Angel Wings, chapter 17

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(Eleanor P.O.V)

"And don't forget the most important thing!" said Ms. April. "And that is to have fun!"

"YEAH!" yelled a couple of over excited students, including Dash and Carter. We where getting the pep talk/safety speech from Ms. April and Mr. Kincaid. Our assignment; go inside the ruins, and take a couple of pictures of some 'interesting' hieroglyphics, murals, and, if we where lucky, artifacts. It was kinda pointless, but it was supposedly the 'meaning' behind this whole trip. I personally think that the whole reason behind this was to give the teachers an excuse to blow off work for a week. Not that it's a huge problem.

"And also remember to be outside the ruins by five-o-clock." said Kincaid before waving his hand, signaling that we could group up and leave.

Kids quickly formed groups with their friends. I, of course, put myself with Carter, Dash, Aqua, Flare, Surge, Dawn, Dusk, Forrest, and Wynter. We walked inside the ruins, and over my shoulder, I saw Tori and her crew manipulating a couple of the nerdier kids into working with them. Probably just so that they would do all the work for them. Heaven knows the world would end if they broke a fingernail. Poor guys.

"Hey Eleanor." said Carter as he waved a hand in front of my face. "Earth to Eleanor!"

"What?" I asked as I blinked a couple times.

"You spaced out for a minute. Dawn was asking which way we should go."

"You're a resident. You should know your way around the best. So which way?" asked Dusk with his signature glare.

"Um, well..." truthfully, I didn't know my way around at all. I kinda just went by instinct, and is I ever got lost, asked some of the local pokemon to show me the way back. Now they expected me to lead them. I pointed to the left, my instincts guiding me. "That way. Lets go!"

I sure hope these guys can cope well with disappointment.

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"Eleanor... Are you absolutely, one-hundred percent sure you know were you're leading us?" asked Carter for the umpteenth time since we started.

"Yes, I'm completely sure." I answered, even though I had no idea were I was. We ventured in farther than I originally thought, farther than I had ever even dared to go. Sure, we got some nice pictures, but I could tell everyone was getting tired. It was around one-o-clock.

"You are not." said Dawn as we squeezed ourselves around another rock. Did I mention that huge bolders' blocked some portions of the path? Oh, and some vines and moss was growing across the ceiling and walls?

"I'm sure we're heading in the right direction, Dawn."

"Can we at least break for lunch?" asked Aqua with a sigh. Geez, I really must working them for even Aqua, the bubbliest person on earth, to loose her perkiness.

"Fine."

We sat atop some boulders, and opened our backpacks. I looked inside mine, and gasped.

"Oh, Prince!" I yelled as the gold and silver pokemon hopped out, food crumbs all around his mouth. I heard other exclamations of shock, and some of anger coming from Flare, Surge, and Dusk. Our pokemon had somehow snuck into our bags, and, to my dismay, ate a majority of our food. Well, except for Aqua and Carters, who had full packs. Guess Cala and Serena were both to polite to eat our food.

"What where you thinking?!" screamed Flare as she grabbed Tyson by the neck and shook him around. "We have almost no food!"

"Flare, strangling your partner isn't going to help anything." said Forrest as he calmly picked up Rosalind, and placed her on the ground. Flare stopped for a moment, and put Tyson down. His eyes were swirled, indicating that he had fainted, and tears fell like rivers down his face, looking like anime tears from the cartoons. His mouth was open, and his tongue was sticking out, making even funnier.

"Well what do you suggest we do, Mr. I'm-hellbent-on-creating-world-peace?" asked Dash, glaring in his direction.

"We ration out our food, and split everything evenly between the ten of us." answered Dusk as he dumped some of his contents on the ground. An energy bar, a small plastic baggy filled with carrots, and a half-empty bottle of water fell out. "Pile it in the middle, everyone."

We all did exactly as he said. Overall, we where had very little food, but enough to, if rationed correctly, last us a day or two. I highly doubted that we would be in the cave longer than a few hours.

So we hiked on. I knew now that we where completely lost, and everyone else knew it too, but out of respect( and Flares threats), said nothing about it.

"Okay, that's it!" yelled Carter as we squirmed around another bolder. Seriously, why the hell were these things here? "I'm done!"

"Carter, we're almost there! I can feel it!" I exclaimed.

"Eleanor, I'm tired, no, exhausted. I'm hungry. I'm dirty. And I want to go back."

Dash opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off when Carter held up his hand.

"Yeah, I know I sound like a girl right now. But you agree with me, right? Is there anyone here who doesn't agree with me?"

Everyone stayed silent. Now that I looked at it, everyone was looking worn out. I heard a few complaints mumbled, but Flare told them to suck it up before I had a chance to say a single word.

Everyone was sweaty. They all had red faces, the boys had wet T-shirts and damp hair. Dirt smudged across their faces and arms, and a few scratches were visible from squeezing around the bolders.

"I feel fine." said Dash.

"Well, excuse me, but some of us aren't super human freaks who have a boundless amount energy when we eat a chocolate chip!" snapped Carter. Ouch, that comment must've hit Dash hard.

"Arguing and insulting people isn't gonna get us anywhere." said Forrest, doing what he did best, mediating our petty arguments.

"And what are you gonna do about it? Mediate the fight? Give us a lecture on how meditating will solve everything? Or how about those pointless accounts on 'world peace'?"

"Carter, stop it. You aren't helping. I know I screwed up. And I also know that I lied when I said I knew my way around. I don't. I always went by instinct. But right now, my instinct is telling me to keep going, because we are on the verge of discovering something big. And I can tell you guys are feeling it to." I stared at them each individually. "Have you noticed how our conversations have died down? How Surges jokes left, along with Aquas cheeriness and Flares loud exclamations of encouragement? It's not because we're dead tired, but because are senses have found something big or powerful, and all our energy is being put into that. Finding what we are sensing. So-"

"Hey Eleanor, before you continue your long speech, you might want to take a look at this." said Surge, who wandered farther down the cave. We followed his voice, and saw a large door with light pouring out from along the edges.

"What is it?" whispered Wynter.

"I think it's what we've been feeling, or 'sensing', as Eleanor put it." said Aqua, bouncing around like crazy.

"Who wants to open it?" asked Dawn.

"I'll do it." I said as I stepped forward. I looked back and received a small nod of approval from everyone. Hand twitching with anticipation, I placed my hand on the doorknob, and, with a deep breath, I flung open the door.

The last thing I remembered was being blinded by a bright light before falling completely unconscious.

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Amy47101: CLIFFHANGER! Haha, I told all you guys in chapter 15 that this one would be exciting. Well, kinda exciting. It makes you want to read on, though! Once again, thanks to all of you for your ONE HUNDRED REVIEWS! And special thanks to Tinyfox for thinking of LowLightshipping for Dawn and Dusk!

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