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US Journey part 16: Secret of the Fire
By Xen
"So why are we going to Iowa, when the next gym is in Florida?" James asked.
"Well, I though it would nice to take a little break. Also Ash is going to have to rethink his line up since the Pikett is human."
"But what's Nebraska that would be of use."
"My uncle Blue has a lodge up there. We can spend a few days there."
"You have an uncle named Blue."
"No, that's what we call him. Actually, I don't know his actual name. Neither does the rest of the family. Or himself for that matter."
"How can a guy forget his own name?" Misty asked.
"Well we all be calling Blue for so long that we all forgot his actual name."
"But are you sure that he would have room for us?"
"Trust me. There will be no one they're but us, my uncle Blue, and the other lodge members."
"You make it sound like that no one go there."
"Well, that because no one hardly goes there."
"Well why doesn't anyone close it down."
"I wouldn't be worth it. They found out that if the lodge member where actually put back into society, all chaos would break loose."
"Your not making this seem like a good idea."
"Oh don't worry, they're harmless. In their environment, they can't do any damage. Well, at least not physical damage. Well not much anyway."
"Can we drop this, before I regret this decision. How far away is it." Isaac pulls out his map.
"My guess, another day or so. I don't really know where we are. If we stop in the next town, I could find out how far away is it."
"And I'm hungry." James stomach growled in response, followed by Pikett, Isaac, and Ash.
"I guess we shouldn't have skipped breakfast. Jessie can stop off at the next town we find."
"Ok, like you except me to drive with that going on in the background." Jessie drove on further for a few minutes. "Ah he we go. Willow grove."
"I hope they have a dinner or something."
"I hope they have a gas station, Where almost out of gas too."
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"So, what should we order?" Ash said as he looked at the menu. Everyone but Jessie was currently sitting at in a diner getting lunch. Jessie was looking around for gas station.
"I think I'll have the largest thing on the menu." James said.
"Well what will you be having."
"I think I want apples." Pikett said.
"You just can't have apples, Pikett." Misty said. "You need a balanced diet. You just can't eat the same things you had as when you where a pokemon. Just something on the menu." Pikett looked at the menu for a minute before saying.
"I can't read." Everyone sweatdropped.
"I knew we forgot to do something." Misty said.
"So, who is going to help Pikett to learn how to read?"
"I will. Also we should throw in writing." Isaac said.
"Why do you want to teach her?"
"I had a younger brother. I helped to teach him to read and I think I could help Pikett."
"Well I guess you could do it."
"Oh boy, I get to learn how to read." Pikett shoved the menu into Isaac's face. "Can we start with this?"
"I think I better go to a bookstore before we start. How about you have a cheeseburger?"
"I guess so. But I learn to read later?"
"Yes. But for now can we will have lunch." Just then, Jessie came inside.
"I got bad news. The gas station is out of gas."
"I think that's ironic." Jessie smacked James on the head.
"Is there another gas station we could go to."
"I was told the nearest on is fifty miles away. The vans got five in it. Unless someone wants to walk the way where staying a while."
"How long till they get gas."
"Tomorrow. And there really isn't a motel here, so I guess where going to have to camp out in the van."
"The six of us in that van sleeping? Isn't that going to be a bit tight."
"Well guy at the station told me that there is a motel about seventeen miles down the road."
"But the van still wouldn't make it." Ash got an idea.
"Do you think we could ask the local Jenny and that she could give us a lift there?"
"Ash, this is America. Jenny's are like the Joy's, there aren't that many here. I doubt that we would find a Jenny out here in the middle of a one horse town."
"You guys asking about Sheriff Jenny?" A waitress said. "She comes bye in a half hour to pick up her daily coffee."
"Or maybe they have an officer Jenny in this one horse town."
"Say can we order our food now?" James asked.
"Just hold your horses." The waitress turned another page in her newspaper.
"This is going to be while." Isaac said.
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"Why sure I help you get a motel." Sheriff Jenny said, with a very deep southern accent. "But I'm going to have to do it later, I'm on a case right now."
"A case? Well maybe we could help out." Ash said.
"Well I reckon that I could use the manpower, on this case. I'm trying to look for a missing pokemon trainer. I really don't know her name because apparently many of locals either did met her or if they did they won't give it."
"Why wouldn't they give it?" Misty asked.
"Some people forgot, others tried to forget. I managed to get some of her last name, dream something or other."
"Anything else about her?" Jessie asked.
"Well she was a fire pokemon trainer and I believe she might have something to do with the recent fires going on in the forests."
"How are they connected?" James asked.
"You guys like asking a lot of questions don't you."
"We can't help if we don't know."
"Well then shut your yaps and I'll tell you. There have been some fires going on in some the local forests. We been able to put them out, but more keep showing up. Some people have reported a large fire pokemon that's causing the fires. Now see as there are very few fire pokemon in this area, it seems unlikely its a local pokemon. But it might be a pokemon that belonged to another trainer."
"And a fire pokemon trainer would most likely be the first suspect." Jessie said.
"Expect that this dreamer person has turned up missing."
"Could she be out to get someone? Maybe someone humiliated her in battle and she wants revenge."
"Well that would be the case, expect she beat everyone in the last three towns."
"Maybe someone kidnapped her and they're trying to frame her for something."
"Now were just plain simple folk here. There is nobody here that would that kind of thing. Form what I heard, she pissed off a few people because of her attitude, but these aren't people like that."
"Well have people found anything."
"Well no. We found nothing and she been gone for about a week now."
"And how long have the fires been starting?"
"Five days."
"I guess they could be connected."
"Well I was going to search around the last area she was spotted. How would you guys like to help search with me?"
"Well since we can't hang out in the dinner all day, sure lets go."
"Well ok. Follow me." Sheriff Jenny led everyone out side. Isaac was the last to leave.
"It just had to a fire pokemon. I thought I wouldn't have to run into another one of these." Isaac says as he looks down at his hands.
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"So this was the last sited area." Ash said looking around. They currently were at the side of a road near a forest.
"Yep, this is where she was stopped last. The people that saw her last had a pokemon battle here. After the battle, she went off into the woods to look for more pokemon. She's been missing ever since."
"Should we go looking?"
"Well that was what I was going to do. But, we can cover more ground if we spilt up. Three are coming with me, the other three can go with me deputy, Stone." Jenny points to the man behind her.
"Well I guess me, Misty and James can go with you. Pikett, Isaac, and Jessie can go with deputy stone."
"Say Isaac are you coming?" Misty asked. Isaac was still sitting in the van.
"Um well, I thought that I should stay behind to... to... keep an eye on the radio. Yeah, you never know when someone will call and it would be bad if someone wasn't here to pick it up."
"The other officers know where I am. If they need me, they come and get me. You don't have to stay in the car." Isaac kept looking down.
"I guess I'll be coming then." Isaac got out of the car.
"Isaac, are you ok? You look pale."
"No, I'm ok. Lets get going. Where not going to find her if we stand around here." Isaac marched off into the woods.
"He acting funny." Pikett said.
"How would you notice?" James said.
"I think he is scared of something."
"Well we should ask him. I don't want to freak out there." Ash ran up to Isaac. "Say Isaac, is something bothering you?"
"What? No. Nothing at all. I'm fine." Ash went back to others.
"Well I guess he ok." Everyone facevaulted.
"Ash you can see he is lying!" Misty said. Misty was about to ask him but Jessie placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Let him be. If he wants to tell, he will tell." Jessie said.
"But I want to find out."
"And you won't if you pester him. If he wants to tell, he will tell."
"Well, for now. But I'm going to ask him later and he is going to tell me."
"Fine, but you'll be the only one trying." Jessie said leaving Misty behind.
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We find Jessie, Pikett, Isaac, and deputy Stone where walking along a heavy forested area.
"So, she might be around here?" Jessie asked.
"Well most of local fire pokemon live very deep in the forest." Deputy Stone explained. "And since she is a fire trainer she most likely walked somewhere around here."
"Maybe she find fire pokemon and the burn her up?" Pikett said.
"That's not very likely. Fire pokemon are violent, but they won't harm a human unless proved." Isaac said. "Unless that pokemon got rabid and went berserk. Which can happen out here."
"How would know about that?"
"I've seen it happen. It not pretty."
"Sheriff Jenny thought it might been that too, but there been siting of any rabid creatures here for a while."
"Well I guess a pokemon getting her would out of the question then." Pikett started sniffing the air. "What is it?"
"I smell smoke."
"Smoke? If theirs smoke theirs fire." Jessie said. Deputy Stone to out a hand radios.
"Come in. We got a fire here. Sent in the water planes. Over. Well better see where the fire is and if we can keep it under control till the planes arrive." The four of them ran till the found the fire. Flames arouse for the trees and spread along the ground. Deputy Stone took out a pokeball and released a Blastoise. "If any of you got a water pokemon release them now."
"I don't have a water pokemon, but Arbok can help." Jessie threw her pokeball. "Arbok, throw dirt on the fire."
"Charbok." Arbok threw dirt into the fire putting some of the fire out.
"Isaac, where your Starmie?" Isaac just stood there, eyes staring into the flame.
"It's happening again. It's the fire that consumes. Its come back to take me." Isaac sounded very distant.
"Isaac? What wrong?" Pikett asked.
"I must get away. I don't want to be consumed." Isaac stared to run, but Jessie grab him.
"What with you?"
"I got to get away! The flames have come for me; I have to get away. Let me go." Isaac managed to struggle out of Jessie's grip. Isaac ran away form the fire and deeper into the woods. Jessie and Pikett almost ran after him, but Deputy Stone called out to them.
"Lets him go. We can't risk letting everyone get lost. Besides we have to make sure the fire doesn't spread."
"But Isaac?"
"I know it may seem difficult for you, but if you all go after him you'll all get lost. He won't get very far anyway." Jessie and Pikett stood for a while then returned to help with the fire.
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Isaac kept running. He ran screaming. However, what he didn't see was the slope ahead and Isaac fell down the rocky slope. Isaac fell down the slope and stopped when he log.
"Must escape..." Isaac went unconscious.
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"What do mean he ran off!" Sheriff Jenny yelled. The fire had been put out and everyone was in the now burned area of the forest.
"I tried to stop him, but he kept screaming about the fire consuming him and he ran off."
"He was sacred of the fire."
"But why?"
"Well you can ask him that when we find him. If we find him."
"Of course where going to find him. I won't let him stay lost." Ash said.
"The thing I want to know is why did he run like that."
"He was sacred by the fire. That what I say before." Pikett said.
"But why is he afraid of fire?"
"Well let's go look for him and find him."
"Deputy Stone, you go back to the office and get some men to search the area. There might be something here that can be a clue about the fires. The rest of us will try and find Isaac."
"Lets go. He went that away." Everyone ran off in the direction Isaac ran.
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Isaac woke up slowly. "What happened." Isaac looked around. "I guess I tripped and fell." Isaac started to dust himself off. "Way to go Isaac, you just blew it big time. There probably going to yell at me now. I then I'll probably have to tell them..." Isaac's hand touched something on the ground. Isaac looked down at what he touched. Isaac saw a leather gloved hand under the log. "Oh dear. I think I found her." Isaac got up and pulled out a pole form his jacket. "And I didn't think I would need this." Isaac put the pole under the log and used it as a lever to move the log. The log rolled over and he saw the body. "Looks like she was crushed by this log." Isaac looked at the log. "Must have fallen over her. Oh and got this Charmander too. Must of snuffed it tail out. But it looked like the log rotted, so how could they been killed a week ago?" Isaac examined the log closer. "Wait... this log hasn't rotted, its been burned! That means something had burned these marks in. But what?" Isaac heard a sound. Isaac turned around to see a Magmar looking at him.
"Magmar." The Magmar looked at him.
"Mmmm... A Magmar!" Isaac quickly jumped behind the log and cowered behind it. Isaac tried to pull out a pokeball. "Starlight, get rid of it." Isaac threw his pokeball and a Starmie came out.
"Hiya!" Starmie fired a stream of water at the Magmar, but the fire pokemon avoid the stream of water. The Magmar stood where it stopped.
"What are you waiting for Starlight, stop it." Starlight fired more streams of water, but the Magmar avoided each stream. Suddenly a gunshot went off and the Magmar screamed. A few more shots and the Magmar fell to the ground.
"Isaac! Isaac! Are you here." A voiced called out. It sounded much like Ash.
"You don't have to worry Isaac. Sheriff Jenny used a tranquilizer on the Magmar. Its out cold now."
"I don't care. Kill it. It was going to attack me, so you should kill it." Isaac stood shaking.
"Isaac?" Misty scolded. "That's an awful thing to say."
"I don't care; it has the eyes of a killer. I was going to hurt me. I should be eliminated."
"Now where going to her no more talk of that." Misty said.
"So, this is the body of the trainer? How she die?"
"I found this log on top of her. I fell form that stump there." Isaac points to a broken tree stump. Sheriff Jenny looks around a bit.
"There are burn marks on this log. It must have been form the Magmar."
"Why is that?"
"Because this isn't an area, that has Magmars. It makes sense know. This pokemon must of gotten loose form it trainers death and got lost in the forest, trying to get help. Then it lit those fires to keep warm."
"So, what do we do?"
"Well, I got to get my deputy and the others to take the body and the Magmar away."
"Your not going to hurt it are you?" Ash asked.
"I think it should be killed. It tried to kill me." Isaac said.
"Isaac, stop it. I don't want to here any of this." Ash said.
"Well since its trainer is dead, it was only acting of instinct. Thus, it can't be charged with anything. The Magmar and the other pokemon she has will be sent to her family. It just a shame that this trainers life was cut so short."
"Yeah, it is quite a shame." Ash said.
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Sheriff Jenny dropped everyone off at the motel. Everyone was surrounding Isaac.
"Isaac, why are you acting so funny?" Jessie asked.
"And we're not leaving till you tell us."
"You want to know, I'll tell you why. It because of this." Isaac held up his hands.
"Your gloves?"
"Not my gloves. My hands. When you first meet me, I told you there was a reason I wore gloves. This is the reason." Isaac took off his gloves. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"Oh my." Misty was the first to speak. The skin on Isaac's hands where a very deep red and pocketed.
"I got these scars five years ago. It was in my early days of training. Mat was fighting another trainer. The other trainer had an Arcanine. Apparently the Arcanine was rabid and it went berserk. I was caught in a flamethower attack and it deeply burned my hands. I was in a hospital for over a month with burn wounds. The doctors where able to save my hands, since they almost had to cut my fingers off, but they couldn't fully treat my scars. Actually my hands look much better then it originally was. But ever since then I can't be near a fire pokemon, because I remember the pain." The other where silent. "There are all happy now? Now you know about my fear of fire."
"Oh, we didn't know."
"Oh course you didn't know! You all weren't so post to know. I never let anyone know about it."
"Could you have surgery for it?"
"They tried, but it didn't work. My hands were to damage to heal back. They were able to heal most of it so my hands could move normally, but my skin became too damaged to heal. That's why I panicked at the fire and when the Magmar was near. The pain I felt was too much and I feel it again when I see fire pokemon."
"If we had known we wouldn't have took you into the woods. I'm sorry Isaac. I should figured something was wrong and let you stay behind." Ash said.
"I understand. You had no way of knowing. Nobody out side my family knows about this. Hell even some of family still doesn't know."
"That awful to go though something like that. But we all go though problems and we learned to get over them. We had have things in the past that we don't like but we get over them."
"But do any of you carry a physical mark of that pain." They shook their heads. "I didn't think so. I am reminded everyday of that pain. I have to carry these scars with for the rest of my life, while you can just forget about what happened in your lives." Jessie stared in front of Isaac.
"You think that don't you. James and me have been in team rocket for more years then we care. We have still have to hide that fact even today. We can't even travel to most the indigo isles because people still would recognize us. We learned to deal with this and I know that you can too."
"I can deal with it. It's just that I can't be near fire. That is my what I fear. I will and always will panic when I am near a fire." Ash placed his hand on Isaac's shoulder.
"Well just remember that we will be there for you."
"Yeah, we be there." Pikett said.
"Were your friends. And we help our friends."
"You're a part of this team now."
"Wither you like it or not."
"Thanks guys. That really helps." Isaac puts his gloves back on. "I think we get some dinner now. I'm hungry."
"Yes lets."
"Food!" Pikett said.
"Is all you think of."
"Yeah. That's what I'm so post to do." James whined. Jessie whacks James on the head. Everyone burst into laughter.
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Next mourning Sheriff Jenny took them back to the station where their van was. "I like to thank you again for help us out. We couldn't have done it without you." Jenny said.
"No problem. It was no be deal with us." Ash said.
"Say is your friend going to be all right? He was still acting funny when I last left you all."
"He all right now. All in all, I think it was a good experience for him and us. I think form it we know a little more about him." Jessie hit beeped the vans horn.
"We better get going Ash! OR I'm leaving with out you."
"Ok, I'm coming." Ash got in to van and waved good bye. The van spends off and left. Sheriff Jenny noticed something falling off the bottom of the van. She picked up the object.
"Looks like a tracer. I wonder if they knew about this?"
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"Report." A mysterious voice said. The body was clocked in shadow, so he was not visible. Across the room Kitty and Tiger stood. Kitty spoke first.
"Well the tracking device fell off the van sir. We don't know how it broke off."
"That's the third one we lost. I know they don't know, but this apparently not an accident. I want to know why this keeps happening."
"Nevertheless, we know where they're going sir. We can just plant another one."
"However, they keep falling off. The next is going inside their van. If something happen to that one, we will find out who is doing this. Anything else to report."
"Yes sir." Tiger said. "We found out that the magician is afraid of fire."
"Afraid of fire? This could be useful." The figured smiled. "Yes. It the magician shall make a wonderful target." A dagger appeared the figure hand. "Watch out Pikachu. This cat is going to trap this mouse." The figure threw the dagger and it hit a picture of Pikett, then burst into flames.
To be continued....
Ok I like to thank Miyu (Willow, WRMisty) for the use of Skye (or what was left of her).
But tell me is it ironic that I killed Skye (a fire pokemon trainer) by a tree falling on her (which is grass). Therefore, I kill a fire trainer with grass.
Well enough talk I give back Skye to Miyu. (Zips up body bag and load it on to car) I hope she doesn't might the damage. (Drives off, then comes back)
Oh yeah, stayed tuned for the next part of the US Journey where, I'll have a guest star (or should I say pokemon) form another fic. I won't say whose or which. So, stay tuned same poke time, same poke channel. (Drives off again)
Got any questions, comments, flames email me at XPapazoglo@aol.com
US Journey part 16: Secret of the Fire
By Xen
"So why are we going to Iowa, when the next gym is in Florida?" James asked.
"Well, I though it would nice to take a little break. Also Ash is going to have to rethink his line up since the Pikett is human."
"But what's Nebraska that would be of use."
"My uncle Blue has a lodge up there. We can spend a few days there."
"You have an uncle named Blue."
"No, that's what we call him. Actually, I don't know his actual name. Neither does the rest of the family. Or himself for that matter."
"How can a guy forget his own name?" Misty asked.
"Well we all be calling Blue for so long that we all forgot his actual name."
"But are you sure that he would have room for us?"
"Trust me. There will be no one they're but us, my uncle Blue, and the other lodge members."
"You make it sound like that no one go there."
"Well, that because no one hardly goes there."
"Well why doesn't anyone close it down."
"I wouldn't be worth it. They found out that if the lodge member where actually put back into society, all chaos would break loose."
"Your not making this seem like a good idea."
"Oh don't worry, they're harmless. In their environment, they can't do any damage. Well, at least not physical damage. Well not much anyway."
"Can we drop this, before I regret this decision. How far away is it." Isaac pulls out his map.
"My guess, another day or so. I don't really know where we are. If we stop in the next town, I could find out how far away is it."
"And I'm hungry." James stomach growled in response, followed by Pikett, Isaac, and Ash.
"I guess we shouldn't have skipped breakfast. Jessie can stop off at the next town we find."
"Ok, like you except me to drive with that going on in the background." Jessie drove on further for a few minutes. "Ah he we go. Willow grove."
"I hope they have a dinner or something."
"I hope they have a gas station, Where almost out of gas too."
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"So, what should we order?" Ash said as he looked at the menu. Everyone but Jessie was currently sitting at in a diner getting lunch. Jessie was looking around for gas station.
"I think I'll have the largest thing on the menu." James said.
"Well what will you be having."
"I think I want apples." Pikett said.
"You just can't have apples, Pikett." Misty said. "You need a balanced diet. You just can't eat the same things you had as when you where a pokemon. Just something on the menu." Pikett looked at the menu for a minute before saying.
"I can't read." Everyone sweatdropped.
"I knew we forgot to do something." Misty said.
"So, who is going to help Pikett to learn how to read?"
"I will. Also we should throw in writing." Isaac said.
"Why do you want to teach her?"
"I had a younger brother. I helped to teach him to read and I think I could help Pikett."
"Well I guess you could do it."
"Oh boy, I get to learn how to read." Pikett shoved the menu into Isaac's face. "Can we start with this?"
"I think I better go to a bookstore before we start. How about you have a cheeseburger?"
"I guess so. But I learn to read later?"
"Yes. But for now can we will have lunch." Just then, Jessie came inside.
"I got bad news. The gas station is out of gas."
"I think that's ironic." Jessie smacked James on the head.
"Is there another gas station we could go to."
"I was told the nearest on is fifty miles away. The vans got five in it. Unless someone wants to walk the way where staying a while."
"How long till they get gas."
"Tomorrow. And there really isn't a motel here, so I guess where going to have to camp out in the van."
"The six of us in that van sleeping? Isn't that going to be a bit tight."
"Well guy at the station told me that there is a motel about seventeen miles down the road."
"But the van still wouldn't make it." Ash got an idea.
"Do you think we could ask the local Jenny and that she could give us a lift there?"
"Ash, this is America. Jenny's are like the Joy's, there aren't that many here. I doubt that we would find a Jenny out here in the middle of a one horse town."
"You guys asking about Sheriff Jenny?" A waitress said. "She comes bye in a half hour to pick up her daily coffee."
"Or maybe they have an officer Jenny in this one horse town."
"Say can we order our food now?" James asked.
"Just hold your horses." The waitress turned another page in her newspaper.
"This is going to be while." Isaac said.
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"Why sure I help you get a motel." Sheriff Jenny said, with a very deep southern accent. "But I'm going to have to do it later, I'm on a case right now."
"A case? Well maybe we could help out." Ash said.
"Well I reckon that I could use the manpower, on this case. I'm trying to look for a missing pokemon trainer. I really don't know her name because apparently many of locals either did met her or if they did they won't give it."
"Why wouldn't they give it?" Misty asked.
"Some people forgot, others tried to forget. I managed to get some of her last name, dream something or other."
"Anything else about her?" Jessie asked.
"Well she was a fire pokemon trainer and I believe she might have something to do with the recent fires going on in the forests."
"How are they connected?" James asked.
"You guys like asking a lot of questions don't you."
"We can't help if we don't know."
"Well then shut your yaps and I'll tell you. There have been some fires going on in some the local forests. We been able to put them out, but more keep showing up. Some people have reported a large fire pokemon that's causing the fires. Now see as there are very few fire pokemon in this area, it seems unlikely its a local pokemon. But it might be a pokemon that belonged to another trainer."
"And a fire pokemon trainer would most likely be the first suspect." Jessie said.
"Expect that this dreamer person has turned up missing."
"Could she be out to get someone? Maybe someone humiliated her in battle and she wants revenge."
"Well that would be the case, expect she beat everyone in the last three towns."
"Maybe someone kidnapped her and they're trying to frame her for something."
"Now were just plain simple folk here. There is nobody here that would that kind of thing. Form what I heard, she pissed off a few people because of her attitude, but these aren't people like that."
"Well have people found anything."
"Well no. We found nothing and she been gone for about a week now."
"And how long have the fires been starting?"
"Five days."
"I guess they could be connected."
"Well I was going to search around the last area she was spotted. How would you guys like to help search with me?"
"Well since we can't hang out in the dinner all day, sure lets go."
"Well ok. Follow me." Sheriff Jenny led everyone out side. Isaac was the last to leave.
"It just had to a fire pokemon. I thought I wouldn't have to run into another one of these." Isaac says as he looks down at his hands.
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"So this was the last sited area." Ash said looking around. They currently were at the side of a road near a forest.
"Yep, this is where she was stopped last. The people that saw her last had a pokemon battle here. After the battle, she went off into the woods to look for more pokemon. She's been missing ever since."
"Should we go looking?"
"Well that was what I was going to do. But, we can cover more ground if we spilt up. Three are coming with me, the other three can go with me deputy, Stone." Jenny points to the man behind her.
"Well I guess me, Misty and James can go with you. Pikett, Isaac, and Jessie can go with deputy stone."
"Say Isaac are you coming?" Misty asked. Isaac was still sitting in the van.
"Um well, I thought that I should stay behind to... to... keep an eye on the radio. Yeah, you never know when someone will call and it would be bad if someone wasn't here to pick it up."
"The other officers know where I am. If they need me, they come and get me. You don't have to stay in the car." Isaac kept looking down.
"I guess I'll be coming then." Isaac got out of the car.
"Isaac, are you ok? You look pale."
"No, I'm ok. Lets get going. Where not going to find her if we stand around here." Isaac marched off into the woods.
"He acting funny." Pikett said.
"How would you notice?" James said.
"I think he is scared of something."
"Well we should ask him. I don't want to freak out there." Ash ran up to Isaac. "Say Isaac, is something bothering you?"
"What? No. Nothing at all. I'm fine." Ash went back to others.
"Well I guess he ok." Everyone facevaulted.
"Ash you can see he is lying!" Misty said. Misty was about to ask him but Jessie placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Let him be. If he wants to tell, he will tell." Jessie said.
"But I want to find out."
"And you won't if you pester him. If he wants to tell, he will tell."
"Well, for now. But I'm going to ask him later and he is going to tell me."
"Fine, but you'll be the only one trying." Jessie said leaving Misty behind.
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We find Jessie, Pikett, Isaac, and deputy Stone where walking along a heavy forested area.
"So, she might be around here?" Jessie asked.
"Well most of local fire pokemon live very deep in the forest." Deputy Stone explained. "And since she is a fire trainer she most likely walked somewhere around here."
"Maybe she find fire pokemon and the burn her up?" Pikett said.
"That's not very likely. Fire pokemon are violent, but they won't harm a human unless proved." Isaac said. "Unless that pokemon got rabid and went berserk. Which can happen out here."
"How would know about that?"
"I've seen it happen. It not pretty."
"Sheriff Jenny thought it might been that too, but there been siting of any rabid creatures here for a while."
"Well I guess a pokemon getting her would out of the question then." Pikett started sniffing the air. "What is it?"
"I smell smoke."
"Smoke? If theirs smoke theirs fire." Jessie said. Deputy Stone to out a hand radios.
"Come in. We got a fire here. Sent in the water planes. Over. Well better see where the fire is and if we can keep it under control till the planes arrive." The four of them ran till the found the fire. Flames arouse for the trees and spread along the ground. Deputy Stone took out a pokeball and released a Blastoise. "If any of you got a water pokemon release them now."
"I don't have a water pokemon, but Arbok can help." Jessie threw her pokeball. "Arbok, throw dirt on the fire."
"Charbok." Arbok threw dirt into the fire putting some of the fire out.
"Isaac, where your Starmie?" Isaac just stood there, eyes staring into the flame.
"It's happening again. It's the fire that consumes. Its come back to take me." Isaac sounded very distant.
"Isaac? What wrong?" Pikett asked.
"I must get away. I don't want to be consumed." Isaac stared to run, but Jessie grab him.
"What with you?"
"I got to get away! The flames have come for me; I have to get away. Let me go." Isaac managed to struggle out of Jessie's grip. Isaac ran away form the fire and deeper into the woods. Jessie and Pikett almost ran after him, but Deputy Stone called out to them.
"Lets him go. We can't risk letting everyone get lost. Besides we have to make sure the fire doesn't spread."
"But Isaac?"
"I know it may seem difficult for you, but if you all go after him you'll all get lost. He won't get very far anyway." Jessie and Pikett stood for a while then returned to help with the fire.
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Isaac kept running. He ran screaming. However, what he didn't see was the slope ahead and Isaac fell down the rocky slope. Isaac fell down the slope and stopped when he log.
"Must escape..." Isaac went unconscious.
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"What do mean he ran off!" Sheriff Jenny yelled. The fire had been put out and everyone was in the now burned area of the forest.
"I tried to stop him, but he kept screaming about the fire consuming him and he ran off."
"He was sacred of the fire."
"But why?"
"Well you can ask him that when we find him. If we find him."
"Of course where going to find him. I won't let him stay lost." Ash said.
"The thing I want to know is why did he run like that."
"He was sacred by the fire. That what I say before." Pikett said.
"But why is he afraid of fire?"
"Well let's go look for him and find him."
"Deputy Stone, you go back to the office and get some men to search the area. There might be something here that can be a clue about the fires. The rest of us will try and find Isaac."
"Lets go. He went that away." Everyone ran off in the direction Isaac ran.
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Isaac woke up slowly. "What happened." Isaac looked around. "I guess I tripped and fell." Isaac started to dust himself off. "Way to go Isaac, you just blew it big time. There probably going to yell at me now. I then I'll probably have to tell them..." Isaac's hand touched something on the ground. Isaac looked down at what he touched. Isaac saw a leather gloved hand under the log. "Oh dear. I think I found her." Isaac got up and pulled out a pole form his jacket. "And I didn't think I would need this." Isaac put the pole under the log and used it as a lever to move the log. The log rolled over and he saw the body. "Looks like she was crushed by this log." Isaac looked at the log. "Must have fallen over her. Oh and got this Charmander too. Must of snuffed it tail out. But it looked like the log rotted, so how could they been killed a week ago?" Isaac examined the log closer. "Wait... this log hasn't rotted, its been burned! That means something had burned these marks in. But what?" Isaac heard a sound. Isaac turned around to see a Magmar looking at him.
"Magmar." The Magmar looked at him.
"Mmmm... A Magmar!" Isaac quickly jumped behind the log and cowered behind it. Isaac tried to pull out a pokeball. "Starlight, get rid of it." Isaac threw his pokeball and a Starmie came out.
"Hiya!" Starmie fired a stream of water at the Magmar, but the fire pokemon avoid the stream of water. The Magmar stood where it stopped.
"What are you waiting for Starlight, stop it." Starlight fired more streams of water, but the Magmar avoided each stream. Suddenly a gunshot went off and the Magmar screamed. A few more shots and the Magmar fell to the ground.
"Isaac! Isaac! Are you here." A voiced called out. It sounded much like Ash.
"You don't have to worry Isaac. Sheriff Jenny used a tranquilizer on the Magmar. Its out cold now."
"I don't care. Kill it. It was going to attack me, so you should kill it." Isaac stood shaking.
"Isaac?" Misty scolded. "That's an awful thing to say."
"I don't care; it has the eyes of a killer. I was going to hurt me. I should be eliminated."
"Now where going to her no more talk of that." Misty said.
"So, this is the body of the trainer? How she die?"
"I found this log on top of her. I fell form that stump there." Isaac points to a broken tree stump. Sheriff Jenny looks around a bit.
"There are burn marks on this log. It must have been form the Magmar."
"Why is that?"
"Because this isn't an area, that has Magmars. It makes sense know. This pokemon must of gotten loose form it trainers death and got lost in the forest, trying to get help. Then it lit those fires to keep warm."
"So, what do we do?"
"Well, I got to get my deputy and the others to take the body and the Magmar away."
"Your not going to hurt it are you?" Ash asked.
"I think it should be killed. It tried to kill me." Isaac said.
"Isaac, stop it. I don't want to here any of this." Ash said.
"Well since its trainer is dead, it was only acting of instinct. Thus, it can't be charged with anything. The Magmar and the other pokemon she has will be sent to her family. It just a shame that this trainers life was cut so short."
"Yeah, it is quite a shame." Ash said.
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Sheriff Jenny dropped everyone off at the motel. Everyone was surrounding Isaac.
"Isaac, why are you acting so funny?" Jessie asked.
"And we're not leaving till you tell us."
"You want to know, I'll tell you why. It because of this." Isaac held up his hands.
"Your gloves?"
"Not my gloves. My hands. When you first meet me, I told you there was a reason I wore gloves. This is the reason." Isaac took off his gloves. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"Oh my." Misty was the first to speak. The skin on Isaac's hands where a very deep red and pocketed.
"I got these scars five years ago. It was in my early days of training. Mat was fighting another trainer. The other trainer had an Arcanine. Apparently the Arcanine was rabid and it went berserk. I was caught in a flamethower attack and it deeply burned my hands. I was in a hospital for over a month with burn wounds. The doctors where able to save my hands, since they almost had to cut my fingers off, but they couldn't fully treat my scars. Actually my hands look much better then it originally was. But ever since then I can't be near a fire pokemon, because I remember the pain." The other where silent. "There are all happy now? Now you know about my fear of fire."
"Oh, we didn't know."
"Oh course you didn't know! You all weren't so post to know. I never let anyone know about it."
"Could you have surgery for it?"
"They tried, but it didn't work. My hands were to damage to heal back. They were able to heal most of it so my hands could move normally, but my skin became too damaged to heal. That's why I panicked at the fire and when the Magmar was near. The pain I felt was too much and I feel it again when I see fire pokemon."
"If we had known we wouldn't have took you into the woods. I'm sorry Isaac. I should figured something was wrong and let you stay behind." Ash said.
"I understand. You had no way of knowing. Nobody out side my family knows about this. Hell even some of family still doesn't know."
"That awful to go though something like that. But we all go though problems and we learned to get over them. We had have things in the past that we don't like but we get over them."
"But do any of you carry a physical mark of that pain." They shook their heads. "I didn't think so. I am reminded everyday of that pain. I have to carry these scars with for the rest of my life, while you can just forget about what happened in your lives." Jessie stared in front of Isaac.
"You think that don't you. James and me have been in team rocket for more years then we care. We have still have to hide that fact even today. We can't even travel to most the indigo isles because people still would recognize us. We learned to deal with this and I know that you can too."
"I can deal with it. It's just that I can't be near fire. That is my what I fear. I will and always will panic when I am near a fire." Ash placed his hand on Isaac's shoulder.
"Well just remember that we will be there for you."
"Yeah, we be there." Pikett said.
"Were your friends. And we help our friends."
"You're a part of this team now."
"Wither you like it or not."
"Thanks guys. That really helps." Isaac puts his gloves back on. "I think we get some dinner now. I'm hungry."
"Yes lets."
"Food!" Pikett said.
"Is all you think of."
"Yeah. That's what I'm so post to do." James whined. Jessie whacks James on the head. Everyone burst into laughter.
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Next mourning Sheriff Jenny took them back to the station where their van was. "I like to thank you again for help us out. We couldn't have done it without you." Jenny said.
"No problem. It was no be deal with us." Ash said.
"Say is your friend going to be all right? He was still acting funny when I last left you all."
"He all right now. All in all, I think it was a good experience for him and us. I think form it we know a little more about him." Jessie hit beeped the vans horn.
"We better get going Ash! OR I'm leaving with out you."
"Ok, I'm coming." Ash got in to van and waved good bye. The van spends off and left. Sheriff Jenny noticed something falling off the bottom of the van. She picked up the object.
"Looks like a tracer. I wonder if they knew about this?"
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"Report." A mysterious voice said. The body was clocked in shadow, so he was not visible. Across the room Kitty and Tiger stood. Kitty spoke first.
"Well the tracking device fell off the van sir. We don't know how it broke off."
"That's the third one we lost. I know they don't know, but this apparently not an accident. I want to know why this keeps happening."
"Nevertheless, we know where they're going sir. We can just plant another one."
"However, they keep falling off. The next is going inside their van. If something happen to that one, we will find out who is doing this. Anything else to report."
"Yes sir." Tiger said. "We found out that the magician is afraid of fire."
"Afraid of fire? This could be useful." The figured smiled. "Yes. It the magician shall make a wonderful target." A dagger appeared the figure hand. "Watch out Pikachu. This cat is going to trap this mouse." The figure threw the dagger and it hit a picture of Pikett, then burst into flames.
To be continued....
Ok I like to thank Miyu (Willow, WRMisty) for the use of Skye (or what was left of her).
But tell me is it ironic that I killed Skye (a fire pokemon trainer) by a tree falling on her (which is grass). Therefore, I kill a fire trainer with grass.
Well enough talk I give back Skye to Miyu. (Zips up body bag and load it on to car) I hope she doesn't might the damage. (Drives off, then comes back)
Oh yeah, stayed tuned for the next part of the US Journey where, I'll have a guest star (or should I say pokemon) form another fic. I won't say whose or which. So, stay tuned same poke time, same poke channel. (Drives off again)
Got any questions, comments, flames email me at XPapazoglo@aol.com