Yo yo yo. Dawg. Werd up. –does hang motions- Yeah, I'm weird, but EXCITED! In exactly eight and a half hours, I'm leaving for Orlando! Yay for me! Mmm, Islands of Adventure...I'll ride the Dueling Dragons for all of you ;D
Since I must get to bed soon since I don't sleep well in a car, I shall cut short this intro! Hoo! Hah! BWAHAHAHA!
I'm not crazy...really I'm not...
Chapter Thirty-Six
"Dratini..." I whispered in awe.
Steve and Ivy rushed to my side, and they also gaped in amazement. "A Dragon Pokemon?" she said slowly, her eyes wide. "Lindsey, this has got to be the Dragon's Den!"
"EH?!"
"Well---"
Another burst of electricity cackled from the pool. Ivy screamed and jumped back.
I turned my attention back to the Dratini, whose eyes were squinched shut in pain. A bolt of lightening suddenly emitted from its body, and I realized then that this Dratini had no control over its Thunderbolt or whatever attack it had been doing.
"It's going to electrocute itself soon if we don't get it out of there!" I cried.
"How is it not now?" Steve asked, looking as worried as I felt.
"It's a Dragon Pokemon. I'm sure it has some kind of natural shield---you know how powerful they are---but if we don't get it out of there, that shield's not going to hold," Ivy answered, biting her bottom lip.
"I'm going in!" I said, preparing to jump into the pool, but Steve grabbed my shoulders and jerked me back.
"Are you crazy?!" he hissed. "If you go in there and that Dratini goes on another Thunder-crazy spree, you'll be electrocuted!"
"But..." I trailed off. I had no clue why, but I had to save that Dratini. Right now, nothing else mattered.
"Oh, damnit!" I cried. "I can't just sit here!"
"Maybe we can pull it out with something," Ivy suggested.
"But I don't have my backpack with me..." I grumbled, realizing it was up by the lake where I had taken it off. I dropped my hand on my lap, my fingernails clinking against my cross belt.
After a second, my eyes widened. I could use the belt to rescue Dratini! I could just tell it to grab onto it and then Steve and Ivy could help me pull it out.
With that thought in mind, I unbuckled it and whipped it off of my jeans. Steve opened his mouth to ask me what the heck I was doing, but before he could, I was leaning over the edge of the pool and dropping the belt into the water.
I dunked my head underwater. "Dratini!" I called. "Grab onto this and we'll pull you out!" Dratini lifted its graceful head in understanding and started to painfully swim towards me. I lifted my head out of the pool and gave a small smile.
"Lindsey, what the hell are you doing?!" Steve cried.
"I'm using the belt to get Dratini out! I told it to grab onto it and---"
"Stupid! That belt's made of metal! If---"
Steve didn't get to finish as a new uncontrolled electric attack came from Dratini. The electricity cackled through the pool and hit the belt. The metal grew hot and I was about to just throw the belt into the pool, but the energy reached my body with a vengeance. I screamed in pain, but still didn't let go.
"LINDSEY!" Steve and Ivy cried, reaching for me. Before they could, a blue blast shot from around me and sent them flying back. I couldn't call out to them for some reason. I saw my body was surrounded by a blue aura before I blacked out.
"Lindsey!"
"Damnit Lindsey, open your eyes!" A hand jerked my shoulder around.
My eyes gradually fluttered open to see Steve and Ivy staring down at me with anxious looks on their faces that instantly turned to relief.
"Thank god," Steve muttered, lifting my upper body up from where I was laying down and gave me a one-armed hug against his chest. "We thought this was going to be a Hoenn repeat."
"Wha?" I replied groggily. "How long have I...?"
"Only a few minutes," Ivy replied, scooting over next to us. "Do you remember what happened?"
I blinked slowly, as my head was pounding. "Kinda," I said quietly. "I was rescuing Dratini and---" My eyes widened and I jerked my head up. Big mistake. Fresh pain made its way through me and I tried not to cry out.
"Dratini! What happened to Dratini? Did we save it?"
"Yeah," Ivy smiled, looking over her shoulder. "You did. It was so weird, though---Steve and I were running up to help you and something blasted us back. You were surrounded by this weird blue glow and the electricity wasn't reaching you at all. Then you sorta floated up and yanked Dratini out of the pool with one pull. Dratini was cackling from the Thunderbolt, but it's fine now. After a minute you stopped glowing and you fell."
"Peachy," I muttered. "What was that you were saying when we got here Steve? 'Dude, this is just plain weird'?"
"Yeah." His arm tightened around me.
"Well, I think it's more fit to say that now," I smirked. "Weird describes this all way too well."
Silence filled the room for a few seconds until I let out a little yelp from something wet and scaly touching my skin. I look over to see Dratini's white muzzle nosing my arm.
"Yeah you should be grateful," I smiled, weakly raising a hand to stroke it. It closed its eyes in appreciation.
"Lindsey," Ivy suddenly said seriously. "I'm now positive that this is the Dragon Den! I mean, there's a Dratini in here...and the handle to the door down here had a Dragonair on it, not to mention that key looks just like it! This has got to be it!"
I frowned. "Okay...so say you're right, but then...how did Mom get this key? Did she know that it led here...?"
Dratini cocked its head, as if in thought, and then started bouncing off with a loud, "DRAAAA!"
"Hey, wait up!" I cried, struggling to stand without causing myself any more pain.
"Careful," Steve muttered, helping me up. When he was sure I could actually be steady on my feet, he let go of me, I noticed, with regret.
But I had no time to think about that right now. "Dratini!" I called, jogging after it. "Where are you going?"
"Draaaaaa!" It's call made its way through the crystal room. I saw it jump through some really tall hedges smothered in roses. I wrinkled my nose at that---I can't stand roses. They're boring. Plus, they stain.
Steve, Ivy, and I also jumped through the hedges. To my surprise, we were now standing in a spacious area. A few feet in front of us, I could make out a lot of little markings carved into the crystal wall.
Dratini slithered up to one half of the carvings. I stood behind it and started to read off what I assumed were some names that were etched into the crystal: "Flame, Moerumushi, Nikkomoeru, Dreamstar, Dawn..."
"What is this?" Steve wondered in awe. He stepped up to the wall and ran his fingers over the carved-in names. "How weird. All of the ones you just read off are darkened, but there's other ones that look like they were carved in yesterday..."
My eyes widened as I realized he was right. My gaze flew over the names and settled on one particular one: Mystic. The name was also darkened, but had hints of blue in it, as if from some kind of inner glow.
Ivy gasped and pointed to a few names below Mystic's etched name. My eyes widened even more as I saw it: the name 'Mystical' against the crystal, glowing as bright as a blue sky during midday.
"Mystical?" I whispered. Dratini looked up and cocked its head. "Dra, draaaatini!"
I gaped at Dratini. "You're...Mystical!"
"Dra!" it nodded.
"But how..."
"Lindsey, look at this!" Ivy called. She had somehow snuck over to the other half of the carvings and was reading them. Steve and I went over to her.
"What?" I asked.
"Look at all of these names," she whispered in awe. She squinted at the top of the list. "Hey...the first name on here is Lynn...that rings a bell..."
I frowned. That also jogged my memory somehow, but I couldn't remember exactly what from...
"Geez," Steve snorted, reading down the list. "They're all girl's names. What's up with that?"
I scanned the list, forgetting about Lynn and saw a name that proved Steve wrong. "There's one guy's name here," I said, pointing to a darkened etching in the crystal. "Chris," I read. I gazed down and all three of us gasped in unison at the name under Chris's.
"APRIL?!" we cried.
Her name was set up exactly like Mystic's: dark, but with traces of blue. How weird...
Ivy gulped. "Lindsey, your mother's name is Diana, right?" she whispered.
"Yeah, why?"
She pointed at the name below April's in reply, and sure enough, that part of the wall was labeled 'Diana'.
"This is getting way too weird," I said. "Why is April's name on here? And Mom's? What about..."
I was interrupted by a screech from Ivy. I held in my own cry as I saw what looked like some invisible sharp thing started carving in what was probably another named under my mother's.
"What the..." Steve started, looking over my shoulder.
We all held our breaths as each letter was slowly etched into the crystal. By the time 'Lin' was carved out, it was pretty apparent what whatever this invisible thing was carving.
"Why is it putting your name on there?" Steve whispered in shock as the 'd' was being engraved. Whatever 'it' was.
"I have no clue," I whispered back. After another minute or so, my name was carved into the crystal. Before any of us could say anything else, a bright light came from the engraving and filled the cave, practically blinding me. The light dimmed after a second, and when I opened my eyes, I saw my own name was glowing as brightly blue as Mystical's.
Ivy, Steve, and I only got a few seconds to gape at it before Dratini...Mystical...suddenly hopped back through that rosebush without warning.
"Hey, wait!" I called, flinging myself through the rosebush and back out to the main room with the pool. Steve and Ivy followed me.
"Mystical!" I called, feeling kind of stupid chasing this Dratini I just met around some kind of weird crystal cave that I had just found out about. It finally stopped in front of the smaller, barely-noticeable door imbedded in the wall.
"Dra," Mystical commanded, staring at the doorknob.
"You want me to open the door?" I asked. It nodded in response.
I shrugged and turned the slightly dim silver knob, only to find myself staring at what looked like a kind of bedroom—that is, it had a bed, a dresser, a closet, and a table covered with a sheet.
Tsssh. Some bedroom. My closet shelf has more stuff than this.
"Uhh...Mystical, what the heck is this?" I asked, stepping into the room. Dust kicked up from the rug, probably from not being cleaned or stepped on in years.
Steve sneezed. "What was the purpose of that Dratini leading us in here?"
"It's kind of weird though..." Ivy mused. "A bedroom in a cave like this. Almost like...like you're supposed to live down here or something."
"Oh, is that so?" Steve snorted. "Then where's the TV? Where is my Playstation 2, I ask? How 'bout a mini fridge?"
Ivy just rolled her eyes and started wandering around the rather small room. I turned around, raising my eyebrows as I found out there was a wall-length mirror hanging on the back of the door. I inwardly groaned at the state of waist-length hair; it was so knotted and frizzy at the moment I just wanted to shave it all off. I swatted at a leaf that had gotten caught in my dark brown locks from jumping through the rosebush and it just floated and stuck to my black tank top. My black boots seemed hopelessly ruined by all of this water and electricity and whatnot...they just had to be leather boots.
"Hey, I wonder what's under this sheet?" Ivy suddenly piped up, interrupting my reflection-staring. I spun around with a start and saw she was talking about that covered table.
"Well, uncover it," I shrugged, ignoring that my heart was suddenly pounding in anticipation.
"Okay." Ivy grabbed one end of the sheet, but jumped back with a scream as a Flamethrower shot out barely an inch from her face. When the fire had fizzled out, we all turned our heads in shock at Mystical, who was looking really peeved.
"What was that for?!" Steve cried. "You could've scorched Ivy's nose off!"
"Draaa," Mystical pouted, slithering to Ivy and nudging her leg, indicating it wanted her to move away from the table.
"Fine, fine." Ivy took steps away from it until Mystical gave a satisfied squeal.
"Why'd you lead us in here anyway?" I asked the Dratini, who suddenly decided not to pay attention to me and slithered to what was probably the closet. I knew right away it wanted me to open the closet, so with a sigh, I opened the door with a flourish. To my surprise, mountains of junk spilled out on top of me.
"AIIIEE!" I screamed. "I'M BEING SWALLOWED IN A SEA OF---"
"Clothes, books and...stuff," Steve finished, 'rescuing' me from the pile. He glared at Mystical. "Gee, thanks. We want nothing better to do than clean out the closet of some weird Dragon Den."
Mystical, of course, wasn't paying attention and was digging around in the stuff that had filled up the room. After a minute, the Dratini bounded over to me with a book in its mouth. I took it, and Mystical proceeded to hop up onto the bed and curl up for a nap.
I rolled my eyes and look at the book in my hands. A weird feeling settled into my stomach as I read what was written on the cover.
'Journal of Chris Tamer'
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And that, my lovely reviewers, is where it shall have to stop...for now. You see, I'm updating this fic faster than I can write and edit it, and it's driving me insane. Gack, no, what's really driving me insane is lack of solitary computer time for me to work on this. Plus I need to be working on my costume for Jacon –cough cough- XX
So unless all of my thoughts magically transfer themselves onto Word without me having to be there, there won't be any updates for awhile. How long, I don't know, but I'm not doing anything next weekend so we shall see if I can work on this then...keep checking every Friday or whenever to see if I changed my mind, but don't hold your breath at least until possibly the end of May. –sob- Damn you school and the amount of time it's taking to do my costume! DAMN YOU POP-UPS! AIIIIEEEE!
Oh yes…my reviewers…-blinks
Adriel Hey, I got your email and I would reply to it if I wasn't so lazy. And I was thinking maybe a side character that's in there a lot. Depends on the character. Gimmie info! I NEED info! –facefaults-
ZeroChan Hmm...I don't know what's worse, having winter or having earthquakes. You may say earthquakes, but I'm willing to bet you haven't experienced the first floor of your house buried in snow. -cough- It's not fun. Well, except for the lack of school for practically a month...and I'm assuming the cha-cha is a good thing. ;;;
Rose Aww, lookit the adoooooooorable lil' Fuego in his delivery-boy cap! –huggles- Pie is always good when it's delivered by anything in an adorable delivery-boy cap! Pieee...-drools-
Saisaishi -gasp- You don't like PIE?! FOR SHAME!...well, chocolate pudding pie is good, so you're forgiven. . And it was a Dratini...and yes, as you have found out in this chapter, the Dratini is Mystical. Dang, my readers are smart. –falls over-
Karania Ooo...flooooooating plaaaaaastic flooooower...that sounds cool. I gotta suggest that for when I actually go to prom next year. XX RainbowSerenity in a dress...AHHH! HIDE! IT'S THE ACCURSED FANFIC WRITER BEING GIRLY!!
Silvie LOL! I actually got the 'water' pun from my sister. She did this science fair project on how different kinds of water affect plants, and the 'water you waiting for' was her title...and I thought it was Steve-like funny XD –sob- I guess no pie for me since I'm not updating for awhile...;; Meh. At least the flags are a-waving! Wow I sound dorky! --;;
Hakura They are MAGICAL Rapidash...-falls over- :P And I don't know science or Psychic-type things whatsoever, so I'll let Kitsune himself answer your mindless rambling XD:
Kitsune: Essspeon esss 'peon, Peon, espeeeeeeeon, peon ess essss Espeon Espeon peon esss 'peon.
There ya go. And for the jeans thing...I don't know if it's just my black jeans, but they seem to made from a heavier fabric than my blue jeans, and when they get wet, the pockets just stick and simply will not allow me access to my lip balm XX And I guess Lindsey just loves her black jeans...you know, since DARRELL likes black. Tsssh. –facefaults some more-
Opaltiger Three reviews in a row! I AM LOVED! ;; Yes, it is quite strange, just like this whole fic...every word possess my aura of WEIRDNESS...
Harunohi OO Woah dude! Fire extinguishers can't come alive...tsssh. Fire ALARMS are a whole other story...
Whee, Serenity feels so very loved But she hopes she doesn't get murdered by random grapefruit trees spewing their nasty freakish fruits at her...or maybe the Cartoon Land rides in Islands of Adventure will eat her XX Crazy!
And WHY is RainbowSerenity talking in third person so much?! Gaaah...oh yes, here is a word from the FUTURE RainbowSerenity, if you are reading this now and happen to have gotten my profile link at Jacon!
Future RainbowSerenity: HI! I'm sure I hugged and got a picture with you! YAY! Thanks for reading my crazy fics! Wasn't I just a freakish-looking Utena? Oh yes—and believe me, that one guy sooo deserved to get his head chopped off. Really.
Great, now I'm even confusing myself. XX –sigh- Well then...this is freakish RainbowSerenity signing off—for awhile, anyway! But even though she might not update for some time, she still goes online to read—you guessed it—reviews! So make her happy and leave one!
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