Chapter #9

Well, there we were. Andy, Carol, Victoria, Mason and I were all riding Carol's Lapras on our way to the ruins of Rukonia along with our pokemon. Mason had to do a lot of research to find the location of the island, and it wasn't too far from where we lived. I guess that explained why there were so many Rukonians in our area, like Andy, Carol, Victoria and I. Our injuries had healed almost fully, but not completely. But it was enough to allow us to take the trip.

The sky was clear and the air was soothingly warm. The water was calm and there was only a slight breeze. The weather was absolutely perfect. Though, we didn't have time to think about the weather, we had to plan everything out.

"Okay," Andy started, "Victoria, Seadra, Carol and I will all go in and look for the Orb of Mew." She turned and looked over to Mason, "Mason, you stay behind."

Mason paused; it was obvious he wanted to see the ruins, not just wait behind everyone else. "Why?" he asked as he rested one of his arms on his knee.

Victoria replied for Andy, if she hadn't, a fight could've broken out between the two again. "That man that was found here was dead, Mason." She said in a serious tone, "It's too risky for you to enter. My theory is the Orb of Mew protected the Rukonians from intruders, so the other girls and I should be fine." I couldn't have put it in better words than that.

Mason sighed and nodded. He never spoke up after that until we got to Rukonia. It was a horrible sight—collapsed buildings, broken pots and glass and even bones lying all over the place. You could see it all from a distance, there was so much. The sun's rays shawn down on the ruins, making them appear beautiful in a mysterious way. It made me realize what a wonderful country it used to be.

When we got to shore, Victoria reminded Mason again to stay there. It was a risk to leave him there all alone, so Victoria made Andy let Mason use her Sandslash incase something were to happen. We all had our pokemon with us, I had Raichu, Carol had Lapras, Victoria had Sunflora and Andy had her Ninetales. We were all set. With expressions of determination, we all stepped forward and made our way through the maze of crumpled buildings in search for the Orb of Mew. Strangely, the ruins looked ancient. Rukonia was destroyed only a few decades ago, but the way everything was built was simular to the way you would expect Greece to look like.

"Do you think we'll find it?" Carol asked as we looked for a standing building somewhere, but they were all destroyed completely. If we were to find the Orb of Mew, it would take a long time with all the rubble we would have to look through.

Victoria, who was leading us, looked back to Carol and smiled as a mother would to her daughter, "We will." She said, "Don't worry, we will." Andy and I both knew that we probably wouldn't, Rukonia was too big and everything was totally trashed. Odds were we would never find it. Victoria was just trying to cheer Carol up—but it was the right thing to do. She was only 10 years old after all.

We searched for several hours. We tried flying over Rukonia with our wings, but we couldn't find anything that way. I let Raichu out of its pokeball so it could help us with our search—Andy and Victoria did the same with their pokemon. Every now and then, I would wonder if Mason was all-right, he was probably bored.

Finally, while Raichu was digging through the remains of a building, it suddenly stopped and started shouting loudly. "RAI! RAICHU! RAIAI!" It was waving its paws in the air franticly, trying to catch our attention.

I looked over to my pokemon and ran over to it as it pointed down to where it was digging. Raichu had found an underground tunnel. I poked my head through to look to see what it was. It was a long tunnel with white walls covered with mysterious paintings of strange people with feathers all over. It was filled with clear water that gleamed as the sun's rays reflected onto them for the first time in decades. I quickly got up and called to the other girls to get there, I had a feeling we would find the Orb of Mew by following this underground tunnel.

"What is it?" Andy asked as she and the others got there. I pointed down to the tunnel and they all looked through, looking at the paintings and the water. Obviously, it was no sewer; it wouldn't be painted so well if it was. And besides, it was so clean; there was no way being a sewer was its purpose.

Victoria smiled and patted my back, "Great job, Seadra!"

Carol knew what to do—she brought out Lapras' pokeball and tossed it into the tunnel. There was a bright flash and once it cleared, there was Lapras, splashing around happily in the shallow water. We all worked with the hole Raichu made to make it big enough for us to get through. Once finished that, we jumped through it with our pokemon, landing on Lapras' hard shell.

We were all very excited. Our senses were telling us this tunnel was going to lead us to the Orb of Mew. Raichu helped to light it all up with its flash, which really helped us. As Lapras swam through, we all gazed at the beautiful paintings all over the walls. There were pictures of strange people who appeared to be half pokemon. There were also ones of men dressed with armor and holding swords in their hands. The most interesting one we came across was one that portrayed a young girl with short dark blue hair wearing what appeared to be a school uniform. It was so odd, because these paintings appeared to be hundreds or even thousands of years old. Why would a girl in a modern Japanese school uniform be there?

"Look!" Carol shouted excitedly as she pointed out to a bright light out in the distance. I looked over and was shocked to see what appeared to be some sort of chamber, ending the tunnel with a bright object lighting it up. I knew what it was—it was the Orb of Mew.

Andy sighed and looked away, holding her Ninetales in her arms, "I still don't know why we're risking our lives like this for Mason" She muttered beneath her breath.

Victoria looked back to Andy with an irritated look and thwaped her at the back of her head; "Oh shut up for god's sake!" She snapped. Everyone paused, including my Raichu, Victoria never snapped like that before. Carol cowered away from the two, obviously she was scared of them now. I rubbed her back in an attempt to comfort her, but it did very little.

When we got to the chamber, we hopped off Carol's Lapras but didn't bother to return it into its pokeball. Raichu stayed close to me as we approached the bright light. Andy's Ninetales stood infront of her and growled at it in a protective way. Meanwhile, Victoria's Sunflora just stood beside her, swaying its leaves around without a care in the world. Carol was too scared to do anything; she stayed with Lapras where she had a sense of security with her pokemon.

"What do we do now?" I asked as we all just stared at it. None of us were even moving we were so unsure of what to do. I began to wonder if coming there was a mistake, I felt like turning back and running like a coward. The orb was shinning brightly, so my Raichu didn't need to use its flash. It was as bright as the sun, hurting our eyes if we looked at it for too long.

Victoria didn't need to reply to my question. She took a step forward to the Orb of Mew and extended a shaking hand to it. Just as she was about to touch it, it began to glow brighter and in multiple colors. Suddenly, strange rays of light were unleashed from it; they looked like silk ribbons flying around franticly. Carol screamed in horror and the rest of us were too scared to move. The strange rays then came straight at us and laid against our foreheads.

I couldn't see the Orb of Mew anymore. All I saw now was what appeared to be Rukonia, but it wasn't destroyed at all. It was beautiful, the sun was shinning brightly, there were a few clouds hanging in the sky and there were people walking down the streets casually. Was I having a vision or something? I couldn't hear the other girls anymore; I couldn't even see them.

It then occurred to be that I wasn't standing on solid ground, I was floating in mid air without my wings. All the Rukonians below me didn't notice me at all. I was horribly confused with what was going on. Then, all my questions of the origins of Rukonia were answered. I was having a vision, a vision brought to me by the Orb of Mew.

I saw visions of Rukonians being attacked by men in armor, riding huge Pidgeot and Charizard. The people couldn't protect themselves and didn't want to fight—so many were killed. I saw them turn to the Orb of Mew to ask for protection, and it granted them by giving them wings and the abilities of their pokemon. I saw them protect themselves, and feel powerful by defeating their enemies. They became mad with their power and they destroyed the legendary Pokemopholis. People stopped attacking them, the Rukonians were the ones who were attacking now. A strange being came to the Rukonians and took away their powers, but they kept their wings. The wings were left on them so people would know who they are and know to hate them forever for their horrible crimes

Just was suddenly as these strange visions came to me, they stopped and I found myself back in the chamber with the other girls. "What was that?" I asked.

Victoria looked to me; "You saw it too? The reason for the hatred of Rukonians?" Her hands were shaking, and so were mine. In the visions the Orb of Mew showed us, we saw people being killed and hunted down like we were, it was horrible.

Andy fell to her knees and held her head with her hands. I had never seen her like that; the whole thing really shook her up. Meanwhile, Carol was still staring at the Orb of Mew as it became brighter and brighter each second.

Suddenly, a huge flash of light came from the Orb of Mew. It caused a horrible pain in my chest and I held it in agony, screaming. I could hear the others screaming in pain as well. What was happening? I could hear Raichu wailing and the other pokemon crying out. We were all being hurt horribly by the Orb of Mew. I began to wonder if this was how the man who was found dead died. I wondered what my funeral was going to be like—I was that scared.

Though I was in a lot of pain, I forced my eyes to open and I saw a yellow light come from Raichu's chest. Once it was extracted, Raichu fell to the ground, panting heavily as the pain ceased. Suddenly, that light that came from my pokemon stuck me. I felt like I was being attacked by a thousand Raichus all using thunderbolt at once. I blacked out after that, hearing Andy, Victoria and Carol screaming in pain as I saw similar lights strike them as well. The light that hit Andy was red, Victoria's was green and Carol's was blue.


"Seadra?" I heard a voice, but I couldn't make out who it was. "Seadra?" The voice repeated itself, shaking my shoulder slightly. I groaned, but didn't say anything. I couldn't open my eyes to see who it was; I was sore all over. I attempted to move, only to be electrocuted for some reason.

"Don't move." I heard another voice say as I felt gloves being placed over my hands.

I couldn't tell who was talking to me, but I guessed it was Andy. "Andy?" I said in a husky voice. I could hardly talk and I still couldn't open my eyes.

"Yeah," she said, "It's me. Feeling okay?" Andy asked as she helped me prop myself up. I realized I was back home, I recognized the smell and my bed. I was relievedd to be back there. More than you could imagine. I was scared senseless back in Rukonia.

Finally, I was able to open my eyes. Though I was hurting bad, I couldn't find any wounds on me. I was wearing some strange blue gloves that felt very awkward on my skin. They were like rubber, but I knew they weren't. "I'm okay I guess" I sighed, "What's with the gloves?" I asked as I attempted to take them off. Suddenly, a bolt of electricity shot from my hand and struck a glass of water on the main table, shattering it into little pieces. I jumped and totally freaked out to this.

Andy began to shout at me loudly, but I couldn't make out what she was saying. She quickly put the gloves back on. I was shocked, did I really just do that?! "Seadra!" Andy shouted angrily, "Don't take those gloves off!" I gave her a confused expression. "The Orb of Mew gave us the abilities of our pokemon, like it did to the Rukonians of the ancient Rukonia." She sighed. I noticed she was wearing gloves as well. She took one off and picked up an ice cube on the floor from the glass I shattered. Once her fingers touched it, it melted and what was left of it began to boil. "I can control fire." She said in a dead tone.

So, because she had her Ninetales with her, Andy got fire abilities. I had Raichu, so I use electricity. I wondered what happened to the others. Of course, I didn't need to ask. Carol walked in wearing long gloves on her hands. She cupped her hands together, and in an instant, there was a small block of ice. When I saw Victoria, she wasn't wearing gloves. I found out later that day that she could control the movements of plants around her, but she didn't have to wear gloves. I had to wear them to prevent shocking others; Andy wore hers so she wouldn't set the place on fire and Carol had to or else she could unintentionally turn something into ice.

"So, you're awake, have a nice six-hour sleep?" Mason asked. I looked behind me and saw him walk in from the TV room. I figured it was him who was talking to me first when I came through. "We didn't get the Orb of Mew" He sighed as he sat down at the main table, "We're not going there again, you four nearly got killed. You were all half dead when I found you." Hearing that sent a shiver down my spine. "Oh yeah, thanks for electrocuting me a million times when you were out, Seadra." He grinned as he grabbed an apple from a bowl on the table and took a bite into it.

Through the day, the girls and I explained everything about Rukonia and why people hate Rukonians so much. Mason seemed quite interested with it all, but sometimes he attention would trail off, annoying us all. We also worked on controlling our new abilities. I found out the gloves Mason bought for us prevented us from unintentionally using our powers whenever we touched things, but allowed us to use them when we did want to. Of course, it would take time to learn to use them.

My life took another strange turn.