Magicgalkairi: hey hey hey!
Kairi: Magicgalkairi doesn't own pokemon.
Magicgalkairi: I wasn't quite ready for that… oh well. Nothin 2 say, onto the story!
Keimi: for once in her life…
Mgk: whaddaya mean, once in her life?
Keimi: you don't have anything to say.
Mgk: why I oughta…
Keimi: story!
Mgk: oh yeah…
Keimi's POV
I scowled as I followed Kairi out of the pokemon center. She had decided to travel with Ash, Misty, and Brock. I had to admit, Misty wasn't so bad, but the other two were annoying. The other thing that was bothering me was that Ash, Misty, and Brock knew that I was going to follow.
"Curse you, Kairi," I muttered to myself. Not that I minded the silence; Kairi never shut up; but I didn't like that she was traveling with a group of people that she didn't even know. She might not care; I did.
Something strange happened as we were walking down the road, me always about 20 metres behind. They disappeared from the road. As I got closer, I could see that they had fallen into a giant hole. As I reached the rim of the trap, I saw Ash, Misty, Brock, and Kairi stuck in some sort of sticky paper. Flypaper! I thought. That was as far as I got before someone shoved me from behind, right into the trap. Within seconds I was stuck. As I struggled to reach a pokeball, a metal arm with rubber claws reached down and tugged pikachu from the sandpaper. A meowth appeared on the edge of the trap, holding pikachu in a glass dome with a light bulb on top. The strange thing was, it was standing on two legs. Then an even stranger thing happened.
"Ha! I have your pikachu!" it said. Kairi and I both stared; Ash, Misty, and Brock just looked annoyed.
"Not you again!" Ash shouted. Three people came into view, two of them laughing maliciously, the other, who was much shorter, standing there looking depressed.
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket blast off…"
"Hey, what about me?" asked a new voice, interrupting Jessie.
"Bug off, midget," she replied.
"But I'm part of Team Rocket too!" the voice protested, definitely a girls.
"Fine. To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Jordan!" piped the little girl.
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth, that's right!"
"Wobb!"
"Nobody asked you!" Jessie said, returning it to its pokeball. I felt a surge of hate. These people belonged to the same organization as Marie.
"Give me back pikachu!" Ash shouted.
"Sorry twerp, this pikachu's ours now!" the talking meowth taunted.
"Who's the new girl?" Misty couldn't help but ask, even though it earned her several glares.
"I'm Jordan, and I'm part of Team Rocket!" she said, jumping up and down. Jessie pushed her back a little bit.
"You're a midget, and you're just a new recruit."
"New recruit, huh?" Brock asked.
"Yes, and it looks like you got a couple too," Jessie replied. She looked at Kairi and me. I would have opened my mouth to reply, but somehow I had gotten some of the flypaper in my mouth. In addition to tasting nasty, it kept my mouth shut. Thankfully, Kairi said it for me.
"No, my sister isn't traveling with us, she's following us. And she wouldn't even be in this trap if she hadn't fallen in." I finally got my mouth free of the stuff.
"Not fallen. Pushed," I said.
"That was me!" Jordan said happily. She is way too perky. I thought to myself.
"Wow, the midget actually did something useful for once," Jessie said, acting surprised.
"C'mon Jessie!" James shouted. Jessie ran away from the edge of the pit, to some spot obscured by the side of the pit. Within seconds a moth hot-air balloon floated into the air and away.
"No! Pikachu…" Ash said sadly. I actually felt sorry for him.
"I got one!" I said triumphantly, holding a pokeball in my hand. Opening it, my Smoochum came out.
"Smoochum!" it said happily.
"Smoochum, powder snow!" I commanded, in a hurry to get unstuck. It obeyed willingly, which pained me as I realized that I hadn't spent much time with my pokemon recently. The flypaper froze, sticking to us, but not keeping us stuck to the ground.
"Smart," commented Brock.
"Thanks!" Misty said gratefully. As we climbed out of the pit, we saw that a fog had appeared. Before I could reply to either of their remarks, Ash was off, running after Pikachu. Misty ran after him. Ash seemed to have forgotten that we were in the mountains; Misty must have run after him to try to stop him. Brock soon followed, then Kairi. With a sigh I ran after them. Ash had his face to the sky, searching for Team Rocket's balloon, Misty and Brock were focused on Ash, trying not to lose him in the fog, and Kairi was on the ground, holding her ankle. I was the only one who saw the steep drop-off in front of us. I reacted before I could think; I shouted.
"STOP!" I cried, without realizing it at the time. The strange thing was that they were thrown backwards, like some invisible force was pushing them. I stood, open-mouthed, and stared at them sitting on the ground.
"What was that?" Misty asked.
"I don't know," Brock replied, looking at me suspiciously. Ash was starting to get up again; Misty pulled him back down.
"Look," she whispered, pointing toward the cliff. They sat in silence for a few minutes, before Kairi got up and limped over to me.
"Congratulations," she said simply. The light bulb inside my head went off.
"Curses!" I muttered angrily. I didn't want supernatural abilities, even if Kairi and my parents had them. (Now see what I meant about secrets?) My mom was able to travel through time, my dad could read minds, (which was a pain, because you could never lie to him) and my sister could become invisible. She had been able to since she was eight. Now that we were fourteen, I was certain I wouldn't be burdened with such abilities. Guess I was wrong. My parents said that Kairi would develop more that just invisibility. Now, I guessed I would develop more that just telekinesis. I wasn't happy, to say the least.
"Curses, curses, curses, curses…" I said repeatedly.
"You should be happy!" Kairi said accusingly.
"Happy that I'm a freak?" I practically shrieked.
"No-o, happy that you finally have powers."
"Oh yeah, having supernatural powers makes me so-o-o-o normal." I was still shouting. I didn't care who heard. Still, I resumed muttering.
"Curses, curses, curses, curses…" I said over and over. Kairi tried to make me listen to her, but all I would do was repeat myself. I was dimly aware of Ash, Misty, and Brock still staring at me and Kairi.
"Curses, curses, curses, curses, curses, curses, curses, curses…"
Misty's POV
I sat on the ground in silence. In addition to being saved from falling off a cliff by being thrown backwards by a mysterious force, Kairi and Keimi were saying something about supernatural powers. I looked at Ash and Brock. They looked as confused and shocked as I felt. Now Kairi was trying to talk to Keimi, but all she would do was rock back and forth, saying something softly. I couldn't make it out. She seemed to have withdrawn into herself. The wind shifted directions, and Keimi's low voice drifted clearly towards me.
"Curses, curses, curses, curses, curses, curses…" she seemed to be saying, over and over and over. Her voice was pretty, and I found myself thinking, Wow, she must be a good singer. Kairi was trying to convince her of something, that much I was sure about, but the wind had shifted again and I couldn't hear her. Finally Kairi seemed to give up, and left Keimi there, rocking back and forth and talking to herself. Kairi walked over here, shaking her head. I looked past her, at Keimi, and she seemed closer to the edge of the cliff. I must be imagining things, I thought, Keimi hasn't moved, she's just been rocking back and forth. By now Kairi had reached us.
"I bet you're wondering what that was all about," she said tiredly.
"Yeah," replied Ash, a little shakily. I smiled inwardly, without really knowing why.
"Well, my family and I all have special abilities. Supernatural ones. Keimi just got hers a little bit late. She isn't very happy about it." That's an understatement, I thought, looking at her. She seemed a little closer than before; I shrugged it off.
"I can become invisible. My older sisters Lizzy and Lindy used to be able to control electricity and wind."
"Used too?" Ash asked.
"They died. Lindy got meningitis and died, and Lizzy killed herself with her own power. It was really scary."
"Why did Lizzy kill herself?"
"They were twins, and really close."
"Just like you?"
"Keimi and I aren't that close," she replied dryly. I glanced over at Keimi again. There was no mistaking it; she was inches away from the edge.
"Keimi!" I shouted. She didn't answer. She seemed to be in a sort of trance, reciting something. Kairi turned at the sound of my voice, and looked horrified.
"Oh my God! Keimi, get away from there!" She didn't answer. We stood, paralyzed with fear for her.
Keimi's POV
I stood at the edge of the long drop. Slowly I had been forcing myself towards the edge. As I stood I heard distant voices. Without knowing why, I started reciting one of Edgar Allen Poe's poems, "Spirits of the Dead," my voice starting as a whisper but steadily increasing.
"Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone---
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:
"Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness---for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee, are again
In death around thee---and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still.
"The night---tho' clear---shall frown---
And the stars shall look not down,
From their high thrones in the heaven,
With light like Hope to mortals given---
But their red orbs, without beam,
To thy weariness shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling to thee for ever.
"Now are thoughts thou shall not banish---
Now are visions ne'er to vanish---
From thy spirit shall they pass
No more---like dew-drops from the grass.
"The breeze---the breath of God---is still---
And the mist upon the hill
Shadowy---shadowy---yet unbroken,
Is a symbol and a token---
How it hangs upon the trees,
A mystery of mysteries!---" I ended, shouting loudly. Then I stepped.
O! Cliffhanger! Or, my best attempt at one…The poem is really one of Poe's, believe it or not… it just seemed so perfect…oh well, does she survive? (well, probably, considering it's only the SECOND chappie, but since she DID go over the edge, how? Kairi isn't going to save her with some invisibility power, and the whole gang is like 100 yards/metres away.)