Chapter XLVIII- The Story of Cupeon
We all looked up confused, and starred, trying to figure out what could have
made the noise. Was it the 'ghost' or was it something else that lived in the tunnel? We
looked around bewildered, as another sound came from above us, now like something
trying to get up.
"What should we do?" Jarod asked looking around, a hint of fear in his voice.
"I'm not too sure...what..........to--" but I was cut short when I realized that Ryu was
getting annoyed with something. "What is it Ryu?" I asked as I realized what had been
bothering him....drops of water were coming down from the ceiling and landing on his
head.
"What?.....Water?....from where?" Jarod asked, shifting Erika on his back to a more
comfortable position.
"There must be a stream or something that runs through the cave above us...." I said and
began to dig at the ceiling with my right arm, my left hanging at my side. "Come on Ryu,
help me." I said and reluctantly, he began to dig as Jarod backed away carefully as not to
be covered in dirt as we dug. Noki soon joined in, knowing she wouldn't change the
future if she helped, and soon regretted it. As the rest of the rock fell around us, we were
drenched by water, from, yes, a stream.
"AH!! JEEZ!!" She shouted and backed up as the stream came to a trickle. "Just when I
thought I was DRY..."
"Wow......" I said as I looked up into the hole.
"What is it?" Jarod said, finally coming over to investigate.
"It's another cavern.....but it's different..." I said and added, "it goes straight up..."
"It looks like there may be a way out through there though, look!" Noki said as she
pointed to a very faint light.
"Is the sun out?" Jarod asked as we all now looked up into the cavern.
"Im' not sure. Let me check..." She said, and spread out her wings. She flapped hard and
grabbed onto a ledge then pulled her self up. She quickly began to slip back down. She
put her wings out again, and flapped them, but to her dismay, they only caused her to
become off balance, and she landed on the ground in the middle of our circle; me, Jarod
with the knocked out Erika on his back, and Ryu.
"No good?" I teased as she got up and remarked how much her ass hurt.
"No......there's a ledge just beyond my climbing reach, but the path is too small to use
wings." She said and wipped her jean shorts off. "You would have to grab onto the ledge,
and dig your hands into the rock to get to it."
"Or, jump." Jarod remarked and we both looked at him as if he was nuts. "What? o_o()"
"And.....HOW do you propose we do that?" I asked and Noki shook her head in agrement.
"Not us. Ryu. He's strong enough and tall enough. He can get himself into the cavern,
then jump to the ledge." He said, again shifting Erika around.
"Ok. Great plan, but how are we supposed to get Ryu to cooperate? He only listens to
Erika...." Noki looks over at the huge lavender dragon curled up in the corner of the room
sleeping, with a bubble forming as he breathed in and out (Group sigh.). I thought for a
moment about something I could say, or something I could throw to get Ryu to fly up into
the cavern for us.
"That's it!" I said, and looked for my backpack. "Oh, there!" I said and removed it from
Noki's back. I shuffled it and finally decided, if I couldn't use my left arm to just put it on
the ground. I looked through it, and found a candy I had bought for Raichu. "Sorry
Raichu, I promise, I'll buy you more." I then started to whistel to get Ryu's attention.
"Ryu....Ryu....come on....you want a candy??" I went over to him and touched it to his
nose. (eww icky bubble) He sniffed it with his eyes closed and then suddenly was very
awake. "Good boy!" He nearly squashed me trying to eat the candy I held tight in my fist.
"I'll give it to you, but you have to do a trick first." He gave me this look like, ' you have
GOT to be kidding me....' "Come on! We need your help." I lured him over to the hole
and told him what to do. "Ok? So jump into the hole, get onto the ledge then help us up."
he reluctantly shook his head and remarked,
"*growls low and high*" *I'm just doing this for Erika*.
"Sure you are. Now.....GO!" I said and threw the candy up into the cavern where it landed
on the ledge, and Ryu flying up after it. "Ryu? Did you make it?" He stuck his head over
the edge of the ledge and growled to say he had. "Ok, now, Jarod..." I turned to him, and
he shuffled Erika around once more so that he could hand her to Ryu who was holding
out his arms to grab Erika from above us. Jarod handed Erika to Ryu and Ryu put her up
some place above us. "Noki?" I said and grabbed my back pack.
"No way mom. You go first. You're hurt." Noki interjected.
"No. I'll just slow you down, you guys go first." I said but Noki continued to argue with
me.
"Um......Are you coming up here you two?" Jarod said from above us, and in curiosity, we
both stopped fighting and looked above to find Jarod had already been pulled up by Ryu.
*Noki and Marcy sweatdrop* "O..o-h...Right I guess I will go next then." I said, and I
held up my right arm which Ryu and Jarod both grabbed and pulled me up together. (It's
not that I'm heavy or anything, Jarod just wanted to make sure my arm was ok) Noki soon
followed me, and we all sat for a few seconds trying to figure out where we were. It was
like a big open cave, but the only way in or out was through a hole in the ceiling where
indeed, the sun was shining through.
"The sun!" Noki said excited. We all looked above us and were also thankful that the sun
had finally come out. Suddenly, the white creature appeared again right where we were
looking. It was sillouetted by the sun, so we really couldn't make out any details, but it
was shaped like an Eevee with little wings, and it appeared to be sitting on something,
though what wasn't distinguishable. "Mom! Look!" Noki pointed to it.
"Hey! What are you! What the heck are you trying to do???" I yelled at it, but it just stood
there. I turned to Jarod and said, "Jarod...what the heck is it doing?"
"I have no idea Angel..." He said and watched it. I turned my head back to it and it
seemed to starring me down. It had beautiful white eyes that glowed. Then, from no
where, it began to speak. But for some reason I had absoulutly no idea what it was saying.
"What did it say mom?" Noki asked as she turned her head slightly not taking her eyes off
of it.
"I........I don't know...." I said and began to wonder exactly what it was. I can understand
all pokemon except for this one...why? I thought to myself.
"Cupeon..." We all turned around as we realized Erika had sat up and appeared to be in
some sort of trance.
"What?" Jarod asked as he looked back and forth from Erika to Cupeon.
"It's name is Cupeon..." She continued and stood up. "It just wanted food. It haden't eaten
for so long..." She began to slowly walk twords it, but I grabbed her arm.
"How do you know that? It looked like it was trying to knock us all out in that cave
before!" I yelled, but she violently loosened my grip on her arm and got free.
"He was just doing it for your own good." She said and stopped walking twords him.
"Cu-cupe-eon" *Thats' right.* I could suddenly understand it again.
"Hey!? How come I can understand you now?" I asked it as Erika slowly turned to face
us.
"Cu peon cupcup. Eo cupeon cup eon." *I have various abilities. Blocking other peoples
is one of them.*
"So tell me then. Why WERE you trying to knock us out downstairs?"
(This from here is Cupeon but no more translating. That would take way to damn long)
*I was trying to find which one of you had a mind that was compatible with mine.*
"What? What for?" I continued to ask as I stared at Erika, slightly disturbed.
*I can only be with a trainer whose mind resembles mine.*
"You were LOOKING for a trainer? Most legendary pokemon run at the sight of another
pokemon. Why are you so anxious to find one?"
*I used to have a trainer...I used to love him very much, but he left me here long ago. I've
been looking for someone to train me again. To call my master.* I stared at Cupeon,
feeling sorry for it. It was left here alone by its trainer...abandoned. How cruel.
"Well....I'm sure Erika would love being your trainer. You just have to give her a chance
to decide for herself." I said and at that instant Erika fell to her knees, I lunged forward
and caught her. "Erika!!"
"Owies...." She mummbled as she rubbed the back of her head.
*Do you think so?*
"Ask her." I said and Erika looked up perplexed.
"Um....did I miss something?" She looked around and realized we weren't in the cavern
we were in before. "Um...where are we?" She slowly turned around to see what we were
all looking at and was taken aback. "HEy! You were that pokemon in my dream!" She
shouted.
*Yes. I was.*
"Well! I didn't think you were real!! THAT'S SOOO COOL!" She shouted and watched
as it floated down closer to us.
*You really think so?*
"Oh ya! You did some pretty amazing things in my dream!"
*My old master didn't think so. That's why I'm here.* There seemed to be a faint sound of
pain in it's voice as it continued, *Nothing was every good enough for master.*
"WELL!" Erika shouted and startled Cupeon. "I think you're perfect!"
*What? You really think i'm good?*
"You're better than good!! You ROCK!" She said and Cupeon interupted shly,
*Well...do you think I could be your pokemon then?*
"REALLY??? OH YA!!! That would be soooo cool!!!!!" Erika was obviously a little
over-excited.
*Wow....thank you!* It said and Erika called it into a pokeball that was immediatly
transfered to the computer.
"Well......that problems solved." Jarod said and we all looked at him and shouted,
"Ya! Now we have a bigger one to deal with!"
"Getting out of this cave." I finished and began to look around.
"Well mom there is that hole in the ceiling above us...." We all looked up but the hole
looked far to tiny to get anyone through.
"I think it's too small Noki." I said and started too look around. "Why don't we just
retrace..." but before I could finish my sentance. Noki was up in the air flying toward the
high ceiling. She stoped in the air and put her hands around the edges of it.
"No! I think there is enough room. You just have to be slick." She said and grabbed onto
the side of the hole. As she did that she flapped then closed her wings pushing her
through the hole.
"Noki!?" Jarod shouted and Noki popped her head over the side and yelled down,
"It's ok!! The hurricane is over! Come on up!"
"Are you sure we aren't just in the eye?" Erika yelled up. This seemed to intruige Noki for
a minute. She dissapeared for a few seconds then popped her head back over the hole.
"Nope. Ho-oh just flew by, it's all over!"
We all looked up confused, and starred, trying to figure out what could have
made the noise. Was it the 'ghost' or was it something else that lived in the tunnel? We
looked around bewildered, as another sound came from above us, now like something
trying to get up.
"What should we do?" Jarod asked looking around, a hint of fear in his voice.
"I'm not too sure...what..........to--" but I was cut short when I realized that Ryu was
getting annoyed with something. "What is it Ryu?" I asked as I realized what had been
bothering him....drops of water were coming down from the ceiling and landing on his
head.
"What?.....Water?....from where?" Jarod asked, shifting Erika on his back to a more
comfortable position.
"There must be a stream or something that runs through the cave above us...." I said and
began to dig at the ceiling with my right arm, my left hanging at my side. "Come on Ryu,
help me." I said and reluctantly, he began to dig as Jarod backed away carefully as not to
be covered in dirt as we dug. Noki soon joined in, knowing she wouldn't change the
future if she helped, and soon regretted it. As the rest of the rock fell around us, we were
drenched by water, from, yes, a stream.
"AH!! JEEZ!!" She shouted and backed up as the stream came to a trickle. "Just when I
thought I was DRY..."
"Wow......" I said as I looked up into the hole.
"What is it?" Jarod said, finally coming over to investigate.
"It's another cavern.....but it's different..." I said and added, "it goes straight up..."
"It looks like there may be a way out through there though, look!" Noki said as she
pointed to a very faint light.
"Is the sun out?" Jarod asked as we all now looked up into the cavern.
"Im' not sure. Let me check..." She said, and spread out her wings. She flapped hard and
grabbed onto a ledge then pulled her self up. She quickly began to slip back down. She
put her wings out again, and flapped them, but to her dismay, they only caused her to
become off balance, and she landed on the ground in the middle of our circle; me, Jarod
with the knocked out Erika on his back, and Ryu.
"No good?" I teased as she got up and remarked how much her ass hurt.
"No......there's a ledge just beyond my climbing reach, but the path is too small to use
wings." She said and wipped her jean shorts off. "You would have to grab onto the ledge,
and dig your hands into the rock to get to it."
"Or, jump." Jarod remarked and we both looked at him as if he was nuts. "What? o_o()"
"And.....HOW do you propose we do that?" I asked and Noki shook her head in agrement.
"Not us. Ryu. He's strong enough and tall enough. He can get himself into the cavern,
then jump to the ledge." He said, again shifting Erika around.
"Ok. Great plan, but how are we supposed to get Ryu to cooperate? He only listens to
Erika...." Noki looks over at the huge lavender dragon curled up in the corner of the room
sleeping, with a bubble forming as he breathed in and out (Group sigh.). I thought for a
moment about something I could say, or something I could throw to get Ryu to fly up into
the cavern for us.
"That's it!" I said, and looked for my backpack. "Oh, there!" I said and removed it from
Noki's back. I shuffled it and finally decided, if I couldn't use my left arm to just put it on
the ground. I looked through it, and found a candy I had bought for Raichu. "Sorry
Raichu, I promise, I'll buy you more." I then started to whistel to get Ryu's attention.
"Ryu....Ryu....come on....you want a candy??" I went over to him and touched it to his
nose. (eww icky bubble) He sniffed it with his eyes closed and then suddenly was very
awake. "Good boy!" He nearly squashed me trying to eat the candy I held tight in my fist.
"I'll give it to you, but you have to do a trick first." He gave me this look like, ' you have
GOT to be kidding me....' "Come on! We need your help." I lured him over to the hole
and told him what to do. "Ok? So jump into the hole, get onto the ledge then help us up."
he reluctantly shook his head and remarked,
"*growls low and high*" *I'm just doing this for Erika*.
"Sure you are. Now.....GO!" I said and threw the candy up into the cavern where it landed
on the ledge, and Ryu flying up after it. "Ryu? Did you make it?" He stuck his head over
the edge of the ledge and growled to say he had. "Ok, now, Jarod..." I turned to him, and
he shuffled Erika around once more so that he could hand her to Ryu who was holding
out his arms to grab Erika from above us. Jarod handed Erika to Ryu and Ryu put her up
some place above us. "Noki?" I said and grabbed my back pack.
"No way mom. You go first. You're hurt." Noki interjected.
"No. I'll just slow you down, you guys go first." I said but Noki continued to argue with
me.
"Um......Are you coming up here you two?" Jarod said from above us, and in curiosity, we
both stopped fighting and looked above to find Jarod had already been pulled up by Ryu.
*Noki and Marcy sweatdrop* "O..o-h...Right I guess I will go next then." I said, and I
held up my right arm which Ryu and Jarod both grabbed and pulled me up together. (It's
not that I'm heavy or anything, Jarod just wanted to make sure my arm was ok) Noki soon
followed me, and we all sat for a few seconds trying to figure out where we were. It was
like a big open cave, but the only way in or out was through a hole in the ceiling where
indeed, the sun was shining through.
"The sun!" Noki said excited. We all looked above us and were also thankful that the sun
had finally come out. Suddenly, the white creature appeared again right where we were
looking. It was sillouetted by the sun, so we really couldn't make out any details, but it
was shaped like an Eevee with little wings, and it appeared to be sitting on something,
though what wasn't distinguishable. "Mom! Look!" Noki pointed to it.
"Hey! What are you! What the heck are you trying to do???" I yelled at it, but it just stood
there. I turned to Jarod and said, "Jarod...what the heck is it doing?"
"I have no idea Angel..." He said and watched it. I turned my head back to it and it
seemed to starring me down. It had beautiful white eyes that glowed. Then, from no
where, it began to speak. But for some reason I had absoulutly no idea what it was saying.
"What did it say mom?" Noki asked as she turned her head slightly not taking her eyes off
of it.
"I........I don't know...." I said and began to wonder exactly what it was. I can understand
all pokemon except for this one...why? I thought to myself.
"Cupeon..." We all turned around as we realized Erika had sat up and appeared to be in
some sort of trance.
"What?" Jarod asked as he looked back and forth from Erika to Cupeon.
"It's name is Cupeon..." She continued and stood up. "It just wanted food. It haden't eaten
for so long..." She began to slowly walk twords it, but I grabbed her arm.
"How do you know that? It looked like it was trying to knock us all out in that cave
before!" I yelled, but she violently loosened my grip on her arm and got free.
"He was just doing it for your own good." She said and stopped walking twords him.
"Cu-cupe-eon" *Thats' right.* I could suddenly understand it again.
"Hey!? How come I can understand you now?" I asked it as Erika slowly turned to face
us.
"Cu peon cupcup. Eo cupeon cup eon." *I have various abilities. Blocking other peoples
is one of them.*
"So tell me then. Why WERE you trying to knock us out downstairs?"
(This from here is Cupeon but no more translating. That would take way to damn long)
*I was trying to find which one of you had a mind that was compatible with mine.*
"What? What for?" I continued to ask as I stared at Erika, slightly disturbed.
*I can only be with a trainer whose mind resembles mine.*
"You were LOOKING for a trainer? Most legendary pokemon run at the sight of another
pokemon. Why are you so anxious to find one?"
*I used to have a trainer...I used to love him very much, but he left me here long ago. I've
been looking for someone to train me again. To call my master.* I stared at Cupeon,
feeling sorry for it. It was left here alone by its trainer...abandoned. How cruel.
"Well....I'm sure Erika would love being your trainer. You just have to give her a chance
to decide for herself." I said and at that instant Erika fell to her knees, I lunged forward
and caught her. "Erika!!"
"Owies...." She mummbled as she rubbed the back of her head.
*Do you think so?*
"Ask her." I said and Erika looked up perplexed.
"Um....did I miss something?" She looked around and realized we weren't in the cavern
we were in before. "Um...where are we?" She slowly turned around to see what we were
all looking at and was taken aback. "HEy! You were that pokemon in my dream!" She
shouted.
*Yes. I was.*
"Well! I didn't think you were real!! THAT'S SOOO COOL!" She shouted and watched
as it floated down closer to us.
*You really think so?*
"Oh ya! You did some pretty amazing things in my dream!"
*My old master didn't think so. That's why I'm here.* There seemed to be a faint sound of
pain in it's voice as it continued, *Nothing was every good enough for master.*
"WELL!" Erika shouted and startled Cupeon. "I think you're perfect!"
*What? You really think i'm good?*
"You're better than good!! You ROCK!" She said and Cupeon interupted shly,
*Well...do you think I could be your pokemon then?*
"REALLY??? OH YA!!! That would be soooo cool!!!!!" Erika was obviously a little
over-excited.
*Wow....thank you!* It said and Erika called it into a pokeball that was immediatly
transfered to the computer.
"Well......that problems solved." Jarod said and we all looked at him and shouted,
"Ya! Now we have a bigger one to deal with!"
"Getting out of this cave." I finished and began to look around.
"Well mom there is that hole in the ceiling above us...." We all looked up but the hole
looked far to tiny to get anyone through.
"I think it's too small Noki." I said and started too look around. "Why don't we just
retrace..." but before I could finish my sentance. Noki was up in the air flying toward the
high ceiling. She stoped in the air and put her hands around the edges of it.
"No! I think there is enough room. You just have to be slick." She said and grabbed onto
the side of the hole. As she did that she flapped then closed her wings pushing her
through the hole.
"Noki!?" Jarod shouted and Noki popped her head over the side and yelled down,
"It's ok!! The hurricane is over! Come on up!"
"Are you sure we aren't just in the eye?" Erika yelled up. This seemed to intruige Noki for
a minute. She dissapeared for a few seconds then popped her head back over the hole.
"Nope. Ho-oh just flew by, it's all over!"