A.N: So thank you for receiving me so well again, I don't think I can upload one chapter every day though because I want to give each chapter more quality.
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Pokémon Chapter 14: Calem goes rogue
The sun started to come up and along with it, the sun's color. Yellow got up from bed, the space where Red slept, empty. She had gotten used to that. Red was an early riser, and he couldn't lie still after waking up. Red had to go out and train his Pokémon or he would feel like he lost valuable time.
Yellow walked into the kitchen of the house provided by the academy, still in her sleepwear to find Red sitting there, drinking water. An appetizing aroma wafting through the air caught Yellow's attention. She noticed that their table was set with delicious breakfast. Red noticed her and smiled.
"Thought you might want some breakfast," Red commented nonchalantly.
"Okay, what did you do?" Yellow asked, her glare unforgiving. Red scratched his cheek and tried to divert her attention.
"Hey Yellow, first breakfast, then business;" he walked over to the table and pulled out Yellow's chair.
"Are you hoping that I would forget by the time we are done eating?" She asked, sitting down in her chair.
"Nope, just stalling for some time to form my statement in a more… attractive manner;" Red answered, after pushing her chair in. He sat down in his own chair and they started to eat breakfast. They ate with some small talk, usually concerning their Pokémon and the other champions, the school too. They noticed Pika and Chuchu running up to them, berries in hand. The mouse Pokémon jumped onto the table and both started eating their berries. Red and Yellow petted their respective Pikachu's and smiled fondly. They had been on many adventures with their Pokémon, through thick and thin as some liked to say.
"By the way, how do you think Calem is coping with him being in a room with Serena?" Yellow asked.
"Pretty well actually, I thought he would have more difficulties, but it seems to be alright. I think he doesn't understand that he actually needs Serena in his life. Something I didn't understand until I actually fell in love with you," Red added the last part with a wink. Yellow though, was unfazed.
"Red, you know fully well that that doesn't work on me. I have seen you use that on unsuspecting girls hundreds of times," Yellow rolled her eyes. Red raised his hands in defeat and smiled at her, his rare to be seen smile. People think that he smiles often, which he does, in the company of his close friends. When business is concerned, he smiles very rarely. Yellow had learned that when she had visited Red on Mt. Silver for the first time. His smiling demeanor around his friends had become a serious face with a hardened expression. But once he saw Yellow, his face had brightened up immediately. She knew that Red tried his best to be a very happy person, but that two-sided coin was just him, kind to his friends, serious to others.
When they finished eating breakfast, Yellow looked at Red, waiting for an answer.
"Okay, so–" Red was interrupted by his holocaster ringing and looked at the number, it was Calem.
He answered the call to see Serena look at him with a worried expression on her face: "Red, Calem is gone."
Red jumped out of his chair, and Pika jumped onto his shoulder. They ran out of the house quickly and Red called all of the other champions. They met in front of the House Mew dormitories, walking into Calem's room. Vee was sitting next to Serena on a couch. Serena held a sticky note in her hand and looked up to see the champions with wet, red eyes. She handed the note to Red and Hilbert came up to her, comforting her to the best of his abilities. Meanwhile Red looked over the sticky note:
Dear Serena, and all the others who will read this, probably Red,
I'm going somewhere before something bad happens.
I don't think I have the time to write what it is so I hope you will understand the necessity of my disappearances. The other champions can explain my situation to you.
What comes from hereon I only want the other champions to read.
Good-Bye Serena.
Guys, it looks like its slowly gaining control. I heard a clue on where Arceus is not too long ago, so I'm going after him as a final gambit. The destination is Spear Pillar, probably my best bet.
Try to help Serena as best as you can.
I'll see you soon guys.
Red gave Ethan the sticky note before he went into Calem's room and rummaged through his things. The other champions followed him one by one after reading the sticky note, except for Hilbert who decided to stay with Serena to comfort her until Yellow arrived. He didn't need to wait long because Yellow came as quickly as she could and Hilbert joined the champions in searching Calem's room. They were hoping to find something that said that Calem wasn't planning on going to Spear Pillar. Spear Pillar had become incredibly unstable after Lucas had caught Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. The champions didn't fear treading onto Spear Pillar, but no one knew what would happen if someone were to try to do something on top of it.
"Hey, guys, help me here," Lucas said, pointing to a chest. Red and Ethan came over and looked at the chest. It was a big chest made out of a dark wood. The hinges were well oiled and maintained, the lock was a lock with a key, simple but effective. Brendan threw a key over to Ethan and they unlocked the chest. Everyone looked at the contents, books and notes thrown into the chest, some loose pieces of paper and parchment containing ink, carefully formed into words or pictures. Each of the champions grabbed something and looked through it.
"Mine is a legend of Spear Pillar," Lucas commented.
"And mine is a report of a doctor, telling of his patients who had nightmares and good dreams one day after the other," Brendan said. They noticed that all of the things were on either Spear Pillar or Darkrai and Cresselia.
"If I had these before I went on my journey, I would've saved myself a lot of time in stopping Team Galactic," Lucas sounded impressed.
"But most of these things are legends, the occasional scientific report out of which you can barely conclude that it is connected to either Spear Pillar or Darkrai and Cresselia," Hilbert voiced.
"We all caught legendary Pokémon, Pokémon everyone thought didn't exist. We didn't doubt their existence nor did we look critically at legends or reports that could have to do with them. Hilbert, these are probably the best clues anyone could wish for if he wanted to research these things," Red finally said. He had stayed silent because the entire chest confirmed something, something they all didn't want to believe. Calem had promised them that he would search for Arceus slowly, properly. But he decided to rush the search because of Darkrai, that meant that Darkrai was getting to him faster and faster.
"But maybe all of these drawings are frauds! They show parts of Spear Pillar that don't exist!" Hilbert argued.
"No, these drawings are older than written history," Brendan began, "the styles don't match to any of our known drawings. They're probably older than the cave drawings of Dialga and Palkia. The parchment is amazing to have survived this long, I would love to see what kind of tools they used to create it and what the ink is made of."
"But it looks so well drawn, like a sketch we would draw nowadays with a pencil," Ethan commented.
"That's what confused me at first too, I thought that it has to be fifty years old at the most, but the parchment doesn't match to that age and the style is different. It seems refined at first, but it's very primitive upon further investigation," Brendan explained, "the Spear Pillar drawings are incredible, they show parts that have probably broken off with time... I wish I could've seen Spear Pillar when it looked like this…"
The room was silent and then Red said: "We're going to Spear Pillar."
