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My eyes open up slowly, after going through a phase that wasn't even a black out, but something just as bad as one. I could feel time passing, but I couldn't move, feel, hear, I was only aware that I was lying down on something, my left hand still held by Dark.
I get up slowly, tired and feel like just lying down and sleeping, but I need to find out what just happened. Did I survive some kind of attack? Were those someone else's eyes? Could it have been a vision? And those screams were just disturbing, what caused them? There is way too much I don't get about this situation… especially who is that Lucario?…
I look for a light, and I see a small lamp, with everyone crowded around it, making barely enough light to make everyone out. There are also many candles around the center, on the floor and even on a table. I walk over slowly and see the shiny Lucario cradling the purple Lucario's head in his lap, she still unconscious, the Zangoose with them just watching. Joy is sitting down, looking very worried, and Dark is sitting down on the ground, looking very tired. I walk to him and tap him on the shoulder, and he turns his head to me. "Oh, you're up…"
"What the fuck just happened?!" I blurt out. "We were holidng hands, then all of a sudden the force hits us, and I start seeing all this crap about the city, and it looks on fire and stuff-"
"What happened outside of the center is something none of us should ever see, for both our physical sake and our mental sake. It is unlucky you had to, Raizu." He responds calmly.
"Okay, but what WAS that!? It was like a bomb or something…"
"That is exactly what it was. A nuclear bomb."
I start to ramble on again, and the news takes several seconds to sink in. When it does, I fall over suddenly. We survived a nuclear blast while on ground zero. I saw it. Almost all the people in that city… will be dead, generations of families will be horribly ruined and disfigured… "Who launched that bomb, Dark?"
"Kanto, I believe."
"Kanto?…"
"They have reason too now, also." Dark sighs. "I told Joy of our status, but she doesn't care. After the government was somehow informed of our ties to Team Rocket, Kanto started chasing us." Explains Dark.
"Don't remind me…" I look away and give a heavy sigh. "That was horrible. We couldn't even get into a town."
"We fled here to Sinnoh, via a teleport that I preformed. We know Dawn is here on the continent, and that Serena is also. She was in this city. We landed in Celestic Town, where it appeared that authorities were after us."
"Yeah, they chased us to Floaroma Town."
"Now, they weren't chasing us. They had actually gotten a lead on Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic. We were just in the general direction, and thought to be associated with him, for some reason. Our names were cleared though, by a disturbing occurrence in Kanto." He ends rather abruptly, and I take advantage to start speaking. "What could happen? 'Long as mom is okay." I reassure myself.
"How do you know she's alive?"
"You aren't one to kill her, and you had no reason to. You told me that to get me in shock back at Rocket base."
"Right, well, fine then." He sticks his tongue out at me. Same old Dark, glad this serious event hasn't changed him much. "Anyway, in Kanto… somehow, information about our status was leaked to the general public, and in some freak coincidence, there was evidence to prove that Kanto was working with Rocket. The government and Rocket had teamed up."
That actually might explain how no one in silph co. seemed to care about us when we were climbing up, and how little police effort there was after we jumped. It would also explain the curse and how that situation spun out of control. "I still don't understand."
"Well, other countries already disliked Kanto, and with evidence tied to Rocket, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Orre even, all banned against them. War is probably going to be raged soon, and Kanto took the first strike. Sinnoh has some of the strongest trainers in the world, so it took it's opportunity to strike the main port city." He sighs in distress. "But now this isn't going to be a war with trainers, it's going to be a guns and bombs battles. This war will be like one we haven't had in centuries."
"Guns?" I say, surprised.
"Yes, Raizu. Kanto is, while sort of a successful communist state, it still censored the hell out of stuff. Guns were eventually banned, so information YOU know was even false, and you looked up stuff, since guns were never taught."
"That's why Joy wasn't-"
"If you had mentioned you were from Kanto, I would have known what to expect." Joy interrupts. "We are taught Kanto is a bad place to live. Not physically, but you just seem to live off the "ignorance is bliss" statement, the government hardly telling you anything. You expect that the world is peaceful, and a great damn place to live. It's not."
"Nurse Joy, you seem kind of-"
"Stop calling me that, damnit. I don't think this place is even working, considering what Dark here did to it. Which reminds me, I'll go retrieve your Jolteon, he should be awake, and probably confused as hell, right now." She gets up, takes a candle, and leaves the current room.
"This is all hard to take at once Dark… but the nuke happening I can accept. I at least know what THAT is…"
"Well, we're safe, so no worries." He reassures, a smile crawling onto his face.
"What? We're on ground zero! Is your Light Screen protecting us still?"
"No. But we aren't where the bomb exploded."
"Huh? Where are we then? This is the center isn't it?"
"Yeah. I teleported it all." He says proudly.
"Wow." I say, sort of amazed, but still not caring.
"We're on Iron Island."
"That's great… WAIT!" I run up to him and grab him in such a ferocity that the other pokémon look up at us. "Serena! Was she in the city!? Did that explosion… kill her?"
"Nope. My source says she was at Iron Island."
"This source is very resourceful." I say, suspicious.
"Don't worry, you can trust… her." He smiles. I let go of him and sit down.
Are you all right? Asks the Lucario suddenly. He looks up at me straight in the eye, concern shining off the light from the lamp.
I sigh and nod. "Yes, thanks. I'm Raizu Kawashima, do you have a name?"
I'm Wraith. This is my mate, Helen, and my Father, Erak.
"Glad to meet you. I'll leave you guys alone, but if there had been a different situation, I might have tried to catch you."
If only you knew that you couldn't…
"What does that mean?"
He narrows his eyes at me and looks away. I sigh, then hear something else, a private channeled though. Dark didn't tell you something that he told me… it isn't possible for you to catch me, but we must remain allies.
Why?
All in due time. Dark will tell you, and you'll see why our lives are already intertwined more than you could possibly know.