Ok, next chapter up. Hadn't been able to update in a long time cause of school finals and all that stuff, and they where some of the hardest tests I ever took. Study for about two weeks and still expecting to fail. Anyways, thanks for the help, everyone. Especially Freewind1, I had no idea I was doing it right. Thanx!;D Also, everyone seems to like Bark as the seme, sounds good to me! I just wonder who's POV I should do it by… Anyway, I hope you like my new chappie, enjoy.
Suicune's POV
I opened my eyes and yawned. It was dark, but I knew it was morning. I could sense it. I looked over at Bark who was still asleep; he still had his head rested on my shoulder. I carefully stood up and let his head fall gently onto his paws so I didn't wake him up. He seemed to be having a nice dream; I wouldn't want to ruin it.
When I crossed over to the entrance of the cave, I was surprised to see that it was snowing again. No wonder it was so dark and clouded. It was a bit odd, Johto wasn't really known for much snow, even in the mountains we got less than most regions. I liked it when it snowed though, sometimes. It was really pretty. I sat and watched the whirling winds, then I felt warmth around my neck. I looked down at the necklace thing on my neck, it was glowing again. Why it did that, I wasn't sure but Kyorge said it was telling me something. Of course I didn't know what, so I ignored it and went back to laying down next to Bark.
Flair's POV
"Come on Flair, we have to do this quick." Cory said ripping part of his shirt while I pressed down on the wound on Damien's chest. I thought I'd be sick, there was just so much blood. More than anything, I hate blood.
"You almost done, Cory, cause I think I'm gonna puke." I said holding it back. I was struggling to keep my hands from shaking.
"Just minute Flair." He said ripping anther long strand of clothing. Then he came back over to me and started rapping the wound tight.
"There, this'll stop the bleeding." He said pulling it again to make sure it stayed rapped tight. I started to get up, but when I looked at the amount of blood on my hands I nearly fainted. I whipped my hands on my pants.
"Ok, we have to get moving. We don't know where the bullet is in his body. It's obviously not in his heart or lungs, since he's still alive. I hope it didn't hit anything, he's probably just out from shock or something. Flair, can you help him into my back?" Cory said. I helped Cory lift Damien up into his back. He was heavy, but probably not to much for Cory to handle. Though he was a pain in the ass sometimes, I was worried about him. We started walking down a long hallway.
"So, Latias, how'd you know to come and help us?" I said to the red dragon Pokemon. She just shrugged.
"I just… knew. I was originally looking for my friend, Suicune. Then I felt a reason to come here, good thing too. You guys could use help getting out of here. I'll help you, but under one condition."
"What's that?" Cory asked. Latias looked around, then back at us. She spoke quietly.
"I know where the other Pokemon are in this building. We can't leave them behind, cause they'll blow them all into the sky. I know a lot of these Pokemon are stolen or some have had their humans killed. We should help them find somewhere to go."
"All of them? Latias, that'll take too much time, what about Damien" I asked. Though it was important to help Pokemon in need, was it possible to save all of them and find them somewhere to go? It was going to be work, a lot of work, but right now, there's no other choice.
"Well, let me look into his body and see the damage." She said moving closer to his chest. Latias took a deep breath and her eyes started glowing an electric blue color.
"I see it, I see the bullet." She said blinked.
"It didn't hit anything on the way in. I can see it's path, it went in at an angle and it's stuck right next to his lungs. I think, if he gets some help soon and gets it taken out that he probably live." Latias said smiling, her eyes stopped glowing. It was a relief that nothing was badly damaged in Damien's body, but we still had to get a move on. The bullet couldn't stay in his body. We agreed with Latias to go help all of the Pokemon escape.
Just as we where about to get going, we heard a huge explosion, fallowed by people screaming and gunshots. We cautiously looked around the corner to see what was going on. There where people with guns and Pokeballs trying to catch a blue colored Pokemon. It looked a lot like Latias. One of the men tossed a Pokeball at it, but the Pokemon used its psychic powers to send it back at the man with the speed of a bullet. It connected with the staffs face, sending blood everywhere. I didn't look, since I had a weak stomach. Then one of the men jumped in front of the Pokemon and pointed a gun to him.
"Look, we may not have any Pokemon, but you can't survive a bullet to the heart. Trust me." He growled, just then, Latias leapt into action.
"Leave my brother a lone!" She growled, the men where distracted and turned to her. When they did the blue Pokemon again used his psychic abilities to use the guns against the men. Cory and me jumped down and stayed close to the ground in an attempt to protect us from the raining bullets. When the gun fire stopped, we got up to see if Latias was ok. We looked around to see bodies everywhere. The amount of blood on the ground was insane, I mean really. It looked like it had just rained blood and bodies. The blue Pokemon was staring at Latias, and she was shouting at him.
"Why did you fallow me here?! I told you I was just going to see if Suicune was ok!" The other Pokemon shook its head.
"Yeah right! You're not Suicune, so stop this little act of courage and rebellion! Honestly Latias, you try to do everything you see! Think for yourself for once! And after what he did to you, I don't see why you'd want to find him!" From the sound of the other Pokemon's voice, he was male. And Latias's older brother. This reminded me of what I went through with Jason all those years ago.
"I am thinking for myself by not going home with you! I don't hold grudges like you. You heard what Uncle Lugia said about holding grudges, if I'm being like Suicune then you're being an awful lot like Entei!"
"What's wrong with being like Entei?"
"What's wrong with it? Is there anything right with it?" She shouted back in a shrill cry. Then she sighed.
"I'm just looking for Suicune, but I found these trainers and this building full of Pokemon. So, I came to help. I'm mean, the Pokemon here are in so much danger, they treat them so cruelly here, and the trainer with the black hair, he's injured, badly." Latias said turning to Damien.
"Of course I knew you wouldn't want to look for Suicune since you're so mad at him, and about half of other legendaries would either have said no or been busy. So I came alone." She said, Latios let out a long sigh.
"Well, I wont make you go home I guess, but this is dangerous. I'm not letting you do it alone, so I do it with you." Latios said. Latias smiled.
"You know, you're not much like Entei, Latios. You're more protective then power hungry. That's a good thing." Latios smiled back at his sister. Then he nodded to the rest of us.
"Ok, let's get this going. I'll take the injured human." Latios said taking Damien from Cory. It was much easier for him to carry Damien, we could move faster this way.
"I could help with strength sharing." Latios said. We both looked at him.
"Umm, what's that?" I asked.
"Strength sharing is where you share your energy and restore life to the injured or the weak. If he stays on my back he could come around in a little while, or course I wont have enough strength to do anything else." Latios said, it would be a loss, but at least he'd survive.
"Ok, Latios, you can do strength sharing and we'll work on everything else." I said patting his head, now we weren't in as much of a rush, but we still had to move.
We ran down a long, metallic hallway. We weren't exactly sure where it was heading, but Latias seemed to know where we were going. At the end of the hallway, there was huge door that read "Babies and Eggs" in huge steel letters.
"This is where they keep all of the baby Pokemon and some eggs. The man with dark hair said there was some sort of crisis down here. So I have an idea. If I disguise myself as the girl from before, tell him I took care of everything with you guys and ask him if I can take care of things here too, we can get the baby Pokemon out of here."
"What do we do then?" Cory asked.
"I'll take care of that, hold on to me." Latios said glowing. Me and Cory grabbed hold of his oddly shaped, blue wings. When he did this we vanished.
"Whoa! Wicked! No one can see where we are?" Cory said. Latios nodded. It was a good plan; we just hoped Mercutio was going to go a long with it all right. Latias took on the form of the women from before and gently pushed open the doors. From there we could see Mercutio locking a gate on one of the cages.
"Sir." She said quietly, he turned to see who it was.
"You again? Didn't I tell you to take care of something?"
"Yes, and I did sir. Everything's all taken care of."
"So, did my brother die or what." Cory cringed when he said this, I couldn't see him but I felt his movements next to me. I put my hand on his shoulder, or it felt like his shoulder.
"No, sir." We heard Latias begin.
"But…I think he shall soon." She said quietly, she was probably right. One of the reasons we needed to get on this fast. We watched Mercutio's expression, but his dark eyes didn't change a bit.
"Hmmm, oh well. He will be some time soon. We have to get going, and I mean going." He said.
"What do you mean sir?" Latias asked. Mercutio folded his arms.
"Weren't you paying attention? We got a message from the Boss, we have to move all the Pokemon to our other headquarters that we'd recently established in Hoenn."
"I thought you where the boss, sir." Mercutio laughed when she said this. It was odd, because I had thought the same thing for a long time.
"Please, I'm flattered, but you know that I'm only an executive. I'm one under the boss, like the other executives in our other mini headquarters. We got them everywhere, even in the Orre region. We have to move the Pokemon and shit to the nearest one."
"Oh, I see sir. Well, is there anyway I could help?" Mercutio thought about this for a second.
"Well, you can get these baby Pokemon and remaining eggs down to the trucks so they can get moving. After all, the youth is the future of the Mafia. Move them to the trucks at the main entrance. The Surrogate parent Pokemon too, don't forget them."
"The Surrogate parent Pokemon?" She asked, but he waved off her question.
"I don't have time to explain to you. I gotta work on shutting down all the computers and getting the cash. Get moving!" He said before storming out of the room and tossing her a bronze key to all of the gates on the way out. When he came down the hallway we where standing in everyone held there breath. Mercutio brushed right past us when we went, but didn't seem to notice us at all. When he was gone down the hallway, Latias gave us the all clear signal.
Latios let down his shield of invisibility and we walked into the room. There was a rainbow of thousands of Pokemon eggs. Some were brown, striped, speckled, polka dotted and just about anything in between. Some you could tell what it was going to be, some you could guess, and some you couldn't tell at all.
"Ok, let's get moving. We have to move these baby Pokemon anyway, so let's get a move on! If me and Latias can take a few and fly them to the Pokemon Center up here with out being caught they'll be home free." Latias said reached for a yellow striped egg that reminded me of a Pikachu, but as soon as she touched it, we heard an explosion down the hall. Walls of flames erupted at the corner of the hallway, some men ran shouting towards the flame, some away from. As soon as they reached the corner they where engulfed by fire, we could hear the screaming and see the ashes and smoke. We heard the sound of water, I think it was a water attack and then we saw steam. One of the men fell, he was behind a corner, but we could still see him. He was charred and steam was coming of his clothes, I think he was alive, but I couldn't tell.
Lights in the hallway started to flicker and go out, the hallway looked so dark and creepy. You could hardly see anything, the bodies on the ground appeared as dark shadows, and that was all.
"What just happened?" I asked meekly.
"Shhh, just be quiet and back away slowly" Latios hissed in a whisper. We all backed into a corner in the dark storage room. We could hear someone's boots coming down the hallway where all of the commotion had taken place. We saw a boot kick aside a body. That one was definitely dead. We backed father into the corner so that we couldn't be seen and Latios shielded us with his vanishing powers. Then, Cory got up, why I wasn't entirely sure.
"Cory, get down!" I hissed at him, but he didn't listen to me. He didn't even look at me, he just kept going like a Venemoth to a light bulb. The dark figure in the boots was going towards him as well. I wasn't sure if he was nuts or just stupid.
"I don't think he's a threat guys. I think he's a friend" He said looking back at us and then to the dark figure. I blinked and squinted my eyes. It was still to dark to see, but the figure of the boy there was unmistakably my cousin.
"Jason?" I said out loud.
"Yeah, that you Flair? Are you alright?"
Suddenly, the room got a lot brighter, we weren't sure why. We all turned to the source of the light to see a little flock of baby Mareep huddled together, flashing their little tails to make the room brighten up. That helped us get a better view of our surroundings. We could see into the other room next door, there where baby Pokemon in cages everywhere
"Yeah, I'm alright." I said, everyone else started to come out of the corners, Jason blinked bewildered.
"Latios… and Latias?" I almost forgot about them. I turned to them.
"Oh, yeah I almost forgot. How'd you know?"
"Well, I heard a lot about them in Hoenn. After I beat the Pokemon league there too, I tried to find them, but it was too hard." He said walking over to Latias and patting her head. In response, she giggled and blushed. Jason then looked across the room to Latias who was still in the corner.
"Is someone on his back?" He asked. I nodded.
"Yeah, that's Damien. He's a dark type trainer." I said, Jason stopped petting Latias and looked at me.
"Did you say Damien?" He asked.
"Yeah, weren't you paying attention to anything I said?" I growled, he never listens, never listens I tell you!
"Flair, doe's he happen to have an… Umbreon?" He said crossing over the room to Latios. I nodded again.
"Sure does, his name's Nighshade… or was it Nightslash… It was night something." I said scratching my head. When Jason got over to Latios, he got a good look at Damien. He brushed a black bang back from Damien's eye.
"He looks just like he did two years ago." He said staring down at him. I was about to speak, but stopped myself to comprehend what he had just said.
"You know Damien, Jason?"
"I do Damien…" He stopped.
"Well…." He said scratching the back of his head. I raised and eyebrow.
"Well what?" I asked, Cory was looking at me and his eyes kept darting back to Jason.
"I'm as confused as you are, Flair." He said running a hand through his blond ponytail.
"Well what?" I asked again, when I looked up at my cousin his cheeks where tinted pink.
"Uhhh, Flair…" He started again running his hand through his deep red hair. I sort of tilted my head, it wasn't like my cousin to be nervous about anything.
"Yeah?"
"Well, me and Damien were…. intimate…" He said brushing one of his red bangs from his eye. I blinked in surprise.
"Did you just say intimate?" I asked, I didn't mean to sound so surprised, but I was really surprised.
"Yeah…" He said blushing deeper red.
"You mean intimate like…. Really close friends?" I asked, but he shook his head.
"No Flair, like intimate." I blinked again.
"Like uhh, brotherly intimate?" I was knew what he ment by intimate, but I just couldn't really believe that's what he ment. I was trying to make sure he really ment what I thought he ment.
"No Flair, like seriously intimate. Like Quil and your mother's Rattata." I scratched my head.
"Oh, I see." I looked at Cory, he was about as bewildered as I was.
"Wow, that was unexpected. Who would of thought that one of the greatest trainers ever was a fa…" Cory stopped when he saw Jason's piercing blue eyes glaring at him. It was the smart thing to do, my cousin had been called a faggot before and he didn't like it… but who would?
"So, now you know." He said blushing even more deeply. I gotta say, it was weird. I mean really awkward. What are you supposed to say when a relative tells you something like that. I looked over at Latios and Latias.
"Ummm, maybe we should talk about this later and get to work before that guy blows us up?" Latias said with a nervous laugh. I wasn't really sure what I thought about this, but at least I'd have time to think.
"Hey, what's going on down here?!" Someone shouted from behind us. We turned around, there was another grunt behind us. This one carried a Pokeball instead of a gun.
"Alright, the boss's Tyranatar is gonna have you kids for lunch. Go Silverwing!" The man said tossing the Pokeball. I wasn't familiar with the Pokemon that came out, it looked sort of like a giant dragonfly. Like a big, angry Yamna. I wasn't even sure if Jason knew what it was.
"Jason, what is that?"
"It's a Yamega, the evolved form of Yamna. I'd never seen one before, since most of them are extinct." He said. I drew my Pokeball.
"Ok, then I'll use Quil. You need your dragons to fly and take these baby Pokemon out, I'll take care of this. Quil get ready for Flamethrower!" I said tossing the blue and white Pokeball. The second Quil had his feet on the ground he let loose a powerful Flamethrower, but missed the bug Pokemon.
"Now, Silverwing, Silverwind attack!" The bug Pokemon vibrated it's wings, creating a strong, silvery gust of wind. It spiraled around Quil.
"Come on Quil, find away to break free!" Quil struggled in the shining whirlwind, but like a real tornado there was no way out.
"Ok then, Flamethrower!" Quil produced a Flamethrower from inside, turning it into a giant whirling firestorm. It was going toward the Yamega.
"Silverwing get out of this mess!" The grunt called, but it was to late. Silverwing was swallowed up by the giant fire tornado. When the storm died down, the Pokemon was called back to it's Pokeball.
"Good job, Quil." The second I said that, Quil did a back flip and started to glow. I blinked.
"Quil?" Everyone came back to the room to see why the fighting had stopped. Quil flashed in a white light, then his body morphed into a taller, upstanding Pokemon.
"Typhlosion!" Quil said, I blinked.
"Quil just… evolved?" I looked at him, then at the man who had fought me. He didn't seem to have anymore Pokemon. He readied himself to run.
"Quil, get him!" I commanded, Quil pounced on the man and held him to the ground. He was a lot stronger then before.
"So, do you have anymore Pokemon that you're hiding from us?" I asked, he squirmed but Quil kept tight hold, nearly breaking his back.
"N-no! The others are all shipped off to Hoenn already. These are the last ones!"
"Oh yeah? Then what happened to my Ninetails and my Kadabra?!" I growled, the anger in my voice influenced Quil's mood. He growled and squeezed the man until his face was red.
"I don't know! The boss said that you somehow let them go! We don't have them anymore!"
"Flair, stop! He doesn't know!" Jason called to me from the other side of the room. I commanded Quil to drop him and he crawled away. I put my hands on my hips.
"Well, what's your problem?" I asked, I was irritated since I had no clue where my Pokemon where.
"What's my problem? You're the one he nearly killed the man!"
"So? He's the bad guy!"
"That doesn't mean you should kill him! That's injustice!" He growled back, he was really giving me a headache today. First he comes out of the closet to me at the most random, inappropriate time, then he lets the bad guy go!
"What do you know about justice anyway!"
"More than you'll ever know!"
"Look, just take your flamboyant self back to the other side of the room and do what you need to do!" I growled. Ok, so it was a bad insult. Besides his looks he wasn't even that girly, but I couldn't thing of anything else. I had to many things on my mind.
"Fine by me!" He yelled back, I brushed past Cory on the way who was sitting next to Latias.
"…What a bad time for a family feud huh?" I heard him say to Latios who was shaking his head.
"Yeah, me and Latias always try to live that stuff at home when it comes to serious situations." Latios said. He was right though. Our problems would have to wait.
Blaze's POV
I woke up and yawned, I was pretty surprised that I wasn't being mounted or having a cock shoved in my mouth. When I rolled back over to get some more sleep, I saw the navy human made bricks and a concrete flooring, I was in some sort of hole. I small amount of light trickled in from a sort of netting. It jarred my memory a little. I was with Sparky and the Glaceon from before. He was sitting in the corner.
"Oh, good morning. I didn't notice that you were awake." He said.
"Oh, hi. Where is this?" I asked he yawned and laid down on his belly.
"Old storage hole, I'm not sure what it was used for, but humans used to hide things here. Then they stopped using it, so I managed to sneak in through a hole downstairs and make it up here. Though I don't mind the cold, it's not always wise to sleep in the open, especially when you have freezing Jolteon that need saving. I looked over at Sparky who was sleeping peacefully. He groaned and mumbled something about a Charizard and rolled over.
"He was always such an interesting character…. That Sparky." I heard the Glaceon say from behind me, I look behind me.
"Wait… what?" I said, he smiled.
"Well, I didn't realize until just now while looking at Sparky, that where all kin. Of course you probably wont remember, since when you where born I left the den." I blinked.
"So…. What you're saying is that you're one of my older brother?" I asked, the Glaceon nodded gently.
"Yes, I remember you where the youngest. You could barely open your eyes when I left home. Mother had her hands full with all of you kids, I know I should have stuck around…"
"Then why did you leave her?" I asked, it wasn't very responsible for him to have done something like that to his own mother, but I let him state his reason.
"Well, it was getting harder to feed everyone. My hunting skill weren't good enough to help, so me and Broadleaf left the den and lived together for awhile. He taught me to hunt instead of mother and once I learned, he went off on his own. He told me he was going to Hoenn and that I should move on to travel to Sinnoh. I never got the chance to, since it's so far away." I never knew I had so many siblings. The only ones I really remember was mother and Sparky and someone else, but it was so long ago.
"Glaceon," I started but he corrected me.
"Ice, just Ice."
"Ok, Ice did you ever get to know father?" He shook his head causing his long, pigtail like things to swish.
"No, the only one who actually got to know father was Broadleaf. He says he wasn't around very much." Ice said tapping his toes on the concrete flooring, one at a time.
"Did Broadleaf tell you a lot about him?" He nodded.
"Yes, would you like to hear?" I nodded, I wanted to know more about our family.
"Well, from what I've heard from Broadleaf, our father was an Espeon named Arcturus. Broadleaf said he always called him by his name, he had a habit of doing that. He called our mother by her name to."
"Why did he do that?" Sparky interupted. We where even aware that he'd been awake all this time.
"Oh, hello Sparky." Ice said cheerfully waving a dainty, teal-blue paw.
"I'm assuming you've heard everything else, so no need for me to tell it again, right?" Sparky nodded virgerously. He wanted to here about our father as much as I did.
"Ok then. Well, Broadleaf said Arcturus wasn't around much after he was born. He came back every now and then and helped mother hunt and raise us. He'd bring home a lot of food for us to eat and take excellent care of us. Then, pretty soon he stopped showing up all together. Mother wasn't sure if he was abondoning his pups or if something horrible had happened to him, but Broadleaf said father would never had done that."
"From what you said before I don't see why he'd want to do that." Sparky interupted again, I glared at him to make him shut up so Ice could finish.
"Well, Broadleaf sent me a message recently about how he knows father's alive and how he was alive the whole time. You see, father told Broadleaf that he had a sister in Hoenn that was rearing pups of her own without a mate and he went to help her. He said it was to painful to tell mother that he was leaving his own pups for another female's, even if it was his sister, and so he never did." Ice concluded. I never known anything about my father at all, but he sounded like a good guy.
"I would have done the same thing for my sister if I was in Arcturus's situation…. And if I had a sister." Sparky said pawing the ground. Suddenly there was a stomping noise, it sounded like human boots over our heads. I started to go to the entrance, but Ice blocked it.
"Don't it may be a human." He said sternly, I could see the shape of our intruder and it was definitely a human silluette.
"Where is it, damnit?!" A gruff, masculine voice growled. The man kicked something aside and stomped on it. It sounded like a cardboard box. My heart was pounding as I felt the vibartions get stronger as the man got closer to our hiding place.
"Get back!" Ice hissed pushing us father in the corner. We where all crammed far back in the corner when a large, hairy hand reached into our hole. The man couldn't see us, but he he was awfully close to us. When he reached far back he ran his hand over my tail, causing my heart to skip a beat, but I remained still. He quickly withdrew his hand from the small carven.
"Ugggghhh, another dead rat! I guess it's not in here." The man growled storming from the room. When we heard him go back up the stairs everone let out a syncornized sigh of releief.
"Man, that was scarey!" I cried out. Sparky nodded, still speechless. Ice got up.
"Come on, lets go." He said jerking his head as a signal to get moving. Me and Sparky stood up.
"Where are we going?" Sparky asked, but Ice put his head down.
"I'm not sure, but I don't think it's safe to stay in here for now."
Bark's POV
I woke up and looked around. Suicune was sleeping near by. I got up and kept up on him, my paws where heavy buy I managed to keep them quiet. When I was only about three feet away, I pounced on him.
"Gotcha!" I growled, I think I startled him.
"Good Arceus Bark, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" He said standing up causing me to slide off.
"Sorry." I said grinning sheepishly. I thought it was funny, but I guess he didn't.
"Hey, Suicune, do you think Jason could use our help with saving Flair?" I asked looking outside. It looked like it had been snowing. Suicune shrugged.
"I guess, if you promise not to mount him." He said with a laugh. I laugh too.
"I'll try not to, it might be hard though." I said jokingly. It would have been nice to be able to mount Flair's cousin, but I don't know if he'd like it very much. Suicune stretched and yawned.
"Ready to get going?" He asked, I nodded. I was more than ready. We wandered out of the cave into the bright sunlight. The it was so bright out from all the light reflecting off the snow and ice, it took my eyes time to get used to all of it. The snow was pretty deep too, it nearly came up to my belly.
"Wow Suicune, this is the most snow I've ever seen. It's cool!" I said trying to run ahead, but my feet just sunk and I was stopped.
"Well, so much for running…" I said pulling my foot out of the snow. Suicune was heavier than me, but he walked on top of the snow. I just stared at him.
"How do you do that?" I asked trying to mimic him. I put my feet gently on the snow, but sank again deeper.
"If you can walk on water than you can walk on snow." He said taking another light step. I tried to keep up, but the snow was too deep.
"Suicune wait up!" I called trying to dash after him again, but I just sank even more. Suicune slowed down for me.
"Don't worry I'll go slow for you." He said coming back to my side. I smiled up at him, but when I did I saw something behind him on a higher ledge. It was a shadow ringed with light, but I think it was a Pokemon. If it was it was bigger than Suicune.
"Hello, Suicune." It said to him, Suicune turned around and squinted his eyes.
"Entei?" He asked putting a paw up to shield his eyes from the sunlight.
"No, but that's who I'm looking for." The other Pokemon said jumping down from the ledge.
"Oh, Raikou, what are you doing way out here?" He asked.
"Well, looking for Entei. It's quiet back at the den without his long speeches about what it means to be a legendary or you and him arguing. I miss having you guys around so I came looking for you."
"So, you're here to take me home?"
"No, I'm here to see if you'll come home. Will you?" Suicune looked at me, then at the yellow stripy Pokemon.
"I don't know. I have a lot of things I need to do. Plus I can't just leave Bark out here on his own without his trainer."
"Right, Bark. I think I remember him from before." Raikou said staring at me. I knew he didn't like me from before, but I wasn't sure if he was at all like Entei.
"Uhhh, yeah. About last time… I'm sorry about that, Bark." He said putting his head down, I kinda just tilted my head.
"Why are you apologizing?" I asked, he had a sheepish grin on.
"Well, my brother. I guess I let his thoughts and actions influence mine instead of thinking for myself. I apologize… I wish I could apologize for Entei, but you know…" I grinned, it was pretty surprising he was being so nice. From what I'd seen before he was a mean as Entei, but I guess it wasn't true. He turned to his brother.
"Anyway, I think Entei's finally lost it. He was here one day, for not even a minute, told me he was gonna show Suicune and ran off looking for his bitches." Raikou said, Suicune nodded, he seemed to know what Raikou was talking about.
"I knew he was putting to much stress on himself. He doesn't know when to quit, I don't even know if he knows why he's does what he does anymore." Raikou nodded in agreement.
"Entei was always like that. I wished he just think for once. Once he has an idea or plan in his head he has to finish his task or he feels like a failure. I don't really understand him sometimes." Raikou said, they seemed to be having a nice conversation. Suicune had had a good conversation with family for awhile, so I didn't butt in. I let them continue their conversation about things that where happening at their home, but suddenly there was a huge explosion. We looked up to see a red fire cloud forming in the sky.
"Whoa! Is that a Electrode or something?" I asked, but Suicune shook his head.
"No way is that a Pokemon made explosion. It has to be something a human did." He said I blinked and looked up at the fiery cloud. Something clicked in my brain; if that was a human made explosion, then maybe it would lead us to Flair.
"Hey, guys! I just had a brilliant idea! If there's a human made explosion, then that would lead us to some of the only humans up here, and they might be the humans that have Flair!"
"Who's Flair?" Raikou asked.
"That's my trainer, she got kidnapped recently. We've been looking for her what seems like days now, and another trainer went in search for her, but there's always a chance he needs help." C'mon Suicune lets go!" I said attempting to dash forward, but tripped in the snow. When I rolled over Suicune was staring down at me. Raikou was as well.
"Well, I'll go of course, but what about you, Raikou?" Suicune asked pawing his brother's shoulder.
"Ahh, what the heck, it couldn't hurt." He said smiling. I was rearing to go. I tried to dash forward, but tripped again. Suicune was standing over me again.
"Bark, maybe I should carry you." Suicune said helping me up, I wasn't sure how he'd be able to run and carry me. I weighed nearly as much as he did and without that giant crystal on his head I was taller.
"Well, are you ready?" He asked. I shrugged and climbed on, rapping my forelegs around his neck. He stood his ground without stumbling.
"Ready?" He asked. I nodded; I could feel my cheeks getting hot. I mean, I was on his back for crying out loud! It wasn't that I was uncomfortable, actually I was very comfortable… a little too comfortable. As Suicune leaped over rocks logs and other things and the ride got bumpier, I felt something I hoped I wouldn't feel for a long time.
'Oh no, not again!' I thought to myself. My furry sheath had opened up and my "sword" was poking out, just a little. My face was probably as red as a beat. I tried to mentally force it back, but when I did that it fully exited. Suicune's red pupils darted back at my for a quick glance, then back to the route he was taking. I tried harder and harder to ignore it, but feeling my hardness against his slick, smooth fur my hips started to move. Just a little, I was sure Raikou didn't notice, but I was sure Suicune felt it.
"Uh, hey Raikou, lets say we stop for a drink at the river here." Suicune called over to his brother. Raikou nodded and we stopped. The river was shallow and cold, just what I needed. I wadded out to the middle of the river and sat down in the icey water. I heard a sizzling noise and saw steam rise from the water.
"Well there goes my fire power." I said sulking, the water didn't actually hurt me as most thought it would, it just damaged my flame and made me unable to do fire attacks. I turned to Suicune who was sipping some of the clean, icey water.
"Uhh, Suicune…" I started, he lifted his head and shook the water from his bottom jaw.
"Yes, I felt it, and it's ok, Bark. It was an awkward situation, but it didn't bother me a bit."
"You sure?" I asked tilting my head, and he wadded out into the middle with me.
"You always say that." He said putting a blue paw on my shoulder.
"Bark, you're really sweet, you know that?" I rubbed the back of my head with my paw. My cheeks where really red now.
"Uhh… I…I… thanks?" I said grinning, I know I looked really dopey, but I couldn't stop. This was almost as embarrassing as the hard-on.
"Don't worry Bark. I find it flattering that you're turned on by me, really." I was even more red then before, I mean, I liked the whole situation, but I couldn't stop blushing.
"Hey, are you guys ready? I'm getting cold from just standing around!" Raikou said from the edge of the water. Suicune smiled at me and jerked his head a signal to fallow.
"Come on, Bark. You can walk now if you want, some of the snow's melted." Suicune said, I was still blushing, even now.
"S-sure…" I said fallowing behind him. Man, what a crazy moment.
When we got to the explosion site, we could see a building hidden behind a small mountain. It seemed to be attached to a small cave at the bottom of a valley. Some of the building was burning and there where trucks at the entrance of the cave. Something flew away from the building. It was a Dragonite, and it was carrying something that was rapped up. It also had on an open backpack. As the Dragonite picked up speed, something yellow fell from the backpack. It was moving.
"What is that, Raikou?" Suicune said squinting his ruby eyes at the falling object. I narrowed mine as well.
"It looks like… a… a Pichu? Oh my Arceus it's a Pichu!" I exclaimed running for the falling baby Pokemon. I started to climb ledges on a mountain and when I was close enough managed to save catch her.
"I gotcha!" I said landing hard on the ground. I looked at the Pichu, she had to yellow pigtails tied up in bows. I was guessing she was female.
"You saved my life! Thank you stranger?" She said hugging my muzzle.
"Ummm, no prop." I said, when I looked up in the sky I saw the Dragonite coming back this way.
"Sorry about that little miss. I should have been more careful. Thank you stranger… hey don't I know you from somewhere?" The Dragonite asked, I got a good look at him.
"Hey, aren't you Auracast?" He blinked.
"Bark? That hardy little Growlith that refused to give up after my Surf Attack? Good to see you again!"
"Hey, if you're here then isn't Jason nearby?" I asked, he nodded.
"Yeah. He's in that building down there. There's tons of baby Pokemon being held there. I have to get them to the Pokemon Center soon, some crazy guy's gonna blow up that building."
"Are you serious? Well, I gotta go help too!" I shouted he nodded and took the Pichu from my nose.
"Bye-bye stranger!" She shouted as the Dragonite put her back in the bag along with a Smoochum, Magby and baby Rattata. I waved a foreleg at her and Auracast then I turned to Raikou and Suicune.
"What was all of that about, Bark?" Suicune asked.
"We have to go down to that building and help move baby Pokemon. A man, possibly the one that has Flair, is gonna blow up that building. We gotta stop him!"
"Then lets go!" Suicune said leaping down the ledges.
When we got close to the building, another huge explosion went off. The smoke rose into the sky swallowing up unsuspected Pidgey in the red ash. They where probably blowing it up one section at a time.
"Come on, Bark. Let's go in through this hole in the wall, Bark." Suicune said leading us through the blown out piece of wall. It was sort of smoky and it smelled like burning flesh. I just hoped Flair wasn't included. I started to look for her scent, but it went down a lot of hallways. Quil's too.
"She's all over the place, maybe she got lost?" I said sniffing the ground again, I decided to head down one hallway to find her.
Flair's POV
"Quil, can you go keep watch down that hallway right there? Make sure no one's coming."
"Ty, ty!" He said going down the hallway. That new cry was going to take some getting used to. I picked up and egg and handed managed to squeeze it in my backpack with a baby Vulpix and a Phanphy.
"At least it'll have some warmth around it." I said handing it to Cory who brought it to Latias.
"Ok, I'll get this to the Pokemon Center double quick. You can count on me!" She said smiling. He patted her head.
"I'm sure you can." Latias darted out the open window and Jason's Dragonite returned with the empty backpack. He also had a letter from nurse Joy. I took it from him.
"It's a letter from Nurse Joy. It reads,
Dear Trainers
I'm so impressed that you're risking your lives for the Pokemon. Your Dragonite told me everything. I'm wishing to Jirachi for you, I hope everything's alright. Also, I've been missing a Chansey down here at the Pokemon center, apparently she was kidnapped three nights ago. If you find her, please return her, she's very missed here and I'm very worried about her. Thank you. Nurse Joy." I looked around for a Chansey, but I didn't think I'd find an adult Pokemon with the babies. "I don't see a Chansey anywhere." I said. "Maybe it's one of those Surrogate Parent Pokemon that man told Latias about." I nodded, it made sense, but I still didn't see one. Me, Cory and Latias started to go over the cages to see if there was a Chansey. Then I noticed there was one short. "Where's Jason?" I asked. "He said he was going to check on… now what was the black haired boys name?" Latios said, but I knew who he was talking about. "It's Damien." I said stomping in the opposite direction and sure enough, there was Jason.
"Jason, what are you doing?"
"Checking to see if he was alright." I'd had about enough of his antics. I grabbed a fistful of his fiery ponytail.
"Owwww, hey what if I pulled your hair like that?!" I released his hair.
"I know you wouldn't. I just know you that way. Now can't you see we have a job to do? We need to find a Chansey!" Jason blinked.
"A Chansey? Why didn't you say so? There's one in that cage with the Vulpix and the baby Girafarig." I glanced over at the cage and surely enough there was a Chansey dividing an egg among herself and the two smaller Pokemon.
"You could have told us earlier!" I growled dragging him by his hair back to his work station.
"Now, get back to work shipping eggs, Damien is fine Latios is staying with him. Don't move!" I said getting back to my part of the storage room. A lot of cages where empty now, but we still had a lot of work to do. Each Pokemon could only take up to six eggs at very most. It would have been great to have Houdini right now, he'd be a great help. He could take them all at once with his psychic powers… That's when I got an idea.
"Hey, Latios, Latias, you're psychic aren't you?" The both nodded. I smiled.
"Well then, one of you could use you're psychic powers to move the eggs, couldn't you?" The looked at each other, then at me.
"Well, it's possible, but it's a lot of stress on the mind. We're aren't the greatest psychic users ever, so we could only take one trip. After that we'd have to stay and rest down at the Pokemon Center without making any return trips." Latias said. Then I remembered that Latios was Strength Sharing with Damien so he couldn't do it.
"Ok, Latias you'll have to do it."
"Wha- me? I can't take as many as Latios, an I can't fly nearly as long!" She shrieked it was risky, but she had to try.
"Latias, you're the only one who can do it." Cory said, she looked at the rest of the eggs and baby Pokemon.
"Well, I'll take the rest of the eggs, there are only a few baby Pokemon so you can take them. I don't think I could live with myself If I dropped actually children." She said getting ready for her flight. Latias inhaled deeply and tucked her clawed legs. Her eyes started glowing and the eggs lifted out of the boxes they where piled in. It looked like a movie. She was glowing and surrounded by a circle of glowing rainbow eggs.
"Wish me luck." She said telepathically before diving out the window at full speed, each egg trailed behind her.
"I sure hope a Pigeot doesn't mistake our rescue as a free meal." Cory said, I glared at him. This was not the time for that, I didn't want him to Jynx it.
"Where's Jason? We didn't run him through the plan." I said, but Cory just pointed over his shoulder at the room where Latios was.
When I got there Jason was there, but Damien was on the floor, and awake. Jason was next to him laying on his belly.
"Does it hurt, really?" Jason was asking.
"Well, yeah, but I can't actually feel it inside me." Damien responded drowsily. Jason put rested his head on his hand. I was half expecting the infamous long dreamy sigh.
"It's been a long time, huh." Jason said, he sounded intoxicated. Damien kinda shrugged.
"I guess so." He said rolling over to look at Jason. I thought I was gonna puke.
"I can't look at them." I said walking back towards the room where Latias had left, but Cory stopped me.
"Hey, what's wrong with Latios? What's he doing?" Latios's eyes where glowing light blue, the way Latias where when she left.
"Hey Latios, what are you doing?" Latios didn't answer. I grabbed Latios's wing, and suddenly was flying. I jerked my hand away, my heart was racing.
"What?" Cory asked.
"I put my hand on his wing, and all of a sudden I was flying." He blinked.
"Do it again."
"No way! You do it!"
"Ok, fine we'll both do it." He said. I got ready to put my hand on Latios's wing.
"Ok, ready?" I nodded. We both grabbed one of Latios's wings at the same time. We were instantly in the clouds again.
"Hi guys." Somebody said. It was Latios.
"Latios, what is this? What are you doing?" I asked.
"Sight sharing, this is what Latias sees." I looked behind me and saw the line of eggs and in front of me I could see Mt. Silver.
"Oh, now I see." I said looking down to the ground. It was blanketed in new snow. Suddenly, everything started to whirl and wobble. You couldn't feel it, but you could see it.
"What happened Latios." When I looked at him, he looked strained.
"Latias is getting weak from the flight, but she's almost there." We wobbled and whirled at three hundred and sixty degrees.
"Latios." Latias telepathic voice was calling out to Latios.
"Latios, I can't carry all of the eggs! I have to drop some!" She cried, everyone tensed when she said that.
"No, no, no sister please don't do that! You're almost there!"
"I have to! If I don't we'll go down. I'm sorry." She said letting go of about a hundred eggs all at once. They all went spiraling to the ground until they where to far away to see anymore. I could hear Latias sobbing within her mind.
"I… I just couldn't so it. I wasn't strong enough…."
"Don't worry, Latias. It wasn't your fault." Latios said, but I know I didn't make her feel any better. We decided to let Latias do the rest on her own, she might feel better if she's alone for a while.
When everyone ended the sigh sharing session, we let out one long, exhausted sigh. Damien and Jason where still sitting on the ground together.
"What happened, what'd I miss?" He said cluelessly. I didn't feel like explaining anything to him today, so I walked out.
Bark's POV
"Her scents even stronger down here, Suicune." I said continuing to sniff down the long hallway.
"Bark, you said that an hour ago. Do you think we should turn back and take a different way?" Suicune asked, but I shook my head.
"No way, I definitely smell her down here."
"Bark, hey Bark!" Someone called from down the hallway, it was a little dark, so I couldn't see them, but they didn't sound familiar.
"Hey Bark, look, it's me!" I heard them say, then suddenly a blaze lit from no where. I saw a strange, weasel like thing with fire on his neck.
"Ummm, do I know you?" I asked getting a little closer, but not too close since it might have been a trap.
"Come on, don't tell me you don't know your best friend?" He said to me, I tilted my head.
"Umm, you look sort of familiar, are you related to a Quilava named Quil in anyway?" The Pokemon laughed.
"Yeah, he's me!" Bark blinked.
"Quil? Oh my Arceus, is that really you?" He nodded. I nearly did a back flip.
"I found you! I finally found you!" I said jumping up and down, then I remembered.
"If you're here, then that means Flair's here right? Is she ok?" I asked. Quil nodded. I was overcome with joy right now. I thought I'd cry.
"Then I'm going to meet her right now! I can't wait to see the look on her face when she sees I came all the way to the mountains to get her!" I said running down the hallway to the room at the end. This would be a great surprise for her.
OMG, that may be the longest or secong longest chapter I ever wrote. YAY!! I think I'm getting better. Anyway, please help my imporments along by revewing!