GUESS WHAT!! YAAAAY! I found 'em! I thought my brother deleted all my
stories but I found 'em! *huggles hte nearest person* I'm so HaPpY!!!!!!!!
*cough* sorry... continue...
Ages ~
Ash ~ 15
Misty ~ 16
Brock ~ 18
Gary ~ 16
Ritchie ~ 17
Josiah ~ 16
Rosie ~ 6
War and Death
~Part 6; death ~
'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.'
John F. Kennedy
Josiah flopped to the ground, exhausted. After a fierce battle with the Kadabra that wouldn't die, they had finally won. Josiah, after finally being able to catch his breath, he decided to scan the damage. Sometime during the battle, it had started to pour down rain, soaking everything.
There were many bodies littered around him. Some were pokemon and some were human. Just looking at some of the bodies made Josiah want to throw up. He realized that fortunately, they hadn't gotten nearly the worst of it, which almost made him want to puke even more. There were only three standing people. Sabrina, an older man named Chris, and himself, who was technically sitting. Josiah's gaze stopped at the still body laying on the ground in front of the tree. This time, Josiah quickly wrenched his gaze away and threw up on the ground next to him. Josiah numbly pulled himself up to his knees and crawled over the dead or dying bodies. Josiah knelt over his fallen captain, doing his best to resist the urge to puke again. Apparently, when Ritchie was thrown into the tree, he had been impaled by a branch that was now sticking out of his side. He could feel his eyes getting wet, but that couldn't be right. He wasn't supposed to cry.
"Ritchie?" He whispered out. His voice was ragged and coarse. A sob was just sitting in his throat waiting to escape.
Ritchie's blue eyes slowly opened and gazed at nothing for a while until they blinked again and his blue eyes met teary green eyes. "How bad is it?"
Josiah was never really good at lying, and he wasn't about to start now. "Well." The tears were falling freely now. Ritchie just smiled. "It's alright. It's doesn't really hurt anymore anyway." He got a far away look in his eyes. "I won't be lost anymore." "Lost?" Josiah choked out. "I'll be with my family again now." Ritchie smiled and tilted his head. "I think I see them!" More tears streamed down Josiah's cheeks. He knew Ritchie was about to die and was now seeing things, but it was better for him, right? "Good luck Josiah." Ritchie gave one last look at the conscious world, then his eyes glazed over and he gave one last smile. "I'm coming mom, dad, I'm coming!" With that, Ritchie closed his eyes and slumped backwards with a contented smile on his face. "Ritchie?" Josiah whispered out. He couldn't be dead. Too many others were dead already, one of the few friends he'd made on this trip to hell couldn't be dead! "No!" He sobbed out. He reached out a dirty hand to try and shake the unmoving boy awake, disbelief etched all over his tired face.
Josiah sank back to lean against the tree and closed his eyes. Too much death. Everyone was dying or dead. So this is why is mother didn't want him to go - his mother! His eyes sprang open and if at all possible, he could feel more tears coming down his cheeks. Fear clenched his heart as if trying to squeeze the life out of it. What about his family? His mother? Rosie? Josiah jumped up, the tears still coming down his face in rivers. A crying Sabrina looked over at him from her spot by one of her pokemon. "Where are you going?" Josiah looked over at her, his green eyes red and bloodshot from crying. "I'm going to find my family." ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Ash's worried gaze never left the two unmoving figures lying on the blanket. Tears streamed down his face as he began to rock back and forth on his knees. Togepi took an unsure step toward its daddy. "Toge?" Ash made no response, only cried harder and kept rocking back and forth muttering to himself. "Priii?" Togepi ventured another step towards and put a reassuring paw/hand on his leg. Ash still made no response. Togepi was really getting worried. He wished his daddy would stop rocking, It was unnerving him. A small movement from the red head made Ash finally break out of his trance. He was at her side in an instant and grabbed her hand watching her every move. Finally, Misty peeled her eyes open and looked over at Ash for a moment before trying to speak. "Ash?" Ash felt grateful tears leak out of his already tearing eyes. "I'm hear Misty, it's alright." He still held a tight grip on her hand. Misty looked up at Ash. "What happened? Is everyone okay?" Ash hesitated. "When you got hurt, I decided to retreat into the basement. I returned all our pokemon except Togepi, he's right here." Misty smiled and tried to push herself up. Ash noticed her struggle and put a supporting hand on her back to help her sit up. "Thanks." She breathed out. She looked to her left and gasped. "Is Pikachu okay?" She didn't hear anything but slight murmurs. She turned her head and her eyes widened. Once again, Ash had returned to sitting on his knees, rocking back and forth mumbling to himself. Misty bit her lip out of worry and slid herself closer to Ash. She put a comforting hand around his shoulders and hugged him. "Ash, what's wrong?" Ash still said nothing, so Misty leaned in closer to try and make out what he was saying. She heard, "Pikachu's going to be okay, all he needs is some rest. He'll be fine. We just need to get him to the pokemon center. He'll be fine. And Misty, we have to get Misty to the hospital so she can be fine too. Maybe Nurse joy can heal them both. Pikachu will be just fine, you wait and see!" Misty pulled back and watched in horror as Ash pulled himself away from her hug and blindly walked over to Pikachu and covered him with blankets, whispering words to the un-moving pokemon. "You'll be fine Pikachu. After Nurse joy takes care of you, you'll be back to normal! Then me, you, and Misty can go on our old adventures together and be just like we used to be!" Misty's eyes filled with tears. She gathered up her strength and crawled over to the pokemon. She held a hand over the small mouth. Just as she suspected there was nothing. Ash swatted her hand away and glared at her with his brown eyes. "No! Don't do that! I could've told you Pikachu was breathing! He'll be fine! You worry too much! All he needs is some sleep!" Ash turned his watch over to Pikachu and stroked the yellow fur. Misty felt the tears come out stronger. What was she supposed to do? Pikachu was dead, and Ash was living in a dream world. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Josiah ran as fast as he could. He was tiring, he knew he was, but he had to keep going! He HAD to! He had to help is family! Had to help protect Rosie! In his running, he failed to notice the root sticking out of the ground and tripped over it. He fell face first into the dirt. He felt the rain pounding on the back of his head, which wasn't helping him move any faster. Finally, he pried himself on the ground and leaned on a nearby tree. He pulled his knees up to his chest and hugged them. He started to rock back and forth with tears running down his cheek. He knew it didn't seem right for a sixteen year old boy to cry, but he didn't care anymore. He was feeling so lonely. He closed his eyes and let the rain drown all his troubles. Josiah felt a sudden strong breeze and cringed as the rain fell harder on him for a second, then let up as quick as it had begun. He opened his teary eyes and looked ahead. There right in front of his was a stuffed Teddiursa. He gingerly picked it up and examined it. The tag was still on it, but obviously beat up from being tossed in the wind, but he could still read. In small, black marker was written: To: Rosalee, May this keep you company when you feel lonely at night (and so you don't have to keep coming in my room j/k, ya know I love ya) Love, Josiah Josiah smiled and hugged the bear tightly to him. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ The battle still raged on, but it was either getting bloodier, or there was just more blood from the many deaths. No one could tell, and no one knew the difference. Only one thing was on their minds. Stay alive and win! The survivors were slimming by the minute and the battles were getting fiercer. Bodies were falling down on top of other bodies. Not a single person or pokemon was spared from getting blood on them - whether it was from their own blood or someone else's, they neither knew nor cared. Some people were immuned to the many dead bodies, others weren't and seemed to get sick every time a new one went down. A Sandslash stood by its master's dead body and let one tear fall. It would avenge its master's death, or die with him! It growled dangerously and the nearest person and struck out. The boy was caught by surprise and could only watch as the Sandslash dug it's long nails into the soft skin on the boy. Then, with as much anger as it held, it ripped the nails out spraying more blood. The boy fell back in surprise holding his stomach. His Umbreon let out a cry of surprise and leaped to its master. The boy's ears heard his Umbreon's sad howl, but could do nothing about it. He closed his eyes as memories ran through his head. 'Hey Ash! I bet you can't beat me! At being the best pokemon master!' 'You just wait and see, Gary!' ~ 'grandpa, where's my first pokemon?' 'Patience, Gary, here it is.' 'Wow! An Eevee! Cool! Just wait till Ash sees this! Huh, where is the twerp anyway? Is he late?' ~ 'Gary, Gary, he's the man, if he can't do it no one can!' 'Thank-you ladies!' ~ 'That pokemon! It's so powerful! It just beat my two pokemon without even trying!' ~ 'It's been announced that today, Kanto has officially declared war on Johto.' ~ 'Name?' 'Gary Oak' . ~ 'My name's Josiah, what's yours?' 'Gary, Gary Oak.' 'THE Oak?!' ~ 'See you when this is done?' 'You bet!' ~~~ "BREOOOON!" The black pokemon howled a lonely cry as its master had just taken his last breath. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ "Ash?" Misty finally broke out of shock and walked over to Ash and placed her arms around him once again. She looked into his eyes and saw nothing but despair and disbelief. Misty let out a sob and burred her face in Ash's shoulder. Ash looked over and Misty and placed his own arms around Misty and held her close. "Don't worry, Misty, Pikachu will be just fine." Misty just cried all the more in Ash's shirt. Ash held her and rocked her back and forth, totally oblivious as to why she was crying. Pikachu was going to be okay! So why was she sad? When Misty's cries finally died down into dull hiccups, Ash lifted her face with his finger so he could look into her eyes. "Are you okay now, Misty?" Misty smiled sadly at Ash and nodded. "Yea, Ash, I'm okay." Ash smiled, relieved. "That's good! I was afraid I'd lost you." Misty looked into Ash's chocolate brown eyes. "Would you be like this if I had died, Ash?" Ash's eyes filled with so much pain that Misty immediately regretted asking, "It's okay Ash, you don't have to asnw -" Ash held a finger to her lips and shook his head. "No, I should say this." He looked down at Misty with a sad smile played on his lips. "I'd be worse than this, Misty, although, I don't know why you think I'm bad. I don't even want to think of what would happen if I'd lost you." Misty smiled and snuggled into Ash's chest, her arms still wrapped around him. "Well, you don't have to worry about that Ashy, 'cause you'll never loose me! You're stuck with me for life!" Ash grinned. He hugged her close and closed his eyes, whispering in her ear, "I wouldn't have it any other way, Mist." ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ "James! We can't just sit here and do nothing!" "Sure we can, wanna see?" "JAMES!" "I don't wanna die, Jessie!" James clung to Jessie. "And I don't want you to either!" Jessie's blue eyes softened for a minute. "James." "Awww! Dat was sweet Jimmy boy!" "Meowth!" James glared at the feline "What? It was!" Jessie sighed and pried James off of her. "James, I have to help. I can't just leave my fellow rocketeers to fight themselves!" "But Jessie, what good will you do?" Jessie opened her mouth then closed it. She sighed again and looked down at James who was on his knees with a pleading look in his eyes. "I don't know, James, but I have to try!" James' eyes shook with emotion, then he nodded his head with a determination burning inside. "Alright, Jessie, for team Rocket! You coming Meowth?" "Alwight, Jimmy, but don't expect nottin' special." The Trio smiled and nodded to each other and ran out of the bushes, poke'balls flying. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ ~ Smile Jesus loves you!
John F. Kennedy
Josiah flopped to the ground, exhausted. After a fierce battle with the Kadabra that wouldn't die, they had finally won. Josiah, after finally being able to catch his breath, he decided to scan the damage. Sometime during the battle, it had started to pour down rain, soaking everything.
There were many bodies littered around him. Some were pokemon and some were human. Just looking at some of the bodies made Josiah want to throw up. He realized that fortunately, they hadn't gotten nearly the worst of it, which almost made him want to puke even more. There were only three standing people. Sabrina, an older man named Chris, and himself, who was technically sitting. Josiah's gaze stopped at the still body laying on the ground in front of the tree. This time, Josiah quickly wrenched his gaze away and threw up on the ground next to him. Josiah numbly pulled himself up to his knees and crawled over the dead or dying bodies. Josiah knelt over his fallen captain, doing his best to resist the urge to puke again. Apparently, when Ritchie was thrown into the tree, he had been impaled by a branch that was now sticking out of his side. He could feel his eyes getting wet, but that couldn't be right. He wasn't supposed to cry.
"Ritchie?" He whispered out. His voice was ragged and coarse. A sob was just sitting in his throat waiting to escape.
Ritchie's blue eyes slowly opened and gazed at nothing for a while until they blinked again and his blue eyes met teary green eyes. "How bad is it?"
Josiah was never really good at lying, and he wasn't about to start now. "Well." The tears were falling freely now. Ritchie just smiled. "It's alright. It's doesn't really hurt anymore anyway." He got a far away look in his eyes. "I won't be lost anymore." "Lost?" Josiah choked out. "I'll be with my family again now." Ritchie smiled and tilted his head. "I think I see them!" More tears streamed down Josiah's cheeks. He knew Ritchie was about to die and was now seeing things, but it was better for him, right? "Good luck Josiah." Ritchie gave one last look at the conscious world, then his eyes glazed over and he gave one last smile. "I'm coming mom, dad, I'm coming!" With that, Ritchie closed his eyes and slumped backwards with a contented smile on his face. "Ritchie?" Josiah whispered out. He couldn't be dead. Too many others were dead already, one of the few friends he'd made on this trip to hell couldn't be dead! "No!" He sobbed out. He reached out a dirty hand to try and shake the unmoving boy awake, disbelief etched all over his tired face.
Josiah sank back to lean against the tree and closed his eyes. Too much death. Everyone was dying or dead. So this is why is mother didn't want him to go - his mother! His eyes sprang open and if at all possible, he could feel more tears coming down his cheeks. Fear clenched his heart as if trying to squeeze the life out of it. What about his family? His mother? Rosie? Josiah jumped up, the tears still coming down his face in rivers. A crying Sabrina looked over at him from her spot by one of her pokemon. "Where are you going?" Josiah looked over at her, his green eyes red and bloodshot from crying. "I'm going to find my family." ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Ash's worried gaze never left the two unmoving figures lying on the blanket. Tears streamed down his face as he began to rock back and forth on his knees. Togepi took an unsure step toward its daddy. "Toge?" Ash made no response, only cried harder and kept rocking back and forth muttering to himself. "Priii?" Togepi ventured another step towards and put a reassuring paw/hand on his leg. Ash still made no response. Togepi was really getting worried. He wished his daddy would stop rocking, It was unnerving him. A small movement from the red head made Ash finally break out of his trance. He was at her side in an instant and grabbed her hand watching her every move. Finally, Misty peeled her eyes open and looked over at Ash for a moment before trying to speak. "Ash?" Ash felt grateful tears leak out of his already tearing eyes. "I'm hear Misty, it's alright." He still held a tight grip on her hand. Misty looked up at Ash. "What happened? Is everyone okay?" Ash hesitated. "When you got hurt, I decided to retreat into the basement. I returned all our pokemon except Togepi, he's right here." Misty smiled and tried to push herself up. Ash noticed her struggle and put a supporting hand on her back to help her sit up. "Thanks." She breathed out. She looked to her left and gasped. "Is Pikachu okay?" She didn't hear anything but slight murmurs. She turned her head and her eyes widened. Once again, Ash had returned to sitting on his knees, rocking back and forth mumbling to himself. Misty bit her lip out of worry and slid herself closer to Ash. She put a comforting hand around his shoulders and hugged him. "Ash, what's wrong?" Ash still said nothing, so Misty leaned in closer to try and make out what he was saying. She heard, "Pikachu's going to be okay, all he needs is some rest. He'll be fine. We just need to get him to the pokemon center. He'll be fine. And Misty, we have to get Misty to the hospital so she can be fine too. Maybe Nurse joy can heal them both. Pikachu will be just fine, you wait and see!" Misty pulled back and watched in horror as Ash pulled himself away from her hug and blindly walked over to Pikachu and covered him with blankets, whispering words to the un-moving pokemon. "You'll be fine Pikachu. After Nurse joy takes care of you, you'll be back to normal! Then me, you, and Misty can go on our old adventures together and be just like we used to be!" Misty's eyes filled with tears. She gathered up her strength and crawled over to the pokemon. She held a hand over the small mouth. Just as she suspected there was nothing. Ash swatted her hand away and glared at her with his brown eyes. "No! Don't do that! I could've told you Pikachu was breathing! He'll be fine! You worry too much! All he needs is some sleep!" Ash turned his watch over to Pikachu and stroked the yellow fur. Misty felt the tears come out stronger. What was she supposed to do? Pikachu was dead, and Ash was living in a dream world. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Josiah ran as fast as he could. He was tiring, he knew he was, but he had to keep going! He HAD to! He had to help is family! Had to help protect Rosie! In his running, he failed to notice the root sticking out of the ground and tripped over it. He fell face first into the dirt. He felt the rain pounding on the back of his head, which wasn't helping him move any faster. Finally, he pried himself on the ground and leaned on a nearby tree. He pulled his knees up to his chest and hugged them. He started to rock back and forth with tears running down his cheek. He knew it didn't seem right for a sixteen year old boy to cry, but he didn't care anymore. He was feeling so lonely. He closed his eyes and let the rain drown all his troubles. Josiah felt a sudden strong breeze and cringed as the rain fell harder on him for a second, then let up as quick as it had begun. He opened his teary eyes and looked ahead. There right in front of his was a stuffed Teddiursa. He gingerly picked it up and examined it. The tag was still on it, but obviously beat up from being tossed in the wind, but he could still read. In small, black marker was written: To: Rosalee, May this keep you company when you feel lonely at night (and so you don't have to keep coming in my room j/k, ya know I love ya) Love, Josiah Josiah smiled and hugged the bear tightly to him. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ The battle still raged on, but it was either getting bloodier, or there was just more blood from the many deaths. No one could tell, and no one knew the difference. Only one thing was on their minds. Stay alive and win! The survivors were slimming by the minute and the battles were getting fiercer. Bodies were falling down on top of other bodies. Not a single person or pokemon was spared from getting blood on them - whether it was from their own blood or someone else's, they neither knew nor cared. Some people were immuned to the many dead bodies, others weren't and seemed to get sick every time a new one went down. A Sandslash stood by its master's dead body and let one tear fall. It would avenge its master's death, or die with him! It growled dangerously and the nearest person and struck out. The boy was caught by surprise and could only watch as the Sandslash dug it's long nails into the soft skin on the boy. Then, with as much anger as it held, it ripped the nails out spraying more blood. The boy fell back in surprise holding his stomach. His Umbreon let out a cry of surprise and leaped to its master. The boy's ears heard his Umbreon's sad howl, but could do nothing about it. He closed his eyes as memories ran through his head. 'Hey Ash! I bet you can't beat me! At being the best pokemon master!' 'You just wait and see, Gary!' ~ 'grandpa, where's my first pokemon?' 'Patience, Gary, here it is.' 'Wow! An Eevee! Cool! Just wait till Ash sees this! Huh, where is the twerp anyway? Is he late?' ~ 'Gary, Gary, he's the man, if he can't do it no one can!' 'Thank-you ladies!' ~ 'That pokemon! It's so powerful! It just beat my two pokemon without even trying!' ~ 'It's been announced that today, Kanto has officially declared war on Johto.' ~ 'Name?' 'Gary Oak' . ~ 'My name's Josiah, what's yours?' 'Gary, Gary Oak.' 'THE Oak?!' ~ 'See you when this is done?' 'You bet!' ~~~ "BREOOOON!" The black pokemon howled a lonely cry as its master had just taken his last breath. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ "Ash?" Misty finally broke out of shock and walked over to Ash and placed her arms around him once again. She looked into his eyes and saw nothing but despair and disbelief. Misty let out a sob and burred her face in Ash's shoulder. Ash looked over and Misty and placed his own arms around Misty and held her close. "Don't worry, Misty, Pikachu will be just fine." Misty just cried all the more in Ash's shirt. Ash held her and rocked her back and forth, totally oblivious as to why she was crying. Pikachu was going to be okay! So why was she sad? When Misty's cries finally died down into dull hiccups, Ash lifted her face with his finger so he could look into her eyes. "Are you okay now, Misty?" Misty smiled sadly at Ash and nodded. "Yea, Ash, I'm okay." Ash smiled, relieved. "That's good! I was afraid I'd lost you." Misty looked into Ash's chocolate brown eyes. "Would you be like this if I had died, Ash?" Ash's eyes filled with so much pain that Misty immediately regretted asking, "It's okay Ash, you don't have to asnw -" Ash held a finger to her lips and shook his head. "No, I should say this." He looked down at Misty with a sad smile played on his lips. "I'd be worse than this, Misty, although, I don't know why you think I'm bad. I don't even want to think of what would happen if I'd lost you." Misty smiled and snuggled into Ash's chest, her arms still wrapped around him. "Well, you don't have to worry about that Ashy, 'cause you'll never loose me! You're stuck with me for life!" Ash grinned. He hugged her close and closed his eyes, whispering in her ear, "I wouldn't have it any other way, Mist." ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ "James! We can't just sit here and do nothing!" "Sure we can, wanna see?" "JAMES!" "I don't wanna die, Jessie!" James clung to Jessie. "And I don't want you to either!" Jessie's blue eyes softened for a minute. "James." "Awww! Dat was sweet Jimmy boy!" "Meowth!" James glared at the feline "What? It was!" Jessie sighed and pried James off of her. "James, I have to help. I can't just leave my fellow rocketeers to fight themselves!" "But Jessie, what good will you do?" Jessie opened her mouth then closed it. She sighed again and looked down at James who was on his knees with a pleading look in his eyes. "I don't know, James, but I have to try!" James' eyes shook with emotion, then he nodded his head with a determination burning inside. "Alright, Jessie, for team Rocket! You coming Meowth?" "Alwight, Jimmy, but don't expect nottin' special." The Trio smiled and nodded to each other and ran out of the bushes, poke'balls flying. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ ~ Smile Jesus loves you!
