This is the shortest chapter, but it has some very importantant points. I thank everyone for reading my story, and after at least 35 chapters, there will be a sequal, so please stay with me here!
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Mac slowly opened her eyes and looked carefully around the forest like area of route 204. She yawned and stretched her aching muscles.
"Flooooon!" Mac turned to see Drifloon making some potato soup. She smiled at the balloon Pokémon and was greeted by a bowl of steaming soup.
"Thanks for the soup, Drifloon." Mac began scarfing down the soup as fast as she could. The rest of her Pokémon woke up and popped out of their pokéballs to eat. Before long, Mac and her team were well rested and well fed.
"Hey! You, trainer, I challenge you to a Pokémon Battle!" Mac looked up at a young boy holding out a pokéball.
"Three against three, okay?" Mac asked. The boy nodded.
Mac sent out Drifloon, and the boy sent out a Bidoof.
"Go Boofy!" The boy called. "Use tackle!" The beaver-like Pokémon ran at full speed towards Drifloon.
"Use confuse ray, then gust." A small ball of ghost energy was shot towards the foe, confusing it on impact. As the Pokémon moved around trying to get its bearings, Drifloon caused a small tornado of wind and pushed it towards the Bidoof. The Pokémon got sucked up and battered around a few times until it fainted.
"No! Boofy, come back!" The boy returned the Pokémon to its pokéball and threw another one out.
"Go Tatek!" the boy sent out a Kriketot. "Use bide!" The Pokémon started to store energy.
"Use gust again." The foe Kriketot fainted like the Bidoof did before. Frustrated, the boy sent out his last Pokémon.
"Go Biddy! Use tackle!" The Bidoof charged, but another gust fainted it.
"Great job, Drifloon!" Mac praised her Pokémon.
"Flooooon!" Drifloon was covered in a blue light, and her form began to become distorted. Mac watched as the two limbs Drifloon used to have split into four and thickened. Her balloon-like body augmented and her onyx eyes turned a crimson color. The once blue fringe below her body also turned red. The bluish light faded, and before her eyes, Mac saw that Drifloon had evolved.
"Drifblim!" Drifblim called and nuzzled her trainer. Mac hugged her Pokémon and laughed.
"You evolved!"
The boy Mac had beaten tossed money their way.
"Good battle. Nice meeting you."
Mac smiled at him. "Nice meeting you to." And the two trainers went their separate ways. Mac packed up her stuff and headed towards Florama Town. She walked up the path until she reached the entrance of Ravage Path. Noticing that if she floated up, she would reach the northern part of route 204 without having to go into the cave. Drifblim carried her up and set her down at the top. Mac looked around; it was unusually quiet. There were no trainers anywhere. Mac shrugged and entered Florama Town.
Inside the town, people were buzzing around the usually quiet town. A little girl ran towards her.
"Trainer, please save my daddy! Team Galactic has taken over Valley Windworks and kidnapped my daddy! They're also in the Florama Meadow! Please help!" Mac tried to calm the girl down before heading off towards the Valley Windworks.
"Home…" Mac stopped in her tracks when she heard a voice. She looked around trying to find the source of the voice. Drifblim, still by her side, looked around longingly.
"Home…" Mac watched Drifblim, and realized she was hearing her thoughts.
"How…" Drifblim turned to look at her.
"I… Home…" Mac nodded. This was Drifblim's home before she started to travel with Mac. The windmills blew air gently towards the pair and the sweet scent of honey wafted through the air. Up ahead, the Pokémon and her trainer saw the Valley Windworks building and walked towards it. Mac tried the door, but it was locked.
"Dang it!" she almost shouted. Misdreavus came out of his pokéball. He shrieked and disappeared.
"Misdreavus!?" Mac yelled in confusion and surprise. Drifblim shrugged.
"Where did he go?" Mac wondered to herself, hoping her Pokémon would return soon.
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Must help Mac. Misdreavus thought to himself. He wandered the halls trying to find a way to open the door.
Voices… He floated towards the sound warily and peered at the source from behind a pillar. He saw a lady in red with a funny looking dress and funky red hair. He laughed to himself watching her.
"Hurry up!" she commanded, "Gather as much energy as you can, we need it for Cyrus. He wants it so we can sap as much energy as we can from Darkrai, when it arrives." Misdreavus listened quietly. All he really understood was they were stealing energy and something about the Pokémon Mac was trying to capture.
"Let me go, please! My daughter is worried sick." The man in a white lab coat was probably who Mac was trying to find, Misdreavus guessed. He scanned the rest of the room, his eyes stopping on a cage in the back of the room. His squinted trying to see better, and when he realized who it was, his eyes widened.
"You'll never get Darkrai. Mac will stop you." It was Seth.
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OOOOOHHHH! Misdreavus found Seth, but what shall happen next? Will he be rescued already? Or will Mac narrowly miss him? Stay tuned to find out!