me.
I looked down at the top of his head, knowing he was calming down and he meant no harm now, but it was still early in the morning. I shook my head lightly as I ran my fingers through his head, quiet breathing met my ears, when I looked at Keith is aw he was sleeping, I smiled softly.
"Kate?" Rythmis' voice came as she and the rest of the Base entered the room, I placed my right hand to my lips motioning for them to be quiet.
"Kate, I just wanted to say good job today," Barlow smiled, I nodded as everyone looked at the sleeping Keith.
"He looks so peaceful," Luana stated, everyone nodded.
"Let's leave him to sleep, we'll bring you dinner in later Kate," Rythmi smiled, I nodded my head.
"Kate, I'll make it a special day, you can clock off early," Barlow stated, I smiled at him.
"Alright, thanks Barlow," I smiled, with that everyone left the room, leaving me with a sleeping Keith. The sound of Keiths' breathing began to get to me as I began to close my eyes, before long I was sound asleep with Keith in my arms.
Aw cute no? Well, I hope you all liked it, this will be the only update today, considering I have some stuff to do around the house, so please REVIEW and I will see you soon, REVIEW :D
