This is it, the last update before school starts. Like I said last time, when school starts, expect updates to slow down sigifigantly. Not only do I have no clue when most of my Color Guard practices are going to be, but I'm also in chorus (love singing ^-^) and I have no clue when those practices are. But I promise I will try to update. Though, this would be a good time to bring up my curse... whenever I try to make a multi-chapter story and it goes into the school year I get writer's block, due to homework and such, to the point where I forget about its existance. Now I'm really hoping this doesn't happen with this story, but if for some reason I just stop updating all together for some reason, that's why. I'm extremely sorry that I had to break that to you peoples. BTW I know the tittle of this chapter is stupid.
A Random Human: Thanks, I sort of made her relatsionship with her brother like the relatsionship I have with mine, minus the part with the brother not caring about her anymore.
RangerTakara: Her reaction is kind of how mine would be, if I'm being honest. But, ya, she does miss them a lot. Even though it happened years ago she doesn't want to let go of the past, and, really, that is a terrable mistake. It's like I always say, the past is the past, you can't change it, there's no magical redo button, might as well just move on with life without worring about it.
Ranger Belle: *Smiles and shrugs of apology* Don't worry about it, I know I'm dense, though I only realized it after you said Summer was. I thought back and realized "Hey, I'm dense too." I don't care, so you don't have to apologize. (but if it means a lot to you, I accept your apology :) ). *reads more* ya, I don't want to fall behind even thoughsomehow I have three honors classes one of which I don't even know why I was allowed to do it (fun.) Oh and in color guard you are garentied to hit yourself with the flag, there's no suger coating it you will, at the start of the season I chose to keep count of how many times I've done it, I lost count after 30. As for if Summer has an ability we don't know about... how can I answer that if I don't even know?
Amazing Person: *reads response* Game Freak owns pokemon? Look I don't pay attention to the opening sponsers I just rappibly press the start button and hope for the best. I'm going to look that up though. To Google! *googles it* I think you are misinformed. Nintendo has alway owned the rights to pokemon, I think Game Freak just helps with game development and stuff.
Human Being: Well... I'm just going to leave it as this. For me, for a story to be considered a tragedy someone must die. So there is a garentied at least one (more depending on where this story goes) character death in this story. I'm not going to suger coat it, someone will die, otherwise it isn't a true tragedy in my bizzar mind.
Disclaimer: I do not own nintendo, if I did,well, everything would go downhill from the start.
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Chapter 8
Now informed
When we walked in my hand was in my pocket, clutching the pulsating shard, somewhat relieved that it hadn't fallen out of it and fell to the earth, whether it be in water or dirt would depend on where it fell, and Pichu was by my side. Rand, Leene and Nema had heard we came in and greeted us, and Rand told us the Professor Hastings was pacing back and forth waiting for us to get back. Ben had commented saying that we'd better not keep him waiting. So we walked up the wooden steps with Pichu following close behind.
Before I even reached the top of the steps I could hear the Professor ask Ben "So are you done patrolling yet?" Ben and I looked at each other and nodded towards the professor at the same time, to be honest the last time I did that with someone, in perfect unison, was when I was with Teran. By the time I was able to even get into the room, the professor wouldn't move from in front of the steps until I convinced him otherwise, Ben had already taken his spot at the book covered table; and so I went and took my spot on the opposite end and Pichu had hoped up ontop the table and was slowing climbing my shoulder. "So what did you find?"
"Well…" Ben started first, probably because he figured that he would take the shortest time, and, in truth, he would. "We decided that it would a good idea to split up. I would go to Tilikule and look there, and Summer would go to Faldera. Then we would meet up over Sophian and look their together." Professor Hastings just nodded, it was a simple sign telling him to continue. "I didn't find anything, but Summer says she did."
The professor looked at me and said "Well, go on, what did you find?"
I looked him in the eye and bit my lip, then turning my gaze to Ben, then to Pichu, and then, finally, to the ground before saying "I saw them. They were digging around the peak of Faldera Volcan, where Moltress usually was. They were talking about some stuff. The first thing I heard was a question, one of them was asking the others if they had found it yet."
"What was 'it'? Surely they must of said." The professor interrupted.
I nodded before continuing. "They didn't say what 'it' was for the longest time. Eventually one of them called it a crystal shard after someone had found it. One of them said they could only be found where legendries live; more specifically, Kanto's, Johto's, and Oblivia's legendries. Though they never mentioned the areas where Kanto's legendary dogs lived. They just mentioned Layuda Island, the ruins outside of that one village on Renbow, Cocona Village, the Undersea Cavern, and the Rainbow Dais. Note how they're all area's in Oblivia, so that leads me to believe that they have teams for each region.
"After that they went silent for a while because they had to get back to work and find the crystal shard thing. A few minutes passed and they found one, after one of them verified that it was what they were looking for she said that it might be real or fake and they would have to get the rest to find out. Then they left. I watched them go, then left and met up with Ben above Sophian Island-"
"And we decided after a few hours of walking we would look at Mt. Sorbet today." Ben interrupted "So we went to Booker's and slept there. When we woke up we went to the mountain, and saw they weren't there so we figured we could try and find the crystal shard thing before World End gets there. Took about an hour, but we found it. Summer has it in her pocket."
Professor Hastings looked at us, his expression was one of curiosity and impatience. He turned to me before saying "Well, come now, my dear, show us." With a nod I reached down into my pocket and pulled out the, still pulsing, shard looked at it, then looked at both of them before I outstretched my hand for the professor to take it. As soon as it was in his hands I could feel the pulsing stop, and I felt a little light headed with the sudden difference in pressure from the pulsing that was constantly in the back of my mind, but I ignored it; I'd be fine.
It was a relief; don't get me wrong, when I was holding that thing it felt like, I don't know how to describe it, it was like… like someone had given me something that felt like I owned it in the first place. Even then that's not a very good way of saying what it felt like. I found my eyes always on the shard as Professor Hastings examined it, for some reason it really did feel like it belonged to me. But I know it doesn't, I just found it in the snow and brought it here, if anything Articuno owns it. Besides it it'll be more useful to the Union then it would to me.
Taking my eyes off it I looked at the table and mentally scolded myself for feeling like it was originally mine when I know better. "I'll show this to Leanne, perhaps she'll be able to tell us more about this interesting find." Ben and I nodded, and I could hear the professor walking down the steps. Within minutes I could hear two different footsteps, and voices, coming up the stairs. I looked up and saw Leanne and the professor just coming into the room, they were talking but I didn't bother to listen to what they were saying, it was between the two of them, not all four of us.
I could hear Leanne saying "It's going to take me a while to find any information on these. I doubt that anyone has ever heard of them before, but I might be able to find something."
"Very well." Professor Hastings sighed. That's when I raised my head and he turned to me and Ben "While Leanne is researching see if you can find any other shards in Oblivia. I shall contact headquarters and tell them to assign the rangers in Kanto and Johto to search as well, and report their progress and keep me in contact." Again, I wanted to ask if I could help the Kanto rangers, but I stopped myself. They could handle it, they didn't need me, my job was here, not over there. And you know what, I accepted it.
Ben nodded "Alright. Come on, Summer." He grabbed my hand and pulled me along. Have you ever noticed how it's harder to keep up with someone when they're dragging you? Like when the persons running, you know full well you can keep up with them under normal circumstances, but when they're pulling your arm you can't no matter how hard you try. Within second we're outside. "Stay together or split up?" It was a simple question, no explanation was needed for it though.
After thinking I replied smiling "Together." "It'll be easier for the both of us" A single line that I hid behind the statement. He called his Starraptor and I called Latias. Kneeling down I let Pichu off my shoulder and said "I know how much you don't like flying, stay with Rand and Nema, just for today. Alright, buddy."
Instantly his ears drooped, but he nodded in agreement "Pichu."
"Now don't take it personally, it's just for today." I smiled at him, and he nodded again, this time though, he looked a bit happier.
"You done?" I looked at Ben, he was already on his Starraptor and waiting for me to join him.
I nodded and climbed on Latias. "Let's go." With a small smile I waved Pichu see you later and we took off into the cloudy sky. A sky that made it look like it was going to rain soon, but it didn't feel like it would. Rain has a certain feel to it, it felt dry before it starts and the blows wind is a little cooler than normal. This felt slightly humid, but the occasional breeze blew somewhat cool. "Where do you want to start?" I asked.
He thought for a second, not like there was a good answer. Let's face it, with the Undersea Cavern being, well, underwater obviously, the Rainbow Dias doesn't exactly have any place to hide it unless it has a super-secret panel or something, the ruins outside Cocona Village has a lot of people around it, and Layuda Island has the possibility of being hit by lightning the options were simple, yet not. After a minute he answered saying "Layuda Island, might as well get it over with." I nodded in agreement. Personally I would have chosen the Rainbow Dias, but I'm not Ben, and it doesn't really matter the order we get them in, so it was fine by me.
It only took a few seconds before Ben was on his way, I had told Latias to wait. I figured, if we wait it means she could go fast and do her tricks if she wanted to. After all, I had told her next time she could, and it is the next time. Though something just didn't feel right… it felt like something that had once been lost for a long time had just been found. But it felt so far away, like the distance from here to Kanto. I ignored it, and waited a few more seconds and whispered "Alright, you can go." before the two of us took off. Latias was smiling and doing her thing, while I clung to her neck, trying not to fall, but all the while laughing.
If only I had known not to ignore that feeling. Then maybe I would have found out what was going on sooner.
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Now before you can ask "how can she tell if it's about to rain or not?" I can explain. You can actually tell if it's going to rain or not without the weather chanel just by feel. The air will feel drier and cooler then normal and the sky is generally going to be gray and there will be wind. Now i can't gerentie that this method is always going to work, but sometimes it does. And I guess I should explain the whole Undersea Cavern area as well. Alright so for those of you that don'tknow if you catch every pokemon in the game you get a quest that allows you to go to an area in the game called the Undersea Cavern, when there you can capture Lugia and get his guardian sign. I know this from a website called Bulbapedia, not from personal experience (I tried to catch every pokemon in the game but I got bored, not to mention someone deleted my file D: ). Well see you later, and sorry for the delay.
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