Complicated one
This story was one rough job
Our memories helped
Tai was waiting for the others to get back. It was about time to head for the mainland, there was nothing on the island. After a few minutes the rest of the Digi-destined popped up, and he was relieved to see Kari, "I see a town over there, across the river." he said and pointed, "I think we should head over that way to see if we can reach it."
They waded across the river and started slowly making their way to the town.
Crystal was busy tending to the green chocobo's when she noticed people coming from the river. She tried to look closer, in utter confusion. She knew that people never crossed the rivers without a chocobo. Crystal hopped onto Star, her chocobo, and headed for the group.
It didn't take very long to reach them. When she got close, she slowed down so as not to startle them. There were eight of them, and they all looked worn out, "Hello," she called to them. The young boy, Crystal guessed about fourteen, looked up. Each one of them had a little creature with them, and all of the looked dehydrated. "Oh, dear," she muttered to herself as she pulled to a stop. She took out a long, black whistle. Blowing on it, made four different notes, and changing her finger positions made four more. At the sound, eight black chocobo rode up to her side.
Stepping of from Star, she waked up to the group, "Are you guys heading to Cosmo Canyon?" she asked, and they nodded to her. Crystal herded the person that she thought was the lead boy and helped him onto one of the black chocobo's, then his little creature behind him. She then proceeded to tie them to the bird. He looked at her questioningly, and she answered, "It's to keep you on." The rest of the group had followed suit and she tied each one of them.
She then hopped back onto Star and led all of them towards the nearest town, Cosmo Canyon.
As Ash, Misty, Tracy, and the new found Brock continued from their last attack, and trying to catch those . . . things, they stopped when they heard someone. "You think you guys would learn after so much," the voice said from somewhere just around the mesa beside them.
Coming around it, they could see five of the Squirtle like creatures attacking a single woman. One of the creatures tried using it's blue laser from it's staff; it didn't seem to affect her much.
"You know, it's not nice to play rough," she said. Another attacked, and at that she did something unexpected. Placing her hands on the ground, she began to tense up, "You asked for it," she commented. Slowly her form began to change; her obvious pale complexion changed as if an ever darkening shadow was cast over her.
The shadow took form; leaping like a lion at one of the creatures, it's tail swaying for balance behind it. It was a black panther, as black as a moonless and starless night; ever becoming darker. The creature slashed, bit, and kicked furiously; and when it had stopped it waited.
In the half second it paused, the creature that it had attacked disappeared in a flash of red light. Three of the remaining creatures attacked it, looking as if they should have killed it. Instead, it growled and did a back flip, landing with paws spread wide. As if summoned by the panther, the sky darkened quickly, and the ground began to rumble roughly.
The lower are that the fight had been taking place on began to fill with gushing rain water, that was moving quickly. One of the creatures was swept away before it disappeared in another flash of red light. Then, in a blinding flash of light, lightning was cast down from the sky as the panther jumped high. The lightning used the water as a conductor and electrocuted the rest of them into more flashes of red light.
The sky cleared soon looking like there had been nothing there at all. At that the panther licked one of it's paws before it returned back into its original form of a woman.
"Wow," Ash said quietly. The woman heard the quiet comment and looked at Ash and his group. He couldn't suppress a shudder, for at first he had thought she was going to attack them, then when she didn't he noticed that her eyes were a very eerie dark red.
She spoke, "Are you lost?"
"Y-yeah, kinda." Ash commented.
Misty wasn't as startled, "Hi, I'm Misty, could you help us?"
"Sure," she paused, "Would you like to go to Cosmo Canyon?"
"Where's Cosmo Canyon?" a spiky haired man from the group asked.
"It's the closest town from here," she said then turned and pointed at a strange city on the side of a mesa, "Over there."
"Alright," the one with green hair said. The woman whistled and a gold bird with a moon shape on it's forehead came up; she hopped on. She kept a slow pace with it and had the others walk. "I don't have my bird whistle with me, so you will have to walk." she said as they headed off.
It had taken a few minutes but they were getting close. she stopped when she heard a familiar voice.
"Kashash!" it said.
Kashash turned around to see her friend Crystal ride up on Star with eight other chocobo.
Nanaki was looking out of one of the laboratory windows, he saw a big group of people and chocobo about a mile to two miles away. Hmmm he thought to himself as he looked closer.
Cloud walked up beside him, "What's wrong, Red?" noticing him looking out the window.
"Crystal and Kashash are down there," he said, still looking disturbed.
Then a movement caught the corner of his eye, "I've never seen so may," he paused, then with more urgency he said, "The Skeeskee and the Desert Sahagin are attacking them!"
Cloud got the idea, "Everyone, come on! Crystal and Kashash are in trouble!" he shouted. Everyone looked up in surprise from the planning that they had been doing.
"Let's go." Vincent said.
"I'll kick their butts personally." Cid added as he and Vincent were the first to leave. Everyone else followed.
A slim red figure lay still on the ground watching the large group of people and chocobo with great care.
