A/N: In this chapter, I introduce some new characters and give you a look
at the inner souls of jelly beans!
Chapter 10
Revenge of the Jelly Bean Soul Suckers!
I knew it wasn't over. I knew that we'd probably see Cos and Sabrina again. I knew that I would also probably see that strange. thing. that we saw at the beach. But for now, all we had to worry about was.
"ROAD TRIP!!!" yelled somebody that looked pretty familiar.
"Ty?" I asked. It was the leader of the Dojo in Saffron! "What're you doin' in White?"
"Same as me," said Bryan from behind him.
"Goo!" said Philip.
"We're gonna be the counselors in the cabins on the big trip in a week," said Ty.
"Really?" asked Natalie.
"Us, too!" said Stephanie.
It was the Monday after the raid on the Rockets. That had been two days ago, on Saturday. During lunch, one of the teachers, Mrs. White, stood up and explained the rules and schedules. After that, she handed out packets. Then she had introduced the counselors, five of which were friends of ours: the police chief Bryan, Dojo Gym Leader Ty, Philip, his girlfriend Natalie, and newly-freed Stephanie.
"Bryan will be in a tent group with Jim Hawkwind, 'Goliath' Davidson, Isaac Keck, Bob Kidd, and Steve Vaughan. Stephanie will be with Courtney Morrison, Carol Jones, Kerry Masters, and Maya Manson. Philip will be with Stewart Ware." She went off into people I didn't know.
"This is gonna be awesome!" whispered Kerry from behind me.
"GOO!" I yelled, turning. "I thought you got eaten by the ant."
"What ant?" she asked.
I looked at Goliath. He shrugged.
Okay.
Bryan leaned over to me. "I asked to be put in your cabin because we're afraid that Team Rocket might be after you. I'm supposed to protect you throughout this trip."
"Cool, but I think I'll be fine," I whispered.
"Just a precaution."
* * *
All through the next week, gossip was buzzing around about what surprises were in store and also about my weekend adventure.
"Jim, did you really take on an army of gene-Pokemon single-handedly?" asked some random kid.
"Uh. no?"
"Hey, Jim, did you hear that we're going to Seafoam Islands on the trip?" asked Hick Girl.
"No, who said that?"
"Kerry told me. What have you heard?"
"Aw, Bryan already told me."
"WHAT?!?"
"I'm not supposed to tell."
"PLEEEEEEEEASE?!?"
"Nope."
Hick Girl kept bugging me all through the week, but it didn't work. I refused to tell her where Bryan had said we were going:
A camping trip in the Ruins of Alph.
It was hard, trying to keep the information a secret from everybody. Courtney told everyone else that I knew, so they all kept asking me. It was pretty annoying.
The trip was supposed to be "educational". Yeah, right. As long as we were away from school, it was time to goof off.
They held off telling everybody else till the day we left. They told us to pack warmly, since it got cool at night. That's all we knew until the day we left.
Everybody was on the bus, so several teachers stood up in the front few rows. Before they could even begin, Isaac yelled out, "Come on, tell us where we're going!"
Mr. Burton, the Rock/Geology teacher, said, "Okay, okay, you win. We're going to."
"The Ruins of Alph!" I interrupted.
A roar went up through the bus.
"Calm down, everyone," said Burton, but nothing happened. He looked at the SST/History teacher, Coach Sapp, and nodded.
Coach stood up and everyone immediately went silent, as if they were dead. We knew that if we weren't quiet, we'd go on "full silence" for the rest of the trip.
"Thank you, Coach," said Burton. "Now, Mr. Hawkwind was correct. We are going to the Ruins. But we need to be careful. An archaeological dig is being performed near the campsite, and they prefer not to be disturbed."
"Also, I have sensed some Psychic disturbances in the area. I can't tell what they are until we get closer, but I think it might be dangerous," said Professor Destiny, the Psychic teacher.
"So, if required, we are prepared to leave at once," said Sapp.
"If we have to, we'll go to Olivine Beach for a day, then return," said Rahne, the Water student teacher.
"But that's only a slim chance, so let's go!" said Burton, pointing to the Ground teacher, Mr. Soil, who was driving. He started the bus, and in seconds we were out on the highway, headed for one of the biggest adventures of my life!
* * *
I was half-asleep, listening to some CD, when something tapped my shoulder. "What the." I sat straight up and looked around. Goliath, next to me, was reading a book. "Did you tap me?" I asked.
"No." he said.
"I did," said someone. A face popped in between the crack between my seat and Goliath's.
"You're Jim, right?" he asked.
"Yeah. And you are.?"
"Name's Stewart. I'm new. Just started yesterday, actually." He looked fairly tall, kinda lanky, with straight brown hair.
"What's up?"
"I just wanted to know why you're so famous and everything."
"Well, remember when Team Rocket took over Johto last year?"
"Yeah."
"I stopped them. Then, just a couple weeks ago, I took them on again and saved Professor Oak and Erika."
"Wow. You're that Jim? I had no idea." He held out his hand. "Pleased to meet you."
"Same here." I took it and shook.
It had been about three hours, so I let my CD player have a little rest. I was looking out the window at the scenery, when something tiny and pink hit me on the top of the head. It bounced off and landed in the palm of my hand. "What is this?"
It looked like a cylinder cut from the center of a.
"Jelly bean?" asked Goliath.
Isaac and Steve, sitting across the aisle from us, were laughing. The latter had a bag of pink, maroon, and lime green jelly beans. Isaac tossed me one. It had a hole cut through the middle.
"Man, Isaac, what're you doing? It's missing, like, its soul!" said Maya in front of us.
"Hmmm, jelly bean soul-suckers." I said.
Another one hit me in the arm. "Steve!"
Goliath grabbed it and ate it. He grinned and said, "Mm, Dr. Pepper!" I gave him my crazy "what-was-that" look.
I caught the next one and tasted it. "Strawberry cheesecake!"
Soon, we had a volley of jelly bean "souls" flying through the air. We were trying to catch them in our mouths. Flame Creamfire, who occupied the seat next to Maya, kept shooting her signature vanilla ice cream colored flames at some, charring them right before we ate them, causing us to spit them out or just swallow the burnt candy.
"Hawkwind!" yelled a strong voice from the front of the bus.
I stopped trying to catch a burned one, letting it hit me on the forehead, leaving a blackish mark. Sapp had called me down.
"What's goin' on back there?" he roared.
"N-nothing, sir," I said.
"It better be nothin'. I'll have nothing else thrown in this bus, hear me?"
The entire bus nodded in unison.
Sapp returned to his seat and reopened his Coon Hunters Monthly magazine.
I turned to the others. I must have had a weird look on my face, because everyone burst out laughing.
"Maybe we should leave the bean souls alone for a little bit," I said, finally catching my breath.
I pulled out another CD and my drawing pad. I placed the disk inside my player and started it. "I am a rock, it's all I do," began the song.*
I put the eraser of my pencil in my mouth and tried to decide what to draw. For some reason, Unown popped into my head. I started to draw the first one, which looked like an A.
Back when Gold was traveling, he opened the Ruins, bringing in a flood of Unown. He helped scientists develop the Unowndex, a special Pokedex that identified all twenty-six types.
Anyway, now that I've given you a run-down of Unown.
When I came back to reality, I had drawn almost all of them in great detail. But, I had left out the I. I don't know why, but I did. I drew it in the small space between H and J.
I looked at my work and was pleased. My watch beeped that we had been on the road for almost six hours. I looked out the window and saw that we were in a town. Looked like Goldenrod.
"All right everyone, eat and meet back here in thirty minutes!" yelled Coach. We all piled out, legs cramped and stomachs rumbling.
AN: *If you can tell me what song that is, I'll personally give you a cookie. Anyway.
How'd you like it? It didn't take me long to write, but yeah.
Maya and Flame still belong to moonymonster (read the story Flame Creamfire, it's good).
Chapter 10
Revenge of the Jelly Bean Soul Suckers!
I knew it wasn't over. I knew that we'd probably see Cos and Sabrina again. I knew that I would also probably see that strange. thing. that we saw at the beach. But for now, all we had to worry about was.
"ROAD TRIP!!!" yelled somebody that looked pretty familiar.
"Ty?" I asked. It was the leader of the Dojo in Saffron! "What're you doin' in White?"
"Same as me," said Bryan from behind him.
"Goo!" said Philip.
"We're gonna be the counselors in the cabins on the big trip in a week," said Ty.
"Really?" asked Natalie.
"Us, too!" said Stephanie.
It was the Monday after the raid on the Rockets. That had been two days ago, on Saturday. During lunch, one of the teachers, Mrs. White, stood up and explained the rules and schedules. After that, she handed out packets. Then she had introduced the counselors, five of which were friends of ours: the police chief Bryan, Dojo Gym Leader Ty, Philip, his girlfriend Natalie, and newly-freed Stephanie.
"Bryan will be in a tent group with Jim Hawkwind, 'Goliath' Davidson, Isaac Keck, Bob Kidd, and Steve Vaughan. Stephanie will be with Courtney Morrison, Carol Jones, Kerry Masters, and Maya Manson. Philip will be with Stewart Ware." She went off into people I didn't know.
"This is gonna be awesome!" whispered Kerry from behind me.
"GOO!" I yelled, turning. "I thought you got eaten by the ant."
"What ant?" she asked.
I looked at Goliath. He shrugged.
Okay.
Bryan leaned over to me. "I asked to be put in your cabin because we're afraid that Team Rocket might be after you. I'm supposed to protect you throughout this trip."
"Cool, but I think I'll be fine," I whispered.
"Just a precaution."
* * *
All through the next week, gossip was buzzing around about what surprises were in store and also about my weekend adventure.
"Jim, did you really take on an army of gene-Pokemon single-handedly?" asked some random kid.
"Uh. no?"
"Hey, Jim, did you hear that we're going to Seafoam Islands on the trip?" asked Hick Girl.
"No, who said that?"
"Kerry told me. What have you heard?"
"Aw, Bryan already told me."
"WHAT?!?"
"I'm not supposed to tell."
"PLEEEEEEEEASE?!?"
"Nope."
Hick Girl kept bugging me all through the week, but it didn't work. I refused to tell her where Bryan had said we were going:
A camping trip in the Ruins of Alph.
It was hard, trying to keep the information a secret from everybody. Courtney told everyone else that I knew, so they all kept asking me. It was pretty annoying.
The trip was supposed to be "educational". Yeah, right. As long as we were away from school, it was time to goof off.
They held off telling everybody else till the day we left. They told us to pack warmly, since it got cool at night. That's all we knew until the day we left.
Everybody was on the bus, so several teachers stood up in the front few rows. Before they could even begin, Isaac yelled out, "Come on, tell us where we're going!"
Mr. Burton, the Rock/Geology teacher, said, "Okay, okay, you win. We're going to."
"The Ruins of Alph!" I interrupted.
A roar went up through the bus.
"Calm down, everyone," said Burton, but nothing happened. He looked at the SST/History teacher, Coach Sapp, and nodded.
Coach stood up and everyone immediately went silent, as if they were dead. We knew that if we weren't quiet, we'd go on "full silence" for the rest of the trip.
"Thank you, Coach," said Burton. "Now, Mr. Hawkwind was correct. We are going to the Ruins. But we need to be careful. An archaeological dig is being performed near the campsite, and they prefer not to be disturbed."
"Also, I have sensed some Psychic disturbances in the area. I can't tell what they are until we get closer, but I think it might be dangerous," said Professor Destiny, the Psychic teacher.
"So, if required, we are prepared to leave at once," said Sapp.
"If we have to, we'll go to Olivine Beach for a day, then return," said Rahne, the Water student teacher.
"But that's only a slim chance, so let's go!" said Burton, pointing to the Ground teacher, Mr. Soil, who was driving. He started the bus, and in seconds we were out on the highway, headed for one of the biggest adventures of my life!
* * *
I was half-asleep, listening to some CD, when something tapped my shoulder. "What the." I sat straight up and looked around. Goliath, next to me, was reading a book. "Did you tap me?" I asked.
"No." he said.
"I did," said someone. A face popped in between the crack between my seat and Goliath's.
"You're Jim, right?" he asked.
"Yeah. And you are.?"
"Name's Stewart. I'm new. Just started yesterday, actually." He looked fairly tall, kinda lanky, with straight brown hair.
"What's up?"
"I just wanted to know why you're so famous and everything."
"Well, remember when Team Rocket took over Johto last year?"
"Yeah."
"I stopped them. Then, just a couple weeks ago, I took them on again and saved Professor Oak and Erika."
"Wow. You're that Jim? I had no idea." He held out his hand. "Pleased to meet you."
"Same here." I took it and shook.
It had been about three hours, so I let my CD player have a little rest. I was looking out the window at the scenery, when something tiny and pink hit me on the top of the head. It bounced off and landed in the palm of my hand. "What is this?"
It looked like a cylinder cut from the center of a.
"Jelly bean?" asked Goliath.
Isaac and Steve, sitting across the aisle from us, were laughing. The latter had a bag of pink, maroon, and lime green jelly beans. Isaac tossed me one. It had a hole cut through the middle.
"Man, Isaac, what're you doing? It's missing, like, its soul!" said Maya in front of us.
"Hmmm, jelly bean soul-suckers." I said.
Another one hit me in the arm. "Steve!"
Goliath grabbed it and ate it. He grinned and said, "Mm, Dr. Pepper!" I gave him my crazy "what-was-that" look.
I caught the next one and tasted it. "Strawberry cheesecake!"
Soon, we had a volley of jelly bean "souls" flying through the air. We were trying to catch them in our mouths. Flame Creamfire, who occupied the seat next to Maya, kept shooting her signature vanilla ice cream colored flames at some, charring them right before we ate them, causing us to spit them out or just swallow the burnt candy.
"Hawkwind!" yelled a strong voice from the front of the bus.
I stopped trying to catch a burned one, letting it hit me on the forehead, leaving a blackish mark. Sapp had called me down.
"What's goin' on back there?" he roared.
"N-nothing, sir," I said.
"It better be nothin'. I'll have nothing else thrown in this bus, hear me?"
The entire bus nodded in unison.
Sapp returned to his seat and reopened his Coon Hunters Monthly magazine.
I turned to the others. I must have had a weird look on my face, because everyone burst out laughing.
"Maybe we should leave the bean souls alone for a little bit," I said, finally catching my breath.
I pulled out another CD and my drawing pad. I placed the disk inside my player and started it. "I am a rock, it's all I do," began the song.*
I put the eraser of my pencil in my mouth and tried to decide what to draw. For some reason, Unown popped into my head. I started to draw the first one, which looked like an A.
Back when Gold was traveling, he opened the Ruins, bringing in a flood of Unown. He helped scientists develop the Unowndex, a special Pokedex that identified all twenty-six types.
Anyway, now that I've given you a run-down of Unown.
When I came back to reality, I had drawn almost all of them in great detail. But, I had left out the I. I don't know why, but I did. I drew it in the small space between H and J.
I looked at my work and was pleased. My watch beeped that we had been on the road for almost six hours. I looked out the window and saw that we were in a town. Looked like Goldenrod.
"All right everyone, eat and meet back here in thirty minutes!" yelled Coach. We all piled out, legs cramped and stomachs rumbling.
AN: *If you can tell me what song that is, I'll personally give you a cookie. Anyway.
How'd you like it? It didn't take me long to write, but yeah.
Maya and Flame still belong to moonymonster (read the story Flame Creamfire, it's good).