Chapter Four

Ben tried to look at Rachel as the sand was swarming around them but he would only barely open his eyes afraid that if he opened them fully sand would fill them.

"Don't let go Ben.." Rachel said as she held on to his had as tight as she could.

The sand raging around them started to move faster and grow stronger and without even realizing it they were starting to get cut on their arms, legs, and faces.

All of the sudden the piece of paper that was sticking out of Rachel's pocket flew out above her head getting engulfed in the sandstorm.

"NO!" Rachel screamed as she tried to grab it but Ben held onto her. "What are you doing??" he asked in a sudden frenzy. "I have to get that piece of paper!" she responded desperately.

And with all of his might Ben tried to hold onto her but she suddenly slipped away from his grasp and she saw her and the piece of paper disappear from his sight.

As he went into panic mode he wondered where the hell she had went, if she was ok, and if she was how he would find her. But as all the thoughts swarmed around in his head he couldn't help thinking about the strange rock thing he saw in the distance before the storm.

As he remembered it and realized what it could have been he was hit in the head with something heard and went unconscious.

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The Rocket Members flew off into the distance in their van.

"Is that a sandstorm behind us?" Hazel asked her eyes turning a crimson gray.

"It looks to me like it is, but we need have no concern to what is happening behind us all we must focus on is getting to Kanto," Leo said as he started to press on the gas more.

As he pressed on the gas though he was confused because as anyone knows when you press on the gas pedal you should go faster but for some reason they seemed to be going slower.

"What the hell?" Leo said getting more frustrated with the vehicle.

Chris looked up from his computer realizing what was happening.

"You see Leo, (he said in a mocking voice) to travel in a car you need to have gas which I don't think we have anymore of." He pointed to the gas gauge and saw that the arrow was on the E.

"YOU IDIOT!!" Hazel screamed, her eyes turning a fierce red.

"How the hell are we supposed to get to Kanto if we don't have any gas!?" she continued as Leo was just sitting there in a certain kind of shock.

"Look we can just walk to the nearest town and find a gas station. From there we get some gas walk back and drive there and fill up. It's quite simple actually." Leo said then pulling out a map they had in the car.

He then had a dumfounded kind of look on his face though as he told them the nearest town was three miles away.

"THREE MILES!!" Hazel screamed again.

"Hazel can you stop screaming it's throwing off my game!" Chris said. "I guess it doesn't matter now though since we have to walk." With that he closed his computer and got out of the car.

The other two members followed his example and they started to walk.

But as they had only gotten about .1 of a mile Chris looked back and saw the worst possible thing.

The sandstorm Hazel had saw earlier had grew at an enormous rate and was charging at them like a herd of galloping horses. As the other two slowly turned around hearing it the only thing Chris could manage to say was "Oh Shit."

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Ben's eyes slowly opened as he felt dizzy and had a horrible headache.

He looked around and saw that the sandstorm must've passed where he and Rachel had been. At that moment it struck him. "Rachel!!" he screamed and he went into the sudden frenzy he had been in before. But as his headache remained he realized all he could do now is rest.

He looked around and saw what looked nothing like a desert.

There were palm trees around him and he was lying on a large area of grass that engulfed the area.

He saw a huge lake of water and he crawled over to it scooping up some of the crystal clear water. When he tried to drink some though he realized all he had in his hands were sand. "Bleh!" he said spitting the sand out of his mouth.

As he looked once again though he realized it was all just an illusion that the heat and his headache must've created. But as he looked around he did see a tree. And he also saw something very strange behind it.

As he walked over the creature behind the tree seemed to grow frightened.

Before he knew what it was or what it was capable of leaves soared at him.

He tried to avoid them but one of them caught his face and cut his cheek. The creature remained behind the tree.

He pretended to be walking away and as he heard the creature start to move away from the tree he quickly ran as fast as he could and tackled it. He looked down and at first what he thought he saw was a giant flower bulb.

But as he checked again he saw some sort of creature under the bulb and a shock rose throughout his body as he realized it could be one of the strange creatures he was warned so much about….