Ryan's Pokemon Adventure
Ryan's Pokémon
Adventure
Ch. 12 The Lethal Underground Passage
By BlastSage
The rain pelted down on the four
kids as they hurried down the hill toward the barely lit shack
which stood in the middle of nowhere. The wind howled with
augury, as if trying to tell them that something bad was about to
happen. Thunder clashed and lightning cackled, lighting up the
surrounding area just enough to light the passage toward the
door. Karen screamed and held tight onto Ryan.
They all opened the door and
slid right inside just as the rain fell harder. Jeremy, the last
one in the group, closed the door behind him. They all slumped
down to the floor, soaking wet and panting hard. It took them a
few minutes before they noticed the old man sitting in the chair
in front of them, watching a small fire. He wore a plaid shirt
with a matching cap. He was holding a pipe in his mouth.
Ryan crept up to the man.
"Excuse me sirbut is thisis this the entrance to
the underground passage that leads to Route 6.?"
The old man continued to look
into the fire. "You reached the right place," he
whispered. His voice was raspy and cold. "But I doubt
you'll get to Route 6." He got up and walked from the
warmth of the fire to a side door. He opened the door to reveal
several steps leading down into a dark abyss, coughing up dirt
and soot, as if it hadn't been used in years. "This way
leads to Vermillion City. But proceed at your own risk." He
started coughing, but a hint of it sounded like a deep laughing.
"Let's go and get away
from him before he passes out on us," said Ttocs, walking
toward the dark. But even he seemed reluctant to go down there,
especially during the storm.
The old man said one more thing
as they descended the steps one at a time. "Got any water,
rock, or ground pokémon?" he yelled to them.
"You'll need them if you want to survive. A
hahahahahaha!" he laughed as he shut the door behind them.
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"This place is too dark and
creepy," Karen cried out loud as she felt something brush
against her leg.
"Charmander, Go!"
commanded Ryan as Charmander burst forth bringing with it light.
The foursome didn't notice the pair of eyes following them
narrow in the light.
"Something about this
tunneljust doesn't seem right," Jeremy whispered
to Ryan. "And my mind keeps wandering back to what that old
man said, about water, rock, or ground type pokémon."
"I know what you
mean," Ryan replied back. He kept on having this uneasy
feeling that something wanted himsomething that was raving
mad
"Could you stop talking
about what the old man said and focus on getting through this
tunnel!" Karen screamed. Everyone else had to hold their
ears from her screaming.
"Did you guys hear
that?" Ttocs asked, trying to pay attention up ahead. His
eyes illuminated a slight purple, undetected to the others.
"Yeah, we heard loud
mouth," Jeremy said back, only to get kicked in the back end
by Karen, hard. "Owdo that again and
I'll" She kicked him again.
"Ok"
"No, I wasn't talking
about Karen, I was talking about-". But before Ttocs could
finish his sentence, a low growl emitted from all around them.
"That sound again." The growl sped up each of their
spines, and pierced their soul with an iciness that was
unpleasant, even though the room was starting to rise in
temperature.
"Char, charmander. Char
charman, charmander," Charmander tried to explain, but the
humans just couldn't understand him.
"Look there," Jeremy
pointed as two red glowing eyes peered strait at them. A red
glint of light shot a stream of fire rushing down the hallway.
"Duck!" Jeremy screamed as he kicked out his own legs
from under him and barely missed the flames. He could feel his
hair get scorched by the heat alone.
The Pokémon in charge of the
flames came charging down at them, baring his fangs and dripping
hot, sticky saliva in his path. It growled with a mixture of
anger and what appeared to be blood. "Arcanine"
it said in a deep, darkened tone. It eyed them with contempt.
Ryan started to shake from the
dread of being attacked by this massive creature. He started to
sweat, and his heartbeat rose from fear. The Arcanine seemed to
detect this change in chemicals coming from Ryan, and started to
advance toward him. "Somebody, help" he whispered
as he started to back away from it.
"Arca" it
whispered as it cornered the scared trainer and opened its mouth
wide, about to take a bite. Suddenly, it felt a twinge of power
being drained from it. It stopped and turned around, just in time
to see a Squirtle hiding in its shell. It looked toward Jeremy.
"RUN! I'll keep it
away from us," yelled Jeremy to the others. They obeyed as
they ran down the hall. Jeremy turned and faced the delirious
Arcanine, who started to run toward him, surrounded by a wall of
flames. "Squirtle, Tackle!" Squirtle's shell
jumped up from its position and flew toward the tiger, where it
hit it in the nose. Arcanine just shook it off, and broke into a
run after a fast Jeremy.
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Karen stopped just short behind
the guys as they came to a boarded up passage in the tunnel.
"We have to go back for Jeremy. We can't just leave him
there! I say we fight it off."
"No way. Did you
s-s-seesee it right there!" Ryan choked as Jeremy came
with a disgruntled Arcanine after him, spitting out flames.
"Karen is right. We should
stay and fight it off." Ttocs grabbed all of his pokéballs.
"Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, attack!" Out of the red
came three fighters, ready to fight.
"Beedrill, Caterpie,
Clefairy, Bulbasaur, Nidoran, go!" Karen shouted, as her
Bug/Grass/Poison team assembled near their trainer.
"You're right! Abra,
Pidgey, Charmander, Fearow, Raticate, Dratini, let's teach
this Arcanine a lesson!" Ryan's team met at the front.
When Jeremy saw the pokémon all out, he worked up the courage to
call out his own.
"Poliwhirl, Sandshrew,
Pikachu, Scyther, help Squirtle and fight!" Jeremy called,
and soon they surrounded Squirtle, ready to defend everyone.
Arcanine came to a huge variety
of pokémon, but that didn't bother him one bit.
"Arcanine" it said. It spat flames at them and
growled. Then it attacked with a mixture of Rage and Take Down.
"Vaporeon, Squirtle,
Poliwhirl," Ryan, Ttocs, and Jeremy commanded in unison.
"Water Gun, now!" A foamy wall of water whistled
through the air and hissed as the water turned to steam on
contact.
"GrrrrrrOOOAAARRR!"
Arcanine roared as it released its Flamethrower attack.
"Flaaaaarrrreee!"
Flareon jumped in the way and built Fire Lance, an attack that
Ttocs had been working on with his Flareon, in which a fire
pokémon superheated the air around it, creating a shield against
attacks. When the two attacks met, an explosion took place as the
Arcanine and Flareon were blown away. Arcanine still had enough
strength to fight, but Flareon was bushed out.
Ttocs recalled Flareon. Ryan
told his Abra to freeze Arcanine in place. Arcanine threw another
Flamethrower at the group, but everyone dodged it as it burned a
hole through the boarded up passage behind them.
"Nidoran, Poison Sting.
Beedrill, Pin Missile." Nidoran ran fast and stuck Arcanine
in the leg, injecting poison into him. Beedrill flew toward
Arcanine and started stinging him. Jolteon joined in, and used
his own Pin Missile.
It was Jeremy's turn.
"Scyther, Double Team and Slash. Sandshrew, use Slash with
Scyther." As one Scyther became 26, they all
slashed at him, along with Sandshrew's short claws. Arcanine
was becoming very angry.
"ArNINE!"
it screamed as it performed Fire Blast, the most strongly fire
attack yet. The five-stared figure drilled through the air, too
big to dodge. The kids looked in fear as the attack came closer.
Abra let go of Arcanine and
focused on the Fire Blast. He tried to create a shield to
disintegrate the shield, but only resulted in slowing it down.
Everyone dodged out of the way as the water pokémon put the
flames out.
By now, Arcanine was starting to
get weak. "Fearow, Mirror Move and Cyclone." Fearow
analyzed the fire pokémon's last move, and copied it as he
created his own Fire Blast. As soon as it was formed, he spun
around, creating a cyclone. The fire was swept up in this wind,
creating a fiery tornado, as it spun towards Arcanine.
"Arc" it growled
as it was engulfed into the flames. Arcanine grew weaker and
weaker, partly because of the flames, and partly because of the
poison Nidoran injected. When the flames had passed, the Arcanine
was nearly fainted, but it was still standing.
"Pikachu,
Thundershock," Jeremy said. With that final attack, it fell,
barely conscious.
"Pokéball go," Ryan
said, picking a pokéball. The others tried to stop him from
throwing it, but it was too late. The ball made contact with
Arcanine, and he was instantly collected in the ruby light. The
pokéball shook violently for a few minutes, before the shaking
receded. The ping sounded, indicating a capture of a pokéball.
It then emitted white light as it teleported to Prof. Oak's
Laboratory in Pallet.
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They reached the top of the
steps, and opened the door to a well-lit room. Inside were dozens
of trainers, energetic trainers, waiting out the storm. So it was
quite a sight when Ryan, Karen, Ttocs, and Jeremy walked into the
room, clothes all scorched and soot covering them from head to
toe. They walked up to the front desk as a young lady asked them
if they needed anything.
"There was an Arcanine down
there that tried to kill us!" they all said at the same
time. "That old man nearly killed us."
"The old man? Ricky? You
must have been to the passage from the shack, am I correct?"
They nodded their heads yes, puzzled. "That was the old
passageway, until an Arcanine was reported hunting down trainers
that went that way. You missed the real entrance to the
Underground Passage by a mile." She chuckled, until she saw
the group fall on the floor, exhausted and bewildered.
