Sorry it took so long. But the wait is over! Senior year is here, and I'm almost free. A lot has happened this past couple of months but I'm here. Enough talk...
….::::Chapter 3-Choice::::...
Cerulean City at night was a sea of neon lights and excitement of Friday night. The city limits were crowded with groups of people laughing, walking, and everything in between. Cars rushed against the curves of the streets that ribboned through the economic jungle.
At the Cerulean Gym/House, Lily was adorned in her room in front of a mirror, reflecting her hair down. She got up and brushed her dark violet cocktail dress down to the tip of her upper knee. Lily looked at her alarm clock. "6:40 PM...He'll be here at seven o'clock...I should call him..." She walked to her cellphone, and picked it up. She paused and looked down.
"I can't call him...He'll think I'm desperate for him." Lily slammed her cell into her little purse and walked out her room door. A slam of her door echoed through the hallway. Violet walked out her room and looked at Lily walking out.
"Where are you going?"
Lily stopped but didn't turn around. "Out...in the city..."
"You driving or..."
"I'm going with Gary Oak."
Violet folded her arms in disapproval. She sighed. "Seriously?..."
Lily finally turned around. "Listen, I didn't ask for your damn approval. Your not my mom so I don't even know why I should care for your opinion."
Violet dropped her arms. "I know Mom isn't here! I'm your sister! My opinion should be more important than our own mother's."
Lily looked at the clock. "Gary picking me up at seven...I'm going..." Violet ran and grabbed Lily's arm.
Lily turned. "What?" Violet gave her a look of concern. "Listen...I know Mom not being here has got you a little rattled up but it's no excuse for you to be all angry at me! Sorry if I'm cutting into your personal life but I just don't like Gary Oak being with you at night, in the city, ALONE."
Lily rolled her eyes. "What am I? 16 now?"
"Your 21 years old. All I'm asking from you is to act your age and have dignity. Don't let him pressure you into anything.", Violet said in concern.
"Fine...Can you let me go now 'Mom'?"
Violet sighed and let her grip go. Lily smiled at her and went out the door. The purple haired woman stood there in worry.
"So this is how Mom used to feel about us when going out. I just got a bad feeling about tonight..."
Lily looked at her watch. Seven o'clock sharp and Gary wasn't in front of Lily's house/gym. She looked up the road and saw a black sports car that could seat 4 people speeding up to the Gym. The car came to a screeching stop right in front of her. Lily flinched and stepped back a step. The passenger's side window rolled down, revealing a man in a black leather jacket, wearing a purple t-shirt that had a zubat on it saying, "Going Batty?", dark blue jeans, and black shoes.
Lily stepped up to the car and leaned down and looked at the driver. It was Gary, but it really didn't look like 'him'. His appearance made him look way older than Lily. He was wearing shades. Gary tipped his glasses down to get a good look at Lily.
"You gonna just stand there or what?"
Lily blinked. "Well...It's just that...you look older..."
Gary looked at his front mirror. "Really?...Hmm..."
She got into the car and buckled up. "Ready?"
Gary nodded and reached for the stick to switch to drive...-BZZZZZZZ!-
He reached in one of his jacket pockets and pulled his phone out. He looked at it with disagreement. Gary opened the door and got out. "Just a minute Lily, if you don't mind?" Lily shook her head no. Gary slammed the door and stepped went to the side of the Gym. When he got far enough from the car, he held his phone to his ear.
"What is it?"
"Gary. Did you get Ash to join us?"
Gary grinned victoriously. "Thawed chicken blood really does something useful...He couldn't resist chicken blood...Who can?"
Laughing was heard on the other side of the line. "Excellent. What have you brought us to eat tonight?"
Gary turned around to Lily sitting in the car, applying makeup on her face. "A pink haired girl, she's an O-type...the rarest of all blood types!"
"Haven't had O-type in forever! This is a night never to forget."
"Couldn't agree anymore...", Gary licked his top lip on that remark, "But first, I have to get a certain girl off my ass."
"Just don't let her know that your...one of us..."
"Too late for that shit..."
"YOU TOLD HER?"
"HELL to the NO. She's close to figuring it out...I think...She may already know."
"Then kill her!"
"It's not that easy...Bet she's just WAITING to tell the police...", He clinched his fists tightly.
"How old is she?"
"Around 17-ish, she's turning 18 this year."
"They'll never believe her. They'll think she's been drinking with friends."
Gary raised an eyebrow, "I hope. Listen I have to go, I'll be by the Chariot Bar. I'm gonna try to get her alone there by the river where we can take her..."
"And no one will ever know what happened to her...", laughing came from the other line.
Gary laughed to himself. "Exactly...Be there in hour."
"An hour right. See you there." -click!-
Gary bleeped his phone off. He smiled to himself, and walked to the side window of the house part of the Gym. He peered through the window, and saw Misty brushing her hair in a mirror. He continued walking to the back door near Misty's room. It was open. He walked quietly to Misty's room. The door was wide open, unfortunately for her, but she was in her own universe.
She couldn't stop thinking about what Ash told her about what happened to him. "It's...unreal...how can someone just do that...", she said to herself while brushing her hair. Putting down her brush, she went into thought on how Ash was so...resistant to the bites.
"If Ash was bit once then, according to the legend, he should have...changed into those freaks at Mt. Moon, but he didn't. When he got bit by that Zubat with one fang, his personality changed until the sunlight shined on him, and he fainted. When he woke up, he's was normal...Oh Ash, what's happening to you...Gary...everything?"
"So you do know."
Misty got up and rapidly turned around to find Gary standing there, leaning on the wall, content. Her heart skipped a beat and yelled, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM? How did-"
Gary walked up to her. "Maybe you should lock your back doors in this place."
Misty got a hold of herself and put her guard up. "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be on your date with Lily?", she said in a mocking tone.
He walked up in front of her and stuck his finger in front of her. "She doesn't matter now, what matters now is YOU." He put his hand down and looked at her outfit. Gary spotted shoes on her feet.
"Going somewhere?", he asked sternly.
Misty looked to the side. "What's it to you?", she said with a smirk. Gary detected what she was really going to do tonight. He grabbed her shirt, held her up and slammed her into her bed. She rolled right into the wall painfully. Misty grunted and tried to get up.
Gary's shadow engulfed her as he stood over her. His tone was with annoyance.
"LISTEN REDHEAD. If you follow me and you damn sister on our date together, I'll make sure you'll never get in my way ever again."
Misty pulled herself up. "Is that supposed to scare me?", she said tauntingly.
Gary reached out and pulled her shirt to him again. His pupils began to go small. "Just remember who's has a better chance in winning...", he grinned, showing his needle pointed fangs to her.
Misty shivered. "I know what you did to Ash! You bit him!"
"I knew he wouldn't keep his mouth shut, but you don't have to worry about him anymore."
Misty's eyes went wide. "You..."
Gary shook his head. "No, I didn't kill him, but lets just say he's in my gang now..."
"You think I'm just going to sit here and just let you get away with this?"
Gary slammed her on the wall, which rattled the frames on the wall. She landed on her bed with aches in her back. He walked to her signature red bag filled with almost all her pokeballs. Gary took the bag and swung it over his shoulder.
"Lets see how far you get without your precious water pokemon to protect you now." He walked out to the back door. Gary stopped in Misty's doorway and turned to her.
"One last thing, I'd watch for anyone named Craig. You know the one you almost drowned in Mt. Moon with the others? He's out for you Misty. Get in my way and I'll let him deal with you. He's itching to know what you taste like..." He walked out laughing to the horrors he warned on Misty.
When the back door slammed. She wobbled to the floor. "T-T-That asshole..." She held her arm that was slammed into the wall. Misty got on her knees and pulled out an old shoe box from under the bed. She opened it, revealing a small pokeball. She picked it up and pushed the box under the bed again. Misty stood up and walked out the back door to catch up with Gary.
"You didn't get all my pokemon Gary."
Gary walked to his car and opened the trunk and swung Misty's bag in.
"There. Keep those hidden." He said to his trunk and walked to the driver's seat of the car. Misty ran out from the side of the Gym. When she arrived to the front, the black sports car drove off into the road towards the city.
She took out the pokeball and clicked it large. "I promised myself that I wouldn't use him until it was an emergency, but this is a sheer catastrophe and I need him." She threw her pokeball violently into the night sky.
"GO TOGEKISS!"
The ball busted white light out and formed an elegant bird-like creature that yelped in grace, and floated down in front of Misty, waiting for her commands. She jumped on Togekiss' back. "Lets go togekiss! To the center of the city!" She pointed to the tallest buildings in the city. The bird pokemon defied the wind and flew above the city for a better view.
"Your not going to stop me from saving my sister and Ash."
Togekiss flew into the night sky.
The river near Cerulean was flowing in a rapid pace due to the dam generating electricity to the city. Up the stream were shops and bars around the water that ran through the city. Boats were perched on the sides of the river tied up for the day of fishing and other markets. There was one bar that seemed to have the greatest life in all the river blocks.
The Chariot Bar.
It is interesting bar to go to. A live alternate music band was performing tonight for tip money and was actually soothing to all the people at the bar and people eating with friends and family. With the large double square bar built when renovating the place, gave it more jobs for bar tenders and a lot of business.
People were walking with drinks and talking their jaws off. Even though in all the confusion, people still were able to have a good time. The black sports car couple walked in the bar and sat in the circular leather booths.
A waitress came to their table and pulled out a notepad. "Welcome to The Chariot Bar. What can I get for you this wonderful evening?"
Lily tapped her lip in thought. "Umm...I'll just go for a lime margarita and 6 crab biscuits with it." The waitress scribbled away and turned to Gary. "And you sir?" Gary looked at her, "I'll have a...Bloody Mary, and make it strong." The waitress nodded. "Okay well, since you look so young, I'm going to have to ask for some I.D. Please?", she asked Lily
Lily pulled her official Pokemon trainer card out. The woman looked at the card and nodded. "Okay miss your alright." She looked at Gary. "Now you look old enough to be 27." The waitress laughed and walked off with their order.
Lily looked at Gary. She put up her card. "A Bloody Mary?" Gay looked at her. "What? Too much?"
"No but...I never thought that you would like that kind of drink...and why do you look older? You've been smoking?"
"No baby. I ain't into nicotine. Plus that stuff would stink up my car."
"Your right...Sorry for thinking that about you."
Gary scooted next to Lily and placed his arm around her. "I forgive."
"I mean, your not that much of a bad person."
"What are you talking about?", Gary asked in concern.
"Well...", she started, "My sisters think that your not the best kind of friend, I mean you sort of play with Ash rougher than you should. I know your boys but there are limits...Plus you have been acting weird lately..."
Gary looked down at the table, looking ashamed. "That's always me. The big bad person. Just because I have the ability to grasp skills and train pokemon to their full potential, I'm a show off..." Lily turned to Gary and held his left hand. "I'm sorry! I didn't try to make you look like a bad person. I think your a great person. It's just that some people just need to level themselves with you."
He felt compassion for Lily's defense for him. Gary was always a bad person to his sisters. He regrets liking the blonde one. It was sad that he wanted to eat a girl who stuck up for him when the world seemed to knock him down.
"Can't believe I'm starting to feel bad about eating Lily, but the gang is counting on me for this night's meal... Did I get the wrong girl?"
Gary frowned for what he was going to to this night. A sound of sizzling made Gary flinch. He started to hold his head in slight pain. Gritting his teeth, he got up from the booth. Lily looked up at him. "Where are you going?" Gary looked back at her. "Outside for some air...", with that said, he bolted out to the deck.
He took the stairs to the second leveled building outside. The outside deck was quiet, no one was out. Gary leaned on the wall and turned to the wall, holding his aching head.
"What the fuck is up with this headache?", he shouted to himself.
"Your mistress, that's what the fuck is up."
Gary looked up in concentration on this telepathic conversation. He stared at the brick wall.
"What's the deal with you giving me this damn headache! I'm doing what you said!"
"That's not the problem! I'm feeling a little bit of REGRET from your heart."
"…..."
"I'm waiting Gary."
"Can't I get some other girl? I picked the wrong girl...she's sticking up for me when everyone else is calling me a bad person."
"I DON'T GIVE A RATTATA'S ASS ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS TOWARDS HER!"
Gary snarled at her. "Well I don't care about YOUR feelings towards her either! I mean, she probably can persuade everyone to get off my ass and get everyone to agree that I'm doing anything funny."
"I don't know Gary...It sounds like a good plan, but the group at Mt. Moon are going to expect something to eat."
"Let me worry about that. Leave it to me, and I'll guarantee that I'll get somebody tonight."
"Just don't attract too much attention. Oh and let me handle your little breakage of feelings, it appears that your old self tried to break out."
Gary's vision got dark for a minute and felt a little dazed. When his vision returned, he felt the new emotions coming back to him just like when he was first changed. He grinned sinisterly to himself in success of his new emotions of looking out for number one, him.
His eye color got darker brown than they should have been. He breathed in the riverside air and exhaled in relief.
"Ahh, yes...much better than before. Thanks mistress."
Humming of laughter was heard in Gary's head. "Always looking after my minions. One more thing, get Ash out of that trunk in your car. He's about to suffocate."
Gary smacked his head in forgetfulness. "God dammit! I forgot about him! Have to go."
The mistress sighed. "I must look after my minions..."
The connection was broke and Gary rushed around the bar to get to his car. While running, he checked around to see if anyone was watching him. Didn't want questions about why was a person was in his car's trunk.
Meanwhile, 50 stories above ground...
Togekiss was gliding above the city slowly. Misty was looking around for Gary's black sports car, but couldn't find it. She had lost his car through the underground tunnel that went under the railroad stationary in Cerulean.
"Damn. It. All! I can't find his car anywhere...Lily talked about going to some bar near the river...They're probably there by now. Let's go by the river near the middle of the city."
Togekiss obeyed and flew lower to look out for the river that ran through the city. He spotted running water and glided toward it. Misty looked up and down the river. She spotted a bar full of people outside the front. Misty scanned the parking lot and found a black sports car, just like Gary's.
"That has to be it. Take us down by those bushes on the side."
The two landed behind the bushes, and ducked down. Misty pulled out her only pokeball and held it out to Togekiss. "I may need you again, so be ready. Togekiss return." The radiant red light beamed the bird pokemon back into its little home. She tuned toward the bushes and looked through to spot Gary rushing to his car.
"So he IS here. I've got you now you bastard.", she told herself. Misty knelt down lower and kept silent to see what Gary was doing. He took one last turn around for people. "Good clear", he mumbled. Misty raised an eyebrow to the remark. Gary pulled out his car keys and clicked a button. The trunk door flew open. A figure got up from the trunk and hung on to the side of the car, gasping for air. Misty squinted her eyes, and her breath was taken away.
The figure soon focused into Ash stepping out of the trunk, wobbling a bit on his feet. Gary pushed Ash out of the way and closed his trunk.
"Hurry the hell up! Someone might see us!", he whispered loudly to Ash.
"I've been stuck in that trunk for a hour! Piss off...", the black haired boy said through his teeth. Gary put his left arm around Ash and pointed to the bar.
"Now listen Ashy-boy, I've got a girl in there I'm trying to get alone out on the deck. You hide underneath the deck. The bar was built on a hill so be careful not to slip into the water. The current is so strong that if someone tried to help you, they would be dragged in too."
Ash swallowed at that thought.
"Don't worry, our gang can help you but we're not so compassionate so don't fall. Three other guys in leather jackets are going to be there waiting. Look for the one named Don. He had long, dark green hair that goes past his shoulders slightly. Tell him that your Ash, the new guy, and the rest is steady."
Ash nodded, and grinned. "This is so exciting. I've never tasted a real person's blood before , let alone their body. It seemed gross to see someone's organs but now...it's different."
Gary smiled. "A lot more change is going to happen that you'll like."
Misty couldn't believe what she was hearing. Ash was one of them now. She was still and starred into space. "No...," she whispered, "Not Ash too...Please don't do this Ash..."
The spiky, black haired one walked to the side near the bushes Misty was hidden in. He walked past Misty's bush and went on. Gary walked to the side with Ash stopped him. "One last thing, if you see that Misty bi*ch anywhere, get rid of her." Ash stood there, remembering his first friend when he was going out trying to be a Pokemon Master, but abandoned the dream in the Sinioh region. He met a girl named Dawn that lied about her age to him so he might go with her on being a coordinator. Misty remembered when Ash came to the Gym in disgust on what happened to him with Dawn.
He said to Misty that Dawn was really 16 years old and dressed like a slut. She tried to get him into bed so many times that it wasn't even funny. Not even Brock was that desperate for someone, which made us glad he got someone to like him back. Ash told Misty that Dawn had the shortest skits and would always pull his hand to her hip. Misty got sick of hearing about Dawn's acts and changed the subject. Ash told her that she met another girl named Lyra. Misty commented that the name sounded made up. He told her that she wore a overall suit that looked like a one piece swimsuit. She couldn't talk about Ash's "wonderful" past anymore.
When Misty was done remembering a time in the past with Ash, the two were gone. She got up and brushed herself off and walked on the porch of the bar. "Can't believe I dazed off there...I've got to find Lily and tell her what happening." She walked to a window and looked in. People but no sign on Gary and Lily. When she looked down, she saw their heads cut off by the backs of the booth. Misty leaned her head on the window and listened to their conversation.
"This is useless. I can't hear nothing with all those people in there. Just have to look..."
The couple were just having their drinks and talking. Misty walked to the steps on the side of the porch. She saw the hilly side of the bar that lead to the gushing river current in the water. Misty swallowed nervously. "M-Maybe I can get a better view b-by the cliff. I just need to be careful...that's all...", she agreed.
Misty walked toward the back of the bar to see the hill become more of a steep cliff. Water knocked on the bottom of the boulders, making a loud sound to come into contact.
"The water should cover the sound of me creeping on the cliff." She took a deep breath and jumped on the cliff on all fours. The cliff was surprisingly angled downward enough to stand on it, but the bottom was completely steep. It stretched about half the size of the bar. Misty still on all fours, crawled to the side of the deck. She looked up and saw no one. She ducked back down. "Damn! They're not there..." Misty paused and heard mumbling.
She crawled carefully under the deck, her hair brushing against the bottom of the wood of the deck. It was dark, but light enough to see. The hard dirt in her gripping hands as she went got stuck to her hand as Misty went. She stopped when the mumbling was understandable.
"How long do we have to stay here? My right hand is hurting!"
"QUIET YOU! You have long nails, use them!"
"I'm so hungry...should've ate that rat I saw a while ago..."
"Well isn't that your fault."
"What does human taste like?"
The talking stopped. Misty tried to recognize the voice. She carefully crawled a few more inches to hear.
"It tastes like chicken."
"No it doesn't! It tastes like...steak but raw and more chewy if you don't eat it right away."
"Steak? I've had cooked steak before, but not raw."
"Don't worry newbie. Your taste buds have changed. Human is going to taste like the best thing you've ever had."
Misty knew that had to be Ash. It sounded like him, always asking questions. She looked up and spotted a man figure. Creeping a little closer to find four male figures. Misty started to sweat. "How can I take on four guys? Including Gary! I need Togekiss for this..." She backed up a little and reached for Togekiss's pokeball.
Misty tried to pull it towards her but soon she wished that she hadn't. The pokeball slipped out of her reach and tumbled down the hill, hitting the rocks, and making noises. The talking paused as the pokeball made it's way down to the end of the steep cliff and fell in the middle of the boulders repelling the water. It sat there content, the water moved it little by little but not swept up in the current.
The redhead's heart sank. Her only pokemon, only friend, only help she had was at the bottom of the cliff in the boulders. Totally out of her reach, Misty started to curse herself out in her head. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! What dumbass drops a pokeball! Now what am I going to do!"
The four men looked where the sound was coming from and turned their heads to the start of the cliff.
"Looks like we're not alone boys...", a shadow said.
"Should we attack them now?",another shadow whispered.
"No. Let them stay...they're not moving for a while. That may have been their only pokemon.", the first shadow said, unknowingly right about his hyponesis.
Misty swallowed nervously at the sight of where her pokeball tumbled down. Trying to get it back would be suicidal and jumping in the water is way out. She would never even reach the boulders in time when the current will pull her to the center down the river to who knows where. "There has been stories that river will transport you anywhere in the Pokemon world. It could be to the next town or all the way in Sinioh...Some say it's cursed...I can't get my togekiss's pokeball...It'll kill me. I'll just have to grab Lily and get out through the bar. That's the best I've got..." Misty scooted back as far as she could until the obtuse angle of the cliff was on her back. Sweat drops formed on her face, hoping her plan would work.
It wasn't long until the sound of a door swinging open echoed outside. Misty picked up her head and listened. "I really hope this is them..."
"Wow Gary, I didn't know you beat that many trainers! I really didn't know you beat Ash Ketchum 10 times! In one year!"
Misty heard a sniffling sound on the other side of the cliff. "Yep this is definitely Lily. Believing anything..." She got up steadily and got on all fours. She crawled backward toward the side of the deck.
"Yeah, that Ash is such a wimp. Glad he gave up being a pokemon master if he was getting beat so many times by only one person!"
More sniffling sounds came from the other side. "That fucking jerk! He didn't beat me 10 times!", a whispering voice came from the other side of the cliff. Lily looked around in confusion. "You hear that?" Gary put his arm around her for comfort. "Oh I didn't hear anything babe. It was probably just the birds talking nonsense.", he said strictly at the end of his sentence. Lily stepped to the end of the deck and put her hands on the long rail that stretched all around the deck. The Moon in the dark blue sky was half showing itself to Earth. The clouds were moving in a quick pace as the wind currents flowed above the atmosphere.
"So...Gary...Is all that stuff is true?"
"Unbelievable as it is, yes it is. Not a lot of people know about it and we only come as a group in the afternoon time. Some people call us monsters for doing some of the actions that we do, but once your really with us, you'll see that it's for the better of the world."
As she crawled carefully back on two feet, Misty could only wish what Gary was talking about. She knelled down and peeked at them through a couple of chairs stacked up between big potted bushes. "Is he saying what I think he's saying to Lily?", she whispered to herself. Lily turned straight to her date with a serious look. Gary straightened up and was prepared to listen.
"I know it's life changing, but I'm bored being the same old me...", she paused, "I know I'm young but I want a little spice in my life! I want to like I want to and not have to get criticism from my parents and sisters on everything I do. I'm an adult and they keep me locked in the house, thinking I'm happy! Well I'm not!" She looked down at the wooden deck, realizing she was yelling out. "I...I just want some freedom...like Misty...She went on a journey with 2 boys! One older and one the same age! Our parents let her go off with two boys alone while I couldn't even go to the beach with some of my friends! What the hell is wrong with that picture? Misty thinks she's got it all tough! Well she has a life! She can go wherever she wants! If I go out, it's a bad thing...Why can't I get a life? Why can't my parents just let me go?" Lily stopped and wiped her eyes. She turned to the currents with a heavy heart.
Gary stood there, gathering all the emotions he was thrown at. He stood there, staring at Lily turned away from him, thinking of the situation. Gary walked to Lily and pulled his arm around her for comfort. Lily responded by leaning her head on his chest.
Misty turned away from her eavesdropping and shook her head, having no idea what her older sister's real colors were. She cover her face with her hand, and sunk down to the grassy ground.
"Lily...I had no idea...Why didn't you tell someone?..."
The couple stood there on the deck, alone. The bar seemed not there when you see the two there together. Misty knelled back up, and looked at the couple. Gary had his head leaned on Lily's. Misty climbed up on the deck on all fours, and crawled behind the bush. She peeked through the bushes.
Lily wiped her eyes again. Gary looked down at the sad younger middle sister. He leaned in on her Lily's left ear. "Are you sure about this?" Lily didn't turn her head.
"Yes. Do it, bite me...fill the rest of life with excitement."
Misty stood and gasped. She stepped back a few steps, knocking into chairs. She tripped on one chair and fell to the edge of the deck on her bottom. The couple stopped what they were about to do and turned to the mood killer. One chair managed to knock all the potted bushes down, therefore finally knocking down and breaking the glass patio table set. In one false swoop, she had totally exposed herself. Lily and Gary ran up to the edge of the deck to see who it was. Misty lifted herself from the smashed potted bush pieces and broken chair legs. She looked up at the two and tried to grin as innocently as possible in her natural life.
"S-surprise?...", Misty said through her teeth.
Gary frowned and gritted his teeth with frustration in his eyes. "REDHEAD", he only said with a snarl. Lily angrily put her hands on her hips. "MISTY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? Where you spying on us?" Both of them stared a death glare at Misty, waiting for an answer. Misty swallowed and got up carefully.
She sighed, "Yes I was...spying on you, but only for your own good!", she quickly added. Lily folded her arms, "O.K. And why is it for my good for you to spy on me on my date?" Misty saw Gary behind her, his eye twitching in annoyance. His expression clearly said, "I told you not to get in my way and you disobeyed my order. You will suffer now." She cleared her throat and calmly started to speak.
"Well I'll start with this, do you remember that disappearance of two boys all the way back in the 50's and what became of them described by their two female friends? It's time you know the truth Lily! Gary isn't what he appears to be! He's transforming into a Zubat-like beast! Just like that boy who didn't make it out of Mt. Moon the other day!"
Misty walked between the two, who stared at Misty's actions, into the center of the deck, and turned straight to Gary.
"Ash told me of Gary's first little 'action' of him biting Ash's neck, piercing the skin, and sucking out any blood that dripped out like a Zubat! Believe it or not, but Ash got the scars still on his neck from that incident a year ago! Compare the bite marks and they'll match to his teeth." She pointed to Gary, "Check his teeth now! He had fangs so sharp, they're like sewing needles! You think I'm lying but I'm not!" Lily looked at Gary and back at Misty, waiting for her confession to be over.
"If that isn't enough crap for this guy, before you two left for your little date, he snuck into my room though the back door! He slammed he against the wall over my bed, threatening my to bite me too!" Misty crossed her fingers together and shook her balled up hand to her sister, "Lily, please, don't do this! We can talk about this! You don't need to do this! You don't want to be like them...I want you to be my sister...A good person..." She looked at her older sister pleadingly, waiting for her response.
Gary's anger soon faded and looked at Lily. She stood there looking at Misty with a straight look, with hands on her hips. The pink haired girl soon shook her head and chuckled to her self. Misty looked at her sadly. Lily continued to chuckle to herself. She walked toward Misty but she went around misty, starting a circle.
"Oh Misty...", she laughed. Misty twirled to look at her with confusion. Her tone sounded...victorious. Like she knew it, has heard it, and already well aware of it. Lily paced around Misty in a circle. "You don't think I can be a good person? I did. I've been trying to be such a nice person, but I always get lip or get kicked in the face. Nice people don't get ANYWHERE...And I've tried to be a good sister too...",she laughed a little more to herself. "I'm done. I'm done being a woman who only appears by her parents or her oldest sister, being criticized for everything I try to do what fun to me, being last to have a say in anything, and being sick of this so called sophisticated society...You don't understand Misty. We're come from a Gym Leader family, which means everyone expects you to be high class. You just don't understand because you were always the young rebellious one, and everyone thought it was cute..."Lily stopped right behind Misty. The redhead looked at her with disbelief. She looked back to see Gary standing in front of her in the same distance of Lily, with folded arms and smiling meanly at her. His smile had a cocky attitude appearance.
Misty looked at both of them. "No..." ,she said pleadingly.
"Yes Misty...", Gary grinned evilly, "I told you not to follow us on our date. See what happens when you don't listen to someone smarter than you?"
"She always didn't want to listen to someone. Always the stubborn one." Lily flipped her hair. "Gary told this to me way before the incident happened. I have to say, I was shocked at first , but then it wasn't so bad. I could live the way I wanted to, not what Mommy and Daddy wanted to."
Misty looked at Lily like she wasn't her sister no more. "So...what was the point of this date?"
"Well we did want to catch up", Gary started, "But then, we thought of a plan to drag you here to get your nose out of our business. Permanently." He grinned, exposing his fangs.
"And yes...", Lily lifted her hand, "We do plan to get you out of our hair." She snapped her fingers in the air. Four shadow puddles formed around Misty the same distance as Lily and Gary. The puddles soon formed upward into figures. They transformed into the four men on the cliff that Misty saw. The one on Gary's left was Craig that Misty met in Mt. Moon. Another was named Don that she also met in Mt. Moon that was on Lily's right. On Lily's left was other man with dark red, short hair that looked older than Lily's age. And last was Ash on Gary's right.
The six people had Misty surrounded. All of them looking at her, waiting for her move. Misty felt the world spinning around her, she couldn't believe this was real. Is this how she would go? She felt Death standing behind her, waiting for her doom. Misty closed her eyes, accepting the fact that Lily was no longer her sister. Her hands moved into her pockets in her jean shorts. Craig cocked an eyebrow. "What's she pulling out?" Gary looked at Misty's hands digging out five small spheres no bigger that a pokeball in neutral size. They were pitch black, that made dust in Misty's hands.
"Are those smokescreen balls?", the dark red haired man asked.
"We can see pretty good through smoke. If you want to play hide and die, then just tell us then", Gary said. Misty looked at him, and raised both hands clinched.
"Let's see if you can see in blind light."
She closed her eyes and slammed the black balls on the wooden deck. A chemical reaction sparked when the balls hit the deck. A flutter of lights flashed around Misty, then a blast of glorious white light engulfed the whole area. It was like if a pokemon used flash but multiplied by 20. All the men turned around and yelled in pain. Lily simply closed her eyes in braced for impact. Misty opened her eyes and made a dash between Gary and Ash. She passed and kept running. The white light soon faded away, returning to normal lighting. The boys turned back and cleched their eyes.
"GOD. DAMN. IT. My eyes! They hurt!"
"Can't see!"
"What the hell was that?"
Gary was the first to retrieve his sight back. He looked up to find a person missing. He turned rapidly around to see Misty running. He gritted his teeth and ran towards her.
"YOUR NOT GETTING AWAY THAT EASILY!," he shouted at Misty.
Everyone else opened their eyes and saw what was happening. They followed him to the side of the deck. Misty felt her heart was going to explode due to the stress of her anxiety. She saw the side of the deck, until a cloud of black smoke appeared. It was Craig, blocking her only way out. She stopped and saw the other catching up to her. She looked at him.
"What's the matter? Dashed your hopes of escaping?", Craig asked with a smile.
Misty looked over the deck, then the bar door. The door was behind the group running toward her, so no use there. She ran toward the rail of the deck and jumped over it. Landing on the dirt and stiffened rocks of the cliff, she stood there.
The others looked at her, and did the same. Misty turned around ran toward the edge of the cliff. The water gushing on the rocks got louder as she ran. She stopped right at the dangerous edge. She looked down at the boulders blocking the water. She spotted a red dot that seemed familiar to her, it was Togekiss's pokeball. That was one thing she could be relieved of. Misty turned around to see that she was surrounded. The group had a distance to where Misty was. Probably scared of the cliff's edge would give due to their weight.
Misty's back was against gravity. Gary walked up to Misty with his arms folded. He flashed a grin at her again to her failure to escape.
"Well now redhead...It seems like your little trick to escape failed. It was actually pretty smart to pack flash balls with you, to say the least. Unfortunately for you. It seems that it slammed you in a worse situation than before, but you have a choice in this matter. Either we get to eat you, or you can just fall to your death...The fall won't kill you but that current may drown you for sure." Gary picked at his nails. "I'm not going to eat a soggy human,but the police probably won't find your body anywhere. So what's it going to be?"
Misty stood there, motionless, just waiting for a sign or a calling for her what to do. They stood there for a minute. Gary sighed in disapproval. "Okay redhead, you have to the count of 10 to figure it out or we'll do it for you."
"Ten", he started.
The clock was ticking away. Misty looked at the people staring down at her. She looked at Lily who was just standing there, waiting for something to happen.
"Nine"
"I thought you were by best friend Lily...All those laughs we shared and all those times were just an act?...To cover up emotional distress...To do what you wanted to do..."
"Eight"
Misty looked at Don and Craig who looked at her like she a next meal to them.
"Seven"
"That poor boy...his sister was so determined to see him again...I couldn't bare for her to look at what her older sibling has become against his will. I bet his partner experienced the same thing."
"Six"
She looked at Gary who was counting to her doom.
"Five"
"You weren't always a mean person. I remember you telling me a few years ago why you were so cocky. Your older sister got more attention than you. Your parents didn't sometimes look at your achievements. When you didn't do something right, your parents would have said 'Why can't you be like Daisy?' I've been there so many times, we could relate so much. Your outlook on life gave you such a unique personality that you were acknowledged by so many people. You just wanted your parents to like you too for the way you were."
"Four"
Misty looked at the dark red haired man.
"Three"
"He looks older than Lily, probably thought the same thing as Lily. Wanted more in life than just being told what to do for the rest of his life."
"Two"
She finally looked at Ash, the boy who made pokemon training the best thing in her life. He looked down at the ground, looked like he was fighting himself.
"ONE"
"Ash...Words cannot express how much I feel towards you. Even though you were annoying at times and over dramatic, you were a true friend that I was lucky to have met. I know your fighting to get in control of yourself from this Zubat poison you've gotten. Your stronger than the others. You can control this...I know this. I'll...I'll...miss...you..."
"Time's up!"Gary clapped his hands together. "What's it going to be redhead?", he asked her with a smile, exposing his fangs.
Misty twitched her eyebrows to the center of her forehead, and only said, "My name's Misty, and I will get my sister and my friends back..."
She raised her arms up to shoulder length and leaned backwards. The group widened their eyes in surprise of the choice the brave girl has done. Misty looked forward in determination of what choice she has chosen. Her feet finally didn't touch the ground anymore. She fell at the mercy of gravity. Misty dove forward in a swimmer's diving pose. As the sound of the water got louder and louder, she braced for impact of the gushing current. The pokeball was in seeing distance.
Misty finally hit the water. She dove up and clung to a boulder. It was a miracle that she didn't hit the rocks. She reached for the pokeball through the gushing water hitting her back. The pokeball finally found it's way into Misty's hand. A rumbling sound occurred under Misty. She moved a little. The rock gave away to the current. Misty screamed to the rock bouncing and roughing her around. Water splashed all around her. Her eardrums clapped to the water. Her hand holding dearly to the boulder slipped off. She screamed out as she went down the harsh waters.
Up on the cliff, the group looked down at what happened to their little trouble maker. Craig looked down at the boulders. The rest looked down stream. Lily turned her view to the back of the bar, feeling bad for her sister.
Gary turned around and walked a slow pace back to safe grounds. "She'll never survive. That girl may be screaming now, but the water's going to solve that problem. Now no one's in our way to our mistress's conquest."
"What is the 'mistress's' conquest?", the dark red haired man asked.
Lily turned to Gary. "I wanna know too..." He turned to the group. "Of course, her trusted commander of the whole thing knows all her plans. For being betrayed by a Ninetails turned her into a form of a pokemon half human freak, she's going to turn all the human race into hybrid pokemon. Everyone can be like her, have abilities, and everything. And just to boot, she's going to be the ruler of the new world since she molded it."
The group exchanged looks. "Hybrid pokemon?", Craig questioned. Gary nodded. "It sounds weird but it's cooler than it sounds since she's one, and she looks cool."
Lily walked to the safer grounds of the bar. "Well let's get going, that illusion isn't going to last against the back of the bar." The others followed Lily to the side of the bar.
"Where are we to go now?", Ash asked.
"Back to your new home.", Gary replied. Him and Lily got into the sports car and drove off. The others walked away.
On the other side of the bar, a familiar girl walked from the other side of the bar. She looked at the small group go to their "base". She clinched her fist and squinted her eyes in disgust. "Those...Monsters...", she paused, "Craig...I know this isn't you. That girl, Misty, was so brave and she's fighting her life in those currents. I've got to go and save her." She pulled out a pokeball, and ran to the cliff side where Misty fell. The girl threw her pokeball down and then jumped down the cliff to reveal herself riding on the back of a Pigiot. The gracious bird flew above the river.
"Go on down the river quick, try to spot a girl with red hair", she commanded. Pigiot flew down and rode above the gushing water. The bird pokemon spotted a human floating in the water's current. He bolted towards the girl and flew above Misty's body. The girl reached down and pulled with all her might to get Misty on Pigiot's back. The water soon released it's grip to Misty and she landed on Pigiot's back. The familiar girl rolled Misty on her back and did CPR for a minute. Misty finally coughed, but she was tired out. She didn't open her eyes, she was so exhausted.
The girl's skirt flowed in the wind above the water. She turned to look at Cerulean City getting smaller to the horizon. "We can't go back, they'll be looking for us. We know...But they don't know that I'm on to them..." She looked back at Misty. "I know a friend who can probably help us. She may live in Sinioh and it may be a long way but we need help with this..."
Misty grunted and twitched her eyes open just a crack. She felt wind blowing on her, clothing wet and wrinkled, and the taste of salt in her mouth. Looking up at her pilot, she recognized her savior of her doom.
"It's that Lass from the Pokemon Center."
…::::End of Chapter 3::::...
After 5 months! This chapter is finished! I'll be posting my fanart of the story on Rambobu on devaintart, just search the username. Again, I'm sorry for taking so long. I bet no one is waiting for this story now. ._.'' The chapters will be on that account too. So I promise the next chapter should be up in about one week. See you soon.