Chapter #4
"Sunflora! Razor Leaf!" Victoria called from the other end of the field located by the lake in the mountains. Her Sunflora, with a smile on its face then flings its leaves forward, sending them flying towards my Eevee.
Without me needing to tell it what to do, Eevee dodged each leaf swiftly. "Eevee, finish it off with a quick attack!" I shouted. Eevee then began to zigzag towards Sunflora at such high speeds; it was almost impossible to see it. Then, without warning, Eevee struck Victoria's Sunflora hard with a tackle attack, knocking it down.
Victoria had a look of total disbelief, "Sunflora!" She cried. "You can get up! Come on!" Unfortunately for her, her Sunflora was beaten—it moved its leaves around, but didn't bother to try to get up. Victoria sighed and called her sunflower pokemon back into its pokeball and walked over to my Eevee and scratched it under its chin. "That was a great battle, Seadra." She smiled up at me; "You could probably try to participate in the pokemon league if you wanted to. Your Eevee and Raichu are both really strong from what I've seen."
I smiled sheepishly and put my hand at the back of my head, "The only reason I won was because my pokemon train hard, it's not me." I looked down at Victoria as Eevee rubbed up against her and waging its tail. "I always wanted to be in the pokemon league But now, it's too dangerous. Who knows if anyone is looking for me" I sighed.
Victoria smiled at me kindly and got up, putting her hand on my shoulder, "Don't worry. One day, people will except us and won't care if we're Rukonians or not. When that happens, perhaps all of us will be able to journey together and become pokemon masters."
I spent a few days after she said that, thinking about what Victoria said. Would people really one day except us as regular people and not as freaks of nature? The thought made me wonder if that happened, what would my father be like? Thoughts spun through my head for days on end. During those days, we didn't go back to the lake or the mountains. Instead, we spent most of our time at home, watching TV and caring for our pokemon. Mason spent most of his time playing different card games with Carol, while Victoria, Andy and I would admire the night views of the city from the roof of the tall building where I home was located. We would normally have to fly to get there, and I was beginning to get better at it. I would make sure to flap my wings everyday to build up their strength, and it was working very well.
I never talked to Mason much, and he didn't talk to me much either. The only time he would say something to me was when he said it was time to get to bed or when he was getting our food. He seemed to talk to Victoria the most and sometimes Carol. He talked the least to Andy, mainly because she would normally ignore him. You could always feel the tension between the two whenever they talked, and it made everyone nervous that a fight could suddenly break out.
"Victoria, Carol, Andy, Seadra!" Mason called from the small TV room while we all played Crazy Eight's. "Come here!"
We all looked at each other with confused expressions for a few moments before we all got up from the floor and ran into the small room and jumped onto the couch he was on. He laughed as we all tried to get untangled without falling off the couch. Finally, we got loose and Victoria looked to Mason. "What's up?" She asked.
Mason pointed to the TV screen, there was some bearded guy talking. I didn't know what he was talking about, until he mentioned Rukonia. Once it was mentioned, everyone went quiet and the girls' faces went pale. Mason sighed and turned the TV off, then looked at us with a smile. "You know about the Orb of Mew?" He asked.
We all looked at each other with confused expressions, then turned back to Mason and shook our heads. I never heard of the Orb of Mew before Whatever it was.
"I heard about it a long time ago. It was supposed to come from Rukonia, the island where Rukonians once lived on before it was bombed. Anyways, the Orb of Mew was said to have amazing powers and the people of Rukonia watched over it. When people from Kanto and Johto discovered Rukonia, they found out about the Orb and wanted it for themselves to increase their pokemon's powers. The Rukonians fought back and resulted in the huge feud between the two races. Unfortunately, in their rage, the people of Johto bombed the whole island, killing almost everyone and destroying everything. The Orb couldn't be found, so people thought it was destroyed. But on the news, they said some guy went there and didn't come back. They had to send a rescue team there and he was found dead I think the Orb could've done it! Hardly anything survived the bombing and the guy didn't have a scratch on him! No pokemon could've done it!" Mason had the biggest smile on his face I had ever seen on him before. It was so strange; I began to get concerned.
I always was told that a war broke out, but never knew why. Now, I knew. It was all over the Orb of Mew. I found it very interesting and wondered if there was anymore information on it I could find some how.
Andy blinked, "So? Why does it matter?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
Mason looked with her with an expression of total disbelief—he laughed. "We can't pass this up! We should go to the ruins of Rukonia and get us that Orb! Our pokemon will be so powerful! With it, people will fear us and we can declare that Rukonians must be treated equally with the people of Kanto and Johto!"
Victoria looked concerned and spoke up, "Mason I don't know about this That guy was found dead We could end up like him Besides, I don't like the idea of people being scared of us Maybe we shouldn't do this It doesn't seem right to me" She sat down beside Mason, pushing Andy off the couch. Carol giggled to this.
Mason sighed and got up and walked out of the room. "Well, I'll let you girls decide. The Orb of Mew could change our lives forever and might help our world. Besides, I've done so much for you girls over the years. If it weren't for me, you'd all probably be dead now. I took you all in when no one else would, when you were left alone. You all owe me for everything ya know" He muttered. I could hear him walk through the room to the door. I could hear the creaking of it open, and a loud slam. Mason seemed pretty mad, and I didn't understand why.
Andy got up from the floor and sat down on the couch where Mason was sitting. "What's with him? So what if he helped us? You don't help someone to get something in return. I doubt that Orb of Mew thing will help us. All it would do is make people even more scared of us. Then again, they should. I would rather have them scared senseless of us than be hunting us down like rotten dogs." She sighed and picked up the remote and turned on the TV. I looked over to Carol to see what she would say.
She was fiddling with her hair as usual, and looking down at the floor. "Umm I don't know It sounds dangerous" She said almost in a whisper, not changing direction of her eyes from the floor. She seemed really unsure with what to think.
We all looked over to Victoria to see what she would say. Being the oldest and knowing Mason the longest, she was basically our leader—so we all looked up to her whenever a big decision was being made. She looked at the floor and appeared to be deep in thought. We all waited patiently for her to say something. Finally, after what seemed like hours, she spoke up, "I think we should."
Andy paused, "What?!"
"I think we should go," Victoria repeated herself. Carol and I looked at each other in disbelief. "Mason has done so much for us, and he's a real old friend of mine. The Orb of Mew has magnificent powers, it was raise a pokemon's strength, heal illnesses, and unfortunately, cause great destruction. Perhaps it could make us lose our wings, and no longer be Rukonians." She said as she crossed her legs and put her hands in her lap.
I was confused. True being a Rukonian meant constantly running from the Anti-Rukonian groups and losing your family, but it seemed the girls all liked the ability to fly when we went to the mountains. Though I liked the idea of living as a normal teen, I would miss my wings. "But, but Victoria!" I cried, "I thought you all loved to fly!"
Andy shrugged, "Actually, living a normal life sounds tempting But then again, why does Mason want us to get him the Orb of Mew so bad? I never trusted him much and you all know that—perhaps he's planning something" she sighed and turned the TV off—it was getting a bit distracting during our conversation.
I looked over to Carol as she continued to fiddle with her hair. She was saying something, but none of us could hear her. She looked up at us and repeated herself, still a bit quiet, "I said it doesn't matter to me. You make the decision"
I sighed, "I haven't been here long enough to give my own opinion of this. Andy, Victoria, it's up to you." With that, I got up and walked out of the room. Carol soon followed me. We went back into the main room and sat down on my bed along with my Raichu and Eevee.
We talked about simple things, like pokemon and training methods. During our conversations, Eevee would lay down on Carol's lap. She was very gentle and would stroke its fur gingerly and made sure not to startle or hurt it. Meanwhile, Raichu lay in my lap. Carol was afraid to hold it, because a Raichu can use a Thunder Shock as a way of showing affection. She was a bit intimidated by its size as well, for it was atleast three times bigger than Eevee.
After nearly two hours of talking about pokemon, Andy and Victoria walked out of the small TV room. Andy, like Mason had done before, stormed out of our home and slammed the door behind her. The loud slam startled Carol and Eevee, causing her to jump and my little puppy-like pokemon to hop off her lap and hide under my bed.
I looked over to Victoria with an expression that asked, "What happened?" She sighed and crossed her arms, leaning back against the wall. "I decided that we'll be going, but Andy got all pissed because she thinks Mason is trying to trick us to get him the Orb of Mew to cause great destruction." She burst laughing; "She's just full of it!"
That night, as I laid in my bed, I thought about Victoria's decision and Andy's view on it. I wondered if Andy was right, Mason always seemed quiet and it bothered me a lot. Then again, Andy hated him for no good reason and she could easily just come up with whatever to turn us against him. I was horribly confused, but either way, I would have to go to the ruins of Rukonia to help the girls get the Orb of Mew. Victoria explained that it could only be tampered by Rukonians, and not normal people—which was why the Rukonians were able to keep it, and that man was found dead. Mason came back earlier with dinner, while Andy still hadn't come home yet. We were all worried, but I was told by Carol Andy did that a lot and she would be okay. I closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep, hoping everything will be all right.
