Chapter 2

No I don' own pokemon just this story and its characters.

"I think I've seen this boulder before." Zek commented upon seeing a boulder he could have sworn he had seen at lest twice before. Maybe three?

"Zek stop worrying. I know exactly where we are." Alex replied. "Now I believe we head this way." Alex starts walking off slowly as if not sure.

"I really don't think it was wise to let him navigate." Zek mumbled.

"Just relax Zek. What's the worst thing he can stumble across here?"

"Who knows Taylor, but I'm marking this rock so I can prove we are going in circles. Flareon, please use ember on this rock."

Flareon nods and quickly hits the rock with an ember attack leaving a burn mark on the rock.

"Good job Flareon now we better go catch up to Alex, Taylor."

45 minutes later

"Taylor please! Tell me that is not a burn mark on that rock..." Zek groaned.

"Umm... maybe there's a fire type around here that likes burning rocks?"

Zek just stared at her. "What! I'm trying to be positive here Zek!"

"Ah! That explains it!" Alex suddenly shouts.

"Explained what Alex?"

"Umm I seem to have been looking sideways at the map." Alex says sheepishly. "Route 22 is only about 2 miles to the west."

"Well then let's go!" Talyor shouts rushing towards some bushes.

"Whoa! Wait a second Taylor!" Zek quickly grabs Taylor's bag, keeping her from running into the supposed bushes. "Notice something off about those bushes?"

At this Taylor looks at them closely while Haracross, Flareon, and Alex start chuckling. (I just noticed I failed to mention only Haracross and Flareon are out of their pokeballs right now.)

"They have apples on them?" Suddenly Taylor remembers apples only grow on trees. "ALEX! YOU COULD HAVE MEANTIONED THE CLIFF!!"

"I would have but Zek stopped you before I could say anything."

They suddenly hear a loud cry behind them.

"What was that?"

"No clue Taylor. Flareon go check it out!"

"You too Haracross."

Both rush off into the bushes and the others fallow.

They walk into a clearing and find Flareon guarding a paralyzed Vulpix while Haracross is standing over an knocked out Paras.

"Dang do either of you know how to treat paralysis?"

"Not a clue."

"All I know is that it will ware out eventually."

Zek picks up Vulpix while Alex captures Paras and then returns Haracross to its ball.

"Alex please tell me you know which way the nearest pokemon center is?"

"Sorry, I don't have a clue where we are I'll admit that now. Well, beside the fact route 22 is somewhere to the west. And we cannot possibly miss it but there's no Pokemon Center near it as far as I know."

"Umm guys, I think we have a bigger problem then which way to go." Taylor says while looking up.

"Why?" Zek asks and looks up. "Never mind." Then he notices how quickly the sky has gotten cloudy.

Alex was also looking up. "I think we have to find some shelter cause it's probably going to start raining soon."

"There's that cliff back behind us maybe we can find a cave to sleep in tonight." Taylor suggested.

"Okay let's go and look then." Zek said carrying the hopeless Vulpix with him.

Several minutes later lighting can be heard in the distance and it starts to drizzle. They had found a way down and are looking for a cave.

"Look over there is a cave!" Taylor shouts and takes off running toward a cave entrance that can be seen about a half-mile away.

"Wait up Taylor!" Alex shouts taking off as well.

"Fine wake up anything that might be in the cave." Zek mumbled. "O well at lest I'll get a head start if there is something in there." He continues walking.

Zek stops for a second hearing a dull roaring noise behind him.

"Huh?" Zek said looking behind him and can make out what seems to be a gray curtain coming his way.

"Why does this always happen to me!?" Zek shouts and runs for the cave still carrying Vulpix. After recalling Flareon.

The rain started picking up as Alex and Taylor entered the cave. "Jezze that was a sudden downpour!"

"Say Taylor? Where's Zek?" Alex ask as he pants in the middle of the cave.

"One word. Move?"

"Why?"

Suddenly Zek charges in soaking wet and crashes into Alex, sending him to the floor. While Zek grasps hold of the wall to keep from falling.

"...That's why." Talyor says in an amused voice. She then notices how wet Zek is. "You okay? You look soaked. Where's your jack... Never mind." she says when she sees Vulpix wrapped up in the jacket and still relatively dry.

"Well since we are goanna be here for awhile shall we let our pokemon out?"

"Sounds good to me."

"Sure as long as you keep an eye on your new Paras."

A few minutes later all their pokemon are out and doing something, or napping in Pikachu's case. Jolteon is watching the rain out side, Haracross and Scyster are apparently practicing with each other while Paras watches, Eevee and Flareon where now feeding and watching Vulpix who has started to be able to move again.

"Is it me or is the ground shaking?" Alex asked.

"Really I don't feel anything." Talyor said, a bit confused.

"Maybe it was your imagination..."

There's suddenly an explosion behind them as the smoke clears it reveals a large silver snake before them.

"Ummm wwhhatss tthaat." Taylor asks as she backs up behind Zek and Alex.

"No clue." Alex says as Zek quickly digs for his pokedex. "But I bet its a steel type."

Zek points his pokedex at the pokemon. "Steelix. The Steel Snake pokemon. Steelix are known for having a hide as strong as diamond and can easily crush rocks in its iron grip. It is suggested for new trainers to avoid wild Steelixes even if you have a fire type."

"See told you!" Alex said.

"ALEX!!!!"

Suddenly Steelix is hit by an ember from Flareon and it responded by swings it tail at Flareon missing by only an inch.

Jolteon help out with thunder shock and tried to stay away from Steelix.

Zek watches as Alex recalls all his pokemon knowing they won't be any help here and backs off. Zek decided it would be wise to recall Eevee and does so.

As he turns back to the fight he sees Pikachu has joined in the fight.

As Jolteon stops to release another thunder shock Steelix successfully grabs her.

"Jolteon!" Taylor shouts as Steelix starts to squeeze Jolteon who was now helpless in it's grasp. Ignoring Pikachu and easily enduring Flareon's weakest attacks.

Damm it there's only one way to get Steelix to let go of Jolteon but Alex is here. Screw it! He's my cousin, I'm going to have to trust him. At lest he won't suspect Taylor's as well. Hopefully.

"Flareon use Blast Burn!"

"What???" Alex shouts as Taylor freezes and Flareon hits Steelix with a powerful fire blast reserved for the use only of powerful members of the charmander family that burns Steelix.

Steelix releases Jolteon and glares in Flareon's direction and notices the weak Vulpix lying nearby behind Flareon defenseless. Steelix lets out a roar and charges Flareon.

"Crap Flareon! Vulpix is behind you!" Zek shouts at Flareon. who now braces it self.

"O no you don't!" Taylor shouts. Jolteon! Volt Tackle!"

"Say What?" Alex shouts.

Jolteon rams Steelix adding paralyzes to the bad burn.

Steelix lets out a loud cry and digs under ground and vanishes.

"Is he gone?" Taylor ask.

"I think so." Zek answers.

"O right you two have some explaining to do."

"That we do Alex that we do. Remember the day we came back with Jolteon and Flareon and you asked how they evolved?" Zek asks.

"Ya I remember that you said they dug up the stones when they smelled something in the ground."

"Well that's part true." Taylor said. "We thought they where normal stones at first. But they where more like some kind of..."

"Crystals." Zek broke in while digging in his bag. "Ahh here it is! See for your self." He said tossing a red object to Alex. Who caught it and looked at it, it looked like a Fire stone but it was smooth and felt more like glass then rock like a normal rock. He looked up at them. "Do you have one as well Taylor?"

"Ya, but mine looks more like a thunder stone."

"We both noticed shortly afterwards that both Flareon and Jolteon after they evolved due to the crystals that they where unusually fast and powerful and a bit resistant vs. their weakness. Taylor suggested we try searching the internet and the library for information on the crystals."

"Did either of you find anything on them?"

"Ya we did, it was in the oldest lest vistied part of the libary back home, you know the section with the badly damgaed books, right next to a book about a legend about the village festival that got Zeks attention."

"So what did it say?"

"That the crystals we found are called are called the Firestorm Crystal and the Thunderstorm Crystal." Taylor said as she took over. "They can only be used by one person and theres only one of each type and the odds the book said of finding one you can use is about a hundred trillion to one. It also said that IF the pokemon evolves due to a crystal they gain the ability to use any attack of that type.

"For example." Zek broke in. "Blast Burn."

"Did it say anything else?"

"Not much," Taylor said. "Except that there are a few other Crystals, the Shadowstorm Crystal, the Lightstorm crystal, and the Waterstorm crystal. And the Greystorm Crystal where named but the rest of that page was badly burnt. So there might be more."

"And...?"

"And what?" Zek asked.

"I know you're hiding something still."

Taylor just chuckled.

"Fine," Zek said. "There was one more unburned section. It mentioned the crystals are tied to some sleeping legendaries of their type and that their spieces are either canines or vulpines."

"Cool."

About 2 hours later.

"Well, looks like the rain has stopped." Taylor comments. Making Zek look up from the female Vulpix who was starting to feel much better.

"I think I'm going to go look for some wood for a fire tonight. I'll be back before the sun sets." Alex announces. Then walks off.

Vulpix gets up a couple of minutes later and starts yapping at Zek.

"Huh? What do you want?" Zek asked.

Vulpix just touches one of his pokeballs then looks at Flareon as the answear.

"You want to fight us?"

"Vul!" Vulpix says nodding.

"Alright. You ready Flareon?"

Flareon nods in agreement and comes over.

"Alright! Flareon use quick attack!" Flareon runs towards Vulpix who just at the last second steps causing Flareon to miss her, and then tackles Flareon in the side knocking him on his back Vulpix jumps on Flareon holding it down and prepares a flamethrower attack. "Flareon use bite!" Flareon bites down on Vulpix's leg and tosses her off then uses a quick attack to knock her off her feet.

"Okay I think that's enough Flareon." He says as he tosses a pokeball at Vulpix and captures it.

"Well that vulpix is fast." Taylor comments.

"No need to tell me, she wasn't even at full strength as well." Zek answers. "Well Vulpix come back out." Vulpix appears in a flash of light and immediately heads over by Zek's sleeping bag and falls asleep.

"Apparently tired as well." Taylor says a bit surprised.

Zek was still thinking about what to say when Alex enters with the wood and convinces Flareon to start the fire. Zek decides to go outside and watch the sunset and Flareon comes with him.

I should really tell them what was in that book I found. Zek thinks while petting Flareon and watching the sun set. But I don't want to scare them… However his train of thought was suddenly derailed by a voice behind him.

"Are you okay Zek?" Asked Taylor making Zek jump.

Zek signhed. "Ya, I'm fine just have something on my mind."

"Is it about that book you saw back home?"

Zek sighed again but couldn't help but smile. "Ya I went back to read it."

"What'd it say?"

"Not to be mean or anything Taylor, but I'm not saying anything about it till I think about it a little more."

Now it was Taylor's turn to sigh. "Alright but you better tell me someday. Come on its getting dark we should get back in the cave."

"Alright Taylor lets go."

An hour later Zek, Alex, and Taylor are sitting by the fire.

Taylor suddenly stands up and stretches. "I'm going to bed. See you two in the morning."

"Night Taylor," Both Zek and Alex say and they sit for awhile watching the fire that Flareon light for them after the sun had set.

"I think I'm going to bed as well." As he stands up he stops and asked Zek sounding a bit worried.

"Do you think we might meet one of those legendaries?"

I should tell him what I truly think that both legends are possible tied together or at lest I think so... No at lest not till I'm sure. Besides I should tell Taylor first.

"I don't know Alex, I just don't know." Zek decided to say, a note of worry in his voice, while he shook his head.

"Right thanks Zek. I'm going to bed now, good night Zek."

"Night. Alex."

Zek sits watching the fire wondering what could possible await them in the future, then gets up and looks around seeing Flareon, Vulpix, and Eevee asleep near his sleeping bag, Haracross, with Scyter near the entrance on watch, Paras was napping by Alex who is tossing and turning a little, Pikachu asleep near the fire, and last but not lest Taylor asleep with Jolteon next to her. Well what ever happens at lest Alex and Taylor are with me, I just hope neither of them will be hurt.. With that thought Zek got into his sleeping bag and fell asleep.

Next time:

"Damm it! Sasha Leave us alone!"

"Aww. But where's the fun in that little brother?"

"Why don't you leave us alone Sasha! Before we kick your's and Tommy's asses?"

"Shut up Bitch! I'm not talking to you!"

"O boy." Alex mumbles from down in the hole. "Here we go again."

Alight that's the end of this chapter I've now reveled why Jolteon and Flareon are unusually powerful. Aren't you so happy?

O about the rain that is an actual experience I've had one day i could hear and see it coming from about a quarter of a mile away from my mailbox I was soaked by the time I got inside.

Please read and review and please go easy with any spelling errors I don't have a spell checker.

Also of note I'll say that the book Zek found in the library is related to their village's festival in the prolog.

Another detail I just realized is that I forget to mention the gender of their pokemon. so here it is.

Zek's

Flareon- Male

Eevee- Male

Vulpix- Female

Taylor's

Jolteon- Female

Pikachu- Male

Alex's

Haracross- Male

Scyster- Male

Paras- Female