Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, but I think I can own my original characters…
Authors note: I only wanted to update after I got rewievs. I hope it's worth updating this, have fun reading.
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Chapter Two:
The Desert of Beginning
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A big, wide vortex was floating and spinning above the desert a few minutes ago, whirling the sand on the ground with great force, something flew out of it and hit the ground. This was followed by seven other thing flying out of the vortex, some of them was screaming, but after hitting the sandy, hot ground of the desert, they all became unconscious.
The vortex is fading… disappearing, leaving the world behind. If you watch the vortex carefully, you can see through it, you can see a temple room with an altar, fading into nothingness. The sky becomes clear again, but the ones whom the vortex left behind are sleeping under the thin sheet of the sand…
Few minutes later, someone stands up, he's a boy with silver hair, green scarf and goggles. With fear in his eye he looks around, but the only thing he can see is desert. Sand everywhere, he is half covered with sand too. As soon as his vision becomes clear, he spots other, sand covered bodies on the ground, who are the ones he met in the temple, they are unconscious, they must be shocked by the event that happened.
Dave tries to remember what happened, but the boy just cant. He only remembers the chanting in the church, after that, everything went black. Is this a dream? Will he wake up? His head hurts like hell, so it just cant be a dream. The boy covers his nose and mouth with his scarf, and starts to dig out the others. After he dug out the others, Dave sits down with relief, everyone is alive. He starts to snap out of the shock finally, the boy takes the bags of the others together, searching for water in them. Only the Texan girl and Kid brought some water with them.
Dave: "Better then nothing" he grins and takes off the lid of the bottle. He fills the small lid with water and looks at the others. "Ok… I wake him up, I hope he can figure out where we are…" he thinks and goes to Kid. He slowly lifts the black haired boys headand opens his mouth. Dave fills the water in, hoping Kid will wake up.
Seconds after Daves act, Kids eyes snap open, he sits up, choking on the water, but finally he swallows it. He looks around, trying to remember how he got in the middle of the desert with the others. He stands up, and looks at Dave with angry expression on his face.
Kid: "You sure don't know how to wake up unconscious people, you nearly choked me damn it!" shouts that sits back on the sand, he looks in the way where the bags are.
Dave: "Hey, I saw that in TV and it always worked…" grins and looks at the bags too.
Kid: "Where are we? How did we get here?" asks while standing up, Dave shrugs, he just doesn't know. Kid takes his laptop out of the bag, turns it on and tries to connect to the nearest satellite. "Dave, don't tell me you don't know, you were the first one awake…"
Dave: "I really don't know" he goes behind Kid and watches the screen. Kid managed to connect to a satellite called Kanto011. Daves eyes become wide and. "Kanto? Like in Pokemon?"
Kid: "Kanto is a prefecture in Japan… I don't know why it is the nearest satellite… maybe we were brought to a Japanese desert… but I don't think there are deserts in Ka…" he stops speaking as the screen loads and shows the world map. "What… in the world…?" They both stare the screen, unable to speak or even think. The world map is completely different from the map of Earth. They can see one big continent in the middle, a small continent in the northeast, a big continent in the far north. Another continent is south of the middle lands and there are just too many island displayed on the map.
Dave: "Hey… Kid, quit joking around and switch to the map, I wanna know where we are."
Kid: "We are here…" he says, pointing at the middle continents northern part. He zooms the screen, so he can see the names of the countries and capital cities. "We are in the far northern part of a country named Kanto… with a capital city named Viridian. Ok, this is weird…" he shuts down the laptop and stands up, looking at the others. Amy is awake, she stares the sky while laying on the ground. "Hey Amy, when did you wake up?"
Amy: "Since you turned your laptop on… let's wake the others up and get out of here, I hate deserts" she stands up and gives a weak kick to everybody. After a minute everyone is awake. Dave and Kid shows the world map to Mike and Ken, maybe they can think about something.
The four of them comes up with the idea they ended up in the world of pokemon. They found every known city on the world map, even Pallet Town. Amy thinks this is the most awesome dream she ever had and starts going, she hopes she can find a pokemon before she wakes up, but Mike stops her.
Mike: "Dream or not, its too dangerous alone in a desert… and I don't think this is a dream" he says while holding Amy back. The redhead finally stops and turns around irritated.
Amy: "Don't tell me you aren't excited?" nearly shouts Mikes blond hair off his head, but he just smiles.
Vito: "The idea of ending up in the pokemon world sounds like a bad fanfiction to me… someone wants to mess with us, and this isn't a good joke." He crosses his arms and looks away, trying to think logically.
Kid: "Yeah, and they bought a whole satellite and programmed a fake worldmap in that, great logic cardbrain! We need to find a caravan, or an oasis… or just the border of the desert…"
Vito glares at Kid, but inside he also wants to believe they ended up there. But its just a stupid dream of a fifteen year old boy. Vito quickly starts to think on something else, before he starts to believe this too. The only one who isn't happy about the idea is the purple haired girl. She stands in one place, staring the sky since she woke up. As she snaps out of the shock after hearing the others for ten minutes, she starts shouting.
Alcia: "Are you guys really serious!? The sand messed up the laptop and your brains too… pokemon world you say, yeah, sure… Better than the world of teletubbies tho…" Amy grabs her shoulder with force. This comment made the redhead very angry, she lifts her fist up to punch Alcia in the face. Alcia falls to the ground by the force of Amys punch. The two girl stare each other with great anger in their eyes. Mike sighs, he just doesn't like violence, but he is not brave enough to stop these dangerous girls.
Mike: "I… don't think it's a good time to fight…" he finally says it but receives two angry look from the girls.
Amy: "Shaddup Mike… she doesn't know her place and insults us!" shouts poiting at Alcia, but the other girl jumps up and starts shouting too.
Alcia: "All of you shut the hell up! Its you guys fault that we ended up in the middle of the desert In the first place!"
Amy: "Yeah, my fault my ass…" she wants to punch again but calms down when se sees the others eyes staring at her. "What now?" asks, but then she realizes something. They aren't watching her, they are looking in the distance behind her. She turns around and freezes… "Ok… this is a dream isn't it?".
A caravan can be seen on top of a dune not so far away. They seem like they spotted the group of eight people in the desert, because the caravan starts to turn in their direction. The group is shocked, not because there is anything scary in the caravan, they just cant belive they are watching fifteen Camerupts coming down the dune with people riding them. They look like merchants, because some of the Camerupt are pulling some big carts filled with goods. The leading pokemon is huge, the red fur on its body is longer then the others. Between the two volcano on its back, a man is sitting. The man has a lot of clothes, so the sun wont burn his skin, a big bottle of water can be seen on his belt. As he reaches the group, he stops the caravan, hopping down from the Camerupt.
"Are you lost in the desert? This is a very dangerous part…" the man says, but no answer comes for few seconds, Vito starts to speak first, being the most serious person in the group, he snapped out of this shock fast, he still cant believe seeing Camerupts, but at least he can find out where they are.
Vito: "Yes, we are lost, do you know where the nearest town is?" he still watches the big pokemon in front of him. "Im Vito Blackwood, the leader of the group" this makes Amy and Dave snap out of the shock too, both of them shouting a big "what?!" at Vito, who shrugs and continues. "Can we go with the caravan until we end up in a town?"
"You can, but don't think it will be for free… Are you trainers? You can protect us from bandits. My name is Froer by the way, I'm the leader of the caravan." The man says.
Dave: "Yeah, we are pro trainers, you can count on us" grins, Vito looks back at Dave over his shoulder with angry eyes. "What's your problem Vito…?"
Froer: "I see, what kind of pokemon do you have? This deserts are dangerous as I said before"
Vito: "This is the problem" turns around, his arms crossed. The silver haired boy grins, the awkward silence is broken by Mike, who goes to Froer and tries to sove the situation.
Mike: "The thing is, we were attacked last night and brought here by the mafia, our pokemon were taken, so we don't have any, but if we can borrow some from you, I think we can handle them well against the bandits." After he finishes, the leader scraches his chin, then he nods.
Froer: "Fine, you can have some of our pokemon while you are at the caravan. You see, we have some good ones but we cant use them in battle as good as a trainer can." He goes to a small, messy furred Camerupt, who has a box in the cart he is pulling. Vito and Mike watches the man taking the box with him to the group. "You can choose one each, but I want them back after we arrive, got is?"
Mike: "Of course, we can be trusted" nods and opens the box. The blond boys eyes widens as he can see the inside. Its filled with pokeballs, the names written on them. "Guys, you wont believe this…" he says, the others are astonished too. The first one who starts to choose a pokemon is Dave. He seems to search for a specific one, he pulls out a pokeball and grins.
Dave: "I can't believe this, is there a real Treecko in this?" he asks himself, watching the word Treecko written on the ball. The caravan leader looks at Dave, thinking why he is so excited about this, Mike quickly turns around, recognizing the leaders expression.
Mike: "Good to have a Treecko huh? You always wanted one right?" smiles, Dave nods with excitement. The blond boy chooses an Onix "but its just for protecting the caravan so I choose Onix."
Amy is searching for a Skarmory, and she finally finds one, but when she sees Betty choosing a Happiny she laughs.
Amy: "How do you want to protect a whole caravan and fight bandits with a Happiny?" grins, the Texan looks away.
Betty: "Ah wanted to choose a cute one… and its good for healin'…" she looks at Amy with a smile on her face, Amy sighs and looks at Kid and Ken. Ken has a pokeball with Pichu written on it.
Kid: "Wow… a Beldum" he spins the pokeball on his finger and looks at Ken "Why Pichu? Wanna be like the character you are voice acting?"
Ken: "Not really, I just like Raichu, so if we can keep them, I will train it" he says, looking at Kid, who is still excited about the Beldum. "By the way, isn't this a bit suspicious? A random caravan with a Beldum, an ultra rare pokemon…"
Kid: "I don't care, and I don't think we can keep them" he shrugs and puts the pokeball in his pocket. Vito is still searching for a ball, and when he finally finds what he was searching for he quickly puts it into the pocket. "Hey cardbrain, what kind of pokemon was that?"
Vito: "I don't think its your concern… it's a strong one" he says coldly and looks at Alcia, who is just standing there, crossing her arms.
Mike: "Don't you want to choose one pokemon too? Its fun" he whispers near Alcia, who looks away irritated. "Ok, not for you I guess, but they will find out our lie if you wont choose one, so pleas do so…"
Alcia: "Ok… but just because I don't want to end up deserted in the desert by these people" she looks at the caravan and goes to the box. Alcia grabs a pokeball at random and watches the name. "Absol…" she whispers "what kind of pokemon is that?"
Mike: "A strong one, it brings disasters in some legends" he says to Alcia, who grins.
Alcia: "This whole thing is a disaster so I think its good for me… and it's a cool name for a pokemon too, compared to other names like Pikachu" she laughs and puts the ball away. Mike smiles at Alcia, he knows she will get used to this, but at first, he has to get used to this fast. He knows he is the only one in the group, and maybe Ken, who can save the others in the first few days. Dave, Amy and Kid will defiantly rush in things, Vito and Alcia wont bother helping them in anything, and he doesn't want someone like Betty to be in danger.
Froer: "What are you guys waiting for? Hope on a cart and lets go…" he says, jumping on his Camerupt. The others climb up the big cart, Dave still watches the ball with an excited expression, he wants to open it, but Kid stops him from throwing the ball on the cart floor.
Dave: "Hey, wanna release him Kid, what's the big idea holding me back?"
Kid: "Just wait till we make a camp at night, I don't think we should open the balls until we can do it in secret" he whispers. "Wouldn't it be to suspicious for professional trainers to be overexcited about a Treecko or a Happiny?" Mike is surprised, he thought Kid will rush the thing too, making them suspicious. The blond boy agrees with Kid, making Dave angry.
Vito: "He has a point. Don't do anything that can make us look like idiots, I know its hard for you though… the other thing is, the ones who _are_ suspicious is the merchants" he whispers "they have a box full of pokeballs in a cart… don't you think selling pokemon would be illegal? I mean pokemon like this" he pulls his pokeball out, the word Dratini is written on it. The others with the exception of Alcia stare at the ball jealously.
Alcia: "What's up with that?" she points in the balls direction, Mike starts to explain what a Dratini is, but Kid anticipates him.
Kid: "Just like this Beldum" he pulls out his pokeball "Dratini is a very rare pokemon… its really suspicious to have two of the rarest pokemon in the same box in a merchant caravan… they aren't just merchant I think…" the others agree with him, and are waiting for the night, when they can finally see their pokemon.
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Author Note: This chapter became shorter than the other one, sorry for that, and my grammar too… I don't think I can continue this without a translator or someone who can correct the errors, but I want to write this fic. I hope you like it. Please rewiev
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