A clap of thunder woke up Cara from a deep sleep full of nightmares. Her
hair stuck to her forehead from sweating intensely, and she was gasping for
air.
She felt around for her pokemon and clasped her hand around surskit's pokeball. She released him quickly and lay back down on her pillow.
"Surskit.." she huffed. "Flash.."
Surskit scrambled over to his owner and sat down. The yellow cap on surskit's head started to glow and vibrate, lighting up a small area around the pokemon. Cara saw the small spider and smiled.
"Sursk?"
"Bad night, surskit, bad night.."
"Sursk.."
"I don't know what's wrong, surskit. I just feel horrible about telling Dom, well, you know what," she said. Surskit nodded. "Okay, surskit, I just wanted to see you for a little while. I think I'll try to go back to sleep now. You can stop the flash."
Surskit nodded and his head slowly got dimmer and dimmer until the sleeping area of Verdanturf Pokecenter was completely consumed in darkness.
* * * * * * * * * *
It was still raining when Cara woke up again. There was light filtering in through the wide glass windows above the couch where Cara had been sleeping. The sky was a dark gray and lightning occasionally lit up the horizon.
Cara was shocked to realize that she hadn't returned surskit after the previous night's incident - he was sleeping at the foot of the bed, wrapped around her sneakers. Now, rubbing her eyes, she recalled the small blue spider and threw back her blankets.
"Finally!"
Cara turned around to see Dominic standing with a tray of assorted food in his hands.
"I thought you were going to sleep forever. It's already 8! We were supposed to leave by 7."
"Sorry, Dom.. I had a rough night.."
"It's okay. I figured that and decided to let you sleep. I've just been eating breakfast and getting to know my new pokemon.."
"Yeah, how is he?" Cara stood up and started clearing up her blankets and pillows.
"Interesting.. not your average pokemon. Here, take a look." Dominic smiled and pulled out a pokeball, throwing it to the ground. A round, green blob appeared.
"Gul.."
"Holy shit, Dom, he looks dead," said Cara, inspecting the pokemon closely. The previous day when the two had gone to the lab all three starter pokemon had been sleeping. Treeko was awake now, Cara knew for sure, but Dom's gulpin looked the same as he had the day before. It's eyes were shut, it's flabby mouth was wide open, snoring. The whole pokemon looked like it had been given a sleeping pill. The only thing looking slightly alive about gulpin was the yellow feather on top of his head, now vibrating slightly.
"I think he'll be cool once he wakes up," said Dom.
"Hmm.. lemme see something.." said Cara, pulling out her red pokedex. She opened the device and before she could point it at gulpin it spoke up.
"Ha! That's funny. Leslie! Ha!" Cara laughed. "What's your pokedex's name, Dom?
Dominic sighed. "Hector." They both began laughing.
"Okay, that sucks. Er - right. Back to gulpin.." Cara pointed her pokedex at gulpin and it beeped for a few seconds, finally speaking up.
"Cool." Dom said, picking up the small blob. "Beat that, Cara."
Cara laughed and stuck her pokedex in her back pocket. Her belt was attached, and she was ready to leave.
"Breakfast?" said Dominic. She pulled a banana from the tray and stuck it in her mouth. "Okay, then I guess we're ready.."
The two trainers walked out of the pokecenter and into the rain.
"Good thing we're traveling inside for most of the day," said Dom. Spitting out some banana, Cara stopped in her tracks.
"What?"
"Yeah, I looked for the quickest route to Rustboro City from here. Nextdoor to the lab is the entrance to Rusturf Tunnel.. it leads straight to Rustboro."
"Ugh. I hate those tunnels. Always misty. Full of geodude.."
"It's okay, Cara. It'll go quick."
The two walked across the small town to the large doorway cut into the side of the mountain.
"Ready?"
"Surskit, come out and light the way! Oh, yeah, I guess."
Dominic, Cara, and a bright surskit entered the dark tunnel, escaping from the rain, but entering into trouble.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Holy shit, Madison, theres people coming. Wake the HELL UP!"
Madison flew up from her sleeping position.
Bianca, Logan, and Nelson were standing over her, hurried looks on their faces.
"Wha..? Ah!" She stood up, put on her bandana and began to run with them.
"Come ON!"
"Ah!"
"They're gonna catch us!"
"Wait!"
"No!"
"WAIT!"
They all stopped and turned to Madison, who was in the rear. "We're running the wrong way, you dimwits!"
"Damnit!" Bianca said. She flipped her hair and began to run the opposite way.
"Hold on, Bianca. They're going to catch us no matter what. Just hold on. We can battle them," said Logan, pulling out his pokeball. Madison and Bianca did the same. Nelson didn't have any pokemon, and as a result he backed away from the others.
"Here they come.."
* * * * * * * * * *
"Do you here that?" said Dominic. Him and Cara had made it halfway through Rusturf Tunnel without a problem, aside from meeting with a lot of geodude.
"Why don't you catch one?" Cara had asked. Dominic decided to hold off for now, he thought four pokemon was a little much before even coming to the first gym. But now he ignored them and listened to the sounds coming from across the cave.
"Theres other people in here, that's all,' said Cara. Dominic shrugged and they kept walking.
Just as Dominic and Cara were about to make the final turn out of the cave, they heard the voices again.
"Prepare for a very difficult battle.."
"Our pokemon will make your bones rattle.."
"What the fu..?" Cara started but was cut short as four figures appeared out of the darkness.
"Cara, don't move.." said Dominic.
"Bianca!"
"Logan!"
"Nelson!"
"Madison!"
"Team Aqua.. expanding the ocean with good will.."
"Our pokemon train to destroy and kill.."
"We'll crush any trainer below our lines.."
"Despite your begging, moaning whines.."
"So try your best, you'll always fail.."
"Surrender or prepare to.. to.. what was it again?" Nelson looked confused.
"Godammit Nelson we almost had it all!" said Bianca.
"Surrender of prepare to WAIL!" yelled Madison.
"You're all so gay.." said Logan.
For a moment the four Team Aqua members stared at Dominic and Cara, who stared back.
"Alright, well, we'll be leaving now.." said Cara. She grabbed Dom's hand and pulled him away, but he stood still.
"Team Aqua.." Dominic's eyes grew wide with wonder. "Have you..have you.."
"Dom, NO!" Cara tried pulling him harder but he remained glued to the floor.
"What's with the boy?" whispered Logan to Bianca.
"He's admiring us. Happens all the time."
"Oh, okay.."
"Have you seen my dad?"
They all stood still. Cara's eyes closed in fear. The Aqua members looked at each other.
"Nope. Who is he?" said Madison.
"He's - er - his name is Archie Jenkins.." Dominic's face was expressionless.
The Team Aqua members looked at each other again.
"Kid, he ain't your father.. he can't be.." Nelson looked surprised.
"You are such a little shit head. You're just trying to get out of a battle!" shouted Bianca.
"You.. omigosh.." Madison was puzzled.
Logan spoke up. "Kid, are you crazy? Archie Jenkins is the president of Team Aqua! He's the most powerful man in Team Aqua history!"
Dominic stared at the four of them and couldn't even come to understand what they had just said. Suddenly he couldn't see the light coming from surskit. His world was spinning, and all he could see was black.
* * * * * * * * *
When he awoke Dominic was lying on a couch in a pokemon center. Cara was standing over him with a nurse who had crazy silver hair..
"He's awake! Omigosh Nurse Fiona he woke up. Finally!"
"Good, good, honey. You stay with him and explain what happened. I'll go get some things."
Dominic sat up.
"Cara.. did I faint?"
"Haha.. listen, Dom. When those guys told you.. something.. you fainted. They challenged me to a battle, I brought you here, you're awake now.."
"You let me miss a battle?"
"Dom, you were out cold. I beat 'em, not to worry.."
"Cara, you beat them? All four?"
"All three, really. One didn't have a pokemon. But the others - ha! The pokemon were like, level one! They were pretty sad.."
Dom took in what had just happened. His father - Archie Jenkins - a leader of Team Aqua? The PRESIDENT? It wasn't possible, why hadn't he heard..
"Dominic, I'm so sorry.."
"Did you know? Cara? YOU KNEW?" Dominic shouted so loud that the nurse came in. She quickly left as Dominic glared at her.
"Dom - I - er - Mallory sent me something.. I promised myself I would tell you when we got to Rustboro.."
"MALLORY? My SISTER sent YOU something saying all this? And YOU NEVER TOLD ME!"
"Dom! We both knew that you would flip -"
"Omigosh, Cara, I.. I.." he was very red now. Dom got out of the bed, looked at Cara, then sat back down and started to cry. "How did it get like this?"
"I don't know, Dom."
"I.. er.."
"C'mon, you're only in the pokecenter, we don't have to check out.. we can forget it all and go to the gym.. we're in Rustboro city, you know.."
"Alright."
Cara thought for a moment that he had protested - she had prepared for him to say no. "What?"
"I'm not even going to try and POSSIBLY comprehend what is going on. I'll think about it later.. I have to spend a long time going over.. stuff."
"Okay, Dom, if that's what you want." Cara went over to him and gave him a hug. He had pretty much stopped crying by now.
"It is what I want. My dad's a loser, that's all. How could anyone want to join those losers? UGH!"
"It's true! Just forget him! We'll never see Team Aqua again.. cmon!" Cara grabbed his wrist and pulled him out of the pokecenter room.
"Goodbye, you two!" shouted Nurse Fiona as they walked out the door.
They walked off to the gym so fast that Dominic didn't even get to look at the city.
He decided - he didn't care about his dad anymore.
* * * * * * * * * *
The secret revealed! Good twist.. no? Finally the first gym battle in next chapter.. the beginning is finally over! All the good stuff finally happens after this.. and the new characters start coming in so if you don't send I might not update that soon.. (
Review, review, review!
She felt around for her pokemon and clasped her hand around surskit's pokeball. She released him quickly and lay back down on her pillow.
"Surskit.." she huffed. "Flash.."
Surskit scrambled over to his owner and sat down. The yellow cap on surskit's head started to glow and vibrate, lighting up a small area around the pokemon. Cara saw the small spider and smiled.
"Sursk?"
"Bad night, surskit, bad night.."
"Sursk.."
"I don't know what's wrong, surskit. I just feel horrible about telling Dom, well, you know what," she said. Surskit nodded. "Okay, surskit, I just wanted to see you for a little while. I think I'll try to go back to sleep now. You can stop the flash."
Surskit nodded and his head slowly got dimmer and dimmer until the sleeping area of Verdanturf Pokecenter was completely consumed in darkness.
* * * * * * * * * *
It was still raining when Cara woke up again. There was light filtering in through the wide glass windows above the couch where Cara had been sleeping. The sky was a dark gray and lightning occasionally lit up the horizon.
Cara was shocked to realize that she hadn't returned surskit after the previous night's incident - he was sleeping at the foot of the bed, wrapped around her sneakers. Now, rubbing her eyes, she recalled the small blue spider and threw back her blankets.
"Finally!"
Cara turned around to see Dominic standing with a tray of assorted food in his hands.
"I thought you were going to sleep forever. It's already 8! We were supposed to leave by 7."
"Sorry, Dom.. I had a rough night.."
"It's okay. I figured that and decided to let you sleep. I've just been eating breakfast and getting to know my new pokemon.."
"Yeah, how is he?" Cara stood up and started clearing up her blankets and pillows.
"Interesting.. not your average pokemon. Here, take a look." Dominic smiled and pulled out a pokeball, throwing it to the ground. A round, green blob appeared.
"Gul.."
"Holy shit, Dom, he looks dead," said Cara, inspecting the pokemon closely. The previous day when the two had gone to the lab all three starter pokemon had been sleeping. Treeko was awake now, Cara knew for sure, but Dom's gulpin looked the same as he had the day before. It's eyes were shut, it's flabby mouth was wide open, snoring. The whole pokemon looked like it had been given a sleeping pill. The only thing looking slightly alive about gulpin was the yellow feather on top of his head, now vibrating slightly.
"I think he'll be cool once he wakes up," said Dom.
"Hmm.. lemme see something.." said Cara, pulling out her red pokedex. She opened the device and before she could point it at gulpin it spoke up.
"Ha! That's funny. Leslie! Ha!" Cara laughed. "What's your pokedex's name, Dom?
Dominic sighed. "Hector." They both began laughing.
"Okay, that sucks. Er - right. Back to gulpin.." Cara pointed her pokedex at gulpin and it beeped for a few seconds, finally speaking up.
"Cool." Dom said, picking up the small blob. "Beat that, Cara."
Cara laughed and stuck her pokedex in her back pocket. Her belt was attached, and she was ready to leave.
"Breakfast?" said Dominic. She pulled a banana from the tray and stuck it in her mouth. "Okay, then I guess we're ready.."
The two trainers walked out of the pokecenter and into the rain.
"Good thing we're traveling inside for most of the day," said Dom. Spitting out some banana, Cara stopped in her tracks.
"What?"
"Yeah, I looked for the quickest route to Rustboro City from here. Nextdoor to the lab is the entrance to Rusturf Tunnel.. it leads straight to Rustboro."
"Ugh. I hate those tunnels. Always misty. Full of geodude.."
"It's okay, Cara. It'll go quick."
The two walked across the small town to the large doorway cut into the side of the mountain.
"Ready?"
"Surskit, come out and light the way! Oh, yeah, I guess."
Dominic, Cara, and a bright surskit entered the dark tunnel, escaping from the rain, but entering into trouble.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Holy shit, Madison, theres people coming. Wake the HELL UP!"
Madison flew up from her sleeping position.
Bianca, Logan, and Nelson were standing over her, hurried looks on their faces.
"Wha..? Ah!" She stood up, put on her bandana and began to run with them.
"Come ON!"
"Ah!"
"They're gonna catch us!"
"Wait!"
"No!"
"WAIT!"
They all stopped and turned to Madison, who was in the rear. "We're running the wrong way, you dimwits!"
"Damnit!" Bianca said. She flipped her hair and began to run the opposite way.
"Hold on, Bianca. They're going to catch us no matter what. Just hold on. We can battle them," said Logan, pulling out his pokeball. Madison and Bianca did the same. Nelson didn't have any pokemon, and as a result he backed away from the others.
"Here they come.."
* * * * * * * * * *
"Do you here that?" said Dominic. Him and Cara had made it halfway through Rusturf Tunnel without a problem, aside from meeting with a lot of geodude.
"Why don't you catch one?" Cara had asked. Dominic decided to hold off for now, he thought four pokemon was a little much before even coming to the first gym. But now he ignored them and listened to the sounds coming from across the cave.
"Theres other people in here, that's all,' said Cara. Dominic shrugged and they kept walking.
Just as Dominic and Cara were about to make the final turn out of the cave, they heard the voices again.
"Prepare for a very difficult battle.."
"Our pokemon will make your bones rattle.."
"What the fu..?" Cara started but was cut short as four figures appeared out of the darkness.
"Cara, don't move.." said Dominic.
"Bianca!"
"Logan!"
"Nelson!"
"Madison!"
"Team Aqua.. expanding the ocean with good will.."
"Our pokemon train to destroy and kill.."
"We'll crush any trainer below our lines.."
"Despite your begging, moaning whines.."
"So try your best, you'll always fail.."
"Surrender or prepare to.. to.. what was it again?" Nelson looked confused.
"Godammit Nelson we almost had it all!" said Bianca.
"Surrender of prepare to WAIL!" yelled Madison.
"You're all so gay.." said Logan.
For a moment the four Team Aqua members stared at Dominic and Cara, who stared back.
"Alright, well, we'll be leaving now.." said Cara. She grabbed Dom's hand and pulled him away, but he stood still.
"Team Aqua.." Dominic's eyes grew wide with wonder. "Have you..have you.."
"Dom, NO!" Cara tried pulling him harder but he remained glued to the floor.
"What's with the boy?" whispered Logan to Bianca.
"He's admiring us. Happens all the time."
"Oh, okay.."
"Have you seen my dad?"
They all stood still. Cara's eyes closed in fear. The Aqua members looked at each other.
"Nope. Who is he?" said Madison.
"He's - er - his name is Archie Jenkins.." Dominic's face was expressionless.
The Team Aqua members looked at each other again.
"Kid, he ain't your father.. he can't be.." Nelson looked surprised.
"You are such a little shit head. You're just trying to get out of a battle!" shouted Bianca.
"You.. omigosh.." Madison was puzzled.
Logan spoke up. "Kid, are you crazy? Archie Jenkins is the president of Team Aqua! He's the most powerful man in Team Aqua history!"
Dominic stared at the four of them and couldn't even come to understand what they had just said. Suddenly he couldn't see the light coming from surskit. His world was spinning, and all he could see was black.
* * * * * * * * *
When he awoke Dominic was lying on a couch in a pokemon center. Cara was standing over him with a nurse who had crazy silver hair..
"He's awake! Omigosh Nurse Fiona he woke up. Finally!"
"Good, good, honey. You stay with him and explain what happened. I'll go get some things."
Dominic sat up.
"Cara.. did I faint?"
"Haha.. listen, Dom. When those guys told you.. something.. you fainted. They challenged me to a battle, I brought you here, you're awake now.."
"You let me miss a battle?"
"Dom, you were out cold. I beat 'em, not to worry.."
"Cara, you beat them? All four?"
"All three, really. One didn't have a pokemon. But the others - ha! The pokemon were like, level one! They were pretty sad.."
Dom took in what had just happened. His father - Archie Jenkins - a leader of Team Aqua? The PRESIDENT? It wasn't possible, why hadn't he heard..
"Dominic, I'm so sorry.."
"Did you know? Cara? YOU KNEW?" Dominic shouted so loud that the nurse came in. She quickly left as Dominic glared at her.
"Dom - I - er - Mallory sent me something.. I promised myself I would tell you when we got to Rustboro.."
"MALLORY? My SISTER sent YOU something saying all this? And YOU NEVER TOLD ME!"
"Dom! We both knew that you would flip -"
"Omigosh, Cara, I.. I.." he was very red now. Dom got out of the bed, looked at Cara, then sat back down and started to cry. "How did it get like this?"
"I don't know, Dom."
"I.. er.."
"C'mon, you're only in the pokecenter, we don't have to check out.. we can forget it all and go to the gym.. we're in Rustboro city, you know.."
"Alright."
Cara thought for a moment that he had protested - she had prepared for him to say no. "What?"
"I'm not even going to try and POSSIBLY comprehend what is going on. I'll think about it later.. I have to spend a long time going over.. stuff."
"Okay, Dom, if that's what you want." Cara went over to him and gave him a hug. He had pretty much stopped crying by now.
"It is what I want. My dad's a loser, that's all. How could anyone want to join those losers? UGH!"
"It's true! Just forget him! We'll never see Team Aqua again.. cmon!" Cara grabbed his wrist and pulled him out of the pokecenter room.
"Goodbye, you two!" shouted Nurse Fiona as they walked out the door.
They walked off to the gym so fast that Dominic didn't even get to look at the city.
He decided - he didn't care about his dad anymore.
* * * * * * * * * *
The secret revealed! Good twist.. no? Finally the first gym battle in next chapter.. the beginning is finally over! All the good stuff finally happens after this.. and the new characters start coming in so if you don't send I might not update that soon.. (
Review, review, review!
