Installment number two! Well, for those of you who liked The Electric Mind, here's the second little segment. This is where it gets a bit more…interesting. Crystal does live in Ecruteak, after all…well, you'll understand what I'm getting at after a few paragraphs. See you at the end of the fic!
Crystal woke up sometime during the night. Looking over at her digital clock, the red numbers blared out that it was midnight.
"Happy Birthday to me," she muttered sadly. As always, she would be the only one who remembered her own birthday. She looked out the window into the pitch-black night beyond. She could hear the rain beating viciously at the windowpane, giving the night an eerie quality of mystery. Flashes of lightning would pierce the darkness occasionally, tearing the skies in half as the rain continued its barrage.
"Wait…" she murmured. Another bolt of lightning struck down close to a certain landmark. Just as the three before it.
"That's odd…" she muttered. The lightning strokes were coming down near the Burned Tower. There were other bolts flashing farther away as the intensity of the storm moved on, but the lightning continued to light the area close to the tower. "Very strange," she said, louder this time as she turned over and tried to go back to sleep. A small idea was forming in her mind as she tried to drift back to sleep. Crystal smiled to herself.
"Why not?" she asked her plush toys as she got out of bed. Changing into some comfortable clothes, she snuck downstairs, grabbed her rain slicker, and opened the door. She was greeted by a howling wind and a cold autumn rain beating at her face. She reveled in it as she closed the door, then began to make her way to the remains of a once magnificent tower, where Ho-oh used to alight.
Crystal reached the tower without seeing any more lightning. As she entered the Burned Tower, she got the strange feeling that she wasn't alone in there. She shook off the feeling, passing it off as the ghosts and other Pokémon that made their home in the old tower. But the feeling persisted as she moved deeper into the sacred place. The presence was one of power, majesty, and…something she couldn't quite place.
"I should have brought a flashlight," she muttered as she walked, stumbling on fallen beams and who-knows-what-else. She took another step…and realized that her foot hadn't reconnected with solid ground. She fell forward into a gaping hole in the floor, landing with a dull thump in the base level of the tower.
"Owww…" she groaned, then went deadly quiet. Before her were three Pokémon. They hadn't yet seen her, but they were like nothing she had ever seen before. One, a blue one with what looked like a violet wave along its back, was howling like the wind outside. The air around it sparkled with water droplets as it shook its mane.
Another was lying near the wall, watching the other two. It had a rust-red body with white paws and what looked like a smoke cloud coming from between twin sets of gray spikes on its back.
The third Pokémon was the one that truly captured Crystal. It had saffron fur with ebony stripes on its legs, three ivory claws on each paw, an electric blue bolt like tail, and five violet cloud plumes on its back. What looked like a helmet covered most of its face, but his scarlet eyes still showed. Two saber-like canine teeth extended beyond his lower jaw as he raised his head and roared, a sound like the crash of thunder in the night.
The red one sighed and spoke. Suicune, why do you and Raikou get to have all the fun!? Why can't I just make a volcano erupt somewhere near here!? He was obviously a male by his voice.
Entei, do you remember what happened the LAST time we let you have a bit of fun? the blue one asked. This one was apparently the only female, judging by body structure, but her voice proved she was a girl. Entei thought hard.
Cinnabar Island was formed. Why is that bad!? YOU caused Vermillion to flood once, remember, Suicune? he asked smugly.
You're thinking too far back! Suicune said angrily. Try two years ago!
Entei swallowed as the fur around his face deepened to a dark scarlet. Okay, so I accidentally blew up Cinnabar Island. How was I supposed to know it was a strato-volcano!?
Because you created it, you dolt! Suicune snapped. The third one sighed.
Why do you two always fight like this!? he asked with a sigh.
Stay out of this, Raikou Suicune growled as she and Entei got into a staring contest.
Why did I have to get stuck as the youngest!? he groaned.
As this conversation went on, Crystal crept closer and closer to the amazing Pokémon. She wasn't as interested in Suicune or Entei. She had her eyes fixed on Raikou. From the color of his fur to his roar to the electricity streaming through the cloud mass on his back, he screamed "ELECTRIC TYPE!" to the world. Or, at least, what part of the world could see him. And that was just Crystal.
Slowly, trying as hard as she possibly could to make no sound, she crept toward the three. They were all on a slightly raised section of rock with steps leading up to it, like a platform of sorts. Carefully she slunk up the steps.
What…!? Raikou started, looking over at the stairs. He locked eyes with a young girl coming up them. His crimson eyes looked deep into her cobalt ones, scanning for ill intent. He found none, but he felt safer leaving.
ENTEI!! SUICUNE!! he shouted. The bickering siblings looked up, finally sighting the human. Each took of in a different direction…but Raikou stayed. He padded up to the human girl, looking down at her as she gaped up at him. She wasn't terrified by him…she was awestruck. Then Raikou leapt over her head, into the black abyss behind her.
"Wait…!" Crystal shouted, but it was too late. The magnificent thunder beast was already long gone. Still amazed by what she had seen, she began searching for some way out. Suddenly a few sparks shot up in front of her. Slowly picking her way around the littered floor, she felt something brush against her hands. Thick fur. Then it disappeared.
Another burst of sparks blazed up a few feet farther ahead. Following this trail, always rewarded by the feel of the Pokémon guiding her, she made her way into the tower. Then, as she felt the fur again, she felt it slip from her fingers, replaced by the feel of heavy wood.
"What…?" she asked, feeling along the surface. It took her a moment to realize that it was a ladder. She carefully climbed back into the main tower, a bolt of lightning illuminating the way back outside. As soon as she stepped out another roll of thunder shook the night, and a golden blur raced by her, followed by an electric blue spark. As quickly as she had spotted it, she lost track of the creature in the night.
Shaking from excitement and amazement, Crystal made her way back to her house. Slowly taking her poncho off, she again crept up the stairs to her room. Changing back into her pajamas, she climbed back into bed. As the thunder roared over the house, she thought she saw the mysterious Pokémon again, just a flash outside her window. Seconds later she was fast asleep, the creature racing through the clouds of her dreams
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Well, that was fun! Yes, I have a very weird mind. So sue me. Oh, and I knew I was forgetting something (sure, it's not at the top, but who cares?). I don't own Pokémon. I'm hoping to continue some of this later on….it gets interesting (and if you already thought it was interesting, it gets more interesting). Don't forget to drop me a virtual letter in the online mailbox at lightningbeacon@aol.com. Well, bye for now!