CHPTR 7 - Trouble

SO YOU WAIT TILL NOW TO NAME THE CHAPTER HUH?

"What is fear? Is it just another emotion that is needed or not? Or is it more than that? Fear to me is a needed emotion. Without it you can make the worst decisions of your life. With too much you don't want to do anything. I've never found anyone else with the perfect balance of fearlessness and fear."

As Valerie and Sue traveled through the cave they passed by the same river that they had just come out of. "Um Valerie. I think we've been here. No worries though!" She yelled as she ran off into the darkness. "How does fear affect choices?" Val thought as she slowly followed Sue back through. "When you think about a choice do I think about the consequences and fear them? Or do I fearlessly agree to anything? I really wonder of these things." Val said as she caught up with Sue.

"Hello… Visitors… We own you now that you are here…" A ghostly voice whispered. Sue began to shiver. "What's wrong Sue? It isn't too cold down here." Val said "It's nothing really. It's just that I'm a little afraid of ghosts. I'll be okay." She said looking around nervously. "You won't be okay. We'll make sure of it." The voice hissed and made Sue hop and hit her head on the cave ceiling.

"Can we just go Val?" Sue asked frantically. "Yeah. we better." Val said but Sue was already gone. When Val tried to follow they were there. A haunter, ghastly, and a banette. She would've asked why they were there but she already had the answer to that question. "Run," They said and that was exactly what she would do.

She looked back and the wall was there. Mysteriously looking identical to the one at the drop.

"There is no escape Valerie you will remain here with us until you become one of us." The ghosts said as they began to laugh maniacally. She blasted them flamethrower but they all used different moves. The haunter used a weird move and fainted. The ghastly used hex and missed horribly while the banette vanished using phantom force.

Val felt a pain right after the haunter fainted. She ran through the ghastly and escaped down the hall. "Why now? Actually why anytime? This is the worst!" Val thought and right then and there the banette appeared. Val flew back from the force of the attack and smashed into a wall. The doll dashed towards her with scary agility. The attack he used was uncontrollable. Val dodged him as he passed and used fire fang. Her teeth sank straight through the ghost's skin and it laughed painfully.

"Ow that hurts a lot little VallyVal! You are not going to get away you fool!" He said as he smiled a wide smile. Val ran just to fall in a hole in the ground. She lay on the cave floor dazed from the trip down. The place was wide and empty. The hole she had fell through was gone instantly and the voices of the ghosts filled the room. "We have you now Valerie. Are you afraid of water?"

Water began dripping from the ceiling. The dripping water slowly turned into pouring water.

"Stop. You don't understand." Val said. "What exactly Don't we understand?" The ghosts asked

confused. "You don't understand the meaning of life and how ending one effects you." Val said sounding like a pokemon with knowledge. "Come on we know all about killing and its effects. WERE dead for crying out loud!" The banette chimed. "You don't know that when you die as a ghost type you are sent to a new world. What you do in both of your earthly lives effects you in your next." The pokemon were silent for a few seconds. They finally decided to speak after thinking.

"What do you know about the next world?" The ghastly hissed "Yeah you probably don't know anything about death. Not mentioning the afterlife. Do you think that we don't know about it?" The banette yelled as water began to pour through the cracks in the ceiling. "Oh crap. I really did it now." Val thought.

BACK TO VIX AND FRIENDS

"What will your choice be?" E asked "I… I guess that I can help you find a flying type." Rose answered. Everyone didn't really have a reaction so it was silent for a few seconds. "We'll wait for you then." Vixie said breaking the awkward silence. "Okay then. I'll be with you in a few minutes.

After waiting for what seemed like a reasonable time (nah just kidding) Rose came out with her sister. "Finally. You took soooo long." Jax said "Yeah. I thought that Vixie was going to die sitting here." E joked. Vix laughed nervously and looked around. "We should get going now." Vix said when the fog began to gather more.

The swamp was more than creepy as our characters walked through it. The sun was not visible anymore as they pushed bushes aside. "I wonder how Valerie is doing." Vix said thinking out loud. "She must be at the cave by now. How will she escape?" Vix asked out loud. "We'll youre not dead so you're fine." Rosa's sister said "I guess I am." Vix said "By the way, what's your name?" Vix asked "My name is diamond." She replied "I should've known." Vix said looking at her diamond studded collar.

"So… you used to have owners?" Jax asked the new two. "Nope we just have random collars." Rose said. "Yep our old owners had given us them. Now they are gone." Diamond simply said as the bushes around them rustled a little. "I shouldn't ask… but who were your old owners?" E asked "Our old owners… " Diamond stopped mid sentence when Rose signaled to stop. "Who our old owners are is our little secret to keep to ourselves." Rose said as the rustling grew.

"What is that?" Vix asked and they knew that something was wrong.

The thing emerged from the bushes quickly and landed in front of them. "Well well well look who we have here. My target and a randomly gathered team." The weavile said. "What?" Everyone asked at once. "I am here to take the vulpix back to its rightful place, In a pokeball with a trainer." He said grinning. "Sorry to rain on your parade but I have to do this." The weavile said. "Wow. I think this guy is for real Vix. Even though those phrases he used were a bit familiar to me. probably from a movie or something." Jax said

"Well if he is serious then lets all attack him." E said obviously ready for a good fight."Or we could distract him and sneak by not getting hurt." Rose suggested "Or we could just pass him. He won't bother us. We are a group." Vix said "True." Everyone agreed and began to simply pass him. "Hey wait a second you're ignoring me? Well I'll just have to strike then." He said and dashed at them with a grin that said 'Courage' on it. "Get him." Vix said and the team dashed towards him.

Just as Vix was about to strike she felt a pain. It was excruciating and it made Vix fall. The pain felt far but close at the same time. The first thing that came to mind was "Valerie…" Then everything blurred.

VALERIE ONCE MORE

Valerie woke up. The destiny bond that the haunter put on her had taken effect and now Val was submerged in water. She took a breath and choked on water. Feeling the loss of air she tried to get to the surface. When she did she immediately sucked in air. the ceiling wasn't too far from being submerged also. "Shit… how do I get out of this?" Val thought

The water still poured from the ceiling cracks at an unnecessary speed that defied normal physics. "If I estimate correctly then I don't have much time until… " The thought of death was unavoidable. It ripped and tore at Val's mind bullets at a shield."No. I won't let it happen." Val said as she began to think. "There are cracks in the ceiling, but the floor has some also." She thought looking through the clear water.

"Maybe the cracks could be opened somehow." Val thought "Then I'll have a chance." She began to look for stuff to use. And after four minutes pieces of the ceiling began to collapse. "Oh no. The cave. It's going to collapse on itself any minute. I have to get out or I will be doomed to a horrible death."

She began to move up again to take her last breath. The water was now rising like it was dishwater. She broke through the surface and gasped for air. Soon the water flowed to the ceiling of the cave. She floated down to the floor cracks. "What do I do? How do I do it? Why?"

She thought as the whole thing began to collapse on her. The whole ceiling was now falling like a crushing machine.

She looked up only for herself to be smashed down to the ground. The air she held in was now being pushed out rapidly. "No. Is this where it all ends? Drowned and crushed in a underwater room? No friends to help. Nobody to help." A feeling of hopelessness crept into her mind. "Why here? Why now? I guess that fear isn't that helpful then. If I had stayed and fought then I probably wouldn't be here."

Val, still being pressed down, tried with all of her strength to move but it didn't work. "I guess all I can do now is wait." Val thought as she stopped struggling. After a reasonable time she finally ran out of breath and she was a bone breaking point from the crushing. But right then and right there… she fell. straight through the ground where the cracks where. The hole was just big enough for her to fit through. She fell for a short time and landed on a cold, wet floor. After recovering she saw an entrance to a new place.

She slowly went there before the water could fill the room she was in. In the passageway there was a staircase. Val, still surprised by the last second save, Climbed them wearily. At the top was none other than Sue. She looked as bad as Val felt so she didn't even bother to get mad and waste time. She went over to the half dead Sue and grabbed her up and moved on through the cave.

T.B.C.

This is all That I could do. I'll have way more (Cuz no school monday XD) Story for you tuesday. I guess Val was right about the three chapters in the cave… MEH! BTW I am going to begin doing more things soon so Woo for that… Peas!

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