Kates' P.O.V
I yawned as I woke up, Keith was already up and exercising. I rolled my eyes as I walked into the bathroom with my clothes. When I emerged, Keith was sitting on his bed, fully dressed; he was talking to Buizel and Glaceon.
"Morning," I greeted, Keith looked at me.
"Morning," he answered as he stood from his bed, "Ready to go?" he asked, I nodded my head as I smelt the fresh air.
"Erm, can you smell burning?" I asked, Keith sniffed the air before sighing.
"Luana probably burned her toast," he stated, I laughed a little.
"Yeah, probably, well let's go," I smiled as we walked out of our room, our Partner Pokemon following behind us. I sniffed the air as we entered the front room of the Base; the burning smell was too strong to be from toast.
"Save the greetings for later, the Vien Forest's on fire," Barlow stated, I looked at Keith then Barlow, "You two are to go, meet up with Crawford and Luana, who are trying to put the flames out, and help put them out, now hurry, hurry, this is a mission," Barlow ordered, we nodded before running out the room and towards the Vien Forests.
As we were running I could hear crying, a little girl crying. I looked around Mimi was stood with one of her Happiny. I ran over to the girl, Keith followed behind.
"Mimi," I said as I ran to the girl, tackling her out of the way of a falling branch, I looked at her, "What are you doing here? It's not safe," I stated as I looked at her, Mimi looked around, worry was evident in her eyes as she did so.
"Mimi Happiny ran off, there were four, now there's just one," she explained as tears sprang to her eyes, I looked at Keith, who nodded his head.
"Mimi, we'll find your Happiny for you, then you have to get out of here, Keith can you stay with her, these trees are gonna fall any minute," I stated as I looked at the trees, Keith nodded his head, with that I took off looking for the lost Happiny.
I ran to the nearest clearing, there was a startled Pichu and one of Mimi's Happiny. Instead of catching the pokemon I used my gift to make it come with me, the Happiny bounded over to me with no trouble.
"Where to next?" Glaceon asked from my side, I looked around.
"Let's go deeper, c'mon," I answered as we ran deeper into the forest.
As we ran a tree began falling, I grabbed Glaceon in my arms, along with the Happiny before narrowly avoiding it. I groan emitted from my mouth as I felt a warm part on my arm. Looking at my arm, I saw it was burned; I shook my head as I stood up.
"Everyone alright?" I asked, the two pokemon nodded their heads, "Good, we need a Wartortle or something, c'mon," I ordered as we ran back to the beginning of the forest, I dropped Mimi's Happiny off with her before running up the bridge.
"Glaceon wait back there, it's too warm for you," I ordered, the ice type nodded her head as she ran back panting because of the heat. I ran towards a Wartortle before capturing it with ease, my gift came in handy.
As I walked back, something red caught my eye, I turned my head to see another one of those creepy machines, I frowned before hightailing it out of there.
Glaceon ran over to me once I got over the bridge, she had been stood with Keith, Mimi, Buizel and the Happiny. I nodded to Keith before running back to the tree that fell.
"Ok, Wartortle, use water gun," I ordered, the pokemon complied as it used its water abilities to put the flaming log out.
The tree had been mostly burnt so it was easy to walk through. I followed the path into another clearing where another Happiny was, I nodded as I used my powers to get the pokemon to come with me, it bound over to me with no trouble at all.
When that was done, we followed the path deeper in until we found the final Happiny, which wasn't that hard. When both Happiny were with me, I ran back to Keith and Mimi. I gave her the pokemon; the little girl thanked us before walking home.
"Now what?" Keith asked, I smiled at him, as best I could with the situation, and the burn in my arm.
"We find Crawford and Luana," I answered, the boy and his Buizel nodded before we began running again, "Oh and get this, where the Wartortle gather, there's another one of those weird machines," I told him before running towards another bridge, farther than the first.
"That's strange," Keith pondered before he shook his head, "Whatever, right now, we need to get to Crawford and Luana," he stated, when we crossed the bridge Glaceon used a little water gun to cool our faces down, as did Buizel.
"HEY! OVER HERE!" Luana yelled, we looked around before running to the two older Rangers.
"What dya need?" Keith asked as he looked at them, Crawford looked at the flames.
"There too intense to put out, we need a pokemon that knows rain dance, there should be a Blastoise down by the river just west of here," Crawford explained as he pointed to the direction, "Mine and Luana's stylers are malfunctioning from the heat, we need you to bring that Blastoise back, and hurry up, we'll keep an eye out for any pokemon in trouble," Crawford added, we nodded before taking the path west towards the river.
"Well, this could prove a little tricky," I stated as I looked at the pokemon, it was rampaging, hopefully from the fire and nothing else.
"I'll catch it," Keith stated, I nodded, I think he needed to regain his pride from the Tangrowth attack, "Capture….ON!" he yelled as he began the capture.
I stood watching Keith as he looped, dodged and sometimes took on a few of the hits. The Blastoise sent out some scold attacks, causing burns on Keiths' arms. I shook my head as I watched the boy, Buizel was using water to try and help with the capture, though I don't think it was doing anything.
The Blastoise began picking up nearby rocks and throwing them, Keith avoided most of them. My eyes went wide as a stray boulder went for him, I ran to the boy before tackling him out of the way. He looked at me before helping me to my feet.
"Thanks," he smiled as he began the capture again; I nodded before walking back to the side lines. Ten minutes later and a whole lot of boulders, scold attacks, dodging and loops, the pokemon was eventually caught. Keith was breathing heavily as he walked over to me before we began running back to the middle of the forest.
When we arrived, there was a glow in the middle of the forest; I looked at Crawford, who shrugged. The glow began fading, in its place, a small green pokemon emerged. I ran towards the pokemon as I caught her, she was bruised, pretty badly.
"Celebi," I muttered, the pokemon opened her eyes to look at me.
"Please, save the forest," she whispered, her voice was weak, I nodded my head before looking at Crawford, who turned to Keith, who ran towards us before getting Blastoise to use rain dance. I placed Celebi in my jacket, to prevent her from getting wet.
As the rain subsided, everyone was wet, including the pokemon, but they didn't seem to care. Crawford ran forwards before nodding his head, Luana smiled as she ran up to us as well.
"If I had known it was going to rain, I would have brought an umbrella," Crawford joked, I looked at Luana.
"Hit him for me, I've got my hands full," I stated, Luana nodded as she hit him over the head, Crawford just pouted, while Keith sweat dropped at us.
"Well, either way, it's mission clear, good work Rangers," Crawford smiled, everyone did their Ranger Pose, everyone besides me. I took Celebi out of my jacket, only to realise the pokemon had stopped breathing, I gasped.
"Crawford, we need to go, NOW!" I yelled, Crawford looked at the Celebi, his face turned to shock.
"You go, we'll be along, in a minute or so," Crawford answered, I nodded as I began running back towards the Base.
When I entered everyone gave me a startled look. I looked at Amina with pleading eyes as I showed her the Celebi in my arms, she gasped before taking my through to another room. Barlow, Elaine and Rythmi followed us.
"What happened?" Barlow asked, I clenched my fists as Amina took the pokemon away from me; Glaceon frowned as she did so.
"We came back from the river with the Blastoise, there was a glow in the middle of the forest, Celebi fell out of the sky, bruised and injured, she asked us to save the forest, Keith used the Blastoise to put the fire out, after that Celebi wasn't breathing, I don't know what happened to her," I stated as I looked through the window into one of the Ranger Base's healing rooms.
"BARLOW!" Crawfords' voice came from the reception area, Barlow sighed as he told everyone to leave, I decided to stay.
"Kate, you're at Ranger Rank 2," Barlow stated before walking off with the others, I nodded my head as I took a seat in one of the chairs.
"Will Celebi be alright?" Glaceon asked, I looked at her as I began petting her head.
"I'm sure she'll be fine," I answered as I looked through the window, I shook my head, whoever did this, I would make severely pay. Minutes passed, though it felt like hours as Amina carried on with trying to heal Celebi, I sighed as I rested my head in my hands.
"You ok?" I jumped at the sound of Keiths' voice; I wasn't expecting him any time soon. I looked at him, the boy handed me a cup of tea, I smiled as I took it from him.
"I'm a bit iffy," I answered truthfully before I sighed, "Who, in the name of Arceus, would do this?" I asked, Keith sighed.
"With anything, I'll bet it'll have been my father," he stated, I looked at him with a frown.
"Last time it was Team Rocket," I pointed out, Keith shrugged, Buizel walked over to Glaceon before smiling at her.
"Glaceon, why don't you back to the room, there's nothing you or Buizel can do for now," I stated, Glaceon looked at me, as did Buizel.
"You sure?" she asked, I nodded my head.
"Yeah, I'll come get you if you're needed," I stated as I looked into the window again, the two pokemon nodded as Buizel followed Glaceon out the room.
"We caught someone in the woods, Luana's named him Ollie, he refuses to speak," Keith spoke up after a moment, I smiled a little.
"Why's he here?" I asked, Keith looked from the ceiling to me.
"When you left, the guy walked onto the scene, he reeked of oil and looked quite nervous, Crawford said it was suspicious so we brought him in," I rolled my eyes at the answer.
"Crawford thinks everything's suspicious," I answered as I sat up straight. A few minutes of silence passed before the door to the healing room opened, I stood up before walking over to Amina.
"Celebi's awake, she's quite confused as to where she is and how she got here, she won't listen to me, maybe you could talk to her," Amina suggested, I nodded my head as I walked into the room with Keith. Celebi took one look at me before flying off the bed and over to me. I caught the pokemon before she fell out of the air and onto the floor; I shook my head, while Keith frowned.
"Celebi, you're not healed, you have to stay laid down," I stated as I sat on the bed with the pokemon still in my arms.
"Where am I? How did I get here?" the pokemon asked, I smiled at her.
"You're at the Pokemon Ranger Base in Vientown, I brought you here because you stopped breathing after the forest fiasco," I explained, Celebi jolted up right in my arms.
"The forest, is it-,"
"The forest's fine, we managed to put the fire out before it did any damage to any pokemon," Keith cut her off; Celebi nodded her head as she settled back down.
"Celebi," I started, the pokemon and Keith looked at me, "Who did this to you?" I asked, the pokemon frowned at me.
"I don't remember," she answered as she looked at me, I nodded my head.
"Alright, we'll leave you to get some rest," I stated, on that note, Celebis' stomach began to growl, the pokemon turned red as it did so, Keith smiled before looking at me.
"I'll go get some food," he smiled as he walked out of the room, Celebi moved in my arms before she began glowing green, she was healing herself.
"I want to show you something," she said as she floated in the air in front of me, I cocked a brow at her.
"What is it?" I asked, the room began to glow a silver colour before it disappeared around us, I closed my eyes because of the brightness. When I opened them, I saw I wasn't in the Base anymore; instead I was in, actually, where was I? I looked around, dark sky, stars; I turned to the left only to see the earth.
"I'M IN SPACE?!" I yelled, I heard a chuckle behind me.
"In a way, yes you are," I knew that voice, it was the same voice that told me about the book of Legends and Tales of Old, but…..where was it coming from?
I turned around, my eyes landed on a white pokemon, it had a grey stomach, red eyes and a gold ring like thing around it, my eyes went wide.
"Arceus," I muttered as I fell to my knees, Celebi was sat on my shoulder.
"Hiya Arceus, how are you?" she asked, I looked at her; I could understand her perfectly, like she was speaking human.
"I'm well Celebi, why have you brought a child here?" he asked as he looked at me, I just looked at him before shaking my head.
"HEY! I'm no child," I stated as I looked at the, rather large, pokemon. Arceus just gave me a blank look.
"Arceus, you remember Summerlands' Gift don't you?" Celebi asked, Arceus looked at Celebi, then me.
"So, you were reborn," he stated, I gave him a confused look as I stood up. Arceus looked at me before changing into a smaller form of himself, he was now eye level with me.
"What do you mean reborn?" I asked as I looked at him, Arceus chuckled a little.
"I didn't think you would remember your past life," he stated, I gave him an even more confused look, "Tell me, how much do you know about your powers?" Arceus asked, I looked at him.
"That I can befriend and calm down pokemon when they're rampaging, if I'm mad enough a white glow will emit from my body, hitting whoever or whatever I'm mad at, that's it though," I answered, Arceus shook his head at me.
"Take her back Celebi, she needs the book to find out more about herself, then when she's ready, bring her again," he sighed.
"Wait, what do you mean, when I'm ready?" I asked, Arceus looked at me.
"Mewtwo has already contacted you about the darkness coming to the Region you are in, you will know you are ready when you are ready," Arceus stated, I gave him a confused looked, "I will, however, tell you this, the book you seek is lost in an ancient library somewhere in the Almia Region," he added on, I nodded my head.
"Alright, I won't ask questions now, but later I will be," I stated, Arceus nodded his head.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," he answered before everything turned silver again; I covered my eyes to block out the brightness.
"What do you mean she's gone?" Rythmis' voice reached my ears.
"I told you, I walked in with the food for Celebi and both of them were gone," Keiths' voice came back, when I opened my eyes I saw everyone in the healing room, including some tied up boy, that must be Ollie.
"Erm, what's going on?" I asked, everyone turned to look at me.
"OH KATIE THANK ARCEUS!" Crawford yelled as he hugged me, I struggled out of his grip; Keith glared at me when I looked at him.
"Here," he said as he pushed the food for Celebi forwards, I took it before giving it to the forest guardian, who munched eagerly on it.
"What happened?" Crawford asked, I looked at him, then Celebi, who shook her head.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," I answered as I looked at the group, Barlow shook his head.
"Let's go, Kate, Keith, you two can call it a day," Barlow smiled as he exited the room with everyone, leaving me with Celebi, Keith, Glaceon and Buizel.
"What happened?" Glaceon asked, I shook my head.
"Trust me, you wouldn't believe me if I told you," I stated as I took a piece of fruit Celebi had offered me before munching on it.
"Try us," Keith glared, "Do you have any idea how worried everyone was?" he asked, I looked at him.
"Why, I was only gone like five minutes," I stated, Keith glared at me again.
"Not the point Katherine, the point is that you didn't let anyone know where you were going, Crawford thought you got kidnapped, Barlow thought you were abducted, Rythmi thought you had run away, Luana said something about killer sheep, and I had to listen to the whole thing," he stated, I glared at him for using my real name.
"Hang on….killer sheep?" I asked, Keith sighed.
"You don't wanna know," he answered, I nodded my head, "But where were you?" he asked, I looked at Celebi, who nodded her head.
"Alright, I'll tell you, but you have to keep it a secret," I stated, Keith nodded as he sat in one of the chairs, "Celebi took me to see Arceus, we spoke about some things," I stated, Keith cocked a brow.
"What things?" he asked, panic rushed through my body.
"About what Mewtwo told me about and the forest fire," I answered, Keith nodded his head, but I don't think he fully bought the story.
"Well, I'm going to the room, you wanna come Celebi, or are you staying here?" I asked, the pokemon looked at me.
"I have to go back to protect the forests around the world, thanks for helping me though," she smiled, I nodded my head.
"Wait, she's not fully healed, are you sure it's such a good idea?" Keith asked as he stood up, I looked at him.
"Celebi knows where to find me if she ever needs me, don't you?" I asked, the forest guardian nodded her head before flying out the window into the sky.
"I still say it's a bad idea," Keith stated, I shook my head as I walked towards the door.
"You coming?" I asked, Keith nodded before following me. I walked to our room, while Keith went to the reception area. Once I got into the room, I locked the door before pulling my phone out; I dialled in Isaacs' number. It ran three times before he eventually answered the call.
"Hello?" he asked, I smiled.
"Isaac?" I asked.
"Hey Kate, how are you?" he asked, I smiled.
"I'm fine, you?" I answered, the boy chuckled a little.
"I'm good, so what's up?" he asked.
"Have you made any progress on finding the Legend and Tales of Old book?" I asked, there was a sigh from the blond on the other end.
"I'm afraid not Kate," he answered, I smiled.
"Alright, look into ancient and lost libraries in the Almia Region, it's in one of them," I stated.
"How do you know that?" the confusion was clear in Isaacs' voice, I smiled innocently to myself.
"Celebi took me to see Arceus," I stated.
"No way," he answered.
"Yeah way," I replied.
"I'll look into the libraries tomorrow morning," he stated, I smiled.
"Alright, thanks Isaac," I answered.
"Hey Kate?" he asked.
"Yeah?" I answered.
"How's Rythmi doing?" he asked, I smiled.
"She's fine, if you want I can put her on," I stated.
"Please," Isaac answered, I smiled.
"Alright, gimme a sec," I replied as I unlocked the door before running to the reception, Rythmi was arguing with Keith about something.
"Kate's just being herself Keith," she stated, Keith glared at her.
"I know that, that's why I'm worried," I heard him growl, I cocked a brow before tapping Rythmi on the shoulder, Keith stood up before walking off, I cocked a brow.
"Isaac's on the phone, he wants to talk to you," I smiled as I handed her the phone, Rythmi nodded her thanks before she began talking, I followed after Keith, who had walked to our room.
"Ok, what have I done?" I asked, Keith looked at me.
"Nothing," he answered as he laid on his bed, he just began staring at the ceiling, I shook my head.
"Keith-,"
"I said nothing so drop it," he spat at me; I flinched before walking to my bed. I grabbed my sketch pad before I began sketching; I turned the page to see it become red.
"What?" I asked as I looked at the page, Keith looked at me.
"What?" he asked, I showed him the paper, he walked over to me, "Maybe it's meant to be red?" he tried, I shook my head.
"No, they're all meant to be white," I stated, two eyes formed on the page, I gulped, the eyes were glaring at us, then a body began to form around the eyes, words began to appear at the bottom of the page.
"You will not survive what is to come?" I read aloud, Keith grabbed the book before throwing it across the room; I looked at him in confusion.
"Don't ask," he said, his voice was low as he looked at the book. I gave him a confused look before nodding my head; maybe it was better not to press questions.
"Well, I think I'm going to call it a day," I said slowly as I pieced together what happened, I walked towards the bathroom to get changed.
When I emerged, the room was silent, Glaceon and Buizel were asleep, Keith was looking at the page in my sketch book, which was now blank. I shook my head; something weird was going on, something very, very weird.
I sighed as I crawled into my bed, I pulled the covers over me as I looked at the ceiling, my hands behind my head, much like when Keith's thinking.
"How long?" Keith asked, I looked at him.
"How long what?" I asked, he looked at me this time.
"How long had the writing and pictures been happening?" he asked like it was obvious, I began to think for a couple of minutes.
"Well, one happened when we had only just come back from Summerland, then I think that was it, until now," I stated as I looked at him, Keith nodded his head as he set the sketch pad down on the desk.
"Alright," was all he said before he turned the lights out, I frowned; Keith hadn't been himself today at all.
"Keith, are you ok?" I asked, I heard Keith move in his bed.
"I'm fine, why?" he asked, I shrugged, though I doubt he could see me.
"You haven't been yourself today is all," I stated, I heard Keith snicker.
"Would you rather me be perverted?" he asked, I looked at him.
"No, but it's just weird, you sure you're ok?" I asked, Keith sighed, I heard him get out of his bed, though I don't know where he was going. That is until I felt a weight on my bed; he was laying over me at first before rolling so he was laid at the left side of me, closest to the wall.
"I'm fine, guess I'm just a little worried about my dad being in Almia, that's all," he answered, I shook my head as I closed my eyes.
"Why are you in my bed?" I asked.
"I get lonely all by myself," he stated, I rolled my eyes.
"Fine, but don't try anything," I warned, I swear I heard him smirk.
"Don't worry Flat Chest, I won't," he answered.
"And he's back," I smiled as I turned away from him, I felt Keith wrap his arm around my waist he had the first night we had to stay in one bed. I just ignored it as best I could, but when he drew me into his chest I began blushing like crazy, maybe Keith wasn't a pervert, but he sure was weird.
Chapter 20 done, hope you all liked it, also, like I've put in other chapters, if you want to see any legendary pokemon please review them and I will put them in, we'll be seeing a lot of them now, please REVIEW :D