Forewords: I had originally intended this writing to be in second person, this was before I read the rules and before I had the conviction to commit my inner fantasy to digital paper. Instead I propose you read this story as if it were one of your memories.
Chapter 3: Cold
"WHAT!" I screamed, jumping up and running over, leaving the other girls in a state of shock and bewilderment. "Oh my Arceus… she's… she's so cold…" I said as I felt her scales. I moved my hand tentatively to her nose and my heart skipped a beat with joy, "Oh thank Arceus, she's breathing." I stopped there and meditated, allowing me to think rapidly. I would normally just feed her one of my emergency Aspear Berries, but that bastard Suicune ate them all… and to make matters worse, the town closest to me didn't even have a Pokèmon Center… I ran through about a hundred different scenarios in a millisecond when I remembered something, "The Enigma Berry…" I said, breaking my meditation. I drew a deep breath, knowing that the girls were not going to like this…
"Everybody listen up," I said grabbing everybody's attention, "Bluebell may be alive for now, but she won't stay that way without medical assistance," I continued, eliciting panicked looks from all the girls, "Amy, I need you to ride on my back and explain everything to Nurse Joy when we reach the Pokèmon Center in Canalave City, most likely I will be to ragged to speak. The rest of you, I'm sorry but you'd only slow me down… Jess, I need that Enigma Berry that you stashed earlier…" She flashed me a horrified look, knowing full well what it would do to me. "I'm begging you we don't have much time…" I said as I put out the fire with my mind and called everyone but Bluebell, Amy, and Jess back into their pokèballs. She heard the urgency in my voice and quickly threw me the berry from wherever she stashed it. "Thanks… Amy will release all of you when we reach the Pokèmon Center…" I said and called Jess back. "Amy, hop on and hold on tight," I said as I scooped Bluebell into my arms. Amy didn't waste any time, she grabbed my backpack and hopped on.
I took a deep breath… and tore into the Enigma Berry devouring the thing in seconds as I felt it's potent energy jolt through my veins. I dashed off towards Lake Verity once more at an incredible speed, the forest zoomed by my eyes as I weaved my way between the trees and Pokèmon. Everything felt like it was moving in slow-motion, my heart pounded at a normal rate… but I knew that would change soon, 'I… I just have to hold out… Just a little longer'. I reached the lake, normally about a ten minute hike, in thirty seconds; during which time I almost tripped because of my hiking boots. I didn't want to risk tripping again at the ridiculous speeds that I was traveling at, so I begrudgingly obliterated my boots with my mind as I continued to run, knowing full well that this next part was going to suck bare feet… and that Suicune had, once again, shafted me by chewing up my running shoes. I stopped for a moment at the calm lake's edge, collected my energy and sent a freezing pulse across a thin strip of the lake, from my private western beach to the northern shore, bypassing the steep cliffs and mountains that I would have to navigate otherwise. I made the ice rough so I wouldn't slip, knowing full well that if I did Bluebell would be a goner for sure, she would either drown or freeze before my helpless eyes as my heart sped up and stopped.
My heart started to speed up from inactivity and I hastily continued, 'I just have to make it there…' I thought franticly as I sped across my bridge of ice. Amy screamed as the ice started to pierce my feet, causing me to leave a trail of bloody footprints on the otherwise pristine surface. But if she said anything else I didn't hear her, and I was too busy maintaining extreme speed to block out the pain. I reached the northern shore and continued through the small strip of forest that separated me and salvation. Trees flying past my vision as I darted around them, the wind from my motion no doubt tore through the branches behind me. To anyone above, it would've looked like some terrifying creature was speeding through the forest at an incredulous pace. I broke through the tree-line, startling a pair of trainers that were doing battle. I jumped, launching myself overtop of their Pokèmon and barely escaped being struck by a thunderbolt, not that it would've even slowed me down in my state. I landed and began running once more, leaving another trail of bloody smears. Thankfully, I had popped of the forest out right next to the city, so I didn't care much about my feet. My deliverance was within my sight as I rounded the corner like a madman. Every step felt like someone was hitting my foott with a sledgehammer, but I couldn't stop, 'not yet… not yet…'
I threw open the doors of the Pokèmon Center with my telekinesis, almost blowing them off of their hinges in my panic. I dashed in and Amy connected her mind to Nurse Joy's as she explained the situation. Chansey came out with a stretcher and I laid Bluebell onto it, stroking her head affectionately saying, "Save her… Please." looking on as she was carted away, I heard Amy release the other girls and I turned to Nurse Joy.
My heart started to speed up and I clutched my chest in pain, I saw a look of horror on Nurse Joy's face as she turned to me and saw the pool of blood forming under my feet as I clutched my heart. I let out a cry of pain and dropped to the ground convulsing.
"His heart! Oh Arceus, the Enigma Berry, Nurse Joy his heart is going to explode!" Amy said franticly.
"Nonsense, he's just having a heart attack… Chansey toss me that stethoscope," she said as Chansey threw it her way. "Oh Arceus… Chansey! His heart rate is at three-hundred-forty-two and skyrocketing!" She said as she thought of a solution. "Chansey I need fifty milliliters of diltiazem hydrochloride at a one to one dilution ratio, STAT! Chancy ran out of the waiting room, returning moments later with a large syringe asking what my heart rate was at. "OH MY ARCEUS! IT'S AT FOUR-HUNDRED-ELEVEN AND COUNTING! Chansey NOW." She yelled and Chansey threw her the needle. She deftly caught it and spun it around in her hand, holding it like a dagger. "HOLD HIM," she yelled and my girls came over to hold me down. With a yell she plunged the needle expertly between my ribs, I felt the sharp stabbing pain as the needle enter my heart and the world fell away…
