Thanks for all the support! Here's chappy 11. Normal disclaimer.
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~~~~~Calypso's POV~~~~~
We were all back in Rokon's house. Some of us were sitting by the fire, and a little more than half of the others were asleep on the tree stump beds. I heard the quiet rustling of the various night creatures going about their usual routines. I was sitting by the fire, along with Flameheart, Rokon, the bug, Redyan, Shadow, Arbiter, and Blade. Aquafire was over on one of the other tree stumps, still asleep and nearly comatose.
"Rokon, is there any way out of this valley to Fuchsia City?" Shadow asked.
"I think there is," Rokon replied. "There is a small opening at the far end of the valley, past the Awakening Tree."
"The opening is a good three days' travel though, even if you're travelling at the same speed as a Rapidash," Redyan added.
"Wow, and with Aquafire out for who knows how long, that may be awhile," said Arbiter.
"I could go to the tree tomorrow morning, and get some more leaves," Redyan offered.
"That would be a good idea, Redyan," I said. "Derek knows where we are, and we need to get moving as soon as possible."
"And with the way we toasted Roy, Derek's sure to bring reinforcements," said Flameheart solemly.
"Then it's settled, then," said Blade. "We wait until Redyan gets the leaves, we wake Aquafire up over there, and then leave for the exit from the valley."
"In the meantime, who's gonna be the leader?" Rokon asked. All eyes turned to me.
"What? You want me to be the leader until Aquafire's back?!" I asked incredulously. All heads nodded in agreement.
"Oh yeah, you're the best choice as replacement leader for awhile, because you kind of know what he would do," said Arbiter. I sighed.
"Oh all right, but we'd all better get some sleep to get ready for morning," I replied.
With that, everyone went to their various tree stumps and went to sleep. Rokon put out the fire, and went to her bed. I couldn't sleep, though. Thoughts swirled in my mind, strange thoughts full of nonsense. I heard the call of a lone Spearow, heading for its home somewhere in the valley. Restless, I finally was able to get to sleep.
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I woke with a start from a strange dream. The room was cold. Everyone else was still asleep. The sky was ablaze with various shades of reds, oranges, and yellows. The sun was just below the horizon, a this sliver of brightness and blinding light on the distant horizon. A very beautiful sight, actually.
I tried to recall the strange dream, to try and remember what it was about, but I failed.
Rokon was already awake, and had the fire restarted. The fire was cracking and popping, the heat filling the room and warming it up. I noticed that Redyan was gone.
"When did you wake up?" I asked Rokon.
"Oh, I always get up early, typically before the sun breaks over the horizon," she replied.
I nodded at this statement.
"Urff, where is my breakfast?" asked a half-asleep Larissa. She arose from the branch she had been sleeping on, and glided down to a spot by the fire. Rokon didn't reply, just took a big bunch of grapes and tossed it over lightly over to Larissa, who caught it with her wing and set the leaf on the ground. Larissa started eating the grapes, one by one.
Then, Blade woke up and sat down by Rokon. I suspected something was up with this, but, like before, I didn't say anything.
"Did Redyan already take off for the tree?" he asked, taking a small bunch of grapes from Larissa's leaf.
"Yeah, he did," Rokon replied. "I saw him leave."
"Mmmm, good grapes," said Blade, popping another grape in his mouth.
Kirin, Fireburst, Firestrike, and Shadow now woke up, and came over to the fire.
"Now, we wait for Redyan to get back here with the leaves," said Fireburst.
Unfortunately, nothing ever goes that smoothly.
A flash bomb came through Rokon's side window, and exploded in the house before any of us could react. I was hurled outside through a wall from the sheer force of the blast and right into a thick, hard tree trunk. I felt my consciousness slowly slip into darkness.
*Flameheart's POV~~~~~*
Truly strange twist of events. First, I'm quietly snoozing on a stump in Rokon's home, the next minute, I'm hurled in the air right into a bush because of some big explosion. Woozily, I shook myself awake, and saw a horrible sight.
Rokon's home was completely destroyed. The explosion had ripped through the house, destroying everything. There was only a charred frame left, black with ash. There was a smell of smoke in the air so thick I almost choked. Calypso was unconscious under a tree, and Arbiter was stuck high in the branches of an oak tree. I heard an all too familiar sound of laughter.
"Hah!" crowed Derek, emerging from a dense bush. "I got all of you! You may have been able to hurt Roy pretty badly, but he didn't die!"
I stared in horror as a figure in a wheelchair came out of the brush behind Derek. The figure was covered from neck to toe in a white body cast, but the head was clearly visible.
It was Roy. his face was scarred and burned badly. He had been hurled away by the last blast that we had given him, and turns out that the charred fabric was actually his handkerchief.
I snarled and took a battle stance, feeling the hair on my body stand on end in rage. I saw Kirin dragging an unconscious Calypso over with the others by the charred remains of Rokon's house, and Larissa was helping Arbiter get out of the oak tree. The others were ready for battle as well, and trying to keep Roy and Derek from seeing the downed Calypso and Aquafire. If they did, who knows what may happen. Derek whipped a bazooka out from behind his back
"So convenient of all of you dumb pokémon to put yourselves so close to each other. Now, I can do this!" sneered Derek. He aimed the bazooka at the others, and fired.
A huge net came flying out and trapped the others. The only ones still not captured were Larissa, Shockwave, Blade, and me. Caly and Aquafire had been stuck in a bush to keep Roy and Derek from seeing them.
"Derek, you missed some," said Roy.
"Oh, I know," Derek replied. "I left an extra net in this bazooka!" He fired again, and this time, it trapped Larissa and Shockwave, only leaving Blade and me left.
I saw movement over where Calypso was. She had regained consciousness, and not a moment too soon. She bounded over to where me and Blade were in our battle stances. She took one look at Derek and Roy, and immediately went into a battle stance, snarling.
"He's still freakin' alive?!" I heard Calypso yell. "That guy has more lives than a Persian!"
I heard Derek and Roy laugh heartily.
"Get the bag, we don't need these little pokémon," Roy ordered. Derek started for the net, which contained everyone else. I sprinted ahead of Derek, and stood between him and the net. I gave him my most vicious snarl.
"Oooh, you think you're so tough, don't 'cha?" lauched Derek. "Git outta the way!"
I couldn't allow anything like that to happen. I felt the heat levels in my body rise to almost intolerable levels, and also felt the icy cool of my other special powers mix together. Derek didn't stop advancing towards me.
I had to stop him. I raised my head even with his stomach, and released all of the fire/ice energy that I had built up in my little body in one big beam. The beam was a sky ble color, with red flames laced in with it. The beam made contact, and hurled him back a good twenty feet. He slammed into a tree, and was knocked out for awhile.
Meanwhile, Calypso and Blade were busy with Roy. Even though he was in a body cast, he could still use a semiautomatic, held in his right hand. He was using it to try and shoot one of them down in cold blood. Blade was running around him, slashing using his scythes, but the cast blocked most attacks, and just left little scratch marks on the hard cast. Calypso was trying to use her Ice Beam to freeze him in his tracks, but kept on being interrupted by the firing of the gun right at her tail. A bullet hit Blade right in the side, and caused a nasty hole in his side. The wound started to bleed profusely, and red blood dripped on the grassy green ground.
I saw Rokon seethe with rage at the shot to Blade, but was able to do nothing, because she was still stuck in the net. I felt my powers charge up again, and Calypso leaped over to where I was. I fired a stream of fire at Roy, my Flamethrower, and Calypso used her Ice Beam at the same time. Both attacks struck the cast, one first lighting it on fire, and the other putting it out, but then freezing him solid.
Blade, still bleeding badly, staggered over to the larger net, and used most of his energy to slash the others free. He then went over and released Larissa and Shockwave. But then, energy spent, he collapsed on the ground, a puddle of blood slowly starting to spread.
Now that everyone was free, they were also hopping mad. Calypso used her Ice Beam again, and froze the both of them in one single block of ice. Then, Lunar used Mega Kick, and kicked the block of ice far away.
Rokon ran over to where Blade had fallen. She was sobbing hard.
"I-I'm o-kay," he said slowly, raising his head. "J-just let me...rest a while." With that, he passed out from the blood loss. I didn't know what to do next.
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Oooh, will Blade be all right?? Stay tuned!
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~~~~~Calypso's POV~~~~~
We were all back in Rokon's house. Some of us were sitting by the fire, and a little more than half of the others were asleep on the tree stump beds. I heard the quiet rustling of the various night creatures going about their usual routines. I was sitting by the fire, along with Flameheart, Rokon, the bug, Redyan, Shadow, Arbiter, and Blade. Aquafire was over on one of the other tree stumps, still asleep and nearly comatose.
"Rokon, is there any way out of this valley to Fuchsia City?" Shadow asked.
"I think there is," Rokon replied. "There is a small opening at the far end of the valley, past the Awakening Tree."
"The opening is a good three days' travel though, even if you're travelling at the same speed as a Rapidash," Redyan added.
"Wow, and with Aquafire out for who knows how long, that may be awhile," said Arbiter.
"I could go to the tree tomorrow morning, and get some more leaves," Redyan offered.
"That would be a good idea, Redyan," I said. "Derek knows where we are, and we need to get moving as soon as possible."
"And with the way we toasted Roy, Derek's sure to bring reinforcements," said Flameheart solemly.
"Then it's settled, then," said Blade. "We wait until Redyan gets the leaves, we wake Aquafire up over there, and then leave for the exit from the valley."
"In the meantime, who's gonna be the leader?" Rokon asked. All eyes turned to me.
"What? You want me to be the leader until Aquafire's back?!" I asked incredulously. All heads nodded in agreement.
"Oh yeah, you're the best choice as replacement leader for awhile, because you kind of know what he would do," said Arbiter. I sighed.
"Oh all right, but we'd all better get some sleep to get ready for morning," I replied.
With that, everyone went to their various tree stumps and went to sleep. Rokon put out the fire, and went to her bed. I couldn't sleep, though. Thoughts swirled in my mind, strange thoughts full of nonsense. I heard the call of a lone Spearow, heading for its home somewhere in the valley. Restless, I finally was able to get to sleep.
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I woke with a start from a strange dream. The room was cold. Everyone else was still asleep. The sky was ablaze with various shades of reds, oranges, and yellows. The sun was just below the horizon, a this sliver of brightness and blinding light on the distant horizon. A very beautiful sight, actually.
I tried to recall the strange dream, to try and remember what it was about, but I failed.
Rokon was already awake, and had the fire restarted. The fire was cracking and popping, the heat filling the room and warming it up. I noticed that Redyan was gone.
"When did you wake up?" I asked Rokon.
"Oh, I always get up early, typically before the sun breaks over the horizon," she replied.
I nodded at this statement.
"Urff, where is my breakfast?" asked a half-asleep Larissa. She arose from the branch she had been sleeping on, and glided down to a spot by the fire. Rokon didn't reply, just took a big bunch of grapes and tossed it over lightly over to Larissa, who caught it with her wing and set the leaf on the ground. Larissa started eating the grapes, one by one.
Then, Blade woke up and sat down by Rokon. I suspected something was up with this, but, like before, I didn't say anything.
"Did Redyan already take off for the tree?" he asked, taking a small bunch of grapes from Larissa's leaf.
"Yeah, he did," Rokon replied. "I saw him leave."
"Mmmm, good grapes," said Blade, popping another grape in his mouth.
Kirin, Fireburst, Firestrike, and Shadow now woke up, and came over to the fire.
"Now, we wait for Redyan to get back here with the leaves," said Fireburst.
Unfortunately, nothing ever goes that smoothly.
A flash bomb came through Rokon's side window, and exploded in the house before any of us could react. I was hurled outside through a wall from the sheer force of the blast and right into a thick, hard tree trunk. I felt my consciousness slowly slip into darkness.
*Flameheart's POV~~~~~*
Truly strange twist of events. First, I'm quietly snoozing on a stump in Rokon's home, the next minute, I'm hurled in the air right into a bush because of some big explosion. Woozily, I shook myself awake, and saw a horrible sight.
Rokon's home was completely destroyed. The explosion had ripped through the house, destroying everything. There was only a charred frame left, black with ash. There was a smell of smoke in the air so thick I almost choked. Calypso was unconscious under a tree, and Arbiter was stuck high in the branches of an oak tree. I heard an all too familiar sound of laughter.
"Hah!" crowed Derek, emerging from a dense bush. "I got all of you! You may have been able to hurt Roy pretty badly, but he didn't die!"
I stared in horror as a figure in a wheelchair came out of the brush behind Derek. The figure was covered from neck to toe in a white body cast, but the head was clearly visible.
It was Roy. his face was scarred and burned badly. He had been hurled away by the last blast that we had given him, and turns out that the charred fabric was actually his handkerchief.
I snarled and took a battle stance, feeling the hair on my body stand on end in rage. I saw Kirin dragging an unconscious Calypso over with the others by the charred remains of Rokon's house, and Larissa was helping Arbiter get out of the oak tree. The others were ready for battle as well, and trying to keep Roy and Derek from seeing the downed Calypso and Aquafire. If they did, who knows what may happen. Derek whipped a bazooka out from behind his back
"So convenient of all of you dumb pokémon to put yourselves so close to each other. Now, I can do this!" sneered Derek. He aimed the bazooka at the others, and fired.
A huge net came flying out and trapped the others. The only ones still not captured were Larissa, Shockwave, Blade, and me. Caly and Aquafire had been stuck in a bush to keep Roy and Derek from seeing them.
"Derek, you missed some," said Roy.
"Oh, I know," Derek replied. "I left an extra net in this bazooka!" He fired again, and this time, it trapped Larissa and Shockwave, only leaving Blade and me left.
I saw movement over where Calypso was. She had regained consciousness, and not a moment too soon. She bounded over to where me and Blade were in our battle stances. She took one look at Derek and Roy, and immediately went into a battle stance, snarling.
"He's still freakin' alive?!" I heard Calypso yell. "That guy has more lives than a Persian!"
I heard Derek and Roy laugh heartily.
"Get the bag, we don't need these little pokémon," Roy ordered. Derek started for the net, which contained everyone else. I sprinted ahead of Derek, and stood between him and the net. I gave him my most vicious snarl.
"Oooh, you think you're so tough, don't 'cha?" lauched Derek. "Git outta the way!"
I couldn't allow anything like that to happen. I felt the heat levels in my body rise to almost intolerable levels, and also felt the icy cool of my other special powers mix together. Derek didn't stop advancing towards me.
I had to stop him. I raised my head even with his stomach, and released all of the fire/ice energy that I had built up in my little body in one big beam. The beam was a sky ble color, with red flames laced in with it. The beam made contact, and hurled him back a good twenty feet. He slammed into a tree, and was knocked out for awhile.
Meanwhile, Calypso and Blade were busy with Roy. Even though he was in a body cast, he could still use a semiautomatic, held in his right hand. He was using it to try and shoot one of them down in cold blood. Blade was running around him, slashing using his scythes, but the cast blocked most attacks, and just left little scratch marks on the hard cast. Calypso was trying to use her Ice Beam to freeze him in his tracks, but kept on being interrupted by the firing of the gun right at her tail. A bullet hit Blade right in the side, and caused a nasty hole in his side. The wound started to bleed profusely, and red blood dripped on the grassy green ground.
I saw Rokon seethe with rage at the shot to Blade, but was able to do nothing, because she was still stuck in the net. I felt my powers charge up again, and Calypso leaped over to where I was. I fired a stream of fire at Roy, my Flamethrower, and Calypso used her Ice Beam at the same time. Both attacks struck the cast, one first lighting it on fire, and the other putting it out, but then freezing him solid.
Blade, still bleeding badly, staggered over to the larger net, and used most of his energy to slash the others free. He then went over and released Larissa and Shockwave. But then, energy spent, he collapsed on the ground, a puddle of blood slowly starting to spread.
Now that everyone was free, they were also hopping mad. Calypso used her Ice Beam again, and froze the both of them in one single block of ice. Then, Lunar used Mega Kick, and kicked the block of ice far away.
Rokon ran over to where Blade had fallen. She was sobbing hard.
"I-I'm o-kay," he said slowly, raising his head. "J-just let me...rest a while." With that, he passed out from the blood loss. I didn't know what to do next.
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Oooh, will Blade be all right?? Stay tuned!