Chapter LIX- Marching On

"Now Erika!" I said and we shouted two different commands at the same time

again, but this time I commanded Ryu, and Erika commanded Raichu.

"Raichu!! Thunder!!"

"Ryu!! Knight's move!!" I said and he vanished for a second, reappearing behind Milktank,

and giving it a massive flamethrower as Raichu caused a massive bolt of thunder to come

down on it, the both of them K.O. ing it.

"Very cleaver." She asked as she called back her Milktank. She then out the pokeball

back, and pulled one that was attached to her bracelet, then threw it. "Clefairy GO!"

"Ryu, Raichu! Quickly!!! Dragon Rage and Light Screen Combo!!" She yelled and Ryu

unleashed a massive roar, the flame like mist on his back growing, I watched as the firey

mist surrounded the Clefairy and Ryu began to roar, Raichu putting up a light screen

around them to keep them safe.

"Clefairy Light Screen!!" She yelled, but it was no match for the combined forces of two

pokegods. We all quickly dodged from the field and watched as there was a huge

explosion, bracing for the massive wind that followed it. When the dust had cleared, Ryu

and Raichu stood th. watching the K'O'd Clefairy fall to the ground. "Clefairy!! Return..."

We stood bakc up and we both instucted our pokemon to step off the field. Raichu and

Ryu came back to us and we cuddled them congradulating them on their wonderful battle.

Whittney slowly walked over to us and held out her hand and opened it palm up to reveal

our badges.

"Good job you guys!!! That was sooooo cool!!!!!" Noki yelled as she jumped up and

cheered for us with Jarod smiling silently in the background.

The rest of the day was actually quite normal as we walked around town for a bit

while our pokemon healed at the pokemon center. We went to the shops, got some

pokemon treats, pokeballs, and potions for when we needed them next time.

Finally we returned to the pokemon center around 3:00 and went to visit my mom

again before we left. She again provided us with clothing, especially these really nice shirts

she bought for Jarod that showed off his lovely lanky body. He accepted them graciously,

and we were again on our way. We walked back through town, but went north this time

towards the National Park. Just like Kyoto had a Nation Park in Fuchsia, Jhoto has a

National Park just outside of Goldenrod. We kept walking north and went into the

gatehouse, which was quite small compared to the one in Kyoto, then walked into the

park. It was a beautiful park with a large trail at first that turned into several smaller bike

paths through and around the giant planes of medium height grass that made up the park.

"Wow.....it's soooo beautiful here...." Erika said as she walked into a large patch of grass

and stopping.

"This must look amazing at sunset..." I said as I watched the sky start to slightly darken,

and the sun turn a shimmering orange red. Raichu suddenly pulled at my shorts and I

looked down, realizing he could barely see over the grass. I picked him up and turned to

Ryu. "Hey Ryu....can Raichu it on your head for a few seconds...? He can't really see

anything..." I said and held him up to Ryu as he made a 'Pretty please??' face at him. Ryu

reluctantly lowered his head, and I put Raichu ontop, then he put his head back up as I

thanked him."

"It's so wonderful to see this...there's nothing like this on the island..." Noki said as her

eyes moved slowly across the slowly moving grass that was being blown by a gentle

breeze. Jarod moved closer to me and hugged me from behind as the sun slowly sank

closer to the horizon, turning it millions of shades of reds, oranges, and subtle pinks.

"Well...as much as I hate to say it....I think we better get going..." I said and gave Jarod

one last big hug as I detached myself from him.

"Yeah....." Erika said and took one last long stare, then noticed something off in the

distance. "Hey...what's that?" She asked and raised her hand to her eyes trying to see the

object better. The three of us moved over to where she was standing just inside the grass

patch and noticed it as well. It was a large black silouehtte of something that looked

strangely familar.

"That's weird...I wonder what it is...?" Jarod said as Ryu put Raichu down onto the

cround again, much to his dissapointment. "Hey! Let's go see what it is!" We all looked

back and forth to each other then shrugged our shoulders and began running. I was

starting to get a little behind and tired, so I opened my wings, flapped them, and flew off.

"Hey!" Erika said and flew off after me.

"Ladies!?" I could hear Jarod in the faint distance behind us. Suddenly we stopped in mid-

air as we got close enough to the object to realize, that it was some kind of massive

pokemon. We both landed just as everyone else arrived, and we all slowly walked around

to the front of it.

"What the-Holy shit......It's..." I said as we all stared, the sun setting still slowly behind us.

"It's a dragon....." Erika said and walked up to it, knocking it with her fist. "It's a dragon

statue..." It was a huge dragon as big as Ryu with a sleek body, a pair of huge drapping

fairy-like wings that streached, and small fins covering various spots. It's head was almost

like Ryus', but all the horns were more rounded, and longer, and had a kind of scaly skin

between them. It had beautiful hair that drapped gracefully and seemed to be almost

blowing in the slight breeze.

"It's so beautiful...." Noki said as she walked around the perimeter again. "Hey!" She said

as she returned to the spot we were standing. "There's something under all this grass!

Here! Help me!" She said as we all began to push and pull the grass out from infront of

the statue. As we pulled back the grass, we noticed a large plaque that was imbedded into

the statues stand. Noki stared along with everyone else as I read it,

'This ancient dragon statue was discoved at the ruins of Alph in 2001 and was there-by

donated to the Jhoto National Park as a present for their 50th birthday. We wish to thank

all of the people who made getting this statue here possible, and wish to thank the park,

for allowing it to be placed in such an amazing natural preserve, as it was too big to fit

into any other museum.--Ruins of Alph Science and Zoological team.'----"Well that's a

new one..." I finished.

"So...is it a pokegod?" Erika asked as she looked up from the inscription to it's massive

head.

"Actually....it kinda looks like Ryu...." Jarod said and we all looked up, including Ryu,

who didn't agree, stating that he was much eviler looking.

"No!" I said and everyone immediatly looked at me. "You know what it looks like!?

Ryunosei!!" I said and they all looked bakc at it stunned.

"Hey it does!" Erika said and then realized it was getting dark rather quickly. "Ugh....as

much as I hate to say this...I REALLY don't think we should be here at night..." We all

began to look around and hear strange things.

"Ok....all in favor in flying to the next town say 'I'" I said and immediatly raised my hand.

"I"

"I"

"I"

"Ra...." Ryu said and got down so Erika could jump on. Jarod quickly called out

Pegesedon who the two of use jumped onto, and Noki called out her Charizard. In a flash

we were off in the air. I took one last look down and saw that there were a ton of small

pokemon that had gathered around the statue, but I turned back to the sky as we soon

enough arrived in Ecruteak City for the second time.