Day 2

I awoke as the sun was just beginning to raise, a ranger habit of mine that I could never seem to break. I got dressed (luckily I had brought a spare uniform in my travel bag that I could let dry out overnight. The rest of my stuff was already shipped to the Rand's house.) and walked out into the front room where Booker was making breakfast.

"Morning Summer! You're up early! Nick won't wake up for a couple of hours." He told me as I sat down at the table. I was enjoying a cup of coffee when Ralph, the kid from yesterday, ran into the house.

"Booker! There's big trouble! The UFO's are back!" He cried.

I jumped up. "Don't worry, let me handle this." I told them as I grabbed my bag and styler from the table. So much for finding Rand this morning, but this was more important.

Ralph led me through the village, explaining that they went into Teakwood forest and that Arley, and older man from the village, had gone after them and hadn't come back. He also mentioned that someone had Ukulele Pichu go into the forest too.

"We better hurry." I told Ralph, and we ran into the forest. It was a dark forest, with large trees blocking out most of the sun and most of the Pokémon that we could find were too terrified to let us get near them. A little ways in, we saw a man, in the same uniform as yesterday, pinch a Pokémon. It was the strangest thing, once second the Pokémon was there, and then when the purple light hit it, it disappeared.

We watched him until another pincher, a lady, came and told him to get back to guard duty. I looked at Ralph, who nodded, and we silently agreed to follow them. They went to a cave that Ralph told me was called Rasp Cavern.

"Stop what you're doing!" I called out; jumping from the bush we were hiding from, and held up my styler.

"Ahh, ranger." The man cried.

"Take this!" The lady yelled, and a Buzil and Crogant started attacking. Luckily, I was easily able to capture and release them.

"Shit, what do we do now?" the man asked.

The lady didn't say anything for a moment, and then ran away. The man, not wanting to be left alone, followed. Clearly they weren't trained on what to do if a ranger shows up.

"Come on, let's keep going!" I called to Ralph, who jumped out from his hiding place. We hurried into the cave, not finding anyone immediately. Ralph led me along, and after a lot of searching, we found Ukulele Pichu and Arley.

After the introductions and explanations, Arley shared that he thought there were Pinchers just up ahead, but he had been trying to stop Ukulele Pichu from going ahead. Ukulele Pichu had already run off, so I decided to go forward.

Two new pinchers were standing in front of a destroyed monument, laughing to themselves. I looked around, seeing that they had also broken Pichu's ukulele. Pichu was angry, but it was standing over its ukulele unsure of what to do. That made me really mad.

"What have you done?" I called out to them, and they turned around, shocked.

"What the hell were those guards doing? They let a ranger in!" One said angrily.

"Doesn't matter, we got the monument sign. Take this ranger, go Cranidos!" the second called for his cranidos, but it ended up hitting his teammate instead.

"Learn to control your Pokémon you idiot!" the second yelled at him. I couldn't help but laugh at that, too bad it hadn't knocked him out.

"Just get the zz fliers ready."

By the time I had defeated the cranidos, they were already on their flyers and were leaving. I sighed angrily and watched them fly away. If Ben were here, we could use his Staraptor and chase them.

Ralph and Arley came into the room, going over to Pichu and making sure he was okay. They picked up the pieces of the ukulele and said we should all head back to the village. We started walking, when we heard a loud ROOOARRR.

I looked to where the Pinchers had disappeared too, seeing Raikou chasing them. First Latias, now Raikou, what were these Pinchers up to?! Still, Raikou was a magnificent Pokémon. The Pinchers and Raikou ran off before we could give chase.

"Let's head back; I don't think there is anything else we can do." Arley told us, and we agreed.

When we reached the village, the first thing we saw was a doctor helping an old man, who was surrounded by many townspeople.

"Doctor Edward! Long time no see old friend." Arley called out to the doctor.

"Arley, nice to see you again." The doctor replied as he turned to face us. "Oh, who are you?"

"I'm Summer, I'm a ranger from Almia." I introduced myself.

"Ahh I see, I am Doctor Edward, nice to meet you Summer." Dr. Edward replied before walking off with Arley.

The old man he had been helping began to tell the story of how he had just seen the legendary Raikou. That started another man to sing a song.

"A deep, deep valley blocks the way. If you can cross it, go ahead, I say. The scary valley likes to brag, 'no one can cross my rocky crass!' what nonsense speaks this silly valley. For great Raikou, its one bound. Heron on its back, just one bound"

The song interested me, but I knew I had to go back with Ralph to Booker's house, so I didn't have a chance to question the man about it. I did love history though, especially legends like that one.

Ukulele Pichu was already back at Booker's house by the time we got there. "Booker, can you fix it?" Ralph questioned as he set the pieces on the table.

"I can, but there is one problem. I need special wood that I have stored on Dolce Island." Booker replied as he examined the pieces.

"I can go get it for you!" Nick called out.

"I'll go with you." I told him, deciding that I would rather go out and do something instead of sitting here doing nothing.

"There is a fisherman out there using one of my boats, he will take you to the island." Booker told us, and we ran out of the house.

Nick talked the entire way to the island, and the entire way to find the hollow tree. He was a nice kid, but I was almost regretting agreeing to go with him. He told me what seemed like an exaggerated story of his life, and boy did he have a lot to tell.

"Oh here we are." I announced as I stopped in front of a huge hollow tree. I recognized it from yesterday, this was where I had found Ukulele Pichu.

"I'll go in and get it." Nick replied and climbed in, his struggling to get in was somewhat funny. I sat on the grass, tying flowers into a chain as I waited for him to come back out. He was still talking while in there, complaining about the dark, and then suddenly screamed.

I jumped up, and watched as he flew out of the hollow tree, the wood in hand. Six sunkern followed him, looking angry.

"I'm sorry!" He called to them, but they didn't seem to listen. I quickly captured them before they attacked.

"I stepped on them while they were sleeping." Nick told me once I released them.

"It's fine, let's just get back." I told him.

"Wait, Summer, why don't you carry the wood? That way it won't stop me from talking." Nick handed me the wood, and it took all my self-restraint to not turn around and hit him over the head with it.

We arrived back to Booker's house around five. "Great, good job you two!" Booker told us. "Now, while Nick and I work on fixing this, Ralph, why don't you go show Summer around town?"

"Let's go!" Ralph cried, grabbing my hand and dragging me out the door. I laughed as I let him drag me around, he reminded me a lot of my younger brother.

As we were walking around town, someone ran up to us. "Ranger, come quick!"

He led us to a statue…that was glowing green. Other townspeople were surrounding it, but they kept their distance. As soon as I showed up, they parted to make a path. I slowly walked up it, smiling as I observed it. It was old, very old, and had ancient writing written all over it, but moss had grown over it, making it hard to read. Now this, this was another interesting story that I wanted to learn about. I had heard the Oblivia region had a ton of ruins and legends, but this was like a paradise to me.

Once I reached the statue, the light began to move. Everyone around me ran off, scared, but I stayed still as it began to come closer to me. Probably a bad idea, cause a second later, I was surrounded by a bright light, unable to see.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself alone. It looked like I was in the same place as before, but it was different. It looked, newer, like it hadn't been destroyed.

"Celebi, are you causing mischief again?" Someone asked, and I looked to see a boy walking up to me. He was dressed in very strange clothing, and he must have thought the same of me by the way he was looking at me.

"You aren't from this time are you?" The boy asked me, and I shook my head. "I'm Ravio."

"Summer." I replied.

"Now, tell me. What do you do, where are you from? I'm extremely curious; Celebi has never bought someone from the future before." Ravio asked me, his eyes growing wide as he observed me.

I then explained to him the concept of a Pokémon Ranger, which he found extremely interesting. After a while, he told Celebi to send me home.

"I know we won't meet again, but be careful Summer." Ravio told me, and before I knew it, the light was back, and then gone again, and I was back in my time.

It almost seemed like no one in the village had seen anything, or that any time had really passed. Though it felt like I had spent a long time in the past, nothing had changed here. I instantly decided I wasn't going to tell anyone about what had just happened, just to be safe.