Note: This chapter name probably wouldn't make since to some people, but it's a play off of words from Late to Lunch and the coordinate Longitude.
HGSS: Johto Saga
season 5, Opening: This Dream
Chapter 28
Late To Longe
The medium sized cruiser ship sliced through the churning water with ease. Water pokemon swim adrift around the ship, almost as if they were carrying it along the water. Lanturn, Chinchou and various types leapt out of the water, flipped and did another graceful dive into it once more.
"Those Lanturn look familiar in size to Relicanth, don't you think, May?" Brandon asked as he gazed down at the sparkling water.
"Yeah, sort of...No, not really. Do you remember how ugly they were?" May sneered.
"Don't be mean. No pokemon can be that ugly!" Lyra enforced. May opened her pokedex and tinkered for a moment. After she found a pokemon, she showed Lyra. Lyra caught her breath as she almost threw up. Ethan slid next to her to see.
"Wow...what a wreck of a pokemon..."
"They're over 300 years old. Their species has lived a long time, but they haven't evolved at all, so they look like that...All. The. Time," Brandon entered.
"I realized something just now..." Lyra said as she backed away from the edge of the boat. "We have to go to the Wallace Cup on our way back...but that means..."
"That means Jasmine's Amphy will have to wait...?" Brandon skipped.
"Um, that can't happen!" May shrieked.
"Hey, let's not worry. I'll come up with a plan. Right now, we should just worry about getting to Cianwoo-" Ethan was interrupted as the ship lurched back and forth. "Huh?"
May glanced over the edge of the ship and found that they were over twenty feet in the air.
"AHHH!" The quads heard screams from all over the ship as passengers busteled around frantically, screaming hysterically.
Ethan was pushed against the ledge as a man swung his suitcase and clocked him across the chest by accident. His backpack fell off towards the water. He noticed and his eyes grew big. Climbing onto the ledge, he dove off, diving the fifty foot drop. As he dropped, he saw three twisters carrying the boat upwards and in the southerly direction.
As he hit the ground, something softened his fall. As he looked around, he spotted his backpack drifting down. The milk he had put in there must have been weighting it down. As soon as he noticed this, his pokeballs became loosened from the holsters and started to float around. He started grabbing around and soon collected them all, placing them in one arm as he reached out for his backpack. Suddenly, he lost his breath and his arm felt limp. His eyes started to close as he began to choke. Soon, he lost all reality.
Ethan's eyes fluttered as he awoke. Feeling around, he felt soft sand. He lifted a hand full of sand and let it trickle between his fingers. Sitting up, he surveyed his surroundings.
Two tall blue pokemon came sauntering up to him. To Ethan's surprise, they began to speak.
"Young one, come with us..." One spoke in a very fancy accent.
The other said, "Yes, please..." in a very crude accent.
Ethan stood up and felt his waist. His pokeballs were there. One of the tall pokemon handed Ethan his backpack, but it was completely dry, as if it had never gotten wet.
Soon, the tall pokemon, who introduced themselves as Golducks, led Ethan to a large hut that kind of was molded to look like a castle. The two Golduck kneeled down and were overcome in a white light. They morphed down in size to two yellow pokemon Ethan recognized as Psyduck. They pointed towards the hut and Ethan nodded, heading inside.
He pushed away a curtain of beads and inside was like a sauna. Steam shrouded the room and the humidity caused Ethan to immediately sweat.
Looking on, he saw a Golduck sitting in a throne-like chair made of straw and what looked like cracked, red dirt and mud.
"Peasant, why are you here!" He shouted.
"Well, I don't know. I jumped off our ship to get my pokemon and I passed out underwater...and I woke up here!" Ethan explained.
"I see...Young boy, you are on Bead Island, which is the only island in Johto governed by Pokemon!" The Golduck shrieked.
"Wait, I wanna know why you can talk!" Ethan persisted.
"That is not of your concern...Besides, you should not be here! I am banishing you for all eternity!"
The steam in the room grasped Ethan arms and everything turned black. He fell into a dark hole.
Suddenly, he woke up in a bedroom, surrounded by Lyra, May and Brandon. They were gazing down at him.
"Ethan!" Lyra bellowed. "You're awake!"
"Awake...?" Ethan mumbled.
"Yeah, you've been out of it for almost two days now. We're in Cianwood..." Brandon explained.
"You dove off the ship after your backpack. The twisters let us down. It was just the captain's Gyarados that lived there that were helping out. Um, they fished you out of the water, but you were in a coma...Not to mention full of water!" May explained.
"Whoa...So, that was all just a dream...and, we're in...Cianwood already!"
"Yeah...I'm guessing this is bad for you?" Brandon inquired.
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"Quilava, Flamethrower!" Ethan called out. Quilava shot a spout of flames into the air. Noctowl dodged it and swooped down towards Quilava.
"Great, now practice your aerial movement. Use Aerial Ace!" Noctowl twisted a bit as Quilava shot out of the way. "Slowpoke, use Confusion!" Slowpoke fired a ray of energy at Noctowl, which it struck through.
"Great. We're definitely ready for that Gym battle!" Ethan glanced down at his backpack, which lay on the ground. Something was shining from inside. He opened the top and took out the glass case containing his egg.
Suddenly, it shined bright and Ethan took the lid off. A brown pokemon was revealed from the light. It had a white collar and a white tipped tail.
"Whoa...that's an...Eevee!"
