"Seeing as much as I did makes you wish you were blind, feeling as much as I did makes you wish you were numb, experiencing as much as I did makes you wish you were someone else, who I am ? I am your team, your partner, your comrades and your friend.
I am one and I am many, I am pokémon"
Isabella Campell-Jones, Head of the People For Pokémon organisation (December 5th, 2528)
Chapter Sixteen
Enter the faces from the past.
We hid behind a group of rocks when he heard her, screaming loudly as she searched us, her voice nothing but anger. I still swear that Amber is bi-polar, just look at her. Josh didn't dare to breathe, his face was stuck in a frightened way as he kept on staring ahead of him, scared to be found by the devil reincarnated, yes I mean Amber, as we waited. And waited. And waited some more.
It took two hours for the screaming to stop only to be replaced by a even scarier sound as Amber was probably pacing around as she said "Joshie if you hear this you'll die .. I'll slowly dismember you before roasting you over a stick and .. " I placed my hands atop of my ears and tried not to listen, it brought back unwanted memories from the man that tried to kill us and I shuddered before grabbing something to distract myself.
It ended up being my cellphone, I missed about 37 calls from my mom, which I all deleted, and was soon busy pushing various buttons just to see what happened. And yes I made sure the sound was off, I don't have a death wish. I ended up finding I had wireless connection to the internet ! I scanned the search engine for interesting news when I saw a piece about the attack at Slaterport, I selected it and the page began to load, very .. very slowly.
"The Slaterport attack has not yet been claimed by either an individual nor a group but various insiders have reported that the old criminal organisations, Team Rocket for example, might have resurfaced and once again tried to get world domination, or in the Rocket's case money. Various eye-witnesses have seen a yellow R on the jackets the terrorists in Slaterport wore and people are now speculating what it might mean, we from the Daily Tailow believe it to just be a bunch of sick people that should be treated like a disease, annhihilate it before it can do damage. With this new insight more trainers in Hoenn have joined the manhunt for those that wear a yellow R on any piece of clothing to avenge the Slaterport Attack, not caring that they could be innocent at all for the thirst for vengeance is to strong and we off the Daily Tailow agree with those trainers, make those people suffer.
Amanda and Gerald Weithfield, The Daily Tailow"
The Daily Tailow was known for it's rather blunt articles on subjects that could be touchy, but they never lied they only added their opinions. All they would print was the truth, and if they said that Hoenn trainers were hunting down the terrorists than it was the truth.
I silently showed Josh the article and he grew even paler and looked at me with questionmarks visible in his eyes "Yeah .. it's true" I whispered, not to let Amber hear us .. wherever she was.
After fifteen minutes of being bored I decided to let Bob be our scout and have her look wheter Amber was near, why the Bidoof ? Because they are as common as dirt and a Nidorino or Buneary would draw unwanted attention from her. And Garret would probably escape, I haven't let the guy out from his ball in quite som time now .. well .. maybe I'll let him out today, to train or at least attempt to.
Or not, but first we had to focus on operation AMBER, aka operation All Men Be Equally on the Run. Bob returned after about twenty minutes and when I asked her if Amber was near she just gnawed on a rock, so much for help from my pokémon. Josh then decided it would be safe enough for him to stand up and actually do something and we walked a little bit further away from the entrance of the cave, hiding behind the equally boring brown-ish rocks would probably work, right ?
I didn't waste any time letting my pokémon out of their respective balls, only to find out when I attempted to grab Nate's that I grabbed Goliath's and soon I was busy writing with a thick yellow marker pen that Josh managed to find inside of his bed on each of my pokémon's balls, Nate got the sign you see on containers with toxic stuff inside of it, Goliath a GO, Bob was lucky enough to get her whole name, and Garret got a GA. Josh only let Lola out of her ball just to hug her some more and whisper mindless promises about winning contests and being superstars. I sighed and fumbled with Garret's ball contemplating if I should or should not let him out of what would probably feel like his prison. Maybe pokéballs were very comfortable and they liked being inside of it, maybe they were empty grey spheres without food, water, and a toilet .. if that is true than that means they can never .. ever go to the toilet when being held in their balls .. which would be nothing but pure agony. And I'm the one that keeps them captive in those things .. I decided to ignore the matter would I ever want to continue my journey with a good conscience and without feeling immense guilt when I returned my pokémon to their respective prisons.
It was then, when I was utterly failing at not-thinking about the deeper philosophy of the red-and-white capture machines that I heard a familiar voice from behind me.
"And what're y'all doin' 'round here ?" it said and when I turned around I was face to face with Ed, no Serlena or Abraham in sight, just good ole Ed. I wa so happy to see him that even though we weren't friends or anything I could have kissed the guy, Josh just jumped up and down while rapidly explaining everything that happened in the time he was busy beating people or something, I just nodded and said "Yeah" or "That's how it went" every few seconds while a frown became more and more apparent on Ed's face.
"So .. if ah'm correct y'all were atacked by some guy speaking French that killed yer friend Marwin ?" "Martin." "Sure, Martin it is, and then that crazy girl Amber joined ye when Danny left, am I right ?" Josh and I nodded in sync. "Holy crap man .. that sucks"
We both nodded again as Ed continued "And now ye want the great Ed to help ye out ?"
And we nodded again, could nodding give you a whiplash ?
Ed grinned as he watched us "Sure deal guys, I'll help ye out with the girl, no girl can resist the Ed so she'll leave ya alone Josh"
Grateful for Ed's help we decided to wait untill evening fell to walk through the cave, all Ed's idea, and he'd sent Arr and V and his newly aquired Que (a Quagsire) out to help us surviving the cave, and the Amber inside of it, and in the time we had left he'd even help us train. And sure we were once again having an innocent bystander to get us through a cave (not because we're afraid but because
there is an Amber in there) and yes he'd probably get traumatized in the process, but then again .. as long as I'm fine and Josh's fine then it's alright.
By the time we found a decent place to train it was around three o'clock and I decided that my pokémon too should have their food, Nate and Bob excluded, and asked Josh if he wanted to let Paul out too, which he didn't. The moment I threw Garret's pokéball in the air he was gone, the purple-ish pokémon leaving in a flash only to once again be stopped by a mid-air tackle from my awesome Buneary, just because he's awesome. And within half an hour the Gligar was so exhausted he fell to the ground and crawled to the plate with the food on it and within two minutes it was all gone, even the plate.
But seeing how I didn't have the slightest idea about how to train the Gligar I let him, forced, him back in his ball. Then I turned my attention back to Bob and I swore I could hear the theme music that was played in every movie when the villain got an evil plan to rule the world, my evil plan consisted of training Bob for she still is the weakest, and dumbest, pokémon I had. And soon Bob and I set out in search for weak pokémon.
The weak pokémon turned out to be a flock of Starly that were extremely weak and soon we were down to the last one. "Tackle it again Bob, come on !" I yelled as Bob waggled to the fat Starly that was flying towards her and pecking her head, which apparently didn't hurt the Bidoof much for she ignored it, and when the Starly landed she finally tackled it and once again the advantage of being a very, very heavy pokémon was used to her advantage as the Starly fainted. I won, again. But then it happened, the faint silver glow took over Bob's body as she began to transfrom. Shit was the only thouht that ran through my head as I pictured myself with a huge Bibarel trailing behind us, requiring tons of food and slowing us down even more. So I did the only thing I could, I grabbed some rocks and started throwing them at her now transforming head and after throwing some heavier rocks the glowing stopped and she shrank back to her original form, a simple Bidoof. I could've cried at how happy I was seeing her as a Bidoof .. the only problem was the fact that she appeared to be unconscious and she had a few big lumps on her head .. but that didn't mind for she was still a Bidoof.
And no annoying,ugly and dumb, and not to mention fat, Bibarel standing in her place.
When I returned to where Josh and Ed were training, or rather just sitting and shouting random orders in Ed's case or sitting and just wathcing in Josh's, I was still pale and shaken from my not-so-near-dead experience with Bob and sat down to play some more with my cellphone while watching Nate and Goliath battle Arr and Que, V was silently watching from the sidelines. "Jacob, " Ed yelled from his position a few metres away from me "Why aren't ye ordering ye'rr pokémon ?" I shrugged "Well .. Nate doesn't listen and Goliath's cool enough to do it himself ... " Josh looked at Ed as he made some hand gestures "aka he can't order Nate and he is too busy hero-worshipping his Buneary, which is a girly pokémon now I think of it, to order him around .. isn't it Shrimp ?" I just glared and mouthed 'Paul' as Josh gulped and when I mouthed 'Amber' he visibly shuddered.
He's such an easily scared person.
Which I, of course, use to my advantage when necessary.
And no, I didn't forget my totally normal phobia of .. bugs .. because that is normal and isn't almost everyone afraid of bugs ? Except Josh, and Danny, and Ed, and my parents, and Lisa, Amber has been a bug in a previous life, it explains why I'm scared of her, but the rest of the people will probably agree with me and my plan to rid the world of bugs and make it a better place. That, and to one day own my own Growlithe, that would be awesome.
When evening fell we grabbed our flashlights, pokémon and went in the cave, Ed walked up front with me and Josh trailing behind and our pokémon forming an egg-shaped circle around us, all of them minus Nate for he once again left to go his own way, and I stil didn't care.
Then we heard a sound behind us, a bark of some sorts and when we aimed our lights at it a red-orange blur once again sped by us but not before peeing on Ed's shoes, I suddenly got a deja-vu feeling as I recalled similar encounters with blurs of red-orange. Weird ...
We ate our lovely dinner, canned Magikarp and Ed got himself a nice fire-roasted Zubat at which he commented it tasted just like Pidgey which Josh and I didn't believe.
I got Goliath to Fire-Punch some Geodudes which sadly enough didn't have any effect except for the fact that some of the Geodude's rock-hard skin melted, which was incredibly funny to watch but turned out not to be funny when we got chased by an angry Graveler only to have it Razor-Leafed into unconsciousness. Bless V and his grass-pokémon-awesomeness.
It was Nate, who was apparantly walking about 50 metres behind us, who first reacted to the sound that carried through the cave. With a loud growl that sounded even scarier when resounding off the walls of the cave he charged forwards only to stop in front of Ed, his big ears focused on something we didn't hear in front of us.
"oh oh oh, tres magnifique !" a feminine voice said from the shadows, I suddenly got Nate's reaction, it was French. I unconsciously stepped a few steps back and watched the shadows with a frown, who was the owner of the voice ? Then a woman stepped forwards, dressed in a ridiculusly big dress and with a Missmagius floating behind her, it was Josh who spoke first.
"You are Fantina !" he nearly squealed as he charged forward to grab her hands, regardless of the fact that he tripped over some rocks in the process, and soon started talking again.
"You are the Hearthome Gymleader as well as a top coördinator and a trainer of Ghost-pokémon and I've been your fan since like .. forever !" he said, voice overly happy, as he started rambling about him wanting to be just as good and about his Lola, he purposely ignored Paul, and then proceeded to show her Lola and sum up her good points untill Fantina saw slightly green.
"Now I understand Pierre's reasons" she mumbled with a disdainfull look as she watched Josh's rambling, "Excusez moi, I must leave zee now for I have more things to do in my .. eh .. gym ..oui en mon gym !" and with that she left quickly, a remarkable feat while wearing that dress.
Josh continued talking about Fantina for another fifteen minutes even after she left and I had to silence him with a "Did I hear Amber ?" which in fact even made me scared a little and I gave Nate some remains from our Magikarp lunch for actually doing something that could be discribed as nice, or he was trying to get even on the evil Frenchman. Anyway, it was nice and to get him to do that again I might have to reward him .. like one would with a pet Skitty.
Only my Skitty has poisonous spikes and only cares about himself.
And definetly isn't cute or cuddly, definetly not.
Then I heard the screeching of tires from the right and I nearly wet my pants as I recalled that Amber had stolen a bike not to long ago, oh crap.
"Ed" I whispered, "Ed it's her, she's here !" Ed flashed me a grin before straightening his clothes and whispered back "Le'me do this for ye, it'll be easeh" as he walked towards where the sound came from, and then, from the shadows and with imaginary scary music came Amber. She looked as scary as ever as she stared at Josh with a mix of confusion and anger and at me with pure, blinding hate. I'm going to die.
"So," Amber began "You dumped me in a cave, how .. lovely" she hissed as she pointed to the bike now lying in the dust and then at herself and the cave. "And to think about how nice I've been to you .. to just dump me like that you little pests" she said, venom leaking from her voice, "And now I'm going to-" she suddenly looked at Ed "-What ?" for Ed was looking at her with eyes staring at her with a cold stare from under his cowboy-hat and a not-so-amused thin line that appeared to be his lips. "So lady ah hear ye've been annoyin' my mates here" he said, voice sharp "And ah dun like that now do ah ?" he mentioned his team "And now ah've got to ask ye real nice to leave mmkay ?" it wasn't exactly how we suspected he'd do it, we guessed he would charm her, but it worked right ? But then he looked at her again and suddenly something wary appeared in his eyes "Holy .. ye'r that Amber aint ya ?"
Amber nodded with a tight and forced smile as her 'other' side appeared "Oh dearies yes I am!" she said with a cheerful voice.
Ed looked at us with an unhappy look in his eyes "for Amber here .. killed her teacher and has stolen all but one of all the pokémon she owns"
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The woman's voice sounded angry through the phone as she spoke in a foreign language while occasionally spitting out some English. "I saw zee children myself ! Ze young one was gone mais c'est-" her voice was cut off by a man's "-C'est impossible !" he shouted through his end of the phone before the woman started speaking again "Non ! Pierre, I saw zem myself do you not trust me ?" The man's voice once again started speaking, slightly calmer now "I do, ma cheri, mais .. do not hate me for doubting ma chere .. now we will just have to try again, non ?" and he hung up.
The woman's maniacal laugh was heard resounding of the walls of the Hearthome Gym for minutes before the same twisted smirk appeared on her face as it had once done on the man'
YES HALLELUHJAH I MANAGED TO UPDATE, NOT THANKS TO YOU STUPID NOT-WORKING WI-FI !
Sorry, that had te be done. Chapter itself has 3155 words.
Disclaimer: I own my computer, Jacob, Josh and the crew, I own a Nintendo DS and every single pokémon generation (the games) made and I own several books, sadly enough I don't own Pokémon or this laptop, or a good wi-fi connection ;(
Neelyn8r and I are now selling tickets for her Rocky (Jolteon) and my Nate (Nidorino) their underground match in the Goldenrod City Underground, buy your ticket now for 35,50 euros ! It's a bargain, and for every 15 tickets someone will get a meet and greet with either Nate or Rocky, BEWARE: We do NOT take responsibility for any injury, or death, or traumas, or paralysis, or poisoning, sustained by either of them.
It took me sooooo long to get enough time to write this chap, and I'm happy with how it turned out, not exactly how I planned it (it would've been much shorter) and seeing how I wrote it once but it died I changed lots of things compared to that one, they would´ve battled a Togepi and trained Garret, otherwise: boring ~
But it's here now and I'm very glad I could finally update, I felt very bad for not doing so earlier, and I really hope you guys like it too !
Oh and Neelyn8r, my wi-fi is so slow I have to wait for half an hour to type the short message I wrote you quite some time ago so I'll try to reply soon, I did read it though, and the same goes for writing reviews etc .. in short: It sucks.
Explaining things:
1. What is the stupid orange-red blur ? If you haven't found out by now you're slow, or I'm not as smart as I thought.
2. Why did Jacob stop Bob from evolving ? Think and it will all make sense ... aka, reread his thoughts about it.
3. Fantina, seriously ? Oh yes dear readers, everything is posible in the deep, dark hole that is my mind .. I did a repainting job on it some timw ago, it used to be all pink and sparkleeehh ~ *Gives erveryone love,unicorns,pink hats, and cake* yay ~
Reviewers:
TwewyReaperGirl:
The writer person totally loves reviews, they make her day ! Which is currently filled with lounging in a chair while wearing all the clothes I can find (Socks, pants,long sleeved shirt, a sweater) which pisses of my mom because it's very hot here (According to Dutch standards) and I guess most of us is still in school, except for the rare adult reading this but they are working ;) GIMME CHOCOLATE ! my Larvitar likes chocolate ... ;D
Omega The Omniscient:
*Cue scary music and insane laughter* I loveeeee making villians, says the girl afraid of horror movies, and did I succeed in making Amber even scarier ? Your reason for Danny's leaving is exactly mine, he wouldn't last long .. Amber probably will now we know some of her dirty secrets ! Well seeing how I and most other girls have the *coughcough* monthly stuff *coughcough* I can easily tell you that in my case it sucks and I would NOT go on some journey through some foreign place, through rain and wind, sandstorms etc ... the fact that I have to walk already makes me love the fact that I'm not Jacob, or Josh, imagine being Nate !
Neelyn8r:
Do you still like Amber now ? I do, but I made her .. Xena Warrior Princess goes evil, Ed Saves the Day ! and Danny is fine .. I guess .. poor him ... and let the money flow in for our match ! Maybe we can use your suggestion and have others of our teams fight as well ... *has $ for eyes* I can see myself in a BIIIIGGG house with a BIIIGGG car (Which I can't even drive) and a BIIIIGGG television.
Next update ? Honestly don't know .. did this chapter in one afternoon .. sitting in a chair .. ... anyway. I will return home next Friday the 22th I believe and then updates will be regular and at least 2/3 times a WEEK ;)
Don't hate me for taking so long, please leave a review and tell me what you think .. or leave me a chocolate cake, or just saying 'HI !' fine too ..