Crystal's Pokemon Adventure
By: The Pokemon Reader

Chapter 14
Trouble At Lake Of Rage And Erica Appears

It was still raining, and Crystal and Jen had to sleep with Thunder and Max that night. It was now morning, the rain was getting harder as well as the wind getting stronger. Crystal sat at the table, eatting six pancakes happily, Thunder and the other two sweatdropped at how fast Crystal was eatting! Thunder only had four pancakes, Max had three, and Jen had only two since she wasn't as hungry as Crystal was.

After one minute, Crystal was done with her six pancakes and happy. "Ah! That was good!" she declared, then she could hear the wind and the rain, "Hey guys, isn't it weird that the rain's not stopping, and getting harder? The winds getting stronger, too!" The other three nodded, this was rather peculiar. "Hey, what do ya say we just go to Lake of Rage? Maybe there's something over there that could help us?" Jen asked, finishing her pancakes. "Yeah, let's go!" Thunder spoke, getting up from his seat, his plate spotless. He grabbed his backpack and stood by the door, waiting for the others. Crystal grabbed her pack and Jen's, tossing it to her and going over to Thunder. Max took his bag and went with Jen to the Thunder and Crystal. The Center door opened, the strong wind blew the rain into the building, but the four friends quickly got out of the Pokemon Center and began to run into the tall grass to the north of town.

The rain was getting worse, they ran through the tall grass, ignoring the wild Pokemon and running to Lake of Rage, seeing a Red Gyarados using Hyper Beam over and over again everywhere! They all gasped at the unusual color, but they each took out a pokeball. "Go!" they all yelled, throwing their balls up high. They popped open, Jen's newly evolved Flaffy appeared, Thunder's Jolteon, Crystal's Feraligatr, and Max's... Pikachu?! "Max! Where'd you get a Pikachu?!" Jen yelled, the rain was to loud! "It Was A Present From My Folks!" Max yelled back, after hearing an "OK" from Jen, they all got ready to fight. But just as they were about to fight, they looked to a house near them, a fisherman sat on a bucket, tuning a radio that could barely be heard, but he raised the volume all the way so they could hear it too. "Well! It's Really A Bad Storm, Tim! As You Probably All Ready Heard! Hurricane Erica Is Coming Our Way! This Has To Be The Biggest Hurricane Ever Recorded In The History Of The World! It Also Happens That Erica Is Heading Towards Mahogany Town, Johto! So I Hope That All The Citizens Of Mahogany Get Out Of There Soon! And Fast Because Erica Is Coming In Faster Than Any Other!! WAAAHH!!!!" the radio said, the man that spoke probably got sucked into the Hurricane. Thunder gasped and looked to the Gyarados, "We have to get it out of here!!" Crystal shut her eyes tightly, she had always been scared of Gyarados, but Thunder's was an exception. She then immidiately began to run towards the Lake where the Red Gyarados was throwing Hyper Beams everywhere! "Crystal!!" Thunder yelled, he was going to try and run after her, but the wind forced him, Jen and Max back, "CRYSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!"

Crystal had to force herself through all this strong wind and rain, she finally got to the lake, Feraligatr walking up behind her weakly. "Watery.... U-Use Thunderbolt!" Crystal yelled over the thunder and rain. Watery the Feraligatr nodded and charged up, then sent a big bolt of electricity at Gyarados, it was a hit! The Gyarados roared painfully and loudly, this was really a Gyarados on rampage! It looked to Watery and Crystal, very small eyes glared at them. The Red Gyarados then threw a huge Hyper Beam at them, but it was deflected by Thunder's Jolteon using Zap Cannon. Crystal turned her head quickly, seeing Thunder and Jolteon slowly fight to get to her. A tear appeared in Crystal's eye, she then whispered to herself, "Thunder... After all that's happened, you still protect me?" The tear slowly made its way down her cheek, and onto Watery's hand. Watery looked at the tear that had fallen into its hand, it had heard what Crystal said, it smiled then began to glow bright white. Crystal looked to Watery and blinked, whispering, "Watery...." Watery began to get a few inches taller, its feet, arms, body and even head changed shape! The light died out and there stood the 4th evolutionary form of Totodile, Croconaw, and Feraligatr..... Alifernile. It had an ocean blue body like Feraligatr, orange eyes, the same red scales, something very unique on its chest, a small, red heart-shaped sign. Crystal fell to her knees, staring at the VERY new Evolution. "Alifernile!" Alifernile yelled over the rain, then Crystal grinned. "All right, new name! Ali's your new name, and time to play our game!" she yelled, getting up and facing the Gyarados, "Ice Beam!" Ali the Alifernile aimed its mouth at the Red Gyarados and fired its white beam, the Gyarados began to get frozen until its head was frozen in its place. Crystal smiled and took out a Lure Ball, she wasn't sure if she should capture it, but shook her head and tossed the ball to the Gyarados, its being sucked into the ball. She smiled as Ali retrieved their new friend's ball, Crystal took the ball and put it safely into her backpack, her last Houndoom's ball disappearing and appearing with Professor Elm.

Thunder and the other had finally made it over to Crystal and Alifernile, they all stared at Ali, but then loked to Crystal. "What Do We Do About The Hurricane?!" Jen asked loudly since the rain and wind were getting MUCH louder. "I Have An Idea!" Crystal yelled, looking to Thunder with a sad face, "Thunder! I'm Going To Have To Borrow Your Pidgeot!" Thunder blinked, what was Crystal thinking of doing? Why was she making such a sad face? He sighed and nodded, taking out Pidgeot's ball and handing it to Crystal. She was handed the ball and she let the beautifully, large bird out and climbed onto its back, but then Thunder got in in front of her. Crystal looked at Thunder, Thunder had a grin and he yelled, "I'm Not Letting You Do This Alone, Crystal!" Crystal sighed, but nodded, then they flew up high and headed toward Erica the Hurricane. Crystal's bangs went over her eyes, a small stream of tears began to fall down her cheeks, she then looked up at the hurricane and took Thunder's shoulders, trying to stand up. Thunder looked behind him to see Crystal, his eyes widened and he yelled, "What Are You Doing?!" "It's The Only Way To Get Rid Of Erica For Good!!" Crystal yelled back as Pidgeot neared the Hurricane, the tears fell more rapidly this time, and then Crystal said in her head, *I-I'm sorry, Thunder... It's the only way.... We won't be able to go to the Pokemon League together.... We won't be able to go to Hoenn or Kanto together.... We won't even be with each other.... But I would sacrifice myself for the ones I know and love....* After thinking this, Crystal jumped, being sucked into the hurricane. "CRYSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thunder yelled, what was this? Tears would fill his eyes and head straight down his face and onto Pidgeot's feathers, "NO!!!! Crystal!!!! You Can't!!! You Wouldn't!!! You Couldn't!!! CRYSTAL!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T DIE!!!!" The sheath that was tied to his waist began to glow, the sword floated out of the sheath and to the front of Thunder. He blinked, then his pupils disappeared as he stared at the sword. What was happening to him?! What was the sword doing to him this time?! Stay Tuned, and you'll find out....

To Be Continued....

Preview: All right, Hurricane Erica's appeared and Crystal's jumped into it! Thunder's new sword is doing something to him again, it turns out that the same vision gos into Thunder's head, but also gos into Crystal's! But this time, they can hear what the people in the vision are saying! What do you think they're saying? Will Crystal be OK? Do you think Thunder will be under the control of his e-motions again? Next time, "E-Motions And Love Conquor Anything!"