A/N Ok so this chapter came quicker than I thought. Sorry, May's flashy will be in the next chapter! All for a good reason though. You'll see why I said that soon ;) Thank you so much for your reviews! :) These replies take me forever XD
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Chapter Seven: Absol's Warning
Leaf's heart was pounding against her chest. Being kicked out of the show on the first week would be horrible. She felt May give her a reassuring hand-squeeze and calmed down a bit. After all, they were quite popular, they seemed to have a lot of fans.
"The first through to the next round is..." The MC started, his voice ringing through the speakers.
Just hurry up and tell us! Leaf thought in frustration.
"Serena Cartér!" he announced as the crowd went wild.
Serena cupped her hands to her mouth and walked to the other side of the stage, a huge grin visible even though her hand were covering her mouth. The girls from Eye of the Liepard smiled, they all liked Serena.
"The second through is...Calem Calmé!" Dexter announced, causing the place to go wild with cheers.
Calem, smiled and walked over to where Serena was, the two shared a hug causing some "Aww"'s and some angry fans' "Boooo"'s.
It was silent again and Dexter opened another envelope, "The third through is... Eye of the Liepard!" The audience went ecstatic as the girls sighed in relief and walked over to the where the two Kalosians were standing.
The next through was The Candies, followed by Ghost of the night. The others through were; Lucas, Danny, Iris, Brock, Brendan and Jessie and James. Unfortunately, Cilan was the person kicked out.
Afterwards when everyone left the stage, four boys came together. Lucas, Danny, Brendan and Rudy.
Lucas smirked. "We're all still in! This is great."
Brendan nodded. "I'm taking May out tomorrow. I know she'll come."
"I'm taking Leaf to a café. I'm pretty sure she'll say yes," Danny said.
Nearby, Ash could see them huddled. Could they be the assassins?
It was late night and all the contestants were sitting in the living room. May pouted. "I'm gonna miss Cilan's cooking!"
Brock smiled sadly, "I'll miss my co-chef too."
"I cant believe we were the first two through!" Serena said, giving a huge grin to Calem.
Calem returned a smile and nodded.
"So, did you two know each other before this? After all, you both live here in Kalos." Dawn asked.
Calem nodded once more. "I've lived in Vaniville town for my whole life. Serena moved from Johto a few years ago but she was born here in Kalos."
Dawn nodded, she knew Calem and Serena had a thing. Most Kalosian girls were very pretty, including Serena, Dawn admitted. She had beautiful honey blonde hair and stunning blue eyes, her fashion sense was one of the best she'd seen.
Leaf's head perked up, "Johto? Did you know Lyra and Silver?"
Serena smile. "Oh them two. Of course, they travelled together a while ago. Lyra has become champion of the Indigo League, narrowly beating Ethan and Silver. I talked to her a few days ago."
Leaf's eyes widened. "What? Champion?! Damn she beat me to it! I guess I'll have to try beat her next year."
Dawn's was curious too, "Lyra? She came to Sinnoh a few years ago with Silver I think. Silver didn't talk to me, but Lyra and I were pretty good friends."
Misty raised her eyebrows. "I know them too. They both beat me and won the Cascade Badge a few years ago."
Melody snorted, "Of course they did. I hear newbies always beat you." She looked at Misty's face and immediately changed her answer, "Uh-I-I mean they were probably really strong trainers!"
Ash yawned, stretching his arms. "Well, I'm heading to bed, night everyone."
Everyone started getting up and as they did, Danny called over Leaf. She walked over to Danny, a curious look in her eyes. "Hey Dan. What's up?"
Across the room, Gary kept a close eye on them. He had to be weary of the other members in the house as they could be assassins, although, he couldn't help being a tad jealous.
"Uh, I was wondering if we could, you know, go to Café Soleil tomorrow?" he asked, grinning sheepishly.
Leaf looked at the ground and blushed. "I don't know..."
There was a hint of disappointment in Danny's eyes, "If you don't wanna go that's-"
"No, no! Of course I do!" Leaf said, gathering her courage.
Danny's face brightened immediately. "Great. Well then I'll meet you in front of the door tomorrow at around one-thirty?"
Leaf grinned, "Sounds good to me!"
Gary watched the whole thing from across the room. He couldn't allow her to go, just in case Danny was one of the assassins. And for personal reasons. How he would explain that to her, he didn't know.
The next morning...
"Alright girls, gather around!" Misty said, clapping her hands together like a teacher.
"Yes miss?" Leaf said sarcastically.
Misty rolled her eyes but then smiled, "Since we're through to the next round, what kind of song should we sing?"
"Pop!" Dawn said with a grin.
"But we just did that," May said, scratching her head.
Leaf shook her head, "No, lets make this more serious. And I have the inspiration."
"What's your inspiration?" Misty asked.
Leaf's answer made May, Dawn and Misty raise their eyebrows.
Later...
"Hey May!"
May turned around to see Brendan running up to her. "Yeah?" She was about to head to the practise room, to play piano.
He smiled. "I don't know, we haven't talked in ages. Wanna catch up tomorrow?"
May blushed, "Catch up? Where?"
"I'm pretty sure Rudy is taking Misty to the beach, if she agrees. So, you wanna go too?"
May scratched her head. "Ummm, sure! I'd love to!"
"Great, we're gonna have to fly there though, to avoid journalists and fans. I've got Swellow to fly on, have you got anything?"
"Um no, actually. I can borrow Leaf's Pidgeot though," May said. Her Beautifly was too weak to carry a human.
"Great. We'll fly out to Cyllage City. Meet me at the door at around one."
May nodded, "Sure thing!"
Paul was helping Brock with the cooking, well, more like attempting to help with the cooking. He was forced to, he couldn't be rude to Brock for some reason.
"Alright Paul, I need you to bring out the baking trays, put a bit of spray oil and then..."
Paul had no idea what Brock was talking about then he heard someone behind him chuckle. He turned around to see Dawn. He raised a brow, "What are you laughing at?"
She giggled, "You can't cook, can you?" Paul shook his head slightly.
Grinning, she took out the baking trays. "Here, get out the baking trays and get the spray oil and spray it twice. Now get the dough and roll it up into little balls like this!" She held up a little ball of poffin-dough. "And place them on the tray. Tah-dah!"
Paul sweat-dropped. "Since you know how to do it, you do it." He turned around to walk away but Dawn pulled him back.
"Where do you think your going? You're going to do this yourself, I'll tell you how to."
Paul sighed, cooking was something he hated, not only because it was girly. Because it was something his long-gone brother loved. It brought back bad memories.
Lysandre turned around in his chair, fury glowing in his orange eyes.
"You let her free! Your punishment will be much worse than just torture," he said, his voice booming across the room.
My eyes widened in fear. "W-what are you going to do?"
An evil, malicious grin spread across his face. "Kill the person dearest to you. Not your team mates, I need you and them for missions in the future."
"No! No, you wouldn't!" I shouted as I realised who he meant. He was going to kill my brother, Reggie. As much as I found him annoying, he was the only family I had left, one of the only people who still cared about me.
As much as I begged, as much as I shed countless tears, he murdered Reggie right in front of my eyes. That was the day my burning hatred grew for Lysandre. I swore to myself that one day, I would kill him, just like he did to my brother.
Paul shook the thoughts out of his head and looked back at Dawn. She was so cheerful and happy, innocent and pure. How he was going to take her to the evil murderer he hated he didn't know. But he had to, for his and his team mate's sake. Drew grinned at Paul and Dawn, making a mental note to tease Paul later.
"Hey guys have you seen the news? Apparently a volcano erupted in the middle of the ocean last night, causing earthquakes or something," Iris said, popping a chip in her mouth.
Serena plopped down next to her. "Really? Switch to the news channel!"
Other than the three girls, only Brock, Paul, Drew and Ash were in the kitchen. Drew turned his attention to the huge T.V on the wall.
"An underwater volcano has erupted, somewhere in between Sinnoh and Kalos, causing trouble for nearby islands and the water Pokémon. So far, no warnings have been raised. More on this breaking news report later."
Drew raised his eyebrows, Volcano eruption?
"Morning Leaf!" May said, coming into the kitchen late as usual.
"Hey, what's up? You seem happy," Leaf said, taking a bite from her waffle.
"I need to borrow your Pidgeot, to fly on to the beach. I'm going with Brendan!" she replied cheerfully.
"That's awesome! Here, I'll give you her pokeball now," Leaf said, taking Pidgeot's pokeball from her belt and handing it to May.
"I'll keep her safe!"
"Please do," Leaf said with a smile.
Leaf finished her waffle and turned around to leave, she needed to get ready for her lunch date. "Leaf! Wait!"
She turned around to see Gary and immediately frowned, "What?" She snapped.
"You can't go," he said simply.
Leaf's frown grew deeper, "Why?"
"Uhhh... because..." Gary trailed off.
Leaf's anger took over her. "You think you can just boss me around?! You had your chance!" she shouted.
"No! Its because it could be... dangerous!" He couldn't say that Danny could be an assassin, never. He couldn't give away who he really was.
"Dangerous?! He's ten times nicer than you'll ever be!"
"I'm sorry. I really am."
Leaf's eyes softened for a fraction of a second but the frown returned, "Sorry wont cut it."
She brushed past him and couldn't help feeling guilty from the way he just stood there and the look on his face. He was genuinely sorry.
Later...
Drew walked into his room to get changed into beach clothes, after all, he was going to follow May. She had already left half an hour ago, Drew somehow managed to forget.
One of his pokeballs were shaking and he picked it up in curiosity. It was Absol's. He let it out.
"What's wrong Absol?"
"Ab-sol! Ab-sol ab!"
Drew raised is eyebrows. "Yeah Absol, I totally understand that because I'm fluent in Absolese," he said, sarcasm dripping from his words.
Absol ignored him and ran to the bathroom, gesturing for Drew to follow. It filled the slim, modern bathtub with a few Water Pulse attacks and the used a light Razor Wind, creating large waves. "Ab-sol!"
Drew's eyes widened. Of course! Absol is the Disaster Pokémon...according to the Pokedex it only appears before a disaster... He looked at Absol who was barking wildly and then looked at the bathtub again. "Large waves...a tsunami? But how?" he muttered to himself.
Then it hit him. The eruption that had happened in between Sinnoh and Kalos. Kalos. Which beach was on the coast of the ocean in between Sinnoh and Kalos? Cyllage Beach. Where May and Brendan went.
"Thank you Absol, return," Drew said, running out of the room and hurrying down the stairs.
Gary was sitting there on the bottom step, his head in his hands. He looked up. "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Tsunami! There's gonna be a tsunami, I gotta help May!" Drew said, running out the door.
Gary blinked. "Tsunami?"
"Gary, Drew get over here!" Paul shouted from the living room.
Leaf walked into Café Soleil, Danny holding the door open for her. They sat down at a table and ordered some beverages.
"So Leaf, whereabouts are you from?"
"Viridian City, Kanto. You?"
"I'm from Goldenrod City, Johto."
Leaf smiled. "Ah yeah, I beat the gym there as a kid."
He raised an eyebrow, "As a kid? You must've been a pretty strong trainer."
She nodded, "Yeah, I nearly beat the Indigo League. A boy called Red beat me, gaining the top spot. He retired as champion, went up to Mount Silver to train even more. I couldn't participate this year because of Kalosian Idol, my friend Lyra won the league."
He nodded slowly, "Interesting. I'm more of a breeder. Hey, I have a question-"
Leaf's phone started to ring loudly, cutting him off. Leaf picked it up, it was Misty. Misty? Isn't she at the beach?
"Sorry Danny, excuse me for a minute- Hello?" Leaf said, picking up the phone.
"Wait what? You're talking too fast... What?! Where's May?!" Leaf's eyes widened, "You can't find her? Okay, I'm on my way...too bad, I'm coming you can't stop me." She turned her phone off and shoved it in her bag. "Sorry I have to go, pronto. There's a tsunami about to kill everyone."
Danny's mouth fell open and he watched helplessly as Leaf stood up and left the café.
She walked out of the café and realised she didn't have Pidgeot. May had it. Suddenly, she heard the sounds of large wings landing behind her.
She turned around to see a Pidgeot, her Pidgeot. It came after all and it meant one thing, May needed help.
She ran over and mounted it. "Thanks for coming, Pidg. You know where to go."
Gary ran into the room to see most of the contestants crowded around the room.
"A tsunami is rapidly approaching Cyllage City! Most people are seeking refuge up on the cliffs and inside high caves..."
"Where's Drew?" Paul asked.
"He ran out the door shouting something about saving May," Gary replied, his eyes widened at the T.V.
Dawn stood up. "I'm going."
"No Dawn, you can't!" Serena said, "You'll just put yourself in danger. I'm sure Drew will help May and Misty is a pro at water-related things! I'm sure she's fine."
She sat down with a huff. "Fine," she gave in reluctantly.
"I'll give Drew a call to see if May's alive," Gary said.
"What do you mean alive! You're saying she could be dead?!" Dawn cried.
"Way to go!" Paul said, glaring at Gary.
"I'm going. Serena, don't get in my way," Dawn said, shoving past Gary.
"Wait! Dawn, if you're going, take my Talonflame, it's one of the fastest Pokémon there is out there!" Serena said, handing Dawn a pokeball.
Dawn smiled. "Thanks." And with that, she walked out the door, letting the large, dual fire/flying type Pokémon out.
"Faster, Flygon!" Drew said, pushing the beautiful dragon-like creature to fly faster, it was zooming through the clouds. Once he maintained a good balance he checked his phone for warnings. There was a warning to clear out all beaches on the west-coast of Kalos, the tsunami was close.
Flygon dived down out of the clouds as they reached Cyllage Beach and the sight was breathtaking. A wave, the size of buildings, was towering over the city as it came closer and closer to the beach.
"I found her and Brendan, down there Pidgeot!"
Drew looked over from his Flygon and saw Leaf on her Pidgeot. "Leaf! You get Brendan, I'll get May!"
Leaf looked over and nodded and they both swooped down over hundreds of screaming people.
Drew found May, she was floating unconsciously in the water. He grabbed her hand and pulled her onto Flygon. The wave was just one metre away. Flygon raced away from the wave, as fast as its wings could carry it.
"Take us to high ground!" Drew commanded, he hated to push Flygon to its limits but their lives were in danger.
Flygon flew faster and landed on top of a cliff nearby. Drew watched as the huge wave pummelled onto the city, wrecking most things near the beach. He was sure Misty was safe, Leaf was as well.
"May, May are you alright? Listen to me! Say something!" He urged. He even tried CPR. A couple of minutes later, Leaf had landed with a conscious Brendan.
His phone started ringing, it was Gary. "Dude! Is May alive?!"
Drew wiped his brow, "I'm not sure."
A/N Oooooooooh cliff-hanger! XD How do you think it'll go?! Not saying too much, keeping my big mouth shut atm. XD
There was some background info of the some of the characters in this chapter, and yes, underwater volcanoes DO exist. They commonly cause earthquakes and tsunamis when they erupt. Unfortunately, May didn't know in time, Drew did though. Lol.
-Special mention to mednin for helping me out with a tad of the Ikarishipping.
So overall, how was it?! Looking forward to my summer holidays, they started the week before last week. :) And I'm mostly looking forward to writing the next chapter! Until next time! *waves hands and disappears somehow breaking the law of physics*