Chapter XXIX- Disaster Strikes
Well, it turns out that I had died. The first time that is. And so did Erika. Lugia
resurected us and as a result we have wings that are usually invisable unless we are
unconsoius like I was for so long. When the wings aren't there though, we have angel
wing tatoos; I have two white ones, Erika has two black ones, and Jarod has one white
one on his right shoulder blade, and a black one on his left. Yeah, it turns out that I was
out for at least 12 hours. Mrs. Silph said that if I was out for any longer she would have
brought me to the hospital herself. Oh yeah, Mrs. Silph is Jarods' mom, and I was in an
extra bedroom adjacent to his. So Jarod explained that as long as we are thinking about
using them, they'll appear, otherwise, they are compleatly invisable. So I decided to go
downstairs and have some breakfast. I was about half-way down the stairs when Jarod
came down behind me and lifted me up.
"Whoa!!!" I said and my wings dissapeared.
"Morning Angel." He said and carried me down the stairs.
"Isn't that kind of...dangerous." I said and he kissed me good morning.
"You don't seem to have the word 'dangerous' in your vocabulary!" He was joking with
me, I could tell, but he was right. We do get ourselves into a lot of dangerous situations
for no apparent reason other than fun. "Marc?"
"Hugh? Oh! So, what's for breakfast?" I asked and walked into the dinning room.
"Bacon and eggs! With toast and jam!" He said putting his napkin on his lap as he sat
down at the head chair. So as the waiters walked into the dinning room carrying trays of
bacon and eggs, Erika walked down stairs and into the dinning room with her black wings
trailing gracefully behind her.
"Erika???" I said as I realized that she had on only an undershirt.
"What?!" She said as she turned red and folded her arms. "I haven't gotten used to having
wings yet..."
"Just stop thinking about them and they'll go away." I said as one of the waiters put a
plate of food down infront of me. Erika sat down at the chair across from me and they
placed a plate infront of her too. As I ate, I looked around the dinning room and saw it
was compleatly decorated around the theme of Dragon type pokemon. Charizards,
Gryados's, Dragonair's, and Kingdra were all over in the molding, in vases and even
carved into the legs of the table. "Oh! Jarod, are White Blaze and Charizard ok??!! I
compleatly forgot!!" I yelled as I dropped my knife.
"Yeah. White Blaze is fine....but um..." He looked away from me and out the window.
"but..." I said slowly,
"He evolved." Erika finished.
"WHAT!!??" I said compleatly stunned. "BUT!!?? HOW??" I starred at Erika who's
wings had now dissapeared.
"Lugia apparently gave him something called the Mist stone, and when he touched it he
became a different pokemon." She said and Jarod turned to rumege through his bag.
"......hugh.....? But, what...... is it?" I said and finished my toast.
"I call it Ryu. It means 'Dragon' in Japanese." She explained.
"This is the Mist stone." Jarod said and turned around to show me a stone about the size
of his hand that was a beautiful marbled light blue and white. "It doesn't glow like it did
before though." He said as he watched me touch it.
"It's beautiful" I said and stoked it's smooth surface.
"Hey Jarod I'm kinda bored, ya got anything we can do for a while?" Erika said and I
agreed.
"Well, there are some video games in the other room if you wanna try those out an....."
"VIDEO GAMES???!!!" Me and Erika both yelled very excited. He just pointed and we
ran out of the dinning room across the hall to the living room. We both jumped over the
couch landing on opposite sides.
"PS2!!!!" Erika yelled and grabbed both the controlers.
"Do you have Final Fantasy 8 or 10!!!???" I said looking through the games.
"There's a racing game in that pile somewhere if you want to try that out first." He said
and helped me look around for it. "Oh! Here it is!" He said and opened up the case that
had two CD's. He put the first one in as me and Erika sat back down on the couch and
practiced using the controls of the game. "There ya go." He said and sat down between us.
He pointed to the screen and told Erika which buttons to hit to load the begginer practice
course.
"Right!!! Eat my dust!" She yelled as the light turned yellow,
"Not before you swallow mine!!" I said as the light turned green and I raced off about a
mile ahead of her.
"Hey!!!!" She said and tried to catch up.
"He He!" I said and rounded a corner.
"Oh! Marcy there's a....." But it was too late, I turned the curb and hit a guard rail. "Sorry,
I tried to warn you. It's a 'U' turn. I didn't see it either at first."
"Dang!!!" I yelled out as Erika made the U turn while I was backing up. "Dang it!!" I
turned around finally and almost caught up to her, when she switched gears by accident
and I crashed into her. "ERIKA!!!" I yelled, and my wings shot out.
"Well if you hadn't been following me so close!!!!" Her's came out too.
"Now girls, it was only your first try it's...."
"Shut up!!!" We both yelled and began to fight across Jarod. It was really rather funny
actually. Black and White feathers flying everywhere, me and Erika pulling each others
hair, and poor Jarod stuck between us. Then Mrs.Silph walked in in her night gown.
"Girls!! you're getting feathers all over my nice rug!!" She said as she took her red hair
down out of a bun.
"Sorry Mrs.Silph. We'll pick them up." We said as both of our wings vanished.
"Well, that's not why I came down here. I just wanted to tell you that there's something on
the news about Cinnabar Island. That is where you two are from right?" We put aside our
argument and ran around the T.V. looking for a way to get it back to television. I pulled
out the cable and the news was already on. We watched the news reporter as they began
to role tape:
"This is all that is left of Cinnabar Island after the eruption of Mt.Magma, which in irony
both created and destroyed this Island. It was at 5:00 this morning when the mountian
began to rumble and smoke began to blanket the surrounding city. Now, there have been
reports of only two deaths, the names of which have not yet been released. There is also
going to be an investigation this afternoon as the eruption of the valcano has caused
suspicion. Why after 200 years of inactivity does it decide to erupt now? We will have
more updates and interviews later on in the show, so please stay tuned for continuing
coverage. Back to you...."
I shut the T.V. off and sat back on the couch. "Erika...." I said softly.
".....why....?" She said and sat back too.
"Oh......I'm sorry girls.....I...didn't realize that...." Mrs.Silph said quietly and stood silent.
We both jumped off the couch and ran up the stairs.
"Marcy...." I could hear Jarod say as I ran up the stairs next to Erika with tears in my eyes.
"We have to go back." I said to myself as I quickly got dressed. I grabbed my back pack
and Raichu then ran down stairs. Erika ran down behind me. Even though we were both
very silent, we knew what each other were thinking. We both ran out the door into the
front yard where Jarod was waiting for us. "You don't have to go." I said as I let out
Pidgeot and got onto her back. Erika let out Ryu and jumped on carefully.
"I want to." He said and let out Pegesedon, then jumped on. We flew for about a day to
get back to Cinnabar. Jarod had to give Pegesedon a rest and take a short break, so he said
he would catch up later. When we arrived at Cinnabar Island the next morning, it was still
dark out. I couldn't read my watch so I assumed it was about 4:00 A.M.
"Look at this mess." I said as I looked around with Erika at the remains of my house.
"The garden, the swing, the kitchen, the walkway....gone." I said as I looked around and
picked up my soot covered Gengar doll, then dropped it again.
"RaiRai...." *Marcy....* Raichu said and picked it up in his mouth.
"Just leave it Raichu. It's ok." I said as I watched the sun begin to slowly rise.
"Hey....I found our computers. We can save the pokemon we caught. It doesn't look like
the hard drives were damaged at all." She said as she put them into her back pack.
".....we have....no place to go..." I said starring at the rubble. "No home town, no home." I
said and Erika put her hand on my shoulder.
"Well, the most important thing is that we have each other, and Jarod. He'll take care of
us, and we'll take care of each other." She said and I wipped tears out of my eyes.
"Thanks." I said as I looked around the Island one more time. Though, that time
something caught my eye. "What's...." I began to say, but Raichu went nuts.
"RAIIII!!!" *(just a general growling)* He said and ran off twords it.
"Raichu!!!!" I said and ran after him. I had never seen him this angry before, the hair on
his back stood up on end, his ears were folded back, and he bared his teeth like an angry
Growlithe. "Raichu!!!" Me and Erika both began to yell. When we had finally caught up
to him we found what he had been growling at. He arched his back and growled at it as
his eyes fell upon it, determined and intense.
"What is it?" I said picking it up and looking at it.
"Looks like....a feather." Erika said and took it from me, twirling it between her fingers.
"But what could it be from?" I said, and as I watched her twirl it seemed to have a
different shade every time. The seven colors of the rainbow. First red, then orange,
yellow, green, blue, purple, and a deep fluorescent violet.
"Do you think....." She began to say,
"Ho-oh?" I said and Raichu growled again.
"It has to be from him. What other kind of feather would have such a sheen to it?" She
said twirling it again.
"But....why would Ho-oh want to destroy Cinnabar Island?" I said as I picked Raichu up
to calm him down.
"I...I don't know." She said and put the feather in her bag.
"Girls...hi." I heard Jarod walking twords us.
"Jarod..." I said softly then ran to hug him. Erika ran after me and there was a group hug.
"I'm....really sorry to hear about this..." He said and I hugged him tight. "Why don't we go
to Pallet Town and see if Ash is still there? We might be able to find a hotel or
something." He said as he kissed my forehead.
"...all right..." I said and let go of him.
"...ok..." Erika said and we began to walk back to where we left our pokemon. Suddenly I
heard what sounded like glass cracking under Jarod's foot.
"hugh?" He said and picked his foot up.
"...that's...!" I said and we all bent down to look at it. It was a picture frame with a picture
of me, Jarod, and Erika. It was from when we were at the beach that summer. I took it
from Jarod's hands and took all the large pieces of glass out. Then I carefully removed the
picture and put it into my back pack into a large book I had. "Let's go." I said and we all
got onto our pokemon, then headed for Pallet Town.
Well, it turns out that I had died. The first time that is. And so did Erika. Lugia
resurected us and as a result we have wings that are usually invisable unless we are
unconsoius like I was for so long. When the wings aren't there though, we have angel
wing tatoos; I have two white ones, Erika has two black ones, and Jarod has one white
one on his right shoulder blade, and a black one on his left. Yeah, it turns out that I was
out for at least 12 hours. Mrs. Silph said that if I was out for any longer she would have
brought me to the hospital herself. Oh yeah, Mrs. Silph is Jarods' mom, and I was in an
extra bedroom adjacent to his. So Jarod explained that as long as we are thinking about
using them, they'll appear, otherwise, they are compleatly invisable. So I decided to go
downstairs and have some breakfast. I was about half-way down the stairs when Jarod
came down behind me and lifted me up.
"Whoa!!!" I said and my wings dissapeared.
"Morning Angel." He said and carried me down the stairs.
"Isn't that kind of...dangerous." I said and he kissed me good morning.
"You don't seem to have the word 'dangerous' in your vocabulary!" He was joking with
me, I could tell, but he was right. We do get ourselves into a lot of dangerous situations
for no apparent reason other than fun. "Marc?"
"Hugh? Oh! So, what's for breakfast?" I asked and walked into the dinning room.
"Bacon and eggs! With toast and jam!" He said putting his napkin on his lap as he sat
down at the head chair. So as the waiters walked into the dinning room carrying trays of
bacon and eggs, Erika walked down stairs and into the dinning room with her black wings
trailing gracefully behind her.
"Erika???" I said as I realized that she had on only an undershirt.
"What?!" She said as she turned red and folded her arms. "I haven't gotten used to having
wings yet..."
"Just stop thinking about them and they'll go away." I said as one of the waiters put a
plate of food down infront of me. Erika sat down at the chair across from me and they
placed a plate infront of her too. As I ate, I looked around the dinning room and saw it
was compleatly decorated around the theme of Dragon type pokemon. Charizards,
Gryados's, Dragonair's, and Kingdra were all over in the molding, in vases and even
carved into the legs of the table. "Oh! Jarod, are White Blaze and Charizard ok??!! I
compleatly forgot!!" I yelled as I dropped my knife.
"Yeah. White Blaze is fine....but um..." He looked away from me and out the window.
"but..." I said slowly,
"He evolved." Erika finished.
"WHAT!!??" I said compleatly stunned. "BUT!!?? HOW??" I starred at Erika who's
wings had now dissapeared.
"Lugia apparently gave him something called the Mist stone, and when he touched it he
became a different pokemon." She said and Jarod turned to rumege through his bag.
"......hugh.....? But, what...... is it?" I said and finished my toast.
"I call it Ryu. It means 'Dragon' in Japanese." She explained.
"This is the Mist stone." Jarod said and turned around to show me a stone about the size
of his hand that was a beautiful marbled light blue and white. "It doesn't glow like it did
before though." He said as he watched me touch it.
"It's beautiful" I said and stoked it's smooth surface.
"Hey Jarod I'm kinda bored, ya got anything we can do for a while?" Erika said and I
agreed.
"Well, there are some video games in the other room if you wanna try those out an....."
"VIDEO GAMES???!!!" Me and Erika both yelled very excited. He just pointed and we
ran out of the dinning room across the hall to the living room. We both jumped over the
couch landing on opposite sides.
"PS2!!!!" Erika yelled and grabbed both the controlers.
"Do you have Final Fantasy 8 or 10!!!???" I said looking through the games.
"There's a racing game in that pile somewhere if you want to try that out first." He said
and helped me look around for it. "Oh! Here it is!" He said and opened up the case that
had two CD's. He put the first one in as me and Erika sat back down on the couch and
practiced using the controls of the game. "There ya go." He said and sat down between us.
He pointed to the screen and told Erika which buttons to hit to load the begginer practice
course.
"Right!!! Eat my dust!" She yelled as the light turned yellow,
"Not before you swallow mine!!" I said as the light turned green and I raced off about a
mile ahead of her.
"Hey!!!!" She said and tried to catch up.
"He He!" I said and rounded a corner.
"Oh! Marcy there's a....." But it was too late, I turned the curb and hit a guard rail. "Sorry,
I tried to warn you. It's a 'U' turn. I didn't see it either at first."
"Dang!!!" I yelled out as Erika made the U turn while I was backing up. "Dang it!!" I
turned around finally and almost caught up to her, when she switched gears by accident
and I crashed into her. "ERIKA!!!" I yelled, and my wings shot out.
"Well if you hadn't been following me so close!!!!" Her's came out too.
"Now girls, it was only your first try it's...."
"Shut up!!!" We both yelled and began to fight across Jarod. It was really rather funny
actually. Black and White feathers flying everywhere, me and Erika pulling each others
hair, and poor Jarod stuck between us. Then Mrs.Silph walked in in her night gown.
"Girls!! you're getting feathers all over my nice rug!!" She said as she took her red hair
down out of a bun.
"Sorry Mrs.Silph. We'll pick them up." We said as both of our wings vanished.
"Well, that's not why I came down here. I just wanted to tell you that there's something on
the news about Cinnabar Island. That is where you two are from right?" We put aside our
argument and ran around the T.V. looking for a way to get it back to television. I pulled
out the cable and the news was already on. We watched the news reporter as they began
to role tape:
"This is all that is left of Cinnabar Island after the eruption of Mt.Magma, which in irony
both created and destroyed this Island. It was at 5:00 this morning when the mountian
began to rumble and smoke began to blanket the surrounding city. Now, there have been
reports of only two deaths, the names of which have not yet been released. There is also
going to be an investigation this afternoon as the eruption of the valcano has caused
suspicion. Why after 200 years of inactivity does it decide to erupt now? We will have
more updates and interviews later on in the show, so please stay tuned for continuing
coverage. Back to you...."
I shut the T.V. off and sat back on the couch. "Erika...." I said softly.
".....why....?" She said and sat back too.
"Oh......I'm sorry girls.....I...didn't realize that...." Mrs.Silph said quietly and stood silent.
We both jumped off the couch and ran up the stairs.
"Marcy...." I could hear Jarod say as I ran up the stairs next to Erika with tears in my eyes.
"We have to go back." I said to myself as I quickly got dressed. I grabbed my back pack
and Raichu then ran down stairs. Erika ran down behind me. Even though we were both
very silent, we knew what each other were thinking. We both ran out the door into the
front yard where Jarod was waiting for us. "You don't have to go." I said as I let out
Pidgeot and got onto her back. Erika let out Ryu and jumped on carefully.
"I want to." He said and let out Pegesedon, then jumped on. We flew for about a day to
get back to Cinnabar. Jarod had to give Pegesedon a rest and take a short break, so he said
he would catch up later. When we arrived at Cinnabar Island the next morning, it was still
dark out. I couldn't read my watch so I assumed it was about 4:00 A.M.
"Look at this mess." I said as I looked around with Erika at the remains of my house.
"The garden, the swing, the kitchen, the walkway....gone." I said as I looked around and
picked up my soot covered Gengar doll, then dropped it again.
"RaiRai...." *Marcy....* Raichu said and picked it up in his mouth.
"Just leave it Raichu. It's ok." I said as I watched the sun begin to slowly rise.
"Hey....I found our computers. We can save the pokemon we caught. It doesn't look like
the hard drives were damaged at all." She said as she put them into her back pack.
".....we have....no place to go..." I said starring at the rubble. "No home town, no home." I
said and Erika put her hand on my shoulder.
"Well, the most important thing is that we have each other, and Jarod. He'll take care of
us, and we'll take care of each other." She said and I wipped tears out of my eyes.
"Thanks." I said as I looked around the Island one more time. Though, that time
something caught my eye. "What's...." I began to say, but Raichu went nuts.
"RAIIII!!!" *(just a general growling)* He said and ran off twords it.
"Raichu!!!!" I said and ran after him. I had never seen him this angry before, the hair on
his back stood up on end, his ears were folded back, and he bared his teeth like an angry
Growlithe. "Raichu!!!" Me and Erika both began to yell. When we had finally caught up
to him we found what he had been growling at. He arched his back and growled at it as
his eyes fell upon it, determined and intense.
"What is it?" I said picking it up and looking at it.
"Looks like....a feather." Erika said and took it from me, twirling it between her fingers.
"But what could it be from?" I said, and as I watched her twirl it seemed to have a
different shade every time. The seven colors of the rainbow. First red, then orange,
yellow, green, blue, purple, and a deep fluorescent violet.
"Do you think....." She began to say,
"Ho-oh?" I said and Raichu growled again.
"It has to be from him. What other kind of feather would have such a sheen to it?" She
said twirling it again.
"But....why would Ho-oh want to destroy Cinnabar Island?" I said as I picked Raichu up
to calm him down.
"I...I don't know." She said and put the feather in her bag.
"Girls...hi." I heard Jarod walking twords us.
"Jarod..." I said softly then ran to hug him. Erika ran after me and there was a group hug.
"I'm....really sorry to hear about this..." He said and I hugged him tight. "Why don't we go
to Pallet Town and see if Ash is still there? We might be able to find a hotel or
something." He said as he kissed my forehead.
"...all right..." I said and let go of him.
"...ok..." Erika said and we began to walk back to where we left our pokemon. Suddenly I
heard what sounded like glass cracking under Jarod's foot.
"hugh?" He said and picked his foot up.
"...that's...!" I said and we all bent down to look at it. It was a picture frame with a picture
of me, Jarod, and Erika. It was from when we were at the beach that summer. I took it
from Jarod's hands and took all the large pieces of glass out. Then I carefully removed the
picture and put it into my back pack into a large book I had. "Let's go." I said and we all
got onto our pokemon, then headed for Pallet Town.