Chapter 12- Fire in the skies

I jumped in terror as they all turned to me and grinned. The woman's grin was the worst of all it had evil all about her.

"Did you find me anything?" She laughed and her pokemon copied her. I got up from stumbling from the shift from blind then being able to see. Totodile stood at my side and so did Unown but I didn't know if it cared or not.

"Are you going to give me what I want or not?" She asked but I didn't answer she ordered her merciless pokemon to attack "Hyper beam." She cried.

"Unown use-" I never got to finish.

"Hauntar!" A shadowball hit the giant pokemon. It was that Haunter we met earlier.

"What! Fools you can't stop us we will succeed. Hyper beam again." I knew I needed to get out of here so I made a break for it. "Give me what you were given." The woman had a hard grip on me even with Totodile chomping on her leg and Unown hitting her she still held me fast. "You have such a special pokemon but I'm not interested." I kicked her in the shin and she cried out in pain. After she let me go I yanked my pokemon off her leg and we made a break for it. I turned around to see that Tyranitar's and Haunter's attacks were pointed to the generator.

"Desiree come on!" I heard Rose's voice call out to me. They had broken from the grip of whoever was guarding them. The generator was already building pressure up. Everyone started to run I called my pokemon back. Haunter followed us.

"Oomph." I fell flat on my face and Charlie and Rose were long gone to save me. I felt two strong arms pick me up and carry me a little ways. I saw it was the woman who I was just fighting. "You are so slow. I can't let you die we still need you." Oh great I was still needed. We got out and far enough away that the explosion impact only knocked us to the ground.

I looked over my shoulder to see the sky covered in smoke and fire the trees around were in flames the pokemon fire squad would be here in a few seconds. I go up and joined Charlie and Rose. The other villains were on the other side.

"Now are you going to give up or will we take it by force." The woman threatened but was stopped by sirens of the police. The woman looked at us and sighed. "Fall back. This isn't over yet Desiree I'll see you again."

The thugs sent out Weezing and Koffing and covered the air with even more smoke. We coughed and hacked I thought if Weezing evolved any more it's next evolution would be Hacking.

"Who were they?" Charlie whispered, "Do you know them?"

"Yes I do." I replied their eyes widened. "Voices in the smoke but now there is fire in the sky what's going to happen next?" I drifted off into talking to myself instead of the other two I then realized something I had never pieced together before. Those were the people that were at Professor Elm's lab. They were the voices in the smoke and now the fire in the sky.

"Thank you so much for helping me Desiree here I have a gift for you." Rose said handing me a small item I smiled.

"Oh thank you. You gave me a flashlight." I took the new flashlight gratefully. "Here you go this is yours." I gave him the half smashed half chewed on by my Totodile flashlight. "I'm sorry about that." Rose still smiled and accepted it but I may have caught her throw it to the side in disgust but I could understand that one. I said my goodbyes to the two of them and came up to Haunter.

"I'm sorry that your home is getting destroyed. What are you going to do now?" I asked the ghost pokemon.

It looked to the east I assumed it was looking to Ecruteak city. It was a great stop for ghost type pokemon. I smiled and wished him good luck. "See you later than." Haunter then floated off on the route that's where I needed to start going.

I could hear the screeching of tire wheels and the sirens flashing of the police. Out came Officer Jenny and several other police officers surrounded us. They looked at us as if we were the ones that blew up the ruins.

"You know that it's illegal to destroy ancient ruins don't you?" Duh! I knew that. I didn't let Jenny on of what I thought and nodded. Charlie was the one that stepped in. "Desiree here didn't do anything here."

"Like I believe that." Jenny scoffed.

Another figure on a motorcycle came into the picture and took a nasty dive like a stunt driver. The figure stood up as if nothing ever happened I watched as the person took the helmet off to see it was Leif! She looked at me and sighed and walked over to us.

"Of course when disaster strikes your always responsible for it." I glared at her and she grinned back.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I don't need to tell the likes of you your in no position to resist." That was just an excuse but I didn't weasel it out of her anymore. She turned to Jenny and said "What is she charged with?"

"Arson and vandalism of an ancient ruin." Jenny noted.

Leif looked at me as if "You like getting yourself in trouble don't you?" I almost protested then I remembered that she hadn't actually said that. Leif then whispered something to Jenny and the woman nodded. "Come with me and say goodbye to your friends." Leif dragged me onto her motorcycle and threw me an extra helmet. She then drove off then stopped a few miles short of the next town.

"What happened here? You can consider yourself lucky I can't always be there for you like that." Leif held me by my arm I saw no smile from that woman that day or any other day in fact.

I started to explain all that happened leaving out a few details that I really didn't want her to hear. Her face turned somber and full of understanding she took this very seriously. But still there was no smile. "You mean to tell me that those people, those voices in the smoke." Her moment soon ended with an emotionless face again I even detected a little sense of anger. "Whatever you do avoid these people they will put an end to you. Stay out of the shadows and away from the smoke." With that Leif left me took the helmet back from me and drove off on her motorcycle. How rude! I now had to walk thanks to her.

I looked back at the sky it was filled with smoke and ash my heart broke for the first time. I realized that the Unown had nowhere to live their home was in smoke all those years and now it was wasted. I cried out in anger at the horrid deed. My pokeball opened from my bag and out came Unown. He stared at the ash filled air fire was spread out in the sky. All he did was look at it. I was sure that it was recalling all that happened in it's home. I thought I saw a small tear come from the pokemon. They were all refuges now pokemon flooded the sky trying to escape the fury of the environment. It was apparent now that these people were dangerous as the fire in the sky flooded the evening sky.