The Storm
Part 1 - Lost
Written by Arti Cuno and Freakachu
This fanfic has some swearing in it. Who are we kidding, it has a lot of swearing in it, and adult content. No 10 year olds are gonna say or do any of this stuff so the ages of the characters in this fic are as follows.
Arti - 15 Gary - 16 Renku - 16 Nakako- 18 Ash - 15 Misty - 16 Brock - 18 Lilja - 14
Also, Green = Freakachu typing and Blue = Arti typing
Togepi wailed endlessly as Misty tried to calm it down. The four guys in the kitchen were making supper. Well, Nakako, Sanimi and Brock were making Chinese food for dinner, and Renku was making a mess. Sanimi had mentioned about probably not having enough eggs for the Egg Foo Young and had scared poor Togepi to pieces thinking that they were going to cook it.
Ash and Gary had been arguing over something or other, and Lilja who became annoyed with their bickering had suggested that they play cards or something. Misty didn't like cards and she didn't like Lilja, so she didn't play, but Arti and Gary thought it would be fun. Deciding on a game had been terrible. Ash wanted to play the pokemon TCG game, and Arti wanted to play poker. Gary smirked and said he'd like to play strip poker. But then changed his mind because he just knew Ash would lose, and didn't want to see him naked. Arti looked at Gary and seemed to think that strip poker would be a great idea after all.
"Uhh... I have no clue how to play that." Lilja moaned.
"Well, hmm, lemme see..." Gary said, wondering how to explain it. "I should know how to after all..." he grinned in Arti's direction only to be beat over the head with an Eevee, or more, attacked by one on Arti's command, another one had also attacked and bit him on the ass.
"OW! Damn, well. Let me start with explaining the different types of hands you can get, starting with best to worst. There's Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair, High Card..."
Lilja's eyes seem to go swirly as Gary continued to go on about what each of the hands meant.
"And then there's other rules you'll have to know..." he continued telling her the main rules, the main one being "And the person who loses that "round" you could say has to take one piece of clothing off, and if it's socks, BOTH socks, not one, don't be cheap. BUT, the person winning will be the one to pick what gets taken off, I could be cruel and say bra first, but you probably don't have nor need one..." he grinned evilly. "And then of course there's the betting part..."
After about twenty minutes of giving Lilja and Ash the basics of how to play everything, Gary hauled out a pack of cards from nowhere and flipped them out of the packaging and shuffled him as if he was one of the card dealers from Vegas. Ash's eyes matched Lil's now, both of them looking utterly confused and swirly eyed.
Freakachu waddled over to the group and dropped a bag full of poker chips in front of Gary. "Freeee." he said, waddling over to Lilja's side.
"We'll play five card Stud version. The first two cards will be dealt face down, so only you can see them, then the rest of the cards will be dealt face up, except for the last card. Each time a card is dealt, there's another round of betting. Betting is done between every round of the deal." Gary explained, dealing out the first card to everyone.
Ash held his up stupidly. "Is a Seven good?" he asked.
"You moron!" Gary yelled, facefaulting, "You're not supposed to show us your cards!"
"Oh..." Ash said, hiding it again. "Can I have a new one?"
Nakako beat Renku's hand with at spatula. "Hands out!" he hollered at Renku for putting his finger in the sweet and sour sauce.
"But I want some on mah taco!" He insisted, pouting and slamming his other fist down on the counter, accidentally squishing an eggroll. The innards of the eggroll shot out and plastered Sanimi's shirt. One of Gary's Eevee bounded into the kitchen to lick the food off of Sanimi. Gary had three Eevee. A girl, a boy and a hermaphrodite which Renku had named Hermee. It was Hermee who cleaned off Sanimi. It was a weird looking critter who had one paw bigger than it should be and one paw smaller. Its eyes were spaced far apart and one was much larger than an Eevee eye should be. All in all, it was a freak Eevee.
"Sweet and sour on a taco? Gross!" Brock exclaimed. "What are you doing eating a taco anyway? We're making Chinese food!"
"I can't wait that long!" Renku cried, as he stuffed the taco in his mouth. "An' anywaysh, I think I'll go in th' other room to see what them guysh are up to." He left the kitchen and wandered into the living room, and then could be heard screaming.
Nakako stirred the soy sauce into the stir fry and sighed.
"Ack oh no!" Gary smacked his head and groaned. He had just lost that round and had to lose a piece of clothing. He wasn't completely losing, both Ash and Lilja had more off than he did. Arti seemed to have only her shoes off.
"You are cheating!" He pointed to Arti. "You like picking things for me to take off!"
Arti just grinned mischievously. "Shirt."
Gary sighed and yanked his shirt off. "Good enough?" He was only now in his pants.
Misty sat and watched television with Renku, Togepi, Chris and Pikachu. Every time there was a commotion at the end of a round, she'd look to see who was losing. It was always either Ash or Lilja, and only three times had it been Gary, and once Arti. She glanced at Ash and seen he was only in his shirt and boxers. Suddenly Misty wished she had played.
They went on to the next hand and everyone checked their cards. Each tossing in a bet. Finally the time came for them to show their cards and Lilja sighed. "I lost again.." she said, throwing her hand to Gary to shuffle. Gary looked at the hand, a "Royal Flush?!" he exclaimed. "More like you actually beat us for once..."
Arti groaned and she slung her cards at the table, I have shit all here..." Finally she'd been the one to lose again, and Lilja had to pick what came off now.
"Get her shirt off her!" Gary grinned.
Arti simply blushed, a petted the Eevee on her lap, the house seemed to be crawling with em, Gary's three and her twenty some were all over the place. The one in her lap at the time however was "Eevah".
"Hmm, I'll be nice I guess," Lil said, thinking about it, then realizing Arti hadn't been all the nice to her having her take things off she really didn't want to when Arti won. "Actually, like Gary asked, shirt!"
Arti hung her head and whined. "Gary.... Remind me to brutally kill you later...."
She took off her shirt to reveal she had another one on under it. Gary facefaulted for the third time during the game. "You cheat!" he accused her. "You used one of your powers to do that!"
"Did not" she lied, grinning. "Anyhow, no rule against it." she returned the evil grin he'd had on his face when she'd lost.
After a few more hands being played Ash was only down to his boxers, Lilja down to her underwear and bra, Gary still had his pants like before, and Arti was still sitting fully clothed stroking now four happy eevee sitting on her shoulders and lap. As the last card was dealt and bets made it was shown that Ash had lost, and was now going to be butt nekkid. He yelled in shock, beat red from embarrassment.
"No! I can't!" he yelled, looking around at everyone. "This is as far as it goes!"
Arti shook her head. "You agreed to it, so off with it."
"Yeah, Ash, you've come this far, no chickening out now." Gary taunted.
"But- but...." Ash protested, finally giving in. "Okay, okay..." He reach down to his boxers to take em off.
Arti looked away, as did Gary however Misty was watching from the couch and Lil from beside him.
An ominous rumbling sound came from outside a ways away and a flash lit up the darkened sky.
"Did you guys see that?" Ash asked.
Gary snorted, "Stop trying to get out of it. So strip!"
Rain started pounding the window and the television and lights flickered, and went out. Arti yelped in fright and grabbed for the closest thing sending the Eevee herd that was on her, sailing. She didn't know what it was that she had grabbed. It turned out to be Gary.
Ash reached around in the dark for his clothes but couldn't seem to find them.
Sounds of surprise could be heard coming from the kitchen where the three other guys had been trying to cook that nights meal. A light appeared in the kitchen-livingroom doorway and blinded Lilja who still sat on the floor stunned.
"I got a light. But we might need more than this. Like an oil lamp or something. Hold on and see if I can find one." Nakako left with the flashlight and the room became dark again. Chris latched onto Misty and whimpered. Lilja began searching for her clothes that had been flung about, and felt her shirt which she pulled over her head. Something touch her arm. She turned on her hands and knees, and her head smacked into whatever it was.
"Ow...." She moaned, and heard Ash say the exact same thing. Then something grabbed her shirt and dragged her across the floor.
"Sorry, Lilja!" Ash apologized in the dark. "I thought you were my shirt!"
Lilja pouted. "Riiiight... I know what you were trying to do, Ash."
Ash was confused for a second. "What? Oh, I know..." Then he felt something cover his face.
"Don't be a jerk!" Lilja called after draping his shirt over his head.
Nakako came back into the room with the flashlight. "I can't find anything else here to make light. Arti, do you think there will be anything over in the older unused section of the house?"
Arti whined as a streak of lighting completely illuminated the outside. "I don't know!"
Arti clung onto Gary tighter sinking her fingernails into his back. He yelped in pain but bit his lip and tried and to scream any louder.
"Maybe we should go look and see." Nakako suggested, starting to wander off on his own, he stopped and looked back at everyone else. "Aren't you coming with me?" his voice was giving away that he was scared to be on his own.
Gary picked Arti up off the floor and flung her over his shoulder. "I'm comin', And I'm assuming Arti won't let go of me so she is too..."
"I'll stay here in case the power comes back on," Sanimi cut in. "You guys can go by yourselves."
Ash fumbled about getting the last of his clothes back on, inside out and backwards mostly, and bounced along on one leg as her tried to pull his pants back on. "I'll come t-" he fell face first into the floor, landing at Gary's feet.
Gary kicked Ash in the nose, it was more involuntary reaction then anything. Lilja whacked Gary as payback and Arti ended it all with ice beaming Lilja, leaving her in a block of ice.
"Help. Me..." Lilja shivered, only her head seemed to be free from what anyone could see in the dim light from Nakako's flashlight and Renku and Freaka's tail fires.
Freakachu went to its trainer's side and melted the ice with its tail. Lilja fell to the floor in a puddle while Nakako and some others wandered off. She realized she was being left behind with no one else there and quickly picked herself up and took chase to them.
The storm seemed to be right above the house now. The thunder was louder then before, and happening more often. Even the lightning was flashing brighter and seemingly closer. The part of the house they were all now in was darker even with the flashlight going it seemed. There weren't as many windows, and everything was dust covered, at least an inch on everything it looked like. Occasionally a Spinarak would crawl down from a web and hiss at them, or stare out at them from the webs hanging overhead or in corners.
Everyone looked around nervously and were being cautious of where they stepped, afraid the floor boards would give out. That part of the house hadn't been used in over 100 years, since Prussian had first been settled. Arti had no need for it so it had been boarded off. It was just extra useless space.
The floor creaked after every step it seemed like, sounding like a herd of mice were running around ramped. Arti whimpered from over Gary's shoulder, looking around, terrified something would spring out at her, as if the thunder and lightning wasn't scaring her enough, all the glowing evil eyes in the corners and on the ceiling were making it worse. The sounds of the spiders added to the effects even more again.
Nakako was leading everyone with the flash light, stopping now and again to look in rooms for anything useful, only to find dust and spinaraks mostly. They arrived at another door. The sighed as he opening it, nothing again. He started to close the door when something sprung out at him, the thing tried to drag him in but he broke free and tumbled back first into the wall across the hall from the door he'd opened. Chris was the next closest one to the door, he was drug in, unable to fight back. A long creepy leg wiggled about, trying to latch onto someone else. Arti shrieked and kicked her legs, trying to get off of Gary's shoulder and get away. Lilja clung to Ash, Freakachu to Pikachu, and Misty to Brock.
"Wha' the fuck is tha'?!" Renku cursed, waving his tail flame about, beating the legs on the thing back. Chris' cries for help were ripping though everyone's ears, the wussy boy sounded as if he was being eaten alive.
"Fire Blast!" Renku yelled, fire shot from his hands into the room and charred everything it it, amazingly not setting the house on fire. A monstrous Ariados, the evolved form of Spinarak, leapt from the room with Chris in a web cocoon being carried over the spiders back. The huge pokémon skittered down the hallways, hissing and sputtering, taking Chris with it.
"Oh God! That..that.. thing has Chris!" Misty shrieked, loud enough to wake up the dead, or undead even.
The Eevee's latched on to one another and 'weeed' pitifully. Togepi's shrill cries seemed to carry throughout all rundown halls.
Everyone stopped and caught their breath, Arti still grappled Gary to death, her hair practically standing up on end like his was naturally. A creaking sound could be heard down the hall, but yet, no one in the group was moving an inch.
"What in hell is going on here?" Lilja panicked, squeezing Ash's arm.
"I have no idea." He replied. "Hey, Nakako, maybe we should go back. Won't the flashlight be good enough? I mean we don't need candles or anything. Maybe the power will come back on."
In the dim light, Nakako shook his head. "We need a bunch of lanterns or candles to put around the 'livable' part of the house." He stared at Arti. "Why we didn't keep this part of the house nice and neat is beyond me. Anyway, we have to find Chris. If that gigantic thing didn't eat him yet."
The floor creaked again and Misty almost flung poor Togepi into the air. She started pushing towards the way they had come.
"I'm not staying here one more second! This place gives me the creeps! There's bugs in here and it's dark!"
Nakako grabbed her arm and hauled her back. "You'll get lost. Stay with us."
They continued walking, peeking into rooms to try and find a lantern or a candle or anything that would work, being careful not to send any bugs after them.
Brock grabbed Nakako's flashlight and shone it at the floor in front of them. "We've already been through here! See?" There was in fact footprints on the floor that belonged to them. Nakako snatched the light back, and it reflected on something on the wall a couple of meters ahead. Something that wasn't there the last time they had gone through. Renku had the impudence to point that out.
"I didn't think I'd ever say this, but I agree with Misty. Let's go back, and sit in the dark. There's too much creepy stuff here." Shivered Lilja. "Or maybe we'll get lucky and the power will come on.
"If the power comes on, it'll still be dark in here. We'd have to find a light switch to turn the lights on." Gary replied, half scared himself.
Arti found nerve to speak and let go of Gary. "Even if the power returns, there isn't any switches. It'll be dark here no matter what. This old section has no electrical wiring."
Ash caught himself from facefaulting on the dusty floor. "You mean that the power could be back on already, and we're stuck here in the dark with only this little flashlight?"
Arti nodded.
"Um, then lets just go back. It's probably a lot safer there anyway. No wild Spinarak or Ariados have mauled me in my sleep yet since we've been here." Brock cut in.
Nakako looked back in the direction they came in. They were lost, that was a fact. It would be a hell of a time finding the way back. "Shouldn't we look for Chris?" He then glanced pointedly towards Misty who had wanted to find Chris quite a while ago. "After all, Misty seems to like him."
Misty became worried. "Well, I did want to find him, but I'm sure he's safe. Let's just try and find our way back to the good part of the house!" She started to go back again but was stopped by Renku this time.
"'Ey! I wanna see wha' this thin' is!" He wandered over to the thing on the wall that had not been there before. It was stuck to the wall somehow.
"Looks to me like an envelope," Gary remarked, squinting at it. Nakako brought the flashlight over.
Gary pulled the envelope off the wall and ewwed at the blood prints on it, he had no idea where it came from. He opened it carefully, and looked it over, there was something written on a piece of paper in blood. Arti was once again clinging to him, wailing. Even inside the house where there was no windows they could still head the storm loud as if they were outside with it. The booming thunder wasn't letting up in the least.
"Eeww, someone's sick..." Gary looked slightly green as and Eevee made its way to climbing up his shoulder and cuddling against his head. "Writing in blood..."
"WHO'S blood?" Ash pointed out sickly. "It might be someone got Chris..."
Nakako took the letter from Gary, attempting to read it with his light. "I can't make it out it's so soaked and running on the paper..." His dark complexion was starting to go pale, even in the dim light it was easy to see.
Arti began to bawl as she dropped to her knees scared to death. Renku looked over the letter. "Says something about 'the fish boy' and 'his screams as' something 'died'?" Renku blinked. "Something killed Chris!?"
Arti's wailing was constantly getting louder, Misty looked too horrified to move, and Lilja was just stunned. Arti grabbed her Eevee, Eevah and ran off leaving everyone behind, Gary quickly took chase to her with his three eevee in tow.
"Get back here!!" Nakako called after them. "We should stay together! Splitting up will make it... worse...." he sighed, realizing Arti was too scared to listen and probably too far away now.
He looked back at the others, Misty had taken off now, and Brock had seemed to have followed her or taken off on his own. Leaving Renku, Lilja, Ash and Nakako in a group of four, and two groups of two off on their own with a strange killer on the loose, or so it seemed. A bloody letter seemed to suggest a killer since it did mention something about "died".
Renku sighed and shook his head. "I don' believe this..."
Nakako agreed. "I'd like to know who's idea of a sick joke this is... Chris probably planned it to freak us out, then again, he hasn't got the brain power to come up with this."
Everyone went silent and listened. There was the sound of foot falls in a nearby hall. Lilja whimpered and clung to Ash's arm tighter. Renku mockingly grabbed Nakako's arm and made innocent eyes at him, Nakako simply pushed the charmander freak away. "Grow up, something's going on..."
Lilja whimpered and began to pull on Ash. "Let's go... I don't wanna stay here..." she drug him along from the way they'd came, trying to find their way back. Nakako was about to insist they stay but knew they wouldn't listen. Apparently all the girls had been spooked and ran off. At least Freakachu was a good enough light source for Lilja and Ash to see where they were going. Arti however didn't have anything other then Eevah with her and Gary probably only had his three eevee with him.
Renku took Nakako's flashlight and shone it around, checking for more spiders. "I hope none of them bastards pop out 'nd grab me..."
Nakako sighed. "We should try to find the others and go back at this rate, it'll be safer there, and Chris can find his own way back.. I don't care anymore...
Arti finally dropped to her knees, panting and crying. She was too panicked to do anything else and had ran until she tired herself out completely. She looked around trying to figure out where she was, but she didn't know, there was some light where she was at least, a window was to one side of her lighting up the hall occasionally as a flash of lightning would happen. She clung to her eevee, who seemed as scared as her. Someone was behind her. She didn't know who, she snapped about quickly and screeched, shielding herself from whoever or whatever it was.
She felt a hand grab her arm making her screech even louder and try to run off. She was jerked back and realized the thing wasn't there to kill her like she thought. She looked up to see Gary holding her, trying to calm her down.
"It's alright..." he kissed her forehead. "Don't worry, I'm here..."
Arti calmed down slightly and rested her head on his shoulder, squishing Eevah between them. Sitting around them were the other three eevee, all looking about nervously, something was spooking them. Another boom of thunder exploded outside and lightning soon followed, lighting up all outside. Arti looked out, something caught her eye, something moving. It wasn't a tree or pokémon. It seemed to be something else. She leaned close to the window to see what it was. "Gary, did you s-"
She screeched, jumping backwards, tripping over the pokémon on the floor, landing on her ass. A man slammed himself against the window. He was soaked and blood covered him. He had something in his hand. As lightning flashed again he smashed it up against the window, trying to use it to beat his way in. Neither Arti or Gary could tell what it was he had and didn't want to wait to see what it was. Gary turned to help Arti up and run when another flash struck outside. Everything lit up like day and the item in the killer's hand was clear. It was a piece of a head. Sliced on a diagonal so that everything on the insides were dripping out and splattering on the window.
Arti fainted dead away. Gary barely managed to keep from throwing up. He scrambled to throw Arti over his shoulder and run off with the Eevee herd in close pursuit.