The light had begun to fade, dense black clouds coated the normally serene bright blue sky. The rain filled almost every inch of space in the air. It felt like we were standing under a waterfall. The wind was screeching past us as if terrified by the storm we were in. If the wind was scared, then imagine how we felt. I don't know how we weren't completely frozen with fear. Hail the size of marbles pelted us over and over, only adding to our fatigue. Lightning crackled and zapped everywhere but where we were. That was the only luck we had.
The green blur that were the nearby trees were being broken, mangled and burned by many powerful chains of god's wrath. Several explosions of electric fury rained down almost from nowhere. If there is a god, it felt like he was abandoning us at this critical moment. Many thoughts were running through my head, mostly about how the hell I ended up in this situation. I chose to come here, but I probably wouldn't have if I knew what was in store. One of the multiple thoughts running through mind my was, "Shit! We need to hurry!"
Another, much more comical thought was, "It's a good thing these guys aren't as heavy as I thought." I looked over my shoulder to my two partners. I could barely see them in the darkness of the storm. They were starting to lag behind. Their faces told me everything. They were not able to keep up our speed. Squirt seemed a bit less tired, but they both looked exhausted. Fatigue was setting in for all of us, but we had to get to safety. We couldn't stop until we dragged them back to town, even if it cost us our lives.
"Come on! Hurry!" I screamed to my friends over the roar of the storm. I could tell they were breathing heavily, even if I couldn't hear it. I knew they were tired, but we couldn't stop, not now, not yet.
"I need to rest!" Flame shouted. He was panting heavily.
"I agree!" Squirt exclaimed, taking a deep, ragged breath. Tiredness coated them like the storm covered the sky. They couldn't keep this up, they might not make it.
"No. We will survive!" I thought. I took a deep breath, though it was far less air than I wished. My friends, who'd been with me since the very beginning. They are Pokémon who I only met a few months ago, yet they risked their lives for me on more than one occasion and even saved my life more than once! I would not and could not leave them, nor could I leave our unconscious allies to die.
"If we don't keep moving our friends will die! We will die as well! We need to keep moving!" I ordered. They didn't understand the importance of saving them. If I could have told them, I would have. I didn't have time to tell them. Fate told me what would happen only a few hours ago! It felt like a few minutes, but it was at least an hour if not more. Thinking back on it, I had time to explain, but I was too worried about defying their fate than telling my friends. This was the storm that fate warned me about. This was the storm that would kill them. If they died, they would never meet with Satoru and his partner. That is the meeting that would save the world. The hero of this continent can't team up with the three other heroes if he dies. The world would fall to evil without all four of them. However, the storm wasn't going to allow me time to tell them. Every last ounce of energy had to be used to get them to safety. I couldn't spare anything more. I had to trust and hope they would be alright. There's not a lot of other options. I understood they were tired, we all were. Everyone of us had a long fight before all of this. The trek here was not easy either, so having to trek back in a full sprint and carrying several limp bodies was even harder than anyone could imagine.
"Bear with me, please... I'm sorry." I whispered.
The storm was getting worse. I feared it would become that severe sooner than expected. I don't mind storms, but I never enjoyed being outside when any lightning could be seen. Speaking of lightning, it was the brightest source of light that I could see. Always following right after the divine flashlights were the loudest crackles of thunder I would ever hear.
"I know, but I'm very t-tired..." Flame managed to spit out. He stopped in his tracks. I rushed over to him, still dragging the fainted body of our more experienced friends. They would know what to do, but I was too scared to think about what they would do. The only thing I could think to do was getting them to safety. He collapsed. All I could do was stopping him from slamming into the ground from the extra weight he was carrying.
"No!" I cried. I kneeled next to my fainted partner, only to stand up quickly. I closed my eyes for a second. We had to get out of here. We could not give up yet.
"We will survive. We can't go out like this. We must save them to save the planet!" I thought. My heart was burning with resolve before, but I only had that resolve left to fuel me at that point. My legs wanted to give. My arms were hurting because of the weight I had been dragging for a long time. I couldn't see extremely well and my head felt like 5 grand pianos had fallen on it. Despite this, we had to keep going. My eyes opened and nodded.
"Squirt, it's only a little further, carry him!" I screamed out the order.
"O-Okay!" He shouted, voice full of hope. Squirt had to carry two, but it wouldn't be for long. We were not far from town, I knew that. We weren't far from being able to get to safety. I looked behind us and saw the clouds gathering in one spot. The clouds had slowly began rotating behind us. That only added to my worry that we wouldn't make it in time. The rain slowed then. Everything got brighter slightly as the clouds focused more on one area.
"Oh come the hell on!" My mind raced with thoughts, that being the biggest one. My luck was truly running out. The rain and hail pounded down, trees and branches flew towards and, stopping our path, as if nature itself was determined to prevent our success. Well, in some ways, it kind of was. The world doesn't like to be forced to change, but it can be done. It had to be done if we wanted to keep living on it.
"No, just a little more, a little more. Please." I pleaded. Though no one could hear me over the wind, I wished that we would get to safety. I couldn't hear myself over the wind. If I was still human, my ears would be bleeding due to the noise level. It was sudden when the wind began to slow. That made me worry more. The storm was concentrating at one point. I knew what was happening, I had grown up in Tornado Alley. I've seen several storms like this.
My greatest fear truly became reality. The rotating clouds slowly began to come down into the vortex of death. A few seconds later the funnel slammed into the ground. It slammed into the planet several miles behind from us. The town was still a long way away, but the storm seemed to charge towards us as if it were hunting us. It seemed to have touched down near where we came from. It would have definitely killed them if we hadn't moved their unconscious bodies. Well, that's one tiny bit broken down, now all we need to do is not be killed by the giant wind funnel of death. My thoughts raced even more, only the occasional coherent thought even came out.
Some things like, "There is no 'fun' in this funnel," and "This is my worst nightmare come true!" were the only things which really stood out. The rest felt more like a concept of a thought and emotion rather than anything solid.
"Oh shi-!" I began, but I was forced to be silent by a giant hail ball the size of a grape fruit that nearly hit me. The hail had worsened, the storm had worsened. I was soaked with rain. The rain may have slowed down, but it didn't stop. The piercing cold rain was finally starting to freeze my body, making my movements slower and more clumsy. I tripped up once trying to run, but I didn't fall to the ground. The fire raging in my heart burned stronger than the pain in my muscles, but I wasn't sure that would be enough. We had to get to town, to safety. If we didn't get to town within a few minutes our friends would die. We would die along with them. I wasn't sure we could make it, but we had to try.
"We need to hurry! Hurry!" I shouted, worried that it would come this way. I don't think Squirt heard me. He was distracted by the whirling cone of doom raging closer. It was at least an F-3. I was shaking in fear and cold, nearly paralyzed as the twister raced closer every second. I kept taking a few steps forward, but I couldn't find my footing. I fell to the ground, unable to walk. It would miss town by about a mile, but there would still be damage because of hail, wind, and possibly lightning. It didn't look good at the moment. I was also petrified with confusion. What would someone do in this situation? What could someone do? At this moment I started to regret ever accepting the mission to save the world. It wasn't my world, yet I felt obligated to help, and bored enough to try. What was I thinking? Now I'm trapped in a strange body on an even stranger world about to be killed by a tornado. Well, at least I made some friends, and death by air vortex is a cool way to go.
"Waaaahhhhh!" He cried out. He curled into a ball, unable to move and shaking in fear. I made my decision then. I had to recklessly charge ahead, not caring about myself in the slightest.
"I won't let any of you die!" I shouted, my voice being unheard. Forgetting my fear, confusion and fatigue I leaped to my feet, grabbed my friend and charged to my other friends. It was then it had caught up to us. I saw a large flash of lightning, and the tornado. I started running even harder, eventually throwing my allies' limp body in a desperate attempt to save them. After a bone shattering boom, I was flung into the air.
"Wagh!" I shouted. I saw my friends in the air with me for less than a second before I smashed into the ground with a thud. A pain I had never felt before flew through my body. The last thing I remember seeing was a huge, bright, blinding and painful light before a calm, painless darkness happily had taken me.
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It's been a while, but I'm fixing the first chapter. Chapter 1 of a story needs to be really good. If it doesn't stand out, the reader might lose interesting, so I will probably be updating this on occasion to show my very best.