Finally, I'm updating this story! I'm sorry readers that it took so long for me to get this chapter posted up; there were a few complications along the way! Thank you to those who read the story so far!
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Now on with the story!
Chapter 2
"Gary… Gary, wake up." A voice says.
Gary groggily opens his eyes, only to see Tracey standing next to his bed looking down at him.
"Wake up?" Gary asks as he looks over at the clock; he sees that it's nearly ten in the morning. "How did I sleep so long?" He asks.
"You went to sleep at like one in the morning." Tracey says. "I would have been surprised if you woke up earlier than this. You have to clean up now, everyone is outside eating breakfast."
Tracey leaves the room as Gary gets out of bed. Gary stretches and lets out a long, loud yawn.
"I wonder what will happen today." He whispers to himself as he walks over to the bathroom.
After about half an hour; Gary walks out of the RV and over to his grandfather and friends.
"Did you sleep well Gary?" Prof. Oak asks.
"Yeah…" Gary says as he sits down be side his grandfather.
"Guess what…" Jessie says as she eats her breakfast.
"What?" Gary asks as he breakfast is placed in front of him.
"We're going to join your grandfather on a dig today." James says in an excited tone. "I can't wait!"
Gary turns to his grandfather.
"Is this true!" Gary asks. "Are we really going!"
"Of course!" Prof. Oak says. "Why would I say something like that without meaning it?"
"Alright!" Gary says as he pumps his fist into the air. "When do we go?"
"This afternoon…" Prof. Oak says. "I'm going out after breakfast to check out something. Around two, someone will be coming here to pick you up and take you out to the sight I'll be at."
The three visitors nod and continue to eat their breakfast.
A few hours later…
The visitors are in the RV, along with Todd. Jessie is watching Todd take care of his camera equipment while James and Gary play video games.
"Is it true that people think you were born knowing how to use a camera?" Jessie asks Todd.
"Yes…" Todd says. "You've read an article about me, haven't you?" He says as he shines the lenses on one of his cameras.
"Yes, it was for photograph class for school." Jessie says. "You're aware that all of the articles written about you make you seem boring, just like you are now?"
Todd stops shinning this lenses and glares at Jessie for a second, then goes right back to shinning.
"I don't care what you say, I'm famous and you're not." Todd says.
"But one day that fame's going to fade, and you'll be nobody." Jessie says as she gets up.
Before Todd can say anything, Jessie is already at the door talking to someone.
"Hey, our ride's here; let's go." Jessie says as she steps out of the RV.
James goes after his sister, Gary saves their game, and Todd packs up his camera equipment. They all get out of the RV and jump into the awaiting Jeep outside; Tracy's driving.
"So, are you guys excited?" Tracy asks as he drives.
"Of course we are." James says. "Why wouldn't we be?"
Tracy smiles at James' answer.
"We found a new site today, that's where we're going." Tracy says as he drives onto a slightly rocky road.
Everyone is happy that this road is not as bumpy as the other rode that had taken yesterday when they went to the other site.
After about a fifteen minute drive, they finally arrive.
"Here we are." Tracy says as he kills the engine and jumps out of the car.
Everyone jumps out and look and the site.
"You didn't say anything about a big dark cave." James says as he looks at the site.
Like James has just said, the site is a big dark cave; they can't really see what's inside because of the darkness.
"Let's go…" Tracey says as he walks in.
The others follow, not knowing what to expect; or that this little trip into a cave will change their lives forever.
When the group finds the team, they see that the team has set up lights all over the part of the cave that they are in.
"Gary, Jessie, James!" Prof. Oak greets them. "Welcome to Poke Cave."
"Poke Cave?" Gary asks. "Why did you name this cave that?"
"Because we've found nearly twenty fossils within two hours this morning." Tracey says. "It was the only name we could think of since then."
"Cool…" Jessie says as she sees a fossil skeleton of something in the ground. "What's that?" She points at it.
Prof. Oak and Tracey follow her pointing finger and see what she's talking about.
"Oh that one, we call that an Eevee." Prof. Oak says. "We believe it was some sort of puppy Pokemon." (I know that Eevee is not a puppy Pokemon, but Prof. Oak in this story doesn't know much about Pokemon, remember, he's just discovering them.)
Jessie looks around the cave, then gasps and jumps back when she sees something.
"What's that!" She yells pointing across the cave at a wall.
Prof. Oak whirls around because he knows that that part of the cave hasn't been searched in yet, what he sees confuses him. It's a piece of a fossil; the other parts are covered in the dirt and rock.
"Do you want to help out with that one?" Tracey asks.
Jessie nods eagerly and jogs up to the fossil.
Prof. Oak turns to the others.
"Todd, you can take a few photos of the fossils while the diggers are working; but make sure to not disturb them while they are working." Prof. Oak says.
Todd nods and gets to work.
"As for you two, let's see what you can do." Prof. Oak says as he walks further into the cave.
James and Gary quickly follow.
Prof. Oak walks up to one of the diggers and asks him something, the digger points somewhere and Oak signals for the guests to follow him.
They walk to a part that is brightly lit and that doesn't show any signs of digging yet.
"You two can work here." Prof. Oak says. "I'll bring you some equipment in a moment." With that, he walks off. A few moments later, he comes back with two work kits. "I'll come back to check on you two soon, if you find anything, call for someone."
The boys nod and watch Prof. Oak walk off.
From that moment, they both get to work.
It's been only an hour, and both Gary and James discovered something; right now, all of the archeologists are looking over what they have found.
"This is amazing!" One of the diggers says.
"This one is like the Eevee we found earlier, and the other one has to be a sort of horse." Another one says.
On the other side of the cave, more archeologists are musing over what Jessie unearthed. She named it Ekans; after her pet snake she had when she was a little girl, but it died just a few short years ago.
While the archeologists and Prof. Oak weren't looking; Gary and the others walked to another part of the cave with only flashlights in hand, Todd came along so he can get more pictures.
James, being himself, is a little worried about what they are doing.
"Are you sure that this is a good idea?" James asks. "I mean, we're not supposed to be doing this. If they notice we're gone, we can get into serious trouble."
Gary rolls his eyes at James' worrying.
"Don't worry; they're so caught up on getting as much info on those fossils that they won't notice that we're gone for awhile." Gary says. "I can almost guarantee that we will be back before they even notice that we left."
"I hope you're right…" James says.
The four walk deeper into the cave and the deeper they walk, the darker it gets; all the way to the point where the light won't show in front of them anymore.
"Let's go back, we're not going to find anything without a stronger light." James says.
"Alright…" Gary says; he disappointed that James is right, but something tells him to touch the wall. He reaches over to the nearest wall and touches it, something surprising happens.
The second Gary's hand touches the wall, the part of the cave they are in erupts with light, it's blinding. Everyone looks around at the walls and realize that they are in a sort of cavern within the cave and that the light is coming from some sort of strange writing on the walls. (Think of the strange writing of the Unknown.)
"Wow…" Todd whispers, then there goes his camera, he's snapping as many pictures as he possibly can of everything within the cave.
"What is this?" Jessie asks as she touches the wall.
"We have to tell your grandfather about this Gary." James says.
"Yeah…" Gary says.
They all continue to look around, but something weird happens again; the openings to the caverns disappear suddenly. They desperately look for them.
"What's going on!" James yells "How are we going to get out of here!"
The walls of the cave glow even brighter, as the seconds go by, the brighter everything gets.
"What's happening!" Jessie yells.
Everything is so bright; no one can see anything but the light.
Suddenly, there is a total flash of light; the brightest yet, then everything goes black.
To be continued…
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