A/N
Heyo!
Welcome to chapter 8!
I'm just wondering, but have any of you guessed what the mysterious creature with the red eyes is yet? If you haven't, you'll find the answer soon enough ;)
Oh yeah, and I hope the lack of dialogue in this story isn't boring you :/
It's just that working with a character that doesn't talk too much is proving to be quite a difficult task. I hope everything's going well :)
Just a heads up... I'm going to attempt a battle scene in this chapter. I've never written one before so I'm really sorry if it's bad :P
Anyway...
ENJOY!
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Recap!
Blue's POV
"The Distortion World?"
End of Recap!
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Red's POV
Odd and creepy objects floated all around me as I stood on a cobblestone path; darkness surrounding everything in sight.
Objects of all sorts floated above me, below me and past me. I felt cold. The air clung to me like a black cloak.
I saw movement in the darkness just ahead of me, and I strained my eyes to see what it was. All of a sudden, the black mist in front of me parted like the ocean did for Groudon.
Before me stood Gold; paralysed in fear. His body was slightly shaking and his hands were balled into fists. He had his back to me, so I couldn't see his face.
Quite some distance in front of Gold, glowing red eyes appeared.
I felt my own body freeze up as the menacing red orbs came closer and closer. I tried to shout 'run' out to Gold, but it felt like my throat had closed up and no noise was coming out.
I could only watch in horror as the terrible creature lunged at Gold; its blood-red eyes illuminated in the darkness.
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I bolted upright; my heart pounding at a million miles per second. I whipped my head around; my eyes scanning the room frantically. I finally calmed down and my breathing returned to a speed which could have been deemed normal.
What the heck was that?! I had never had a dream like that before. Could it of meant something? I mean the place we were in looked scarily like where we were now.
The part where the creature with the red eyes lunged at Gold popped into my mind. I covered my face with my hands and shook my head. I had to get it out of my mind.
I was still seated on the floor, except I was quite a distance away from the bed. I must have been moving around a lot while I was having that awful nightmare.
I couldn't be bothered getting up, so I crawled over to the bed where Gold was supposed to be. Except he wasn't.
I jumped off the floor and spun my body around. I started to search furiously through everything that was on the top floor.
He couldn't have just disappeared!
I sprinted towards the door and ran down the stairs; my heart was pounding once again. I skidded to a halt in what you could call the living-room once I saw Gold seated on one of the old couches.
He had his bag on his lap and a pokeball in one hand. He repeatedly tossed it into the air and caught it.
I breathed a sigh of relief and flopped onto the couch next to him. The pokeball landed in his hand and his body froze up. A frown placed itself on my face.
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Gold's POV
I had been sitting on the couch in the living room ever since Red had fallen asleep. I could have been sitting there for hours but time didn't seem to flow here.
I was tossing Typhlosion's pokeball up into the air and then catching it. I didn't know why, but it helped me think.
Ever since we had fallen down here, I kept on getting these weird feelings. They especially seemed to arise whenever Red was around.
The first time it happened was when Red hugged me as we fell through that hole in the ground. The second time was when I pulled Red off the ground once we had entered this place. The third time was when Red had a hold on my arm and was pulling me towards the creepy cottage we were in now. And the most recent one was when I was on top of Red after we had almost fallen into a dark void when the path beneath our feet started to crumble away.
My mind kept on telling me that it was normal to feel this way after extreme contact with another person. But I knew better. There was something locked away within the depths of my mind. A feeling that was locked away and I couldn't reach it. A feeling that shouldn't have been there.
I heard loud footsteps coming from the stairs and sneakers scuffing along the wooden floor.
In my peripheral vision, I saw Red come skidding to a halt. A quiet sigh of relief left his lips and he came over and flopped onto the seat next to me.
I caught the pokeball in my hand and my body froze up. The weird feeling returned at the closeness of Red next to me.
I side-glanced at him and saw a frown on his face. His clothes were all creased and his hair was a mess but in a strange way, I liked it.
I noticed that his hat was missing and I brought a hand up to my own head. The usual familiarity of my black and gold hat was no longer there and sadness washed over me. I really liked that hat.
"You look cute without your hat on." I heard Red say quietly.
My face exploded with redness but I couldn't tell if it was because he talked to me or because of the compliment.
I could hear Red chuckling and my face went even redder. I guess he noticed my embarrassment then.
His laughter suddenly stopped and a deadly silence filled the room. "I... I need to tell you something, Gold-"
Red's sentence was cut short when three figures formed from the shadows that were cast over the room. They took the form of two Haunter and one Gengar.
A strangled cry left my mouth and I fell off the couch in a spectacular manner. Red flew from the couch and reached for Pikachu's pokeball.
Typhlosion's pokeball slipped from my hand and rolled away from me.
"Gah!" I cried and ran after it.
I heard Pikachu's cry and I knew that it was engaged in battle with the ghost type Pokémon.
The run-away pokeball rolled towards the back of the house and stopped at a wall. I scurried over to it and picked it up.
"Thank Arceus." I panted.
I turned back to where Red was battling the two Haunter and Gengar. I ran towards him and released Typhlosion from his pokeball.
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Red's POV
Pikachu let loose a powerful Thunderbolt but all three Pokémon disappeared before it could make contact.
"Damn it." I cursed and the three ghosts returned seconds later.
I usually had a strategy for battling ghost-types, but this happened all so quickly that I didn't have enough time to plan ahead.
The three Pokémon would always disappear right before the attack would hit and then would re-appear and attack with a Sucker Punch or Nightshade.
I was still used to my original way of battling, so I still didn't need to give Pikachu a verbal command.
"Typhlosion! Use Flamethrower!" Typhlosion came running into the room with Gold right behind it.
A giant burst a flames came flooding out of Typhlosion's mouth and scorched a Haunter that had silently snuck up behind me.
"Thanks!" I yelled to him over Pikachu's cry.
The room was illuminated in a yellow glow and the three Pokémon disappeared once again. The two Haunter's and Gengar returned unscathed, except for the one that looked slightly weakened by Gold's surprise attack. We no longer had the element of surprise and that meant we were at a disadvantage.
"Why are these Pokémon attacking us?!" Gold shouted at me.
"I don't know!" I yelled back.
A Blast Burn from Typhlosion made the room sweltering hot. The three ghosts carelessly evaded the attack and the Gengar attacked Pikachu with a Sucker Punch. One of the Haunter's appeared in front of Gold's Typhlosion and licked it. Typhlosion cried out and its body became rigid.
"Typhlosion!" Gold cried out to his injured Pokémon.
I smelt something burning and I turned my body to face one of the couches. It had been set ablaze by Typhlosion's powerful fire attacks and it was quickly spreading throughout the room.
"Aah! We have to get out of here!" Gold roared.
I nodded in response and ran for the front door. I pried at the door handle but the door had been mysteriously locked. I kicked it in frustration but it didn't do any good. I frantically searched the room for an exit and my gaze fell on one of the windows.
I pointed at the window and Gold looked at me with fear in his eyes.
"Are you nuts?!" He yelled. "We'll be ripped to shreds!"
"It's all we've got!" I shouted and returned Pikachu to its pokeball.
Gold reluctantly did the same with his Typhlosion and ran towards me. He ducked just as Gengar threw a Sucker Punch at him.
He made it to my side and I looked at him.
"You ready?" I asked him.
"Ready as I'll ever be." He breathed quietly and we sprinted towards the window.
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Blue's POV
"The Distortion World?!" I yelled out in disbelief. "Seriously?!"
"I'm very serious, Blue." Professor Oak said in a low tone. "There's an ancient myth that states that Mount Silver is one of the many entrances to the Distortion World."
"Well it's story time!" I shouted. "Tell me!"
The Professor returned to his spot on the couch and I followed in suite.
He cleared his throat and started re-telling the legend.
"A long time ago, there was a hero of an ancient land called Castiel Sarea. He was the personal knight of a beautiful queen named Aurnia Megara. He was famous for the heroic deeds he did in favour of his beloved queen. But then one day, he disappeared. Without a trace. Some people believed he abandoned his queen as the kingdom she was ruling was in a state of war. Some believed he had died in combat. No one knew what had happened until the day he had returned. Castiel claimed that he had been dragged into the Distortion World as a sacrifice to the renegade Pokémon Giratina. He believed that Giratina needed a human sacrifice so it could return to the human world. Castiel had only escaped by the skin on his teeth. The whole kingdom had laughed in his face, including queen Aurnia. He was accused of abandonment, betrayal and was stripped of his title. Castiel Sarea died a lonesome death with no one believing his story."
"That's... horrible." I chocked.
"Indeed it is." Professor Oak agreed. "I to had thought that Castiel Sarea's story was unbelievable until this very day."
The Professor gazed out the window once again, taking in the view of Mount Silver.
"You... You don't think that Gold's in there do you? I mean... He could've fallen in there! He might end up just like Castiel! What if he never makes it out?!" Panic started to arise in my voice.
"Blue, calm down! We don't actually know if he's in there!"
"Well, let's go look for him!"
"Do you seriously think it's a good idea for us to go there?" Gramps said, referring to the darkened Mount Silver.
"We don't have another choice!" I cried out.
"This is a bad idea, Blue."
"Fine. I'll go by myself." I huffed and stood up. I grabbed my bag and coat and made my way towards the front door.
Professor Oak ran after me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Blue, don't. This is suicide. You'll get yourself killed!"
"I can't just leave one of my friends up on a deserted, possessed mountain. I have to go and save him. He'd do the same thing for me, and you know it!"
I shrugged my grandfather's hand off my shoulder and walked outside. I released Pidgeot from its pokeball and climbed onto its back.
"I'm coming, Gold." I whispered quietly and took off into the dark, night sky.
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Gold's POV
Pain. That was all I could feel as Red and I went crashing through the glass; shattering it into tiny pieces. Shards of glass torn at my skin. A sharp stinging feeling washed over me.
I hit something hard and my vision went blurry for a few seconds. My head was pounding and I could feel pain all over. I brought one of my arms up to my face and grimaced at the blood that was smeared all over it. I pushed myself off the ground; stumbling quite a bit.
My vision was lagged and everything looked like it was in slow-motion. I turned to face the building we had just come out of. The cottage was a blaze of fire. Smoke poured out from the window we broke and tendrils of fire flicked around the whole house. I couldn't see the ghost-type Pokémon anywhere.
I felt like I was going to pass out, but I willed myself not to. The smoke from the building was making it hard to breathe.
I heard a cry of pain and I whipped my head around to see what it was. The sudden movement gave me a head rush and I almost went crashing back down to the ground.
I saw a silhouette in the smoke and I stumbled towards it; falling over numerous times. The silhouette took the form of a human, but not just any human.
"Red!" I croaked out and bent down next to him. The blood loss was causing me to feel woozy.
Red's face was contorted in pain and I instantly did a damage check. A loud gasp escaped my lips when I saw a shard of glass sticking out of his left arm. "Oh my Arceus!"
"I'm fine, Gold." Red winced but tried to cover up his pain. "We need to get out of here, in case they come back."
"O-okay." I stuttered in fear. "Can you w-walk?"
A pained smile placed itself on his face and he pulled himself to his feet. "It's my arm. Not my leg."
Even in this horrible situation, I still managed a small laugh. "I guess you're right. But where do we go? The path that we used to get here is gone."
I scanned our surroundings for anything useful. I noticed that to the left there was an oddly coloured patch of grass. I shuffled towards it, Red tagging along behind me. There wasn't anything extremely special about it, except for the fact that it was yellow and not green.
Out of curiosity, I stepped onto it and the ground started to shake. I stumbled backwards, crashing into Red as I did.
Before our eyes, a new pathway rose up from the dark void in front of us. It connected to the ground we were standing on and then everything went quiet.
I looked wearily at it then said: "Come on. I really don't know what to make of this place, but we need to find somewhere safe so we can fix your arm."
Red nodded in agreement and we walked onto the newly formed path and made our way forward; not knowing what to expect.
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A/N
Phew! It's done!
Oh wait! Not the story! Just the chapter!
Okay now I have a serious question to ask all those who are reading this.
This story can either have shorter chapters, but more of them. OR this story can have chapters that are the same length that I've been doing them, but less of them.
Because if I do chapters this length as well as more of them, this story will get stretched extremely thin and it will become boring :(
So this is just something I want all of you to at least consider.
Okay! Serious stuff over!
How was this chapter? Hm? Hm?
We now know where these two mischievous boys are and what that creature with the glowing red eyes is! :D
Just so you know, I made that story about Castiel Sarea right off the top of my head. He's my own original character, so no stealing! ;)
Anyway, I hoped you liked it :)
Li xx