Chapter 4: - No Warning-
Phoinex Halliwell awoke in his bed, at Hogwarts, in Olivine City. He lifted the covers, walked to the window, and opened the curtains. Beyond the window, he could see the early ocean mist just beginning to lift and the morning tide coming in. He only gazed into this familiar beauty for a few minutes before remembering he was to meet one of his friends, Zoe Ketchum, at the Olivine Lighthouse.
He walked into the bathroom where he changed from his pajamas into dark blue jeans, a gray short-sleeve shirt, and blue sneakers. He grabbed his backpack, which contained his pokedex and six pokeballs, hung it onto his back, and went out the door before putting on a silver jacket. Even though the mist had begun to lift, it was still quite thick as he made his way to the Olivine City Lighthouse.
The streets of Olivine City were bare, with the occasional early shopper. Most of the stores were open, just a few were closed, still preparing for the business day. Phoinex stopped at the Olivine Dinner and bought a cup of hot chocolate before continuing his trip. By the time he reached the lighthouse, the fog had stared to break up, really making no difference since the sky above was crammed full of clouds. It only took him a few minutes to find Zoe, sitting on the pier with her feet dangling over the water.
"G'mornin'." He greeted, startling her a bit.
"Hi! I didn't hear you coming." She was wearing a pink long-sleeved shirt with a purple unzipped vest on top. Her jeans were also dark blue and her shoes were white. On her face was a pleasant smile, that glowed in the gloomy gray surroundings.
"Well, it's obvious you didn't." They laughed softly, recalling Zoe's surprise.
"Well, should we go now?" She meant if they should go on their way to National Park, where they would meet their two other friends, Selena Night and Julian Turner.
Phoinex checked his watch and said, "I suppose so. Do you think they're already there?"
"Probably not Selena," she said with a tiny giggle, "But I bet Julian is."
"Ya, I guess you're right. So, should we go walking or what?"
"Mhhh… I think it's too early for our pokemon to be at work already, let's just go walking."
"Okay." She held up her hand, and he grabbed it firmly to help her up, and so they began walking into the forest that started just some 30 feet away from the lighthouse. The forest didn't have too much fog, but it was still colder then it had been at the pier. They walked on silently, thinking about what they would do that day, unaware of how much their plans, and lives, would change that day.
Meanwhile, near the forest east of Hogwarts, Selena was moving through the trees and vegetation. She soon heard a stirring in the bushes, and was shocked when a familiar figure jumped out at her: Julian. She nearly fell from the surprise.
"Julian! What are you doing here?" She hit his shoulder, and he rubbed it, " And what are you doing scaring me like that?!"
"Having fun," He said with a wicked smile, "Sorry about it though. I didn't know it's have such an affect on you."
"Well it did!" She said, hitting his shoulder again, "So, what are you doing here?"
"I got bored waiting for you all," He said, still rubbing his shoulder, "and so I decided to explore. I got a Beedrill!"
"I do not care," She replied, dully.
"Poo,"
"Oh, shut up."
"Hmm? … Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"That moving sound." Selena stopped for a moment and made her hearing as sharp as she could. Then she heard it, the same rustling among the bushes Julian had made. The next thing they knew, there was a flash of red as some kind of creature zoomed by them.
"… Ok, what was that?" Selena finally said, after a few moments of silence, in which they had tried to put together what they has just seen.
"How 'm I supposed to know?
"How am I supposed to know how you're suppose to know?
"How am I supposed to know how you're suppose to know how I'm suppose to know?"
"Fine, you win…" Julian grinned triumphantly.
"Ok, now seriously, what da frank was that?"
"I said 'How 'm I suppose to know?'"
"Now don't start that again!" Selena barked, hitting his shoulder again.
At the exact same time, Zoe and Phoinex saw a flash of blue pass them.
"What was that?" Asked Zoe, after a few seconds.
"A something or other?" Was Phoinex's reply. Zoe gave him a scolding look.
"It was probably just a pokemon." Decided Zoe. They kept on walking, as had their two other friends, heading toward National Park. They caught up to each other at the park, around noon. Neither shared their experiences with the flashes.
They started out their visit to the park by walking around. It was Sunday, and that meant the big catching contest was on. To their surprise, the four saw Sirius –or Pisces as he was still in disguise- with some pokeballs, searching through the tall grass. He spotted them and waved briefly before walking over.
"Umm… Hi Si-" Zoe started, before being stomped on the foot by Selena whom had seen some kids a little too close to them. "I mean, hi Pisces." Pisces gave her a friendly smile.
"Hello, Zoe, and the rest of you."
"What are you doing here, Pisces?" Asked Phoinex.
"Well, as you may or may not know, thanks to team rocket I lost all my pokemon. And without any I wont be able to get my old ones back."
"Oh, I guess that makes sense…"
"I thought we were going to help you get them back?" Interrupted Selena.
"Oh, you kids have done enough."
"Well… if you're sure about it. I guess we'll see you around then." Said Phoinex. Pisces smiled and then turned back into the tall grass.
"So, what do we do first?" Piped Julian.
"Let's walk around the forest." Suggested Zoe. And so they did. They walked into the forest and started walking around, which may have turned out to be the greatest suggestion they had ever had. Some where around an hour later Julian got hungry, and was also tired, so he separated from the other to head back to Hogwarts. This was the greatest mistake of his life, and I wish he hadn't done it. You may have heard the expression "All things happen for a reason", but as we know, and have most likely experienced unless you're very lucky, that sometimes we can't see the reason why things would happen and we just hate that expression. Years later Phoinex stayed awake late at night, wishing he had persuaded Julian to stay and hold his hunger. But no, he didn't, and so what happened, happened.
Some 15 minutes after Julian's departure, TTT came to a black building. In an instant another earthquake, and this time a tree fell on Zoe. Zoe cried in pain and Selena gasped, leaving Phoinex completely speechless.
"Zoe!" He finally achieved to say. A flashing moment, Selena, and Phoinex were bound in ropes. They fell to the ground, just as a few people in black suits came running out toward the scene. They gathered around Zoe, but to her surprise merely grabbed her pokeballs. She bit a man who was holding most of her pokeballs in the ankle. He yelped and fell to the ground, scattering her and his pokeballs. One of his teammates came to pick up a few, before helping him up and running with the rest of them back to the black building.
All of them tried to think quickly about something that could help their situation, but nothing came to mind. What came next though was both good and bad. It gave them a worse situation, but an easier way to do it. The building blew up in a burst of flames and heat that reached the helpless children. Sparks hit the ropes holding back Phoinex and Selena, releasing them. Phoinex grabbed a pokeball and through it out from his pokeball, shouting, "Hercules! Get the trunk off Zoe!" A Heracross was released from the pokeball, and it instantly reacted to its masters command. He lifted up the trunk and through it aside. Apparently, there was no serious damage to Zoe's leg, just a few cuts, which might have been one of the few lucky things they had that day.
Phoinex now had a chance to look around at his new surroundings, and could see nothing but burning trees and grass. Everywhere he turned, he saw red. And once again, he, Zoe, and Selena were suddenly tied at the ankles without warning. They were dragged into the burning building, completely helpless, as Heracross had also been captured, but he was being taken away, not being placed in a dangerous burning building. As soon as they had been put somewhere in the middle, the three people that had dragged them ran out as fast as they could. A few minutes later Selena could hear a helicopter taking off, and new that all hope was lost, since their hands had also been binded.
From there, came the luckiest thing TTT had that horrid day. A stranger by the name of Ben Baudelaire had heard the explosion while training a little way off. He rushed to the site and reacted at once. He released a Wartortle and Crabby to use their water guns on all the fire. Then he released a Machop and entered the building with it.
"Hello? Is anyone in here?" He shouted at the entrance. The sound of his voice traveled through and reached the ears of the members of TTT.
"We're in here! In the middle!" They all called back. Ben heard their voices, and rushed to them. He and his Machop found them soon enough. Machop ripped apart the ropes. All of them were coughing in the flurry of smoke as they tried to get out. Luckily, a word which won't be used in this story very often anymore, they got out of the building.
When Crabby and Wartortle had extinguished all the fire, The Typhlosion Trio and Ben sat under a tree together, in a few awkward moments.
"Well… I don't know where to begin," Phoinex began, "Umm… Thank you for saving our lives, I guess…"
"No problem." Ben said, "What were you doing in there anyway?"
"Team Rocket put us in there. "Blurted Zoe.
"Oh… I see."
"They're horrible!" Shouted Selena.
"Oh my god! Today's the day our parents come to Hogwarts for the tournament!" Announced Phoinex.
"Oh ya, it is!" Replied Selena.
"W-" I'm sorry to interrupt, what I just had to warn you that what happened next I'm sorry to write, a thing I thought I'd never hear of, but I'm sorry to say this is how the story shall go, and so shall it be.
"We'd better ge-" Zoe was suddenly interrupted by a terrifying ear-deafening exploding sound that was from far away, but heard so clearly at that distance.
"What was that?" Selena shouted in horror. Phoinex didn't know, but he wanted to find out. So he stood up and took off at a run. The rest of his friends did the same. After less then a minute of running The Typhlosion Trio released their Pidgeots, got onto them, and flew off, leaving Ben to ride his Rhyhorn. Phoinex was the first to fly out of the forest and zoom past the lighthouse into Olivine City.
In the far off distance, on a mountaintop, he could see a bright red raging fire, eating at everything in its path. He didn't want too believe what he suspected. He just couldn't. But that's how it was. It's what happened. And he could do nothing to change that. Tears began to streak down his cheeks, some of them rolling onto his lips with their salty taste, most of them just falling down to the far below ground.
Down below, a police officer ordered him to fly down and not approach the fire, and he did so, not wanting to go and see the truth. The rest of his friends, except for Ben, all knew it too. The truth was, to I'm sure all our horror, that The Typhlosion Trio had just lost everything dear to them in an instant: Hogwarts had been blown up.
On the ground, Zoe, Selena, and Phoinex, sat on the floor hugging, all of them crying, knowing their loss. They had lost their beloved teachers, their possessions, and probably even their parents. Ben could say nor do anything that would comfort them, as none of us really can when someone we know looses someone. You probably know that to comfort someone a person usually says "It'll be alright". However, Ben knew that was the wrong thing to say for everything was not going to be all right. Selena, Zoe, and Phoinex would not get Hogwarts back. They would not get their belongings back. And worst of all, they would not be getting their parents back. oiHogwarts back.So, Ben ended up talking to the police officer about the situation.
Hour after hour passed deep into the night, and the three slowly difficulty cried themselves to sleep…
In the morning, the three found themselves in some sort of ice-cream parlor, wrapped in tight itchy blankets. Apparently, someone had brought them into the shop they had cried into sleep last night and wrapped them in those blankets. It was hard for all of them to open their eyes, since they were still sticky from all their tears, as were their cheeks. "Good morning." Was the first thing they heard when they had sat up and begun to rub their eyes. Of course it was not going to be a good morning, or a good day for that matter. Either way, the three replied politely "Good morning.", knowing themselves that it most likely wouldn't be a good one.
When Phoinex finally achieved opening his eyes, he could see that is was Ben who had awoken them. He was wearing an odd expression, one that felt sorry for them and trying to make them feel better at the same time. "Would you like something to eat?" He asked.
"No, thank you, I'm not very hungry…" Said the voice of Selena to Phoinex's left.
"Me neither…" Added Zoe, from his right.
"I'm not either, sorry…" He finally replied. He took a look around and saw that they were in a corner of a yellow-walled ice-cream shop, right under the counter. Then he heard a hand knocking on a wooden door and looked ahead to see that it was Officer Jenny locking, with a frown damping her face. Ben's face sprouted one of the same magnitude as he walked outside to talk to her. Through the glass door, Phoinex, Selena, and Zoe could see them solemnly arguing about something. Ben walked back in after a minute of two, still wearing that saddening frown.
"Kids," He began to say when he reached them. "… The police want you to come and see if you can identify any of the bodies." A series of thoughts began to process through Phoinex's mind, all to quickly becoming into a scatter leaving him speechless once more.