Chapter 11: Darkness

Hey guys! Its Lyss! First of all, I can't believe Andrew keeps a dairy. He's been writing in this thing every day since he was on the boat. This is sooooo cool. I've been reading every entry! I am totally going to use this against him at one point or another! Teehee!

Anyways, Andrew's been gone awhile, and it's really beginning to worry me. Like, at least four hours now. I think I need to wake up Kai and go look for him. I mean, what if something bad happened to him. Or worse, Team Cataclysm got to him. We need to go, like, now!

So, yeah, here's my account of what happened when Andrew disappeared.

"Come on Kai, we need to go, what if Andrew's in trouble!" I said, hurrying on ahead. I had my Ninetales out and she was providing me with some light in this dark area.

"I know, I know!" She said trying to catch up. Her Pachirisu was generating electricity to help Ninetales give us some light.

We walked around, not knowing where we were going. Even with our Pokémon helping us, it was still too dark to see where we were headed. At one point, I stepped off a cliff. Thank Arceus for Kai's quick reflexes, or else I would've been a goner. I know Andrew always mentions his fear of girls (yet, he still travels with us, odd), so here's my biggest fear: heights.

"Thanks for that" I panted.

"No *pant* problem *pant*" Kai breathed, tired from trying to save me. Now, she's strong, and I'm not a heavy person, but the sheer terror of the situation got to us both.

"Now, where's Andrew?" I whined

"I don't know, but we need to hurry and find him. Even I'm beginning to worry, and that says a lot. I'm not normally one to worry."

We continued walking in the darkness. There really was nothing much we could do. He was lost in a world of darkness. Where is he?

After what seemed like endless wandering, we came across something strange. There was a field that looked like it had just seen battle. There was singed grass and foot prints of Pokémon battling. Then, we saw it. There was a yellow Pokémon that was glowing. It looked like a lighthouse and had a jewel on its head and a larger one on its tail.

"Hey, is that Andrew's Ampharos?" I asked

"Yeah… I think it is…" Kai responded.

We approached the Ampharos. He looked in our direction and lit up brighter. He appeared worried.

"Ampharos, what's wrong?" Kai asked

Ampharos began to make a ton of gestures and sounds as if he was trying to tell us a story. His stubby arms were flailing in all directions, his voice getting higher, and his tail was glowing brighter and brighter. Kai paid close attention to what he was doing and I just stood there, confused by wht was going on.

"Okay, so let me get this straight: Andrew chased down a royal of Team Cataclysm, they fought , and then Darkrai appeared, put him to sleep, the Cataclysm Royal captured Darkrai, and then he took Andrew and ran off?" Kai summed it up well.

"Whoa, that's crazy…. I didn't know you could talk to Pokémon Kai!" I said amazed.

"Ugh, Lyss, that's not the important thing right now" Kai said, obviously a little upset. "We need to find Andrew, who knows what Team Cataclysm will do with him."

"That's true…"

"Okay, Ampharos, can you lead us in the direction that they went?"

"Amph!" Ampharos exclaimed as we began to follow the glow of his tail into the darkness.

"I see…" said a mysterious voice. "So this is where Team Cataclysm is hanging out, huh? Guess I should tell the others about this."

The voice was really random, sounded almost like a surfer dude, but with what he said, we knew we were where we needed to be.

"Excuse me? Did you say that this is Team Cataclysm's hideout?" I asked. I needed to know.

"WHOA! Little chicks, don't go scarin' me like that. I would've sent out my Pokémon, and trust me, my team is pretty tough to beat, I'm telling you" he said.

"Oh, sorry, it's just, we were looking for Team Cataclysm, too. They took our friend. We found his Ampharos, and that's how we were led here." I explained

"Whoa… kidnapping, that's totally not rad. I get ya little chicks. I'm travelling with two of my siblings. I think we can help you. The name's Greg. I'm an 'Old Unova' trainer. My sis, Hanna is from Sinnoh, and my bro is a 'New Unova' trainer. Skylar's the one you really want to help, he's one of those prodigies. He's, well, kind of full of it."

"Well then, Greg, will you and your siblings please help us rescue our friend from Team Cataclysm?" Kai asked. "We won't be able to do it on our own, you know."

Greg walked off. We followed him. We walked for about twenty minutes until we came across a small fire. There, we finally got a good look at the man helping us. He wore a blue Hawaiian shirt with a white floral pattern, a straw hat, large sunglasses despite the darkness, flip-flops and khaki Bermuda shorts. He had sandy blonde hair and strong, good looking face with a nice smile. He looked a a few years older than us.

"Who are they, Greg?" asked a girl, also quite a few years older than us. She was wearing a pink sundress with yellow sandals. She had long, straight brown hair, and big blue eyes. Even in the fire-light, I could tell she was the girl that got attention from many, many boys. I was already jealous, and I didn't even know her.

"These chicks are trying to rescue their pal from Team Cataclysm, and I figured we oughta help them" said Greg.

"Did you locate their hideout, Greg? We need that information first" said another, much younger boy. He had clean cut black hair, a light green windbreaker, a light green t-shirt, plain blue jeans. He seemed a lot closer to our age than the other two, maybe about two years or so older.

"Don't doubt me, Sky. Of course I found it, and with two more chicks with us, I figure we can attack the base now" Greg explained.

"Greg's right" said the girl. "We can try and get in with this many people. Between us, we have thirty good, powerful Pokémon."

"It's not that simple, Hanna!" the boy said. "Team Cataclysm is a serious threat and very dangerous. If one of us is hurt, there's nothing much we can do."

"Excuse me…" I said, interrupting the siblings "but our friend is in danger, and we have no idea what Team Cataclysm is doing to him. We would really appreciate your help, but even if you don't help us, we're going anyways."

"Right" Kai said, supporting me. "We are worried about him. We need to get him back before something terrible happens. If you're not going to help us, we'll be going now, come on Lyss."

"Well, I can't let two chicks like you go in alone, I'm coming with ya." Greg said.

"Right, it's dangerous, I'll join you too" said Hanna. "Are you coming Skylar?"

"Ugh, fine. You all would be dead without me anyways." Said Skylar

"In that case, let's get going!" I said

All five of us set out in the direction that Greg indicated the hideout was. We all set foot in the darkness towards the unknown of Team Cataclysm. The darkness awaited us. Andrew, we're coming!

A/N: Hey! So, long absence, sorry, been busy with school and stuff, haha. SO I got an ice type and steel type submission, so now I have Ice, Steel, Water, Electric, Dark, Dragon, and Bug, so all other types are appreciated. PS, Girls can be Area Leaders too (hint hint, considering this ration up here is 6 guys to 1 girl). Here's the next chapter, I did something new here, hope you enjoy!